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| marantzo |
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| Didn't Fred Willard start as a straight quiz master or MC on some tv show years ago? I remember seeing him playing a comic character for the first time on tv (maybe WKRP or SCTV) and being surprised that he was a comic. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 8:30 am |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 9:50 am |
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Yeah, I checked out IMDB and he never was a straight TV host of any kind. He's older than we are, Billy.  |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 9:54 am |
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| Gary, might you be thinking of Bert Parks, who I think Willard strongly resembles? Parks, of course, mceed the Miss America Pageant forever, but also hosted several game shows. The one I remember is "Stop the Music". |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 10:04 am |
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| Thanks Yam. Bert Parks it was and I saw him on WKRP when he played Herb Tarleck's father. He was very funny. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 10:52 am |
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Joe Vitus wrote: I, in fact, was not talking about the stakeout—at least in terms of what I considered boring.
Perhaps the sequence with the cameraman on the roof and the guys in the minaret?
The stakeout scene had lots of little touches that I liked, like that interval between the flash of a gun and when the bullet hits, the dustdevil, the fly on Sanborn's eyelash. Although if you look backward through a sniperscope at someone's eye, wouldn't his eye appear small instead of large? |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 11:15 am |
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Quote: Although if you look backward through a sniperscope at someone's eye, wouldn't his eye appear small instead of large?
Yes it would, and I know this because Stanley Kramer did the same thing in a movie about a sniper murderer, if I remember correctly. I saw it one night on TV and was discussing it with a friend the next day, (he used to go hunting), and he said that when we see the killer's eye, large and blinking through the end of his scope, it had to be backward because his eye would have been smaller not larger.
Funny that the same type of thing should come up again in a different movie discussion 49 years later.  |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 11:19 am |
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| Guess what, the movie was The Sniper. I'd bet that Bigelow did that as some kind of homage to Kramer. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 11:22 am |
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marantzo wrote: Guess what, the movie was The Sniper. I'd bet that Bigelow did that as some kind of homage to Kramer.
Not to be snarky, but I wonder why anyone would pay homage to Stanley Kramer, an unimaginative director if ever there was one. The Sniper was not directed by him, btw. He produced but Edward (Crossfire) Dmytryk directed. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 11:29 am |
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I was waiting for just that kind of post from you Billy. I also think Kramer leaves a lot to be desired as a director and I saw that he was the producer not the director when I looked it up. When it showed on TV they were doing a retrospective of Kramer movies. I thought he'd been the director of all the movies they showed, but saw that he was the producer when I looked him up a to get the name of the movie.
I remember liking it. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 11:31 am |
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| An homage to Dmytryk then. Makes more sense, because I also wondered why she would put an homage to Kramer in her film. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 11:43 am |
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marantzo wrote: Didn't Fred Willard start as a straight quiz master or MC on some tv show years ago? I remember seeing him playing a comic character for the first time on tv (maybe WKRP or SCTV) and being surprised that he was a comic.
I confused Fred Willard and Frank Bonner (Herb Tarlek on WKRP) for a long time. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 11:57 am |
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| Willard, Bonner, Parks.......separated at birth. |
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| Melody |
| Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 12:33 pm |
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| I was looking for Tom Waits YouTube clips to post on my Facebook page on Tom's birthday a while back and came across an appearance on "Fernwood 2 Night" with Martin Mull and Fred Willard. This in turn made me look for all the "F2N" clips I could find. Mull and Willard together in the '70s = comic genius. |
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| chillywilly |
| Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 10:37 am |
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| Melody mentioned Fernwood 2 Night, one of the favorite Fred Willard gigs. |
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