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Jan 28 12 2:50 PM
Wich2 wrote: That's what makes an interesting world with interesting people, and thinking "my Interest is Bigger than yours!" is navel-gazing that misses much of it's beauty.
"Physical Media: Alive and Well, Forever!"
Jan 28 12 5:00 PM
Rick wrote:I'm not getting into the whole "Boris or Bela" thing again, 'cause that never ends well. But I will agree that general audiences very often won't know who Lugosi is, or Karloff. I've gone through decades of wives and girlfriends who couldn't get 'em straight. It was always "is that Boris or Bela?" She'd know it was one of 'em, but couldn't keep them straight. And, with the exception of one girlfriend, it was the same with Cushing and Lee. They'd know it was one or the other, but not which.But it's also true, as more time goes by, that this becomes the case with other stars as well. How many of the general population could identify Spencer Tracy? How many have even heard of him? I think somebody like Gable would score a little higher, but Gary Cooper? I don't think so. But this is the way it's always been. I imagine that even a lot of us "in the know" sorts would stumble at identifying Conrad Nagel or Milton Sills or Bronco Billy Anderson. It's just a by-product of the passage of time. Very few, from any age or any field, have real long-term staying power. Just because we know who Lionel Atwill was, doesn't mean that the other 99.9% of the population does.
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Lionel Atwill? Who's that? Did he star in the latest Brad Pitt film?
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Feb 1 12 7:45 PM
Rick wrote:Back in the '60s, hearing that I was into horror and sic-fi movies, a guy wanted to talk about one of his favorites that he hadn't seen since he was a kid--WAR OF THE WORLDS. So I leaned back and launched into my George Pal--Gene Barry--Les Tremayne expert-mode. No, no, he insisted, not that one. The one from the '30s. Aaaannnd we were off. No, not the Orson Welles radio show. No, not THINGS TO COME. No, definitely not METROPOLIS. Not even the unmade DeMille version. I tried to calmly convince him that he was just mixing things up. He'd have none of it. He knew what he'd seen. Some expert I was.I thought about dragging in some sort of print evidence, but decided it wasn't worth it. I did learn a valuable lesson, though, and it's come in handy many, many times. When some idiot swears to have seen Bela Lugosi in THE WIFE OF DRACULA (a guy did swear that), or when an old theatre-goer tells me how good Marlon Brando was in ON THE WATERFRONT back in the '50s on Broadway (two separate old farts told me that)....well, I just nod and duck out of the conversation at the first opportunity. The Qur'an puts it very well, "Dispute not with the ignorant."
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EDITOR MFTV wrote:Off subject but kind of related, I had a 15 min argument with a twenty-something in Best Buy who swore George Clooney was the star of the original Hawaii Five-0, how sad is that?
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PShields79 wrote: I am 50 years old. I learned of many old performers through books, long before I had seen any of their films. I know of many performers from the 20s-50s whose films I've NEVER seen.My knowledge (as it is) of film history has NOTHING to do with school or smarts. It's simply what I am interested in.
Feb 6 12 8:36 PM
The Batman of Gotham wrote:And, to me, this says it all.
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