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OSCAR: This movie is an updated remake of one of my favorite all-time westerns – My Darling Clementine (1946) – starring Henry Fonda as Wyatt Earp and Victor Mature as Doc Holiday. Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer did a great job in this movie and it is entertaining. The only negative for me, and it is because of My Darling Clementine, is that this movie is a little too polished for a western in my opinion. I still loved it and the modern cast was very good. One of my favorite scenes has a ‘blink and you will miss it’ scene with Billy Bob Thorton who is younger and heavier than he is in ‘Landman’. I wanted to include Huckleberry Hound for a couple of reasons…One, Doc Holiday tells Johnny Ringo in this scene illustrated that he is his ‘Huckleberry’ and the other reason is I grew up with Hanna-Barbera cartoons and Huckleberry Hound was one of my favorites!!

EMMY: I grew up in the same era as Oscar and enjoyed the cartoons as well. Tombstone is a great movie and I for one, enjoy this modern western more that the old westerns that Oscar favors. He is yelling “blasphemy” behind me haha!!! Tell us your thoughts on this fantastic movie!!

OSCAR: Great show from back in the day!! Redd Foxx was hilarious as the cranky and loveable Fred Sanford. His relationship with Lamont (played by Desmond Wilson – who died of cancer about a week ago – RIP) was totally believable and the dynamic of the entire show.

Set in a junk yard in in Watts (Los Angeles) Redd played a junk dealer who lived with his adult son.

The other cast of characters – Grady, Aunt Ester, Bubba, Rollo and Julio were all solid side characters that added diversity, warmth and humor to this well written sitcom .The back and forth conversations with Sanford and his son were often heartfelt and very entertaining. Whenever riled, Fred Sanford would talk to his beloved deceased Elisabeth and cried out that he was “coming to join her”…always a fun watch!!!

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EMMY: Fun show from the 70s – The characters were all believable and had fantastic chemistry. It was pretty much like ‘All in the Family’ with a diverse cast of characters.

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OSCAR:

Awww sweet nostalgia!! This has got to be on my top 5 list for favorite movies. I was the same age as most of the kids in this movie and I was living in Southern California with my family when this was filmed. The poster for the film was illustrated by the super talented Jack Davis, one of the “Usual Gang of Idiots” who contributed to many issues of Mad Magazine. This is a movie I watch many times as I want to decompress from our high-paced society and let me travel back mentally to when things were slower and simpler watching a hilarious and in my opinion, accurate story of a little league team being coached by a grumpy, life weary, drunk Morris Buttermaker played to perfection by Walter Matthau. The acting by all the kids is impressive and infectious!!! Vic Morrow (RIP) such a tragic death as he and two children were torn apart by the blades of a helicopter while filming the movie “The Twilight Zone (1982), was a fantastic straight man that worked wonderfully against Matthau’s immature Buttermaker.

EMMY: The movie, I agree was a classic…but all guys – kids and adults save, Oscar under her belt (Paper Moon – 1973) Best Supporting Actress Tatum O’Neal at age10!!! The movie was a fun watch but I honestly liked Paper Moon better (sorry Oscar)!!!

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