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Post by Prince Hal on Oct 28, 2020 12:38:58 GMT -5
Slam_Bradley , ashamed to say I'd never heard of Billy Joe Shaver, but just read up on him after I heard the "Live Forever" video. Love at first listen. Beautiful song. Tough life. Asking for an ignorant friend: do you know who's singing with him here? And if that version available on one of his albums? The guys appearing in that video are a country duo known as Big & Rich. I'm not really a fan of them, but even they can't screw up Billy Joe. That version is off his 2005 album "The Real Big Deal." I've not really listened to it so I can't say whether the album itself is that great (though Allmusic seems to approve). My favorite version of that song is probably Joe Ely's off of "Satisfied at Last." The original version by Billy Joe and Eddy (his late son) was on 1993s "Tramp on Your Street" which is a fabulous album. If you want pure unexpurgated Billy Joe Shaver his 1973 debut album "Old Five and Dimers" is a stone-cold Texas Country classic. I'd also recommend Waylon Jennings' "Honky Tonk Heroes" which is the album that really brought Shaver to prominence, as all but one song on that album was written by Shaver. Thanks, Slam. You're a superb proselytizer.
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 31, 2020 8:06:25 GMT -5
Janes Bond ( Sean Connery) dead at 90.
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Post by foxley on Oct 31, 2020 8:54:30 GMT -5
Janes Bond ( Sean Connery) dead at 90. Sad news.
I am suddenly really glad I took the opportunity to hear George Lazenby speak and get his autograph at a convention earlier this year (the last one held in Australia before corona restrictions were instituted).
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Post by brutalis on Oct 31, 2020 10:00:19 GMT -5
Janes Bond ( Sean Connery) dead at 90. Sad day. Mr. Reaper the ONLY villain 007 couldn't hope to defeat. Sir Connery may have gone curmudgeonly towards the end but he has given us many hours of entertaining fun. thrills and adventures to remember him with.
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Post by beccabear67 on Oct 31, 2020 12:24:59 GMT -5
"That's not what your mother said last night Mr. Reaper A-ha-ha-ha."Sorry, couldn't resist. Connery had a pretty interesting career! r.i.p.
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Post by foxley on Oct 31, 2020 13:09:03 GMT -5
"That's not what your mother said last night Mr. Reaper A-ha-ha-ha."Sorry, couldn't resist. Connery had a pretty interesting career! r.i.p. I guess interesting is one way to describe Zardoz.
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Post by beccabear67 on Oct 31, 2020 14:50:55 GMT -5
I guess interesting is one way to describe Zardoz.
A movie that will live forever... with fan costume makers.
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 31, 2020 18:05:15 GMT -5
"That's not what your mother said last night Mr. Reaper A-ha-ha-ha."Sorry, couldn't resist. Connery had a pretty interesting career! r.i.p. I guess interesting is one way to describe Zardoz.
Thing is, Connery was about the only one who could wear that and no one would dare laugh, in his face.
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 31, 2020 18:12:57 GMT -5
Bond, Bond, Bond; but, my favorite Connery roles are:
The Hill Time Bandits The Man Who Would Be King
In the Hill, he is an RSM who struck a superior officer who ordered his men on a suicide mission and is sentenced to a correctional unit for discipline, forced to march up and down a man made sand hill, in full kit. Ian Hendry is a sadistic guard who tries to make an example of him, to show off the the RSM, Harry Andrews, who runs the prison, thanks to weak officers. Great performance and a terrific cast of actors (Michael Redgrave, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen, Roy Kinnear, Ossie Davis and Sir Sean).
Time Bandits, he steals the film as Agamemnon and looks every inch the hero in doing the part, plus the cameo at the end.
The Man Who Would Be King-a character part, for a great character, in a film that was a throwback to the great Hollywood adventure films, with the two UK stars who had the status of a Gable and Bogart (the original intended cast for the film, in the 50s). The movie is wonderfully adapted from the Kipling story, directed by John Huston, and starring Sir Sean, Sir Michael Caine, and Christopher "I'm a Canadian" Plummer, as Kipling.
Sean is also the only person in the UK who could back Scotland leaving the UK and still get a knighthood.
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Post by brutalis on Oct 31, 2020 19:17:38 GMT -5
4 personal favorites of Sir Sean Connery: Darby O'Gill and the Little People The Wind and the Lion Robin and Marion Highlander. Who cannot love his Ramirez, an immortal sword wielding Scottish Spaniard?
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 31, 2020 20:10:09 GMT -5
R. I. P. Sir Sean Connery.
Much as I love his Bond I’ll go along with The Man Who Would be King, The Hill and Robin and Marian as great roles. I dearly love Highlander (hence my son Connor).
He elevated everything he was in.
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Post by earl on Oct 31, 2020 20:58:36 GMT -5
I loved Outland as a teenager in the 80s. It's pretty much High Noon on an mining colony in space, but that in itself is pretty cool.
Highlander is like the fantasy/scifi movie that is in my total blind spot as I STILL Have never seen it, which considering my usual interests is very odd. It always sounded like a cool idea. I still have never seen ET either... I never saw the Rock either oddly enough.
Love the Bond movies, The Untouchables, Hunt for Red October and The Man Who Would be King.
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 31, 2020 21:05:02 GMT -5
4 personal favorites of Sir Sean Connery: Darby O'Gill and the Little People The Wind and the Lion Robin and Marion Highlander. Who cannot love his Ramirez, an immortal sword wielding Scottish Spaniard? Ah, ah, ah...he's Egyptian, but living in Spain. It gets a bit muddled. He is only topped by the Highlander, with the French accent. Of course, the New York survivalist is played by a Canadian (Christopher Malcolm, aka Zev, in Empire Strikes Back and Justin, on Absolutely Fabulous).
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Post by brutalis on Oct 31, 2020 21:28:27 GMT -5
4 personal favorites of Sir Sean Connery: Darby O'Gill and the Little People The Wind and the Lion Robin and Marion Highlander. Who cannot love his Ramirez, an immortal sword wielding Scottish Spaniard? Ah, ah, ah...he's Egyptian, but living in Spain. It gets a bit muddled. He is only topped by the Highlander, with the French accent. Of course, the New York survivalist is played by a Canadian (Christopher Malcolm, aka Zev, in Empire Strikes Back and Justin, on Absolutely Fabulous). True about the Egyptian part, I was more or less referring to Connery really being a Scott & his Spanish name in the movie for the quick humor of it all.
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Post by foxley on Nov 1, 2020 1:17:33 GMT -5
I love Connery's early Bond, but not his later stuff (I consider Diamonds are Forever to be the worst entry in the franchise).
My personal favorites of his other work include The Man Who Would Be King, Outland (High Noon in space), Robin and Marian (Robert Shaw is my favorite screen Sheriff of Nottingham), The Untouchables, and The Hunt for Red October.
Connery was often the best thing in the movies he appeared in, enlivening otherwise lackluster efforts such as The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
I have not seen The Hill, but it sounds like that is an oversight I shall have to remedy.
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