What are you watching?

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Guessing this without looking it up....Susan Oliver was in the Cage/Menagerie?

You are correct, sir.

Nimoy appeared in numerous TV shows, including Perry Mason.

 

[Deimos]

Speaking of Star Trek TOS (were we?...well, we are now 😄) and The Menagerie....
Has anyone ever watched The Last Starfighter (1984)?.
It's a good story... and yes it has 10 dozen holes in it and the special FX are dated, , but somehow it still works.
(Well, I liked it, and still watch it, maybe every other year.) Both Robert Preston and Dan O'Herlihy shine as alien characters.
And the score is really, really good --(composed and conducted by Craig Safan) --- and nearly impossible to find the CD.
So what has TLS to do with ST TOS, you may ask? Ask away!
Remember the Keepers?

Meg Wylie (right) played the main "Keeper" (who got the most screen time)
In a nice nod to ST TOS legacy the director cast Meg Wylie as Granny Gordon in TLS

Just watched "The Maggie Hamilton Story", an episode of Wagon Train from 1960, featuring two future Star Trek actors:

Susan Oliver as a rebellious teenager-- though she was 28 at the time
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And Leonard Nimoy, as "Cherokee Ned"
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Both appeared in other episodes, by the way.

Lucky regular Robert Horton got to both kiss and spank Susan! 😄

Horton Got to both kiss Oliver and spank her in the same episode??!!
That sounds kind of edgy like, you know, one of those M&M situations 😮😆

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Hmm. I don't remember seeing any of those. 🤔

 

[Deimos]

Hmm. I don't remember seeing any of those. 🤔
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You do apprehend that the phrase "M&M situations" was a euphemism? 😉

 

[Deimos]

@Squint-eyed Southerner ...well OK.... just wanted to make sure.
You're normally pretty bright........ (most of the time😄).....

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

 

[Deimos]

The opening scene (with credits) to the Movie "A Man for All Seasons" (1966)
I can't say exactly why but there's something about both the scene and the music that affects me; it's quietly fascinating.
The score (by Georges Delerue) evokes the renaissance, as do the panoramic shots of the English countryside.
The story takes place c. 1530, so London has not yet "sprawled", and Chelsea (to where the messenger is being taken) is still rural.

 

[Rivendell_librarian]

The opening scene (with credits) to the Movie "A Man for All Seasons" (1966)
I can't say exactly why but there's something about both the scene and the music that affects me; it's quietly fascinating.
The score (by Georges Delerue) evokes the renaissance, as do the panoramic shots of the English countryside.
The story takes place c. 1530, so London has not yet "sprawled", and Chelsea (to where the messenger is being taken) is still rural.

That's what I call an all star cast though the film does skate over the less seemly aspects of More's life. Leo Mckern is great as Thomas Cromwell.

 

[Ent]

Has anyone ever watched The Last Starfighter (1984)?.

I have watched and enjoyed it as well. I believe it is in my DVD collection, though last time I indulged, it was being streamed by some one of the many streaming choices available.

 

[Aldarion]

 

[Deimos]

That's what I call an all star cast though the film does skate over the less seemly aspects of More's life. Leo Mckern is great as Thomas Cromwell.

"I show you the times."

IIRC the movies covers about 5 years, from the time More became Chancellor of England until his death, beheaded for treason.
Robert Bolt intended to show More's character in standing by his convictions whatever the cost.
All he had to do to avoid that pesky beheading was to publicly admit that Henry was Supreme Head of the Church in England; i.e., admit to the legitimacy of the Act of Supremacy.
Consider what he risked by not doing so: The rack (in the beginning), but Henry's conscience wouldn't permit it.

Later, whilst imprisoned in the Tower, he tells his family that he is "sick with fear over what they might do to me."
What they "might do to [him]" is what they did to all traitors: draw and quarter them, this after first parading them through the streets naked.
More did not know at the time that Henry was going to spare him that ignominy and subsequent torture, and allow him a quick death at the block.
So despite his certainty that he would experience D&Q (he was a lawyer, he knew the punishment for treason) he still stood fast in his convictions.

I put this to question to anyone: How many of us would be able to do that?
All you'd have to say to avoid all that excruciating horror would be to say, "Yep Harry, old son, you head the Church here in England, whatever that old guy in Rome may say."
But he didn't .
Not the only man of those times (Catholic or Protestant) to display the courage of his convictions to the point of death, but an admirable example, none-the-less.

 

[Olorgando]

Just added Tom Shippey's homepage to my list of favorites.

 

[Halasían]

Watched the five episodes of ECHO last night. It was really good!

 

[Olorgando]

Watched these the last couple of days (and there's more ... lots more ):

 

[Olorgando]

Here’s one of by now historical interest. The credits at the end state MCMXCII – that’s 1992, the centennial of JRRT’s birth. No wonder everyone looks so young.
Quite a “cast” beginning with Judi Dench doing the narration.
Besides TV and radio interviews with JRRT himself from the 1960’s, there are interviews with:
sons Christopher – and his second wife Baillie – and John, and daughter Priscilla (Michael had passed away in 1984); Robert Murray, SJ; Rayner Unwin; Tom Shippey and Verlyn Flieger; and Queen Margarethe II of Denmark.

 

[Ent]

Well I confess, yesterday when I had some spare moments to read and watch something mindless, I watched 'Deep Impact" again Hadn't seen it in awhile.

All I could see was Frodo Baggins running around. A splendor of the same facial displays seen in certain other films.

That said, I had forgotten there are a few pleasant moments in the film...somehow I'm always gripped by the thought of people making the extreme sacrifice for the benefit of others. Often seen in films, though rarely in life I think.

An analysis of the treatment (development and portrayal) of each of the characters in that film (by the director) would be an interesting event.

 

[Olorgando]

Did a bit of binge-watching of interviews with and lectures by Michael D.C. Drout.
He's the one in the fifth link of my post from last Saturday.
He' a professor of English and Director of the Center for the Study of the Medieval at Wheaton College. However, this is the one in Massachusetts, not the one in Illinois that has JRRT's manuscripts of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
I have the impression that he continues the tradition of JRRT himself, Christopher Tolkien, and Tom Shippey. They all taught of teach Anglo-Saxon, and the latter three have published widely on "The Professor". Did catch the odd, er, "imprecision" in a series of 13 audio lectures bunched together in a single big 8-hour item on YouTube (I made it to about lecture 8 or so).

EDIT: there are 14 lectures, I'd reached 10 early this morning, and they were recorded in 2006.

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

Watched one of my favorite movies last night, Stand By Me.

 

[Olorgando]

More Drout, some Verlyn Flieger, and went off on some tangents about Celts, the Bronze Age Collapse, Scythians, Doggerland ...

 

[Halasían]

That's a good movie Erestor.
I just finished the 5th season of Fargo. It was interestingly good. The TV seasons of Fargo are always so different.
Next is the three seasons of Dark Winds. The thing is all three 'seasons' only add up to 21 episodes, which would have been a single season a few years ago.