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Post by codystarbuck on May 2, 2024 13:57:00 GMT -5
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Post by codystarbuck on May 2, 2024 13:17:05 GMT -5
Paging Roy Thomas... Linda Carter must be related to Sharon and Peggy, right? Maybe even the granddaughter of the original Linda Carter, Student Nurse? And might Marvel's version of a certain Warlord of Mars also be her ancestor? This is the Marvel Microverse, after all. Philip Jose Farmer would fit all together. And tie them to detective Nick Carter, President Jimmy Carter and the cast of Carter Country.
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Post by codystarbuck on May 2, 2024 12:01:52 GMT -5
Make that five. I think. You see, I’ve only seen the film, not the TV series, nor the book. I really liked the novel and its sequel. (I didn't read the third book). Didn't really miss much, as the story kind of ends up a mix of the original novel and the film version, except its a parallel world. Least satisfying of the three (or did Nolan put out that 4th story?).
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Post by codystarbuck on May 2, 2024 11:07:11 GMT -5
You wouldn't find this in the 70s series....
That's 'cause Doc was out swinging, in the 70s. I mean, the guy lived in Greenwich Village; you know he was partying. Probably needed the magic to deal with all of the STDs. I picture a mash up of Saturday Night Fever and Cruising.
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Post by codystarbuck on May 2, 2024 11:01:54 GMT -5
This was all a test to see if I could do it, since I wanted to bind Logan's Run, and Captain Carrot. Three Logan's Run fans! We should start a club When you hit 30, you are out. Uh-oh......no, wait...AAAAAAAAAAAAGGGHHHHHHH....
Runner terminated in 0.31....ready for clean-up.
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Post by codystarbuck on May 1, 2024 22:33:19 GMT -5
Duane Eddy was a favorite of mine, too. Condolences. It's not been a good week for rock music. Also passing away was ELO's keyboardist Richard Tandy... ELO was probably the first rock group whose music I really got into, as a kid and Tandy's keyboards were a big part of that. From the album Discovery...or, as Tandy called it, Disco...Very. Here, something a little more classical....
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Post by codystarbuck on May 1, 2024 22:14:22 GMT -5
Stuck Rubber Baby
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Post by codystarbuck on May 1, 2024 21:52:22 GMT -5
Speaking as a manager of a print shop, that is because it is illegal to reproduce copyrighted material without the permission of the copyright holder. I deal with this all the time. Just because the technology exists to do it easily and cheaply doesn't mean you have the legal right to do it. Your car can go, theoretically, up to 100 mph; but it is still illegal to drive above the speed limit. I shake my head at some people's arguments about copyright. It is there to protect the artist's work, for a period of time, yet a certain subset seem to think it shouldn't matter, because it interferes with their desires. Corporate-driven copyright extensions are a different argument. The commercial printer would be liable for the civil and possibly criminal penalties of violating the copyright, which is why they won't do it. My company's legal department seems to believe that having customers acknowledge that they are either the copyright holder or have permission, when tendering orders, is sufficient protection, putting the burden on the customer. We print all kinds of violations, since that was enacted. I'm waiting to see it challenged in court and not stand up to judicial scrutiny. Time will tell. There's also the legal term "fair use".... I'm not going to make any money, or take any money away from a company by printing ONE image, and using it for my hobby. I do understand that it is YOU who would be legally accountable for allowing it, but it's wrong. Not your fault, but the courts will ALWAYS be on the side of the corporation in 2024. Regardless of your use, the printer is a commercial entity, printing for money. By printing the item, it is a commercial transaction and therefor prohibited without the rightsholder's permission. Like I say, my company puts the burden on the customer by making them affirm a statement that they hold the copyright or had copyright permission, so that any legal issue goes back to the customer, for issuing false statements. As I said, I have my doubts that it would stand up in court, if a rightsholder, such as Disney, that has the resources to press it in the courts. There is an allowable alternative to violating copyright and that is using an actual cover or page and laminating it onto the cover, or something similar. That is just repurposing something already owned. There is a form of commercial binding, known as a 'turtleback,: which is a hardcover binding, with a paperback cover laminated to it. It is often used for libraries, to provide sturdier copies. We could order these, in some cases, for customers, at Barnes & Noble. I used to have a copy of one that was done for the Marvel Masterworks Steranko book. It was issued as a trade paperback, but, there were some turtlebacks produced, or else rebound, by libraries, as mine was an ex-library copy. Marvel's trades were notoriously poorly bound, in the 00s.
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Post by codystarbuck on May 1, 2024 11:41:50 GMT -5
I self bound the Geoff Johns and Gary Frank Superman Secret Origin series... the hardest part was finding someone to print the cover for me... No one would do it, since "it's copyrighted". So I printed it at work on the color copier, on regular paper... not ideal. This was all a test to see if I could do it, since I wanted to bind Logan's Run, and Captain Carrot. Speaking as a manager of a print shop, that is because it is illegal to reproduce copyrighted material without the permission of the copyright holder. I deal with this all the time. Just because the technology exists to do it easily and cheaply doesn't mean you have the legal right to do it. Your car can go, theoretically, up to 100 mph; but it is still illegal to drive above the speed limit. I shake my head at some people's arguments about copyright. It is there to protect the artist's work, for a period of time, yet a certain subset seem to think it shouldn't matter, because it interferes with their desires. Corporate-driven copyright extensions are a different argument. The commercial printer would be liable for the civil and possibly criminal penalties of violating the copyright, which is why they won't do it. My company's legal department seems to believe that having customers acknowledge that they are either the copyright holder or have permission, when tendering orders, is sufficient protection, putting the burden on the customer. We print all kinds of violations, since that was enacted. I'm waiting to see it challenged in court and not stand up to judicial scrutiny. Time will tell.
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Post by codystarbuck on May 1, 2024 11:32:07 GMT -5
ps I think he was dubbed in Zorro, though I haven't seen it in quite a while, to be certain. Stanley Baker was the villain, so it was a mixed international cast. Also featured the comedic actor Moustache, who also appeared as a guard, in the caper film How To Steal a Million, with Peter O'Toole and Audrey Hepburn.
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Post by codystarbuck on May 1, 2024 11:30:20 GMT -5
Don't forget Lost Command, with Anthony Quinn and George Segal, as an Algerian Legion paratrooper. Yep, George Segal.
And Claudia Cardinale, I see. Don't think I've seen that one either. My impression is that Alain Delon made a few attempts to break into Hollywood and the English-speaking market, but never succeeded in becoming the huge star as he was in French films, where he was one of the top guys for much of his career. Whether that was just bad luck or what, who knows.
On the subject of acting in a second language, a friend of mine was telling me about an interview he saw with Michael Ironside once: Ironside's an anglophone Canadian who does speak French but apparently felt he wasn't able to act in French as well as he'd like (this was an interview about a Canadian miniseries called The Last Chapter, a bike gang crime story that was filmed in both French and English versions).
How was Delon's English-language performance in the ones you've seen? I think his screen presence and star power come over in a big way in his French films, or the few of them I've seen at least, but perhaps it didn't carry over completely to his English-language movies, though I haven't seen or don't remember enough to judge from my own viewing.
His acting is fine, in Lost Command, where he mostly gets to play angry or indignant. The film is about a group of Legion paratroopers, who survive Dien Bien Phu and a POW camp, then are sent to Algiers to keep the peace. Delon is a staff officer who volunteers to jump into Dien Bien Phu, with supplies and what reinforcements they can muster. Quinn is the colonel in command, a man of Basque heritage, who hates the upper class senior command. He immediately takes a disliking to Delon, as a "staff lackey, but comes to respect him, as a soldier. Delon thinks Quinn is coarse and brutal, but comes to respect his leadership. After they are released from the POW camp, Quinn finagles a command in Algeria and the rest join him, except Segal's character, who witnesses the brutal treatment of his friends and neighbors and goes AWOL to join the resistance. When the parachute detachment is posted to Algiers, Segal's character is their main target and Cardinale is his sister. She is acting as a courier and Delon falls for her. Delon increasingly objects to the brutal methods being employed by another officer (a French colonial, driven out of Indochina), with Quinn's tacit approval. Cardinale is caught and interrogated and Delon reacts to the perceived betrayal. He gets to do a little romancing and a lot of arguing and admiring. It's not the greatest range for a character, but it is decent. He is second lead, after Quinn, who gets the biggest scenes, as he romances a former general's widow, which helps gain his command, plus a scene in his old village, in the Pyranees, where he had been a shepherd and smuggler. It's one of the few English films about both Indochina and Algeria and the French colonial wars there, though it is neither as good as the French films Dien Bien Phu, nor The Battle of Algiers.
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Post by codystarbuck on Apr 30, 2024 22:29:13 GMT -5
Don't forget Lost Command, with Anthony Quinn and George Segal, as an Algerian Legion paratrooper.
Yep, George Segal.
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Post by codystarbuck on Apr 30, 2024 20:47:30 GMT -5
I thin Le Samourai is fine; but, it is meant to be existential, which limits the crime aspect. It was the direct inspiration for John Woo's The Killer. Red Circle is a pretty good crime film.
My favorite Delon is Zorro. You can tell he is having a ball, in that one; and, it is a pretty good Zorro movie.
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Post by codystarbuck on Apr 29, 2024 22:54:45 GMT -5
None of Lee's redesigns worked and what is with all of the segmenting? If it is supposed to signify armor, why would Superman need armor? Never thought much of Lee's design sense, when it came to costumes. The entire problem for me is the style. The no outside trunks idea is fine with me, whether it's a one-piece or trousers plus top, or whatever. The artist could have drawn them in their traditional costumes and I'd probably still hate it, I just find that style ugly, ugly, ugly; and the same goes for most superhero artists of that era, whenever it was exactly (1990s-2000s? not really sure). 20Teens
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Post by codystarbuck on Apr 29, 2024 20:57:16 GMT -5
The best teaser segment, from Batman: TBATB....
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