Salvador Dali on "What's My Line?"

[Ideologue]

This is truly bizzare. I just don't think of Dali as being of the era of TV...though of course he was.

When I watched Children of Men the other day, I let it play through the credits because I liked the song, and I noticed that Picasso's Guernica is still under copyright, which struck me as asinine until I realized, "Well, of course it is.  It was made in like 1939."  We're not that far removed from them.

It's more than asinine, it's obscene.

I agree, but that's copyright law for you.  King Kong is eighty one years old in a few months, and it's still under copyright.

[derspiess]

This is truly bizzare. I just don't think of Dali as being of the era of TV...though of course he was.

When I watched Children of Men the other day, I let it play through the credits because I liked the song, and I noticed that Picasso's Guernica is still under copyright, which struck me as asinine until I realized, "Well, of course it is.  It was made in like 1939."  We're not that far removed from them.

It's more than asinine, it's obscene. 

Yeah, I always thought it was garbage.

[Razgovory]

Is the bombing of Guernica still considered a hoax in rightwing orthodoxy, or have you guys changed you history on that?

[derspiess]

No.

[Razgovory]

No.

Ah, so history has been rewritten.

[Admiral Yi]

I don't know who those people are.

Noel Coward was a homosexual English piano player and singer from around WWII.  Peter Ustinov is an actor who is not particularly well known for any particular role but more for being himself.  Maybe he played Hercule Poirot a couple times.

[Sheilbh]

Noel Coward was a homosexual English piano player and singer from around WWII.

Are you thinking of Ivor Novello?

Noel Coward wrote songs and sang them from time to time, but he's famous as a writer. Wrote many famous plays and a few films too. Best known is Brief Encounter, which is wonderful

Peter Ustinov is an actor who is not particularly well known for any particular role but more for being himself.  Maybe he played Hercule Poirot a couple times.

Yeah. He played Poirot a few times but was entirely eclipsed by David Suchet. He was the slavetrader in Spartacus and I think he won an Oscar too.

But as you say he went like Orson Welles and became most famous for being himself.

[Ed Anger]

Spartacus

[grumbler]

Peter Ustinov is an actor who is not particularly well known for any particular role but more for being himself.  Maybe he played Hercule Poirot a couple times.

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "not particularly well known for any particular role but more for being himself."  He certainly was the kind of actor people paid tom see because it was a Peter Ustinov performance, rather than only going to see the great portrayals, but that's true of all stars.  I think it is more telling that Ustinov won both of his Oscars for best supporting actor.  Like Coward, he was about equally famous for his off-stage life as his on-stage life; he was very popular on the variety shows and he wrote and directed many successful plays. Dear Me is one of the better autobiographies out there.

[The Larch]

He was also Nero in Quo Vadis.

[Sheilbh]

Apparently David Niven's autobiography, The Moon's a Balloon, is also great.

[Josquius]

This is truly bizzare. I just don't think of Dali as being of the era of TV...though of course he was.

This is a remarkably posh TV show. The sort of thing one expects of the BBC of the era, not the US. Germaine as a spoken word? Wow.

Serious? 

Of course. When was the last time you heard anyone actually use it in conversation like that?

[Admiral Yi]

Noel Coward wrote songs and sang them from time to time, but he's famous as a writer.

In America he's not famous at all.  I know him mostly for his WWII entertain the troops tours.

[garbon]

Noel Coward wrote songs and sang them from time to time, but he's famous as a writer.

In America he's not famous at all.  I know him mostly for his WWII entertain the troops tours.

Perhaps in co-ed English.

[Sheilbh]

In America he's not famous at all.  I know him mostly for his WWII entertain the troops tours.

Then you should all watch Brief Encounter