Bronxgirl48 Posted June 6, 2011 Author Share Posted June 6, 2011 Tell me that in some totally insane way, this actually makes sense: :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQvPYCHl-qM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted June 6, 2011 Author Share Posted June 6, 2011 Yes, I'm an educator. Bueller.....Bueller....Bueller.... Okay, class1 Edited by: Bronxgirl48 on Jun 6, 2011 4:46 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CineMaven Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 I was planning on ditching the class but you're talking about Rudy so...................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CineMaven Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 A-ha!!! You HAVE upped the ante. I feel like this IS a Masterpiece Theatre class! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted June 6, 2011 Author Share Posted June 6, 2011 Ah, what does it all mean? In the midst of life...and yet, Rudy lives forever. (Johnny Depp ain't gonna get this kind of funeral) I'll have some homework assignments for you later. Now, this old maid schoolteacher needs her sleep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFavell Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 Is it wrong to say that Rudy's classical and perfectly symmetrical features are more beautiful than most of those statues? He puts some of them to shame. *"In Memoriam: We will not call it Death, Lest young romance die too, Say rather -- age refused his marring work to do."* - found on the back of a Valentino postcard, carefully written in by a saddened fan. >Tell me that in some totally insane way, this actually makes sense: > >:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQvPYCHl-qM Why did you make me do it??? it's a crime to put them in the same video. John who? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFavell Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 Moira posted this some time ago in the Gilbert Roland thread at the SSO, but I thought it fitting to re-post it here: http://allanellenberger.com/book-flm-news/gilbert-roland-on-valentino/ h2. "Valentino Smiled, Shook My Hand, and I trembled" *A famed actor recalls the 'magnetismo' of the legendary Latin lover* By Gilbert Roland TV Guide November 22, 1975 *We cannot turn back to so little as yesterday. But remembering Valentino, I return to the days when I was a Hollywood movie extra at $3 a day and box lunch, and lived in a small room on Temple and Olive Street next to a synagogue. I covered the somber walls with photos of movie stars, and by a crucifix over the bed, my boyhood idol - Rudolph Valentino.* *We cannot shun our destiny. What God has written will come to be. And it was to that one day I would meet Valentino. His real name was Rodolpho Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filibert Guglielmi de Valentina D'Antonguolla. He selected Rodolpho Valentino for the screen. Friends called him Rudy. We, the young bohemian movie extras, penniless, undefeated romanticists, called him - Valentino.* *He arrived in Hollywood, broke. Emmett Flynn gave him his first job as an extra at five dollars a day. Rex Ingram, a great director, selected him for Julio in "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse," and Valentino was a star. After the success of The Sheik, he became the great Latin Lover - Valentino was humble in success, yet a man misunderstood. An editorial writer for a Chicago paper called him "a pink powder puff." Valentino went to Chicago and angrily challenged the writer openly to a duel or fist fight. The challenge was not accepted.* *Valentino had dignity, wore elegant English clothes, made bow ties popular, drove fast cars, was a hard-riding horseman, and loved women. We imitated his graceful walk; grew sideburns, pomaded our hair a la Valentino. He grew a beard and it became fashionable. Barbers were alarmed, protested and begged him to shave it off. He introduced the platinum slave bracelet. We wore cheap imitations. He made the tango popular. We danced with beautiful girls who called us - Latin lovers - a sobriquet we did not contradict.* *He was a man of charm, magnetismo, the power to attract, captivate. He brought romance to the screen, and to millions of women. Valentino filled an emptiness. The Heartthrob. Women fainted. I saw him at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood. Women screamed hysterically to touch him. They stormed the theater with a vengeance, like the Bastille. It was like a page out of the French Revolution.* *Central Casting called for Spanish and Mexican extras to report at Paramount Studio, $3 a day and box lunch. Over a thousand of us were hauled into trucks and driven through the narrow dusty Cahuenga Pass to Lasky ranch. The picture - Blood and Sand. The star playing the matador - Rudolph Valentino. My father had been a famous matador from Spain. It is an art to be properly dressed for the arena. Often in Mexico I had helped my father. A Spaniard, Jarita, the technical adviser, demanded Valentino to be perfectly dressed as a matador, and knew my background.* Gilbert Roland *He took me to Valentino's dressing room on the lot. "This boy will help you dress," Jarita said politely. Valentino smiled, shook my hand, and I trembled. He stood naked, a towel around his trim bronzed body, the slant eyes, a scar on his cheek like a saber cut. I helped him into the taleguilla, the pink stockings, red sash, zapatillas, chaquetilla... All through the ritual he sat motionless, silent, his eyes far away. A tear rolled down his cheek. He brushed it off, lit a cigarette, and walked away.* *During lunch a violent fight erupted between the extras. Someone stuck me with a banderilla, and there was blood. Valentino sat under a shady tree with his lady love, exotic Natascha Rambova, as I went by. He saw the blood, cleaned the wound, wrapped his monogrammed handkerchief around my hand and gave me a glass of wine. The lovely lady smiled... the courtesy, gallantry, chivalry of the great, all these things not here any more. I treasured Valentino's handkerchief a long time. Then a lovely blonde girl came along and went off with it.* *The last time I saw Valentino he was driving the Isotta-Fraschini fast along Sunset Boulevard. I raced my old second-hand Moon roadster to catch him. I wanted to wave to him. I kept going faster, the car rattling, then a motorcycle cop gave me a ticket for speeding. I appeared in court before Judge Chambers, expecting to pay a fine, but the judge sentenced me to five days in jail. And I never saw Valentino again. Destiny.* *But we had a few things in common. We were both Latins, proud of our heritage. We had worked as extras, bus boys, been hungry, loved classical music, believed in God. He had slept on a park bench in New York, I on a church bench in Los Angeles. We loved America, became citizens. We were athletic, healthy. We did not believe in drugs or medicine. We drank good wine, and loved women. On the screen we played the same romantic role of Armand Duval in Dumas's - Camille. He with Alla Nazimova, I with Norma Talmadge.* *One day he died. He was 31. His death plunged America into a nation of mourners. Women wept with unashamed tears. Two killed themselves that day, a day of vertigo, delirium. A dolorous whisper stunned the land. "Valentino is dead." The whisper made the heart ache.* *After his death I was lauded as one of his successors. A Hollywood weekly heralded: "Gilbert Roland Looms As Valentino's Successor!" It was absurd. An infamy. No one could replace Valentino. He was not cast of an ordinary mold. This was sacrilege. I resented it. It gave me the coraje, that rage I?ve had all my life about injustice. For this was in injustice. There could never be another Valentino.* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metsfan Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 Wow, what a great story! Thanks for posting it here as well as the pics of Rudy in the other thread. It makes me admire Gilbert Roland so much more. Barb, I will check out the film, thanks. The Miss Piggy one had me laughing with her Esther Williams water show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFavell Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 WOW! super pics, metsie! I don't know which i like best - but I suspect it's the one with his scar showing from Blood and Sand. I love the snappy way Miss Piggy does her first dive.... it made me bust out laughing. Edited by: JackFavell on Jun 6, 2011 7:49 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted June 7, 2011 Author Share Posted June 7, 2011 Oh, Jackie, I cannot express my thanks and gratefulness for your reprinting these beautful, personal memories of Valentino by Gilbert Roland (who was no slouch himself in the charm and machismo department) on my thread. I'm thrilled! Who or what do you think caused Rudy to shed a tear in the BLOOD AND SAND dressing room? Such eloquent, poignant recollections from Gilbert, it's invaluable in giving us a first-hand account of Valentino's personality and appeal, by a contemporary. Rudy using his monogrammed handkerchief to clean and bind Roland's wound speaks volumes about Valentino as a human being. So down-to-earth and caring, a truly lovely individual who managed to keep things real even at the height of his incredible stardom. Edited by: Bronxgirl48 on Jun 7, 2011 1:00 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted June 7, 2011 Author Share Posted June 7, 2011 Whoa, metsie, guess which one is my favorite of your three gorgeous pictures?? Surprise! It's actually the first, where Rudy looks sooooo handsome, gallant, and debonair (love the vest) offering his flask to that luck-eeee leading lady. The, er, bottom photo -- I took my glasses off and moved a bit away from the screen, to get the best effect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted June 7, 2011 Author Share Posted June 7, 2011 > {quote:title=JackFavell wrote:}{quote} > Is it wrong to say that Rudy's classical and perfectly symmetrical features are more beautiful than most of those statues? He puts some of them to shame. I was amazed at how much he looks like Da Vinci's St. John The Baptist. A religious experience indeed. > > *"In Memoriam: We will not call it Death, Lest young romance die too, Say rather -- age refused his marring work to do."* > > - found on the back of a Valentino postcard, carefully written in by a saddened fan. That is so beautiful > > >Tell me that in some totally insane way, this actually makes sense: > > > >:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQvPYCHl-qM > > Why did you make me do it??? it's a crime to put them in the same video. John who? LOL, I know, I know! Edited by: Bronxgirl48 on Jun 7, 2011 2:56 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted June 7, 2011 Author Share Posted June 7, 2011 > {quote:title=CineMaven wrote:}{quote} > "I keep having nightmares of Godzilla. He's in my old Bronx neighborhood and I have to hide. What does this mean, Abby?There is a Happy Dale, far, far, away!" > > You might consider Willoughby. It's a quaint little town...in the Twilight Zone. I'm living in Willoughby right now Remember, it's South Florida, lol. > > "Troy Donahue, I know what you wanna do!" > > Yeah, but are those fish lips up to the task? HA!!! They're actually the best kind, but I won't elaborate. > > Good! Let 'em keep thinking that Bronxie. They don't need to know your secret life of guilty pleasures. (Pits, Troy, chocolate covered Valentino...). > > "And of course you've only scratched the surface of that list." > > There's more? Send me a check for $5,000 and I'll give you the entire list. > > "I'd do almost anything for Rooooody -- as long as it wasn't illegal, immoral (well....) or fattening." > > Well...two outta three ain't bad. But of course I wouldn't have to worry about the calories, n'est pas? > > "My love life is taken care of for the next thirty years. All I have to do is watch a Valentino video." > > Ohhhhhhhkay. Hey, it's a wise woman who can take care of herself. The Domain of Valentino. > > "Excellent question. Let me get back to you on that because it's late and I can't think. Not that this is different from when it's early. > > I'll await your answer. In the midst of the bantering...I glean your pearls of wisdom. It's late again so please give me more time to come up with my pearls of wisdom, lol. > > "Tommy Rettig, LOL! I retract Gail from the bug-eye category, you are right, she's heavy-lidded. I was influenced by some unfortunate pix of Russell in her sadder later years when she was not looking good due to personal problems." > > Dear sweet Gail. A shame. Oh god yes, a tragedy. > > "Actually, I never found this to be true, so I always had to freeze my M&M's. Did they have that candy back when Rudy was around? What were his favorite foods, I wonder? I have to know! Other than pasta, I mean." > > Oh that's just swell. Now Rudy's "M & M"s are frozen...If the quickest way to a man's heart is through his stomach, quick...do some research and find out: "WHAT DOES RUDY EAT?!" "Rudy's frozen M&M's" -- and you call ME incorrigible! LOL > > "Check out 'YOU NEVER CAN TELL' -- those two qualities you wonderfully describe (cute and sardonic) are perfectly expressed there in a sort of metaphysical send-up of his noir ****." > > What a lob. I'm tempted to say something but I won't. Nope, not gonna do it. > > "Like Gene Tierney in 'THE RAZOR'S EDGE', you've got a steel will!" > > Like Gene Tierney in "LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN" I always throw myself down the stairs when I come on this Board. Ayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyeee! I wouldn't mind faling down those stairs knowing that Cornel Wilde would pick me up. > > But IF I were to say something...I'd say...is that even anatomically possible? Is that what they don't want to tell? Awwwwright! I know. I've totally lost all credibility and respect on this Message Board. > > "I've led you down the primrose path." > > Nothing prim about that path. I'm over 21. Gee, I'm over 31. Heck, I'm over 41. Darn it...I'm over...the edge. We're roughly the same age. And that's pretty rough. But it's this or Willoughby... > > "Harry Houdini hasn't showed up yet either, and his wife Bess had been trying for years, but I think I'll be luckier with my ouija board. I love ouija boards, they're fun! Unless you get people you don't want, like Mary Meredith." > > "Red! Red! Call me Ellen Berent. I'll throw that plaster saint down the stairs if she comes near you." (How'd Marnie get in this conversation)? Speaking of Hitchcock, I was watching NORTH BY NORTHWEST this afternoon and thinking how sexy Eva Marie Saint really was. > > "Oh...my...gosh...Cary Grant violently whipping Jack LaRue! This is the kinkiest thing I've seen yet!! Wow. Jack looks and sounds SO much like Bogart, it's uncanny! What movie is that from?" > > The film's called: THE WOMAN ACCUSED. Is that kinky in a good way or a bad way? > > "I never heard of this picture before, needless to say. Let me see, well, it's kinky in a good AND bad way, is all I can say." > > Aaaaah, the best kind: good and bad simultaneously. You're a corrupting influence on me, LOL > > "Buona notte!" > > Have a --good nite-- uhmm --good morning-- uhmmm...have a good week Bronxie. Thank you so much for the conversation. You have a rapier wit. I love Alan Rapier in THE UNINVITED. > > :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFavell Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 Valentino's rapier: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CineMaven Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 How's it going Bronxie: "Troy Donahue, I know what you wanna do!" Yeah, but are those fish lips up to the task? "HA!!! They're actually the best kind, but I won't elaborate." Now see, I'd pay to see that. * * * "And of course you've only scratched the surface of that list." There's more? "Send me a check for $5,000 and I'll give you the entire list." Hmmmmm....that's a pretty steep price for a bucket list. Naaah, just send me the fishlips video. My check is in the mail. * * * "I'd do almost anything for Rooooody -- as long as it wasn't illegal, immoral (well....) or fattening." Well...two outta three ain't bad. "But of course I wouldn't have to worry about the calories, n'est pas?" You must be the healthiest gal in your gated community. You're always worrying about calorie-less activities. Good for you! * * * "My love life is taken care of for the next thirty years. All I have to do is watch a Valentino video." Ohhhhhhhkay. Hey, it's a wise woman who can take care of herself. "The Domain of Valentino." OMG! YOU GOT ME!!! That killed me. That's one of the cleverest play on words & pop culture I've ever read from you!!! * * * Oh that's just swell. Now Rudy's "M & M"s are frozen...If the quickest way to a man's heart is through his stomach, quick...do some research and find out: "WHAT DOES RUDY EAT?!" "Rudy's frozen M&M's" -- and you call ME incorrigible! LOL Girl, you take the cake. Cake? Wait...there's calories in that. Calling Fishlips. CALLING FISHLIPS!!! * * * "Like Gene Tierney in 'THE RAZOR'S EDGE', you've got a steel will!" Like Gene Tierney in "LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN" I always throw myself down the stairs when I come on this Board. Ayyyyyyeee! "I wouldn't mind falling down those stairs knowing that Cornel Wilde would pick me up." You know for me...I was kind of more interested in Chill Wills. (Yes, I found him scruffily sexy in "The Deadly Companions" too. And I'm watching a Bette Davis film called "Payment on demand" and Moroni Olsen moves me too. Love his voice). "I've led you down the primrose path." Nothing prim about that path. I'm over 21. Gee, I'm over 31. Heck, I'm over 41. Darn it...I'm over...the edge. "We're roughly the same age. And that's pretty rough. But it's this or Willoughby..." Yeah I guess you're right. But baby boomers carry it well, don't we? * * * "Speaking of Hitchcock, I was watching 'NORTH BY NORTHWEST' this afternoon and thinking how sexy Eva Marie Saint really was." Sexy is as sexy does. What men and women find sexy in women and men is very different, I know. There's so many levels of it: you've got MarilynSexy, EstherSexy, DorisSexy. Then there's ValentinoSexy or RaftSexy or Donat/OlivierSexy. But to your point, yes, Eva Marie Saint was very sexy. I thought she was sexy in such a good clean 'good girl' way in "On the Waterfront." I saw her at TCM's film festival the first night. She looks very good. Older, of course. But really very good. * * * "I never heard of this picture before, needless to say. Let me see, well, it's kinky in a good AND bad way, is all I can say." Aaaaah, the best kind: good and bad simultaneously. "You're a corrupting influence on me, LOL" Oh that's rich. Blame the messenger, why don'cha. * * * ...Thank you so much for the conversation. You have a rapier wit. "I love Alan Rapier in 'THE UNINVITED'." See, now you've got Jackaaaay into the act. (See below). Say goodnight, Gracie! * * * Hi there Jackaaaay - Ha, the shot you chose of Rudy made me chuckle. Funny. "Is it wrong to say that Rudy's classical and perfectly symmetrical features are more beautiful than most of those statues? He puts some of them to shame." I was in shock to see how closely he looked like some of those works of art. I plan to go the Metropolitan Museum of Art today and I'm sure I'll see nothing like Rudy there. 'Course if I ran into something like what Angie Dickinson ran into in "Dressed to Kill" at the Met my time won't be wasted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1968B2 Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Hey, whadd're you guys talking about? Henry Fonda, or someone? I loved him in THE MAGNIFICENT DOPE. Why don't they ever show that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rohanaka Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Wow.. Ms Bronxie, I don't have anything to really add on Mr. Rudy, but I will say that between Miss G's thread and your mom thread here.. I am getting QUITE the education on all things Valentino. Which is a GOOD thing because... Did I ever tell you that my my first car was a 1975 Ford Gran Torino Station wagon (dark green with wood panel) that I nicknamed "Rudy" for Mr. Valentino? (And PS: NO, I am NOT kidding, ha) I sort of inherited it from my folks when I gradutated high school They bought it used (to have as a"family" car) my junior year of high school. But after I graduated, it sort of "unoffically" became "mine". But truthfully, I think my folks just let me take it over because I had gotten a job and started college,(but stayed at home) and I just think they didn't want to drive me around all over the place anymore, ha. (GOOD gravy I about drove the wheels off that car. Ha.I went everywhere in that thing) So I really do think that is why they gave it up to me. ha. If it was MY car.. they were off the hook, and I could drive myself around... OH, and also drive all my dopey little BROTHERS around too.. come to think of it..ha. Wowsa.. How brilliant was THAT? Oh, gee, I just realized my parents were GENIUSES. ha. And I only just now figured it out, ha. Duh... what a sad commentary on ME after 30 years, ha. (Oh is the kidling ever going to get off easy.. alas HER mom is NO genius. But I digress, ha) At any rate, when I took over my "new" set of "wheels", ha, I decided it needed a name so I chose "Rudy", but alas, to my embarassment.. it wasn't because I knew anything about Valentino as an actor. I don't think I have ever even seen any of his films, (gasp. I know...) But go easy on me.. I was 17 and I just liked the name Rudy.. ha. OH good gravy Did I mention that was 30 YEARS AGO?? Now I feel O-L-D. Oh my golly.. now not only am I "not a genius", I am also ready for the retirement home too.. Hey.. maybe they will show Rudy reruns there and I can finally catch up with you gals. I can watch all his movies while I am relaxing with a nice bowl of tapioca... Edited by: rohanaka on Jun 8, 2011 1:04 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CineMaven Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 Hi Ro... You named your car Rudy? THAT'S a good one! Your folks were geniuses. But that's to your advantage with your little one. You know all the tricks parents play on kids. And listen...you are no where near needing a retirement home. But maybe you could use a cruise...a TCM Cruise? Don't hold out for the retirement home. Go to the villas the girls have been posting about. You'll get a better view from an Italian villa than from any retirement home in the U.S. And trade the tapioca for gelato. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted June 9, 2011 Author Share Posted June 9, 2011 > {quote:title=CineMaven wrote:}{quote} [ > > "My love life is taken care of for the next thirty years. All I have to do is watch a Valentino video."[/b] > > Ohhhhhhhkay. Hey, it's a wise woman who can take care of herself. > > "The Domain of Valentino." > > OMG! YOU GOT ME!!! That killed me. That's one of the cleverest play on words & pop culture I've ever read from you!!! My cousin Gary from Yonkers looks like Jerry. And -- a Valentino connection -- you might remember I remarked on how Anthony Dexter who plays Rudy in the 1951 VALENTINO, reminded me of Gary's brother, my cousin Bennett (also originally from Yonkers). > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > . > > > > > > > > > > > > > Sexy is as sexy does. What men and women find sexy in women and men is very different, I know. There's so many levels of it: you've got MarilynSexy, EstherSexy, DorisSexy. Then there's ValentinoSexy or RaftSexy or Donat/OlivierSexy. But to your point, yes, Eva Marie Saint was very sexy. I thought she was sexy in such a good clean 'good girl' way in "On the Waterfront." I find Eva most fascinating in ALL FALL DOWN -- she's like a broken Tennessee Williams figure. > > " > > > > > > .. > > > > > > > > > > > I was in shock to see how closely he looked like some of those works of art. I plan to go the Metropolitan Museum of Art today and I'm sure I'll see nothing like Rudy there. 'Course if I ran into something like what Angie Dickinson ran into in "Dressed to Kill" at the Met my time won't be wasted. HA! Not to talke ANYTHING away from my beloved Rudy (who is now my number ONE male sexpot and heartthrob) but Paul Newman and Brando also resemble some of those classical statues. But frankly they can't hold a candle to my Roooooooooody. By the way, what IS it with songs about women who pretend they're Spanish but are really from Brooklyn?? There were lots of those in the 1930's, like when Al Jolson sings "She's A Latin From Manhattan" (from either GO INTO YOUR DANCE or WONDER BAR). The lyrics are always along the lines of "she shakes her castanets but she's more comfortable sitting on the steps of a brownstone". Then I had on WHIPLASH (but wasn't really watching) and these women are singing about a MAN (is this a first) who wants everyone to think he's Latin. The actual words were something like, "he's a gaucho with a drawl, y'all". I don't get why these songs were popular. Edited by: Bronxgirl48 on Jun 8, 2011 10:31 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted June 9, 2011 Author Share Posted June 9, 2011 Hey, ro, welcome to Rudyland. It's a small world after all.....(remember that awful song?) Oh my stars,you named your car Rudy???? (and how clever your parents were, LOL) Did you know that Valentino loved cars, cared for them tenderly as he did his horses and garden, and DROVE LIKE A MANIAC BECAUSE HE WAS NEAR-SIGHTED LIKE MR. MAGOO? Can you imagine driving around with Rudy in one of his fancy Italian automobiles (he also had a a simple touring car and a truck) as he asks you, "What's that up ahead, I can't see a thing" and then he plows right into a tree. TOPPER. Then you're George and Marion. Rudy obviously loved your car and so he placed subliminal messages in your head at night, whispering to you: "Please name your Gran Torino for me, and you can discuss it 30 years later on the TCM Message Boards. I would be so grateful" Have you had any visitations we should know about? That you can talk about?. Nix that retirement stuff. We're all going to spend our golden years in a sexy villa by the sea in Provence or on the Italian Riviera. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CineMaven Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 "My cousin Gary from Yonkers looks like Jerry..." Oh...okay. Jerry now, or Jerry from back then? My sister and I used to go to The Comic Strip when Jerry...ha, before Jerry was anyone famous. He used to host the show that comics performed in. Look at him. I don't remember you talking of your cousin Bennett, but looking like Anthony Dexter...not bad! "I find Eva most fascinating in ALL FALL DOWN -- she's like a broken Tennessee Williams figure." I only saw a bit of it when it was on recently. Eva's lovely. And her ending with young Warren reminded of Simone Signoret's in "Room At the Top." Whatever... whatever Eva Marie wants to do is fine with me. "HA! Not to talke ANYTHING away from my beloved Rudy (who is now my number ONE male sexpot and heartthrob) but Paul Newman and Brando also resemble some of those classical statues. But frankly they can't hold a candle to my Roooooooooody." Newman and Brando in their day...in their prime looked like Greek gods with those abs they had. But of course, Rudy takes the cake...or the candle. He was unique. And now frozen in time. "By the way, what IS it with songs about women who pretend they're Spanish but are really from Brooklyn??" My first cynical thought would be for the same reason that Elvis was out there, or Tom Jones or Pat Boone or Eminem. You can act like one without having to really be one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted June 9, 2011 Author Share Posted June 9, 2011 ro, meet Rooooooody: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted June 9, 2011 Author Share Posted June 9, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXIja9Yze0UY I love your answer! (WOR-TV used to play GO INTO YOUR DANCE and WONDER BAR all the time back in the Bronx, along with KING KONG and YANKEE DOODLE DANDY) My cousin Gary is about the same age as Seinfeld, so he always looked like him, lol. At least I have a faint Valentino connection with Bennett. Edited by: Bronxgirl48 on Jun 8, 2011 11:24 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rohanaka Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 welcome to Rudyland Ha.... It's LOVELY here this time of year. :-) you named your car Rudy???? Yes indeedy. It has been a lifelong "habit' of mine to name all our vehicles. ha. And fortunately the QT has fallen into that habit over the years too, so we have named all our various vehicles. (Even the riding lawn mower.. ha. What can I say.. we like everything to have a name, ha.) Only a few of the names have been classic film stars though. Mostly we have just picked names that fit the type of car, or the color, etc.. We have had "Baby" (because it was a "baby blue" little hatch back) We had Ming... because it was a Dodge.. DYNASTY. ha. We even had an "Olga" and a "Gunther". But it all goes back to"Rudy"... ha. He was my first love, ha. OH, and PS: both of the cars we drive now ARE named after classic film characters. The car I drive is a van.. and we named it "Al-van" York (after Gary Cooper's character in Sgt York.) But (Miss B.. you are going to love this, ha) Would you believe my HUSBAND'S car (a very old, and worn out, small SUV) is named after... (drum roll please) "LEROY", the poor little "crispy" handyman who met a tragic end at the hands of our sweet little RHODA?????????? ha. (And NO I am NOT making all this up! ha) . We've had that car for almost 10 years now and we have called it "LeRoy" ever since we owned it. He is a fave character for both me and the QT and if memory serves, the QT chose the name because we had JUST watched The Bad Seed for the "umpteenth" time the night before we went car shopping, ha... so it was a good choice. (Ah, poor, poor LeRoy, ha. We love to imitate him saying those lines about "stick blood hounds" and "a little blue chair for little boys, and a little pink chair for little gals") "Please name your Gran Torino for me, and you can discuss it 30 years later on the TCM Message Boards. I would be so grateful" Ha.. well I am happy to know that all my "blabbage" paid off for him, lo these many decades later. ha. Did you know that Valentino loved cars, cared for them tenderly as he did his horses and garden, and DROVE LIKE A MANIAC BECAUSE HE WAS NEAR-SIGHTED LIKE MR. MAGOO? Can you imagine driving around with Rudy in one of his fancy Italian automobiles (he also had a a simple touring car and a truck) as he asks you, "What's that up ahead, I can't see a thing" and then he plows right into a tree. TOPPER. Then you're George and Marion EEK. ha. I don't know if I could handle that. ha. It MIGHT be fun to be able to disappear when I wanted to now and then, though. But I could NEVER fit into those "chic" outfits that Marion got to wear. I tend to shop more in the "Jane Darwell Collection" ha. And besides, when it comes to "fender benders" (or as I like to call it my "square orange juice container in a round cup holder" incident. ugh) we have had quite enough action around here already. Alas.. It was stop and go traffic.. and well.. the guy in front of me stopped.. and I did not. Blech. (lousy OJ) At least we were NOT going all that fast so the damage was not TOO great.. but poor "Al-Van" has a less than "pristine" looking front bumper now.. (did I mention.. alas.. ha) Have you had any visitations we should know about? Nope.. dullsville around here, kiddo. Nothing to report. PS, Miss Maven.. OH me.. a TCM CRUISE??? Now THAT would be a dream come true for SURE. I have not had a vacation in so many years, I am TOO embarassed to say how MANY years it has been.. but lets just say.. it was.. a WHOLE other century entirely since I went anywhere more exciting than Walmart.. (Hey ladies.. did I mention.. ALAS???) :-) Nix that retirement stuff. We're all going to spend our golden years in a sexy villa by the sea in Provence or on the Italian Riviera Oh me.. I WAS looking forward to all that tapioca... and I am not too much of a "Riviera" type.. but Miss Maven DID say there would be gelato.. so hmmmm.. OH wait.. as I recall at one time we were all going to own our own "castle" in Ireland.. or was it Scotland?? Tell you what.. I will go w/ the castle idea, but will drop by to see you now and then when I feel the urge for a bit of "Riviera" life (and a gelato, ha) and you gals come by and see me anytime you like for a "Spot O' Tea" and it can be the best of both worlds, ha... (Miss B, I will even hire you your own "kilted" butler in honor of your visit) ro, meet Rooooooody Now, I do love my QT and I am not usually one to go all "weak in the knees" over movie stars, ha... but may I just say again.. OH ME! (PS: I am not as fond of the "sideburn" look on him, but the bit where he goes into the car and pulls down the shade has definitley got to be my favorite. Oh me, indeed! ha.) Edited by: rohanaka on Jun 9, 2011 1:21 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFavell Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 That's it. It's a proven fact. Rudy has got to be the most gorgeous, sexiest man ever.... he got Peacemaker to do a double take in his direction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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