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Post by Rick on May 10, 2007 22:22:30 GMT -5
All commercials featuring political candidates.
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Post by Rick on Apr 5, 2007 21:31:08 GMT -5
There's a new adventure film out called PATHFINDER. However, although it takes place on the Eastern seaboard and involves Indians, it has absolutely nothing to do with the adventures of "Pathfinder" Natty Bumpo of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales. But, like Indian-raised Bumpo, this PATHFINDER is also an Indian-raised backwoodsman with European roots who champions the cause of the indiginous Americans. Incidently, does anyone remember the 1936 version of LAST OF THE MOHICANS with Randolph Scott, as "Hawkeye" Bumpo? How would you compare it with the Daniel Day Louis version of nearly 60 years later? TCM showed the 1936 LOTM last fall. For a B&W version it's not bad. Even had Bruce Cabot playing Magua. To me it's just the difference that nearly 60 years can make. In its time the Scott version likely was state of the art. The Daniel Day-Lewis version is one of the best films I've seen, primarily because of its authentic look and feel. I thought he WAS Hawkeye, while Scott looked like a movie star in costume. That's not a knock on it or him -- I'm just noting the different eras in which they were made. And didn't the new version pay credit to the 1936 screenplay in the credits? I still think DDL would make a fine Crockett on film.
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Post by Rick on May 22, 2007 20:23:50 GMT -5
Letters From Iwo Jima.
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Post by Rick on May 19, 2007 11:14:58 GMT -5
Waterloo, followed by Khartoum Waterloo -- is that the Rod Steiger/Christopher Plummer version? I remember seeing that one in the theater when it first came out. Good battle scenes, with no CGI crap, thank goodness. Khartoum is one of my favorites. Inspired me to read a biography of Gen. Gordon. Somebody needs to do an accurate remake of Beau Geste one of these days.
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Post by Rick on Mar 2, 2007 21:55:48 GMT -5
Zulu -- and I've got Song on the Brain disease ("Men of Harlech")
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Post by Rick on Apr 25, 2007 19:18:46 GMT -5
Ned, is that shot of Sam Elliott one you took, shot by the official still photographer or taken by one of your fellow extras?
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Post by Rick on Mar 12, 2007 18:46:22 GMT -5
I think Mustang has said he plans to attend.
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Post by Rick on Dec 26, 2006 22:04:59 GMT -5
Happy 92nd birthday to Mr. Widmark. Born 12-26-14.
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Post by Rick on Nov 3, 2007 22:16:08 GMT -5
And in 2005:
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Post by Rick on Nov 2, 2007 22:00:22 GMT -5
By the way, has anyone talked to Mo recently? His knee surgery went OK. He called it keyhole surgery, which might mean he had it scoped, I'm not sure.
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Post by Rick on Dec 12, 2005 20:54:59 GMT -5
Just curious, was the film the uncut version? It was the short version we saw Oct. 22, but they had rigged a nifty sound system in the replica compound that surpassed the state-of-the-art stuff available in theaters in 1961. I heard things -- dialogue, sounds, sound effects -- much easier than I'd heard when watching the film on TV. Nothing like seeing it on the big screen. I hope they do it again. Thanks for the welcome -- I've been a forum member for several months but haven't posted much. And I'm posting some of the photos I shot Oct. 22 because I finally learned how to do it! All the best. Rick (aka West Texan)
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Post by Rick on Dec 11, 2005 21:42:39 GMT -5
Please pardon this case of the fuzzies as well -- but it's always been one of my favorite scenes in the film. I still vividly recall most of us in the audience in early 1961 letting out a collective "gawwwwwwddddddd" when this image appeared on the screen. Rick
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Post by Rick on Dec 11, 2005 21:35:21 GMT -5
Mjtakadad,
Glad I could help. I also got my jacket from my truck during intermission and was glad of it the rest of the evening -- it DID chill out, didn't it? That surprised me a bit, but then again, Rich had advised us to bring jackets. Or maybe I'm just getting smarter in my old age.
Wish I had introduced myself when I asked you and your friend to watch my camera bag -- would've liked to have chatted with you both. Maybe next March at HHD 2006?
Rick
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Post by Rick on Dec 8, 2005 12:52:13 GMT -5
And another: "Cognizant of the will of God"
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Post by Rick on Dec 8, 2005 12:48:11 GMT -5
Here's one I shot during intermission of the Oct. 22 showing at the Waynamo. Sorry it's a bit fuzzy -- I handheld it instead of using a tripod. Rick
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Post by Rick on Feb 24, 2008 16:52:29 GMT -5
The Better Business Bureau.
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Post by Rick on Feb 22, 2008 16:55:39 GMT -5
Guys I am so pissed off right now as I have just recieved word that once again, I am too young get have my manuscript published. When I was 14 and sent it in they said wait until I was 16. Now that I am the age they requested they now tell me that I must be 18 years old. I'm going to write a letter to the this company and totally rip into them as I am more frustrated now then I've been in a long time. I think I just may delete the whole thing and forget about it. Greg, did you check out this publishing company with the BBB beforehand?
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Post by Rick on Jan 13, 2008 21:19:26 GMT -5
I know a lady who writes Christian fiction. She has published over 25 books and makes gobs of money.
She got her start writing romance novels, full of spicy sex, the whole bit. Most of them were bodice-ripping period pieces.
But she did tell me one thing about writing a novel: write the thing as completely and thoroughly as you can.
Then cut it by a third.
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Post by Rick on Jul 21, 2007 12:41:28 GMT -5
How do you like Indian Lover, about General Sam? I'm thinking about getting it.
I checked Jaxon's graphic novel on the siege and battle out of the library a year ago. Liked it enough to consider stealing it, but my conscience kicked in.
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Post by Rick on Aug 24, 2007 21:13:26 GMT -5
Here are a few shots of my newly Alamo art-adorned den walls: Gary Zaboly's work An enlarged still from filming the Waynamo A still from POF A poster of Feely's diorama in the gift shop Three panoramas I shot The Dripping Springs set The Waynamo set, from the "north" wall The chow line at the Waynamo prior to the Oct. 2005 showing of the film onsite
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