BruceH

That's for sure.

Amen to that. ENOUGH with the storms already!

Don't have 'em.

I actually read Darkness At Noon (as well as Orwell's 1984) in high school. (Did I mention what a popular guy I was in high school?)

C'mon, he was ordered to do that by the studio. If he hadn't, they would have fired Wise and found someone else to do the editing job. ← So he was "just following orders"? The Eichmann of the editing suite.... ← I find that illogical and offensive. A bit of rhetorical overeach, perhaps?

Barenga!

This IS a good album, though there are four or five (or six) Mobley's that I like more.

Not having had contact with 100% of women, I don't feel I've got the data to confirm or deny this. Today's penmanship (and penWOMANship) seems to be pretty dire in general. I made my own handwriting up, though I will admit that it was influenced by comic books. I think that when I was in grammar school (late 1960s-early 1970s), the teaching of penmanship was on its last legs. ← Along with the teaching of geography, history, math, and science. At least at my grammar school. Ah, those were the days.

Did anyone see the debut of How I Met Your Mother last night? The entire reason that I tuned in was because Jason Segal (Nick Andopolis on Freaks & Geeks, Eric on Undeclared) was on it. He played the main character's best friend. The show wasn't great (though not terrible either) but it was kind of fun seeing the guy on a show that HASN'T been canelled yet.

Over the top. (Normally, I don't consider myself an "over the top" kind of guy, but in this one respect...)

Carol Reed, huh? I don't think Wise ever made anything quite on the level of The Third Man , as I'm sure you'll agree. But much of the success of that film owes to Graham Greene, Joseph Cotton, and Orson Welles, and that zither music. So your point is well taken insofar as Wise's best flicks were those with the best collaborators. So The Set Up, say, owes as much to Robert Ryan's embodiment of the noble palooka and the cinematography as to the direction. And Odds Against Tomorrow benefits from the same actor's strikingly different performance and John Lewis's score. And it mustn't be forgotten that The Day the Earth Stood Still was scored by the superlative Bernard Herrmann, who contributed immeasurably to every film he put his hand to. Still, I'd compare him more to a professional like Sidney Lumet, who made some very good films as well as some stinkers like The Wiz. ← My main point was that Wise was NOT an "auteur" director. The comparision with Lumet sounds more apt. Has anyone made anything quite on the level of The Third Man? I doubt it.

C'mon, he was ordered to do that by the studio. If he hadn't, they would have fired Wise and found someone else to do the editing job.

If memory serves, Trudeau was dealt with by The Daily Show as well. Truly an evil scumbag.

Just rented disc #1 of Undeclared, Judd Apatow's college follow-up to Freaks and Geeks. Paul Feig had nothing to do with this series, apparently, and it was a half-hour show, which cuts way down on the amount of characterization that can be sqeezed in, but it's pretty good. One thing I didn't realize---the main character's dad is played by Louden Wainwright. Also, Seth Rogen is in it, and the Nick Andopolus guy here plays the needy boyfriend-left-behind character, and is hilarious.

Wow---91. He had a helluva run. He reminded me almost of an American Carol Reed, another director who was more of a diligent craftsman rather than one who puts a big personal stamp on everything. (In the 60's Reed directed "Oliver!" while Wise did "The Sound of Music.") I am also one of the people for whom if Wise had just done "The Day the Earth Stood Still" he'd rank high in my personal pantheon. But there are quite a few other films worthy of note: "The Set Up," "I Want To Live," "The Haunting," "Odds Against Tomorrow"----even the admitedly overlong "Andromeda Strain" has its moments. Also seems he was one of the few directors from Hollywood's Golden Age that was a genuinely nice guy. RIP, Mr. Wise.

Personally, I think this is a great album. Though I didn't finally get it until I'd already bought thousands of other jazz albums, when I did I wondered "What took me so long?" Maybe it was the thought that most of this music was already engraved on my brain from an early age, but nevertheless this is good to have. Nice to be able to throw it on whenever, and to consider the music apart from the Peanuts visuals.

Gary Giddins, too, used to say similar things about Rollins....again and again and again. So much so, in fact, that one got a little tired of hearing it sometimes. Yes Gary, you wanted to say, we know Rollins is great, now could you just move on?

Maybe it's radioactive...

I'm actually from the East coast. New England, to be precise. I just happen to be living here due to horrible, horrible circumstance.

Ouch!!

Who did NOT have this as a kid?

Little buddy!!!!

Well, I am old enough to remember those machines, and you did need fittings quite often, because shoes did not last that long in those days. We "walked" to schools (elementary, middle, and high school) in those days. You either patched the holes in them or placed cardboard inside your shoes for awhile. However, the point is that those machines were very dangerous. I have a couple stunted toes from the so called "fun" exposure we kids had from constantly going back to the shoe stores to see our feet. Anyone got information on a class action suit??? By the way, someone mentioned Detroit and that is where I was over exposed to said machine. ← In my case, I've got stunted toes from wearing shoes that were too tight. Never saw one of those machines, but I've heard about 'em. Would love to get a look at one. There's something fascinating about old technology, and the sheer wrongheadedness of this product (irradiating your feet?) just adds to the fascination.

Exactly.

As a sideman, too, he was superb. For instance, Manne's drumming on Rollins's Way Out West album is highly recommended.