Ridgewood Theatre
55-27 Myrtle Avenue,
Ridgewood,
NY
11385
55-27 Myrtle Avenue,
Ridgewood,
NY
11385
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That’s the best part, LM: NO Raymond Ironsides! In viewing the sampler, we spotted a number of scenes that were not in the altered U.S. release. Half of the original trailers are in Japanese (with no subtitles at this point.) Would ya like some sushi with yer freebie?
There’s a 15-minute DVD sampler available as a preview for the 9/5 release of the original “Gojira” (1954), directed by Inoshiro Honda. Who wants a copy? (Sorry, only one to each multiple-personality poster.) I’ll bring ‘em in to Ridgewood before year’s end.
My default background is grey….so white won’t do it for me!
Is this new lows for the Ridgewood Theater section now guys though?
They really need a chat or off topic section on the sight. I know it’s probably fun, but quizes? I think now we really are off on a tangent….no offence to anyone please.
Hands raised! I just don’t know my html, Lost, or I’d respond in kind. That was much easier, mikemovies. I got all three in a cinch!
I will make the next quiz easier for you fellas. This is multiple choice. Scroll for the answers.
1-Which actor plays Max de Winter in Hitchcock’s first American-made film Rebecca?
a. David Niven
b. Laurence Olivier
c. Richard Burton
d. Clark Gable
2-Grace Kelly starred in three screen vehicles for Hitchcock. Which of the following was not one of them?
a. Rebecca
b. Rear Window
c. Dial M for Murder
d. To Catch a Thief
3-Michael Douglas plays the murderous husband in A Perfect Murder, a remake of Hitchcock’s 1954 film Dial M for Murder. Who plays the male lead in the original version?
a. Cary Grant
b. James Stewart
c. Henry Fonda
d. Ray Milland
Answers
1-b. Laurence Olivier
2-a. Rebecca
3-d. Ray Milland
I should have known all of those, mike… but I missed #2 (though I remembered the scene as soon as I scrolled down to the answer) and I did struggle with the 5th before the image of Will Paxton in “Aliens” came to me.
Lost… <<I used to be PKoch but now EdSolero is PKoch. mikemovies is really BrooklynJim except on Tuesday when PKoch is mikemovies and EdSolero at the same time. Every other Monday I’m really Frankie until 3pm at which time I’m EdSolero again.>>
Well, that explains all the voices in my head. Thanks.
Very cool links BrooklynJim. Time for movie line trivia fellas. Guess the name of the movie that these lines come from. Scroll down for answers. No cheating. haha
1"Just what do you think you’re doing Dave?"
2"You’re going to the cemetery with your toothbrush. How Egyptian."
3"First you trade the Cadillac for a microphone. Then you lie to me about the band. Now you’re gonna put me right back in the joint!"
4"I’m so rich, I wish I had a dime for every dime I had."
5"In case you haven’t been paying attention to current events, we just got our asses kicked, pal!"
1 2001: A Space Odyssey
2 The Birdcage
3 The Blues Brothers
4 Arthur
5 Aliens
LM, sorry to have “lost” you there. I must’ve been having a Twilight Zone moment when I imagined all of us are one or two posters under different screen names. As for EdS, that lovable guy is in a class all by himself. LOL!
Hey, all you “Ridgewood Regular Rascals,” here’s a tip my late son gave me to save money on DVDs and CDs. And get this: beyond the already L=O=W prices, there are no fees, tax or shipping charges.
Peter, here’s yer chance to score “Horrors of the Black Museum” in Widescreen!
www.deepdiscountdvd.com
www.deepdiscountcd.com
BTW, in case anyone perceives the 2nd URL as O/T, just think “movie soundtracks.” :)–
Not a single Ridgewood post mine on since 8/9! Everyone cleared outta Dodge while “star wars” are in progress elsewhere. It looks like a…
FIGHT TO THE FINISH
In my neighborhood of West Philadelphia, there were two reject stores – the New York Bargain House and the American Bargain House. They were right next door to each other, and the owners were bitter enemies. They were having price wars constantly.
In one window would appear the handwritten sign: “For sale. Irish linen sheets, with such minor flaws that not even the hawkeye of Mrs. Betty Reba could find them. Ask her. The ridiculous low price of $6.50.” Everyone would then traditionally await the reply from the other bargain house, and in about two hours it would appear in the window: “Mrs. Reba needs glasses. My sheets are as close to first as Romeo is to Juliet and only $5.95.”
In addition to the sign war, the two owners would often appear outside their stores, screaming and cursing at each other, and oftentimes coming to actual blows. Finally one of the owners would stop competing in the price war, claiming the other one was crazy and so was anyone who bought from him. That was the starter’s gun going off. Everyone in the neighborhood would rush into the winning bargain store and buy out the entire stock of sheets and pillowcases. Their feud was one of the most intense and lasting in the neighborhood, and everyone living there profited from it by getting all kinds of wonderful bargains.
One day one of the owners passed away. A few days later, the other owner had a going-out-of-business sale. He moved out of the neighborhood, never to be seen again.
When the new occupants of the stores checked out their properties more closely, they discovered a secret passageway between the two, as well as a connecting door between the two apartments above the stores where the previous owners had lived.
Further research revealed that these two arch-enemies were brothers.
The swearing, cursing, threats, and all other personal abuses were all play-acting. All the price wars were fake. Whoever outlasted the other would just take all the other’s stock and sell it with his. For more than thirty years these two brothers had conned an entire neighborhood, a neighborhood made up mostly of cons. Their merchandise may have been seconds, but their brains were first-run.
Now, is there a moral to this real-life fable? Perhaps. Just suppose a bunch of us posters are just two brothers… or even ONE guy…
“Gentlemen, have your IP numbers ready!”
“I know none o' this is your doin', Mister Burris. Ya just got a cruddy job.” – Melvyn Douglas to Whit Bissell (“Hud”) after being informed that he had the worst thing a cattleman could have: bilge. No! I mean foot and mouth disease. His cattle, anyway…
Yes. Whit Bissell was also the undertaker in the Magnificent Seven. A funny line was ‘he see’s everyone as just another future customer’.
Yes, and also in “I Was a Teenage Frankenstein”, perhaps his best line ever :
“Speak ! You have a civil tongue in your head ! I know ! I sewed it there !”
Whit Bissell was the mad scientist in the movie I Was a Teenage Werewolf with Michael Landon.
Correction : I saw Whit Bissell in “Airport” the evening of Sunday August 6th.
“PK, can’t ascertain if you got lucky over the weekend or if you’re low on meds…”
Neither ! I saw Whit Bissell in “The Manchurian Candidate” !
And you thought I’d gotten Plaster of Paris up my urethra, courtesy of Suzie Plaster Caster ! No such f … er, luck !
Is The Popcorn Palace related to PeeWee’s Playhouse ?
That is so funny PKoch. If a crank gets on your case; he is a crank case. I will make a note of that for future use. haha
PK, can’t ascertain if you got lucky over the weekend or if you’re low on meds… :)
I suspect what Professor L. Memory plans to do is to add additional college courses on concrete prep and design, sculpting (I know a few folks who can model for gargoyles), electrical wiring and lighting, screen hanging, Dolby THX sound installation, film/cartoon booking procedures on $10/day, correct spelling guides for theater marquees and concession stands for a profit. As I type, that kind and gentle madman is probably planning to build his very own state-of-the-art Ridgewood II Popcorn Palace!
Bets, anyone??? Pete Rose???
EVERYBODY MUST GET STONED !
Yes, Lost Memory, that’s exactly what Suzie Plaster Caster did. Bricks with a “P” ! (External) plumbing of a sort, though some will be mortar-fied at the thought of it !
REMINDER : The “cranky fella” does NOT run or own this site. Let him get on your case; you will have a “crank-case”, maybe start your own show on PBS : “This Old Crank Case”, if you can stand the “cruel and unusual PUN-ishment”.
It does get somewhat boring I guess. We aren’t allowed to tell stories or have fun. The cranky fella will get on your case if you attempt it. The plaster story was okay. It was educational even though it contained more then I ever wanted to know about plaster. People should be able to reflect on their old neighborhood even if the topic strays off of the movie theatre itself. Perhaps you have a nice story that you would care to share with us ElTrain.
Thanx lostmemory. I never did find my notes for this theatre. I decided not to add this theatre a second time. It isn’t worth the effort. I will take your advice and write this theatre off as a tax loss. haha
Think we should all get plastered, LM?
[“SHEESH, what a grouch!” – Ed Norton]
Lost, what about the groupie, Suzie Plaster Caster ?
Harvey Lembeck as Eric Von Zipper ? I remember him well. He was “Leade Of The Pack”.
Remember Sandy Becker’s routine, “Leader Of The Laundromat” ?
Adding the same theatre twice is not fun. I have to find my notes first. These bugs should be fixed. The tv treasures.com website is pretty cool. This is the whole link.
http://tvtreasures.com/intro1.html
Bilko was probably Silvers' best role ever.
Met Mickey Freeman two years ago when he was selling his (co-authored) book which summarized every “You’ll Never Get Rich” episode known to mankind. Provided some great behind-the-scenes stuff, too, especially about Maurice Gosfield (Doberman), a true real-life slob in every sense of the word. Published as a softcover edition “across the pond” in merry olde England, the book is now out-of-print and very difficult to obtain, but worth it if you can ever snag a used copy. If you contact Freeman, I’m sure he’ll have a copy or three to unload…
Columbia House sold VHS tapes of the show back in the ‘90s (at $25-per-4-episode-a-whack!), but I don’t know if they ever got around to releasing the series on DVD.
PKoch… Nat Hiken was the guy who created and produced both the Bilko show and Car 54. I thought Carl Ballantine was part of the Bilko crew, but maybe I’m thinking of McHale’s Navy. How about the fact that each one of those TV shows would later be made into lame big screen comedies in the late ‘90’s? Dreadful movies one and all. Great as Steve Martin can be, he has attempted to fill some pretty big shoes in all those pointless remakes and sitcom-rehashes he’s starred in over the years: Phil Silvers, Peter Sellers, Spencer Tracy, Jack Lemmon. I guess the guy loves a good paycheck as much as the rest of us.
Personally, I like to remember Harvey Lembeck for his role as motorcycle gang leader Eric Von Zipper in all those AIP “Beach Blanket” movies in the ‘60’s.