George Burns

[rochellewilson]

Okay. I tried to get off from this message but you made me do it. That was because this list probably already knows this, but here goes anyway. You can see Jack's screen test with Walter Matthau in the recent DVD of "The Sunshine Boys" starring his dear friend George Burns. (I saw the news on the television of George attempting to speak of Jack for the public and he broke up. Bob Hope took over.) The other thing I wish to mention, if Jack Benny fans will allow, the DVD to another one of Mr. Burns' movies is out, and it has character and, well in a word, meaning (no errant fiddle notes). It is called Going In Style. It is perhaps the most meaningful characterisation that Burns was ever involved in. There is more to GB than "Tell me about your brother," as there is more to Mr. Jack Benny than the proverbial "Well!...".
Jay

[LLeff]

The other thing I wish to mention, if Jack Benny fans will allow, the DVD to another one of Mr. Burns' movies is out, and it has character and, well in a word, meaning (no errant fiddle notes). It is called Going In Style.

When I first met George Burns in 1982, I was at a television station where a meterologist friend of mine had tipped me off as to his arrival time for a local talk show. The limo pulled up, Burns and several others got out, we kibbitzed in the lobby for a while and I showed him a number of 1930s and 40s radio magazines from my collection, we took photos, and he went into the studio. My mother looked at the limo, turned to one of the television station greeters, and said, "Talk about Going in Style."

Strangely enough, the greeter stared blankly and didn't get the reference.

P.S. Burns put out his cigar in the ash tray in the station lobby. After he'd moved into the studio, the limo driver looked at the ash tray and then at my mother and me. He took the cellophane wrapper off his cigarette pack, tweezed the spent butt out of the tray, put it in the cellophane and smilingly handed it to me. Carefully preserved in a Ziploc bag, it is in my room right now, in my drawer of "very special things."

[Jhammes]

The brilliant Burns and adorable Allen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uasS4Crr6Ic