Yeh, but the funniest thing was that Donald Sutherland kept mispronouncing "Moriarty" as "Moriaritty"... "Always with the negative waves, Moriaritty! Always with the negative waves!”
As a 23 year old man, the way they talk about old sports documentaries and obscure 70's sitcoms is the way I'll be talking about chicken run and the bridge to teribithia in my 40's.
I'm just amazed that any heterosexual man over the age of 20 hasn't seen Kelly's Heroes. It's a total guy flick...like not watching the original Longest Yard.
Yes, I love him, too, but he did have a last name. He was called Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez. Eli Wallach who played him had a great and long career.
Also gotta love how the producers of Family Ties chose to torture OCD sufferers for decades by having the ONE red brush-stroke on the family portrait purposely color outside of the lines, when it could easily color within. More proof that prior to the invention of the Internet, trolls had to work much harder for their craft.
Hitchcock was one of the rare exceptions in Hollywood. Outside of his tenure with Selznick, he was one of the first auteurs in town because his material derived from him, he bought the rights to a book often out of his own pocket in order to build a plot, and he controlled the editing, notoriously in that he planned every shot in advance and left practically nothing on the editing room floor.
Forget the names fictional characters are given, what about the names real-life people are named? Harry Bolz comes to mind. And yes, he's a real person.
The character name Boner from "Growing Pains" always made me giggle. Then there was this chick named Dudu in "A Shot In The Dark", my favorite Peter Sellers movie.
It kills me how Burr is perfectly happy to just bullshit the historical 'facts' he offers. Talking about old Hollywood without the slightest clue what he's talking about.
One thing about Kelly's Heros though. You have to give a nod to the technical accuracy. I mean, it was at heart an action comedy, but the makers bothered to use period correct weapons, real Sherman tanks, tanks that at least were made to look like Tigers? (Nobody attempted that Tiger thing again until Saving Private Ryan.)
Gopher became a Congressman from Iowa. When I worked on Capitol Hill, there was an urban myth that he had an intern fired when he said “Lido deck” to him in an elevator.
David Lander aka Squiggy became a baseball scout for the Angels & Mariners. He was also the play-by-play announcer of the Rockford Peaches in "A League of Their Own"
How do they not know that Squiggy's name was Leonard Squigmont? How do they not know that Squiggy's actor played the lead weasel in Roger Rabbit, and stopped acting because of his MS? UNINFORMED!!!
Fonzy is done? Someone has never watched TV in the last 40 years if they think Henry Winkler is done. Aside from his acting roles, his producer roles have made him MILLIONS.
I don't know about anyone else, but Henry Winkler has been doing fine post Happy Days. He was the cocreater and prime executive producer of MacGyver, both original and the renewed series.
That B&W MGM studios clip has me thinking what a trip it'd be to be an actor back then. You walk into MGM just in time to see Louie B. Mayer telling Joan Crawford to GFHS! Lol. Interesting times indeed.
I think Joe D'Rosa is one of the few guys that can put up with the BS from Burr. Bill is hilarious , he suffers little for fools and drills to he core of the subject.
Henry Winkler has done the same, heck, he won an Emmy a few years ago. I love Bill's commentary on stuff because it's like he's the human version of the game Telephone.
Love that he put in that clip from Stay Tuned. Underrated movie with a great premise, but still pretty bad in places. Don't watch it if you don't want to see Jeffrey Jones, though he's playing a demon, so it's fitting, at least.
Squiggy's name is actually Andrew Squigman, so his nickname is just a shortened version of his last name. In one episode, Squiggy gets an annoying girlfriend who calls him "Andy". What a great damn show.
I just watched an interview with Penny Marshal on an early Letterman. Must have been like 1985 or somethin. Tight jeans, sweatshirt, she was a babe. Plain talker too, never put on heirs. Honest. Brooklyn girl I think. Back when interviews were actually interviews. Stars had personalities. And the talk show host wasn’t some corporate political sell out like Kimmel or Colbert. Man I miss old America. We need to get her back.
