1985 Jason Alexander.
https://www.seriouseats.com/blast-from-the-past-the-mcdlt-mcdonalds-1980s-jason-alexander
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_N%27_Tasty
https://www.mashed.com/293410/heres-why-the-mcdlt-was-canceled/
Sunday, July 18, 2021
McDLT
Saturday, July 17, 2021
Monkeybone (2001)
Directed by Henry Selick. Brendan Fraser. Free With Ads on Youtube. A notorious flop. Bridget Fonda, Dave Foley, Thomas Haden Church, Giancarlo Esposito, Bob Odenkirk, and many many more.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkeybone
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/monkeybone-2000
Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics
1977-78 ABC. Hanna-Barbera. 24 episodes. Took a break from Saturday cartoons with 71 at the Cartoons tag. On Kinja there was 103-04. I will add a few more here and there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooby%27s_All-Star_Laff-A-Lympics
https://www.wired.com/2010/02/laff-a-lympic-fever/
Busting (1974)
Directed by Peter Hyams. Midnight movie. Elliott Gould, Robert Blake. Early buddy cops. Allen Garfield. I love him in this. He's the bad guy. Hyams always has a foot chase, and this is the most famous, in the hallway. Famously, how did he shoot it? No Steadicam at the time. Hyams always did his own cinematography, so that is him with the camera probably. Recommended. A great 70s crime film.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busting
https://www.blu-ray.com/Busting/448002/
https://www.thespinningimage.co.uk/cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=8387Chase scene here.
Friday, July 16, 2021
The Odd Couple (1968)
Directed by Gene Saks. Kanopy library streaming version playing now. Schlitz appears on the poker table. Steel cans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Odd_Couple_(film)
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-odd-couple-1968
https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/4740/the-odd-couple/#articles-reviews?articleId=88916
The Seeds - Pushin' Too Hard
TV and regular version. Dig that guitar. Pair with the Get Smart episode with The Sacred Cows. Burtonian Institute on Kinja was the one who challenged me to find all the hippie-themed TV episodes I could after posting the Warning: Live Blueberries scene from Mannix with The Buffalo Springfield. There is also a Beverly Hillbillies episode with Jethro as a hippie Robin Hood. And a Bewitched with alter-ego Samantha as a hippie guitar player.
https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-sacred-cows.html
https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2021/04/warning-live-blueberries.html
https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-chocolate-watchband-dont-need-your.html
Charles Willeford
Hoke Moseley. Willeford is very collectible. His early paperbacks fetch some of the highest prices in the field. Also look for the Fred Ward/Alec Baldwin movie, Miami Blues. Vinegar pie.
https://ethaniverson.com/newgate-callendar/charles-willeford/https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2020/04/vinegar-pie-by-charles-willeford.html
Movie tie-in is relatively valuable.
The Strange Death of Thomas Ince
In 1924, film producer Thomas H. Ince died during or after a trip aboard the yacht of William Randolph Hearst. Also aboard were Marion Davies, Charlie Chaplin, and critic Louella Parsons. The rumor is that Hearst shot Ince by accident, and the bullet was meant for Chaplin. Orson Welles claimed to know the real story.
https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/mysterious-death-newport-movie-mogul-thomas-ince/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_H._Ince
Film scholar Jonathan Rosenbaum, editor of the 1992 book This is Orson Welles — a record of interviews Peter Bogdanovich conducted with Orson Welles — began his April 2002 review of The Cat’s Meow with this exchange about Citizen Kane (1941):
OW: In the original script we had a scene based on a notorious thing Hearst had done, which I still cannot repeat for publication. And I cut it out because I thought it hurt the film and wasn’t in keeping with Kane’s character. If I’d kept it in, I would have had no trouble with Hearst. He wouldn’t have dared admit it was him.
PB: Did you shoot the scene?
OW: No, I didn’t. I decided against it. If I’d kept it in, I would have bought silence for myself forever.“The incident Welles alluded to in this exchange is the subject of The Cat’s Meow, directed by Bogdanovich and adapted by Steven Peros from his own play,” Rosenbaum wrote. “Bogdanovich may see Welles as the inspiration for his film, but I have no idea where Peros got his facts.”
Rosenbaum did find a similar story in the 1979 edition of The Film Encyclopedia by Ephraim Katz, in the entry on Thomas Ince; and in the1971 essay on Citizen Kane by Pauline Kael:
Her principal source was John Houseman, script supervisor for cowriter Herman Mankiewicz, and it seems safe to conclude, even without her prodding, that some version of the story must have cropped up in Mankiewicz’s first draft of the script, which Welles subsequently edited and added to. According to Kael, the only trace of the subplot left in the script is a speech made by Susan Alexander, who was loosely based on Davies, to the reporter Thompson about Kane: “Look, if you’re smart, you’ll get in touch with Raymond. He’s the butler. You’ll learn a lot from him. He knows where all the bodies are buried.” Kael writes, “It’s an odd, cryptic speech. In the first draft, Raymond literally knew where the bodies were buried: Mankiewicz had dished up a nasty version of the scandal sometimes referred to as the Strange Death of Thomas Ince.”
Thursday, July 15, 2021
Bizarre
1980-86. Canadian sketch show with John Byner and Bob Einstein that aired on Showtime and syndicated. I watched a couple of these last night that I had bookmarked. It had boobs. The rarely seen uncensored versions that occasionally showed up on regular late night TV in a few markets. The original pilot was with Richard Dawson on ABC in 1979 and is available at the Museum of Classic Chicago Television (Youtube.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bizarre_(TV_series)
https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/television/2015/12/09/rewind-bizarre-was-funny-in-the-80s.html
Wednesday, July 14, 2021
The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery (1975)
Directed by Dean Hargrove. Found on Youtube (again.) I found this a few years ago after watching Little Murders (1971) with Vincent Gardenia, where he was hilarious. I looked up his credits on IMDb and saw this title. A Maltese Falcon parody. Chicken farmer who wants to be a private eye. That old story. Every movie nerd has experienced watching a movie and 10-15 minutes in you know exactly how it is going to turn out. Well, this is the exact opposite. 10-15 minutes into this movie and you are saying this is the strangest goddamn detective movie I've ever seen. Gabriel Dell, Huntz Hall, Will Geer, Joyce Van Patten, Dick Gautier, Barbara Harris, Sorrell Booke, Jackie Coogan, Nicholas Colasanto, Nita Talbot, Howard Storm.
Lost Films
From the Kinja archive (9/14/16):
Who wants to see the legendary nine hour cut of Greed (1924)? Gone. Most of the silent era of movie history is missing. Some lost films have now been found. Sometimes still photographs, publicity materials, and contemporary reviews exist but the movie does not.
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/22/The-Greatest-Lost-Films/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_film
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/26045/10-famous-lost-films
The First Men in the Moon (1919).
This film from 1967 is an unlicensed parody that sees the DC Comics hero, Batman face off against Dracula (something the official comics themselves have done a number of time). This Filipino film starring Jing Abalos as the caped crusader is one of the most sought after lost Asian films for vintage movie buffs.
https://listverse.com/2015/09/15/10-lost-films-weve-finally-found/
https://listverse.com/2014/01/15/10-great-lost-films-and-where-they-turned-up/
Convention City (1933)
Lost film. Highly sought after because of its pre-code racy content. I just heard it mentioned by Michael Schlesinger on his Trailers From Hell commentary on Baby Face (1933), which I will add down below in the comments. I saw the star of Convention City, Joan Blondell, the other day on the new Criterion Blu-ray of Nightmare Alley.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_City
http://jazzage1920s.com/conventioncity/conventioncity.php
- Nice write up here.
Tuesday, July 13, 2021
Celebrating Six Years of The Golden Horn
And there was much rejoicing. I think the transition to blogspot has worked out okay. Covid gave me the opportunity to spend a year archiving as much of Kinja as I could.
https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2020/12/big-eds-and-golden-horn.html
Monday, July 12, 2021
Gabe Kaplan on Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast
https://soundcloud.com/gilbertgottfried/gabe-kaplan
Actor, writer and comedian Gabe Kaplan (finally) joins Gilbert and Frank for a truly hilarious conversation about working strip clubs and Burlesque houses, meeting (and portraying) Groucho Marx, the clunkiness of the Dean Martin Roasts and the backstage drama of "Welcome Back Kotter." Also, Jack Carter buys a shirt, Buddy Hackett makes an omelet, Pat McCormick passes out on Jerry Lewis' couch and Gabe crosses paths with Jack Ruby and Golda Meir. PLUS: London Lee! The comedy of Buddy Mantia! "Battle of the Network Stars"! Howard Cosell narrates the Bible! Richard Pryor makes a run for it! And Gilbert auditions to play Chico Marx!?
Welcome Back, Kotter Promos
Listening to Mr. Kotter now talking to Gilbert and Frank on the Amazing Colossal Podcast.
Sunday, July 11, 2021
Mah-Jong at bathing beach, 6/20/[24]
I just came across this while looking up plums for Observation Deck.
Caption for this image in an NPC album: Warm weather Mah-Jong, photo snaped (sic) at Wordman Park Pool. Left to right: Jane Eynon, Betty Carey, Helen Plummer, Ruth Nebecker."
Saturday, July 10, 2021
Friday, July 9, 2021
Croupier (1998)
Directed by Mike Hodges. Clive Owen. Coming up next on the Kanopy library streaming service.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croupier_(film)
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/croupier-2000
https://trailersfromhell.com/croupier/
https://www.avclub.com/croupier-1798195974
King of New York (1990)
Directed by Abel Ferrara. Browsing through the Kanopy library streaming service titles. I have not seen this in a long, long time. I may have rented it on VHS. Christopher Walken, Laurence Fishburne, David Caruso, Steve Buscemi, Wesley Snipes, Giancarlo Esposito.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_New_York
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/king-of-new-york-1990
https://www.avclub.com/king-of-new-york-1798199546
