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Most of the day I've been working on this: http://www.angelfire.com/ut2/daydreambelievin/bios/babyface.html I like how it turned out. XD And as usual, I came up with some new stuff while in the process of writing it.

And I've been having trouble with the BlazeDVD program, so I emailed the Support people and I got a reply back, telling me how to fix it! It worked, too, so I was able to cap about 28 pictures from Jimmy's guest appearance on Gidget. X3 That pleases me highly. I probably mentioned this, but I'm planning to open a little tribute website and have lots of screengrabs from every appearance I can get my hands on. I won't be able to cap from his Gomer Pyle appearance or from The Good Guys and the Bad Guys, though. XD; They're only on videos and not DVDs.

Here's one of the pics I took:


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This one guy at The Bowery was getting rid of his VHS tapes of the movies because he has them on DVDs now, and I was able to get some of them from him. :) Among them was Looking for Danger, the last of the five movies Jimmy was in. It was very different from the others, and I liked it less, but it was still fun and it may grow on me. XD It involved this guy from the War Department wanting to know what happened to a pot that Duke had when he was in the Army. Thus, Duke begins fabricating a hilarious story about how he and Sach and the others were heroes during WWII, which is proven false at the end. The boys couldn't have even been in the Army during WWII. (I have the theory that Duke's dad had the same name and he was the one in the Army.) Some of them, like Blinky and Myron, would have been too young, and I do think that Sach and Duke are supposed to be younger than their actors were at the time (though, if they're the same age as their actors, then they at least could have been in WWII. Stanley Clements actually was).

In the movie, Jimmy gets to use another foreign accent (he played a British singer on Gidget) when his Myron character, Blinky, and Chuck play German soldiers in order to rescue Sach and Duke when they end up in prison. Myron is the spokesperson, and he does a bang-up job. XD

I decided that Myron was probably the one who came up with the scheme. He seems to be the smartest of the background characters, and somehow I can't picture Blinky or Chuck thinking of the idea. Also, in Hot Shots, there's this amusing part where the police officer asks Sach for the brains of the group and Sach says, "Don't look at me!" "I wasn't. I asked for the brains!" And Sach points to Myron. XD

One thing I wonder about is why Myron was so crabby in Spook Chasers and Looking for Danger. He wasn't like that at all in his three earlier films. He definitely thought Sach could be an idiot, but he said so silently, by doing the classic eye-roll and such, instead of verbally chewing him out the way Duke does. And in Looking for Danger, Myron snaps at Blinky too! One of these days I'll have to write a story explaining Myron's crankiness. XD

I also watched Blues Busters, which was another fun little film, and sweet too, with moments of friendship cuteness. I do wonder why the authors of The Films of the Bowery Boys said that Slip didn't have as many violent mannerisms in the film. He seemed to, to me. XD; And the background boys (in that film, Chuck, Whitey, and Butch) got to do a dance number. I wish that Myron could have been involved with one in one of the films he was in. Jimmy has danced professionally on the stage.

Paul sent me some of the detailed reviews from the book I was talking about, and included with the Xeroxed summaries was a little bit of information about Jimmy. Now I have two more movies to find with him in them. One is a Jerry Lewis comedy that I've already ordered, The Delicate Delinquent, and the other is another rare movie called Born to be Loved. I also learned that, as I suspected, his character is killed by the vampire in Curse of the Undead, the Wild West vampire movie. XD; So I dunno if I wanna watch that one or not. **laughs.**