Ours out on the looney left coast? Or... 
or Tom Laughlin's?
Posted on 12/15/2013 5:16:52 PM PST by Borges
“I would say that the only way you could have contradictory evidence is from personal experience.”
Coming from someone that interloped in a conversation they weren’t included in; someone that seems to be obsessed with a fictional character’s proclivities. Hmmm...
You should come out of the closet; you’ll have more room for your clothes.
And the same for you as well....Buddy!!!
You posted something idiotic about a fictional character being gay who really wasn’t gay. Further posting something stupid about smelling his vaseline trail or some such stupid thing all on a pulbicly read thread. You have problems that can’t be solved in a few posts. I hope you get help.
Speaking of Matthew Broderick, when he hosts on TCM, he seems totally uninterested. As an actor, I would think he could at least pretend to care.
Never cared for her, either.
One enormous problem with Leslie Howard playing Ashley Wilkes is that he was too old for the role.
The guy’s had one or good flicks: Wargames and Ferris Bueller; he’s lived off of those for 30 years now...
He was great in “Election”, like Ferris getting a taste of his own medicine in how he treated the poor principal.
I watched ~half of that “film”...bleh.
Khent disapproves.
I went to check his film credits. I actually saw the first film he ever made in the theater 30 years ago, “Max Dugan Returns”, with the great Jason Robards, which was a nice little film he did prior to “WarGames”
Aside from “Election”, which was made in 1999, almost everything he’s been in since has been total rubbish (aside from, perhaps, “The Producers” musical). The last major film he was in was “Tower Heist”, and that was execrable (and yet another Eddie Murphy fiasco, who has had an even worse streak than Broderick).
I never saw “Max Dugan Returns”.
“Tower Heist”: A friend of mine said: “You gotta see it, Eddie’s back!” I watched ~3/4 of it (didn’t see the ending) - garbage.
Ben Stiller’s trending into the mix of back streak actors too.
Gabourey Sidibe was amusing in it, even if the material was beneath her. They should put her in more comedies, especially if they ever decide to do “Saint Skittles: The Musical”, playing our favorite corpulent low IQ’d trial star witness, Rachel Jeantel. She could do the show stopper, “Crackas and da cursive are da old skool.” It’ll get her a second Oscar nomination, I can just feel it.
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
U 1 cray mofo!!! Dat whak!!!
Me and Khent LOVE it!!!
One other small aside, Margaret Mitchell was supposed to have modeled the part of Scarlett O’Hara on Teddy Rosevelts mother, the Southern Belle Martha Bulloch. Being that his father Teddy Sr. was an ardent abolitionists, I’ve often wondered how some of those conversations must have gone.
Martha’s brother (James Dunwoody Bulloch) was a civil war confederate who ran guns and supplies from England to the south during the war. After the war, he was banned from ever coming back to the U.S. Does that not sound a lot like what Rhett did during the Civil War? I’ve always wondered if there was a little inspiration there also. Incidentally, many of Teddy’s biographies have identified him as one of Teddy’s idols and gave him a love of the navy.
I always wondered at what point did the native accents brought over from England, Scotland, et al, start to morph into what we’ve heard in the past century, and specifically what those folks in the mid-19th century (and before) truly sounded like.
I’ve read claims that English accents as we know them today were flatter and more “American” sounding 200 years ago, but without recordings, it’s hard to prove. I remember how shocked I was to hear Southern-raised Woodrow Wilson’s voice, which has virtually none of the characteristics one would typically associate (and he spent time in both GA & SC).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb30L-NmKjo
Of course, whether anyone of that era sounded like Leslie Howard being raised outside of Atlanta, well, probably unlikely.
Yes, Bulloch does sound like a model for Rhett Butler. I always thought it seemed a bit dubious that the Union soldiers (as portrayed in the film) would’ve been nearly as cordial towards someone of Butler’s “profession” in reality (and indeed, more than likely would have had him hanged).
Ours out on the looney left coast? Or... or Tom Laughlin's?
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