| Author | Message | ||
     Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1061 Registered: 09-2006 |
That's HEDLEY Lamaar! | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1148 Registered: 08-2006 |
His straight-man routine helped make the Carol Burnett show, and I never tired of seeing him crack up onscreen during a particularly funny bit. He added a nice bit of hilarity to my childhood. RIP, indeed. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1231 Registered: 10-2004 |
Funny, off-topic has turned into the freaking obituaries. We're such a doomy bunch, the admins should create a section solely for obituaries. So this is the guy who played assistant to Mel Brookes' sex-crazed mayor in Blazing Saddles? Wow, it's been a while since I've seen that film. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1168 Registered: 01-2005 |
Jeff, Blazing Saddles didn't age well for me the last time I saw it. Some bits still hold up, but a lot of the racial jokes fall flat 34 years later. Harvey's and Slim Pickens jokes were still funny. I'm a big Slim Pickens fan though. Did you know that Slim Pickens brother's name was Easy? Both stage names of course, but they did appear together in one movie, the suburb 1970 The Ballad Of Cable Hogue. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1065 Registered: 09-2006 |
I'll probably be pulling it out again to watch on this occasion, as I take any excuse I can get...it's one of those that for me has done nothing but improve with time. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1066 Registered: 09-2006 |
Didn't know that about Slim and his sibling, Michael, funny. Cable Hogue was a very charming piece of work...Peckinpah still aware of the realities of life, but not taking such a bleak attitude towards them. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1170 Registered: 01-2005 |
Cable Hogue should have made Stella Stevens a star, as I think she is luminous in it. She didn't get a lot of support though from Paramount, as she was in line to co-star with Steve McQueen in Getaway. However, Robert Evans the head of the studio pulled rank and gave the role to his then wife, the wooden actress of the 70's Ali McGraw. |