It was my impression that the stars were given the questions, and possibly the answers, ahead of time, to allow them time to think of snappy responses.
For example:
Peter Marshall to Paul Lynde: “Paul, what are two things you should never do in bed?”
Paul Lynde: “Point and laugh.”
There is a story about a vocal piece in a Mozart opera where the soprano must alternate between a higher note and a lower note.
He wrote it that way because he knew the singer that was going to play the roll during the premier. He didn’t like her.
He knew that she tended to drop her chin on low notes and raise her head during high notes.
He said that he wanted to see her bob her head like a chicken.
But the tagline Steve quoted is for “American Graffiti”… the 1973 film that spawned a lot of rising stars, and features scenes at Mel’s.
It was set in Modesto, California, and filmed in San Rafael and Petaluma, California.
The only reason reproduced Mel’s Drive-ins are located at Universal Studios tour locations, is because “American Graffiti” was distributed as a Universal film.
Otherwise there have never been Mel’s locations in Florida… It’s a California chain.
I was only teasng about your being in the right place for American Graffiti, a very California movie, and the reason for the existence of that restaurant on the Universal Studios tour.
I mean sure… if you had your portrait taken, you might have a framed copy. But I’m not sure you’d display it prominently in a publicity photo.
Probably be didn’t choose any of the props, though. Maybe the dog.
He was a cultured rich kid that the studio and his own acting ambitions were selling as a tough guy and sports hero… So they surrounded him with he-man paraphernalia.
In addition to humans making bad copydog versions of classic basset hound movies, they also make bad, copydog versions of their own classic movies… which are often already the aforementioned copies of basset movies.
Sometimes they make them into television programs, which can be yet another level down, if they don’t get Hollywood star power in the leading roles.
That said…. I recognized
this actor…
Peter Lawford
but not
the actress, till I looked it up…
Phyllis Kirk
Turns out they were…
starring in….
A late 1950s television series version of the great 1930s classic film, The Thin Man, and its sequels, which were based on the wonderful book by Dashiel Hammet. They even have the quintessential 1930s accessory… a wire-hair terrier.
Okay, I confess I never saw it, or if I did I don’t remember.
Maybe it was good.
Um… Sorry…. but not “judging” links, or asking for clarification about them, which is what I was quite politely doing, is a good way to lose your computer.
I can’t read minds and have no way to know it’s a “shortcut”… I only see a link that says “download” and ends in “mp4”.
Normally that would be a link to download an mp4 file, which can be a whole movie, and exceed the storage of my low-end tablet.
That looks like a juvenile bald eagle…I saw a number of them in northern Washington along the coast, on pilings just like that. One was on the ground eating a fish that it had caught. I was 15 feet away in my car taking photos, when an adult came swooping in and stole the fish from the younger bird. Life is tough for teenagers everywhere!
September looms…. still a hot weather month where I live, in fact, often warmer than June, with its lingering fog…
But school has started, the nights are getting crisp, and we need to squeeze all we can out of the last of summer.
The beaches this far north in California tend to be rocky, untamed and cold…. You won’t find boardwalks or even hot dog vendors.
So I’d guess this fellow is plying his wares on the East Coast, maybe New Jersey?
Get yer balloons, yer hats, yer inflatable teddy bears, bats, and balls, for a last romp in the sun, before we start thinking about decorating for Halloween.
So what do you need? Tell you what HE needs…. IMHO anyway… a slightly larger footstool.
And another thing to look for, as you peruse his offerings….
TEN DIFFERENCES between these two panels…
And hopefully, your finds will look
a lot like mine:
BTW… you’ll see a stray pink mark on one bear… It’s not a difference.
The app I use to do this has changed.
It shows me my lines very thin, and then enlarges them when I save. So I can’t really see what I’m doing till I save the image, and I can (and did) miss a tiny mark, till too late.
Thanks, Susan, for the solution. Surprisingly, I found all 10, but t’wasn’t easy, a lot of congestion of differences concentrated into the one area for certain! One of the more diabolical Find The Differences out of the C&C Factory!
From yesterday.
Thanks.
I looked her up.
Here’s the U.R.L. of her “X” video touting her bill banning climate control.
Forgive me, but she doesn’t sound any too bright.
.
The joys of motherhood.
..
A rose by any other name…is still beautiful.
…
Okay, that was none of my first four guesses…
Wow… It’s real!
I thought somebody had finagled something…
But it’s a real photo of a paved road that faces an incredible view of Mount Taranaki, also known as Mount Egmont, in New Zealand.
It’s credited to “Flipflopwanderers”… who may or may not include the wanderers pictured.
Wouldn’t have been one of my guesses at all… though I know New Zealand has some beautiful places.
.,
I’m not doing very well tonight — obviously before my time…
(Or after?)
I’d think smack dab on the middle… But maybe, like me, you never watched it.
I recognize several faces that i can’t put names too.
I recognize almost all of them, all from different shows…. but not sure why they’d be together.
I don’t know the fellow in the glasses or the one at far right.
Gonna search it… BRB!
I should have guessed!
Not something I ever watched, but it did bring disparate types together at one time.
They’re all there
And I should have gotten them all… I knew them but didn’t recognize those two photos…
Yes! Yes they are!
My pop wasn’t impressed much with most television, but he did love to watch that show.
I watched the occasional episode. If the ad-libs were real it would have been good, but I’m skeptical…
I never watched the whole show, that I can remember… But of course you see bits, when visiting a neighbor, or clips on Johnny Carson…
I always felt like some of those were scripted and rehearsed.
It was my impression that the stars were given the questions, and possibly the answers, ahead of time, to allow them time to think of snappy responses.
For example:
Peter Marshall to Paul Lynde: “Paul, what are two things you should never do in bed?”
Paul Lynde: “Point and laugh.”
,
Stopped in awe in the middle of coughing up her own (hair)ball…
Looks to me like her head is just bobbing along with the bouncing ball.
There is a story about a vocal piece in a Mozart opera where the soprano must alternate between a higher note and a lower note.
He wrote it that way because he knew the singer that was going to play the roll during the premier. He didn’t like her.
He knew that she tended to drop her chin on low notes and raise her head during high notes.
He said that he wanted to see her bob her head like a chicken.
Nasty!
,,
Spotlight on toes.
En pointe?
Mais oui!
,.
Where were you in ’62?
I was at minus 3 years, already warming the engine 😁
Wrong part of the world. I was in California. But that photo is in Florida. Universal Studios.
But the tagline Steve quoted is for “American Graffiti”… the 1973 film that spawned a lot of rising stars, and features scenes at Mel’s.
It was set in Modesto, California, and filmed in San Rafael and Petaluma, California.
The only reason reproduced Mel’s Drive-ins are located at Universal Studios tour locations, is because “American Graffiti” was distributed as a Universal film.
Otherwise there have never been Mel’s locations in Florida… It’s a California chain.
So I think you were in the right place after all!
I stand by my statement – the photo above is not the Mel’s Diner in California. It’s a photo of Universal Studios.
Mel’s Drive-In: Experience American Graffiti’s Charm | TikTok
the signage, the building attached at the left, the building behind at the right…
Mel’s Drive-In™ Restaurant | Universal Studios Florida™
So yes, I was in California then. But that photo is from Florida.
I know the photo is in Florida!
I agreed that it was at Universal studios.
I was only teasng about your being in the right place for American Graffiti, a very California movie, and the reason for the existence of that restaurant on the Universal Studios tour.
I just didn’t want you to feel left out!
I started kindergarten.
Wherever my mother put me.
,…
What…. you expected them to share??
Where do you get a hotdog that big?!
I think it’s more like a deli counter bologna… a bit on the small side, but could be a different lunch meat that comes in smaller slices….
Or it could (hopefully) be one made especially for fish.
In any case, it looks like an awfully big meal for one fish!
In this case: China.
.,.,.,
A vacation photo from one of the little monkeys, who works at the Tiki Bar.
Yeah yeah… before someone “corrects” me… the little monkeys are actually pigmy marmosets.
But they feel that people afford them more dignity in the workplace, if they call themselves monkeys, and so we do.
.
.,.
An interesting NEW YORK POST article about him.
I just read it… And it says, among other things, what I said about him too. Whew.
Funny that he has in own picture in a frame.
I mean sure… if you had your portrait taken, you might have a framed copy. But I’m not sure you’d display it prominently in a publicity photo.
Probably be didn’t choose any of the props, though. Maybe the dog.
He was a cultured rich kid that the studio and his own acting ambitions were selling as a tough guy and sports hero… So they surrounded him with he-man paraphernalia.
,,..
.
In addition to humans making bad copydog versions of classic basset hound movies, they also make bad, copydog versions of their own classic movies… which are often already the aforementioned copies of basset movies.
Sometimes they make them into television programs, which can be yet another level down, if they don’t get Hollywood star power in the leading roles.
That said…. I recognized
Turns out they were…
Okay, I confess I never saw it, or if I did I don’t remember.
Maybe it was good.
But I still want to ask: WHY??
They are
Apropos:
archive.org/download/murder-by-death_202502/Murder%20by%20Death.mp4
No clutter and legal.
That looks like a link to download the whole movie.
Is it?
Wouldn’t want to do that on my tablet!
You can just watch it.
Don’t judge a link by its name – I provided a shortcut.
Um… Sorry…. but not “judging” links, or asking for clarification about them, which is what I was quite politely doing, is a good way to lose your computer.
I can’t read minds and have no way to know it’s a “shortcut”… I only see a link that says “download” and ends in “mp4”.
Normally that would be a link to download an mp4 file, which can be a whole movie, and exceed the storage of my low-end tablet.
No need to be rude.
.,
Interesting. Painted her flaws and all. I wonder if she insisted on it?
She’s beautiful. Any flaws, IMHO, are barely noticeable.
flaws?
…,,,
That looks like a juvenile bald eagle…I saw a number of them in northern Washington along the coast, on pilings just like that. One was on the ground eating a fish that it had caught. I was 15 feet away in my car taking photos, when an adult came swooping in and stole the fish from the younger bird. Life is tough for teenagers everywhere!
The first year is the hardest.
September looms…. still a hot weather month where I live, in fact, often warmer than June, with its lingering fog…
But school has started, the nights are getting crisp, and we need to squeeze all we can out of the last of summer.
The beaches this far north in California tend to be rocky, untamed and cold…. You won’t find boardwalks or even hot dog vendors.
So I’d guess this fellow is plying his wares on the East Coast, maybe New Jersey?
Get yer balloons, yer hats, yer inflatable teddy bears, bats, and balls, for a last romp in the sun, before we start thinking about decorating for Halloween.
So what do you need? Tell you what HE needs…. IMHO anyway… a slightly larger footstool.
And another thing to look for, as you peruse his offerings….
TEN DIFFERENCES between these two panels…
And hopefully, your finds will look
BTW… you’ll see a stray pink mark on one bear… It’s not a difference.
The app I use to do this has changed.
It shows me my lines very thin, and then enlarges them when I save. So I can’t really see what I’m doing till I save the image, and I can (and did) miss a tiny mark, till too late.
Thanks, Susan, for the solution. Surprisingly, I found all 10, but t’wasn’t easy, a lot of congestion of differences concentrated into the one area for certain! One of the more diabolical Find The Differences out of the C&C Factory!
You’re welcome!
And yes, I thought it was a bit harder than usual, mostly because the original cover art is so pale.
Once my eyes got accustomed to it, almost like working in a dimly lit room, it got easier…. but certainly still harder than some.
You’re right, too, and I don’t think this is spoilerish, about the traffic congestion 🙂
Fun, though.
Well, i got six on my phone. An’d i’m quite happy with that!
From yesterday.
Thanks.
I looked her up.
Here’s the U.R.L. of her “X” video touting her bill banning climate control.
Forgive me, but she doesn’t sound any too bright.
https://x.com/i/status/1945235019565281734
I think it’s safe to say that there is no danger of her becoming a MENSA member.