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actor Darren McGavin has died
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| February 25, 2006
Posted on 02/25/2006 2:50:35 PM PST by lunarbicep
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To: COEXERJ145
To: Nihil Obstat
Thanks for the info. Shepherd was never able to get a big budget movie made. Even "A Christmas Story" was very low-budget. The "Wizard of Oz" theme was obviously because they found some Wizard of Oz costumes. The Santa Clause elves were wearing jester costumes, and when Ralphie imagined his mother and teacher laughing at him, saying "you'll shoot your eye out!" the teacher was wearing the Wizard of Oz witch costume and his mother was wearing one of the jester costumes. The movies worked, though. Brilliantly.
McGavin was the only actor that ever made the father likeable. I think that was because he changed the character, making him more blustery and taking out the drinking. The father in the book was funny, but in the other movies, he came off as the kind of guy you see getting busted on cops.
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posted on
02/27/2006 5:07:07 PM PST
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Richard Kimball
(I like to make everyone's day a little more surreal)
To: lunarbicep
To: Guenevere
Ken Curtis played "Festus". Dennis Weaver played "Chester". Jackie Coogan played "Fester." All gone, all cool actors.
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posted on
02/27/2006 5:08:56 PM PST
by
Richard Kimball
(I like to make everyone's day a little more surreal)
To: Richard Kimball
You are right, McGavin was perfect for that role. You could tell he enjoyed the story. This was another great Jean Shepherd tv movie. I wish these were still shown.
The Star-Crossed Romance of Josephine Cosnowski (1983)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0202596/
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posted on
02/27/2006 5:16:13 PM PST
by
Nihil Obstat
(Don John of Austria is going to the war.)
To: Richard Kimball
You are so right!
My how the memory dims....Chester!
To: AliVeritas
Anyone remember Don Knotts in The Ghost and Mr. Chicken?
They even used Bom Ami!
To: Mike Bates
The Crimean War, I believe. It's a variation of "three on a match," which was supposedly unlucky because it gave snipers time to focus on and shoot English soldiers. My squaddie pals of the British Army of the Rhine claimed it was a Boer War holdover, and the shooting ability of their adversaries in that fight were certainly no joke. But they and I held our discussion long after both conflicts were long over and the participants unable to tell. My bet is it likely dates back before machine-rolled cigarettes, and very likely, to a time when the sniper's projectiles were arrows or crossbow bolts.
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posted on
02/28/2006 12:05:23 PM PST
by
archy
(The darkness will come. It will find you,and it will scare you like you've never been scared before.)
To: Darkwolf377
MAN! Kolchak was the best damned show, no matter how cheesy it looks now. It was DIFFERENT, and really made an impression on me as a kid. Richard Matheson who wrote the two TV movies is a genius, and those two movies still hold up today. And just this week I had to sell my Kolchak DVDs for quick cash. :( (Good thing I copied them.)
When I received a fairly prestigious journalism award for my coverage of the Desert Shield/Storm/Sabre efforts in the sandbox in 1991, I gave a very few words of thanks, and noted that when I was going through journalism school and immediately afterward, all the kiddies wanted to be like Woodward and Bernstein, as portrayed by Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford. But not me, I told 'em: I wanted to be a Carl Kolchak or a *Flash* Casey.
Most of 'em knew who the first one was, fewer were aware that the same actor had portrayed the Boston Express photog who was the second.
This nut THINKS he's a vampire...
We all have rats, sir. You should see the one I work for.
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posted on
02/28/2006 12:18:26 PM PST
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archy
(The darkness will come. It will find you,and it will scare you like you've never been scared before.)
To: johnny7
Kolchak? Kolchak!
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posted on
02/28/2006 12:20:41 PM PST
by
archy
(The darkness will come. It will find you,and it will scare you like you've never been scared before.)
To: Ursus arctos horribilis
It just wouldn't be Christmas at our house without the
Christmas Story. I have three children in their thirty's and one of them has a 13 yr. old and he looks forward to the Christmas Story as much as the grown ups. You will put your eye out kid, Fra gil le, must be from France.
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posted on
02/28/2006 12:26:23 PM PST
by
buck61
(luv6060)
To: archy
I got a kick out of the way he dressed... kind'a like a carnival-hawker. The hat was perfect.
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posted on
02/28/2006 3:01:21 PM PST
by
johnny7
(“Iuventus stultorum magister”)
To: archy
"We all have rats, sir. You should see the one I work for." I can just see Simon Oakland giving Darren a bear hug at the Pearly Gates.
To: Charles Martel
"We all have rats, sir. You should see the one I work for." I can just see Simon Oakland giving Darren a bear hug at the Pearly Gates.
Spatzie observes that it IS a theological statement, when you stop and think about it....
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posted on
03/02/2006 1:57:14 PM PST
by
archy
(The darkness will come. It will find you,and it will scare you like you've never been scared before.)
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