Richard Kimble Posted September 18, 2016 Share Posted September 18, 2016 A thread for the last time something happened onscreen I'll start: The last time someone pronounced ""Los Angeles" with a hard "g"? Im a non-ironic way, that is.. For years I thought it was Ed Begley in his testimony scene in Warning Shot (1967). But a year or two ago I saw a first season (1968-9) episode of The Name Of The Game where guest star John Payne says it that way. Anything more recent? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Kimble Posted September 18, 2016 Author Share Posted September 18, 2016 Last non-ironic use of the Psycho house? The Bates place can be seen in episodes of several Universal series of the '60s such as Wagon Train and Shotgun Slade. A Laramie appearance is notable as it used the interior of the house. The last such use I'm aware of is in an episode of Alias Smith & Jones from 1971. When Psycho began paying a lot on TV the house became too iconic for non-referential use. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted September 18, 2016 Share Posted September 18, 2016 How about the last time someone used the word 'gay' to mean happy and not as a reference to sexual orientation. The 1980 Luther Vandross song 'The Glow of Love' uses the word 'gay' as a synonym for happiness, but I can't think of any other modern examples in music or on screen. Can you? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrylfxanax Posted September 18, 2016 Share Posted September 18, 2016 I remember the character played by Anjelica Huston in The Grifters (1990) pronounced Los Angeles with a hard "g". A personal favorite! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonCole Posted September 20, 2016 Share Posted September 20, 2016 I remember the character played by Anjelica Huston in The Grifters (1990) pronounced Los Angeles with a hard "g". A personal favorite! It was quite common to hear the hard "g" sound from natives in LA back in the 1940's and films show that influence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slaytonf Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 Anyone used a payphone in a movie. Anybody know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GGGGerald Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 I remember the character played by Anjelica Huston in The Grifters (1990) pronounced Los Angeles with a hard "g". A personal favorite! I've also heard it pronounced with a long "e" on the second e. Great Avatar btw ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 Anyone used a payphone in a movie. Anybody know? Maybe that 2002 movie PHONE BOOTH with COLIN FARRELL and KIEFER SUTHERLAND? Sepiatone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 I've also heard it pronounced with a long "e" on the second e. Like Arlo Guthrie songs, do ya Gerald?! (..."don't touch my bags if you please, Mister Customs man") 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 Say, and speaking of pronouncing the names of California cities... When was the last time somebody in film referred to the City by the Bay as "Frisco"? (...'cause evidently the folks up there now days think doing that designates someone as being "low class" when they do that anymore) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrylfxanax Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 I've also heard it pronounced with a long "e" on the second e. Great Avatar btw ! Thank you! She's one of my favorite leading ladies. I enjoy a wide variety of films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Kimble Posted October 25, 2016 Author Share Posted October 25, 2016 Somebody playing an American said "daren't" -- Katharine Ross to Burt Reynolds on Gunsmoke, 1964? Supposedly there's a movie from the '30s where Colin Clive or somebody like that actually says "I dassn't!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sewhite2000 Posted October 28, 2016 Share Posted October 28, 2016 Sepiatone's post made me think it would be interesting to have a list of a probably incredibly narrow type of movie: the ones that have in their title or focus most of their plot around some device of technology that was rapidly becoming or already pretty much extinct by the time of its release. Phone Booth is a great example. Heck, I remember as a kid the crowd got a huge laugh way back in 1978 in Superman when Clark Kent was looking for a phone booth to change in, and all he could find was an unenclosed phone kiosk. So, phone booths were really ancient by the time Phone Booth came out two dozen years later (and I believe it was one of those films that sat on the shelf for about two years). Another one I thought of is the very dark Robin Williams suspense drama One Hour Photo, which I think is another film that may have sat for a year or two before release, by which time photo development outlets were virtually nonexistent. Edit: Ooh, I just thought of another one. When the American version of The Ring movies came out with their cursed VHS Tapes of Death, I remember some critics snickering that VCRs weren't exactly really common in American homes anymore. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Kimble Posted November 2, 2016 Author Share Posted November 2, 2016 The word "alienist" was used in a contemporary setting? For those unfamiliar with the term: Alienist is an archaic term for a psychiatrist or psychologist. Despite falling out of favor by the middle of the twentieth century, it received renewed attention when used in the title of Caleb Carr's novel The Alienist (1994). I was unaware of the following: Although currently not often used in common parlance, the term "alienist" is still employed in psychiatric hospitals to describe those mental health professionals who evaluate defendants to determine their competency to stand trial. I just listened to a 1944 episode of the radio series Suspense in which the word is used, though in the latter, criminal trial sense. The word is also used in Compulsion (1959), set in 1924, in the same context of a criminal trial.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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