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Walter Brennean, who I first learnd about on the t.v. show "The Real McCoys." Here he is shown in My Darling Clementine, a movie about the O.K. Corral showdown which has been airing recently on Encore Western channel.
angelblair - October 18th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
Yep, by crackie!
Hey, earlier this week I heard that 3/5 of the Norwegian Nobel Committee voted against awarding Obama the prize, and were subsequently persuaded to do so. Can anybody verify this with a link?
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angel, I cannot, although it honestly doesn't matter. Nobel has long since lost whatever respect it had from me when they went political. Maybe they were political when I was a little kid and first heard of the Nobel Prize, but if so, I wasn't aware of it back then.
I wanna know how Bill O'Reilly of FoxNews will be able to continue his show now that Rupert Murdock hs fired Bill's sidekick, Marc Lamont Hill? This brazen act by Murdock destroyed all the street cred that Bill had built up with the Obama administration. Where will Bill-O find another Harvard Professor of Rap Music to explain the politics of Iran to him and his viewers?
Yeah, I think the Nobel committee made a huge mistake giving the prize to Obama. They are losing credibility fast (or have already lost it) with these political statements. I think most Americans, even Democrats, realize that Obama has done absolutely nothing to spread peace other than talk about it doing it.
Well, he may have to go to Yale or Columbia or Cal-Berkeley, but I doubt it will be difficult to find someone else as moronic as Hill. The country seems to be awash in those types these days.
mrm-in-wnc - October 18th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
that's true, but they were overruled by 4 out of 5 dentists…
ashknothole - October 18th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
I don't know who what where and when the 3/5 were persuaded to change their vote. But I know how! For that, see above photo.
gary A 1942 - October 18th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
It was the Nobel committe that "awarded" the prize to Obama, not the other way around. However, anyone with a few brain cells understands the award was "given" to the wrong person. But, the annointed one, does not have the common sense and humbleness to acknowledge that he should have deferred the "prize". It will be a very embarrasing moment in time, when obama goes to accept the "prize".
From their ivory tower, being silent about oppression and aggression looks like peace.
Liz Cheney had the right idea: that he send the wife or mother of a fallen American soldier over to accept the prize, driving home the positive role of America and her military. I´m sure it would have increased his approval ratings by 5% to 10% overnight. But that would have been utterly unlike Obama.
miss stace - October 18th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
I should have a Nobel because I have hope and change. I hope America doesn't go to hell in a handbasket and I just changed my kid's diaper. There, give me one.
He could have done a number of things that would have improved people's perception of him. Even if he didn't want to, refusing that prize would have been SO politically smart! Is his ego so big that it overrides any intelligent decisions?
Anyone else catch this story the Bloomberg story about Harvard getting handed their financial backside because they heavily bet on the wrong side of some interest rate swaps (derivative) and now are in big trouble? Please note that Bloomberg buried the lead. That Lawrence Summers, director of President Barack Obama’s National Economic Council, was the university’s president at the time.
He won't be embarrassed. He doesn't "have the common sense and humbleness" to be.
And he'll have thousands of idiots cheering and smothering him with more undeserved accolades.
Hollywood elites will be flying over in droves to join the ceremonies.
I wish I knew more about Walter Brennan. After seeing him drive that wagon across the river, amidst milling cattle, in "Red River," it wasn't surprising to learn that the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum has a special section dedicated to him (not the sort of thing one expects for a Massachusetts man who studied engineering in school). The man knew the business of being a cowboy.
It wasn't until seeing his performance in "Sergeant York" that I began an idea of his depth, though. It must have been very hard to portray Alvin York's preacher to an audience that included Alvin York (whose opinion counted for a lot in the making of the movie). And it must have been even harder to have an accepted and widely known "grouchy sidekick" persona and still believably project a capability to be incredibly bad and immoral (Stumpy, in "Rio Bravo," who would have shot an unarmed man in a jail cell before allowing his brother to rescue him).
The man personally was smart and incredibly strong. After the 1929 crash wiped out the millions he had made in real estate, he turned to acting; he didn't give up when an accident in 1932 cost him most of his teeth, and four years after that potentially career-ending event, and only six years after getting into the business, he got his first Academy Award. His career was long and very successful, in both films and TV, and he even had a hit record ("Old Rivers") make it into the Billboard Top Ten (#5).
I'd like to see his performance in "Bad Day At Black Rock" again; there are a whole lot of other films of his I'd like to see, too.
Going back to Soros's failure to recruit Limbaugh, isn't it true that any player who wouldn't give 100% on the field because Rush was one of the owners would be guilty of throwing the game? Something like B. Hussein O. Jr.'s strategy with our economy?
I liked him. There was just something behind him/ in him that made you notice and not discount him.
Boy the great ones were great… why did that "type" disappear? ((sigh))
badbob - October 19th, 2009 at 2:02 am
Love Walter Brennan in anything but my favorite line was in "Blood on the Moon" with Bob Mitchum. Mitchum asks Brennan why he killed the man who was about to shoot him (mitchum).. Brennan replies : I always wanted to shoot one of ya, and he was the handiest".
L.B. "Oscar" Mayer - October 19th, 2009 at 4:43 am
"No brag. Just fact."
Groucho4444 - October 19th, 2009 at 4:58 am
I though this was a movie site, if you want politics go whine on a politcal site
My point of no return for the Nobel joke was Yassir Arafat. I can think of no other human on earth, at that time, who was more drenched solid by the blood of innocents.
Christopher Nelson - October 19th, 2009 at 7:52 am
Your name is Toby, boy!
pandax - October 19th, 2009 at 10:52 am
It's a conservative web site that deals with Hollywood. So why don't you take your troll self back to the huffpo and go worship your god Obama.
Hermie - October 19th, 2009 at 11:57 am
And he'll be doing it on the taxpayer's dime, using AF1 and carrying all the limos, personnel, and his own little MSM entourage.
TonyP4 - October 19th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
Gladly we accept Nobel Prize for Obama.
For nothing he did during his nomination.
Potentially he holds the key for peace –
By not pressing the button to destroy the world with our nuclear weapons,
Or not sending the nuclear carrier to enforce his kingdom,
Or for buying peace with money like no tomorrow.
Practically Deng saved a million from starving every year.
Not a nomination nod for this short guy.
Not destroying is more important than saving life.
Or Black is a better color than Yellow.
Wake up, you idiot committee.
———–
According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize should be awarded to the person who:
“ during the preceding year [...] shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.[1] ”
———–
JoeCR - October 19th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
I never saw a role that Walter Brennan played that wasn't great – at least to me. He was a man's man with a realistic view. People I have known who grew up at the end of the 19th century were independent, self-reliant, stright-talking, loyal to friends (and most everyone was a friend until proven otherwise), He played the part of a villan for Ford, but it just didn't fit as well as those that fit who he really was. Live and let live; if you don't like it, you've got a problem, but don't mess with me. Among the artist today, I keep looking and hoping, and occasionally there is a role that makes them something they definately are not. It probably speaks well of ability, but it's all makeup.
Groucho4444 - October 19th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
Why such hostility on this site
Joe Staf - October 19th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
an exactly the kind of BS PR move you can expect from the Cheney camp.
Obama earned the Noble when he re-opened the discussions on the elimination of nuclear stockpiles. I have been waiting to for a President to get back on that track ever since the chimps costar was President
j Staf - October 19th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
I disagree, it will be a great moment as it will give him more global stature and advance his causes, which I am a big fan.
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Walter Brennean, who I first learnd about on the t.v. show "The Real McCoys." Here he is shown in My Darling Clementine, a movie about the O.K. Corral showdown which has been airing recently on Encore Western channel.
Yep, by crackie!
Hey, earlier this week I heard that 3/5 of the Norwegian Nobel Committee voted against awarding Obama the prize, and were subsequently persuaded to do so. Can anybody verify this with a link?
Solidarity from Dallas!
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angel, I cannot, although it honestly doesn't matter. Nobel has long since lost whatever respect it had from me when they went political. Maybe they were political when I was a little kid and first heard of the Nobel Prize, but if so, I wasn't aware of it back then.
I wanna know how Bill O'Reilly of FoxNews will be able to continue his show now that Rupert Murdock hs fired Bill's sidekick, Marc Lamont Hill? This brazen act by Murdock destroyed all the street cred that Bill had built up with the Obama administration. Where will Bill-O find another Harvard Professor of Rap Music to explain the politics of Iran to him and his viewers?
Yeah, I think the Nobel committee made a huge mistake giving the prize to Obama. They are losing credibility fast (or have already lost it) with these political statements. I think most Americans, even Democrats, realize that Obama has done absolutely nothing to spread peace other than talk about it doing it.
They lost credibility with me when the prize was awarded to Herr Doktor Henry Kissinger.
Re Walter Brennan: funny how even when he was young, his voice was that of an old man.
The Basketball Diaries Starring Barack Obama
My own little basketball "movie". The White House photographer takes most of the cool Barry jump shots.
The Basketball Diaries Starring Barack Obama
My own little basketball "movie". The White House photographer takes most of the cool Barry jump shots.
"No brag. Just fact."
The Guns of Will Sonnet.
I am going back to bed since it only 6.30 am here.I just ate a banana muffin with chocolate chips and will have a glass of milk or juice in a moment.
I want to see my comment posted and no more of this moderation crap from now on.
Well, he may have to go to Yale or Columbia or Cal-Berkeley, but I doubt it will be difficult to find someone else as moronic as Hill. The country seems to be awash in those types these days.
that's true, but they were overruled by 4 out of 5 dentists…
I don't know who what where and when the 3/5 were persuaded to change their vote. But I know how! For that, see above photo.
It was the Nobel committe that "awarded" the prize to Obama, not the other way around. However, anyone with a few brain cells understands the award was "given" to the wrong person. But, the annointed one, does not have the common sense and humbleness to acknowledge that he should have deferred the "prize". It will be a very embarrasing moment in time, when obama goes to accept the "prize".
From their ivory tower, being silent about oppression and aggression looks like peace.
Liz Cheney had the right idea: that he send the wife or mother of a fallen American soldier over to accept the prize, driving home the positive role of America and her military. I´m sure it would have increased his approval ratings by 5% to 10% overnight. But that would have been utterly unlike Obama.
I should have a Nobel because I have hope and change. I hope America doesn't go to hell in a handbasket and I just changed my kid's diaper. There, give me one.
A start to government dictatorship under the new health care plan.
Get in shape or pay a price.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33336289/ns/politics-...
He could have done a number of things that would have improved people's perception of him. Even if he didn't want to, refusing that prize would have been SO politically smart! Is his ego so big that it overrides any intelligent decisions?
Yes!
That reminds me of the latest video by Steven Crowder over at PJTV.
It's hilarious!
http://www.pjtv.com/video/Louder_With_Crowder/VID...
Anyone else catch this story the Bloomberg story about Harvard getting handed their financial backside because they heavily bet on the wrong side of some interest rate swaps (derivative) and now are in big trouble? Please note that Bloomberg buried the lead. That Lawrence Summers, director of President Barack Obama’s National Economic Council, was the university’s president at the time.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&a...
He won't be embarrassed. He doesn't "have the common sense and humbleness" to be.
And he'll have thousands of idiots cheering and smothering him with more undeserved accolades.
Hollywood elites will be flying over in droves to join the ceremonies.
ARGHHH!
And ARGHHH again!!!
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They pretty much lost a half a billion dollars, playing the ponies. Good for em.
Walter was the original Indiana Jones!
I wish I knew more about Walter Brennan. After seeing him drive that wagon across the river, amidst milling cattle, in "Red River," it wasn't surprising to learn that the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum has a special section dedicated to him (not the sort of thing one expects for a Massachusetts man who studied engineering in school). The man knew the business of being a cowboy.
It wasn't until seeing his performance in "Sergeant York" that I began an idea of his depth, though. It must have been very hard to portray Alvin York's preacher to an audience that included Alvin York (whose opinion counted for a lot in the making of the movie). And it must have been even harder to have an accepted and widely known "grouchy sidekick" persona and still believably project a capability to be incredibly bad and immoral (Stumpy, in "Rio Bravo," who would have shot an unarmed man in a jail cell before allowing his brother to rescue him).
The man personally was smart and incredibly strong. After the 1929 crash wiped out the millions he had made in real estate, he turned to acting; he didn't give up when an accident in 1932 cost him most of his teeth, and four years after that potentially career-ending event, and only six years after getting into the business, he got his first Academy Award. His career was long and very successful, in both films and TV, and he even had a hit record ("Old Rivers") make it into the Billboard Top Ten (#5).
I'd like to see his performance in "Bad Day At Black Rock" again; there are a whole lot of other films of his I'd like to see, too.
Maybe some to the tenured commies on the faculty will be forced out and will have to start working for a living, bummer.
Going back to Soros's failure to recruit Limbaugh, isn't it true that any player who wouldn't give 100% on the field because Rush was one of the owners would be guilty of throwing the game? Something like B. Hussein O. Jr.'s strategy with our economy?
I liked him. There was just something behind him/ in him that made you notice and not discount him.
Boy the great ones were great… why did that "type" disappear? ((sigh))
Love Walter Brennan in anything but my favorite line was in "Blood on the Moon" with Bob Mitchum. Mitchum asks Brennan why he killed the man who was about to shoot him (mitchum).. Brennan replies : I always wanted to shoot one of ya, and he was the handiest".
"No brag. Just fact."
I though this was a movie site, if you want politics go whine on a politcal site
Not ARGHHH!
MMMM-MMMM-MMM!
I can just see Doc Gates in a paper hat…..
I think I remember that Dr. Hill is on staff at Columbia.
My point of no return for the Nobel joke was Yassir Arafat. I can think of no other human on earth, at that time, who was more drenched solid by the blood of innocents.
Your name is Toby, boy!
It's a conservative web site that deals with Hollywood. So why don't you take your troll self back to the huffpo and go worship your god Obama.
And he'll be doing it on the taxpayer's dime, using AF1 and carrying all the limos, personnel, and his own little MSM entourage.
Gladly we accept Nobel Prize for Obama.
For nothing he did during his nomination.
Potentially he holds the key for peace –
By not pressing the button to destroy the world with our nuclear weapons,
Or not sending the nuclear carrier to enforce his kingdom,
Or for buying peace with money like no tomorrow.
Practically Deng saved a million from starving every year.
Not a nomination nod for this short guy.
Not destroying is more important than saving life.
Or Black is a better color than Yellow.
Wake up, you idiot committee.
———–
According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize should be awarded to the person who:
“ during the preceding year [...] shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.[1] ”
———–
I never saw a role that Walter Brennan played that wasn't great – at least to me. He was a man's man with a realistic view. People I have known who grew up at the end of the 19th century were independent, self-reliant, stright-talking, loyal to friends (and most everyone was a friend until proven otherwise), He played the part of a villan for Ford, but it just didn't fit as well as those that fit who he really was. Live and let live; if you don't like it, you've got a problem, but don't mess with me. Among the artist today, I keep looking and hoping, and occasionally there is a role that makes them something they definately are not. It probably speaks well of ability, but it's all makeup.
Why such hostility on this site
an exactly the kind of BS PR move you can expect from the Cheney camp.
Obama earned the Noble when he re-opened the discussions on the elimination of nuclear stockpiles. I have been waiting to for a President to get back on that track ever since the chimps costar was President
I disagree, it will be a great moment as it will give him more global stature and advance his causes, which I am a big fan.
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