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Today's Topics:
1. New Member (Russ Thomas)
2. Columbia House Videos ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
3. An Oscar for Opie! (Nanette)
4. Tracks (Dan Goodwin)
5. Opie Taylor: Subconcious Arbor Day dissident? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
6. Candace Howard (Mari Ellen Ryan)
7. Pick-ups and Splashes from Floor and Pool (GRITTON, JOE A (AIT))
8. Columbia House Videos (Danny Taylor)
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Message: 1
From: "Russ Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: New Member
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 07:25:00 -0500
My wife and I have almost all the episodes on tape we've recorded. Every day
after work we have coffee and watch at least 2 episodes, we are having fun
trying to find bloopers, we could share with others if contacted. We recently
started our own chapter of TAGSRWC " I ain't seen a car yet that wasn't bein'
driven by somebody." We recently joined the computer world and enjoy your
newsletter. We have 4 horses 4 dogs (1 named barney) 3 goats ( 1 named Briscoe
Darlin' and 1 named Asa Phillips), 4 children but I wasn't allowed to name
them after any characters on the show. We'll be in touch.
Yours in Mayberry
Russ Thomas
I ain't seena car yet that wasn't bein' driven by somebody
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Message: 2
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 11:28:18 EST
Subject: Columbia House Videos
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you want to contact Columbia House Video by telephone there is a slight
trick to getting through to someone. Since Sarah is on vacation the
automated system works like this:
Call 1-888-590-6656. When the automated attendant asks for your 11 digit
membership number hit the pound "#" key. When it says it doesn't recognize
the number hit the pound key "#" again. Then select menu item "2". Be
patient, someone will get to you. It took 15 minutes of hold time but it was
worth it. The person I spoke with was very helpful and knowledgeable about
my account and the tapes I have ordered (must be related to Sarah).
Hope this works for you and yours.
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Message: 3
Reply-To: "Nanette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Nanette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: An Oscar for Opie!
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 12:46:02 -0500
Hi Everyone! This article was in the Louisville Courier-Journal newspaper
Saturday. It was written by the TV columnist, Vince Staten. I think it
says it all on Ron Howard! It's a bit long but well worth the time to read
it. Enjoy!
Oscar for Howard is Opie-dokey by me
By Vince Staten
I have a bit of a rooting interest when the Oscars are handed out in a
couple of weeks.
No, my brother isn't one of the nominees. But it seems as if one of the
nominees is my brother.
I feel as though I've grown up with Ron Howard. Ever since I started
watching television, he's been on it. In fact, I don't think he's ever been
off it since he first arrived on the small screen in a 1955 episode of
"Lassie."
That's a rarity in an industry that chews up child stars and spits them
out as maladjusted adolescents.
Howard is nominated for best director, and his film, "A Beautiful Mind,"
is nominated for best picture. If he wins, it will be a triumph for child
stars everywhere: There is life after cancellation.
I think everyone is rooting for Ron Howard because he has a reputation
as Mr. Nice Guy. There have never been any stories about him trashing hotel
rooms, running naked at 3 a.m. down Santa Monica Boulevard. In fact, he's
still married to his high school sweetheart. Isn't that sweet?
But everyone is also for him because he seems like part of the family.
Howard was born in Oklahoma in 1954, but before he was a year old his
actor-parents (Rance Howard and Jean Speegle) moved to Hollywood, where Dad
and lad (Ron as 18 months old) landed roles in the 1955 low-budget Western
"Frontier Woman." Ron wasn't even credited, but his dad was fifth-billed.
It would be four years before Ron's first speaking role, in the 1959
Cold War drama "The Journey." But once he started speaking, he couldn't
stop. He was all over TV that year, in "Johnny Ringo" and "The Twilight
Zone" and "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis." He was on "General Electric
Theatre" and "The DuPont Show."
His big break came in an episode of "Make Room for Daddy." He was cast
as the sheriff's son in an episode in which Danny Thomas is stopped for
running a stop sign in a small Southern town. The episode was the pilot for
a series. It clicked, and Howard played the part of Opie on "The Andy
Griffith Show" from 1960 until 1968, when Griffith left the series.
That was Howard's first big challenge. He was 14, a bad age for a child
star, and he was out of work. But not for long. He bounced around all over
the dial for the next six years, guest-starring in everything from "Daniel
Boone" to "MASH" to "Love American Style." He even did a turn on "The
Dating Game" in 1971. His only time off was for nine months in 1969 so he
could play a season of high school basketball.
His big break - post-Opie - came in 1973 when George Lucas hired him to
play high school senior Steve Bolander in the nostalgia trip "American
Graffiti."
That led to the part of high school twink Richie Cunningham on the
long-running "Happy Days" sitcom. It meant Ron Howard had made that most
difficult of transitions, from cute little kid to young adult actor.
Still, with his Alfred E. Neuman face, a long career was not guaranteed.
He also knew that he had another dream: to be a director. He'd been shooting
Super 8mm home movies since he was 15. He only had to find someone who
would believe in him. He didn't find that, but he found something just as
good: someone willing to work a trade.
B-movie magnate Roger Corman struck a deal with the 23-year-old
aspirant: Star in my car-chase cheapie and I'll let you direct your own
car-chase cheapie. The results were, in order, "Eat My Dust," the Corman
flick, and "Grand Theft Auto," Howard's directorial debut.
Neither is great art, but you have to start somewhere.
Howard continued acting while working his way, literally, up the
directing ladder. Moving from TV movie (directing "Cotton Candy" with
brother Clint Howard) to TV movie ("Skyward" with Bette Davis and his "Happy
Days" mom, Marion Ross) to his first studio feature ("Night Shift," with his
"Happy Days" co-star Henry Winkler) to the film that put him on the map
("Splash," with then-unknowns Tom Hanks and Darryl Hannah).
By 1986 he also had "Cocoon" and "Gung Ho" under his belt. But he
didn't have such a swelled head that he couldn't find time to play a
grown-up Opie in "Return to Mayberry."
Since then, there've been more hits than misses: "Parenthood," "Apollo
13," "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" and now "A Beautiful Mind."
"A Beautiful Mind" was a gamble for Howard: a movie about a crazy
mathematician that wasn't a comedy. But it worked, just like almost
everything in Ron Howard's career.
How you view him depends on where in his career you came along. Ronnie
Howard. Opie Taylor. Steve Bolander. Richie Cunningham. Ron Howard.
For me, he'll always be Opie. But that's not such a bad thing. Doesn't
everybody root for Opie?
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Message: 4
From: "Dan Goodwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Tracks
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 13:52:06 -0500
I've been off line for about a week and been catching up today.
I saw Paul's answer about the street car tracks in a couple of scenes
actually being camera dolly tracks. I, too, have seen these, but always
just assumed, since it was a shot outside what we normally consider downtown
Mayberry, that there just happened to be street car tracks on that part of
the backlot.
I had never thought about them being camera dolly tracks, but if Paul says
they are, then they are. For those of you new to the Digest, there are
actually 3 rules. Two of which I am sure you are familiar with. The third
rule is: Never argue with Paul - he is always right.
dan
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Message: 5
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 17:16:10 EST
Subject: Opie Taylor: Subconcious Arbor Day dissident?
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I caught my own mistake before anyone else did. Just for the record, Opie
runs his bike into a tree in 'Opie's Job', and plows his car into a tree in
'Return to Mayberry.'
I incorrectly wrote that Opie hit his house in 'Return to Mayberry."
"But don't the trees sound nice and full."
Andy Taylor
Brian Rodahaver
Stevensville, MD
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Message: 6
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 20:38:10 +0000
Subject: Candace Howard
From: Mari Ellen Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi Everyone! Does anyone know who Candace Howard is? She is listed in the
credits on the "A Baby in the House" episode. Well, Bread and butter...
Wisenheimer from Syracuse, MER
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Message: 7
From: "GRITTON, JOE A (AIT)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Pick-ups and Splashes from Floor and Pool
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 20:48:25 -0500
Thanks for all the good answers to "Unseen Scenes" Most of my favorites
were mentioned.
Barney with lipstick all over his face, Several instances in the "Case of
the Punch in the Nose". Also, I thought of Otis tripping on his coat, Andy
getting his black eye from the Fun Girl's friend.
Charley Varney had some interesting views on unseen scenes, but I would call
those Fan Fiction (things we would have liked to seen happen) Charlie V,
(which I am a big fan of also). Rodney you mentioned some real scenes that
have been cut from episodes. Watch for more Unseen Scenes..where you know
it was probably never filmed, we just see the effect...like Opie's Black
eye..or Barney with lipstick all over his face. I'm sure there are others,
trained noticers, be on alert.
Here's a topic for you romantics...What scenes include the longest most
passionate kisses?
I have a couple in mind. Let's see if we agree.
Great perspective on the color episodes, from the person who gets no AGS!!
Makes you appreciate those color jewels even more!
I don't have time for trivial trivialities.
Do you know how to cut meat? Do you think they'll ask me that?
The Untrained Voice
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Message: 8
From: "Danny Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "TAGS Digest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Columbia House Videos
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 20:30:04 -0600
I noticed that Pauls list of Episodes and Barts list differered on tapes
16,17 and 18 about what episodes are on each tape. Is there tapes out with
different episodes on each one but with the same volume name?
Dapper Dan
Now I'm really Confused
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