WrestlingDeacon

Not only are there re-rematches, but remarkings as well. I'm glad I didn't pick up Bowers and Morrison for the ppv or this would make three times I've marked that match. Man, that's crazy. Oh, yeah, overall Judge your cards sucks the sweat off of a dead man's balls. Now cry yourself to sleep and leave me the fuck alone.

Thanks to everyone here who gave me questions for my first column. I still have some saved from you guys here for use in future weeks. Please check out my first column here. Be sure to send any more questions my way by email and thanks again for the support and help.

Man, I don't know where to start here. All good movies, but to say "ok, the greatest comedy of all time is one of these six" is pretty fucking pompous.

Thank you for the two awards I won. I am disappointed that I did not win ppv match of the year, but look what I lost to. Nor did I win best promo, which is the one I really wanted. I job that to Zenon? Man, I'm in the Twilight Zone now. Although I am happy that my face turn met with so much succes and a key to that was the feud with Tom. I think the comment above really expresses what made it work with the slow burn and all the little side bars. Even when we weren't dirctly feuding or dealing with each other, the undercurrent was still sizzling with each other. I proudly share this trophy with Tom. I'll keep it at my house on Mondays, Tuesdays and every other Thursday.

I just thought this morning, the way to make it up is for me to just take two teams for this coming week. And I'll even take iffy propositions with San Diego and Oakland. There you go.

Because you posted so late in the week, I forgot to come back and check. My fault. Am I out? Tell you what, I'll go out on a limb and take San Diego this coming week. Really, that game's a coin toss.

*Points Edwin to Frost vs. Janus cargo net cage match*

I recently applied at 411Mania.com to be the Q&A guy for the movie section. I was just accepted today and instructed to put together an introductory column to be ready by the beginning of next week. I was told I could just concoct some test questions, but I figure it would be best to see if I could drum up some from people here. I posted this in the movie folder, but you guys in the SWF are like family and I know you will give me solid questions to base a column on. Keep in mind that this is NOT trivia with the aim of stumping me. These should be questions that you genuinely don't know the answer to or topics you would like to know more about. I figue most questions will be of the vein of who's that guy, what was this movie and general info on movie making and movie history. Simply post your questions in this thread and I'll try to answer the ones I think would fit best for my first column. I will not be answering questions in this thread or responding personally. Any help will be greatly appreciated and thanks.

Thanks to everyone here who gave me questions for my first column. I still have some saved from you guys here for use in future weeks. Please check out my first column here. Be sure to send any more questions my way by email and thanks again for the support and help. And Tod, that's not the first time my name's recieved that reaction.

NEW YORK - Director Elia Kazan, the hard-driving immigrant's son whose triumphs included the original Broadway productions of "Death of a Salesman" and "A Streetcar Named Desire," and the Academy Award-winning film "On the Waterfront," died Sunday. He was 94. Kazan was at his home in Manhattan when he died, said his lawyer, Floria Lasky. Five of the plays he staged won Pulitzer Prizes for their authors: "The Skin of Our Teeth," "A Streetcar Named Desire," "Death of a Salesman," "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" and "J.B.," for which Kazan himself won a Tony Award. Other stage credits included "Camino Real," "Sweet Bird of Youth" and "Tea and Sympathy." In Hollywood, he won Oscars (news - web sites) for directing "Gentleman's Agreement" and "On the Waterfront." He also did "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," the film version of "Streetcar," "East of Eden," "Splendor in the Grass," "A Face in the Crowd" and "The Last Tycoon." In his 50s he turned to writing and produced six novels — including several best sellers — and an autobiography. The first two novels, "America, America" and "The Arrangement," he also made into movies. "Even when I was a boy I wanted to live three or four lives," Kazan once said. To some, Kazan diminished his stature when he went before the House Committee on Un-American Activities during the McCarthy era and named people he said had been members of the Communist Party with him in the mid-1930s. He insisted years later that he bore no guilt as a result of what some saw as a betrayal. "There's a normal sadness about hurting people, but I'd rather hurt them a little than hurt myself a lot," he said. In early 1999, leaders of the motion picture academy announced they would give Kazan a special Academy Award for his life's work. The decision reopened wounds and touched off a painful controversy. On awards night, some in the audience withheld applause, though others gave him a warm reception. Director Martin Scorsese and actor Robert De Niro presented the award. "I thank you very much. I really like to hear that and I want to thank the Academy for its courage, generosity," Kazan said.

Yeah, you caught the very beginning of Hook.

Tons of big time names have died this year. Especially actors who were beloved by Hollywood. Bob Hope, Katherine Hepburn, Gregory Peck, Charles Bronson, Mr. Rogers, Robert Stack, Hume Cronyn, Richard Crenna, Buddy Hackett, Buddy Ebsen, director John Schlesinger, Gregory Hines, George Plimpton. O'Connor is a real shame because was the last of the classic hoofers and veterans of the golden age of Hollywood musicals. Such a big and forgotten part of our culture has died with him.

By JEREMIAH MARQUEZ, Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES - Entertainer Donald O'Connor (news), who combined comedy and acrobatics in the show-stopping "Make 'Em Laugh" number in the classic movie "Singin' in the Rain," died Saturday, his daughter said. He was 78. O'Connor, who had been in declining health in recent years, died of heart failure at a retirement home in Calabasas, his daughter, Alicia O'Connor, told The Associated Press. In a brief statement, the family said that among O'Connor's last words was the following quip: "I'd like to thank the Academy for my lifetime achievement award that I will eventually get." O'Connor won an Emmy, but never an Oscar. He was best known for films he made in the 1950s — a series of highly successful "Francis the Talking Mule" comedies and movie musicals that put his song and dance talents to good use. "He was such a fine man and was one of the great ones," actor Tony Curtis (news) said Saturday. Songs in movie musicals are often touching or exciting, but O'Connor performed a rare feat with a number that were laugh-out-loud funny. The best, 1952's "Singin' in the Rain," also starred Gene Kelly (news) and Debbie Reynolds (news) and took a satirical look at Hollywood during the transition from silent to sound pictures. As he sings "Make 'Em Laugh," O'Connor dances with a prop dummy and performs all manner of amusing acrobatics. "Someone handed me a dummy that was on the stage," he recalled in a 1995 Associated Press interview. "That was the only prop I used. I did a pratfall and we wrote that down. Every time I did something that got a laugh, we wrote it down to keep in the number." The American Film Institute (news - web sites)'s list of the top 100 American movies ever made ranked "Singin' in the Rain" at No. 10. "He was incredible, a consummate performer. Always entertaining, always talking, always laughing," said Tim Fowlar his musical director for 30 years. "He loved to perform and that's pretty much all he knew." Among O'Connor's other '50s musicals were "Call Me Madam," "Anything Goes" and "There's No Business Like Show Business." He said it was a fluke that he landed in so many musicals, noting he started out as a "straight" actor. He also said his song-and-dance image came with a downside. "Back then, when you were typecast that way, it was very difficult to get dramatic parts," he recalled. "Look at Fred Astaire (news), who was a darn good actor." The "Francis" comedies, which featured a bumbling O'Connor and a talking mule, began in 1949. A few years later, the man who directed them created the "Mr. Ed" TV series. O'Connor quit the "Francis" series in 1955, saying, "When you've made six pictures and the mule still gets more fan mail than you do ...." O'Connor also had some success in television. He won an Emmy for "The Colgate Comedy Hour" in 1954 and appeared in "The Donald O'Connor Texaco Show" from 1954 to 1955. Born in Chicago to circus performers who went into vaudeville, O'Connor joined his family's act when he was an infant. He made his film debut at age 11 in a dancing scene with two of his brothers in "Melody for Two." As a contract actor for Paramount, he played adolescent roles in several films, including Huckleberry Finn in "Tom Sawyer — Detective" (1938). He was Bing Crosby (news)'s kid brother in "Sing You Sinners" (1938), which he later ranked among his favorite roles. When he grew too big for child roles, he briefly returned to vaudeville, but was soon back in Hollywood playing high-energy juvenile leads opposite such actresses as Gloria Jean and Susanna Foster. In recent years, he continued working when he found a project he liked, such as appearing in an episode of "Tales From the Crypt." But he said he had little desire to leave home for long stretches. He and his wife had moved to Arizona after their California home was damaged in the 1994 Northridge earthquake (news - web sites). "Revivals are so popular now. But doing one would mean being out in cold, cold New York for a year, a year and a half," he said. "I'd rather do something where I go in and work a week, maybe three days. Get it done and come back home."

Everyone's been talking about how many celebrities have died this year and here's a list. The count is at 38, including those that perished in the fire at the Great White concert. There might be a few not on there. http://www.sunspot.net/features/bal-celebr...es-nav&index=38

Psycho Day of the Dead The Omen Halloween II Night of the Living Dead (1968) Re-Animator Friday the 13th Part 2 Texas Chainsaw Massacre The Exorcist Fright Night Evil Dead Friday the 13th Rosemary's Baby Hellraiser Army of Darkness Nightmare on Elm Street Alien The Howling Carrie An American Werewolf in London Halloween From Dusk Til Dawn Evil Dead 2 The Beyond The Shining Return of the Living Dead Suspiria Pet Semetary The Thing (which one though?) Lost Boys Dead Alive Near Dark I have to take issue with there being no classic Hammer or Universal flicks on here. No Dracula, Frankenstein, Mummy. A lot of marginal horror films and all these sequels you really don't need. Trim the sequels, add more older stuff and this is fine.

TCM is showing spoofs and parodies on Fridays all this month. Last night kicked off with Support your Local Sheriff with James Garner, moved to Blazing Saddles and then Spaceballs. No censoring, but that's why it was shown so late. I would say TCM has the larger library, because they have all the stuff Ted Turner owns and the entire Warner Brothers library too. There's the Fox movie channel too, so basically AMC shows whatever is left over.

because he's a real man's man like WILLIAM REGAL.

I scoff at 10500. I wrote Wargames by myself! (This fact has been retconned by Frost Brand Enterprises Retconning Device and Food Dehydrator.)

People might also remember Plimpton as host of Mousterpiece Theater on the Disney channel and guest starring in the Simpsons episode where Lisa is asked to throw the spelling bee. "Da-da-da and a hot plate!"

Robert Palmer makes three with Gordon Jump and George Plimpton. I must say Palmer was a guilty pleasure and you can't fault his sense of style. A real solid talent. And Bob Hope died months ago.

LET US PRAY TO GOD THE BIG MAORI DOESN'T RAPE THE POOR INNOCENT FLORJAPANIAN: Ejiro Fasaki vs. "The Maori Badass" Va'aiga $50 on Ejiro Fasaki WHO GETS THE LIVER AND ONIONS AND PUNCH AND PIE: "The Sinner" John Duran vs. English Dragon $50 on English Dragon MENSTRUAL CYCLE OF DOOM MATCH: Jay Dawg vs. The Boston Strangler $100 on The Boston Strangler TWO OUT OF THREE COMPROMISING POSITIONS: "The Franchise" Mak Francis vs. "The Sacred One" Andrew Blackwell $50 on Mak Francis WE KNOW WILDCHILD LIKES IT HARDCORE, BUT DOES JOHNNY REALLY WANT IT: Wildchild vs. Johhny "The Barracuda" Dangerous $100 on Wildchild QUAHOG WISHES THEY HAD CITIZENS LIKE THEM: "Deathwish" Danny Williams vs. "TNT" Taylor Nicholas Thompson $3.11 on TNT AMERICAN GLADIATORS MATCH FOR SOME TITLES THAT HAVEN'T BEEN DEFENDED IN 49 DAYS OR SO: Double Jeopardy (Quiz and Show) vs. Crowe and Dante Crane $75 on Double Jeopardy GRUDGIFIED COCKFIGHT: Edwin MacPhisto vs. Nathaniel "Silent" Kibagami SWF COMMISSIONER BRUHAHA: Dace Night (representing "Grand Slam" Mark Stevens) vs. Bastion (representing the Hville Thugg) vs. Michael Craven (representing the Suicide King) $3.75 on Dace Night AND THE MAIN EVENT… NO NEED FOR A WITTY SUBTITLE BECAUSE THIS COULD BE THE MOST AWESOMEST MATCH EVA FOR EL TITELO: "THE SUPERIOR ONE" TOM FLESHER VS. "JUDGE MENTAL" WILLIAM HEARFORD $200 on Tom Flesher

I've been thinking about that question all day, G. I think that could be a really good one. And yes, tons of people look shocked when they get into a class and realize they actually have to do work and learn stuff.

I might be going out tonight, but don't think so. And I'm helping my sister move until dark on Friday. I'll be in chat when I can. NOBODY TOUCH JON SLANEY!

Everyone else can poke fun at Mr. G, but when I do it I get vomited on. Pretty much, I was talking about the questions of you dating Aurora Snow and who would play you in a movie. Those types of joke questions I don't need. I think the Howard Hawks one is something I could write a whole column on, so I'll probably save it for down the road. I too am not a big fan of Fight Club, but I think I can make a case for why people who like it like it. The film class question is intriguing, I'll probably work that in for the first week. Now, the question on Euro cinema is way too broad and a kettle of fish I'd rather not dip into. Although, I'm sure I'll get smaller, more specific questions on those subjects as I go. So, there you go. Mr. G is good, Mr. G is great, Mr. G feeds up chocolate cake.

That's quite a famous case. It's Huey Long who was a senator from Lousiana that many people were picking to run for President at some point. Just look up the name and you'll find a ton of info.