Damnit, what about poor Robert Blake?

[shereads]

If upstart Paris Hilton and stranger-than-fiction Jacko deserve threads of their own, doesn't Blake merit one also?

After all, he was a cute little kid in "Our Gang" when her mother was still countless tequila shots away from becoming a zygote.

And as Baretta, by bringing pet cockatoos into the public eye, he provided pre-adolescent boys and girls with countless snickers and chortles.

 

[Guest]

Other: Phil Spector

 

[raphy]

Okay. I gotta ask. Who the fuck is Robert Blake?

 

[Icingsugar]

Okay. I gotta ask. Who the fuck is Robert Blake?

That actor who did that character that was mention by that other character in that movie by that Tarantino guy.

"You're fucking Baretta and they believe every fucking word cause you're super cool."

"Baretta." Half-arsed us cop show in the 70's. Blake played Baretta. Like Kojak, but not half as cool.

Recently he shot his wife. Or not. Depends on how good his lawyers are.

 

[Guest]

That actor who did that character that was mention by that other character in that movie by that Tarantino guy.

"You're fucking Baretta and they believe every fucking word cause you're super cool."

"Baretta." Half-arsed us cop show in the 70's. Blake played Baretta. Like Kojak, but not half as cool.

Recently he shot his wife. Or not. Depends on how good his lawyers are.

Still none the wiser. Ho hum.

Hey, good opportunity to comment on your AV F.C.G. Very cool! I only just noticed Santa's feet poking out of it. LOL!

Lou

 

[KillerMuffin]

I would think that this lot would be more interested in Michael Peterson.

 

[Guest]

I would think that this lot would be more interested in Michael Peterson.

No idea.

 

[gauchecritic]

I would think that this lot would be more interested in Michael Peterson.

"This lot"

Gauche

 

[shereads]

Would anyone else locate the Baretta song for this lot?

If this lot will go to this link and click "download Baretta TV theme" at the bottom of the page, you still won't remember Robert Blake but you will hear an example of 70's TV Cop Show Theme Music at its most...um...theme-ish? 70s-ish?

http://www.carlhose.com/baretta/Baretta.htm

Resist the urge to scoop up more fan club merchandise for your collection, and just click:

"Download Baretta TV Theme"

 

[shereads]

Things that are famous because Robert Blake said them.

If there is such a thing as "a treasure-trove of Robert Blake/Baretta information," that website is one!

Here's a list of Baretta catch-phrases. If any of you have used one of these, you should probably send a contribution to Blake for his legal defense fund.


Baretta Says

Baretta Says:
1. You can take that to the bank.
2. That's the name of that tune. *
3. Keep strokin'.
4. You got the ball.
5. You and me are gonna dance.
6. We all gotta pay our dues.
7. The only tough guys I know are in the jailhouse or the graveyard.
8. Ya gotta pay the fare if ya wanna take the ride.
9. The train is on the track and it's rollin'.
10. Dead's dead and it don't come back again.


*I'm pretty sure I said this several times during the 1970's.

 

[Guest]

ella: If my life depended on it I might consider it, but who knows. I can't believe you posted that on this cultural site. Sheesh!

-----------

Gauche: I am so disappointed. I expected one of those cracker paper hats.

Perdita

 

[Guest]

Re: Things that are famous because Robert Blake said them.

Here's a list of Baretta catch-phrases.

ella, stop! Call 911, call a priest.

Perdita

 

[pop_54]

If upstart Paris Hilton and stranger-than-fiction Jacko deserve threads of their own, doesn't Blake merit one also?

After all, he was a cute little kid in "Our Gang" when her mother was still countless tequila shots away from becoming a zygote.

And as Baretta, by bringing pet cockatoos into the public eye, he provided pre-adolescent boys and girls with countless snickers and chortles.

Yea I know someone who likes a cock-or-two as well hun I had to vote other because I don't know who many of the others are except Jacko who's a freak anyway and has enough celeb status without us adding to it

 

[KillerMuffin]

"this lot" = the group of people that are here

"Michael Peterson"

A total manslut who killed his wife. His pornographic proclivities, lovers (both sexes), and assorted kinkiness are now fodder for reporters.

He's also a writer.

Manslut writer. <-- I'd think this sort of appeals to the local ambiance.

 

[Guest]

... Manslut writer. <-- I'd think this sort of appeals to the local ambiance.

That is so off the wall (not my wall).

Perdita

 

[Quasimodem]

Things that are famous because Barretta said them.

. . . Here's a list of Baretta catch-phrases. . .

I can't believe you forgot to mention:

"Don't do the crime if you can't do the time."

Sammy even sang that line in the theme song.

Edited to include old memory:

Another line from the theme that I always mis-sang:

"Don't go to bed with no lice on your head!"



Also, don't forget Blake played one of the two killers in the cinematic adaptation of Truman Capote's (*?) "In Cold Blood."

* Novel, Pseudo-Biography, Nearly-True Life, Whut Wuzzit Again?

 

[Limbhugger]

Re: Re: Things that are famous because Robert Blake said them.

ella, stop! Call 911, call a priest.

Perdita

Blake played one of them too.

And just how in the hell did Dick Cheney get into the poll?

 

[shereads]

Re: Things that are famous because Barretta said them.

I can't believe you forgot to mention:

Honey, I was just quoting the website. You're the only one who remembered the lyrics!

Sammy even sang that line in the theme song.

So it WAS Sammy Davis Jr.? Quasi, bless you. When I posted the theme song site I kept thinking, "Sounds like the song stylings of Sammy Davis Jr...at the very least, the song stylings of someone's whose intro would have included the words, "the song stylings of --"

You know, people don't have stylings anymore. Certainly no one in the Bush adminsitration...Limbhugger, in answer to your question, it's a list of celebrities who are suspects or in other ways are connected with a crime.

Haliburton? Hello? Where you been?

Another line from the theme that I always mis-sang:

"Don't go to bed with no lice on your head!"

It was a catchy tune, wasn't it? I used to watch the show for other reasons. Like gauche, I remember a cockatoo.

Also, don't forget Blake played one of the two killers in the cinematic adaptation of Truman Capote's (*?) "In Cold Blood."

IRONY ALERT!



Edited, without apology, because I can.

 

[Quasimodem]

To REALLY get into Perdita's bad book, I must confess that my favourite Blake movie was a piece of fluff called "Coast To Coast" with Dyan Cannon.

He played a cowboy-trucker and she was an mental home escapee, on her way home to avenge herself on her psychiatrist husband.

It was a "Road-Picture" going "Coast To Coast."

(What can I say, I have low tastes. )

 

[MathGirl]

Ummm... Did I miss something? Who the hell is Paris Hilton? Conrad's uncle? Nicky's sister?
MG
Ps. Cool AV, Gauchie
Pps. Shere: Is the figure in your AV a transvestite singing cowboy, by any chance?

 

[Limbhugger]

Well gee Shereads, I guess I missed the part where Paris Hilton or Liza Mennelli and David Guest were involved in crimes.

And I guess I missed the part where Dick Cheney was involved in a crime. Well one that wasn't made up that anyway.

*Takes his staunch conservative political views and plays in the corner*

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Me? I'm hoping they'll catch Rush Limbaugh and Tom Ridge doing poppers together with their pants down in a toilet stall in a YMCA near DuPont Circle.

That would make my day.

---dr.M.

PS Tom Ridge: Proof that you don't need a forehead to be successful in America today.

 

[Limbhugger]

Me? I'm hoping they'll catch Rush Limbaugh and Tom Ridge doing poppers together with their pants down in a toilet stall in a YMCA near DuPont Circle.

That would make my day.

---dr.M.

PS Tom Ridge: Proof that you don't need a forehead to be successful in America today.

Oh for crying out loud. Yeah that damn Rush and his free speech rights. Oh and Tom Ridge, how dare he help keep us from another terrorist attack. Bastards.

*Slips back to his corner and slaps his own hand. No politics. Bad boy, bad boy!

 

[MathGirl]

Tom Ridge: Proof that you don't need a forehead to be successful in America today.

Dear Dr M,
With all due respect, I would have left out the "fore."
MG

 

[Guest]

Quas, I don't have a bad book* and you'd never be in it if I did. I try to think of RB only as a little rascal.

Perdita

*There is no such thing as a bad book. Books are either well written or badly written. That is all.

- O. Wilde (from memory)