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It's hard in life to trust everyone and everything. One must learn and think for themselves... Too bad that the younger generation today relies on "Fake News" and everything they read on their cell phones or get told in school.

They keep saying "Think Outside the Box", yet it seems that everyone is being put "INSIDE" the box and is led to believe what they are taught or told has to be true.

Great article!
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I really loved this article because Eddie told a lot about the movie and it's stars I didn't know about.

Being around Dean Martin for many years, I had to watch this film many years ago just to satisfy my own curiosity. I heard all the stories about Jerry not liking Petrillo and that he hated the movie, so I had to see it for myself. He was right... the film kinda sucks... but it's an interesting 'take' on the Martin & Lewis phenomenon - and to see Bela Lugosi out of his Dracula character was intriguing.

I never did ask Dean about the movie, but knowing him... I don't think he even gave it a thought. Besides, by the time "Brooklyn Gorilla" was released, Dean was just starting to become weary of his own partnership with Jerry. Just four short years later, Dean walked away from his own partner and characterization. He had other sights in mind.
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When I started reading Eddie's article, I thought to myself... "This isn't anything like the movie that I remember!" Then it occurred to me... I was thinking the article was about the 1952 Cary Grant movie with the same name!

I actually remember hearing at one time that this Marx Brothers movie was banned in some countries because they were afraid it would encourage anarchy and uprising... but then again, this was 1931 - the year that Leonard Nimoy was born and fear that Vulcan's might one day take over the world.

All kidding aside - very interesting article Eddie!

(and the fact that some countries (Ireland) banned this movie is true)
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Growing up, I loved The Beatles arrangements and harmonies... their songs always made me smile ... especially the EARLY Beatles. It is so interesting to read Eddie's "back stories" about their day-to-day lives in both their creative workings and how their lives would twine around that.

To read that the master tape which was sent from Paris to England wasn't "spooled" correctly and that Norman Smith had to add some cymbals/drums to make up for the loss was so home-hitting. It brought back memories of when I use to record and play everything back on a reel-to-reel recorder, and how the tape would sometimes twist of get wedged in between the outer portions and the inner plastic hub of the reel. Then you would have to unwind everything by hand and usually use a pair of scissors to cut out the bad spot and splice the two good ends back together, losing a piece in the middle!

I have read a few books over the years about the Beatles, but when Eddie writes about the group, he has a style which makes the stories more interesting and memorable. Eddie... you need to write your own book!
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Wow... Chaplin was married to Paulette Goddard?

I didn't know anything about Charlie Chaplin until I read Eddie's article. I watched the early movies when I was younger and thought his films were the best (Well... as a kid I loved the Three Stooges too, so my taste isn't always what you would consider 'astute").

How Chaplin performed some of those feats on film back in those days is very very interesting. I love the topics that Eddie chooses to write about. This was a "10"!
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Good story Eddie! As we enter another cause and movement in this country, this was a perfect article. It's always fascinating how history comes back around at times.
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Wendy had just informed that Jackie Gleason DID star in this movie. No wonder the cover of the soundtrack had a drawing that resembled him. Thanks Wendy!
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Photoshop has ruined the professional photographers career.

I have a friend who is a cameraman for the news department at NBC. He has worked at NBC since 1975. When the advent of personal High Definition Video cameras came upon the scene, he said "everybody thought they were a cameraman".

Now that everyone has a video camera in their cellphones, the quality of a great photographer is pretty much lost to the eyes of the general beholder... people are now use to looking at S**t that substitutes for skill, talent and perfection.
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Being a record collector, I remember the soundtrack LP from "Skidoo", but the drawing on the cover looks like it would have starred Jackie Gleason. I think most of the songs were sung by Harry (Everybody's Talkin') Nilsson with the liner notes written by Gary Owens (Laugh-in).

I never did see the movie so reading Eddie's article was very fascinating... especially the "Batman" relation... but I remember hearing people commenting that the movie sucked. I'm kinda curious now about seeing it since Eddie has informed me of who was in the cast.

Maybe it was made as a "tax write-off" ?
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Eddie... I just finished writing a whole 44 page spotlight honoring Jerry Lewis for the "Dean Martin Fan Center" magazine. Even after weeks of writing and going through thousands of photographs in my tribute piece, YOUR article here in Neatorama was superb! You wrote about so many things I had never known about in one of my favorite Lewis movies, "The Bellboy." I consider this film to be one of Jerry's greatest out of all he did. Now tell me more about "The Disorderly Orderly" !!! (ha!)
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It's funny that Burt Reynolds thought the Cosmopolitan centerfold cost him the respect in not being able to capture an Oscar for his movie "Deliverance"... Two years later in 1977, Arnold Schwarzenegger copied Reynolds, as the second celebrity to do a nude centerfold for the same magazine, and he later became Governor of California! Go figure!
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There's a new TV show on the Fox Network called "LA to Vegas"... I swear it's a continuation of the movie "Airplane!." Surely I'm not joking! Check it out!!!
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There's a HUGE Ford museum in Michigan that many folks don't know about. Check it out! They have the the actual city bus Rosa Parks rode in... John F Kennedy's Lincoln... The Original Oscar Meyer Weinermobile... A huge original McDonalds sign... even railroad trains inside the buildings. You gotta visit this place!!!!!
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Wow Eddie... it is so fascinating to learn about people that you have seen in so many things but never put a name or recognition to their faces, even from one film to another. It's like they "shape shift" and are good at it!
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