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[AngeloMichael]

Good grief, AM, that says so much about American "culture", the Gilligan concerns and the Flintstones' laughtrack. I think I'm getting depressed now.

Eh, I think it says more about the human culture than specifically American, we just had the opportunity first, but I believe that given the chance we can all be pretty silly and/or moronic at times regardless of where we are in the world.

Yes, that could be a depressing thought, but I choose to not let it be because the flip side of that is that we can also be pretty insightful and/or brilliant at times.

 

[kellycummings]

The thing that totally blows my mind is that The Flintstones had a laughtrack. It's a freaking cartoon! What are we supposed to imagine that there's a cartoon audience laughing while the cartoon actors tape their program live in a studio?

In defense of the Flintstones, it was supposed to be looked at as a sitcom, a riff on the Honeymooners and so the laughtrack was just part of that.
Oh, and to confirm, yes, Gilligan did have a laugh track and it is true that people thought it was real. It's the same as Orson Welles' War of the Worlds broadcast. In college we listened to the entire broadcast and it's filled with commercials and before and after each break there was an announcer stating that he was reading the book. People just didn't pay attention.

 

[Guest]

O, Kelly, I can't believe you just compared Gilligan's Island with Orson Welles. Awk!

I know what you meant, but really any comparison between the works is near sacriligious. The makeup of the people frightened by Welles I am also certain could not be compared to those who called the Coast Guard about Gilligan and gang.

I'm sure I'd hear Orson turning in his grave but for the fact of his bulk, even passed on.

Perdita

 

[minsue]

O, Kelly, I can't believe you just compared Gilligan's Island with Orson Welles. Awk!

I know what you meant, but really any comparison between the works is near sacriligious. The makeup of the people frightened by Welles I am also certain could not be compared to those who called the Coast Guard about Gilligan and gang.

I'm sure I'd hear Orson turning in his grave but for the fact of his bulk, even passed on.

Perdita

I luv your snobby side, 'Dita. Always brings a smile to my face.

 

[kellycummings]

O, Kelly, I can't believe you just compared Gilligan's Island with Orson Welles. Awk!

I know what you meant, but really any comparison between the works is near sacriligious. The makeup of the people frightened by Welles I am also certain could not be compared to those who called the Coast Guard about Gilligan and gang.

I'm sure I'd hear Orson turning in his grave but for the fact of his bulk, even passed on.

Perdita

I don't think Mr. Welles would mind. He was just a radio actor at the time and Citizen Kane was a few years off. He got wierd near the end anyway. That movie he narrated about Nostradomus and those wine commercials. Must be something with great actors. Get famous, make great movies, get enormously fat, do wierd things. It could be called 'Brando Syndrome.'

 

[Guest]

Kelly, you know not of what you speak. Welles was a near-genius and sorely abused by Hollywood and the press. He made two of the best Shakespeare films in history. He was an artist, and so others squandered his money, that's why he made tv commercials and some swill. You're young, but my you have an awfully dull focus.

Perdita

 

[Guest]

I luv your snobby side, 'Dita. Always brings a smile to my face.

Thanks, Min, that moves me. I'm getting tired being all ladylike and polite all the time. I think pure has made me blossom (long story, haha). As an old expression goes, I'm in me cups! ('D', if you must know ).

Perdita

 

[gauchecritic]

those wine commercials.

Possibly and probably wrong but I'm pretty sure that the wine commercials were actually made by a Canadian guy who was the spit of Orson. Although Orson actually managed to get paid for not actually being there, he was paid for being Orson Welles. Nice work.

Gauche

 

[kellycummings]

Kelly, you know not of what you speak. Welles was a near-genius and sorely abused by Hollywood and the press. He made two of the best Shakespeare films in history. He was an artist, and so others squandered his money, that's why he made tv commercials and some swill. You're young, but my you have an awfully dull focus.

Perdita

No, I saw the mans interviews in his later years. He was wierd.
I've seen all his movies and with a couple exceptions I think they are all at the very least, very good.
Doesn't matter anyway, he had nothing to do with my original point. He's just the guy that read the story, could have been anyone else and it wouldn't have made a difference.

 

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[minsue]

Oh god, I'm so confused...don't know whether to cry or beat-off.

Lime

That's the best statement I've seen in some time! I love it!

 

[destinie21]

No, I saw the mans interviews in his later years. He was wierd.
I've seen all his movies and with a couple exceptions I think they are all at the very least, very good.
Doesn't matter anyway, he had nothing to do with my original point. He's just the guy that read the story, could have been anyone else and it wouldn't have made a difference.

not to derail this thread further but as an aside I loved citizen kane and The Third Man (Come on admit it Harry Lime, is one of the most deliciously memorable villains in all of film history.)
and Welles directed The magnificent ambersons
Even after he was forced to accommodate changes required by the studio, his adaptation of Booth Tarkington’s novel is absolutely grrreat.

 

[Guest]

I forgot about the phony Welles wine commercials. I only recall the ones that used his voice, as expressive as the best opera singers I've heard. Welles and Paul Scofield, two of my fave voices, even Rickman can't touch them.

Perdita

 

[kellycummings]

not to derail this thread further but as an aside I loved citizen kane and The Third Man (Come on admit it Harry Lime, is one of the most deliciously memorable villains in all of film history.)
and Welles directed The magnificent ambersons
Even after he was forced to accommodate changes required by the studio, his adaptation of Booth Tarkington’s novel is absolutely grrreat.

Might as well derail further...
The Third Man rocked! Great movie!
Nothing to say about Kane that hasn't been said.
I really liked Magnificent Amerbersons but can't say I loved it. However that might have to do with the fact that I saw it in college immediately after seeing Kane as part of a Welles class and it just doesn't hold up as well. Maybe if I had seen it another time I'd have a higher opinion of it.

 

[Guest]

No derailment that I can detect, Dest. The ending of 3rd Man: slays me everytime, those trees and how she walks by Jos. Cotton. *tears*

Perdita

 

[kellycummings]

I forgot about the phony Welles wine commercials. I only recall the ones that used his voice, as expressive as the best opera singers I've heard. Welles and Paul Scofield, two of my fave voices, even Rickman can't touch them.

Perdita

Sean Connery. Maybe not as expressive as some but, damn, he sounds sexy and cool!

I assume you mean Alan Rickman, wonderful actor even in somewhat trite roles like Professor Snape. Always liked him.

 

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[AngeloMichael]

I forgot about the phony Welles wine commercials. I only recall the ones that used his voice, as expressive as the best opera singers I've heard. Welles and Paul Scofield, two of my fave voices, even Rickman can't touch them.

Agreed.

It was inspired casting to place Welles in the role of Unicron, the planet devouring omnibot and bane of the entire universe in "Transformers: The Movie". No other voice could have done justice to the part.

 

[kellycummings]

He also did voice overs for a few heavy metal bands. I know manofwar was one. Forget the others.
Lucas wanted him to be the voice of Darth Vader but he turned it down. I'm sorta glad about that because James Earl Jones is just perfect.

 

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[kellycummings]

Kelly,

I had a similar thought - two of the great, imposing voices of our times.

Lime

PS - Does that mean we're showing our age?

Unfortunately, my mouth shows my age way too often. If I'd shut up I might get away with being 25 again.

 

[banditman]

I received the following feedback for my new story today.

‘Being poor is no sin... becoming a slimy slutwhorewife to get money... well... you have to live with your "fucked up" marriage wimp... dump the slutwife and move, get a job and a real lady to share your life with’

Needless to say it is from Mr Anonymous. This is now the third such missive.

What is wrong with these people? Do they believe the characters in the stories actually exist?

I never got such feedback for my first story on the same theme. Maybe that was because it was too intellectually challenging, being thirteen Lit. pages long.

I wonder if the reason is because I am posting my new story one Lit. page at a time and that this is within the attention span of the average moron.

Octavian

My Stories

I think the perfect story for these readers would go like this ...

BOB: Hi! I've never had sexual relations of any kind with anyone! I think you're beautiful!

MARY: Hi! I, too, am a virgin! You're handsome and strong!

BOB: Would you like to enter a monogamous relationship, followed by marriage and safe sex practices?

MARY: Yes!

(they do)

MARY: You're a wonderful husband! Lately, I've had fantasies about multiple sexual partners!

(Bob shoots Mary)

BOB: I'm certainly not a wimp!

the end

 

[Guest]

Bandit, that was excellent. However, the violence seemed a bit gratuitious.

Perdita

 

[Somme]

Oh god, I'm so confused...don't know whether to cry or beat-off.

Lime

If in any doubt whatsoever, try both.

 

[banditman]

Bandit, that was excellent. However, the violence seemed a bit gratuitious.

Perdita

argh, you're right! I've just set myself up for a whole new round of anonymous feedback.