Topic: GOING OFF ON A TANGENT IN A PICKLE (Read 28119 times)

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #30 on:** April 09, 2005, 09:12:03 AM »

Has anyone else been getting a lot of Spoof E-bay and Paypal e-mails lately? I've had about five in the past few days. Thankfully(?), these e-mail have definitely looked fake - no attempt at all to emulate the PayPal or E-bay "styles".

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #31 on:** April 09, 2005, 09:13:09 AM »

Page 2 Dance!!!

A graceful Pas de Deux.

Get those point shoes and tutus out of your closet!

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #32 on:** April 09, 2005, 09:17:00 AM »

DR Hisaka - I meant to comment on the Cherry Blossom pics too. Since I'm not near DC this weekend for the Cherry Blossom Festival, your pics helped me to feel like I was there.

When I was younger, going to the Cherry Blossoms was an annual family event. There are a series of pictures of the whole family taken amongst the blossoms - and a few of them in front of the same tree year after year! We still go nowadays, but usually to show out of town guests since my brothers and I are usually not in town at the same time during "high bloom".

Hmm.... HIGH BLOOM, sounds like a Western to me!

bk · « **Reply #33 on:** April 09, 2005, 09:18:17 AM »

The spoof e-mails seem to come in waves. I've only gotten the kind that look identical to the real thing - identical except for the spelling errors and the bogus links.

bk · « **Reply #34 on:** April 09, 2005, 09:18:50 AM »

I shall now be on my way - keep the home fries burning until my returning, you dear, dear people out there in the dark.

And remember - AORTA!

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #35 on:** April 09, 2005, 09:20:13 AM »

As for Westerns... I haven't ever really been a fan of them either. However, the title that always made my cousin, Richard, and I giggle was "Chisolm". -Ah, to be 13 again! Not!

And Channel 20 in DC always seemed to show that movie with Yul Brynner and the robot cowboys, "Westworld" - ??

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #36 on:** April 09, 2005, 09:23:19 AM »

DR JMK - As for those Microsoft Software, Security Alerts... They actually have been sending out a bunch of legitimate e-mails lately. However, a lot of them have been links to their new Privacy/Security/etc. "Statements". HP has been sending out a lot of those too lately.

...At least I haven't been getting any spoof-Microsoft e-mails lately... Of course, I'm also now on a Mac, so...

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #37 on:** April 09, 2005, 09:33:25 AM »

Is "Going Off On A Tangent In A Pickle" like

"Going Over Niagara In A Barrel" or

"Going To Hell In A Handbasket"

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #38 on:** April 09, 2005, 09:34:03 AM »

OK - Time for my brunch and then off to the theatre. I'll be bringing my laptop with me so I can check in between shows.

Laters...

Ginny · « **Reply #39 on:** April 09, 2005, 09:50:32 AM »

TOD: I, too , am not a huge fan of Westerns, but would like to mention Judy Garland's The Harvey Girls.

Also, all the talk about the genre reminded me of a fun day our family had years ago at Old Tucson Studios in Arizona. Many movies and TV series were/are filmed there and it's also a theme park. It was one of the first of those kinds of places we took our son. We got there early in the morning and figured he'd last, at best, a couple of hours. Well, we had such a good time that we only left at about 4pm because a thunderstorm was rolling in. I'm glad to see that it's still in business:

www.oldtucson.com

Ginny · « **Reply #40 on:** April 09, 2005, 09:52:32 AM »

Quote from: JRand54 on April 09, 2005, 08:29:31 AM

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

Got it, DR JRand! And the show starts at 1pm (Indianapolis time), Right?

JMK · « **Reply #41 on:** April 09, 2005, 10:01:47 AM »

Re: spoof emails. Yes, I was just mentioning to Betsy last night that I've been getting a new wave of them over the past week or so--the MS ones I mentioned (they were definitely fake, the emails were nothing but code that Norton had stripped of its viral capabilities), not to mention the PayPal and eBay ones (got a PayPal one just this morning telling me I need to confirm my bank account. Right.

).

Re: westerns. Well I don't know how JR could have not mentioned these already but Badlands of Dakota with an impossibly gorgeous Frances Farmer as Calamity Jane (not to mention Richard Dix, Ann Rutherford, Robert Stack, Lon Chaney and Broderick Crawford in supporting roles) is a cut above the usual 40s Universal western. And quite possibly Frances' strangest Paramount film (which is saying a lot), Ride a Crooked Mile (AKA Escape from Yesterday). That one features Akim Tamiroff as a Cossack cattle rustler transplanted to Kansas, Frances as his emigree Russian saloon singer ward (I kid you not--in a cape and strange headgear, no less), and Frances' then-husband Leif Erickson as Tamiroff's long-lost son. It does feature an absolutely delectable duet between Frances and Leif (who was a big-band singer before he broke into films) in Russian.

JMK · « **Reply #42 on:** April 09, 2005, 10:37:04 AM »

The Badlands of Dakota pressbook has a(n) hilarious quote attributed to Frances that is so wrong it's beyond funny. The quote her as saying she doesn't like wearing chaps (she's in them for most of the film) because they're so hot and uncomfortable and also (here's the funny part) that she frowns on women wearing pants at all because it's unladylike. This from a woman who was second (if even that) only to Katharine Hepburn in her disdain for frilly clothes.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #43 on:** April 09, 2005, 10:38:36 AM »

I'm back. I'm back.

-I always seem to run "early" on matinee days...

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #44 on:** April 09, 2005, 10:41:00 AM »

Yes, the matinee tomorrow is at 1:00pm Indianapolis time.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #45 on:** April 09, 2005, 10:42:34 AM »

Hmm.... Interesting... Just watching this "Survivor-type" show for teens on "Teen NBC"... "Endurance Hawaii".... Interesting... Complete with "confessionals"... Hmmm...

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #46 on:** April 09, 2005, 10:52:39 AM »

BK, BEND OF THE RIVER and THE FAR COUNTRY are also two strong Mann/Stewart westerns.

I respectfully disagree that HOW THE WEST WAS WON is the greatest western score ever.

It doesn't come close to MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, THE BIG COUNTRY, nor Rozsa's TRIBUTE TO A BAD MAN....Then there is THE COMMANCHEROS, THE BRAVADOS (also by Mr. Newman), DODGE CITY, GUNFIGHT AT OK CORRAL, RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY, and there are probably many more.

Though I've had the score to HTWWW since it first came out...I never been a huge fan of it. Nor am I a huge fan of the movie. Its very episodic structure with different directors lent itself to plenty of Cinerama thrills, but as far as a tight, compelling story with a strong thematic cohesiveness, it loses me.

S. Woody White · « **Reply #47 on:** April 09, 2005, 11:09:14 AM »

Quote from: George on April 09, 2005, 12:16:11 AM

"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.

Yes, a wookie, in the part formerly played by Gabby Hayes. Or maybe Walter Brennan.

George · « **Reply #48 on:** April 09, 2005, 11:18:31 AM »

Quote from: JMK on April 09, 2005, 10:01:47 AM

Re: spoof emails. Yes, I was just mentioning to Betsy last night that I've been getting a new wave of them over the past week or so--the MS ones I mentioned (they were definitely fake, the emails were nothing but code that Norton had stripped of its viral capabilities), not to mention the PayPal and eBay ones (got a PayPal one just this morning telling me I need to confirm my bank account. Right. ).

I get a few spoof e-mails, mainly fake eBay e-mails, but the bulk of them that I get come from banks that I've never used...where I've NEVER had accounts! How does that happen??

DearReaderLaura · « **Reply #49 on:** April 09, 2005, 11:20:21 AM »

Good morning, fellow Dear Readers.

I think that's all I have to say today.

S. Woody White · « **Reply #50 on:** April 09, 2005, 11:33:41 AM »

Quote from: JoseSPiano on April 09, 2005, 10:42:34 AM

Hmm.... Interesting... Just watching this "Survivor-type" show for teens on "Teen NBC"... "Endurance Hawaii".... Interesting... Complete with "confessionals"... Hmmm...

What IS it with these newfangled game shows (because that's what the "reality" shows really are) having "confessionals"? Are they all secretly Catholic? Say three Hail Marys and win a million bucks?

S. Woody White · « **Reply #51 on:** April 09, 2005, 11:52:48 AM »

I've never been a fan of the Western genre. As Lisa Douglas used to say (and still does in reruns), "I get alergic smelling hay."

Besides, Westerns were claimed by my sister as HER territory, and I was not "allowed" to like them. James Drury of The Virginian was her dreamboat. I was banished to the back room with the old black and white TV to watch Lost In Space instead.

She was like that with a lot of things. I also was not "allowed" to like baseball, because she was a fan and if something was "hers" it could not be mine in any way shape or form. Don Drysdale was the dreamboat in this case. Later in life, she was very upset when I got involved with the gay softball leagues as a scorekeeper, since I was perverting something that had been "hers."

On the other hand, I very much liked the soundtrack for How the West Was Won, but not because it's the soundtrack for a Western. Rather, I find it to be a great example of choral work, using traditional American melodies. It probably influenced my decision to join the Mixed Choir back when I was in Junior High. Sadly, my voice can't handle the singing any more, but I still appreciate good choral work when I hear it, and for a time it did give me something that was "mine".

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #52 on:** April 09, 2005, 12:04:05 PM »

Woody, I think you like the HTWWW score for the various reasons I'm not wild about it. All the choral work and traditional folk melodies. Those things are fine in their place, but I like more stirring, dramatic scoring that complements the onscreen drama. But then maybe that score worked for that movie...since it's really more like a docu-drama than an actual drama.

I worked with James Drury twice in my career...once with him playing Starbuck in THE RAINMAKER and again in ONCE MORE WITH FEELING. I've seen him a couple of times at the Ray Courts show and it's always very pleasant.

JMK · « **Reply #53 on:** April 09, 2005, 12:15:26 PM »

Interesting that James Drury did The Rainmaker while another big western star of that era, Robert Horton, did 110 in the Shade. Am I misremembering or was Drury attached to the original Clear Day for a while (can't remember if it was the Rodgers/Lerner Picked a Daisy, or the first attempt at the Lane/Lerner)?

bk · « **Reply #54 on:** April 09, 2005, 12:17:44 PM »

Those who've read the Kritzer books know my feelings on How the West Was Won. I should have loved it, thought I would love it, and didn't. I still saw it many times, but it just didn't work for me, other than as an extravaganza. I may have already been just past the age where EVERYTHING that was big was something I instantly loved. What I love about Newman's score is the main title. The rest is okay, but doesn't touch Tiomkin's High Noon, Bernstein's Magnificent Seven and Katie Elder (one of his greats), Tiomkin's Red River, Newman's own Nevada Smith (not really a western, though), Steiner's The Searchers, and even Duning's 3:10 to Yuma. I must have been on some sort of weird wavelength when I made this the topic, because I just picked up a whole slew of new Columbia western DVDs, including Delbert Daves' Jubal, The Violent Men, The Texican, Texas (with Holden and Glenn Ford), Good Day for a Hanging (with Fred MacMurray), and The Deperados. Most of which I've never seen.

JMK · « **Reply #55 on:** April 09, 2005, 12:21:25 PM »

Quote from: bk on April 09, 2005, 12:17:44 PM

The Violint Men,

The thrilling saga of a cowboy and his clothes dryer.

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #56 on:** April 09, 2005, 12:38:47 PM »

BK, I love Jubal and The Violent Men is rather compelling. I've seen Texas and Good Day for a Hanging, but don't remember much about about them, though Good Day is on the westerns channel this month along with a couple of other Fred McMurray westerns. They're calling it: My Three Westerns.

bk · « **Reply #57 on:** April 09, 2005, 12:39:21 PM »

Whatever are you talking about???

I also feel the same way I feel about How the West Was Won about another all-star HUGE extravaganza that everyone loves - It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

JMK · « **Reply #58 on:** April 09, 2005, 12:53:05 PM »

Quote from: bk on April 09, 2005, 12:39:21 PM

Whatever are you talking about???

Pssst---you might want to go back and check your post again. I just couldn't think of anything clever to say about The Deperados.

Quote from: bk on April 09, 2005, 12:39:21 PM

I also feel the same way I feel about How the West Was Won about another all-star HUGE extravaganza that everyone loves - It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

I feel exactly the same--I have never gotten this movie, either.

bk · « **Reply #59 on:** April 09, 2005, 01:15:04 PM »

The Deperados is the story of how Hollywood feels about working with Johnny Depp.

Apparently we're having a slow news day here at haineshisway.com. If it's like this today, we may as well take a vacation tomorrow.

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