Wow. This actor was GREAT.. Doesn't he look like Rod Stieger? With the same sort of fatalistic roles? When I woke up this morning. I had no idea who he was. Now I'm on my third film he starred in. Gems each one. So far. YouTube is a diamond mine isn't it?
Reviews
5 Reviews
Prince of Players
(1955)
Hell It's Hollywood
31 May 2020
Watched this again. The first time I saw it, I was a teenager. It was in B&W. Maybe that was because we had B&W television. Weren't there additional scenes? Today when I watched it seemed to hold less gravitas. But it was 1955 after all.
Criticism about it being clunky doesn't bother me. Or the fact that it's not historically accurate. It's Charles Bickford, John Derek... It's melodrama (with a good portion of Shakespeare thrown in). Richard Burton had expectations of It being something more.
It moved me. That's all I wanted from an afternoon viewing of a 1955 movie, in the year 2020. If I wanted more I'd read the writings of Edwina Booth Grossman.
Criticism about it being clunky doesn't bother me. Or the fact that it's not historically accurate. It's Charles Bickford, John Derek... It's melodrama (with a good portion of Shakespeare thrown in). Richard Burton had expectations of It being something more.
It moved me. That's all I wanted from an afternoon viewing of a 1955 movie, in the year 2020. If I wanted more I'd read the writings of Edwina Booth Grossman.
Message to My Daughter
(1973 TV Movie)
What kinda teenager was I?
22 April 2020
I was so drawn to this then. I remember it so well. Miraculously my search on YouTube with very little information was spot on!! Now I want to Rewatch The Panic in Needle Park. This picture is dated a little. But, when the mother says "My baby!" I was a blubbering mess. ABC TV Movies in those days are GREAT. Reccomendation. Watch The Jericho Mile, with Peter Strauss 1979.
SCTV Network
(1981–1983)
I can't shake it...
1 February 2011
It's so darned funny! Who couldn't love "I Was A Teenage Communist"? There are millions of fans I suppose, but I felt like it was like an inside joke I shared with the cast. Silly, nonsensical, insane, insanely funny, comedy as high art.
Dave Thomas playing Bob Hope as if he were Bob Hope in a parallel universe on parole with a shiv tucked in his pants.
There was something dangerous about that show. Early on "Saturday Night Live" had an air of danger. As if I was watching something that threatened to spin loose and leave large bloody gashes in the audience. Later SCTV struck me in similar way. The difference was I was getting older and my sense of humor became sardonic.
Dave Thomas playing Bob Hope as if he were Bob Hope in a parallel universe on parole with a shiv tucked in his pants.
There was something dangerous about that show. Early on "Saturday Night Live" had an air of danger. As if I was watching something that threatened to spin loose and leave large bloody gashes in the audience. Later SCTV struck me in similar way. The difference was I was getting older and my sense of humor became sardonic.
Psych
(2006–2014)
Accessible
22 December 2010
Subversive. Hmm, reviews must contain 10 lines. Shawn Spencer, smart aleck. Burton 'Gus' Guster, point guard smart aleck who delivers the alley oop passes to Shawn. Carlton Lassiter, the smart aleck who doesn't know he's a smart aleck. A dumb aleck? Henry Spencer, who needs big 80's hair? I don't. Juliet O'Hara, come on there's got to be a BEAUTIFUL girl. Oh yeah if you've seen an episode, watch it again. You may see the movie poster on the wall "Buttless Chaps", or catch a funny pop culture reference you missed the first time around.
More lines?? If you like movies and television shows from a certain time you'll love that the show cherry pick from them A lot. From the now you're just making up words department. Not since Archie Bunker will you see anybody butcher the English language the way Shawn Spencer does.
Phew! Enough lines already!
More lines?? If you like movies and television shows from a certain time you'll love that the show cherry pick from them A lot. From the now you're just making up words department. Not since Archie Bunker will you see anybody butcher the English language the way Shawn Spencer does.
Phew! Enough lines already!
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