Robert Shaw says "Twenty-five."
Well, now they're reporting that they've caught a massive, record-breaking gigantic great white shark, the largest ever caught tagged and released in the Atlantic ocean. I thought maybe it was thirty or forty feet. No. It was fourteen feet. Fourteen lousy feet.
I knew the shark in Jaws was unusually large. I didn't know it was absurdly large.
It was well-made. Honor Blackman is strangely nervous about leaving the child with a sitter, like she was afraid this would happen.
Believed to be the premiere babysitter vs psychotic killer movie.
Honor Blackman said she was worried about the toddler being traumatized by the filming of the violent scenes, but it was the director's son and he was willing to risk it.
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Slim Pickens attacks George Peppard with a bullwhip. There's one lynching and Dean Martin keeps talking about hanging people. Just not that good.
Well, that thing I wrote about Trump, how it wouldn't be so hard, how we could sweat it out the next four years, was wrong, obviously. The Zionists did stop bombing Gaza, but the same thing happened when Obama took office. Israel was in the middle of a bombing campaign which killed thousands. Because it stopped just before he was inaugurated, Obama could pretend it never happened.
I don't think anything's going to change in Ukraine. Everything will get worse and worse in the U.S. Trump will speed up the collapse of the American Empire which is okay with me. The U.S. is now an existential threat to Canada and Denmark. He says he wants to turn Gaza into the Riviera of the middle east----why doesn't he just demand that France hand over the actual Riviera?
There was a Vietnamese writer who said that anti-imperialists living in imperialist countries got the best of both worlds. They got the benefits of imperialism but also got to be self-righteous about it. He was right to a point, but I don't think moral superiority does you any good. Now half the country, everyone who didn't vote for Trump, can experience it. It doesn't make up for anything.
For some reason, I was thinking back to the time forty years ago that I saw Ricky Schroder on the Merv Griffin Show. He must have been 10 or 11. [Turns out he was 14 or 15.] Bea Arthur was there.
Schroder told an embarrassing anecdote. He had been in Japan to promote a movie. He was introduced to a Japanese official. Trying to make conversation, the man asked the little fellow what his favorite movie was. Without thinking, Schroder answered "Attack on Pearl Harbor".
I assume he meant Tora! Tora! Tora! If he did it was actually a pretty good answer. That movie was a U.S.-Japanese co-production, an example of cooperation and friendship between our nations. It showed he had no hard feelings and the movie was a huge hit in Japan which must be a little disturbing to some people.
Schroder now calls himself "Rick Schroder". He's some sort of violent alt-right nut. He's been arrested twice for domestic violence but not charged and he put up $150 thousand to bail out murderous fellow German Kyle Rittenhouse. Millionaire Schroder posted a video of himself harassing Costco employees because the store required masks during the pandemic.
Just watched a video about the video. He's not aging well, poor wretch. The great big glasses aren't doing him any favors. There's video of him apologizing for the Costco video, but, in it, he laments the end of the white supremacist regime in Rhodesia.
Michael Crawford's first movie. His grandfather in the film drives a tiny BMW Isetta. It has only a slightly longer wheelbase than the soap box racers.
I thought soap box derby racers just rolled downhill propelled only by gravity, but England is pretty flat. The things these kids build were pedal-driven.
I had never heard of the movie before, but it was reportedly shown on the CBS Children's Film Festival on Saturday morning TV.
Free on Movieland.Tv or the Classic Comedy Channel or with a subscription on BFIplayer Classics.
Only 64 minutes, but it has a lot of plot.
Don Knotts stars as Abner Audubon Peacock IV who publishes a failing birdwatching magazine. It is saved from bankruptcy by a pornographic magazine publisher (Edmond O'Brien) who wants it for its 4th Class Mailing Permit.
Abner becomes known as a pornographer. He's shunned by his community. He had been a scout leader. Now parents shield their children from him. He is about to commit suicide when a couple guys from an ACLU-like organization offer to defend him in court from obscenity charges.
My older brother and sister wanted to go to this in 1969, but our parents wouldn't let them because it was rated PG. In fairness to my parents, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie was made the same year, was rated PG and had a nude scene and a teacher molesting a student. When Gone with the Wind was re-released in the '60s it got a G-rating and it was a bloody war movie with implied nudity, implied marital rape, slavery, prostitution, the horrible death of a horse, a man having his leg amputated without anesthesia and a dead body dragged across the floor leaving a long bloody smear, all in technicolor. Ratings had entirely different meanings back then.
According to Wikipedia, The Love God? is now rated PG-13.
Now that I've seen the movie, I can tell you my parents were right. I don't know why I found it so disturbing.
Don Knotts isn't the blowhard he is in his other movies. The Mafia has taken control of the magazine and he's forced to become a bizarre Hugh Hefner-like figurehead for the publication. He goes back to his old girlfriend waiting for him in their small town. Before they can marry, her father, a pastor, insists that he call a press conference and tell the world the truth, that he is a virgin. Knotts is horrified but sees no way out.
It was a failed attempt to put Don Knotts in a comedy aimed at adults. Sadly, the public didn't go for it. If it had, Knotts might have been the poor man's Woody Allen.
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