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Conservatives often talk about what they don’t like about Hollywood. That’s okay, but it’s not productive. Maybe it’s time we talked about what we do like? More to the point, let’s point out when Hollywood has gotten it right. And that brings me to the...






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"New York, New York's a wonderful town, the Bronx is up and the Battery's down, New York, New York it's a wonderful town!!!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSMRsBOWB0o
Gene Kelly 1943 w Lucille Ball and Tommy Dorsey's orchestra at the 6:30 mark. Virtuoso dancing and pyrotechnics for the sheer joy of it!
Things to watch for during a “Declared National Emergency” http://tiny.cc/pmdEr
Obama's push for socialized medicine is creepily similar to the Thalidomide fiasco of 1957-1961.
Find out why he's:
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Thoughts on passivity, authority and cynicism.
Good link, Dan. Thanks. Scary, too. But forewarned is . . . well, you know.
Another reason to detest Obama and his phalanx of flunkies.
"The White House has demonstrated our willingness to exclude Fox from … television interviews," administration spokesman Joshua Earnest said Friday, "but yesterday we didn't."
Gene Kelly and Donald Oconner and the other great dancers, actors, singers who gave movies that left my heart filled with songs and laughter that made life better. The classic: Singing in the Rain and Brigadoon are still favorites of mine. They never get old.
Gene Kelly. What a talent. I'd like to be reincarnated as Gene Kelly. Of course his being dead makes that just a little problematic.
My top five Gene Kelly films:
1) Singin' in the Rain (and in my all time-any kind top five films)
2) On the Town (New York becomes a "wonderful" rather than a "hell of a")
3) The Pirate (The Nicholas Brothers make it a rare film where Kelly doesn't do the most awesome dancing in the film)
4) Anchor's Away (Jerry the Mouse does fine work in this film)
5) Take Me Out to the Ballgame (hmmm 3rd film with Sinatra…Busby Berkely directed this one)
(Don't have the Best Picture winning American in Paris in my top Five… the long ballet at the end kind of bores me, sorry to say)
Let's just hope "the Bronx is up" tonight!
Maybe someone should do with a Gene Kelly movie what they did with "Wizard of Oz"…
Digital restoration, and then a one-night in theaters across the nation…
"Singin' in the Rain" would probably win out, but I'd be holding out and looking for "Anchor's Away", just for Jerry, (and my kids)…
Whups, no political message by pontificating libtard celebs…
Never mind…
I went out to see, er, Saw yesterday and all the propaganda warnings you may have heard are true. The anti-insurance company rhetoric is truly egregious and in your face. There's one scene in fact where Tobin Bell goes on and on in a monologue about how the problem isn't the government it's the insurance companies. I expect to see it soon in an Obamacare commercial because after all who would know more about who deserves to live than the Jigsaw killer?
That said, take your horror movie chills when you can. These movies have always been about setting up some convoluted situation in an effort to surprise you at the end and in this respect it succeeded. I'm actually a little bit impressed at the fact that these things have gotten so complicated by this point that you can't even leave the theater to hit the head without missing some important plot point or hint at the ending. When you couple that with the fact that all the horror previews were for movies that looked either extremely lame (yet another vampire flick) or even more tendentiously PC (Avatar), I think this is probably the best you're going to do in the theater for a while.
it's gonna be rockin' in the da Bronx tonight…
It's alright though, they're handing the ball to a fellow Texan!
Lucille Ball was georgeous in her early starlet days wasn't she?
when totalitarianism takes baby steps – it acts like the Obama regime.
that and you're happily still with us.
what a graceful brilliant athlete, wow.
I noticed how no one is saying that maybe doctors and hospitals are making too much $$? How come no one says this about the medical field but will say it about wall st workers and insurance companies? Capitalism is fine for some areas but not for others???
Well, technically, _he_ might have been reincarnated as _you._ Feeling dance-y lately?
The movie's called "Anchors Aweigh," technically. "Singin'" gets screened pretty regularly if you live in a town with good revival theaters. I think it's probably in better shape than "Wizard," since it's not as old.
I don't think anyone's ever accused nurses of making too much money, but perhaps the fact that medical professions save human lives makes their work a teeny bit more worthy of compensation?
My favorite oft-overlooked Kelly film: "It's Always Fair Weather." Co-stars Cyd Charisse, features Kelly dancing on roller skates, and Dolores Grey (as a neurotic, arrogant, tv hostess) steals the movie outright with "Thanks A Lot But No Thanks."
You forgot, "The people ride in a hole in the ground." As a kid growing up in New York, that line was inexplicably hilarious to me.
Just the paperwork alone makes them earn their pay. Nurses are NOT overpaid. Congressmen and women are over paid. Chuck "F–king" Schumer is overpaid.
Marijuana Discussion, a Ruse!
As the final vote on government run Health Care nears, Obama and his propaganda ministers have floated the idea of pot legalization as a way to distract and divide the attention of old fogies like Mitch McConnell and Charles Grassley. Personally, I have no problem with legalizing pot as I don’t believe it’s a “gateway” drug, leading to harder drugs, and in a (supposedly) free country, what responsible adults do in the privacy of their own home is their own business.
But, all the Democrats have to do is mention “Marijuana” and geezers like McConnell and Grassley perk up like an old man from a nap, ready to fight a more familiar war from 40 years ago. They have no idea they’re being played! It's time for these old timers to step aside.
Lucille Ball was a major babe…and she could be a lot of fun on screen. Check out BEST FOOT FORWARD – a 1943 Technicolor musical in which she plays herself at prom night at a boy's military academy.
Cadet – "Gee, Miss Ball. I bet this makes you feel young again."
Lucille – "Yes, it does….you dear boy."
And the tone in her voice! LOL!
Yes – that's a remarkable moment. It's like Louis Armstrong hitting a hundred high "C"s in a row….just because he could.
The man knows how to pitch in a big game.
Gene Kelly was one of the few libs in history to keep his promise to move to france if the votes didn't go his way.
Gene Kelly was THE consumate dancer in the movies IMHO. I know I'll get arguments that Fred Astaire was IT, but I'd much rather watch Gene.
Have you seen this UK climate change ad? Lets scare children with images of drowning puppies:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w62gsctP2gc
This is a low! Of course it gets appropriately ridiculed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkPQU3UDBM0
http://minnesotansforglobalwarming.com/m4gw/2009/...
Gene looks like the gay guy from Grease 2 in that shot.
I've always loved to watch Gene Kelly. One of my very favorites! He combined masculinity, athleticism, dancing, singing, acting, likeability, and class into a great guy.
Thanks, I knew I forgot something. It's been a long time since I've seen that movie.
You and me both brother. I'd love to see Andy get the clinching win tonight!
GO BOMBERS!!!
They had very different styles, so 'arguments' are pointless. Amen. 2 brilliant dancers. Amen.
More GREAT Gene Kelly – 1942 – his first film FOR ME AND MY GAL – with Judy Garland at her most natural and lovely:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOsCYEGHnME
They begin dancing at the 2:46 mark and they dance without a cutaway for 2 full minutes…until 4:46. And that is remarkable and the fact that they could do it – sing, talk, dance – and do it perfectly speaks volumes.
Luckiest guy in the scene – Nestor Paiva playing the counterman. He just gets to stand there and smile and enjoy the whole thing. (More fun than his gig in THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON.)
When a friend asked, "Where are the pics of the million man concentration camps," I could never find them. The pics that were offered were never in context – say as a high overview so that they could be confirmed as much more than a regular prison watch tower.
The other side of it is that I can remember back to the 80s when Oliver North openly said that he was involved in building 10 camps for possible terrorist. No pics of them today either.
If you try to research the Executive Orders, you will find that some of them are readily available on government web sites and other might or not be. I have yet to dig deeply enough to confirm that they are any more than an accusation someone posted made to look like the real thing.
Further I was directed to this site by credible which is purported to be government documents that show that the Rothschilds own the American banks that own the New York Federal Bank: http://www.barefootsworld.net/docs/fedchart.txt.
Where have you been? Haven't you seen all the Greedy Doctors Tell?
ict take a look at the Nicolas Brothers and let me know what you think. I believe you'll revise your statement.
What the He!! is wrong with you people ?
Sitting here yapping about nothing and we have a National Emergency happening thats gonna kill us all !
http://www.infowars.com/president-obama-declares-...
According to the CDC, swine flu infections have already peaked, and the pandemic is on its way out. Peak infection time was the middle of October, where one in five U.S. children experienced the flu, says the CDC. Out of nearly 14,000 suspected flu cases tested during the week ending on October 10, 2009, 99.6% of those were influenza A, and the vast majority of those were confirmed as H1N1 swine flu infections. (http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/)
/Obama declared an emergency to shove the health care bill through with out a vote
Remember on Jan 21st he said he was going to have it by Thanksgiving
So he suspends the Bill of Rights and he is gonna get it along with the fairness docterine
//Call me a fear monger…I call myself a Realist
Somebody minused me. That's cool, but I just want to make clear that I am not saying Gene looks gay. I just don't know the actor's name (and I didn't even know he was gay until recently). Let me look him up and rephrase:
Gene looks like Peter Frechette–Grease 2's own Louis DiMucci–in that shot.
You're right, Chuck Schumer IS overpaid. I just finished lunch and had a Schumer, shower, & a shave, before turning on the telly to watch some NFL football.
GO BOMBERS!!!!!
low 50's no rain, Pettite giving 'em the evil eye over a black Rawlings, I'm ready!
I can't wait either, btw, are you from NYC, or suburbs? I lived in NJ for about 23 years, and miss it now terribly especially at this time of the year.
I haven’t had the time to go through government records to confirm that this is real, but I did come across this site which names the libraries (mostly law libraries) that contains the books that confirm authenticity: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/2596890. You plug in your zip code for the libraries in your area.
I intend to get to one of these libraries next week.
The implications if this turns out to be true are staggering when it comes to the Rothschild, Soros faction of the Bilderbergers, New York Fed, Goldman-Sachs, US Treasury, Senate & Congress (Schumer & Frank, et al) nexus.
It also features some great widescreen dance scenes, like the trash can lid dance.
Yes! Which I didn't appreciate until finally seeing it shown in letterbox–regular tv brutally chopped off the sides.
This is the era where stars have talent, not those Hollywood non-talent these days. Sean Penn, Kutcher, Moore, Longaria, and the lists are long….
Actually I grew up in and still live in Texas, after my military parents and I came back from Japan where I was born and originally grew up. I do love New York, if not their wacky liberal politicians, and I try to get there as often as I can which hasn't been as often as I'd like, I passed over NYC this summer on the way to Rome. I've been a Yankees fan since the early seventies from about when George saved the franchise. I actually got in my car once and drove to a Yankees game once. It was the sole reason for the trip. I'm keeping on eye on the weather through pre-game reports.
My 1st Yankee game was in '69 at Comisky and the White Sox. My dad, who was in the Navy at the time, had a cousin who pitched on the Yanks, Fritz Peterson. So I became and am still a diehard Yankee fan. In fact the only one in my family. Anyhow I lived most of my life in the Northeast, CT, which is in Red Sox territory and NJ, where my mom's side of the family were from. I moved out to the Peoples Republic of Washington state a year ago to be closer to the folks, as they are retired and getting old. and need help around the house.
I've been to TX once, Spring to be exact, near Houston. Very nice people, nothing like Connecticut.
Well the game is starting and think your fellow Texan will be able to clinch it!!
Go Bombers!!!
Oh btw, how was Japan?
In a head to head contest between Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire, my own choice would be Kelly not so much on the basis of talent, (both men oozed artistry and athleticism from every pore), but more for a his versatility. He did ballet, jazz, and tap in addition to singing. I love the feeling of anticipation I get right before the "Moses, Suposes" duo with Donald O'Connor from "Singin" in the Rain", or the "Miss Turnstile Ballet" with Vera Ellen from "On the Town". Quality stuff with absolutely nothing extra needed. Sigh…. Thanks for posting a real, great star….
That question about where Congress gets the power to force people to buy health insurance was a good one.
But if they manage to get it through, what do you think they're going to mandate us to buy next?
And you thought 'earmarks' were bad?
I envy anyone who never had to live under an Obama presidency.
Well your fellow Texan pitched marvelously, and helped our Yankess cross the threshold into yet another World Series. Number 27 is going to be tough, but I think that Bombers are up to the task.
GO YANKEES!!!
Well Bennett, the Yanks were certainly up to it tonight!!! Pettit was like the Pettit of old as I'm sure you saw. Four more for #27!!!
Of the most common job groups, only Law Enforcement has a higher "washout" rate than nurses.
Gene Kelly matched everything Astaire could do… dancing backwards and in high heels. SHE was the best IMHO.
Gene Kelly looks like Chris Wallace of Fox, oh and I didnt know Donna Brazille used to play in the movies, she played a pretty good part of the maid with Lucy! The Clintons must be full of joy.
Love, Love, Love! Gene Kelly. Spectacular dancer, great singer, great actor, and very-very-very nice to look at! I haven't seen all of his films, but "Singing in the Rain" is one of my fav films of all time, and really enjoy him in this film.
But… my favorite part of "Singing in the Rain" is actress Jean Hagen (as Lina Lamont) saying in her crazy voice "Do ya think I'm dumb or somethin'?" after reading her contract to the movie film producer, Cosmo Brown (Donald O'Conner) and Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) when they try to replace her with Kathy Seldon (gorgeous Debbie Reynolds) – Just great! Love it.
solid performance, very nice. just get us to the "Sandman" and all is well!
Great game from Pettitte (and great glove work from Texiera and Cano).
Should be a great Series. The two teams have very similar talents. Yanks have an edge in the bullpen dept., provided Hughes straightens out.
Like you said, four more to go!
I'd love to have the poise, flow, and grace of movement that Gene Kelly. Donald O'Connor and Fred Astaire had. Alas, at 285 lbs, shoulders that live in their own ZIP codes, and short legs, I can but dream.
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