Show vibes to BK!!!
I realize that this status changes every few hours, but my 2-person stage play, NELSON AND JEANETTE is currently the #3 ranked Kindle book on Amazon in Playwriting, and #23 in paperback books in the Playwriting category. http://www.amazon.com/Nelson-Jeanette-Hollywood-Legends-ebook/dp/B0099XUEPA/ref=kinw_dp_ke
When DR. NO came out, the publicity set off every alarm for my parents and I wasn't allowed to go see it. I can't remember if I went to FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE when it was new, so it's just possible that GOLDFINGER was my first Bond, and that impact was something I'll never forget. At that point I probably saw second-runs of the first two films, but everything about GOLDFINGER rang bells. I bought the LP, and wore it out in the first year.According to the IMDb, GOLDFINGER was released nationally in January 1965. I don't remember when, or which theater I first saw it in, but on one of those New Year's Eves, the Gateway Theatre in Fort Lauderdale (my avatar on HTF) ran it all night, and I sat there through three showings of it, happier than the proverbial pig in the proverbial shit.The next one, THUNDERBALL, to me, will always mean Christmas Day 1965, and one of my favorite Christmas memories. It had opened that week at one of the new theaters in town, and seeing it late in the afternoon on that day -- in a filled theater where I found other people I knew in attendance -- it was just as special to me as GOLDFINGER had been. THUNDERBALL has its critics, but to me it will always be magic.YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE was equally thrilling, and I know I drove myself to that one three or four times with various friends along. Those were just thrilling movies then. I keep saying "thrilling", but there's no other word for it.(I most definitely wasn't allowed go see that one, which opened at my tender age of 11 just after we'd moved down there.)
Good morning, all! I slept later than I meant to, and I really want to burrow into a sheltered area and sleep for several months. Instead, I will shortly head down to Toyland. I will work there until nearly 1pm and then head to Carnegie Hall for this Miami University concert.That's all I have planned today, and that's enough.
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Quote from: ChasSmith on October 07, 2012, 07:49:47 AMWhen DR. NO came out, the publicity set off every alarm for my parents and I wasn't allowed to go see it. I can't remember if I went to FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE when it was new, so it's just possible that GOLDFINGER was my first Bond, and that impact was something I'll never forget. At that point I probably saw second-runs of the first two films, but everything about GOLDFINGER rang bells. I bought the LP, and wore it out in the first year.According to the IMDb, GOLDFINGER was released nationally in January 1965. I don't remember when, or which theater I first saw it in, but on one of those New Year's Eves, the Gateway Theatre in Fort Lauderdale (my avatar on HTF) ran it all night, and I sat there through three showings of it, happier than the proverbial pig in the proverbial shit.The next one, THUNDERBALL, to me, will always mean Christmas Day 1965, and one of my favorite Christmas memories. It had opened that week at one of the new theaters in town, and seeing it late in the afternoon on that day -- in a filled theater where I found other people I knew in attendance -- it was just as special to me as GOLDFINGER had been. THUNDERBALL has its critics, but to me it will always be magic.YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE was equally thrilling, and I know I drove myself to that one three or four times with various friends along. Those were just thrilling movies then. I keep saying "thrilling", but there's no other word for it.(I most definitely wasn't allowed go see that one, which opened at my tender age of 11 just after we'd moved down there.)For "Goldfinger", I associate it with Christmas 1964. It was playing at the Carolina in December that year...I saw it one Saturday and knew I wanted to see it again and again...but it was nearly Christmas and I needed to spend money on gifts rather than pleasure. One day, however, my father got a "business" Christmas card (he was in home remodeling at that time) and enclosed in the card were two theater passes for the Carolina Theater. He gave them to me! I saw "Goldfinger" on two more Saturdays on those passes, sitting through it twice on each occasion! The soundtrack was one of my favorite listens at that time, too. I can't say I wore it out, but it got played and played and played.
As I mentioned last night, the Northwest lost one of my childhood legends in July when J. P. Patches (Chris Wedes) passed away from cancer. His show ran on KIRO-TV in Seattle from 1958 thru 1981, making it one of the longest running kid's programs in the nation. I watched him as a kid, I watched him as a teenager, and when I went away to college I found that there was a whole group in my dorm who still watched his show faithfully every day. He was as kind and as gentle in "real" life as he was on the show, and he never seemed to understand what a huge impact he made on so many children. Birthdays? Oh yes, he looked into his ICU2 TV and told us who was having a birthday, and where the extra present was hidden. I truly loved J. P. Rest in Peace.
