Mikellaneous

My Recent Confessions and Observations on Twitter, Where Everything Must Be Said in 140 Characters or Less

Missed LOLITA at the drive-in. Saw it on our honeymoon. James Mason: "You're a good little wife." My Donna: "Don't you ever say that to me."

...Yep. Of course, I do.

Finished my paying job. Now important work resumes: Twitter, Facebook, blog, disappearing snacks tricks, kitty wrangling...

Down to [my] last 11 BURN NOTICEs. Rhett, wherever shall I go? Whatever shall I do?

May see FROGS (1972) at the drive-in. Stars Oscar winner Ray Milland and fresh-faced kids Sam Elliott and Joan Van Ark and Burp the Tadpole.

@luckyshirt sez: "Just bought some breakfast at IKEA. It looks pretty good, but I just know it's going to fall apart in a month."

[I] negotiated 4+ weeks on the RADIO CITY CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR. 16-hr. days rehearsing & eating with the Rockettes. They had me at "catering."

Serious now, back on [my] rigid diet. All of the succulent arrays of cookies have been removed from the house. ... *burp*

May see SHANTY TRAMP (1967) at the drive-in. Dixie lust, "fights, murders, lynch mobs, ruined reputations & broken homes." But no sweet tea.

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Bone to Pick

Finally, I have managed to see "Bachelor Flat," a 1962 release by one of my movie director heroes, Frank Tashlin ("Son of Paleface," "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter," "Hollywood or Bust," "The Geisha Boy," "The Glass Bottom Boat").


Tashlin was a successful animation director, working alongside "Looney Tunes" masters, like Tex Avery, Robert Clampett, and Chuck Jones. He yearned to make live-action films, however, and set out to do so, leaving cartoons behind.

Or did he?

Indeed not. Tashlin became a much sought after comedy director in the '50s and '60s, largely known for his inventive sight gags and cartoonish situations set in the real world.

"Bachelor Flat" is a colorful, frisky sex farce, dripping in Tashlin's trademark pin-up girls and mischievous innuendo, taunting the Hollywood Production Code censorship of the day.

But what I instantly loved about the movie is this sequence, a throwaway subplot involving a little dog (Jessica Dachshund) and a very big dinosaur bone.


"Bachelor Flat" Dinosaur Bone Sequence via YouTube
Music by Johnny Williams of "Star Wars," "Jaws," and "Schindler's List" fame.

Meet the Neighbors

We have drop-ins.


They come from far and wide for our famous 24-hour picnic buffet, but not all guests are pleased

Big Weekend

MARIETTA, Ga.

Off the Wall

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A Butterball® Turkey makes an attractive ottoman!

'The Dick Van Dyke Show: It May Look Like a Walnut'

Several friends and I spent years trying to capture this particular episode of "The Dick Van Dyke Show" for our home libraries -- yet, I found it in seconds on the Internet.

Word is producer Sheldon Leonard hated the script and was reluctant to give the go ahead. As it turned out, the walnuts story became the cult favorite in the entire series.

To elaborate on the atypical production would spoil the experience. So, from Feb. 6, 1963, Season 2, Episode 20, here's one I saw first-run, making for a very memorable night.


"It May Look Like a Walnut" via Hulu

Kayakity-Yak

My friend Bill Jackson, who doubles for the beloved actor William Colquitt in movies, plays, Las Vegas ooo-la-la! revues, evil dictatorships, and Halloween door-to-doors, sent along this photo.

Kathy and I went to the Broad River [Sunday] - floated down the river for about 2.5 hours.

They take you up the river about 5 miles in an old shool bus - saw this and (for some reason) thought of you....

I've made quite a following with my body fluids.

I Got Nuthin'

Kevin Meaney: "The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson" (1988)