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Post by bravomailer on Aug 26, 2020 22:17:56 GMT
Strel was a great poster on the Sports Board also. It took time to get used to him, but he was a good poster. Strelnikoff once solicited suggestions for a movie-related print to adorn his dwelling. My recommendation: 
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Post by cynthiagreen on Aug 27, 2020 8:33:23 GMT
My least favourite poster ever was a female with some hang up about prostitutes - she wasn't around long but she sure annoyed about 90% of the regulars.
Wasn't she the one who thought Jim Hutton was the sexiest man ever? Oh good lord no    - I'd forgotten about Mrs elleryqueen or whatever she was called. She was around a long long long time. I'd go with Sterling Hayden but to each his own 
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Post by cynthiagreen on Aug 27, 2020 8:38:09 GMT
Wasn't she the one who thought Jim Hutton was the sexiest man ever? You mean MrsElleryQueen. I don't recall anything about prostitution, but she sure had a burr under her saddle about age, seeming to resent anyone who happened to have been on this earth longer than she had. Or something like that. And never missed an opportunity, germane or otherwise, to bash Citizen Kane.
She often provoked a poster I quite miss, the knowledgeable and opinionated Hobnob53. No doghouse = MrsEQ was something else again but not the hooker obsessed one. I didn't hate Mrseq or ignore her but I can't say I read many of her posts I don't dislike Jim Hutton but have other interests. .
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Post by cynthiagreen on Aug 27, 2020 8:40:36 GMT
Strel was a great poster on the Sports Board also. It took time to get used to him, but he was a good poster. Strelnikoff once solicited suggestions for a movie-related print to adorn his dwelling. My recommendation: Yes - I was imagining a less genial, chirpy countenance myself - but yeah - that neck of the woods for sure - but he made me roar with laughter and i don't think i ever got into a row with him 
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Post by cynthiagreen on Aug 27, 2020 8:58:09 GMT
Strel was a great poster on the Sports Board also. It took time to get used to him, but he was a good poster. A legendary thread on the old sports board dealt with The Deer Hunter. One poster said that them film was a snoozefest because of the overlong wedding sequence. That thread went on for over 20 pages and for over six months. The old veterans still remember The Great Deer Hunter War. I remember Strel quitting everything except the Food and Drink board in the dying days on IMBd. He told me he was working on a movie project (can't remember if it was an actual screenplay or something related). He never made the move. He used to quiz users to see if hey recognized his signature line, what movie it was from. "You're future is all used up". Always one of my favorite quotes Kael on THE DEER HUNTER " I spent so much time at that wedding I felt that I should have bought a present " Just sayin..... Its not a snoozefest - 8/10 but after one revisit on Tv in 80s I never want to experience it again.
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Post by cynthiagreen on Aug 27, 2020 9:48:51 GMT
cynthiagreen I met Chuck at my closed Amusement Park (save for a dance hall) in Autumn 1994. He had come to the area to promote an election at said hall. My uncle learned of this and got me to the area of his arrival to meet him. I had planned to use an Ex-Library copy of Heston's AN ACTOR'S LIFE for him to sign, but my mom persuaded me its USED condition might not be respective enough. So I used my BEN-HUR: 35TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION VHS Set (which I received that Easter) for him to sign. He came, we met him. He was near 70, far from NRA and later Alzheimers. I asked for his autograph, he accepted. Unfortunately, there was a problem. The finished cardboard cover material made it hard for the pen to make a mark. He asked for another pen (I think he said swirl, referring to his penmanship). Eventually, he decided to use the little paper flier (which gave a short summary of the film and its production) inside the set and autographed it instead. I thanked him, calling myself a fan of his films. He thanked me. We went our separate ways. Later in 2016-17, TrevorAclea wrote his review for BEN-HUR (2016) in IMDb1 and added his reviews of the 1925 and 1959 versions. When I commented about the incident, he responded that he wrote the flier! That is a lovely anecote - so you were 15 or so and would have grown up watching PLANET OF THE APES and THE NAKED JUNGLE onTV?
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Post by claudius on Aug 27, 2020 10:15:00 GMT
Yeah, I was 15, and already seen much of his epic films (THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, BEN-HUR, EL-CID, THE AGONY AND THE ECTASY, THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD, the two APES films, CHARLTON HESTON READS THE BIBLE, his cameos in recent films like TOMBSTONE and TRUE LIES), although I didn't see his low-key or Shakespeare films (or the Musketeer films) yet.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Aug 27, 2020 19:22:35 GMT
I'd love to know whatever became of hobnob65. He was the most knowledgable person on the subject of classic film that I ever knew online (no offense, Doghouse,  ). I really learned a lot from him on the old format. Sorry I missed seeing your post a few days ago. I mentioned Hobnob myself later on the thread (and by the way, it was 53, not 65, which I remember only because it's my birth year which, if I'm not mistaken, was also his). And no offence taken whatsoever. He stumped me plenty of times, but I could never stump him. It's nice of you even to think of me in comparison to him. He could also out-pun me until I was all punned out. And like me, he wasn't shy about writing long posts. We had some verrrrry extended exchanges on individual film boards. Maybe we were the only ones reading them, but we had fun.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Aug 27, 2020 19:56:35 GMT
You mean MrsElleryQueen. I don't recall anything about prostitution, but she sure had a burr under her saddle about age, seeming to resent anyone who happened to have been on this earth longer than she had. Or something like that. And never missed an opportunity, germane or otherwise, to bash Citizen Kane.
She often provoked a poster I quite miss, the knowledgeable and opinionated Hobnob53. No doghouse = MrsEQ was something else again but not the hooker obsessed one. I didn't hate Mrseq or ignore her but I can't say I read many of her posts I don't dislike Jim Hutton but have other interests. . Yeah, it was only jeffersoncody's mention of Jim Hutton that made me think of her. She was colorful and could be contentious, but we got along okay, even after I once suggested she give her remarks about people's ages a rest. In the eighteen years I was on IMDB, I put only four users on permanent ignore, and they all disappeared anyway. And there was one who called herself LetThemEatCake who, if you expressed the slightest disagreement, would come back at you with epithets like "stupid," "liar" and every profanity she could think of. During one such exchange, I told her I found comparing opposing viewpoints enjoyable and was sorry she didn't feel the same way, and her reply was "I HATE people like you!"  But I always say it's better to get your aggressions out harmlessly on a discussion board than to kick the dog or take them out on a spouse.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Aug 27, 2020 20:14:36 GMT
cynthiagreen I met Chuck at my closed Amusement Park (save for a dance hall) in Autumn 1994. He had come to the area to promote an election at said hall. My uncle learned of this and got me to the area of his arrival to meet him. I had planned to use an Ex-Library copy of Heston's AN ACTOR'S LIFE for him to sign, but my mom persuaded me its USED condition might not be respective enough. So I used my BEN-HUR: 35TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION VHS Set (which I received that Easter) for him to sign. He came, we met him. He was near 70, far from NRA and later Alzheimers. I asked for his autograph, he accepted. Unfortunately, there was a problem. The finished cardboard cover material made it hard for the pen to make a mark. He asked for another pen (I think he said swirl, referring to his penmanship). Eventually, he decided to use the little paper flier (which gave a short summary of the film and its production) inside the set and autographed it instead. I thanked him, calling myself a fan of his films. He thanked me. We went our separate ways. Later in 2016-17, TrevorAclea wrote his review for BEN-HUR (2016) in IMDb1 and added his reviews of the 1925 and 1959 versions. When I commented about the incident, he responded that he wrote the flier! That is a lovely anecote - so you were 15 or so and would have grown up watching PLANET OF THE APES and THE NAKED JUNGLE onTV? Oh, and if you're collecting "meeting Heston" stories, here's mine: I spoke to him briefly at an American Film Institute open house in 1974, and he was very cordial, asking my name and introducing me to producer Walter Mirisch, with whom he was standing. I mentioned that meeting later to a friend who knew Heston from his position as a SAG representative, and said that he gave out the feeling that he'd remember you if he saw you again. My friend said, "He would, if not necessarily your name or the time and place. He has a remarkable memory." Three years later, I was backstage after a show at the L.A. Music Center's Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and, going down a hallway toward the dressing rooms, saw Heston approaching. When he caught sight of me, he extended his hand and said, "Hello. We've met, haven't we?" I was absolutely astonished. I may not have agreed with his politics, but from what I've seen, he was truly a gentleman.
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Post by senan90 on Aug 27, 2020 23:48:23 GMT
Did Hafeez or Worov ever post on Classic cinema board? They were great posters
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Post by OldAussie on Aug 28, 2020 0:25:29 GMT
For those who recall Hancockthesuperb (I think that was his name on IMDB) he has a blog nothingiswrittenfilm.blogspot.com/but it has long dormant periods. He was a champion on the Westerns / Lawrence of Arabia boards and for years was a regular on film general and CFB. He left a year or so prior to the demise of the IMDB boards. |
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Post by bravomailer on Aug 28, 2020 1:03:28 GMT
For those who recall Hancockthesuperb (I think that was his name on IMDB) he has a blog nothingiswrittenfilm.blogspot.com/but it has long dormant periods. He was a champion on the Westerns / Lawrence of Arabia boards and for years was a regular on film general and CFB. He left a year or so prior to the demise of the IMDB boards. I remember that, after assiduous research, he insisted there was no evidence that David Lean was the man on the motorcycle along the Suez Canal in Lawerence of Arabia. He also gave informed accounts of the various tribes depicted in the film.
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Post by OldAussie on Aug 28, 2020 1:30:48 GMT
For those who recall Hancockthesuperb (I think that was his name on IMDB) he has a blog nothingiswrittenfilm.blogspot.com/but it has long dormant periods. He was a champion on the Westerns / Lawrence of Arabia boards and for years was a regular on film general and CFB. He left a year or so prior to the demise of the IMDB boards. I remember that, after assiduous research, he insisted there was no evidence that David Lean was the man on the motorcycle along the Suez Canal in Lawerence of Arabia. He also gave informed accounts of the various tribes depicted in the film. Hancock is a very well-read and intelligent guy. I wish I could convince him to post here but I'm pretty sure he has many other interests which keep him busy.
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Post by teleadm on Aug 29, 2020 21:10:26 GMT
I've read through the posts here on this thread, and wondered were was I? well I was not very active in the old boards, I only wrote occasionally. There is a few names that rings a bell somewhere in the back of my head, but I have a hard time placing them. All I can say is that when my old clock didn't want to play along, I know there are many great people here too! A few months ago. When anyone refers to Tele, and I read what Tele wrote, I wonder when on earth I wrote that, offcourse it was the other Tele, since everything sounded too smart to have come from my fingertips. |
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