Comments on: Favorite Minnesotans

By: achick

achick — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:51:46 +0000

Arthur Fry, Lorenzo music, Jessica Lange, Laura Ingalls Wilder….And the Congdons.

By: Bixby

Bixby — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:10:06 +0000

Can I name my least favorite instead? Also, is that including or excluding MNSpeakers?

By: Dougie_D

Dougie_D — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:41:36 +0000

Robert Vaughn – the man from U.N.C.L.E!

He graduated in the same class as my dad from North High.
Born in New York but moved to MN as a youngster also attended the U of M school of Journalism.

By: g rote

g rote — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:17:14 +0000

Tom Friedman
Terry Gillam
Dahm Triplets
Moonlight Graham
Tammy Fay Messner

By: DouglasG

DouglasG — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:07:49 +0000

Well, he’s not going to fight him. No he’s not going to fight him. The hell he’s not! (paraphrase on a John Wayne line from McLintock)

By: justpbob

justpbob — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:05:38 +0000

I asked for both TFAW and Them as Christmas DVDs. I hope Santa has copies of these classics at his workshop!

By: msparber

msparber — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:57:00 +0000

I would like to see the movie in which Peter Graves plays one of his many scientist characters who save the world from monsters (Beginning of the End, Invaders from Space, etc.) have to deal with James Arness’s Thing from Another World. They would fight and then … realize they are brothers.

Arness hated the Thing, by the way. Refused to go to the screenings. Said he looked like a big carrot. Perhaps that’s why he battled giant ants in Them!, rather than play a ginat ant.

By: noodleman

noodleman — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:55:00 +0000

P.S. I could also easily substitute Richard Schulze, founder of Best Buy, for Amos, too. Say what you want about the present company but it took talent to grow a business from one Sound of Music storefront (in West St. Paul!) into a multi-billion dollar international electronics retailer.

By: justpbob

justpbob — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:53:57 +0000

That Colt Marion Robert Morrison is brandishing would only drill harmess holes in The Thing From Another World's plant body, DouglasG. You got to cook him with electricity.

BTW, The Duke and Marshal Dillon were good friends, and a good word from Wayne landed Arness in his most famious teevee role, on Gunsmoke.

By: noodleman

noodleman — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:50:08 +0000

Alive or dead? Neither?

1. Hubert Humphrey. I'm very proud of our Happy Warrior regardless of what happened (or didn't happen) in 1968.

2. Bob Dylan. He has done more to advance American popular music than any white artist since George Gershwin or Irving Berlin.

3. Charles Lindbergh. He had his faults but his pluses outweighed his minuses in my opinion.

4. Betty Crocker. She turned the world on with a smile decades before Mary Richards was even a gleam in her parents' eyes.

5. Amos Heilicher. One-time owner of SOMA Records, rack-jobber and music retailer. He recently passed away.