Thrilling Days of Yesteryear"Nostalgia isn't what it used to be." -- Peter DeVries(Untitled)- October 29, 2007 In five seconds, you will be re-directed to Thrilling Days of Yesteryear's new home... If not, click here...http://blogs.salon.com/0003139/2007/10/29.html#a1247 (Untitled)- October 29, 2007 What is to be will be, and what ain&146;t to be just might happen I headed out last night to the Bayou Café, a Savannah-River Street dive that I suppose could be called my hangout&133;if I spent more time in the joint&133;and my buddy &147;The Chief&148; mentioned to me that country music legend Porter Wagoner was apparently not long for this world. I was taken aback by this, particular because I had read an AP article (which I had bookmarked, and now appear to have lost)...http://blogs.salon.com/0003139/2007/10/29.html#a1246 (Untitled)- October 28, 2007 Corrupting the minds of America&146;s youth During my hiatus, my younger sister Debbie made a pilgrimage to Savannah, along with her husband and young daughter, for the expressed purpose of attending her twenty-year high school reunion. Mom made arrangements for Deb and my brother-in-law to stay at a Hampton Inn (we&146;re kind of starved for space here at Rancho Yesteryear&151;plus sister Kat and her roommate came down for the weekend as well) while making sure my niece stayed at..http://blogs.salon.com/0003139/2007/10/28.html#a1245 (Untitled)- October 28, 2007 &147;That big eight-wheeler, rollin&146; down the trackmeans your true-lovin&146; daddy ain&146;t comin&146; back&146;Cause I&146;m movin&146; onI&146;ll soon be gone&133;&148; &150; Hank Snow, I&146;m Movin&146; On (1950) Well, I&146;ve been absent from the blog for about two weeks now&151;and every time I have to issue a mea culpa I feel like the guy who went out for a quart of milk and didn&146;t return to his wife for two years. (My mother worked with a guy who actually did...http://blogs.salon.com/0003139/2007/10/28.html#a1244 (Untitled)- October 13, 2007 &147;The apes have taken over&133;while we were busy watching television and filling our freezers, they&146;ve come out of the jungle and moved in!&148; &150; Professor Sam Bastion (Frank Lovejoy), Shack Out on 101 (1955Allied Artists) Leonard Maltin describes the cult classic Shack Out on 101 (1955) in his Classic Movie Guide thusly: &147;Lee Marvin is Slob in this trash classic about the efforts of hash slinger Terry Moore to combat Communism while juggling the lecherous advances of...http://blogs.salon.com/0003139/2007/10/13.html#a1243 (Untitled)- October 12, 2007 Eat my dust He passed away on September 28, 2007 of this year, but my Bombast Comcast.net home page is just now getting the news that Charles B. Griffith, a writer-director-producer&133;and even sometime actor, has gone on to his rich reward. He was 77. Griffith will remain best-known for his authorship on the screenplay for Roger Corman&146;s The Little Shop of Horrors (1960), a.k.a. The Film Shot in Two Days (though this isn&146;t technically true); a cult favorite about a.http://blogs.salon.com/0003139/2007/10/12.html#a1242 (Untitled)- October 12, 2007 Webb of suspicion In Appointment with Danger (1951), diminutive movie tough guy Alan Ladd plays Al Goddard, a postal detective who&146;s investigating the murder of a colleague named Gruber&151;and in the course of his examination finds that the only witness to the crime is a saintly nun in the form of Sister Augustine, played by Phyllis Calvert. Sister Augustine singles out a suspect from a mug book, but his &147;friends&148; manage to croak him before Goddard can get to...http://blogs.salon.com/0003139/2007/10/12.html#a1241 (Untitled)- October 11, 2007 &147;If you make a movie that a lot of people want to see&151;no rating will hurt you. If you make a movie that few people want to see&151;no rating will help you. Ratings have nothing to do with box office.&148; &150; Jack &147;Boom Boom&148; Valenti, former head of the Motion Picture Association of America (1966-2004) He doesn&146;t wear a silk hat nor twirl a moustache, but for all intents and purposes Jack Valenti is the villain in This Film is Not Yet Rated (2006), a...http://blogs.salon.com/0003139/2007/10/11.html#a1240 (Untitled)- October 11, 2007 Tell them Boris sent you So the &145;rents and I are dining on some fried chicken purchased from Publix for lunch this afternoon, and my Mother makes mention of the fact that she and Dad went to the National Guard Armory today to get flu shots. &147;They have a drive-thru, you know,&148; she informs me. Slight pause from me. &147;You mean&133;you drive up, stick your arm out and&133;&148; &147;That&146;s how they do it now,&148; she reaffirms. &147;Good..http://blogs.salon.com/0003139/2007/10/10.html#a1239 (Untitled)- October 9, 2007 &147;When you live outside the law you have to eliminate dishonesty&133;&148; &150; Julian (Robert Keith), The Lineup (1958Columbia) One of my earliest posts here at Thrilling Days of Yesteryear was an essay on The Lineup, a CBS radio series that premiered on July 6, 1950 as an imitator of the then-popular police procedural Dragnet and lasted on the air until February 20, 1953. Scripted by future film director Blake Edwards (who also created Richard Diamond, Private Detective for...http://blogs.salon.com/0003139/2007/10/09.html#a1238 |