spiderwort
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Post by spiderwort on Sept 5, 2017 13:05:31 GMT
Bob NewhartHappy 88th Birthday on September 5, 2017.  Thanks for all the laughs and joy you've brought to so many in your 55 year career, still going strong to this day.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Sept 5, 2017 15:25:06 GMT
Comedy genius!
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Sept 5, 2017 15:51:46 GMT
I really need to check out his two popular TV series....
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Post by bravomailer on Sept 5, 2017 16:14:11 GMT
Loved him since the early sixties. My father had this album and we played it over and over.  |
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Post by Doghouse6 on Sept 5, 2017 16:18:27 GMT
In 1971, Newhart made a TV movie with Gene Wilder (which didn't first air until three years later, for whatever reason) called Thursday's Game, in which they play two friends who've been part of the same weekly poker game for years, and decide when the game breaks up permanently to continue using that one evening a week as a "boys night out," doing things they otherwise didn't have time for (museums; shows and whatnot). This alteration of their routine leads both to unexpected and profound reassessments of their lives.
Written by James L. Brooks and featuring a sterling cast (Ellen Burstyn, Cloris Leachman, Martha Scott, Nancy Walker, Norman Fell, Valerie Harper and Rob Reiner among others), this thoughtful and consistently charming film is apparently little-remembered, but highly recommended (by me, anyway) and the chemistry and harmony between Newhart and Wilder is gem-like.
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Post by mikef6 on Sept 5, 2017 16:30:13 GMT
Loved him since the early sixties. My father had this album and we played it over and over. I loved that album, too. My favorite bits were: Abraham Lincoln's press agent ("You changed 'four score and seven' to, to...87?"), the driving instructor, and the submarine commander. |
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Sept 5, 2017 16:56:11 GMT
Happy Birthday, Mr. Newhart!!       
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Post by bravomailer on Sept 5, 2017 17:03:40 GMT
"Now, looking back on the mutiny...."
I also liked Sir Walter Raleigh – "You do what with tobacco, Walt? You roll it up, set it on fire, and put it in your mouth?!"
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 5, 2017 17:18:50 GMT
I really need to check out his two popular TV series.... Even his other series, while not popular, was fun. Title ? "BOB". |
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Post by teleadm on Sept 5, 2017 18:41:43 GMT
Happy Birthday Bob!!!  |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 5, 2017 19:32:13 GMT
Tom Poston Tangent Hope that you and Bob won't mind. I didn't know that Tom was married to Suzanne. He was 80 when they got married. Rather a Mel Brooks/ Anne Bancroft set  but they actually make sense together. Tom used to be on the original show as the practical joking college buddy. Really funny stuff.
Back to Newhart Did you ever see his other show "BOB" ? I liked it. He was a cartoonist in it.
anyhooo.... and thanks for hosting another party spiderwort .
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Post by spiderwort on Sept 5, 2017 19:50:26 GMT
BATouttaheck No, I never saw BOB. I don't think I ever even knew about it. As for Suzanne and Tom, yes it was a late in life marriage after Suzanne's husband, Thomas J Gallagher III passed away, and Tom's wife Wilma Kay Hudson passed away. What you may not know is that Suzanne and Tom dated for awhile in the fifties when they were acting students in New York. I miss Suzanne. She was one of the world's really special people, may she rest in peace.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 5, 2017 19:54:50 GMT
spiderwort Re: Tom and Suzanne ... now that would make a good movie right there ! Reminds me of "As Time Goes By"
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Post by outrider127 on Sept 5, 2017 19:55:31 GMT
Bob NewhartHappy 88th Birthday on September 5, 2017. Thanks for all the laughs and joy you've brought to so many in your 55 year career, still going strong to this day. He was on Big Bang Theory for several episodes, still a funny guy |
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Post by gunshotwound on Sept 9, 2017 1:01:40 GMT
Happy Birthday Bob Newhart!!!
I love Bob Newhart. I watched Newhart and The Bob Newhart Show during their initial run and loved them and now both of them are on a nostalgia channel I watch and I still watch them. |
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Post by fangirl1975 on Sept 9, 2017 1:11:45 GMT
I'd like to see him on Marvel's Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.
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Post by petrolino on Sept 9, 2017 1:45:30 GMT
Hilarious guy.
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Post by teleadm on Sept 9, 2017 15:13:38 GMT
I don't think any of Bob Newhart's shows was ever showed on Swedish TV, the only thing that they used to show very much in the 1980s was a sketch from The Dean Martin Show, something about a man wanting a refund for a toupé he acidentaly dropped in a fondue cheese dip.
It's in later years I've learned what an icon in entertainment he is.
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but they actually make sense together.
