Mmmmmm. Barbara Eden.
Posted on 07/13/2006 12:37:48 PM PDT by Borges
LOL, if that's the way *your* pool picks operate, then by all means, you may pick the obvious one of the two shows I turn up the sound for in the wee hours. I don't wanna jinx that, tho. His much beloved funny-guy "partner" (character) just died this year.
I sleep with the T.V. on; I'm forever watching familiar ghosts.
...naturalistic, physical and intimate acting was totally new at the time.
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I know it was a new thing -- Method acting, wasn't it? To me he seemed like he was on Prozac; there was no emotion. I thought Carl Malden (sp?) stunk, too. E.J. Cobb (I think that's his name)as the big bully boss was good. Eva Marie Saint was a caricature.
Another of the "good ones" gone.
You where loved and welcome in my home anytime.
God Bless and may His Peace be on your family.
I'm glad I saw Buttons on Broadway about 10 years ago. He was a funny, funny guy. And you should have held him tell his "blue" joke, the one that sent them all running from the vaudeville theater straight into the paddy wagon outside -- and you had to run there because you wanted to make sure you had a seat in the wagon for the trip Downtown. After the long (and funny) story of all the problems cause by the blue humor, he told the joke. One of the most innocuous things you could imagine. But risque 50 or 60 years ago.
TS
RIP, Red Buttons.
I read, ya know? I study things. Vectors, trajectors, things like that.
Mmmmmm. Barbara Eden.
One of the greats. May he rest in peace.
The dude was funny.. back in a time when Americans still felt innocent and invulnerable.
RIP, Red.
He was playing someone who was too macho to fully display his emotions. And Karl Malden did grate in that one. He's still alive actually.
He was playing someone who was too macho to fully display his emotions.
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He came off as whiny rather than macho, IMO.
Can`t believe nobody posted his famous Pledge of Allegiance speech!
Commentary on the Pledge of Allegiance
by Red Skelton
The following words were spoken by the late Red Skelton on his television program as he related the story of his teacher, Mr. Laswell, who felt his students had come to think of the Pledge of Allegiance as merely something to recite in class each day.
"I've been listening to you boys and girls recite the Pledge of Allegiance all semester and it seems as though it is becoming monotonous to you. If I may, may I recite it and try to explain to you the meaning of each word?"
I -- me, an individual, a committee of one.
PLEDGE -- dedicate all of my worldly goods to give without self pity.
ALLEGIANCE -- my love and my devotion.
TO THE FLAG -- our standard, Old Glory, a symbol of freedom. Wherever she waves, there's respect because your loyalty has given her a dignity that shouts freedom is everybody's job!
UNITED -- that means that we have all come together.
STATES -- individual communities that have united into 48 great states. Forty-eight individual communities with pride and dignity and purpose; all divided with imaginary boundaries, yet united to a common purpose, and that's love for country.
AND TO THE REPUBLIC -- a state in which sovereign power is invested in representatives chosen by the people to govern. And government is the people and it's from the people to the leaders, not from the leaders to the people.
FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION -- one nation, meaning "so blessed by God"
INDIVISIBLE -- incapable of being divided.
WITH LIBERTY -- which is freedom -- the right of power to live one's own life without threats, fear or some sort of retaliation.
AND JUSTICE -- the principle or quality of dealing fairly with others.
FOR ALL -- which means, boys and girls, it's as much your country as it is mine.
And now, boys and girls, let me hear you recite the Pledge of Allegiance:
"I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic, for which it stands; one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
Since I was a small boy, two states have been added to our country and two words have been added to the Pledge of Allegiance...
UNDER GOD
Wouldn't it be a pity if someone said that is a prayer and that would be eliminated from schools too?
- Red Skelton
You can hear him say it here....
http://www.kcbx.net/~tellswor/rs-pledg.wav
Nobody posted because it was Red Buttons who died and not Red Skelton who died about 10 years ago. :-)
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