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Post by Greg C. on Nov 16, 2010 22:51:50 GMT -5
Glory
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Post by Greg C. on Nov 2, 2010 14:46:44 GMT -5
Used to get emails from him too, mostly political cartoons and such. Haven't heard from him in months now that I think about it.
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Post by Greg C. on Oct 24, 2010 23:27:44 GMT -5
For bad syfy movies all you have to do is turn on the syfy channel and watch one of their original productions. They're so bad, they're worth watching.
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Post by Greg C. on Oct 24, 2010 12:02:54 GMT -5
Is the theater still in business?
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Post by Greg C. on Oct 17, 2010 13:02:13 GMT -5
They have plans to remake it? Only the reenactors and living historians with wishful thinking. Oh, I got excited for a moment.
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Post by Greg C. on Oct 16, 2010 13:24:35 GMT -5
I like the new flyer. Crockett of course being the most known but maybe they will do one with Bowie and or Travis When they finally get around to doing the remake Al, you will be a shoe-in for Crockett. (And your wardrobe impression will certainly be much more closer to right.) They have plans to remake it?
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Post by Greg C. on Oct 16, 2010 13:23:47 GMT -5
Also updated Al's post count.
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Post by Greg C. on Oct 16, 2010 13:21:20 GMT -5
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Post by Greg C. on Oct 15, 2010 16:17:20 GMT -5
Andre Rieu: Greatest Hits
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Post by Greg C. on Oct 15, 2010 16:15:54 GMT -5
Welcome back Mike!
I've restored your moderator status.
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Post by Greg C. on Oct 8, 2010 13:30:35 GMT -5
Hey, i don't remember my username and stuff. Bromhead, is that you?
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Post by Greg C. on Oct 4, 2010 20:58:05 GMT -5
Great pics Ted! Don't think I've ever seen these.
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Post by Greg C. on Oct 4, 2010 20:57:00 GMT -5
Here the menu to this coming Saturday's Alamo Gala. Not bad, not bad at all. Looks good indeed.
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Post by Greg C. on Oct 4, 2010 20:55:28 GMT -5
Only $400 on the Crockett wallet? Seems an awfully small value for something that belonged to such a legendary figure. Has it been authenticated and is it for sale? I would gladly pass up buying a much needed car/truck in order to own a piece of history.
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Post by Greg C. on Sept 30, 2010 9:38:31 GMT -5
Although initially against the idea of a remake, if anyone is going to play Wayne's character, it may as well be Jeff Bridges.
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Post by Greg C. on Sept 20, 2010 13:43:29 GMT -5
And here's our other one:
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Post by Greg C. on Sept 19, 2010 19:46:03 GMT -5
I ended up becoming good friends with a professor of mine after the semester ended last year. Because I work for the Park System of my county, which gives historical presentations among sports programs which I normally teach, and he has his own connections, I figured I would bring it up to my boss about doing a lecture series on the Revolutionary War, because we both re-enact. He said he would pass it up the ladder and I didn't hear anything about it for months. I figured it got lost in translation and there was no interest. Then I get a series of emails from my boss last week saying that they loved the idea, and they want something at the beginning of 2011. They asked for Civil War (which made me even happier) but they also wanted us to tie in the state of New Jersey, and our county of Monmouth. I said the only way to do this is to do a lecture on the Revolutionary War, since many battles and events took place in this state and county. They agreed and a few days ago, I met with him and laid the foundation for our presentations. We are starting in January (providing there are no hold-ups) and we are to do the Revolutionary War one that they wanted, the Battle of Fredericksburg on my suggestion, and a third one which is on how to plan a Civil War/Revolutionary War battlefield vacation. Below is some tentative art work advertisements for the events. I am really excited about this, and the Rev. War one make take place at the Spy House, a War site used by American spies and notorious for being the most haunted building in New Jersey.
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Post by Greg C. on Sept 19, 2010 0:06:34 GMT -5
Very nice find, Nef. I wish I had that when I wrote it.
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Post by Greg C. on Sept 18, 2010 17:47:47 GMT -5
Something I wrote for my site back in July. Of the 173 film appearances of John Wayne, The Conqueror is one of his lesser known roles, and for good reason. In this movie, which Wayne actually asked director Dick Powell to star in, he plays the Mongolian warrior Genghis Khan. Right off the bat it sounds ridiculous; John Wayne playing an Asian. The gave him makeup to make his eyes seem slanted and of course, gave him a Fu Man Chu facial hair style. Wayne, who needed to make only one movie to finish out his contract with RKO was heavily dissuaded by Powell to not take up this role and with the script thrown in the trash, Wayne pulled it out and said he wanted to play Genghis Khan as a cowboy would, and Powell then famously quipped, “Who am I to turn down John Wayne?” And so they went filming, and by the time it reached theaters, word spread on how bad the film was. As of right now, it currently has a cult-following of those dedicated to watching bad films. It has made its way into books focusing on Razzie potential material, and is known as that project that John Wayne must have been insane to sign a contract with. What makes this even more of a shock is that this film came out the same year as The Searchers, a film which is said by many to be the Duke’s greatest performance. I have seen The Conqueror only once, and would watch it again. As bad as it is, I enjoyed it. There are decent action scenes and the storyline is actually quite interesting. The fact that there is not one Asian in a film about Asians kind of threw everyone off, though, but this was the 1950′s and that was what the times were like. Anyway, this is not a movie review, but more of an interesting tidbit of trivia. John Wayne would die in 1979, a full 23 years later, but many attribute this film to his death. The movie was notorious for being shot in the deserts of Utah, almost ten years after the United States Army conducted nuclear bomb testing there. Of the 220 people involved in the film, 91 would die of cancer, including Wayne, director Dick Powell, and every leading supporting cast member: Agnes Moorehead, Susan Hayward, and John Hoyt. Another star, Pedro Armendáriz would also be diagnosed of cancer, but commit suicide after hearing the news. The number of 220 does not even include the extras and other people involved in filming. Numerous American Indians who served as Mongolian warriors contracted cancer in later years, and even John Wayne’s son Michael died in 2003 of cancer, after visiting his father on the set at age 22. What is also even more mind-boggling is the fact that after principle shooting was finished in Utah, the production company had 60 tons of radioactive dirt shipped to Hollywood so filming could be finished on sound stages. Whatever became of this dirt is unknown; it’s probably been used as filler in a backlot by now. Within a year after the film debuted as a critical and commercial flop, producer Howard Hughes knew that problems were on the horizon. Out of guilt, he purchased every single print of the movie that had ever been copied, and kept them at his mansion home. In his later, eccentric years, he would view the film every night before going to bed, regretting each day for the rest of his life the fact that he produced the film. Contrary to popular belief, John Wayne did not die of lung cancer, despite being a chain-smoker (and smoking up to seven packs a day during the 1960′s), but stomach cancer. In his later years, he would beat lung cancer and just when it seemed he would be cured and live, a new form of galloping cancer took over his stomach and he could not be saved. Could this cancer have been the effects of the radioactive filming locations? There are just too many cancer-related deaths associated with this film to be coincidence. If one can find humor in this, there was at one point a photograph in existence of John Wayne at the set holding a Geiger Counter, and there being radioactivity registering on it. Wayne also quoted that the moral of the film was, “Don’t make an ass of yourself trying to play parts you are not suited for.” What seemed like a harmless decision may have ended up costing one of the greatest American actors his life. In a People Magazine article from 1980, there was a quote from the Pentagon Defense Nuclear Agency regarding this film that read, “Please, God, don’t let us have killed John Wayne.” Taken from: gcaggiano.wordpress.com/2010/07/26/the-conqueror-1956-the-film-that-killed-john-wayne-literally/
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Post by Greg C. on Sept 18, 2010 17:46:42 GMT -5
Mike Mazurki, real convincing as an Asian. No less convincing than Wayne as Genghis Khan. ;D
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