Wilford Brimley, actor in ‘Cocoon’ and ‘The Natural,’ dies at 85

The Los Angeles Times ^ | 8/1/2020

[Impy]

WB Cora Beth and risk frostbite.

I don’t think she ever put out, she went tinkle on Ike and told him that’s what sex was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ADGYli7418

“Spencer’s Mountain”

Interesting, never heard of it.

” I’m sure alcoholism in the country spiked after FDR legalized it again, a wonderful time for folks to get smashed.”

I wouldn’t ‘blame’ him, it’s what the people wanted.

I’m of two-minds on prohibition, noble but unenforceable. Ever seen “Boardwalk Empire”?

VA was McMuffins’s 4th best state, after UT, ID, and MN where he had the Independence Party Line. He did best in scummy nova of course, I think those Never Trumpers might have broken for Shillery. Maybe not in Nelson though.

[Impy]

Henry Fonda as Clay Spencer

Maureen O'Hara as Olivia Spencer

James MacArthur as Clayboy Spencer 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Goodnight Clayboy

[fieldmarshaldj]

Someone speculated that Corabeth had a lot of inner rage and would’ve been wild in the sack with Ike. Doubtful that, as Ike wouldn’t have been able to walk or keep his toupe on straight.

That video was... bizarre. Wait until that alien finds out what he was cheated out of.

Of course, just because the people want something doesn’t make it justifiable. In time, things would’ve settled down and the bulk of the public would’ve obeyed the laws. After all, even after Prohibition was spiked, countless counties still kept “dry.” I’m not sure folks understand today just how much of an out-of-control epidemic alcoholism was that led to its being banned. It destroyed families in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Other than going cold turkey, most people couldn’t just go to places to dry out and get sober. A lot of people just simply drank themselves to death.

People make fun of those old, hatchet-faced broads that were involved in the Temperance movement, but many of them had seen husbands, sons, and even other female relatives end up in an early grave. Husbands that would spend all their earned $$ on drink and neglect their children. Awful things they saw. I do believe Prohibition actually did help in the long run in curbing rampant alcoholism. Actually helped put the hard cider companies out of business, which was a chronic contributor to the problem. Only recently has the hard cider business started up again.

I see over in the UK things have gotten so bad there with an epidemic of alcoholism amongst the young that they’d be well-advised to perhaps reimplement Prohibition over there.

As for Egg McMuffin, his role was to try to deceive Conservative Republicans into voting for him, as he was falsely arguing (orchestrated by Willard) that Trump was NOT a Conservative. Absent him on the ballot, the bulk of those votes either would’ve gone to Trump or they wouldn’t have voted at all. Seeing how many of them voted in 2012 shows they should’ve voted GOP otherwise. With no such trick candidate this year and a nobody running as Libertarian, that is good for Trump getting that additional key couple points (which should move MN & NH into his win column, at the very least).

[Impy]

FWIW Jo Jorgenson (no word on PA ballot access) said she talks to “a lot more” dissatisfied Biden voters than Trump voters.

[fieldmarshaldj]

They seemed to run the movie with some regularity in the ‘80s on WTBS, though I can’t say I ever watched it. I didn’t watch “The Waltons” in its initial run, even in the later seasons when I could’ve as a kid (I did watch other CBS shows at the time, “Dukes of Hazzard” and “Dallas” in the late ‘70s, clear up to the latter’s ending in 1991). I did watch “Little House” religiously on NBC.

I was just looking up what “The Waltons” was up against in the 1978-79 season, when it was starting to peter out after Will Geer’s death and Richard Thomas’s departure (though Ellen Corby, post-stroke, had returned), and it had “Mork & Mindy” up against in the first half-hour, which I probably would’ve been watching instead on Thursday nights. My bedtime was 8pm, because I still remember hearing the theme song to “The Rockford Files” on Friday nights as I headed off to bed, which was a favorite of my father’s. “Diff’rent Strokes” and “Hello, Larry” (one of poor McLean Stevenson’s post-MASH failures) was on prior to “Rockford.” I watched Strokes, but I don’t remember watching Larry, or it made no impression on my 4-year old self. I loved Arnold, though.

I recall that my local CBS affiliate here in town ran daily “Waltons” reruns in the early ‘80s in the afternoons between the soaps and early evening game shows (back before they had to do hours of news coverage). My neighbor lady watched it religiously and I’d be out playing with her son in the yard while it was on. Hard to believe that was nearly 40 years ago.

[fieldmarshaldj]

The name sounds like that early tranny who went to Europe to have his schvantze lopped off.

[campaignPete R-CT]

Wilford was the MC for a McCain NH primary event at the VFW Winchester NH in Jan 2008. I spent the event in the parking lot directing the parking disaster. Met Wilford after.

We get to watch the CUBS tonite. FOX 7pm. EDT. BOycott is still on.
Hope they dont agitate America with BLM rioting promotion

[Impy]

Nice to know he was on our side.

[Impy]

I watched the original Walton’s xmas movie the other day (it’s on you tube). I liked Mary Ellen in it.

Different actors for all the adults except Grandma. Patrica Neal was such a bitch!

[fieldmarshaldj]

I haven’t seen “The Homecoming.” So you liked Mary-Ellen in it ? She was 13. =8-0>

I was surprised Patricia Neal would be in it, she seems too old for the part, even in 1971. Well, she was just 45, but that awful stroke she had when just 39 prematurely aged her. At that age, the John-Boy character would’ve been closing in on 30, since it would be likely she’d have married at 15 or 16 and immediately started having children.

Given that she grew up in Knoxville (TN), it wasn’t too much a stretch for her to play someone from that vicinity as a “mountain girl.” It was more age appropriate for Michael Learned to play the mom, since she would’ve been having the oldest ones in her mid to late teens (although she was 12 years older than Richard Thomas, but he was playing a few years younger). Neal’s Olivia would’ve been nearly 30 having John-Boy, and that would’ve been a spinster (even worse, she’s about 40 years older than little Kami Cotler, which would’ve made it seem like she was her grandmother in reality).

Learned’s character should’ve still been having a few more kids during the show’s run (unless she became infertile, was that mentioned ?), even into her early 40s. I could see the show ending just as she was having her 15th Walton child. =8-0>

[campaignPete R-CT]

John andreoli released today by Red Sox.

Cubbie.

[Impy]

I didn’t mean I would Mel Reynolds her I meant I liked the character. ;-) I never recall liking the character before. I though the acting was very true to a girl going through puberty.

Here’s the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umEEnFtmV0I

John Boy was 15 in the movie (I don’t know how old Thomas was but older than that), now that you mention it, hell yes he was too young to be the oldest kid of those actors if they married when their characters were supposed to. Very amusing aside, John Boy complained that he was growing at a freakish rate. I think Thomas had already reached his top height of 5’9 or 10. LOL.

Neal also sounded like a two pack a dayer. I liked the other adults fine. A more subdued Grandpa (just knowing Geer was fag freaks me out), an Ike that maybe wouldn’t let Corabeth carry his nuts in her purse.

“Learned’s character should’ve still been having a few more kids during the show’s run (unless she became infertile, “

Also true. I don’t think a bunch of babies would been good story wise though.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Richard Thomas would’ve been 20 at the time in the tv movie.

Geer was not only a fag (bi, since he was married and had a daughter, actress Ellen Geer, who was in an episode of ST: TNG where she tricked Picard and the Enterprise and destroyed a crystalline entity lifeform in retaliation), but was a big old-school Communist. About the only productive thing he did was he had a habit of going around spreading wildflower seeds where he walked. Most Commies would just trample the stuff since they have an aversion to beauty.

[Impy]

I know young adults are better actors than kids but I’m in favor of age appropriate acting, more authentic. Gabrielle Cartieres was in her late 30’s on 90210.

Geer, yes I know he has a daughter (actually 3 kids, I guess a vagina will do when their are no dude butts around), I remember that Star Trek ep, she also played a widow who started slutting it up after her husband died on an episode of “NYPD Blue”, she was excepting all comers. A desperate Detective Medavoy took her up on her offer of nookie.

And yeah I know his BF was communist Harry Hay (and HE’s the one who made Hay a commie?). Just, so gross. Grandma was supposedly a dyke too, like WTF.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Carteris was playing a teenager on a soap opera (”Another World”, I believe) in her mid-20s more than 6 years before she was on 90210. A big problem with Carteris is that after maybe, what, 4-5 years on the show, she hit that proverbial wall, and went from looking like she could maybe pass for early 20s to looking like mid 40s mama. They seemed to run her off the show once she did. When she appeared near the end, she definitely looked closer to 50. Ian Ziering had a similar problem, too.

I always found it staggering when the show premiered in 1990, they were all supposed to be my age then - 16. Even the youngest actor, Brian Austin Green, was too old (17, though he did look more like 14). He had been on “Knots Landing” as the younger child of Donna Mills. Many of them had already played teens several years earlier, like Carteris. It was ridiculous. I tried, but couldn’t get into the show when it initially ran. Didn’t relate to any of the characters. The three high school guys who looked 30 just, ugh.

Yeah, Ellen Corby was a lesbian. She married a much older guy when she was younger. Didn’t work out. Moved in with a lady and you know how that goes. I was curious to read that supposedly Will Geer saved her life when she had her debilitating stroke. He was worried when she was late to work, went by her home and found her paralyzed and got her help. She lived another two decades or so after that.

Corby reminded me slightly of my lone grandmother, similar demeanor, although you know how mine was. :-\

[Impy]

Cubs/Cards series cancelled cause of China virus. I’m sorry but that should be a forfeit for St. Louis!!

(The Marlins btw are 7-1!!!!!)

I hate to say it, cause I like looooong extra inning games (which are rare anyway) but I’m enjoying this extra innings rule, if I see a game heading to the 10th, I tune in.

[Galactic Overlord-In-Chief]

Carteris was playing a teenager on a soap opera (”Another World”, I believe) in her mid-20s more than 6 years before she was on 90210. A big problem with Carteris is that after maybe, what, 4-5 years on the show, she hit that proverbial wall, and went from looking like she could maybe pass for early 20s to looking like mid 40s mama. They seemed to run her off the show once she did. When she appeared near the end, she definitely looked closer to 50. Ian Ziering had a similar problem, too.

That pregnancy storyline (she was pregnant in real life at the time) probably helped do her in. I'm sure it helped point out the fact that Carteris was further removed from high school in real life than the character she was playing (she was a young college freshman during this storyline).

I always found it staggering when the show premiered in 1990, they were all supposed to be my age then - 16. Even the youngest actor, Brian Austin Green, was too old (17, though he did look more like 14). He had been on “Knots Landing” as the younger child of Donna Mills. Many of them had already played teens several years earlier, like Carteris. It was ridiculous. I tried, but couldn’t get into the show when it initially ran. Didn’t relate to any of the characters. The three high school guys who looked 30 just, ugh.

True teenagers have that fresh faced look about them that disappears as you get into young adulthood. If you look at Michael J. Fox in the first Back to the Future and then again in the sequels, even though they take place immediately following the first movie, you can tell Fox has aged a couple of years. You can also compare Matthew Broderick from Wargames (1983) to Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) and you'll definitely see that the difference in age even though he's supposed to be teens in both movies.