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Joined: 06-30-2010
Posts: 25,739
From: Kannapolis NC
Before the world changed forever in September of 2001, pilots around the world loved to regale each other with reenactments of the "The Pilot Skit" with Foster Brooks of the old Dean Martin Comedy Hour.
Watch and enjoy, Dean's reactions are quite genuine, Foster loved to ad lib......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC5_W_YsPKg
Watch and enjoy, Dean's reactions are quite genuine, Foster loved to ad lib......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC5_W_YsPKg
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Joined: 12-19-2011
Posts: 2,308
From: Somewhere
OH MY GOD...
The Seventh Sign of the Apocalypse was just revealed to me......
Johnny Depp to play Tonto in the 2013 Lone Ranger release.....
"Stop the world I wanna get off"
I may have to stop going to the movies now.
On a side note:
Did you know that The Green Hornet is a blood related descendant of The Lone Ranger?
Radio show history:
The Lone Ranger was John Reid
Dan Reid was The Lone Ranger's Brother and was killed by the Cavanshish Gang....
His son (The Lone Ranger's Nephew was called Dan but his real name not known for sure) was the father of one Britt Reid.
Britt Reid became the Green Hornet.
In 1935, George W. Trendle, the WXYZ co-owner and managing partner who had spearheaded the development of The Lone Ranger, sought to bring on air a similar series.
With writer Fran Striker and director James Jewell, Trendle sought to create a series that would "show that a political system could be riddled with corruption and that one man could successfully combat this white-collar lawlessness."
Liking the acoustic possibilities of a bee sound, Trendle directed it be incorporated into the show. The team experimented with names, with Trendle liking The Hornet, but that name had been used elsewhere and could have posed rights problems. Colors including blue and pink were considered before the creators settled on green.
The vigilante nature of her hero's operation quickly resulted in the Green Hornet being declared an outlaw himself, and Britt Reid played to it.
The Green Hornet became thought of as one of his city's biggest criminals, allowing him to walk into suspected racketeers' offices and ply them for information, or even demand a cut of their profits. In doing so, the Green Hornet usually provoked them to attack him to remove this competitor, giving him license to defeat and leave them for the police without raising suspicion as to his true motives.
He would be accompanied by his similarly masked chauffeur/bodyguard/enforcer, who was also Reid's valet, Kato, initially described as Japanese, and by 1939 as Filipino of Japanese descent. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, references to a Japanese heritage were dropped.
Specifically, in and up to 1939, in the series' opening narration, Kato was called Britt Reid's "Japanese valet" and from 1940 to '45 he was Reid's "faithful valet." However, by at least the June 1941 episode "Walkout for Profit", about 14 minutes into the episode, Reid specifically noted Kato having a Philippine origin and thus he became Reid's "Filipino valet" as of that point.
When the characters were used in the first of a pair of movie serials, the producers had Kato's nationality given as Korean.
Cheers
Doc
The Seventh Sign of the Apocalypse was just revealed to me......
Johnny Depp to play Tonto in the 2013 Lone Ranger release.....
"Stop the world I wanna get off"
I may have to stop going to the movies now.
On a side note:
Did you know that The Green Hornet is a blood related descendant of The Lone Ranger?
Radio show history:
The Lone Ranger was John Reid
Dan Reid was The Lone Ranger's Brother and was killed by the Cavanshish Gang....
His son (The Lone Ranger's Nephew was called Dan but his real name not known for sure) was the father of one Britt Reid.
Britt Reid became the Green Hornet.
In 1935, George W. Trendle, the WXYZ co-owner and managing partner who had spearheaded the development of The Lone Ranger, sought to bring on air a similar series.
With writer Fran Striker and director James Jewell, Trendle sought to create a series that would "show that a political system could be riddled with corruption and that one man could successfully combat this white-collar lawlessness."
Liking the acoustic possibilities of a bee sound, Trendle directed it be incorporated into the show. The team experimented with names, with Trendle liking The Hornet, but that name had been used elsewhere and could have posed rights problems. Colors including blue and pink were considered before the creators settled on green.
The vigilante nature of her hero's operation quickly resulted in the Green Hornet being declared an outlaw himself, and Britt Reid played to it.
The Green Hornet became thought of as one of his city's biggest criminals, allowing him to walk into suspected racketeers' offices and ply them for information, or even demand a cut of their profits. In doing so, the Green Hornet usually provoked them to attack him to remove this competitor, giving him license to defeat and leave them for the police without raising suspicion as to his true motives.
He would be accompanied by his similarly masked chauffeur/bodyguard/enforcer, who was also Reid's valet, Kato, initially described as Japanese, and by 1939 as Filipino of Japanese descent. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, references to a Japanese heritage were dropped.
Specifically, in and up to 1939, in the series' opening narration, Kato was called Britt Reid's "Japanese valet" and from 1940 to '45 he was Reid's "faithful valet." However, by at least the June 1941 episode "Walkout for Profit", about 14 minutes into the episode, Reid specifically noted Kato having a Philippine origin and thus he became Reid's "Filipino valet" as of that point.
When the characters were used in the first of a pair of movie serials, the producers had Kato's nationality given as Korean.
Cheers
Doc