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#1 2010-06-29 07:45:07
- Rip Rig & Panic
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A personal word of thanks to the members
I'd just like to say how pleased I am to be back - (My saintly wife: "You're not on that damn forum again, are you?") - and I'd like to thank all those people who say they missed me.
I've made friends all over the world!
None in this country, but all over the world...
#2 2010-06-29 08:05:41
- Kingstonian
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Re: A personal word of thanks to the members
Took me a while to twig. A post from somebody else referring to your alter egos from the past.
#3 2010-06-29 08:05:47
- Hard Bop Hank
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Re: A personal word of thanks to the members
It really made my day when I saw the post about FOTL boxer shorts...
we still have to talk about John Ford, though - I really dig Stagecoach and Grapes of Wrath!
and this is something I should have mentioned, too: I love a bit of an argument... at least, if you can't agree on something!
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#4 2010-06-29 08:08:04
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Re: A personal word of thanks to the members
Hank, check out what James Agee had to say about all those comedy Irishmen in 'Fort Apache'.
It made me smile anyway.
#5 2010-06-29 08:13:28
- Hard Bop Hank
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Re: A personal word of thanks to the members
will do!
can't remember Fort Apache, maybe I haven't seen it, or it was 20some years ago... Liberty Valance for example isn't really one of my faves...
BTW, what's your fave Western? or do you despise the entire genere?
“No Room For Squares”
”All political art is bad – all good art is political.”
"Would there be any freedom of press or speech if one must reduce his vocabulary to vapid innocuous euphemisms?"
#6 2010-06-29 08:20:31
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Re: A personal word of thanks to the members
Nay, nay and thrice nay. 'Destry Rides Again' is my favourite. 'Stagecoach' was probably Ford at his best, thanks to John Carradine and Claire Trevor. I just can't stand John Wayne. I must check out 'The Tin Star' for Anthony Perkins. I also rate 'High Noon', 'The Gunfighter', 'Broken Arrow' and Laurel and Hardy's 'Way Out West'. 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre', although not strictly a western, is also very fine - Huston still was then.
#7 2010-06-29 08:44:32
- Hard Bop Hank
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Re: A personal word of thanks to the members
“No Room For Squares”
”All political art is bad – all good art is political.”
"Would there be any freedom of press or speech if one must reduce his vocabulary to vapid innocuous euphemisms?"
#8 2010-06-29 08:49:03
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Re: A personal word of thanks to the members
I know, I know...
Bits of 'The Magnificent Seven' only. Spoiled by Horst B, I'm afraid, doing that cowboy comedy routine.
#9 2010-06-29 08:50:13
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Re: A personal word of thanks to the members
Must get round to reading Traven.
#10 2010-06-29 12:46:24
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: A personal word of thanks to the members
I've had some very happy half hours on the blower (usually at very silly times of night for him) with The Ripper.
He's a Brother.
#11 2010-06-29 16:35:32
- Hard Bop Hank
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Re: A personal word of thanks to the members
“No Room For Squares”
”All political art is bad – all good art is political.”
"Would there be any freedom of press or speech if one must reduce his vocabulary to vapid innocuous euphemisms?"
#12 2010-06-29 16:39:49
- Hard Bop Hank
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Re: A personal word of thanks to the members
“No Room For Squares”
”All political art is bad – all good art is political.”
"Would there be any freedom of press or speech if one must reduce his vocabulary to vapid innocuous euphemisms?"
#13 2010-06-29 17:00:05
- Quay
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Re: A personal word of thanks to the members
Let Us Now Praise Famous Members?
Whatever the literary references, it seems to be a good thing to have someone with vigor posting about things one actually enjoys reading.
"It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive."
- Mark Twain
#14 2010-07-01 01:55:23
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Re: A personal word of thanks to the members
I'm currently slacking and lurking but it's good to see you posting again mr RRP.