February 15, 2022

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MontanaLady
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Reply to  StelBel
2 years ago

Loved the tour of ‘Old Hollywood’. It’s nice to see all the places we dated at in their early years. We saw Star Wars at Graumans.

perkycat
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Reply to  MontanaLady
2 years ago

Yes, always loved driving through Hollywood and I recognize some of those buildings. We went to Graumans Chinese Theater a few times.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  StelBel
2 years ago

I hate that Heinz once used this song, years ago, for a ketchup commercial…

Picture a close-up of the neck of an open bottle, held upside down while you hear…

“An… tic…i….pa… tion….♬♪ …… is making me wait ♫ ♪…”

The point was supposed to be that Heinz was so thick it was slow to pour…

but now I can’t even hear this without picturing a big red blob of ketchup about to fall.

Alexikakos
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2 years ago

 
The following quote…
 
In 1979, Heinz Ketchup made a commercial that featured Carly Simon’s hit
‘Anticipation’. The Taste that’s worth the wait. Carly sold the license to
Heinz for $50,000 so they could use her song.
 
…comes from      THIS WEBSITE.     The website’s opening page is a bit startling, but just scroll down and the article will appear.
The commercial is there (immediately after the quote / so are two versions of “Antcipation” including StelBel’s posted version / the lyrics are beneath that).
The article is much, much more than that though.
It strikes me as a well researched bit of biography, and touches on Carly Simon’s, now age 76, interactions with other well known people throughout her life; Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese, James Thurber, Cat Stevens, Sean Connery (who it is said offered a threesome to Carly and her sister)…etc. etc. etc. … there’s even a direct family scandal mentioned.
 

P51Strega
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Reply to  StelBel
2 years ago

That’s an all-time favorite of mine!♥

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  StelBel
2 years ago

I tried, Stel… I really did.

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2 years ago

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Alexikakos
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2 years ago

 
I hereby unabashedly state that I like “Stairway To Heaven;” and if others can’t get their bustles out of the hedgerow, that’s their problem.   —comment image

Old Phart Plods
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Reply to  Alexikakos
2 years ago

Me too

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  StelBel
2 years ago

BUNNY!

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  StelBel
2 years ago

Half the time they sound like baby goats.

Alexikakos
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Reply to  StelBel
2 years ago

 
But which are they?

(Full title: “Robbers and Cops” / don’t go YouTube, or you’ll likely be interrupted by a commercial)
 

 

 

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Liverlips McCracken
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2 years ago

Brass players? Definitely the robbers.

Old Phart Plods
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Reply to  StelBel
2 years ago

It was thinkin Mission Impossible.

happyhappyhappy
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2 years ago

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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2 years ago

Nanci Griffith – Late Night Grande Hotel

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
2 years ago

Great to see you here!

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  SusanSunshine
2 years ago

Thanks, I do look in every day (And normally fail miserably on the “Spot the difference” on Saturdays!), but as you notice I don’t comment very often.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
2 years ago

Well, do join in any time!

Glad you stop by.

dennisinseattle
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2 years ago

I recognize the scene, but I have to say, you will never find me so affectionately addressing my slipper as this ballerina.

Tigressy
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Reply to  dennisinseattle
2 years ago

I would admire her flexibility more if she did that with the shoe still on her foot.

Liverlips McCracken
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2 years ago

The Wild and Wonderful Thirties? In the heart of the Great Depression? More like the Starving and Miserable Thirties.

nighthawks
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
2 years ago

For the most part.It really depends on who and where you were….but I would daresay that MOST folks inhabiting planet earth that experienced it didn’t think the 1930s were all that wonderful.

SusanSunshine
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2 years ago

Wow!

Grand Basset Hotel!

Beautiful, Stel!

A true classic from the glorious golden age of Hollywood, a time when they still thought it necessary to say “Hollywood California“, as if there could be another.

It’s not a complicated plot… I think it was mostly written as a vehicle for the studio to showcase all the talent and star power it could muster…

from it’s own kennel of canine stars to any it could borrow…

in a series of intertwined small plots and vignettes designed to highlight their best features.

A live-action edition of “Photoplay” for an audience that didn’t have the gossipy likes of TMZ, or Buzzfeed.

Garbone… her haughty beauty a cover for shyness… growls her most famous line, “I vant to be alone”…

which most dogs and people still think she barked in real life.

BTW, she had a heavy Swedish canine accent, which the director was hoping would sound Russian to the rather unsophisticated 1930’s public.

Little did he know that the 2022 public probably still wouldn’t notice…. accustomed as we are to remarkable basset actors playing any breed, nationality, or sometimes even gender, that they can pretend.

John Burybone showed off the famous profile … and acting chops…
which, by the way, he passed on to his pup….

and thus to his famous grandpuppy, “Doo” (Doodles) Burybone…

whose current career started as a very young puppy actress in “BT, the Basset Terrestrial.”

There’s a lot more doggy drama, many stories, and much more to say, if I only had all night.

(Wait… are some of you clapping because I don’t? (Hmphff.)

A much better film, BTW, than its flashy human imitation… and much prettier poster.

Love the fonts, Stel…

And on this poster, as in the film, the pouty yet beautiful Joan Crawdog seems to know instinctively that she’s stealing the show.

perkycat
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
2 years ago

I agree. The poster is gorgeous ~ especially the purplie eye shadow. Love the names.

nighthawks
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2 years ago

gumdrops, atten—–tion!

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nighthawks
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2 years ago

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Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 years ago

Luci?

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Old Phart Plods
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Reply to  Tigressy
2 years ago

Season 4 available

Tigressy
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Reply to  Old Phart Plods
2 years ago

What do you think I’m binge-watching right now?
😉

Alexikakos
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Reply to  Tigressy
2 years ago

 
I spent 20 odd minutes on the first episode of season 1.
I will not be spending any more time on the series.
It is not my cup of tea.
 

Tigressy
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Reply to  Alexikakos
2 years ago

Let me guess – you don’t like “Lucifer”, either?

Or spoofs per se?

nighthawks
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2 years ago

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happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 years ago

Boo! 😀

nighthawks
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
2 years ago

don’t shoot the messenger!

perkycat
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 years ago

Funny!

nighthawks
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2 years ago

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Old Phart Plods
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2 years ago

Overnighting in style by Stel.

Good morning philm poster phans!

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Bizzy day. (((((HuGz!)))))

Alexikakos
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Reply to  Old Phart Plods
2 years ago

 
WISCONSON
 
State Dance – Polka
State Fruit – Cranberry
State Pastry – Kringle
 
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State Insect – Honey Bee
State Tree – Sugar Maple
State Grain – Corn
State Flower – Wood Violet

 
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State Dog – American Water Spaniel

 
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State Bird – Robin

 

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Tigressy
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2 years ago

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Old Phart Plods
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Reply to  Tigressy
2 years ago

Kringle!

nighthawks
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Reply to  Alexikakos
2 years ago

state grain?

Alexikakos
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 years ago

 
Quoting from:
The World Book Encyclopedia Volume 3 C
Field Enterprises Educational Corporation
Merchandise Mart Plaza
Chicago 54, Illinois
Library of Congress Catalog Number 63-7006
Page: 839
 
     “Corn is really a grass, but an unusual one. It belongs
to the group of six true grains, or cereals, that includes
wheat, barley, oats, rice, and rye. The corn plant usu-
ally grows 3 to 10 feet tall and has many short ear shoots,
or branches. But the giant corn of the Jala Valley in
Mexico has ears 3 feet long. Its strong stalks can be used
to make fences.
 
Maíz de Jala, Nayarit
 
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Old Phart Plods
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Reply to  Alexikakos
2 years ago

I thought the State Bird was the Black Fly

dennisinseattle
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2 years ago

Where does cheese come in?

mr_sherman
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Reply to  dennisinseattle
2 years ago

You won’t like my answer.
From between your toes.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  dennisinseattle
2 years ago

On my sandwich.

Don’t listen to Mr. Sherman!

P51Strega
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Reply to  Alexikakos
2 years ago

Get your Kringle from Racine, WI (where I lived for 3 months).

Alexikakos
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Reply to  P51Strega
2 years ago

 
This is the site in Racine where I pinched the picture from.
I’m jealous, because you can enter to win a kringle, and I cannot.      O&H Danish Bakery – 5910 Washington Avenue- Racine, Wisconsin- 53406 U.S.A.-1-800-709-4009     The bolded address is the link to the entry form.
You can explore their regular shipping rates and their other baked goods too, just go to the header and click on what interests you.
 

P51Strega
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Reply to  Alexikakos
2 years ago

Thanks. My wife (to-be at the time) loved the Kringle there. As for me, if it’s not chocolate – meh. I might use your link and order her some.

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2 years ago

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