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#26

re: Good Night, John-Boy!!!

Posted: 7/15/05 at 4:37pm

yikes, I forgot that.........thanks ME.

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#27

re: Good Night, John-Boy!!!

Posted: 7/15/05 at 5:02pm

...and Earl Hamner - he of the disembodied John-Boy voice - he was the "pull-it-all-together" guy, long before voice-overs ruled the airwaves...

*psst, Rath: she was a sweetie!*

"Not a day goes by..."

#28

re: Good Night, John-Boy!!!

Posted: 7/15/05 at 5:05pm

What I find most interesting is that Lorimar's (the production company responsible for "The Waltons") next project was a little something called "Dallas"...

"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."

#29

"Grandma was a bitch!"

She wasn't a bitch, she was a crank. There's a difference. A bitch does things to be spitefully mean, a crank does things because they are tired.

Look at it from Grandma's point of view. She figures after a lifetime of washing Grandpa's long johns by hand and getting up at 5:00 AM every morning to collect the eggs and fix breakfast, she's due a bit of rest and relaxation. And what does she get? She has to scrimp because it's the Depression and has to live in the same house with her noisy grandchildren. And none of the grandchildren are going to be of any use to her in her old age. John-Boy is always locked in his room writing, Jason plays piano in a roadhouse, Ben married a rich girl, Jim-Bob is a grease monkey and will never get married, Mary Ellen is ugly, Erin is a priss and Elizabeth is a baby. Poor Grandma can't even go to church with this horde following her. And those two drunk Baldwin sisters, who Grandma went to grade school with, live all alone in that big, fancy, quiet house and get to drive their car wherever they feel like and are having the time of their life in their old age.

Don't be hard on Grandma, life hasn't treated her well.

If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

Updated On: 7/15/05 at 05:56 PM

#30

re: Good Night, John-Boy!!!

Posted: 7/15/05 at 6:16pm

Don't forget John-Boy's girlfriend Marcia Woolery.
Or Mary Ellen's boyfriend G.W.

I liked Erin becasue she was the prettiest.

And the Baldwin sisters crack me up.

#31

re: Good Night, John-Boy!!!

Posted: 7/15/05 at 6:19pm

Ooh, Corabeth annoyed me too! She just said things in such a tone, even when she said hi to anyone it annoyed me.

"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli

#32

re: Good Night, John-Boy!!!

Posted: 7/15/05 at 6:20pm

Joey, I liked how the Baldwin Ladies addressed each other as "Sister".

VERY Southern!

"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."

#33

re: Good Night, John-Boy!!!

Posted: 7/15/05 at 6:21pm

That's because they were too faced to remember each other's names.

Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

#34

re: Good Night, John-Boy!!!

Posted: 7/15/05 at 6:24pm

Rath, how can you knock an institution of pure Americana like "The Waltons"?

I seem to remember beeing on "the hot seat" for a certain Sally Struthers incident many moons ago...

"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."

#35

re: Good Night, John-Boy!!!

Posted: 7/15/05 at 6:25pm

Where did I knock it?

Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

#36

re: Good Night, John-Boy!!!

Posted: 7/15/05 at 6:31pm

Well, you kinda implied the Baldwin Ladies were drunk--well, they DID make "the receipie"--well, oh, NEVER MIND...

***shrinks away in silence***

"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."

#37

re: Good Night, John-Boy!!!

Posted: 7/15/05 at 6:56pm

Gotham, your "In Defense of Grandma Walton" post is hysterical.

#38

re: Good Night, John-Boy!!!

Posted: 7/15/05 at 7:01pm

My favorite pre-"Waltons" Ellen Corby performance is when she played one of Mama's busybody sisters in the film I REMEMBER MAMA (1944)...

"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."

#39

re: Good Night, John-Boy!!!

Posted: 7/15/05 at 7:54pm

I agree, Beav!

POCKETFUL OF MIRACLES (1962) is a fabulous movie, and Corby was sublime in it...

"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."

#40

re: Good Night, John-Boy!!!

Posted: 7/15/05 at 7:54pm

Wasn't Corby "Miss Hannah" Lucy M. Ricardo's high school drama teacher who brought a group of students into the city to watch Lucy (Lu Ci) play Juliet to Orson Wells as Romeo?

" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."

#41

re: Good Night, John-Boy!!!

Posted: 7/15/05 at 7:57pm

I like her as Rod Taylor's housekeeper in THE GLASS BOTTOM BOAT.

ConvinceMe2 is dead. Long live BrendanStryker!

#42

re: Good Night, John-Boy!!!

Posted: 7/15/05 at 7:59pm

Glebb--You are correct, sir.

CM2--Never saw that film--will have to check it out.

"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."

#43

re: Good Night, John-Boy!!!

Posted: 7/15/05 at 8:00pm

Oh yes, M_E, everybody's in that one.

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#44

re: Good Night, John-Boy!!!

Posted: 7/15/05 at 8:00pm

Anyone ever see the movie Spencer's Mountain, the ur-Waltons?

#45

re: Good Night, John-Boy!!!

Posted: 7/15/05 at 8:02pm

Yes, I've seen SPENCER'S MOUNTAIN. And, of course, there's THE HOMECOMING.

ConvinceMe2 is dead. Long live BrendanStryker!

#46

re: Good Night, John-Boy!!!

Posted: 7/15/05 at 8:05pm

SPENCER'S MOUNTAIN? With Henry Fonda and Maureen O'Sullivan?

And the whole story is reset in Wyoming?

Nope, never heard of it.

"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."

#47

re: Good Night, John-Boy!!!

Posted: 7/15/05 at 8:13pm

Where is 'The Recipe' when you need it?

'Try not to have a good time...this is supposed to be educational.' - Lucy Van Pelt

#48

re: Good Night, John-Boy!!!

Posted: 7/15/05 at 8:16pm

Actually, M_E, that's Maureen O'Hara. Also with Helen Hayes' son, whose name is escaping me, and the littlest girl from THE SOUND OF MUSIC.

ConvinceMe2 is dead. Long live BrendanStryker!

#49

re: Good Night, John-Boy!!!

Posted: 7/15/05 at 8:18pm

Gettinhep--

For 'The Recipie' please visit The Walton's Mountain Museum in Schuyler, Virginia:

http://www.virginiawind.com/virginia_travel/waltons_mountain.asp

CM2--

Sorry I got my Maureens confused! ***blushes***

"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."

Updated On: 7/15/05 at 08:18 PM

#50

re: Good Night, John-Boy!!!

Posted: 7/15/05 at 8:22pm

Thank you, M_E!

What would we do without you?

'Try not to have a good time...this is supposed to be educational.' - Lucy Van Pelt

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