Hucklebug, Episode 77: Our return from hiatus, scheduling for Lost Episode, shout-outs, movies (Bet: Come Back Little Sheba, Inspector Clouseau, Birdman of Alcatraz, The In-Laws, The Longest Day; Stennie: Grizzly Man, Libeled Lady), highlights & lowlights, fuck-offs and you-rules, Hucklebug Oscars 1963 through 1970.
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Since it was pointed out that I “GOT IT” about the sex on the beach reference…. here is the recipe for your holiday enjoyment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ttrv5v7owo
Neville Brand played Florrie Roscoe in Barbary Coast. Is that what you meant Bet?
I got it!!
Neville Brand played Reese Bennett on The Virginian
Ask Stennie about our trip to Pearl Harbor (re “the longest day”) it was very moving to meet and talk to all the vets and survivors there….
Damn, sorry to hear about Fiorello. He seemed like a cool fishdude. Hopefully the vodka let him go happy.
Appropriately enough, vodka is how I always figured bet would go.
I believe Alan Arkin’s wig DID win a special award for best of rug….
Also, wasn’t Zero Mostel blacklisted just before the Producers? or after? perhaps that’s why he was overlooked.
Welcome back ladies, I was hoping too to do a remote, but Stennie obviously was technically challenged with all the sand and surf, she practically destroyed her camera.
My low-light was definitely saying goodbye….
I remembered you were taking last week off, but I still didn’t get to finish listening to the last hucklebug in time to make a comment.
After hearing about The Longest Day, it made me wonder if you ever saw The Thin Red Line. I actually liked it better than Saving Private Ryan. It was overlooked, much like the entire Pacific war gets overlooked when people wax nostalgic about WW2. It was a crappier war, a crappier fight, and it dragged on. Plus there’s one particular cameo that always gets me in that movie.
Poor Fiorello. RIP
Listening to your toilet foibles, it has been decided that my parents’ Christmas present to me is a new toilet. I’m quite pleased. Finally, one that works, doesn’t run, and hopefully won’t clog. Now I have to pick one. A friend of mine just built a new bathroom, and the toilet in there seemed perfectly good. So, I’ll probably just get that one, assuming it’s the same connectors that my building uses.
Listening to the Oscars, I realized how many historical adaptations they did back then. Some of them were even accurate, unlike the stuff they drum up today which are total fiction. On the 1964 movies, I go with Dr. Strangelove, as much as I love Becket. Dr. S. really holds up and resonates even today. For 1965, I only saw two of the ones that were nominated, and I’d have to pick Sound of Music over Dr. Zhivago, but I could see there may have been something better. However I HAYTE The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. For 1968, I’m going with the Lion in Winter. No question. The Oliver thing was a travesty.
Happy Turkey Day! Susan had a great alternate name for it that cracked me up, but I can’t remember what it was. Something like “The Day of Turkey Martyrdom”.
Well, I don’t really buy any gas at all these days because I don’t own any kind of motor vehicle. So, I’m pretty sure the ducks aren’t dying because of me anymore
Bet, you listen to the music God plays? On high?
Imagine how cool God’s iPod must be…
I remember music match, yeah, it was pretty bad. I miss Winamp on my Mac. And I understand why people like iTunes, it’s just a little monopolistic these days and I still feel like it tries to do too much. The really nice thing about OSX is that I don’t even need to use a media player—the OS will play tracks without even opening another app. It’s nice.
310 REG-ULAR was the best one I could find out of those available
It’s hard to find a good vanity number without paying for it.
Peter Sellers is brilliant (imo) when he is at his most subtle. Dr. Strangelove and Lolita are his best films, by my judgment.
I’m looking forward to the Grizzly Man Christmas Special!!
It will DEFINITELY be better than the Star Wars Holiday Special!!
Damn—my mp3 download must have cut out half-way through because my copy of this week’s show ended just after Bet talks about watching the in-laws again. I’ll have to give it another go…
OK, got the rest of the ep.
Bet, did you fall asleep during “Saving Private Ryan”? That was a WWII movie. I WISH I could have slept through it. I did not care for that film.
Sounds like a rockin’ stool, Bet! Happy birthday to Mr. M. I jealous of your rubber stamp.
Not the content, per se, but the fact that someone cares enough about you to make a rubber stamp for you. You must really be important!! ^_^
Sad for Fiorello 🙁 sorry you had to deal with that, Sten. I’ve owned cats my whole life and know what you went through.
Congrats to Bet on the plumbing success! I would not be so capable.
Comcast does suck.
Perhaps Captain Asshole could get a promotion?
Admiral Asshole?
Brigadier General Asshole?
Sound of Music is bleh. On a moral level I think it’s like making non-Jews feel like they could identify with Jews who were persecuted in Europe. On a strictly good/bad-movie-side of things, it’s just so frothy and boring and makes me long for “West Side Story” which has, you know, things happening.
Oh and Sten, a friend of mine just saw a digitally restored version of Sand Pebbles and said it was a really great film. I’m looking forward to seeing it if it ever screens *off* the Fox lot, which is where my friend saw it.
Lion In Winter—excellent movie. Just sayin’.
You guys don’t know what looping is? It’s the process of adding sounds to the sound track from inside a recording studio. It can be done with random sounds for background realism (like footsteps or doors closing) or it can be done for dialog, say if the sound man did a crap job on location.
The reason it’s called “looping” is because of the film clips they project—so that the sound fx person or actor can see the footage they are adding sound/dialog to over and over and over, the director can get multiple takes. Doing this for dialog is also known as ADR, or Articulate Dialog Replacement. In older films you can totally tell when dialog is added and it often cracks me up if the looped line is integral or just strange. Most of Sophia Coppola’s lines in Godfather 3 were looped because she sucks.
HAPPY TURKEY DAY!!
OH and my opinion on Alan Arkin is:
Hey, just wanted to mention a program I’m taking part in called “Give 1 Get 1” run by the One Laptop Per Child non-profit. To make a long story short, OLPC exists to create a $100 laptop that 3rd World governments can afford to buy so that one laptop per child can go to the kids in their country. They have yet to get the XO laptop (as it’s called) down to $100, but it does run for $200 and for the next week (this program started 8 days ago) they’ll be taking orders for people in North America who want to buy their own XO for $400—the reason for the price jump is because you will get an XO and so will a kid in the 3rd World, hence the name “Give 1 Get 1”.
Anyway, so I ordered mine back on the 12th (that’s how I’m taking part) and I hope that any of you fellow Hucklebuggers would be interested in taking part, too. I’ve done loads of research on the XO laptop, and while it’s no MacBook Pro, it is a cool (and useful) little device whether you’re in the 1st or 3rd World. Also, T-Mobile is giving away a free year’s worth of free wifi HotSpot service which almost covers the $400—I think it’s $40 short.
Anyway, for a short but sweet primer on the XO, check out my post on it here: http://thepete.com/the-xo-for-sale
You can also check out http://xogiving.org if you want to go ahead and place your order. Just remember you’ve got exactly 7 days to do this. (although you can feel free to donate through the same website, any time)
Also, you’re not going to order from Dell or Apple—this is a non-profit and as a result, it may take 1-4 months for delivery, I was told. They’re building each XO laptop as it’s being ordered, which is bizarre, but hey, we’re supporting a good cause. If you have any questions leave comments at my site or email me at thepetecomATgmailDOTcom
Thanks and sorry to hijack the comments again! I promise to stop now.