Vautrin
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8 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
1. I just read where Kelsey Grammer is in serious negotiations to bring a new FRASIER back to the air.
2. Why don't you just go to wherever he is buried and spit right on Adrian's Zmed's grave, you animal. HOOKER WAS A GOOD COP !!!!!!!!
(PS, kidding with number two, but serious about number one)
I've heard rumors about a new Frasier too. Frasier was the kind of guy who would bash
the hell out of Trump for his bad taste and ignorance and then suck up to him like crazy if
he met him in person. Good old Toe Jam. I'm happy to report that Zmed is still vertical.
He has returned to his first love, the theater and will play the title role in King Lear later
this summer after filming is completed on Grease III: This Time It's Almost Personal. As
soon as the theme music for Hooker starts after Perry Mason, I make a quick channel
change on the remote.
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I Aim at the Stars, but I hit slave labor camps.
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1 hour ago, Princess of Tap said:
those two 45s that I mentioned by Dylan are the only ones I ever bought.
Speaking of David Bowie - - couple of months ago I saw Iggy Pop on a PBS I think it was Austin City limits special. He was shirtless and he looked, well he looked quite like he always looked. LOL
It was funny in 2018 to see Iggy Pop alive and well and to know that David Bowie had been dead for several years.
I always thought Iggy would go first.
I think I saw a little of that concert. I was never an Iggy Pop fan. He didn't look too
bad for his age, but he needs to consider buying a shirt. Maybe Jim Jordan can lend
him a jacket too. Yeah, one would think that Pop would probably go before Bowie
did. I saw Bowie a few times in the early 1970s. He was pretty flamboyant by the
standards of the time but not as much as Iggy Pop.
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6 hours ago, Princess of Tap said:
A lot of people had hit singles with songs that Dylan wrote.
But Dylan only had 2 hit singles in the 1960s--
Rainy Day Women and Like a Rolling Stone.
Dylan was not a great top 40 recording artist or hitmaker in the 60s on any level.
He was an elitist pop icon who was revered by the top rock and folk Stars who often recorded his music to great success.
However, he did have success with his albums.
Don't forget Positively 4th Street and Lay Lady Lay. I remember buying the latter, the only
Dylan 45 I ever bought. But you're right that Dylan was not a big singles artist like the
Beatles or CCR. I remember reading an interview with Clive Davis, then the head of Columbia
records. He said they would advertise the album early so that all the Dylan fanatics would
come out and buy the album and that would send it high up on the charts, though it might
not stay there that long. Talking about elitist pop icons, I would sometimes discuss with ol'
DGF about David Bowie and Elvis Costello getting lots of press and being popular on the
East Coast and big cities but not selling a whole lot of records compared to more popular
but less heralded artists.
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14 hours ago, darkblue said:
I don't know about that. They made a fortune on those movies - especially 'Mandingo'. Big hit - the critics were aghast at how popular it was.
Maybe not a smart move commercially, but otherwise.
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10 hours ago, Sepiatone said:
Depends on what one considers a "hit".
In other discussions in other boards, it's been concluded that the problem with "Greatest Hits" LPs collections is that they don't ALL---
...include all of the songs done by an artist that were released as "singles".
...include ALL the songs, released as singles or not, that became long time fan "favorites".
...and for some reason(as in the case of Areosmith's "Sweet Emotion") will only have an "alternate" take of a song that DID become a "hit".
...are usually just released to fulfill an artists contract obligation to release a certain number of "sides" in a certain time period.
And I don't know of ANY true Dylan fan( and casual listener) that doesn't like MOTORPSYCO NIGHTMARE.
Sepiatone
Most of the time greatest hits collections are about the hit singles the artist has had or,
if they didn't have a lot of hit singles, popular tracks from their albums. Maybe when CDs
became popular, with a longer running time, B sides or other things could be included.
Motorpsycho Nightmare is a wonderful and funny song, but it was never a hit single.
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6 hours ago, darkblue said:
'Drum' is the sequel to 'Mandingo' - not a ripoff.
'Mandingo' was the first novel in the series. 'Drum' was the second novel in the series.
Thankfully, that's where they stopped with making movies from the series of novels.
Smart move.
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6 hours ago, LawrenceA said:
Drum was the sequel.
I didn't realize that. I've been hearing jokes about Mandigo for years and years but
never got around to watching it. I don't think I'm missing much except for some
unintentional laughs.
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1 hour ago, CaveGirl said:
I love that movie!
I am sorry about the "ba-bee" though...I don't remember if I saw that movie before or after Elaine did her impression on
Seinfeld. Okay, Mandingo is not on YT for free, but Drum, which looks like a Mandingo
rip off, is.
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2 hours ago, CaveGirl said:
Rutgers gain is the Sorbonne's loss.
I worked with a girl who as the receptionist, liked to lie but never thought anyone was on to her. One day she said offhandedly "Gee, I think I might just quit this job. I'm thinking that it would be fun to go to college."
I said "Where are you thinking of going?"
She looks at me and says "I just decided I'm going to go to MIT."Nuff said!
Well thank you. She certainly aimed high, however impractically. It can't cost too much more
to apply to MIT than to Podunk Community College.
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1 hour ago, CaveGirl said:
Name that school!
I've got money on it being the Sorbonne?No, all the colleges I went to are here in the good old USA. If I had to pick
one, I think I'd go with Rutgers. I remember there was a student from
California who thought Rutgers was quite a big deal academically. Think he
had it confused with Princeton.
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The mandingo ate your ba-bee.
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10 hours ago, Sepiatone said:
I wonder how many(if any) caught your Dylan reference here Vautrin....
Always liked that tune.
Sepiatone
That line stuck in my mind and over the years I forgot what song it was from.
I had to do a quick double check to find out. A hilarious song, though not
exactly a Greatest Hits selection. Varoooommmm.
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I'm a clean-cut kid and I've been to college too.
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1 hour ago, Hibi said:
LOL. Yeah, I have music channels on my cable too. I've never really looked what's on there. Maybe I have Christmas music too!
Yeah, SAPPY pretty much sums up any Hallmark movie........The Mystery ones on Hallmark Mystery channel look like MIGHT be good, but I cant say I've ever watched one yet........
You just might have. There is quite a selection, much more than there used to be, but
I don't have the time to listen to them.
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1 hour ago, Princess of Tap said:
I used to watch that channel because it had Murder She Wrote and I Love Lucy.
So I saw some of those promos for those movies - - cookie cutter movies with cookie cutter casts for cookie cutter audiences.
Their movies look like scenes from Hallmark Christmas cards portrayed by professional New York City models.
I thought the whole thing was very John Tesh.
I watched a lot of Frasier, which I hadn't seen the first time around, on the Hallmark Channel
late at night, but I've seen every episode a few times so I don't watch it anymore. You could
wrote those Hallmark movies in your sleep, which may be the way they do it they're all so
similar. DirecTV now has a channel that shows a lot of the old TV shows--Perry Mason, Peter
Gunn, Father Knows Best, etc. And for the truly masochistic, T.J. Hooker.
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Guess you can't call her Baby anymore. I don't know about Bogie,
but if I saw her in that outfit I might find a palm tree to hide behind.
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1 hour ago, Hibi said:
Sadly that probably sums up them all. I admit I've never watched one, but how many Christmas stories can you come up with????? And you KNOW there's a happy ending!
I've never seen one either, I'm just going by the promos I sometimes come across.
Of course the non-Christmas ones are just as sappy.
I like old time Christmas songs, but not twelve months a year. The DirecTV
music channels have something for everyone. 80s Classic Reggae C&W.
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A pretty middle-aged woman with personal problems moves back to her hometown
with her cute 12 year old son. Her mother subtly works to get her hooked up with
her old high school crush, Sam the hunk, who is now divorced and has two cute
kids. After many twists and turns they marry in a Christmas eve ceremony with
wide smiles on all faces. The end.
I was just clicking through the DirecTV music channels a while back and there is now
a year round Christmas music channel. Have a holly jolly.......
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1 hour ago, CaveGirl said:
Yeah, Snookums!
Heather Kafka played a character named Lacy, in the 2013 movie, "Joe". You must have been napping during the credits. I bet she is the long lost great-great-great-granddaughter of Franz.
It's nice to think any "right-wing nut" can also be avant-garde!
Now I see where the problem lies. I was thinking of the 1970 movie Joe starring Peter
Boyle and Susan Sarandon. That clears everything up. Joe turned into a hippie hunter.
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6 hours ago, TheCid said:
Always found it interesting that people on the lam in many movies go to South America or Mexico, probably without a passport, but have no problem acquiring a good income. While Bogie may have had some resources, he was able to live in Peru and go to a nice restaurant/bar every night while waiting for Bacall to show up. Wonder how long it did take here to show up.
That's the magic of Hollywood. No passport, no money, no problem. It is a bit plausible in this
case since Bacall seems to be pretty well set up and we can assume that she slipped Bogie enough
spending dough until she arrives with the rest of the bank. And at the very beginning, she just
happened to be painting up near San Quentin on that particular day and then finds Bogie in the
ditch off the road. Okayyy.
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5 hours ago, CaveGirl said:
Right on, Vautrin! Maybe that old idea that working under pressure produces finer things, is applicable here?
Methinks you did not heed the warning sign in "Joe" being that someone with the name "Kafka" is in the cast. That's a real red flag, since we know that everything the author, Kafka touched ended up going horribly wrong.
Such happy words to live by, from my favorite depressing author, Franz Kafka:"The meaning of life is that it stops."
There does seem to be a lot of people who say they work better under pressure. I guess when you
have a strict deadline, you'd better get busy. I didn't know anyone in the cast was named Kafka, unless
I missed a small bug in the movie. Speaking of things going horribly wrong, Joe wasn't exactly living
a charmed life. A right-wing nut ahead of his time.
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I always figured she was just a bitter old coot and something of a small town
hick who didn't like fancy girls from the big city. Not a lot of likable characters
in this flick. I'm rooting for the birds.
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1 hour ago, Swithin said:
I think it was a pre-war building. ?
Another intense falling-out-of-the-window scene took place in another Bacall movie: Confidential Agent (1945). But in that case, a woman who is easily as evil as Madge (Mrs. Melandez, played to the hilt by Katina Paxinou) pushes poor little Wanda Hendrix out of the window. When Mrs. Melandez's evils are discovered, she commits suicide, just like our Madge.
Here are Katina and Wanda, pre-push:
And here is Katina, as the poison she took is working:
Poison is usually considered a woman's method of killing someone, including
one's self. Maybe the people who worked on Dark Passage made Moorehead's
end ambiguous as a way to protest the Production Code.
Yeah, SAPPY pretty much sums up any Hallmark movie........The Mystery ones on Hallmark Mystery channel look like MIGHT be good, but I cant say I've ever watched one yet........
REALLY? TWO-DAYS OF LEONARD BERNSTEIN?
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I thought everybody else in Starbucks would be glued to their own electronic devices.
Yes, I remember reading that Grammar was a conservative, though I don't think he's
way out there like a James Woods. I know Frasier is only a character on a TV show, but
it's really hard to like that guy. Just when you start to he does something really obnoxious
...again.