Ned was a teammate of the real-life Carlson Brothers in Johnstown, wasn't he?
I don't know if they were teammates but I'm pretty sure they were in the same league and already notorious.
Hmm. It's sounds like the finest party I can imagine getting paid to go to.
Mal ,'Shindig'
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DavidS - Oct 05, 2008 10:54:54 am PDT #8283 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Polter-Cow - Oct 05, 2008 7:36:03 pm PDT #8284 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I just watched The Howling. That...was some early-eighties horror, right there. It was all right, but An American Werewolf in London is better.
Frankenbuddha - Oct 06, 2008 3:40:23 am PDT #8285 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
THE HOWLING is enormous fun if you get all the references going on, and recognize the characer actors in the supporting cast (many of whom turned up in genre movies over the decades). But I think as a straight-up movie experience (both as horror and comedy), AAWWiL is superior.
Of course, seeing Robert Picardo as Eddie in that always freaks me out/ amuses me as I have a hard time not seeing him as the doctor from ST: Voyager.
Theodosia - Oct 06, 2008 4:29:50 am PDT #8286 of 10000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Picardo also has a small role as the fire inspector in Get Crazy which startled me greatly the last time I saw it.
Fred Pete - Oct 06, 2008 5:09:46 am PDT #8287 of 10000
Ann, that's a ferret.
Saw Slap Shot in college and re-watched it recently. Many more serious elements, fewer comic elements than I remember.
Game Show Network ran two old episodes of What's My Line over the weekend -- one with Newman alone, the other with Newman and Joanne Woodward. A very entertaining show in its low-key way.
And TCM is running an all-day tribute to Newman next Sunday. I've set up the Tivo for Exodus and Sweet Bird of Youth.
brenda m - Oct 06, 2008 5:17:31 am PDT #8288 of 10000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
In case you were wondering, though, which I know you all weren't, Slap Shot II is excruciating even when you fast forward through all but the CKR scenes. (Which does at least take it down to about 20 minutes.)
megan walker - Oct 06, 2008 7:07:04 am PDT #8289 of 10000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Finally read this week's EW with the Newman tribute. I usually think they give short shrift to the greats and are just not very good with that sort of thing, but this was very well done. Although no mention of the hamburger line, which I've always loved him for.
Barb - Oct 07, 2008 4:01:07 am PDT #8290 of 10000
“Not dead yet!”
More on the Tim Burton Alice in Wonderland film. [link]
Gris - Oct 07, 2008 5:23:12 am PDT #8291 of 10000
Hey. New board.
*blinks at article above*
Since when is there a White Queen in Alice in Wonderland? She's a Through the Looking Glass character! And she wants Alice to slay a Bandersnatch? Like, the one from The Jabberwocky?
Between this and the images showing Alice on what appears to be a pirate ship, I am not feeling too comfortable about this movie.
Jon B. - Oct 07, 2008 5:49:50 am PDT #8292 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Were those characters in the original Disney film?