Posted on 11/22/2023 9:07:13 AM PST by Red Badger
He’s just as liberal as they are.
Ever see Stalag 17?
Sounds like abuse of the mentally ill ...
You can get your SRV fix from his tribute band, Texas Flood. I head over to Tolbert’s in Grapevine when they’re in town.
Yes it was. Fortunately it was written before Asimov became insufferably long-winded and a total bore. His later Robot and Foundation books were murderously boring. As bad as the Dune novels like “Lord God Help Us Another Sequel To Dune.” I couldn’t finish it. Or “Robots and Empire”. (Shudder). What slogs. I go unconscious just thinking about them.
What is it with authors as they age? Heinlein was another one who became unreadable. He like went nuts after Stranger with his crazy group marriage nonsense. Lazarus Long and his never ending sermonizing.
Williams creeps me out.
I’ve read all the Asimov Foundation books and thoroughly enjoyed every one, many more than once. Same with all the Dune sequels and prequels. And all of Heinlein’s Lazarus Long series and his weird stuff as well................
Loved Mork & Mindy as a kid. He was never funny after that.
“Fortunately it was written before Asimov became insufferably long-winded and a total bore.”
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Thought it was just me thinking Asimov really went over the edge as he aged in his writings.
It’s as if he either gave into new delusions or felt comfortable enough to let loose with his inner core of beliefs.
It was sad reading as it went further into the series.
“John Candy”
Dan Aykroyd was interviewed by Kilmeade over the weekend on Fox for his new History Channel show. He was so funny with Candy in “The Great Outdoors”. Aykroyd was also so funny in “Neighbors” when he switched and played the crazy guy to John Belushi’s straight man.
My late mother thought Some Like It Hot was so funny and yet I’ve never seen it. Even the clips I’ve seen are so good. Two men trying to keep it together as women around Marilyn Monroe at her peak of beauty.
My late mother didn’t like too much of modern fare preferring the old movies. But she would laugh so hard at Robin Williams in “Mrs. Doubtfire”. I remember her and my Dad also laughing at him in “The Birdcage”. I wish I could have shown her “Nine Months” in which Williams is hilarious as a nervous Russian obstetrician who speaks poor English.
So true. Saw a documentary about Darrell Hammond. His mother abused him mercilessly. Great talent covering so much pain.
So true
It was. He improvised the whole scene depicting Adrian's first radio appearance. Forrest Whitaker and company were cracking up, as none of it was scripted. So I've read.
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No way that movie would have been made in Hollywood today.
I was listening to an interview with Alex Lifeson, guitarist with RUSH. He said for his solos during a song he had several general ideas of how it would go based on the lyrics and the other music of the song. He wouldn’t practice anything beforehand.
He would go into the studio and play 4, maybe 5 different solos freehand (improv?). The producer would pick and chose from each attempt and maybe reorder the sequences, etc. Alex would review it and make some tweeks, but generally trusted the producer.
Then of course play the “new” solo for the album and concerts.
Interviewer: Wasn’t that hard to play it all out of order and with different versions mixed together?
Alex: Well, I figured I had played the notes once - I could do it again.
(The solos were recreated by listening and playing - not reading sheet music. Alex could read music to a certain extent if he had to. Neither the drummer or bassist could read music!)
The man was an abject, rabid leftist. I cannot stand to watch anything with him in it.
The scene where he dances with the vacuum cleaner is my favorite.
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