Searching the image, I found a contested description of the event.
I thought it would be from a movie, but what’s agreed is that it’s George Clooney with a model, from a Vanity Fair photo shoot.
Also that what he’s standing on is called a half apple box, often used to add height in photos, because apparently they’re sturdy and a perfect size.
Some were saying Clooney needed it because he lies about his height, and the model is very tall, and the bottom would be trimmed from the picture.
Others pointed out that he’s actually 5’11”, which isn’t exactly short, and he’s appeared in lots of pictures with his wife, who is very tall, and wearing high heels, and he’s never made any attempt to make himself look taller than she is.
They say he did this as a joke, to spoof Hollywood image making, and the whole thing was meant to appear in the photo.
I looked for the photo spread online…. Couldn’t find it, but this picture appears on a page of outtakes. So we’ll never know the intent.
Or ..yeah… care, actually. But I didn’t want to waste all that searching, so I shared with you.
This makes it look like he’s crossing endless rows of railroad tracks, but it’s just cut very close and repeated.
In reality, there’s one track and then a street… I found the scene but it’s an MP4, and I don’t know whether those post here. I’ll try.
Anyway, one reason the scene is famous, is that it was filmed backwards. They started with him right in front of the train…. then it backed away.
Audiences didn’t know, and they were terrified. Wrote to him or the studio, begging him not to do such things. It greatly added to his image as a stunt daredevil.
Yeah, we watched Logan for a week. He gets around pretty well at grandma and grandpa’s house, partly because he’d been here before he went blind. Cinnamon just tolerates him, and they still play together once in awhile. They don’t tussle over thrown toys anymore.
Weighted, of course, for equivalent value… Even so, to say Caesar “owned” his conquests is disingenuous, so I’m sure some of the others are questionable too.
Thank you Cleo… And Nighthawks, who according to rumor, puts all the thoughts in your head…. though I’m not sure I like to believe it, because some of them are…. well, we all know what Cleo is like.
But this thought was kind.
We don’t do birthdays on Cleo. Maybe it’s an employee perk.
It wasn’t there when I stopped by earlier, but then I got distracted for a bit.
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She heard my age.
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I remember that episode! (When Lucy came out of the bathroom with toothpaste all over her face…)
close. it was Ethel who came out of the bathroom with a toothpaste mask
Really?? That was so much a Lucy line!
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But making getting out of it a nightmare!
Throw in a weighted blanket and your snug as a bug in a rug.
I think it might feel as if I were sleeping in a trap… Maybe caught by a giant clam, or a Venus flytrap.
She has no bedding, so you don’t notice that your blankets would pile up in the center, making you hot.
If you stretched out an arm or a leg to cool off, it would fall back down…. And as Steve said, you couldn’t climb out.
I don’t know why anyone would think it supports you “at every point”, since most of its points are at a steep angle that won’t hold you.
Most of the surface just dumps you off into the crease, like the filling in a taco.
well, it was 1932. in the midst of a century of much change.
this particular idea didn’t work out, for all the reasons you guys mentioned
I bet a decent hammock would have cost less anyway.
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Love the orange crate!
Being vertically challenged myself, I have stools and milk crates everywhere. In fact, I’m so short I need a stool to reach the ground.
Searching the image, I found a contested description of the event.
I thought it would be from a movie, but what’s agreed is that it’s George Clooney with a model, from a Vanity Fair photo shoot.
Also that what he’s standing on is called a half apple box, often used to add height in photos, because apparently they’re sturdy and a perfect size.
Some were saying Clooney needed it because he lies about his height, and the model is very tall, and the bottom would be trimmed from the picture.
Others pointed out that he’s actually 5’11”, which isn’t exactly short, and he’s appeared in lots of pictures with his wife, who is very tall, and wearing high heels, and he’s never made any attempt to make himself look taller than she is.
They say he did this as a joke, to spoof Hollywood image making, and the whole thing was meant to appear in the photo.
I looked for the photo spread online…. Couldn’t find it, but this picture appears on a page of outtakes. So we’ll never know the intent.
Or ..yeah… care, actually. But I didn’t want to waste all that searching, so I shared with you.
Susan kept urging me to run this, since it was her all-time favorite 😉
or was it she was urging me never to run it?
hm…
you. guys notice the fly that gets scooped up in there?
Glurgh….
Hey, parts is parts!
Well, you can have those parts.
I am willing…. nay, eager… to part with them.
We don’t eat them parts in these here parts.
And you’re very particular about that…
And not even partly impartial.
Gee thanks.
And was there a particular reason you chose April 16th to run it?
I feel so… um… honored.
Yeah… that must be the word. Honored.
BTW Candi loved it too.
We agreed on just how much we loved it.
I can just feel the love…
I could give you one out of a MAD book, but it’s 6 pages. I’m not sure how to handle something like that in Word Press.
Oh yeah… Don Martin was responsible for a world of upset stomachs.
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At first glance, this could be Robert De Niro or maybe Al Pacino, with… I dunno… maybe Hugh Grant?… in a period film.
But of course, I know it’s not, and not even because I can’t imagine DeNiro in plus fours.
It’s not them, because it’s genuinely old, and they weren’t alive yet.
The fellow on the left kinda surprised me when I searched this.
So I’ll use a probably unnecessary spoiler box..
He is Basil Rathbone, here with George Houston on the golf course in 1936.
Basil Rathbone, of course, went on to play the iconic version of Sherlock Holmes.
I’m unfamiliar with George Houston. Search says he was an opera singer who also appeared in westerns as “The Lone Rider”… (not Ranger)
Basil also notoriously played the evil sheriff of Nottingham in the 1938 film Robin Hood.
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Buster Keaton… who else?
This makes it look like he’s crossing endless rows of railroad tracks, but it’s just cut very close and repeated.
In reality, there’s one track and then a street… I found the scene but it’s an MP4, and I don’t know whether those post here. I’ll try.
Anyway, one reason the scene is famous, is that it was filmed backwards. They started with him right in front of the train…. then it backed away.
Audiences didn’t know, and they were terrified. Wrote to him or the studio, begging him not to do such things. It greatly added to his image as a stunt daredevil.
Let’s see whether this works…. Nope. WordPress pretends not to see it.
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Yeah, we watched Logan for a week. He gets around pretty well at grandma and grandpa’s house, partly because he’d been here before he went blind. Cinnamon just tolerates him, and they still play together once in awhile. They don’t tussle over thrown toys anymore.
Golden?
Two of them. Brother (Logan – 7) and sister (Cinnamon – 8) just from different litters.
,.,Weighted, of course, for equivalent value… Even so, to say Caesar “owned” his conquests is disingenuous, so I’m sure some of the others are questionable too.
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A bilingual pun…
And some completely raw chicken soup.
Funniest-looking ducks I’ve ever seen.
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I think so…
Slightly different mouth shape.
Yes….
And they don’t have his little sideways nose or his jawline. Or any jawline.
But at first glance those things aren’t very noticeable, or they weren’t to me.
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“Sometimes it gets lonely out on the range…”
They had some strange puppies out there in the West.
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Just out of curiosity how do you suppose they made an aerial view 1900 years ago?
It’s not mountainous terrain, and maps drawn from the ground are notoriously inaccurate.
Yeah, yeah… It’s probably a modern artist superimposing an ancient map on a current terrain view… Still it’s interesting to wonder how true it is
Happy Birthday, Susan!
Thank you, Steve!
Wow… I feel special.
Thank you Cleo… And Nighthawks, who according to rumor, puts all the thoughts in your head…. though I’m not sure I like to believe it, because some of them are…. well, we all know what Cleo is like.
But this thought was kind.
We don’t do birthdays on Cleo. Maybe it’s an employee perk.
It wasn’t there when I stopped by earlier, but then I got distracted for a bit.
Anyway I appreciate it.
Happy Birthday Susan !
Getting older is not given to everyone.
Thank you Voxx!
But what makes you think I’m o…..
Oh shoot, I can’t even ask that with a straight face… 😀
I wasn’t implying they you’re old ..just getting older because of a birthday.
You’re probably younger than I am. 😉
I doubt it! LOL!
I was only joking… Since I post about things I did in the long ago past, I couldn’t be a spring chicken.
Happy Birthday Susan, have a pair of Bassets to help you celebrate.
Why thank you, More_Cats!
They’re just the right size!
How did you know?
I forgot to say how much I love this birthday cartoon, with me and Cleo.
And imagine what a thrill it was, to get to pose with a genuine cartoon star!
Another honor, though unlike the hamburger cartoon, a real one!
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Thank you Tigressy!
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Thanks Happy³!
Now where have I seen that card? Did it used to say “hoppy?”
Ive got both. That was the one i could find! 😀
I have thus far failed to mention (slaps own hand) that I love this Indiana Bones story arc. Thrills, chills, and spills!
Agreed!
The Philadelphia skyline from the 60th and Market L station, looking eastbound.
I dunno why it looks startling… My first reaction was “yipes!”