Scott talks about the hidden family values in CATCH ME IF YOU CAN, plus a story about a Resident Assistant at Syracuse University who set out to have some good, clean fun and instead was carted off to the re-education camp.
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Right Angle Backstage 01/17/23
Forty-four minutes of assorted shenanigans for BillWhittle.com members only.
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Twilight. Not the kiddie vampire movie, but the Newman/Hackman/Garner crime flick. Needs a blu ray makeover.
A Syracuse degree isn’t worth the paper its digital diploma isn’t printed on.
Overseer?
Was she Out Standing in her Field?
Outfielders are doubly bad… fielders for slavery connotations and out for homosexual connotations.
If everyone would stop hiring graduates of schools like Stanford (or USC or any of them for that matter), they message might finally be driven home.
You guys missed the best ever use of coconuts… As horses in Monty Python’s Holy Grail.
Mosquito Coast was a great book. The movie was ok, too.
I know the old song parody comedian/satirist Tom Lehrer was a Lefty, but it sure would be fun to hear a song from his today making fun of wokeness, government overreach, overspending, etc.
To quote Lynyrd Skynyrd; as for Neil Young, “Southern man don’t need him around anyhow.”
Command Sargent Major Steel-Eyed Missile Man. Kapow!
I wonder if Scott ever saw the 1960 version of the same story called The Great Imposter, played by Tony Curtis.
similar story
It is not the same story. “Catch Me If You Can” story line starts around 1971 with Abnigale, Jr., learning how to cheat via check scams. If I remember correctly, he learned this while working at a gas station, not watching “The Great Imposter.”
Like many examples, the book was better than the movie. The book is essentially an autobiography.
Keith, Tim,
Fair enough. I meant “same story” in the sense that The Rock’s Skyscraper was the same story as Bruce Willis’ Die Hard. Different place, different time, different characters. Essentially, a different spin on the same story. The Great Imposter was also based on true events – whatever that means.
Morttenson’s fellow actor in Witness, Alexander Gudunov was also in Die Hard.
And he was making a pretty good transition from Ballet to films. Died way too young. My mom was a ballet fan (we grew up in the NYC area) and she absolutely loved him. Later in life, I got her to watch Die Hard with me and when she saw him, she perked up and said, is that Gudunov? The dancer? All of a sudden she was interested. Check out some old images of him in the 70s as a dancer – dude was jacked. The opposite of the typical image of a male ballerina.
Poor Steve – having to slum without a BluRay version of a film. Oh, the humanity!
Scott – where do you download Scripts? Is there a special service you sign up to do that?
Anywhere I can.
Argh! Bill, you need to give people the “spoiler alert” warning (like Scott did) when you tell the ending of even an older movie. We haven’t seen Mosquito Coast! We will forgive you though (this time 🤨).
James O‘Keefe got started by as a goof protesting Lucky Charms as anti- Irish and actually got them banned. Maybe this ‘field’ thing is somebody doing the same thing.
ROCKETMAN!
That’s a senior NCO in Space Force. After you max rank as a Rock-hard Steelie-eyed Missileman, you take the advanced NCO rank test to Rocketman, then Senior Rocketman, then Master Rocketman, to Grand Ultimate Rocketman of Space Force!
Hollywood fantasized about Presidents who had been military pilots in Independence Day and Air Force One but when W donned a flight suit and flew out to the carrier the left was apoplectic with rage.
In a world of fast changing topics let’s reminisce about simpler times. Looking forward to what ever is decided this week.
Have Shiela Jackson Lee or Slapsy Maxie Waters heard about the Congressional WHIP!!!
don’t forget about best boy.
So Scott makes Ass Gaskets? ᗷᗩᕼᗩᕼᗩᕼᗩᕼᗩᕼᗩ…but hey, bet there’s good money in “G-Ass-kets.”…lol.
I kid…I’ve done worse.
We don’t make them. Our restrooms have them.
Oh, my bad. Okay, now it’s just a TMI…lol. 😉
Rest Assured…this is true. ^
I also expressed my preference for this kind of Backstage. Mostly, because I want you and Rumble to get the episode views from members. And if there are still some sell-out viewers here…BlueTube…lol.
About writing about sailing: Patrick O’Brian wrote 20 Master and Commander books, and he knew almost nothing about sailing.
I dabble in creative writing and use Wikipedia to sound smart. I’m currently writing with a nod to Cherokee mythology, moonshining/still design, NASCAR origins, clogging, watersports/ski boats, etc.; none of which are actually in my life hx.
Loved the O’Brian books.
Space cadets! duh..
My favorite book series back in the mid 60s was Tom Corbett, Space Cadet. I think once we get a Space Force Academy, what else can we call them!!!
You have to put a mask on the mannequin head? Sounds like California.
I thought the murder in “Witness” was just a McMuffin for the Amish love story
I think you mean MacGuffin..
Pretty sure I meant McMillian.
Didn’t he and his wife solve that mystery?
I especially like the sausage with egg variant.