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Re: The John Hillerman Thread

Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2017 7:45 pm
by Steve
308GUY wrote:Very nice tribute to all included.

Lost a bunch of them this year. Wonder if it's an inordinate number..or about the average.

Everybody gets on the train sooner or later....you know....death and taxes...and all that..
I'm thinking that those like myself that are Boomers now in our sixties are just getting to that age and are starting to die more frequently. I really get a wake up when we lose those in music and entertainment that go before seventy and actually think to myself that those like a Mr. Hillerman that made it to their eighties had a pretty good life (of course it sounded as though he may have been fairly sick that last few)...As a side note, my 45 year High School reunion was this past summer, I haven't made one yet but at least was able to watch via facebook and YouTube.Most shocking was when they had a In Memoriam video of all of my classmates that have died over the years. The dog gone thing went on for almost twenty minutes!!!Now , we had over 1,200 in my class but come on!

Re: The John Hillerman Thread

Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2017 5:41 pm
by pot79
R. I. P. !

Re: The John Hillerman Thread

Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2018 11:05 pm
by Sam

Re: The John Hillerman Thread

Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2018 11:59 pm
by Steve
Sam wrote:Hillerman's home for sale


https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1110 ... 5591_zpid/
Nice house.....I guess they keep Hillerman's name out of the advertising to keep the riff-raff away from the viewings....

Re: The John Hillerman Thread

Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2018 3:27 pm
by K Hale
Mrs. Higgins wrote:
marlboro wrote:I'm watching Higgy-Baby in Relentless (1977). He plays the leader of a band of ex Vietnam vets who pull off a bank robbery and are hunted down by the Chief from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. It's not bad so far.
Are you watching that on tv? What network? I've been dying to see that one. All I could find was the promo on YouTube.
marlboro wrote:Just something a friend of mine downloaded and sent to me. It looks like it was recorded off of television onto vhs.

It isn't bad, but it really isn't anything special. Hillerman doesn't get much of a chance to display his acting talent, I'm afraid, even though he is the movie's main bad guy.
I watched this last night and it was pretty good for what it was, a 1977 TV actioner. The entire thing is on You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj3ohsK9U-4 The image quality is not good, but still worth watching. Totally predictable in that 1970s TV-movie way; you can guess how it's going to wind up from very early on. There is more action than acting to be done here; JH gamely rides a horse, robs a bank, shoots a rifle, evades pursuers, thrashes his way through waist deep snow, and (not to spoil it but as I said, you can see this coming a mile away) has a pretty good scene there at the end. He also gets to make a great speech about the rules of war while eating Cream of Wheat. I give it 3-1/2 stars, would watch again.

Re: The John Hillerman Thread

Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2018 3:40 am
by J.J. Walters
Steve wrote:I'm thinking that those like myself that are Boomers now in our sixties are just getting to that age and are starting to die more frequently. I really get a wake up when we lose those in music and entertainment that go before seventy and actually think to myself that those like a Mr. Hillerman that made it to their eighties had a pretty good life (of course it sounded as though he may have been fairly sick that last few)...As a side note, my 45 year High School reunion was this past summer, I haven't made one yet but at least was able to watch via facebook and YouTube.Most shocking was when they had a In Memoriam video of all of my classmates that have died over the years. The dog gone thing went on for almost twenty minutes!!!Now , we had over 1,200 in my class but come on!
I hear ya, man! Just keep treasuring every day you have on this earth. Life is so precious! I'm "only" at my 30th HS reunion (and, like you, I've never been to one of them), and almost all of the people I was close with have died. It's so depressing. :( Many of them died quite young, but virtually all of them were in the "high risk" group (if you know what I mean). I wish things could have turned out different for all of them. I'm very fortunate to be alive myself, which I always remind myself every day.

Re: The John Hillerman Thread

Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2018 4:04 am
by K Hale
And then I found these on YouTube. All 14 episodes of The Betty White Show. She's an actress, JH is her director, and they're divorced -- or are they?

I have no idea why this was only one season long, it's hilarious! :lol:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... RvsH2fzAjx

Re: The John Hillerman Thread

Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2018 4:06 am
by K Hale
Also worth watching... https://youtu.be/xBB9fYtGHj0

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Re: At Long Last Love

Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2018 4:05 pm
by K Hale
mandolabar wrote:Hi--I'm new to the site, great to find you all!

I found a youtube posting of a scene with John Hillerman and Eileen Brennan, singing a Cole Porter song...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-TIquf6qH4

I couldn't pass that up...I hunted around and found it's from "At Long Last Love," from 1975. Which seems to be very hard to find, but I did...so for those who are interested, you can download it from extafilm (http://www.extafilm.com/). For a modest fee :roll:

(or for those who know where it can be found in better quality, please share...)

At any rate--the movie didn't get great ratings, but I for one found it delightful. Fluffy romantic comedy, and Mr. Hillerman's delivery is superb. Warning: the songs are catchy, you'll end up humming them...

~Amanda
I found this last night and could not believe how delightfully fun it was. I had never heard of it before very recently and I guess it got terrible reviews back in the day due to a troubled production and perhaps for being a bit ambitious for its time. It's fantastic... a lighthearted romantic comedy (the ONLY one I've ever seen that I enjoyed) full of kicky Cole Porter songs and interestingly creative cinematography/sets/costume design, most of which is done in black and white even though the film itself is in color. Hillerman, Eileen Brennan and Madeline Kahn are the standouts; Burt Reynolds and Cybil Shepherd do pretty good too. Interestingly, I read that all of the singing is done "in real time" as the cameras rolled; there is no lip syncing to a recorded track as you would usually see in a modern musical. Plus the shots are usually very long in duration, with very few cuts midscene, so that you can see that the dialogue, singing, and dancing is all done in one continuous take, like they did it back in the glory days of the Hollywood musical. This movie is really really enjoyable to watch. I saw it on YouTube; the movie is uploaded twice and the beginning is cut off of one copy while the very end is cut off of the other, and the image quality isn't great on either one. However, there is no DVD, and the BluRay costs $100... plus I don't have a BluRay player. :?

The clip of JH and Brennan singing their duet has been removed from YouTube but I've downloaded the movie and will put it up on Vimeo later. JH can absolutely sing! Unfortunately he doesn't get to dance. 8)

Re: At Long Last Love

Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2018 4:20 am
by K Hale
K Hale wrote:The clip of JH and Brennan singing their duet has been removed from YouTube but I've downloaded the movie and will put it up on Vimeo later. JH can absolutely sing! Unfortunately he doesn't get to dance. 8)
And here it is. https://vimeo.com/263697590

(Backstory: all the characters are hung over after one of an endless round of parties, and she was coming on to him the night before, to no avail!)

These two are gold... they should've been in a dozen movies together.

Re: The John Hillerman Thread

Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2018 12:35 am
by Rembrandt's Girl
This may have been posted before, but I can't find it so thought I'd post. I really love this pic of him sitting in his chair on the grounds of Pahonu, shades on, an old-fashioned sand ashtray next to him, with his beverage and cane by his side...

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Re: The John Hillerman Thread

Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2018 1:20 am
by K Hale
That is a great picture. In his book, Larry Manetti mentioned that cane that converted into a little chair. He said JH carried it around with him so he would have it ready "should he desire to sit." 8) He also had a battery powered electric fan that accompanied him on hot days, but that didn't make it into the pic.

He was just so damn real. :cry:

Re: The John Hillerman Thread

Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 3:55 pm
by K Hale
So my next journey into DVD land featured a pretty awful movie called "Lucky Lady." It stars Liza Minnelli, Burt Reynolds, and Gene Hackman as bootleggers. It's kind of a comedy and kind of serious, and I am not sure what went wrong with this film but it's just really jumbled and uncertain about what kind of movie it is, plus it's peppered with bad dialogue and very strange, blurry lighting that apparently was done on purpose for artsy reasons. However, John Hillerman is the lone bright spot; he plays with great glee the movie's villain, a mobster named Christy McTeague. He really ate this role up and did a terrific job, even though he too is sometimes given ridiculous dialogue but manages somehow to deliver it better and more believably than the three stars. He even has his own theme music. Plus there's lots of tommy gun action...

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JH's role is described here beautifully by Roger Ebert: "The mob is determined to organize bootlegging in southern California, by force if necessary, and has sent a sinister little man in a homberg (John Hillerman) to see to things. He's the most interesting character in the movie, even though it shouldn't really be that way; he has a nice, prissy, cold perfectionism, as if he were a particularly violent accountant. He and his men use bulletproof, high-powered boats, but our heroes hold them off with Molotov cocktails." :lol:

Re: The John Hillerman Thread

Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2018 9:51 pm
by Rembrandt's Girl
There's a little repetition in topics in these but each one has other interesting parts as well.

Circa July 1982...


youtu.be/IuFYkKspu54



Circa February 1983...


youtu.be/-4pDt3mBd3U



Circa April 1984...


youtu.be/PD5NnyH1E0g

Re: The John Hillerman Thread

Posted: Thu May 03, 2018 5:11 pm
by K Hale
J.J. Walters wrote:Caught part of an episode of The Love Boat the other day on MeTV and guess who was in it? That's right, John Hillerman! According to the IMDb it was from 1983, right in the middle of his Magnum run. He had the full on Higgy Baby accent working. I mean, dead on Higgins accent. If I didn't know better, it was Higgins taking a vacation on the Pacific Princess! But alas, he was some sort of inspector named Manfred Benusse. He solved the crime and got the girl in the end. Good for him! Claude Akins, Tony Dow and Didi Conn were in it. It was fun. Outside of Tales of the Gold Monkey and the Simon & Simon crossover, I believe this is the only TV show guest appearance he did during the Magnum run.

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Does anyone have a source for this episode? That season of The Love Boat doesn't seem to be available on DVD and not on YouTube, either. :?