BaggarVance

The Grand Budapest Hotel

THE SODA FOUNTAINHEAD is my favorite of the recent entries.

HAhaha Great choice! Where does one find a lemon-colored suit? Some more great hard-driving favorites, The Knack:

Agreed. h4. The Untouchables

Boy, you know how to shut down a thread, pturman. The Knickerbockers: Young Rascals:

Boy, you know how to shut down a thread, pturman. The Knickerbockers: Young Rascals:

h4. The High and the Mighty

My Max knows how to play hide-n-seek.. Edited by: BaggarVance on Aug 7, 2012 9:21 PM

Truth is, we are posting about movies here, not Victorian literature, so characters sometimes pop in and then disappear. Movies only have 90-120 usually to show the story, so some characters are just not necessary to the plot and don't stay. In GWTW, Ann Rutherford does an equally notable missing act..being Scarlet's younger sister. I don't recall her at Melanie's birthday party. I wonder if anyone else has favorite missing actor in a classic movie?

mw- Rap is the crappy stuff.. LOL

I can never hear Bohemian Rhapsody without imagining Mike Myers and Dana Carvey mugging their approval for the camera on Wayne's World! LOL Good times. Some others from the wonderful era.. I love the Blues Brothers.. RIP John..

Love Letters http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg861OiUXd4 a little better quality sound on this one: Edited by: BaggarVance on Aug 5, 2012 12:50 PM

Remember this-

h3. England h4. Dozmary pool, the mythic resting spot of Excalibur h4. The Eagle Pub in Cambridge. The very real Air Force Room, where members of the RAF, USAAC, and later USAF have marked the ceiling with their unit number before they left their bases for the last time. My son marked it in 2006. You can walk in their footsteps and retrace their experience, I have even uncovered an early rapeseed field strip on my trip in 1996, not far from the oldest wooden Church in England. http://www.airspacemag.com/military-aviation/mighty_eighth.html

BOOYL Director William Wyler was part of that veteran group too. The Documentary, *The Memphis Belle.* http://www.youtube.com/movie?v=UMDSFAYDV-Y&feature=mv_sr

This argument of dated is dated. You may well assert that history has no relevance. Even as it is fiction, there are enough universal themes that ring true to the period. I asked a Vietnam vet once what film best captured his era for him. His answer? *American Graffiti.* He said he really couldn't identify with the stories about the Vietnam era in form or another, but he remembers how he felt the last week or so before he reported for the draft, and *American Graffiti* brings a smile to his face, although that film would have been considered dated, being about early sixties. As far as war experiences, he didn't want to remember, and when he returned the world was spinning about Watergate. He enjoys *All the President's Men* more, for him it fills in a lot of the blanks while he was in Vietnam.

I thought about Basil Rathbone's Sherlock Holmes solving the mystery of the three music boxes in *Dressed to Kill.*

Well... If you don't read his "capitals" as shoutin', and take it as an emphasis, you see a pattern or style. Some here write with a rhythm. . I find that fascinatin' too..

Skippy is the reason I LOVE terriers. I have been lucky to meet several Wire Haired Fox Terriers, and all displayed a bit of Skippy's fun loving attitude, and they were all "hams" as well! Lassie maybe be beautiful and true, but Asta will never leave you bored. Thank you for posting this history. Perfectly timed for SUTS.

h4. Oft-said of Dargo2: ya ask?.. Your style here often reminds me of Will Rogers.. He could get right to the point too, after a bit of sashaying with his verbiage..

>Dargo2 wrote: Never mind, Fred. Ya see, not ONLY have I moved on to the topic of the great Hoagy Carmichael, but I have no futher use for your even MORE OBVIOUS attempts at these "Straw Man" tactics. > >(...what "Straw man tactics" am I talkin' about THIS time, ya ask?...why, the inclusion of the town of Sedona and it's demographics in order to prove some imagined and totally irrelevant point, THAT'S what...man, I gotta say, for an intelligent man, you really disappoint me occassionally...THOUGH I have to admit I disappointed MYSELF at that cheap shot I took at Jake, and YES it was a cheap shot directed at JAKE and NOT at "The Heartland" in general...NOW do ya see what it's like to admit that you're wrong about somethin'?...it's ACTUALLY quite "LIBERATING", ya see....and I DIDN'T mean that in any politcal manner, of course!) > >LOL Huh? Hoagy Carmichael and Jake in the same post! You're drifting that Norton too close to the shoulder.. lol But to pull it back to Hoagy; I wonder what it must be like to just stand about the piano listening to Hoagy play Stardust... I would have requested that number everyday!

Dargo2- Wow,, you're actually getting into plot development! Not that you weren't capable before, but you would be forever "Ah, shucks..." about almost every point you made. Yes, I think Wyler and Sherwood used the Mr Mollet character to draw out Fred to finally take a stand.. To respond to the way he's been treated. Big way, with a sugar glass display case and everything! But, to be honest, the views expressed by Fred and Homer are not left-leaning. They were middle of the road, absolutely.

For Pete's Sake belongs to the thread, Movies I can't sit through.. I think cuts would improve it.. (duck)

>wouldbestar wrote: Yesterday, I saw that this is such a pro-family film. I agree. The film pulls back and doesn't let our heroine Peggy really be a home wrecker. Human nature is going to take it's course anyway, as the honest final fight between Fred and Marie breaks out. The movie allows us to see the mismatch of Fred and Marie. Interesting, don't you think; this is also what I've noticed... If you could transplant Fred and Marie to life right now, I believe they would probably get together on Match.com and still find each other irresistible at first, as they did in Texas while he was training in the Air Corps. Time together saw the cracks develop; two people with two distinctly different approaches to life; Marie, a party girl who goes along, and wants to bail when she sees who she's really married. I see Fred as being actually very similar to begin with, but his war experience has matured him; No longer satisfied to be a soda jerk, he now wants some goals for himself. To hear Fred and Marie talk, it seems the two never plan anything of construct. I agree with Peggy's assessment of the relationship, and of course the script let's Peggy reveal the truth; Marie would kill his spirit eventually.

Oh Star, In a shortcut to the discussions, there were some splinter right wing groups in the forties, and many coalesced to the Red Scare in the fifties, like the John Birch Society. Some thought the greater sin was fighting Germany instead of the USSR. That's what the Ray Teal character was complaining about, though he really wasn't thinking it through harping as he was to young, tough former soldiers! Mr Mollet didn't choose his audience wisely.