Bildwasser
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Maybe the poor guy is tuckered out after the first forty years of activity,
or he picked up a venereal disease somewhere along the way, or one
of those laser beams came closer to his groin area then it appeared. I
enjoyed the Bond films when I was a kid, but now they don't do much for
me.
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It's really Congress that has the most power when it comes to cutting (or
increasing) spending, not the POTUS.
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I suppose you have to give credit to the family for following a formula
so successfully that they can turn out a new Bond flick every few years
and make a good profit on it. An eccentric but deadly villain with a
nefarious scheme to take over the world or some part of it, a new high-
tech product, several exotic locales, a few hot babes 007 can nail, a
near-death experience for our hero, etc. Check and double check. It's
like cranking out sausage, though high-end sausage, well made and
cleverly marketed. Very entertaining if one craves that sort of thing.
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Same to you, Miss W. A Happy New Year.
It's hard for a quiet song to be noticed on an album with thirty songs. It
is a touching ballad, at least until that last thirty seconds when the dissonance
kicks in. But it still works.
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"Remember ladies and gentlemen, he's not only the president of The
Wispy Beard Club for Men, he's a client."
It took a whole week, but the conspirators finally succeeded in killing
Rasputin.
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Even taking into account the mores of that time, it's still surprising that
she has to do time for what was basically self-defense and an accident.
Hard to believe there would be the same outcome today.
This movie reminds me of how on occasion they'd shoot a foreign language
version of the film at night after filming on the English language version was
done. Here it looks like they are making a lower budget, lower key version of
Since You Went Away.
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That was a semi-facetious response to those who think "political correctness"
stands in the way of showing films. Go ahead, show them. I realize it's not
TCM's purpose to show the racism of the period as it is reflected in the movies
of the period. It's by default.
Absent opinion polls from the 1930s, I'd take an educated guess and say that
most white Americans of the time were racists, while keeping in mind that racism
covers a wide range of behaviors from mild every day forms to the string 'em up
approach.
The contented happy slave just satisifed to while away the cotton pickin' hours is
mostly a part of the old Confederate Lost Cause mythology, self-serving fables
taking the place of history so the sore losers don't have to feel so bad. There likely
were a few slaves who fought for the Confederacy, just as there were a few Jews who
served in the Wehrmacht. The problem with the former is to separate those slaves
who were there as personal servants to their soldier/master or those who might have
fought by misadventure on the battlefield from those who were there to fight on purpose.
The last group would be very small in number.
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Just goes to show he was a man of many talents, and also
that you never know when rail splittin' might come in handy.
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"Honey, with my brains and your boobs we can take over this
little ole galaxy in no time flat."
"So they're using titanium now instead of silicone. Interesting
development."
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Wasn't Lincoln the guy that helped free the slaves? I knew there
was a reason not to like him.
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I appreciate TCM showing these films on occasion to remind folks of
the casual racism that was a part of American life during this period
and is reflected in the movies of that time. Well done.
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Forget it dude, it was America.
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Most of the Hollywood stories are interesting to read, but they don't have much
of an impact on us, whether true or false. I really don't care too much if so and
so had an affair with someone, especially when it happened seventy years ago.
I seem to recall the estate of some celebrity trying to sue someone for libel or
defamation of character after their death, but I don't think they got very far.
That's a good thing about the internet. If used with care, it's a lot easier to get
information about misquotes, quotes taken out of context, etc.
Mommy just sounds funnier. Hoover lived with his mommy until she died in the
late 1930s when he was in his early forties. It's especially humorous when one
considers that Hoover was the head of a macho crime busting agency. Though
he didn't live with Tolson, Clyde was the main beneficiary of Hoover's will and he
moved into Hoover's house after Hoover's death.
Since the Kwanzaa thread is locked, I'll just mention that C.S.A. is available on
YouTube. I watched the first fifteen minutes or so and it's as funny as I remember
it.
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I know he lived with his mommy for a long time, until she died. I don't know
if he ever actually lived with Clyde Tolson, but they did spend a lot of time
together, going on vacations and having meals together, etc. I suppose we'll
never really know if they were lovers. Maybe it was just an early bromance.
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"Okay ladies, how many of you have trouble jumping rope?"
Wouldn't you know it, the one island in the Galapagos that
Darwin didn't visit.
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It's hard to tell what Lee's exact relation to C.S.A. was. Maybe his production
company could give it a wider distribution. Whatever it was, it came after the
film was completed, so most of the credit goes to writer and director Kevin
Willmott. I don't think Lee was the narrator either, though I'm not 100% certain.
I always get a kick out of the credits on modern films. Tons of producers, co-
producers, assistant producers, etc. I guess that's the way things work.
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Yes, that's a more recent speculation about Hoover. As somebody mentioned
in the comments section of the article, taking the old one drop of blood definition
of race, Hoover might be thought of as black if he had that one drop of blood in
him. Since his father's family came from the South, I suppose that's possible,
but we don't define race that way any more.
What is rather humorous about the various rumors about Hoover is that they
are the exact opposite of what he likely was--a racist, a homophobe, and
a guy with a button-down dress code for his agents.
There is also a rumor that Hoover had a relationship with Dorothy Lamour.
Whatever.
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People will likely have different criteria for what a cult is. To me a cult is
a belief system that has relatively few members, so I wouldn't consider
Christianity or Islam to be cults, simply because they have so many
adherents. Of course something can start out as a cult and then expand.
And to me a religion is a belief with a supernatural component to it. If
ones presumes for a moment that all cults have a supernatural element
in them, then all cults are religions, but not all religions are cults.
C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America is not a Spike Lee joint. I saw
it a few years ago on TV and it is hilarious. The offensive parts are meant as
a satire on what would have happened if the South had won the war. Thankfully it didn't.
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I wouldn't sweat it too much. Quite a few holidays are made up in
one manner or another, Kwanzaa happens to be a newcomer.
Kwanzaa...newer than Christmas, older than Festivus.
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No, they are not the same. That was just a form of shorthand to
name the two most prominent urban legends about Hoover, both
of which, however humorous they are applied to a straight arrow
like Hoover, have very little valid evidence to support them.
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Why football is never off topic. It's all about life and discipline and
dealing with adversity, blah, blah, blah, as any football coach will tell you.
The Redskins-Cowboys game was good, especially when Romo was picked
off on the last minute comeback attempt. Sweet.
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I thought J. Edgar was a Gimbels man. While it's fun to mock Hoover for
being a gay cross-dresser, there is no actual evidence that he was either
one. Oh well.
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The Beatles,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG73Pk1yUj8
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
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Dude, there's not enough bronze in this world or the next to do justice to
GB's keister.
Might be some good angles on Olson's rear in Rachel, Rachel. He was as
skinny as a rail in that flick.
Incredibly grossed out by one aspect of "I'll Be Seeing You"
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It does sound a little like something a doctor might be consulted about.
I'm sorry, but you've picked up a bad case of potus. We'll get it under
control with a few shots of penicillin.