"I could have lived another 100 years but I smoked a cigars every day..."
Posted on 05/13/2004 6:42:49 PM PDT by wagglebee
Claude Raines played Capt. Renault. Paul Henried played the sainted Victor Lazlo, the husband of Ingrid Bergman.
In all fairness, they should ban cokes, fast foods and anything else that is bad for you./sarcasm
BTW, diet will probably kill you before cigarettes. The smoke police should think about that the next time they are stuffing their face at a fast food restaurant.
Good! The best movies of all time were made under the Code. Valenti was the one who scrapped it in favor of his "rating" system.
Hollywood would only be happy if Roosevelt was shown smoke free holding hands with his male lover.
All the children would be allowed to see that,"G" rated all the way.
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Of course these righteous senators mean "smoking tobacco". They wouldn't be speaking up to protest the smoking of marijuana, crack, etc. in movies.
Also they won't actually make a motion to outlaw tobacco itself.
Must be an election year.
I posted an article earlier this year about a movie called "Dig" to the music subsection of chat.
MTV refused to air this documentary about 2 bickering lead singers in part because of all the tobacco cigarettes smoked by one of the singers. Never mind that he reportedly is a heroin addict. The tobacco was what sent MTV into censor mode. MTV the channel that promotes polysexual encounters on programs like The Real World.
Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra are probably up in that big casino in the sky high-fiving eachother and saying "Thank God we're gone".
They lived good,long lives even with all the smoking and drinking.
Interesting you would use John Wayne, since he died from lung cancer.
They'd be better off putting such warnings on the side of that big bucket of popcorn covered with butter-like oil.
Also they could put some reminders to "wash you hands after touching that 'sticky' stuff on the floor". Or maybe show a dancing germ to explain the contaminated seats that the patrons are sitting in. "Filthy Freddy here, don't be a Mr. Yuck, wash yer hands!!!"
The "UNITED STATES SENATE" is threatening to pass a LAW to make depicting someone smoking a cigarette, in a movie, illegal?
The "SENATORS" responsible must be in the last stages of senility or just total morons.
These idiots need to be recalled, impeached, fired, voted out, or all of the above.
What did Disney's Pecos Bill die of?
"I could have lived another 100 years but I smoked a cigars every day..."
And this isn't even talking about the "adult only" expose grindhouse movies like Reefer Madness or nudist camp films.
Pecos Bill, a mythical cowboy, grew out of the imagination of southwestern range hands who told tall tales to pass the time and to out-do each other in boasting. His originator is unknown. The story goes that Bill, the youngest of eighteen children of a Texas pioneer, was lost in crossing the Pecos River and was brought up by coyotes. He considered himself a coyote until a cowboy convinced him of his true identity, a human being and the cowboy's brother. After returning to civilized territory, Pecos Bill became the cowhand who invented all the tricks of the ranching trade; in various tales he appears as a buffalo hunter, cattleman, railroad contractor, and oilfield worker. His activities include teaching gophers to dig postholes, killing snakes by feeding them mothballs filled with red pepper and nitroglycerin, and roping whole herds of cattle at a time. He rode everything in the West, including a mountain lion and a cyclone. He invented the branding iron to stop cattle rustling and the cowboy song to soothe the cattle. On their wedding day, Slue-Foot Sue, Pecos Bill's girl friend, was determined to ride Bill's famous horse, the Widow-Maker, but the animal pitched Sue so high that she almost hit the moon. Her steel-spring bustle continued to bounce her so high that Bill finally shot her to keep her from starving. Pecos Bill's death is a matter of controversy. Some cowboys say that he died from drinking fishhooks with his whiskey and nitroglycerin; others insist that he died laughing at dudes who called themselves cowboys. Whatever the mode of his death, Pecos Bill exists in cowboy folklore as a hyperbole of the endurance, enterprise and other qualities required of cowboys.
They still show him going through the motions but the cigarette itself has disappeared. Should have just cut the scene altogether or even moreso supressed the film.
Tobacco Bill Vetoed.(some Pecos Bill cigarette smoking footage cut from Disney's 'Melody Time') Entertainment Weekly; 7/10/1998
CHILDPROOFING 'MELODY TIME'Fully restored" asserts the dust jacket for Walt Disney's Melody Time, which debuted at No. 4 on the best-seller list. But when the tape hit stores, fans of the 1948 animated musical grab bag--never rereleased to theaters or available on video till now--began logging on to Internet newsgroups to question that billing. It seems that the label should probably read, "Partly Abridged!"
Why? Because "Pecos Bill," the last of the film's seven cartoon segments, has been roped and hog-tied. In the original version (near right), the legendary cowboy smokes cigarettes incessantly; in one shot, he ropes a cyclone while rolling a homemade number on his tongue, igniting the butt with a lightning bolt. For the VHS edition, those shots, along with so...
A Compilation of Lopped, Cropped, or Chopped Cartoons
Persistance of Vision
Wow. Wyden sure has his nerve.
"I think the ball is in your court, Mr. Valenti," he said. "I guarantee you if something isn't done by the industry, there's certainly going to be efforts" by lawmakers.
Valenti doesnt give orders to the industry. He takes them. He has no such power to tell the studios what to film and what not to film. The only people who dont have the clout to stand up to Vaenti are the independent filmmakers who get an "R" rating, while the major studios get a "PG-13" for filming the same exact objectional scenes.
Damn me, I didn't know that.
I think this country could use a good dose of Mr. Wayne about now.
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