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| ehle64 |
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Marj wrote: Wade -- OK, you've got me. What is S.A.S.S.Y.?
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 5:55 pm |
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I'm not a fan of the radio show either. In fact, I can't stand it.
Word. With a smiley face and a little cutesy curlicue. |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 6:22 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: I'm not a fan of the radio show either. In fact, I can't stand it.
Word. With a smiley face and a little cutesy curlicue.
Word. That makes at least 3 of us.
[BTW, I just rented another film by Noe', the director of "Irreversible." I'm not sure I'm mentally fortified, but it should make for an interesting evening.] |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 6:55 pm |
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The S-Man just said, "why did you rent that? you can't stand PHC!"
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 7:24 pm |
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Marc wrote: Nothing about PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION interests me. Not even the fact that Altman directed it.
Do you remember the flak I got when I didn't see a movie because it didn't interest me? |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 7:26 pm |
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marantzo wrote: Marc wrote: Nothing about PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION interests me. Not even the fact that Altman directed it.
Do you remember the flak I got when I didn't see a movie because it didn't interest me?
I DO! good point. |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 10:38 pm |
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The Noe' DVD is called "I Stand Alone." Curiously, the lead is the nearly naked man we see at the opening of "Irreversible." This particular actor seems to be a favorite of Noe's.
He also stars in an earlier film by Noe' called "Carne" ("Meat").
He always plays a butcher (of meat).
I haven't finished watching the movie yet. It is depressing and intense. Same themes as "Irreversible" but treated in a much different fashion. |
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| tirebiter |
| Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 12:49 am |
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The best comment on "A Prairie Home Companion" was on the Simpsons 5 or 10 years ago, when Homer's watching a Keillor-type comedian do his folksy humor on the TV. Homer walks over and bangs on the set and shouts, "BE FUNNIER!"
It works on so many levels!
Is Keillor not funny or is Homer too stupid to understand him?
It's pretty deep.
For the record, Keillor's stories/books and thousands of radio shows put him in the tippy-top part of the pantheon of American humor, next to Fred Allen and Thurber and Benchley and somewhere below Twain. But he's so f***ing prolific that he won't slide into his slot in the pantheon 'til long after he's dead.
I liked the movie, but it's not one of Altman's best, nor does it do justice to Keillor's humor, which isn't really visual.
PS: It helps if you're from the Midwest. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 1:03 am |
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Quote: Do you remember the flak I got when I didn't see a movie because it didn't interest me?
give me a fucking break Gary. . You rule out whole genres of films because you disagree with their moral values or won't watch any work by a director who has made one film you didn't like , i.e. films that involve married couples cheating on each other and films by David Fincher. Not to mention your aversion to films with gay themes. Your narrowmindedness is comically quaint. Please don't compare my resistance to one film to your wholesale rejection of films because of subject matter that you can't handle. There is a difference between taste and bias. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 1:29 am |
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tirebiter wrote: .....Keillor's stories/books and thousands of radio shows put him in the tippy-top part of the pantheon of American humor, next to Fred Allen and Thurber and Benchley and somewhere below Twain..... |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 1:36 am |
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| tirebiter |
| Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 3:46 am |
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I'm gonna go home tonight and re-read one of my favorite short stories of his, "Don: The True Story of a Young Person" from his collection "We Are Still Married." It's about a group of young Minnesota guys who start a band in a garage and are pretty punk by local standards and one night Don, the singer, picks up a chicken while they're playing one of their angriest songs and he does something to it-- hard to say what afterwards--and pretty soon it gets around that Don is really out there and bites the heads off of chickens when they perform, so it gets to be the one thing that makes the band DIFFERENT and it looks like this could be a big career break for them and Don begins to wonder about this whole "show business" thing.
Marc: you had a band. Did you ever bite the heads off of poultry or related farm animals? |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 7:56 am |
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yambu wrote: tirebiter wrote: .....Keillor's stories/books and thousands of radio shows put him in the tippy-top part of the pantheon of American humor, next to Fred Allen and Thurber and Benchley and somewhere below Twain..... I wouldn't put him quite so high, but his Lake Wobegone creation makes him the best radio storyteller since Jean Shepard - also a Midwesterner, of course.
Keillor and Shepard are easily comparable, but I far prefer Shepard. He's more soulful and lacks the smugness and intellectual snobbery of Keillor. |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 9:38 am |
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tirebiter wrote: The best comment on "A Prairie Home Companion" was on the Simpsons 5 or 10 years ago, when Homer's watching a Keillor-type comedian do his folksy humor on the TV. Homer walks over and bangs on the set and shouts, "BE FUNNIER!"
It works on so many levels!
Is Keillor not funny or is Homer too stupid to understand him?...
PS: It helps if you're from the Midwest.
No it doesn't. I'm from the Midwest, and I agree with Homer Simpson. |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 9:40 am |
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billyweeds wrote: yambu wrote: tirebiter wrote: .....Keillor's stories/books and thousands of radio shows put him in the tippy-top part of the pantheon of American humor, next to Fred Allen and Thurber and Benchley and somewhere below Twain..... I wouldn't put him quite so high, but his Lake Wobegone creation makes him the best radio storyteller since Jean Shepard - also a Midwesterner, of course.
Keillor and Shepard are easily comparable, but I far prefer Shepard. He's more soulful and lacks the smugness and intellectual snobbery of Keillor.
Now Jean Shepard is a whole 'nother animal. I'm a big fan.
I agree with you about your characterization of Keillor. |
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