Blanche Ravalec is a French actress and dubbing artist. To English-speaking audiences, she is chiefly known for her role as Dolly, Jaws' girlfriend in the 1979 James Bond film Moonraker.
"As I have acknowledged in the past, I am not perfect," Braun said in a statement released by MLB. "I realize now that I have made some mistakes. I am willing to accept the consequences of those actions."
Braun, who was the National League MVP in 2011, is the first player suspended in the wake of baseball's Biogenesis investigation.
Since he quit juicing, he hasn't done jack. To the farm club we go.
Anyways, Braun has a bum thumb. What's that all about? You get a bum thumb from quitting juicing? I don't get it. The Crew seems to be having fun even though we don't have a very good record. Winning isn't everything, unless you're Vince Lombardi leading the greatest team to every play football. THE GREEN BAY PACKERS.
(b) Is it a Moonraker scene that is cited by conspiracy theorists as Ian Flemming's hint that the Apollo moon landing was a fraud? The risible Roger Moore was in Moonraker, but I'm picturing Sean Connery in that scene.
The worst thing about Moonraker was that it was damned near a complete remake of the previous film, but set (partly) in outer space instead of at sea. But somehow, Moonraker managed to be worse in just about every particular. GRRRR.
I don't think Bond plot twists matter, formula or not.
The plots are so chaotic that you can watch the entire series at least twice and not remember the next detail.
The important parts are quips to feminist or difficult women and over-the-top chases, gadgets and fights, all organized by cool.
The Bond detective method is provoke and fight. That's where cool fits.
It's ruined by deep agonizing put there for women. That's ten minutes of dead air.
The devious death designed for Bond is always a mistake. I get a kick out of it every time. For God's sake shoot him yourself. But no, nobody ever thinks of that. They set a timer on an infernal device and leave.
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Jaws turned into a gentle giant in Moonraker, when a young lovely befriended him and he had to protect her.
This Bond moment was cited in Anne Hathaway's Get Smart more amusingly, an evil giant with marriage problems that Smart helped him with.
The young lovely
Blanche Ravalec is a French actress and dubbing artist. To English-speaking audiences, she is chiefly known for her role as Dolly, Jaws' girlfriend in the 1979 James Bond film Moonraker.
By then, the Bond franchise was in real trouble.
Dolly
Advanced imprecision.
The story line had some technical detail problems, but all the Bond plots do.
Pulling airplanes out of dives seems particularly difficult in movies, for example.
You'd think, more generally, that the guys who run the stunts would tell the movie guys that it doesn't work that way.
Jaws is a running gag character through a few Bond films.
Hard to kill.
Bond looks resigned when he has to fight Jaws, who can be outsmarted but never punched out.
The resignation is the joke.
Bond films go downhill when they go soap opera serious. Confront and fight is replaced by confront, agonize and fight.
The later films are worst in this.
You just have to sit through it.
I wonder if he is really chewing a giant piece of black licorice.
edutcher said...
By then, the Bond franchise was in real trouble.
Actually it was around the time Grace Jones got involved.
I have days when I feel all bitey like that.
Chew on this --
"As I have acknowledged in the past, I am not perfect," Braun said in a statement released by MLB. "I realize now that I have made some mistakes. I am willing to accept the consequences of those actions."
Braun, who was the National League MVP in 2011, is the first player suspended in the wake of baseball's Biogenesis investigation.
Since he quit juicing, he hasn't done jack. To the farm club we go.
Are Open Threads passe? Or do we get all funky and OT when we see a funny photograph?
O seasons,
Booths, chaleur, dark-hatted charlatans
On the outskirts of some rural fete,
The name you drop and never say is mine, mine!
Didn't the Jaws actor, Richard Kiel, die in real life? Or is he still alive?
Wow. This is really bad news for the Packers.
Hi Darcy.
I saw one of your comments got swept up by the spam filter.
You said Hi to AllenS with a smiley face.
I don't understand how this shit works yet, I'm sorry that happened. I'll check the spam filter regularly.
There were 15 comments in there.
Why aren't all of Troopers comments in there?
Hi Lem. No worries! I say hi to AllenS often.
lol allenS
Oh, I know, it's hard to find a filter with fine enough mesh to strain out diarhea.
Ouch brother.
That is gonna leave a mark.
Smooches and hugs, Darcy.
You know AllenS.
You helped me out with something back at the other place.
In one comment you said fuck and shit. I thought you know, sometimes that is the best word to use.
I felt a little free-er.
Haha! Lem.
And that was sweet, Allen.
It's only going to leave a temporary mark if you're standing behind a screen door when it's thrown, Troop.
Anyways, Braun has a bum thumb. What's that all about? You get a bum thumb from quitting juicing? I don't get it. The Crew seems to be having fun even though we don't have a very good record. Winning isn't everything, unless you're Vince Lombardi leading the greatest team to every play football. THE GREEN BAY PACKERS.
The Red Sox are fab this year...sorry Troop.
tits.
The architect titus is here
Methadras said...
By then, the Bond franchise was in real trouble.
No, after "Golden Gun", they got hideously formularized and predictable.
Plot turns were identical.
Evi L. Bloggerlady said...
Didn't the Jaws actor, Richard Kiel, die in real life? Or is he still alive?
He was also Dr Loveless' original henchman in "Wild, Wild West".
Still kicking, though. I thought he was dead, too; maybe we were thinking of Ted Cassidy.
Two questions:
(a) How does one die in real life?
(b) Is it a Moonraker scene that is cited by conspiracy theorists as Ian Flemming's hint that the Apollo moon landing was a fraud? The risible Roger Moore was in Moonraker, but I'm picturing Sean Connery in that scene.
Question (a) would be more approachable with a Murphy's in hand...
By then, the Bond franchise was in real trouble.
The worst thing about Moonraker was that it was damned near a complete remake of the previous film, but set (partly) in outer space instead of at sea. But somehow, Moonraker managed to be worse in just about every particular. GRRRR.
Richard Kiel is still alive. My wife met him once back in the 1990s. She says he's much bigger in person!
I don't think Bond plot twists matter, formula or not.
The plots are so chaotic that you can watch the entire series at least twice and not remember the next detail.
The important parts are quips to feminist or difficult women and over-the-top chases, gadgets and fights, all organized by cool.
The Bond detective method is provoke and fight. That's where cool fits.
It's ruined by deep agonizing put there for women. That's ten minutes of dead air.
The devious death designed for Bond is always a mistake. I get a kick out of it every time. For God's sake shoot him yourself. But no, nobody ever thinks of that.
They set a timer on an infernal device and leave.
ELB & edutcher .... maybe you/we're thinking of André René Roussimoff aka Andre the Giant who died in January 1993
Of course, Cassidy aka Lurch is also long gone (1979)
rh lol.
Rh makes me want to dig out the Bond DVDs.
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