Henry Potter was played by Lionel Barrymore, from an old Hollywood family. He's related to Drew Barrymore.

George prevented Mr. Gower from sending poison pills to a sick kid. If he wasn't there, Gower would have sent the pills and the sick boy would have died.

ITS ASHAME YOU DON'T REMEMBER ANYTHING. HERMIE WAS A TOY MAKING ELF WHO WANTS TO BE A DENIST.

RUDOLPH WAS NOT A UNIVERSAL RELEASE IT WAS A RANKIN BASS PRODUCTION. AND RUDOLPH WAS THE FIRST FROSTY CAME AFTER THAT NOT BEFORE.

Mike great stuff. Enjoy your reaction.

Frank Gorshin was the Joker on the original Batman series. A daily show that came on TV around the time we got home from school. Ken Berry played a Calvary officer in F-Troop, another TV show. Good comedy show. Playtex introduced a bra called the living bra. Geritol is an iron supplement energy booster. Shirly Jones was the mom on Partridge Family staring David Cassidy, teen heartthrob.

Jonathan Winters had a successful show. You might want to watch his Johnny Carson clips. They showcase his talent.

Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass. Herb is an awesome trumpet player. If you enjoy horns, they are worth a listen. When he clapped his hands to get her on the couch, I don't know who laughed harder. You or me.

Captain Kangaroo was real. He was who I watched as a child. Mr. Green Jeans and Bunny Rabbit were his sidekicks. Jonathan Winters was in drag at the prison.

Good morning, enjoying Carol with my coffee. Great way to start the day.

The man in the brown hat who introduces this is Jimmy Durante. Loved some of his movies he is mostly Vaudeville song and dance with comedy.

I loved this as a kid.

I had forgotten this Gone with the Wind skit. There is a another one that is more famous, but it will be a few seasons later. The elephant sketch includes Tim Conway who will be joining the show soon. I am loving seeing these again. Thank you. It is fun watching you experience these various actors. Side note, Liz Taylor was one of Michael Jacksons best friends.

Harvey was talking about adding fluoride to water. Still an issue. The family segment improves and becomes its own sitcom, Mama's Family. Vicki is Mama and Carol is her daughter she lives with. You'll see as you continue your journey.

They had great shows on Carol Burnett. She is a national treasure. Phyllis Diller was a classical pianist, A gourmet cook and a mother of 5.

I believe "Prince" was in the 80's.

Phyllis Diller was stand-up. Considered raunchy for the time. I wasn't allowed to see her when she came to Hot Springs. When I did eventually see her, I didn't think she was that bad. Shirley Temple went on to be a congresswoman. This show becomes kick ass thru the years. No one these days could have as large a budget as they had. Anybody who was anybody was a guest.

Liz Montgomery was Bewitched. They break character often. This was must see TV in our home when I was 12. She always starts the show that way. The ear tug is a nod to her Grandmother. There was a time when the news division wasn't expected to make a profit.

Daughter of Lyndon Johnson. Lady Bird was Lyndon's wife.

I am so glad you are experiencing this work. They don't make them like this anymore. Reagan is why the mention of Sacramento. He was CA Governor before President and after an acting career..

1967 to 1978.

Was there a movie called Tarzan and the great river?

Please consider classic tv. You do whatever works for you. Hope the move was good for you.

You should watch "Shandor at the Cinema's" reaction to "Dracula." Shandor, if you haven't guessed it from his name, is Hungarian. He translates what the villagers say at the beginning of the film.

As an aside, Jack is a nickname for John. So, his name could be John Torrance. In fact, in the book, it is John Torrance, I believe. The opening theme was an arrangement of the medieval chant Dies Irae or Day of Wrath. It's usually associated with funerals, i.e., death. Except for the obvious aerial shots, those were all sets which replicated real locations more or less. In fact, in the exterior shot when Jack and Wendy were being shown around the Hotel, that was a mock-up of the facade. The Maze was also a set. Apparently, the Maze was big enough that the cast and crew would get lost in it. You actually don't see it in the aerial shots by the way. The "snow" was a mixture of Styrofoam and salt. This was also one of the first films to use the Steadicam. In fact, the inventor, Garrett Brown, was the operator. There was a penultimate scene, right before the photo reveal, that was deleted soon after the film was released. It shows Wendy in hospital being visited by Ullman, the Hotel manager. He tells her everything at the Hotel is normal. No damage. No Jack. Possibly no Hallorann, either. The excised film was destroyed. To see a recreation of the lost scene, look on YT for "The Shining - Hospital Scene AI Reconstruction." Someone who actually saw the film with the deleted scene wrote the following as a comment in that video: Okay -- I have a lot of helpful specifics to offer here because I'm one of the few people lucky enough to have seen that infamous cut scene because I saw 'The Shining' on its opening day. I also had a detailed phone conversation with Barry Nelson (who played the Hotel manager, Ullman) about that sequence several years later. So -- to begin with, there were ZERO flashbacks during the scene to earlier events. And even though the first and final sequences in the hospital corridor WERE filmed, they were NOT in the film as (briefly) released to the public. What I saw was Ullman entering Wendy's hospital room, giving her the flowers, and then talking with her -- all the dialogue between them being pretty much exactly as presented in the reconstruction. With one HUGE exception. The scene was TWICE as long. This was due to much slower pacing with the almost Pinteresque pauses and hesitancy often typical of dialogue in a Kubrick film. There's also something architectural weird going on here in the AI version. In the actual scene I saw, when Ullman entered Wendy's room, she was to his LEFT, her bed against the wall to his far left. And whether he went to the side of the bed nearest the door or the windows -- i.e. to Wendy's right or her left -- when he gave her the flowers and then moved to the opposite side of the bed, I can no longer recall. And I also can't remember whether he stood the whole time or sat for part of their visit. But I do remember that when Ullman left Wendy's room THAT is where the film cut to the slow dolly into the close-up of the black & white Independance Day Ball photo with Jack and the party guests. However, Barry Nelson told me himself -- long before the script pages for the scene appeared online -- that he did shoot the scene where he greets Danny and speaks with the nurse. And then, after his visit with Wendy, a different final scene with Danny played out. Specifically, Ullman passed by Danny who was playing with his toy cars and trucks in the hospital corridor, much as he did in the hallway of The Overlook. And then, as Ullman says a passing goodbye to Danny and presses the call-button as he reaches the hospital elevators, he turns back to Danny remembering something. Then, reaching into his pocket, he withdraws the now infamous yellow tennis ball (the same one Jack was tossing against the wall and rolled down the carpet to Danny, later) and says "Here Danny...You forgot something" or "I forgot something" or just simply "Here, Danny..." and then rolls the ball down the hospital corridor to Danny who picks it up in an exact echo of the scene outside Room 237. And as Danny looks at Mr. Ullman, his eyes wide with sudden fear, Ullman just smiles benignly and steps into the elevator which closes leaving Danny still holding the tennis ball and staring in fear. And, like the AI reconstruction, that WOULD have been the cut to the final shot of the July 4th Ball photo. BUT with just the conversation between Ulman and Wendy, the scene felt tacked on, with no real resolution. Whereas, IF the scene AS DESCRIBED to me by Barry Nelson were to have been left in the film intact, I think it would have been chilling indeed, leaving no doubt as to Ulman being unambiguously in league with the dark forces inhabiting both The Overlook and Mr. Ulman himself.

A complex classic film. The opening theme music is an arrangement of the _Dies Irae,_ which is used at funerals. The jumper with the rocket refers to Apollo 11 not 2. Wendy's head rising over the typewriter reminds me of shots from 2001: A Space Odyssey. It's NOT Grady's wife in 237. Both Jack and Danny have "shining." Possibly, Wendy as well. Danny is most powerful, though. He's the Hotel's main target. Jack becomes possessed by the evil "caretaker." Although I don't often subscribe to his themes, I do recognize Kubrick as a great filmmaker, and "The Shining" (TS) is certainly a masterpiece of cinema. I like it very much even though I'm not a fan of Stephen King or his books. This must be due solely to Kubrick. Well, let's also give credit to the actors and the production crew, too. As great as Nicholson and Duvall were in the film, that little boy, Danny Lloyd, really made the movie for me. I think he was five when he started filming TS. For a child that age, he was just outstanding. He himself came up with the finger puppet for Tony, his alter ego. Kudos, also, to Philip Stone and Joe Turkel for being quietly sinister and menacing. I don't want to forget good-guy Scatman Crothers, either. Well-done Scatman. Then there's the Overlook. Not only is it alive, but it is the personification of evil. TS has all the Kubrick touches. All those long hallway and hedge maze shots are one-point-perspective. That's a Kubrick trademark. Also, don't some of those nighttime hedge maze shots remind you of HAL's "eye" in 2001 a bit? They do me. Another characteristic of Kubrick is his focus on intense person-to-person interactions. Yeah, TS has just a little bit of that. By the way, isn't it weird HAL in 2001 acts like a person, and the people act like computers/robots? Those long tracking-shots as people move about the hotel are another Kubrick trait. The musical score as an integral part of the narrative of TS is also textbook Kubrick. Kubrick was a perfectionist, and that is reflected in his films. For example, background is as significant as foreground. Why does Jack's typewriter change color? Is it because Jack has been transformed? Oh, "All work and no play" goes back to at least 1659. It didn't originate with TS although it certainly fits. Why do bits of the hotel, like the furniture, for example, appear, disappear or move about? Is it because the hotel is alive? The answer is yes by the way. It's definitely not due to continuity problems. Finally, Kubrick always forces the viewer to think about and dissect his films. That certainly happens in TS. As a result, we and Kubrick share in a common creative impulse when watching TS. The film becomes a living thing. Here are just a _few_ of the other things I've noticed about TS. The film is replete with mirrors. They're everywhere. Watch how they affect Jack. Are they how the hotel projects its power? A portal of sorts? Do they also absorb power? Are they its eyes as well? Likewise, there are mazes everywhere. There's the obvious hedge maze, but the hotel itself is a maze, and so is the hallway carpet. Early on, Wendy remarks on the need for breadcrumbs, a reference to Hansel and Gretel and the maze-like quality of the hotel. TS is a variation of Theseus and the Minotaur with Danny as Theseus, Tony as Ariadne etc. Wendy also says the hotel is like a ghostship. The hotel feeds off Danny and Jack's shining power and gets more powerful as time passes. The hotel wants Danny dead so it can absorb him and his power. Did you notice all the knives pointed at Danny's head on several occasions in the film? When Hallorann and Danny are talking in the kitchen bits of the conversation were telepathic. Numbers seem to come up a lot in the film. For example, Danny wears a shirt with 42 on the sleeve, the tv with no power cord is showing "Summer of 42," and room 237 is 2x3x7=42. I think Kubrick's wife said "Summer of 42" was one of his favourite movies along with "The Bank Dick." The latter is a great movie with W. C. Fields. I love it when Danny asks Jack if he feels bad. That can be taken two ways as in do you feel evil or do you feel unwell. And, of course, Jack repeats the girls saying forever and ever, meaning I want to join with the hotel in death. Jack does, of course, sell his soul for a drink. Is that why Lloyd the bartender won't take his money? Jack's already paid in full? The people and things Danny and Jack see are real, but only people with shining can see them at first. When Jack returns to the ballroom where the 1920s party is going on, a woman walks by him with a bloody handprint on her backside. This is about the time the advocaat is spilled on him. Jack also wipes some advocaat on Grady's back. In the bathroom scene, it's clear Grady's girls also had "the shine" and wanted to destroy the hotel, but they were killed instead and absorbed. Grady himself, probably like Jack, also had "the shine." In the conversation between Jack and Grady, Grady switches between Grady and the entity of the hotel. Jack may also switch with the "caretaker." When Jack and Wendy are being shown their apartment, Jack eyes the two departing young ladies. A sign of his lechery? Ditto the girlie magazine he's reading in the lobby early on. He definitely has a wandering eye. Even early on, he doesn't seem to hold Wendy in high regard. When Jack enters room 237, the carpet there is obviously suggestive of the sex act. Very phallic etc. Sex, in one way or other, features in many Kubrick films. Room 237 is the heart of the hotel. The nude woman represents the hotel seducing Jack. The heartbeat we hear is the hotel's and signals the hotel's malevolent activity and increasing power. We hear it overtly later in the film but weaker earlier when Danny is riding the trike on/off the carpet and when Jack is bouncing the ball. The high-pitched tone indicates "shining" is happening. So, Jack clearly shines, too. He's one of those who doesn't realize he has it. Jack several times in the film exhibits the Kubrick glare or stare, a shot of a man glowering up at the camera from beneath lowered brows, an indicator of danger or madness. You see it in "Full Metal Jacket." And I think HAL in 2001 also shows it. Doesn't HAL's red pupil change size? When Jack goes on his rant about his obligations to the hotel before Wendy conks him, he's not talking about Ullmann and co. He's talking about "the hotel," the thing that's alive. That's who he's made the contract and sold his soul to. Remember Lloyd the bartender's ominous hotel remarks. REDRUM is MURDER backwards, and it signifies anti-murder. It's a totem that protects against murder. That's why Danny writes it on the bathroom door. Jack can batter the door, but he won't get in. Danny is also warning Wendy and arming her as a result of his REDRUM recital. The photos are part of the hotel like the typewriter and furniture. When Jack dies, he's absorbed by the hotel and winds up in the 1920s photo. Towards the end, the hotel's evil spirit, the caretaker, may have abandoned Jack to die in the maze. He did fail in his task. That ball in the photo was the same one where the advocaat was spilled. So, he was there in 1921, and he wasn't. Kubrick deleted a final scene from TS. Wendy was in hospital and Ullman was visiting. He told her all was normal (except for Hallorann, I suppose) at the hotel. No Jack. No Hallorann. They were both absorbed by the Hotel. I've watched several reactions to TS, and I'm amazed at some of the observations. Got some beefs. A lot of people don't make a connection between Danny's first vision of the blood elevator, which signifies all the death at the hotel, and his passing out. They disassociate these two events when clearly they go together as the image of Danny's horrified face shows. From the get-go, it's clear Danny can see past events and future events. He knows Jack got the job and is going to call Wendy. He knows he doesn't want them to go to the hotel. He knows the hotel signifies danger. Why don't people notice that Danny's shirt and jumper are torn when he come to the Colorado Lounge after being strangled? Danny's clearly in shock, too. When Danny is foaming at the mouth and Hallorann is having his mini-fit, Danny is clearly communicating with Hallorann there is danger, come and help. How can Wendy be so sound asleep before Danny wakes her? Come on, the poor woman has been on edge for weeks. She hasn't been sleeping well. Now that she's locked crazy Jack up, she literally passes out, thinking they're safe. After Danny slides down from the bathroom window, why are people surprised he comes back into the hotel? It's freakin' cold outside. Do you live at the equator or something? After Jack kills Hallorann and Danny screams, why are people surprised when Danny bolts his hiding place? It's not a hiding place anymore, Jack knows where he is. Anyway, the hotel will lead him to Danny. Danny runs outside because he's actually luring Jack into the maze to meet his fate. Danny is the hero of TS, he's Theseus, who killed the monster in the maze. You should now watch the 10-part series "The Haunting of Hill House," and compare and contrast with "The Shining."

This is one of my favorites. Maybe my favorite. But then, so is... "Tarzan Finds A Son" And that one, should be your next one.

Your jump scares were fantastic! Too bad your subpar audio is hard to listen to.

BEETLJUICE BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE (The Final Film) I'm Really Rooting For BJ To Sorta Step Up And Start Acting Like The Kind Of Friend And Hero Lydia Expects Him To Be. In Fact I Think Beej And Lyds Should Set Aside Their Differences And Start Working As A Team Alongside Astrid To Save Both Worlds Of The Living And The Dead. Plus He's Just Gotta Succeed In His And Lydia's Wedding. You Heard What Wynona Ryder Said In A BTS Interview.

You seem to be a knowledgeable and humane person yourself! Travel safe, too...

Havent hear from you but hang in there😊

Did you see the movie Tarzan and the great river?

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Hi Mike! “Our man in Hong Kong is working on it now.” Ha! James is always “working” on some gal! 😂

Anyone with any i telligence at all could at least speculate that the number 12 in the title could refer to a jury. Where else do you expect to see 12 people? The apostles maybe. After that? Tsk, you lost a viewer in the first 20 seconds

Tramp = Bum. As for hope chest, it was a large trunk that would be filled with items needed when setting up house. Mine had sheets, towels, dishes, etc. It was a big deal and mine began when I turned 13 and was used when 17. Girls were prepared to be wife and mother. This is my favorite Hitchcock film. Harry was trouble.

Another irony is the fact you played very little of the music in this giant musical of all musicals, turning it into a silent movie....

Too bad you felt you had to cut out the music, most show short segments of the songs and have no problem. The irony here is Jean Hagen, Lina, actually sang for Debbie Reynolds on the slow number the Debbie was supposed singing for her character Lina. Jean Hagen won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role of Lina Lamont in this movie. Her goofy voice in the movie was all a big put on, very convincing. she did other movies, but later on TV played the mom on the Danny Thomas Show. You can hear her normal voice on reruns shown on You Tube.

The boom mic did exist in a kind of primitive form in 1928, but was not actively used until 1929, and even then it was still in primitive form. Remember the time period of this movie, and remember that there would have been, in silent films, no real reason to think of a boom mic. Many of these episodes are adapted from actual experiences in the very early days of sound. There was no boom mic for Lina to speak into.

The dark haired dancer in the "Gotta Dance" sequence is Cyd Charisse, one of the most popular and talented dancers among a huge number of popular and talented dancers during this period. Fred Astaire called her Beautiful Dynamite. Primarily trained in ballet, she could adapt to pretty much any style, and related to her dancing partner wonderfully. Here's one of my favorite examples: kzbin.info/www/bejne/sKKsmIx3htB1mdU

Debbie Reynolds, fyi, just in case, was the mother of Carrie Fisher, aka Princess Leia. Reynolds was about 19 here, and not a trained dancer. She learned all her dancing for this movie under the demanding and skillful command of Gene Kelly. On Kelly, here's a TCM profile for you: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gqnQmaaOmZ2mobs And for Reynolds: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fmqWZ2WjmM2IY6M

TCM has a short that they broadcast sometimes. In it, Donald O'Connor (Cosmo) talks about the genius of hiring Jean Hagen for the part of Lina: Hagen was a dramatic actress, with a stage background, and she gave Lina that extra bit of shading which kept the ridiculousness of her, but which also let us understand why she's such a star here: she takes her job seriously: knows her marks, knows her lines (she never asks to change the script, for example); she truly wants to learn about the round tones, etc. Unfortunately, she hasn't the talent or the empathy to take her much farther. But yes, yes, you do feel a little sorry for her during that taping session.

One of my favorite films! 12 men in a room talking should be boring, but the movie takes a boring concept and makes it exciting! Such a fantastic story with a fantastic cast! Lee J Cobb stole the movie! Sidney Lumet is one of the best movie makers, with so many fantastic movies! The downward angle is why the killer isn't a Switchblade knife user! The shop owner wasn't necessarily lying about the knife being the only one that looked like that he had ever seen! Davis said he bought his knife at a pawn shop near the boys house, not from the same shop!

Another exceptional musical is “Fiddler on the Roof” (1971) based on one of the most successful and frequently plays ever performed. It is a timeless story, based on historical events and has profound depths. Some of the musical numbers have fascinating choreography.

West Side Story (1961) was choreographed (and co-directed) by the great Broadway genius Jerome Robbins, has music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Most all of the dancers in the cast were among the best on Broadway or from film at that time. A masterpiece.

Try the film “Cabaret” (1972) which has all the musical numbers as parts of the stage performances in a cabaret, set in the early years of Nazi rule, and is choreographed/directed by the great master Bob Fosse, who won Best Director for this picture. Highly recommended!

Debbie Reynolds (Kathy Selden) was 19 years old during the filming of this picture. She acted until well into her 80’s and is the mom of Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia in Star Wars.)

Gene Kelly is acknowledged as one of the greatest overall dancers from film who could do plenty of athletic stunts, and also choreographed, acted, sang and directed. (The other dancer acknowledged as one of the greatest ever is Fred Astaire.)