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The Obamas' marriage is profiled in the New York Times Magazine. Michelle Obama is on the cover of December Glamour. This can mean only one thing: the poll numbers. The words hedonistic and self-centered don't begin to describe this dynamic duo.
(Give me any suggestions for future video ideas. I need an editor and script writer badly. I also need a techie. Together We Can!)
Since 1950 to today we have spent over 3 trillion dollars on the poor and they only make more babies to water down our vote, enough is enough, wakeup people and don't fall for the ass that wants to give them anymore to waste.
L.B. "Oscar" Mayer - October 30th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
Let's spell his name properly today – Lon Chaney, Jr. – Cheney.
Good to see his face. He actually made the killing beast of The Wolfman a sympathetic character. Poor Lawrence (Larry) Talbot – a character trapped by fate and circumstance to become THE WOLFMAN at each full moon rising, hoping for merciful death before he kills again.
"Even a man who is pure of heart and says his prayers by night
May become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and the moon is full and bright."
He even kept it real in the hilarious farce of ABBOTT and COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN in 1948.
Chaney (anguished) – "Soon the moon will rise and I will turn into a wolf!"
Lou Costello – "You and twenty million other guys."
And not to forget his powerful, simpleminded "Lenny" in OF MICE AND MEN with Burgess Meredith.
L.B. "Oscar" Mayer - October 30th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
Hannity last night featured your typical, well-edumacted, Democrat robot-voter (all from New Jersey). I thought there four low-lights. (a) One man complained the rich were not paying enough taxes to help the poor, then moaned that New Jersey's tax burden was so high because New Jersey pays for poor states such as Alabama and Mississippi. (b) One woman shrugged her shoulders ("oh well, so what" shrug) when it was pointed out that "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" is Marx (and, according to the architect Lenin, at the core of Marixst-Leninism). (c) A number displayed typical Democrat hubris in their belief that they have the ability (that's reserved to God), and right (that's reserved to God within limits established by and respected by Him) to decide what others need, and what is, and is not, a "legitimate" need (their own needs, wants, and desires are, naturally, always and everywhere legitimate). (d) They all displayed a ready-willingness to use the state's monopoly of power to coerce their fellow citizens.
Useful idiots.
L.B. "Oscar" Mayer - October 30th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
"Obama's White House of Terror"
Wow! We just got back from the scariest Halloween fright-fest ever over in the next town. Someone rigged up a house all Halloweey and called it "Obama's White House of Terror". (Admission by RVSP listing only)
A bunch of people impersonate Obama and his family and enact a Oval Office scenario in which Michelle has forbidden Obama any more of his 15 minute smoking breaks and he goes absolutely nuts, shrieking wildly and running around the room like some old Bette Davis horror-hag, screaming about not know his real identity and such and where he was born…and even when. Frigging tour de force by some local dude (not sure if he was black or white).
Then he breaks out of the restraint he has been put in and grabs an ax from the Oval Office wall and begins chopping up random Americans as he apologizes to foreign visitors about this and that.
He screams that the fictitious President Charles Logan from the TV series "24" is his role model for 'letting nothing get in his way and his climb to glory!"
Some ungainly horse of a woman from the local school cafeteria plays his wife who is constantly carping about his bad breath and lack of hygiene and ceaseless cigarette smoking. In this case, visitors to the attraction cheered when 'Obama' brought the ax down on her.
Lots of thrill and chills – the rest of the 'White House of Terror' depicted the last middle class family left in America with thousands of once prosperous citizens looking for food and shelter. Rest of the house was turned into a post-nuke house with total devastation and zombies roaming around demanding health care as their guts ooze out.
The Huffington Post finally got it's reacharound by Tina Fey last night on "30 Rock". You may recall that during the 2008 Presidential election Huffington Post early and relentlessly promoted Tina Fey as a Palin look-alike and lobbied hard to get her back on SNL to satirize Palin. Mission accomplished! Last night Tina mentioned how some dead celebrity had only one love left, 'blogging on the Huffington Post". Axelrod to Arianna to Lorne, oh my!
Maybe it's just time we all faced up to the fact that obama is the greatest thing since the coming of Christ.
I'm being SARCASTIC people.
filmite - October 30th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
Lon Chaney Jr. Best Wolfman —Ever !!! Instead of killing the poor villagers in front of your face, it was done off screen, much scarier, don't you think
Is this the same self-important Sting who flew a bunch of Amazon natives to New York, put them up in a swanky apartment, and just forgot about them? They were found about a month later with no food and no idea how to get out of the building. Typical lib compassion.
Anyone who would allow themselves to be called Sting has got to be a moron. I consider him and his ilk a good portion of the world's "mess."
As a bassplayer, I apoligize for sting, a smug, supercillious asshat that should just shut up and play. May his E and D strings be as sour as his "family values." Wasn't there a drunken rampage last year? Oops.
Wow. That is an amazingly filthy image for so early in the morning but,ok. I too the joke as how pathetic the actor was, reduced to blogging on the notoriously-non paying, but pretentious Huffington Post. And I also liked Alec Baldwin's shock on rural folks being just as witty, educated and acerbic as New Yorkers, despite his own idiotic stereotypes of how simple and pure 'real' Americans from the country are. And c'mon–the Betty White cameo was awesome!
chambers - October 30th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
Because of his association with the Wolfman we often forget that Lon Chaney Jr. was also a fine actor when the roles were right. HIs Lenny in "Of Mice and Men" is a a portrait of unforgettable pathos. His finely-etched portrayal of the ex-Sheriff who turns down Will Kane's appeal for help in "High Noon" nicely balances affection, regret and bitterness. In "The Defiant Ones", his character of Big Sam skillfully demonstrates courage and integrity. And of course, as a little boy, I knew him as Chingachgook on "Last of the Mohicans" and as one of the characters in countless B-level monster monster movies which often seemed the only films on TV. I confess to a very soft spot for Mr. Chaney.
T-Rav - October 30th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Well, apparently Obama and his goons have finally forced the Hondurans to put Zelaya back in power. I guess the days of us being a beacon for democracy are over.
T-Rav - October 30th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
Obama loves me, this I know
For Joe Biden tells me so
Socialists to him belong
Sharing our wealth all day long
Yes, Obama loves me
Yes, Obama loves me
Yes, Obama loves me
Joe Biden tells me so
So I can only assume tomorrow will be Bela? Chaney's wolfman holds up quite well, and clearly the upcoming Wolfman movie takes inspiration from the Jack Pierce makeup.
If I can digress…watched the 1944 "Jane Eyre" last night. Hadn't seen it since I was a kid, but was struck on how great it holds up–I think it's the best adaptation of the novel, and Orson Welles is the most smokin' hot of all the Mr. Rochesters, big screen or small. Beautifully shot & scored (has a manor house every looked so wonderfully gothic & creepy?), features a lot of familiar actors from the era including a very young, uncredited(!) Elizabeth Taylor, already luminous in childhood. (An IMBD check shows that Joan Fontaine, born in 1917, is still living–don't know what those de Havilland girls eat, but I think I want some!
Not sure about the drunken rampage. That would be too mundane for someone of Stink's glorious stature. To get his name before the public, Stink must hit the talk show circuit and talk about his uber-manly prowess, his all night marathons, and his obvious genius at everything.
No musician should lower themselves by apologizing for Stink. Just revel in the fact that not only is he an asshat, but he is oldhat. He is officially relegated to the VH1 Hits of the 80's specials, admired by Grade Z celebs and unfunny comedians.
Most people only remember the gargantuan Orson Welles on the Merv Griffin show and selling no wine before it's time. However, in his early Hollywood days, he was gorgeous. And brilliant.
Oh, I know! Although most people now have at least seen him thin in "Citizen Kane," when I first saw this as a kid in the (gulp) 70's, I guess, I was stunned that this was the "Paul Masson" guy.
The left doesn't understand the concept of wealth generation. Trust me, I used to be one. Not a clue.
Poverty is a lack of wealth. In order to end poverty, simply make it easier to generate wealth. They think all the wealth in the world is static, so its only a question of how it should be allocated. Which is why each liberal faction is hell bent on getting their slice increased.
In his masterpiece Adam Smith theorized the wealth of a nation is not limited to the Crown's treasuries, or even the material wealth of all the subjects, but it also includes the all the potential wealth that could be generated by knowledge, skills, and entrepreneurial spirits of it's citizens.
Generating wealth is the key to fighting poverty. And regressive taxes kills it.
I have a theory, with no way to ever prove it, but I wonder if Marx didn't know his work was all bull shit and he just wrote it to con free beers at the taverns.
He used to scare the hell out of me when I was little. I can still remember the expression on his face when he knows he's starting to change, and looks up to the moon!
Good old Junior! Not a genius like his dad, but a better actor than he gets credit for being. (See Of Mice and Men, High Noon, and, of course, The Wolf Man.) I've always thought he should have been given a crack at Quasimodo. He might have compared favorably with the old man, especially with Jack Pierce doing the makeup.
What is really stunning is to see in \”Touch of Evil\” in the late 1950's. Although only 15 years after Jane Eyre, Welles looks like he has aged 30 years. Sad…
L.B. "Oscar" Mayer - October 30th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
Someone said yesterday in the KARLOFF thread that AMC was running a KARLOFF FESTIVAL today? I don't see anything on the screen or on their web site.
Information, please!
L.B. "Oscar" Mayer - October 30th, 2009 at 8:22 pm
And Lugosi was coming, too?
Bennett Marco - October 30th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
This probably should be on the thread from the other day, but Sting's "Russians" is in its own way, far worse than "Imagine."
Made me cry as Lenny in "Of Mice and Men." However, maybe the scariest performance he ever gave was of a man still alive but dead inside in "High Noon": "People gotta talk themselves into law and order before they do anything about it. Maybe because down deep they don't care. They just don't care. "
They do, really, but the way Chaney performed that role of Martin Howe, it just sapped all the hope and life right out of you (which made Will Kane's willingness to go on all the more impressive); tremendous performance!
I'd like to learn more about his father, though — these Hollywood dynasties are interesting.
L.B. "Oscar" Mayer - October 30th, 2009 at 9:02 pm
My brother had a Geddy Lee autograph on a ticket stub, then the brainiac left it in his wallet, then left his wallet in his pants, and Mom washed it. He's a liberal, what do you expect?
I've never played a Fender Jazz, I was sold on the Rick, but man is it heavy.
Have you ever seen a Fender Mustang bass? The guy who gave me lessons had one. It's standard strat set up, but it's re-enforced and tricked up for bass strings. So you're playing bass on a strat neck. The frets are so close it's ridiculous. It's just plain cool.
You're right my friend, the rick is heavy.. but some piece of cool. I've played many, including the mustang – yeah it is a strat, but the geddy is the lightest of the J's since it comes with a narrow"C" neck. I was cursed with baseball mitts, and short fingers, so the regular fretboard can become tenuous after extended play. But the geddy – cruisin along with Tom Sawyer. The action is like the rick… you must try it.
I don't play bass much these days, or guitar, though I have a 1968 Goya Rangemaster Switch-o-matic that I break out from time to time. I swapped it for a cheap guitar at a music store who's owner had no idea what he had. I don't consider it theft, I consider it deliverance for the guitar!
My curse is tin ear, no coordination, very little rhythm, can't sing, and not enough blues. But damn it, I was going to learn to play a guitar. So I taught myself how to play guitar listening the Bob Dylan. But that meant I couldn't play with any one else, because my style didn't work in a band setting. Again, can't sing (I have story all by itself on that one), I moved on to bass, which I do love, and I took lessons to learn the right way.But still could only get so far.
But I have no regrets about the time I spent knowing I was going to be a rock star.
L.B. "Oscar" Mayer - October 30th, 2009 at 11:23 pm
The only Lon Chaney, Jr. film I ever saw as a new release in the theater was THE LAW OF THE LAWLESS around 1964. It was a western that featured a lot of veteran stars and characters. Really good cast!
Dale Robertson… Judge Clem Rogers
Yvonne De Carlo… Ellie Irish
William Bendix… Sheriff Ed Tanner
Bruce Cabot… Joe Rile
Barton MacLane… Big Tom Stone
John Agar… Pete Stone
Richard Arlen… Bartender
Jody McCrea… Pete Stone
Kent Taylor… Rand McDonald
Bill Williams… Silas Miller
Rod Lauren… Deputy Tim Ludlow Tuffy
George Chandler… Martin
Lon Chaney Jr…. Tiny
Don 'Red' Barry… Johnson brother
Roy Jenson… Johnson brother
I used to be political, but with this current crop of Bolshevics, I've immersed myself back to my writing, music, and sports – anything to divert from the shenanigans today. And I do it more my mental health – as it would be quite easy to turn into a banshee, and not just for halloween. Keep playing – thats the only way you'll find fullfilment, no matter how much tin is in the ear. And as for singing, thats why the lord made background singers. Rock On!
Thanks. I like faster paced videos, too. My new one on Michelle's fashions isjust that. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbQQiBnAq08
Sometimes it's the correct music which can be difficult because you can't use copyrighted works.
My videos are really low tech. I have new software to make a more advanced product but haven't gotten around to it. I was half kidding about a screenwriter, but I could always use good jokes. My Halloween video is pretty funny and was my biggest hit.
Anytime Kit,
I have a feeling we are about to see a change in how far the unwashed keep buying the lies.
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the truth always wins in the end.
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As the World Turns Around the Obamas
The Obamas' marriage is profiled in the New York Times Magazine. Michelle Obama is on the cover of December Glamour. This can mean only one thing: the poll numbers. The words hedonistic and self-centered don't begin to describe this dynamic duo.
(Give me any suggestions for future video ideas. I need an editor and script writer badly. I also need a techie. Together We Can!)
I just watched the youtube link, and I'mmm…….. speechless!!
You know what's really scary?
Obama should listen to the Maoists in his administration:
THE REVERSE MAO
http://naturalfake.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/the-r...
This is going to be worst than it was during the campaign! And they were on almost every mag every month.
(maybe I'm exaggerating, but maybe I'm not)
Since 1950 to today we have spent over 3 trillion dollars on the poor and they only make more babies to water down our vote, enough is enough, wakeup people and don't fall for the ass that wants to give them anymore to waste.
Let's spell his name properly today – Lon Chaney, Jr. – Cheney.
Good to see his face. He actually made the killing beast of The Wolfman a sympathetic character. Poor Lawrence (Larry) Talbot – a character trapped by fate and circumstance to become THE WOLFMAN at each full moon rising, hoping for merciful death before he kills again.
"Even a man who is pure of heart and says his prayers by night
May become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and the moon is full and bright."
He even kept it real in the hilarious farce of ABBOTT and COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN in 1948.
Chaney (anguished) – "Soon the moon will rise and I will turn into a wolf!"
Lou Costello – "You and twenty million other guys."
And not to forget his powerful, simpleminded "Lenny" in OF MICE AND MEN with Burgess Meredith.
Not – Cheney
Chaney
Hannity last night featured your typical, well-edumacted, Democrat robot-voter (all from New Jersey). I thought there four low-lights. (a) One man complained the rich were not paying enough taxes to help the poor, then moaned that New Jersey's tax burden was so high because New Jersey pays for poor states such as Alabama and Mississippi. (b) One woman shrugged her shoulders ("oh well, so what" shrug) when it was pointed out that "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" is Marx (and, according to the architect Lenin, at the core of Marixst-Leninism). (c) A number displayed typical Democrat hubris in their belief that they have the ability (that's reserved to God), and right (that's reserved to God within limits established by and respected by Him) to decide what others need, and what is, and is not, a "legitimate" need (their own needs, wants, and desires are, naturally, always and everywhere legitimate). (d) They all displayed a ready-willingness to use the state's monopoly of power to coerce their fellow citizens.
Useful idiots.
"Obama's White House of Terror"
Wow! We just got back from the scariest Halloween fright-fest ever over in the next town. Someone rigged up a house all Halloweey and called it "Obama's White House of Terror". (Admission by RVSP listing only)
A bunch of people impersonate Obama and his family and enact a Oval Office scenario in which Michelle has forbidden Obama any more of his 15 minute smoking breaks and he goes absolutely nuts, shrieking wildly and running around the room like some old Bette Davis horror-hag, screaming about not know his real identity and such and where he was born…and even when. Frigging tour de force by some local dude (not sure if he was black or white).
Then he breaks out of the restraint he has been put in and grabs an ax from the Oval Office wall and begins chopping up random Americans as he apologizes to foreign visitors about this and that.
He screams that the fictitious President Charles Logan from the TV series "24" is his role model for 'letting nothing get in his way and his climb to glory!"
Some ungainly horse of a woman from the local school cafeteria plays his wife who is constantly carping about his bad breath and lack of hygiene and ceaseless cigarette smoking. In this case, visitors to the attraction cheered when 'Obama' brought the ax down on her.
Lots of thrill and chills – the rest of the 'White House of Terror' depicted the last middle class family left in America with thousands of once prosperous citizens looking for food and shelter. Rest of the house was turned into a post-nuke house with total devastation and zombies roaming around demanding health care as their guts ooze out.
Fun for all!
Uh, oh, the people who view this pic will have a head start for the quiz at http://www.ruamoviegenius.blogspot.com
The Huffington Post finally got it's reacharound by Tina Fey last night on "30 Rock". You may recall that during the 2008 Presidential election Huffington Post early and relentlessly promoted Tina Fey as a Palin look-alike and lobbied hard to get her back on SNL to satirize Palin. Mission accomplished! Last night Tina mentioned how some dead celebrity had only one love left, 'blogging on the Huffington Post". Axelrod to Arianna to Lorne, oh my!
Oy, can these celebs get any stupider?
Sting: Obama best person to handle world's 'mess'
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9BKU4HG0...
WOW! Sounds like an OSCAR winning film!
Gee thanks for making my day Smelly.
Maybe it's just time we all faced up to the fact that obama is the greatest thing since the coming of Christ.
I'm being SARCASTIC people.
Lon Chaney Jr. Best Wolfman —Ever !!! Instead of killing the poor villagers in front of your face, it was done off screen, much scarier, don't you think
Is this the same self-important Sting who flew a bunch of Amazon natives to New York, put them up in a swanky apartment, and just forgot about them? They were found about a month later with no food and no idea how to get out of the building. Typical lib compassion.
Anyone who would allow themselves to be called Sting has got to be a moron. I consider him and his ilk a good portion of the world's "mess."
As a bassplayer, I apoligize for sting, a smug, supercillious asshat that should just shut up and play. May his E and D strings be as sour as his "family values." Wasn't there a drunken rampage last year? Oops.
Wow. That is an amazingly filthy image for so early in the morning but,ok. I too the joke as how pathetic the actor was, reduced to blogging on the notoriously-non paying, but pretentious Huffington Post. And I also liked Alec Baldwin's shock on rural folks being just as witty, educated and acerbic as New Yorkers, despite his own idiotic stereotypes of how simple and pure 'real' Americans from the country are. And c'mon–the Betty White cameo was awesome!
Because of his association with the Wolfman we often forget that Lon Chaney Jr. was also a fine actor when the roles were right. HIs Lenny in "Of Mice and Men" is a a portrait of unforgettable pathos. His finely-etched portrayal of the ex-Sheriff who turns down Will Kane's appeal for help in "High Noon" nicely balances affection, regret and bitterness. In "The Defiant Ones", his character of Big Sam skillfully demonstrates courage and integrity. And of course, as a little boy, I knew him as Chingachgook on "Last of the Mohicans" and as one of the characters in countless B-level monster monster movies which often seemed the only films on TV. I confess to a very soft spot for Mr. Chaney.
Well, apparently Obama and his goons have finally forced the Hondurans to put Zelaya back in power. I guess the days of us being a beacon for democracy are over.
Obama loves me, this I know
For Joe Biden tells me so
Socialists to him belong
Sharing our wealth all day long
Yes, Obama loves me
Yes, Obama loves me
Yes, Obama loves me
Joe Biden tells me so
So I can only assume tomorrow will be Bela? Chaney's wolfman holds up quite well, and clearly the upcoming Wolfman movie takes inspiration from the Jack Pierce makeup.
If I can digress…watched the 1944 "Jane Eyre" last night. Hadn't seen it since I was a kid, but was struck on how great it holds up–I think it's the best adaptation of the novel, and Orson Welles is the most smokin' hot of all the Mr. Rochesters, big screen or small. Beautifully shot & scored (has a manor house every looked so wonderfully gothic & creepy?), features a lot of familiar actors from the era including a very young, uncredited(!) Elizabeth Taylor, already luminous in childhood. (An IMBD check shows that Joan Fontaine, born in 1917, is still living–don't know what those de Havilland girls eat, but I think I want some!
Good video. The shot of Obama with the world in his hands . . . that's truly a picture worth a thousand words.
I had to shut it off 3 minutes into it, hoping that later speakers would prefer their freedoms.
Soros says China will replace USA in New World Order.: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/video/video.php...
He talks about how the weak dollar is one of the problems, without pointing out that he is one of the main architects of current price of the dollar.
Thanks to Alex Jones for this one.
Even a man who's pure of heart and says his prayers by night
May turn into a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright
I felt the same way. But the best line of last night's 30 Rock was the gay guy to Judah Friedlander: "I just have one question… why?"
From shining beacon on a hill to searchlight in a gulag watchtower?
Is it that LITTLE tax payer $$$$ wasted? I thought it would be WAY more than that.
that explains SO MUCH! – thank you!
Soros is starting $50 million to drive enthusiasm for free markets from economics.
TOP FIVE QUIPS JAMES BOND SHOULD SAY TO OR ABOUT GEORGE SOROS
http://naturalfake.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/top-f...
I am by no means a Peggy Noonan fan, but I do think this is an excellent article….
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703...
Not sure about the drunken rampage. That would be too mundane for someone of Stink's glorious stature. To get his name before the public, Stink must hit the talk show circuit and talk about his uber-manly prowess, his all night marathons, and his obvious genius at everything.
No musician should lower themselves by apologizing for Stink. Just revel in the fact that not only is he an asshat, but he is oldhat. He is officially relegated to the VH1 Hits of the 80's specials, admired by Grade Z celebs and unfunny comedians.
Most people only remember the gargantuan Orson Welles on the Merv Griffin show and selling no wine before it's time. However, in his early Hollywood days, he was gorgeous. And brilliant.
Oh, I know! Although most people now have at least seen him thin in "Citizen Kane," when I first saw this as a kid in the (gulp) 70's, I guess, I was stunned that this was the "Paul Masson" guy.
"Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread." –Thomas Jefferson
Constructive criticism here, the pace is a little slow. Too many pictures of the First Lady. She scares me.
I'm no script writer, but I do write jokes. What do you have in mind?
The left doesn't understand the concept of wealth generation. Trust me, I used to be one. Not a clue.
Poverty is a lack of wealth. In order to end poverty, simply make it easier to generate wealth. They think all the wealth in the world is static, so its only a question of how it should be allocated. Which is why each liberal faction is hell bent on getting their slice increased.
In his masterpiece Adam Smith theorized the wealth of a nation is not limited to the Crown's treasuries, or even the material wealth of all the subjects, but it also includes the all the potential wealth that could be generated by knowledge, skills, and entrepreneurial spirits of it's citizens.
Generating wealth is the key to fighting poverty. And regressive taxes kills it.
Well that just scared every liberal troll off this thread.
I have a theory, with no way to ever prove it, but I wonder if Marx didn't know his work was all bull shit and he just wrote it to con free beers at the taverns.
What's your ax? I have a Rickenbacker 4001, wine green, and it rocks!
Short answer: Yes.
Stick around, you'll see.
I saw him in concert twice, once with the Police during the Synchronicity tour, they were pretty good.
The second time he was warming up at a Grateful Dead show at Orchard Park in Buffalo.
Not impressive.
He used to scare the hell out of me when I was little. I can still remember the expression on his face when he knows he's starting to change, and looks up to the moon!
LOVED IT!
He had quite an interesting life story too. I remember this movie from when I was a kid.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050681/
On the contrary, I think we're just beginning to wash the dirt, the mud and the graffiti off it.
Do not count America out yet!
Apparently he hasn't been to China lately.
http://china.coolerthanthou.net/2009/04/in-pictur...
Good old Junior! Not a genius like his dad, but a better actor than he gets credit for being. (See Of Mice and Men, High Noon, and, of course, The Wolf Man.) I've always thought he should have been given a crack at Quasimodo. He might have compared favorably with the old man, especially with Jack Pierce doing the makeup.
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What is really stunning is to see in \”Touch of Evil\” in the late 1950's. Although only 15 years after Jane Eyre, Welles looks like he has aged 30 years. Sad…
Someone said yesterday in the KARLOFF thread that AMC was running a KARLOFF FESTIVAL today? I don't see anything on the screen or on their web site.
Information, please!
And Lugosi was coming, too?
This probably should be on the thread from the other day, but Sting's "Russians" is in its own way, far worse than "Imagine."
That is Turner Classic Movies not AMC….
He did "Monster Holiday" – never heard that before!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJelFr0hHj4
Made me cry as Lenny in "Of Mice and Men." However, maybe the scariest performance he ever gave was of a man still alive but dead inside in "High Noon": "People gotta talk themselves into law and order before they do anything about it. Maybe because down deep they don't care. They just don't care. "
They do, really, but the way Chaney performed that role of Martin Howe, it just sapped all the hope and life right out of you (which made Will Kane's willingness to go on all the more impressive); tremendous performance!
I'd like to learn more about his father, though — these Hollywood dynasties are interesting.
OKeh – thanks. I dont have TMC yet.
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I've got a couple of Fender J's. My favorite is my a Geddly Lee signed. Smokes!
Coolness.
My brother had a Geddy Lee autograph on a ticket stub, then the brainiac left it in his wallet, then left his wallet in his pants, and Mom washed it. He's a liberal, what do you expect?
I've never played a Fender Jazz, I was sold on the Rick, but man is it heavy.
Have you ever seen a Fender Mustang bass? The guy who gave me lessons had one. It's standard strat set up, but it's re-enforced and tricked up for bass strings. So you're playing bass on a strat neck. The frets are so close it's ridiculous. It's just plain cool.
You're right my friend, the rick is heavy.. but some piece of cool. I've played many, including the mustang – yeah it is a strat, but the geddy is the lightest of the J's since it comes with a narrow"C" neck. I was cursed with baseball mitts, and short fingers, so the regular fretboard can become tenuous after extended play. But the geddy – cruisin along with Tom Sawyer. The action is like the rick… you must try it.
I don't play bass much these days, or guitar, though I have a 1968 Goya Rangemaster Switch-o-matic that I break out from time to time. I swapped it for a cheap guitar at a music store who's owner had no idea what he had. I don't consider it theft, I consider it deliverance for the guitar!
My curse is tin ear, no coordination, very little rhythm, can't sing, and not enough blues. But damn it, I was going to learn to play a guitar. So I taught myself how to play guitar listening the Bob Dylan. But that meant I couldn't play with any one else, because my style didn't work in a band setting. Again, can't sing (I have story all by itself on that one), I moved on to bass, which I do love, and I took lessons to learn the right way.But still could only get so far.
But I have no regrets about the time I spent knowing I was going to be a rock star.
The only Lon Chaney, Jr. film I ever saw as a new release in the theater was THE LAW OF THE LAWLESS around 1964. It was a western that featured a lot of veteran stars and characters. Really good cast!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058286/
Dale Robertson… Judge Clem Rogers
Yvonne De Carlo… Ellie Irish
William Bendix… Sheriff Ed Tanner
Bruce Cabot… Joe Rile
Barton MacLane… Big Tom Stone
John Agar… Pete Stone
Richard Arlen… Bartender
Jody McCrea… Pete Stone
Kent Taylor… Rand McDonald
Bill Williams… Silas Miller
Rod Lauren… Deputy Tim Ludlow Tuffy
George Chandler… Martin
Lon Chaney Jr…. Tiny
Don 'Red' Barry… Johnson brother
Roy Jenson… Johnson brother
It's grotesque…like Brando, he completely dissolved into his excesses. <==I think I mixed a few too many metaphors there, but too tired to correct…
I used to be political, but with this current crop of Bolshevics, I've immersed myself back to my writing, music, and sports – anything to divert from the shenanigans today. And I do it more my mental health – as it would be quite easy to turn into a banshee, and not just for halloween. Keep playing – thats the only way you'll find fullfilment, no matter how much tin is in the ear. And as for singing, thats why the lord made background singers. Rock On!
Thanks. I like faster paced videos, too. My new one on Michelle's fashions isjust that. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbQQiBnAq08
Sometimes it's the correct music which can be difficult because you can't use copyrighted works.
My videos are really low tech. I have new software to make a more advanced product but haven't gotten around to it. I was half kidding about a screenwriter, but I could always use good jokes. My Halloween video is pretty funny and was my biggest hit.
Anytime Kit,
I have a feeling we are about to see a change in how far the unwashed keep buying the lies.
It seems that even when the truth is as plain as the nose on your face they still fall for lies, but
the truth always wins in the end.
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