Search found 163 matches
- February 28th, 2009, 3:03 pm
- Forum: Westerns
- Topic: WHO THE HELL IS CLINT WALKER?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6055
Re: WHO THE HELL IS CLINT WALKER?
I've been swimming in the shallow end for quite some time, rarely coming back to Silver Screen. Getting the messages about changes, I updated my sign-on status and then went browsing through the material. Stopping to read through this one, I realized that something has been omitted. For some reason,...
- October 25th, 2008, 10:49 am
- Forum: Games and Trivia
- Topic: Money: How Far Does a Buck Go in Classic Film?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 67617
1970s Sports Star salaries.
Bang The Drum Slowly (1973) aired on TCM on Friday night, Oct 24. A negotiation over the coming season's salaries for a Major League Baseball Club. Star pitcher Henry Wiggien (Michael Moriarty) is offered $60,000 for the coming year, with a hint that Management may go as high as $70.000. Both sides...
- August 18th, 2008, 5:50 pm
- Forum: Games and Trivia
- Topic: Money: How Far Does a Buck Go in Classic Film?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 67617
Times that many of our readers remember.
Ran across this one in a search for other information. The movie Quiz Show revealed that Instructors at Columbia U. in the late 1950s worked for $86.00 a week. I was aware of the quiz show scandals at the time but paid scant attention; wasn't a fan of those shows. I remember some inane reactions, su...
- July 18th, 2008, 7:32 pm
- Forum: Games and Trivia
- Topic: Money: How Far Does a Buck Go in Classic Film?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 67617
$162. 39 a week.
I found it!
This question bothered me for a couple of weeks; then tonight TCM ran
1967's In The Heat Of The Night, and I got my answer.
Philidelphia Homicide Detective Sidney Poitier worked for a salary of
$162.39 a week, and small town Police Chief Rod Steiger was rabidly invious.
This question bothered me for a couple of weeks; then tonight TCM ran
1967's In The Heat Of The Night, and I got my answer.
Philidelphia Homicide Detective Sidney Poitier worked for a salary of
$162.39 a week, and small town Police Chief Rod Steiger was rabidly invious.
- June 2nd, 2008, 10:35 pm
- Forum: Games and Trivia
- Topic: Money: How Far Does a Buck Go in Classic Film?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 67617
Talk about a cheap drunk!
The Slender Thread (1965, and contemporary to that period):
Anne Bancroft purchases a pint of brandy for $2.50! Would that purchase even a shot from a bartender now?
Anne Bancroft purchases a pint of brandy for $2.50! Would that purchase even a shot from a bartender now?
- May 27th, 2008, 6:23 pm
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: Director Sydney Pollack has passed away
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7035
Pollock
Logically, I know this in not true about anybody, but I feel this way about him. He was not expendable.
- April 19th, 2008, 4:32 pm
- Forum: Westerns
- Topic: The Magnificent Seven - A Racist Film ?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5886
- April 17th, 2008, 10:53 am
- Forum: Games and Trivia
- Topic: trivia
- Replies: 21
- Views: 33464
Southpaws again.
A recent re-viewing of Electra Glide In Blue reminded me of something. Motorcycle cop Robert Blake used his pistol left- handed and wore it on his left hip. Then I remembered a TV episode where Det. Baretta went undercover impersonating a hood named "Lefty". One of his new companions varif...
- April 9th, 2008, 7:12 pm
- Forum: Games and Trivia
- Topic: What do you know about moviemaking superstitions?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 14305
digging in an empty garden?
Addressing AYRES; You seem to have researched the same sites I did and to have reached a similar conclusion. My exposure to the lore was in College, Town & Gown and Community Theatre (sic; I'm spelling it the way they did) programs. Nobody I ever worked with ever took it seriously; they just see...
- April 6th, 2008, 8:13 am
- Forum: Games and Trivia
- Topic: What do you know about moviemaking superstitions?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 14305
What do you know about moviemaking superstitions?
A Hollywood filick about Hollywood, It's A Great Feeling (Doris Day, Jack Carson, et al) went by on TCM the other morning, while I did something else and gave the movie only partial attention. I stayed with it for the cameos, mostly. Anyway, a comment about "That's bad luck!" went by witho...
- April 1st, 2008, 10:31 am
- Forum: Games and Trivia
- Topic: more trivia
- Replies: 8
- Views: 17994
Is a songwriter a poet?
ibd 1; Agreement re Service. I once had access to a library that had 2 volumes of his verse. I think I went through both of them a couple of times. After signing off yesterday I recalled two more song-based TV movies: --A 1977 hit single by Mary Macgregor was turned into a 1979 movie Torn Between Tw...
- March 31st, 2008, 4:11 pm
- Forum: Games and Trivia
- Topic: more trivia
- Replies: 8
- Views: 17994
...and don't forget the lyrics!
Re; our earlier discussions of movies based on poems, I thought I had a winner in Robert Service's The Shooting Of Dan McGrew (and the lady that's known as Lou), but that's a dud. There is a tape of some kids performing the poem, but I didn't try to make that count. Then I hit on the idea of movies ...
- March 29th, 2008, 4:48 pm
- Forum: Games and Trivia
- Topic: trivia
- Replies: 21
- Views: 33464
HAIRPIECES, INC
Hector Elizando, Joe Pantoliano, Stanley Tucci, Alan Rachins. These are all actors who can show up bald or with hair in almost any role. I was slow catching on, but I've seen them with little or no hair, with thinning hair, and all points in between. Never a distraction; they all manage to make it ...
- March 12th, 2008, 9:49 pm
- Forum: Games and Trivia
- Topic: Money: How Far Does a Buck Go in Classic Film?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 67617
mousey
The Rat Race , filmed in 1960 and aired on TCM this evening. Debbie Reynolds occupies a seedy room-with-sleeping alcove. Her landlady raises the rental to $2.50 a day, and Debbie throws a hissy fit ! Another point I almost overlooked: Debbie borrows $200 from venomous loan shark Don Rickles and pur...
- March 11th, 2008, 12:04 am
- Forum: Games and Trivia
- Topic: trivia
- Replies: 21
- Views: 33464
tall/short/left/right
(I wrote this up before; I clicked the wrong place; it created another thread; I deleted it.) short & tall: I have always been amused by this. In The Sea Chase (1955), some characters are moving around belowdecks on a ship. Lana Turner goes first through the hatches, walking straight up. John Wa...