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Showing posts with label Our Gang. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Our Gang. Show all posts

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Jackie Cooper

by Tony Dayoub


"Sometimes I'll wake up in the middle of the night and I'll hear a voice that sounds familiar . . . my wife has fallen asleep with the tube on, and I'll finally start recognizing the dialogue, look up, and Jesus Christ, it's me at 14, or 12, or 9, or whatever. Sometimes I'll sit there and watch it and I can tell myself what's coming next . . . I remember the dialogue, the scene and the set very well, and then there'll be a part of the picture I never remembered at all. Because there were times as a kid, as a teenager especially, when I'd be terribly occupied with what I was doing--with my boat, or on a circuit of rodeos and horseshoes, or with my car--very often on some of this stuff when I'd have to go to work. I'd just give the script a cursory glance. I had no training, and I was a quick study, so nobody knew how involved or not involved I was. But I look at that stuff now and I can see I wasn't involved, and I wasn't very good."
- Jackie Cooper

Perry White (Jackie Cooper): Olsen! Why am I paying you forty dollars a week when I should have you arrested for loitering? Go get Mr... er...
Clark Kent (Christopher Reeve): Kent.
Perry White: ...Kent here a towel!
Jimmy Olsen (Marc McClure): Right, Chief.
Perry White: And make mine black and no sugar!
Jimmy Olsen: Right, Chief.
Perry White: And don't call me 'sugar'!

Recommended Movies: Our Gang: Teacher's Pet, School's Out, Love Business, The Champ (1931), Treasure Island (1934), Superman: The Movie, Superman II

Friday, September 4, 2009

DVD Roundup: Spanky and the Gang, Sino-American Neo-Realism, and Small Town Noir

by Tony Dayoub



There were so many screeners sent to me this week, a week in which I happened to be laid up (along with my son) with the H1N1 virus (we're fine now, thanks), that this will probably be the first of several posts coming your way this weekend in an effort to clear the decks before the start of the De Palma Blog-A-Thon on Monday.