Post #88,758
3/17/03 12:17:52 AM
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since I feel sorry for ya Viega
Viega is the good Doctor in a flic starring James Coberg and Rod Stieger
[link|http://www.afistfulofreviews.com/abcd/afistfulofdynamite.htm|http://www.afistfulo...fulofdynamite.htm] you have a passing resemblance to him visually and your posting style would be his if he were real in todays world.
thanx,
bill
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To a lot of people in California hunting anything but the wild tofualope was equivelent to sacarificing babies to satan. S.M. Stirling
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Post #88,762
3/17/03 1:15:06 AM
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Re: since I feel sorry for ya Viega
Can't say I caught that one; nor have I a particularly vivid memory of the actor from Garden of the Finzi-Continis, seen 30 years ago. Incidentally, the character's name is likelier to have been "Villega."
cordially,
"Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist."
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Post #88,765
3/17/03 1:28:18 AM
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Joys of the unfettered associative-brain:
The great Mexican trumpeter, Rafael M\ufffdndez - was kidnapped as a young boy, by Pancho Villa, who had heard of his virtuosity and wanted him around as bugler and musician. (He let him go, after a time, so he could pursue his art - or, well - no story)
Viega >> Villega (Gringos just Don't Get that two-l-s together == y) >> Villa!
Or maybe Voyager, the paint-erased space probe in an early STrek potboiler.
Venceremos!
Las muchachas Mexicanas son mas sabrosa que las otras..
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Post #88,767
3/17/03 1:42:15 AM
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Re: Joys of the unfettered associative-brain:
More association: My paternal grandfather, Alvaro Careaga, was a paymaster for Villa's army. The particular group he was attached to having been manhandled by a detachment of Black Jack Pershing's troops, he decided that life would be less hectic north of the Rio Grande, whence he relocated--grubstaking himself, according to family lore, with the payroll. Small wonder he was nearly sixty years returning to Mexico (and, oddly enough, dying there on that visit in 1974).
cordially,
"Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist."
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Post #88,824
3/17/03 2:02:42 PM
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since I only heard it, it sounds like Viega with a bad Irish
accent so could well have had 2 ll's in the middle. However the character is a good rightious socialist until he finds out he's only human after all. That seems to fit my immpression of you.
thanx,
bill
will work for cash and other incentives [link|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html|skill set]
questions, help? [link|mailto:pappas@catholic.org|email pappas at catholic.org]</br>
To a lot of people in California hunting anything but the wild tofualope was equivelent to sacarificing babies to satan. S.M. Stirling
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Post #88,886
3/17/03 6:02:46 PM
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socialist? hardly
a good righteous socialist...seems to fit my impression of you
This judgment would astonish and offend my old schoolmate Henry Cleveland of the "Young Socialists Alliance" ca. 1971, whose characteristic response to my taunts and jeers was to assure me that come The Revolution (which rough beast as I recall he was expecting to arrive by 1973 at the latest) he would personally see to it that I was put up against a wall. Henry didn't doubt for a minute that he'd be in a position to effect this after The Revolution; even had I shared this belief I'd still have taken heart at the thought that, given the numbers of other folks to whom he'd delivered this threat (the guy was lots of fun at parties), I stood an excellent chance of making middle age before he got round to me.
One needn't be a socialist or a revolutionary--and Henry C. would vigorously deny my right to either badge--to feel a hearty contempt for George Bush's Imperial Amerika.
cordially,
"Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist."
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Post #88,827
3/17/03 2:05:49 PM
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Nit
James Coburn
Support our troops. Protest the war and try to bring them home.
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Post #88,835
3/17/03 2:17:14 PM
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Romolo Valli
Here he is in "The Garden of the Finzi Continis"
[image|http://www.sonypictures.com/classics/garden/multimedia/garden6.jpg||||]
That movie was from Sergio Leone of "Good, Bad, Ugly" fame. In Italian, the movie is called "Duck!" (Giu` la testa! Probably renamed to piggyback on Leone's 60s spaghetti operas.
-drl
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