We have been really enjoying the ME TV shows that are just rebroadcasts of old shows from the 1950's, 1960's and 1970's.
Last night we really enjoyed the "Late Night Noir" that is on Sunday night. They have Peter Gunn and the "Fugitive" but best of all they have that old favorite of mine "The Naked City."
It was one of the first police procedural on TV and was the template for most of the shows that followed. The best part of it is the guest stars who would grow up to be big stars of their own shows later in life.
In this episode Oscar Madison (Jack Klugman) plays a guinea trucking executive whose wife sets up to get run over by a truck. Instead a little girl in her first communion dress got flattened. Last week they had Rip Torn and Tuesday Weld playing a rip off of Charlie Starkweather and Carol Fugate or whatever her name was. There are always great guest stars. This last one had James Farrentino playing one of the brothers and Michael Constantine from Room 222 playing the other brother Vito! What a hoot. It was funny how bad an actor Farrentino was in this episode. On the other hand Klugman was great. He played an Brooklyn Italian to the hilt and had the accent perfect. Plus you can't beat the cars and the fashion and the look of New York in the 1950's as it was all done on location. It was a lot of fun.
Beat the crap out of what was on regular TV.
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Klugman playing a Brooklyn Italian? That's as bad as Abe Vigoda playing Tessio in the Godfather.
You telling me there was a dearth of genuine Italian-American actors in the 70's? I'm having a senior moment but I can see at least two in my mind's eye right this moment. Just the names aren't coming. It's a pet peeve of mine when they miscast ethnically. Don't care how good the actor is, it throws everything off.
Danny Aiello and Robert Loggia. Ben Gazarra (who I love). There's three right there. Any one of them would have been better in the part than Klugman because no backgound friction of the guy's not Italian!
No he was really good.
I mean he was a real actor.
James Farrentino who is in fact a paisan was wooden and sucked monkey balls.
Maybe it was more of a neighborhood guy.
In fact I was mistaken. The episode took place in the Village which was Italian back in the day.
Oh and happy New Year ricpic.
Tony Randall was a fag in I Love Sydney and probably in real life.
Fucking fags.
tits.
I just peaked over at TOP and I believe Allie and chick are defriending each other.
Meanwhile do you guys ever pinch a loaf and realize later in the day that you didn't clean all the loaf out of your ass? I kind of like it when it gets crusty and I can pick it out of the small hairs in my pucker.
Also, we played soccer after work and one of the women's pussies got right into my face and I could smell it-it seriously smelled like poop. Is that common?
tits.
Titus, Tony Randall fathered a child in his seventies. He loved opera and the ladies.
Titus! You don't clean out back there afterwards? A shanda.
I know Ricpic but he what we call a "straight fag".
I believe they are straight guys who act like fems or fags but still like women and marry them and are very happy.
I know a couple of married guys who act like big pooftahs but are very happy, have children and have a lovely life. And I don't think they even do any Larry Craig shit either in some rest area.
Have any of you straighties ever done any gay shit?
Be honest.
We are all friends here.
I did straight stuff when I was young. I was experimenting.
When I was little I used to take all the little girls in my neighborhood into the dog house and feel their little titties and they would feel my hog and I would dry hump them. I also fooled around with half my female cousins. I became sexually active at like the age of 9.
I agree that's what so great about the old TV shows. Its like the "Untouchables" one episode Elizabeth Montgomery or Robert Redford, the next its an established star like Lee Marvin or William Bendix. Klugman was a very good actor, too bad people just think of him as "Oscar Madison".
Right now Perry Mason is on. Leonard Nimoy is playing a hot headed thug who slaps his girlfriend around. Kind of like real life. Oh, right, in real life he drank himself into a stupor and was never charged with domestic battery.
How about that Perry Mason - a man among men, am I right?
ricpic, Jews and Italians are interchangeable. My old man would dicker w/ Jewish store owners and they always thought he was a Jew..you know the swarthy Jew type.
Rockford Files now. Some of those were written and/or directed by David Chase, who later created the Sopranos. Those are some of the most convoluted episodes of Rockford. They had characters whose last names ended in vowels. You know the type.
Sixty, Good info on Chase, I didn't know that. Today is Gandolfini's 51st birthday. I would have had him 5-7 years older.
He is a strapping young lad, that's for sure. Watch an epi from the first season of the Sopranos and you might notice how young he looks compared to the last season. Having steady work will age you, just sayin'...
Since switching to Roku, we are watching some older shows that we either missed or that are worth watching again. I love Third Rock From the Sun.
We never did get to see Dexter, so we are buying/renting it from Amazon.
Beat the crap out of what was on regular TV.
Yes. And we are free. On our own schedule now. Pretty nice.
Third Rock was funny. That big blonde works on some cable show now - she is impressive as hell.
Funny, too!
I just got caught on "Breaking Bad" - five seasons on DVD in about 6 weeks. One of those amazing shows that just gets better season after season. But still only 50 episodes, that's like 1.5 seasons of Perry mason.
I'd rather hire Saul Goodman than Perry Mason.
I always figured Titus was a bidet sort of guy.
"I'd rather hire Saul Goodman than Perry Mason."
Of course you would, Perry only defended the innocent.
Saul only defends the guilty.
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