IJBFC Chat - October 3, 2010
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[Brad
from Georgia] New Hampshire is at the peak, I heard on the weather
channel. What have you got against a pumpkin patch, Steve? And why hit it with
your nephew instead of a ball bat?
[KayLhota]
hi Laura
[ed]
hi LL
[Laura
Leff] Hi folks!
[Steve
-shimp-] Hi Laura
[Brad
from Georgia] Now LL will think I'm crazy....
[Laura
Leff] Brad - I was kind of thinking that
[Steve
-shimp-] It's a new discipline technique
[Laura
Leff] But that's not new
[Laura
Leff] Or maybe it's just the new music...Smashing Pumpkins
[Steve
-shimp-] Uncles get to try the -creative- parenting. No consequences.
[Laura
Leff] Kind of an early peak, isn't it?
[KayLhota]
not really, laura.
[Brad
from Georgia] Last time we took our kids to a punkin patch, our
son--then in high school--wandered off and started juggling a bunch of small
"pumpkins" (really gourds) and collecting money for his act. The
owners asked us to control him....
[Laura
Leff] I'm not kid-oriented. There are many kids I would have liked to
hit with a pumpkin.
[KayLhota]
northern New England peaks usually by the 1st week of October
[KayLhota]
and by Columbus Day weekend, Mass gets colorful
[ed]
at least the bugs are pretty much gone here
[Laura
Leff] Kay - Ah...I think of Boston as peaking around Columbus Day.
Which I know is only a week away, but a couple weeks into October.
[Laura
Leff] OK, then (in the words of Jack) I *was* right!
[Brad
from Georgia] Why don't the gals in New England sunbathe in the fall?
'Cause the leaves PEAK! Oh, Brad, you know how to bring a touch of color to the
show!
[KayLhota]
I would agree with you, Laura
[Steve
-shimp-] -rimshot-
[ed]
oooooh brad
[Laura
Leff] GROAN
[Steve
-shimp-] Brad's channeling Phil Harris
[KayLhota]
Good one, Brad
[Brad
from Georgia] I stole the joke from Phil.....
[KayLhota]
I should say so!
[Laura
Leff] What is it...the iceberg peaks and sees the salad dressing...
[KayLhota]
I could just hear his har hars in my head
[Brad
from Georgia] I've heard Phil tell the joke in three different
variants so far.
[ed]
LL ouch
[Laura
Leff] Cause it's too flippin' cold
[Laura
Leff] So...
[Brad
from Georgia] LL--Thanks to Vol. 2 I found out that Will Wright
played the Scots department-store clerk in tonight's episode.
[Laura
Leff] How's everyone doing tonight (wink to Steve)?
[ed]
fine i hope
[Laura
Leff] Brad - Will did a lot of things on the show! Very unsung.
[Steve
-shimp-] Doing well
[Brad
from Georgia] I've given my midterms already, so not too shabby.
Actual midterm will be next Friday.
[KayLhota]
I only got to hear the beginning.
[Laura
Leff] Steve is now helping me anchor the left coast.
[Laura
Leff] Kay - I heard about half.
[Brad
from Georgia] Will is one of those actors like Burt Mustin who never
seems to have been young...
[Brad
from Georgia] And he usually was a curmudgeon, as he was in a
recurring role on the Andy Griffith show.
[Laura
Leff] Brad - Funny you mention him, because Burt Mustin played Ed the
vault guard on some Benny TV shows
[KayLhota]
I tried to listen to it before the chat, and got sidelined by a phone call
[ed]
g SHOW 50 YEARS OLD TODAY
[ed]
ag*
[Laura
Leff] ?
[KayLhota]
I just tried to listen during the chat and my son turned up "The Simpsons"
on TV
[Steve
-shimp-] ed's choking!
[Laura
Leff] The Ag Show...as in Agriculture?
[Steve
-shimp-] heimlich maneuver, someone...!
[Brad
from Georgia] Yep. I remember Bert Mustin most strongly as the
fireman on "Leave it to Beaver" and in a bit part in "Cat Ballou."
[Laura
Leff] The show I used to hear in the morning in Indiana when I came
home from running the overnight shift on radio?
[ed]
i've been "type" cast
[Steve
-shimp-] for awhile TVLand had a bumper with a "Burt Mustin"
song... "Hey do you know Burt Mustin..."
[Steve
-shimp-] it was great
[KayLhota]
oh that's brilliant
[Steve
-shimp-] I wonder if it's on youtube.
[Laura
Leff] The Ag Show...the kind of thing that would run the frost-freeze
reports that inspired Anaheim, Azusa, and Cucamonga for George Balzer.
[Brad
from Georgia] Will Wright's another of those instantly recognizable
character actors whose name most people don't know.
[Laura
Leff] And he's even called "Mr. Wright" in the IRS men
episodes.
[Laura
Leff] Of course, Joe Kearns is also called "Mr. Kearns".
[Brad
from Georgia] Yep.
I thought he did a brilliant Scotsman.
[Laura
Leff] Jack liked really versatile actors like that
[Laura
Leff] Kind of the later incarnations of Blanche Stewart
[Brad
from Georgia] Such a great gag--Jack runs into someone who doesn't
despise or belittle him for his penurious ways, but welcomes and admires him for
that very quality!
[Laura
Leff] or Benny Rubin
[ed]
did burt mustin get started in acting late in life
[Brad
from Georgia] Yes, I think Burt was in his fifties or so when he
first started acting.
[Laura
Leff] I'll check it on IMDB...BRB
[Brad
from Georgia] He worked in radio (KDKA) first, but made his first
film at the age of 67 in 191.
[Laura
Leff] Born 1884, first IMDB credit is 1951
[Brad
from Georgia] oops. 1951.
[Steve
-shimp-] speaking of the ag show, there's one of those
"illiterate Phil" gags I love so much where he talks about Fred
Waring's five minute radio show and Jack says "that's FROST WARNING!"
[ed]
i know the british actor c.aubrey smith got started at age 48
[Laura
Leff] He plays a "deaf old man" on the Abbott and Costello
show in 1952
[KayLhota]
I can remember Elliott Lewis singing the frost warnings on an ep of Phil Harris
Alice Faye show
[Laura
Leff] I ought to look up Hillane Hill. She's also a prototypical
"little old lady" who appears on a lot of Benny shows.
[Brad
from Georgia] I liked the Abbott and Costello reference on tonight's
show, too, in the Rochester/Jack exchange ("I don't even know who's on
first!")
[Laura
Leff] Oh funny...Hellane Hill was also in Cat Ballou!
[KayLhota]
wow
[Laura
Leff] Born 1876, first credit is 1933.
[Laura
Leff] Hallene Hill...I'll get it right. Like Gisele MacKenzie and Bea
Benaderet
[Brad
from Georgia] LL--Yep. Burt Mustin asks Kid Sheleen "Hey, kid,
lend me a buck. You remember me, old...uh...." (wanders off). Hellane
greets him with "Hiya, honey, howabout a kiss?"
[Laura
Leff] Go figure! I haven't seen the movie.
[Brad
from Georgia] And I misspelled her, too!
[Laura
Leff] Her name is spelled a couple different ways in the Benny
credits anyway, so I've got an excuse.
[Brad
from Georgia] Same scene. Arthur Hunnicutt (one of my faves) plays
the bartender...Butch Cassidy.
[ed]
thet used to show cat ballou around on news years eve when i was a child
[Laura
Leff] Was Hans Conreid in Cat Ballou?
[Steve
-shimp-] the inevitable
[Brad
from Georgia] No, he kept his Hans off that one.
[ed]
ha ha
[ed]
ouchh
[Brad
from Georgia] Dobie Gillis, however, had a major role.
[ed]
dwayne hickman
[Laura
Leff] And Bob Denver?
[KayLhota]
hans was probably in a touring company of a play during "Cat Ballou"
[Laura
Leff] Indubitably
[Laura
Leff] I hate the editing on tonight's show. *sigh*
[Laura
Leff] Sounds almost like a Michelson hack job.
[Brad
from Georgia] Dwayne was the uncle. Michael Callan was the love
interest. Jane Fonda looked great riding away from the camera on a horse.
[Steve
-shimp-] Does a complete version not exist?
[Brad
from Georgia] LL--Yes, very ham-handed transitions between the disks.
[Laura
Leff] Brad - You ought to see Barbarella.
[Laura
Leff] Steve - It probably does, but it sounds like someone was badly
editing out the commercials and music for rights issues.
[Brad
from Georgia] I have seen Barbarella. Contrary to popular belief,
Jane Fonda is never seen completely nude in that movie. So I asked for my money
back.
[Laura
Leff] Charles Michaelson did a lot of that in the 80s, so that's why
I think of that first.
[Steve
-shimp-] I just saw a "Modernism" show in Denver and one of
the "Miss Modernism" contestants reenacted the opening credits from
Barbarella as her talent competition portion.
[Brad
from Georgia] I really hate when Dennis's songs are cut.
[Laura
Leff] Brad - Really? I could have sworn. Under the opening credits.
[KayLhota]
wow, and "Barbarella" was the kind of a movie that I wouldn't mind
never seeing again.
[Brad
from Georgia] LL--Looks like it, but when you slow it down and watch
frame by frame....
[KayLhota]
body stocking?
[Laura
Leff] Steve - Did she have to take the audience up in a nose-diving
plane to simulate the lack of gravity?
[Steve
-shimp-] No, she balanced on a table.
[Brad
from Georgia] Kay--Not so much as her poses and the animated titles
covering her as she spins.
[Laura
Leff] Kay - I'll second that emotion. I saw it last New Year's Eve
and said, "Now I never have to see it again."
[Steve
-shimp-] Aw, I like "Barbarella"
[Laura
Leff] A red-blooded American boy.
[Steve
-shimp-] It's the kind of movie that could ONLY have been made in the
era it was.
[Laura
Leff] Steve - Sounds like one of the current commercials for Marriott
Residence Inn.
[KayLhota]
you can like it. You are allowed to like what you want to.
[Brad
from Georgia] The comic version, however, was much more explicit.
AnyWAY, I thought Dennis's bit--he came home and his parents had left--was
funny.
[Laura
Leff] Thanks for getting us back on track, Brad.
[KayLhota]
yes, I got to hear that part.
[Laura
Leff] This is one of these shows where you can tell it was Hal and Al
just recycling bits from old shows.
[KayLhota]
I got to hear up to Bob Crosby's not being a drunk and Bing's buying nephew a
bank
[Laura
Leff] It sounds all stitched together, and it's not just the bad
editing.
[Laura
Leff] Kay - That's about where I had to stop as well. Now, obviously
the Bob Crosby part is new.
[Laura
Leff] You can even envision Hal and Al arguing about the fact that
they can't recycle Phil's jokes as Bob's, so that becomes the joke in itself.
[Brad
from Georgia] During one of my fitness walks last week I listened to
Dennis's "farewell" show just before he left for the Navy in WWII. His
goodbye to Jack and the gang is very straight, done in a mature voice. And it
sounds as if Jack choked up a little.
[Laura
Leff] Agreed. I kind of like that.
[KayLhota]
yes, I agree with you on the Phil jokes. You can tell that they miss him.
[Brad
from Georgia] Bob was a nice guy, but never as funny as Philsey.
[Laura
Leff] And Bob has no character at that point. They haven't had to
establish anyone's character in a long time.
[Steve
-shimp-] On the plus side, Iris Adrian is always welcome in a show to
me.
[Laura
Leff] I guess Bob never had ANY character.
[Laura
Leff] Yeah, Mac.
[Laura
Leff] And Iris Adrian *is* kind of cute in real life!
[Steve
-shimp-] I just saw her with a big part in a Bob Hope movie - Son of
Paleface, I think
[Brad
from Georgia] Bob did have his moment with a certain wine....
[Laura
Leff] ?
[Steve
-shimp-] manischeviivivivivitz
[KayLhota]
Bob may have developed had the show lasted longer. I don't know.
[Laura
Leff] Oh...was thinking Bob Hope
[Brad
from Georgia] Wow, I can't believe it--Grampa Simpson just referenced
Ellery Queen.
[KayLhota]
I liked the Bogart TV ep where he was disappointed that they had to cut his
number
[Laura
Leff] I saw on the Forum that 30 Rock showed a picture of Fred
Allen...
[KayLhota]
but Sarah Berner sang instead
[Laura
Leff] Kay - Have you seen the Iris Adrian/Frank Fontaine version of
that skit?
[KayLhota]
no, I haven't
[ed]
he played a cop on that one and sarah was great as well as benny rubin
[Laura
Leff] Kay - You should...I think it's actually better.
[Laura
Leff] BRB...keep talking
[KayLhota]
I wonder which episode had the picture of Fred Allen.
[Brad
from Georgia] So I says to Myrt, I says, you can't get the wood any
more, and that's why you just can't find them the way you used to...
[Steve
-shimp-] which show was it where Iris Adrian and Frank Fontaine did
it?
[Steve
-shimp-] I mean, the skit .... ahem
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Brad from Georgia has logged out.
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[Brad
from Georgia] What happened? Where am I? Who are you?
[Steve
-shimp-] I dunno
[Steve
-shimp-] Did I stop the chatroom cold with a bad mental image of Iris
Adrian and Frank Fontaine?
[Brad
from Georgia] Amnesia! It must be contagious!
[KayLhota]
not so much as I didn't know what to say
[ed]
no
[Laura
Leff] I'm back
[KayLhota]
hi laura
[Brad
from Georgia] Thank heavens!
[Brad
from Georgia] Nobody knew what to say.
[Laura
Leff] OK...let me get the date on the Adrian/Fontaine show...we put
it in the library a few months ago
[KayLhota]
yep, and it is unusual for me to be so quiet
[Laura
Leff] 3/5/61
[Brad
from Georgia] BTW, I just happened across the "Andy
Griffith" episode in which Eddie Carroll had a tiny part as an airline
ticket clerk.
[Laura
Leff] Worth a watch. And especially if you like the John L.C.
Silvoney character.
[Laura
Leff] Brad - Really! I didn't know that.
[Steve
-shimp-] cool
[Laura
Leff] Is it online by chance?
[Steve
-shimp-] I saw a "Sanford and Son" where Eddie Carroll was
a bartender
[ed]
brad was that on tv land?
[Brad
from Georgia] Yes, it's something like "Aunt Bea Wins a Trip to
Mexico." Eddie is very young, of course. He has only a few lines as he gets
Aunt Bea and her friends three seats on an airliner.
[Laura
Leff] I can just envision it
[ed]
darn no cable
[Brad
from Georgia] Ed--I think it was on TV Land. I was just flipping
channels and saw Eddie in the background and watched that short scene.
[KayLhota]
I just got Season 2 of "The Lucy Show" and I can't wait for the next
volume where Jack Benny guests as his lookalike
[Laura
Leff] Kay - Does that have a pink cover on it?
[KayLhota]
purple
[Steve
-shimp-] Did Jack only start guesting on the Lucy Show after Milt
Josefsberg came on as a writer?
[Laura
Leff] Hmm...my copy is loaned out to a friend, but I think that's the
set where I got a small deal for the rights to a couple stills from the color
specials.
[KayLhota]
yes, but at first it was as a man that only looked like Jack Benny
[Steve
-shimp-] I haven't seen that episode, sounds like fun.
[Laura
Leff] Steve - I just researched when Jack was on the Lucy show for
someone else...I'll go grab dates
[Brad
from Georgia] Shades of "The Face Is Familiar!"
[Steve
-shimp-] I'm pretty sure Kay's in the right ballpark, it would've
been 1963ish, the third Lucy Show season?
[Laura
Leff] Lucy and the Plumber (9/28/64) Lucy with George Burns (9/12/66)
Lucy Gets Jack Benny's Account (10/16/67)
[KayLhota]
Sep28 1964 "Lucy and the Plumber"
[Steve
-shimp-] OK, '64. Pretty close
[Laura
Leff] And for "Here's Lucy": Lucy Visits Jack Benny
(9/30/68) Lucy and Jack Benny's Biography (11/23/70)
[Brad
from Georgia] So I think I've got it figured out, LL--Quentin was
Mary Livingstone.
[Laura
Leff] Brad - Ah darn, you blew the secret.
[KayLhota]
funny!
[Laura
Leff] Quentin was Jack himself. He was multi-personality.
[KayLhota]
no wonder he didn't show up for his funeral
[Laura
Leff] Joking.
[KayLhota]
yeah
[Laura
Leff] That's like the old joke about the two farmers watching the
funeral procession from their fields.
[Brad
from Georgia] Seriously, just out of the blue, when I was listening
to the "farewell Dennis" show I thought, "Huh.Dennis couldn't be
Quentin...."
[Laura
Leff] Zeke says to Clem, "Wasn't he a friend of yers?"
[Laura
Leff] Clem says, "Yep."
[Laura
Leff] Zeke says, "Why ain't you at his funeral?"
[Laura
Leff] Clem says, "Well, he ain't comin' to mine, so I an't goin'
to his."
[Steve
-shimp-] nice
[KayLhota]
okay, that's funny
[Laura
Leff] Nope, Dennis isn't Quentin.
[Steve
-shimp-] Quentin Crisp was Quentin. But was he THAT Quentin?
[Brad
from Georgia] Funeral passes a golf course. One golfer takes off his
hat and stands with head bowed as the hearse passes. His friend says, "That
was nice of you." He says. "Thanks. We would've been married thirty
years next month."
[Laura
Leff] Ba-dum-bum
[Laura
Leff] A hush falls over the crowd
[KayLhota]
anyway, we've been through the Quentin stuff before
[Brad
from Georgia] "It's sad he's gone, but that was the kind of
funeral he would have loved." "Yes. What's really sad is he just
missed it by a few days."
[ed]
another rimshot
[KayLhota]
and I am not ready to know.
[Brad
from Georgia] I've got an idea, but I could be wrong, so I won't say
anything about it.
[Laura
Leff] So what else Benny-wise is on everyone's mind?
[Steve
-shimp-] Anyway, back on topic with the show - in some ways I can
appreciate the 'recycled' gags
[KayLhota]
I haven't had a chance to rewatch "Malibu Beach party" to look at the
celeb that I missed
[Steve
-shimp-] Because they're never -quite- the same
[KayLhota]
but, when I can find the tape I will comb through it once again
[Laura
Leff] Kay - I was corresponding with our 12-year-old Australia fan
about it, which inspired me to rewatch it.
[Steve
-shimp-] I like how you can hear the writers massaging the old gags
to see if a new twist might work
[Brad
from Georgia] Not much, but someone's done a parody of a Garrison
Keillor book, "The Zombies of Lake Woebegotten." It's terribly done,
and of course I did a Keillor/horror takeoff years ago....
[Laura
Leff] Steve - Yes, punching it up.
[Steve
-shimp-] like Dennis ordering something dumb at the lunch counter
[Laura
Leff] Like the latter-day Al Boasberg.
[KayLhota]
the brunette that comes after Don Ameche stumped me 5 years ago.
[Steve
-shimp-] the various permutations of that payoff
[Brad
from Georgia] Though chicken pot pie a la mode, with
pistachio....might not be that bad.
[Laura
Leff] Yes...I think Dennis once ordered a hot-fudge sundae with a
pickle on it
[Brad
from Georgia] Better than some of Don's Jell-O recipes.
[Laura
Leff] Pickle-flavored Jell-O
[ed]
yuck
[KayLhota]
couldn't be worse that watermelon flavored JELL O
[Steve
-shimp-] When I was in New Mexico there was a vendor selling pickle
flavored snow cones.
[Laura
Leff] There's probably a recipe somewhere that calls for molding
chopped sweet gherkins in Jell-O...probably lime Jell-O
[Brad
from Georgia] I'm appearing at a writers' conference in a couple of
weeks and am critiquing some young writers' manuscripts. One of them mentions
jello, and I've noted that it's trademarked, so it has to be Jell-O.
[Laura
Leff] Brad - I've even got a note that I have to go through and make
the spelling consistent in my Volume 3 notes.
[Steve
-shimp-] Not only that, you should tell them about all six delicious
flavors. Extensive Don Wilson red pen edits to that MS.
[Laura
Leff] I wonder how Jell-O chocolate pudding would do with almond
milk...?
[Laura
Leff] Pop quiz time...
[KayLhota]
oh that sounds good!
[Steve
-shimp-] Jell-O pudding needs real cow milk to work. Trust me, I've
tried otherwise....
[KayLhota]
almond milk is deliciious
[Laura
Leff] Fred Allen said that when he gets through with Jack, Jell-O
will have EIGHT delicious flavors. What were they?
[Brad
from Georgia] I got a note once from the Lay's Potato Chip folks
because I didn't put the "registered" sign after Lay's....but it was a
novel! They did thank me for mentioning their product and sent me a coupon for a
bag.
[Brad
from Georgia] I can't stand potato chips.
[KayLhota]
I don't know, Laura. What are they?
[Laura
Leff] No guesses?
[Brad
from Georgia] I give up.
[Steve
-shimp-] Hmmm, I don't remember that one. But I'm sure with Fred
Allen it was witty
[Laura
Leff] Wow...you folks give up easy.
[Brad
from Georgia] Well, if it ain't black and blue...
[Steve
-shimp-] Black and Blue flavors?
[Laura
Leff] Strawberry, raspberry, cherry, orange, lemon, lime, and BLACK
AND BLUE. BRAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
[Brad
from Georgia] Licorice and blueberries.
[KayLhota]
there you are
[Steve
-shimp-] They have blue Jell-O now
[Laura
Leff] Ding ding ding ding
[Steve
-shimp-] Still waiting on Black, I think.
[Brad
from Georgia] But them's colors, not flavors.
[Laura
Leff] To go with blue M&Ms
[Steve
-shimp-] Hematoma Jell-O
[Laura
Leff] And blue Jones Soda
[ed]
my sister used to hate green m&m's
[Brad
from Georgia] Ovid's "Pyramus and Thisbe" says that
mullberries used to be white, but now they're red, spotted with black.
[ed]
they are the same flavor
[Laura
Leff] Ed - Must have been terrible for her at Xmas time
[ed]
just high school games
[Laura
Leff] Ed - Oh yes...I know what you mean.
[Brad
from Georgia] Green M and M's are supposed to be aphrodisiacs.
[Laura
Leff] Oh hey...here's some fun.
[Brad
from Georgia] You take some oysters and some green M and--okay,
let's.
[Laura
Leff] Unrelated to Brad's observation
[ed]
they grow aphros...
[ed]
no wander i'm bald
[Laura
Leff] Everyone know what I'm talking about when I say "The Jet
Benny Show"?
[KayLhota]
no
[Steve
-shimp-] Yeeeesssss
[Brad
from Georgia] Sounds like an Elton John song.
[ed]
ha ha
[Laura
Leff] Oh fine...I should just be telling this to Steve...
[Laura
Leff] In a nutshell...hopefully a *very small* nutshell...
[Steve
-shimp-] It's a shot on 8mm bad, bad parody of Jack Benny (sorta) and
Star Wars
[Laura
Leff] Like a filbert shell
[Steve
-shimp-] released direct to video
[Brad
from Georgia] I like pistachios.
[Laura
Leff] Yeah, very good summary Steve.
[ed]
i like shelled peanuts
[Laura
Leff] And it runs something like 2 HOURS!
[KayLhota]
I remember "Hardware Wars"
[Brad
from Georgia] That's far too long.
[KayLhota]
dear lord
[Steve
-shimp-] It feels like six
[Laura
Leff] I'm glad that I still drank scotch when I saw it years ago.
[KayLhota]
it would
[Laura
Leff] It took a VERY LARGE quantity of scotch to get through it.
[Brad
from Georgia] A parody movie should be no longer than 22 minutes,
tops.
[Laura
Leff] Kay - You've met Joe Ross...he and I put it on his VHS one
time, and after much emphatic yelling and angry gesticulations at the screen, we
turned it off after about 10 minutes.
[Steve
-shimp-] There's actually a fairly decent article on the making of it
online somewhere that made me feel a little more empathetic to it. Not enough to
watch it again. I think it's linked on the forum.
[Brad
from Georgia] Woody Allen said the ideal length for a comedy was 89
minutes, exactly.
[Laura
Leff] Steve - It is? Huh. I should go look for it...because...
[Laura
Leff] I've got more information from someone who worked on it.
[Laura
Leff] I've just got to work it into an article that protects the
innocent.
[Steve
-shimp-] Yeah, I know I posted it on the forum somewhere. Don't know
if the link is still active. But it was an article about the director of Jet
Benny.
[Laura
Leff] Steve - Gee...could I ask you to look around for it?
[Steve
-shimp-] Made basically as a goof for no money with friends, but he
got a video deal on it out of the blue
[Steve
-shimp-] Sure.
[Brad
from Georgia] I can sort of see Jack as Han Solo and Rochester as
Chewbacca.....
[Laura
Leff] Steve - Thanks. Want to make sure I'm making use of all the
info...I must have missed that one.
[ed]
what part does phil play
[Laura
Leff] Rochester is an android in this. A little more like C3PO
[Brad
from Georgia] "Now, lookit, kid, I've flown across this Galaxy
from one end to the other...you see...and I've NEVER seen the force."
[Laura
Leff] No Phil
[Brad
from Georgia] But Ed the guard would make a dandy Obi-Wan.
[Laura
Leff] Jack, Rochester, a girl (not really Mary), and a handful of
other characters that are more Star Wars than Jack.
[Brad
from Georgia] And Jabba the Don....
[Laura
Leff] Brad - What an interesting idea. I never thought of that.
[Brad
from Georgia] And Dennis would be Luke.
[Laura
Leff] Who would be Yoda? Mel Blanc?
[Laura
Leff] Or Frank Nelson?
[Brad
from Georgia] Yoda would be Mel. As a Mexican....
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he was on buck rogers
[Laura
Leff] (Hearing it in Frank Nelson's voice) Either do or do
not...there is no try!
[Brad
from Georgia] Frank Nelson would be a great Darth Vader....
[Laura
Leff] OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooo would he!
[KayLhota]
certainly a cheery one!
[Laura
Leff] Fred Allen - better Darth Vader
[Brad
from Georgia] I'd see Fred as the Grand Moff Tarkin.
[Laura
Leff] Actually, I'd like Sam Hearn as Schlepperman as Obi-Wan.
[Laura
Leff] Hallo Strenger!
[Steve
-shimp-] Laura: http://www.stomptokyo.co
··· ng4.html
[Steve
-shimp-] That's the Jet Benny Show "making of" story
[Laura
Leff] Steve - Thanks...will check it out after the chat.
[ed]
may the force be with you...hmmm
[Brad
from Georgia] Hey, Laura--for next month or sometime--maybe the show
in which Ed gets out for a while? It has the strangest feeling at the ending.
[Brad
from Georgia] I guess next month should be a Thanksgiving show, in
honor of the season.
[Laura
Leff] Brad - Oh yes...I almost cried at the end of it. It's downright
poignant.
[Brad
from Georgia] It's really a touching show. Odd how such familiar
characters can suddenly seem so "real."
[Laura
Leff] OK...we always do a seasonal show around this time of year, so
let's pull that one.
[Laura
Leff] And you feel so sorry for how being down in the vault all this
time has made him so quiet and innocent.
[Laura
Leff] It's almost like in "Harvey", that you don't want to
mess with his illusions in the end.
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joseph kearns always played so well
[Laura
Leff] Will Wright did almost that exact script on the television
version.
[KayLhota]
I almost wish I could see "Dennis the Mennis" to see more of his work'
[Laura
Leff] Er...not Will Wright. Burt Mustin.
[Laura
Leff] So let's see...we've got our show for next month...anything
else, or should we call it good?
[ed]
he was not as good and didnot look like mr wilson as gale gordon did
[Brad
from Georgia] Good old Burt.
[Brad
from Georgia] ed--Joe Kearns?
[ed]
though he played a different mr wilson
[ed]
yes brad
[KayLhota]
we can call it, I guess. Laura, I'll give the cartoon another look, and see if I
can identify everybody.
[Brad
from Georgia] Yes, he was the original Mr. Wilson.
[Laura
Leff] Kay - OK, thanks. It was only that one that I noticed.
[Laura
Leff] Mr. Wilson - Doctor Who
[Laura
Leff] Same part, multiple actors
[Laura
Leff] Life of Riley...
[Brad
from Georgia] I'll take a look at the cartoon, too, though I'm not
great at recognizing the caricatures. Goodnight, all!
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[KayLhota]
goodnight my friends
[Laura
Leff] OK, thanks for stopping folks!
[Steve
-shimp-] OK folks - great chatting! Till next month!
[Laura
Leff] See you in November.
[KayLhota]
you bet, laura
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laura that girl who wrote that article for last months chat from australia has
joined my old radio show club here
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[Laura
Leff] Ed - Wonderful!