Honestly don't have to double-check: the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena!! (I think. ;) ) Yep, that's it! Or, at least WAS it, anyway. (...'cause as I'm sure you know, that location is where they would build that stadium where they play that game in which almost all players aren't allow to use th...

...There are some real nutcases out there in the heartland. OH yeah there are and always have been. Now, MY personal little "favorites" of these kind'a folks have always been those who after some natural catastrophe has befallen the state of California, they'll opine the idea that that's ...

NoShear wrote: ↑45 minutes ago
Damn, Dargo, I wish I'd come up with that one!

So NS, you fellow ol' SoCal boy, you. Can you tell me where the exterior shots were filmed in this flick and as Eddie G. walks toward that assisted suicide building?

(...betcha can, can't ya)

When I hear the opening strains of Beethoven's 6th (Pastoral) Symphony, still to day and after over 50 years of first watching it unfold on the silver screen, I sometimes think back to how Edward G. Robinson decided to end his life in the film 'Soylent Green'... https://youtu.be/SW4-jcTnjLo And now ...

As a side note, the winner, Dominique Green, was cast in the upcoming Battle For The Planet of the Apes . Wow! Now THAT'S impressive that you know this, Rich! So, in addition to being a guru of silents, you're ALSO very knowledgeable about beauty contestants TOO, eh?! ;) Gotta admit #2 DOES have a ...

I've always felt one of the more interesting and unusual means a character willingly ends his life is shown at the end of the film 'The Light That Failed' (1939). Ronald Colman, a former British soldier who becomes a painter and who gradually goes blind and thus does not want to live any longer, ret...

Dargo, would not be surprised to read that you'd attended the following CONQUEST contest to promote the 1972 installment: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/81/2d/ac/812dacf5cd52ec286788732f0edfb82c.jpg Heck, wouldn't be surprised if you'd subbed for Gary Owens during some of that day!! Oh yeah! I was there...

Clint Eastwood (as William Munny in 'Unforgiven')

Next: brash young cowboy

'The Macomber Affair'

Next: Your favorite film based on a Hemingway story

Warren Beatty

Next: hotel desk clerk

'North by Northwest'


Next: a snowbound cabin

And now for the equestrians among us here. Yeah, like you, Tiki...

1931's The Maltese Falcon (...but primarily so in order to compare it to the better remembered 1941 version)

Next: featured what you consider one of the most hamish performances ever put on film

Danny Kaye

Next: a guy you wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley (as they say)

Don't want to derail this much further, but to answer your question, it appears it was held at Salinas airport, per this article... https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-californian-salinas-race-track/132773645/ Thanks for this, Tex. (...you've now answered this question I've wondered about for ye...