Kid Dabb Posted August 5, 2015 Author Share Posted August 5, 2015 The Fab Four are coming to my local Center. Pit/Orchestra seats are only 42.00 if I buy now - the show is March 16, 2016.. I'm thinkin' hard about this one. I saw Beatlemania at the Warner Theater in Washington, D.C. in 1978 and all the players were behind see-through fabric sheets hung at various distances and angles from front to back of the stage - except for when "Paul" sat at the front edge of center stage to do Yesterday. Those sheets were used as screens for projected images. They also blocked any flash photography as they became opaque when the light hit them. These sheets also had the effect of softening the appearance of the players, which made it easier to imagine them being The Beatles. The Fab Four don't use sheets. Their faces don't look exactly like The Beatles' but their performances and costumes do (from what I've seen of their PBS TV Special presentation). Link to post Share on other sites
Kid Dabb Posted August 6, 2015 Author Share Posted August 6, 2015 What!? A Michael Caine day and no Jaws 4: The Revenge..!!!??? [please.. throw fresh fruit only. i've got plenty of veggies.] [ducking] 1 Link to post Share on other sites
hamradio Posted August 6, 2015 Share Posted August 6, 2015 This should set those moon landings conspiracy theories to rest. Thank you LRO. It even found the forgotten, lost Russian moon rover. Link to post Share on other sites
hamradio Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 OMG, Goofy was the original voice of "Predator" or is it Santa! Ho ho ho, ho Link to post Share on other sites
Kid Dabb Posted August 8, 2015 Author Share Posted August 8, 2015 I remember when Flipper was a nice, friendly dolphin - not a housing profiteer. Link to post Share on other sites
hamradio Posted August 9, 2015 Share Posted August 9, 2015 I remember when Flipper was a nice, friendly dolphin - not a housing profiteer. Last I've heard, he's up the creek without a paddle. http://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/news/local/middlesex-county/2015/08/05/dolphin-spotted-south-river/31195431/ Link to post Share on other sites
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Dargo Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF2xd2GzUv8 (...just now came to mind for some strange reason) 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Kid Dabb Posted August 11, 2015 Author Share Posted August 11, 2015 Link to post Share on other sites
hamradio Posted August 15, 2015 Share Posted August 15, 2015 Is it me or are the bugs getting bigger? Link to post Share on other sites
jamesjazzguitar Posted August 15, 2015 Share Posted August 15, 2015 Late 20s, early 30s Lombard? Link to post Share on other sites
Kid Dabb Posted August 15, 2015 Author Share Posted August 15, 2015 I believe this is from Sinners in the Sun (1932) Quite a different look. Very attractive, IMO. Link to post Share on other sites
hamradio Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 Make certain your dump truck is in the lowered and locked position. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB8cDVd8tWQ Link to post Share on other sites
Kid Dabb Posted August 18, 2015 Author Share Posted August 18, 2015 Censorship, profit, and art Despite his monetary success, however, (Ben) Hecht always kept Hollywood at arm's length. According to film historian Gregory Black, "he did not consider his work for the movies serious art; it was more a means of replenishing his bank account. When his work was finished, he retreated to New York." At least part of the reason for this was due to the industry's system of censorship. Black writes, "as Mankiewicz, Selznick, and Hecht knew all too well, much of the blame for the failure of the movies to deal more frankly and honestly with life, lay with a rigid censorship imposed on the industry . . . [and] on the content of films during its golden era of studio production." Because the costs of production and distribution were so high, the primary "goal of the studios was profit, not art. . .[and] fearful of losing any segment of their audiences, the studios either carefully avoided controversial topics or presented them in a way that evaded larger issues," thereby creating only 'harmless entertainment' ". According to historian David Thomson, "to their own minds, Herman Mankiewicz and Ben Hecht both died morose and frustrated. Neither of them had written the great books they believed possible." Link to post Share on other sites
MovieCollectorOH Posted August 18, 2015 Share Posted August 18, 2015 Make certain your dump truck is in the lowered and locked position. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB8cDVd8tWQ Think he is with the EPA? Link to post Share on other sites
hamradio Posted August 19, 2015 Share Posted August 19, 2015 (edited) Learned something interesting, Elsie Fisher who is the voice of Agnes in "Despicable Me" did the English edited versions of "Masha And The Bear". Glad it's not videos within a decorative frame. Animaccord Studios (Russia) just released Episode 51 in English. Edited August 19, 2015 by hamradio Link to post Share on other sites
hamradio Posted August 21, 2015 Share Posted August 21, 2015 Bear pool party. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFOWOePqKow 1 Link to post Share on other sites
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MovieCollectorOH Posted August 21, 2015 Share Posted August 21, 2015 Freebie And The Bean has a decent little bit of car chasing, if I remember correctly. Different kind of thing, unless you're into tracking down 1970s/80s Gumball Rally/car chase movies like I am. I'll take a Jean Arthur movie anyday though. Link to post Share on other sites
Fuster Posted August 21, 2015 Share Posted August 21, 2015 Sure wish there were a Hecht around now. Link to post Share on other sites
Kid Dabb Posted August 21, 2015 Author Share Posted August 21, 2015 Calling Barranca Calling Barranca 3500 Feet 3500 Feet Still flying on instruments Still flying on instruments Link to post Share on other sites
mr6666 Posted August 21, 2015 Share Posted August 21, 2015 "LONDON — The graffiti artist Banksy has unveiled his latest exhibition, a haunted, anti-theme park called “Dismaland,” featuring his art and works by about 60 other artists." http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/20/banksys-latest-dismaland-theme-park/?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/20/arts/banksy-dismaland-art-exhibition/ Link to post Share on other sites
Kid Dabb Posted August 21, 2015 Author Share Posted August 21, 2015 I saw her mentioned in another post here so I looked her up. What an unfortunate life. ________________________________________________ The once-promising career of Barbara Payton slid down the sewer of skid row in Los Angeles. Her descent was so horrifying that it garnered her a different kind of fame – one that the likes of Lindsey Lohan are replaying for the public today. But unlike LiLo, Barbara would not get any second, third or fourth chances. Her last gasp was a tell-all memoir that was ghost-written and for which Barbara would only get $1,000 in drinking money. And drink she did. The paperback was a big seller, depicting how a beautiful young woman who had the world by the tail one minute, descends into depraved alcoholism and is forced to prostitute herself on the very street she once imagined having her Star on the Walk of Fame. To top it off, Barbara was portrayed as remorseless, seemingly determined at every turn to self-destruct even while denying that her acting career was over. Link to post Share on other sites
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