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  1. Inkstainedwretch

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    When I look at a film like, say, "Intolerance," (1916) I have to think that not only is everybody in it dead now (though Lillian Gish lasted a very long time afterward), but almost everybody in the world who was alive at the time is now dead. Only a tiny handful of centenarians were alive in 1916.
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Just watched an episode of "Yancey Derringer" from 1959. this was one of my favorite series when I was a kid. this episode was "Panic in Town" and it was about --- wait for it--- a Scary Clown! what could be more topical? Incidentally, Dr. Bishop in this episode is played by Ed Kemmer, who...
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    Folks you love to hate! Tell us your Favorite Film Villains!

    Emilio Fernandez as General Mapache in "The Wild Bunch." In a movie that featured nothing but bad guys, he was a standout. And his direct predecessor: Alfonso Bedoya as Gold Hat in Treasure of the Sierra Madre, "Bodges? We don't got to show you no steenking bodges!"
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    Your favorite movie quotes

    From "Johnny Guitar" (1954) Bart, you don't smoke, you don't drink and you're mean to horses. What do you like?
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Miss Fisher's mysteries. Took place mostly at a traveling carnival so not so many cool outfits and cars.
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    What did the film stars of the 1920s-1930s make of the 1950s-1960s?

    Ironically, the cleanest comedy act of modern times was Bill Cosby's.
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    Your "perfect" films

    Chinatown.A film in which everything just clicked. The performances by the stars and supporting players, the script by Robert Towne, possibly the most elegant ever written, the cinematography, the music and the direction by Roman Polansky who, whatever you think of him, is one of the most...
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    Unappreciated masterpieces?

    Eastern Promises is one of the most violent movies ever made and not a single shot is fired in it. It scores a first in having a fight using linoleum knives, a common tool found in any DIY shop anywhere in the world, and one with which you can eviscerate a horse.
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    What did the film stars of the 1920s-1930s make of the 1950s-1960s?

    You mean that a company that used a grinning darkie as its mascot objected to criticism of a fascist dictator invading a sovereign, ancient African nation? Say it ain't so!
  11. Inkstainedwretch

    You know you are getting old when:

    I find that they all fall for "principessa."
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    You know you are getting old when:

    When you realize that you can remember when the song "Lydia the Tattooed Lady" actually referred to something remarkable.
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Just watched the latest Westworld. Still have no idea what the hell is going on, but it's pretty to watch.
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    What did the film stars of the 1920s-1930s make of the 1950s-1960s?

    In the late 70s I was living in Santa Barbara and heard an interesting story. John Travolta had a house there and he was a huge Cagney fan. Cagney was retired on Martha's Vineyard but occasionally came out to SB to visit with old friends. Travolta asked Cagney to stay at his house next time he...
  16. Inkstainedwretch

    Your favorite movie quotes

    From E.T.: Elliot: He's a man from outer space and we're taking him to his spaceship. Greg: Well, can't he just beam up? Elliot: This is reality, Greg!
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    Bumper stickers and license plates

    We've had "Land of Enchantment" on our license plates forever. I'd prefer our unofficial motto: "Thank God For Mississippi. If It Weren't For Them, We'd Be Last In Everything."
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    What did the film stars of the 1920s-1930s make of the 1950s-1960s?

    My wife, Beth, was a professional folksinger in the '60s, singing traditional songs from her family and Appalachian home. She was backstage with Pete and his wife at the Newport Folk Festival in '65 when Dylan went out on stage with his electric guitar. It was a legendary catastrophe, but more...
  20. Inkstainedwretch

    What did the film stars of the 1920s-1930s make of the 1950s-1960s?

    During the Red Scare '40s-'50s, the labor movement music of the '40s was kept alive by Pete Seeger, who strove to prevent the music of Woody Guthrie from being forgotten. J. Edgar Hoover and others considered Pete and the Weavers to be an actual menace to the American way of life. Seeger was...
  21. Inkstainedwretch

    What did the film stars of the 1920s-1930s make of the 1950s-1960s?

    The ultimate TZ episode in this vein was "Once Upon a Time," starring Buster Keaton, no less. It starts in 1890, when Keaton is a man totally dissatisfied with the world around him, with all its noise, bustle and danger. The 1890 sequences are shot silent, with jerky action. He travels to...
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    The discussion about the general lack of vitamin D3

    I live in New Mexico at 6000 ft. altitude, and the solar radiation here is best described as brutal. There is a price to be paid for these beautiful, mostly cloudless turquoise skies. Here abundant vitamin D health is way offset by the danger of skin cancer. I have to cover up for my daily...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Devon had a semi-sympathetic recurring role in "Yancey Derringer," as a shady French Quarter character who usually helped Yancey out but often reluctantly and was always willing to be bribed by the other side. YD was one of my favorite series in the late 50s.

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