Requiem aeternam, Rick

Actually, I think he’s busy trying to sign-up Harpers Bizarre and the Bay City Rollers for the next “My Music” special on PBS. 

Yup, Bob, Part III was, shall we say, not a cinematic gem.  Having Coppola's untalented daughter playing a pivotal role certainly didn't help.  When she got it while in crossfire and succumbed, I thought the audience was going to applaud.

I would find it interesting if Barnabas, when asked about watching the latest chill flicks hitting the theaters, would respond:  "I don't like those kinds of movies.  I'm into westerns myself."

Oh, your comment about Sofia Coppola is cruel, but quite true!


Actually, I got a bad case of “agita” when I saw that eternally-tanned and unfailingly vacuous pretty-boy, the
seemingly ageless George Hamilton, portraying the great Robert Duvall’s apparent/ersatz replacement as the Corleone family consigliere. Ugh! 

There’s a scene in Godfather III, where you see Andy Garcia and Sofia Coppola in an old-fashioned bar on Mulberry Street; it’s not too far from the very good Grotta Azzura (Blue Gritto) Restaurant also on Mulberry
Street. I was in that bar once with my girlfriend, who was working in that part of lower Manhattan. In fact, I
believe that same bar was also used as gangster Johnny Sac’s NYC headquarters on “The Sopranos.” You’d
often see Johnny Sac and Tony Soprano negotiating over their crooked construction site schemes in that tavern.

I like your idea that Barnabas would express a liking for classic Western films. Barnabas would probably pop over to Collinwood, when he knew that TCM was airing “High Noon” or “Rio Bravo.” Although, I think Barnabas might pass on, one of my personal favorites, “Billy the Kid Versus Dracula,” which the great John Carradine (as the Transylvanian count) said that B-the-K vs D, was THE worst film of his long and distinguished acting career.
 

Bob

I haven’t seen “1923” with Harrison Ford and Dame Helen Mirren yet. However, if “Yellowstone” is any indication, I suspect that appearing in “1923” is strictly a “money movie” for the venerable Dame Hellen and “Indiana” Jones. 

“Yellowstone” is sort of like a contemporary version of the renowned and beloved “Bonanza,” but without the
redeeming
characters. While Ben Cartwright was a sage and honorable man, John Dutton is an arrogant and callous individual. And, what can I say about John Dutton’s “lovely” daughter, Beth? She’s a particularly nasty and dipsomaniacal person, who makes DS’s own Judith Collins-Trask seem like Mother Theresa by comparison.    As to Beth’s “beloved” husband Rip Wheeler, he’s sort of new millennial, Neanderthal version of DS’s Adam. 

I’ll wait to comment on “1923” until I get a chance to see several episodes. I do hope that it’s much better than “Yellowstone,” a tv show that’s as kitschy as “Baywatch” and “Keeping Up With the Kardashians.”

Beam me up, Buffie Harrington! 

Happy Birthday, Anne! 

I understand that David Selby is absolutely delighted that it’s the birthday of his greatest fan! 

Bob

Yes, Annie, a very happy birthday to Mr. David Selby! 

The man looks so young; it’s incredible! (I guess he has his portrait securely locked up in a safe place.) 

Perhaps Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard, Bill O’Reilly’s longtime writing colleague, “borrowed” some ideas from Lara Parker’s excellent DS novel, “The Salem Branch,” for their own book on the infamous Salem witch trials? 

PS However, I don’t think Vicky Winters would care to read “Killing the Witches” for the obvious reasons. 

Quote from: Bob_the_Bartender on January 18, 2023, 11:46:08 PM

Do you remember when Mr. Jarrett (sp?), that local Collinsport mortician, came to Collinwood to speak with
Mrs. Stoddard and Barnabas about a supposed recent death at Collinwood

That scene was with Mrs. Johnson and Barnabas - Mrs. Stoddard was the one who was supposedly dead.    But hey, with so many mistaken deaths at Collinwood, it's so easy to get the deceaseds confused!! 

Oops! I thought it was Joan Bennett who was amused by Mr. Jarrett’s slip-up. Yes, now I do recall that it was the great Clarice Blackburn in that scene with Jonathan  Frid and the Collinsport undertaker. Sadly, Mr. Jarrett
never made a second appearance on the show. At least,  he appeared to be a decent man, not a self-righteous, stick-in-the-mud like Collinsport’s earlier mortician, Lamar Trask.

I wonder if Mr. Jarrett, along with the Eagle Hill Cemetery Caretaker, was an avid viewer of “Six Feet Under”? No doubt, Vito Corleone would have called Mr. Jarrett and Lamar Trask the same thing he called Amerigo 
Bonasera: a “corpse valet.” 

And, Anne

I think that Professor Stokes DID tutor Adam on reading and writing. The thing that was so remarkable was
that Adam started out reading the “Dick and Jane” books, we all read as young kids in kindergarten, but within
 two weeks, the big guy was reading “”The Complete Works of William Shakespeare.”

Of course, Adam had another tutor, the suave and urbane Nicholas Blair. Unfortunately, the things Nicholas
taught Adam to do, were how to lie, cheat, steal bully, threaten, etc.

One of the great, unanswered questions on DS, as to what DID happen to Adam after Professor Stokes sent
Adam to some private clinic (not Windcliff) to get some plastic surgery done? Alas, we never did find out. 



Bob