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[clore1030]

Great stuff Tim. Ironically, someone just posted the same thing on the Internet Movie Database Message Board:

http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000010/thread/120845551

[Tim Y]

One of the best site on all of the internet: I frequent it regularly.

Great thoughts are the ones everyone can relate to.

[clore1030]

Originally Posted by Tim Y

One of the best site on all of the internet: I frequent it regularly.

Great thoughts are the ones everyone can relate to.

Here's my user profile, scroll down and you'll see that I'm there quite often posting messages.

http://www.imdb.com/user/ur1602685/boards/profile/

[Tim Y]

My late wife aided me in the understanding of photoplay plots and collected over 5000 old movies. She could tell you the set decorator, the screenplay writer, the sound editor or casting director (she thought that was a position that should be awarded an Oscar) on most of the old ones of the 40's and 50's. She could quote, line for line, scene after scene from old movies and we used to use that as a second language when we wanted to keep an idea secret from those around us. If she said "Thye're the two busiest people is this whole county" (a line from Junior Bonner Ida Lupino to Steve McQueen) I knew she was telling me that someone was "uppity."

We first saw a VCR at the House of the Future at Disneyland back in the mid 60's and she sat down and wrote me a list of 120 movies she wanted. Once we got a machine in 1978, it took us until 1992 to get the last one on the list McClintock.

She could see a new movie and twenty minutes into it, she would make me stop the tape, scribbled something on a piece of paper and then AFTER the movie, she would have written the essence of the plot right there. She would do it 8 out of 10 times and it just astounded me.

[clore1030]

Originally Posted by Tim Y

My late wife aided me in the understanding of photoplay plots and collected over 5000 old movies. She could tell you the set decorator, the screenplay writer, the sound editor or casting director (she thought that was a position that should be awarded an Oscar) on most of the old ones of the 40's and 50's. She could quote, line for line, scene after scene from old movies and we used to use that as a second language when we wanted to keep an idea secret from those around us. If she said "Thye're the two busiest people is this whole county" (a line from Junior Bonner Ida Lupino to Steve McQueen) I knew she was telling me that someone was "uppity."

We first saw a VCR at the House of the Future at Disneyland back in the mid 60's and she sat down and wrote me a list of 120 movies she wanted. Once we got a machine in 1978, it took us until 1992 to get the last one on the list McClintock.

She could see a new movie and twenty minutes into it, she would make me stop the tape, scribbled something on a piece of paper and then AFTER the movie, she would have written the essence of the plot right there. She would do it 8 out of 10 times and it just astounded me.

Well, if you don't mind my saying so, I wish I could have known you two then. I'm much the same way, I'm blessed with an excellent memory and just from reading credits, I can retain a lot of information.

McLintock is a lot of fun, especially the "I won't, I won't, the hell I won't" scene between Duke and Leo Gordon. Leo was also Duke's adversary in HONDO.

The first time I ever saw a reference to a VCR was in an episode of THE FUGITIVE. That was 1966-67 and I wanted one ever since. They were pricey when they first came out and I waited until 1980 to get one. I have about 3,000 movies on tape, most from the 30s and 40s. I'll be 57 next week, so most of my collection is from before my time, but they are what I grew up with on TV.

[Tim Y]

Originally Posted by clore1030

a reference to a VCR was in an episode of THE FUGITIVE. That was 1966-67 and I wanted one ever since. They were pricey when they first came out and I waited until 1980 to get one. I have about 3,000 movies on tape, most from the 30s and 40s. I'll be 57 next week, so most of my collection is from before my time, but they are what I grew up with on TV.

Funny you should mention the Fugitive, as I have not only the last two episodes BUT the TV Guide from the week "The Fugitive Stops Running" and I need to give it to someone who would appreciate it.

One of my favorites is "If I Had a Million" which was the stimulus for the TV show The Millionaire. One of the strangest is George Raft as a chronically bad check writer being given a good check that he can't cash!!

[clore1030]

Originally Posted by Tim Y

Funny you should mention the Fugitive, as I have not only the last two episodes BUT the TV Guide from the week "The Fugitive Stops Running" and I need to give it to someone who would appreciate it.

One of my favorites is "If I Had a Million" which was the stimulus for the TV show The Millionaire. One of the strangest is George Raft as a chronically bad check writer being given a good check that he can't cash!!

I used to have that copy of TV Guide, up until about 1984 or so, when a basement flood cause me the loss of those Fall Premiere TV Guides I saved, and almost my entire collection of magazines like Famous Monsters and Castle of Frankenstein, I even wrote for the latter when I was just 15-16. THE FUGITIVE is my favorite TV show of all time, but they rescored all the music on the DVDs, so i have not purchased them.

Doesn't George Raft end up lighting a cigar with that check that he can't cash? I was watching Raft last night with Bogart in INVISIBLE STRIPES. Those old Warner Brothers gangster films are still my favorites and I was up until nearly 6am watching them on TCM last night.