Topic: SOMETHIN' WRONG WITH YOUR BUMPER? (Read 26413 times)

bk · « **Reply #90 on:** October 19, 2005, 09:58:12 AM »

Quote from: Matt H. on October 19, 2005, 08:03:51 AM

For Ask BK Day -

What are your least favorite movies from Hitchcock's Hollywood period onward?

The ones most people seem to dislike - TORN CURTAIN, THE PARADINE CASE, STAGE FRIGHT - I rather like.

I don't like (at all) UNDER CAPRICORN, and I have mixed-to-negative feelings about TOPAZ, MARNIE, FAMILY PLOT and SUSPICION.

I find the lengthy distribes and rationaizations about MARNIE's excellence to be especially amusing.

The only Hitchcock I find unwatchable and uninteresting is Under Capricorn. I'm not fond of Suspicion, but I can tolerate it. I have always liked Marnie, I'm afraid to say, but I liked it when no one else did, back on the day it opened (I saw it about six times). I find Topaz an interesting failure, Frenzy has interesting bits, and Family Plot, perhaps the worst of his later films, is enjoyable on surface levels. Torn Curtain is one I quite enjoyed as a teen - less so now, although I think the critical reaction to that film would have been completely different if the Herrmann score had made it into the film.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #91 on:** October 19, 2005, 10:00:46 AM »

BK - My brother had a BMW for a year or two... Before all the "simple repairs" just started to add up and up and up. He had to replace his whole back bumper after it was tapped in a parking lot. He saw it happen, and it didn't think it was that bad a "tap". But then realized that the whole back bumper had gotten pushed "in" and was coming back out again.

He had one of the sportier BMWs, and, apparently, in order to make them "sportier" and faster, they make the body of the car out of lighter and thinner material than usual. He finally went back to a Toyota.

bk · « **Reply #92 on:** October 19, 2005, 10:04:18 AM »

I must have that Marcy cover!!!

MBarnum · « **Reply #93 on:** October 19, 2005, 10:07:35 AM »

Quote from: bk on October 19, 2005, 10:04:18 AM

I must have that Marcy cover!!!

Well, for $5 and some change you can be the proud owner!

http://cgi.ebay.com/Marcy-Sings-LP-Word-Records-Puppet_W0QQitemZ4763328903QQcategoryZ306QQssPageNameZWD1VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #94 on:** October 19, 2005, 10:10:11 AM »

Oh... and I guess my complaint I filed against Intellius.com did get posted. Glad to know it's helping people make an informed decision.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #95 on:** October 19, 2005, 10:10:29 AM »

That doll looks like Talking Tina....."And I am going to kill you!"

Dan (the Man) · « **Reply #96 on:** October 19, 2005, 10:13:39 AM »

Quote from: JRand55 on October 19, 2005, 09:12:16 AM

The singer who introduced "Carolina in the Morning" was none other than Mr William Frawley.

Ya know, I distinctly remember a Desilu Playhouse show where someone (Vivian Vance?) sang that song while ironing. The hazy image is still floating about in my cranium.

vixmom · « **Reply #97 on:** October 19, 2005, 10:14:46 AM »

Quote from: JoseSPiano on October 19, 2005, 09:55:54 AM

DR vixmom - I checked the wire reports, there were no reports of an earthquake on Long Island the other night. Must have been that hibachi rice you and the vixdad had at dinner earlier that night.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #98 on:** October 19, 2005, 10:19:43 AM »

Hmm...

Well, I was going to do some things today, but...

Yesterday was just such a long day. Rehearsal 10:00-1:00, then killing time until 6:00 for the sound check. Then the show at 8:00... Well, more like 8:12. Thankfully, the show runs only one hour and 53 minutes - with a 20 minute intermission. So...

It was a good day yesterday, not a great one.

...And as long as I remember to look at the key signature tonight for one of my exposed solos... that acts as the intro for one of the soloists... Let's just say I owe someone a case of beer.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #99 on:** October 19, 2005, 10:20:34 AM »

...Oh, so I guess I'm not really going to do anything today... Well, that is at least until I have to head in for the show...

Hmm...

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #100 on:** October 19, 2005, 10:22:00 AM »

My favorite Hitchcock film to watch for the sheer FUN of it, is "The Trouble With Harry"! It resonates for me on many levels.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #101 on:** October 19, 2005, 10:22:25 AM »

My favorite Woody Allen film is "Hannah and Her Sisters."

Dan (the Man) · « **Reply #102 on:** October 19, 2005, 10:22:39 AM »

Quote from: Jason on October 19, 2005, 09:44:22 AM

Little Marcy sings "I Love Little Pussy." LMAO!

I'm uploading that one to my iPod!

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #103 on:** October 19, 2005, 10:23:01 AM »

I realize no one asked (about Allen films), but there it is.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #104 on:** October 19, 2005, 10:23:51 AM »

Quote from: Dan (the Man) on October 19, 2005, 10:22:39 AM

I'm uploading that one to my iPod!

You ARE a sick puppy, aren't you!

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #105 on:** October 19, 2005, 10:24:20 AM »

That poor woman on the cover of that LP...that's probably THE "glamour shot" of her life.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #106 on:** October 19, 2005, 10:25:54 AM »

Marcy dreamed she was wearing her Blackglama mink coat and she and Jose were deli-hopping around Long Island.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #107 on:** October 19, 2005, 10:26:31 AM »

I'm hallucinatin', I tell ya!

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #108 on:** October 19, 2005, 10:27:40 AM »

The cows are moseyin' 'round the pasture...and they ain't in no hurry to come home....

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #109 on:** October 19, 2005, 10:28:34 AM »

Wow! This staying home thing is great! I can just ramble and ramble.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #110 on:** October 19, 2005, 10:30:30 AM »

Anybody here watch "Surface"? It airs Monday nights on NBC.

I am pretty much taken with the show, except I'm getting a little tired of one of the storylines -- the family with the nerdy kid who stole a strange egg that hatched and was some form of lizard life that, currently, eats dogs. It also immobilizes its prey with a shock.

Strange show, but it moves despite my tiring of that family.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #111 on:** October 19, 2005, 10:31:04 AM »

DR Ron Pulliam - I believe the box says: "Take ONE every FOUR hours"... NOT "Take FOUR every ONE hour"

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #112 on:** October 19, 2005, 10:31:12 AM »

"Commander in Chief" still works for me, too! Last night's episode was pretty good, and Donald Sutherland is one of my favorite nasty villains ever!

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #113 on:** October 19, 2005, 10:32:13 AM »

Quote from: JoseSPiano on October 19, 2005, 10:31:04 AM

DR Ron Pulliam - I believe the box says: "Take ONE every FOUR hours"... NOT "Take FOUR every ONE hour"

I does what I has to.

Know anybody with a Blackglama mink, Jose?

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #114 on:** October 19, 2005, 10:33:34 AM »

I still have to watch "Medium", which I taped Monday evening.

And I'm eagerly anticipating tonight's airing of "Lost."

The previews are breathlessly enticing and promising.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #115 on:** October 19, 2005, 10:34:12 AM »

I took a quart of Brunswick stew from my freezer this a.m. and will be having a nice bowl of it for lunch.

If I get productive, I may even make a pan of cornbread.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #116 on:** October 19, 2005, 10:35:20 AM »

Man! I'm exhausted!

Ciao-ders!

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #117 on:** October 19, 2005, 10:35:38 AM »

...But I did get to spend a few hours in the National Gallery of Art's Sculpture Garden on the Mall. My first time there, and it was a perfectly perfect day to sit down on a comfy bench... look at some art... even take a nap.

bk · « **Reply #118 on:** October 19, 2005, 10:41:35 AM »

It's part one of tree trimming - the gardeners are merrily trimming the yard and the side of the house. In two weeks they do the front of the house.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #119 on:** October 19, 2005, 10:47:16 AM »

I have 2 or 3 Marcy records. Not a puppet, per se, but a doll, voiced by the woman on the cover. Bizarre Christian ventriloquist records are not as rare as you might suppose.

My favorite Marcy song is called "When Mr. Satan Knocks at My Heart's Door."

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