Jimmy Musings
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ladybug_archiveJimmy's role in the Quincy episode was small, but he was a good guy as far as we know. He was the trainer for a boxer. Some people involved with the boxer were crooks, but it didn't look like Jimmy's character was among them.
I saw his M Squad appearance tonight. He was the bad guy in it, and a murderer to boot! Not really what I was hoping for. But it did ensure him a large role throughout the episode. I took about 161 screengrabs. I still have to change them to JPG. I wish BlazeDVD didn't insist on saving all screengrabs as BMP.
And Jimmy is really an incredible actor. The murderer character was very unstable and a chronic liar. Jimmy played him very believably. Two different times he outright snapped and he was scary. I am all the more impressed with him after seeing that episode. He is really a sadly underrated actor.
If he had been a bank robber, that probably wouldn't have bothered me much. Especially since he was playing a gangster when I first stumbled across him. And his role in The Good Guys and the Bad Guys never bothered me. Actually, as I said before, I felt that his bank robber character was more honorable than the moral-less mayor. His character, Buckshot, didn't seem to want anyone to get hurt. He tried to stop one of the vicious robbers from killing an old man.
After I watched M Squad, I dug up the fifties movie Blue Denim online and skimmed through it until I found Jimmy's cameo in it, about 43 minutes in. I might watch the whole movie sometime. There's an actress in it that I like, Roberta Shore.
And I've noticed something else interesting. Even though I gobble up everything Jimmy's in, from the fifties through the eighties, I think I am most partial to his later work, from the late sixties on. It might be because that was about when he stopped playing kids and started playing mature adults. Sometimes I have a real fondness for older men characters over younger ones. And ... I have to admit, I think Jimmy only became more handsome as he aged.
I am really craving to watch his second Knight Rider appearance again. Poor Tom O'Malley was killed off, but he was a good guy, and he was central to the plot. They never stopped talking about him throughout the episode. I wish I had permanent access to that episode. I could watch his first Knight Rider appearance, which seems to be officially online, but the second one is only available if I order the Netflix DVD again. Or if I buy the season, which I might do sometime, because after watching the other episodes on the disc I think Knight Rider is a show I'd like seeing a lot of in general.
I'm almost done with chapter 5 of the weird Monkees fic. I finally posted chapter 4 on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
monkeesfic after receiving an enthusiastic response from someone in the comm on chapter 3. I'd been dragging my heels about posting 4 in the comm because I wasn't sure anyone was even still reading the fic there other than Crystal (and I don't think she's a member), and of course she would have access to it in other places where it will be posted, such as the fic journal. I've been getting a good response to it from the beginning in the Yahoo Group, which I'm thrilled about.
I saw his M Squad appearance tonight. He was the bad guy in it, and a murderer to boot! Not really what I was hoping for. But it did ensure him a large role throughout the episode. I took about 161 screengrabs. I still have to change them to JPG. I wish BlazeDVD didn't insist on saving all screengrabs as BMP.
And Jimmy is really an incredible actor. The murderer character was very unstable and a chronic liar. Jimmy played him very believably. Two different times he outright snapped and he was scary. I am all the more impressed with him after seeing that episode. He is really a sadly underrated actor.
If he had been a bank robber, that probably wouldn't have bothered me much. Especially since he was playing a gangster when I first stumbled across him. And his role in The Good Guys and the Bad Guys never bothered me. Actually, as I said before, I felt that his bank robber character was more honorable than the moral-less mayor. His character, Buckshot, didn't seem to want anyone to get hurt. He tried to stop one of the vicious robbers from killing an old man.
After I watched M Squad, I dug up the fifties movie Blue Denim online and skimmed through it until I found Jimmy's cameo in it, about 43 minutes in. I might watch the whole movie sometime. There's an actress in it that I like, Roberta Shore.
And I've noticed something else interesting. Even though I gobble up everything Jimmy's in, from the fifties through the eighties, I think I am most partial to his later work, from the late sixties on. It might be because that was about when he stopped playing kids and started playing mature adults. Sometimes I have a real fondness for older men characters over younger ones. And ... I have to admit, I think Jimmy only became more handsome as he aged.
I am really craving to watch his second Knight Rider appearance again. Poor Tom O'Malley was killed off, but he was a good guy, and he was central to the plot. They never stopped talking about him throughout the episode. I wish I had permanent access to that episode. I could watch his first Knight Rider appearance, which seems to be officially online, but the second one is only available if I order the Netflix DVD again. Or if I buy the season, which I might do sometime, because after watching the other episodes on the disc I think Knight Rider is a show I'd like seeing a lot of in general.
I'm almost done with chapter 5 of the weird Monkees fic. I finally posted chapter 4 on
monkeesfic after receiving an enthusiastic response from someone in the comm on chapter 3. I'd been dragging my heels about posting 4 in the comm because I wasn't sure anyone was even still reading the fic there other than Crystal (and I don't think she's a member), and of course she would have access to it in other places where it will be posted, such as the fic journal. I've been getting a good response to it from the beginning in the Yahoo Group, which I'm thrilled about.
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Date: 2011-03-27 06:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-27 06:50 am (UTC)I know her from the Disney comedy The Shaggy Dog. She had a good-sized part in it, as the owner of the dog.
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Date: 2011-03-27 07:58 am (UTC)Ahh, I see. Ugh, that's terrible about Steve! It really is awful when a beloved character vanishes with no explanation whatsoever and everyone seems to forget they ever existed. I've actually considered writing a deathfic with Roger Addison from Mr. Ed to explain his sudden disappearance in season 4. And then his wife Kay would move shortly after, explaining her disappearance later in the season.
And now I'm curious to check out The Virginian, mainly to see this friendship between Steve and Trampas!
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Date: 2011-03-28 07:38 am (UTC)Oh gosh, that's awful.
Cute picture!
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Date: 2011-03-27 08:50 am (UTC)Oh, oh! Did you ever manage to watch that cracky beach-party movie that looked so much fun? I can't remember what the title of it was.
And there's nothing wrong with liking older men characters. *coughs and points to userpic*
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Date: 2011-03-27 08:55 am (UTC)I wish! I tried for ages to get that one site to work that promised I could stream Out of Sight. I think the site is a scam. It kept making me download programs that it promised would help, and when I did it made me download more. So in disgust I gave up and deleted those programs, since I didn't want them anyway and they weren't helping.
Yesss. Older men characters are made of awesome.
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Date: 2011-03-27 09:27 am (UTC)Waaaait...what site was it? And were they programs, or plugins?
Angsty!Jou is still my default, but I needed to have at least ONE Charles-icon. And he glares so nicely.
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Date: 2011-03-27 09:42 am (UTC)I don't even remember the name of it now. And it was both plug-ins and programs. It was nuts.
Charles does indeed!
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Date: 2011-03-27 09:59 am (UTC)That sounds like a big festival of spyware, actually. Did you run any scans after you removed everything, just to be safe?
Such a pretty ninja-lawyer he is.
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Date: 2011-03-27 10:03 am (UTC)I was worried about that, so I did Googles on the plug-ins and programs to make sure they're legitimate before I downloaded them. Nothing has seemed to run strangely since then, but maybe I should run a scan anyway....
Ninja-lawyers are made of awesome.
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Date: 2011-03-27 10:08 am (UTC)*nods* Always a good idea to scan, whether it sounds legitimate or not.
I should upload the one Celinra made, too...
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Date: 2011-03-27 10:21 am (UTC)Very true.
Yes, the more icons, the better!
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Date: 2011-03-27 10:29 am (UTC)I should do that now, before I forget...though now I'm paranoid LJ will do something else bizarre.
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Date: 2011-03-27 10:32 am (UTC)LJ had better cooperate!
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Date: 2011-03-27 10:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-27 04:11 pm (UTC)Bleh at the scam website, though. -.-
I have to say, though, Hulu is a very good and legit site to look for stuff (if you don't mind the ads). It's where I found the Munsters Today and some hilarious eps of the Dick van Dyke Show. I dunno if they'd have something as obscure as Out of Sight, but it's worth a look.
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Date: 2011-03-28 07:34 am (UTC)Hulu seems to only have the Jennifer Lopez movie of the same name. But I'm going to get hold of the sixties one somehow.
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Date: 2011-03-27 04:18 pm (UTC)And yay Monkees fic! **goes to read it** Yeah, I'm not in the comm; the only fics I'd read there would be yours anyway. ^^ And besides, the one chapter at a time is best for my schedule...and knack of putting things off that I probably shouldn't in order to
waste timedo fandom-related things. XDno subject
Date: 2011-03-28 07:36 am (UTC)I think I'll have it done by the deadline. I've determined I can wrap it up by 7. I've pretty well planned out what happens in both 6 and 7.