Good Night, John-Boy!!!- Page 2
Good Night, John-Boy!!!
#25re: Good Night, John-Boy!!!
Posted: 7/15/05 at 4:37pm
yikes, I forgot that.........thanks ME.
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story...
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#26re: 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..."
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#27re: Good Night, John-Boy!!!
Posted: 7/15/05 at 5:05pmWhat 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."
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#28re: Good Night, John-Boy!!!
Posted: 7/15/05 at 5:56pm
"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
joeybiltmore1
Leading Actor Joined: 2/22/05
#29re: 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.
wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#30re: Good Night, John-Boy!!!
Posted: 7/15/05 at 6:19pmOoh, 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
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#31re: 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."
#32re: Good Night, John-Boy!!!
Posted: 7/15/05 at 6:21pmThat'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
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#33re: 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."
#34re: Good Night, John-Boy!!!
Posted: 7/15/05 at 6:25pmWhere did I knock it?
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#35re: 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."
NCGuy
Broadway Star Joined: 4/8/04
#36re: Good Night, John-Boy!!!
Posted: 7/15/05 at 6:56pmGotham, your "In Defense of Grandma Walton" post is hysterical.
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#37re: Good Night, John-Boy!!!
Posted: 7/15/05 at 7:01pmMy 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."
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#38re: 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."
#39re: Good Night, John-Boy!!!
Posted: 7/15/05 at 7:54pmWasn'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."
ConvinceMe2
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/05
#40re: Good Night, John-Boy!!!
Posted: 7/15/05 at 7:57pmI like her as Rod Taylor's housekeeper in THE GLASS BOTTOM BOAT.
ConvinceMe2 is dead. Long live BrendanStryker!
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#41re: 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."
ConvinceMe2
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/05
#42re: Good Night, John-Boy!!!
Posted: 7/15/05 at 8:00pmOh yes, M_E, everybody's in that one.
ConvinceMe2 is dead. Long live BrendanStryker!
#43re: Good Night, John-Boy!!!
Posted: 7/15/05 at 8:00pmAnyone ever see the movie Spencer's Mountain, the ur-Waltons?
ConvinceMe2
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/05
#44re: Good Night, John-Boy!!!
Posted: 7/15/05 at 8:02pmYes, I've seen SPENCER'S MOUNTAIN. And, of course, there's THE HOMECOMING.
ConvinceMe2 is dead. Long live BrendanStryker!
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#45re: 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."
gettinhep
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/9/04
#46re: Good Night, John-Boy!!!
Posted: 7/15/05 at 8:13pmWhere is 'The Recipe' when you need it?
'Try not to have a good time...this is supposed to be educational.' - Lucy Van Pelt
ConvinceMe2
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/05
#47re: Good Night, John-Boy!!!
Posted: 7/15/05 at 8:16pmActually, 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!
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#48re: 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
gettinhep
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/9/04
#49re: 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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