FredCDobbs
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> ken, I hope you're not deliberately avoiding any
> acknowledgement that some might find the term "one
> hot tamale" to be racially insensitive and
> derogatory.
Oh, his remark was not in any way intended to be offensive. Not any more than calling a girl a ?blonde bombshell? or a ?hot redheaded mama? or an ?Irish princess? or a ?China doll?.
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The sound synch seems ok on Direct TV.
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> Hmm, well we had snow (lol, believe it or not) here
> in southern California yesterday, so maybe it is the
> cold weather.
Hey, I saw on Fox News where it snowed in Malibu. I thought that was illegal in California?
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Looks like you've got a lot of rare studio publicity shots.
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Those are great pictures. Where did you get them all?
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Hey boy, you'd betta keep that danged agit-prop pinko stuff outa this county, ya heah?
Anyway, I was about to start a thread on "Pushover", but I'll just use this one, unless you irritate me too much.
This was definitely an attempted follow-up to Double Indemnity, but it didn't quite make it.
MacMurray was his same ol' back-sliding self, ready to sell his soul for some hot money and a hot babe.
The movie started off too slow and when the sparks finally began to fly between Fred and Kim, the sparks weren't very big. Not like with Ol' Fred and that "anklet" routine with Mrs. Dietrichson.
They saved all the complications for the end of this film, during about the last 40 minutes, and MacMurray had a dozen times he could have backed down and called the whole thing off. I saved the tape of the show, and I'll watch it again, sometime, I guess.
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I think there was an episode about this in the old TV mini-series "Holocaust" from the 1970s. But it was in color. I think this whole program is still available on tape.
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I think there were several different kinds, some with a French highwayman, some with a British, and a few with a California Spanish highwayman, such as in "Girl of the Golden West."
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Did you notice in the German version the ship's orchestra was playing in the typical German military band style, like the John Phillip Sousa style, or a beer hall band style, rather than in the romantic British dinner club style. They played "Nearer My God To Thee" as a march!
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> Hey Fred maybe you should run in 2008! You put up a
> good argument and seem like a candid and honest
> individual, unlike most of the prospects on the
> horizon in politics.
Lol, no thanks. I'd have us in a war with Canada or France, while being invaded by Cuba within two months. I'd rather just have opinions and express them. I don't want any power at all.
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> All this talk of politics is making me nervous!
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Send a few more messages please so we can zoom in on your exact location via our GPS locater system.
(lol)
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> Hi Fred No I do not know who started that but I like
> it ,its fun! We should have more
A teenager taught that code to me. It's amazing. This is text message code that they use on a cell phone to send text messages.
These kids can send a text message with their hand and their phone in their pocket. They feel the keys and they learn which key matches which letter, and how many punches of which keys for the various letters. These kids have to punch several buttons to get into the text message mode, then they have to hit a quick-dial key to dial a certain friend, then they have to hit the various number keys to turn them into letter keys, and they can do all of this without looking at the keypad. They learned it this way so they can send text messages secretly while the teacher is talking to them in the classroom!
I think the CIA or NSA should hire these kids.
They also learned that they can send text messages faster if they use R for "are" and U for "you" and other abbreviations like that.
Fred
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Mike... thanks for the book info
smax... thanks for the German VHS film links
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> Hi Fred ,I would like to see it if you go please give
> us a review of it am interested to see what you think
> or anybody else who goes .
I'll keep a look-out for it in the local newspaper advertisements.
We have a town of about 55,000 people, and we have two metro-plex theaters in two malls. 18 theaters in all. I've seen only about 3 theater films in the last 11 years, but I think I would like to see this one in a theater.
If the producers, director, and actors wanted to really make a new noir, as they say in the promo on TCM, I'm willing to meet them half-way and go watch it on the big screen. Lol, I hope it is good.
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All,
I checked all the theaters in my town and we don't have the movie yet. Looks like we are running about one or two months behind the big cities.
So if anyone sees this film, give us a review but don't tell us how it ends. Thanks.
Fred
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Thanks for the information. That's very interesting. There should be plenty of German films still available. I'd like to see more of them.
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I like... ?San-Fran-Cisco, open your Golden Gate, don?t let a stranger wait, outside your dooooor.?
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Thank you Brad! Thank you, thank you, thank you! Oh, brad, thank you! (lol)
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> Hi Kyle Thanks for the information and the effort you
> made in explaining this stuff to me I am not all that
> familiar with these terms and all this computer stuff
> / Cheers Carol
Have you seen messages on boards that read something like this:
How R U?
C U 2maro
Cal m 2 DA
Do you know who originated that?
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> I use blogs for exposure to 'news' that I may have
> missed. I don't need to to be told how to think
> about those events.
I like Google news searches. Not the main Google news page, but "search" Google news.
I start by typing keywords about topics I'm interested in, and I do a regular Google search, then I disregard all the links listed and I hit "News" up at the top of the page, and that will take you to the latest news reports on that topic, from all kinds of newspapers and TV stations. These are often very objective since they are mostly straight news reports.
One of my favorite boards is a libertarian board, by invitation only. Very nice people, various kinds of people with a wide variety of political ideas. All together we post some interesting news reports of interest to most of us. Many liberals on that board, including me (yes me) and no commies allowed. Actually what I am is.... sort of a radical militant political centrist. I don't like Nazis and I don't like Commies. I'm a supporter of common law and common-sense law, which is hard to find in this country now.
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This is the neo-noir that TCM has been promoting all month. I think I might go see it in the theater. Anyone else?
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> Hey! He did the music for Double Indemnity! That
> was great music.
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> lol, okay, sure, nobody look at my post that started
> this thread in which I identified some of Rozsa's
> scores:
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> "Miklos Rozsa (composer of Double Indemnity, A Double
> Life, Ben-Hur, and many other great films) provides
> the score.
Lol, I thought I heard that somewhere before.
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Dolores del Rio - One Hot Tamale
in General Discussions
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> Miss Del R?o's talents fully blossomed during the
> 1940s. "The Fugitive" is a very poetic, evocative &
> allegorical film. She, Henry Fonda and Pedro
> Armend?riz (who was paired with Del R?o in some of
> her most famous Mexican films) are uniformly good in
> their roles.
TCM showed Del Rio and Armendariz in a classic Mexican film last year titled ?Maria Candelaria? (1944). ?The Fugitive? was very artistic, filmed and edited in the classic Mexican film style of the early 1940s. This was a time when Mexico film makers tried to imitate the most artistic of the Hollywood film makers, and in fact they used some Hollywood technicians on their Mexican crews. ?The Fugitive? was about the revolutionary period in Mexico between 1910 and about 1925, when some of the revolutionary leaders in the different states tried to eradicate the Catholic Church. This is why Fonda (as the priest) was safe in one state but not in another.