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after watching local tv news by chance I stumbled on to Nascar racing and they presented the famous Mean Joe Greene and the kid commercial
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what memories this brings!
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what memories this brings!
We just watched R Lee Ermey performing some awesome bloopers. Gawd, he's adorable (even if he does have a heckuva handle on foul language). lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnP17YCFs8I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnP17YCFs8I
The Queen's Longest Reign: Elizabeth and Victoria
Queen Elizabeth II becomes the longest-reigning monarch in British history on the evening of 9 September 2015. This documentary compares the lives and the reigns of two extraordinary women who have steered their courses through periods of remarkable change: Elizabeth and Victoria. It follows Queen Elizabeth II on engagements in the UK and abroad as she approaches this historic date. With interviews and archive to illustrate the remarkable stories of these two female monarchs.
Watch it here: BBC iPlayer - The Queen's Longest Reign: Elizabeth & Victoria
Queen Elizabeth II becomes the longest-reigning monarch in British history on the evening of 9 September 2015. This documentary compares the lives and the reigns of two extraordinary women who have steered their courses through periods of remarkable change: Elizabeth and Victoria. It follows Queen Elizabeth II on engagements in the UK and abroad as she approaches this historic date. With interviews and archive to illustrate the remarkable stories of these two female monarchs.
Watch it here: BBC iPlayer - The Queen's Longest Reign: Elizabeth & Victoria
I just watched the very exciting tennis match in the US Open between Serena & Venus Williams ~ great action
Someone posted a short clip the other day on film on Billy Jack the Movie...I had watched that movie in the early 70's and wanted to watch it again...so here is what a little bit of research got me..:lol:
6 Things You Might Not Have Known About Billy Jack | Mental Floss
That's when I found that he had made two more Billy Jack movies which I managed to find on XBMC and watch in the last few days...
I have yet to watch his first film "Born losers" made in "67...
6 Things You Might Not Have Known About Billy Jack | Mental Floss
That's when I found that he had made two more Billy Jack movies which I managed to find on XBMC and watch in the last few days...
I have yet to watch his first film "Born losers" made in "67...
Jack Larson dies at 87; actor played Jimmy Olsen in 'The Adventures of Superman'
Jack Larson dies at 87; actor played Jimmy Olsen in 'The Adventures of Superman' - LA Times
In the early 1950s, when Jack Larson was offered a role in a new Superman TV series, he was loath to accept. Playing the hapless sidekick of a caped superhero on a kids’ show had no appeal for an actor with dreams of Broadway stardom.
But his agent prevailed, largely by arguing that the show would probably never be broadcast.
“No one may ever know you've done it. So just take the money and run,” Larson, recalling the agent’s words, told the Indianapolis Star decades later.
He took the money but, to his chagrin, “The Adventures of Superman” became a tremendous hit after its 1952 debut. The show indelibly fixed Larson in the public’s mind as Jimmy Olsen, the effervescent, cub reporter in a bow tie who works alongside Clark Kent and Lois Lane at the fictional Daily Planet newspaper.
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Jack Larson
Jack Larson, who came to fame as cub reporter Jimmy Olsen in "The Adventures of Superman" TV series, at his home in Brentwood on June 28, 2011. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)
For the Record, Sept. 21 3:15 p.m.: An earlier version of this story said that Jack Larson was 82. He was 87.
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Larson, who turned to writing plays when he realized that he could not escape the character remembered for lines like “Golly, Mr. Kent” and “Jeepers,” died Sunday at his home in Brentwood. He was 87.
His death was confirmed by writer-director Alan Howard, a longtime friend. The cause was not immediately known, but Howard said Larson had not been ill and “died peacefully with his beloved dog Charlie” nearby.
Larson was born in Los Angeles on Feb. 8, 1928, and grew up in Montebello. His father drove a milk truck and his mother worked for Western Union; they divorced when their son was a child.
He was interested in journalism as a career but was not a stellar student, often ditching class to go bowling. Encouraged by teachers to read Shakespeare, he began writing and directing plays at Pasadena City College. Discovered there by talent scouts from Warner Bros., he was cast in the 1948 film “Fighter Squadron,” directed by Raoul Walsh.
A few years later, he was offered the role of Olsen, the energetic cub reporter and magnet for evil-doers who truss him up, kidnap him and lock him in vaults until Kent as the Man of Steel comes to his rescue.
“The Adventures of Superman,” which originally aired from 1952 to 1957, cast Larson into the pop culture pantheon. The bow tie he wore as Jimmy Olsen later went to the Smithsonian, preserved along with Archie Bunker’s armchair, the Fonz’s leather jacket and a pair of Dorothy’s ruby slippers.
At the time, however, being Jimmy Olsen felt like a trap.
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“I was really bitter for years, about being typed, and it absolutely wrecked my acting career,” Larson told the New York Daily News in 1996. “I quit acting and wrote because I just couldn’t get a job. They didn’t want Jimmy Olsen walking through their films.”
He wasn’t the only cast member who was typecast. Noel Neill as Lane quit acting after the show ended. Opportunities for George Reeves, who had appeared in dozens of films, including “Gone With the Wind,” also dried up after “The Adventures of Superman”; his 1959 death from a gunshot to the head was ruled a suicide.
For years, Larson refused to give interviews about playing Olsen in the hope that the public’s memory of his portrayal would fade. One of his first major credits as a playwright was “The Candied House,” a play that retold the Hansel and Gretel story in verse. It opened in 1966 at the Bing Center Theater in Los Angeles and earned critics' praise.
Margaret Harford, writing in the Los Angeles Times, called it “an enchanting discovery for young and old” created by “a young writer with a poet’s gift and an actor’s theatrical eye.”
His proudest achievement was as librettist for the opera “Lord Byron,” about the flamboyant English poet. Composed by Virgil Thomson and directed by Oscar-winning actor John Houseman, it opened at the Juilliard Theater in New York in 1972.
It received mixed reviews. One of the harshest notices came from Martin Bernheimer of the Los Angeles Times, who pronounced it “a colossal exercise in operatic ineptitude and pretension.”
In the 1980s Larson teamed up with his life partner, writer-director James Bridges, to produce a number of Bridges' films, including “Mike's Murder,” starring Debra Winger, in 1984; “Perfect,” with John Travolta, in 1985; and “Bright Lights, Big City,” starring Michael J. Fox, in 1988.
Larson lived with Bridges in a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home known as the George Sturges House. After Bridges died of cancer in 1993, he donated $500,000 from the Bridges/Larson Foundation to upgrade a theater at UCLA and name it after his longtime companion.
Larson had no immediate survivors.
After years of trying to ignore the role that made him famous, he came to terms with his legacy and returned to acting.
In 1991, he appeared in an episode of “Superboy,” a syndicated show focusing on Clark Kent as a college student, although he did not play Olsen. He finally returned to the part several years later, portraying an older Olsen in an episode of “Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.” And in the 2006 film “Superman Returns,” he was cast as a bartender in a scene with actor Brandon Routh as Kent.
“I know that, though I go on writing, and if I should win the Pulitzer Prize, and indeed the Nobel Prize, when they write my obituary it will say, ‘Jack Larson, best remembered as Jimmy Olsen on the popular 1950s Superman series,’ ” he told the Los Angeles Times in 1994. “I'm pleased with it, I'm proud of it, and I would certainly do it again in hindsight.
“It's nice not to be forgotten.”
A tremendous talent, indeed.
Jack Larson dies at 87; actor played Jimmy Olsen in 'The Adventures of Superman' - LA Times
In the early 1950s, when Jack Larson was offered a role in a new Superman TV series, he was loath to accept. Playing the hapless sidekick of a caped superhero on a kids’ show had no appeal for an actor with dreams of Broadway stardom.
But his agent prevailed, largely by arguing that the show would probably never be broadcast.
“No one may ever know you've done it. So just take the money and run,” Larson, recalling the agent’s words, told the Indianapolis Star decades later.
He took the money but, to his chagrin, “The Adventures of Superman” became a tremendous hit after its 1952 debut. The show indelibly fixed Larson in the public’s mind as Jimmy Olsen, the effervescent, cub reporter in a bow tie who works alongside Clark Kent and Lois Lane at the fictional Daily Planet newspaper.
------------
Jack Larson
Jack Larson, who came to fame as cub reporter Jimmy Olsen in "The Adventures of Superman" TV series, at his home in Brentwood on June 28, 2011. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)
For the Record, Sept. 21 3:15 p.m.: An earlier version of this story said that Jack Larson was 82. He was 87.
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Larson, who turned to writing plays when he realized that he could not escape the character remembered for lines like “Golly, Mr. Kent” and “Jeepers,” died Sunday at his home in Brentwood. He was 87.
His death was confirmed by writer-director Alan Howard, a longtime friend. The cause was not immediately known, but Howard said Larson had not been ill and “died peacefully with his beloved dog Charlie” nearby.
Larson was born in Los Angeles on Feb. 8, 1928, and grew up in Montebello. His father drove a milk truck and his mother worked for Western Union; they divorced when their son was a child.
He was interested in journalism as a career but was not a stellar student, often ditching class to go bowling. Encouraged by teachers to read Shakespeare, he began writing and directing plays at Pasadena City College. Discovered there by talent scouts from Warner Bros., he was cast in the 1948 film “Fighter Squadron,” directed by Raoul Walsh.
A few years later, he was offered the role of Olsen, the energetic cub reporter and magnet for evil-doers who truss him up, kidnap him and lock him in vaults until Kent as the Man of Steel comes to his rescue.
“The Adventures of Superman,” which originally aired from 1952 to 1957, cast Larson into the pop culture pantheon. The bow tie he wore as Jimmy Olsen later went to the Smithsonian, preserved along with Archie Bunker’s armchair, the Fonz’s leather jacket and a pair of Dorothy’s ruby slippers.
At the time, however, being Jimmy Olsen felt like a trap.
See the most-read stories this hour >>
“I was really bitter for years, about being typed, and it absolutely wrecked my acting career,” Larson told the New York Daily News in 1996. “I quit acting and wrote because I just couldn’t get a job. They didn’t want Jimmy Olsen walking through their films.”
He wasn’t the only cast member who was typecast. Noel Neill as Lane quit acting after the show ended. Opportunities for George Reeves, who had appeared in dozens of films, including “Gone With the Wind,” also dried up after “The Adventures of Superman”; his 1959 death from a gunshot to the head was ruled a suicide.
For years, Larson refused to give interviews about playing Olsen in the hope that the public’s memory of his portrayal would fade. One of his first major credits as a playwright was “The Candied House,” a play that retold the Hansel and Gretel story in verse. It opened in 1966 at the Bing Center Theater in Los Angeles and earned critics' praise.
Margaret Harford, writing in the Los Angeles Times, called it “an enchanting discovery for young and old” created by “a young writer with a poet’s gift and an actor’s theatrical eye.”
His proudest achievement was as librettist for the opera “Lord Byron,” about the flamboyant English poet. Composed by Virgil Thomson and directed by Oscar-winning actor John Houseman, it opened at the Juilliard Theater in New York in 1972.
It received mixed reviews. One of the harshest notices came from Martin Bernheimer of the Los Angeles Times, who pronounced it “a colossal exercise in operatic ineptitude and pretension.”
In the 1980s Larson teamed up with his life partner, writer-director James Bridges, to produce a number of Bridges' films, including “Mike's Murder,” starring Debra Winger, in 1984; “Perfect,” with John Travolta, in 1985; and “Bright Lights, Big City,” starring Michael J. Fox, in 1988.
Larson lived with Bridges in a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home known as the George Sturges House. After Bridges died of cancer in 1993, he donated $500,000 from the Bridges/Larson Foundation to upgrade a theater at UCLA and name it after his longtime companion.
Larson had no immediate survivors.
After years of trying to ignore the role that made him famous, he came to terms with his legacy and returned to acting.
In 1991, he appeared in an episode of “Superboy,” a syndicated show focusing on Clark Kent as a college student, although he did not play Olsen. He finally returned to the part several years later, portraying an older Olsen in an episode of “Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.” And in the 2006 film “Superman Returns,” he was cast as a bartender in a scene with actor Brandon Routh as Kent.
“I know that, though I go on writing, and if I should win the Pulitzer Prize, and indeed the Nobel Prize, when they write my obituary it will say, ‘Jack Larson, best remembered as Jimmy Olsen on the popular 1950s Superman series,’ ” he told the Los Angeles Times in 1994. “I'm pleased with it, I'm proud of it, and I would certainly do it again in hindsight.
“It's nice not to be forgotten.”
A tremendous talent, indeed.
Washington @ NY Giants NFL football
earlier today I attended a junior high school soccer game in which our team Humboldt defeated Battle Creek 2-0
the opposing coach was a genuine weirdo = in one instance he says our team plays "bush league"; then in another he tells one of his players, "you told me you were Mexican - but you don't play like a Mexican - instead, you play like a Canadian"
what the hell could he possible have meant by that???
earlier today I attended a junior high school soccer game in which our team Humboldt defeated Battle Creek 2-0
the opposing coach was a genuine weirdo = in one instance he says our team plays "bush league"; then in another he tells one of his players, "you told me you were Mexican - but you don't play like a Mexican - instead, you play like a Canadian"
what the hell could he possible have meant by that???
The Hairy Bikers' Northern Exposure
Episode 2
Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia
The Hairy Bikers - best pals Si King and Dave Myers - head north on a big Baltic adventure in search of exciting new cuisines in some of Europe's wildest places, travelling from Germany to Sweden via Poland, Russia, Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
After visiting Poland in Episode 1, the Bikers travel on to the Baltic States. These countries are so close to us but we know little about them! Si and Dave want to change that - starting with Lithuania. They make a pilgrimage to the Hill of Crosses. A site bristling with crosses and historically under constant threat from the KGB, the hill has been a Lithuanian symbol of strength and resistance for over two centuries.
In Latvia, the Bikers can't resist the opportunity to ride with Latvia's oldest biker gang, the Brothers of the Wind. They travel to Riga's huge indoor market constructed from former Zeppelin sheds and taste some of the country's most amazing produce.
Estonia sees the Bikers going back to basics on the peaceful and beautiful island of Muhu. They get a taste of the future with an inventive chef, go foraging for sea kale and fall in love with a group of dancing grannies.
Watch it here: BBC iPlayer - The Hairy Bikers' Northern Exposure - 2. Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia
Episode 2
Russia
The papers are awash with stories of Russia's latest anti-western political play and the Bikers are slightly nervous, but they've got their visas and they're going in! There is only one problem... their bikes are not. Dave has a surprise for Si - a post-war Ural motorbike (complete with sidecar) and the very first bike Dave owned. We see the boys' preconceptions of this country challenged as they spend a night backstage at the ballet courtesy of one of Russia's most powerful oligarchs, become a walking history lesson courtesy of St Petersburg's biggest fashion designers, immerse themselves in Soviet culture and cook for everyday Russians in their dacha (or country house).
Si and Dave taste some of Russia's finest foods (washed down with a vodka) and go down the rabbit hole of a country and culture we know very little about. What will they think of modern Russia when they come out the other side?
Watch it here: BBC iPlayer - The Hairy Bikers' Northern Exposure - 3. Russia
Episode 3
Finland
The Bikers fall immediately in love with the beautiful and tranquil lakes of Finland - a country 1.4 times bigger than the UK but with a population of just 5.4 million - and enjoy what they think will be a complete change of pace from the intensity of St Petersburg. Dave learns how to have a traditional Finnish sauna experience, while Si makes himself feel right at home cooking up Finnish pastries. The peace and tranquillity doesn't last long, though, as the Bikers learn all about the national pastime of wife-carrying, fulfil their boyhood fantasies of riding tanks through the forest and meet a priest who has given his service a heavy metal twist! To cap it off, the Bikers see how island communities in the middle of the Baltic help each other survive and arrange their own food festival complete with food carts and local bands. Have they bitten off more than they can chew?
Watch it here: BBC iPlayer - The Hairy Bikers' Northern Exposure - 4. Finland
World's Biggest Beasts
A fascinating one-off documentary exploring the largest animals ever to exist on Earth.
Learn about a bird with the wingspan of a fighter jet; a 42ft-long snake that could swallow a man whole; or a marine reptile with a bite twice as powerful as a T-Rex!
Watch it here: World's Biggest Beasts | World's Biggest Beasts | Channel 5
Episode 2
Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia
The Hairy Bikers - best pals Si King and Dave Myers - head north on a big Baltic adventure in search of exciting new cuisines in some of Europe's wildest places, travelling from Germany to Sweden via Poland, Russia, Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
After visiting Poland in Episode 1, the Bikers travel on to the Baltic States. These countries are so close to us but we know little about them! Si and Dave want to change that - starting with Lithuania. They make a pilgrimage to the Hill of Crosses. A site bristling with crosses and historically under constant threat from the KGB, the hill has been a Lithuanian symbol of strength and resistance for over two centuries.
In Latvia, the Bikers can't resist the opportunity to ride with Latvia's oldest biker gang, the Brothers of the Wind. They travel to Riga's huge indoor market constructed from former Zeppelin sheds and taste some of the country's most amazing produce.
Estonia sees the Bikers going back to basics on the peaceful and beautiful island of Muhu. They get a taste of the future with an inventive chef, go foraging for sea kale and fall in love with a group of dancing grannies.
Watch it here: BBC iPlayer - The Hairy Bikers' Northern Exposure - 2. Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia
Episode 2
Russia
The papers are awash with stories of Russia's latest anti-western political play and the Bikers are slightly nervous, but they've got their visas and they're going in! There is only one problem... their bikes are not. Dave has a surprise for Si - a post-war Ural motorbike (complete with sidecar) and the very first bike Dave owned. We see the boys' preconceptions of this country challenged as they spend a night backstage at the ballet courtesy of one of Russia's most powerful oligarchs, become a walking history lesson courtesy of St Petersburg's biggest fashion designers, immerse themselves in Soviet culture and cook for everyday Russians in their dacha (or country house).
Si and Dave taste some of Russia's finest foods (washed down with a vodka) and go down the rabbit hole of a country and culture we know very little about. What will they think of modern Russia when they come out the other side?
Watch it here: BBC iPlayer - The Hairy Bikers' Northern Exposure - 3. Russia
Episode 3
Finland
The Bikers fall immediately in love with the beautiful and tranquil lakes of Finland - a country 1.4 times bigger than the UK but with a population of just 5.4 million - and enjoy what they think will be a complete change of pace from the intensity of St Petersburg. Dave learns how to have a traditional Finnish sauna experience, while Si makes himself feel right at home cooking up Finnish pastries. The peace and tranquillity doesn't last long, though, as the Bikers learn all about the national pastime of wife-carrying, fulfil their boyhood fantasies of riding tanks through the forest and meet a priest who has given his service a heavy metal twist! To cap it off, the Bikers see how island communities in the middle of the Baltic help each other survive and arrange their own food festival complete with food carts and local bands. Have they bitten off more than they can chew?
Watch it here: BBC iPlayer - The Hairy Bikers' Northern Exposure - 4. Finland
World's Biggest Beasts
A fascinating one-off documentary exploring the largest animals ever to exist on Earth.
Learn about a bird with the wingspan of a fighter jet; a 42ft-long snake that could swallow a man whole; or a marine reptile with a bite twice as powerful as a T-Rex!
Watch it here: World's Biggest Beasts | World's Biggest Beasts | Channel 5
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The Informer [1929]
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A silent version of the Liam O'Flaherty novel had been done a couple of years earlier. This one was half silent, half talkie. The version you are likely more familiar with was done by John Ford in 1935.
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A silent version of the Liam O'Flaherty novel had been done a couple of years earlier. This one was half silent, half talkie. The version you are likely more familiar with was done by John Ford in 1935.
Asylum (1972)
In this classic Hammeresque British horror featuring Peter Cushing, a young psychiatrist attending a job interview at a mental hospital must listen to the terrifying and disturbing tales of four inmates in order to be considered for the job.
Watch it here:
In this classic Hammeresque British horror featuring Peter Cushing, a young psychiatrist attending a job interview at a mental hospital must listen to the terrifying and disturbing tales of four inmates in order to be considered for the job.
Watch it here:
Asylum (1972)
In this classic Hammeresque British horror featuring Peter Cushing, a young psychiatrist attending a job interview at a mental hospital must listen to the terrifying and disturbing tales of four inmates in order to be considered for the job.
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Is that a pedophile flick?