Topic: THE PASSOVER PLOTZ (Read 17380 times)

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #180 on:** April 25, 2005, 10:15:14 PM »

...Of course, after taking these pics with my digital camera - the one that I thought was broken - I now wish I had taken it with me to New York, Memphis and Indy.... Ah, well...

bk · « **Reply #181 on:** April 25, 2005, 10:16:00 PM »

Nice photographs, pardner.

Haven't heard of the Mifune film, MBarnum.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #182 on:** April 25, 2005, 10:17:20 PM »

Thank you.

And now it's time for the Page Seven Dance!!!!

Is there a dance called THE PLOTZ?

If not, there should be!

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #183 on:** April 25, 2005, 10:21:09 PM »

"We love you to Wild Bill!" says the little crippled boy from the grandstands.

BK, the story is that writer Gene Fowler, who was vaguely related to Buffalo Bill, and director William Wellman, who wasn't, wanted to tell the real story of Buffalo Bill and what a bunko artist he was. But after they had fashhioned the story, they realized they couldn't tear down an American Icon. So they got drunk and burned their "true" script of B.B. and wrote the bit of hokum that you've been watching tonight.

Tomovoz · « **Reply #184 on:** April 25, 2005, 10:21:14 PM »

Plotzvian Dance -- Borodin!!

bk · « **Reply #185 on:** April 25, 2005, 10:26:52 PM »

And hokum it is, pardner Pogue. It's all over the place - cowboys and indians, family bathos, etc. But, it does sort of make a plea for the indian, and it does show the rich white politic as pretty reprehensible. What the film has going for it is Wellman, McCrea and the astonishingly beautiful Linda Darnell as an indian (I believe she was barely sixteen when she made the film). Maureen O'Hara looks lovely, too, and a young Anthony Quinn is Bill's indian chum.

bk · « **Reply #186 on:** April 25, 2005, 10:27:35 PM »

It also features one of those annoying wink-wink, nudge-nudge musical scores by David Buttolph.

bk · « **Reply #187 on:** April 25, 2005, 10:28:51 PM »

I believe after three count them three DVDs, I am officially movied out for the evening. Pardner Pogue should figure out whare's the meetin' place to get his Errol Flynn box set. We can meet at the pass.

bk · « **Reply #188 on:** April 25, 2005, 10:29:37 PM »

I also have a headache, for which I've just taken two of whatever i had in the cupboard (pills, that is, not Campbell's soup).

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #189 on:** April 25, 2005, 10:53:48 PM »

OK - Off to the Land of the Wussburgers I go...

Goodnight.

bk · « **Reply #190 on:** April 25, 2005, 10:55:06 PM »

And now a word from the steaming hot shower.

Perhaps upon my return, Ann will have caught up.

If not, I'm afraid the dear girl is going to have to meet me at the OK Corral for a showdown.

DearReaderLaura · « **Reply #191 on:** April 25, 2005, 11:04:02 PM »

I have been at a mind-numbing meeting tonight.

And now that I think about it, she does look rather like a dead herring.

bk · « **Reply #192 on:** April 25, 2005, 11:11:53 PM »

Ann has left the room without even looking at the posts. I'm afraid it's Boot Hill for dear reader Ann.

bk · « **Reply #193 on:** April 25, 2005, 11:12:40 PM »

The steaming shower was divoon and I feel completely relaxed and my headache is beginning to abate, oh, yes, my headache is beginning to abate.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #194 on:** April 25, 2005, 11:37:37 PM »

Lovely photos DRJOSE. I think they will probably have a Jose Rack at the Diversity Thrift Shop and a couple of shelves as well!

MR BK - many many many years ago Larry Blyden was hosting a game show called The Movie Game (first host Sonny Fox) a syndicated show that pitted two sets of three celebrities answering questions about movies. And here are some of the things I learned from that show:

Earl Holliman (the BEST player) said that Paramount fully expected him to be nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for THE RAINMAKER and arranged for him to be interviewed by Louella Parsons at the same time the nominations were to be announced....he wasn't nominated, and the whole interview was a bit of an embarrassment to him.

Vera Miles was cast in HOUSE OF WAX with Vincent Price at Warner Bros. She had costume fittings on Friday and went home with her script. She came back on Monday and Phyllis Kirk was doing her role, and she still doesn't know why. Vera would have been GREAT!

Jrand73 · « **Reply #195 on:** April 25, 2005, 11:39:20 PM »

CAPRICE....well - some say it is the last movie filmed in CinemaScope although there is some controversy about it....maybe it was the last film released in said process. In any case, it is a sad movie. And Doris wears clothes that are just TOO YOUNG for her age....and nothing but WIGS!!! It is a bit embarrassing for everyone involved. I'm not sure who thought it was a good idea to make Doris into a teeny-bopper, but whoever it was should be shot!

Jrand73 · « **Reply #196 on:** April 25, 2005, 11:40:44 PM »

Costume design for CAPRICE by Ray Aghayan. Hmmmmmmm...

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #197 on:** April 25, 2005, 11:52:02 PM »

Oh, hokum, Buffalo Bill is but it is still great fun hokum! We shall we meet, Pard. When will you all be meeting the stage to pick them parcels up. Shall we meet at High Noon? Or one? Or 3:10? We could make the Decision At Sundown.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #198 on:** April 25, 2005, 11:52:08 PM »

Game Show Network in five minutes....CHOOSE YOUR SIDES....a LOCAL kids game show from New York. You won't believe it!

I saw Spaceman Irving on last Friday night.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #199 on:** April 25, 2005, 11:52:44 PM »

MR BK with the DVD's in the Conservatory.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #200 on:** April 25, 2005, 11:53:07 PM »

CHOOSE YOUR SIDES!!! The cowboys against the spacemen!

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #201 on:** April 25, 2005, 11:55:12 PM »

Elvis Presley was at one time announced for the role of Jimmy in THE RAINMAKER. In fact, he mentions it himself in a radio interview. Wonder who nixed that? Lancaster? Hepburn? Or maybe Col. Tom Parker...Didn't want Elvis overshadowed by bigger stars maybe? Actually, I could see Elvis at that period in his career making a very good Jimmy.

bk · « **Reply #202 on:** April 26, 2005, 12:00:35 AM »

New notes momentarily.

I usually pick up them packages around 12:30, but a bit later may be safer to meet up. Let us converse via telegraph on the 'morrow.

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