Happy Birthday Andy Griffith

[tsakshaug]

goober says "Hey"

[dbt]

1. AND to the Lovely Juanita Beasley!

"Lay down, Aunt Bea, you're dead."

[Drifter]

2. Goooooooooood Chicken ....

Aunt Bea


Cheers
Drifter

[tsakshaug]

3. sheriff without a gun-

When a man carries a gun all the time, the respect he thinks he's getting might really be fear. So I don't carry a gun because I don't want the people of Mayberry to fear a gun. I'd rather they respect me.

[underpants]

4. Best TV show ever

a great man too

[ernstbass]

5. Love ya Andy

[jswordy]

6. Happy birthday Andy! Yer shows run for 2 hours straight...

every afternoon here on my local TV station. Still one of the Top Three shows ever.

[NYCGirl]

7. And Griffith's GREATEST performance in "A Face in the Crowd"

as "Lonesome Rhodes", folksy country entertainer who turns fascist right-wing pundit when he learns the power of TV...

[ernstbass]

8. Definately a film worth watching!!

[NYCGirl]

9. Absolutely, and so eerily prescient today. It should be required viewing

for Democrats.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

11. I heartily endorse that recommendation

It is so odd for those of us who grew up watching Sheriff Andy Taylor to see Andy Griffith play a sociopathic character.

A Face in the Crowd is one of those movies, like Network, which seemed over the top when it first came out, but in this age of right wing broadcast demagoguery, it seems prophetic.



Local radio reporter (Patricia Neal) discovers Rhodes (Andy Griffith) when she goes to interview prisoners at the county jail.

[tsakshaug]

13. I will get this

this weekend. sounds good

[5thGenDemocrat]

14. "A Face in the Crowd" also had Lee Remick in the cast.

She was so incredibly beautiful. I had a crush on her from the first time I saw her in a film until the day she died. I guess I still do.
((Sigh.))
John
It is now 16 days, 22 hours and 29 minutes to FUNDAY. And happy birthday, Andy.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

15. I believe that A Face in the Crowd was her first film

and she went on to give great performances in films such as Days of Wine and Roses and Anatomy of a Murder.

She's one of those actresses who died way too young. :-(

[terrya]

10. "Maaaaaaatlock!"

Andy Griffith is a television institution.

[tsakshaug]

12. No time for sergents

Has a great scene with Don Knotts in it...
leads right into Andy Griffith Show bits with him