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Piper Laurie (1932-2023)
"Your Arkansas Traveler" (Budd Schulberg's Original Short Story, 1953)
Nehemiah Persoff, Versatile Character Actor, Dead at 102
Only Slightly O/T: United States Steel Hour Episode "The Rack" April, 1955
O/T - Or Is It? Heinz Goes Retro With Don Draper
If you could program a “Dream Season”…?
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I'd honestly suggest you read the book while you wait for an answer here. I'm not trying to be nasty in suggesting it at all, but to do so would leave you far better able to understand (or refute) any commentary concerning your question.
Ayup... That's the only thing she and I agreed on in the whole series! LoL
..and clam strips!
I can actually tell you what the orange sherbet at HoJo's tasted like: Orange flower water and citric acid! It was the most godawful stuff I've ever eaten in my life, and at that point I was between 3 and 4 years old (late 1960s) and a huge lover of sherbet, ice cream, etc.
"It's not for everybody," the waitress said in that scene - and was she ever right!
You know the really interesting thing is that no matter how many years went by that series never really lost its appeal. I don’t recall seeing it at all in first run because I was less than a year old when the final episode aired in May of 1966, but I definitely remember seeing the reruns after school on local television in the early to middle 70s.
You’re absolutely right – the cast was very much like beloved family members, right down to Arthur Tragg and “Ham” Burger. Even the reboot television movie series worked years later simply because of the gentle familiarity of Raymond Burr and Barbara Hale – nearly 30 years older, but even with the passage of time still the same. It even survived the advent of color with barely a burp.
Too funny! Your sister and I are the same age. In my earliest years I used to require hospitalization pretty often so got a fair amount of attention from the nurses. Usually when DS would be on there was always at least one nurse in my room and we'd end up watching. I didn't care just as long as they brought me some chocolate milk! The subject matter never bothered me a bit. :)
That's true. Otis and Floyd were my favorites I think. Howard McNear was an absolute genius!
My own thought personally is that [i]Citizen Kane[/i] didn't kill anything in terms of genre, no. To say that it revolutionized film-making is I think entirely correct, however.
Jana Loren's parents in "The Lateness Of The Hour."
I can understand that.
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