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Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  StelBel
1 year ago

Doesn’t this image of Barbara Stanwyck look a lot like Uma Thurman in the Pulp Fiction poster?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
1 year ago

For a second, I thought it was Uma Thurman.

Then I realized I was thinking of that poster.

nighthawks
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
1 year ago

this one?

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P51Strega
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

Same attitude

dennisinseattle
Reply to  StelBel
1 year ago

Awful posture!

P51Strega
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Reply to  dennisinseattle
1 year ago

It hurts to straighten out, so he leans even further, which makes it hurt more to straighten. It’s a vicious cycle.

Alexikakos
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Reply to  StelBel
1 year ago

 
This     LINK     leads to the animator’s (Kris Howes) sort-of website.
This gif ( pronounced JIFF by the late programmer who wrote it) is titled “Choo Choo;” there is at least one other gif by him in different colouring with the same name / but you have to dig).
 

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Reply to  StelBel
1 year ago

 
Buster Keaton in: “The General”
We’ve seen this before, and I’ve posted this movie before, but as I said the first time, some of the film techniques invented here are in use today.
 

 

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1 year ago

McMenamin’s had a “History Pub” get together about the movie being made in/near Cottage Grove, OR. It was said that the old locomotive was still in the river until the beginning of WW II when it was retrieved for the iron.

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Reply to  StelBel
1 year ago

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Alexikakos
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1 year ago

 
This one is from “Steamboat Bill, Jr.”
 

 
The scene in the gif begins at the 59 minute 8 second mark (the full sequence is pure slap stick).
 

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Reply to  Alexikakos
1 year ago

I know…

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  Tigressy
1 year ago

I hate it when that happens.

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Reply to  StelBel
1 year ago

Teachers? Chaperones?
Fun fact: one German word for the latter is “Anstandswauwau”.

dennisinseattle
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1 year ago

There are two dogs that don’t belong.

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Reply to  dennisinseattle
1 year ago

Those are the ones I’m referring to in my comment above.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  dennisinseattle
1 year ago

3? The one in the middle of the 2nd row might not be poodle. Or all poodle.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  StelBel
1 year ago

Be kind.

Hawthorne Poodle Academy prides itself on its non discrimination policies.

Rusty and Blackie have both felt since puppyhood that they were born in the wrong bodies, and were meant to be poodles

I don’t know when or whether either will actually transition, surgically, but so far, they have taken poodle names, and identify as poodles.

It’s very brave.

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1 year ago

 
I cannot find a direct credit for the photograph, but it is definitely a photograph taken on behalf of “Pink Poodle RVA”, on River Road in Chesterfield, Virginia.
 

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Liverlips McCracken
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1 year ago

Double Dog Indemnity: What a scheming, conniving bitch is Ms. Stanhound.

dennisinseattle
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1 year ago

Strange, I don’t remember this one, even though Double Indemnity is close to my heart. Anyway, I love it!

SusanSunshine
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1 year ago

Oh!

It’s “Double Dog Indemnity” … which is regarded as helping set the standard for doggy noir films.

I wasn’t born yet when it was made, but I saw it when I was still quite young… a very complicated, convoluted film, confusing to me in its rather adult themes.

I’m surprised my mother allowed it.

I didn’t know that it had challenged the prewar production codes in effect… the vestiges of the depression-era Hays Code, which had stemmed what it considered the moral excesses of the 1920’s.

It almost didn’t get made due to its theme of multiple adulteries inciting murder.

It’s a film where it seems like everybody either mates with or shoots everybody else, sometimes not in the order you’d expect.

Barbara Stanhound is one cool customer… beautiful, and sleek…

She’s not the kind of dog you nickname “Babs” without permission…. or try to roughhouse with, or tease by playing keep-away with her favorite toy.

You’re likely to be met with as cold a stare as a basset can manage…

she’s no greyhound in that department, but she’s much better than any sight-hound at biting an overly familiar finger.

Billy WildDog, its director, considered it one of his best, if not his VERY best, film… even though it was one of his first.

However, it was nominated for a pile of Golden Biscuits, and lost every one to another film that the studio was pushing… Leo McCanine’s “Walking Me That Way.”

WildDog became so incensed, while waiting expectantly through the ceremony, that he actually sat in an aisle seat and tripped McCanine on his way to the podium to collect his Biscuit.

In spite of that behavior, this film went on to garner many awards, and WildDog went on to direct many Howlywood classics, from noir thrillers to hysterical canine comedy.

I later saw the pallid human imitation… look, they were embarrassed to even list the so called “stars” on that poster.

I never did understand the casting of the female human… or especially why the males were willing to murder for her.

She’s no Barbara Stanhound.

Sorry, but I just couldn’t see the glamor.

Another viewing of “Double Dog Indemnity”, as an adult, confirmed its vast superiority.

P51Strega
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1 year ago

I’m fairly early today, so I thought I’d post a favorite song by a band you haven’t heard of. They have original songs, and I like them all. The lead singer and writer is a high school friend of my daughter.

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1 year ago

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1 year ago

 
It’s not a yeast bread, but it’s French.
 
From: ;
Sunset Cook Book of BREADS
By the Editors of Sunset Books and Sunset Magazine
Lane Publishing Co. ● Menlo Park, California
Edited by: Susan Warton / Kandace Esplund Reeves Library of Congress No. 77-72513 / ISBN Title No. 0-376-02743-6
“French Honey Bread”
 
This firm-textured tea bread from France is called pain
d’epice. Typically, it is sliced thin and spread with soft
butter or cream cheese.
 
2 2/3 cups all-purpose flour, unsifted
1 teaspoon each ground cinnamon and soda
1 teaspoon each ground nutmeg and ground
cloves
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
3/4 cup honey
1 small can (about 6 oz.) evaporated milk
1/3 cup milk [whole milk — (3.25% milk fat)]
 
Stir together flour, cinnamon, soda, nutmeg cloves,
and salt until thoroughly blended. Mix in brown
sugar. In another bowl, beat together honey, evapo-
rated milk, and milk; add to dry ingredients and stir
just until blended. Pour into a greased and flour-
dusted 9 by 5-inch loaf pan.

 
   Bake in 325° oven for 1 hour and 10 minutes, until
bread begins to pull away from sides of pan and a
wooden skewer inserted in the center comes out
clean. Let cool in pan for 5 minutes, then turn out
onto a rack to cool completely.
   Wrap and store for 1 day before serving. Makes
1 loaf.
 
Notes from me:
Soda is baking soda.
Preheat the oven to the 325° F. called for.
With the amount of liquids and sugars in this recipe your baking time will quite literally depend on your altitude, and the weather outside, so keep an eye on it from the 45 minute mark.
I’d bake this on the third oven rack (top rack is first).
 

SusanSunshine
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1 year ago

Doodling around online instead of sleeping….

Cab Calloway was the recognized matter of scat singing, and taught it to some of the greats.

He was the first Black singer to have a million-selling record, with Minnie the Moocher..

….

The Nicholas Brothers could do impossible things, and danced like they were made out of rubber, with taps on their feet.

Not only did the routine in this 1944 video look impossible, it was filmed in one take, with no rehearsal and no precise choreography.

The brothers had been dancing together since childhood, and knew each other so well they could just get up there and do it.

Fred Astaire called that scene the best dance routine on film, and Mikhail Baryshnikov called them the best dancers he’d ever seen.

….

They were 7 years apart, and with no dance training but observation, were already a working, professional dance team at 11 and 18 years old (23 and 30 in 1944.)

They later taught some of the great and near-great, as well, and even taught tap at Harvard… In fact Michael and Janet Jackson both took lessons from them.

But it was Cab Calloway who invented the backward-motion gliding dance step, which you can see in some of his old films, that became the basis of Michael’s “moonwalk”.

Amazing.

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Alexikakos
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1 year ago

 
Extra 4:
Sadly, Stan Cline, pictured in the link passed away on February 25 of this year.
His website contains many, many more of his works.
The posting by StelBel is titled “Paramount Studios, Hollywood 1940”.
 
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MontanaLady
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1 year ago

never saw ‘double dog indemnity’ but each of the three videos got my feet tapping! they were just great, stel!

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1 year ago

and, the drawing of the paramount studios…. makes me remember driving past those magnificent gates just to get a glimpse of someone famous.

mr_sherman
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1 year ago

My wife was born on the same day they tested the atomic bomb in New Mexico. This is the outside of the invitation I made for this year’s party.

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Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  mr_sherman
1 year ago

Clearly, your future wife broke the mold.

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