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Rick Farris wrote:

kikibalt wrote:

Smoking and drinking




Sitting by the fire...12-23-2010

James, the Tiger, Connie and Linda, all Baltazar's

Frank, I like the flag in the background, the UCLA-USC "house divided".
It brings to mind Charlie & Chata. You look every bit the "kept man" in the pics.

Do I look cool or what?.....

GREAT TATTOO !!!!! Too bad he didnt have it when he was boxing. It would have been a great Public Relations piece. Tony the Tiger is in the House !

Sanchez is a last minute Game call on if he's playing. MRI on shoulder shows small tear-not good. Jets still have Brunell & Clemens , both working out heavily in practice. Need 1 win in last 2 weeks to clinch playoff wild card.
My last post for the Christmas Holiday. Going to brother-in-laws tonight, then the gang hits our house tommorrow. Spiral Ham & Turkey Breast tonight.
Fresh Fried Flounder, Chicken Cutlets, Lasagna & leftover Ham tommorrow. All sides you can imagine. 50 minute wait at the fish store today. Eels & Octopus flying off the counter for the Italian crowd. Fried Flounder good enough here.

If you can remember a Prayer or thought for my Brother Firefighters and their Families in Chicago This weekend, I Thank You Dearly.

Everyone enjoy the weekend ! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to my friends at CAWCB.
Ho Ho Ho !

CNorkusJr wrote:Sanchez is a last minute Game call on if he's playing. MRI on shoulder shows small tear-not good. Jets still have Brunell & Clemens , both working out heavily in practice. Need 1 win in last 2 weeks to clinch playoff wild card.
My last post for the Christmas Holiday. Going to brother-in-laws tonight, then the gang hits our house tommorrow. Spiral Ham & Turkey Breast tonight.
Fresh Fried Flounder, Chicken Cutlets, Lasagna & leftover Ham tommorrow. All sides you can imagine. 50 minute wait at the fish store today. Eels & Octopus flying off the counter for the Italian crowd. Fried Flounder good enough here.

If you can remember a Prayer or thought for my Brother Firefighters and their Families in Chicago This weekend, I Thank You Dearly.

Everyone enjoy the weekend ! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to my friends at CAWCB.
Ho Ho Ho !

Charlie my friend, you and yours have a great Xmas

Christmas in Chicago
Leon Russell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1VsWgR0cfU

Don Baltazar


''Im gonna make you an offer you cant refuse''.....

This photo is from a play that my youngest daughter Savannah was in last week at church. She played Mary. They did a good job.

I want to wish all my friends here at "West Coast Boxing" a Merry Christmas. Enjoy your time with your families.

Randy

kikibalt wrote:

Smoking and drinking




Sitting by the fire...12-23-2010

James, the Tiger, Connie and Linda, all Baltazar's

Great Photos Frank!
Merry Christmas to the Baltazar family!

CNorkusJr wrote:Sanchez is a last minute Game call on if he's playing. MRI on shoulder shows small tear-not good. Jets still have Brunell & Clemens , both working out heavily in practice. Need 1 win in last 2 weeks to clinch playoff wild card.
My last post for the Christmas Holiday. Going to brother-in-laws tonight, then the gang hits our house tommorrow. Spiral Ham & Turkey Breast tonight.
Fresh Fried Flounder, Chicken Cutlets, Lasagna & leftover Ham tommorrow. All sides you can imagine. 50 minute wait at the fish store today. Eels & Octopus flying off the counter for the Italian crowd. Fried Flounder good enough here.

If you can remember a Prayer or thought for my Brother Firefighters and their Families in Chicago This weekend, I Thank You Dearly.

Everyone enjoy the weekend ! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to my friends at CAWCB.
Ho Ho Ho !

Sounds like you'll be eating good. Charley, I've eaten both eel and octopus and both are delicious but Jeri would throw me out of the house before she ever cooked either one.

We'll keep those Chicago firefighters in our prayers, as well as all the firefighters everywhere.
Merry Christmas my friend.
Randy

kikibalt wrote:

Rick Farris wrote:

kikibalt wrote:

Smoking and drinking




Sitting by the fire...12-23-2010

James, the Tiger, Connie and Linda, all Baltazar's

Frank, I like the flag in the background, the UCLA-USC "house divided".
It brings to mind Charlie & Chata. You look every bit the "kept man" in the pics.

Do I look cool or what?.....

Frank, you are the epitome of "Cool".

Jeff and Debbie (and me!) wish MERRY CHRISTMAS to all!

raylawpc wrote:

Rick Farris wrote:

raylawpc wrote: Well, Rick did say "she was CRAZY!!! I mean CRAZZZZZY!"

Yes, she was (or is?). I worked with her a couple of times, the first on Rich Man, Poor Man at Universal.
I realize that some actors act a little different when they are working, some get into their roles, etc. However, she was very strange. The last time I saw her was in the 90's, at a restaurant in Studio City. She was wearing a terry cloth bathrobe, and her hair was dyed purple, no make-up, and she was talking to herself. She was in her late 40's, and I doubt anybody would cast her in anything today. I kinda felt sorry for her, she just seems to have lost her grip on reality.

Rick, have you worked with Sam Rockwell? I understand he is one of those actors who really gets into his role, as you describe. I read somewhere that, when he played psycho-killer/inmate “Wild Bill” Wharton in “The Green Mile,” all of the other actors – including Tom Hanks – were scared to death of him and avoided all unnecessary contact with him on or off the set.

Tom, my friend Bobby Burton did the lighting on The Green Mile. Bobby and I both did lighting for an English cinematographer, David Tattersoll, who was the D.P. on that feature. I haven't worked with Sam Rockwell, although I did participate on some post-production re-shoots involving Tom Hanks, and other charactors, from that film. As far as cast having feelings of that nature toward Rockwell, I tend to doubt it. Sometimes an actor will get into his charactor, and the guy his huge, so it's appropriate for others to give him room. The only actors that are "avoided" are ass-holes. I only heard good things about the big man, but I really wasn't there, and can't recall hearing anything negative. Maybe they were scared? I doubt it. We work in a tough business, a business where you see just about everything. Most actors are harmeless, at least until people start taking serious anything they have to say beyond acting, or making films

raylawpc wrote:

Jeff and Debbie (and me!) wish MERRY CHRISTMAS to all!

Jeff & Debbie are the Best of Burbank!

Regarding Rockwell, the magazine probably got it wrong. The character Sam Rockwell played was the real psycho killer of the little girls, not the big psychic played by Michael Clarke Duncan who was convicted and executed for the killings. Sam Rockwell should have got at least an academy award nomination for his portrayal of the psychopath Wild Bill Wharton. He did a wonderful job. But the article I read said that he would tend to stay in character between takes, which some of his co-stars found unnerving - including Hanks. The character Rockwell played was certainly unsettling.

Randyman wrote:

CNorkusJr wrote:Sanchez is a last minute Game call on if he's playing. MRI on shoulder shows small tear-not good. Jets still have Brunell & Clemens , both working out heavily in practice. Need 1 win in last 2 weeks to clinch playoff wild card.
My last post for the Christmas Holiday. Going to brother-in-laws tonight, then the gang hits our house tommorrow. Spiral Ham & Turkey Breast tonight.
Fresh Fried Flounder, Chicken Cutlets, Lasagna & leftover Ham tommorrow. All sides you can imagine. 50 minute wait at the fish store today. Eels & Octopus flying off the counter for the Italian crowd. Fried Flounder good enough here.

If you can remember a Prayer or thought for my Brother Firefighters and their Families in Chicago This weekend, I Thank You Dearly.

Everyone enjoy the weekend ! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to my friends at CAWCB.
Ho Ho Ho !

Sounds like you'll be eating good. Charley, I've eaten both eel and octopus and both are delicious but Jeri would throw me out of the house before she ever cooked either one.

We'll keep those Chicago firefighters in our prayers, as well as all the firefighters everywhere.
Merry Christmas my friend.
Randy

Thanks for remembering those firefighters who died here guys. A friend of mine trained one of them at the academy while they were in training. He was really upset when I saw him on the same day. At the Hawk game that night,there was a moment of silence dedicated to them. Tough, tough job and these men,all of them are heros.
The particular guy I mentioned who was the trainer of one of the two who died,is still an active firefighter. He was honored with the city of Chicagos highest awards for bravery a number of years ago for pulling someone out of a terrible fire that scared him up also....on his day off!

Jeffries Barn . . .

Growing up in Burbank, and having an uncle who worked out at Jim Jeffries Burbank barn before WW2, I heard many stories.
I suspect most are true, like the one I heard that took place during a Friday night amateur boxing card at the barn.
Jeff is the ref, but there is commotion on the floor, a fight breaks out.
Jeffries stops the match, steps into the brawl, trys to break it up, ends up leaving a stack of bodies he KOed.
Jeffries climbed back in the ring and ordered the wide-eyed amateurs to resume their battle.

That was kinda how I heard it, and I heard it a couple times from different people???

raylawpc wrote:Regarding Rockwell, the magazine probably got it wrong. The character Sam Rockwell played was the real psycho killer of the little girls, not the big psychic played by Michael Clarke Duncan who was convicted and executed for the killings. Sam Rockwell should have got at least an academy award nomination for his portrayal of the psychopath Wild Bill Wharton. He did a wonderful job. But the article I read said that he would tend to stay in character between takes, which some of his co-stars found unnerving - including Hanks. The character Rockwell played was certainly unsettling.

That's right, Duncan was the big guy. And I can picture Rockwell, but never heard anything about him, or anybody in the cast.

raylawpc wrote:Regarding Rockwell, the magazine probably got it wrong. The character Sam Rockwell played was the real psycho killer of the little girls, not the big psychic played by Michael Clarke Duncan who was convicted and executed for the killings. Sam Rockwell should have got at least an academy award nomination for his portrayal of the psychopath Wild Bill Wharton. He did a wonderful job. But the article I read said that he would tend to stay in character between takes, which some of his co-stars found unnerving - including Hanks. The character Rockwell played was certainly unsettling.

Stories like that are usually hype. A George C. Scott (based on his image as an "actor") would intimidate some on camera.
It wasn't the actor's intention, it was his energy. Off camera, we on the crew privatly laugh at actors who play up the "method acting" drama. All actors are different, and all are weird to some degree, even the legends. I've never seen an actor intimidated off camera by another actor, except when Robert Blake spit on the shoes of an English actress. And of course, that brings us back to what I was saying about assholes. The BS runs deep in Hollywood, something very small is usually twisted into a story. It's quite possible that some thought him to be strange, which is quite common.

Rick Farris wrote:

raylawpc wrote:Regarding Rockwell, the magazine probably got it wrong. The character Sam Rockwell played was the real psycho killer of the little girls, not the big psychic played by Michael Clarke Duncan who was convicted and executed for the killings. Sam Rockwell should have got at least an academy award nomination for his portrayal of the psychopath Wild Bill Wharton. He did a wonderful job. But the article I read said that he would tend to stay in character between takes, which some of his co-stars found unnerving - including Hanks. The character Rockwell played was certainly unsettling.

Stories like that are usually hype. A George C. Scott (based on his image as an "actor") would intimidate some on camera.
It wasn't the actor's intention, it was his energy. Off camera, we on the crew privatly laugh at actors who play up the "method acting" drama. All actors are different, and all are weird to some degree, even the legends. I've never seen an actor intimidated off camera by another actor, except when Robert Blake spit on the shoes of an English actress. And of course, that brings us back to what I was saying about assholes. The BS runs deep in Hollywood, something very small is usually twisted into a story. It's quite possible that some thought him to be strange, which is quite common.

Two Lions in the Cage . . .

That's what it was like when Marlin Brando and George C. Scott would go one-on-one in a scene.
These guys were like God's on the set of "The Formula", about thirty years ago.
Brando reading off cue cards in an office scene, filmed in in an L.A. high-rise downtown. Two all-time greats.
Just a quick memory.

Expug wrote:

Randyman wrote:

CNorkusJr wrote:Sanchez is a last minute Game call on if he's playing. MRI on shoulder shows small tear-not good. Jets still have Brunell & Clemens , both working out heavily in practice. Need 1 win in last 2 weeks to clinch playoff wild card.
My last post for the Christmas Holiday. Going to brother-in-laws tonight, then the gang hits our house tommorrow. Spiral Ham & Turkey Breast tonight.
Fresh Fried Flounder, Chicken Cutlets, Lasagna & leftover Ham tommorrow. All sides you can imagine. 50 minute wait at the fish store today. Eels & Octopus flying off the counter for the Italian crowd. Fried Flounder good enough here.

If you can remember a Prayer or thought for my Brother Firefighters and their Families in Chicago This weekend, I Thank You Dearly.

Everyone enjoy the weekend ! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to my friends at CAWCB.
Ho Ho Ho !

Sounds like you'll be eating good. Charley, I've eaten both eel and octopus and both are delicious but Jeri would throw me out of the house before she ever cooked either one.

We'll keep those Chicago firefighters in our prayers, as well as all the firefighters everywhere.
Merry Christmas my friend.
Randy

Thanks for remembering those firefighters who died here guys. A friend of mine trained one of them at the academy while they were in training. He was really upset when I saw him on the same day. At the Hawk game that night,there was a moment of silence dedicated to them. Tough, tough job and these men,all of them are heros.
The particular guy I mentioned who was the trainer of one of the two who died,is still an active firefighter. He was honored with the city of Chicagos highest awards for bravery a number of years ago for pulling someone out of a terrible fire that scared him up also....on his day off!

My prayers to the firefighters.
Hey Brian, I think Ron Howard's movie, "Backdraft", was filmed in Chicago? Kurt Russell was in it.
It really had some interesting scenes with Donald Sutherland as an arsonist.
I'd be interested in Charlie's take on the film.

Connie has me working, cutting the manudo, home made manudo is the best.

Merry Xmas my CAWCB friends

Rick,Backdraft was filmed in Chicago and really captured the cities essence.I really enjoyed that movie.
I mentioned that Ron Howard was at a bunch of hawk games this season doing some filming for an upcoming movie hes making. I talked to him a couple times and he seems like a down to earth nice guy.

kikibalt wrote:Connie has me working, cutting the manudo, home made manudo is the best.

Merry Xmas my CAWCB friends

Merry Xmas to you and family, Frank. Don't cut yourself.

Expug wrote:Rick,Backdraft was filmed in Chicago and really captured the cities essence.I really enjoyed that movie.
I mentioned that Ron Howard was at a bunch of hawk games this season doing some filming for an upcoming movie hes making. I talked to him a couple times and he seems like a down to earth nice guy.

Hollywood Elite . . .

Here's some irony, Brian. Monica just finished work, and told me not ten minutes ago that she saw Ron Howard in the restaurant. She works at a popular Studio City Deli. Ron Howard grew up in nearby Burbank, about two blocks from my grandparents house. I'd see he and his brother, Clint, around town, usually with their parents. When I was about twelve, he challenged me to a one-on-one basketball game at Verdugo Park. We were about the same size, he beat me in a close one. He grew up in a little 2br, 2bath middleclass Burbank home. He was taught to live very conservativly. When he was attending USC film school, he was already very wealthy, with Happy Days, American Graffitti, etc. but he didn't drive a Merceds or Ferrari, he drove a VW Beetle. He married his childhood sweetheart from Burroughs High School and they're still married. He's a great director, a real film maker. Part of the Hollywood elite, and rightly so. I remember awhile back you mentioned meeting Howard. His dad, Rance, is a great guy, a charactor actor I worked with on Seinfeld. You'll often see Rance and Clint in Ron Howard's feature films. Remember Howard playing opposite John Wayne and Lauren Bacall in "The Shootist"?

I do remember him in that role Rick. I grew up watching Ron Howard in "The Andy Griffith Show", American Graffiti" , Happy Days etc.
When I met him, I was a little starstruck I must admit. He stirred up memories of when I was a kid. Good ones for sure.