10 >> Hi everyone, no time for a full post today as I have a
20 >> hot tub party to get to and I can't be late again.
30 >> Just wanted to throw some links out there for all
40 >> of you who couldn't access the comp lab last week.
50 >> First off, Rick at Junction817332alt/loc.glc/systems has
60 >> a great post up on George Segal where he wonders if
70 >> any other actor will ever be as big a star. The title
80 >> of his post is "Golden Boy."
90 >> Next up Marilyn at glob/sys/344/msmovie has a great
100>> write up of last year's SILVER STREAK. She swoons
110>> over Gene Wilder and says, "Jill (Clayburgh), you are
120>> one lucky lady!"
130>> Jim Emerson uses a projector and film reel at the AV
140>> center on the north side of campus to explain why
150>> LOGAN'S RUN is a bad film based on a three second
160>> clip he has obtained and dissected frame by frame.
170>> That anonymous merry prankster Arbogast has
180>> another post up about Dolly Parton and Uschi Digard
190>> and wonders who would win in a "Boob-Off" contest.
200>> Dennis Cozzalio is going to be an extra in a college
210>> based comedy next year called, get this, ANIMAL
220>> HOUSE. Could that title be worse? Take a picture
230>> Dennis because this one's going to come and go if
240>> you know what I mean.
250>> And of course there's me. Don't forget to check out
260>> my seventeenth post on STAR WARS, the most awe-
270>> inspiring masterwork the cinema has yet produced.
280>> I uploaded it to the main-frame at the computer lab
290>> yesterday. In it I discuss how Luke Skywalker
300>> played by Mark Hamill (God what a performance!)
310>> could be taken as a stand-in for Bob Woodward and
320>> Carl Bernstein and Darth Vader as Nixon. You
330>> probably don't see how that could possibly work
340>> but it does! Really! Anyway, I've got to go.
350>> MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU - ALWAYS!
39 comments:
I only wish there were profile pictures circa this era to go along with these memories.
Man... times were tough back then, I respect all of you guys more knowing what you went through for your passion. We have it so easy now.
360>> Thanks Fox I ... sorry.
Thanks Fox. Marilyn used to come to the lab in bell bottoms jeans and a tye-dye tank top that said "Disco Sucks" on it.
Rick always had on a short sleeve button down with the pocket protector. And of course, his huge Fu Manchu moustache.
But Arbo was the best, always eschewing fashion by wearing the same black funeral suit every day, nervously sipping on a coke and asking Marilyn if she wanted to go to Hardees or Dairy Queen sometime. I don't know if she ever said yes.
Arbo was nervous around the ladies????... I always just assumed he was a ladies man back in the day.
Did he have a fascination with horror back then too? Did he love Alice Cooper? Was he always talking about Roger Corman and Sergio Corbucci?
I kinda wish there was an Arbography for us to reference for stuff like this.
I think he was just nervous around Marilyn. And while there is no Arbography there is a Gregography at almost every public library in America. Make sure you get the most updated edition, the one that includes what I ate for dinner through this year.
Greg, don't forget Bill's four-part review of CAR WASH. I still remember hitting the Burger Chef with him, and him telling me it was the greatest movie since WILLY WONKA.
Greg didn't like me back then. But Brian, that was a good time. Remember how later I wanted to see a double feature of FUTUREWORLD and DR. BLACK AND MR. HYDE, but you wanted to check out FACE TO FACE. Thank God I won that argument!
Ha! Nice try with the revisionist memory there, Bill! You know I'd never go to a Liv Ullmann movie after you dragged me to LOST HORIZON a few years earlier. As I recall, *I* was the one who suggested FUTUREWORLD, while you begged for a double bill of STAY HUNGRY and THE SHAGGY D.A.
All the bickering... see, that's why I didn't hang with you guys in the seventies. Besides you guys were too young to be a part of our hip in crowd. I still remember Brian getting all excited for Gil Gerard's Buck Rogers movie. Oh brother.
Well, yes, the seventies...
Fond memories, anyway: being a schoolgirl, I managed to smuggle myself in a place where they were showing "Annie Hall" (a film non authorised for minors), and went with two fellow schoolgirls to see "Time After Time"... I did no longer like the Xmas Disneys, which were getting increasingly lame (safe for the classic re-releases).
Also,there were lots of classics on my parents' black and white, second-hand TV.
Incidentally, my erstwhile fellow scholgirls STILL remember for how I pestered them about a "great, great" film I had seen in TV, "This Land is Mine", with a "great,great" actor playing the lead... They used to wonder why I dug the fatso, as they believed that leif Garret was far more cute (I STILL think they were wrong on that!)
Brian, why in the world would I ever put up a fight about going to see THE SHAGGY D.A.?? That's just ridiculous. As I remember, I saw that with my other friend -- Stretch, we called him -- and I think you're still angry about that. Dude, let it go!
Leif Garrett. Boy I had forgot about him. Bill had a poster of him over his bed in the seventies if I recall correctly.
And Gloria, I became fascinated with older films in the seventies as well and Vivien Leigh was one of my first movie star crushes.
Brian's was Antonio Fargas.
I still remember how Pat Piper with his rainbow suspenders and cap would always talk about how totally unrealistic the advertising world was portrayed in Bewitched and we would all be like, "Okaaaay Pat, whatever you say." And then he'd sleepwalk his yo-yo and say, "One day I'm going into advertising and I'll show you."
Then we all laughed and kicked him out of the lab.
Good times.
Ah, Stretch, my arch-rival-- damn you, Stretch!
Greg, I will hear no bad words said about the BUCK ROGERS movie. Every blogger has his/her NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, and BR is mine.
Or, in the immortal words of Twiki, "Biddle-biddle-beep!"
Brian, everything Twiki ever said was immortal. He's one of the legendary characters of film.
I walked up to Fox once and said "Nanoo nanoo", and he looked at me like I had mood rings climbing out of my chest hair.
Did you have mood rings climbing out of your chest hair?
Arbo did.
Well, that was Arbo. He did lots of things, and had lots of things climbing on him, that the rest of us wanted nothing to do with.
Oh Arbo - I still remember how he used to go on and on about Didi Conn and how she would love his mood rings. Yeah right.
How did you know I have a crush on Gene Wilder!?
But I LOVE disco. Donna Summers is so GEAR! I always have the hubby fire up the lava lamps when I spin her disks.
Did I ever tell you about the time I almost started a riot at a disco 'cause two guys were fighting to dance with me? True story.
Was it Arbo and Rick?
I was probably mixing up the Siren and you. I think she wore the Disco Sucks shirt.
So did you pick one guy over the other or let them slug it out until one came up the victor?
While they were arguing, I snuck out.
I did that once when a man I was chatting with at my local tavern started talking about how much he liked shooting people in Vietnam.
So Marilyn - I tried three times to submit a comment on your post but it kept giving me an error that said "Comments not allowed on this posting." Anyway, since I always do a quick highlight and copy before I post a comment (for just these types of occurences) here it is:
Peter Sellars name came up so much in college theatre discussion in and out of class that after college it took me some time to realize everyone else in the world was talking about the film actor and not the theatre director.
To meet Mahler, Freud, Einstein, Stravinsky, and a few others you mentioned in your life - Wow, how incredible.
I did that once when a man I was chatting with at my local tavern started talking about how much he liked shooting people in Vietnam...
Yeah, that's someone you want to distance yourself from.
I was messing around with the post. You can probably get it to post now.
Oh, any you have to remember that they got the chance to meet Klemperer. He was as legendary as any of them. After becoming a U.S. citizen, he left the country in the 50s on fears that it was becoming fascist. He later became a citizen of Israel.
Did I ever tell you about the time I almost started a riot at a disco 'cause two guys were fighting to dance with me? True story....
That happened to me too, except it was at a roller rink and instead of two guys it was The Deathray Daughters fighting over me. Who won? Well, let's just say that I mediated and made sure nobody went home a loser.
Arbo was nervous around the ladies????... I always just assumed he was a ladies man back in the day. .
Marilyn's cruel disregard was the kiln that fired me. And then rehired me at reduced pay.
It IS amazing how old people blogs read so differently from young people blogs.
Don't forget Fox, tomorrow is Episode Three of Death Ray Daughters.
For those who didn't just catch that:
TOMORROW IS EPISODE 3 OF DEATH RAY DAUGHTERS!Don't miss it!
Still Arbo, you looked cool in that funeral suit.
It IS amazing how old people blogs read so differently from young people blogs...
I'm 17, I just pretend that I'm an old man for the kids. You know how it is, that stuff really entertains them.
Flying Maciste Brothers - Of course we read different(ly). We learned spelling and grammar. Hope you guys get around to it some day. :-)
Arbo - You're fired again.
Flying Maciste Brothers - Of course we read different(ly). We learned spelling and grammar. Hope you guys get around to it some day. :-)..
Oooh, MAJOR BURN!!! (but not Major Burns from M.A.S.H)
For what it's worth, in 1977 or '78 I was employed at "Quick Test" -- they were the people you saw carrying clipboards around shopping malls, asking you if you wanted to participate in a survey. Times and fashion being what they were, I owned two (2) polyester liesure suits for the job. I looked like Neil Diamond in The Last Waltz.
It wasn't a rewarding job, but a weird one. Especially when I'd go in at 11 on Saturday morning, coming down from the acid I'd dropped on Friday night.
I think that's one of the best comments I've ever read. The part about the two leisure suits followed by the acid punchline well... I bow to you sir.
Two words: Charles Bronson.
Peter, the link's not working. Why must you toy with me so? It's Bronson in a leisure suit isn't it? I want to see it, try and redo the link.
I hope this link works better.
That's what she said.
I'm just here to clean out my desk.
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