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Re: THE CLOSE CALL
« Reply #60 on: November 23, 2022, 08:06:28 AM »

Does anyone have a movie poster hanging up at their house?

I have a poster of "September 20, 1955" on my office door.....and a poster of the movie "Frances" hanging in the game room.....and a few lobby cards here and there.
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« Reply #61 on: November 23, 2022, 08:06:49 AM »

Page Three.

For all intensive purposes.
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« Reply #62 on: November 23, 2022, 08:29:48 AM »

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« Reply #63 on: November 23, 2022, 08:30:12 AM »

For all your intensive needs.
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« Reply #64 on: November 23, 2022, 08:45:56 AM »

Does anyone have a movie poster hanging up at their house?

I have a poster of "September 20, 1955" on my office door.....and a poster of the movie "Frances" hanging in the game room.....and a few lobby cards here and there.

I should, but they are all in storage.

I do have an insert for "Li'l Abner", "Funny Girl" (OBC recording), and "Take Me Out" (fully signed by cast).
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« Reply #65 on: November 23, 2022, 08:48:01 AM »

Am having another day of hypotension.

It's sorta scary as it leaves me a bit discombobulated and, otherwise, dizzy.

Am constantly adjusting my meds, so it's a matter of time before I stabilize.  I hope.  I see my doctor next Tuesday.
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« Reply #66 on: November 23, 2022, 08:49:52 AM »

Today feels different, doesn't it!

The day before Thanksgiving.

Will be on the road tomorrow morning with Sharon and Butch. Traffic will likely be very light.

Looking forward to Black Friday!!
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« Reply #67 on: November 23, 2022, 09:05:38 AM »

DR John, scary close call for the daughter of your co-worker.  I hope she didn't know any of the victims.
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« Reply #68 on: November 23, 2022, 09:09:28 AM »

DR TCB I am happy you found a way to post without hurting your hands.  I hope you will be able to celebrate Thanksgiving with friends.
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« Reply #69 on: November 23, 2022, 09:09:53 AM »

NICK NOLTE!! ;D I've been trying to think of his name for MONTHS!  What happened is I came a cross this picture from a 1970s clothes catalog, and one of the models looked like an actor I recognized but I just couldn't remember his name...and the instant I read the name in BK's notes, I remembered that Nick Nolte was the name I was trying to remember.  FINALLY, I can stop thinking about what his name might be.

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« Reply #70 on: November 23, 2022, 09:12:40 AM »

We have a new policy at the office. You must be in the office for three days a week. Holidays and days off don’t count. If you go on vacation for two weeks, you have to make up six office days.

That is crazy having to make up vacation days.
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« Reply #71 on: November 23, 2022, 09:12:55 AM »

I would be angry about that.
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« Reply #72 on: November 23, 2022, 09:13:20 AM »

Can you add extra days before you leave so there are fewer days to make up when you return?
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« Reply #73 on: November 23, 2022, 09:13:58 AM »

I just found out that the woman two desks from me tested positive for covid today. Oh, joy.

I take it back, you don't want to work extra days before traveling.  Covid free vibes!
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« Reply #74 on: November 23, 2022, 09:21:25 AM »

Does anyone have a movie poster hanging up at their house?

I have a poster of "September 20, 1955" on my office door.....and a poster of the movie "Frances" hanging in the game room.....and a few lobby cards here and there.

We have a number of them but only one original, The Magnificent Seven.
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« Reply #75 on: November 23, 2022, 09:36:23 AM »

I was reading a book.....The Letters of James Merrill....a poet.  I may have mentioned this before.

Anyway - in one letter he was talking about a dinner he attended with many friends.  The topic was what would you change about yourself physically if you could.

One man said that he was embarrassed about how short his arms were.  Everyone was puzzled and tried to convince him that that was NOT the case.  He asked didn't everyone notice that his shirt sleeves always came a couple of inches below his wrist.

James Merrill says - "And that's when he learned what the second number on the shirt tag meant."

Too funny.
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« Reply #76 on: November 23, 2022, 09:38:35 AM »

Does anyone have a movie poster hanging up at their house?

I have a poster of "September 20, 1955" on my office door.....and a poster of the movie "Frances" hanging in the game room.....and a few lobby cards here and there.

I have a framed poster of Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! hanging up. I also have plenty of theater posters.
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« Reply #77 on: November 23, 2022, 09:40:51 AM »

I understand thst Herschel Walker said something about an “erection for all the people.” And he was standing next to Lindsay Graham when he said it.
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« Reply #78 on: November 23, 2022, 10:25:19 AM »

That sounds about right for him.
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« Reply #79 on: November 23, 2022, 10:26:01 AM »

For purple mountain majesties...
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« Reply #80 on: November 23, 2022, 10:43:02 AM »

Every Herschel Walker campaign ad that plays on my TV (and no station seems to be immune from them) diminishes the collective intelligence of every viewer.
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« Reply #81 on: November 23, 2022, 10:43:33 AM »

For purple mountain majesties...

What?  No "fruited plains"?
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« Reply #82 on: November 23, 2022, 11:00:42 AM »

I understand thst Herschel Walker said something about an “erection for all the people.” And he was standing next to Lindsay Graham when he said it.

I bet that gave Auntie Lindsey the vapors!
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« Reply #83 on: November 23, 2022, 11:02:29 AM »

Movie posters. An excellent question. Just a few cherce things.
I *so* wish I had collected more in the 70s and 80s when I had the chances to do so all around me.

Psycho - original one-sheet
Rear Window - re-release one-sheet ("if your nerves can take it after seeing Psycho")
Torn Curtain - half-sheet in only fair condition
The Haunting - original (what's the vertical 14"x36" called? insert?)
The Exorcist - original one-sheet
Mr. Sardonicus - original one-sheet in only fair condition
La vallée des poupées (Valley of the Dolls) - original French three-sheet (thank you, BK and Indiegogo)

Rear Window - #1 original lobby card signed by Hitchcock (no caricature, it was scribbled in a hurry)
Quite a few other lobby cards (many Hitch, a few signed by actors) and some B&W & color 8x10s from various movies.

Various and sundry odds and ends, and no doubt a few things put away that I'm not thinking of.
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« Reply #84 on: November 23, 2022, 11:07:27 AM »

I'm sorry to say I never got into collecting plays or musical theater posters, because there are a few I would devoutly wish to have (and which would be absolutely beyond my reach nowadays, so never mind...). 

But here's one thing, which I prize:  a lithograph of The Threepenny Opera (Theater de Lys) poster given to me by DR Elmore. Thank you so much for that.
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« Reply #85 on: November 23, 2022, 11:12:33 AM »

The stuffing stuff is prepared and in the fridge for combining and cooking tomorrow.

Next up:  peeling and cutting the potatoes for storing in ice water in the fridge overnight.
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« Reply #86 on: November 23, 2022, 11:24:18 AM »

  I understand thst Herschel Walker said something about an “erection for all the people.”   

Giving his penchant for impregnating women, I guess that is one thing he is good at.
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« Reply #87 on: November 23, 2022, 11:25:34 AM »

  What?  No "fruited plains"? 

Why, I'm doing quite well; thank you!
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« Reply #88 on: November 23, 2022, 12:06:17 PM »

Does anyone have a movie poster hanging up at their house?

I have a poster of "September 20, 1955" on my office door.....and a poster of the movie "Frances" hanging in the game room.....and a few lobby cards here and there.

I should, but they are all in storage.

I do have an insert for "Li'l Abner", "Funny Girl" (OBC recording), and "Take Me Out" (fully signed by cast).

I don't have many movie posters.  Years ago, I sent away for a free 4-foot by 6-foot (I think...it's huge!) poster of The Last of the Mohicans, starring Daniel Day Lewis.  I took it out to look at it when I got it, then put it back in the tube.
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« Reply #89 on: November 23, 2022, 12:06:30 PM »

I do have, of course, several Broadway show posters.
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