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Default Alton Brown - The Movies!


"Dee.Dee" > wrote in message
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> Last night on Next Iron Chef, Symon won -- I was glad he won, too, but I'm
> glad they didn't show 'points' as they sometimes do.
> Alton had his suit along with his spikey hair-dooo.
>
> This morning I got up to finalize a movie that DH had wanted me to
> record - Point Blank with Lee Marvin on the Turner Movie Channel. Usually
> there is a regular guy with a lead-in about the movie. Last night must've
> been a 1960's night.
>
> But guess who was the second lead-in guy- ALTON! discussing it with the
> first lead-in regular guy. In this particular movie, Alton said he was
> probably too young to have seen the movie, but he had seen it, and that he
> liked the Sam Peckinpaw movies of the time. He said that he enjoyed
> seeing these types of movies, but didn't want to pattern his life in this
> way.
>
> Guess that's why he's out on the motorcycle doing TV shows-- reliving that
> part of his youth or that era that he didn't have.
>
> He looked like the was running from one studio to the other --
> ossibly? - because it looked like he had the same suit on. Of course, I
> didn't compare it -- wouldn't go that far.
>
> Dee Dee
>

He's a clever guy. The more you watch him, the more you see. I'm still not
sure which persona is the real Alton because some parts seem in conflict,
but maybe he is just a diverse dude.
Janet