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1) "Shame On The Moon" ( a little trivia...Seger didn't write this one...this was written by a very talented singer-songwriter named Rodney Crowell)
2) "The Fire Inside"
3) "You'll Accompany Me"
Hard to narrow it down to 3...love Bob Seger's music!
I love both versions...as a big fan of acoustic guitar music, I'd probably choose the "Unplugged" version. I love the solo and it brings back a lot of nostalgia from the early 90s ( I love so much of the 90s-era music). I can't believe "Unplugged" is just about 30 years old now...what a great, great recording that was.
Man, I miss the NBC version of "Late Night With David Letterman." That show was a big part of my high-school and college years. "The World's Most Dangerous Band"...all talented musicians and Paul Shaffer was such a big part of the show. Happy birthday, Paul!
I was never a fan of "Everybody Loves Raymond" (although my wife loved it) and I didn't know how I'd react to Patricia Heaton being in "The Middle." I thought she was fantastic in it. Frankie has her flaws, but I think you really pull for her character and I thought Patricia Heaton did a tremendous job in portraying her.
I love this show also. I didn't watch it when it first ran on Fox (although I remember seeing it advertised), but my brother and one of my sisters recommended it. I thought this show was very well done:
1) I liked the continuity that they kept throughout the entire series.
2) I liked that the Hecks genuinely struggled to make it financially. Most sitcoms don't accurately portray the financial situations of their characters, but I thought "The Middle" did a great job with that. They played it to comedic effect, but I also thought they made the point that it's not easy for a middle-class family financially.
3) I loved the character of Brick. All of the characters on "The Middle" were great, but Brick was my favorite. My youngest son was diagnosed with autism/ADHD and Brick reminded me so much of him. Atticus Shaffer did an outstanding job in portraying Brick.
Yes...there just wasn't anyone like Robin Williams.
1) The Apostle ( he was so great in that)
2) Both Godfathers
3) The Natural
ecarle, you mentioned both Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt as today's "movie stars." I would say you're correct. It's interesting with them...regarding LDC, I've seen him in "Titanic," "Revolutionary Road," "Django Unchained," "The Departed," and "The Wolf Of Wall Street." I've seen Brad Pitt in "Thelma & Louise," "Moneyball," "Inglourious Basterds," and "12 Years A Slave." I think they're fine actors and I enjoyed their performances. Here's the thing for me, though...I never saw any of these in the theater when they first came out. But I am just a "casual moviegoer" and I really have not gone to all that many movies in my lifetime. My favorite LDC movie would probably be "The Departed" and my favorite Brad Pitt movie would probably be "Inglourious Basterds." I do think they are movie stars...besides their movies, they have both gotten so much attention for their "personal lives." They do seem to "qualify" for what it takes to be a "movie star."
ecarle, I very much enjoyed reading your latest posts regarding Quentin Tarantino and would like to respond at some point (I need to re-read and "process it" when I get more time...you covered a lot of ground with those posts! 😉).
I also enjoyed reading your posts regarding Steve McQueen/Paul Newman/"The Towering Inferno." I remember you writing a lot about that on the old IMDB boards. I have never seen "The Towering Inferno," but I do have somewhat vague memories of it being a big deal. I really don't know a whole lot about Steve McQueen, but I finally saw "Bullitt" on TCM around 7-8 years ago and I loved it. A great movie that I saw as somewhat of a "time capsule" as to what life was like somewhat in 1968. As I've said before, your writings/past postings on things like this have been so great for a pretty casual moviegoer like me!
4) Ron Shelton: I've very much enjoyed his movies that I've seen: "Bull Durham," "Tin Cup," ""Cobb" (with Tommy Lee Jones...FYI, even though I very much enjoyed the movie, there has been a lot to come out about Ty Cobb in recent years that he wasn't really the despicable character as he was portrayed in the movie). But Shelton had a gift for writing and telling such great sports stories (I believe he was a minor-league baseball player himself). I have a lot of respect for his works.
ecarle wrote: "But on the other hand...oh well. (I'd say "so what" but I honor golfandguitars concerns.)"
Don't worry, ecarle...you could have said, "So what?" to me and I wouldn't have minded at all! 😃 It goes back to what you said in one of your first responses in this thread about "Bagger Vance," that a certain movie may be someone's favorite movie, etc. I'm glad that you and swanstep like the "Tin Cup" ending...that's part of what makes the world go 'round! 😉
I'd like to add a few thoughts on the "Tin Cup" actors (and director) that you mentioned (nothing earth-shattering and no response needed...unless you feel like it 😀):
1) Kevin Costner...I loved him in "Bull Durham" (one of the relatively few movies I saw in the theater when it first came out) and agree that he had kind of a "swagger" about him that made him a star. I remember seeing "The Untouchables" on network TV (ABC, I think) and loving it. I never saw "Dances With Wolves" until just a few years ago (It's one of my brother's favorite movies and probably Costner's "best movie," so to speak). But he's had a very interesting acting career, as you and swanstep previously discussed.
2) Rene Russo: I loved her in "Major League" (another funny sports movie that I love) and I enjoyed her performance in the remake of "Yours, Mine, And Ours" with Dennis Quaid (I have a lot of nostalgia over that movie, because that was one of the first movies I saw with my wife, not long after we got married). Again, I have not seen the movie for which she's probably most well-known: "The Thomas Crown Affair."
3) Don Johnson: Yes, he was terrific as David Simms in "Tin Cup." I didn't recognize his appearance in "Django Unchained" until after the movie. But I will always think of him as Sonny Crockett from the old great TV show "Miami Vice" (another show that I have a lot of nostalgia/fond memories of).
A terrific write-up as always , ecarle! I felt a lot of sadness and nostalgia when she passed away earlier this year. Her "Murder, She Wrote" timespan was interesting for me...I was a high-school freshman in 1984 when "Murder, She Wrote" debuted and a working young professional in 1996, when it finally ended. Her passing brought back a lot of great memories watching NFL football on Sunday afternoons...hearing the late, great announcer Pat Summerall say "Murder, She Wrote" was a real treat! 😀
It's really ridiculous that she never won a single Emmy for "MSW." She was so great as Jessica Fletcher. Also, you commented on the "niceness" of Jessica Fletcher. I always felt Angela Lansbury seemed like she would have been a nice person to meet in real life. FYI, I have two older sisters and a younger brother...we all enjoyed "MSW." It was the perfect "Sunday Night show"...watching NFL football, then "60 Minutes," then "MSW." And then I'd feel like I'd be ready for the work week after that. 😉
I always hated it that the 80s "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" went up against "MSW" in the ratings for a time. My brother and I would usually watch "Hitchcock," while our parents would watch "MSW." That didn't last too long, though...if I remember correctly, NBC moved "Hitchcock" to Tuesday nights, so we could watch both shows again.
RIP, Angela Lansbury.
I also love this movie and it's one that I wish I'd seen in the movie theater when it first came out (I've never really been a huge moviegoer).
I try to rewatch this every Thanksgiving. One thing about rewatching it over the years is that the ending makes me sad in a way, because I really miss John Candy. He was such a talented actor and he seemed like a genuinely nice guy. It would have been interesting to see how his career would have gone had he lived longer.
@ mxtmind and BillHicksFan: I enjoyed reading your posts. I can definitely understand how someone who was familiar with 60s/70s-era Chicago would find the 80s-era Chicago to be disappointing. I also liked what you said regarding Peter Cetera....just a very talented musician.
While I would agree that Chicago really wasn't the same band after Terry Kath died, I still like a lot of their 80s-era music. I think "Love Me Tomorrow" is a great song (especially with the "classic Chicago ending"). "Hard To Say I'm Sorry" was probably their first song I remember hearing and I still like it (again, another "classic Chicago ending"). And I have a lot of nostalgia over "Look Away"...I was in college when that came out, so it has that going for it, and I like the guitar playing as well. I think it's a very nice song.
Having said all that...they weren't the same after Kath passed away. Gone way too soon and a big loss to the music world for sure.
@ swanstep...fair enough. Yes, I think being a golfer definitely influences my opinion on the end of the movie. I do love the rest of the movie...I think the driving-range scene where McAvoy has the "shanks" is one of the funniest moments of all time! 😃
Hello...first of all, I like your username. Bill Hicks was an interesting comedian for sure...RIP.
I was not all that familiar with "Poem For The People," but I really like it and I think Kath's playing is superb. He was such a smooth, fluid picker. His playing adds to the song, but supports the vocals/other instruments (That's not always easy to pull off). He showcases both his lead and rhythm playing here (He had a real "jazzy streak" in him, it seemed). I can see why Jimi Hendrix was such a big admirer of his playing.
One thing that I find remarkable about Kath, Hendrix, Duane Allman, et.al., is how relatively short their guitar-playing lives were, yet how much and how quickly they mastered the instrument. According to Wikipedia, Kath started playing guitar around 13-14 and died at age 31. It's amazing to me how he must have just "gotten it" not long after he started playing. And his singing voice was great, I thought. I first became familiar with "80s-era Chicago," and it wasn't until quite a few years later that I learned about Kath. What a musician he was and gone way too soon, unfortunately. 😢
I love his music..."Runaway" and "Hats Off To Larry" are as great as it gets. I liked " Sister Isabelle." So much of the music at that time had a "Vietnam War" theme and maybe that's partly why this never really caught on.
Gone way too soon.
I've played guitar for about 40 years now and this just didn't do anything for me. Like others have said, I love Terry Kath's guitar playing (and especially his voice...it may not have been "technically perfect," but it hit the spot for me), but not this.
I would put this in the same category as "Revolution #9" by The Beatles. Artists back then were really experimenting with sounds/feedback (thank The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix for a good chunk of that) and, while I appreciate what they were going for with these, I just don't think they worked.
I would have to say " I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow" by the Soggy Bottom Boys. I love the acoustic version more than I do the "full band" version...great guitar playing on this one:
https://youtu.be/YDDEqgmGIVg
ecarle wrote: "It does seem that Hitchcock had a weird "second career" in the 80's. REALLY weird when you think that he died IN 1980. And yet he had a very successful 1980s! 5 of his films -- including two of his greatest films -- were re-released in accord with his death allowing it(Rear Window, Vertigo, Rope, The Man Who Knew Too Much and The Trouble With Harry.)
There was that Hitchcock Presents re-do(with Hitchcock COLORIZED, another 80's gimmick.)
Psycho got a sequel -- Psycho II(1983) - that was a hit. (I sort of think that Universal waited for Hitchcock to die before besmirching his greatest film with subpar sequels. Psycho III was released in 1986, not as big a hit as II, but I think it is more connected to the original.
...and various books came out about Hitchcock.
So the 80's was a "seminal time" for a new generation to discover Hitch."
Great points as always, ecarle! My parents subscribed to the magazine "Newsweek" back in the day and I remember seeing their "end of year" issue, where they would list the notable obituaries for the year. They had a nice big write-up on Hitchcock. However, like you said, he really became prominent to my generation in the 80s.
My brother and I loved the "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" of the 80s. At the time, neither one of us realized that most of those episodes, if not all of them, were remakes of his previous show. It was funny how NBC marketed it...they tried to sell it as a "package" with "Amazing Stories," which had Steven Spielberg as an executive producer. However, my brother and I never really got into "Amazing Stories" and didn't really watch it...we liked Hitchcock instead.