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[William Flynn Wallace]

One of my most favorite lines of all time:  re Doris Day by another actor -
"I knew her before she was a virgin."

bill w

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 4:49 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] *On
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> >>…such as “Fred Estaire” and “Elizabeth Taylor” and” Doris Day” and “John
> Wayne” and such as that.  No one alive today has actually ever seen the
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> >…I"ll have you know that my wife, who is only 63, and I know a lot of
> those old movies.  She still watches them…
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> As do I.  If I manage to gather the patience for a movie, good chance it
> was made before I was born.  Doris Day is the most talented, gorgeous,
> funny, drop dead sexy, beautiful actress I have ever seen, and I am a huge
> fan of her.  She could sing, dance, act, real-time interactive comedy, oh
> what a talent.  She still lives over in Monterey.  A couple years ago she
> got herself painted up and made a public appearance at the local SPCA
> event, looking as good as a 91 yr old could ever hope to.  Those songs she
> made in the old days, oh how sexy, my my.
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> >… I have come to a peculiar (can I do otherwise?) attitude towards
> actors:  they are people who are famous for pretending to be other people.
> Huh?  Yeah.  We have no idea who or what they really are…
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> I always thought it would be funny to get two well-known one-character
> types and have them switch personas.  Example get John Wayne and Paul Lynd,
> then have Wayne play a really flowery effeminate type, and make Lynd play
> the macho man role.  It would be hilarious, but ruin both of their legacies.
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> Clint Eastwood did a self-parody of his own characters in a sense with the
> comedy Bronco Billy.  Al Pachino seldom did the lighter stuff but he did it
> well in the hilarious oddball sci-fi comedy S1m0ne.  That one had a lot of
> Hollywood self-parody in there with Winona Ryder playing herself: a prima
> donna actress trying to compete with a simulated actress.  It even included
> engineer sight-gags.  Most hilarious.
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