RIP Captain Stubing (aka Murray Slaughter)
 

Gavin MacLeod passed away overnight in CA.

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Also known as Moriarty, the bearer of negative waves.

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RIP

That tank crew cracked me up.

RIP.. Mary Tyler Moore show was one of my favorites as a kid...

One of the greatest ensemble casts ever.

Should have been on my list of favorites. :banghead:

RIP
Love Boat and Fantasy Island both on Saturday nights.

Also great as Hunkle in Operation Petticoat.

I was about to say that he might be the last of the Mary Tyler Moore cast passed away. But then I remembered Betty White.

It's been ages since I watched it. I should hunt it down and watch it again to see how I would grade it. I know I really liked it.

I think The Great Escape might be the best World War II movie ever. But Kelly's Heroes would certainly be high on the list.

It’s Memorial Day weekend. 2:15 Eastern Sunday on Turner Classic. Set em.

RIP. Please tell me Issac is still alive? Best bartender ever

The only thing Lou Grant hates more than people who have spunk is people who forget that he's still alive.



Casablanca? Bridge on the Rivet Kwai? Stalag 17? Das Boot? The Dirty Dozen?

Definitely one of my all time faves (escape)


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He is!!! Although the Love Boat ceased being a weekly series 35 years ago in 1986, Gavin MacLeod was the first of the regular cast members of the series to pass away.

Especially when it is on a bulletin point consistently predominantly of fans cheering for the football team near his hometown.

I loved Captain Stabbin. He would bang all kinds of hot chicks on his boat after promising them a tour of the harbor.

Always with the negative waves... RIP

Damn it, now I'll be watching old classics tonight. Done spent the afternoon listening to pyromania by Def Leppard thinking I was back in my 20's, now I get to go back even farther into my teen's for World War II classics.

I know it was the late 60s or early 70s, but WTF was with the opening song? It was so bizarre.

Ha. If I'm searching for something to watch and find it just starting I always tune in just for the opening score. If I was ever driving an American jeep through a German column in the dark that's what I'd want playing in my ear buds.

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Burning Bridges by the Mike Curb Congregation. It is a great song.

I have seen Love Boat reruns on one of the OTA stations.

That's pretty good trivia right there.

One of the women on that cast had a drug problem, and I would've bet that she was gone.

Seeing Donald Sutherland as Oddball in Kelly's Heroes and remembering him as Hawkeye in the film Mash, I realized why I could never get into the TV version of Mash, Alan Alda just didn't have the pizzazz as Hawkeye. Attention. Attention, please. The following personnel are permanently assigned to the M*A*S*H 4077: Donald Sutherland as Hawkeye...

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Lauren Tewes, who played Julie McCoy.

She's definitely beat her coke addiction. :D

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I'm in!

I'm impressed that he outlived Mary.

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1. Never seen it. But it's black and white, so not as good.

2. Good, but not as good as The Great Escape.

3. Never seen it. At least, I don't think so.

4. Tried watching it, got bored. Put it in English, people.

5. Good, but not as good as The Great Escape.

The only other answers I could possibly accept are Patton and Inglorious Basterds. I'd frown but wouldn't kick you out if you suggested Saving Private Ryan.

I'll punch anyone in the face who suggests The Thin Red Line. Terrible movie.

From what I remember, it was the doctor who was the lothario of that show.

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I liked him in McHale’s Navy too.

RIP

Bang Bus and Milf hunter were all staples of the early 2000’s reality porn craze.

Rarely if ever, usually at grandparents', saw The Love Boat.

The one bright shining memory I have is Mr C., Tom Bosley, 'coming aboard' wearing a . . . . patchwork denim leisure suit.

Skin tight, too.

You found the wrong picture, that's Ursula the Sea Witch from "The Little Mermaid".

While I've grown to enjoy "Casablanca", I never saw the fascination with it. I've never been a fan of Humphrey Bogart's acting style and the dude looked 60 all his life even when playing a supposedly young guy. Ingrid Bergman is hotter than flame but in most of the movie she just looked like she was about to cry. Stylistically it doesn't do anything groundbreaking or amazing like "Citizen Kane". But then I remembered, we're seeing it through the distance of time. The film was made in 1942 and came out in January 1943. It was a movie ABOUT the war that was made and released DURING the war, when we didn't even know the outcome yet. Apparently (I think I read somewhere) in the nightclub scene where they out-sing the Germans a lot of those actors were people who really DID have to flee the Nazis. So maybe it's more about when it was made.

What always got me about Casablanca was Bogart and the name 'Rick' just didn't fit the face. My favorites with Bogart was of course the Caine Mutiny, but in that film which had so many great actors, it was more of ensemble cast with probably Van Johnson and Fred McMurray as the lead. Also hard to believe was Van Johnson was gay. He played a dinner theater in St. Pete in the 70's and I knew a server and she said, he had his boyfriend with him.

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As the lead I liked Bogart in A Lonely Place (1950) and Key Largo (1948) and in the same way you did, I've grown to like the Maltese Falcon, only because TCM shows it so often. Probably my all time favorite film is B&W, Sunset Blvd from 1950 with William Holden, it just draws me in whenever I see it.

Back to Love Boat, who would of believed Gopher would of become a US Representative.

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Wait. Are you saying that you've never seen the movie Casablanca?

I think it's the finest bit of war propaganda ever made.

It's in black and white. I can't do black and white.

Ah, that's too bad. I prefer the later B&W to the earlier color movies. Around that time (transition from color to B&W) the people who made those movies had a terrific understanding of lighting and how B&W film works while the later movies in color were garish and cartoonish to me by comparison. So for me Casablanca is a great example of a movie where the creators had really mastered their craft from a visual standpoint.

I don't have so much a division about B&W versus color, but I am much more invested in movies post what I call The Bonnie and Clyde Divide.

The shift from studio-styling with mid-Atlantic accents to French New Wave influence and verisimilitude.

The transition that saw us moving from Sound of Music, Oliver Twist, and Dr. Zhivago to The Graduate and The Godfather in a few short years.

I think those styles have their places and help tell a story by controlling the very reality that the story is based in. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, for me. Kubrick has what I think of as a very clean visual style that is more similar to something like The Sound Of Music from your list. That worked well in 2001 and the first part of Full Metal Jacket. Both space ships and Boot Camps are artificially clean environments. But it fell through for me as Full Metal Jacket moved out into the 'real world' and then fell flat during scenes of combat. Too clean.

And I guess I should say too that I can live with black and white in the right circumstances. I'll watch and enjoy Abbott and Costello, for example.

The hard part for me is maybe an expansion on what Baby Lee said. The old movies just seem so fake to me. The actors enunciate their lines like it's a stage play, and a lot of them aren't very good actors to start with. And then on top of that you have lots of plot holes and bad characterizations, and it makes most of those movies unwatchable to me. I realize that there's an evolution and they were doing what was right at the time, but sheesh.

On that note, I had the TV on sometime last year when an old Elvis Presley movie came on. It was in color and I wasn't paying attention, so I left it on out of curiosity. I don't remember the name, but it involved cliff diving in Mexico. The plot was abominable, but it was mostly a vehicle for him singing, so it didn't matter that much. But there was one scene that made me chuckle. There was some big multi-tier outdoor restaurant on the cliff where people could watch the cliff divers, and Elvis started singing in the restaurant. All of the patrons were clapping along and grooving with the song, but there was one woman who had zero sense of rhythm. She was clapping completely out of sync with everyone else and clearly had no idea what a beat was.

First, I have no idea how a person can make it through a whole song like that, being off beat when 100 other people are on beat. You'd think at some point she'd get locked in by the sound. But that's beside the point. She stole the scene because I was watching her the whole time, wondering if she's ever straighten up and fly right. But she never did.

In a modern movie someone would have noticed and pulled her out of the scene. Or they would have digitally removed her in the editing process. But it was the 1950s or 1960s and no one cared. So she's there for posterity, clapping randomly like a baby seal in the background of Elivis' song.

Allow me to show you a breakdown of one of my favorite scenes in the movie:


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Man thats just... depressing as all hell, she used to be a cutie :huh:

I'm genuinely disappointed seeing you voice such a dumb opinion.

UserName checks out.

SHOTS FIRED

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RIP Captain Stubing (aka Murray Slaughter)
 

Now THAT is also interesting trivia. I would have bet the over.


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You are missing out on some great stuff.

Are you even allowed to use electricity?

Black & White, Perry Mason is one of all time favorite TV shows. Then there's the Andy Griffith Show, Beverly Hillbillies Show. So many TV shows I grew up watching in B&W, we didn't own a color TV until I was 16.

I mentioned earlier Sunset Blvd is my favorite movie, here's the ending of the 1950 film as Norma Desmond (Gloria Swansom) is about to be arrested for the murder Joe Gillis (William Holden) and she sees the movie cameras, newsman and lights and suddenly she's flashes back in her mind that she is once again the silent film star and everyone is here to see her final performance. Her ex-husband and director Max (Erich von Stroheim) who has protected her his whole life, picks up the cue and begins to direct. The cops and all the bystanders stand back and watch. The scene is narrated by the deceased Joe Gillis.

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