Cary Grant

[yvr girl]

If only he was 50-60 years younger. :sigh:

[book_worm]

1. and alive!

[yvr girl]

2. That too

I'm watching "North by Northwest" right now.

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4. Terrific movie

one of my faves. I also like "To Catch a Thief", "Charade", "Bringing Up Baby", "His Girl Friday" and "The Philadelphia Story"...oh heck, I like most everything the guy did.

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24. Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn and James Stewart - all in "The Philadelphia Story"

What a cast just considering those 3.

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3. Our generation's own Cary Grant:

[truedelphi]

5. I agree with that.

I was working in a office in the early eighties in Palo Alto and Cary Grant was eating lunch about three blocks away.

I've never seen a bunch of people empty out of one building so fast in order to arrive at another at any other time in my life.

And the dude was close to eighty then!

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6. I did see Cary Grant in person one time.

At Disneyland every year around Christmas, they had a candlelight procession and concert which featured dozens (maybe 200 or so) high-school age singers and choirs from around southern California. They did a candlelight procession down Main Street and then had a presentation of the story of Christmas with songs. Each year they had a different celebrity narrator. One year it was John Wayne, another year Gregory Peck. The narrator would read the script which was the story of Christmas, but after every paragraph or two they would stop and a choir would sing a Christmas carol. My friend sang in the pageant one year and gave me a ticket to it. I am pretty sure it was Christmas 1976, because I was still in high school. So I got into Disneyland free that night, and watched the concert. The guest narrator that year was Cary Grant. I had heard his name before, but I had never seen any of his movies at that point, so all I knew was that he was an old movie star. He had white hair by that time and wore thick black glasses, probably to make it easier to read. I remember thinking, "OK so I've seen someone famous," but at that time I didn't know anything else about him.

[truedelphi]

9. That happens to a lot of people - they finally get to see the dreamboat

And don't realize that that's who it is.

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10. I also saw George Clooney in person one time.

In 1987 they were filming "Return of the Killer Tomatoes" all around San Diego, and they filmed 3 or 4 scenes in my neighborhood. One scene where a crowd of people (including Clooney) is running down a sidewalk chasing a large fake tomato was filmed on the street I live on. They stop at a corner, but if they had continued to run another block they would have run right in front of my house. I watched the filming for an entire day and took a few pictures. At one point the main cast members assembled for a group picture for the director, and I snapped a photo of them too. I show this picture now and then to people. Clooney had long curly hair back then, but I didn't really know who he was. Someone said that he was on "----" (whatever TV show he was on at that time, before "ER") but he wasn't nearly as famous then as he is now. I saw him for several hours but I never spoke to him. I did try to sneak into the picture, when they filmed at a dry cleaners (and they put their own sign saying, "Homeless Look" in the window) I stood across the street in the sun, and I could see my reflection in the window so I knew It would be visible to the camera. But an assistant director noticed it and asked me to move. My neighbor Jennifer was employed at that cleaners and she was there that day, and she had a conversation with Clooney while they were there. She says he tried to get her to be in the scene, but she refused to.

[GCP]

22. He was a minor character in 'Roseanne', before ER

He played the sister's manager at work.

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23. Thanks - I just looked it up and "The Facts of Life" was the series I was thinking of.

But you're right of course, he was on "Roseanne"

[yvr girl]

7. I couldn't agree more

Very yummy.

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11. And here's the George Clooney for the next generation

He was so like Clooney in "Bobby" I couldn't believe it.

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12. I've never even heard of him... so that means he's going to be a big star.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. My dear yvr girl...

Yeah, I loved him too...

Nice to see you posting, sweetie!

Long time, no see...

How are you?


:hug:

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13. Monster talent.

[Rabrrrrrr]

14. And not gay.

[bettyellen]

15. not that there's anything wrong with that..;.

[Rabrrrrrr]

16. Consider the OP.

[bettyellen]

17. ummm i have met the OP and Geo Clooney, in RL and still i say.

.. not that there's anything wrong with that.

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18. I don't think there's anything wrong with it, either.

[bettyellen]

19. aaah... so is there some sort of in lounge joke about clooney being gay?

it occured to me thatt must be the case.

[Rabrrrrrr]

20. What the fuck does Clooney have to do with anything?

You're the one who brought him up - I never did. (and yes, I know that above someone called Clooney our generation's Grant).

:shrug:

[bettyellen]

21. wtf you have your panties in a twist for, sheesh. it hought i recalled something

and figured you'd know about it since you are always around.
never fucking mind, not gay person. :shrug:

[BuddhaGirl]

25. He was sooo good looking

even as an older man. I met him when I was a teenager and thought he was cute! He was very nice and sent me an autographed picture. :-)

He was also a great comedic actor, IMO.

[NewWaveChick1981]

26. He was the epitome of hotness.

:9 :D :evilgrin: