And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Sunday, May 5, 2024
Burgess Meredith, earning a paycheck the easy way.
In addition to bringing life to Ernie Pyle in “GI Joe”, Burgess Meredeth was an exceptional narrator. Worth a listen & a chill on the ‘tube.
The Shooting of Dan McGrew A bunch of the boys were whooping it up in the Malamute saloon; The kid that handles the music-box was hitting a jag-time tune; Back of the bar, in a solo game, sat Dangerous Dan McGrew, And watching his luck was his light-o'-love, the lady that's known as Lou.
When out of the night, which was fifty below, and into the din and the glare, There stumbled a miner fresh from the creeks, dog-dirty, and loaded for bear. We drank his health, and the last to drink was Dangerous Dan McGrew.
The Cremation of Sam McGee There are strange things done in the midnight sun By the men who moil for gold; The Arctic trails have their secret tales That would make your blood run cold; The Northern Lights have seen queer sights, But the queerest they ever did see Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge I cremated Sam McGee.
All those actors, Frank Gorshin, Burgess Merideth, Ceaser Romero, John Astin, Vincent Price, Cliff Robertson, David Wayne, and the rest, I bet they were all having a ball hamming it up for Batman. It must have been kind of fun, grabbing a paycheck from Fox, getting costumed up, and then doing some really, really, really bad acting with horrible scripts, but having fun nevertheless. Yuks in all senses of the word. I wonder how many of them did it drunk.
Caesar Romero was my favorite (after Julie Newmar of course), I thought it was a gas that he refused to shave off his famous moustache so they painted The Jokers greasepaint makeup right over it. And everyone just ignored it.
More Julie Newmar...
ReplyDeleteAmen to that.
Deletehe played the Prince of Darkness twice.
ReplyDeleteHe was a favorite of the producers of Rawhide. He guest stared on four episodes total.
ReplyDeleteEvery great actor has to pay the rent occasionally. His Emmy, Tony, and two Oscar nominations were well-deserved.
ReplyDeleteAnd that is a fantastic character image. Tier 1. Saw it decades ago, evergreen.
ReplyDeleteIn addition to bringing life to Ernie Pyle in “GI Joe”, Burgess Meredeth was an exceptional narrator. Worth a listen & a chill on the ‘tube.
ReplyDeleteThe Shooting of Dan McGrew
A bunch of the boys were whooping it up in the Malamute saloon;
The kid that handles the music-box was hitting a jag-time tune;
Back of the bar, in a solo game, sat Dangerous Dan McGrew,
And watching his luck was his light-o'-love, the lady that's known as Lou.
When out of the night, which was fifty below, and into the din and the glare,
There stumbled a miner fresh from the creeks, dog-dirty, and loaded for bear.
We drank his health, and the last to drink was Dangerous Dan McGrew.
The Cremation of Sam McGee
There are strange things done in the midnight sun
By the men who moil for gold;
The Arctic trails have their secret tales
That would make your blood run cold;
The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
But the queerest they ever did see
Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge
I cremated Sam McGee.
All those actors, Frank Gorshin, Burgess Merideth, Ceaser Romero, John Astin, Vincent Price, Cliff Robertson, David Wayne, and the rest, I bet they were all having a ball hamming it up for Batman. It must have been kind of fun, grabbing a paycheck from Fox, getting costumed up, and then doing some really, really, really bad acting with horrible scripts, but having fun nevertheless. Yuks in all senses of the word. I wonder how many of them did it drunk.
ReplyDeleteCaesar Romero was my favorite (after Julie Newmar of course), I thought it was a gas that he refused to shave off his famous moustache so they painted The Jokers greasepaint makeup right over it. And everyone just ignored it.
DeleteBack when TV was fun, the scripts weren't woketarded, every show didn't need a gay character, and every couple wasn't inter-racial.
DeleteNowadays they'd give Romero crap for wearing whiteface.
Aesop, you ever think we were better of in those days? yeah, me too.
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