My Sweet Little Ass Was Saved By The Mk III Today!!!

External Since: May 09, 2007 Posts: 380

On 9/6/07 11:40 PM, in article ROmdnUOxqaWYS33bnZ2dnUVZ_tOtnZ2d.DeleteThis@comcast.com,
"Neil Harrington" <not.DeleteThis@home.today> wrote:

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> "George Kerby" <ghost_topper.DeleteThis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:C305C09C.395F7%ghost_topper@hotmail.com...
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>>
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>> On 9/6/07 10:27 AM, in article
>> 8umdnXTwsO_dgX3bnZ2dnUVZ_sKqnZ2d.DeleteThis@comcast.com,
>> "Neil Harrington" <not.DeleteThis@home.today> wrote:
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>>> "ASAAR" <caught.DeleteThis@22.com> wrote in message
>>> news:n5nud3h57lqf4n4i3mrsof82t77vi9ncgt@4ax.com...
>>>> On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 20:17:54 -0400, Neil Harrington wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>>>> It really was a marvelous show, even better than Shaw's original.
>>>>>>>>> Thorne
>>>>>>>>> Smith once did a story on the Pygmalion theme also, and I think I
>>>>>>>>> dimly
>>>>>>>>> recall someone making a movie of that too.
>>>>
>>>>>>>> I never heard of that film. If it was well done it just might be
>>>>>>>> another topper! Smile

>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I can't now recall the title. It was more like the original Pygmalion
>>>>>>> (rather than Shaw's) in that a fellow fell in love with a statue, I
>>>>>>> think
>>>>>>> in
>>>>>>> a museum, and the statue came to life. Can't recall the actors' names
>>>>>>> either.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> George and Marion? Smile

>>>>>
>>>>> Well, that went over my head. Who are George and Marion?
>>>>
>>>> It did. I guess the clue wasn't very useful, but I thought than
>>>> anyone even vaguely familiar with Thorne Smith would have known that
>>>> he was the creator of Topper.
>>>
>>> Yes, I knew that, but didn't make any George and Marion connection.
>>>
>>>
>>>> Several of those books were turned
>>>> into Hollywood films,
>>>
>>> Well, there were just two Topper novels by Smith, both made into movies,
>>> and
>>> a third Topper movie not based on anything by Smith.
>>>
>>>
>>>> which spawned the early T.V. series starring
>>>> Leo G. Carroll as humble banker Cosmo Topper, who due to an
>>>> unfortunate skiing accident was happily "haunted" by a pair of
>>>> usually inebriated ghosts, George and Marion Kerby. They were
>>>> usually accompanied by another ghost, a brandy barrel toting St.
>>>> Bernard whose name was Neil. Smile

>>>
>>> In the movies, I don't remember the dog carrying a brandy barrel (though
>>> that tradionally does go with a St. Bernard), but he did lap up martinis
>>> and
>>> was generally about as drunk as his owners. Roland Young was Topper in
>>> the
>>> movies, Cary Grant and Constance Bennett the helpful if mildly plastered
>>> ghosts. And it wasn't a skiing accident that did them in, but an
>>> automobile
>>> wreck (in a gorgeous Cord convertible as I recall, or it may have been an
>>> Auburn Speedster). I don't rememember any details at all from the novels,
>>> and I don't think I ever saw the TV series.
>>>
>>> Wiki's words :
>>>
>>> <omitted>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Pygmalion wasn't mentioned in the list of "Works", so I think that
>>>> it was probably another writer you were thinking of.
>>>
>>> No, it was Thorne Smith. I had to go to Wikipedia just now myself to get
>>> the
>>> title; it was The Night Life of the Gods. The description in Wiki makes
>>> the
>>> (original, not Shaw's) Pygmalion origins clear:
>>> ______________________
>>>
>>> a.. The Night Life of the Gods (1931). Quirky inventor Hunter Hawk
>>> strikes
>>> gold when he invents a device that will enable him to turn living matter
>>> into stone and to reverse the process at will. After a chaotic field test
>>> he
>>> meets stunning 900 year old Megaera who teaches him to turn stone into
>>> flesh. The two and a bunch of friends set their sights on New York City
>>> to
>>> bring the Greek gods of the Metropolitan Museum of Art to life...
>>>
>>> __________________________
>>>
>>> Odd that Wiki doesn't mention the movie, which was made in 1935 with the
>>> same title and apparently follows Smith's novel closely. However, reading
>>> the description and the cast on IMDB just now, I don't think that's the
>>> movie I had in mind anyway, though the theme is close. . . .
>>>
>>> Found it. . . . I was sure the star was Robert Walker, so just checked
>>> his
>>> filmography. The movie is One Touch of Venus (1948), in which Walker
>>> plays a
>>> window dresser who falls in love with a statue of Venus in a museum, and
>>> kisses the statue which then turns into Ava Gardner in the flesh.
>>>
>>> So it wasn't Thorne Smith after all, but actually closer to the original
>>> Pygmalion than any of the others mentioned. The idea is sure Thorne
>>> Smith-like, though, and my guess is the movie (and Broadway musical
>>> comedy
>>> it's based on) owed a good deal to The Night Life of the Gods.
>>>
>>> Neil
>>>
>>>
>> You guys want an autograph?
>
> Only if it's on a check.
>
> Neil
>
>
It's spelled "K-E-R-B-Y". Any amount will be appreciated. When it clears,
you can frame it on the wall.

External Since: May 09, 2007 Posts: 380

On 9/8/07 9:07 AM, in article
1189260474.426554.6130 DeleteThis @w3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com, "Beladi Nasralla"
<nasra11a DeleteThis @yahoo.com> wrote:

> On Sep 3, 7:17 am, Rita Ä Berkowitz <ritaberk2O04 @aol.com> wrote:
>> Yes, it's true! The old Mk III saved my sweet little ass today with the
>> dual memory card option.
>
> Am I right thinking that Rita Berkowitz is a 57 year old woman ?
> Imagining her "sweet little ass" would sicken me.
>
Believe me there is nothing "sweet" or "little" about it's ass.