27 Burst results for "Clark Gable"
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Christopher Lambert Is Not Your Average Leading Man In "Highlander"
"Let's talk for a second by Christoph Lambert, so my ever suffering son was so good as to watch this movie with me last night. And he said, and he'd seen it. I had shown it to him as a kid. Ten years ago. I think halfway through the move said, that guy's really ugly. I Christoph Lambert is not your average leading man. Forget the accent, the fact that he's blind, this massive forehead, the deep set eyes, I look, he kind of works in a wave because the love story with Heather, he sells that love story, and then the little girl Rachel will talk about Rachel in a second. That's an amazing sub story. But he's not a really good, you know, Marlon Brando, in my opinion. No, no, no, no. And especially when you put him up against Sean Connery. Sean Connery could be his father. Oh my gosh. You know, and he's like ten times more handsome still as an old man. So you do feel a little bit bad for me. If you think about it in that context, but look, he is the hero of the story. I think there is something about in the 1980s. They didn't actually. And this is actually something even back in the, you know, in the early cinema. I often talk about one of my favorite actors of all time being William Powell. If you put him up against Clark Gable, or Cary Grant, or somebody like that, William Powell pales in comparison in terms of looks, but he is so absolutely charming. He'll just like charm the brains out of anybody. That's a bit like, wouldn't you say Bogart is the same? Absolutely right. Absolutely right. And so you do find actors that are so unbelievably charming. It doesn't really matter that they're not the most handsome guy in the world. Now, I mean, I think today they care a little bit more about how handsome certain actors are in certain kind of roles. When you find somebody like Sean Connery, dashingly handsome guy, excellent actor. I mean, that's obviously like the Holy Grail of stars.
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
"clark gable" Discussed on AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
"And I said to the guy at the bar, is this why you drink fireball? In honor of Carol Lombard, he said, yes, sir. All these years later, it's still going on. Both beautiful and sad. Now so many decades of pants since she's dead, but the patrons at the pioneer saloon and good springs always raised their glasses to her. And they likely spend a few minutes gazing at the Lombard and Gable memorabilia hanging on the wall, which is when me and the girlfriend sat there's even some cigar burn marks on the bar, the legend says they were left behind by a drunken and sad Clark Gable. And then they'll listen once more, to a tragic tale of fame, love, and fate that continues to captivate them to this day. But you need to know, when you talk about this death, many of you don't understand that Clark Gable and Carol Lombard were at one point the king and queen of Hollywood. The highest paid stars of the era, they rose from silent movies in the 1920s to the big giant silver screen romance, these beautiful films of the 30s and the only paired up once in 1932 film called no man of her own. Now both were divorced when they became an item and after a romance of three years, they eloped to Arizona and they were married in March of 1939 just before the premiere of Clark Gable's big hit Gone with the Wind. This was really the pre split Brad Pitt and Angelina of their day. And the country was already on the edge, following America's entry into World War II, the month before, when word came that there would be no happily ever after for the celebrity couple. So this twin engine D.C. three airliner carrying Carol Lombard, her mother, Gable's press agent, and 19 other passengers and crew
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
"clark gable" Discussed on AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
"And we order a couple of big old cheeseburgers and some steak shish kebab for tootsie and they gave her a nice bowl of water, and we just took it all in. Just watching all the regulars who go there probably every night and the walls are lined with so many framed newspaper clippings that I couldn't possibly read them all. They were at least a hundred, and of course they're a beautiful pictures of Clark and Carol. There's even a piece of an airplane on the wall, and that's because this place was right next to the mountain. Where the plane Carol Lombard was flying on, crashed and killed her. And it's also the place where a Clark Gable went to stay and grieve and to be part of the search party, and just to hopefully see and touch his once great love again. Now if you remember, I told you the beautiful love story between Clark and Carol some years ago. And that plane trip she was taking was a trip, her mother didn't want her to take her mother was into numerology like me. And she begged her not to take it. But Carol took it. And what ended up happening is this gorgeous and very funny Hollywood star died that day because of a coin flip and a pilot's inexplicable miscalculation, what was this about 80 years ago? And that crash wrote a chapter in local history that continues to attract fans and curious people to this rugged Clark county crash site from all corners of the world. And what amazes me is all the regulars I found there, how open and honest they were to us about what this place means to them. One guy begged me not to mention this place on the podcast. But I have to because it's just too beautiful. Very large man. I'm talking a biscuit under 400 pounds with a big old black stetson hat. Who sat at the corner seat at the bar, which is rumored to be the seat. While not rumored, it is the seat to Clark Gable sat trying to find out more news about his love. And I walk up to him, and I was kind of mortified.
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
"clark gable" Discussed on AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
"I'm at a house at a show place. But I can't get no place with you. You're so supreme. Dream, dream, day and night if you scheme, just for the sight of you. But what good does that do? I've been consulted by Franklin D, even Clark Gable has had me for tea, but now I'm broken hearted. Because I can't get started with you. You so supreme. My dream day and night of you scheme just for this side of your book. What good does it do? I've been consulted by Franklin D, even carbo, has had me to take. But now I'm broken hearted. Because I can't get started with you. He's saying that song. He didn't say, I just said, and that was enough for my mother to drop gel. And be with him. Beautiful stuff. I don't know. Why the keys fill out? I don't know if I did something I shouldn't have done or whatever the fuck, but I did what my heart told me to do. And. I embraced the sadness that I feel. The sadness I've pushed away and denied. Neglected. So. I just wanted you to. Be involved with that. Does that tell you guys everything yourself? There it is. That's it. That's all I got. That's your daily unfiltered podcast for December 28th, 2022. Sometimes gang, you just have to dive in. To dark, deep waters. Trust me, you do.
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
Why Do These Modern Male Actors Like Jordan Elsass Need Mental Breaks?
"Clint Eastwood never needed a mental break. Isn't that something? John Wayne never need lamento but Walter Matthau, Telly Savalas. I can go on and on. Clark Gable. Jimmy Stewart. These guys went to war. These guys fought as fighter pilots in war. Well, can't do movies, got a little World War II and kill some crowds and japs. And they came back and made movies. No one said, I need a break. I need a break. I can't find my mark and see where my light is. I just need a break. What does it say about us as a society? What does it say about the men in this business? Who just need to be pampered and coddled? Unbelievable. So the latest guy who needs a break is Jordan l-sats. Now, I don't really know this dude. I don't watch the show on The CW network called Superman & Lois. It's about to start its third season. I never watch anything on The CW. He's a 20 year old kid. And he's played Jonathan Kent on the network show that takes place in the Arrowverse and suddenly he said, you know what? I'm struggling with my mental health. He put this up in a cameo posted to Twitter
Dear Shandy
"clark gable" Discussed on Dear Shandy
"I thought asking for a kiss was weak, but did this makes asking for a kiss look like Clark Gable and gone with a win. Okay, well now Tino and Rachel talk. The one who, by the way, apparently we got this wrong at night one, people were saying justice for Tino because we thought he said, would you like me to kiss you, but apparently it was, would you let me kiss you? The question was. A little better. It is better. But it's still real. I actually think it could be almost hot. Would you let me kiss you? Oh, it's almost like he's a sub. No. You've been a bad boy. You can not kiss me. As a matter of fact, get on your news. And show me your balls. I'm gonna step on them right now. I do think would you let me kiss you as hotter? Yeah. Way hotter than that. Would you let me kiss your scissors? Oh, I'm getting here to just say, you're right. You are right. Justice for Tino indeed. Yeah, we were missed that one. So Tino now associate he is a secret and the secret is. He's a sub. That he's a 100% certain. He's only pursuing her. She loves this. Yeah. And they make out heavy duty. Like
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
"clark gable" Discussed on AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
"I'll be calling it well, I know what we call Friday shows free bull Friday because I like to let them hang. I like to tell you things that come out of left field or right field and maybe it's not the stuff you thought you'd want to hear, but believe it or not, once you hear it, you'll be thinking about it all day. Just so you know, we got back me and the girlfriend got back from shopping for some food at the hotel and we got my dog to see a squeaky toy, you know, she had to squeaky toy, maybe 9, ten months ago, and she loved it and she broke the squeaky thing. The mechanism she busted. And now we went back to this place. It's called terribles. And gene Nevada, it's a big old gas station with 96 pumps, but inside has so much stuff you can buy, you have no idea. I bought a wallet. You could buy fucking snow tires. I mean, you have no idea. That's no time. But you can play anything you want. Great food. The greatest chicken salad sandwiches, am I right? I mean, the greatest chicken salad sandwiches and normally when a sandwich is in a piece of plastic, you go, they're fantastic. Right? She loves it. So she's a little bit nuts today because the squeak toy that she loves is in my knapsack right beneath me. When the show's over, I'll squeak it and you can watch her go absolutely bananas. But right now, if you hear a breeding heart, I apologize. Good news, Vegas has been fine. Weird thing going on. Have you guys heard about this game fallout new Vegas? It's a video game, maybe some of your kids might have heard about it or played it. You know, we always look for things to do. We used to go to this place, not used to. We went to this place last year, it's an old saloon outside a gene, Nevada called pioneer saloon. It's actually the place where I did a whole show on Clark Gable used to go there. And it's actually the place he would sit at and drink and get real sin because his woman at the time Carol Lombard was on a plane and the plane crashed into a mountain right outside the window of pioneer saloon.
Key Battles of American History
"clark gable" Discussed on Key Battles of American History
"Is not going to is not going to last long. So. Right. Well, all right, so after a grueling fight, they reached the summit of the mountain, the lieutenant gives striker a flag. And tells him to put it up. It's just a striker gets to be the guy who puts up the flag. He sends four marines to set it up. And this is actually the second flag raising. They don't show the first one at all, but this is the famous iconic one that the famous photo was made of and we'll have a whole movie about that and next after this one. And the three real people who were the features of this movie are in this scene. Yeah, the three surviving supposed flag raisers, the ones who were believed to be flag racers at that time who will be the main characters in flags of our fathers. They're really in the movie. Now, striker now finally seems at peace, but he's shot by a sniper, and he is killed. And Conway and Thomas and bass and the other marines find on his person a letter, it's an unfinished letter by striker to his son. They read it out loud. It's very touching. It's hard not to tear up when that is red. In the letter striker admits to being a failure in many ways and conways this will all finish the letter. Then the marines raise the U.S. flag atop the mountain and inspiring the men to continue the fight. And that is, that's it. It's a rather abrupt ending to the thumb. It is abrupt and they go into the halls of montezuma, of course, and I couldn't help but sing with them. I've known the words to that song since I was a little kid. I guess in the duke dies, you don't have much point in the film anymore. That's right. I mean, there's no point. Just shut it down. There's no point continuing. It's kind of like when Cary Grant, I'm not Cary Grant again. When Clark Gable dies and silent run deep, there's just no point to continue the movie. And I should, well, I'll save that discussion for next time about the flag razors. I threw out a hint there. All right, so Sean, any thoughts other than the abrupt ending on that final part? No. Nope, I mean,.
Key Battles of American History
"clark gable" Discussed on Key Battles of American History
"And so I was able to do a lot of I mean, he had been trained as an editor. So and actually it was very innovative. He had as well as Orson Welles and their cinematographer Robert hall were very innovative coming up with ways to cut between scenes, they invented the invisible wipe, which is using a shot of the camera to go through something to go up to something solid and then putting another frame of film starting in something solid so that if you're that's what's called an invisible wipe. So it's a seamless edit that he helped invent. And I just pre ordered the director's cut of Star Trek the motion picture on Blu-ray. So I'm looking forward to seeing that. There is no comparison, right? Well, yeah. At least there wasn't at the time. Yeah. That's true. People don't like Star Trek the motion picture. I liked it. It's long. I have seen the director's cut on plain DVD in standard definition. And it's very good because it actually cleans up a lot of the story. But I've been looking forward to the DVD for a long time. So I'm excited about that. So the Blu-ray, rather, in high definition. All right, so how about some of these actors? Yeah. Imagine our audience is heard of at least a couple of these guys. Yeah, I mean, come on, Clark Gable was rep butler. I mean, you can't really, how can you be a fan of old films and not know Rhett butler, you know, Clark Gable. Buddy, he did a million other films, he did from he did 60 motion pictures from 1918 to 1960. So he won an Oscar for it happened one night. He was in mutiny on the bounty. He was in, obviously, Gone with the Wind. And in a million other films that he was in. So this is one of his more prominent films, there's also one of his last films. So and then I'm going to talk a little bit about the war service of some of these actors. So Clark Gable actually, although he was older, he was in his, he was actually in his 40s, but he volunteered for the army, army air corps during World War II. He was an officer and he was trained as a gunner on bombers, but he mostly spent the war making recruiting films, but he did actually see combat in a B-17, flying over Germany. They were filming something and on a combat mission, and he grabbed a machine gun. And bought off, helped fight off German fighters. So he actually got in a lot of trouble because a German cannon shell actually shot through the airplane right next to his foot and the studio was not his studio in the army. We're not happy about that. So yeah, and so then the other person, the other major star, the film is Burt Lancaster. He's one of those, he's, you know, one of those great Hollywood stars of that post war era, you know, along with Robert Mitchum and Charlton Heston and Gregory Peck. He's in that and Jimmy Stewart. Yeah, Jimmy Stewart, Jimmy Stewart actually has a pre and post war. Stark online, John Wayne, but like the ones you really came of age during the war, rod immediately after the World War II and I pictured them the 50s, right? In the 1950s, the big stars Kirk Douglas is another example. But he actually had served in the war also as a morale officer. But he did not act before the war..
Unbottleneck - Digital Marketing Solutions
"clark gable" Discussed on Unbottleneck - Digital Marketing Solutions
"When you're when you're not learning the ins and outs of google. I all of us. Seo geeks do you're pursuing your insatiable passion for pop culture I saw firsthand when we at the conference in napa a baby boomer a millennial body. She's convinced her soul was born in nineteen forty-nine ask her about prince freddie mercury mercury and her extensive uncle pop collection. That's amazing. I think we were talking a little bit before the show about how my is also huge on funk. Oh pablo did the stem from your relatives that you know that. Got ingrained in you driving the back of a car. Where where did this You know Baby boomers stuck in a millennials body. Start yes so. I love it. You asked about it. I feel like my grandma finds ways to creep into every single thing that i'm doing it always really warms my heart because you know she passed away a few years ago but i always find little reminders of her. And that's really where i think it did start Is that from a very very young age. My grandma was my best friend and it didn't matter that there was a giant. You know age got between us. We just really bonded like at heart and soul and so she taught me from a very young age. So funny during my lunch break today was like scrolling through like the clark gable. Hashtag on instagram. Just what was on there. Like this was literally what i do and i think it all goes back to my grandma That like she a really cool story about her is that she was born in nineteen twenty and i also think i got my love of pop culture from her because she used to tell me back in those days when she was a teenager that you would send out for photos of your favorite stars so this would be. She loved clark gable. She loved katherine hepburn. She loved these like classic. Hollywood stars in so you would send out for like a photo from them and they would autograph it and send it back to. I was so bummed that i never found those. I'm sure they were somewhere. But i really think my love of all things older than me. Also just being very drawn to people who are older than me started with her. Because she and i just best friends. It wasn't like a typical sort of Grandparent grandchild relationship. I grew up with her. And then in addition to that you know being around my mom we were. We really like the three amigos and my mom from a very early age..
The BOB & TOM Show Free Podcast
"clark gable" Discussed on The BOB & TOM Show Free Podcast
"Gino. Welcome to bits and pieces. The podcast that revisits. Our favorite. Bob and tom show comedy bets today. We are talking about old people who i'm going to hang out with my grandma later this week. Pine i'm so jealous of grandmothers election ship. It's fine it's cute. It's cute we go to the farmer's market. She picks out-pizzas she tells me. Is the cutest resent. So this is how you tell. If it's a good peach you wanna smell it and if it smells like a peach you get really smells like but she was like you know what i mean like if you can if you can smell it right away right if there's no posing if there's kind of like cardboard it smells like a peach. You're good to go all those years of wisdom and it's i mean. She knows a good one. I would not follow her around whatever she picks me good for sure. That's true. I just want to ask her like a movie. Did you like back in nineteen thirty nine. It was gone with the wind. Right stud. Who else did you like. Gary cooper are you. Are you an old lady on the inside. Yeah you like old timey movies. And i love oh over screen. The it's the my favorite all my birthday. We went to see gone with the wind at a movie theater. And i brought the median age down to probably fifty sure me being there and in line for the bathroom with all the old ladies. Someone said something. I go and i just was like. Oh clark gable and blah blah blah and. What about him in red dust with jean harlow and they were just like i am i. Yes these are my people. Mardi mc fly. She would take delorean backed about mid thirties. Maybe come back. that's the thing you guys. There's new air conditioning. yeah yeah. acp would really take it up. I mean. I couldn't the earliest. I could time travel. I guess mid seventies yeah is that when central. Ac really kicks in pretty seriously. I don't i love the heat. So i'm not the person to talk to really. Oh gosh yeah. I well we were just talking off mike about how we We're all excited about fall. I'm wearing a hoodie. It's day one of fall. You're wearing a sweater. We you said that you didn't take your stuff out of storage yet. You wanted to get some some new layers if you will. It was not necessarily for fall. It was more for serotonin got got it cool. Yeah i'm going to buy some money. Yes abroad riffat. Yeah but it is fun when you get done. Pack your false stuff and you're like oh. I forgot about this. This'll be fun and this is cute and yes you do. You unpack fall stuff. I have the only thing that i really put away like winter boots. I have like one or two years. I've a big winter jacket but most of my stuff is on the side of my closet. That i can't really get to kinda shove it away. Yeah here's mine. Here's my summer stuff. This is visual here. Here's my winter stuff is right here two bucks at the same okay bye organization in storage skills. I would absolutely do that because it's like. Hey i want more room. I don't wanna to cram everything. And i'm crammer okay. All the shoes pilots bottom alma crammer. Also we have We had a fourth bedroom in my house that we turned into like an open space upstairs and it had a had a closet. Well i could. I walled off that closet and put the opening my bedroom so in the master bedroom. There's another closet with just shelves and shelves and shelves and we have very small closets in my house and so we have to switch out. So i pack all the kids stuff up and we put all of our stuff on the shelves and then in each season will i mean every two seasons you know the warm seasons in the cold seasons but yeah we just wish it out. Yeah i remember as a kid. We'd summer stuff would go to the basement and cardboard boxes most likely in avon cardboard box. And then you pull it out for the next summer and that's like let's trial and everything and see if it still fits course. Nothing does and i'm like. Why are we still. This has happened two years in a row. Mom i think only nine next year we bigger fish. All the stuff couldn't get rid of it. It's like well we might need it. You might need it. Yeah your mom. I'm not playing this game any more on the longest six different range of not not only gosh. I remember being like a fourteen are juniors or something like that was awesome. It's all regular sorry list. I was like a twelve husky for boy. Shorts with my new baggy. T. shirt that. I still wear a bad because it's big husky. Well i i i was. I was a shape. And i needed to wear boys genes for a little while. Like i don't i don't know if my heads in the space go down. That's going to wedding this weekend. And i needed a new undershirt. Nice button up shirt okay. And because the ones i had were kinda yellowy in awhile and there are four different like frames for men there's morgenthaler and then there's maybe bigger whatever that was and then there was slim and extra slim. I have to figure out which one of you do it. Would you do what you gotta buy them. 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The Steve Deace Show
"clark gable" Discussed on The Steve Deace Show
"Just just i i wanted. I wanted to be in the development meaning when somebody came up with that title for the movie. Because i'd have been like. I need to quit right now. I'm never going to come up with a better movie title. The rest of my life than that. So indiana jones raiders of the lost ark number. Sixteen on my sweet sixteen favorite movies of all time which brings us to number fifteen. Aaron believes this is a dude code violation. But i have gone with the wind at number fifteen. This is. i used to watch this once every year and has haven't watched it in several years. But i mean you wanna talk. This is the alternate old school. Hollywood epic before. Cgi when they were using actual extras for everything. And clark gable is rhett butler dude. Dude you wanna talk about timeless. That guy's nickname should be dude code. Okay i mean does it get any freaking cooler than car gable. In general of course the controversy surrounding this movie. Frankly my dear. I don't give a damn and the whole controversy about having that line in the movie at that time i mean nowadays you put your kids. And they watch the disney channel and They're told i don't give a damn but back. Then it was. It was a scandal for clark gable to utter that line unedited in a movie Everybody has this film considered one of the ten greatest movies of all time by any objective list. If you If you adjust for inflation. It's i think one of the five or six highest-grossing movies of all time. It's about a period it in an encapsulates historical period that i've always been very fascinated by which is that. Which is the civil war era. When i grew up as a kid i watched the blue and the gray the north and the south all that kind of stuff studied bunch of that in school and everything else And the cinematography. It's it's it came out the same year as another movie. That's gonna be on this list here in a little bit. And i wouldn't say that it's quite that impressive but still when you look at the landscape and the way you realize that they made this movie almost seventy five years ago. It's it's it's pretty incredible. And i absolutely love the film. Love it and this is the kind of movie by the cold wintry desolation day or a soldiery hot summer day. You want to go outside and you have three and a half hours to kill. This one is right up your alley so gone with the wind is number fifteen on my list. I've seen it once. It was a longtime ago before. I was married so more than twenty years ago. It's made almost no impact on me other than the obvious scenes that i can remember which makes me think i need to go back and watch it Again i but this this. I will say this th this only we're only two in. This is a perfect day. Sian melding so far indiana. I mean most people would be from one of those two the other one. Is that what you're saying. If this is the quality of the list so far. I'm in now erin this dude code violation and not just one of the lead male characters name is ashley. Shit is f-. I made the case that i want to make. I'll get fired on the spot like that's ever before true Here's the thing though. I'll i'll give you a pass on this. Now if there was like a musical. Like rogers and hammerstein or a west side story on your list somewhere then it would be like burn this list with fire. I agree agree. But there's not so number thirteen. Moolah there's no late is like les miz. I think is a good movie but but if it was paired with gone with the wind in any top twenty any top sixteen list than no jonah hill. Gif i still think. Shakespeare in love is a better movie than saving private ryan. Down here and remember. The big controversy that year at the oscars won best picture. I saw both movies. I do and it's a good move. It is a good move and and saving private ryan opening. Ten minutes is the best picture of the year the rest of the movie. I don't like i don't and you know what i don't like about. It is really got really i to this day. I believe they vietnam world war two. We're not doing anything noble here. What's the point of all this. We just wanna go home. Nothing's happened here. That's the rest of the movie starts off with the this heroic stand on the on the beaches of northern france. Okay and then. The rest of the movie is tom. Hanks is essentially Tom cruise in born on the fourth of july. Just wants out. it's dumb stupid. what are we doing it. Pissed me off watching it. I have not seen the movie since. I saw it in theaters because it made me so mad watching it at the time that might be one. You need to see you know. Yeah the misreading okay. It's one i need to see a war is he. So i mean it wasn't they weren't all. Gi joe undergrad. Kind of gi joe. But this wasn't denying in the summer of seventy man. Okay you know this. We're not we're not we're not. We're not practicing military masturbation to lbj's domino theories you see. This is freaking existential. You know end of the world kinda stuff in. Everybody knew it you know and i really didn't like the You know We're just gonna mail at in here. What's the point you know doesn't make any sense i. It really bothered me when i saw them. Do you remember that allowed before. Perhaps best reflects broke. But okay i got to number fourteen on. The list is avengers endgame. And we've done so much about this movie in the past couple of years i..
Tracing The Path
"clark gable" Discussed on Tracing The Path
"Var story walter mirisch born in nineteen twenty one. Mirisch was the son of a polish immigrant and grew up in new york city where he found all of theater throughout high school. And after he worked as an usher jerseys city state theatre a heart. Murmur kept him out of the navy so he moved to bourbon. California to work at lockheed martin's bomber after that he went back east and got a degree from harvard. After graduation he got a job as a production at monogram studios a small movie production company. That made low budget action films including fifteen. John wayne westerns. Walter would work there until nineteen fifty-six but it was during the world war two period that monogram excelled the us office of war information controlled hollywood during world war two as it saw the entertainment industry a good propaganda tool. They use the bureau of motion. Pictures to relay the themes. The government wanted to see and wanted to restrict in addition to creating movies with patriotic themes. Hollywood directors also created documentaries for the us office of war information directors. Like frank capra. John ford and john houston among others participated. Smaller companies like monogram with smaller distribution flew under the radar bit and they could produce more movies the war years so many of the entertainment industry celebrities get drafted or enlist in the war. Actors like jimmy. Stewart clark gable and douglas fairbanks dancers gene kelly and cesar romero and musicians like john coltrane in henry mancini all served in the war that gave young actors like blake edwards plenty of opportunities to be in the movies. Blake was able to be in thirty movies during the wars alongside. Other grades like maureen. O'hara spencer tracy..
Awards Chatter
"clark gable" Discussed on Awards Chatter
"Had big. Go all over your. She became the biggest tart. That europe has ever seen. So much for the numb. Will it had. They're also been was was was the reason that you were these concerns about being kind of a sex kid and also the reason why you didn't end up doing cat on a hot tin roof. Yes yes really. Basically i should've done cannot tender if that was a stupid own. Elizabeth was so thrilled at the time. Whole career. I said yes. Yes because you gave her whole new career where she became a gussie realistic actress. Okay so i'm going to keep zooming through some some of these other just a thought or two but not for me. Nineteen fifty-nine a secretary. Who adores a much older. Broadway producer is sort of similar to the dynamic. I think between you and the much older actor who you were playing with right. That was clark gable. Yes yes. I was in love with clark gable long before i made the film so it was wonderful working with him i. I fell in love with him. I think was eleven in the movie theater. And when i speak to an audience and i say you know one of the things i could never get over with that beautiful back. Ben kiss he would give a woman and everyone goes.
Awards Chatter
"clark gable" Discussed on Awards Chatter
"Hi everyone thank you for tuning into the three hundred ninety. Four episode of awards chatter. The hollywood reporter's awards podcasts. I'm the host gothenburg and my guest. Today is a legendary star of hollywood's golden age who is currently celebrating the sixty fifth anniversary of her. Start in the movies. Indeed in nineteen fifty-six she made her name in both george stevens as giant which appears on the american film. Institute's list of the one hundred greatest movies of all time and in elia kazan's baby doll which established her as both a sex symbol and a first rate actress brought her best actress oscar golden globe and bafta award nominations and led to her receiving a special golden globe for best new star of the year. No one else alive today. With marilyn monroe co starred with james dean and clark gable and was directed by not only stevens and kazan. But also everyone from john. Ford and william wyler through bob and david fincher and few have ever had as hugely successful careers as she did. In both hollywood and in europe carol baker over the course of our conversation the ninety year old and i discussed how she wound up in vaudeville and then in hollywood why she loved her role in baby doll but resisted similar sexy parts in the years that followed which led to her being suspended by warner brothers and paramount and ultimately relocating to europe. What in her later years inspired her to begin writing books including her fourth and most recent two thousand nineteen agatha christie. Like mystery. who killed big al. What she makes of the metoo movement she had some rather shocking things to say about bill cosby when we spoke the day before his unexpected released from prison. Plus much more and so without further ado. Let's go.
Heartland Newsfeed Radio Network
"clark gable" Discussed on Heartland Newsfeed Radio Network
"Five hope for free government program that offers expert one on one advice about your mortgage options. We've helped over a million homeowners and we want to help you call. Somebody's older actors. They're just remarkable and They just kept believability going. And when i say. People haven't heard of people. I talked to a young actor a few months ago. Who didn't know fred astaire was i mean there's no excuse for that doubt. You know when. I when i when you said spencer tracy because all ask you the same question when you said spencer tracy. The first thing that popped into my head was bad day at black rock. Yeah well that's great one. He was older when he made that like he was what he may judgment at nuremberg. I mean he did and guess who's coming to dinner. I mean he did a lot of stuff at the end of his life Bad day at black rock happens to be great. One of the reasons is one of my favorite actors in the world. Isn't it robert ryan. Who if you wanna watch. Something really edgy tough. You know Robert ryan is just remarkable. Also any bought nine. Who kept it. All natural did a cruise with any and He was the most amazing man to know but nothing like his character so again. It's this idea of keeping it natural delving into the character where it comes out. As if as i said that they're reading the not reading the lines they're saying them as if they ca- came into their heads for the first time i once wrote on the matterhorn with tova borgnine. Now i made the also spencer tracy really old. But it's a madman madman world at the end. But the and i wanna ask you about. You talked about the thirties. Clark gable spencer tracy tracy and ginette mcdonald in the movie in san francisco right right and that great earthquake okay. So so clark. Gable place blackie norton. And he's running all the he's running the most famous nightclub there in the you know down there in the bad part of san francisco right and and so he's He's just a sexy guy and it's great for young actors to look at gable in the thirties like this because he was so hot yet at the same time You just love the guy. He was so rugged masculine now. Tracy is the good. The good priests played a lot because he had this kindness. Which in real life was not at all had real life. He was a terrible alcoholic and really bad problems but anyway onscreen He was very kindly man then. Genetic always gets on my nerves. It's just gets on my come more questions. We're talking with him wall and if you'd like to chime in our guest isn't here so it at one eight hundred. Oh good okay. Seven a play. I'd just love good acting ricky. Just sure love it. And then mayer it. I admire so much like a benedict cumberbatch. Now we talk about people now. A tony collect. Who's in this marvelous new film you can get on. The internet called the good horse She just always delves into her character and she's also funny she could be so funny In the movie like nine out so Did you ever see knives out. See yes yeah. It's funny it's a funny movie. I'm airfield right exactly. Except you have james von playing for instead of peter ustinov daniel crank and people should really check out knives out if you just wanna laugh and also look at the acting. A comedy is hard. dying is easy. Comedy is hard right is hard to do. I mentioned clark gable. And don don rickles who i love always told the story because he worked with him one time and he said everyone thinks he's a great actor but he's the same guy off the set because he would go like this. Frankly my dear. I don't give a damn then. They go cut and they got who wants to get a sandwich he's like. He said he was just being the same guy the whole time. But in a way. And this is what. I tell young broadcasters to try and it's different with acting but i go i say just be yourself because if you put on a fake radio voice like it much work to not be yourself and it's not different than acting. It's not what you just said is exactly what acting is fine. Just yourself be yourself. Oh my god if you want to be successful you know. I've been successful. You've been successful but it's all because we found a way to be felt and could acting. I mean yeah okay. Gable was that way but My god i'll take that way. So what is it. What is it about Ginette mcdonald at thugs. You did she bug me. I could barely watch her She's just seems pretentious. See i don't buy her. I bought gable. I by davis. You know crawford you know people forget mommy dearest. There was a whole the hope group of great crawford movies in the forties and fifties amazing actress but I if someone is pretentious and doesn't seem to find themselves. You know say about finding a real core. Find your core. Find out who. That person is did Then an and she doesn't seem like she's doing that. Trust me nuts. During interesting way we have our guest now and it is carson mel and he's here to talk about his new movie titled of our stallions which opens today video-on-demand and in several theatres as well carson. Welcome to the program. I know you are you. You wrote this. You directed it. You start in it. This is about as much as your baby is. A movie can get They so definitely. Yeah i also ended. Wow that's a lot. Yeah you know with an independent budget. If you want to stretch it you gotta you gotta wear as many hats as possible. So that's That's how we arrived here. Can you tell us a little. What the movie's about yes. about well it's funny. I just came into what you were talking about. finding the true self. Or what have you. What were you guys talking about. Weirdly relates to the movie. So we would talk about act. Great acting also. I mentioned toni collette and she has a movie. I've called a good horse. Is that any connection to you. Maybe on some kind of psychic supernatural level but not not playing. Some of our stallions is very much about It's on its surface. It's about the two characters who who eventually encounter a third name Their names are beautiful. Bill that's the character. I play andy and barney. And they're all people who are grappling with Mental illness But they i felt like the wellspring..
Everything Everywhere Daily
"clark gable" Discussed on Everything Everywhere Daily
"Hetty lamar was one of the most beautiful women in the world. She was a hollywood star. Who appeared in films with the likes of clark gable spencer tracy but she was much more than just a pretty face. She was also an inventor who created one of the technologies which has helped develop the modern world. The fruits of their labours can be found in bluetooth and wi fi devices. Today perhaps in your pocket learn more about heady lamar and the invention which helped shape the world on this episode of everything everywhere daily..
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
The Crazy Lives of Fay Wray and Robert Riskin
"Fay ray, and the screenwriter Robert riskin, they were an early Hollywood power couple. They each had a very lasting legacy in that town this town. Ray fay ray more people know she's more easily, you know, in definable. She she's the most famous scream queen of them all if you want to get technical. And Robert riskin probably considered the father of the romantic comedy. So they were quite a couple. I mean, men loved fay ray before she was with risking. She was married to a guy named John monk Saunders who was a Rhodes scholar who wrote the story for the first best picture Oscar winner wings, he ended up taking all of her fucking money and kidnapping their daughter. Jesus, later fay ray has a love affair with the playwright Clifford O debts. He's no slouch. And then she starred on stage opposite Archibald leech, and he fell head over heels in love with her, and this was before he changed his name to Cary Grant. Gary Cooper was hot and bought all the Fay Wray. They were in a few films together. But Robert risking a little less recognizable, but like I said, he penned great stuff. He wrote the Frank Capra movies meet John Doe, mister deeds goes to town and it happened one night with Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable. He actually invented the term doodle for mister deeds. Actually, when Adam Sandler remade mister deeds, he kept enough of the original script to give Robert riskin a screen credit. It's pretty cool. But brisket was no slouch himself. He had a lot of pussy after him. Loretta Young Carol Lombard, who Clark Gable went bananas for and when he died, still wanted to be buried next to her, even though they hadn't been together for years and Clark cable had remarried after her. Somebody wild stories when it comes to Hollywood and love lives and who dies and lives next to someone so and eternity at this funeral. I mean, at this graveyard it's insane.
The Discographers
"clark gable" Discussed on The Discographers
"Of us in western culture like we've we've all when we were kids been fed what hollywood romance looks like and many of us. Who are you know in these happy. Wonderful committed fulfilling relationships. Like you and i are in with our wives. We find that it's not that but it's cool to get something different right a song about it about that mismatch as a nerdy kid. Who liked to make movies when the first came mountain. Personal stink new. I need to try this like this is how this l. Kiss a girl. And i think that's that's the interesting thing for me because like get a. We listened to this album tons ten plus years ago. And i haven't listened to it a whole lot. In the meantime maybe to adhere song occasional but occasionally but as. I was listening in preparation for this. That's what struck me. The most is that. This was one of my favorites. When i was when i was a young. And now i see it as being a little more like cheesy and tongue-in-cheek out necessarily too bad way. It's still charming in. Its own way but like the whole like the line. I kissed you. Style clark gable would have admired called thought it classic like that. Oh that's so cool. Sixteen over here a dangerous to god. That was literally my life ago and it feels a lot different listening to that lyric now. Can you didn't know didn't know you had no idea. One of the thing. I really i really liked is like right at the beginning. It's the. I'm waiting for a Crosstown train on the london underground when it struck me and i always thought that line is really great. Because obviously he's talking about the. The idea struck him but the way the sentences setup it betrays the trend the train struck. You always thought that was a good well david and like the idea. The idea hit me like like a train or like a. Yeah like a train. It goes like three different ways. It's again very effective. Songwriting and also just like you know when you have creative writing classes as you're going through school and they talk about like you know it's really good to open up with a hook sentence. Yeah there's one there's one way what did you talking about now. Going to listen to all songs does another train show up. Yeah now i. It's one of the more subtle pardons that i've ever heard in the lyric like he gets away with it. Yes that one of those ones where you grow. And you're just like they spent and and back to the film references and stuff. He does a pretty accurate. Like rep. none. There's not a lot of times or you hear like a you people talking about. Oh yeah i. I got the lighting right. Because i had a friends do was my stand in. Yeah agrees the lens and frame the shot. And the marker snap trade lately a of the right lingo very goal again. Very immersive i. It puts you there. There were at the. I'm gonna end up saying that every song but it's true the word for this episode is immersive. Yup well you wanna a perhaps take a look at the next one. We will become silhouettes. This is the third single as cheesy as it is. I think after all this time this one is my favorite. It's definitely up there for me. Yeah it feels more relevant today than it than it ever has. That was one of my notes to of like this. The song hits a little closer to home in the year. Twenty twenty. i mean. There's some some some cooler the we we will become silhouettes winner. Bodies finally go. Because that's what happens in a nuclear blast you'd you become a silhouette on the wall. There are outside. We'll make ourselves divided an alarming rate. It it was an interesting way to like be because realistically that it is kind of the whole thing is describing being immolated in a nuclear blast. Right but yeah. It's again with the scenes that the cupboard with cans of food filtered water and pictures of you yes said. I'm not coming out until this all over and golly the seventeen years ahead but like again. This song just hits different today. Yeah there's just so many good little lines in there and everything is so the weights delivered is so happy. It's such a such a good sound again. It's it's yes. It's very dark but very happy song which count me right in right. I'll always one hundred percent of the time. Count me in for that. It's one of the things you can't help but sing along to if you know the words but this is i think one of the best lake storytelling songs on the record. I think it's the ones the most effective at that. It's him him doing what he does. And this is the best example of it really fun song though like simply a really effective all right. Let's move onto. This place is a prison so this one has like from near the bottom of my list. When i was sixteen to near the top of my list. Now okay interesting. It is at the top but it's but but it's near the top. I liked the fact that like the drumbeat for like the first half of the song is just like crappy industrial. Sounds sort of like Swing time this kind of six eight time. It's just such an interesting vibe in the when when they bring the drum kit for the backup. It's just wild. But but i think the main reason that i that i enjoy it more as an adult is probably because i was way too young to understand much of the implement the implications eric's again the storytelling here is fantastic. I think seattle is a prison. I'm stuck in this scene and it's terrible definitely ten years ago fifty seventeen years ago when when this first came out it was my least favorite song and so so it's very similar and listening to it again and i listen to or watch the live performance that just put out a few a couple of weeks ago That helped me come around on it and kind of knowing that this kind of trying to pay attention to the lyrics of its. It seems like know it's the rockstar lifestyle. There's no one you can trust. There's drug and alcohol abuse and then in the end he's asking for a drink so it's like kind of giving into it. Yeah as the drum start to pick up the they take to get a drink in this place. But i mean there are lines that i just didn't get because of such a such a sheltered child like data inhaling thrills through twenty dollar bills yeah i just didn't made.
WCBM 680 AM
"clark gable" Discussed on WCBM 680 AM
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AP News Radio
HBO Max removes 'Gone With the Wind,' will add context
"The movie classic is being deleted from a major streaming services playlist gone with the wind of change H. B. O. Max says it has temporarily removed gone with the wind from its streaming library the network says it's doing so to add historical context to the nineteen thirty nine film the movie starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh has long been criticized for romanticizing slavery and the civil war era south the move comes after director John Ridley urged Warner media which owns HBO Max to remove the film because it glosses over the issues of the confederacy and slavery morning media agrees saying that gone with the wind is a product of its time and that the racial prejudices it depicts were wrong then and are wrong today and to continue showing it would be irresponsible I'm Oscar wells Gabriel
AP News Radio
HBO Max removes 'Gone With the Wind,' will add context
"The movie classic is being deleted from a major streaming services playlist gone with the wind of change H. B. O. Max says it has temporarily removed gone with the wind from its streaming library the network says it's doing so to add historical context to the nineteen thirty nine film the movie starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh has long been criticized for romanticizing slavery and the civil war era south the move comes after director John Ridley urged Warner media which owns HBO Max to remove the film because it glosses over the issues of the confederacy and slavery morning media agrees saying that gone with the wind is a product of its time and that the racial prejudices it depicts were wrong then and are wrong today and to continue showing it would be irresponsible I'm Oscar wells Gabriel
AP News Radio
HBO Max removes 'Gone With the Wind,' will add context
"The movie classic is being deleted from a major streaming services playlist gone with the wind of change H. B. O. Max says it has temporarily removed gone with the wind from its streaming library the network says it's doing so to add historical context to the nineteen thirty nine film the movie starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh has long been criticized for romanticizing slavery and the civil war era south the move comes after director John Ridley urged Warner media which owns HBO Max to remove the film because it glosses over the issues of the confederacy and slavery morning media agrees saying that gone with the wind is a product of its time and that the racial prejudices it depicts were wrong then and are wrong today and to continue showing it would be irresponsible I'm Oscar wells Gabriel
AP News Radio
HBO Max removes 'Gone With the Wind,' will add context
"Hi Mike the movie Rossi classic a reporting is being canceling deleted a speech from a major by Ivanka streaming trump services spurs playlist a backlash for Kansas college the Kansas board of regents went into a closed special gone session with the wind today apparently of change to discuss H. the fate B. O. of Max Wichita says State it has University temporarily president removed Jay gone golden with the wind a from former its streaming board library member sent a letter the Monday network says calling it's doing for golden so to to be add fired historical after context his decision to to the nineteen cancel thirty a nine virtual film speech to graduates the movie starring by Ivanka Clark Gable trump and Vivien last Leigh Thursday has long Golding been criticized cancelled the speech for romanticizing that was scheduled slavery for the technical and schools the civil graduation war era after south students and the faculty move comes after protest director it John Steve Ridley Clark urged the former Warner regent media seeking which golden's owns ouster HBO Max served as to chairman remove the of film the search committee because when it glosses golden became over Wichita the issues state's of the confederacy president in January and slavery hi Mike morning Crossey media up agrees saying that gone with the wind is a product of its time and that the racial prejudices it depicts were wrong then and are wrong today and to continue showing it would be irresponsible I'm Oscar wells Gabriel
GOLF.com Podcast
Genesis Invitational Preview with Geoff Shackelford
"Are we are here at Riviera Country Club at genesis invitational all the newly named Invitational Status We're like what thirty thirty five steps from the Hogan Statue with a very important man. We don't have Mr Hogan in here sitting with us but Geoff Shackelford is here. He has a ton of history here at Riviera Country Club. What I WANNA know is in the La Dolf power rankings whereas Geoff Shackelford? George kisses up there now. He's high we continue to include. It's not if they're on the list I'm not on. The list is Tiger California Golfer at this point Scott a deserted us but coming back to host the genesis I think gets him back in full Full status on the list La I don't know he's more of an Orange County guy but but we're very happy to have you on on Martin. Yes he's moved to. So yeah I'm doing well network so like I said you have a ton of history here and you wrote the history book here. What is probably most interesting to me is like where does your history begin? Where like you have been around this place for for your entire life? You still live view very close. So where does all begin for you. Here you know I was very lucky my Dad was in the Gulf business and he joined here when I was about fifteen about several sixteen and so I got to play the course a lot. It was crazy place at that time. It was a public off-course of course essentially it was very busy but we would have to put our name on a board and wait two hours to get out now. They do like twenty five thousand rounds a year and it's ultra private yeah So it was is a Just a great way to kind of I was always interested in course design and history and obviously being here. And then you start kind of off Absorbing who's walked these grounds and every great American Golfer has has played including Bobby Jones and didn't really like the course it probably. It seems it was too hard to him when it opened. He made a comment. And there's a picture of him and his hairs you know. His hair was never out of place and he's just looks like he's been in a timely dyslexia commensurable and it's in our history book. I loved that photo because it was like. Oh well that that matched his quote and his only beef was of course was too hard but then he go through. You know. Nicholas didn't win in here but he got close and then every other great player probably in in the upper echelons has one here except tiger. And Jack Jack. Isn't that crazy. It's it's nuts 'cause it's generally rewarded. Great players and Jack came so close Momeni many times I mean the PGA the senior open L. A. Opens. It's kind of it's kind of like tiger. Tiger hasn't played here as much right. Yes played thirteen times Yaldo now hard on himself. He's made it like this is going to be one of the strongest longest fields in the entire year. He has made it more difficult decided to ignore the event during the like real real prime of his career. He did. He had reasons. The Greens weren't as good back. Then and you know how he feels about POA so that was part of it and then he had a bad experience here. Two thousand six where he played he was a little under under the weather? Steve Williams did not pack an umbrella and we had a surprise rain radar quite even then like we have now our forecasting like we have now which is amazing to think that was only thirteen years ago. Yeah gets wet gets more sick and then he was staying the east of the golf course which you don't do. The one negative of this tournament were staying West. You're staying West which I asked Dylan quickly Early on in in these discussions laying the groundwork for this this seminal podcast recording That you do not stay east of the course. And for whatever reason he was and he got caught It's the worst time of year. There's just everybody's working Hollywood's worrying every school's in session. Yeah and he got stuck in like an hour and a half track just to get to the four oh five. I was in eighth grade at this point so he did not come back after that and I actually asked him the first year he was coming back in involved in this I said you you are staying West. Gov Corsini laughed and he goes so he learned his lesson anyway but but to my story here so I just fell in love with the history and Emmy it's as historic course as there is in the United States just in terms of the people who've been here the architecture the movie stars Yeah we just had the Oscars last night. Yeah and everything about this place has just been nuts in terms of the history and then the location. I mean you guys do win the award for the best podcast location mile eighteenth with the ocean view and yeah. It's pretty sincere water. We can see number ten. This is my first time at revere. My first time seeing number ten in their Saints Saints Tenth. It should be interesting. We've got a downpour yesterday. So I'm glad though it it's been very cold here and when it gets cold. Green gets little borderline these two of the best of holds the PGA tour in near optimum. Or do you not feel that way. Yeah Oh yeah absolutely I mean. I have some conflicted feelings about the tenth of late as a lot of the players who it has been getting a little border line tricky. That's why I said it was nicer to rain yesterday because when the green gets pushing like thirteen and a half can get a little goofy and then yeah eighteen means. It's it's it's kind of bizarre hole and a lot of ways because tough the bunkers don't really mean much it's a blind tee. Shot is not much around the green and yet everybody everybody loves it. It's near the bunkers. Now they're only play for a bad golfer in. Yeah yeah they're they're there for looks more than anything so it's it's kind of bizarre finish and yet over the years it's produced all these great moments and the amphitheater I think is the thing that you just can't grasp on television. There's nothing like golf because it's it's not only is it able to host a lot of people but it's vertical and and the noise when there's a moment there is. There's nothing like getting golf because it's so vertical so on top of the green that it's just that's why so many people love to sit there on Sunday. How long does it take you to write in research research and do all the work for a course history like this place? I mean that has to take you countless weeks. Yeah I was really lucky. It was fi out a full year to work on it. I propose that after college when I realized I couldn't play over you I was twenty three ten and They had the PGA coming up and they wanted to do something. And so I- proposed it. And I had some great help from older members and Jim Murray wrote the foreword the Great La Times on this show who I got to know during the Greens project project here. which really got me interested in golf? Course design okay He wrote a wonderful forward about the course so that was an incredible and on the twenty three year. Old doing this work. I like anything I showed my passion for it and my interest. You know when you get older and you meet people who are younger. Who who appreciate history St Tell You you can tell you can see it and you want to help them? So I've kind of become the same way with people have shown interest in golf history and yeah So there are a lot of incredible. The people around here at the time and the owner is very passionate about the history and the as he should be because the more you tell the story of this place the more you realize holy cow now. There's nothing quite like Riviera in American golf in terms of again not just tournament history architecture. Then you have the added element of of celebrity and I'm that just just And then just having so many events here and the Events Higher Olympics twenty twenty eight so yeah it's got Everything coming here. Yeah I did know some of those stories. Because you know we can get kind of East Coast centric you can get Florida's centric when it comes to PGA Tour especially you know half the top twenty living in Jupiter Ram what is it about La Golf. That is different and do you have any of these favorite Brit stories about celebrities playing the game playing at these clubs around here. It's an odd town town. I have no problem. Yeah confessing passing that. It's not America's greatest city. Yeah for a couple of reasons. the the exclusive clubs are very exclusive on. The beauty of Riviera's is that it does open. Its doors to turnament so we all get to come and enjoy at once a year with the greatest players in the world. That's nice which you don't always get La Country Club is going to host the US Open in a few years. That's incredible Again knowing their history but we have we have an odd dichotomy of these elite gray golf courses uses and then the public of course seen isn't great the city of La isn't so hot in the way they maintain the courses and they've Kinda let them go and we have we have the the facilities are just like a lot of cities. Is there more. I mean we have a homeless problem. So it's like how can you be spending money. It's tough so and they have a lot of layers. So it's it's a weird city in that sense not a lot of places to hit balls. And yet you go to Rancho Park and just like places back east amazing characters It's pretty used to produce a lot of really good golfers. And they're always characters on the range just hitting balls and Studio City Range. She's to be famous for the celebrities. Who went there probably still go there although it's not long for this world so it's a it's a weird town that way and then obviously stars and that was one of the fun things going back to the to your question the book Just stuff like that. Humphrey Bogart used to you. Know hear it on the broadcasts become become almost a drinking game you know. He's the love the just get completely sauced out there on the twelfth leaning against that tree and Jim Murray was wanted always sitting there so he'd ride about it and that kind of how passed along But there are you know we have a it's interesting because the celebrity L. Minute Riviera Kinda started more with the Polo Club. Okay which is where. You'll be parking this week. Paul Revere Junior high well. Let's it's only Monday makes somebody mad. You may see me on the middle school show. The Riviera really struggle like a lot of clubs in the thirties with with golf because the depression but the Polo Club was the place to be. I mean it would. They had a Sunday Polo game Or match and and Clark Gable will rogers was kind of a host Just the double. Douglas Fairbanks Mary. Pickford all these uh-huh that's the biggest celebrities of the day and that kind of kept everything going the Polo Lounge the Beverly Hills hotel famous restaurant and bars called the Polo Lounge. Because that's that's where they went after the Polo but I mean they used to get big crowds for it. It was the thing that kind of kept all this going. So it's funny. How when you look at the history of the place you think Riviera and they had these great tournaments in the late twenties golf then? The depression Paulo. The Khanna kept it going whereas other places struggle.
Gastropod
The History of Tiki Time
"Aw I mean you could be a little bit more cynical and say that don didn't just create this decor out of love it was also to cash in on on something that was very much in the cultural the other thing was that America's well as Europe was in the grips of the great depression everybody's bummed out and they have a little mini vacation in this beautifully appointed fo- Polynesian atmosphere with these amazing exotic cocktails so that's the story signed on the beachcombers atmosphere but what about those cocktails they didn't call it Tiki back then he called them rum rhapsodies there's a little bit pretentiously put an ancient rum in the French style just to make it more classy but here's my question rum is a Caribbean spirit right why not serve Polynesian rhapsodies instead the problem was there's no such thing as a polynesian cocktail I mean he had polynesian decor but what do you serve in the glass in the new Hebrides they did have a polynesian drank native ponies and drink called Kava what they would do they would sit in a circle around a big wooden ball and chew the psychoactive roots of the Kava plant gave you sort of a nice melody sociable high where they chew it spit it into a ball and they'd mix it with coconut milk and then they pass around you and you drank from it this was not the sort of thing that would go over very well in Hollywood and thirty four so no psychoactive saliva base drinks for done but he had another idea he'd also traveled to the Caribbean in those round the world adventures that he'd spent all his college funds John and that's where he had discovered the planners punch in Jamaica and the the dockery and Cuba the Queen's Park swizzle in Trinidad these are all based on rum so don new and he knew rum drinks but rum also had a practical advantage it was the closest spirit available to import Cuba's close by and willing to supply thirsty Americans it accuses right after prohibition and so rob was only spirit that had been readily available in the US while that distillers your non in operation and the term running Shannon must've runs the bar at the Caribbean themed Gladis in Brooklyn and she recently wrote a cocktail book called Tiki earn tropical cocktails and Shannon says that Rome was actually the cheapest to for bar operator costs was really important especially as you're talking about being in the Great Depression so ram fit the bill was expensive in costume much contracts at the whisky which is really expensive because there wasn't the really wasn't any left in this let me take a few years make more whiskey and agent the dawn has rum and he knows some of the basic Caribbean rum drinks but he doesn't just serve those Caribbean drinks he reinvent it's them and it was an entirely new way to serve and mix cocktail he basically took the three hundred year old planters punch poem I'm one of sour to sweet three of strong four of week sour being citrus sweeping sugar strong being rum and week being water ice and he squared or cubed he was like okay I could use lime juice as my sour but what if I mix lime and grapefruit in the same drink and how about instead of just Grizz my sweet what if I mix honey and maple syrup together or infused my sugar Syrup with some spices or pomegranate syrup so he dimensional is D- those two elements and also so what was really radical and brown breaking was that he did the same thing with the strong instead of just one rum he would say okay planners punch generally has dark Jamaican Punch one minute what if I added to that in the same glass a white Puerto Rican or Cuban room which has a more floral dryer kind of file the two rum's enhancing inform each other the Puerto Rican rum cuts the heavy molasses sweetness and density of the Jamaican and the Jamaican adds flavor and depth to the light dry Puerto Rican so anyway this was revolutionary nobody'd ever had drinks like this for nobody's ever made drinks like before that basic idea take a plant as punch and Cuban that's the recipe for what became Don's most famous drink the drink put him on the map the Zombie Don Lake to tell a tale of how he invented the Zombie a businessman came in and was so hung over and he had a sales meeting on made him a couple of these and he walked in like Zombie and nailed it but there's no way as perfect as this cocktail is that donges whipped up behind the bar in two seconds there was a lot of you know coaxing in finessing with these rooms and the dawn's makes in the Porno and the bidders but yet that's the legend that don created for it but yeah it was strong it was popular and there was a limit of two in the bar you can have more than two but even with the limit that didn't up the crowds from storming as place they were lines out the door it was a real see and be seen everyone that went into don the beachcomber was a WHO's who of Hollywood Howard Hughes in Grant Joan Crawford Clark Gable Don's little bar was a huge success so almost immediately there were copycats people started putting up their own version of a Polynesian Paradise all over la remember Americans were already obsessed with the South Seas but the whole vibe struck a particular chord in California first of all Californians of course really embrace surfing in this period which is a Hawaiian Sport and you know there's also a kind of a belief in a sort of shared attitude and aesthetic sensibility right so Californians very much the themselves as you know more modern and more relaxed than the rest of the United States are certainly more so than the kind of Stodgy East Coast Sara Miller Davenport is a historian at the University of Sheffield and she just wrote a book called a Gateway State Hawaii and the cultural transformation of American Empire Californians just vibe at aloha spirit so within a couple of years they were copycat bars all across the state most of them are just knockoffs and nothing to write home about but Jeff Ameri told us one of those copycat bars was really the equal of done the beachcombers the only restaurant tour who went Tiki or went four Polynesian in the nineteen thirties who could rival Don's palette and his skill was a guy named Victor Berge on He was the French Canadian son of a waiter in Oakland and he was in San Francisco he had his own little place there called Hinky Dink's was famous for a Frankenstein you get frank and a Stein for ten cents and he thinks was basically just a little barbecue shack with a Alaskan I rapper theme you know snow shoes and taxidermy on the walls in nineteen thirty seven he took a vacation to Hollywood and discovered on the beachcombers and like everybody else he he waited on line for ninety minutes to get into the bar he saw the popularity of what was happening at Don the beachcomber and try to recreate that up in his place and he turns and hangings into Trey Vicks and he turned himself from Victor Berge Ron into trader Vic Bergeron chair Vic as he was now known he was super savvy any seems to have had a great pallet everyone else was just copying done but trader vic actually used new spirits and juices and invented his own drinks and the food in his restaurants was revolutionary for mid-century. US I mean he introduced on elements of east Indian Malaysian Jap in these and other cuisines on his menu which was unheard of at the time like Donna beachcombers and all these other taking place just serve basic cantonese Chinese food is cheap the Chinese cook and then that would be that but vic pioneered what he called international cuisine and it he did it very very well to the point where he had white tableclo- fine dining restaurants multicourse meals of his own invention vic was also something of a showman he had a wooden leg from from his childhood illness but he would invite people to stick a fork in it and then he would tell them that he lost it to a shark on the high-seas but don the beachcomber and trader vic or soon franchising around the country you WanNa Polynesian themed night out on the Down in Chicago complete with dancing ladies and tropical drinks and an expensive dinner you got it that could've gotten old but then World War Two happens and things get even worse and more and more people flocked picky bars and then Gi's come back from the actual South Pacific with a renewed interest and all that and in the nineteen fifties everything combines you have a booming postwar many facturing economy you have all these vets coming back writing and making movies about their experiences and Tiki just goes into overdrive and it's perfectly suited for the Eisenhower era suburban culture as well which is kind of stifling and moralistic but you can make a little escape into the Pagan South seas in your local Tiki Bar International level was still a little too expensive for regular people in the nineteen fifties but increasingly a middle class couple could treat themselves to a nice night out and get away from it all that way the musical South Pacific came out in nineteen forty nine does this mean I finally finally get to play a little bit of something that booth you Nikki and my partner Tim like to make fun of me about what might deep and abiding love of musical theatre dear God there's no stopping you is there nope Pacific here we come some and Charlie the you may see a stranger thanks for indulging me going to let you make a habit of it okay see anyway the point is Tiki just kept getting more and more popular things continue to grow a pace in the nineteen sixties when you see really the height of Fo- Polynesian Restaurant Chic nece sort of Tiki chic but these were not low end beach bars or Jimmy Buffet Style replaces most of them like trader Vic's on the beachcomber and Stephen Crane's kon-tiki chain were high end luxury restaurants and they were event dining in people would save up and go out on a Friday night in their best clothes to these places even Disney got in on the tiki craze with its very own enchanted tiki room it opened in eighteen sixty three and drilled it soundtrack into the brains of America and even in the nineteen sixties international travel was still expensive and so Sarah says are white middle class Americans these tiki bars and restaurants allowed them to feel cosmopolitan going to Tiki bars right becomes in order these Polynesian restaurants becomes a way to sort of from any white people right to express your kind of embrace of foreign cultures in this moment and speaking of embrace Tiki bars and this whole American love affair with Bo Polynesian everything by the nineteen sixties it's not just about being open minded did it's about being sexy which is a period where more broadly a loosening of some of these sexual norms and I think there's something very appealing to women or at least in the way that these various cookbooks and magazines portray it for women kind of cross these racial boundaries right to kind of play act as a kind of Polynesian princess white middle class women went to Tiki bars and held back yard luos and dressed in moves and eight that FO- Polynesian Pan Asian cuisine the way it's described as often as a way of the Luau is a chance to kind of loosen up it's a chance to play act as as a Polynesian woman right and of course the stereotype of Polynesian women is there you know much more overtly sexual than white
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