THE AMBUSHERS: PART 4

THE AMBUSHERS: PART 4

Lovey doesn’t mess around and she heads straight to where Helm is, which is being massaged by a tall blonde beauty. Hang on, Helm was told Lovey had just arrived, he then went and had a fencing lesson and is now being massaged and this took, what, all of 3 minutes! Just how quick was that fencing lesson? Anyway Lovey is all business, which doesn’t please Helm, and has even brought him his toothbrush and some mouthwash; presumably he’ll drink that later.

They adjourn to have the briefing in the steam room and luckily Helm doesn’t have to read any documents or take notes in there. It’s a pretty crap steam room in that there are only two wafts of kettle steam in a large room but it does allow Lovey and Helm to start making out. He asks her for McDonald’s message and she says she doesn’t have it. Great, so as well as a needless long distance call, they sent a government employee out to a top secret installation with no message. Man, the Johnson administration just pissed money away.



But no, Lovey does have a message, or at least her bra does. Unbeknownst to her, McDonald has recorded a message in her bra which activates as Helm tries to take it off. OK, so let’s just recap here before my brain melts: Lovey wears a lace bra in a steam room and it has a tape recorded message concealed in it which activates when Matt freakin’ Helm takes it off. And they wonder why Apollo got cancelled early. Anyway, Helm is to investigate what happened to Sheila because she’s the key to the greatest crisis the US has ever faced. Yes, because banging Sheila is the only way to get to the bottom of this mystery and they’ve found just the right man for the job.

But before he can work on the greatest crisis the US has ever faced, he’s still following the pattern of this movie so far: Do a bit of training, bang the instructor, do a bit more training, bang another instructor. This time he’s in a fake train compartment with a middle aged man, an old lady with a scowl on her face and a beautiful girl. Yeah, I think what’s going to happen next....anyway, an announcer says that one of the people in the train compartment is an enemy agent with a concealed message and Helm has to work out who it is. So everyone sits still and looks at each other shiftily, then the lights go out to simulate going into a tunnel. When they come back on, everyone has changed places and Helm is asleep. Then this is repeated until at the third time the lights come back on, the beautiful girl has been undressed and Helm is holding the secret message. No explanation is given as to how he figured the girl was the spy, my guess is that Helm just wanted a grope and got lucky with the message.



That bit of training over, everyone leaves the compartment except for the middle aged man who pulls a gun on Helm. He demands to know what Helm knows about the flying saucer craft and Helm says something like “harruw y’know I nggonna divulgshe informabbleubble”. The lights go out, shots are fired and when they go back on, the middle aged guy is dead, Helm is lying next to him (drunk) and McDonald, also drunk, is in the compartment holding a gun and saying “nowww you knowsh why (hic) you’re here”. So let me work this out...McDonald phones from Washington to the base in the desert to say that Lovey has a message for Matt, concealed in her bra, but he’s decided to fly out and meet with Helm anyway and shows up in the nick of time. No wonder Dino’s plastered in order to get through this movie!

McDonald asks Helm if he’s ever seen a flying saucer...sure, they come right before the pink elephants and the millions of crawling spiders. Anyway, McDonald goes on to drawl that the government has built a prototype which is powered by electro-magnetic forshe...I mean, force. It’s been stolen and Sheila, the test pilot, was left as a basket case. Matt, ever the enlightened, can’t believe they put a girl in the craft to fly it but McDonald orders Helm to get close to her and try to find out what happened. “She won’t let a man go near her, but that’s never stopped you” says McDonald...this movie was obviously written before “no means no” came into the language. Helm then suggests to McDonald that there’s a double agent in ICE helping the enemy...well, he would if he understood spy lingo but instead it comes out as “shomebody on our shide.....ishn’t”

Back at the base, Government Issue Gil has done wonders and restored Sheila’s hair and skin colour, but she’s freaking out when an orderly tries to give her a sedative injection. Helm bursts in and knocks him out and so ends the mystery of the double agent. Why waste film footage on building genuine mystery and tension? He cradles Sheila in his arms and hey presto, she’s back to normal. So two plot points solved in one go; that’s efficiency. Actually, it’s a problem this movie has right throughout. Often a potentially interesting plot point begins, only to have it fizzle out by the next scene. The story of “The Ambushers” is one long fizzle so get used to having your hopes for something interesting to happen dashed.

OK, that's enough bandwidth used up for now

Mark Adams on becoming Dean Martin for his new show That’s Amore at the Empire Theatre

Hey pallies, here's more on Dinoemulater Mr. Mark Adams who's Dinotrib will be comin' to the states soon. Woulda loves if it cames anywhere nears this Dinoholic's homepad so I could see Mr. Adam's Dinodevotion for myself.

Thanks to Miss Laura Davis of the Liverpool Daily Post for sharin' this interview of Mark Adams with us. To view this in it's original format, just likes clicks on the tagg of this Dinogram. There are so so many dudes makin' likes our Dino and hopefully each and every one keeps bringin' new pallies to knowin', lovin' and honorin' our Dino! Dinodesirin', DMP



Mark Adams on becoming Dean Martin for his new show That’s Amore at the Empire Theatre

Nov 6 2009 by Laura Davis, Liverpool Daily Post



That’s Amore star Mark Adams tells Laura Davis what it’s like to become Dean Martin

WHEN it came to naming the family dog, Mark Adams’s four children immediately knew what to call him – Deano. As their father has been playing the Ratpack’s Dean Martin since 2002 it seemed a natural choice.

“He’s a black lab with a little white crest so he looks like a negative version of Dean – instead of a black bow tie he’s got a white one,” reveals the 50-year-old performer.

Mark Adams has all of Martin’s charm and, after seven years of acting as him in shows all over the world, also his low vibrato and his mannerisms – picked up from endless hours watching 60s movies.

“The particular way he might hold a cigarette or a Jack Daniels glass. The way he would touch his bow tie. And he had a distinctive walk, almost a stroll,” says Adams.

“I’d say I’m broad shoulded and broad minded like Dean was and I’m a touch over 6ft as he was.

“Actually when I did the first That’s Amore show two years ago I was exactly the same age Dean was when he did his television debut back in 1965.

“He had such a distinctive voice and he was quite self-effacing about it. He’d say ‘look, I’m easy on the ear, I can carry a tune’.

“But every time he sang a song he could absolutely make it his own with the first few bars.”

That’s Amore, based on Martin’s successful TV specials, is coming to the Empire Theatre on November 16 and will then immediately head to America for an 18-city tour.

The Wiltshire-born actor has been to the Liverpool venue before, with his Ratpack show in 2002, which spent several years in the West End.

There is far more than singing in That’s Amore however, demonstrating Martin’s (and Adams’s) versatility as a performer.

“I got to know and love this man and his work and started researching the television shows he had in the 60s and 70s in the States,” says Adams.

“They were absolutely brilliant, akin to Morecambe and Wise in the respect that TV wouldn’t have been TV if it wasn’t for Morecambe and Wise in the 60s and I guess the same could be said for the Americans with Dean.

“He could command an impressive list of guests like James Stewart, Gene Kelly, Orson Welles, Frank Sinatra of course, Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne – anybody who was anybody wanted to be on it.”

The weekly Dean Martin Show also helped launch the careers of successful actors and comics including Goldie Hawn and Bill Cosby.

In That’s Amore, the actresses playing his backing singers, the Golddiggers, also double up as guests such as Petula Clark, Peggy Lee and Shelia McClain, while Nat King Cole also puts in an appearance.

“We start with the Dean television intro, where the girls burst onstage and Dean comes on for a couple of well known numbers,” says Adams, who lives in Hertforshire with his wife and four children.

“I have a lot of fun with the band and the audience and introduce these guests, who have their solo spots and do duets and sketches with Dean.”

Martin’s image as a carefree boozer was well cultivated by the time he broke into TV, after starring in comedy films with Jerry Lewis as well as Rio Bravo with John Wayne and Young Lions with Montgomery Cliff and Marlon Brando.

Yet he was dedicated to the show – priding himself on memorising each week’s script rather than reading from an autocue.

There were hiccups however.

“The interesting thing is that he didn’t really want to do it and he made so many outrageous demands, one of which is that he would only show up the day of transmission and he wouldn’t rehearse,” explains Adams.

“The leading guy just turns up on the day at one o’clock and listens to the music and then he would go and watch the football match with the producer.

“Then he’d just have a quick camera rehearsal and bang, off he’d go.

“But the producer knew how brilliant Dean was at coping – if he was put in a corner he could box himself out of it and they used to keep the bloopers in because they were arguably more funny than the script.”

THAT’S Amore is at the Empire Theatre on Nov 16. LDP Weekend has three pairs of tickets to give away. For a chance to win a pair simply answer the following question: What was the name of the Las Vegas hotel where the Ratpack held regular shows? Answers on a postcard by 5pm on November 10 to That’s Amore Competition, Liverpool Daily Post, PO Box 48, Old Hall Street, Liverpool L69 3EB or via email to laura.davis@liverpool.com. Usual terms and conditions apply.

THE AMBUSHERS: PART 3

Hey pallies, here is installment 3 of this Nick chicks sharin' of "The Ambushers." As you read this, sures you know that I don't agree with much of her Dinoperspective....but loves the pixs and loves seein' the name of our Dino bein' lifted up which certainly will make other pallies curiously 'nough to wanna checks out our great man for themselves! Parts 4-6 will follow. Again, to read this in it's original format, just clicks on the tagg of this Dinomessage. Dinosharin', DMP

THE AMBUSHERS: PART 3

We cut to an aerial shot of some defence installation in the desert called the Intelligence Counter Espionage Rehabilitation Centre and it’s staffed by largely comely girls aged 17-25 wearing standard miniskirt, hotpants and go go boots uniforms with little white pom pom berets as any self-respecting government agency did back in those days. There are a few male staff in army khaki uniforms but frankly I had to watch the movie twice before I noticed them. A female instuctor tells an assembled bunch of, I presume trainee agents although they may be visiting students from a Swedish finishing school for all I know, about a device that can dissolve metal electonically. And this is one of the technical concepts in the movie that makes more sense than the rest. She points the device at a male mannequin and its nipples fry, the belt buckle melts and its pants fall down. Another device that’s a hoot at parties.



The students move off and as they pass a window, they can hear Dean Martin singing “Everybody Falls In Love Somehow”. See what they did there? A bit of self-mocking. Yeah well get used to it, there’s more to come. Two of them intone, in a way that indicates they weren’t cast for their acting ability, that “lucky Linda ...yes... imagine... working on a....field problem with....him”. Him being our hero, Matt Helm. And sure enough he’s making out with yet another hot 60s babe. Now when Sean Connery does that in a Bond movie it’s sexy, in this movie it’s just plain eeeeeeww. Remember how wrong the lovemaking scenes looked in the last couple of Roger Moore Bond movies? Remember thinking that it was time Rog moved along? Now quadruple that feeling of nausea and that’s what you get here.

There’s a bang and a puff of smoke and Dino keels over, probably through drink, possibly because he’s ‘acting’ but frankly it’s hard to tell. I’m going with ‘drink’ though because his first line is “howdy’e alike zhat? I dinn’t even get to shqueeze zhe trigger”. This sets up the pattern for all of Dino’s dialogue; slurred, but this time he at least remembered what his lines were...which is more than can be said for a lot of other dialogue in the movie. By the way, the gunshot came from the girls’ bra; a new wonder weapon...the .38 D cup and yes, it is the inspiration for Austin Powers’ Fembots although it’s way funnier when you see it here played straighter. They banter and she’s already up for making out with him again (it’s good to see the CIA likes to recruit girls with low self esteem) when he calls a halt and goes to leave the room: Almost colliding with the door and checking himself at the last second. Me drunk, officer?

The girls outside all hear that Matt Helm’s approach is iminent; probably from the sounds of furniture being crashed into whilst saying “I haven’t had a drink, officer, now where are my pants?” but before they can lie prostrate at his feet, a scream is heard and a woman wearing a white straight jacket and white tights comes running out. Who is responsible for the wardrobe in this movie? I don't know whether to kick them or hug them.

It’s our test pilot from the opening scene, Sheila Sommers, although this time her hair and face are as white as her outfit. She babbles that she needs help and a passing doctor of plot exposition helpfully explains that she was found in a jungle with no memory and babbling that all men are out to kill her. Just as well she decided to run to Matt Helm, a man, to ask for help or is this a dig at Matt because she doesn’t see him as a man? In which case, harsh!

Anyway, Helm’s concerned for Sheila as she’s dragged off to the nuthatch again but before he can do anything about it, he’s almost run over by yet another scantily clad agent on a motor scooter. He hops on board and...oh God, he looks to camera just as he’s about to grab on to her breasts. I’m sure that kind of thing was illegal even in the Swinging Sixties!

Helm’s carted off to receive a phone call from his boss, McDonald, who is James Gregory’s character and together he and Dino have a drunken conversation that goes a little like this:

HELM: “Hurungen shumbee don’t need no refresherrrr courshe”

McDONALD: “Hararge ah-harrgle new emergenshy come up”

Dino stumbles over his lines and almost forgets them so much so that a joke about the Aberdeen Proving Grounds falls flatter than matzo bread. Anyway, the purpose of McDonald’s call is to let Helm know that he hasn’t the time to explain the problem but his secretary has all the details. And this was a long distance call as well. Well, when it comes to implementing government efficiency savings, we’ll start with McDonald.

But seeing that it’s been all of a minute and a half since Helm last flirted, groped or harrassed a beautiful woman, along comes a French fencing instructor in white fishnets and a large white heart on her chest to provide yet another...ahem...romantic interlude. Why she’s French, why she’s wearing neck to toe fishnets and why she needs to instruct Matt Helm in fencing right here and right now isn’t explained. The large heart I assume is to provide even a paralytic Matt Helm with a target he can aim at.

From there, we cut to the I.C.E. base beauty salon. Yes, this top secret high tech intelligence and military installation has it’s own beauty salon complete with its own gay stylist called Gil. The medics from earlier bring in Sheila because when dealing with a top test pilot with amnesia and paranoia the best thing to give them is a complete make-over! Because that’s what you girls all want eh? New shoes and a nice new hair do! Eh girls, am I right?



So while Federal-Funded Gil goes to work on Sheila, we get to meet Matt Helm’s secretary, Lovey Kravezit. You know, a name like that makes Ian Fleming’s Bond girls sound like paragons of feminism. She flirts with the ICE base guards with the result that the men go all slack jawed and have accidents with their coffee mugs: With troops like these defending the nation, I suspect that this could have been a contributing factor to America losing the Vietnam War.

OK, time to take another break. We'll be back after I've had my dinner.

“I was excited when I was nominated. And now, I am thrilled to be hosting with Dean Martin.”

Hey pallies, from the Entertainment Weekly web pad Hollywood Insider comes this funnin' little Dinomention. To read this in it's original format, just clicks on the tagg of this Dinogram.

Did a little 'net searchin' and found out that what Mr. Baldwin was doin' is havin' a bit of fun here....he will actually be hostin' with funny man Steve Martin. For a Dinomoment was hopin' that perhaps our Dino has return from the other side and I had not heard...

Whatever pallies, just so thrilled to see the name of our Dino bein' lifted up and continued to be mentioned in all sorts of places and spaces... Dinofunnin', DMP








Alec Baldwin 'thrilled' to be hosting the Oscars

by Leah Greenblatt

Categories: Awards Shows, News

What do you get the man who has everything — Meryl Streep on speed dial, pockets stuffed with Emmys, the FunCooker prototype? Ah, but of course: A co-hosting gig on the 2010 Oscars telecast! And with his upcoming It’s Complicated co-star, no less.

“I have always enjoyed watching the Oscar telecast,” Baldwin told EW. “I was excited when I was nominated. And now, I am thrilled to be hosting with Dean Martin.”

Wait, that’s…oh never mind.

THE AMBUSHERS: PART 2

Hey pallies, likes here is installement duo of Miss Nick's look at Matt Helm caper numero three, "The Ambushers." Again, per Dinousual, you can clicks on the tagg of this Dinogram to see this at the Agony Booth pad.

Gotta 'fess up that I never listened carefuly to the lyrics of the opennin' song....loves the mixin' of brandy and lemonade....speakin' of how Dinodevotion knows no bounds...brandy for the oldsters...lemondade for the youngsters...Dino for everyone! Dinodelightedly, DMP

THE AMBUSHERS: PART 2


The opening titles set out the tone of this movie in a frank and honest way: It’s chock filled with pretty girls in bikinis on the beach making flirty eyes at the audience. The theme song, not even bothering to try to compete with John Barry and Shirley Bassey, sounds like an unholy alliance between Nancy Sinatra, The Lovin’ Spoonful and Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. If that combination doesn’t fry your brain, then maybe the lyrics will:

They get you in the sun
They get you in the shade
They get you when you’re sniffing brandy
Or sipping lemonade.

I don’t think Mr. Bond has anything to fear from the competition at this point.





So after a whole load of boob shaking, palm trees and stupid and slightly misogynistic lyrics we see a flying saucer. OK, switching suspension of disbelief on........now! It’s a flying saucer but that’s OK readers; it’s one of ours. A lone pilot gets on board, watched by a team of Air Force officers from mission control. Technicians give the usual “all systems go” malarkey and we are informed this is a test flight; you may turn your papers over......now!

The operation overseen by James Gregory, perhaps the only actor in this movie who slurs his words more than Dean Martin. He announces that if this test is successful, “the planets are next door and the universe is just around the corner!”. Seeing that we’re IN the middle of the universe this is a very dumb statement to make, and from the head of the project as well. Something tells me that with this level of thinking, the mission isn’t going to go well.

The flying saucer glows red and takes off to the sound of a sexy jazz saxophone because that’s just right for a scene like this. The Air Force crew are all happy and take their attention away from their control panels in order to pat each other on the back. As the flying saucer settles into Earth’s orbit, a mysterious truck parks in a fake looking jungle set and starts emitting sparkles from a device mounted on its roof. These sparkles, with a visible range of 3 feet, somehow upset the flying saucer and make it change colour from red to green. The lone astronaut on board looks worried and tries to correct things from its el cheapo control box but to no avail. Mission control, who can see the craft in orbit via some whatever technology, start to panic and cry like little girls as they find all their controls are jammed. Maybe if you hadn’t turned away from your controls in the first place guys, that’s all I’m saying.



The sickly green saucer is forced to land in the fake jungle set and the astronaut takes off their helmet. They’re a...... wooooman! This isn’t an early example of gender equality in movies by the way, oh no never in this movie, but part of a plot point so ludicrous that I just can’t bring myself to mention it now. Later, when I’ve had a few drinks. She is then confronted by a goofy looking man in a safari suit, sunglasses and sporting a Salvador Dali moustache and goatee combination because wardrobe and make up couldn’t decide on one or the other.



Part 3 tomorrow....

" great Blog site that is as ‘Dino’d’ as a site can get"

Hey pallies, our Dinodevoted pallie Mr. Ralph Baker who has recently created a Wordpress blogg tagged: "Wanted – The Dean Martin Show!
Will America's #1 variety program find its way to the Public Domain?"

Mr. Baker has created a Dinolinks page at his padd and very graciously has included a link to this here ilovedinomartin Dinoblog. Below is the cool words that Mr. Baker has used to describe this Dinosite and yours truly. I likes so so appreciate Mr. Baker liftin' up this Dinopad and it's Dinomission...helpin' others hungry and thirsty for our Dino to find Dinorefreshment here at ilovedinomartin.

Thanks pallie, for spreadin' the Dinoword 'bout ilovedinomartin and wishin' you the very Dinobest in your very important Dinowork and Dinomission of gettin' full episodes, full seasons of the Dinoshow into the hands of Dinoholics likes us. Dinodelightedly, DMP btw, pallies, this cool Dinopix is from Mr. Baker's other Dinoenterprise....his Dinodialogue Dinosite at yahoo tagged The Dean Martin TV Show



Now…if you are the kind of person who believes in Dean Martin and all that he represented to the fullest extent, well – someone already beat you to the punchlines! He is Dean Martin Peters, and he owns a great Blog site that is as ‘Dino’d’ as a site can get. I have no idea what he looks like unless he is the modeler in a certain advert for Kent Cigarettes (Dean Martin’s brand!). He is a mystery of sorts; I tried to figure him out – and I failed!! So YOU take a whack at ‘im. He’s at - www.ilovedinomartin.blogspot.com. Good Luck!!!

THE AMBUSHERS (1967)

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Dean and the Kid at Paramount after taping You're Never Too Young

Hey pallies, I just don't know where Dinogirl Maria is findin' all these delightful shots of our Dino. Had to grab this Dinopix of our Dino and the jer with bikes to share will all you Dinoholics here at ilovedinomartin. To view this at Maria's padd, just clicks on the tagg of this Dinogram to goes there.

This Dinophoto is one that I have never ever seen before and I loves it so so Dinomuch. Loves how the guys are lookin' out from inside the bikes and how our Dino's is tagged "Boy Singer" and the kid's tagg is "Child Star." This certainly musta drawn millions more to wanna goes to the bigg screen to see 'em in "You're Never Too Young." Knows if I had seen this pix in that era I woulda ran to the box office to see 'em do their magic in this swingin' Dinocaper.

Thanks to our Maria for sharin' this at her great blogg so I coulda pass it on to all Dinolovin' pallies here. Dinodelightedly, DMP btw, no worries, will resume sharin' more cool Dinoclips from "Robin and the 7 Hoods" in a few....

Today's picture : )
Dean and the Kid at Paramount after taping You're Never Too Young

"I can out-dance Dean Martin, but I could never out-sing him," was one of his favorite lines.

Hey pallies, the youngens diggs our Dino, the oldsters diggs our Dino...people of all ages and stages of life, just can't gets 'nough of our great man! The last Dinogram was 'bout a young chick tagged Harley who has become Dino-obsessed. This here Dinogram is 'bout a cetenarian tagged Allen Jackson who has just departed the planet at age 106, who spoke of dancin' with our Dino for the troops durin' WWII.

Mr. Jackson sez of our Dino: "I can out-dance Dean Martin, but I could never out-sing him." We thanks Mr. Brett Prettyman of the Salt Lake Tribune (clicks on tagg of this Dinopost to goes there) for lettin' us know of Mr. Jackson's Dinodevotion.

Just goes to show that pallies of all ages and stages have come to know, love, and honor our Dino....everybody loves our Dino all the times! Let's keep spreadin' the Dinomessage of cool as Dinofar and Dinowide as Dinopossible! Dinoforever, DMP




Cetenarian a beloved source of Utah stories

By Brett Prettyman

The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated: 11/03/2009 06:13:26 PM MST



Jackson kept old newspaper clippings and photographs at... (Chris Detrick/Tribune file photo)«123»Allan Jackson loved to tell stories almost as much as people loved to hear them.

He told one about entertaining injured soldiers at Camp Kearns, the World War II Army facility, by dancing with Shirley Temple and Dean Martin.

"I can out-dance Dean Martin, but I could never out-sing him," was one of his favorite lines.

Jackson, who would have turned 106 later this month, passed away Monday at his home in Rose Park. But the stories from his full life may last forever.

Born in the Bahamas in 1903, Jackson had 15 siblings, including a twin brother, Allen, who is still living in New York. Older brother Joseph, 108, is also still living on the East Coast.

Jackson was married seven times, but divorced only once. He outlived six wives, including his last, Esther, who died in 1994. He had 38 children and more than 50 great-grandchildren.

Jackson grew up in Montgomery, Ala., and enlisted in the Army in 1942. He served two years in China, Burma and India, transferring fuel for U.S. bombers before being sent to Camp Kearns in the Salt Lake Valley in 1944.

Pam Todd met Jackson the day he turned 100. Todd was founder of the Kearns Historical Society and was gathering stories from soldiers who had been stationed at the World War II camp. She was instantly enthralled.

"He had a special way about him. He just really connected with everybody," said Todd. "When he said he was happy to meet you he meant it. You always knew he was glad to see you."

During that first meeting, Todd learned Jackson was the last soldier to leave Camp Kearns in 1946 and had chained and locked the gates. Jackson was also featured in the KUED Ch. 7 documentary "Utah World War II Stories," which aired in 2005.

Jackson talked about the segregation black soldiers faced at Camp Kearns throughout the years, but never in a negative way. In fact, Todd said it was the kindness of locals that made him stay after the war ended.

"He felt accepted in Utah. He loved it here. It was his home," Todd said.

In 2006, Todd and Jackson worked together to get the St. Paul United Methodist Church in Copperton added to the National Historic Register. The building had originally served as the church for Camp Kearns, but Jackson and his fellow black soldiers were not allowed to enter the building. They had to use the theater for their church services.

"He was 103 the first time he walked into that church and he held no bad feelings whatsoever," Todd said. "We were walking arm in arm into the church and he said 'Here I am to save God's house.' He was proud of the things he was doing."

Todd called Jackson a walking history book and her trump card when it came to preserving the history of Kearns.

Wayne Hunting was a more recent acquaintance. As a member of the Utah Patriot Guard Riders motorcycle club, Hunting was supposed to arrange for Jackson to ride in a parade during the Kearns Days Celebration in June. The mayor had also officially declared it Allan Jackson Day, but Jackson fell ill the night before the event and was in the hospital. Hunting and the other riders decided to visit Jackson there and ended up taking him for a ride through his Rose Park neighborhood after he returned home.

"He touched our lives remarkably quick. It is just the type of person he was. He had this people magnetism about him even in his frail state," Hunting said. "There are a bunch of rugged bikers who are crying for his loss."

Funeral services are pending.

Allan Jackson 1903-2009

I <3 Dean

Hey pallies, here are some pixs of our Dino, the jer and Miss Audrey. The pixs come from a blogg tagged "Dreaming In Black And White' modded by a young chick tagged Harley. If you read her info you find she is "at university".....ain't it the coolest to find 'nother youngen' who diggs our Dino?!??!?!

Loves to find more and more of today's youth who loves our great man and willin' to proclaim it to the whole world! To view Miss Harley's blogg, just likes clicks on the tagg of this Dinogram to goes there. Hopes that our Dino willa not only be this lady's "current obsession"....hopin' she will stay Dino-obsessed for Dinoever! Dinodesirin', DMP


Tuesday, November 3, 2009
My Current Obsession

Photos of Audrey w/ Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis. 'nuff said. Take a look cos you can't blame me!!!!!!!!!! I <3 Dean + Audgers too of course, Jerry seemed cool. I go crazy when I see em. Thank you tumblr.



no Jerry; insert Frank, Shirley + William Wyler.



Ok, she was the most adorable thing...ever.





LOL

Our Dino gives testimony in "Mr. Booze" from "Robin and the 7 Hoods"

Hey pallies, here's 'nother great Dinoscene from the swingin' big screen musical "Robin and the 7 Hoods." Listens to our Dino gives testimony durin' the rousin' rendition of "Mr. Booze." Stay tunes for more wonderful Dinomoments from this good times-good feelin's Dinopix. Dinodiggin', DMP

Our Dino sings "A Man Who Loves His Mother" from "Robin and the 7 Hoods

Hey pallies, this Dinoclip from "Robin and the 7 Hoods" is just so Dinofabulous. While singin' the tune "A Man Who Loves His Mother." our Dino manages to put every single pool ball into a pocket while the frankie looks on incredulously. Great song and great moment....showin' once 'gain that our Dino is superior to the frankie in every single Dinoway! Enjoys the clip o'pallies of mine! Dino-only, DMP

our Dino in some movie trailers from "Robin and the 7 Hoods"

Hey pallies, likes in honor of the comin' musical based on our Dino's flick "Robin and the 7 Hoods," likes though it would be Dinoappro to shares some clips from that Rat Pack Classic. Sos to begin with, here are couple of trailers for your Dinoviewin' Dinopleasure. Looks for more Dinoclips from this big screen musical way soon here at ilovedinomartin. Dinodelightedly, DMP

The Old Globe, Shakespeare, and our Dino

Hey pallies, here's great new from the San Diego Union-Tribune's blogg "Sins On San Diego" 'bout the debut of "a Broadway-bound, world-premiere adaptation of the movie musical 'Robin and the 7 Hoods.'"

And likes when and where is this Dinomusical gonna premeire...... next sumnmer at none other then the Old Globe Theatre when Shakespeare is the norm. Likes how cool is that....acknowledgin' our Dino as a true classic!!!!!

If you clicks on the tagg of this Dinogram you will be able to read this in it's original format in an article tagged "Rats and royals in Old Globe's plan" by James Hebert. Hows I would loves to travel likes to the land of the Brits next summer to see this Dinoproduction.

Gotta wonder who they will chose to play the Dinopart in this stage adaptation. Sures it will be a huge hit and better start makin' planns now to gets the bread together to goes to the big apple with it hits the great white way!

This is so great pallies, just 'nother way of spreadin' the Dinomessage and gettin' millions of more pallies to know, love, and honor our Dino!!!! Dinodelightedly, DMP




Rats and royals in Old Globe's plan

By James Hebert

Sunday, November 1, 2009

The Old Globe will square off with a couple of kings and circle back to the Rat Pack in the theater’s just-announced summer season, which includes the annual three-play Summer Shakespeare Festival and two other productions – one a world-premiere musical.

Adrian Noble, the artistic director of the 2010 Shakespeare fest, will direct the Bard’s sweeping “King Lear” as well as “The Madness of George III,” Alan Bennett’s play about the long-reigning British monarch. The Shakespeare lineup also will include the much-loved comedy “The Taming of the Shrew” (with no director announced yet).

Outside the festival, locally bred director-choreographer Casey Nicholaw (Tony-nominated for “The Drowsy Chaperone” and “Spamalot”) will direct a Broadway-bound, world-premiere adaptation of the movie musical “Robin and the 7 Hoods.”

The 1964 film, a gangster takeoff on the Robin Hood legend, starred Rat Pack mainstays Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. – whose life is the subject of the currently running Globe show “Sammy.” The stage version will include “My Kind of Town” and other songs written for the movie by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen.

The adaptation is by Rupert Holmes, the veteran composer-writer who penned the book to another Globe movie-based musical, last summer’s “The First Wives Club.”

Rounding out the summer season is “The Last Romance,” a romantic comedy that will star Marion Ross, the Globe associate artist, SDSU grad and longtime local resident perhaps best known for her role on TV’s “Happy Days.”

The playwright is Joe DiPietro, who also wrote the off-Broadway hit “I Love You,You’re Perfect, Now Change” and the current Broadway show “Memphis” (directed by La Jolla Playhouse artistic director Christopher Ashley).

“Robin and the 7 Hoods” stands to be the season’s most attention-getting show. It’ll come to the Globe, which celebrates its 75th birthday in 2010, with producers already in place for a (presumed) Broadway transfer.

“I’m excited about the music, the songbook of Sammy Cahn,” said Louis G. Spisto, the Globe’s CEO/executive producer. “And it’s a great treat to work with Casey Nicholaw, who’s one of the hottest talents on Broadway.

“He’s perfect for this piece. And I wanted to have people join us for our 75th-anniversary celebration, particularly for the summer season, who had some connection to us and San Diego. (Nicholaw choreographed “Lucky Duck” for the Globe in 2005.)

Spisto described “The Last Romance,” to be directed by Richard Seer, as “a wonderful showcase for Marion and Paul (Michael, her partner in life). It’s a terrific piece about love in an older stage of one’s life – the transformative power of love.

“It fits us, and I wanted Marion to come to the new theater” – the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre, the Globe second stage that opens in January. “She’s a marvelous part of the Old Globe and San Diego.”

As for the Shakespeare fest, Noble – who takes over from the former artistic director, Darko Tresnjak – will follow his predecessor’s lead in staging one non-Shakespeare work. “The Madness of George III” was a success in England when it premiered in 1991, but most Americans are more familiar with the 1994 film adaptation.

Noble, who headed Britain’s Royal Shakespeare Company for 13 years, said when the Globe announced his appointment earlier this year that he was strongly considering a production of “King Lear.” Spisto said he proposed “George III” to Noble because “it pairs beautifully with ‘Lear.’ Both plays are about powerful monarchs who are ill, who have emotional and psychological issues, They’re grappling with their power and their families. They’re very interesting bookends, these two plays.”

The always-popular “Shrew,” Spisto says, is “in some ways a foil to the other two plays. It’s a lighter piece, very accessible.”

He adds that Noble and designer Ralph Funicello plan to re-conceive the scenic approach to the festival, whose three plays run in repertory on the outdoor Lowell Davies Festival Stage.

The Shakespeare festival runs June 12 to Sept. 26. “Robin and the 7 Hoods,” July 14 to Aug. 22; and “The Last Romance,” July 30 to Sept. 5. Tickets are available now by season subscription only; for more details, call (619) 234-5623, or visit TheOldGlobe.org.

Union-Tribune

It also features a hilarious introduction by none other than Dean Martin, where he discusses the art of drinking.

Hey pallies, likes the web is certainly a Dinowonderland of Dinodiscovery for all sorts of Dinotreasures. At the pad "Cocktailia" comes news of a way cool book tagged "Stoned Like A Statue" circa 1961 that has an intro by none other then our Dino.

If you clicks on the tagg of this Dinogram you can read this in it's original format, and likes if you goes there you can then clicks on a link to read our Dino's words of wisdom that opens the book (a picture of that page appears below and likes if you clicks on the pix you will be able to read it here as Dinowell).

Never knew our Dino coulda put pens to paper likes this...but certainly our Dino shows such Dinowisdom in every single Dinoword that he has chosen...loves to read his Dinohistory of enjoyin' some liquid libations.

And, likes pallies, couldn't resist also sharin' this Dinopix that I loves so much of our Dino readin' 'bout the drinkin' man's diet.... Dinolushly, DMP





Stoned like a Statue
In nice weather we like to go to the monthly antique flea market in Alameda, Antiques by the Bay. We’ll wander around this enormous place for a few hours admiring all the great furniture, clothing, and collectibles, then head over to Forbidden Island for an afternoon Mai Tai. We’re not the only ones — there’s a good-sized contingent of people who do the same thing. So many, in fact, that Forbidden Island now has DJs starting at 3:00pm on the first Sunday of the month, right after the flea market closes.

Every once in a while we’ll buy stuff too. Our most recent trip turned up this gem from 1961, Stoned like a Statue: A Complete Survey of Drinking Cliches, Primitive, Classical, and Modern.



I’m not really sure how to describe this book. It’s around 80 pages exactly like the ones you see pictured here. I don’t know how I was unaware of this book’s existence for so long, but I sure am glad I found it.



It also features a hilarious introduction by none other than Dean Martin, where he discusses the art of drinking.

My taste in art has matured over the years and like many connoisseurs I have become an authority. My weaknesses: The Primitive art from the hills of Tennessee and Kentucky… The impressionist Johnny Walker… The native handiwork turned out by villagers just stamping their feet…
It’s signed Dino, of course. Be sure to to read the whole thing.

Happy Dinoween from our Dino to all ilovedinomartin

Hey pallies, likes while kiddies all over the globe celebrate Halloween by dressin' up in funny costumes and collectin' huge quanities of candy, all true Dinoholics knows that today is Dinoween, a time to celebrate somethin' much sweeter then any candy store candy....the sweetness of our Dino....so while the youngens gets a sugar buzz...pallies be sure to gets your Dinohigh by endulgin' in huge quanities of our Dino on Dinoween. Loves that Dinolantern with our Dino havin' that hugest of the huge Dinobuddagrin...our Dino sure is the shinin' example of what it means to be all thin's cool! Dinoendulgin', DMP

SCARED STIFF - Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis & Carmen Miranda (1953)

Hey pallies, in honor of Dino-ween just had to run the full edition of this trib to our Dino and the kid's "Scared Stiff." From the create hands of Dinolovin' pallie, Eegah!! & Tabonga!, comes this stellar pictoral post on this classic Dinocomedy of horrors.

Have shared part of this in the past, but felt so Dinoled to does the work to transfer this whole Dinopost for all us Dinoholics Dinoviewin' Dinopleasure as Dinoween draws so so Dinoclose.

This Dinopost is from the amazin' blogg "Dwrayger Dungeon Presents Monser Movie Music and Beyond!" Clicks on the tagg of this Dinogram to see it in all it's original Dinoglory. Be sure to gets huge quanities of our Dino for Dinoween...who needs candy when we can have our sweet Dino! Dinoweenin', DMP

Saturday, August 2, 2008

SCARED STIFF - Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis & Carmen Miranda (1953)



Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis, well, there's not much new I can say about these showbiz icons, so let's just get with it! Here's some seriously cool photos and songs from the 1953 zany classic, "Scared Stiff!"



The musical credits give you all the information you need to know!!



This movie is all about music and starts right up with Dean's act at the club!



Dorthy Malone plays the part of Rosie!! Dorthy meet Jerry before I beat the crap out of him!!



Jiggers, the cops!!!



When Jerry Lewis puts on his game face, he's really scary!!



Time to sail off into the unknown, and for all you schmaltzy Dean lovers, here's "Dino" with a classic love song!



Frank Fontaine as the obnoxious drunk on the pier would go on to have a number one record 9 years later with his "Songs I Sing On The Jackie Gleason Show" LP!! In character as Crazy Guggenheim, the non-drinking Fontaine, could barely put a sentence together, but had a smooth singing style out of character, just like Jim Nabors when he wasn't Gomer!!



My favorite thing that Jerry Lewis does, is when he stands behind some one and mimics and mocks them!! That'll get me rolling on the floor every time!!



Carmen Miranda as Carmelita Castinha performs here in her last film role, with the boys and "Bongo Bingo"! I love the countdown at the end! Defies comprehension to me!



There's no way to forget "Enchiladas", even if you try, because just like in real life, they will come back to haunt you! Listen to this at your own risk and guard your crystal!



And once again to justify the whole thing, see, there is actually a ghost!!



"Carmen's Late", so of course, Jerry has to go on for her miming to a record! He almost pulls it off, and the crowd is just weird enough not to care!



It might be her last movie, but backstage with the gang, Carmen doesn't look like she knew she was going to get this kind of send up!



Super scary sequence giving new meaning to the word 'armchair!'



Oh, it's Bob Hope and Bing Crosby!! Imagine that!!! How ironic!! And they're skeletons!!! Wow, how is that even possible or plausible? And, in the, Oh, Yeah, department, am I the only one who thinks it's hilarious that another Martin/Lewis movie made in the same year titled "The Caddy" had an actor in it whose name was Lewis Martin??? That's just weird!!!
Posted by Eegah!! and Tabonga! at 5:14 PM

....he's trying to be like his hero, Dean Martin.

Hey pallies, in the midst of our celebratin' of Dinoween comes this news from the Minnesota Public Radio blogg (clicks on tagg of this Dinogram to goes there) comes news that perhaps, just perhaps, Mr. Bob Dylan is doin' some Dinoemulation on this new Christmas Album "Christmas In The Heart."

Reads these words by artist Dan Graham on Bob Dylan's heart quoted by Marianne Combs.
Mr. Graham speaks of our Dino bein' Dylan's "hero." How stellar cool is that....not only was our Dino the idol of the Elvis, he is also the hero of Bob Dylan.

Woulda likes to get this winter album from Dylan just to listen for the Dinoemulation... Dinodelightedly, DMP



I think on the new album "Christmas in the Heart" he's trying to be like his hero, Dean Martin. He's always loved Dean Martin. Of course there's the whole idea of if he's doing things from the heart or not; he's dealing with the cliche of doing things from the heart. In "Chronicles" (Dylan's autobiography), he talks about being a normal family man, having a good marriage, but in fact he was cheating on his wife the entire time. So, I think he's trying to portray himself as somebody who has heart."