From: ahk@chinet.com
Mack A. Damia wrote:
>Mon, 25 Dec 2023 00:33:31 -0000 (UTC), Adam H. Kerman :
>>Bill Anderson wrote:
>>>Mack A. Damia wrote:
>>>>Sun, 24 Dec 2023 05:42:47 -0000 (UTC), Adam H. Kerman :
>>>>>Mack A. Damia wrote:
>>>>>>Sun, 24 Dec 2023 01:30:32 -0000 (UTC), Adam H. Kerman :
>>>>>>>Mack A. Damia wrote:
>>>>>>>>>. . .
>>>>>>>>"12 Angry Men"
>>>>>>>>The one guy I don't like in that movie is Lee J. Cobb. Not certain
>>>>>>>>why, maybe his acting is a little too phony, too much of an
>>>>>>>>affectation.
>>>>>>>He and Biff weren't on speaking terms.
>>>>>>Is it common knowledge who "Biff" is?
>>>>>Sigh
>>>>Just answer the question, fool.
>>>Lee J. Cobb is noted for playing Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a
>>>Salesman. Willy's oldest son, with whom he did not see eye to eye, was
>>>named Biff.
>>>I actually remembered the name, but I would not consider it "common
>>>knowledge." Biff in Back to the Future might qualify, especially here in a
>>>movie discussion group, but answering the question rather than showing off
>>>would have been a more reasonable response I think. Merry Christmas.
>>I certainly wasn't "showing off". And in this newsgroup, in which there
>>are discussions of old movies, yes, I was expecting it to be common
>>knowledge. As the joke fell flat, I wasn't in the mood to explain the
>>reference, but I really expected I'd need to. Nor did I expect to be the
>>target of Mack's foul mood.
>If it was a "foul mood", it was in response to your foul reply to a
>simple and reasonable question.
>I highly doubt that it is "common knowledge".
In a newsgroup in which people discuss their love of old movies? Yes,
I expected its regulars to know whom Lee J. Cobb was.
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
|
