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The first movie to win the coveted Best Picture Oscar was Wings, a silent masterpiece from 1927. Starring Buddy Rogers, Richard Arlen and Clara Bow, Wings is a drama about two American aviators who enlist in the First World War. The film's aerial shots of dogfights were revolutionary for the time. Gary Cooper, at the beginning of his great career, has a small role as a pilot who is killed in a training flight crash. The film also has some surprising nudity for its time: Clara Bow's breasts are shown for a fraction of a second in a scene where she is surprised while dressing. There is also a long shot through a door of nude army recruits preparing to undergo their physical exams. The movie was incredibly popular in its day. It ran for 63 weeks (with several showings each day) at New York City's Criterion Theater--a major venue that seated about 3,000 people--before it was released to smaller movie houses. Wings was considered a lost film for many years until a copy was discovered in a film archive in Paris. It is the only Best Picture-winning film not currently available on DVD, although is can be obtained on videotape. A very good organ score accompanies the VHS copy of Wings I bought many years ago.
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Added: 21st February 2011
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How many times have you said to yourself, Wow, I love it!
Yep, I bet plenty of times for it since the late 70's. The best of his got to twelve on the chart and spent weeks in North America, guided to the very,very top with mass appeal. Yep, it was a high climber for that time period.
It must've put a smile on him then. He had me tapping my feet.
Another eccentric Scot left behind so much with him as 2011 marked the end of GR with great sadness as we all know.
Seems behavior that led to drinking more than a bottle of beer was his favorite pastime in his professional journey. He never overcame that. Must've been a a very upsetting sight for those close to him. A life squandered away with so many vinyl standouts.
Renowned where you are sitting, he had the most remembered balladeering feel, since he came out with nothing but respect backing him up. You could add, never-to-be-forgotten. He is brilliant. That is invariably correct.
How about the accompanying moment in that unsightly gross bit in the crime story you may of seen. A warehouse and a menacing switchblade. Remember? Yeah, that was really unmatchable. This complicated man in profile had so much talent, yet as mentioned, he drank heavily with the end result of liver failure. I found that his passing was just so unnecessarily.
He should of been praised even more in life. Yes, you can see what I was thinking back then.
How about you?
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Added: 28th February 2011
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LOS ANGELES - Screen legend Elizabeth Taylor, the violet-eyed film goddess whose sultry screen life was often upstaged by her stormy personal life, died Wednesday at age 79.
She died of congestive heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where she had been hospitalized for about six weeks, publicist Sally Morrison said.
"All her children were with her," Morrison said.
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Added: 23rd March 2011
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From 1950 to 1991, the woman went through more than most. In time, she left most to wonder what she'd be doing next? Often increasing criticisms were mentioned to her for being the way she was, yet as a person in life, she had eventually raised enough for charitie that would make her criticizers blush for weeks.
In the early nineties, she teamed up with another highly-successful woman, who you could say gave her some happiness by being a persuading face for a unique scent that smelt like a bunch of flowers.
She went throught it all with a brave smile as the harsh marital life she lived though was nothing but disappointing. Through it all, she collected enough mementos to make a woman like herself even more famous than those who never got a chance.
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Added: 25th March 2011
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Look was a hugely popular general-interest magazine that focused more on photography than articles. Published in Des Moines, Iowa, it began in February 1937 and was intended to be a monthly periodical. Within weeks, more than a million copies were bought of each issue, and it became a bi-weekly. By 1948 it sold 2.9 million copies per issue. Circulation reached 3.7 million in 1954, and peaked at 7.75 million in 1969. Its advertising revenue peaked in 1966 at $80 million. Of the leading general-interest, large-format magazines, Look had a circulation second only to Life and ahead of The Saturday Evening Post, which closed in 1969, and Collier's, which folded in 1956.
Look was published under various company names: Look, Inc. (1937–45), Cowles Magazines (1946–65), and Cowles Communications, Inc. (1965–71). Its New York editorial offices were located in the architecturally distinctive 488 Madison Avenue, dubbed the Look Building, now on the National Register of Historic Places.
Beginning in 1963, Norman Rockwell, after closing his career with the Saturday Evening Post, began making illustrations for Look.
Look ceased publication with its issue of October 19, 1971, the victim of a $5 million loss in revenues in 1970 (with television cutting deeply into its advertising revenues), a slack economy and rising postal rates. Circulation was still at 6.5 million when it closed.
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Added: 9th April 2011
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Remember a few guys (6) who were from Ocala, Florida? Ultimately, they became a novelty at the tail-end of grooving '66. Yeah, yeah, that would of been December of that year. I recall it like it was yesterday, even though, it has been a very long period of time since.
What about you and your suburban life then? I'd be humming it and trying to mimic German badly. I guess back then, I was too busy on keeping my eyes on the sky? The funny thing about them, the recurring topic that was uplifed in the air was always with them. I'm talkin' of the pilot-dog. Yep, he did come up (get it?) seven more times with them. But hold on! Wait just one sec! True, they did branch out as well. If you are alike me, you got a real fondness for something so good - it makes you smile.
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Added: 17th July 2011
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I posted this on the CBC News website in Canada following the Boston Bruins' Stanley Cup championship on June 15, 2011. It got such a wonderful response that I thought I'd share it here too: It had been 14,279 days since captain Johnny Bucyk hoisted the Boston Bruins' last Stanley Cup on May 11, 1972. To put things in perspective...
Richard Nixon was in the White House.
America still had combat troops in Vietnam.
If you bought a quarter's worth of candy, you could get sick eating it all.
Pitchers still batted in the American League.
There was no such thing as rap music or punk rock.
Nobody considered the possibility of terrorist attacks at the Olympics.
The NHL had 14 teams. Few players wore helmets. Some goalies didn't wear masks.
Nobody seriously thought hockey players from the USSR were good.
There were hardly any McDonald's Restaurants in Canada. There were very few Tim Hortons either.
Archie Bunker was in his heyday.
Television sets had rabbit ears.
Nobody thought the world was in peril from global warming or climate change or whatever they're calling it this week.
Lotteries were illegal in Canada.
Arthur Godfrey Time had still been on the radio two weeks earlier.
Calculators could perform four functions and cost $179.
Most people had rotary telephones.
Forget about DVD players--VCRs didn't exist.
The idea of bottled water would have been laughable.
Computers were enormous things that occupied entire rooms and did simple calculations using punch cards.
Hardware meant hammers and wrenches. Software didn't mean anything.
People still sent telegrams.
Life Magazine was still around.
Canada still had the death penalty.
O.J. Simpson was a hero.
The Lord's Prayer was recited in public schools. Nobody thought it was wrong.
A new car cost $2500.
Hockey cards were a dime a pack--and they came with pink bubble gum covered in powdered sugar.
Bobby Orr was the greatest player in the NHL. (Thirty-nine years later he's still the greatest of all time.).
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Added: 16th June 2011
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Once again, here we go!
Ready to begin a new game with you involuntary. Get that coffeemaker brewing as it's going to be a few minutes. I'm just surmising that you want to be playing. You want? It is obvious who is pretty good at it.
It is sorta an exclusively made game to keep you occupied for a second or two.
Sitting there steely quiet, trying to figure it out is half the fun at it.
Oh, come now, you know it is.
Thanks for the support! I know who you are. Life is so short to let it waste.
UPDATE: This took a few long weeks, but it was answered correctly.Great work!!
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Added: 2nd December 2011
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After being part of two successful TV series in the early 1970s, Nancy Walker had two sitcoms in which she played the starring role cancelled in the same 1976-77 TV season. In September 1976, The Nancy Walker Show premiered. In it Walker played talent agent Nancy Kitteridge who was learning to live with her husband who had been away at sea for most of their 29-year marriage. The show bombed and was cancelled before New Year's Day. Undeterred, ABC cast Walker in another sitcom. This time she played Howard Cunningham's visiting cousin Nancy Blansky from Las Vegas on the February 4, 1977 episode of Happy Days. Blansky's Beauties premiered eight days later.
In this show Nancy Blansky was a Las Vegas showbiz vet and current den mother to a bevy of beautiful showgirls. In addition to keeping order in the chaotic apartment complex where they all lived, Nancy staged the girls' big numbers at the Oasis Hotel. (Strangely, the Happy Days episode on which Nancy first appeared took place circa 1960, yet Blansky's Beauties was set in 1977.) Sixteen-year-old Scott Baio played the role of a "12-year-old going on 28." Eddie Mekka from Laverne and Shirley was also part of the cast. Blansky's Beauties ran for just 13 weeks before being axed. Recalled once critic,
"This show had every 1970s teeny bopper element aimed to appeal to the lowest intellect and thus make it a hit--except this time cute boys and inane, jiggly, dumb blondes were not enough to cover for horrible scripts, contrived situations, bad acting, and unbelievable plots. The show tried to be a spin-off/tie-in to Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley (or at least ride on their successes) by utilizing actors - most notably Eddie Mekka and Scott Baio - from those shows and making the title role the cousin of Happy Days' Howard Cunningham. Having Nancy Walker as its star, scantily-clad bimbos wiggling around the set, and pretty boy co-stars to elicit screams from young girls in the audience, however, could never have saved it from itself.
This show is a best-forgotten footnote to bad television."
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Added: 20th August 2011
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How can I explain the causes to this weeks delay in the game of all games? I have been so passive these past days, but I still managed to get myself bogged down with an incredible moment that put me in a lot of trouble. Seems I can't win. As usual, not to worry, here I am again. So now, opening the theatrical doors for another dusting off of something you may of remembered from your past ..... and think, I was going to tell you what really happened to me. It wasn't too good. I lost the keys to the theatre!
UPDATE- SOLVED.
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Added: 10th September 2011
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