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Post by inger on Feb 1, 2020 0:21:22 GMT -5
For some reason, I’ve never been a huge DeNiro fan. Admittedly, a fine actor (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The Deer Hunter), but I prefer the craft of those like Robert Duvall and Gene Hackman. Then, there are those I cannot help but watch like Humphrey Bogart and Gregory Peck. Morgan Freeman falls into that later category as well. I also love character actors like Peter Lorre, M. Emmitt Walsh, Jack Elam, Harry Dean Stanton, and Elisha Cook, Jr. Then, there are characters themselves: I’ll watch - from any era - listen, or read anything having to do with Sherlock Holmes. The most enduring and fascinating character in the history of fiction. Did you see the Sherlock TV series staring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman? I heard it was real good. On my list of TV shows to watch. What were they staring at?... |
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Post by inger on Feb 1, 2020 0:37:53 GMT -5
For some reason, I’ve never been a huge DeNiro fan. Admittedly, a fine actor (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The Deer Hunter), but I prefer the craft of those like Robert Duvall and Gene Hackman. Then, there are those I cannot help but watch like Humphrey Bogart and Gregory Peck. Morgan Freeman falls into that later category as well. I also love character actors like Peter Lorre, M. Emmitt Walsh, Jack Elam, Harry Dean Stanton, and Elisha Cook, Jr. Then, there are characters themselves: I’ll watch - from any era - listen, or read anything having to do with Sherlock Holmes. The most enduring and fascinating character in the history of fiction. To add to the Sherlock Holmes legacy, author Arthur Conan Doyle dabbled in a sort of amateur detective work himself later in life. His work was key to getting a conviction overturned in a case of animal mutilation. He later helped get legislation passed that led to the existence of appellate processes. Yep. Samuel Clemens was right. Truth tends to be stranger than fiction, because fiction tends to follow the path of... oh, hell. I forget the rest of it, but basically fiction writers are afraid to wander too far off the course of reality for fear of their audience crying “foul” and making the story too unbelievable. Of course Clemens was a master wordsmith, so he said it much more compactly. I have provided you with a jwildian* version... *jwildian / A term only accepted within this forum that Clemens would never have used... |
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Post by kaybli on Feb 1, 2020 3:47:25 GMT -5
Did you see the Sherlock TV series staring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman? I heard it was real good. On my list of TV shows to watch. It’s a wonderful series. I recommend it. [img class="smile" src="//storage.proboards.com/6828121/images/oBooKhQgDwbw0VxoHmAe.gif" alt="  "] I just saw it's on Netflix. Nice.  |
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Post by kaybli on Feb 1, 2020 3:48:36 GMT -5
For some reason, I’ve never been a huge DeNiro fan. Admittedly, a fine actor (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The Deer Hunter), but I prefer the craft of those like Robert Duvall and Gene Hackman. Then, there are those I cannot help but watch like Humphrey Bogart and Gregory Peck. Morgan Freeman falls into that later category as well. I also love character actors like Peter Lorre, M. Emmitt Walsh, Jack Elam, Harry Dean Stanton, and Elisha Cook, Jr. Then, there are characters themselves: I’ll watch - from any era - listen, or read anything having to do with Sherlock Holmes. The most enduring and fascinating character in the history of fiction. To add to the Sherlock Holmes legacy, author Arthur Conan Doyle dabbled in a sort of amateur detective work himself later in life. His work was key to getting a conviction overturned in a case of animal mutilation. He later helped get legislation passed that led to the existence of appellate processes. Yep. Samuel Clemens was right. Truth tends to be stranger than fiction, because fiction tends to follow the path of... oh, hell. I forget the rest of it, but basically fiction writers are afraid to wander too far off the course of reality for fear of their audience crying “foul” and making the story too unbelievable. Of course Clemens was a master wordsmith, so he said it much more compactly. I have provided you with a jwildian* version... *jwildian / A term only accepted within this forum that Clemens would never have used... I should email jwild and see what our old friend is up to. Can't wait for the 13 paragraph reply.  |
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Post by desousa on Feb 1, 2020 8:19:02 GMT -5
For some reason, I’ve never been a huge DeNiro fan. Admittedly, a fine actor (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The Deer Hunter), but I prefer the craft of those like Robert Duvall and Gene Hackman. Then, there are those I cannot help but watch like Humphrey Bogart and Gregory Peck. Morgan Freeman falls into that later category as well. I also love character actors like Peter Lorre, M. Emmitt Walsh, Jack Elam, Harry Dean Stanton, and Elisha Cook, Jr. Then, there are characters themselves: I’ll watch - from any era - listen, or read anything having to do with Sherlock Holmes. The most enduring and fascinating character in the history of fiction. Rizzuto, I love your list of character actors. M. Emmet Walsh was born right up the road from where I live and have seen him at the airport several times. He was great in the Cohn Brothers first film, "Blood Simple" and with Dustin Hoffman in "Straight Time". Elisha Cook Jr. and Peter Lorre were great as psychos and creeps. Harry Dean Stanton was born 50 years old and could play good guys, bad guys, weirdos, etc. The first line of Jack Elam's IMBD pages reads, "Colorful American character actor equally adept at playing vicious killers or grizzled sidekicks". About says it all. If you're looking for an unusual Sherlock Holmes movie, check out George C. Scott's "They Might be Giant's". He actually plays a mentally ill patient who thinks he's Sherlock Holmes. His psychiatrist (Dr. Holmes) is played by Joanne Woodward. |
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Post by kaybli on Feb 1, 2020 9:06:14 GMT -5
For some reason, I’ve never been a huge DeNiro fan. Admittedly, a fine actor (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The Deer Hunter), but I prefer the craft of those like Robert Duvall and Gene Hackman. Then, there are those I cannot help but watch like Humphrey Bogart and Gregory Peck. Morgan Freeman falls into that later category as well. I also love character actors like Peter Lorre, M. Emmitt Walsh, Jack Elam, Harry Dean Stanton, and Elisha Cook, Jr. Then, there are characters themselves: I’ll watch - from any era - listen, or read anything having to do with Sherlock Holmes. The most enduring and fascinating character in the history of fiction. Rizzuto, I love your list of character actors. M. Emmet Walsh was born right up the road from where I live and have seen him at the airport several times. He was great in the Cohn Brothers first film, "Blood Simple" and with Dustin Hoffman in "Straight Time". Elisha Cook Jr. and Peter Lorre were great as psychos and creeps. Harry Dean Stanton was born 50 years old and could play good guys, bad guys, weirdos, etc. The first line of Jack Elam's IMBD pages reads, "Colorful American character actor equally adept at playing vicious killers or grizzled sidekicks". About says it all. If you're looking for an unusual Sherlock Holmes movie, check out George C. Scott's "They Might be Giant's". He actually plays a mentally ill patient who thinks he's Sherlock Holmes. His psychiatrist (Dr. Holmes) is played by Joanne Woodward. I loved Blood Simple! One of my favorite Cohen brothers movies. M. Emmet Walsh was so creepy in that! I will put "They Might be Giants" on my list of movies to watch. |
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Post by inger on Feb 1, 2020 12:51:20 GMT -5
I’m definitely a card carrying member of the Jack Elam fan club, since I love the Western genre. Claude Akin need not hang his head in shame either, should I meet him on the street. I think I can out-draw him, though (pretty sure he’s among the spirits flying around).
Stronger Martin, the incredible Denver Pyle was always good for a hillbilly role. I’m trying to think of the names of a couple. One always played a store-keeper type, in fact he had a general store in Dodge City with Matt, Kitty and the varying gang there for a few years.
Then, there’s that short kind of goofy-looking guy that plays one of Annie Potts (mi-maw) on “Young Sheldon” now. He was usually a banker or snake oil salesman-type... I actually like that show. The little girl that plays Sheldon’s young sister is a very talented little actress who delivers some of the funniest lines on the show.
It’s odd how some actors get upset to be “typecast” and leave the business in a snit, while others consider it to be great fortune, stay in the business for 60 years and make... well, a great fortune. “We need a hillbilly”. Denver Pyle: “I’m your huckleberry”...
I watched an old western on You Tube last night with Ernest Borgnine and Jack Elam playing robbers who beat and raped Raquel Welch, only to have her wind up shooting them before the movie was over...
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Post by pippsheadache on Feb 1, 2020 13:04:05 GMT -5
Hey, another Jack Elam fan here as well. I never realized there were so many of us. I remember an old ABC Western he was in called "The Dakotas." An ugly puss for sure. He was also in those 70s commercials for Canada Dry Ginger Ale with the "It's not too sweet" theme. Jimmy Connors, Broderick Crawford and other hard-ass types were in them too.
Rizz, so many of the character actors you named-- Elam, Elisha Cook Jr. and Peter Lorre -- were out of the Warner Brothers stable. Alan Hale, Sidney Greenstreet, Harry Carey, Ward Bond, Victor McGlaughlin, Walter Brennan and so many more were from that group.
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Post by desousa on Feb 1, 2020 18:07:32 GMT -5
This afternoon I watched Hitchcock's masterpiece "North by Northwest". "How does a girl like you, end up like a girl like you?"
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Post by kaybli on Feb 1, 2020 18:31:14 GMT -5
This afternoon I watched Hitchcock's masterpiece "North by Northwest". "How does a girl like you, end up like a girl like you?" I've got to see more Hitchcock movies. I've only seen Vertigo and Pyscho. |
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Post by inger on Feb 1, 2020 19:42:58 GMT -5
This afternoon I watched Hitchcock's masterpiece "North by Northwest". "How does a girl like you, end up like a girl like you?" I've got to see more Hitchcock movies. I've only seen Vertigo and Pyscho. Never saw “The Birds”? You may be the only person in America to miss it... |
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Post by inger on Feb 1, 2020 20:18:16 GMT -5
On a morning
From a Bogart movie
In a country where
They turn back time
You go strolling
Through the crowd
Like Peter Lorre
Contemplating a crime...
I was pretty young when Peter Lorre was at the top of his game, but he was definitely someone that I recognized very early in my life. I was sort of surprised to see him on a list of character actors. I though he was more on line with Bogart and the men that were movie staples of the day. Strange voice, odd looking eyes. Would probably fit just as well today as he did in his hey day...
*lyrics from Al Stewart, “ The Year Of The Cat”...
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Post by rizzuto on Feb 1, 2020 21:36:27 GMT -5
For Peter Lorre fans, you must see him as the child murderer in the the 1931 Movie “M” directed by Fritz Lang.
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Post by kaybli on Feb 2, 2020 0:08:56 GMT -5
I've got to see more Hitchcock movies. I've only seen Vertigo and Pyscho. Never saw “The Birds”? You may be the only person in America to miss it... I ofcourse heard of it. Never saw it. Came out in 1963! Twenty years before I was born! |
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Post by inger on Feb 2, 2020 0:32:23 GMT -5
Never saw “The Birds”? You may be the only person in America to miss it... I ofcourse heard of it. Never saw it. Came out in 1963! Twenty years before I was born! I was nine, and that was the first horror movie I ever saw in addition to the first movie I ever experienced in a theatre. The theatre was only a couple blocks from my house, but DAY-AM! That was a long walk home. We left the theatre just about dusk, and I was watching the sky, checking rooftops... Hitchcock did a number on me. Then, to add further perspective our TV set was about a 15” screen and black and white. So I’m in the theatre seeing vibrant red blood. In other words, I was quite a puss about the whole thing... (: |
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