https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXT2E9Ccc8A
Pretty great.
That was pretty good. :D
Surreal
Garbon liked something I posted. Honestly feel a bit flattered.
Quote from: Queequeg on February 08, 2014, 07:15:55 PM
Garbon liked something I posted. Honestly feel a bit flattered.
It was a great find anyway.
Quote from: Queequeg on February 08, 2014, 07:15:55 PM
Garbon liked something I posted. Honestly feel a bit flattered.
I had a feeling you'd be a bitch about it. :P
Quote from: garbon on February 08, 2014, 08:01:57 PM
Quote from: Queequeg on February 08, 2014, 07:15:55 PM
Garbon liked something I posted. Honestly feel a bit flattered.
I had a feeling you'd be a bitch about it. :P
Going out on limb for that feeling eh?
More proof that Dali was a king of hamming it up for the camera. :wub:
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.
:rolleyes:
Quote from: Tyr on February 09, 2014, 09:47:15 AM
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.
Jackson.
Quote from: Tyr on February 09, 2014, 09:47:15 AM
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.
There was a British version. It was posher:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUA7DzMEcHs
'Wage-earning?' 'Is it practical? Do you meet the general public?'
Edit:
David Nixon: 'Is what you do an ordinary, pedestrian job?'
Chair: 'Yes.'
Guest: 'Yes, if you say so.' :lol:
In a certain way Dalí and TV made a very good pairing, he was a huge attention whore and a despicable human being, he'd make a killing nowadays.
Quote from: Tyr on February 09, 2014, 09:47:15 AM
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? :huh:
Great. I've lost all Sunday afternoon watching that show on YouTube.
I loved the German counterpart on TV which ran from the 1950s till 1985.
I liked Sean Connery the most. That voice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj3tZHTOsYQ
:lol:
Jesus. Peter Ustinov and Noel Coward. Holy shit. The amount of talent is incredible.
Spellus obsession 5000 kilometers off our starboard bow!
Aye, Captain. I have two shots of Calvados ready for impending action.
Dalí certainly was in the age of television and he used it pretty well, he was fascinated by technical progress anyway. There's hours of clips from him doing whatever boutade he came up with on the Spanish TV (who pandered him since he was the only world-renowned Spanish artist that wasn't anti-Franco).
Reagan was hilarious.
Quote from: Queequeg on February 09, 2014, 02:46:29 PM
Jesus. Peter Ustinov and Noel Coward. Holy shit. The amount of talent is incredible.
I don't know who those people are.
Eddie, can you link to the reagan one?
I bet John Wayne could never be on that show. His voice would give him away. And actually, even before he spoke I think the women panelists would be able to sense his remarkable masculinity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5D6RnMbfHI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5D6RnMbfHI)
Quote from: Tyr on February 09, 2014, 09:47:15 AM
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.
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on February 09, 2014, 05:16:55 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5D6RnMbfHI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5D6RnMbfHI)
Gracias.
Quote from: Ideologue on February 09, 2014, 05:21:31 PM
Quote from: Tyr on February 09, 2014, 09:47:15 AM
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.
Quote from: Syt on February 09, 2014, 12:57:05 PM
Great. I've lost all Sunday afternoon watching that show on YouTube.
I loved the German counterpart on TV which ran from the 1950s till 1985.
They should bring this show back.
Quote from: jimmy olsen on February 09, 2014, 05:56:28 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on February 09, 2014, 05:21:31 PM
Quote from: Tyr on February 09, 2014, 09:47:15 AM
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.
Quote from: jimmy olsen on February 09, 2014, 05:56:28 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on February 09, 2014, 05:21:31 PM
Quote from: Tyr on February 09, 2014, 09:47:15 AM
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.
Is the bombing of Guernica still considered a hoax in rightwing orthodoxy, or have you guys changed you history on that?
No.
Quote from: alfred russel on February 09, 2014, 05:08:41 PM
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.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 09, 2014, 08:05:19 PM
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 :weep: :wub:
QuotePeter 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.
Spartacus :wub:
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 09, 2014, 08:05:19 PM
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.
He was also Nero in Quo Vadis.
Apparently David Niven's autobiography, The Moon's a Balloon, is also great.
Quote from: jimmy olsen on February 09, 2014, 12:35:50 PM
Quote from: Tyr on February 09, 2014, 09:47:15 AM
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? :huh:
:huh:
Of course. When was the last time you heard anyone actually use it in conversation like that?
Quote from: Sheilbh on February 09, 2014, 09:19:48 PM
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.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 09, 2014, 09:36:04 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on February 09, 2014, 09:19:48 PM
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.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 09, 2014, 09:36:04 PM
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 :P
A colleague of mine met Peter Ustinov several times when she was working for SwissAir in Washington D.C. She said he was one of the nicest persons you'd ever meet.
There's a very high standard of spoken English in that clip, certainly by today's television standards. I also love the Mid-Atlantic accent of one of the panelists. :wub:
Quote from: Warspite on February 10, 2014, 07:42:12 AM
There's a very high standard of spoken English in that clip, certainly by today's television standards. I also love the Mid-Atlantic accent of one of the panelists. :wub:
I presume you might mean Bennett Cerf (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bennett_Cerf)?