Hardbopjazz Posted July 3, 2009 Report Posted July 3, 2009 Anyone know what this is? There is a 1:20 second clip with Cannonball on Kung Fu. Having watched that show religiously as a kid, I don't ever recall seeing this. I know someone with the clip and I will ask for a copy, but has anyone here know anything more about it? Quote
thedwork Posted July 3, 2009 Report Posted July 3, 2009 Anyone know what this is? There is a 1:20 second clip with Cannonball on Kung Fu. Having watched that show religiously as a kid, I don't ever recall seeing this. I know someone with the clip and I will ask for a copy, but has anyone here know anything more about it? that was easy: pretty cool... Quote
rostasi Posted July 3, 2009 Report Posted July 3, 2009 (edited) The clip is from the end of the episode, but Cannonball and Feliciano are featured throughout. If I remember correctly, a treasure map is found in a dead guys pocketwatch and Feliciano spends time trying to convince Adderley that they are going to find riches soon. They walk and walk with Feliciano always refering to his friend as "Trim" (of course!). Meanwhile, there are these silver hunters that also know of the existence of this possible motherlode and so the trouble begins. The clip at the end really has no bearing on the storyline - it's just a chance to feature a jam session that fades out to be followed by credits. It's been years since I've seen this episode, so I'm going from hazy memory, but I think that this is close. I should bring it out and watch it sometime to re-familiarize myself with it. Edited July 3, 2009 by rostasi Quote
BruceH Posted July 3, 2009 Report Posted July 3, 2009 I watched the show pretty regularly and I don't remember that either. Of course, I didn't know Cannonball OR Feliciano from a hole in the ground back then. Quote
JSngry Posted July 3, 2009 Report Posted July 3, 2009 Additional scene at the bottom of this page: http://www.cannonball-adderley.com/movies.htm Quote
chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez Posted July 3, 2009 Report Posted July 3, 2009 they also show him in the movie, "play misty for me"? (never seen it....is that the one where he has the little monkey-friend?) Quote
sidewinder Posted July 3, 2009 Report Posted July 3, 2009 they also show him in the movie, "play misty for me"? (never seen it....is that the one where he has the little monkey-friend?) That's a brief clip of Cannonball and the Quintet playing live at the Monterey Fest I believe. Joe Zawinul is also quite recognisable. I always look out for that clip every time it is repeated on TV. Quote
Hardbopjazz Posted July 3, 2009 Author Report Posted July 3, 2009 Wow, just a few months before he would die. Quote
Dan Gould Posted July 3, 2009 Report Posted July 3, 2009 they also show him in the movie, "play misty for me"? (never seen it....is that the one where he has the little monkey-friend?) You can't really be that fucking ignorant, can you? Quote
Teasing the Korean Posted July 3, 2009 Report Posted July 3, 2009 On a semi-related topic, I always thought the theme from "Kung Fu" was really beautiful. I have the soundtrack album on WB, featuring Caine's bald head (perhaps in a move to capitalize on Isaac Hayes's success). Quote
Jazzmoose Posted July 3, 2009 Report Posted July 3, 2009 they also show him in the movie, "play misty for me"? (never seen it....is that the one where he has the little monkey-friend?) You can't really be that fucking ignorant, can you? Quote
BruceH Posted July 3, 2009 Report Posted July 3, 2009 On a semi-related topic, I always thought the theme from "Kung Fu" was really beautiful. Oh yes, there's something ridiculously heart-wrenching about that theme, which plays in well with the ever-questing nature of Caine's life in the series. Quote
Teasing the Korean Posted July 3, 2009 Report Posted July 3, 2009 On a semi-related topic, I always thought the theme from "Kung Fu" was really beautiful. Oh yes, there's something ridiculously heart-wrenching about that theme, which plays in well with the ever-questing nature of Caine's life in the series. Agree. The composer was Jim Helms. Not sure what else he did. The Kung Fu album is worth seeking out if you don't have it. Quote
thedwork Posted July 4, 2009 Report Posted July 4, 2009 they also show him in the movie, "play misty for me"? (never seen it....is that the one where he has the little monkey-friend?) You can't really be that fucking ignorant, can you? may i ask why you're calling chewy "fucking ignorant?" or are you making some kind of joke and i just don't get it? Quote
Dan Gould Posted July 4, 2009 Report Posted July 4, 2009 You don't think its ignorant of a jazz fan to not only not know "Play Misty For Me" but to confuse it with whatever movie featured the orangutan? Personally, I find it fucking ignorant, and said so. Quote
thedwork Posted July 4, 2009 Report Posted July 4, 2009 You don't think its ignorant of a jazz fan to not only not know "Play Misty For Me" but to confuse it with whatever movie featured the orangutan? Personally, I find it fucking ignorant, and said so. oh, ok. i wasn't aware that if you're a jazz fan but aren't up on your Clint Eastwood films, you're "fucking ignorant." my bad. Quote
Dan Gould Posted July 4, 2009 Report Posted July 4, 2009 A Clint Eastwood film about a jazz disc jockey. Quote
thedwork Posted July 4, 2009 Report Posted July 4, 2009 A Clint Eastwood film about a jazz disc jockey. i know that. Quote
Dan Gould Posted July 4, 2009 Report Posted July 4, 2009 Then you might not juxtapose "jazz fan" and "Clint Eastwood movies" as if there were no connection when we are talking about his best jazz-related film. Quote
chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez Posted July 4, 2009 Report Posted July 4, 2009 dude im not the hugest Clint Eastwood buff-- sorry, now susan sarandon- im pretty familar with her whole catalog Quote
thedwork Posted July 4, 2009 Report Posted July 4, 2009 Then you might not juxtapose "jazz fan" and "Clint Eastwood movies" as if there were no connection when we are talking about his best jazz-related film. your calling chewy "fucking ignorant" as a jazz fan for not being up on his eastwood films was wildly rude and itself arrogantly ignorant in a much more broad and sad manner than what you were accusing chewy of being. you should just admit being wrong/rude, apologize to chewy and get over yourself. from reading your posts in our little exchange here it would seem your definition of ignorance is not having the same interests or experiences as you. someone who loves baseball is not "fucking ignorant" if they're not familiar w/ Sayles's Eight Men Out. a classical music lover isn't "fucking ignorant" if they're not familiar w/ Forman's Amadeus. a TV anchorman isn't "fucking ignorant" if he's not familiar w/ Brooks's Broadcast News. and a psychologist isn't "fucking ignorant" if they're not familiar w/ Forman's (that's a coincidence ) One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. anyone who actually believes it's ignorant to not know a piece of eastwood/jazz trivia such as this has a frighteningly narrow gaze and is living in a mighty small world. enjoy the view. it's posters like you that make these forums/boards such a drag and every once in a while i get tired of holding my tongue. but i guess it's my fault for coming. and if you think i'm "fucking ignorant" of Eastwood and jazz too, read my review below and point out all the ignorant parts, then request some of my links for reviews of jazz material. i'll be happy to PM some to you: Million Dollar Baby Clint Eastwood is a man of faith. He is an artist who is confident and experienced enough to have a deep faith in the audience he is trying to reach. He’s also a master of omission, of the left-out detail/line, trusting in his gut that his audience is willing to participate in his films by exercising their own imaginations; that they never want any aspect of the story to be ‘dumbed down’ for ready consumption. In fact, his trust in the audience to use their own minds to fill in gaps is like a gift of part ownership in the film. Million Dollar Baby is a beautiful gift, and a masterpiece of film making. Eastwood plays Frankie Dunn, an elder boxing coach, manager, and expert cut man who runs a gym and is learning Gaelic on the side. He’s a nice enough guy, but he can’t seem to shake the guilt from ghosts in his past. Some ghosts we’re in on, some not quite. His guilt/shame is a constant just beneath the surface and gives him something of a cold exterior, sometimes frozen. Yet, as played by Eastwood, you know Dunn’s aware of his own plight, but just doesn’t know how to melt the ice. Or more importantly, if he’s deserving of such a meltdown. Enter Maggie Fitzgerald (Swank). She’s a thirty-something trailer trash woman from southwest Missouri. An unlikely hero for sure. But for my money, Maggie is this generation’s Rocky Balboa. That may seem an easy, simplistic, and over-reaching comparison, but the parallels are deep, obvious, and myriad. Like many people, Maggie’s dream (being a professional boxer) is always just out of reach, yet she can’t give it up. She works as a waitress to make ends meet (or at least the ends are almost touching), but spends all her spare time training. Like Frankie, Maggie has her own ghosts haunting her, and through these ghosts they bond like a hard hat to an I-beam. The heart and hard work (incalculable amounts) that Swank put into becoming Maggie are unnoticeable. It may be an overused phrase but it’s like she was born to play this part. It fits like a glove. The real life parallel of her relationship to Eastwood no doubt played a part in her ability to connect with the character’s relationship to Dunn. Yet this in no way diminishes her accomplishment. She is brilliant. Morgan Freeman plays Dunn’s right-hand man (Scrape) at the gym, reprising a role similar to his Red in from Shawshank Redemption. He also voices the omniscient narration to the story, a la Red. Like Dunn and Maggie, he’s similarly bruised, but somehow less deeply. He’s there when both of them need support and helps to bring them together. There’s nobody acting in film today who can embody kindness and wisdom through friendship and support better than Freeman. He also serves to bring in another Eastwood trademark - ‘Banter.’ Even when themes are heavy, Eastwood’s sense of humor is never entirely absent and he and Freeman have a good time acting with each other, just as they did in Eastwood’s Unforgiven and just as Kevin Bacon and Laurence Fishburne enjoyed their banter in Eastwood’s Mystic River. These three characters - Frankie, Scrape, and Maggie - create a beautiful and true, albeit small, family unit. Eastwood’s lifelong themes and ‘blurring of lines’ are on full display: good vs. evil, right vs. wrong, the role of violence, redemption, guilt/shame over previous acts, even god and death. Never one for easy answers, his version of the truth lies in the shadows, quite literally. Cinematographer Tom Stern crafts characters in shadow, shifting in and out of light. There is a grey area between the light and the dark where something approaching truth lies waiting, and this is where Eastwood takes us, then leaves us there to ponder. Million Dollar Baby is a shadow play. As accomplished as Unforgiven and Mystic River, yet even more personal, this film is a triumph of tragic storytelling. As Bacon’s character says in Mystic River, “…and the hits just keep on comin’.” Quote
chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez Posted July 4, 2009 Report Posted July 4, 2009 you guys are chewing up the wrong stick, me n Dan Gould burryed the hatchet ages ago lemme tell u all and him the last movies ive watched: -Tora! Tora! Tora! -Stevie Nicks In Concert (1982 HBO special) -Police Acedemy 4- Citzens on Patrol -Mona Lisa -Paths to Glory -Nighthawks -'V': The Hot One (porno Belle Du Jour remake) -Police Acedemy 4- Citzens on Patrol (encore presentation) -Pink Floyd LA Sports Arena 1975 did i a say watched? no 3/4 of those are in my movie ''to-do'' pile Quote
ceastwood Posted July 9, 2009 Report Posted July 9, 2009 they also show him in the movie, "play misty for me"? (never seen it....is that the one where he has the little monkey-friend?) How dare you not know which film of mine had the orangutan. Join Netflix. Quote
BruceH Posted July 9, 2009 Report Posted July 9, 2009 dude im not the hugest Clint Eastwood buff-- No kidding? Quote
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