What are you watching?

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Halasían: Oh yes! To both. If we're going back to the 60's, don't forget the Great Mary Ann vs Ginger Controversy.

 

[Halasían]

Halasían: Oh yes! To both. If we're going back to the 60's, don't forget the Great Mary Ann vs Ginger Controversy.

Of course we're going back to the 60's if we're talking 1st celebrity crushes. I indeed loved watching Gilligan's Island. And that is a fine list there Gandolorian! I'll have to add Angie Dickinson, Grace Slick, and Nancy Sinatra to my 60's celeb-crushes as well. If we move on to adolescence in the 70's then I was all in for Stevie Nicks and ALL of Charlie's Angels --- Farah Fawcett, Jaclyn Smith, and Kate Jackson!

 

[Olorgando]

Oddly, when I move forward into the 70s, 80s and beyond, names fade even more.
I find myself going rather back in time, where the names Marilyn, Jane Russel, Maureen O'Hara, Jayne Mansfield, Barbara Eden, and of course Jean Harlow pop up. Maybe because their (old) films ran on US TV much more, with me viewing them, than I watched films or TV, the latter especially after the advent of private, commercials-financed TV in Germany in the mid-80s, with the to-be-expected steep nose-dive in quality this entailed - and that from an already diminished starting point caused by our public TV channels committing (repeating) the "original sin" of TV by allowing "Dallas" (aired in Germany as of 1981) and "Dynasty" (aired in Germany as of 1983) to pollute prime-time TV.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

How could I forget Harlow? I saw Red Dust on TV at age 14, and couldn't believe my eyes.

She sure featured in my adolescent fantasies, I can tell you. 🥵 🥵

 

[rollinstoned]

Nobody has mentioned Grace Kelly.

 

[Olorgando]

Nobody has mentioned Grace Kelly.

True.
But for one she often played roles of the "icy blonde" type. And then she married Prince Rainier of Monaco, and her children Caroline, Albert and Stéphanie were born in 1957, 1958 and 1965.
But as you remind me, Princess Caroline was certainly someone to fantasize about, and more my age (a tad younger) in contrast to those I mentioned above. In fact, some younger (mostly, but not only) actresses that later caught my eye were similar to her in appearance (at least at a first glance).

 

[rollinstoned]

True.
But for one she often played roles of the "icy blonde" type. And then she married Prince Rainier of Monaco, and her children Caroline, Albert and Stéphanie were born in 1957, 1958 and 1965.
But as you remind me, Princess Caroline was certainly someone to fantasize about, and more my age (a tad younger) in contrast to those I mentioned above. In fact, some younger (mostly, but not only) actresses that later caught my eye were similar to her in appearance (at least at a first glance).

All of Grace Kelly's children are pretty good looking people - fairly understandable with their parents. Nicole Kidman used to look a little like Grace Kelly (she even played her in some crap movie)

 

[Halasían]

Going back to the movies dad liked watching, I was more a Hedy Lamar fan. And how could I forget Jeanie??

In an attempt to get this thread off the sidetrack, I just watched Easy Rider...

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Oh, no you don't -- not so fast! Not after mentioning Jeannie!

And here's Barbara, pre-Jeannie, in a scene that must have messed up the mind of many a young lad ( and not a few lasses):

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

STAR BLAZERS!
Who watched this as a kid?

Of course, the original Japanese version was "Space Battleship Yamato", of which there were three seasons in the 70's and early 80's, plus several movies.

In this century, there have been remakes:

Including a live action film:

The musical theme is still quite popular; there are a number of performances on youtube. This is a favorite of mine:

Edit: Here's a guitar-heavy version of the 2199 theme, with lots of action:

 

[Halasían]

Sons of Anarchy

 

[Olorgando]

Never saw any Battleship Yamato-based stuff, but I own a 1997 German translation of "Jane's Battleships of the Twentieth Century" (original 1996? by HarperCollins) which definitely is a gold-mine for any battleship nerd.
What I did watch (I'm surprised my parents let me) was the "... British science-fiction television series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, often shortened to Captain Scarlet," originally aired on Britain's ITV 1967-68. I haven't been able to find the release information for the US in the article. "It is one of several Anderson series that were filmed using a form of electronic marionette puppetry dubbed "Supermarionation" combined with scale model special effects sequences." The title hero has some characteristics in common with Star Trek Voyager's Seven-of-Nine much later.

I'll just give you the start and end credits. If you want to look at any episodes, YouTube seems to have oodles of them (about 25 minutes each).

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

Anyone else ever read Dune? This looks pretty good, can't wait to see it.

 

[Halasían]

Anyone else ever read Dune? This looks pretty good, can't wait to see it.

I read the 1st 5 books written by Frank Herbert. I tried reading House Atredies by his son Brian Herbert but didn't finish it. It was a 'prequel' to 'Dune' and the writing was definitely different from his dad's. I may try reading it again.

This trailer is the 3rd rendition of a filmed product. I remember the David Lynch movie of 1984 which had some good aspects to it, but Paul was not believable as a teenager in it. There was some really crappy acting too which I blame the screenwrite more than the actor. Patrick Stewart really appeared to phone in some of Gurney's parts to a point where he couldn't keep a straight face doing a scene in a sandstorm.

I didn't mind the Sci-Fi channel's mini-TV series in the early 2000's. Paul was more believabe and they did a better job of trying to get the story acrross at the ending of Dune.

I will be curious about this new venture.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

I read some of it when it was serialized in Analog, believe it or not.

And the whole thing when the Ace paperback came out.

None of the sequels, though I did reread the original some years ago. I haven't seen any of the adaptations.

This trailer looks pretty good. I take it the sandworms moved back to Arrakis, after their contract with Peter Jackson was over?

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

I read some of it when it was serialized in Analog, believe it or not.
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And the whole thing when the Ace paperback came out.
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None of the sequels, though I did reread the original some years ago. I haven't seen any of the adaptations.

This trailer looks pretty good. I take it the sandworms moved back to Arrakis, after their contract with Peter Jackson was over?

I only read the first one this year actually. The David Lynch movie was awful when I watched it but this new one looks really good so far. I also plan to read the next couple of books eventually too.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

I saw an article on line saying this film covers the first half of the original book, with another planned.

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

I saw an article on line saying this film covers the first half of the original book, with another planned.

Yup, that's what I read too.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

This may be of interest:

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

One of the greatest moments of 90's TV: