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August,
DS> There was a movie with Jimmy Stewart, and this female
DS> housekeeper said she was resigning because he swore at
DS> her. All he said was that he was going to get some sun on
DS> the beach.
AA> Mr Hobbs Takes a Vacation? I wasn't even in school yet when
AA> that came out in theatres.
I don't remember if that was it or not.
AA> I enjoyed the Looney Tunes. The Roadrunner always perplexed me
AA> and I (as a pre-schooler and early grader) could never
AA> understand the joke in the Latin subtitles at the beginning of
AA> each episode when they would stop the scene and post something
AA> in fake Latin. Only decades later as an adult after getting a
AA> VHS tape of Looney Tunes hit shows, did I finally "GET IT".
They even did one with Daffy Duck with a takeoff on Colonel Klink
and Sargeant Schultz. Daffy was suppsedly talking to him in German,
and they posted "the English equivalent". Then, there was a phone
call, and Daffy said "It's all yours, Vonn Lemitur"...with "the German
equivalent" posted. The late Mel Blanc, the man of a thousand voices,
was truly a genius.
AA> In Hitchcock's North By Northwest (the one with a confrontation
AA> that ends on Mt Rushmore), Hitchcock wanted to push the limits
AA> on censorship and have some kind of love scene at the end of the
AA> film that implied more than the usual fair. The censors said no
AA> to his material. So, Hitchcock placed the "lovers" on a train,
AA> and after a few quips of innuendo, the final scene is the train
AA> entering the tunnel. Apparenty, the censors couldn't say no to
AA> that! And by some stretch of the imagination, the message
AA> may have been even clearer.
There were 2 plays I did in high school over 40 years ago. We built
a rotating set, where the items for one play were on one side, then
for another play on the other. The first play was "Bringing It All
Back Home"...designed (as I called it) "the utmost in tacky".
On the other side, it was "The Tiger". The plot is where this man
kidnaps this woman, and "the tiger is dominating the tigress" at the
beginning of the play. But, as the play progresses, the scales tip,
and it's the other way around at the end. I did the lighting and sound
for that play, using music from the Piano Concerto #1 in B-flat minor
by Peter I. Tchaikowsky. The very last part of the final movement was
for the scene where he's getting her onto this brass bed. She says
"no", but he says "yes" (I didn't know how to spell what they said in
French).
At this point the lights "fade to black" while the music starts. As
the last part of this final movement proceeds, the tempo accelerates.
All this time, the stage is dark...you can imagine the reaction of the
audience. Then, after the big finish, the lights come back up, she
is sitting at the table, and he walks onto the stage. She asks "When
will I be seeing you again??". It brought the house down in laughter.
Daryl
... A nudist wedding makes it easy to identify the best man.
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