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| Film Buff |
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I once saw an interview Widmark did and he told the story of how he, his wife and another couple were in this resturant
and out of the this guy looks over at Widmark, gets up, walks over to him and out of the blue BELTS HIM ONE and says to
him, "That will teach you to shove old ladies in wheelchairs down the stairs"
WIdmark was so flabbergasted he didn't know what to do. He refused to file charges . |
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| moviePig |
| Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 4:01 am |
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On Mar 27, 8:56 am, George Peatty <peattyg47-1...@copper.net> wrote:
Quote: On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:13:08 -0500, Film Buff <Fre...@Dobbs.MTN> wrote:
I once saw an interview Widmark did and he told the story of how he,
his wife and another couple were in this resturant
and out of the this guy looks over at Widmark, gets up, walks over to him
and out of the blue BELTS HIM ONE and says to him, "That will teach you
to shove old ladies in wheelchairs down the stairs"
WIdmark was so flabbergasted he didn't know what to do.
He refused to file charges .
ROFLMAO!
No one could make this up .. It must be true ..
I imagine it's true... but I also suspect that similar occurrences
become less rare the further you go back in movie history..
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| moviePig |
| Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 7:11 am |
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On Mar 27, 10:16 am, "Jim Beaver" <jumble...@prodigy.spam> wrote:
Quote: "moviePig" <pwall...@moviepig.com> wrote in message
news:154f0d68-9738-4eaa-b5c8-f5a20333d85c@h11g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
On Mar 27, 8:56 am, George Peatty <peattyg47-1...@copper.net> wrote:
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:13:08 -0500, Film Buff <Fre...@Dobbs.MTN> wrote:
I once saw an interview Widmark did and he told the story of how he,
his wife and another couple were in this resturant
and out of the this guy looks over at Widmark, gets up, walks over to him
and out of the blue BELTS HIM ONE and says to him, "That will teach you
to shove old ladies in wheelchairs down the stairs"
WIdmark was so flabbergasted he didn't know what to do.
He refused to file charges .
ROFLMAO!
No one could make this up .. It must be true ..
I imagine it's true... but I also suspect that similar occurrences
become less rare the further you go back in movie history..
From my days on DAYS OF OUR LIVES, I'd bet it happens to some soap star or
another almost every day. (There being some 3 million soap stars, by rough
estimate)
Heck, if a soap villain finds supermarket checkout lines safe, I
figure his job isn't...
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| George Peatty |
| Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 8:56 am |
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On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:13:08 -0500, Film Buff <Fred_C@Dobbs.MTN> wrote:
Quote: I once saw an interview Widmark did and he told the story of how he,
his wife and another couple were in this resturant
and out of the this guy looks over at Widmark, gets up, walks over to him
and out of the blue BELTS HIM ONE and says to him, "That will teach you
to shove old ladies in wheelchairs down the stairs"
WIdmark was so flabbergasted he didn't know what to do.
He refused to file charges .
ROFLMAO!
No one could make this up .. It must be true .. |
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| Jim Beaver |
| Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 10:16 am |
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"moviePig" <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote in message
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On Mar 27, 8:56 am, George Peatty <peattyg47-1...@copper.net> wrote:
Quote: On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:13:08 -0500, Film Buff <Fre...@Dobbs.MTN> wrote:
I once saw an interview Widmark did and he told the story of how he,
his wife and another couple were in this resturant
and out of the this guy looks over at Widmark, gets up, walks over to him
and out of the blue BELTS HIM ONE and says to him, "That will teach you
to shove old ladies in wheelchairs down the stairs"
WIdmark was so flabbergasted he didn't know what to do.
He refused to file charges .
ROFLMAO!
No one could make this up .. It must be true ..
I imagine it's true... but I also suspect that similar occurrences
become less rare the further you go back in movie history..
From my days on DAYS OF OUR LIVES, I'd bet it happens to some soap star or
another almost every day. (There being some 3 million soap stars, by rough
estimate)
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| moviePig |
| Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 10:57 am |
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On Mar 27, 3:00 pm, "steve" <st...@steve.com> wrote:
Quote: On 27-Mar-2008, "Jim Beaver" <jumble...@prodigy.spam> wrote:
From my days on DAYS OF OUR LIVES, I'd bet it happens to some soap star or
another almost every day. (There being some 3 million soap stars, by
rough
estimate)
So...it's actually common for people to confuse...
(Could've stopped right there, as far as I'm concerned.)
Quote: ... an actor with the character he plays?
I remember fairly vividly the moment when (at a young age) I was
alarmed by seeing on-screen a fellow who'd *died* in last week's
matinee. I find it unsurprising that many adults' awareness can
somewhat reoccupy such youthful strata.
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| moviePig |
| Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 11:58 am |
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On Mar 27, 4:32 pm, "steve" <st...@steve.com> wrote:
Quote: On 27-Mar-2008, moviePig <pwall...@moviepig.com> wrote:
So...it's actually common for people to confuse...
(Could've stopped right there, as far as I'm concerned.)
... an actor with the character he plays?
I remember fairly vividly the moment when (at a young age) I was
alarmed by seeing on-screen a fellow who'd *died* in last week's
matinee. I find it unsurprising that many adults' awareness can
somewhat reoccupy such youthful strata.
I would expect this from the occassional nut-job or a 9 year old kid, but I
wouldnt expect it from 99.9999999% of adults...give or take a few 9s.
Hmm... I think I'd honestly grant you only a couple of those 9s...
(though wishing for a few more...) and from there we'd face simple
multiplication. (I *was* younger than 9, btw, but thanks for the
headroom...)
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| tomcervo |
| Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 1:19 pm |
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On Mar 27, 4:29�pm, "Matt Barry" <bar...@bellatlantic.net> wrote:
Quote: I had also seen an interview with the actor (can't remember his name) who
played a rapist in one episode of "All in the Family". He claimed that he
actually received death threats from people who couldn't understand the
difference between television and real life.
David Duke--no "s"--very fine actor who died too young. |
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| steve |
| Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 3:00 pm |
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On 27-Mar-2008, "Jim Beaver" <jumblejim@prodigy.spam> wrote:
Quote: From my days on DAYS OF OUR LIVES, I'd bet it happens to some soap star or
another almost every day. (There being some 3 million soap stars, by
rough
estimate)
So...it's actually common for people to confuse an actor with the character
he plays?
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| Matt Barry |
| Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 3:29 pm |
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"Film Buff" <Fred_C@Dobbs.MTN> wrote in message
news:gqamu3pkr17sq4qjpbbuli5thg5qoh50hi@4ax.com...
Quote: I once saw an interview Widmark did and he told the story of how he, his
wife and another couple were in this resturant
and out of the this guy looks over at Widmark, gets up, walks over to him
and out of the blue BELTS HIM ONE and says to
him, "That will teach you to shove old ladies in wheelchairs down the
stairs"
WIdmark was so flabbergasted he didn't know what to do. He refused to file
charges .
This is interesting. I've heard of similar incidents involving other actors.
I had read of one incident that happened recently to Tobin Bell while he was
eating in a restaurant. A waitress became hysterical when she recognized him
as the actor who played the "Jigsaw" killer in the "Saw" films.
I had also seen an interview with the actor (can't remember his name) who
played a rapist in one episode of "All in the Family". He claimed that he
actually received death threats from people who couldn't understand the
difference between television and real life.
On a somewhat lighter note, in the Kevin Brownlow "Hollywood" documentary,
Erich von Stroheim's widow recalls going with him to see one of his films
while they were dating. In the film, he plays a sadistic Prussian officer
who throws a baby out a window, and the audience went crazy booing and
hissing the character. After the film, he wanted to take her to dinner, but
she was nervous about going into the restaurant with him for fear that the
patrons would recognize him as the villain from the film and create a stir.
Incidentally, this kind of thing seems to date back at least to the
beginning of movies (and probably to the stage before that). There's a
hilarious parody of such behavior in the Mack Sennett comedy, "Mabel's
Dramatic Career" from 1913, in which Sennett's rube character becomes
jealous of the actor playing Mabel Normand's lover in a film that he sees in
a nickelodeon. He becomes so jealous of the character that he actually hunts
the actor down at his house!
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| steve |
| Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 4:32 pm |
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On 27-Mar-2008, moviePig <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
Quote:
So...it's actually common for people to confuse...
(Could've stopped right there, as far as I'm concerned.)
... an actor with the character he plays?
I remember fairly vividly the moment when (at a young age) I was
alarmed by seeing on-screen a fellow who'd *died* in last week's
matinee. I find it unsurprising that many adults' awareness can
somewhat reoccupy such youthful strata.
I would expect this from the occassional nut-job or a 9 year old kid, but I
wouldnt expect it from 99.9999999% of adults...give or take a few 9s.
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| No Man |
| Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 6:11 pm |
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I'm sure everybody realizes that one proof against the verity of an
urban legend is its ubiquity. If there were rats fried at KFC in several
hundred locations, it doesn't make it *more* likely to have happened.
My first sergeant told the tale of a tank hijacked from Ft Sill to
downtown Lawton one year. The turret was whirred about to level at a bar
which had caused the troop some trouble earlier in the evening. He
didn't fire, but he won his argument. I then saw a movie sometime later
starring Brian Keith with exactly that plot device.
The Widmark scene was played out in Nurse Betty and all over the world.
I heard one starring Bogie. And Allen Funt when he was desperate to keep
his morbid Candid Camera operating told the tale of a slipped bikini top
on a beach somewhere resulting in a slap to his face, "That's in case
you were intending using my accident in your show."
I don't believe anything. I don't empirically believe in Kansas any more
than the Emerald City.
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Triaphorism (n) - An expression containing three nouns which are
interchangeable with respect to meaning, as: "Futility is the price
Ignorance pays to Religion." |
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| Howard Brazee |
| Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 8:55 pm |
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On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:00:25 GMT, "steve" <steve@steve.com> wrote:
Quote: So...it's actually common for people to confuse an actor with the character
he plays?
Actors who have become politicians predominately have good guy roles. |
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| Howard Brazee |
| Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 8:57 pm |
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I've read that Abe Vigoda claimed that he used to be stopped by cops a
lot - when his big role was in _The Godfather_. _Barney Miller_
changed his image tremendously with them. |
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| Guest |
| Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 5:28 am |
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On Mar 27, 5:32 pm, "steve" <st...@steve.com> wrote:
Quote: On 27-Mar-2008, moviePig <pwall...@moviepig.com> wrote:
So...it's actually common for people to confuse...
(Could've stopped right there, as far as I'm concerned.)
... an actor with the character he plays?
I remember fairly vividly the moment when (at a young age) I was
alarmed by seeing on-screen a fellow who'd *died* in last week's
matinee. I find it unsurprising that many adults' awareness can
somewhat reoccupy such youthful strata.
I would expect this from the occassional nut-job or a 9 year old kid, but I
wouldnt expect it from 99.9999999% of adults...give or take a few 9s.
Remember the house in Boulder, Colo. where Mork and Mindy supposedly
lived (the house was seen in the show's opening credits and used in
the occasional establishing shot)? The people who lived there used to
be bothered all the time by tourists looking for Mork and Mindy. |
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