BruceH

I always sort of assumed that everybody loved Tintin.

One thing that saddens me about Guaraldi was his untimely, sudden death. Such a shame.

The deaf-mute kid waiving good-bye to the Jeff Bailey gas station sign at the end of Out of the Past. Not intense, but very apposite.

Maybe it has something to do with being sandwiched between two great lakes.

Well, they showed three Scott/De Toth Westerns last night: Man In the Saddle, Carson City, and The Stranger Wore A Gun. Turns out I'd already seen the first; got it out of the library about a year ago. I like it better on second viewing. I think I may have enjoyed Carson City the most.

Yes indeed, they made an amazing team. "Pronoun trouble."

I was alive in the 70's, but can't say I was really into jazz yet.

Same here. I feel the same way about Davis Cup. I'm with you here. I've always found Davis Cup to be an amazing listen. I'm very much looking forward to the Baby Face and Thad Jones. On another note, I just stumbled across this site and I look forward to talking jazz with all of you Welcome aboard!

Sad news.

My understanding is that Hamilton gave as good as he got. Didn't he undermine Adams's Presidency via the Hamilton-loyalist cabinet members? edit: I chuckled at this little bit from wikipedia: Guy Hamilton was an expert at giving as good as he got. As to his requirements in a wife, taken separately most of these sound reasonable (or at least, understandable) but put them all together and he comes off as a tad demanding, doesn't he?

Thanks for this.

Ever since seeing Crime Wave at the SF Film Festival a few years ago, I've been a fan of De Toth. Will keep an eye out for his Westerns with Scott.

An example of life imitating sentimental and unbelievable art. They both treated Hamilton badly, BTW, which kind of bugs me.

I know. That last image....

I've known people whose entire collections weren't worth $90!

Is ANY album worth $90?

Right now.

Yeah, kind of like "ice-cream" without dairy or sugar. What's the point?

I heard or read that somewhere too, but also can't recall who made the quip. It's amusing but also rather apt. The quality that most struck me when I first saw a couple of the films was "stripped down." As if decades of accumulated gimmicks and bells'n'whistles and just plain gunk had been scraped off to reveal the still-serviceable basic western armature underneath.

Damn! Well, you'll see them all someday. Good to have something to look forward to. I've now seen them all but "Westbound," and since that's not a Burt Kennedy I'm not expecting miracles. Funny thing is, just a few days ago I rewatched my tape of "Comanche Station" then boom! TCM shows it again. Even stranger: You know how with cable (sometimes) you can click on the 'info' button on your remote and the screen will show a subtitle band that gives a thumbnail sketch of the plot of the selected movie. They almost never pass judgement on it, aside from a rough star rating, or mention the director. Well, for "Decision at Sundown" they gave three stars and said it was one of Boetticher's best westerns with Randolph Scott, inverting many genre cliches. (!!!) I actually think it's one of the weakest of the Boetticher/Scott cycle, but I was tickled to read that. One of the many things I like about these movies, is their "anti-epic" quality. They're the opposite of the Shane/High Noon/How the West Was Won mythmongering approach, of which I've never been a fan. Damn, I think "Seven Men From Now" has become one of my favorite westerns. What a good movie.

Mobley would have been 77 on 7-7-07.......that's a lot of sevens.

The late, lamented Pizza-A-GoGo on University Ave. in Palo Alto closed several years ago and was a replaced by a "Pizza My Heart"----may have been the same company, but the pizza formula was a little different. Too bad, because Pizza-A-GoGo was my kids' favorite pizza place without a doubt. But we also dig Toto's in Millbrae, a great family place. There was a pizza place in Portland, Oregon that was kind of a hole in the wall but had great pizza, but I'm blanking out on the name.

What Jack said. No argument here.

I'd also be very interested in a Buddy DeFranco Select.

Will have to re-watch While the City Sleeps in honor of Mobley.