Vautrin
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5 hours ago, Dargo said:
Okay!
Which one of ya out there had 30-hours 15-minutes on your "When will Jane Fonda's name be mentioned in a John Wayne thread" Pool card here???
DRATS! I came THIS close to winnin'! I had the 31-hour 30-minute mark on my card.
(...I NEVER have any luck at these things, DAMN IT!!!)
I think waiting a whole 30 hours for a slam dunk like John Wayne/Jane Fonda shows
remarkable restraint.
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How about Jane Fonda International Airport with direct flights to Hanoi and
Ho Chi Minh City?
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Never apologize for renaming an airport, it's a sign of weakness.
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1 hour ago, Hibi said:
A radio store? Aim high!
Yep. You'd think he at least would have tried for a TV store.
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1 hour ago, scsu1975 said:
Yes. They became the first members of The High and the Mighty Mile High Club.
Since this occurred toward the end of the flight they might not have been high enough
(altitude wise) to join the mile high club. Then again, maybe they were just bending over
to pick up their bags of spilled peanuts.
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Iron Man (1951) Jeff Chandler, Evelyn Keyes, Stephen McNally.
Jeff Chandler is Iron Man, boxer Coke Mason. Paradoxically, Coke is not an iron worker, but a
Pennsylvania coal miner who is good with his fists. Thus he decides to leave the polluted dirty
coal mines for the clean and fresh air of the boxing arena. Due to some psychological quirk,
Coke becomes an ANIMAL in the ring whenever he is humiliated, which earns him a rep as
a "dirty" fighter. His one goal in life is to earn enough dough to...open a radio store in Philly.
Evelyn Keyes plays his medium-suffering girlfriend and McNally is his older brother and manager.
Rock Hudson has a supporting role as Coke's friend and early sparring partner, Speed. You don't
have to have a crystal ball to see that the grand finale will feature a bout between Coke and Speed.
Coke is the defending champion, despite his use of an extreme low crouch that has him being
hit repeatedly in the forehead by his opponents. Rock wins the match, but Coke Mason comes
away with the life lesson of, well something about not being such an egotistical jackass. We
never do find out if Coke did open that big radio store. This flick is not in the same weight class
as Champion or Body and Soul, but if boxing movies are your thing it's fairly entertaining, since
most of these boxing films have the same general plot. [A number of wags in the YT comment
section had fun with the idea of a boxing match between gay Rock Hudson and supposed cross
dresser Jeff Chandler. One Hollywood actress has come to Jeff's defense, saying that Chandler
was all man from the tip of his ostrich plum hat down to his open toed high heels.] There is
no connection between this film and the Black Sabbath song of the same name.
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6 hours ago, Hibi said:
So did anyone watch The High and the Mighty last night? Any reviews?
Guilty. I don't mind Oscar month that much because I can catch up on some movies I haven't
seen in a while, like Mighty High. I haven't seen it in ten years or so. I go with what I have
read as the consensus--kind of corny but still entertaining. It is a bit on the long side. One
mystery--did the newlyweds sitting in the front of the plane actually get it on when it seems
the plane might have to ditch in the ocean? You see them start to move toward the floor
and then a cut to another part of cabin. Hmmm.
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Ganz ganz dead.
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Young love, first love.
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1 hour ago, Dargo said:
LOL
Would this be a case of the "mixed metaphor" here?
Or the mixed sitcom. I think they're both very funny, though I would likely give a slight edge
to Seinfeld maybe because it's more of this time and isn't quite as dated as The Dick Van
Dyke Show.
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Going with Chekhov, though I can't say if his plays work as movies. It's not the
short, occasional melodramatic outbursts that I appreciate, but the tragicomic
landscape of genteel every day futility. Add in Brecht, Pinter, and the usual 20th
century American suspects.
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Rob and Laura got a queen size bed, yadda, yadda, yadda.
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7 hours ago, BingFan said:
I assume you're referring to my comparison of the chart histories of Bing Crosby and the Beatles, among others. You're absolutely right that the Beatles' chart success, 68 records during seven years, is very impressive. Crosby's chart history (396 records) covered 35 years (1927 to 1962), so he obviously had much longer to build his record. On average, Crosby (about 11 charting records per year) is only slightly ahead of the Beatles (about 10 per year).
No matter how the numbers stack up, though, I love listening to both Crosby and the Beatles.
I do notice that when people compare the Beatles' sales records to others, they sometimes
disregard the fact that the Beatles had a fairly short career compared to performers like Bing,
Sinatra, Elvis and others. The Beatles do have the most number one records on the Billboard
Hot 100 chart. Since it started in 1958 it does disadvantage earlier artists like Bing and Frank.
I like Bing Crosby, though I can't say I listen to his music very often.
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Jimmy Swaggart and son Donnie appear quite often on channel 344 on DirecTV.
They both look like they're doing pretty well and wear nice suits. There are
quite a few born every minute.
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I think the lesson of Interiors is never try to out-Bergman Bergman.
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1 hour ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
Yea, on a music forum I'm on, the topic is; they don't make music like they use to.
As you note, some people end up posting what they believe is much-better, 'old' music to make their point.
It takes a lot of strength for me not to post; I'm glad their not making that type of music anymore!
Yes, they don't make buggie whips like they use to. And I'm talking about movies that are
pretty run of the mill stuff with no outstanding qualities, at least as I see them. It's like
any old b&w flick is better just because it is an old b&w flick. Weird.
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5 hours ago, GordonCole said:
Personally I feel sorry for any banana nowadays, even a top one or second banana. Look how they are using them for illustrative purposes on this spate of tv commercials about Peyronie's Disease.
I find it quite an insult to the banana family and anyone named Foster also.Or, on occasion, how to properly put on a rubber. I know they are good for you, but
I've never been much of a banana fan. I guess I could dip them in chocolate sauce, but
even that probably wouldn't turn out very well.
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The title of this thread is bound to appear a number of times in just about every
comment section for a studio era flick on YT, along with its companion How come
they don't make movies like this anymore. It even appears on films that are on
the mediocre side, which always amuses me. They should make more films like
this rather pedestrian thing.
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6 hours ago, GordonCole said:
Nah, that was Peter Peanut who filled in for Chuckles' cremation.
Better him than Billy Banana. Imagine the smell.
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4 hours ago, hamradio said:
Maybe a film "Mommy You (May) Have Competition"
WHAT THE HECK, he's sitting in the same seat (from my last post)!!!
Mom, he's making eyes at me.
I love pc, especially when it drives the right wingers batty.
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1 hour ago, GordonCole said:
Chuckles the Clown is rolling over in his grave.
And all these years I thought he was cremated.
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1 hour ago, GordonCole said:
I get the bit about purchasing based on the covers. I kinda dig those H.P. Lovecraft volumes since the cover art is "Ooh-la-la!"
Do the original Dear Abby books have an author photo where Abigail has the wings on her hair helmet look?I know the original Abbey wrote a few how to books, though I think they were only available
through her column and not in book stores. Yes I remember that hairdo. Her daughter's is
more subdued and even has a lot of grey in it. I didn't buy the book due to the cover, but
it was kind of cool and I thought it would be nice to have others in the same style before
they were changed. I had six of Chandler's novels in the same cover style and then they
went and changed it so I had to get the seventh in the new style. I survived.
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Opinion to remove John Wayne's name from Orange County Airport
in General Discussions
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I had forgotten that.
Christ you know it ain't easy,
You know how hard it can be,
The ways things are going,
They'll name an airport after me.