Vautrin
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I was watching the MTMS on Sundance last night. A couple of first season
episodes. I noticed that Mary has a stereo and one speaker, but not two.
Maybe she bought a second speaker later on.
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I always thought Gillis was a guy in a tight spot who lucked out
temporarily by ditching the car in Norma's garage and then took
advantage of that piece of good luck. In hindsight he should have
gotten out of the place earlier, but his life wasn't too bad at the
time. Oh well, that's show biz.
My theory is that Joe was killed by Blue Boy's dad, an early adapter
of drugs of all kinds. Not too steady in the smart behavior dept.
Like father, like son.
I do remember those wooden milk crates. A great gathering place for
spiders.
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Richard Wagner is in enough trouble for his anti-Semitism.
The last thing he needs is a possible murder rap.
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1 hour ago, TomJH said:
He's not all bad. Don't forget he also gave her a horsey back ride.
Lucky guy. The next morning it is implied that she gave him a ride too.
White Heat was one of the first classic films I recall seeing. My parents
were visiting some friends and I was left alone in their cozy little TV room
and on came White Heat. Wow.
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I can see clever Cody sneaking up on ol' Rocco and blasting him away while
he sits in the bathtub chewing on his cigar. Cody had obvious psychological
problems that needed treatment whereas Rocco was just one mean, low down,
cruel s.o.b. OTOH, no one should be allowed to slap Virginia Mayo around like Cagney
did. That's an unforgivable black mark against Jarrett.
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16 hours ago, laffite said:
...even more. in fact much more.
Well that's a matter of individual preference, but I thoroughly enjoyed
it. Gronk didn't catch it. Ha ha.
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7 hours ago, jakeem said:
I can imagine what a good day for the Cowboys is like for you.
It's been a while since the Cowboys were a Super Bowl threat, so that
lessens the dislike a bit. And watching the Pats fall short on that Hail
Mary play was just as enjoyable.
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Any day that is a bad day for the Cowboys is a good day to me.
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17 hours ago, Dargo said:
Hmmm...gotta say the question Jimi is asking "Joe" here seems like a question that's being asked more and more every single day in this country, doesn't it Vautrin ol' boy?!
(...sorry...seems as if I'm in a "cut from today's headlines" frame of mind tonight, huh)
Yeah, especially around school buildings, now that going postal seems to be
just a piece of nostalgia, thank goodness. Of course if you wanted to split
hairs, you could say that Joe wants to shoot just one particular person and
not everyone in his path. Still, that ain't cool.
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It was one of the best episodes of the hour long Hitchcock
program, borrowing quite a bit from The Spiral Staircase.
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Just now, Hibi said:
This was when Lucy moved to Hollywood and was solo (no Ricky, Fred or Ethel!) Yeah, that invasion band plot was used in a lot of sitcoms. i remember a Patty Duke one with Chad and Jeremy. Or was it Peter and Gordon? LOL.
Yeah, after Chad and Jeremy and Peter and Gordon things get pretty thin
on the ground.
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Just now, Dargo said:
I dunno 'bout that, Vautrin.
Ya see the reason I don't about that is just last week I watched an episode of PBS's American Experience series titled "The Gilded Age", and from what I could tell it sure sounded as if those late-19th century business tycoons such as Carnegie, Morgan and few others, ruthlessly worked every angle they could to ensure that their rather sizable part of the U.S. economy was as free and unrestricted as humanly possible, anyway.
(...jus' sayin')
Granted there was a lot less gov't regulation during that time period, but there
was still some and there would be more to follow, some as an effect of the robber
barons' methods of business.
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Just now, Hibi said:
I remember him doing a Lucy show. A farmboy who sings Lucy discovers. But he chokes up in the studio, until Lucy, gives it that barnlike touch. GAG!!! Even as a kid, I thought it dumb!
Maybe she thought the haystacks would give a reverb effect. Yeah, a lot of
those old sitcom plots were pretty out there. ( I would have loved to see
Freddy Mertz' reaction to Wayne Newton). Then in the mid 1960s they would
try to work a British invasion band, real or made up, into the plot along with a
"funny" band name. The Electric Toothbrushes.
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I didn't even realize that Marty Allen was still alive. Whenever I think of
that hairdo, I think of a little toy motorcycle rider made in West Germany
that a friend of the family gave me. It had a reddish clump of hair that
reminded me of Allen.
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Just now, Thenryb said:
Mine liked Wayne Newton (the child version-Danke Schon)
Wayne Newton was also in a couple of episodes of Bonanza, playing a kid
who liked to sing but his pappy was against it. Something a little strange
about the whole thing. And that hairdo. Yikes.
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When I first saw the title of the original thread, I figured it
wouldn't be too long before the TCM nannies made it disappear.
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Doesn't matter. The U.S. has never had a strictly capitalist economy.
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They made Vic an offer he could refuse. My dad liked Jerry Vale, not sure why
as he wasn't a big music fan. These guys did have good voices, but they never
did much for me.
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2 hours ago, Gershwin fan said:
If Bob Dylan can get a Nobel then so can Grisham and King.
That thought crossed my mind too. And if Bob Dylan, why not Pete
Townshend?
Many of the deserving writers never received a
Nobel Prize, but not because they were popular with a mass audience.
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2 hours ago, Palmerin said:
In his time Dickens was often dismissed as a popular entertainer who only wrote for money, whereas the Brownings and Baron Tennyson were lauded as exalted artists whose verse made the English language into something divine.
Are either Grisham or King widely regarded as likely candidates for the Nobel?
Perhaps this shows that novels have risen in literary esteem in the last 150 years
or so. Of course Dickens is now regarded as both an author very popular with
the mass audience of his time and as a sophisticated "literary" writer. I doubt either
Grisham or King is in line for a Nobel. That isn't to say they aren't good writers.
I know I've written about this before, but back in the 1990s conservatives were
saying that there was no longer a need for PBS. With the explosion of cable channels,
one or more of them would fill any void left by there being no PBS. One example
mentioned at the time was A&E. That didn't quite work out.
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As Grisham and King are novelists and Frost and Sandburg were poets,
I can see the point.
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No matter how hard ol' Martin tried to teach the boys to be a bit more
humble, next week they were back to being the same arrogant, petty
prisses that they were the week before.
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I didn't either until I happened to notice it last night. Sundance has been running a
number of classic TV shows, but I think MTM started just recently, as the episodes
I saw were early ones from the first season. I haven't watched the show in years,
so it was nice to see them again after all that time.