Bildwasser
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Long hair really freaked people out in the 1960s. But eventually most people
got used to it and threw their butch wax out. I bet dudes like Dick Butkus have
a fit every time they see guys playing football with dreads.
I went to public schools in New Jersey. If our hands were still dirty after we
buried a body, we knew we were going to catch it.
The "good old days" are gone and they ain't coming back. That's just the way
it is.
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The Bates Motel--This Joint is Jumpin'. A free stuffed bird for every customer.
Who could turn that down?
I had forgotten she was a pretty no nonsense character, which could mean
she was buttoned down or got wild in private. Just what was going on in the back
room of that hardware store anyway?
As much as I like Vera Miles, it's hard to beat off someone with a knife when
one's buck **** in the shower. That's one thing that so spooky about it--one's
totally vulnerable in that situation. No wonder some folks were afraid to take showers.
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She was much more subdued than Janet Leigh and we never see her in
her underwear like we do Janet, so by comparison she comes off as much
less sexual. Though it wasn't part of the plot, if she had happened to stay
by herself at the motel I think Norman would have made his move. It's partly
comic, but the fact is, with so few customers, he had to take what he could
get. Maybe he would have only given her crackers and water.
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If only they hadn't built that new highway.
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"I know you're only eight years old, but it's never too early to think about cryogenics."
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Speaking of miscues by TCM hosts, unless I misheard, when Uncle Bob
was giving the intro to Bob Le Flambeur he located Deauville in the south
of France. Of course it ain't. That would have been a hell of a long slog from
Paris if it was.
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I don't know about that. Considering the astronomical vacancy rate of the
Bates Motel and Norman's psychosis, I think if Vera was the lone guest
at the motel, he would have had his eye up against that little peephole and
she wouldn't have been around to answer her morning wake up call.
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I agree. They'll probably make it in the next few years.
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I did some quick surfing and indeed Piazza's stats are very impressive--
most home runs by a major league catcher, .308 lifetime batting average,
12 All-Star appearances. There is really no evidence that he took steroids,
only that he played in the steroid era. The good news is that all the players
who received over 50% of the votes on their first try eventually got into the Hall,
so Piazza will likely get in in the future.
At least one writer voted for Bonds and Clemens using the rationale that they
would have had Hall of Fame careers even without steroids. Interesting. Now
back to James Bond, .007.
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Well, the baseball writers were there first. Mike Piazza didn't make
it either. Maybe his stats were not as good as I remember them.
Maybe he'll get in in the next few years.
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Pretty funny. I've always loved Bette's hairstyle in All About Eve.
I'm sure some people have heard this one before:
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Yes, I would agree that who you followed in childhood has a strong
influence later on. I still like the Mets and Jets, though now I can't
stand the Yankees. When I was a kid I had an interest in pirates,
so, with kid logic, I became a temporary fan of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
They actually had some decent seasons back then.
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I read on the internet that Bonds will bring along Sammy Sosa and
Roger Clemens and that, billed as The Three Steroids, they will sing
the theme song from Goldfinger.
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These days, with people moving around quite a bit, the local connection
to teams is less strong, though it is still there. There are things like
the Red Sox nation, made up of Red Sox fans from all parts of the
country. Many people still have something of a "rooting interest" in
where they come from, though they didn't have much influence in
the matter.
I remember a Jewish mother joke that David Susskind told long ago
on his TV show. She receives a call from a person she thinks is her
son and of course starts to ask him all kinds of personal questions,
most having to do with how he is "neglecting" her. After this goes on
for a while, the man on the other end tells her he is not her son and
that he must have dialed a wrong number. "Oh," she says, "so does
this mean you're not coming over on Sunday?" Okay, it was funnier
when David told it.
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"No, I'm not paid by the hour, but by the venue. I get a call from a
nightclub that wants to be a smoky little nightclub and voila, here I
am."
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This is a pretty individual choice. Some people are very interested in their
ancestral identity and others couldn't care. Pride isn't always based on rational
things. Folks usually have some pride in the state or city where they came
from, though that is as much a matter of chance as where their ancestors
came from.
The few times I can remember hearing schvartzes in a movie, it was at least
mildly derogatory. I suppose it comes from the German word for black--schwartz.
Don't know if that is ever used in a derogatory manner.
Fighting to uphold the right of people to own other people. That's quite a feather
in any ethnic groups' cap.
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OTOH the Bowery Boys series only lasted about a dozen years, OTOH
they released many more of them than there have been Bond movies so
far.
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Long before the term African-American came along there were the terms
Irish-American, Italian-American, etc. Back in the day, Dick Nixon, running
for reelection, had a small organization for just about every hyphenated American
one could think of. In a nation of immigrants, folks will identity, to varying degrees,
with the land of their ancestors, so African-American makes perfect sense in
this context, and is nothing out of the ordinary, except for its late adoption.
The Americans who first decided to divide people by race were likely not the
slaves, but the slaveholders.
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"Whatever, that's so narrow-minded and ill-informed that it's not worth
responding to in any detail."
"That's because the Star Trek movies all suck."
Good point about being narrow-minded and ill-informed and all.
There's not much need for detail when it comes to the Bond franchise.
It's amazing how they are cranked out like clockwork every two years.
Well done and well marketed, and for what they are, which is escapist
fare, good flicks, but that's about all. If these things are great art, then
the Bowery Boys can't be too far behind.
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"Psst Abbott, we've got to get a new agent. Fifty bucks apiece
for a radio store opening on Saturday afternoon. I mean c'mon."
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I'd guess that one of the numerous book about Hitchcock would have
details on why Vera Miles wasn't chosen to start in NBNW. Maybe it
was punsihment, or maybe Hitchcock decided to go with Eva Marie
Saint, or maybe the studio wanted her. I've always though that Vera
Miles was very sexy, and I'm sure she would have looked lovely in
Vertigo.
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Yeah, it's one of those two people, each of whom has a problem, meet
each other and help one another to deal with their problems and fall in
love during the process plots While some of it is depressing, in the end I
figured that they'd get together, so that pretty much negates the sad
parts.
When Shirley Temple had the separate name tags for each towel I figured
she did it just to keep the towels straight, but apparently she thought Ginger
would somehow "contaminate" them.
It seems the state prison was pretty loosey-goosey with Ginger's furlough.
She just leaves and promises to come back at a certain time? Maybe that's
the way it was done back in the day, but it seems a little strange.
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Probably another one of those Hollywood stories where we'll never know
exactly what occurred. I can understand Hitch being angry if everything was
set to go and she dropped out all of a sudden, but I can also understand
where she wouldn't want to be under his thumb. I think Vera was in the
first episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Of course that was in 1955,
before Vertigo.
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The old boy himself said that he had done wardrobe and final tests with
Vera Miles, but she became or was pregnant, and he says he lost interest
and went with Kim Novak. It sounds like he was a bit miffed with the situation.
I guess it wasn't a total break, since she co-starred in Psycho a few years
later.
"Hitchcock" (2012)
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Mom, as "channeled" by Norman, was such a prude I don't think it would
have taken much for a woman to be considered "bad," by Normom, so Lila
likely would have ended up in the same predicament, but that wasn't part
of the plot.
Yeah, better lock that bathroom door.