My Earlist Memories- As A Babyboomer.
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clore_2 — 11 years ago(January 27, 2015 02:40 PM)
I remember going to see
The Time Machine
on the day after Thanksgiving in 1960. I already knew of him as
Hong Kong
had been airing for about two months at that point. Seeing TV stars on the big screen was relatively new to me then - I was only nine and I guess that
Yellowstone Kelly
was my only other example at the time.
I remember that one Wednesday in February, 1961, as
Hong Kong
was about to start, there was a promo lasting about one minute and featuring Taylor. He said somethng along the lines of "Ok, before you change the channel, please listen. We hear a lot of excuses from people about why they don't watch our show, they like the show on the other channel, they have to take their dog for a walk We just want to mention that tonight, just for you, we're running another episode at 10pm/9 Central time, so you may want to give us an hour and maybe you'll come back next week at our regular time."
I'm paraphrasing, as this only aired once and the other show he was referring to had to be
Wagon Train
which was in the top five and airing on NBC, handily beating ABC and CBS. But it was such an endearing little bit, mostly because of Taylor's delivery and it showed that ABC was trying to salvage the program.
It ain't easy being green, or anything else, other5b4 than to be me -
clore_2 — 11 years ago(January 29, 2015 02:24 PM)
I watched a few
Hong Kong
episodes about a year ago, it holds up well, very nice production values and Taylor had everything one could want as a series lead. He had the looks, the build and he was charming.b68 He was the kind that back then, a kid wanted to grow up to be.
I barely remember
Men Into Space
but that may be because my sister preferred to watch Ricky Nelson at that hour. There were three of us, so in order to be fair, my mother assigned nights in which each one had control of the TV and we had to "trade" if we wanted to see something on each other's assigned night.
I guess I had nothing on my nights worth trading for that season or else I wasn't giving it up. I had Friday for example, and there was no way I'd give up my weekly does of
77 Sunset Strip
.
We each had two nights and my mother was satisfied with just Sunday as that was the night that
Maverick
aired and that was her favorite show at the time. She just preferred the humorous episodes to the serious ones.
It ain't easy being green, or anything else, other than to be me -
telegonus — 11 years ago(February 13, 2015 07:59 PM)
I remenber
Men Into Space
well, but not the specifics, the plots, just the ambiance, the boundless, bubbling optimism, sort of
Star Trek
for grade school kids. It was my introduction to William Lundigan, whom I got reacquainted with later on, on the later afternoon airing of the Warners murder mystery
The Case Of the Black Parrot
; and then came
Underwater City
, in the theater. I thought at the time that he'd been a bigger star than he ever really was, especially as I'd see his name in leading roles in major films, which I often chose
not
to watch, such as
I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
. The title kept me away, but it was Bill Lundigan, and an A picture from Fox, 1951, on
Saturday Night At the Movies
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ecarle — 11 years ago(January 31, 2015 03:00 PM)
While I enjoy the generational debate here, I think the point to talking about seeing these Rod Taylor performances as a Baby Boomer means you/we saw them in their ORIGINAL broadcasts or theatrical releases.
And that's a different memory than you will get if you see The Time Machine for the first time in 2015.
I use this example:
I saw "Bullitt" in 1968 during Christmas season after waiting on line for over an hour. Full house, giant palace theater, and EVERYBODY yelling and cheering during the car chase. Plus all the "outside the theater" feelings of 1968a dark political year(assassinations, riots, Vietnam) made just a bit more survivable watching Bullitt(a supercool Steve McQueen at his best) chase the bad guys all over San Francisco.
Today, you can put "Bullitt" in the DVD player and you will see the same movie we saw in 1968, but you won't get the same feelings about it, at all. -
melvelvit-1 — 11 years ago(January 31, 2015 03:57 PM)
In order for these movies to have staying power, they have to be seen by those of us who weren't around back in those days.
So what?
I've never seen anyone carry on the way you do whenever other people share their movie-going memories. It says alot about your mental health.
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There's less to this than meets the eye as bees in honey drown -
melvelvit-1 — 11 years ago(January 31, 2015 09:39 PM)
I honestly don't care if you live or die let alone why you deleted your posts but now that you've brought it up-
I just deleted them in order to keep the thread from going too much off-topic.
That's rich, it really is. You get belligerent with the OP for (God forbid) reminiscing and then do a 180 claiming to protect his thread so it doesn't stray too far from Rod Taylor -a topic that not one of your posts here have anything to do with, btw. You obviously feel inferior to anyone who mixes memories in with movie talk and you were shamed into deleting your more offensive posts on another board. Otherwise why delete only a couple and not all -or better yet, why delete at all if you have the courage of your pathetic convictions? I guess it never occured to you that another poster quoted from them so they're
still
here, in all their imbecilic glory.
I don't know what it takes to please you guys
I don't know who "you guys" are but baby boomers are individuals and not some nebulous spectre who have nothing better to do than persecute young people (and at 38, you're not exactly young) but speakib68ng for myself, if at any time you don't like a post of mine eat sh!t.
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melvelvit-1 — 11 years ago(January 31, 2015 10:25 PM)
I've never once been ashamed of anything I've written on the web And none of my posts are offensive.
The fact you wiped your initial January 15th post and completely re-wrote it on January 27th before deleting the rest doesn't exactly weigh in your favor.
You posted on this thread 11 times and not one of them had anything to do with Rod Taylor -either the man, his movies, or your personal memories of them- so what are you trying to do, turn this into another one of your soggy bogs?
Curse Of The Swamp Creature
, indeed.
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There's less to this than meets the eye as bees in honey drown -
melvelvit-1 — 11 years ago(January 31, 2015 10:55 PM)
Darker Than Amber
(Vodka & Dubonnet)
1 1/2 cups vodka, cold
3 cups Dubonnet, cold
3 cups seltzer water, cold
Refrigerate all the ingredients, pitcher and glasses at least one hour before serving. Pour vodka into large pitcher. Add Dubonnet, then seltzer. Serve in tall glasses. Serves 6.
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amyghost — 11 years ago(February 01, 2015 09:20 AM)
You posted on this thread 11 times and not one of them had anything to do with Rod Taylor
This is absolutely plain to anyone who scrolls down this thread. And none of the deleted posts had anything to do with Taylor eitherapart from using him as a launch pad for more grousing over the fact that there are people in the world older than herself, and bitching about the fact that they dare reminisce with one another in public.
I said it elsewhere, and I'll say it herecoming onto an obit/tribute thread and using it as a soapbox for personal grievances that have nothing at all relevant to say about the performer or his work is disrespectful.
And I likely should keep to my own rule about this, and not post an essentially OP message here, but this annoys me enough that I'm hard-pressed to refrain from doing so. That said, I'll not place any further posts on this thread that aren't directly relevant to Rod and his films. -
melvelvit-1 — 11 years ago(February 01, 2015 10:21 AM)
And none of the deleted posts had anything to do with Taylor eitherapart from using him as a launch pad for more grousing over the fact that there are people in the world older than herself, and bitching about the fact that they dare reminisce with one another in public.
I said it before and I'll say it again: Anything that doesn't include them -no matter what it is- is considered a personal insult to the narcissistic personality.
using it as a soapbox for personal grievances that have nothing at all relevant to say about the performer or his work is disrespectful.
And classicly passive/aggressive, at that. Call her on her boorish behavior and out comes "the victim card" -we're all a bunch of malevolent, baby-booming "long time friends" ganging up on the oldest living "newbie" in the history of IMDb, a tender lamb who only comes here to discuss film.
That said, I'll not place any further posts on this thread that aren't directly relevant to Rod and his films.
It's not you, 'amy', or me, either -it's
The Curse Of The Swamp Creature
, I tells ya.
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There's less to this than meets the eye as bees in honey drown