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ziznak

Quote from: Sardondi on September 03, 2012, 12:25:44 AM
Yep. It seemed like they were at every street corner, offering their flowers for "donations" with the usual come-on, "Would you like to help kids on drugs?". Rev. Moon was a true megalomaniac, and controlled hundreds of millions of dollars in donations. At various times he's claimed to be a second unnamed messiah, or Jesus, or even God himself. What is weirder is that there were always folks who were happy to take his money. He financed a true stinker of a movie, Inchon, which starred Sir Laurence Olivier and Toshiro Mifune (!?). (Moon worshiped Gen Douglas MacArthur and was grateful for his rescue of South Korea from the Communist North.)....................................
...........................................The Moonies and Scientologists are very much alike in their reliance on manipulative techniques, and the fact there was a fraud at the center of the "religion", who had created it for personal financial gain. The biggest difference between Moon and L. Ron Hubbard IMO is that Moon was genuinely insane to some degree; while Hubbard was one of the most outrageous and dishonest con men in world history.   
Ahhhhh nothing like a well written wall of text from sardondi... grab a mug of tea, kick the cat of the computer chair and just sit back and get sucked into another world.  I had no clue who these hairy-Krishna people were before I read your post but now feel very well edumacated about them....
one question... where the hell did you go to high-school that you were in a dorm??? I'm hoping you say "hogwarts" so bad!!!


Morgus

Did one of Noory's favorite movie characters, Percy die?  :(

Oh, no! Michael Clarke Duncan? You know, I think I've had just about enough of 2012 and the never ending list of good people that died.   :'(

Quote from: Sardondi on September 03, 2012, 12:25:44 AMThe biggest difference between Moon and L. Ron Hubbard IMO is that Moon was genuinely insane to some degree; while Hubbard was one of the most outrageous and dishonest con men in world history.

This was a very interesting and well written post.

b_dubb

Quote from: UnscreenedCaller on September 03, 2012, 05:42:10 PMYou know, I think I've had just about enough of 2012 and the never ending list of good people that died.

^^^^ agreed

Sardondi

Nashville singer/songwriter/session guitarist Joe South dies of a heart attack at 72.

http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/articles/2012/09/06/joe_south_singer_songwriter_from_70s_dies_at_72/

Boomers and devotees of 60's radio/music will know his big hits: "Games People Play",
Joe South - Games People Play [Very Good quality],

and

"Walk A Mile In My Shoes"
JOE SOUTH- " WALK A MILE IN MY SHOES ".
His style was a blues-rock-country-soul amalgam, which was a poorer man's Elvis, but with more rock and soul without the rockabilly twang. His songwriting regularly crossed over between rock, pop and country charts, such as "Down In The Boondocks" for Billy Joe Royal,  "I Never Promised You A Rose Garden" for Lynn Anderson and "Hush", which charted well for Royal, and was a monster hit for metal fathers Deep Purple. As a session man (guitar) he was used by Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin and Simon and Garfunkel.

A force.

Eddie Coyle

Quote from: Sardondi on September 06, 2012, 11:42:11 AM
Nashville singer/songwriter/session guitarist Joe South dies of a heart attack at 72.

http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/articles/2012/09/06/joe_south_singer_songwriter_from_70s_dies_at_72/

Boomers and devotees of 60's radio/music will know his big hits: "Games People Play",



His style was a blues-rock-country-soul amalgam, which was a poorer man's Elvis, but with more rock and soul without the rockabilly twang. His songwriting regularly crossed over between rock, pop and country charts, such as "Down In The Boondocks" for Billy Joe Royal,  "I Never Promised You A Rose Garden" for Lynn Anderson and "Hush", which charted well for Royal, and was a monster hit for metal fathers Deep Purple. As a session man (guitar) he was used by Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin and Simon and Garfunkel.

A force.
He was great,but unfortunately kind of "dropped out" around 1971. But his albums from 68-70 were excellent...anybody who is on "Blonde on Blonde" gets entry to Cooperstown in my book(notice I didn't say Cleveland)

Juan

We crossed paths a couple of times back when I was a "rock star" - he seemed to be a decent guy.  Sorry to hear he's gone.


HorrorRetro

Damn.  I love Joe South.  I have a fond memory from about two years ago when my daughter I and were driving through the country around Lake Tahoe playing his music.   :-[



Eddie Coyle


           Steve Sabol of NFL Films dead at 69.

        NFL Films, in the early years of ESPN, provided some great shows, primarily aired in the small hours of Monday Night/Tuesday morning. "Frozen Tundras" and "Raidas"

Morgus

Quote from: Sardondi on September 06, 2012, 11:42:11 AM
Boomers and devotees of 60's radio/music will know his big hits: "Games People Play",
Joe South - Games People Play [Very Good quality],
"and they try to sock it to ya..."

Sardondi

Quote from: Eddie Coyle on September 18, 2012, 09:01:33 PM
           Steve Sabol of NFL Films dead at 69.

        NFL Films, in the early years of ESPN, provided some great shows, primarily aired in the small hours of Monday Night/Tuesday morning. "Frozen Tundras" and "Raidas"

Oh, no. Not "young" Steve, is it? His dad wasn't Steve  though, was he? Seems like he was Ed. Man I can't believe Steve was that old...and now dead. Those NFL Films were the ESPN of the 60's and 70's. That going-to-war music, and Jon Facienda's (sp?) Ross Mitchell-style voice booming on about on-field battles that sounded like they were something out of the Greek Myths. Man, those productions, probably considered ham-handed and cheesy today, used to make the hair rise on my 12-year-old neck. It's how we learned about guys in the NFL if we didn't have the money to subscribe to the periodicals. I mean, because of NFL Films I can still tell you about someone as relatively unknown as Tim Rossovich, journeyman linebacker for the Eagles (whose more famous brother is actor Rick, Ice Man's body-beautiful back seater in Top Gun).

Steve Sabol dead. Damn.

Eddie Coyle

Quote from: Sardondi on September 19, 2012, 10:59:03 AM
Oh, no. Not "young" Steve, is it? His dad wasn't Steve  though, was he? Seems like he was Ed. Man I can't believe Steve was that old...and now dead. Those NFL Films were the ESPN of the 60's and 70's. That going-to-war music, and Jon Facienda's (sp?) Ross Mitchell-style voice booming on about on-field battles that sounded like they were something out of the Greek Myths. Man, those productions, probably considered ham-handed and cheesy today, used to make the hair rise on my 12-year-old neck. It's how we learned about guys in the NFL if we didn't have the money to subscribe to the periodicals. I mean, because of NFL Films I can still tell you about someone as relatively unknown as Tim Rossovich, journeyman linebacker for the Eagles (whose more famous brother is actor Rick, Ice Man's body-beautiful back seater in Top Gun).

Steve Sabol dead. Damn.
Ed is still alive at 96...but Steve has passed, a few weeks before turning 70. NFL Films was remarkably influential, played a major role in it's continued dominance as a televised sport(baseball or basketball had no equivalent) , and even Sam Peckinpah was so captivated by the slow mo, that he interpolated it into a little film he was working on in the spring of '68 called The Wild Bunch.

          Tim Rossovich, a perfect example of a nobody turned into a somebody via NFL Films. Though I believe he and Sabol had known each other prior to Rossovich's NFL days, so it wasn't a coincidence. And Tim had a decent career playing heavies and goons...1981's Looker comes to mind...actually, that movie often came to young Coyle's mind due to Susan Dey and Terri Welles nudeness.

       

Sardondi

Quote from: Eddie Coyle on September 19, 2012, 11:47:56 AM
      ...Tim Rossovich, a perfect example of a nobody turned into a somebody via NFL Films. Though I believe he and Sabol had known each other prior to Rossovich's NFL days, so it wasn't a coincidence. And Tim had a decent career playing heavies and goons...1981's Looker comes to mind...actually, that movie often came to young Coyle's mind due to Susan Dey and Terri Welles nudeness. ...

I had no idea he had had an acting career as well. I looked him up at imdb and I do recognize him as a bad guy from tv past, but I never would have known who he was otherwise:



imdb also says his roomie at USC was Tom Selleck. Wow, the mustache hairs alone would have clogged the shower....

HorrorRetro

Quote from: Eddie Coyle on September 19, 2012, 11:47:56 AM
       
1981's Looker comes to mind...actually, that movie often came to young Coyle's mind due to Susan Dey and Terri Welles nudeness.

I watched Looker a few weeks ago lol.  I hadn't seen it for a few years.  I was into Albert Finney back in the day.  No Finney nudity, which is probably a good thing.

Zircon

Quote from: HorrorRetro on September 20, 2012, 12:23:53 PM
I watched Looker a few weeks ago lol.  I hadn't seen it for a few years.  I was into Albert Finney back in the day.  No Finney nudity, which is probably a good thing.
"Blue Sunshine"? I always thought it was "Orange Sunshine" and "Blue Dot"?

HorrorRetro

Quote from: Zircon on September 20, 2012, 01:00:42 PM
"Blue Sunshine"? I always thought it was "Orange Sunshine" and "Blue Dot"?

And purple blotter.  Blue Sunshine is a bit of a cult movie about the side effects caused by a bad batch of acid taken a decade earlier.  I think maybe 12 people have ever seen the movie.  ;D 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074226/

Downloading blue sunshine right now!

Eddie Coyle

Quote from: HorrorRetro on September 20, 2012, 12:23:53 PM
I watched Looker a few weeks ago lol.  I hadn't seen it for a few years.  I was into Albert Finney back in the day.  No Finney nudity, which is probably a good thing.

     Looker was a film that had female nudity(though non-sexual) and some violence, yet somehow always seemed to be airing on HBO at 10:30 AM, when young Coyle was home pretending to be sick.

       My neighborhood didn't get cable until November 28, 1983. And "Looker" was part of HBO's rotation-what a difference!. Before then, I was stuck with the typical late morning TV fare of  game shows like "Card Sharks" or "The Joker's Wild" or re-runs of classic ::) TV shows like "Angie" or "Benson". And the goddamn noon news with the Green Grocer.

HorrorRetro

Quote from: Eddie Coyle on September 20, 2012, 09:47:41 PM
     Looker was a film that had female nudity(though non-sexual) and some violence, yet somehow always seemed to be airing on HBO at 10:30 AM, when young Coyle was home pretending to be sick.

       My neighborhood didn't get cable until November 28, 1983. And "Looker" was part of HBO's rotation-what a difference!. Before then, I was stuck with the typical late morning TV fare of  game shows like "Card Sharks" or "The Joker's Wild" or re-runs of classic ::) TV shows like "Angie" or "Benson". And the goddamn noon news with the Green Grocer.

Up in Alaska, we were quite late to the cable TV scene as well.  I think we got our first version of it around '80 or '81.  It was one channel.  It was an odd amalgam of HBO, WGN, WTBS, WOR and some music videos and shorts between movies.  It included porn on Wednesday and Saturday nights.  The channel was called Visions.  It was just bizarre.  You'd have daytime programming from WTBS, WGN, and such, and then they'd switch over to an HBO movie.  Maybe later you'd go back to WOR for a few hours and then back to HBO later.  I think the first music video I ever saw was Robert Palmer's "Looking for Clues."  They seemed to play that a lot between HBO features.  If it wasn't Robert Palmer, it was Michael Nesmith's "Elephant Parts."

Eddie Coyle

Quote from: HorrorRetro on September 20, 2012, 10:32:02 PM
Up in Alaska, we were quite late to the cable TV scene as well.  I think we got our first version of it around '80 or '81.  It was one channel.  It was an odd amalgam of HBO, WGN, WTBS, WOR and some music videos and shorts between movies.  It included porn on Wednesday and Saturday nights.  The channel was called Visions.  It was just bizarre.  You'd have daytime programming from WTBS, WGN, and such, and then they'd switch over to an HBO movie.  Maybe later you'd go back to WOR for a few hours and then back to HBO later.  I think the first music video I ever saw was Robert Palmer's "Looking for Clues."  They seemed to play that a lot between HBO features.  If it wasn't Robert Palmer, it was Michael Nesmith's "Elephant Parts."

              You've encapsulated the brilliance of early cable. It was somewhat wildcat, some channels would appear and vanish, a lot of interstitial programming that made no sense. USA's "Night Flight" was probably the best overnight program for music/odd films. WGN,WTBS,WWOR were top notch superstations, Headline News seemed to be on every third channel at some point during the day.

         And despite MTV acting like Americans never saw a video before August 1, 1981, I remember plenty of broadcast channels(UHF), especially in the wee hours having programs that showed music videos or shorts prior to MTV's advent. I remember a saturday morning show in Boston showing Rush's "Tom Sawyer" and "Limelight" in May, 1981. And the videos you mention like Mike Nesmith, Robert Palmer would also pop up. All before MTV

ziznak

I don't know why but for some reason it took forever for my philly neighborhood to get cable.  It  was right around the 90's or late 80's when we did.  I do however remember being to relatives houses when I was still a lil shit and seeing that they had what seemed to me at the time like BILLIONS of channels.

the mere mention of Mike Nesmith brings back horrid flashbacks of "the monkees" attempted comeback attempts.... Geeeeeeeeeeeeh

HorrorRetro

Quote from: Eddie Coyle on September 20, 2012, 10:50:32 PM
              You've encapsulated the brilliance of early cable. It was somewhat wildcat, some channels would appear and vanish, a lot of interstitial programming that made no sense. USA's "Night Flight" was probably the best overnight program for music/odd films. WGN,WTBS,WWOR were top notch superstations, Headline News seemed to be on every third channel at some point during the day.

         And despite MTV acting like Americans never saw a video before August 1, 1981, I remember plenty of broadcast channels(UHF), especially in the wee hours having programs that showed music videos or shorts prior to MTV's advent. I remember a saturday morning show in Boston showing Rush's "Tom Sawyer" and "Limelight" in May, 1981. And the videos you mention like Mike Nesmith, Robert Palmer would also pop up. All before MTV

Wow, I haven't thought about Night Flight in years.  I had to check You Tube and found this:  1981 Night Flight broadcast 

Eddie Coyle

 
        Ziz, you live in an urban graft center like I do. Cable had to grease many a palm to get clearances in Boston. My relatives in the suburbs had it in 1977...we didn't get offered cable until the Fall of '83.

         "Night Flight" ruled. That YouTube clip fittingly shows Devo, who were mainstays on the program. But really "out there" acts like Klaus Nomi, Pere Ubu would get some attention.What's funny about that Night Flight intro is they are showing highlights of a Charlie Daniels Volunteer Jam, probably from Jan, 1981, but that type of music was largely ignored. New Wave, punk, metal, what was "alternative" in 1981 was their metier.
         Cable in a nutshell,it gets worse with time...the great Night Flight devolved into "Up All Night" in the summer of '88 and that was actually decent for a few years, but by 1994 "overnight" programming on USA took a back seat and became largely re-runs.

Sardondi

Quote from: Eddie Coyle on September 20, 2012, 11:30:10 PM
    ...the great Night Flight devolved into "Up All Night" in the summer of '88 and that was actually decent for a few years...
If only because of the fantasies inspired by Rhonda "Up!" Shear!




But then I'd expect anyone who can appreciate Lorenzo St. DuBois and "Love Power" to know that.

Eddie Coyle

Quote from: Sardondi on September 20, 2012, 11:42:34 PM
If only because of the fantasies inspired by Rhonda "Up!" Shear!




But then I'd expect anyone who can appreciate Lorenzo St. DuBois and "Love Power" to know that.
Naturally. But unfortunately, Rhonda was often sharing the screen with this(edit:I can't believe Google Images best picture of Gilbert is from the "guess who is jewish" site...uh, wouldn't that site be more fitting for "surprises" like Jennifer Connelly..not a caricature from a Goebbels nightmare like Gilbert.)...
           

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