One of my my favorite Westerns of all time. Rawhide! It had a great theme song (sung by Frankie Laine), a young Clint Eastwood playing the ramrod (as Rowdy Yates), baritone voiced Eric Fleming (as trail boss Gil Favor), Paul Brinegar as the cook Wishbone.It also had ( like the Twilight Zone), many famous guest stars. One question though -- how come all these cowboys who got punched in the face always still had all their teeth afterwards? This episode is from March 3, 1960.
Btw this is an invite to reine.de.tout and SanFranciscoZionist (just to show that I am not “a nasty piece of work”) to leave the cesspool and have some fun and watch a great TV show.
Tags: Golden Age of Television
my mule thinks you are laughing at him. my mule don’t like people laughing at him.
oh and first.
I, for one, enjoy the appreciation on this blog for the old TV shows. I don’t know if many remember “th Golden Age” of TV, but the reverence for it is truely gratifying. Thanks!
Fifty—fifty!—years ago.
Half a century.
Did you ever notice how gritty they looked on this show? Pretty much how you would expect them to look like, given the lifestyle. I mean, you can almost smell them!
@ buzzsawmonkey:
yep clints neck will confirm that observation.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
OK, cool it with the “half century” stuff, I watched this when I was a kid, first run.
From Rawhide to brokeback mountain in less than a half century!
CHANGE!
@ MacDuff:
oh my word a cowbows crutch after two weeks in the saddle, no thanks.
justin case wrote:
I finally watched “Gran Torino” last night. Great movie!!
@ Doppelganger:
yes change you can buggering well believe in.
Doppelganger wrote:
Yep, going downhill is a lot faster than going uphill.
@ MacDuff:
apart from john wayne old clint always gave the best right hander in the movies.
MacDuff wrote:
That film is particularly great for two reasons:
1) It shows that “racism”—which is present throughout the film in the form of ethnic pejoratives—means nothing when it is so pervasive. Eastwood’s character constantly uses racial pejoratives, but respects a person as a person overall. This is shown not only in the mentoring of the Hmong boy, but in his reproof of the “wiggers”—white would-be blacks—whom he contemptuously saves from being assaulted by black gangsters, and in his decision to fight against the Hmong gangsters who prey on their own. His behavior despite the superficial “racism” is an ongoing rebuke to the shallow anti-racist rhetoric of race hustlers like Obama.
2) The decision to eschew violence at the end of the film—one is led to believe that Eastwood is going to go all Rambo on the gangsters at the end, and instead he chooses to sacrifice himself in the faith that the law and the court system will take care of them, and that his sacrifice will not be in vain—is an affirmation of American society and the American system.
The boy’s receipt of the Gran Torino car is a symbolic passing of the American torch to a new generation that is truly the heir to the American dream, irrespective of color, national origin, or blood line.
The film is a worthy successor to Eastwood’s cornier, but equally pro-American, film “Bronco Billy.”
Damn this TV show fromthe Golden Age should have been scheduled for the evening!!!
MacDuff wrote:
That’s because of the bloack 7 white – B & W was great for Westerns.
Something tells me Festus Haigen would have made a great netizen
Dude, where’s the intro music! That theme song is classic!
The actor who played Gil Favor (Eric Fleming) drowned in Peru while doing a film.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
that was a bit cryptic, any chance you can put that into laymens terms,lol
@ The Osprey:
I dont know. That was what I got from youtube.
Gran Torino is imo a really great film.
It has a lot of similarities with an old John Wayne film, The Shootist.
The uke plays a terminally ill gunfighter trying to live out his last days in peace . His enemies hound him & he decides to die in a gunfight with them, rather than a painful, undignified death from cancer.
To me , it might be his best film.
Outside of the mole over his upper lip, Clint in those days was a good looking guy.
justin case wrote:
It is in “layman’s terms.” Most of Eastwood’s films deal with much more than the visual action, and “Gran Torino” is no exception. It is a film about the acceptance of new immigrants despite their appearance of foreignness, even by supposedly “racist” white folks. It is a song of praise for America and the spirit of America, a recognition that what is damned as “racism” by the progressives is not particularly important compared with character and conduct, a reproof to the blinkered vision of Obama and his ilk, and a hymn to the greatness of American industry.
@ RIX:
“The Shootist” is a magnificent and poetic film—so much so that it even manages to transcend having been made in the Seventies.
You know Clint is not nearly the conservative that people think he is.
Speranza wrote:
True. But he is a patriot, notwithstanding, which many progressives, unlike him, are not.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Does Robin Williams ever catch his reflection and know the truth?
Yes, it was an adaptation of a book of the same title.
I really thought that it showed the Dukes depth as an actor.
Come to think of it, maybe he just played John Wayne & that was enough.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
so what is your take on dirty harry or unforgiven, apart from being great movies, how do you see clint standing over the negro with his magnum and telling him to make his day.
sometimes you can read too much into a thing that is just entertainment.
Did you ever notice in Bonanza, there was Pa , Hoss, Little Joe & the other guy & you never saw women folk there?
Lots of horses , but no women, hmmmm.
OT: Most indicted members of militia group are voters
Ah, those right wing haters.
Most of the indicted militia members accused of being anti-government extremists have active voting records, a check with area voter registration offices showed yesterday.
Jacob J. Ward, 33, of Huron, Ohio, voted as a Democrat in the 2004 and 2008 primary elections.
Sorry for the post&run, but the rack is calling. G’night all!
@ Speranza:
I suspect the cause of that, at least from his movies, Clint embraces traditional American conservative moral values.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
All so very true. Throughout the film, his racial invectives seemed to lose their sting, though he continued to use them.
It was a teaching film and the lesson is not to listen too closely, or to assign much weight to words; rather, judge people by their humanity.
A young cowboy Clint, ummm ummm ummm.
justin case wrote:
Eastwood usually has either a black friend, or a black adversary with whom there is mutual respect, even in his early films. It’s been a while since I’ve seen the “Dirty Harry” films, but there is in one of them a black militant who clearly respects Callahan even if he dislikes him, and is willing to work with him, to a point.
Eastwood’s “tough guy” characters usually are standing up for American values against mealy-mouthed progs; he is for the American values, and against those who are opposed to them, and stands with or against people on the basis of values regardless of people’s color.
In “Bronco Billy,” everyone in the “Wild West Show” is formerly something else; they have found their personal fulfillment by becoming cowboys, Indians, whatever; the whole film is a love song to the American Dream.
In “Unforgiven,” Eastwood’s best friend is black, and he risks his life to take revenge for his friend’s death. I bet you missed the fact that all the characters in the film have names based on currency; “Little Bill“; “English Bob” (a “bob” is English slang for a shilling); “Will Munny” (“Will” = bill; “Munny” is obvious). This, by the way, is a device borrowed from Dashiell Hammett’s novel “Red Harvest,” which was the inspiration for both Akira Kurosawa’s “Yojimbo,” and, in part, the Coen Brothers’ “Miller’s Crossing” (which also borrows from Hammett’s “The Glass Key”).
@ RIX:
thats because women in those days knew their place, and so they should.
if god had wanted women to drive cars he would have put a steering wheel on washing machines.
@ Buckeye Abroad:
Interesting link, thanks
not that long ago, grand dads
family did range gather
of horses in New Mexico territory
drove them to Ft. Sill Ok. to sell
to the U.S. Army, last time they
did it no fences from Roswell N.M.
to the Ft. in Okla.
things change…
vagabond trader wrote:
Even in his 70′s he remains ever so good looking.
hate to do this but Pam found a doozie from chuckles.
@ teacake:
You know his political predictions have the same effect as Hussein campaigning for a candidate. Hemlock,pure hemlock.
For about the first ten minutes of film there was an unmcomfortable, nervous laughter. When people began to read the character the nervousness went away..
@ justin case:
Oink.
RIX wrote:
A genuine “teachable moment.”
@ buzzsawmonkey:
There was a little of the old school Polish/Irish immigrants neighborhood rivalry in Walt Kowalski’s telling the wigger kid to “get your ofay paddy ass down the road”.
RIX wrote:
I think that John Wayne always played John Wayne. I don;t say that to diminish him, but if you look at his movies, he’s always the same, essential character.
“The Shootist”, in which he played a dying gunfighter was his greatest performance; he showed incredible depth. Not coincidentally, it was his last movie.
@ justin case:
Duck!!!!!!!!
bar wrote:
But in order to gain respectability in Hollywood, he started churning out shit like Bridges of Madison County.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
you can take a part from any film and read into it what you like.
why was the wolf in pulp fiction a white guy, because blacks dont have the skills to despose of a corpse properly.
unless you know what was in the directors mind about any point he wanted to make then it’s just you reading your own views of life into a work of art.
MacDuff wrote:
Although not a great actor, whenever the Duke had a good part, he turned in a good performance.
@ Speranza:
His personal lifestyle is anything but conservative.If anything a classic rino.
@ MacDuff:
And he (Walt Kowalski) wasn’t the only pejorative slinger.
Clint was also teaching his boys the movie making business.
RIX wrote:
Ben Cartwright had three sons with three wives (and in real life there was maybe a 10 yer age difference between him and his youngest son!)
vagabond trader wrote:
Clint has had a lot of kids with a lot of women. BTW again I apologize – they put this thread up way too early. I wanted it to go up around 10:00PM.
Yeah he always did play John Wayne & that was great.
The detective movies where he played McCue not so much, he needed to be in cowboy duds or military.
I agree that the Shootist was probably his best movie, it really got your attention.
justin case wrote:
If you are merely watching films for the action on the screen, and are insensible to the other things going on, you are making yourself dumber than necessary. Your privilege, of course; but I will note that you haven’t offered any argument at all—cogent or wimpy—to counter what I have described above.
Most films done by intelligent people—and Eastwood is certainly intelligent—have more to them than the action itself. Eastwood’s films have genuine depth, and they relate, as most good films do, to other works or other themes. If you choose to ignore these things, it is your loss.
@ teacake:
Nodickens is really reading the tea leaves.
justin case wrote:
Hey in Pulp Fiction the fat ugly black crime boss had Uma Thurman for a wife!
@ MacDuff:
the actor for that is tom hanks, he is always tom hanks, if you watch dinero or brando or pachino, after tem minutes they become the person they are portraying, tom hanks is tom hanks acting.
@ Speranza:
None needed!
I never knew that. That must be the rationale for the boys not looking a lot like brothers.
The Osprey wrote:
Note, however, he also teaches the Hmong kid to sling the pejoratives in the barbershop scene. It is a moment of initiating the kid into the mysteries of being an American—of being, simultaneously, a “bigot” (i.e., retaining some of one’s own ethnocentric prejudices), and being able to respect and relate to other people who are not part of one’s own “tribe.”
Oh man, you just fucked with Marcelus Wallace! Run!
@ RIX:
and when the boys were fixin to get hitched something always happened to the girl.Or was that just Little Joe. Its been a while.
RIX wrote:
I also find it interesting that “the Shootist” came out in 1976, and he died in 1979.
@ RIX:
lol! I was thinking the same thing! Run!
@ Speranza:
I never did watch that.
And vagabond is right, his personal life (shacking up) is not conservative at all. But then I know tons of folks do that these days.
RIX wrote:
Yes Adam, Hoss and Little Joe had different mothers. In real life 3 out of the 4 wore rats nests on their heads and 2 out of 4 were Jeiwsh!
@ buzzsawmonkey:
and if you start to watch a film to see some hidden message instead of the entertainment value that the director wanted you to enjoy then you are doing yourself no good.
if you want films with a deep social message then you should seek out the more obscure swedish or polish directors, hollywood is about making money first, the social message comes second to that as you know.
vagabond trader wrote:
I concur completely.
bar wrote:
I just find it funny that Hollywood gave Clint “iconic status” right after he ditched doing kick the bad guys asses films.
I can’t recall, but it was just the boys & horses. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
justin case wrote:
You speak as if seeing the messages and subtext in a film is antithetical to enjoying the entertainment. You are wrong.
chickadee wrote:
On Rawhide I always got a kick out of the cook “Wishbone”.
@ Speranza:
So were the Indians.
Kind of appropriate.
MacDuff wrote:
Even though it was about 15 minutes too long – I always liked The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence.
vagabond trader wrote:
And yet there are beer coolers that have seats and steering wheels. lol
vagabond trader wrote:
roflmao.
A steering wheel on washing machines. Where exactly would it be located? ?
@ bar:
He does take care of his kids,unlike so many other celebs.
Speranza wrote:
Interestingly enough, there was a company near my office—now out of business—which sold window coverings, which was called Liberty Valance.
‘Strewth.
@ Speranza:
Did you ever hear Lorne Greene’s recitation of Ringo? Pretty good actually.
See ya.
vagabond trader wrote:
In sme film whose name I forogt, I once saw a young Jack Nicholson play an Indian.
Even though it was so historically inaccurate, I always enjoyed the Errol Flynn 1941 flick about Custer “They Died With Their Boots On” – Anthony Quinn played Crazy Horse in that one!
RIX wrote:
No I didn’t. Loren Greene was actually Canadian.
vagabond trader wrote:
Is that why the meet and greet scenes had so many takes? Someone would slip and say shalom among all the How!’s
I also thought that High Noon was one of the best films (not just Westerns) ever made. Two gorgeous ladies – Grace Kelly and Katy Jurado in it.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
no all i am saying is that how do you know that you are not reading something into a movie that the director never intended to be there in the first place.
if you go on imdb and read the comments there about any movie there will be lots that see rampant racism and sexism and all the other crap that a disturbed liberal mind will make up in it’s twisted view of the world.
@ Speranza:
Same here, and Gene Pitney, from Rockville CT, had a hit with the song,which was not on the soundtrack.Good tune, but strange that.
justin case wrote:
That’s very true. A lot of Stars are simply “character actors’ who hit the big time. There are very few Bogarts or Cagneys around these days, each of which could play cold hearted villians as well as heart warming heroes. Tom Hanks as a villain? Not likely.
Pacino, Brando, DiNiro are/were great actors. You know what? I’ve gained a certain respect for brad Pitt as well; he seems to have a range that’s uncommon these days.
vagabond trader wrote:
Didn’t he sing “Town Without Pity”? Now there was a good flick that has not been shown on TV in almost 40 years.
@ chickadee:
to the left of the one on the gas cooker.
@ waldensianspirit:
LOL!
I wanna be a cowboy
MacDuff wrote:
I think that Branso with his mumbling was a tad overrated.
@ MacDuff:
brad pitt, watch kalifornia or seven, fantastic acting.
justin case wrote:
LOL, thanks for clearing that up. You’re funny Justin.
Best fun and filmed Western is Silverado. Brian Dennehy [of First Blood] did a great bad guy. Great cast all around. Also one of the few filmed in the west.
PIMF -Brando.
As for Pacino – once he stopped screaming in all his films, his true talent started showing.
Is it me or does John Travolta seem to be in every movie the past 15 years?
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Exactly….he was showing how these immigrant rivalries are timeless, and basically part of the process of new groups assimilating themselves into American society…older groups of immigrants like the Poles, Irish, and Italians, have become more assimilated and the Hmong and others are now in the place those groups were in the earlier part of the 20th century, in the process of becoming American.
I really got a kick out of the final scene, the wry smile on Thao Van Lor’s face when the lawyer reads the section in Walt’s will where he promises the car to Thao…
waldensianspirit wrote:
Did you ever see The Wild Bunch?
@ Speranza:
Just thought of that as I typed and yes, it was the late great Gene Pitney singing the theme. First time watching that movie I was too young to really understand it. Wonder if its available,will have to check.
@ Speranza:
oh wow, on the water front, enough said.
no body could hold a candle to brando in his young days, he is my hero
the alto hombre.
@ Speranza:
Nope, and I guess I should:-)
@ justin case:
Some day I will have to explain to you how these things work; for example, explain the convergence of patriotism, communism, and Judaism in the film “Casablanca,” along with the fact that part of the appeal of Bogart’s character is his assumption of certain feminine characteristics, the coded homosexual jokes about Captain Renault, etc., etc., etc.
I do not have time to do so now, with Shabbos looming.
vagabond trader wrote:
I got it from Amazon used DVD for around $7. Great film. Robert Blake and Frank Sutton(Sgt Carter from Gomer Pyle) play two of the 4 rapists. Whatever happened to Christine Kaufman? E.G. Marshall plays the army prosecutor.
waldensianspirit wrote:
Violent as only Sam Peckinpagh could make it but a great film. Sometimes it shows up on TCM.
justin case wrote:
He was a bit erratic. Terry Molloy in OTWF was the perfect role for him.
@ Speranza:
and of course Stanley Kowalski in Streetcar Named Desire
@ Speranza:
Just looked her up and she is a successful businesswoman in Germany.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
you dont have to talk down to me my friend, i do know about the substructure of movies, but that part should be reflected upon after enjoying the film its self, that is my whole point, some people do the reverse thing and seek the deep message before the film is finished and rob theirselves of the entertainment.
justin case wrote:
Absoluely. And in “Burn Before Reading”, he actually does comedy and was hilarious. The dude has always been a “pretty face” but under-rated as an actor – he has a lot of range.
vagabond trader wrote:
Nice to hear. She was once married to Tony “Spartacus I love you” Curtis, appeared with him in the film “Taras Bulba” in 1962.
Btw I hope that reine.de.tout and SanFrancsicoZionist accepted my invitation to watch the episode.
Clint certainly turned lemons into lemonaide. Love how he was “washed up” in Hollyweird,did the spaghettii westerns and had them begging him to return.Only in America.
justin case wrote:
And some people, when watching films, find part of the entertainment in seeing and identifying the subtext. If you don’t want to be talked down to, don’t make it sound like such things are beyond your ken, and don’t bother suggesting to those of us who enjoy the various things which have been put in there precisely for the purpose of amplifying the film experience are somehow depriving ourselves by taking note of them.
Speranza wrote:
“I could have been a contenda…I could have been…SOMEBODY!
@ Speranza:
Have you been in touch with them or did they mention you at the BVoAF?
@ MacDuff:
Yeah I came to the conclusion that if not give a “pretty boy” role (crap like Oceans 11), Pitt can act.
a rodel song for a cowboy thread
@ MacDuff:
oh my word everytime i think about that film i have visions of that dildo machine that george cloony made.
mawskrat wrote:
yodel.lol
vagabond trader wrote:
yeas they mentioned me yesterday according to them I am “a nasty piece of work” lol. I thought I am a sweetheart of a guy. To make amends I (see the intor to the thread at top) made a public invitation to drop by.
Clint actually sang in the movie Paint Your Wagon and in an episode of Rawhide. Not a terrible voice btw.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
well then i suppose we will have to agree to disagree.
with me it’s enjoy the movie first and then reflect on the message.
with you, well i dont give a shit.
@ justin case:
Except when they want to spew anti-American bullshit. Hollywood has lost billions of dollars churning out one anti-American flop after another. Nothing postive about America (or at least Americas wars) much at all. The Kingdom was (and was a good story), but even the Hurt Locker wasn’t a really pro-American movie.
MacDuff wrote:
He had a very small role but did a goodj ob in a great but ultra violent 1993 film written by Quentin Tarantino “True Romance” where he played a real stoned out druggie. James Gandolfini was in that flick.
@ justin case:
Well, if it were not for louts, the film industry would have gone down the tubes long ago.
@ Speranza:
lmao! They wallow in the sewer with the likes of cato selrahC jimmah icehole et al and have the cheek to call you nasty.That is beyond chutzpah!Calling Dr Delusional! Dr Delusional cleanup at the cess pit. Ahhh, nevermind!
Iron Fist wrote:
Everyone of the Iraq war bashing films has been financial bomb.
vagabond trader wrote:
Thanks. At least I did not sell out my conservative principles and do not associate myself with iceweasel and Cato the Ogre.SF Zionist sat by while drcordell bashed Israel and said nothing.
@ Iron Fist:
the kingdom licked saudi and muslim boots, the hurt locker i have a copy of. in my opinion it’s neutral in it’s message, unless you have served in iraq then you will never know what it’s like, but for a pleb like me i really enjoyed the hurt locker.
I have to admit,have not spent a dime at the movies in many years.Ages ago it was essential to be amongst the first to see a new flick. The thrill is definitely gone between the politics and lousy offerrings.
Besides we have a 56 inch flat screen.
This needs to be a bumper sticker…
Honk
If I’m paying your medical bills
vagabond trader wrote:
Drives me nuts the assholes who feel the need to check their black berry’s oor to start texting in the middle of a film. They all should be taken out to the lobby and waterboarded.
@ vagabond trader:
a dvd must look awful on that, i got a 32inch and my old dvds look crap, they are made for high def ie blu ray.
Syriana was the worst. The US tried to get rid of young pro democratic Muslims. yeah right.
@ Speranza:
Plus there is a huge market for pro-war films. What could be better than a Jason Bourne (or Mack Bolan) thrown against the Mohammedan horde and winning? A huge market that Hollyweird (who will cater to some of the vilest markets if they’ll pay) is simply not interested in. Fortunes to be made, and never will be. A fortune not made is perhaps a greater tragedy than one thrown away.
@ Speranza:
Green Zone tanking for Matt Damon at -40 million is satisfying.
@ Iron Fist:
Yes we want to see movies where Muslim terrorists get wiped out but Hollywood will not make them because they are more interested in ideology then economics.
@ Speranza:
During my plays, my ushers “offer to hold” cell phones when they see people texting…
@ Speranza:
Yeah, gone are the days when ushers would escort disruptive audience members out the door.Now if you shush someone you’re likely to get assaulted.
goddessoftheclassroom wrote:
I still prefer waterboarding them.
@ Speranza:
Well, we’re a public school; we have to start small.
@ justin case:
My vision is not too great and I’m not complaining.
vagabond trader wrote:
Remember the “smoking sections” in movie theaters?
remember when rambo took on the evil russians and kicked their butts so the poor mis understood muslims could bring happyness to afganistan.
bet he regrets making that one.lol
MacDuff wrote:
Mac, or anyone else- If you like classic TV shows, go here:
http://www.hulu.com/channels/Classics
Hulu has 100′s of TV shows (and movies also) from the 50′s to present, and all are streamed free, for now, although they’re considering having a subscription fee in the future.
@ goddessoftheclassroom:
You are a public school. Have one of your junior pimps bitchslap them
goddessoftheclassroom wrote:
Quite concur
Doppelganger wrote:
From Reagan to Obama in 30 years. HOPE!
/NOT!!!
@ Speranza:
If you see Bernanke in a theater, start with him to find out where he hid the money.
@ Speranza:
With the little ashtrays in the back of the mohair seats.Love those classic old movie palaces. There is a beautifully renovated one in Providence,P-Pac. We went to a concert there, it was great, they even have an art deco bar.Martinis and music.
He11,I’m so old I remember smoking areas in High School!
@ vagabond trader:
Once I got surround sound with a 52″ HD flat screen, I don’t like the movie theater anymore. All the dust particles and hair you see on the film strip drove me nuts. I only went cause we had been given tickets, I am not paying 20 bucks to see a movie I can see for 3 bucks a few months from now.
With certain Blu-Ray players or Xbox360, PS3 gaming consoles and an internet connection you can download some NetFlicks movies right to the hard drive of the player. And you can surf you tube vids right on your home theater.
Brought to you by: Couch Potato tech….
@ Iron Fist:
I read somewhere, sorry I do not have the source, that video games are filling that gap left by Hollywood, especially war epics, because movies have downplayed the fighting aspect in recent war movies.
@ Iron Fist:
My house manager did ask a student to leave the audience because she was intentionally trying to distract the actors.
Speranza wrote:
That wasn’t a mole, it was a tick.
/Channeling Larry The Cable Guy.
Does anyone share my fondness for “Paladin”? I confess to a personal reason; Richard Boone looks like my dad in his older years, and Paladin’s character was similar to Dad’s — though Dad was an army officer, not a gunslinger!
Well, this is lovely. Sometimes I wonder whose side the Democrats are on, but other times I have no questions:
And it goes on. Maybe all mosques are recruiting centers and armories for the Jihad. Maybe, but this mosque is. No doubts about it. And the Donks know it too. No doubt which side they support. They are on the side of the Jihadis.
@ bar:
Thanks Bar!
I heard of the netflix download thingee and will try to get the old man to get us hooked up.Nothing like being able to go to the fridge,BR or whatever in the middle of a movie.Plus you can wear your jammies!
vagabond trader wrote:
The smoking areas on planes and theaters is something that I do not miss.
Iron Fist wrote:
Freudian slip
@ justin case:
Never mate.
Get a cheap $100 or less up converting DVD player and all is fine.
You can hardly tell the difference between it and real original 720p 1080i/p stuff.
“Fake” high definition, but it works.
@ Empire1:
Loved him and you had a very handsome Dad!Paladin was one of the first shows I recall watching as a kid.
Empire1 wrote:
My mom would have had a crush on your dad.
She loved Richard Boone.
Too bad that nobody came up with the idea of “Stadium seating” in movie theaters decades ago.
chickadee wrote:
Paladin will be posted in a few days by me here.
@ Iron Fist:
Hey, have you read any of Vince Flynn’s books? Some Hollywood studio just purchased the rights to make 3 movies from Flynn’s novels. I can’t wait to see if the libs turn the hero of the books, former CIA agent Mitch Rapp, into some kind of demented lunatic, because of all the bad guys he kills.
@ Speranza:
Yay, Speranza.
vagabond trader wrote:
Paladin is my next TV classic thread.
@ chickadee:
Quite concur!
chickadee wrote:
I loved that show. Saturday nights 1957 -63.
@ Bob in Breckenridge:
Haven’t read him, but it will be interesting to see. There is no lack of good storys to tell. Even the original Jason Bourne had Bourne (David Webb) as the good guys trying to catch Carlos the Jackal. They had to gut the story to make Bourne and the CIA bad guys.
vagabond trader wrote:
Well, yes, I did! Glad you agree.
And a very good, very intelligent man, too. I miss him a lot, even after so many years. Paladin always brings back happy memories for me. 
I tell ya (not bragging) but our threads are 100 times better then the boring Cretionist/Beck bashing bull shit over at the sewage plant – right reine.de.tout and SanFrancsicoZionist?
Empire1 wrote:
Again check back in the nest few days and you will see Have Gun Will Travel
@ Speranza:
YAY! Thank you!
@ Empire1:
My Dad has been gone 14 years and I’ll never stop missing him. Once a Daddys girl…..
hotair ask copyrantor to stay classy. Too late!
Iron Fist wrote:
My favorite spy/espionage/assasination film was and still is 37 years later “The Day of the Jackal” – Edward Fox was just superb as The Jackal.
@ Speranza:
Speranza, they don’t know what they are talking about. Why are you their new punching bag?
@ chickadee:
Your mom was obviously a woman of good taste … but she’d have had to get past my mom!
vagabond trader wrote:
That is so weird, my Dad died 14 years ago today (April 2, 1996).
@ Speranza:
Yeah, but it could stand a bit of improvement with say, a couple dozen comic book threads.
snowcrash wrote:
I guess. Snork was jealous!
Actually I am not mean at all.
Empire1 wrote:
Either tomorrow night or Sunday night.
@ Speranza:
Not to be mean, but I don’t remember you from the old place. Did you have a different nic?
@ Speranza:
Awww,that is always a rough anniversary.{Speranza}
snowcrash wrote:
yes I did and I am still registeerd there the last time I checked so that is why I use a different nic. I will send you via email (through “m”) my old nic.
@ bar:
You can buy Blu-Ray dvd players for less than $100. This Magnavox player costs $84.99-
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=5307787&CatId=4670
@ Bob in Breckenridge:
If you get a blueray DVD payaer can you use your old DVD’s?
@ Bob in Breckenridge:
And it also upconverts non-Blu-Ray movies
vagabond trader wrote:
I actually look forward to the anniversary because it gives me an opportunity to measure how fart I have emotionally grown from that awful day when I felt my life had collapsed.
@ Speranza:
lol, nothing can top the satanic prayer from the unholy half duo of jimmah. Many of us got dishonorable mention there. Plus it was on a double seekrit thread.
@ Speranza:
Yep, most players these days upconvert non-hi def movies. When Blu-Ray players first came a couple years ago, they didn’t.
Bob in Breckenridge wrote:
Ok thanks that’s good to know.
Speranza wrote:
{Speranza} {Empire1}
vagabond trader wrote:
You know what? Anyone who still remains there deserves the company that they are keeping and that includes the few conservatives still left – Mandy, lawhawk, albusteve. The 19 year old sociolgoy majors who are his sycophants are the dumbest bunch I have ever seen on the Internet.
@ chickadee:
Much thanks. I felt as if someone had ripped my guts out that day.
@ Speranza:
BTW, if you’re considering buy a flat screen HDTV no larger than 37″, there’s no need to spend the extra $$$ on a 1080p. The human eye cannot tell the difference between 1080p and 780p on small flat screen TV’s (If you consider a 37″ TV small), so you can save a couple hundred dollars, and buy a Blu-Ray player with the money you’ll save.
snowcrash wrote:
If somebody is picking Speranza for their punching bag, they better think twice. He knows some serious moves.
@ Speranza:
I agree. There has been plenty of offers from other blogs, done via email, to the remaining LGFers to bail and join them. They obviously don’t want to leave and are finding enjoyment there, so the heck with them. That said, I still wish albusteve and satttv would leave there. LOL
Bob in Breckenridge wrote:
Sorry, The human eye can’t tell the difference between 1080p and 720p, not 780…
chickadee wrote:
Like Paladin I am a Knight without armor in a savage land. lol
snowcrash wrote:
I wish they would too. I welcome them.
@ Bob in Breckenridge:
After getting a new computer, my next purchase will be a large flat screen TV
@ snowcrash:
@ chickadee:
I wlecome any regfugee from LGF. I know it is hard for a lot of peopel becasue they feel theyare a part of a community but that is the sort of community you should not want to belong to – a community run by iceweasel, Jimmah, Cato the Ogre, Slumbering Behemoth, Dark_Falceon, KKKillgore Trout yeech!
Off to dinner in a few minutes -will be checking back later.
@ chickadee:
Just random comments from lgfers saying our Speranza is the worst. blah, blah, blah. They should just admit that our posters comments are more intersting and merit further discussion. LOL
@ snowcrash:
They still reserve most of their venom for Rodan. I guess they see my threads and say “How did we let such a bright guy like that leave?” Major LOLs!!
@ Bob in Breckenridge:
Wow, but no wi-fi and no HDMI and thus no 1080p but that only matters if you have a TV that accepts 1080p. Or if you want the wi-fi option.
LG makes a nice Blu-Ray either with wireless wi-fi or your typical plug-in network. I know the LG also plays standard DVD’s and up-converts them 1080i/p, again a fake conversion but clearer sharper and brighter then standard definition.
@ Bob in Breckenridge:
This gets tricky, but also look at the native resolution of the TV.
Example a 60″ Plasma monitor with a resolution of 1920×1080 will display a true 1080p picture, where as a 42″ Plasma monitor which has a resolution of 1024 x 768 can really only disply a picture in 720p. Now the 720p Plasma monitor may accept the 1080p/i signal, yet in reality it then down-coverts that to its native resolution of 720p.
Who is going to buy the new “3D” 1080p TV’s?
http://www.lg.com/us/tv-audio-video/televisions/LG-led-tv-INFINIA-55LX9500.jsp
@ Speranza…..
Thanks for the horse movie –took me all day to watch the whole thing, between doin’ this ‘n’ that…..but it surely was enjoyable! : )