The other day, Harvey asked me about a movie. I hadn’t seen it, but now I have. If you want to know more, I tell a little more about it at my little blog.
Right now, it’s time for you to share your thoughts. You pick the topic. It’s Wednesday Night Open Thread.
What’s on your mind?
Add me to the never-even-heard-the-title column. Never even saw a listing for it in TV Guide.
I guess that makes me the resident expert on The Brothers O’Toole. I can add that to my resumé.
The Frisco Kid held up pretty well. It was on some channel one month and I watched it a bunch of times.
One I wonder about holding up is Rustler’s Rhapsody, a good cast including Marilu Henner. Sorta eh but it has its moments. And it has Marilu Henner.
Never heard of the Brothers O’Toole.
Of course, they all pale before Lust in the Dust with Divine.
Now that”s a campy 80s western we can all enjoy.
It’s no Pink Flamingos, but it’s pretty good.
Saw The Frisco Kid but don’t remember anything about it.
I actually have Rustler’s Rhapsody and watched it again a few months ago. It holds up.
I know of Lust In The Dust, but honestly don’t know if I saw it.
Rustler’s Rhapsody is a good movie, unpretentious and funny. Also it is confident in its heterosexuality.
I have The Frisco Kid, Rustler’s Rhapsody, Brothers O’Toole, and Lust In The Dust. I think I shall have an Oddball Westerns Weekend at Castle DBD.
Tonight’s history lesson……..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOqJzcsXGvo
Boy! Is he strict!………………
Four North Korean officials have reportedly been executed for selling information to the US ahead of the failed nuclear arms meeting between Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump, it emerged today.
The four workers, all said to be from the foreign ministry, were allegedly killed by firing squad after talks in Vietnam between the two countries broke down.
One of the four, said to have been shot dead in the capital Pyongyang earlier this month, was reportedly a diplomat from North Korea’s embassy in Hanoi.
Dictator Kim, 35, blamed the failure of the summit on information leaked to the US before the meeting at the Metropole Hotel in Hanoi in February, according to Japanese news agency Asia Press.
The executions were watched by members of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) and Korean People’s Army, according to reports by local media.
News of the alleged killings has reportedly spread from the hermit kingdom after a Japanese trade official recently returned from North Korea and spoke to a source who was said to have known about the deaths.
Despite the reports in Japanese and South Korean media the claims have not yet been verified.
News of the alleged killings comes as North Korean media reported Kim’s sister, Kim Yo-jong, had been ‘demoted’ from at least one of her titles within the party in the wake of the failed nuclear summit, according to NK News.
Kim Jong-un’s top adviser and key negotiator with the U.S. on denuclearisation was also removed from his post earlier this month, South Korean officials said.
Kim Yong Chol, known as the leader’s most trusted policy adviser, was dropped as head of the United Front Department.
He appears to have been ‘censured’ after the second Trump-Kim summit failed to reach a deal on the sanctions relief Pyongyang would get in exchange for dismantling its nuclear programme.
Before making some of these decisions, Kim paid a visit to the birthplace of his father Kim Jong Il, in early April.
This spot near Mount Paektu is where he goes to contemplate important political manoeuvres, according to the Korea Times.
Kim is not averse to the brutal killing of associates and family members.
In February it emerged he forced his uncle, Jang Song-thaek, to watch colleagues get blown apart with anti-aircraft guns before he was also killed by the same method in 2013, a defector from North Korea claimed.
Kim’s half brother, Kim Jong-nam, was killed in a nerve-gas poisoning attack at Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Malaysia, in 2017.
Two Vietnamese woman, Doan Thi Huong and Siti Aisyah, were charged with his murder after the deadly nerve agent was smeared on Kim Jong-nam’s face with a cloth.
Both women claimed they were tricked into playing a ‘prank’ on him as part of a TV show and did not realise they were using a toxic substance.
During the same year at the height of his tensions with the US over missile testing, Kim was said to have executed two officials in just five days over a launch delay at a test missile site.
The unnamed executive allegedly took responsibility for setbacks at the Punggye-ri nuclear base which led to the date of a rocket launch being pushed back.
Five days earlier, a high ranking official once described as the ‘second most powerful man in North Korea’ disappeared from public life, sparking speculation he may have been executed by death squads.
Despite reassurances made by the dictator during Kim’s first talks with Trump at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa island in Singapore last June, it emerged in February that North Korea’s nuclear and ballistic missile programmes remain intact.
According to a UN panel of experts Pyongyang has been using airports and other buildings to shield its weapons from possible US military strikes.
Kim arrived in Vladivostok today in a heavily armoured train ahead of his meeting with Vladimir Putin tomorrow.
Call me slow but I always thought I knew that the song How Long by Ace was about infidelity. But it doesn’t actually say that, you just have to infer it. Clearly my mind made up lyrics for the song that aren’t there.
That being said, the same guy also sang for Squeeze and had his share of hits. But he wasn’t done! He sang for Mike & The Mechanics and got another pile of hits.
I could cheat and look up his name but I honestly don’t remember it. I’m sure he’s a household name somewhere.
Anyway, good for him! Three decades, three bands, and at least one hit song with each is nothing to sneeze at.
As far as John Astin is concerned, I’m a big fan of Gomez Adams.
I remember liking The Frisco Kid, a western comedy buddy movie with Gene Wilder as a Rabbi and Han Solo as an outlaw of some kind. I don’t know if it’d hold up if I watched it again.
I’ll bet it would. I like it every time I rewatch it. Same with Rustler’s Rhapsody.
Ooh! Rustlers Rhapsody. The “got a light?” “Yeah, your butt and my face” line is still used among my friends to this day.
Looks like another Instapundit link! We are coming up in the world. Or it just maybe we caught Sarah Hoyt’s attention.
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/328743/#respond
Sarah was a fan of IMAO back when Frank was writing In My World posts, so she has a soft spot for us. I’m trying to give her a reason to be a fan again.