FredCDobbs
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Here's a little twist on The Mikado which I just found out about.
The original version had two uses of the n word. These were
first taken out in the 1940s and I'm guessing they are not used
at all in current productions.
Thanks for the information.
TCM fans (including me) were shocked to hear that the name of Richard Todd's dog in the 1955 movie THE DAM BUSTRS, was "nig-ger". I just about fainted when I heard Todd use that name several times in the movie. That word was also the code-word for the dambuster operation.
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Yea, the CNN coverage is too much about their own reporters. Generally the 4th estate should be heard but not seen.
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Great idea. The film could be set in Fergusson. Have a reporter shoot a gun in the air in order to provoke a police response which leads to more violence as well as other things reporters could do to ensure a great viewing experience and higher ratings.
LOL, a couple of days ago I saw a CNN reporter fail to move when a cop came up and shouted "move on" to a large crowd, after he (the cop) had been ordered by supervisors to keep the crowd moving and not let it become stationary. The reporter was so happy about being shouted out by a cop, and he stayed put and obviously looked like he hoped to be arrested on live TV. I thought that was a little sensationalist of him. Dan Rather did something similar at the Democratic Convention in Chicago in 1968 and he became a media hero by being arrested on live TV on CBS. This type of thing is a ratings booster.
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Maybe someone can tell me why salt water from the Pacific Ocean was pumped all the way up hill to the Water Commissioner's garden, and then allowed to ruin the grass in such an obvious manner that the Asian gardener noticed it, and then allowed to flow back down to the Ocean??
And then why was some guy's body dumped in his own salt-water garden channel/pond, and then washed down to the Pacific Ocean? That seems like an odd way to get rid of a body.
I've lived in The Valley, and I found the film really stupid. I mean THE Valley, the same place the film was about.
I think DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS, a neo-noir about LA in the 1940s, was MUCH better.
This film was so good, I identified with Denzel Washington, and I felt like I was a black guy trying to keep from being murdered by white L.A. politicians, cops, crooks, etc. When a film can induce me into changing my race while I watch it, and boo all the white guys, it's usually a pretty good film.
And look at all these old cars. This is much better than Chinatown because the film looks like it was made in the 1940s. Chinatown does not.
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Your post reminded me of a beloved childhood record, "Songs for Children,"and this was on it. Sorry about the bad sound:
Hey, thanks for that recording!
I knew nothing about them until I moved out to the Southwest and I began to find them growing in my yard. I didn't know what they were, just some kind of green weeds when they are growing. And they can grow without any rainfall.
Then in the fall of the year, around Sept/Oct, they dried up, turned brown or light tan, and broke off at the stem. The curling up at the tips made them round, and when the wind blew they tumbled. They tend to collect at houses, cars, and fences.
That British report I mentioned was some British documentary script writer writing some kind of myth he had grown up hearing about them. I couldn't believe that PBS aired the program, more than once, and didn't correct it. But I guess they don't have tumbleweeds in New York or Washington DC or Boston or London.
However, tumbleweeds are attractive when a few of them, or a lone one is blowing across the desert landscape, just like in a lot of Western movies.
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Okay, so I made a mistake, okay. Jesus Christ.
Ok, you are forgiven.
Oh, but don't forget, my name is "Fred".
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As Ricky Ricardo once said, "Look, all I know is that Columbus deescovered Ohio in 1776."
You are a very bright math professor. I don't know **** about math, so I try to not write any math articles for TV or the internet.
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I was under the impression that Bogie and the others at first assumed the Hollywood Ten
were not commies, and that when they found out they were, Bogart was
****.
I think you are right about that. The reason was very simple.... back in those days the Communists in Hollywood generally pretended to be "liberals".
But during the HUAC hearings, Bogie and others heard their testimony, heard their defense of Communist Russia, and finally realized that some of the guys in Hollywood who pretended to be "liberals" were actually Stalin- and Soviet-supporting Communists. That came as a shock to many Hollywood liberals, such as Democrats and Independents.
What they were trying to cover up during their HUAC testimony or lack of testimony, was the strong connection back in those days between the Soviet Union and the American Communist Party (the CP,USA).
It would be as if we learned today that several Hollywood actors, directors, etc. were working secretly to promote the political goals of The People's Republic of China, like Windi Deng Murdoch was doing at Fox Films and several China internet companies a few years ago.
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McCarthy was on the questioning board for the HUAC asking questions.
Point of order, Mizz Chairwoman: What does that above sentence mean?
Andy,
Mizz Chairwoman thought McCarthy, the Senator, was a questioner on the House Committee.
This is very common historical misinformation. I see it in the media all the time.
I saw a British documentary on PBS that said "American tumbleweeds are among the few plants that never put down roots, and they get all their nutrients from the air."
This is SO stupid, yet it was said on a PBS documentary.
I have tumbleweeds in my yard. They grow as green plants, then in the fall of the year they dry out, turn brown, curl up, break off at the stem, and THEN when the wind blows them, they become tumbleweeds. THEY DO NOT TUMBLE when they are green and have roots in the ground. THEY ARE DEAD PLANTS when they do tumble.
And Joseph McCarthy was NOT on the HOUSE COMMITTEE, because he was a SENATOR.
Who are our schools teachers today?
I'm going to write a nasty letter to Victoria, the Queen of Canada, or maybe to Robin Hood, the King of England.
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Fine, no need to get defensive.
Since his name is mostly associated with the time period, I am sure through his speeches crying Communist that the House had to set up committee meetings anyway due to the severity of the fear-baiting going on in the other part of the other legislative branch of government.
You are SURE????
No you are not.
The first HUAC Hollywood Committee hearing was in 1947, before anyone in the public had ever heard of Joseph McCarthy. He didn't even become a Senator until 1947. The HUAC Hollywood investigation had been going on long before he became a Senator.
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That fellow with the glasses sitting on the floor looks like harmonica virtuoso Larry Adler. It is him, right? His blacklisting coincided with an Oscar nomination, which was handled less than gracefully by the Academy. He talks about it here:
Thanks for that information. I didn't know who he was.
That's film director John Huston standing up in the photo.
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No worries, McCarthy Era fits in because of its umbrella status in history. That, and McCarthy was on the questioning board for the HUAC asking questions.
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McCarthy was a SENATOR. He had nothing to do with a HOUSE Committee.
The HUAC Committee was a HOUSE COMMITTEE. I.E. the US House of Representatives.
McCarthy was a Senator, in the US Senate.
That information is from my 6th Grade Civics Class.
The US Congress has 2 different "Houses"..... the SENATE, and the US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Joseph McCarthy WAS A SENATOR.
HUAC was a HOUSE COMMITTEE, and NOT a SENATE COMMITTEE.
You are getting HUAC mixed up with a separate and differerent Senate Committee, which is often called the Senate's ARMY-McCARTHY HEARINGS.
See this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army%E2%80%93McCarthy_hearings
and then see this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Un-American_Activities_Committee
The Senate Committee investigated Communists in the ARMY. The House Committee investigated Communists in Hollywood.
Fred
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This has been a great SUTS month! I've been watching TCM a lot this month.
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The whole "water theft" premise, I always found a bit lame. It was more than a mcguffin.
Things like that go on all the time, in one way or another, in nearly every city, and sometimes there are murders or "mysterious accidents" involved.
Now, THE BIG SLEEP, that is a great story, even though it doesn't make much sense. I've been watching it over and over again for years.
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By the way.....
Mr. Osborne often tells the story about how Gene Kelly missed out on making a film because he had a broken ankle at the time.
He was with that first group of actors who went to the HUAC hearings in DC, and here is a photo of him with his broken ankle. 2nd photo taken during his DC trip.
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It wasn't meant as an insult. You do feel that.....
HEY! I'm not the topic of this thread.
Stop posting insults about me and stop telling people what you want others to think I think.
I responded to hepclassic's post by posting articles about what Humphrey Bogart said in his own magazine and newspaper articles.
I'm a researcher, that's my hobby. I find obscure articles on the internet and I post them for everyone to read and enjoy and educate themselves.
DON'T BLAME ME FOR WHAT HUMPHREY BOGART SAID IN 1947 and 48.
Fred
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Yes, Fred we all know by now that you feel this was a great time in American politics.
NO insults, please.
I was responding to hepclassic's post, which said:
"I do want to ask this group of intelligent individuals here if they have or know of any new insights into this dark time in Hollywood history."
I did not post my own opinion. I posted other articles from that era. I assumed this was what helpclassic wanted, ie more historical data, articles, and information from that era.
Fred
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"When Bogie and Bacall Were Duped by Hollywood Communists"
http://spectator.org/articles/60253/when-bogie-and-bacall-were-duped-hollywood-communists
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Humphrey Bogart regrets going to Washington to protest HUAC:
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Guys, this is one small flying saucer!
It was a fast sports model, with room for only one carrot.
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It's interesting when artist of the past gets the time period wrong because of ignorance. One example is Leonardo DeVinci "The Last Supper" the reflects the Italian Renaissance instead of the 30 AD Judea life style.
Yeah, and I hate when they show that picture on TV in the pan and scan format!
Screenshot!
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Geepers, this one is difficult.