Mr. Gorman
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Redd Foxx had a short-lived variety show, too, on ABC from 1977-78. After Redd departed from 'Sanford & Son' he went straight from NBC to ABC to do the show. But it didn't last too long. One season and ABC gave it The Ax.
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The 1952 color musical APRIL IN PARIS stars Doris Day and Ray Bolger. I find that movie rather odd. I think Doris and Ray are likeable enough characters by themselves . . . but juxtapose that with the film's notion of them as a romantic couple and I agree with the review in Leonard Maltin's guide. Just an amazingly unconvincing romantic couple! Jeepers.
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Late last night I endeavoured to stuff JABBERWOCKY into the trusty videocassette recorder. I watched the same tape several months ago, but before that I hadn't seen it for so long I cannot remember.
I think the best sentence I could use to describe "Jabberwocky" is: An absurdist medieval comedy that's Earthy and grimy!
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=== PITCHFORK READY! ===
Remember the end of the 1981 TV horror movie DARK NIGHT OF THE SCARECROW? Evil mailman Otis Hazelrigg (Charles Durning) literally gets pitchforked at the end.
RED SKELTON's character of 'Aubrey Piper' in a 1940s movie. I think it was called "The Show-Off" or something. I tried to forget it after I watched it. Monumentally irritating! I get it . . . he was supposed to be a loveable windbag. I also know I wanted to stuff a pitchfork in him.
Whoever thought the idea of repeating "Heimie Manush" over and over was an entertaining idea in a motion picture -- the title of which I have thankfully forgotten -- but that co-starred Edmond O'Brien. Ugh!
Then I'd like to pitchfork the Production Code for the garbage ending of a movie I've tried to forget. I think the name is SCARLET STREET. Joan Bennett and Dan Duryea get exactly what they deserved . . . and then EDDIE G. starts getting an attack of conscience after listening to a reporter on a train and then tries to kill himself in a cheap motel room before turning into a shiftless, haunted bum at the end. I will not watch this movie again because, even though I'd understand Eddie G.'s character feeling some guilt -- it's the amount of guilt that's shown that's very irritating. Bennett and Duryea were using him every way they could . . . and then he feels hopelessly guilty at the end hearing her voice and whatnot. I say: Horse Excrement. Pitchfork the Code for not letting Eddie at least live in peace.
And, finally, any movie that Kathryn Grayson sings in . . . (gently) pitchfork her. She may have been a delightful person in real life, but the style of singing she employs annoys the bejabbers out of me. Ergo, time to turn the dial!
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@Cin Int: It was more than just any side-screen cut-offs due to panning-and-scanning. There are a sizable number of characters billed over the closing credits who aren't in the released film. And PHIL SILVERS only had 1 line as 'Hoppy' at the end of the movie. → I guess it's because I like the movie that I wish there was a longer version available to see what was edited out just prior to release. Note also over the opening credits there are 2 editors listed.
I think there's a fair number of movies that have had last-minute edits made to them prior to release. HAROLD AND MAUDE, for one example. 'Cyril Cusack' is billed over the opening credits and he barely appears in the film as 'Glaucus'. And Bud Cort mentioned the finished film didn't include a scene that explained why he slept with Maude and he was none too pleased. In OH, GOD! you see Donald Pleasance listed prominently over the opening credits yet he barely appears in the released film. Apparently his sequence as a priest didn't work so it was excised.
THE CAREY TREATMENT (1972) has 'Rosemary Edelman' billed. She does not appear in the film. Her scenes were deleted just before release.
And so it goes . . . chop chop!
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I just finished watching THE CHEAP DETECTIVE (1978) on tape. I was going to watch it a few nights ago, but got too tired to concentrate. So I ended up stuffing the videocassette into the unit this evening. I've seen it several times, but not lately. And I've always wondered what was c/u/t at the last minute before its release. On the opening credits 'CAROLE WELLS' is billed, but does not appear in the movie. She gets a credit at the end as the 'Hat Check Girl'. And then there are numerous credits at the end as well for a number of characters who do not appear in the released film. → I'm guessing somebody with power at Columbia thought there was a sequence or two that slowed down the pacing of the picture so they were excised.
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Here are the 6 movies I've seen at least 20 times to date:
Evilspeak
The Secret of NIMH
Gas
Scavenger Hunt
Bullitt
In the Heat of the Night
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NORMAN LLOYD is 105 now! Born 'Norman Perlmutter' on Nov. 8, 1914 in Jersey City, NJ.
SABOTEUR is a movie I need to buy. I bought Hitchcock's SABOTAGE, but I've not yet picked myself up a copy of "Saboteur". I've seen it before and enjoyed it.
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I've never thought George Carlin was 'all that and then some' as a comedian. He's ok to me. Nothing special. I'd rather listen to old Redd Foxx party LP's than George Carlin.
Also, in regards to THE TEN COMMANDMENTS . . . that's not a rare movie is it? In other words: Even if TCM never shows it again one could just *buy* it on VHS or DVD and probably even Blu-Ray by now. Maybe I've missed something, but I've never thought THE 10 C's was a hard-to-find title. TCM can't show everything. Just buy a copy and watch to your heart's content.
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I don't know how to do 'links', but I'll say THE most screwy
'Happy Ending' I've ever seen is the 1978 low-budget/youth audience targeted film is SUMMER SCHOOL. Originally released as 'MAG WHEELS' and later re-titled. Director Bethel Buckalew and Co. cooked up the singularly, most-screwed up 'Happy Ending' I've ever seen. The standard for a 'Happy Ending' is so low in this movie -- and yet is IS a happy ending. You must see it to disbelieve it. The small number of people who've seen this no doubt were in disbelief at how the movie ended . . . and then the end credits roll with 'THE ANITA SONG' playing over the scroll. (The main character in the movie is a girl named 'Anita').
And then there is the ending of the 1974 low-budget opus THE TEACHER. Director Howard (Hikmet) Avedis didn't seem to like 'standard' happy endings for his 1971 movie THE STEPMOTHER and the 1975 movie THE SPECIALIST. But THE TEACHER has the most unhappy ending of the three. Looking for a low-budget movie that wraps things up in a cheerful bow? Look elsewhere! There is some irony that comes into play near the end of the movie due to a misunderstood phone call by Angel Tompkins overheard by Jay North that leads to a memorable ending.
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BLADDER PUPPY: The Story of a Rock Band Gone To Hell (2020).
The seminal '80s latter-day garage band from Xenia, OH attempts a reunion because all four members are now broke. Lead singer DAX DUMP, whose coke habit and inclinations to eat out of garbage cans has not aged him well, thought the whole thing up for a BLADDER PUPPY reunion "Cos, like, I needed the Bread. Man". DAX wanted to revisit and revise his hit song "Dragon Junk" and add new and exciting lyrics such as "After I drank a quart of Ex-Lax you became the stool sample of my Heart. BAY-BEE" and a new chorus to be repeated umpteen times "Yer my doped-out chick and I dig ya!".
Drummer BOBO SLOP (real name: John Smith) was dragged out of a flop house north of San Diego to resume his duties "on the skins, man". Turns out BOBO enjoys playing with sharp kitchen utensils and accidentally stabbed himself 89 times in the head with a spoon (?!) and now is a human basket case of epic proportions. But no matter! He's the drummer who slaps around on the congas, dude! His favorite of all Bladder Puppy tunes is "Fell In Love With A Deer Tick".
Gee-tarist RED-NECK TOBY TUSSELTON from 'Parts Unknown Except We Know It's In The South Somewhere' is a picker and a plucker. In fact, when he was young his Mama called him "a dern fahn (fine) motherplucker of that there gee-tar!" Toby is known to hang out at Stosh Delfino's Bar & Grill in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. DAY-UM! → When RT was asked what his favorite Bladder Puppy tune was he replied "Ah got a bidness degree in Sh!t!" Ok, Toby. We hear ya.
And last, and certainly least, is harpist/accordionist/oboe-ist XAVIER PLOPPINGTON (aka: "The Little Plopper") who enjoys drooling on himself during Intermission of the band's live shows. His favorite BP tune is "My Left Nostril Ate My Right Nostril". IT'S THAT KIND OF BAND, FOLKS.
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William Powell was a heavy smoker on-screen. I wonder if he quit? I remember him smoking in his last film appearance MISTER ROBERTS. That was released in 1955, but Powell lived until 1984. He was 91 when he died.
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MELVYN DOUGLAS.
I think Michael Douglas was probably busy filming the Disney movie "Napoleon and Samantha" with Jodie Foster at the time.
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@TikiSoo: You made mention of modern movies being like "Space Westerns" . Well, shucks, I'd recommend the 1970 UK movie MOON ZERO TWO. It is a 'Space Western'. (Just thought I'd mention it if you haven't seen it).
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Think I've got a 45' rpm single of IT GOES LIKE IT GOES around here somewhere, Hallows.
I don't think VALERIE CARTER wrote "Drifting and Dreaming". It's on the opening credits who wrote it, but I forgot . . .
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As far as the heaviest smokers in the entertainment industry I'll vote for these three: JACKIE GLEASON, REDD FOXX, FRANK GORSHIN.
The hardest breathing I've ever heard from someone not hooked up to oxygen was Redd Foxx. I felt bad for Redd.
There is an interview uploaded to YT with the heading 'Lost Interview' conducted by Allen Stewart: Redd was 65 when did this interview early in 1988 from a New Orleans nightclub. He was traveling all over the country for the Miller Lite Comedy Search. The interview is 4 minutes 15 seconds; Redd is practically gasping for breath. The microphone was placed on his shirt at such a spot where it picked up Redd's labored breathing. Foxx also talked about his new record label 'Redbird Records' or 'Reddbird Records' and the various artists he had signed to it, but it looks like the label never got off the ground. I've never seen anything released on that label. And I've looked.
As far as who smoked the most onscreen going from the movies I've seen I'll go with Bogey and Bette and Peter Lorre. I've seen several movies of late featuring Peter Lorre and he was obviously a heavy smoker at that time.
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I like the opening theme song DRIFTING AND DREAMING sung by Valerie Carter in the 1975 Columbia movie WHITE LINE FEVER. I thought the song should've been released as a single, but it does not appear to have been released at all. It's been kindly uploaded to YouTube.
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#529 looks like the 1983 drama SILKWOOD.
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Have you tried YouTube to see if someone's posted up the full show?
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'JAMES CARNEY' was a name John Malkovich's character used in the 1993 Clint Eastwood film IN THE LINE OF FIRE. I'm guessing she meant 'James Cagney'.
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I am tempted to buy a new vinyl LP of the 1959 Miles Davis album "A KIND OF BLUE".
One thing I appreciate about various 'Old Hollywood' movies from the 1930s is that so many of them are short and sweet.
I recall the 1932 movie ONE WAY PASSAGE ran 70 minutes; the 1940 remake ran almost 100m.
There was a certain 1934 Alfred Hitchcock movie that ran 75 minutes; the 1956 remake with big stars ran 45 minutes longer. Ugh! I know Hitchcock preferred the '56 version of "The Man Who Knew Too Much", but I prefer the 1 hr 15 min. version.
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If you fancy listening to one of BOA's most lunatic songs check out TOO HOT TO STOP. It was the last song on the 1975 album X-RATED. It's nuts. Especially the last 45 seconds. I guarantee you an *interesting* and LOUD listening experience should you decide to have a go. Cheers.
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Damn. I ♥ that song. I blew the speakers out in my car back in the mid-90s listening to BOA. This was one of the many songs of theirs I'd yank the volume way up and listen while motoring down the highway. I still don't know ALL the lyrics Jim Dandy is singing despite having heard this a few hundred times.
Doesn't even matter at this point.
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No offense taken, Hallows. I reckon BOA is not one of the most well-remembered bands from the 1970s, but they did put out a fair number of albums and packed concert arenas for several years in the 1970s before fading from the limelight by the end of decade. I would say to any potential listeners if one tires of 'polished' Southern Rock and wants to listen to some wild and primitive form of 'hillbilly metal' then BLACK OAK ARKANSAS is waiting to pounce on your eardrums! And possibly burst them open.
If you haven't heard the 1972 BOA song "FEVER IN MY MIND" it's one wild piece of music best listened to with the volume ^UP^. Cheers. I reckon you'll either like it -or- run screaming from the room shrieking "What the hell is this?!"
I see you posted their lone Top 40 hit, jakeem, with their remake of 'Jim Dandy'. I think that was a Laverne Baker song from 1957. And that's the late Ruby Starr hangin' with Jim Mangrum on stage. 'Jim Dandy' is one of their 'nicer' songs. Compare it with WILD MEN FROM THE MOUNTAINS.
'Happy Ending' I've ever seen is the 1978 low-budget/youth audience targeted film is SUMMER SCHOOL. Originally released as 'MAG WHEELS' and later re-titled. Director Bethel Buckalew and Co. cooked up the singularly, most-screwed up 'Happy Ending' I've ever seen. The standard for a 'Happy Ending' is so low in this movie -- and yet is IS a happy ending. You must see it to disbelieve it. The small number of people who've seen this no doubt were in disbelief at how the movie ended . . . and then the end credits roll with 'THE ANITA SONG' playing over the scroll. (The main character in the movie is a girl named 'Anita').
Performances of Limited Screen Time That Still Have A Jolting Impact
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Speaking of MIDNIGHT COWBOY the person I most remember is JOHN McGIVER (1913-75) as the creepy 'Mr. O'Daniel'.
"I'm gonna use ya, Joe Buck!" he chortles.