Vautrin
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1 hour ago, TheCid said:
Hey I like the pledge drives when they showcase the old performers and music from the 50's and 60's.
I enjoy some of those too, but they sure have a lot of interruptions just as one is starting
to get into the music. And some of the hosts go a bit overboard in talking about artists
they probably don't know all that well. And for a $75 pledge you will get the four CD collection
of rare outtakes and live performances. That's not all, for $100...
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2 hours ago, TopBilled said:
Some will say "thank goodness they don't make 'em like that anymore."
There are the occasional posters on YT who will say this about older films, but they are
outweighed by the Those were the good old days folks. I've also noticed that many films
which I would consider entertaining but rather routine productions of the time are called
great. That might just be a disagreement, but it seems some of these folks bend over
backwards to laud over any old b&w movie, however mediocre.
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1 hour ago, TopBilled said:
Thanks for the levity.
Many a truth is spoken is jest, or maybe it's just a joke. I have seen promos for the series and
it looks interesting. It looks like it will provide detail to a historical subject that many people know
little about. Beats a pledge drive every time.
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Frank Booth? I like Fassbinder, but I don't think Querelle was one of his better efforts.
Maybe RWF ran out of drugs that week.
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Shaft would be a great title for a documentary about Reconstruction, as in that's what the
ex-slaves often got.
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It always fun to see the comments for a studio era film on YT. Someone will say They don't
make them like that anymore. Then another person will pipe up with That's when men were
men. And then Back then they had real stars not like the dopes they have today. And finally
The country was better then, today's it's a PC hell on earth. Happens just about every time
I watch a studio era flick on YT.
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I suppose if you're into SMB it's interesting. If you're not, the umpteenth whipping, black
leather accouterment, and being ridden by the dominatrix while you pretend to be a dog
gets old fast. Okay, you've got a fully functional rack. Big deal. I found the Depardieu character
to be a total rotter. I was hoping that M. Gautier would take him out in some high-toned, well
thought out manner, but it was not to be. I will give credit for not having the screw/drive end
in a fatal car accident as was occasionally the cop out of the studio era movie.
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Hollywood turned out tons of these romantic comedies during the 1940s. Some are very
good and others are just average, but even the average ones are entertaining to some
degree. And some type of mix up in identities was a staple of these kind of movies. It's
always fun to see Ruth Gordon as a middle aged woman instead of as a much more "mature"
one that she is best known for.
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Garbo Skis. Leaving aside the fact that his was her last film, I thought it was a somewhat
above average 1940s romantic comedy. Some funny moments but nothing all that special.
Not that's it's all that relevant, but that hairdo she had with the little forelock in the middle
of her forehead wasn't very flattering. Probably not the film you'd want as your last movie.
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The producers sure didn't have to spend much on the wardrobe. I had seen this one about a
year or so ago. Payne sure had a hell of a lot of problems for a cab driver, even one who used
to be a contender in the boxing ring. I must have been out in the kitchen or not paying attention
because I didn't notice a scene where Payne got rid of his wife's body or moved it to the trunk of
his cab. I was amused by Eddie mentioning in the intro that the folks in this movie are pretty much
stock characters. Very true, but then that's true of about 80% of all movies, noir or not. After
all that violence and action it's kind of an anti-climax to find out that Payne is a gas station owner.
That type of business didn't work out too well for Burt in The Killers and Mitchum in Out of the
Past. Just a word of warning.
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Every time I have had an argument with a STOP sign I win...eventually.
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Just on a purely laughs per minute basis with no regard for social commentary or profound
insights into the human condition, I'd go with Airplane and This is Spinal Tap with a honorary
nod to The Bank Dick.
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On 3/26/2019 at 11:44 PM, Sgt_Markoff said:
Hey! Heads up!
I wanna get some more into Fairport Convention, Richard Thompson, and Steeleye Span. Who here is hip enough to help a bro out with some recommendations? Pipe up, now....tanks!
Not hip enough but I have a few Fairport and Richard Thompson CDs. That's a small
sample because I'd guess that they each have 25 to 30 albums out there. Unhalfbricking
and Liege and Lief by Fairport, fairly early albums in their long career. Rumour and Sigh
and Mirror Blue by Thompson. What can I say, I like them. The only Steeleye Span CD I
have is a 2 CD compilation album. Pretty good. No doubt SS have a whole truckload of
records out there too. I also have five or six Richard and Linda Thompson records. Of
those I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight and Shoot out the Lights are, IMHO, the
best. I just have to wonder, is anybody buying recent Fairport Convention
albums? I kind of doubt it. Over and out, daddy-o.
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Cooper's hair may be white, but he's as red as Joe Stalin. Keepin' an eye on this
commie creep because one never knows what subversive activities he's up to.
Five years ago he tried to put his own mama on trial for being a capitalist roader.
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They call it grass, weed, maryjane, wacky tabacky, reefer, shark juice, bumble squat,
whiny wam, pound puddle. But it always ends in the same three letters, DOA.
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10 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
DONT YOU DARE BESMIRCH THE LOVE OF MACK AND RACHEL!!!!!!!!
Do you have any idea the odds they had to overcome to find their happiness? The relentless plotting of Mack’s daughter Iris? The attempted murder of Rachel by Janice Frame? The controversy over the paternity of their son Matt?
God I miss soaps. There’s just no way you can explain to people born in the 21st-century the chokehold they had on your life when there were only three networks and no Internet.
That's just what made their love so special, all the obstacles they had to overcome. I
don't recall many of the details as I might watch along with my mother for only ten or
fifteen minutes. I did think that Mack, even when he grew his hair longer, was a tad too
old for Rachel, but to each their own. Maybe she could have whipped up a
sculpture titled Old Man Descending a Staircase (at 3 a.m. to pee). But I agree, there
was nothing quite like soapoperaland, though I was just a bystander.
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15 hours ago, Dargo said:
Actually here Vautrin, I've just done a little internet investigation about this, and here's what I've found...
Evidently, the producers of that soap opera actually DID contact Virginia and offered her the role of the lady who dispenses wise counsel to the other actresses while seated at her kitchen table and imbibing a nice cup of coffee.
However, because of her insistence upon a role also being written in for her husband Fritz, and with then the producers and writers of the soap opera unable to figure out a way to have a character noted for making that popping sound with his mouth and hand become a regular on their program but still somehow make it believable to their television audience........
(...well, long story short, they went with Constance Ford instead, and who it seems pressed for no such additional stipulations added to her contract)
If soap writers couldn't find a role for anybody at all they aren't real soap writers. Fritz
could be the neighborhood eccentric type who seems a little weird but is shown to be
harmless and even entertains the kiddies at the Christmas party with his audio tricks
and is called on to say grace at the Christmas dinner.
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1 hour ago, Dargo said:
What, they couldn't get Virginia Christine for the part or somethin'???
(...I guess Folger's held her to some kind'a strict contract, huh)
I don't know who came first. I'd guess that Constance's coffee klatch discussions were
for more mature audiences though.
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1 hour ago, Dargo said:
LOL
And I for a while and during a time my union was on strike against the airline I worked for, actually got into a couple of the ABC network soaps, such as the aforementioned All My Children (and where I first noticed the ALSO aforementioned cheekbones of James Mitchell AND how tiny and really not very sexy Susan Lucci was...nope, could never understand why in hell all the men on that show were supposed to be captivated by her) and also General Hospital.
(...the latter during the time that whole "Luke and Laura" thing was all the rage)
Yeah, Luke and Laura was one of those TV phenomenas where just about everyone had
heard of them, whether they watched the show or not. I recall that Constance Ford,
who I didn't know from Eve at the time, played Rachel's mother on Another World for
decades. Whenever there was a really big problem she would invite people into her
kitchen for a cup of coffee and work everything out.
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What's down with Anderson Cooper? Gloria isn't leaving him any dough or at least that's
what he says.
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My mom used to watch the NBC soap operas. I guess that after doing the housework, it was
time to relax, have a brewski and watch the soaps. Like sand through the hourglass............
I would come home from school, make a few wisecracks about Mack and Rachel and then run
like hell.
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6 hours ago, Princess of Tap said:
As a kid, I was a real big fan of George Murphy because he tap danced with Shirley Temple.
If you've never seen it, you must take a look at a Judy Garland musical classic called "For Me and My Gal", which was directed by the great Busby Berkeley. It was Gene Kelly's first movie Musical. Until Gene showed up, George was going to have the lead and be with Judy in the final fade-out. But that didn't happen, and Gene became a bigger tap dance star in the 40s than even Fred Astaire.
And the rest is tap history.
George went on to do pr for MGM and ended up the president of the Screen Actors Guild-- eventually becoming a California US Senator. His career became a template for his good friend Ronald Reagan. George also influenced Shirley Temple and encouraged her to go into government service.
All three of those Stars proved that there is life after Hollywood. LOL
I don't want to be a crank, but while I enjoy many of the songs that are performed in
musicals, when it comes to dancing, count me out. Life after Hollywood, at least for
California Republicans.
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Quicksand letdown. I had to laugh at there just happening to be a big quicksand pit
in that particular part of the border. I did a quick check and, like scorpions and black
widow spiders, quicksand isn't that dangerous, being more dense than the human body.
So a whole plot element of many jungle movies is just a fugazi. There's still the black
mamba though.
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8 hours ago, TheCid said:
But he got to go to Washington and learn new dance steps as a US Senator.
Yes. I can never remember what office he held. It was US Senator from California from
1965 to 1971. I also didn't know that John Tunney, who defeated Murph in the 1970
election, was the son of former heavyweight champ Gene Tunney. It appears that Murphy
started the Senate candy desk, so he couldn't have been too bad.
Why do some classic movie fans bash newer films?
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True, but YT is the gold standard of the Everything good then, everything worse now meme.