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YOU FOLKS & THE STUDIO TRULY MUST BE JOKING HERE!

Some may already know of this upcoming CNN special focusing on the largest athlete that ever lived ANDRE THE GIANT-(l948-1993) Think it's in early April, but check. A few personal pts I first saw him in person around 1975 at age 11 Back then the good guys would come out ion opposite side of auditorium & the bad guys on the opposite side & luckily my friend & I were above him-(AMAZINGLY) & Larry could almost reach out & touch his shoulder. His head was longer & larger than a very large horse. Saw him in Shea Stadium around same time, maybe '81 I hate that stadium because it's open & nxt to the airport VERRY LOUD PLACE & after the matches they had all fans go out exact same & small way GO FIGURE But, at that time ANDRE was still a ghood guy & Hulk Hogan-(l952-) was the baddie. I was way up in bleachers on this special exhibition. Saw him in the legendary Madison Square Garden numerous times as a kid as well. Closest I got was when my ma' a friend anther friend of hers & me, drove to Asbury Park, NJ & it was just a high school gym, biggie is it was a tag team match & Andre was only about10ft from us in front row entire match. Once he learned he had Giants Disease" he immediately started to drink himself to death, or as close as he could get! & when docs put him on anoperating table they were worried if a giant woke up in mids of surgery They asked Andre how much booze does it take you to pass out, his response was it always takes about 2 to 3 liters of bourbon to just get him a buzz He still made some comebacks & against Hulk Hogan several times over the yrs. Hogan always says despite him being huge &musclebound he was scared to really fight Andre. Stating something like "What If this Giant changes his mind" in theirbout. SEE Andre was then the villian& Hulk the good guy. Hogan body slammed him numerous times over the years, but even a nitwit can see the pother Wrestler jumps into it. Andre the Giant passed away at his-(maybe VA?) ranch in early 93. & was cremated & his great friend & ranch worker hid all others exactly where he'd dump his ashes. CAN YOU NAME THE FILMS HE APPEARED ION? For e "Princess Bride" (987) ($31m.) (***) is a no brainer & was in the ok (**1/2) comedy "micki and maude" (l984) (**& 1/2 BUT NAME ANY OTHERS PLEASE & I THANK YOU! He's also my A #1 fav. pro Wrestler to date. 2nd fav of mine is BRUNO SAMMARTINO-(l939-) 6'0 & was 260 lbs now??? a ton less nowadays 3. KEN PATERA (l944-) I was genuinely fascinated with the 1972 Olympic Wrestler 4. HULK HOGAN (l948-) 6'5 at once & stated filming 1982's "Rocky III" (l9990) (#21m.) & 5th fav. is ??? THANK YOU & HOPE SOME ENJOY THIS ONE $

NO WAY!

A DEATH SCENE THAT MUST RANK UP THERE WITH HIS IN '38's "ANGELS..." 1939's "ROARIUNG TWENTIES" 1933's "KING KONG" & *TRACY'S in "CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS"

*Jim's Cody vs Rocky Sullivan would have been a better tough guy comparison

Edward G., was so superb as Johnny Rocco in Huston's brilliant 1948 "Key Largo" (WB) that he was arguably robbed of an *Oscar shot for the role (P,S. Back in '77 we went by, no, we didn't my mistake But the hotel on "KL" is still-standing there, or was & most was at WB's, same hotel used in the picture! It still had several photos hanging of the likes of *Bogey & Robinson hanging up but said But Rocco was no match for James (Cody) Jarrett in Walsh's 1949 powerhouse: "White Heat" (l949-WB's) Both contain yet another powerful score by the best ever *Max Steiner too! *Cagney';s Cody J. was a tonage more violent & psychotic Jarret was off the charts & to his peers & the ACADEMY again His Gun Moll V. Mayo said yrs later during that era they'd never give the leading statue to a gangster role & obviousy didn't. on an interview-(think it was ET)& Mayo said this as the norm back then. Rocco wanted to live but Rocky as in Sullivan did not. (FUN FACTS: Edward G. Robinson (Emmanuel Goldenberg) (l893-l973) 5'5 not only heighted, but was truly so timid crew had to tape his eyelids open even when firing blanks. But & he always made a stipulation of it, immediately asked her & the likes of Mae Clarke, Joan Blondell & others if they were ok?

You either were misinformed, or you scooped me on that story of *Kate & Clift though, never even heard that one?

THANX (PRINCESSOFTAP! & for inquiring about my ever decreasing health Is about 90% head trauma I feelk like Rocky Balboa or something & just too much hits to the head, but not from boxing. Started with spinal trouble BIGTIME! & spasms make you fall, hit the head & DATS, DAT! & given the U.S., is the most greedy on this rock when it especially comes to helping unfortunate people reckon' we are supposed to just sit & spin-(to quote my little Winona's movie "Heathers" (l989) I was a very rough kid too-(boxing, sports, riding bikes,etc) so damaged a lot early on. & I hate for others to not like our organ ricitals, but only a minute Binge drinking for over 35yrs also hardens your liver & shrinks the kidneys. But, genetics also play a play & my dear old dead was nuts & very very violent Enlisted in Vietnam in '65 & in the marine's but his dad was really nuts & was a drunk, hemopheliac & drug addict, passing away in an institution of hemo.... & my mother is often more sick then I am-(4 operations on her stomach in late 20214) did not get home for 5 months either! So, as the say one must find good things where they can huh BUT, THANX FOR ASKING, AT LEAST SOMEONE DOES ANYMORE For any that may just want to write me about anything & movies call(jeffshannon50@gmail.com) OOPs, I meant write me

You likely started younger than I at actually reading books & movie books at that huh? I truly started to fall deeply in the movies around late 1978 & then '79 really out the book in me, but back then-((only about 14 to 15) I first got fascinated in cinema, due to the likes of daytime tv hosts like Mike Douglas-(l925-2006) Merv Griffin (l925-2007) Tom Snyder-(l936-2006)-(was my fav. BUT ONLY SAFTER JOHNNY OF COURSE!!!) & others, but they were guys who just adored movies & given there age I reckon' the older ones,. but sometimes contemporary cinema too, not as much though M. Douglas was thee very first one that always made a point of saying our guests & clips tonight are the likes of Humphrey Bogart, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable & then always pause & say and *"The Great: Spencer Tracyt" & in reverse on other days he'd do exact same presentation like tonight we have footage of Clark Gable, Jimmy Stewart, Henry fonda & *"The Great: Spencer Tracy" so I wanted to see what all the hoopla was for them & especially for *Tracy. Matter of fact one of his most memorable shows-(or it was Merv Griffin?) was when they finally let cameras ionside the ever RUD Glendale's "F. Lawn" welp, they still refused to let Merv's or Mike's camera crew inside certain areas-(NOTE: The other one in Hollywood Hillls/Burbank "F. Lawn" welcomes fans, as does "Westwood" & "Hollywood, forever"-(about 3 blocks from my Econo Lodge) However, Glendale still let them into certauin areas EXAMPLE: *Bogey & Bacall section closed to public) This was about 1979 by then, so no *James Stewart joined his contemporaries yet & he likes to be accessible to his legions of fans w/not 1 fence in sight! This pt as an impressionable kid really hit me though, because it really hit Mike Douglas as well His crew was approaching the lg & poure white garden grave of *Tracy & Mike quietly says "Now this is thee one I most Wanted to See" it was of course the Garden Grave of & he said this "The Greatest Motion Picture Actor of All-Time" or Mike would always make a speculation of saying things like Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable, Jimmy Stewart, Gary Cooper and "The GreatL Spencer Tracy" everytime, so that's ahuge pt in how I got started

& after filming of the superb courtroom drama UA had the Berlin premiere of the epic & of all people *Tracy was a little excited about going. When he thought a new release was good, it helped his spirits, all was going well so far in Berlin-(they were also still very nervous about opening it there!) then outside Monty Clift finally showed up & Fried again BIG-TIME! Plus, he would take any narcotic he could get his hands on-(he once burned his finger down to the bone up in *Liz Taylor's bedroom, after finding her pain killers) Then Monty finished off that even when speeding down her Bel-Air rd & almost ate entre steering column, they say she reached him just before the cops & saved him. Majority of people that knew him & not some fictional book writer later insisted he wanted to die due to his homosexuality But in short & before the forums cut off my writing again? Once all were inside the mammoth theatre for the film, all was still ok & silent, then coming in back door was Clift & yelling at top of his lungs & yellow Moooh & was shooting at things with his finger. over & over like a cow. So, *Spence got up & again tried to quiet him so Monty jumped up on *Tracy's back with all his only 135lbs but that's enough, considering *Tracy's kidneys were almost shot back in 1940 & among main reasons he got a deferment for WW!! According to all that was it for *Spencer & never dealt with him again (FINAL NOTE: If you tcm-ite's even get to read this I had also written quite a bit about the legendary *"West Side Story: (l96l) (UA) & in particular the rumored meanness to NATALIE,but it got lost as well??? Anyone want me to trey it again after awhile? THANK YOU

PRINCESS, oops this is exactly what within 4 minutes ago I just got done ****in the moderators out once again for Do you recall the long reply I logged-in? It immediately went in LA LA LAND!? Among the toppers is I;m in dire pain & still tried to throw that together for others too & it was difficult-(NOTE: Though I've always had a policy, I never cheat & these things in movie history, Oscars,etc) must be directly from the brain & not a book & especially not from a computer NADA seemed to matter though on that last attempt THANX FOR CARING G

Topic certainly goes along with tcm's annual "#1 Days of Oscar" though & like how perfectly a fellow TCM-ITE put together the Best supporting actor nominees for 1961 He woulda' voted for Montgomery Clift in "Nuremberg" did you know by that time the tragic actor was truly shattered as not only an actor but a human being though & of all fellow actors & a living legend by then that had more then his share of utterly times in his then 61yrs *"The Great: Tracy" literally coaxed Clift through the superb epic drama. All seemed fine after the long shooting, until UA had it's premiere in Berlin of all places & all were entering the theatre, all of a sudden Monty entered last or close & proceeded to act blized again, once inside he didn't get much better. Shooting with his finger at all patrons & the topper was & I think at flix conclusion, saw *Tracy & actually jumped up onto *Spencer's already damadged kidney's, riding him like *Spence were a horse up & down the ailes. They say Clift finally passed out on the roof of a car in Berlin hours latyer, as for *Tracy, that was the final straw!

& the 2 of these are easily available online

& sadly the network isn't quite as strong thesedays

When in whats left of Tinsel-Town, they have "The Max Factor Museum" & among it's items is a replica of Roddy McDowell's bathroom & photos of NATALIE Guess not many on here have seen these great shows hosted & shot by Murray

Her & *tracy's house is still there on St. Ives Drive in B. Hills but covered with lots of foliage It was here where he died on June 10th, 1967.

Seen that film tons of times since I was a kid but can't place her in it? Andrea Leeds was sole actress up for the *Oscar that year

Yeah I always read the duo were anything but friends, on the contrary

Yeah, just speculating I'm positive *Kate Hepburn or *Brando would never have accepted it though, or Garbo

Personally I always liked *Julia, but again she's not had a really long career, like *Clooney My personal top five biggest omissions are & that would likely have accepted award in person > *Chaplin, *John Wayne, Cary Grant &

Besides *Chaplin I forgot about Bob Hope? Sure he would have loved it

(*-denotes Oscar winner) Many on here know what I'm talking about due to TCM often still-(luckily) airing the old Ken Murray (l903-88) Hollywood home Movies. Often though they are broadcast very early in the morning and many don't even know what I mean? Think there are only 2 of them "Hollywood My Hometown" & "Hollywood Without Makeup"-(please inform me if there are more though) They are utterly marvelous though Taking fans from the silent era up until around 1962/63 Murray was also in a couple of pix including the all-=time great Western "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" (l962) though briefly as the doctor in the huge town You can truly see his love of THE MOVIES & it's STARS Something we are sorely lacing today is the genuine heavyweights showcased here *Gable, *Tracy, *Bogey *Coop, Fairbanks & *Pickford, Cary Grant-(in these a lot), even William Randolph Hearst & Marion Davies Please comment on these & are they as yet on DVD? Only drawback is wish there could be more THANKS

*Ginger ("Ms. RKO") Rogers was soo good at comedy see 1938's "Vivacious Lady" "Monkey Business" (l952 version)& others (P.S. Luckily I got to stay at exact same motel at 777n. vine & virtually a stone's throw from Paramount Pictures & RKO Radio-(same lot)

To me by far his finest work as an actor was '59's great "0n the Beach" (UA) (****stars!) & always felt her best role was the comedy from 1942 "The Major and the Minor" instead of "Kitty Foyle" Dubbed "Ms. RKO" & she & *Katharine Hepburn were reportedly by no means close, some say it's because *Ginger defeated her for Best Actress for 1940-(*Kate in "The Philadelphia Story") but it may have started when shooting 1937's "Stage Door?"