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It's Day 2 of The 63 Days of Dave.
See the Day One thread below for posters' bold new predictions for the radio ratings now being taken.
And YOU can join-in-the-fun too!
Yesterday, there was considerable discussion here at 63 Days of Dave HQ, as to whether we should offer a Fabulous Radio Prize for the most canny prediction. Watch this space...
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"ROUND UP THE USUAL SUSPECTS!!!"
If you’re thinking that’s how many-who-post-here would prefer that local Talk radio choose on-air personalities, you would be correct. Fresh new voices like Helen Glover and Smilin' Dave are conspicuous.
But that line was first spoken by the great character actor Claude Rains, playing Louie, the wily police chief, in the greatest movie ever made.
“Casablanca,” starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, premiered in New York on Thanksgiving Day, 1942. Nominated for 8 Oscars, it won 3: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay.
Champagne cocktails, French cigarettes, German Lugers, and intrigue are everywhere in sultry Casablanca, Morocco during World War II. It was The Hot Club on steroids.
There's a tense love triangle...thick anti-Nazi propaganda...and REAL suspense, as script pages were being written-on-the-fly. The actors themselves didn't know how the story would end! Not unlike a pause-laden stream-of-consciousness monologue by Dan York or Jeff Charles.
Bogie is hard-boiled and Bergman is radiant. Sidney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre turn bit parts into unforgettable characters. And Rains milks moviedom's most pregnant pause ever, before he unloads THAT LINE, with arched brow, as the story climaxes, on the airport tarmac. Even all these years later, there is still scattered applause in the theater at that emotional moment. When the credits roll, there isn’t a dry eye in the house.
If you've never seen Casablanca, scribble-it-in on the clipboard at Avon Cinema. You'll love the crowd.
If you have seen this masterpiece as many dozen times as I have, you know that:
Bogart’s character never actually said “Play it again, Sam;” and...
It only gets better, “as time goes by.”
As does The Dave Barber Show...as I PREDICT ratings will demonstrate.
Yup, now I MYSELF am on the record!
If you think I'm wrong, what's YOUR prediction?
Please be as specific as possible.
Metro AQH Shares P12+ are probably most useful for this purpose.
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Have a good Good Friday.
HAPPY EASTER (that'll be Day 4) from all of us here at The 63 Days of Dave.
http://members.aol.com/justadded/gull.gif
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AM radio: "It...is...ALIVE!"
See the Day One thread below for posters' bold new predictions for the radio ratings now being taken.
And YOU can join-in-the-fun too!
Yesterday, there was considerable discussion here at 63 Days of Dave HQ, as to whether we should offer a Fabulous Radio Prize for the most canny prediction. Watch this space...
==================================================
"ROUND UP THE USUAL SUSPECTS!!!"
If you’re thinking that’s how many-who-post-here would prefer that local Talk radio choose on-air personalities, you would be correct. Fresh new voices like Helen Glover and Smilin' Dave are conspicuous.
But that line was first spoken by the great character actor Claude Rains, playing Louie, the wily police chief, in the greatest movie ever made.
“Casablanca,” starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, premiered in New York on Thanksgiving Day, 1942. Nominated for 8 Oscars, it won 3: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay.
Champagne cocktails, French cigarettes, German Lugers, and intrigue are everywhere in sultry Casablanca, Morocco during World War II. It was The Hot Club on steroids.
There's a tense love triangle...thick anti-Nazi propaganda...and REAL suspense, as script pages were being written-on-the-fly. The actors themselves didn't know how the story would end! Not unlike a pause-laden stream-of-consciousness monologue by Dan York or Jeff Charles.
Bogie is hard-boiled and Bergman is radiant. Sidney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre turn bit parts into unforgettable characters. And Rains milks moviedom's most pregnant pause ever, before he unloads THAT LINE, with arched brow, as the story climaxes, on the airport tarmac. Even all these years later, there is still scattered applause in the theater at that emotional moment. When the credits roll, there isn’t a dry eye in the house.
If you've never seen Casablanca, scribble-it-in on the clipboard at Avon Cinema. You'll love the crowd.
If you have seen this masterpiece as many dozen times as I have, you know that:
Bogart’s character never actually said “Play it again, Sam;” and...
It only gets better, “as time goes by.”
As does The Dave Barber Show...as I PREDICT ratings will demonstrate.
Yup, now I MYSELF am on the record!
If you think I'm wrong, what's YOUR prediction?
Please be as specific as possible.
Metro AQH Shares P12+ are probably most useful for this purpose.
==================================================
Have a good Good Friday.
HAPPY EASTER (that'll be Day 4) from all of us here at The 63 Days of Dave.
http://members.aol.com/justadded/gull.gif
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AM radio: "It...is...ALIVE!"