Vautrin
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In general Wikipedia is a fine source.
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9 hours ago, TikiSoo said:
The only grown person who should wear a baseball cap is someone playing baseball. I don't wear my riding helmet to the market.
I don't mind non-baseball players wearing ball caps, though I wouldn't myself. Some people just don't look good
in ball caps. James Carville has been on TV a lot recently wearing an LSU ball cap. Not a good look, but I guess
he thinks it looks better than his shiny bald head. I do have a LA Dodgers ball cap, probably a souvenir from
their last World Series win, which was ages ago. I never wear it. Even when I lived in the northeast I never wore
a hat. Just say no.
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6 hours ago, Sepiatone said:
I love 'em. MUCH better looking IMHO than the way overseen baseball caps that remind me of the "golf hats" my Dad and some Grandpas I knew wore, you know, the ones with the patch of a life preserver on the crown, or that of a guy taking a golf swing. And some even worn with the bill turned the correct way. But my Dad always wore his with a slight tilt.
I also have a few 8/4 crown caps( known also as "newsies") which is known more as my "signature" cap. But I don't wear any hat or cap in the spring or summer. And haven't worn a baseball cap since I was in little league, which I left when I was 12. BTW--- My favorite 8/4 is still in good shape at 31 years old!
Sepiatone
Some folks look good in ball caps, others not so much. The last time I wore a hat was when I was a kid and
had one of those long brimed winter hats with earflaps that everyone wore. I think my dad had one old fedora
that he almost never wore and it collected dust in the upper shelf of a closet. He switched to gimme caps. I feel
about hats and neckties the same as about war--what are they good for? Absolutely nothing.
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8 hours ago, laffite said:
I don't think he had any, did he? If he did, he might have had his own offbeat reasons. He was too smart to be religious. I don't know much about him so I make no claim to accuracy. This is just a surmise. Thanks.
If Russell wore a hat it likely would have been a top hat. He was a bit of an aristo after all.
In most of the photos I have seen he is bareheaded. Why I Am Not a Hatwearer.
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1 hour ago, Dargo said:
Yeah, okay.
And then we can set up a recreation of that one certain scene in that Mel Brooks western flick while I'm at it.
(...I'll be sure to wear my hat, but you'll have to wear one too if ya wanna be in it)
At least with a hat you can hold it over your nose in case of a gas attack. I still can't go with a hat.
No hat, no cattle. I got to hit the hay because I got to get up early tomorrow and break some horses.
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1 hour ago, Dargo said:
I mean, not BAD for an old grey-bearded f*rt here, RIGHT?!!!...
Not bad at all. If they ever make a sequel to No Country for Old Men, you're right there. To me that's sort of a
cross between a fedora and a western hat. All you need is a couple of those fancy feathers and a small cattle
skull. But then again, hats ain't my thing. Hey, tell cookie to hurry up with that chili, we all gettin' hungry.
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I've been watching reruns of Mad Men and Don Draper wears one of those little fedoras that look
like some kind of modernist ashtray. It's not too bad in the early 1960s episodes but in the later
1960s ones it's like Here comes the square.
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3 hours ago, Gershwin fan said:
The internet atheist community have really tried to rebrand fedoras as their hat of choice. It hasn't worked well.
Yeah, did you ever see a photo of Bertie Russell wearing a fedora? Hats just don't make it, no matter what your
religious beliefs.
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2 hours ago, Dargo said:
Ain't just the "hat" here, Vaultrin.
Every time I watch the skull-faced Widmark's Tommy Udo, I'm reminded completely of those angle-ly faced Mad Magazine characters from my youth.
(...especially when they're smiling)
Now that you mention it, I guess Widmark did have that facial look, but I haven't seen those cartoons in a long
while, so I mostly remember the big hats. It takes a little bit away from Udo's menace when you're LOL at
his head gear.
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I just picture a bunch of sweaty guys taking their hats off, wiping their heads with hankerchiefs and
then putting their hats back on. No thanks. I have no idea what the hat size represents and since I'll
never wear one don't care. Thank goodness they went out of style and stayed out of style.
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6 hours ago, Sepiatone said:
Hey, VAUTRIN--- Your SPACE BAR out of order?
Oh, and "Mary" is kind of an "old hat" slur for homosexuals. I think "Nancy" is what's used now as I often hear the phrase "Nancy Town" in reference to San Francisco.
And speaking of "old hats", here's another highjack......
Eddie Muller has a between movie "filler" in which he forwards the notion that the hat style known as the "Fedora" is a signature feature in Noir movies. He cites his favorite fedoras are...
The ones DANA ANDREWS wore in a few of his noirs, and...
ALAN LADD'S lids.
Personally, MY favorite fedoras are---
VICTOR MATURE's in KISS OF DEATH ('47)
And though, not officially a "noir" film, the hat sported by HUGH MARLOWE in THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL...
The ones usually worn by both SPENCER TRACY and HUMPHREY BOGART in their '40's movies..
Took me years to find one the least bit similar to any of those.
Sepiatone
It's harder to not put a space between words than you'd think, going against habit. Yes, I think Mary is the
older term. The one I never quite got was light in the loafers. I'm glad men don't wear those kind of hats anymore.
Who wants to wear something with a sweat band. The one I always got a kick out of was the one Widmark wore
in Kiss of Death. That thing was huge. It reminded me of the hats in the old Spy vs. Spy cartoon.
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Irememberfredcdobbs. Hewasafairlylikeableposter,buthedidhaveacantankerousousside.Imsorrythatthatbig
gilamonsterintheskygothim. MaryhadalittlelambwhosefleecewaswhiteassnowandwhereverMarywentthat
lambwassuretogo.
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Sorry to hear about Dave Roback. Both he and Hope seemed to shy away from the limelight.
Mazzy Star didn't put out a lot of albums, but each one was most excellent. R.I.P.
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I don't mind Oscar month that much. I like to watch films I haven't seen in a while and the rare movie I
haven't seen before. Night Must Fall was, for whatever reason, better than I remembered it. I never
have the TV on in the background. If there isn't anything I want to watch I just turn it off and do
something else. I only look at the schedule a day or two ahead of time. I like to be surprised.
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Go **** yourself. I'm sure Joe Pesci used that phrase in some mob flick.
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Not that it's a big deal, but Mencken worked for The Baltimore Sun and is associated with that city,
though his columns likely appeared in NYC newspapers in syndication. Rock of Ages, age of rocks.
Whatever.
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The usual corporate bs. I give 'em a C+ for effort.
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The Adventure of the Landlady Who Saw Too Much
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Is that a gun in your bath or.....Angie Dickinson in Big Bad Mama. Not
sure if it's from BBM I or II.
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17 hours ago, Gershwin fan said:
Atame Atame has been on TCM before too. If the movie has played on the TCM channel, it is ludicrous to delete a picture of it, You could turn on this very channel when it's on and see it so why delete it?
Yeah, I never expect much logic from the censors.
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4 hours ago, hamradio said:
Time will tell if that tiny bit of a n*****e will get the photo removed by the mods.
Dang she never heard of CLR (rust in sink).
So far, so good. Oops, I never even noticed the sink. That character lived in a rundown place in NYC, thus the
rusty sink. It's hard to tell, but it seems that you can see Jayne Mansfield's nippers in one of the photos. They
did delete my post of Victoria Abril and friend in Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down. Party poopers.
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Susan Sarandon in Joe. She did not play the title role.
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20 hours ago, jakeem said:
Another possible reason: John Mantley, who was the executive producer of "Gunsmoke," produced several Season 1 episodes of "The Wild Wild West."
That could have been a factor. I just figured that being on the same network and both being set in the west,
it just made sense. It's funny to see West and Gordon show up in the Long Branch.
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Conrad was too handsome to play Liddy
. FETV had some kind of memorial mini-marathon to Conrad
over the weekend. I've noticed a lot of the sets from TWWW are the same as those from Gunsmoke--the
main street, the Long Branch saloon, Matt's office and jail, the stairs to Doc's office. Makes sense since both
shows were CBS westerns made at the same time.
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I've seen RTPH two or three times over the years. It has my favorite hearing-aid wearing villain, though
obviously there's not a lot of competition for that title.