I'm so old...

(How old are you?)

I remember when the hero in a movie was a white guy!

Quote from: Darth Fife on January 07, 2015, 09:03:34 AM
I'm so old...

(How old are you?)

I remember when the hero in a movie was a white guy!

I remember when the hero in a movie was the good guy.

Quote from: Darth Fife on January 07, 2015, 09:03:34 AM
I'm so old...

(How old are you?)

I remember when the hero in a movie was a white guy!

And a singing cowboy at that Ken Maynard.   

Quote from: Dori on January 07, 2015, 09:05:53 AM
I remember when the hero in a movie was the good guy.

OOOOOH!!! Well played!
Dexter comes to mind.

I remember when automobiles required TWO keys: ignition and the trunk (boot to Euro readers). I remember men routinely buying flowers for a date. And a time when most of us did wind up getting married, and when we allowed our children to be born and not killed for being inconvenient. I remember when it was shameful to be on the public dole.

Quote from: quiller on January 07, 2015, 01:20:36 PM
I remember when automobiles required TWO keys: ignition and the trunk (boot to Euro readers). I remember men routinely buying flowers for a date. And a time when most of us did wind up getting married, and when we allowed our children to be born and not killed for being inconvenient. I remember when it was shameful to be on the public dole.

I remember when the hero in a movie was a guy.

Quote from: TboneAgain on January 08, 2015, 05:28:17 PM
I remember when the hero in a movie was a guy.

And a Straight guy at that.

I remember positive role models. Today it's Canadian druggies with underwear contracts (belieb it!) or women with Goodrich Tires for seating comfort (just pick a hair color or race, it's all good, y'all). I remember when celebrity scandals didn't get four-page color spreads in the tabloids, with pictures no small-town newspaper dare not print. I have used a crank wall-mounted telephone on a party line. I remember when gas didn't have so many options, and didn't burn out your carburetor.

Quote from: quiller on January 08, 2015, 08:18:17 PM
I remember positive role models. Today it's Canadian druggies with underwear contracts (belieb it!) or women with Goodrich Tires for seating comfort (just pick a hair color or race, it's all good, y'all). I remember when celebrity scandals didn't get four-page color spreads in the tabloids, with pictures no small-town newspaper dare not print. I have used a crank wall-mounted telephone on a party line. I remember when gas didn't have so many options, and didn't burn out your carburetor.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and speculate that you'd probably score fairly low on the metrosexual pajama-boy scale. Amirite? Amirite? 

Quote from: TboneAgain on January 08, 2015, 08:22:11 PM
I'm gonna go out on a limb and speculate that you'd probably score fairly low on the metrosexual pajama-boy scale. Amirite? Amirite? 

My generation had masculine men as movie heroes. The Duke, of course. McQueen. Brynner. Buster Crabbe. Joe Di-freaking-Maggio. Beer-and-a-shot guys, not some pansy with an umbrella in his Shirley Temple.

I just read a minute ago that Rod Taylor (one of that group and then some) has died at age 84. "The Time Machine" and "The Birds" are his best-known, but "Dark of the Sun" is his action-adventure masterpiece. I'd give Criterion prices to get his TV series Hong Kong, with Lloyd Bochner as second banana.

So sue me: it's HuffPo....  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/08/rod-taylor-dead-dies_n_6440040.html

And no, I'm not big on the Mr. Peepers types. (The Wally Cox version.)

Quote from: quiller on January 08, 2015, 08:34:53 PM
My generation had masculine men as movie heroes. The Duke, of course. McQueen. Brynner. Buster Crabbe. Joe Di-freaking-Maggio. Beer-and-a-shot guys, not some pansy with an umbrella in his Shirley Temple.

I just read a minute ago that Rod Taylor (one of that group and then some) has died at age 84. "The Time Machine" and "The Birds" are his best-known, but "Dark of the Sun" is his action-adventure masterpiece. I'd give Criterion prices to get his TV series Hong Kong, with Lloyd Bochner as second banana.

So sue me: it's HuffPo....  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/08/rod-taylor-dead-dies_n_6440040.html

And no, I'm not big on the Mr. Peepers types. (The Wally Cox version.)

Hate to hear about Rod Taylor! He always played a man's man, but I used to laugh at the way he mixed up his accents all the time. Dude was Aussie, but turned himself inside out losing that twang, only to land roles as Englishmen (a la "The Time Machine") later.

Yeah, when I was growing up, Matt Dillon was killing two or three men a week, and James Arness was playing that part with the express approval of the genuine Marion Morrison! Audie Murphy was turning his Medal of Honor -- the world's largest and most powerful penis! -- into a career playing heroes that were kinda small, but not guys you'd be smart to fuck with. (Hey, why do they all have to be 6'4"?) The western TV craze was going full throttle -- Gunsmoke, Wagon Train, Maverick, Sugarfoot, Rawhide, Have Gun Will Travel, Cheyenne, Lawman, and The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, starring Hugh O'Brian, who -- get ready for your daily dose of trivia! -- had served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II as its youngest drill sergeant.

It was truly a studly time. 

De Kelley in "Black Saddle - Apache Trail" Pt. 1

From 1959-1960, here's one of the more memorable themes in a TV "oater," which most trivia players forget entirely....  (Amazing how some TV themes stick in the mind.....)

Bonus: pre-Gilligan's Island Russell Johnson as sidekick sheriff to the lawyer/hero.

Quote from: walkstall on January 07, 2015, 09:17:42 AM
And a singing cowboy at that Ken Maynard.   

OMG I never knew his name, but I remember seeing that guy as a kid in movies. LOL

Quote from: TboneAgain on January 08, 2015, 09:53:53 PM
Hate to hear about Rod Taylor! He always played a man's man, but I used to laugh at the way he mixed up his accents all the time. Dude was Aussie, but turned himself inside out losing that twang, only to land roles as Englishmen (a la "The Time Machine") later.

Yeah, when I was growing up, Matt Dillon was killing two or three men a week, and James Arness was playing that part with the express approval of the genuine Marion Morrison! Audie Murphy was turning his Medal of Honor -- the world's largest and most powerful penis! -- into a career playing heroes that were kinda small, but not guys you'd be smart to fuck with. (Hey, why do they all have to be 6'4"?) The western TV craze was going full throttle -- Gunsmoke, Wagon Train, Maverick, Sugarfoot, Rawhide, Have Gun Will Travel, Cheyenne, Lawman, and The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, starring Hugh O'Brian, who -- get ready for your daily dose of trivia! -- had served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II as its youngest drill sergeant.

It was truly a studly time. 

The Time Machine and The First Men In The Moon! Two of my favorite movies.

Rod Taylor was great!