I have never been the least bit interested in the movie, and today I just found out that Adrian (played by Talia Shire) is a woman ( that factoid is firmly in the category of completely-unimportant-things-I-didn’t-know-until-today).
The TV show that originally made James Garner famous.
He played gambler Bret Maverick… awhile later, Jack Kelly, the fellow on the right, was added as his brother Bart Maverick.
It was a Western, but funny.
The Maverick Brothers both liked flirting with women, and hated all the typical Western action stuff like gunfights and heroism, and pretended to be cowards.
They alternated episodes, but IIRC occasionally guest starred on each other’s weeks.
…
As I recall, i liked Garner a lot more than Kelly.
At some point Garner quit, and all the episodes were Kelly, till they brought in some other Maverick brothers or cousins.
One was Roger Moore, and I liked him, but I mostly lost interest and stopped watching.
I’ve heard of it, but it was made in the 90s, nearly 40 years after the Maverick TV show, which started in 1957, when Mel Gibson was only one year old!
Meanwhile James Garner was in dozens of movies and TV shows.
I liked some of them, and of course some, like TV’s “The Rockford Files” became very popular.
But somehow Garner always seemed like a television star, not a movie star.
I know the series. “Maverick” was on German TV in the 60s afair, “Rockford” in the 70s.
“Bret Maverick” is much younger than the original series – only 10 years older than the movie “Maverick”.
Thanks for the memory, Susan.
The box contains the lyrics.
As near as I can remember, there was no character named Annabel in the television series, but she became one in the movie.
I did look for a scene from television where Maverick is doing his gun tricks, but the only one I found is of such poor quality I’m not going to post it.
I’ve sometimes wondered if the ‘Nobody’ series of movies copied that type of scene deliberately; they seem very similar.
Who is the tall, dark stranger there?
Maverick is the name.
Ridin’ the trail to who knows where,
Luck is his companion,
Gamblin’ is his game.
Smooth as the handle on a gun.
Maverick is the name.
Wild as the wind in Oregon,
Blowin’ up a canyon,
Easier to tame.
Riverboat, ring your bell,
Fare thee well, Annabel.
Luck is the lady that he loves the best.
Natchez to New Orleans
Livin on jacks and queens
Maverick is a legend of the west.
Riverboat, ring your bell,
Fare thee well, Annabel.
Luck is the lady that he loves the best.
Natchez to New Orleans
Livin on jacks and queens
Maverick is a legend of the west.
Maverick is a legend of the west.
I never thought Annabelle was a specific character…
Just a name used in the song because it rhymed with “bell”, to represent all their love interests….and then they could point out that Maverick preferred “Lady Luck”.
Supposedly it’s not even about just one of the Maverick men, but applies to all of them… though I think there was only Bret in the beginning.
Why am I not surprised? There’s just something about this season… Sigh….
Three more days. Three more days….
I’ll make it. I hope 😁
…..
I have to say that even though I’m not the biggest fan of scary images, you have to love the way the moon is drawn here, with ghostly hands holding it.
And the…. Never mind. Could be a spoiler.
…
BTW tonight’s puzzle looks very small on my tablet. It’s wide, so to fit the width on the page, it’s shown not very tall.
For those of you new here, or who just didn’t think about it… yes, you can do Control+ on a Windows PC, or no doubt some equivalent on a Mac… to enlarge everything on the page, including the images.
But don’t forget in most systems you can do some equivalent of right clicking and opening the image in a new window, where it might have better resolution, and it won’t enlarge all the wording as well.
….
OK.
Since I’m here, I may as well leave you with the solution.
Be sure you’ve done your best to find all nine differences before you peek.
To me, it seems a bit easier this week, so I know you can do it.
And there are too many ghosts and goblins and assorted scary creatures about to risk misbehaving. They’ll know.
I got five on the first look this morning, and all nine just now. It’s quite amazing how you can totally miss something that’s right out in the open sometimes!
I had the same miss and wondered if the other was one or two differences. I didn’t quit at that one because past experience has been if something moves and changes, it typically only counts once.
There certainly IS a lot going on in this puzzle. For me, I really liked that all of the “additions” were in the right-hand half of the puzzle, much easier for me to “square-out” the differences.
Like liked, too, what Liverlips mentioned, the hands over the Man-in-the-Moon’s eyes.
But I especially like the cat’s eyes peering out of the bottom windows. CATS RULE!
I always mark all the changes in the right panel, even if that means I circle (or technically “square”) an empty spot where something from the left panel has disappeared.
Makes it much easier to keep track.
Also to search, because instead of trying to grasp the entire picture and its changes in one glance, I look at each individual part of the left panel, and then look to see whether it’s the same on the right.
I.e. If the dog’s eyes are open on the left, are they open on the right? If the branch has six leaves, if the teapot faces to the left, or the curtains are drawn…. item by item… one at a time, I check the right panel and mark whatever differs.
Yah, for me today it was more for there being “nothing missing” on the right side, all the “missings” were on the left today. I, too, mark-up the right side with the differences.
For the comparisons of left to right, many ways to do it; I imagine everyone has their own method(s).
I look quickly in sections starting at the top left and work my way across and down. If there are boxes within the puzzle proper then I section them out. Then when I do the first run and still searching, I first look where there are not-yet-identified-areas and have a look there. Then get down into the nitty-gritty if needed. And every puzzle has a different tactic at times depending upon what Nighthawks has done.
All-in-all, I have a lot of fun doing them. Challenging, sometimes frustrating, but alway fun and rewarding — in trying to keep my remaining grey cells firing…
For sure! Many ways to split that puzzler! Type-A, Type-B, who knows why…
Interesting tidbit about the left and right disappearing articles being more tied to one originator, I had not noticed (other than it alternating irregularly to me), but then again, you would certainly know who the originator would be. Cool!
The healthy sour cream neutralizes all the calories in the chocolate.
From: ; The Canadian Living COOKBOOK
By Carol Ferguson and the food writers of Canadian Living Magazine
Published by Random House of Canada
1265 Aerowood Drive
Mississauga, Ontario Canada
L4W 1B9
SOUR CREAM CHOCOLATE FROSTING
This simplest of all chocolate frosting recipes makes a beautifully glossy, not-too-sweet frosting that spreads perfectly and stays soft.
6 oz (1 cup) semi-sweet chocolate chips 175 g
1/2 cup sour cream 125 ml
• In heavy saucepan, double boiler or microwave
oven, melt chocolate chips; remove from heat.
Stir in sour cream; beat until smooth. Chill to
spreading consistency, about 15 minutes. Makes
enough for one 8- or 9-inch (2 or 2.5 L) square
pan, or one 8- or 9-inch (1.2 or 1.5 L) round pan
or one 13 × 9-inch (3.5 L) rectangular pan or a
small layer cake.
Notes from me:
Using only the English units in order (top areas only calculated):
64 square inches
81 square inches
50 square inches
64 square inces
117 square inches
You’re going to have different thicknesses of frosting on all of the cakes.
Regular sour cream in Canada is14% milk fat. In the U.S. it’s around 20% (the use of which will only improve the recipe).
I got it in the 70s, from an already old memoir about food, not really a cookbook, but with some recipes.
It’s very dark, and not as sweet as most chocolate frosting. It doesn’t really stay soft by the next day, but it’s a great texture.
For people I think won’t like such strong dark chocolate, I melt a couple of tablespoons of butter with the chocolate, and add some powdered sugar and a teeny bit of milk to the mixture.
I usually add a teaspoon of vanilla after it’s mixed… Not directly into melted chocolate or it will seize up.
It’s endlessly scalable… I don’t measure the pans.
If it’s not a very small cake, I just make half again or twice as much.
Plus you can spread it thick or thin.
Whatever doesn’t go on the cake can go on a dish or a piece of waxed paper, and makes a bit of wonderful fudge.
Today’s Songs:
‘Simply Irresistible,’ ‘Sky Pilot,’ ‘Smoke on the Water,’ and ‘Smokin’ in The Boys Room,’and the ‘Cheap Thrills Cuisine’ recipe ‘Beef Gumbo.’
This is the ‘official’ video. There is a fan posting of a version using a collage of the late Dianna Rigg in her role as Mrs. Peel.
‘Eric Burden and the Animals’ it reached number 14 in the U.S..
The smoke was the smoke on Lake Geneva from a fire the band witnessed.
‘Motley Crue’ not the original by ‘Brownsville Station’ because I like it better.
I’ve again put a link to StelBel’s recipe page. Click on ‘Show All Comments’, and her ‘Chicken,Shrimp,Ham and Sausage Filé Gumbo‘ recipe is right there.
.
Ok, I know there must be treats.
I can’t smell ’em… but if that guys waiting, I’ll wait.
Just don’t give them those rosary beads!
The last time, he pretended to throw the ball. I’m starting to wonder about this guy….
There is more than one copy of this statue set.
It is a depiction of St. Francis taming the wolf of Gubbo.
Where this one is I do not know.
Who knew a dog could be a catholic?
Treats??? I’ll be whatever you want me to be!
I thought only bears were…
2 NOSES
and a saint francis!
My favorite saint.
,
,
Ya shoulda seen the other guy!
Ever Given?
I have never been the least bit interested in the movie, and today I just found out that Adrian (played by Talia Shire) is a woman ( that factoid is firmly in the category of completely-unimportant-things-I-didn’t-know-until-today).
I see you’re like me… enjoys living under rocks.
I don’t enjoy it, but…
,
I think Bertie, there, outside the window, is really a blue jay…
But he’s dressed up as a goldfish to go trick or treating for Halloween.
He’s gonna go knock on their door in a minute, right?
That must be it.
…
Cos… you know… fish can’t fly…
so otherwise, there’s something really weird about this picture…
And… um… Nighthawks wouldn’t post a picture of something really weird….
would he?
This woman and her cat live in the submerged house in the aquarium.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_fish
“An Old Friend (Amelie)” By: Dean Stuart (I think the woman at the table must be Amelie)
Because the fish is called Wanda?
Ooooh, if I can only get to him, I’ll eat like a king for weeks!!!
NOSE!
I don’t like fish that smells.
,
ML missed a DZIOB.
tried not to look at it!
.
They’re just waiting for the word…
Christmas is right around the corner.
And Halloween has to get over SOME time, right?
They can’t wait…. and neither can I!
i’ll echo that!
OK, ML, how many hidden noses do you see???
only 5…
“Did you say something about apples?”
Has a rather AI look to it to me, but good nevertheless.
5 NOSES!!!!!
seen at ‘Heathcliff’
.
James Garner on the left. I don’t know who the other guy is. Maybe a still from Support Your Local Sheriff/Gunfighter?
That’s from Maverick!
The TV show that originally made James Garner famous.
He played gambler Bret Maverick… awhile later, Jack Kelly, the fellow on the right, was added as his brother Bart Maverick.
It was a Western, but funny.
The Maverick Brothers both liked flirting with women, and hated all the typical Western action stuff like gunfights and heroism, and pretended to be cowards.
They alternated episodes, but IIRC occasionally guest starred on each other’s weeks.
…
As I recall, i liked Garner a lot more than Kelly.
At some point Garner quit, and all the episodes were Kelly, till they brought in some other Maverick brothers or cousins.
One was Roger Moore, and I liked him, but I mostly lost interest and stopped watching.
Not to forget the movie with Mel Gibson in the title role where James Garner starred as well…
@Alexikakos Please don’t spoil that, ok?
I’ve never seen that one…
I’ve heard of it, but it was made in the 90s, nearly 40 years after the Maverick TV show, which started in 1957, when Mel Gibson was only one year old!
Meanwhile James Garner was in dozens of movies and TV shows.
I liked some of them, and of course some, like TV’s “The Rockford Files” became very popular.
But somehow Garner always seemed like a television star, not a movie star.
I know the series. “Maverick” was on German TV in the 60s afair, “Rockford” in the 70s.
“Bret Maverick” is much younger than the original series – only 10 years older than the movie “Maverick”.
I saw that movie.
But otherwise;…..If I had any clue what you are talking about….
an all-time favorite movie!
This may be a reminder for some of you.
A piece of ancient history for others.
Weird wordpress things going on… Videos shifting places again.
If you see a video of Robert Palmer here, refresh the page!
What I posted is the “Maverick” theme song.
The box contains the lyrics.
As near as I can remember, there was no character named Annabel in the television series, but she became one in the movie.
I did look for a scene from television where Maverick is doing his gun tricks, but the only one I found is of such poor quality I’m not going to post it.
I’ve sometimes wondered if the ‘Nobody’ series of movies copied that type of scene deliberately; they seem very similar.
Who is the tall, dark stranger there?
Maverick is the name.
Ridin’ the trail to who knows where,
Luck is his companion,
Gamblin’ is his game.
Smooth as the handle on a gun.
Maverick is the name.
Wild as the wind in Oregon,
Blowin’ up a canyon,
Easier to tame.
Riverboat, ring your bell,
Fare thee well, Annabel.
Luck is the lady that he loves the best.
Natchez to New Orleans
Livin on jacks and queens
Maverick is a legend of the west.
Riverboat, ring your bell,
Fare thee well, Annabel.
Luck is the lady that he loves the best.
Natchez to New Orleans
Livin on jacks and queens
Maverick is a legend of the west.
Maverick is a legend of the west.
I never thought Annabelle was a specific character…
Just a name used in the song because it rhymed with “bell”, to represent all their love interests….and then they could point out that Maverick preferred “Lady Luck”.
Supposedly it’s not even about just one of the Maverick men, but applies to all of them… though I think there was only Bret in the beginning.
..
NOSE!
A spooky house.
Why am I not surprised? There’s just something about this season… Sigh….
Three more days. Three more days….
I’ll make it. I hope 😁
…..
I have to say that even though I’m not the biggest fan of scary images, you have to love the way the moon is drawn here, with ghostly hands holding it.
And the…. Never mind. Could be a spoiler.
…
BTW tonight’s puzzle looks very small on my tablet. It’s wide, so to fit the width on the page, it’s shown not very tall.
For those of you new here, or who just didn’t think about it… yes, you can do Control+ on a Windows PC, or no doubt some equivalent on a Mac… to enlarge everything on the page, including the images.
But don’t forget in most systems you can do some equivalent of right clicking and opening the image in a new window, where it might have better resolution, and it won’t enlarge all the wording as well.
….
OK.
Since I’m here, I may as well leave you with the solution.
Be sure you’ve done your best to find all nine differences before you peek.
To me, it seems a bit easier this week, so I know you can do it.
And there are too many ghosts and goblins and assorted scary creatures about to risk misbehaving. They’ll know.
So when you’ve been GOOD… and I mean that….
I’ve got them all, but not quickly. Thanks for mentioning the hands over the man-in-the-moon’s eyes. I loved that too.
Yes; I thought it was easy, too.
I got five on the first look this morning, and all nine just now. It’s quite amazing how you can totally miss something that’s right out in the open sometimes!
I had the same miss and wondered if the other was one or two differences. I didn’t quit at that one because past experience has been if something moves and changes, it typically only counts once.
No matter what happens to one thing, it’s one difference.
In this case….
Perhaps it entailed making the “Danger” sign fit into the space… I dunno. That’s a Nighthawks question, not a Susan question.
But whatever the reason that it’s a bit bigger now, switching the two, right next to each other, is at least in my opinion, one difference.
If two very different things quite far apart in the picture were switched, it’s still probably one difference.
Honestly, I’m not sure… I hope that doesn’t happen because it’s not clear how to count it.
But in every case it’s the puzzle creator’s call, not mine.
There certainly IS a lot going on in this puzzle. For me, I really liked that all of the “additions” were in the right-hand half of the puzzle, much easier for me to “square-out” the differences.
Like liked, too, what Liverlips mentioned, the hands over the Man-in-the-Moon’s eyes.
But I especially like the cat’s eyes peering out of the bottom windows. CATS RULE!
I always mark all the changes in the right panel, even if that means I circle (or technically “square”) an empty spot where something from the left panel has disappeared.
Makes it much easier to keep track.
Also to search, because instead of trying to grasp the entire picture and its changes in one glance, I look at each individual part of the left panel, and then look to see whether it’s the same on the right.
I.e. If the dog’s eyes are open on the left, are they open on the right? If the branch has six leaves, if the teapot faces to the left, or the curtains are drawn…. item by item… one at a time, I check the right panel and mark whatever differs.
Yah, for me today it was more for there being “nothing missing” on the right side, all the “missings” were on the left today. I, too, mark-up the right side with the differences.
For the comparisons of left to right, many ways to do it; I imagine everyone has their own method(s).
I look quickly in sections starting at the top left and work my way across and down. If there are boxes within the puzzle proper then I section them out. Then when I do the first run and still searching, I first look where there are not-yet-identified-areas and have a look there. Then get down into the nitty-gritty if needed. And every puzzle has a different tactic at times depending upon what Nighthawks has done.
All-in-all, I have a lot of fun doing them. Challenging, sometimes frustrating, but alway fun and rewarding — in trying to keep my remaining grey cells firing…
Yes, it’s always a bit different.
My explanation of my method, while posted in a reply to you, was really aimed more at those who have a problem solving them…
Some of whom never comment about it.
…
Everybody reads everybody else’s replies, or at least, I hope they do.
This way they can read my method, and now yours, thanks, and maybe it’ll be helpful, without anybody asking for help…
…some probably not even realising there were suggestions or methods to be considered.
I tend to go by items, you by sections, but it seems we both cover the whole puzzle by breaking it into increments.
Some people just stare at the whole thing, hoping differences will pop out; that doesn’t work as well.
….
BTW when Stel makes a puzzle, she nearly always puts… or rather takes away… disappearing items from the right side.
For sure! Many ways to split that puzzler! Type-A, Type-B, who knows why…
Interesting tidbit about the left and right disappearing articles being more tied to one originator, I had not noticed (other than it alternating irregularly to me), but then again, you would certainly know who the originator would be. Cool!
Sat there forever with 8. Gave up and looked at the solution. I had them all, but miscounted. Story of my life.
Got em quickly, for a change.
I got eight tonight!
I’ll try for nine in the mornin.
Love the Platters!
“Come play with us…”
But the spooks know better than joining the twins and stay safely in their haunted house.
Apropos: The movie “Haunted Mansion” is not bad at all…
I’m one of those weirdos who isn’t too into chocolate
Weirdo! 😁
The healthy sour cream neutralizes all the calories in the chocolate.
From: ;
The Canadian Living COOKBOOK
By Carol Ferguson and the food writers of Canadian Living Magazine
Published by Random House of Canada
1265 Aerowood Drive
Mississauga, Ontario Canada
L4W 1B9
SOUR CREAM CHOCOLATE FROSTING
This simplest of all chocolate frosting recipes
makes a beautifully glossy, not-too-sweet frosting
that spreads perfectly and stays soft.
6 oz (1 cup) semi-sweet chocolate chips 175 g
1/2 cup sour cream 125 ml
• In heavy saucepan, double boiler or microwave
oven, melt chocolate chips; remove from heat.
Stir in sour cream; beat until smooth. Chill to
spreading consistency, about 15 minutes. Makes
enough for one 8- or 9-inch (2 or 2.5 L) square
pan, or one 8- or 9-inch (1.2 or 1.5 L) round pan
or one 13 × 9-inch (3.5 L) rectangular pan or a
small layer cake.
Notes from me:
Using only the English units in order (top areas only calculated):
64 square inches
81 square inches
50 square inches
64 square inces
117 square inches
You’re going to have different thicknesses of frosting on all of the cakes.
Regular sour cream in Canada is14% milk fat. In the U.S. it’s around 20% (the use of which will only improve the recipe).
That’s my favorite frosting.
I got it in the 70s, from an already old memoir about food, not really a cookbook, but with some recipes.
It’s very dark, and not as sweet as most chocolate frosting. It doesn’t really stay soft by the next day, but it’s a great texture.
For people I think won’t like such strong dark chocolate, I melt a couple of tablespoons of butter with the chocolate, and add some powdered sugar and a teeny bit of milk to the mixture.
I usually add a teaspoon of vanilla after it’s mixed… Not directly into melted chocolate or it will seize up.
It’s endlessly scalable… I don’t measure the pans.
If it’s not a very small cake, I just make half again or twice as much.
Plus you can spread it thick or thin.
Whatever doesn’t go on the cake can go on a dish or a piece of waxed paper, and makes a bit of wonderful fudge.
The mummy and Frankenstein agree “MMMmmmmmmmm”, and who am I to argue. ☺
YAY!
Works for me. In any form.
I’m very found of Chicken in Mole. Mmmm!
‘Simply Irresistible,’ ‘Sky Pilot,’ ‘Smoke on the Water,’ and ‘Smokin’ in The Boys Room,’and the ‘Cheap Thrills Cuisine’ recipe ‘Beef Gumbo.’
This is the ‘official’ video. There is a fan posting of a version using a collage of the late Dianna Rigg in her role as Mrs. Peel.
‘Eric Burden and the Animals’ it reached number 14 in the U.S..
The smoke was the smoke on Lake Geneva from a fire the band witnessed.
‘Motley Crue’ not the original by ‘Brownsville Station’ because I like it better.
I’ve again put a link to StelBel’s recipe page. Click on ‘Show All Comments’, and her ‘Chicken,Shrimp,Ham and Sausage Filé Gumbo‘ recipe is right there.
STEBEL’s CHICKEN,SHRIMP,HAM AND SAUSAGE FILÉ GUMBO
Apropos Dame Diana Rigg: “All Creatures Great and Small” anyone?
She was in that? I didn’t see all of the episodes for that one.
New series; Mrs. Pumphrey, first season(s).
Wow, all great songs. It must be a relatively recent video for Smoking in the Boy’s Room because there’s no smoking.