Vautrin
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Perry Como may be dead but, like the similarly dead Andy Williams, his sweaters live on.
I thought Como at one time insulted Harry Cohn and that didn't help his meager film
career, but I can't seem to find that anecdote. I'll look in more detail later on. Back in
the day my friends and I wouldn't watch PC or AW if you paid us. Squares.
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1 hour ago, Hibi said:
You cant argue with computer censor programs.......
That's for sure, yet it seems that bastard is okay, which was a surprise to me the first time
I used it and it went though unscathed.
Smoke on the Walter, a whisky in the Skye.
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8 hours ago, Hibi said:
LOL! I get it now........
I guess they want to protect the millions of ten year olds who are on the site who
already know what it stands for.
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2 hours ago, Hibi said:
What is OAML? (LOL) My lunch?
I hope not. They won't allow the acronym for laughing my you know what off here.
Sad.
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Wasn't it discovered after Kuralt's death that he had been shacking up with some babe while
he was out "on the road?" I OAML when I read about that. You've got to watch out for these
quiet, sensitive types.
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The best thing about Desperate was that I hadn't seen it before. Sometimes I'll get ready to
watch one of these noir flicks and then realize, after five or ten minutes, that I've already seen
it, especially those ones with one word titles that don't give much of a clue as to what the movie
is about. The story of the innocent, (relatively) young married couple trying to get away from the
nutso criminals is usually a good one. There's a bit of the old hiding in the country where simple
living abounds to get away from the big city menace that is on its way to spoil everything. Some
of the visuals were certainly interesting, especially the final shootout in the stairwell of the
apartment house. I got a kick out of Burr's henchman calling the stuff in the refrigerator "tired"
meat. Yuck. I also noticed that, just like in TV westerns, the dumb cop came out behind his
shelter to stand out in the open so he could get shot. When will they ever learn? All in all, a
nice spare and entertaining movie.
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Sad to hear about Bill Daily. FETV on DirecTV just started to run the Bob Newhart Show
a few weeks ago and Daily is hilarious as Howard Borden. I don't think I've seen the show
in about twenty years. The Mary Tyler Moore Show comes on right after Newhart, though
both have a lot of cuts. MTM is also on YT without any cuts. People have remarked in the
comments section that they noticed Mary had the Woodstock album in front of her record
collection. This is during the season when she moved into her new apartment. I was watching
a few days ago and now the Physical Graffiti album is in the front. Who knew that Mary
Richards was a Zeppelin fan.
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I still have a few old VHS tapes of Beware of a Holy ***** and Mother Kusters Goes to
Heaven around somewhere. The first is one of those movies about making a movie.
It's fairly early Fassbinder and interesting to a certain extent, though it's pretty well
trodden territory. Hanna has a brief nude scene. The second is a weird film about a
communist cell and its various low success activities. I should take another look at that
one since it's been years since I've watched it. I recall watching Veronika Voss on YT.
Very stylish and sad. Not sure if it's still available. Fassbinder films pop up on YT and
then disappear. Many people consider Petra Von Kant too talky and static, but I enjoy
it, though I don't think it's one of those movies you want to see every year. But
what a great title. One of my favorites is Fox and His Friends. Besides the melancholy
tone of the story, you'll see more of Fassbinder than you probably have of any other
director.
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7 hours ago, Princess of Tap said:
But those classic TV actors were selected by many Hollywood Golden Age professionals who really knew how to ferret out potential stardom Talent.
Dick Powell launched Steve McQueen.
Jack Warner and William T. Orr made James Garner, Troy Donahue and Connie Stevens a stars on TV and in movies at the same time.
there was so much talent to choose from at that time. And then of course there was Clint Eastwood.
But what I found all the more fascinating were those who had a resume in Golden Age movies but were just character actors or supporting players.
It was amazing how movies had utilized people like Richard Long, Raymond Burr, Robert Stack, Nick Adams and Michael Landon just to name a few-- who became tremendously big TV stars commanding big salaries.
the real excitement in Show Business was not in movies in the late fifties early sixties it was on classic TV where all this Talent was getting ready to bust out-- and I can't forget those coming from Broadway like Andy Griffith, Don Knotts, and Dick Van Dyke.
Some TV stars did go on to make it big in the movies, but I think that is the exception to the
rule. Most of them went on to average careers in movies or later TV shows. That's not a knock
against them, becoming a big movie star is a combination of forces that not everybody experiences.
I just remembered one strange appearance by Burt Reynolds. He was seen very briefly in Ross
McElwee's Sherman's March when McElwee tries to get some shots of Burt on a movie set.
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They all ended up in California and were associated with California, usually the
fast lane, fast living side. Some of that might have been hype, but it was there.
I just like the band, wherever they are from.
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I knew he was getting up there. You could tell when he made a TV appearance.
Gunsmoke is on the Inspiration channel every night. A young Burt played Quint
Asper, the "half breed" who had to put up with a lot of crap from other people,
though Matt, Doc, Festus, and Kitty liked him. I think they are just coming to the
seasons when Burt was there. Unlike many TV stars he became a famous movie
star too.
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6 hours ago, Hibi said:
Yeah, it's rarely shown (I think it's Paramount), but they've shown it a few times. A real laugh fest, though it wasnt meant that way........and Helen Hayes came out of movie retirement for this!!!
Yeah, not exactly a great comeback vehicle. It makes Airport look like Citizen Kane.
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1 hour ago, Hibi said:
Yes, they've shown it a few times. LOL.
If it was last shown in 2010, that's a pretty long drought. I looked on YT, but there are only
some excerpts. At a little over two hours, 15 minutes could probably be trimmed without
sacrificing the fact that Walker is a pretty nutty guy.
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10 hours ago, Sepiatone said:
And there's more odd stuff involved.
As I stated, The Eagles were mostly( but as also stated, not always) warmly here in the "D", as one main founding member WAS a local boy, and did too, wear a STARK HICKEY, FORD service shirt on stage(Hickey at the time being the area's largest Ford dealer). And too, we all mostly considered them as "Country-rockers", not necessarily "Californina guys". We DID however, reserve that type of thinking for bands like Jefferson Airplane, The Doors, Grateful Dead and like that. Any who made BEING from California a bigger deal than t probably was. And too;
Although I didn't (and still don't) have any use for "Hotel Catatonia" (
Um....California....), I mostly saw it as a "slam" of the over-hyped and probably too, overrated California "lifestyle".
And too, despite liking him from jump, Billy Joel did too seem to "overdo" the New York thing.
Sepiatone
Of course they did play a lot of country rock, but they also had that California vibe,
especially with The Hotel California album. The sort of rock royalty thing the punks
hated. Joel did like to remind people he was a New Yorker but I guess that went with
the territory.
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Welcome to the Hotel Non-California. I still think there's something to your theory, just
that artists who are very popular tend to be popular everywhere, but Billy Joel is still seen
as a NYC kind of guy and the Eagles as California dudes.
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9 hours ago, Sepiatone said:
I never considered Bruce to be "the boss", as 'round these parts we've been listening to the type of music HE did from Bob Seger for several years BEFORE Bruce hit the scene.
Yeah in some contrast to Darg's idea, a "love" for the Eagles here in Detroit was a 50-50 proposition. They did make some points by having native Michigander GLENN FREY in the line up.
And personally, I always DID like Billy Joel, but did know and understand some people's dislike of him
and BTW: despite it's WAY heavy "hype", I thought "Born In The U.S.A." was Springsteen's WORST LP and song!
Sepiatone
Well that has become his nickname. Don't know if he started that himself or if someone gave
him that handle. That's the only reason I used it. I like the Eagles, Billy Joel, and Springsteen,
though I don't listen to them very much anymore. The Born in the U.S.A. album was pretty
good, despite all the hype at the time. I wouldn't call it his best album, just his most popular.
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17 hours ago, slaytonf said:
Thanks, I copied the date from the movie next on the list. If what you say is true about the movie, I probably won't watch it.
As just a regular movie, it's no big deal, but as an anti-commie propaganda
piece it's over the top. That's what makes it entertaining to me.
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Just a minor correction. My Son John came out in 1952 near the height of the Red
Scare.
It will make you laugh,
It will make you cry,
It might even make you,
Want to join the Communist Partei.
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5 hours ago, misswonderly3 said:
Actually, Vautrin baby, I'm pretty sure they did show My Son John at least once. I can't remember when, but I do recall watching it in real time on TCM at some point within the past 5 years or so.
Although I like Robert Walker, my recollection of the film was , it wasn't particularly good.
What's more fun is the '50s sci fi flicks about Commie paranoia, all those alien monsters standing in for Communists. They're taking over !
They probably have shown it, but it seems like it was many years ago. It was a little heavy handed,
though I found it fairly entertaining and as a piece of 1950s anti-red camp it's even better. While
the red monster analogies are fun, real movie commies are even funnier.
The Labor Day scenes in Picnic always remind mind of similar ones in Peyton Place,
especially the kids who eat too much and have to puke. The mill owner throws a picnic
for all the workers. Big deal.
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I just read a few days ago that the Eagles first Greatest Hits album has resumed its spot
as the best selling album, surpassing Michael Jackson's Thriller. They seem to alternate
as number one and two and change every few years. I guess it's a bit of a cheat as it's
a greatest hits album versus a studio album. The Eagles were pretty popular during the
1970s no matter where one lived. I have most of their albums, though I don't listen to
them very much anymore. And don't mess with the Boss.
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Jerry tried out Witch-chay Woman for about half a minute, but it just didn't work.
I liked the Eagles, so did lots of people. They were one of the most popular American
bands of the 1970s.
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3 hours ago, Stephan55 said:
Thanks for your exhaustive search, I'll now just plug-in the title and see what pops-up.
So to speak. Of course some people handle solitude better than others. Thoreau seemed to
do that fairly well, but its always good to have a support system. I think he would have been
able to survive all on his own out at Walden pond, but having family near where he could go
for some rest and relaxation and other things made it more bearable. And of course people
living in the America of the mid 19th century had more knowledge of how to live off the land
than people do today. Walden is somewhat of an idealized picture as I don't think he mentioned
his numerous trips home, but that doesn't make it any less of an intriguing work.
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1 hour ago, slaytonf said:
Wait. . . .what?. . . .all this time. . . .TCM has not been a part of a larger left wing program to undermine Western values and bring down the free market? It's--it's only a channel that shows old movies? I feel robbed.
Oh, but that can't be true! TCM shows moves by Eisenstein. From Russia. And they showed Salt of the Earth (1954). And Modern Times (1936).
Bummer, man. Yes, they show films from the Soviet era and other left wing, pinko subversion.
But do they ever show My Son John, a movie that alerted Americans to how close commies can
come to burrowing their way into American everyday life and laying waste to our belolved American
exceptionalism? Noooooooo.
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After a semi-rigorous YT search I found that old nudie camp movie I mentioned before.
Titled Diary of a Nudist (makes sense) it was made in 1961 by Doris Wishman who also made
other nudist flicks, including the one about nudies on the moonies. I had mixed up a few details
of the plot. Stacey is a reporter assigned by her boss to go "undercover" to investigate the
nudist camp he found while out hunting. They both dislike the idea of nudists, but after a
while Stacey enjoys bouncing around with no clothes on and her boss comes over to her
view. At the end he declares his love and they walk off into the sunset, though both are
fully clothed. There are a lot of boobs and rears on display, but when it comes to the lower
depths, things are different. There always seems to be towels or large hats placed strategically
to cover the naughty bits. Still a rather charming film about sun worshipers.
I remember reading in various articles about Thoreau that when old Dave got tired of squirrel
sandwiches he would walk back to Concord and have his mom fix him a hot meal or mend his
clothes. So life in the woods was not quite as hard as it seemed. This has never diminished my
enjoyment of Walden. It really gives it more of a human touch and a little extra comic feel.
And Thoreau's self-reliance is still very impressive.
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Um....California....), I mostly saw it as a "slam" of the over-hyped and probably too, overrated California "lifestyle".
Noir Alley
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I've seen it two or three times before. Once you know the surprise ending, where Bobby
doesn't even get a chance to take a sip of his champagne, that puts a bit of a dent in
a second viewing. It bogs did a little in the middle, but things pick up after Dad and
Step Mom go over the edge and the trial starts. Drop me off at Wiltshire Blvd. and over
they go. Funny. I always enjoy Herbert Marshall in his ultra macho, strong silent type
prime. Don't mess with this dude. Yes, Jean's wigs were awful, especially that Beatles/
Prince Valiant job she wore at the beginning. Ouch. Mona Freeman came off much
better than Jean did. Bob should have stuck with her, instead of letting dull old Kenneth
Tobey move in. Angel Face isn't bad, but it's never been one of my favorite noirs. Still,
not a bad way to spend 91 minutes.