I’ve had, in my lifetime, a few books, some special papers, and several types of calligraphy pens or markers…
I’ve watched videos… I think even a television show.
I never took an actual calligraphy class…. and I’m sure I never devoted as much time as a serious student or a monk… But I did learn a little calligraphy.
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I can write your name on a card so it looks pretty.
I usually hand letter the birthday cake images, the way I did the writing on Plods’ birthday cake and pie, with a mouse.
I don’t think it looked bad…
And I can do that with cooperative frosting on a real cake.
….
My normal handwriting is very fast and rather illegible…
I can slow it down if I have to, and write like an elementary school teacher.
What I can’t do is make it effortlessly beautiful and even.
I can do crafts, draw a little, things like that…
But I will never have the easy grace and perfection of the lettering in this video.
I was 12 and my sister was 19. She drove us to the local drive-in where Casino Royale was playing shortly after it was released and we loved it!! I’ll watch it anytime it’s on TV!
We sure had some great times at the movies way back when……wonderful memories…
Oooh, Stel… Ursula Undress… well armed, and quite undressed!… except for her full-body fur paint!
Swirling psychedelic designs…. plenty of canine stars from the Cleo and Company stable… some of whom were… apparently… not all that stable.
Nice job!
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The James Hound movie that wasn’t a James Hound movie…. that was nonetheless based (albeit exceedingly loosely) on a real James Hound novel…
and also had more James Hounds in it than SIX “real” James Hound movies… even if some were female.
…
A glorious mess of a movie, with a plot so convoluted you need a program, a scorecard, a notebook (the actual paper kind) and a pen .. preferably an erasable one… just to keep track.
That is, if you feel that you MUST keep track.
You don’t HAVE to you know.
….
You can just let it wash over you..
enjoy the characters, have fun sorting out the huge assortment of basset stars and character bassets, and their little vignettes,
and trust that it will all work out in the end…
Though you may not know exactly WHAT worked out… or how we got from A to B, or sometimes P back to L … or was that G?
Oh, never mind… we got SOMEwhere… I think…
And SMERSH is smashed…. oops… SPOILER!…. um, sorry, too late… Pretend you didn’t see that… and all is well.
….
Davey Nivhound (my Mom’s favorite) is perfect as the original James Hound… wee mustache and all…
Woody Arfen is funny as his instinct-deficient grown-up pup… who will never be half the basset hound his sire was… having no nose for it at all.
Cursula Undress was perfectly cast as… well… Cursula Undress, as usual… But all the guys here will tell you… if it ain’t broke don’t fix it.
…
There are many many more.
Imagine trying to direct them all…
Dogs romping everywhere….
Puppies underfoot, actors literally chewing the scenery.
A dozen canine stars, bringing their massive egos and petty feuds, all crammed onto various sets, in random order, nobody knowing the full plot …
Dogs who bit each other or wouldn’t work on the same set..
One hound even hired his own writer to give him better lines than the ones in the script … so he’d outdo two other male dogs!
…
And as always, there were other dogs who… well… liked each other a little too much…
especially considering the number of sexy female bassets, and the assortment of swaggering males all competing to be alpha on set..
IIRC, about the time she filmed “SHE”, Ursurla did a spread in PLayboy magazine. She has forever afterward been known as “Ursula Undress”. At the time, I was not familiar with her other unclad films.
The: JOIN the CASINO ROYALIST FUN movement
poster in easier to read form / top to bottom / I estimated some lines’ placing
He’s here – our real leader Sir James Bond (The Original)
Peter Sellers writes books Ursula Andress reads in bed
David Niven bathes with girls
Mata Bond flips high Lamas
Woody Allen – ogre ogre seven
Joanna Pettet – Celestial virgin with heavenly body
Fang Girls cheesecake
Orson Welles Teeny-bopper up tight
Le Chiffre cheats at Baccarat
Ursula Andress-sigh-spy
Deborah Kerr Smersh drainpipe swinger
Terrence Cooper beefcake
Barabara Bouchet separates bones from boys
William Holden-CIA (don’t sniff his flowers)
Deborah Kerr “Doodle me, Jamie Lad”
Cast of Thousands Thousands in casts
Burt Bacharach-007-802-RCA-ye-ye-ye
Charles Boyer Very Casino Royale
Peter Sellers Napoleon 007 Hitler 007-Lautrec 007
Indians are good guys
Peter Sellers has a girls name(sic)
George Raft flips
Miss Moneypenny is a Bond-aid
David Niven-oh oh seven, sir
Terence Cooper-007 IRA
John Huston acts
Charlie Feldman is a mad genius
Cops by Keystone
Royalists get with it-Casino Royale is where it’s at
Smersh buys it
Woody Allen – Hee hee hee
Jean Paul Belmondo – est arrivé
Buy our Bonds !
March ! Sing Rally Songs ! Get Posters !
Tijuana – what brass !
Attend the Big Fun Sit-in at your Theatre
Get a Free Full-Color Reproduction of this Poster.Send 50¢ for handling and postage, with name and address, to “OUR LEADER, P.O. Box 7007, Grand Central Station, New York 10017
I’m almost there… Luckily I can still say “Alexa.”
In the video it says it’s for “The Greatest Generation.” That’s just to make boomers feel better.
The Greatest Generation is the one that fought in WWII… generally accepted to be born from about 1901 to 1927. The only ones still alive are nearing 100. Few are using Alexa, Google Assistant, or Siri.
…
The so called Silent Generation was born from 1928 through 1945, now 76 to 93…
and Baby Boomers from 1946 through supposedly 1964, though people born in the 1960’s don’t seem to identify with the label.
The oldest Boomers are turning 76 this year, the youngest 58.
[human version]
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great song!
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How come it looks so simple but I can’t do it?
Smile… yes… that I can do…
but the perfect calligraphy, not so much.
Takes lots of practice.
Force down, light up.
…and, those are the bare basics. It’s not quite that easy.
That’s if you are using a copperplate nib. Most of the broad nibs, you hold at an angle. You pull down or slide sideways, never up (they spatter).
I’ve had, in my lifetime, a few books, some special papers, and several types of calligraphy pens or markers…
I’ve watched videos… I think even a television show.
I never took an actual calligraphy class…. and I’m sure I never devoted as much time as a serious student or a monk… But I did learn a little calligraphy.
…
I can write your name on a card so it looks pretty.
I usually hand letter the birthday cake images, the way I did the writing on Plods’ birthday cake and pie, with a mouse.
I don’t think it looked bad…
And I can do that with cooperative frosting on a real cake.
….
My normal handwriting is very fast and rather illegible…
I can slow it down if I have to, and write like an elementary school teacher.
What I can’t do is make it effortlessly beautiful and even.
I can do crafts, draw a little, things like that…
But I will never have the easy grace and perfection of the lettering in this video.
I used to be able to do presentable calligraphy, even being left handed. But these days I can barely write my own name legibly…
(click on image to enlarge)
Here is a LINK to more about Miriam Dauber.
This has got to be MMM’s favorite James Bond movie ever made! Madcappiness. Silly soundtrack. And a cast magnificent. Good choice, Stel.
I was 12 and my sister was 19. She drove us to the local drive-in where Casino Royale was playing shortly after it was released and we loved it!! I’ll watch it anytime it’s on TV!
We sure had some great times at the movies way back when……wonderful memories…
I will never understand how they lined up so many stars for this parody spy thriller. The ending, shown above, kind of sums up the film.
I’d say cos they were having fun… but some of them, as I posted, were… I can only say… “not.”
There seemed to be a fair amount of prestige attached to the project… and maybe even more rivalry.
There were some who wanted a boost to a fading career in what they thought would be a popular film….
and a few who wanted to get a boost by appearing with all those well known stars… maybe hoping some glamor would rub off.
And that is the most ridiculous Beatles clip I have ever seen! Funny!
Can I still get a poster for 50¢?
Sure. Of something.
¢ 🦄 🌈 🐸 TRY ACID-DEW-US-LY (Stranger things have happened). 🐸 🌈 🦄 ¢
(click the attachment to enlarge it)
Reading the address in my snip below, I got curious.
I’ve got some lovely ones for March is Reading Month – for sale at the Corner Book Shop. Library discards – 50¢.
Canine Royale!
Oooh, Stel… Ursula Undress… well armed, and quite undressed!… except for her full-body fur paint!
Swirling psychedelic designs…. plenty of canine stars from the Cleo and Company stable… some of whom were… apparently… not all that stable.
Nice job!
…
The James Hound movie that wasn’t a James Hound movie…. that was nonetheless based (albeit exceedingly loosely) on a real James Hound novel…
and also had more James Hounds in it than SIX “real” James Hound movies… even if some were female.
…
A glorious mess of a movie, with a plot so convoluted you need a program, a scorecard, a notebook (the actual paper kind) and a pen .. preferably an erasable one… just to keep track.
That is, if you feel that you MUST keep track.
You don’t HAVE to you know.
….
You can just let it wash over you..
enjoy the characters, have fun sorting out the huge assortment of basset stars and character bassets, and their little vignettes,
and trust that it will all work out in the end…
Though you may not know exactly WHAT worked out… or how we got from A to B, or sometimes P back to L … or was that G?
Oh, never mind… we got SOMEwhere… I think…
And SMERSH is smashed…. oops… SPOILER!…. um, sorry, too late… Pretend you didn’t see that… and all is well.
….
Davey Nivhound (my Mom’s favorite) is perfect as the original James Hound… wee mustache and all…
Woody Arfen is funny as his instinct-deficient grown-up pup… who will never be half the basset hound his sire was… having no nose for it at all.
Cursula Undress was perfectly cast as… well… Cursula Undress, as usual… But all the guys here will tell you… if it ain’t broke don’t fix it.
…
There are many many more.
Imagine trying to direct them all…
Dogs romping everywhere….
Puppies underfoot, actors literally chewing the scenery.
A dozen canine stars, bringing their massive egos and petty feuds, all crammed onto various sets, in random order, nobody knowing the full plot …
Dogs who bit each other or wouldn’t work on the same set..
One hound even hired his own writer to give him better lines than the ones in the script … so he’d outdo two other male dogs!
…
And as always, there were other dogs who… well… liked each other a little too much…
especially considering the number of sexy female bassets, and the assortment of swaggering males all competing to be alpha on set..
….
No wonder there were FIVE directors!
..
So when is the C & C screening at the Bassetplex? I’ll bring enough popped kibble for all of us.
“Imagine trying to direct them all…
Dogs romping everywhere….
Puppies underfoot, actors literally chewing the scenery.”
By the time I got to that point, all was lost!! I ended up spraying orange juice all over my monitor and had to get the cleaning supplies out.
Susan, I can’t say which is funnier: the movie or your review! You had me in stitches!
Well done.
This is why you are the highest-paid reviewer in Clevewoodland!!
Gosh… Thanks, Stel.
I don’t want to make anybody choke!
IIRC, about the time she filmed “SHE”, Ursurla did a spread in PLayboy magazine. She has forever afterward been known as “Ursula Undress”. At the time, I was not familiar with her other unclad films.
“Casino Royale” PETER SELLERS \ 1967 and DANIEL CRAIG \ 2006 As always, click through the clutter and go full screen.
blueberry popovers
Nice!
An all star canine cast with a flashback from the 60s…
Good morning philm phans!
Y’all pack a blueberry pop over for lunch and (((((hug))))) a plumber.
I was going to ask which Mario we were honoring today. I was hoping for Mario Andretti. (sigh)
I don’t think Andretti has a national day.
Bummer….
Adorf?
Follow the picture link to the official Mario Andretti website (there’s a number of headings to choose from at the top of the page).
What’s not to love!
Thanks, Alexi.
JOIN the CASINO ROYALIST FUN movement
poster in easier to read form / top to bottom / I estimated some lines’ placing
He’s here – our real leader Sir James Bond (The Original)
Peter Sellers writes books Ursula Andress reads in bed
David Niven bathes with girls
Mata Bond flips high Lamas
Woody Allen – ogre ogre seven
Joanna Pettet – Celestial virgin with heavenly body
Fang Girls cheesecake
Orson Welles Teeny-bopper up tight
Le Chiffre cheats at Baccarat
Ursula Andress-sigh-spy
Deborah Kerr Smersh drainpipe swinger
Terrence Cooper beefcake
Barabara Bouchet separates bones from boys
William Holden-CIA (don’t sniff his flowers)
Deborah Kerr “Doodle me, Jamie Lad”
Cast of Thousands Thousands in casts
Burt Bacharach-007-802-RCA-ye-ye-ye
Charles Boyer Very Casino Royale
Peter Sellers Napoleon 007 Hitler 007-Lautrec 007
Indians are good guys
Peter Sellers has a girls name(sic)
George Raft flips
Miss Moneypenny is a Bond-aid
David Niven-oh oh seven, sir
Terence Cooper-007 IRA
John Huston acts
Charlie Feldman is a mad genius
Cops by Keystone
Royalists get with it-Casino Royale is where it’s at
Smersh buys it
Woody Allen – Hee hee hee
Jean Paul Belmondo – est arrivé
Buy our Bonds !
March ! Sing Rally Songs ! Get Posters !
Tijuana – what brass !
Attend the Big Fun Sit-in at your Theatre
Get a Free Full-Color Reproduction of this Poster.Send 50¢ for handling and postage, with name and address, to “OUR LEADER, P.O. Box 7007, Grand Central Station, New York 10017
Love the ”John Houston acts” and ”Cops by Keystone”, and…………………
Lots of fun! Thanks. Alexi.
Alexa for seniors:
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hahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Okay. I’ll take one.
Yup.
I’m almost there… Luckily I can still say “Alexa.”
In the video it says it’s for “The Greatest Generation.” That’s just to make boomers feel better.
The Greatest Generation is the one that fought in WWII… generally accepted to be born from about 1901 to 1927. The only ones still alive are nearing 100. Few are using Alexa, Google Assistant, or Siri.
…
The so called Silent Generation was born from 1928 through 1945, now 76 to 93…
and Baby Boomers from 1946 through supposedly 1964, though people born in the 1960’s don’t seem to identify with the label.
The oldest Boomers are turning 76 this year, the youngest 58.
…
So who do YOU think this is aimed at?
Dum da dum dum…
I’ll buy it for the “uh huh” option!
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