Whatever: The Open Lines Thread

[ItsOver]

My favorite movie of all time. I am approaching my 60th viewing and boy I am due for it.   Magic is my Rocky Horror. @Camazotz Automat

Pretty good.  The first time I’ve watched it.  Hard to go wrong with both Anthony Hopkins and Ann-Margret.

The dang gone Comet showing kept locking up towards the end, which was frustrating, especially since I was recording it.  Hopefully, Comet runs it again this month, without the hiccups.

[sean92008]

Pretty good.  The first time I’ve watched it.  Hard to go wrong with both Anthony Hopkins and Ann-Margret.

The dang gone Comet showing kept locking up towards the end, which was frustrating, especially since I was recording it.  Hopefully, Comet runs it again this month, without the hiccups.

Have you searched around all those streaming channels like Crackle, Roku, Tubi, etc?  If it's being played on an over-the-air channel , it's probably somewhere streaming as well. For ages and ages Gunsmoke was only available on a subscription CBS channel for streaming and that has even ended up free on the Roku channel iirc.

[Camazotz Automat]

My favorite movie of all time. I am approaching my 60th viewing and boy I am due for it.   Magic is my Rocky Horror. @Camazotz Automat

@KSM

I have not viewed it 50+  times, but it will always be in regular rotation.

It was the first authentic  movie poster I bought and displayed on the wall.
I still recall the creepy television rollout commercials...

I'm a sucker for any ventriloquist dummy movie, both supernatural and psychological plots, but MAGIC is the one I can watch again and again.  And even though I know EXACTLY the moment when Duke "gets it," I'm always disturbed by it. And always disturbed by Burgess and Fats in the forest.  The story mutates briefly into hallucinatory horror more than once.  Like split seconds of weird Hitchcockian directing.

Greatness.

[KSM]

@KSM

I have not viewed it 50+  times, but it will always be in regular rotation.

It was the first authentic  movie poster I bought and displayed on the wall.
I still recall the creepy television rollout commercials...

I'm a sucker for any ventriloquist dummy movie, both supernatural and psychological plots, but MAGIC is the one I can watch again and again.  And even though I know EXACTLY the moment when Duke "gets it," I'm always disturbed by it. And always disturbed by Burgess and Fats in the forest.  The story mutates briefly into hallucinatory horror more than once.  Like split seconds of weird Hitchcockian directing.

Greatness.

Yes. Greatness indeed.

First thing that got me when first saw the movie was the creepy harmonica that would fade in and out with various scenes. The film viewer then knows that the wheels are coming off the wagon and eventually..  I was se7en. *smiley face*

Favorite scene as if from a B-side  "we gonna be a staAAar" from the dressing room scene before things went to Ell the lake.

[Camazotz Automat]

When real life ventriloquist Arthur Prince died in 1948, his dummy, "Jim" was buried with him. And mentioned on the marker:

Arthur Prince and Jim, died 14th. April 1948

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7468831/arthur-prince

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[Camazotz Automat]

@KSM  @ItsOver



This 1978 television commercial features Mortimer Snerd, Edgar Bergen, & Charlie McCarthy.

Edgar animated and voiced Mortimer but asked his friend Dennis Alwood to animate and voice Charlie.

Alwood animated and voiced Fats in MAGIC, and also portrayed a bartender.

Alwood also designed Fats and supervised fabrication! In the book, no description of the dummy is given. After Fats was made, Alwood got the author's feedback on how Fats turned out. Read the interview!

The studio wanted the public to perceive Hopkins was responsible for the voice and operation. In the credits, it even states: Fats - Anthony Hopkins.

This commercial came out the same year as the film.

Interview with Alwood about Fats, Charlie,  Edgar Bergen, Candice Bergen, & Magic author William Goldman:

https://www.vent-o-gram.com/post/dennis-alwood-the-interview

It is amusing to see Bergen NOT voice Charlie, but voiced by the man who voiced Fats! It appears Alwood also voiced the Parkay box.

Viewing this video on other websites is disabled by poster. You have to go to YouTube.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CbUlxrXg8Rs

[ItsOver]

@KSM  @ItsOver



This 1978 television commercial features Mortimer Snerd, Edgar Bergen, & Charlie McCarthy.

Edgar animated and operated Mortimer but asked his friend Dennis Alwood to animate and voice Charlie.

Alwood animated and voiced Fats in MAGIC. Alwood also portrayed a bartender.

Alwood also designed Fats and supervised fabrication! In the book, no description of the dummy is given. After Fats was made, Alwood got the author's opinion on how Fats looked.

The studio wanted the public to perceive Hopkins was responsible for the voice and operation. In the credits, it even states: Fats - Anthony Hopkins.

This commercial came out the same year as the film.

Interview with Alwood about Fats, Charlie,  Edgar Bergen, Candice Bergen, & Magic author William Goldman:

https://www.vent-o-gram.com/post/dennis-alwood-the-interview
It is amusing to see Bergen NOT voice Charlie, but voiced by the man who voiced Fats! It appears Alwood also voiced the Parkay box.

Viewing this video on other websites is disabled by poster. You have to go to YouTube.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CbUlxrXg8Rs

Most excellent!  Back when commercials were clever and entertaining, as opposed to today’s annoying, woke junk. 

Another old movie with a dummy that I recently enjoyed is the 1964 “Devil Doll.”  Hugo is the stuff of nightmares.  Especially when he gets up and starts walking around.

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https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/72943/devil-doll#overview

[Camazotz Automat]

I LOVE Devil Doll, both the straight version and the MST3K version.

[Up All Night]

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[ItsOver]

I LOVE Devil Doll, both the straight version and the MST3K version.

Heads up, if you’re up in the middle of the night tomorrow and don’t want to be tortured by Noory, “Devil Doll” is on The Movies Channel.

https://moviestvnetwork.com/schedule/?date=11/12/2021#calendar

[Bart Ell]

Don't watch this video.
Don't even think of watching it starting at the 3 minute mark.
I know what you are thinking - IT'S YOUTUBE, HOW BAD CAN IT BE?
I warned you.
If any of you deadbeats actually have jobs and are not just housewives like @KSM is preparing to be then don't watch this at work.
I will take zero responsibility for whatever damage it does to you if you do decide to watch it even after all these warnings.

Also - Don't listen to it, the music is shit.

[Walks_At_Night]

Here I thought the hook was Haystack Calhoun rocking the Sousaphone back there.  Wow. That would be a no. I'm ruined.  As in rekt.............

[KSM]

Don't watch this video.
Don't even think of watching it starting at the 3 minute mark.
I know what you are thinking - IT'S YOUTUBE, HOW BAD CAN IT BE?
I warned you.
If any of you deadbeats actually have jobs and are not just housewives like @KSM is preparing to be then don't watch this at work.
I will take zero responsibility for whatever damage it does to you if you do decide to watch it even after all these warnings.

Also - Don't listen to it, the music is shit.

When the bathroom break comes to, you!

I think I'm going to enjoy being a housewife if this is what I have to l00k forward to when signing in.  Am I the only one who cringed in readiness to turn away should she have been pushing from the back end? I really thought for a minute she was about to drop anchor..  #RunAway!

I think @PolkaDot is into this sort of music thing.

[Camazotz Automat]

Heads up, if you’re up in the middle of the night tomorrow and don’t want to be tortured by Noory, “Devil Doll” is on The Movies Channel.

https://moviestvnetwork.com/schedule/?date=11/12/2021#calendar

It would have been most cool if Shout!Factory could have  included the full flick as an extra with  the MST3K Vol XIX release.

But that Richard Gordon interview providing his account of making Devil Doll was an excellent extra!

[ItsOver]

It would have been most cool if Shout!Factory could have  included the full flick as an extra with  the MST3K Vol XIX release.

But that Richard Gordon interview providing his account of making Devil Doll was an excellent extra!

I believe the MST3K riff of “Devil Doll” is one of the few I’ve never seen. 

Also, I happened to notice “Magic” will indeed re-air on Comet, on the 24th.

https://www.comettv.com/schedule/?date=nov+24&tz=pacific