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  1. Inkstainedwretch

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    The last of the series was "Once Upon a Time in the West,"an absolutely gorgeous, operatic production. Many film buffs, critics and even prestigious directors consider its opening minutes the best movie opening of all time.
  2. Inkstainedwretch

    Am I the only member who doesn't wear a hat?

    I rarely wear hats except for sun protection when I'm going to be outdoors. But I have a lot of hats because I like them. I just like knowing that they're there. I have a Stetson, a Scots bonnet, a boonie hat I bought in Nairobi and others, plus several Greek, Roman and Medieval helmets. I will...
  3. Inkstainedwretch

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    That score was by Ennio Morricone, the most innovative film composer ever. He did use an ocarina in the score for "For a Few Dollars More."
  4. Inkstainedwretch

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Fruit-flavored drinks are making a comeback because of the growing Latino population. Mexicans are really into fruit. I've had some of the best fruit drinks, ice cream and popsicles ever on visits to Mexico. Once on a very hot day I bought a strawberry popsicle from a street vendor. Halfway into...
  5. Inkstainedwretch

    What Happened....

    At least back then it was just an undershirt. Now it's known universally as a "wife-beater," so dubbed by the police because every time they got called on a domestic dispute, that's what the guy who opened the door when they knocked was always wearing.
  7. Inkstainedwretch

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I still use yáll because it's useful. Modern English has no second person plural pronoun, just "you" for both singular and plural. We used to have one: "ye" as in old formulae like "Hear ye, hear ye." It was the plural of "thou." We stopped using thou so we stopped using ye.
  8. Inkstainedwretch

    The Mighty Eighth: New $500M HBO series from Spielberg/Hanks

    The great untold story of WWII was the toll of aircraft pilots and crew to training accidents, almost 15,000 within the continental United States.
  9. Inkstainedwretch

    Cowwboy Cussin...

    "Draw, ya yellowbellied sidewinder!" Monty Python
  10. Inkstainedwretch

    The Mighty Eighth: New $500M HBO series from Spielberg/Hanks

    My uncle, Peter Berkey III, was in the 8th and flew B-17 missions over Germany. In 1944 he was shot down, ditched successfully in the North Sea, and was captured by a German E-boat along with the rest of his crew. He spent the rest of the war in Stalag Luft 3, the "Great Escape"camp. though he...
  11. Inkstainedwretch

    You know you are getting old when:

    I was lucky. When I was 14 an older woman (she was 15) undertook my instruction. After that I knew what went where and why. A few years back I reconnected with that lady, now a grandmother, and we brought each other up to date on the vary strange paths down which life leads us. But I will...
  13. Inkstainedwretch

    Does your name date you?

    There was a character actor named Royal Dano. I think yours is only the second reference I've seen. Is his (or her) last name Payne?
  14. Inkstainedwretch

    What Happened....

    Almost from the first movies, women's and men's hairstyles and makeup are from the time they were made, not when they were depicted. When men had to have long hair, it was usually arranged so that they looked short-haired from in front, long-haired only in profile. In the 19th century...
  15. Inkstainedwretch

    What Happened....

    Nixon was Eisenhower's vice-prez in that pic. He didn't wear one to his own inaugural.
  16. Inkstainedwretch

    The Mighty Eighth: New $500M HBO series from Spielberg/Hanks

    They've done the Army in Europe, the Marines in the Pacific, now the bombers flying out of England. Next they need to do a Navy in the Pacific miniseries and they'll have WWII all rounded out. BTW, Spielberg's father was a combat photographer, though I believe he flew in the Pacific. He...
  17. Inkstainedwretch

    What Happened....

    When I was a small child my parents bought me blue jeans because they were cheap. Not exactly boutique stuff in the early '50s. They picked them off a big stack at People's Hardware in Kenedy, TX. Got them oversized so you could grow into them. Couldn't wear them to school, though. The excuse...
  19. Inkstainedwretch

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    My favorite national anthem is the Marseillaise, which, besides a great tune, has the wonderful line, "Their polluted blood shall water the furrows of our fields!" So civilized, those French. Oddly, the German national anthem, "Deutschland Uber Alles," is one of the least bellicose. Read the...
  20. Inkstainedwretch

    How has the Evolution of the Silver Screen affected the theater and movie going experience in the...

    See if you can find the first one or two Bosco cartoons, when Bosco had a deep, gravelly faux-Black voice. Very different from his later high-pitched, childlike voice without the "dialect".
  21. Inkstainedwretch

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Oh, come on, Lizzie, even you have to admit that the Roseanne Barr version was a classic!
  22. Inkstainedwretch

    How has the Evolution of the Silver Screen affected the theater and movie going experience in the...

    One of the best things about being a child in the '50s as I was, was that there wasn't much made-for-kids programming so local tv stations ran old movies and cartoons. The studios wouldn't release anything post-1949 to television, so we saw all the movies our parents had watched, but we saw...
  23. Inkstainedwretch

    What Happened....

    Many factors at work here. I remember reading one writer who referred to "that day in 1963 when my father and every other man in America stopped wearing a hat." Convenience was a factor. Cars got sleeker in the 50s. That meant the roof got lower, to the point where wearing a hat was unfeasible...

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