The Silver Screen Oasis

The Happy Years (1950) is one of my favorite New Jersey movies. It's like its title: there is something happy, and joyous about the film. Based on Owen Johnson's Lawrenceville Stories, it's a sort of bad-boy-coming-of-age story. Totally delightful. My favorite Dean Stockwell film.




Dean Stockwell, Leo G. Carroll

(The Happy Years also features the great stage actress Margalo Gilmore as Dean's mother. Gilmore didn't make too many films, but she was a revered stage actress, introducing the role of Mary Haines in The Woman. The part would be played by Norma Shearer on screen.)

Dargo wrote: ↑July 3rd, 2023, 9:33 pm

dianedebuda wrote: ↑July 3rd, 2023, 8:19 pm

Dargo wrote: ↑July 3rd, 2023, 6:56 pmFunny...I've heard the same thing about Texans!

Grrr.

LOL

So Diane, I take this to mean that I would be well-advised to heed the message on this young lady's T-shirt then, eh?!...

Not to worry. No chance of that.

Now wait a minute, Laffite, just what do you mean by that? Sounds like that could be taken as an incendiary remark. After all, I gather you are not the type that has to fight them off your back?

Gosh, Snoop; you sound a little like Dargo there.

Couldn't resist. And so how say you?

It's the weather. I was in Dallas one time, almost died.

Youse guys ain't got a clue. We've got European sophistication out the wazoo. Mel Ferrer? Meh. We've got
Frankie, Brucie, and Grover. Now give me twenty dollars of regular. I've got to get back on the Parkway.

Andree wrote: ↑July 3rd, 2023, 11:14 pm Youse guys ain't got a clue. We've got European sophistication out the wazoo. Mel Ferrer? Meh. We've got
Frankie, Brucie, and Grover. Now give me twenty dollars of regular. I've got to get back on the Parkway.

LOL

Great Gandolfini impression here, Andree!

(...now, lemme see ya do Chris Walken...haven't seen a good one of him done since Spacey was banished from the airwaves)

Dargo wrote: ↑July 3rd, 2023, 11:23 pm

Andree wrote: ↑July 3rd, 2023, 11:14 pm Youse guys ain't got a clue. We've got European sophistication out the wazoo. Mel Ferrer? Meh. We've got
Frankie, Brucie, and Grover. Now give me twenty dollars of regular. I've got to get back on the Parkway.

LOL

Great Gandolfini impression here, Andree!

(...now, lemme see ya do Chris Walken...haven't seen a good one of him done since Spacey was banished from the airwaves)

Dargo,my Christopher Walken impression is actually quite good. My sister's husband always asks me to do it whenever we see each other.

Others in my repertoire:
Billy Bob Thornton's character from SLING BLADE
Truman Capote and . . .
The mother from GOOD TIMES (actually just the way she exclaims "James!")

HoldenIsHere wrote: ↑July 3rd, 2023, 11:53 pm

Dargo wrote: ↑July 3rd, 2023, 11:23 pm

Andree wrote: ↑July 3rd, 2023, 11:14 pm Youse guys ain't got a clue. We've got European sophistication out the wazoo. Mel Ferrer? Meh. We've got
Frankie, Brucie, and Grover. Now give me twenty dollars of regular. I've got to get back on the Parkway.

LOL

Great Gandolfini impression here, Andree!

(...now, lemme see ya do Chris Walken...haven't seen a good one of him done since Spacey was banished from the airwaves)

Dargo,my Christopher Walken impression is actually quite good. My sister's husband always asks me to do it whenever we see each other.

Others in my repertoire:
Billy Bob Thornton's character from SLING BLADE
Truman Capote and . . .
The mother from GOOD TIMES (actually just the way she exclaims "James!")

YEAH?! Well that's pretty cool there, Holden!

But please don't tell me that your BEST impression of Walken includes using a wristwatch as a prop.

(...his version of that is freaky enough on its own, ya know!)

Dargo wrote: ↑July 3rd, 2023, 11:23 pm

LOL

Great Gandolfini impression here, Andree!

(...now, lemme see ya do Chris Walken...haven't seen a good one of him done since Spacey was banished from the airwaves)

I never did trust Fat Tony. He had the stink of a snitch for the feds. Haven't seen him around lately?
Hint: take a look in Newark Bay.

I like Walken, but I'm not that familiar enough to do an impression. I do a fairly good Truman Capote. It takes a few
sentences to get going and to raise my voice to his higher level. I like to start off with 'Norman told me I was his
favorite writer' and go on from there. Of course you'd got to throw in that funny little chuckle every once in a
while.

Andree wrote: ↑July 4th, 2023, 12:34 am

Dargo wrote: ↑July 3rd, 2023, 11:23 pm

LOL

Great Gandolfini impression here, Andree!

(...now, lemme see ya do Chris Walken...haven't seen a good one of him done since Spacey was banished from the airwaves)

I never did trust Fat Tony. He had the stink of a snitch for the feds. Haven't seen him around lately?
Hint: take a look in Newark Bay.

I like Walken, but I'm not that familiar enough to do an impression. I do a fairly good Truman Capote. It takes a few
sentences to get going and to raise my voice to his higher level. I like to start off with 'Norman told me I was his
favorite writer' and go on from there. Of course you'd got to throw in that funny little chuckle every once in a
while.

Too bad we can't get you and Holden here together and then have a "Dueling Trumans" sort'a thing go on.

Ya know, kind'a like that old SNL skit with Belushi and Peter Boyle doing their Brando impressions against each other.

(...WAIT...you know how to use Zoom, don't ya?!...Holden young man, are you listening here?)

Some news about The Magnificent Ambersons (How do you start a new topic here?).

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/03/11848396 ... hYvUdqp2Fs

Dargo wrote: ↑July 3rd, 2023, 9:33 pmSo Diane, I take this to mean that I would be well-advised to heed the message on this young lady's T-shirt then, eh?!...

Except when messing is invited.

Dargo wrote: ↑July 3rd, 2023, 10:16 pmI eventually found my way back after 3 hours and after before telling the bike's owner I'd be back in only about an hour)

Did they notice?

Now, now, guys, today is the Fourth! Texas, Philly, New Jersey, Florida -- we're all Americans!

Francis Albert Sinatra was from Hoboken, n'est pas? But I don't think he wanted to be reminded, sadly.

My famous Meryl Streep impression from SOPHIE'S CHOICE: "Coney Island, oh boy!"

So who else enjoyed Bing and Bob yesterday? (for some reason THE ROAD TO RIO is never shown) ROAD TO MOROCCO is their best but I think ROAD TO BALI is funniest. I was of course not able to tear myself away from Crosby's left arm..

Here comes YANKEE DOODLE DANDY...."We'll put ants in their Japants...." My brother and I for some reason always remember that line from when we first saw the movie as kidlets. Not p.c. I know but the brain doesn't always think in social justice terms, lol.

I'm waiting for 1776. "Sit down, John!" Love William Daniels as Adams.

dianedebuda wrote: ↑July 4th, 2023, 7:34 am

Dargo wrote: ↑July 3rd, 2023, 10:16 pmI eventually found my way back after 3 hours and after before telling the bike's owner I'd be back in only about an hour)

Did they notice?

LOL

Why Diane! Need you even ASK?!

I mean, surely you've been at some function (and lets say and in this case, a family reunion party), have looked around and suddenly said to yourself something like, "HEY! where'd the life of the party go?"

And so, NATURALLY my absence was noticed those three hours I was gone! LOL

(...actually and according to my wife, a few of them had started to wonder if I had maybe crashed that motorcycle while out on my little New Jersey exploratory venture...my wife of course knowing what a competent motorcyclist I am, knew not to worry and surmised that I must've just gotten lost)

Stix Nix Hix Pix

That's another one that "stix" with us....

Bronxgirl48 wrote: ↑July 4th, 2023, 5:52 pm Stix Nix Hix Pix

That's another one that "stix" with us....

...and thus asking that timeless question: "Will it play in Peoria?"

CinemaInternational wrote: ↑July 3rd, 2023, 1:40 pm Question of my own. Can films of the 70s, 80s, and early 90s still be called modern films or are they in some purgatory like middle ground of not being classic or modern? They certainly have more spiky material than the classic era, but they also have more thoughtful craftsmanship than much of what has been doled out in the last 25 years.

I would say that the first increment of the advent of modern films is The Street Car Named Desire, a true watershed movie. The next increment might be somewhere in the 60s when the studio system was dissolved and/or the Code was cracked. Somewhere in the 90s, cursing became prevalent and suddenly everyone was saying, s***, f***, goddam this and goddam that, that certainly is a modern quality. I have left all the finding to someone else as I don't have the knowledge myself, and the outline given perhaps not very good and incomplete. And to add there is a vast quantity of films I have not seen that many others have. I think the overall idea is a good one and I was hoping to hear what others have to say. Maybe there have been responses made on this sub-thread I have missed.