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| moviePig |
 Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 6:49 am |
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On Mar 28, 10:51 am, "steve" <st...@steve.com> wrote:
Quote: On 28-Mar-2008, le...@my-deja.com wrote:
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.
I dont doubt that even reasonable people make an emotional connection
between the actor and the part(s) he plays. But to take it one step further
and intellectually confuse the two..well, that is an inability to
distinguish between fantasy and reality. If someone is that mentally
incapable, how can they get through a single day without professional
supervision?
Being mostly tethered to the TV helps...
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| Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 8:50 am |
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On Mar 28, 11:51 am, "steve" <st...@steve.com> wrote:
Quote: On 28-Mar-2008, le...@my-deja.com wrote:
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.
I dont doubt that even reasonable people make an emotional connection
between the actor and the part(s) he plays. But to take it one step further
and intellectually confuse the two..well, that is an inability to
distinguish between fantasy and reality. If someone is that mentally
incapable, how can they get through a single day without professional
supervision?
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You don't get out much, do you? MOST people are unable to distinguish
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| steve |
| Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 10:51 am |
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On 28-Mar-2008, leo86@my-deja.com wrote:
Quote: 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.
I dont doubt that even reasonable people make an emotional connection
between the actor and the part(s) he plays. But to take it one step further
and intellectually confuse the two..well, that is an inability to
distinguish between fantasy and reality. If someone is that mentally
incapable, how can they get through a single day without professional
supervision?
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| No Man |
| Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 1:54 pm |
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Howard Brazee wrote:
Quote: Actors who have become politicians predominately have good guy roles.
Yeah, well, both the Terminator and Dirty Harry are Republicans.
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Triaphorism (n) - An expression containing three nouns which are
interchangeable with respect to meaning, as: "Futility is the price
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| Matt Barry |
| Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 3:54 pm |
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"steve" <steve@steve.com> wrote in message
news:7eOdnX9wBox_jnDanZ2dnUVZ_qSonZ2d@rcn.net...
Quote:
On 28-Mar-2008, leo86@my-deja.com wrote:
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.
I dont doubt that even reasonable people make an emotional connection
between the actor and the part(s) he plays. But to take it one step
further
and intellectually confuse the two..well, that is an inability to
distinguish between fantasy and reality. If someone is that mentally
incapable, how can they get through a single day without professional
supervision?
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"History is a lie agreed upon." --Napoleon
I've spoken with many people who could clearly not differentiate an actor
from the role they played. It can be a little unsettling hearing them talk
about this or that actor but describing them based on a character they've
played.
With the "Mork and Mindy" house, I could understand if the tourists were
going there to visit the location, with the understanding that it was simply
the house that was used for the show. But if anyone genuinely expected to
meet characters from the show while there, something is seriously wrong.
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Matt Barry
View my films at: www.youtube.com/comedyfilm
http://mbarry84.tripod.com
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| Anim8rFSK |
| Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 4:08 pm |
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In article <fsjerf026jk@enews2.newsguy.com>, No Man <woesong@yahoo.com>
wrote:
Quote: Howard Brazee wrote:
Actors who have become politicians predominately have good guy roles.
Yeah, well, both the Terminator and Dirty Harry are Republicans.
Both good guy roles.
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No Shat, No Show.
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| No Man |
| Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 5:51 pm |
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moviePig wrote:
Quote: 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.
There's a famous Terry Southern short story of a band of South Texas
injuns who for the first time go to the movies. In the second feature,
they broke into a riot, actually pulling up chairs and throwing them at
the screen. They'd been had, they figured. They had seen Richard Widmark
killed in the first movie, and here he was still riding in the second.
I wonder if it was Richard Widmark actually, or if that's just
hueristics working on me from the other thread.
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"It Pays To Increase Your Word Power!"
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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| Baldoni |
| Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 7:18 am |
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It happens that Film Buff formulated :
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 .
I was once in a simialr position when in Paris. A woman accused me of
being Rasputin the Mad Monk. I did not see the production but I assume
that the woman thought I looked similar to the actor who played
Rasputin.
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| No Man |
| Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 12:07 pm |
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Baldoni wrote:
Quote: I was once in a simialr position when in Paris. A woman accused me of
being Rasputin the Mad Monk. I did not see the production but I assume
that the woman thought I looked similar to the actor who played Rasputin.
A peculiar fiction/reality warp happened in my neighborhood early the
last century. There was a time when epic poetry carried the narratives
of the day, and one of them long after Homer was Thurso's Landing,
which was actually set in a canyon of the Big Sur country called Bixby.
A writer was raised in that canyon and the landing above, and tourists
would knock on her door and ask if she was by chance the one who
poisoned her husband. Literature offers the opportunity for great
imposition.
Peculiar. There must have been a movie about this episode (?), because
in the poem, the lady, encouraged by Thurso's mom, commits suicide after
putting him out of his misery.
But, then, most folks know Rasputin was gone before the Tsar.
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"It Pays To Increase Your Word Power!"
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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