From HooRaq’s Raquel Buffday Thread Appreciation ... Funny Story Department:
Evidently at one point Ms. Welch informed Mr. Martin she wanted to go over their scenes together discussing the motivation behind their characters. Dino looked at her like she was nuts, asked Mr. Stewart “What the hell’s she talkin’ about!?!” and eventually the three shared some glasses of bubbly and everything was fine after that.
And to answer Patch’s Who’d You Wanna Be, Martin or Lewis? Thread:
Since we’ve never worn a tie since the late ‘60s (except for characters on stage)
and we firmly believe – thanks to this Distinguished example of the Martin School
of Sartorial Turtleneck Splendor, three Steubenville guesses –
Now This Specimen is Definitely Museum Quality (in addition to her, we meen!) Department:
A previously unknown (to say nothing and everything of scarcely being seen) studio-made short simply titled “Raquel!” that 20th Century Fox commissioned during the filming of
It’s an utterly fascinating (and enthralling) glimpse of behind-the-scenes movie-making
with some simply priceless footage of Messrs. Stewart & Martin plus director Andrew V. McLaglen
and ravishing Ms. Welch, at the height of her beauty (and wotta facial profile!).
O, and we can never mention this film without paying proper profound homage to our all-tyme favorite Western score from
(Mind u, we’d admired him afore but THIS was the one where generally attractive infatuation escalated into specific forever affection).
Hay, ya gotta admit: they’da birthed some mighty knock-out daughters and handsome sons!!!
This particular Appreciation’s a special { Transcendent Thank You } fer u, HooRaq.
Now This Specimen is Definitely Museum Quality (in addition to her, we meen!) Department:
A previously unknown (to say nothing and everything of scarcely being seen) studio-made short simply titled “Raquel!” that 20th Century Fox commissioned during the filming of
It’s an utterly fascinating (and enthralling) glimpse of behind-the-scenes movie-making
with some simply priceless footage of Messrs. Stewart & Martin plus director Andrew V. McLaglen
and ravishing Ms. Welch, at the height of her beauty (and wotta facial profile!).
O, and we can never mention this film without paying proper profound homage to our all-tyme favorite Western score from
(Mind u, we’d admired him afore but THIS was the one where generally attractive infatuation escalated into specific forever affection).
Hay, ya gotta admit: they’da birthed some mighty knock-out daughters and handsome sons!!!
This particular Appreciation’s a special { Transcendent Thank You } fer u, HooRaq.
You might notice on the "Bandolero!" C.D. cover that Dean Martin's name isn't seen because he was under contract to a record label (Reprise) at that time, and record companies wouldn't have any of their artists' names seen on other albums from competing companies.
You might notice on the "Bandolero!" C.D. cover that Dean Martin's name isn't seen because he was under contract to a record label (Reprise) at that time, and record companies wouldn't have any of their artists' names seen on other albums from competing companies.
Same with photos. Look at this poster from "Cast a Giant Shadow." Frank Sinatra appears at the lower left of Kirk Douglas.
But when the image was used for the United Artists score album, Sinatra is gone, and Yul Brynner's image is moved up.
Now that he is no longer with us, Sinatra reappears on the Varese CD.
He only played an out-and-out-ireedemable badass baddie once, in
and that was quite enuff, no thankee. As one Philadelphia reviewer at the time (1967) put it, "this kind of unsavory character just isn't Martin's style". Amen (and wimmen) to that, pally.
When the Consummate Con Man Got Corporately Out-Conned Department:
Daughter Deana
shared a lovely story with L.A. Times writer Susan King recently on the real genesis of why he beamed aboard his celebrated musical variety show in the mid-60s:
See, NBC wouldn’t take his frequent ‘no’s’ seriously so “They called him again,” his daughter recalled. “He said ‘They want to have a meeting with me’. He told all of the family, ‘When I go in tomorrow, I am going to ask them for a ridiculous amount of money so they will turn me down.
‘I am going to tell them I don’t want to rehearse, so I’m sure they will turn me down.
‘And then I am going to tell them I only want to tape on Sunday afternoons after 1:00. So for sure they won’t go for it!’
“He came home that next night and said: ‘They went for it. So now I have to do it.”
And those Thursday nights at ten became Must-See-Teevee before these modern-day yuppies even knew how to spel it.
“Dad was so cool and debonair … Every man wanted to be him
and every woman to be with him.
“There was no one who could do Dean Martin better than Dean Martin.”
Dean Martin had something that the other members of the Rat Pack (Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop) didn't have: A long running television series (nine seasons, and went off the air when the variety series was in a decline).
I thought it was pretty cool and earthbound of him to say about the Rat Pack schtick that in X years people will wonder what all the fuss was about. Yup, he was right!
They're now up there with Don Rickles, who died earlier this year, and actually appeared on Lewis' second comedy variety series and the M.D.A. Telethon. I wonder who he got to insult first when Dean and Jerry were reunited?
And Dean was the only who dared to put Rickles on television when no television variety show would book him. Rickles was eternally grateful for Dean for giving him his big break, and Dean and producer Greg Garrison had to get every celebrity on the set when they turned it into a nightclub. The topper came when Bob Hope walked in, and Rickles said, "What is he doing here? Is the war over", and even Hope considered that the best example of comic timing he ever witnessed. As a result, not only did Rickles' bookings in Vegas increase, but now every television variety series wanted him. A classic example is the "Entertainer Of The Year" awards was after Ed Sullivan introduced him, Rickles said, "The wax museum just called. They're expecting you Friday!"
This particular Appreciation’s a special { Transcendent Thank You } fer u, HooRaq. 
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