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Bill Fields juggles

2007-03-14T06:14:42Z

From "The Old Fashioned Way" (1934)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MZWq14uD-A

This is a quick compression of the act Fields toured the world doing, circumnavigating the globe twice in the era of steamships and railroads. He always said the only act he could never follow was the Marx Bros, who opened for him during one brief US tour. The Marxes did everything but set fire to the curtains and, as the appalled comedian put it, "I'm up there fucking a lot of boxes!"

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Why do you love this dirty old man?

2006-11-16T02:55:18Z

Dead sixty years this Xmas, critics still argue about Bill Fields and what his screen character represented. Almost no one argues he isn't one of the immortals, but the one thing everyone seems to agree on is that he ISN'T to every taste. I first enountered him as a boy and was charmed by his fuck-you attitude toward authority and heard in his strange oaths and mumbled absurdities an echo of my own family's verbally extravagant ways. Once hooked by that, it seems almost spooky to watch him juggle- thowing objects around with the same dexterity as words.

This tribe has attracted a lot of smart and funny people, so I look forward to your answers.

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Your Turn To Drive

2006-11-10T02:10:58Z

Ok I built it, And You Came.

Now its someone elses turn to drive.

Please send me a personal message if you would like to be moderator. Its an easy job. And dont you just yearn to be in control?

But seriously I am cutting down on my Tribing and would like to hand over the driving to someone else. I would stay a member of the tribe, but just cutting down on the things I am doing etc.

Sean

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Hello My Chickadees

2006-10-13T17:57:49Z

Ok I built and they shall come or some such non sense.

I am not a authority on Fields in anyway but there was some noise about starting a tribe for him and I kept coming across pics and quotes and took it as a sign.

So lets learn about the Curmudgeon.

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The Bank Dick

2006-06-22T06:46:26Z

http://www.doctormacro-m1.com/FilmClips/Fields,%20W.C.%20(Bank%20Dick,%20The)_01.wmv

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The Dentist

2006-06-22T06:11:59Z

http://www.doctormacro-m1.com/FilmClips/Fields,%20W.C.%20(Dentist,%20The)_01.wmv

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WC beats up Shirley Temple

2006-06-15T20:03:44Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XRyglPyW3I&search=wc%20fields

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HAVE YOU SEEN THIS??? W.C. AS Humpty Dumpty!!!!!

2006-05-06T23:31:08Z

Oh how I would LOVE to SEE THIS!!
~cc

ALICE IN WONDERLAND (1933)
Directed by Norman Z. McLeod
Featuring Charlotte Henry, Cary Grant, W.C. Fields
Article #977 by Dave Sindelar
http://www.scifilm.org/museimages/alicewonderland33.jpg

Alice goes through the looking glass and falls down the rabbit hole into a strange world.

Lewis Carroll's Alice books remain to this day my favorite children's stories of all time. They are also, to my mind, almost unfilmable. Part of the reason is that, despite the many memorable fantastic images present in the stories (the Tenniel illustrations are indelible), the stories are largely driven by a contortionistic verbal illogic that really can only be appreciated by those with a sense of mathematical absurdity. About the only director I would trust with this work is Terry Gilliam, whose years with Monty Python would put him in good stead to take on the absurdity of the work.

As it is, this version is more of curiosity than anything else; it has a plethora of Hollywood stars in costumes that disguise their features (Cary Grant, W.C. Fields, Gary Cooper and Edward Everett Horton are only the most well-known of the bunch), and it has some very nice special effects throughout. It also more or less takes a real stab at being somewhat faithful to the work, with most of the dialogue directly from the stories. What it lacks is real energy and a grasp of the spirit of the whole thing; it feels mannered and perfunctory, cranking out some of the better-remembered moments without ever achieving the sense of absurdist flow necessary to bring the whole thing to life. Nonetheless, as a curiosity piece, it does have its uses, and those who really want to see W.C. Fields as Humpty Dumpty won't want to pass it by.

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Some quotes

2006-04-30T04:26:22Z

just to get us started

"I'd rather have two girls at 21 each than one girl at 42."

"Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain unless you've used up all the other four-letter words."

"Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times."

"How well I remember my first encounter with The Devil's Brew. I happened to stumble across a case of bourbon--and went right on stumbling for several days thereafter."

"Back in my rummy days, I would tremble and shake for hours upon arising. It was the only exercise I got."

“I Don’t drink water. Fish Fuck in it.”

"I certainly do not drink all the time. I have to sleep you know."

"I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally."

"Women are like elephants to me. I like to look at 'em, but I wouldn't want to own one."

(When a studio executive tried to collect from Fields for a charity, the comic had what he thought was good reason not to give:)
WC: "You see, I am a member of the F.E.B.F."
Exec: "The what?"
WC: "F*ck everybody but Fields."

(Invited to play golf by someone he didn't like, Fields responded:)
"When I want to play with a prick, I'll play with my own."

"Just looking for loopholes."
(Fields, reading the Bible on his deathbed.)

"Ah yes, she's a fine figure of a woman, isn't she? A handsome lass if there ever was one--and exceptionally well-preserved too."
(and)
"A plumber's idea of Cleopatra."
(Fields' insults about Mae West on the set of My Little Chickadee, 1940)

"I was married once--in San Francisco. I haven't seen her for many years. The great earthquake and fire in 1906 destroyed the marriage certificate. There's no legal proof. Which proves that earthquakes aren't all bad."

[Charles Dickens was] "the bravest man who ever lived. He fathered ten children before they became tax deductions."

When asked how he liked children "They are very good with mustard."

"There is not a man in America who has not had a secret ambition to boot an infant."

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uh oh......

2006-04-29T20:31:16Z

Sean's making new TRIBES again.

SEAN?

Do they ACTUALLY PAY YOU at your DAY JOB?

I know you just make up NEW TRIBES at your job.

MmmmHmmmmm.

NO MORE NEW TRIBES FOR YOU MISSY!

You need to DeVeLoP that CLooooooooNY TRIBE
you started BusTeR!

Do you HAVE a BUSTER TRIBE YET???
(oooPs, did I SAY that??)

otherwise you will have to trade it in for the dreaded
and completely ignored and abandoned TOPOR TRIBE!!!!!

Certainly you have seen/own all the Mae West W.C. Fields films, si??

I think I have My Little Chickadee ; )

~W.C. Confetta -PanTz

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a few links

2006-04-29T18:58:00Z

Official Fan Club
http://www.webtrec.com/wcfields/

WC at IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001211/

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