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Old 05-09-22, 01:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Ballenxj
I've always heard it pronounced Hedy. I looked it up and according to this wiki it was actually Hedwig but shortened to Hedy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr
Originally Posted by The Golden Boy
In Blazing Saddles, Harvey Korman's character's name is "Hedley Lamarr" and everyone says "Hedy" and he's always going "it's Hedley! HEDLEY!!!"
It's one of the greateset running gags of all time but I can appreciate how it would fly over the heads of a modern audience, if they'd even bother to watch a nearly 50 year old movie. Regardless, here is a video explaining the joke's origin, from Mel Brooks himself.
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Ah, well that helps my theory a bit then but just barely, not sure if there were road Paramounts yet or if this is one.

Sure looks like it could be a Paramount headbadge to me from here, maybe.
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Ah, now I see said the Blind Man. Thanks for the explanation.
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Old 05-10-22, 07:04 AM
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Originally Posted by T-Mar
It's one of the greateset running gags of all time but I can appreciate how it would fly over the heads of a modern audience, if they'd even bother to watch a nearly 50 year old movie. Regardless, here is a video explaining the joke's origin, from Mel Brooks himself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEQ3OxYL2Co
I went back to school in 2002 in my fifties for an IT certificate so I could change careers and one day a professor was discussing certain tech developments and mentioned Hedy Lamarr's patent. I said, "That's HEDLEY!" and got a laugh from the prof and about three of the students. We knew it was funny.

PBS did an American Masters episode on her and it was sad to see what happened to her in her later years.
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmas...umentary/9906/
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Godspeed, Fred Ward (December 30, 1942 - May 15, 2022), notable for his portrayals of Virgil "Gus" Grissom in The Right Stuff and Earl Bassett in Tremors. He's seen here (on the right) with Richard E. Grant, in the 1990 biopic, Henry and June, in which he plays writer Henry Miller.

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Alun Armstrong, shown here with the Coventry Eagle he rode in the BBC TV series, New Tricks, which is currenly being re-run on one our local stations.

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Small point: that's Alun Armstrong who is still kicking I think.

Can't find a photo with an actual bicycle so here's one with Suzy Kendal



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Originally Posted by T-Mar
RIP, recently deceased English actor, Dennis Waterman (February 24, 1948 - May 8, 2022). He's shown here with the Coventry Eagle he rode in the BBC TV series, New Tricks, which is currenly being re-run on one our local stations.

That is Alun Armstrong, who was also in New Tricks.

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Old 05-16-22, 06:45 AM
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Originally Posted by Rocket-Sauce
That is Alun Armstrong, who was also in New Tricks.

Thank-you for posting. My mistake. I had the two mixed up.
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Ward, Wally, and the Beav...
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Originally Posted by Roger M
Ward, Wally, and the Beav...
Don't forget the bike he and Larry won at a movie theater. lol
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The FBI and Five-0


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Originally Posted by Aardwolf
Small point: that's Alun Armstrong who is still kicking I think.

Can't find a photo with an actual bicycle so here's one with Suzy Kendal


That engine must have been off and totally cold as her ankle appears to be touching the exhaust pipe?
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Originally Posted by Aardwolf
....Can't find a photo with an actual bicycle so here's one with Suzy Kendal
Speaking of Suzy Kendall....
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Originally Posted by Aardwolf
Small point: that's Alun Armstrong who is still kicking I think.

Can't find a photo with an actual bicycle so here's one with Suzy Kendal


Bultaco, bad azz machine in their day.
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Well spotted, here's almost another one:


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Britsh actor Lionel Jeffries, on the set of the 1964 film adaption of H.G. Wells' 1901 novel, The First Men in the Moon, which I re-visited last night. He's portraying eccentric English inventor Joseph Cavor. Both the novel and film are set in 1899, so the bicycle is a bit anachronistic, as it appears to be an early safety bicycle from the very late 1880s. It definitely has solid rubber tyres, which were virtually extinct by the mid-1890s after the 1890 invention of the pneumatic tyre. I guess Cavor must have been foregoing a new bicycle and sinking all his available cash into his Cavorite experiments, which would soon pay off. It's nice that they fit a bicycle into the film, given that Wells was an avid proponent of cycling. Great actor, fun film and a very interesting bicycle.
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The above post of Lionel Jeffries got me thinking of his other film roles, notably as Grandpa Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Of course, that got me thinking of Truly Scumptious, portrayed by Sally Anne Howes. So, here she is on a Raleigh, looking, well, you know....
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I was hoping there would be a photo of Daniella Bianchi... on a Bianchi (tall frame size). But, so far, no.

Or are there other celebrities whose name is the same as a brand of bike.
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Originally Posted by T-Mar
It's one of the greateset running gags of all time but I can appreciate how it would fly over the heads of a modern audience, if they'd even bother to watch a nearly 50 year old movie. Regardless, here is a video explaining the joke's origin, from Mel Brooks himself.
And tell her where I live
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1984 commercial with Jackie Chan on a bike and Michelle Yeoh

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Not sure if this works


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He's gonna need a bigger bike.
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