Topic: GOING OFF ON A TANGENT IN A PICKLE (Read 28025 times)

bk · « **on:** April 08, 2005, 11:59:34 PM »

Well, you've read the notes, you know all about the tangents and pickles, and now it is time for you to post until the pickled cows come home from their various and sundried tangents.

Tomovoz · « **Reply #1 on:** April 09, 2005, 12:12:14 AM »

"Shane", "Cat Ballou" and "Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid". A special mention to "Blazing Saddles". I remember "High Noon", and "Liberty Valence" more for the title songs. (Even if the Gene Pitney song was after the event!). I also am quite fond of "The One-Eyed Jacks". Another "title" song written after the film - this time for Johnny Burnette.

George · « **Reply #2 on:** April 09, 2005, 12:16:11 AM »

I've never been a fan of westerns. I don't necessarily have anything against them, but I've just never been interested. However, of the few that I have seen, "Blazing Saddles" and "Star Wars" are my favorite. "Star Wars??" you ask? "Yes, 'Star Wars'," I say. It may be set a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, but I think it's just a (reimagined) old-fashioned western...with good guys and bad guys and a shoot out and all that.

And a wookie.

George · « **Reply #3 on:** April 09, 2005, 12:17:18 AM »

It's late and I want to sleep. So, goodnight, all!

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #4 on:** April 09, 2005, 12:18:27 AM »

Fav westerns:

The Searchers
Ramrod (a noir western)
Unforgiven
The Unforgiven
All the Boetticher/Scott Westerns (Ride Lonesome, Comanche Station, The Tall T...to name but three)
Tombstone
Pursued
Whispering Smith
Shane
Rio Bravo
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon
Stagecoach
The Professionals
Gunfight at the OK Corral
Ride the High Country
Magnificent Seven
Support Your Local Sheriff
Will Penny
Blood on the Moon
The Big Country
Left-Handed Gun

bk · « **Reply #5 on:** April 09, 2005, 12:22:54 AM »

And the word of the day is: AORTA!

bk · « **Reply #6 on:** April 09, 2005, 12:23:10 AM »

Why AORTA knock your block off.

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #7 on:** April 09, 2005, 12:27:01 AM »

A couple more I thought of...

Barbarosa
Invitation to a Gunfighter
The Long Riders

I can watch almost any western anytime and not get bored. Though I find it interesting that Gary Cooper is one of my favourite actors, but not of his westerns are on my list, though I've seen most and am fond of all of them.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #8 on:** April 09, 2005, 12:37:08 AM »

Saturday - it is Macarena day!

So sad to hear about BUS STOP being the way it was. Hmmmmmm....

Westerns! Well it is early in the day, and most of my favorites have been mentioned. So I will just mention them AGAIN.

THE SEARCHERS - a fine story and a fine cast. John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Natalie Wood, Vera Miles. And a good story, that'll be the day.

THE GUNFIGHTER - Gregory Peck and his last dying words to Richard Jaeckal....whew!

TRUE GRIT - love the Elmer Bernstein score

THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOTS ON - Errol Flynn as Custer

RED RIVER - Wayne and Montgomery Clift

and I will only list one more:

RED GARTERS - a wild and wooly western musical!

Jrand74 · « **Reply #9 on:** April 09, 2005, 12:39:08 AM »

I am like DRCP - thinking of one reminds me of others.

ONE EYED JACKS mentioned by DR TOMovOZ.

NO NAME ON THE BULLET with Audie Murphy.

bk · « **Reply #10 on:** April 09, 2005, 12:41:27 AM »

Oh, I forgot all my favorite Anthony Mann westerns - they include, Winchester '73, The Man from Laramie, Man of the West (with Cooper), and the brilliant The Naked Spur.

Ginny · « **Reply #11 on:** April 09, 2005, 03:51:11 AM »

Hello, Hisaka! I wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed your pictures of the cherry blossoms yesterday. The town where I live (Middletown, Ohio, USA) has many flowering trees. Your photos reminded me that I need to take a drive through the university campus where I used to work. It's always beautiful this time of year, as were your photos.

Ginny · « **Reply #12 on:** April 09, 2005, 03:52:42 AM »

'morning, Elmore. Are you getting ready to dispense books to the masses today, too?

elmore3003 · « **Reply #13 on:** April 09, 2005, 04:24:16 AM »

Good morning, DRs Ginny and Hisaka! Yes, Im dressed and ready for B&N. Now, what's for breakfast?

DRPogue, I've been reading Denis Quilley's bio, skimming through it and reading about various productions. The tone of the book is so much like the man I met: charming, kind, generous, intelligent. He mentions replacing Keith Michel in IRMA LA DOUCE, closing the Broadway prduction and touring Boston, the South, and other environs, and his comments on his US stay are quite lovely. He also talks about touring Australia with June Bronhill and Frank Thring in ROBERT AND ELIZABETH. I think you'd enjoy the book a lot. I feel lucky to have seen him in the National Theatre's CANDIDE, Peter Hall's WAITING FOR GODOT and KING LEAR, and I loved him as the King in JUBILEE.

I've been skimming John Fraser's very frank autobio as well, but he never mentions my favorite film of his: A STUDY IN TERROR with John Neville.

Yes, DRGeorge, I'd call STAR WARS a western, too, and THE SEARCHERS was a big influence on it. I was never the Western fan my Father and brother were, but I've a few faves. You should take a look at a few of the readers' favorites today. They're quite wonderful.

TOD:
THE SEARCHERS
MCCLINTOCK
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SHERIFF
HIGH NOON
LAST TRAIN FROM GUN HILL
CAT BALLOU
THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOTS ON

Michael · « **Reply #14 on:** April 09, 2005, 05:34:21 AM »

Like to add to some already mentioned:

Support Your Local Gunfighter (sequal to Sherrif and just as much fun)
Duck You Sucker aka A Fistful of Dynamite aka Once Upon a Time in Mexico (Sergio Leon film I hope that can be considered a western)
Valley of the Gwangi (Cowboys and Dinosaurs)
Johnny Guitar (a very strange 50's parable western)

Two Monte Hellman films:
Ride in the Whirlwind (with Jack Nicholson who also wrote it)
The Shooting (with many of the people from the above film)

and I think Leon's Once Upon a Time In ~~America~~ West and Ford's The Searchers are two of the best in the western genre.

Danise · « **Reply #15 on:** April 09, 2005, 05:46:37 AM »

Good morning folks!

I know I said this before but I am very sorry to have been E &T this week. And what a week it has been. I’ve had to work a lot of OT at work and I have been so tired that by the time Wednesday rolled around, I was already dragging myself home. I barely made it to eight o’clock before I had to go to bed.

I’m sorry that I haven’t had time to really read or post. I don’t have time today to go back and read everything I missed out on because I’m going to the Ren Fest today. I have to use my ticket (the one I bought before I even went to NY) this weekend because it is the last.

I hope to have pictures and stories for you tonight.

It seems I have so many things to tell you good folks and I know I have missed out on your happenings.

My best wishes for the Job seekers. I hope by now we have the best of news about Angel Joe. I also hope we have had a healed toe for DR Jane and that DR Elmore got a good report from the doctor. More puppies/dogs adopted and the blind for the Tarsus has arrived. If I’ve missed anything I will catch it when I go back to read.

I see the TOD is Westerns. As my Mother is a BIG John Wayne fan, I’ve seen most of his and I do enjoy them. I think my favorites are:

War Wagon
The Man Who Shot Liberty Vance

McClintock
El Dorado
They Died With Their Boots On
Star War (Yeah, I know)

There’s more but I don’t have time to list them all.

Have a GREAT day and I will return this evening.

Hi Michael Shayne! ICU

!!!!

Matt H. · « **Reply #16 on:** April 09, 2005, 07:06:07 AM »

My favorite western is unquestably HOW THE WEST WAS WON with the greatest score ever written for a Western by the great Alfred Newman. I just love this movie. It holds a special place in my heart from having seen it in Cinerama upon its original release and many times since in cropped widescreen versions on TV and home video.

Matt H. · « **Reply #17 on:** April 09, 2005, 07:08:04 AM »

I also love SHANE, RED RIVER, and HIGH NOON. DESTRY RIDES AGAIN is lots of fun as is JOHNNY GUITAR (for its camp value).

I just saw THE GUNFIGHTER a few months ago, and I was impressed with it. I'm surprised Fox has not released it as one of their Studio Classics.

Matt H. · « **Reply #18 on:** April 09, 2005, 07:09:18 AM »

I've been up for quite a few hours this morning continuing to tinker with the new TV. I've got the DVD connection now looking smooth and film-like. Much harder to calibrate it than it was on my old CRT-rear projection set.

Matt H. · « **Reply #19 on:** April 09, 2005, 07:11:22 AM »

I did get around to DODGEBALL this morning. It's beyond silly and into stupid territory, sad to say. There were a few laughs, but most of it would give the term "sophomoric" a bad name. Very colorful, though, and a nice DVD to use in calibrating flesh tones and non-bleeding reds.

Matt H. · « **Reply #20 on:** April 09, 2005, 07:12:38 AM »

Oh, my, I forgot THE OX-BOW INCIDENT, one of the true western masterpieces. I LOVE that movie. And I just remembered MY DARLING CLEMENTINE, too, which is magnificent.

Kerry · « **Reply #21 on:** April 09, 2005, 07:12:55 AM »

Besides a few already mentioned, I'd have to add "Rustler's Rhapsody" to this.

I need something wonderfully entertaining in a totally satisfying way-- I may watch "Casablanca" this weekend.

Matt H. · « **Reply #22 on:** April 09, 2005, 07:18:15 AM »

I have CLOSER up next in my DVD list for this afternoon, but before I pop that heavy drama into the player, I may opt for something like THE WIZARD OF OZ or one of Garland's other musicals.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #23 on:** April 09, 2005, 08:28:43 AM »

Oh....Judge Roy Bean with Paul Newman and Anthony Perkins.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #24 on:** April 09, 2005, 08:29:31 AM »

Remember DR GINNY and DH RICHARD - Indianapolis is now one hour behind Ohio.

bk · « **Reply #25 on:** April 09, 2005, 08:33:09 AM »

I'm up, I'm up. She of the Evil Eye will be here around nine, so I have to get dressed and cleaned up.

bk · « **Reply #26 on:** April 09, 2005, 08:47:47 AM »

Why AORTA bitch-slap the errant and truant from here to eternity and hell and back. The sky is blue. The grass is green. The dog is black.

bk · « **Reply #27 on:** April 09, 2005, 08:48:27 AM »

You'd think she of the Evil Eye was visiting EVERYONE.

bk · « **Reply #28 on:** April 09, 2005, 08:49:19 AM »

I'm doing a monologue. I'm talkin' to myself. Sad to be all alone in the world.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #29 on:** April 09, 2005, 09:09:46 AM »

Good Morning!

I'm up! I'm up!

...Looks like quite the beautiful day outside my window... I'm planning on staying on campus between shows today to walk around a bit more and snap a few more pics. Should be a good day for doing just that.

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