The Goat Pen

Nope, me and Stu are from Wilson (pronounced by the locals as "Wiltson"), Ava was from Smithfield, about 30 miles down the road. Actually a little township outside Smithfield, back towards Goldsboro (thus the DS connexion) called Brogden, known by the locals as Grabtown (although there is another burg in NC that is officially named Grabtown, about 100 miles east of Smithfield). Anyway, from what I've read (which isn't much, but the MIF does have an Ava Gardner biography laying around somewhere that I've browsed thru), she maintained her small town country roots throughout her life. Liked to walk around barefoot and preferred the company of regular folk...

Heh, reading her bio on imdb, it says at one of her screen tests, the director said "She can't talk, she can't act, she's perfect!"

hedge wrote:Heh, reading her bio on imdb, it says at one of her screen tests, the director said "She can't talk, she can't act, she's perfect!"

the unedited quote, ""She can't talk, she can't act, she gives great head, she's perfect!"

Her Wiltsin connection is that she went to Atlantic Christian (now Barton) College for a short while.

hedge wrote:Ava was a knockout. From everything I've read, pretty fun to hang out with, too. Cursed like a sailor and a bawdy sense of humor. Smoked like a chimney, but I think they all did back then. She was born and raised a few miles down the road from DS's childhood stomping grounds...

Yep. Grabtown is about fifteen minutes or so from my home.

I always heard that Sinatra came to her funeral but stayed in the limo the entire time.

Hell, he could've stayed home and done that...

"When Gardner was seven years old, the family decided to try their luck in a larger city, Newport News, Virginia, where Mollie Gardner found work managing a boarding house for the city's many shipworkers. While in Newport News, Gardner's father became ill and died from bronchitis in 1938, when Ava was 15 years old. After Jonas Gardner's death, the family moved to Rock Ridge near Wilson, North Carolina, where Mollie Gardner ran another boarding house for teachers. Gardner attended high school in Rock Ridge and she graduated from there in 1939. She then attended secretarial classes at Atlantic Christian College in Wilson for about a year."

Governor Hunt Road for the win, bitches.

Back in those days Rock Ridge was as far from Wiltsin as Grabtown is now.

As far as Mickey cheating on Eva think about it this way.

Steak is nice to have everyday of the week. Steak takes preparation. Proper handling. Proper seasoning. Has to be just right in order to enjoy it.

And the sometimes, you just want a bologna sandwich. No prep, no need for special tools. Just enjoy and move on with your day.

BigRedMan wrote:As far as Mickey cheating on Eva think about it this way.

Steak is nice to have everyday of the week. Steak takes preparation. Proper handling. Proper seasoning. Has to be just right in order to enjoy it.

And the sometimes, you just want a bologna sandwich. No prep, no need for special tools. Just enjoy and move on with your day.

no, no, hell no

you never want a bologna sandwich if you have steak - not just steak but god damn mouth watering prime USDA porterhouse wearing chanel no#5 with a pouty dick sucking lips just sitting there waiting on you to rip its panties off - especially when you look in the mirror and realize that there is no god damn way you should have landed steak like that in the first place.

I didn't say you have to give up steak. I am saying that sometimes bologna is just as satisfying.

the country gals from around this way are either prissy little church/4-H bitches who would never suck cock or they're breathless little skanks who love to throw their legs behind their head and get porked

If Ava was the former, I can understand the bologna analogy. If the latter, makes no sense.

if I got steak at home, I'm eating steak...every dam night until the steak tells me no

now that said, I might try bologna, you know, if bologna was interested in inviting black forest ham over for a little dagwood action.

From everything I can discern, she was definitely the latter. Check her out in Night of the Iguana. There's no way her acting in that role came from anything but lived experience. Great movie, too...

Was'nt she the basis for Forrest Gumps girlfriend?

Paul Newman said about why he wouldn't cheat on his wife (Joanne Woodward), why eat hamburger when you have steak at home. But she apparently got upset at him for saying that. Seems to me that it was a big complement. But then again, I'm a Texan

Should've made it a salad dressing analogy.

The Stephen Colbert pick is a head scratcher. I guess they want to take that time slot into a totally different direction.

I don't know, Colbert has that similar sardonic, ironic, sarcastic edge as Letterman...