124 sats \ 34 replies \ @siggy47 20 Sep 2023 \ parent \ on: Stacker Saloon
No need to explain. People will learn. I had to google the guy.
Am I spoon feeding? Nasty fiat habit…
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I always thought that's part of the joy of reading. Who the hell is this guy he's talking about? Then I get to scurry down my own rabbit hole.
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I used to watch Benny Hill when I was a young kid -- it was on public television late at night for some reason, much British stuff was. Last year I re-watched a couple of episodes w/ my wife. I was cackling, she was ... not amused. Doesn't age well I guess.
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My father was convinced that Benny Hill was a genius. I never got the humor, but I enjoyed the breasts.
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I still dont get it unless it was just titillation. I preferred the Monty Python sketch ‘this man has chosen the manner of his own death’ from Meaning of Life lol
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For me, it's the silly stupidity / farcical aspect combined with titillation.
And yeah, that Monty Python skit was a classic. We rented the VHS around that same era. It was in "comedy." My mother was. Well, you can imagine.
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I had the same experience of only being able to find British comedy on PBS: Python, Benny Hill, Fawlty Towers. Obviously pre internet.
After you guys were talking about Alec Guinness the other day I watched a good chunk of Our Man In Havana. I got the feel for his comedy persona.
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Excellent. I think ‘all encompassing’ is a good description. Such a gentle man. A really should read his biography.
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He was always revered as an actor in the U.S. My only exposure was Bridge On The River Kwai. My father loved that movie.
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Yeah - but that’s a long one! I have never decided why he didn’t want the bridge destroyed - was it to save his men from further work details on the same job, avoid reprisals, to save the structure he was personally proud of despite helping the Japanese. Maybe all of them.
His relatively small part in Lawrence of Arabia (another David Lean) was very good and his smallish part in Doctor Zhivago is utterly captivating - the film is held together by his role and narration;
‘I told myself it was beneath my dignity to arrest a man for pilfering firewood. But nothing ordered by the party is beneath the dignity of any man, and the party was right: One man desperate for a bit of fuel is pathetic. Five million people desperate for fuel will destroy a city.’
Both those films are also long lol!
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I forgot to mention those two! I rewatched Dr Zhivago a year ago, and LOA only a few months ago. Two of my favorites. As a 9 year old kid I had to sit through DZ in the back of a station wagon in the pouring rain at a drive in. Excruciating.