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Wayne Lake

Migratory birds are pretty good at predicating the weather, maybe even as good as Ol’ Beauregard. I saw more shore birds and water fowl this winter down at Aransas than usual, lots of Osprey or so called Sea Eagles which I love to hear and see, reportedly the only bird with a diet consisting only of fish. A few years ago when we had an ‘Al Gore’ type warm winter, a few of the Whooping Cranes stuck it out in Kansas as they must have realized that they did not need to fly to Texas as usual – I’ll bet they are all down here this year.

Below is a Bald Eagle near my house in League City at Clear Lake. I guess he/she thought it best to winter in the Lone Star state this year as we don’t typically see many here.

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Teddie Jordan

Wayne, were the osprey the only ones that caught any fish down at Aransas this past week?

Robert Derrick

Pat,

I remember Canoe, but cant remember if it improved my luck or not. Okay beau, enough on cologne. But one last thought. You did get me to looking thru my medicine cabinet. I found a 1/2 bottle of Brut. Opened it and still smelled pretty good. I guess it is just like good whiskey. Huh? (note, no I did not taste it) (but I might move it to the liqour cabinet as a backup). Thanks for the link Tommy.

Kay Watters '65 (Greene)

I have kept a box of Maja, two soaps and a small bottle of cologne all these years, hoping it would be worth something.  It does still smell aromic when you take the box top off.  Does anyone remember this? I must admit it holds romantic memories for me.

Beau Wann, Jr.

     Robert, I still use BRUT, and OLD SPICE...well, not at the same time...Kay, MAJA doesnt sound familiar.

The boid on the wire is the kingfisher...the other?  A yellow breasted tweedle tworp hoochekooche..best guess..

one of three ospreys on the left and some kind of hawk on the right. Not a redtail, maybe a coopers hawk

"no really, why'd you call me over here?"                         Kids and dogs, ya gotta love em!

Olivers passing,  It's like I've lost my best friend, or a brother...
A king in a previous life...an eagle...magnificent no matter which...

Wayne Lake

Tommie Holder, welcome to the fray, we’ve got several from the Sherwood/Brookwoods hood, Sandy Schlesinger, Sweetie Marbury, Paige the Pirate, Wayne Buddy Mitchell, Suzie Jones shows up some times, J.B. Belflower.    Oregon is beautiful when the sun shines, we went to Crater Lake a few years ago, what a sight and then up around the Columbia River and Mt. Hood, spectacular.   

Teddie, just about skunked with mostly dink trout, no red fish but did manage a nice founder that I’ll eat tomorrow.  Man the water was low, had the jack plate all the way up, tilt out and throttle to the max and still barely made it around without going aground.

When you are as purty as me, all you need is Old Spice from Walmart……………..

wtl

Teddie Jordan

Hey Robert, you've got to be kidding. If you had gotten lucky with Canoe you would not only have remembered it, but you would be drowning yourself in the stuff to this day!

Jackie Crowe (Finch)

I just posted Fuddrucker pictures - look under Fuddrucker/Houston tab - 2014 tab.  Had a wonderful time with everyone!

Have a great weekend!

Hugs,

J

Wayne Lake

I just got off the phone with a friend living in Northern Minnesota, near the Canadian border.  

He said that since early this morning the snow has been nearly waist high and is still falling.  

The temperature is dropping way below zero and the North wind is increasing to near gale force.  

His wife has done nothing but look through the kitchen window and just stare.  

He says that if it gets much worse, he may have to let her in...............

From League City,

wtl

Lloyd Pond

Small world isn't it? 

Went to see my grand daughter in a play yesterday. As we waited in line for the doors to open,a voice from behind us says,"Lloyd and Ferrell?" We turn around and there is Gloria Hornick! she and her hubby Daryl had come up from

Katy to see their grand son. The play was Willy Wonka. Gloria's g-son was Charlie and he is super talented. Our g-daughter was Violet Beauregard and she did a great job as well.

Lloyd Pond

Bird man Beau, I think the small tweedledorp is a member of the Shrike family. They grab a grasshopper and stick the unlucky bug on a thorn or something sharp and then come back for dinner later.

it was a cold February night and I got a call for Johnny Rolater. At that time, JR was still up in Montana wrangling horses and taking city folks out to shoot elk. I complained about the cold. JR sezs that the temp in Montana was at least 40 below zero. He said that when you drove, your feet might stick to the gas pedal. I think he is back in Texas now. Hope so anyway.

Tommy Holder???? I will give you a call when I am in Portland, I think it will be November

Pat Brantley (Ross)

Have any of played twenty questions recently?  You know - where would you like to live?  What's your favorite hobby?  Favorite music,  I think we might get some members to jump in and surprise us.  You don't have to list one favorite tv show or band.  Just get us started.

Teddie Jordan

OK Pat, I'll bite. I was just thinking the other day about my favorite times of the day, when I am in Houston, which is most of the time.

My first is the early mornings, I'm a pretty early riser, before the sun comes up, with a pot of coffee, sitting at the bar with the just thrown Houston Chronicle, Gus asleep on his bed nearby, a fire in the fireplace, and the quiet of the day when everything seems both possible and simple.

My second is our mid day meal, which is sometimes mid afternoon, with Fran. Oftentimes we run errands and go in different directions in the mornings, but try to get back together for lunch.

My third is cocktail hour, somewhere between 5:00 PM New York time and 5:00 PM Houston time.

And bedtime cuddling with my honey, especially on these cold nights, and thanking the Good Lord for His blessings, thanking Him for watching over my family and friends, asking for His forgiveness, and asking for His special blessings on those who need a boost, or a miracle.

And what time is it now? Well I'll be DADGUM, I'm whistle bit, it's 5 O'clock in New York City!

See ya.

Lloyd Pond

Watched "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence" last night. Great cast and a good movie. Loved those black and white movies. I guess my favorite was " The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"

"some like it hot" was pretty funny, especially the last line when Jack Lemon tells Joe E Brownthat he can't marry him because he is not a girl but a man. Brown smiles and says, "Nobody's Perfect"

 Now a days with all the new movies, animated, 3D and what have you, I find very few I want to go see. Tried to talk Ferrell into going to see Inside Llewelyn Davis, a movie about folk music, and she said, "let go of the past"

So next forum member, please contribute to the favorite movie list

Patty Payne (Nami)

Guess Who's Coming To Dinner...Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy at their best. No one but Sidney Poitier could have pulled that off all those years ago. 

Pat Brantley (Ross)

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movies.  After that all the old musicals.  My kids grew up watching them and now my grand kids know all the words.  My son in law got a list of movies that he had to watch while dating Amy.  He thought we were nuts, but he loves them now.  Treasure of the Sierra madre was a wonderful story.  Don't know if I have one all time favorite musical group, but if I could only have one it would be queen.  I like musicians who can make me laugh, cry, think and love.  Opera always brings out those emotions in me.  Italian opera.  Not a big German opera fan.

Beau Wann, Jr.

      Oh man, there are so many...can I list more than one?  Probably ONE OF my all time favorites is
Dr. Strangelove...also Mrs. Miniver...Stagecoach, the original with John Wayne...Like Lloyd, I love the old black and white movies...oh yeah, among the best alltime westerns, is Tin Star with Anthony Perkins, Henry Fonda, Nevile Brand...also another great one is Gunfighter with Gregory Peck...that one is just one of the best of all time...

     High Noon is good also...just about anything with Gary Cooper...
12 Angry Men, the original with Henry Fonda, and a who's who of character actors.  Lee J Cobb was in that one, and should have gotten an academy award . That was the only film that Henry Fonda produced.  And The Man That Shot Liberty Valance as Lloyd mentioned.  Another who's who in character actors, and some to go on to be leading stars like Lee Marvin. He was in a lot TV shows, like Twilight Zone...Strother Martin, Liberty Valances sidekick also went on to co-star in lots of movies and tv shows. One movie that made him immortal or the line he says, immortal..."whut we have heah, is failya to communicate"...most folks misquote it by adding an "a" to "failya to communicate" ...

     Film list wouldnt be complete with out Casablanca...another immortal actor and charactor and immortal line..."play it again sam"...There are so many...OH I just bemembered "You Can't Take It With You" with James Stewart, and another who's who in character actors...Dub Taylor was in it, and he had hair, and played the Xilaphone (sp for the life of me, I cant remember how to spell it. cant even visualize it and my dictionarys are all packed up .  Almost anything with Jimmy Stewart...Art Carney another good guy!  I know I'm leaving out a zillion movies and actors and actresses. 

     Oh, this was twenty questions wasnt it! Hmmm, well leave it to me to mess it up...actually I never played twenty questions in my youte...did play "I met a man going to St Ives" and mumbly peg...and marbles...remember, I was the, " does not play well with others, and runs with sissors"  boxes has been checked in my permanent history file.

Oh, just thought of another movie, the original Goodbye Mister Chips...Robert Donat just great! And great TV shows, Twilight Zone...the black and white Andy Griffith Show with Don Knots...
Ok, I'll leave it alone for now...

    Love coffee and watching the sun come up...sitting on the swing with Jack my dog, and up till last week, Big Oliver...He loved the swing...as much as it hurts me, I love cold weather...well, really when the season changes from summer to winter...dont like spring so much anymore because it generally ushers in tornados and causes a lot of grief and pain and suffering...Love to hear the mockingbirds sing...love to look at cardinals and listen to their exotic calls, and now bald eagles and any raptor...and any bird I've never seen before...

    Love the mountains, and rainy foggy forests...Oh yeah, cats and dogs...Old diners...in fact, had breakfast in one this morning in Chappell Hill established in 1939...amazingly enough called "Chappell Hill Cafe"...would love to see Woolworths come back, like it was in the 50s and have one of their Hoagies for .29 cents and smell the coffee and hotdog smells mingling together. Oh, here's a good one, the old Union Station downtown and riding the silver eagle...hearing "ALL ABOARD" from the conductor...

  The downtown Foleys in the 50s and early 60s...Princes and Pigstand driveins on Shepherd...
The 50's Sears on Shepherd with all the many smells of candy and cashews and popcorn, and the gun dept and saddle dept and boats and music dept with guitars...thats where I first learned how to play the guitar...first song I learned was Ghostriders In The Sky...I would pick up a guitar and start playing, and the meany that worked in that dept, would run over and take the guitar away from me and shoo me away...

     Did youse youtes know that Sears sold houses? Yup they did! Speaking of old diners, when we went to Sam Houston State, there was an old dining car in the side of the hill leading away from Old Main, almost to the main highway through Huntsville...great food there...Loved the boarding house where we ate two meals a day, all you could eat, for 30 dollars amonth...the ladies name was Vy!
Loved working at Mangum Supervalu, and everyone there...we were like a family...

    Love old pool halls...dont think there are anymore pool halls....love the smell of bread baking, well duh, who doesnt...love 55, 56 and 57 Chevy...62 corvette or, 58 to 62 corvette...had an 85, and wouldnt have another one unless it was a 58 to 62 maybe a 63 or 65...of course everyone knows all those cars in the 50s were classics...

     Wouldnt mind having my youte back, but would not like to go back over everything I went through, unless I could change some things...love to smell all the food cooking in my grandmothers house again...running barefoot down the dirt road that ran in front of her house...play in the ditch in front of her house and catch crawdads and turtles and minnows...

    Love to have the commraderie we had back in High School and College, and in the service...have never been as close to anyone since then...Well, except my beloved, and cats and dogs...

    Love to catch that first fish again...ride my horse one more time...smell the leather in my saddle and my baseball glove...I could go on and on....and did too didnt I...

   Did I miss anything? Ok, see ya in the funny papers...

Beau Wann, Jr.

     It's me again Margaret! Couldnt go to sleep last night, thinking of the things that I have loved in the past. Now this morning, cant remember them again! One movie that I saw that really touched me was Song Of Burnadette, with Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotton. Before that movie, I had never heard of Lourde France, or of the saint that Jennifer Jones played.   Ms Jones was very good and believable in that movie. Unfortunately, she typecast herself, and played almost the exact same charater in all her movies.

     Hey Pat, I USE to love musicals, and dont really remember when I stopped liking them. I saw the Student Prince with Mario Lanza, at the Garden Oaks theater, and really liked it. Even after the movie, went home and danced around the backyard on DuBarry, trying to sing like Mario and holding an imaginary stein of ale, but dont tell anyone lest it tarnish my manish image.     I have a lot of Mario Lanzas  recordings, even the one from the movie. "Drink, Drink, Drink to the da da da da da" couldnt remember the woids back then either.

    I learned to spell O K L A H O M A from the musical. The way my mind worked, worked? Still works, was that they would have other musicals that would sing and spell the hard words on the spelling tests, like necessary and sincere, you know everyday woids like antidisestablishmentarianism...well it woulda heped a dingy kid like me any hooooo. Couldnt you just see Mrs Simpson singing the spelling test out for us...no disrespect intended...of course she wouldnt spell them for us on the test, well duh, but she could sing them out and spell them when we practiced, and then just sing them out on the test...what a great mind I am! ! ! A regular Stephen Hawking! ! !

   Ok, gotta go load up my beloveds car and warm it up for her...

     Finally found a suitable place for the boid feeder...funny, they didnt visit it when it was hanging up. Now that it is on the table, evey boidy from 97 counties has occupodoed our back yard . Well, all cept the eagle..."and the eagle flys with the dove...and if you cant be with the one you love, honey, love the one your with..." Sorry, got carried away. If I think of a certain woid, then my mind conjures up all kinds of memories.

Ok, got my beloved off for the day, now it's sitting around eating bon bons and watching my soaps and.....yeah right. Got two loads of wash to do, the dishes to do, already made the bed and fixed breakfast, drove Dianes car around till the heater started warming up. No sir, wouldnt do for my beloved to get cold!    

      I almost have house work down to a science, but then again, I was never any good in science, At least I have some of it figured out. Dont let the wash pile up...do a load everyday, and then you wont have to do 3 or 4 at a time like I've been doing up until today.  MAN...thy name is...PROCRASTINATOR....Well it could be woise, like LATE FOR DINNER! ! !

    Back to musicals, MUSIC MAN... with Robert Preston, was probably one of my favorites.  I guess I started to dislike them when South Pacific came out. It was boring. And couldnt relate to the songs, having never been to the south pacific back in them days or been a sailor. OLittle did I know eh what! But I think the one that really turned me against musicals was West Side Story. I loved the song Maria, but when guys were a fixin to have a knife fight, then break out in song and a coregraphed dance, come on man, thats just not natural.  I mean, it wasnt as believable as say War of the Whirlds, the first one, or Frankenstein, now that's real stuff...right?

     Ok, Mr Procrastinator signing off.

Post Script: Hey pat, I liked and still like the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movies. Now there were two of the all time best dancers in the whirld. No one realizes that Ginger Rogers was a better dancer...she had to be, because she had to do everything backwards that Fred Astaire was doing. Think about it. next time you watch one of these movies, watch her dance...

     One of my all time favorites was, I think, Holiday Inn, where he does the dance and throws down exploding fireworks as he tapped danced. Oh, and the one where he dances with the hat rack, or was it a mop? Anyway, he does one where the room turns around and he goes from the floor to the walls to the ceiling and back again.

     TCM showed how that was done! they built a room on some rolling stock and just rolled it over whilst he danced. I tried the dance move where he jumps up on a chair, and then with one foot on the seat and one on the back rest, he pushes the chair down on it's back and keeps on dancing...must a been trick photography, cause All I got from it was a sprained ankle and wrist after attempting it 25 times.  I thought, he can do it, and it looks so easy, so I should be able to do it...Good think he wasnt a brain surgeon, or I woulda have to have tried it too...probably on myself...

I believe I signed off a paragraph or three back didnt I...

Susan Howard (Bowman)

Reading all of your twenty questions responses is wonderful!  What an insightful exercise!  In my childhood my dad and I would watch the Sunday matinee movies on TV - usually a Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers movie, or sometimes Gene Kelley.  Think I had a crush on Fred Astaire when I was a kid!  I guess those times got me hooked on musicals because I still love them!  "West Side Story" would rank high on my list of favorites.  I also loved "Gone With the Wind" (of course, not a musical) - don't know how many times I sat through that - "Oh, Rhett!".

Rock n' Roll is still my music of choice.  I do like a lot of classical music, too, and some opera.  I love the old composers like Mozart, Bach, Beethoven and Verdi.  I don't care for German opera either.  Never got into hard rock. I really enjoy listening to Michael Buble' - to me he is a combination of Frank Sinatra and Bobby Darren.  I am also beginning to like some country music.

Early morning is my favorite time of the day, too, although I don't get up as early as you do Teddy and Beau.  It is so quiet and peaceful!  I love to sit on the porch in my rocker, with my cat in my lap (if he'll come) and listen to the birds. The deck at our cabin in Colorado is a wonderful place to do that, as well as here.  I guess I also love the end of the day around dusk - there are usually several deer in our yard about that time and I never get tired of watching them.  We have deer here in Sun City as well as at the cabin.

I love to hear a child's laugh.  I mean a good ole' belly laugh!  That is music to my ears!  Also love to laugh and be with my friends - it gives me "happy" fuel for my life!

As far as where I would want to live - I'm here!  This is where I've wanted to be for a very long time.  How blessed am I to be back home!

Robert Derrick

Kay and I have made "It's a Wonderful Life" a Christmas tradition for years. Black and white only.And only at Christmas. And itstill tears up both of us.  And we enjoy our happy hour from 5:00 EST to 6:00 Pacific.

James Hilsher '65

I cannot believe nobody mentioned  THE AFRICAN QUEEN.

Beau Wann, Jr.

     "AFRICAN QUEEN, AFRICAN QUEEN, AFRICAN QUEEN...ok, it has been mentioned...When that one came out in 1951 methinks, it was way yonder too grown up for me.  I have never watched the whole movie, just bits and pieces. But it is a great classic for sure...CITIZENS ARAYUST, CITIZENS ARAYUST, CITIZENS ARAYUST...

    THUNDER ROAD with Robert Mitchum and Keely Smith, and Mitchums son was in that one too. I liked it way back then, but now, it's just a tad dated. Remembe he had a 51 ford in the beginning, and was being chased by them infernal revenooers! He was going pretty fast and the Gmen were closing in, and he pulls on his emergency brake, and rolls the car over and it turns back in the direction he came, and the Gmen roared on by and he escaped. I always wanted to try that manuever in my 51 ford, but that stunt ranked right up there with letting the air out of my tires and riding on the railroad tracks playing chicken with the silver eagle...TEDDIE! ! !

   How about the BLOB? Steve McQueens first, and Sheriff Taylor from Mayberrys main squeeze was also in it. Keep those CO2 far distinguishers handy...onliest thing to stop the blob...THE THING...now there was a classic...a monster carrot shaped like James Arness...you remember that when they cut off the monsters hand, it grew and the monster grew another hand...just like a carrot...

    THEM, was scary...big ol giant nucular pawred aints...sawr that one at the hallowed Garden Oaks...liked to scared me to death with all them giant aints crawling about.  I had some popcorn, and some candy bars and a coke. I generally saved my candy bars to eat on the bus ride home, but since them big ol meany aints was attracted to sugar, I ate em up so's the aints couldnt get em, and me too.

    THA WIZARD OF OZ...I have never seen that one all the way through. Sawr the Disney animated version, and that mean ol queen of hearts scared me..."OFF WITH THEIR HEADS..." she said. That was enough of that...I've also never watched GWTW (Gone With The Wind) all the way through...just bits and pieces..."frankly my dear, I dont give a damn"..."ohrayutt".

   How about "The Invisible Man"?  That ol boy was warped. if I had been invisible, I'd a been down to the womens bathing suit store and hid in the dressing room!  Of course back then, the ladies were fully dressed underneath their swimsuits...ok, then down to the candy store and make some O them bon bons disappear. If you ate something, and you were invisible, wouldnt the food you ate show up in mid air? Ah dont recollect that everything he touched was also invisible!

    THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN...now that one was scary, especially his fight with the tarantula, and all he had was a sewing needle. What would cause a person to shrink like that. That one was a real puzzler it was. Oh sure, he drove his boat through a fog, but what kind of fog? Hope we dont have that around here. I'm short enough. Been waiting on that growth spurt I was suppose to be getting around 12 or 13 or 20 or 30...

    I guess I'm kind of a freak and/or strange duck about things like movies. A lot of the really big blockbuster productions never really appealed to me. I saw the first Star Wars, and it was ok, but never saw it again, nor any of the sequels. I liked Raiders of The Lost Ark, and only out of boredom watched the sequels.

   Saw PATTON at the Alabama theater methinks, and I loved it. Saw Tora Tora Tora at the theaters on Richmond at 610, cant recall the name, but what a stinker of a movie, AND I WAS IN IT! ! !
When they came to Hawaii to film it, I just happened to be there, and they put out a casting call for extras, so I took some leave time and signed up. Got paid 30 dollars a day! They took out 85 cents for lunch, which consisted of steak and potatoes and whatever else. Of course back then I was a steak and potato man, now it's more like soup and crackers... man.

     They also paid 55 dollars for each stunt you did, like being blown out of a sand bag fox hole via a spring board, or jumpning off a burning ship...30 DOLLARS A DAY AND 55 DOLLARS FOR STUNTS???? ARE YOU KIDDING ME? I told em I'd jump off the top of the ILIKAI HOTEL in a bucket of crap for 55 dollars, and the ILIKAI HOTEL was about 9 or 10 stories. After working that movie, makin all that money, I was a right popular fellow. I have seen that dog movie a zillion times, and have only found a couple of spots where I might have been in it.

    This was the 2nd unit, and talking to the director right before I left, he said they had 400 hours on film, just in Hawaii, and had to add the Hollywood back lot and sound stage footage to that, and then had to pare it down to about 3 hours...NO WAY MAN! ! ! They told us John Wayne was gonna be in it...I guess he saw the footage with me in it, and said NO WAY MAN, I aint gonna put my career on the line against that dude ! (me)...so they got some character actors to play the lead parts...and I'm not even a footnote in history in that film.

    Saw SAVING PRIVATE RYAN on the big screen, and it was a white knuckler for me. I kept dodgin the bullet sounds and wincing at the explosions. Expertly made movie. Well, I guess thats why they make movies and I dont. Also saw DANCES WITH WOLVES on the big screen. I walked out when they shot his wolf friend. I dont want to see that kind of violence. I know they didnt actually shoot that wolf, or at least I hope they didnt, but from my angle, it looked like the bullet broke its back. I heard later they shot his horse Chico. I have never seen the ending to that movie, but did read the book, and dont remember if it happened in the book. I just really dont want to see any animal abused period, unless it is self defense.

    Here's one I'll bet everyone on earth saw...LOVE STORY... We saw that at the Alabama theater. Dolly and I went with Tommy Warren and his wife Rose. Had to stand in line to buy the tickets, and then wait for the theater to let out and stand in line to get in. About a 3 hour wait. Back then it was ok, cause we were with friends and had a lot of yakin to do. Now, I wouldnt stand in line to see, me, or anything.  I read that book also. More in line of a short story. "Love means never having to say your sorry"...now that's a load of commie crap...  

    Pat mentioned musicals, and I liked em when I was preteen and early teen, but not so after that. I do however like the big band musicals, like ORCHESTRA WIVES, THE FABULOUS DORSEYS, THE GLENN MILLER STORY...man, who wouldnt like that one...the immortal Jimmy Stewart and June Allyson were in that one. 

    How about Little Shop Around The Corner? that was a classic. All the THIN MAN movies were and are still great. I happen to have all 6, and watch them at least once or twice a year.   

    There really were a lot of GREAT movies over the course of the last 100 years, and I doubt anyone has seen them all.  I got my doctorate in movie watching...yall are soooo lucky! ! !

Wayne Lake

I’m thinkin’ Key Largo cause I always liked islands and Bogart, Edger G. Robinson and of course Lauren Bacall his boat was great (I love cool boats). The Great Escape cause I liked a lot of the characters in it, especially Steve McQueen - jumpin' that german bike over the fence, speaking of him, Bullet with the best car chase ever in the movies. But the best movie for me may have been Hombre with ol’ Blue Eyes his self with one of my favorite lines ever from the Mexican Bandit: Hey Hombre, chu put a hole in me! You’re a preeety good shot!  Sierra Madre, great line: ‘Badges? We don’t need no stinkin’ badges! How about Old Yeller - still makes me cry.

Hey Lloyd, I wanted to see that Llewen Davis movie too after watchin' the making of it on PBS over the holidays but din't make it either.   

Finally bought a house down in Aransas OnThe Water! Now we’ve got way too many houses and really need to sell something, anybody want a condo in Minnesota or a nice place with 45 slip on Clear Lake? Didn’t think so,  .   

Stay Warm my friends,

wtl

Teddie Jordan

On movies, I don't watch that many. But through the years my all time favorite is Lonesome Dove, which of course was made for TV and runs about 4 hours, Robert Duvall and Tommie Lee Jones were perfectly cast. I also like the Alamo with John Wayne, and Open Range, with Duvall and Costner. I also like Grumpy Old Men with Jack Lemon, Walter Mathau and Burgess Meredith, Forrest Gump, Rain Man with Dustin Hoffman, the original Vacation with Chevy Chase, and a few more light hearted comedies like those.

So as you can see I either like old western shoot'em ups or silly comedies!

Wayne, congratulations on pulling the trigger on a place in Aransas. You will definitely enjoy it, and will benefit from having a home base down there. It's also safe to say that with another place to maintain you will benefit from staying more active, and not wasting so much time watching old movies and relaxing.

Beau Wann, Jr.

     Man, fine movies all. I'd forgotten about Key Largo...Bogie had a great string of movies, as did Betty Joan Perske aka Lauren Bacall...her first movie was with bogie in TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT,  and it was reported that Bogie immediately fell in love with Lauren, (well duh, who wouldnt)  and I guess she returned the feelings. She was just 19 years old, and bogie was 45.  Howard Hawks saw Lauren on the cover of Harpers Bazaar, (she had sought a career in modeling,) and immediately gave her a screen test and off she went.  Imagine being 19, and your first movie is with Humphrey Deforest Bogart, and youre a smash hit too.

     Bogies sidekick in TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT,  was Walter Brennan, whom I thought was in Key Largo, but wasnt.  Then I thought Bogart was in a movie of the name HURRICANE, but that wasnt the case. There was a hurricane, but it was in Key Largo.   Also George Raft turned down the lead in Key Largo, and High Sierra, and Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, Big Sleep,  WoW! All big hits too.

      Edward G. Robinson was suppose to have the lead in TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT, but one of the costars Leslie Howard I think, pitched a fit and said if Bogie didnt get the part, he would quit. His reasoning was that Bogie played the part in the stage production. I wonder how Edward G. Robinson felt about that? He later to star in Key Largo with bogie, the man that stole his part! ! !

    During the pinko commie scare in hollywood, and the inquisition hearings by Mcarthy, Bogie and Lauren was almost blacklisted because they wouldnt give up anyone. Finally they distanced themselves from it by Bogie starting his own production company, and produced TREASURE OF SIERRA MADRE.

   John Huston wrote the screenplay, and directed it. His father Walter Huston was one of the stars.
lots of uncredited actors and actresses in most all movies, some to go on to greater fame.
Robert Blake was in the above as well as Jack Holt, Tim Holts dad, Ann Sherridan, and Jay Silverheels (tonto)  and John Huston even did a cameo. 

    I looked up the biography of the Mexican bandit in Hombre, and his name was Frank Silvera. He was born in Jamaica, and was black, but played every race in whichever movie it called for.  I have always been interested in the unsung heros in movies and other venues, so I made it a point to find out about such folks. I thought Franks part, was stellar and deserved if not best supporting actor, at least honorable mention.  Sadly he died at age 55 , electrocuted while working on something at home.  Ok, I aint gonna touch nothing electrified, at least not woik on it.

    Speaking of uncredited actors and actresses, in Bullitt, there was a zillion, among them names like, Barbara Bosson, of Hill Street Blues fame, (her husband also produced it); Joanna Cassidy, Julie Christy, Suzanne Sommers. Also Vic Tayback (mel in alices restaurant) and Robert Duvall were also in Bullitt but were listed in the credits. Vic Tayback was a prolific director. he directed just about every TV show there was. Speaking of MELS DINER,  There is a Mels Diner in Tomball, and I swear, you will ask the waitress  if your grandmother is cooking in the kitchen!

    I like the John Wayne production of the Alamo, and wish I had the money to buy the Alamo set he had built. I think it went for 1.5 mill. Well no matter. Have yall seen the latest Alamo with Billy Bob Thornton?  OUTSTANDING!!!  Especially the part where he plays the violin on one of the walls of the Alamo in response to what Santa Annas band was playing. The line he spoke afterwards, I wish I could remember what it was, but it was something like, "sometimes all it takes is harmony" . Gonna have to watch that one again. Billy Bob Thornton is such a great actor and writer and director.

    Remember SLING BLADE?  wow...He wrote that and starred in it!

Lonesome Dove, Open Range and the one Duval did with Thomas Haden Church and the chinese girls they rescued...what was the name of that one...oh well, it will come to me about 3 am! Those all great TV movies. I liked all the characters in the aforementioned, except the bad guys.

   If I was a zillionaire, I would open uip a theater, and show all the old movies. and you could only get in if you were a grandparent, or was with one, or old enough to be a grandparent.

   Maybe I'll get me one of them newfangled big screen TVs maybe a 70 incher, and all that would want to come up to the hill, provided it is complete and we can actually move in, we can have a movie night or day on the weekend sometimes. Pop popcorn and candy bars and stuff.

    I would not want to be a boidy today. Took the trash and recycle cans to the curb, and just about froze to death. Had to chip the ice off the lids so they would open. News paper was froze somewhat!

   My beloved gets to stay home today...YAAAAAA... HISD ice day...Ok, Coooper and Jack want something, becasuew;kdwoi cooper j;fklsjdf keeps bumpinnngnn his nose into my arm knockinglks;kdaf it off the keeey boa;;lkdsjerefd keyboardddd.  Happy warm trails to youse.

Congrats Wayne on your house on the water.  Maybe I can come down sometime and go fishing...as long as I dont have to get in a boat...Oh, and I will bring my own fish too...