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strange talking style
« on: April 04, 2009, 04:35:44 PM »
i was listening to an episode of Broadway is my Beat where the bad guy talks in a kind of pseudo intelligent, poetic style. i remember another story where two thugs are at a football game and they both talk in a similiar way.
does anyone know what that's all about?
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Re: strange talking style
« Reply #1 on: April 04, 2009, 11:27:42 PM »
Didn't hear the story, but isn't that Damon Runyon-like?

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Re: strange talking style
« Reply #2 on: April 05, 2009, 11:05:32 AM »
Here's an except from a script:

In autumn sunlight the September day trots out its promises for Broadway's consideration, displays them in doorways, in push carts, in gutters, decorates them with price tags, invites you to browse - don't touch", "buy - don't squeeze", and at cut rates of secondhand delights, the prices slashed down to any man's purse, the bold end of dreams. The vendors simper, the hawkers wink. Buy, kid. That's a winter sun on your shoulder and the day is short, so buy. And that's watchya' do, kid, because on Broadway there's no other choice.

Reads kind of film-noir.  The writers, Morton S. Fine and David Friedkin, I recognize from some episodes of the I Spy television series.
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Re: strange talking style
« Reply #3 on: April 05, 2009, 02:46:15 PM »
Broadway' has the sweetest writing.
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Re: strange talking style
« Reply #4 on: April 06, 2009, 12:26:38 PM »
I've only played a couple of episodes so far, but I'll be sure to keep it in the mix.
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Re: strange talking style
« Reply #5 on: April 07, 2009, 01:07:42 AM »
Didn't hear the story, but isn't that Damon Runyon-like?
the story, not the Broadway is my Beat one, is about two thugs that go to a football game between Yale and Harvard. man, i wish i could remember what show it was. the thugs speak in a really strange way, they'll use big words in a sentence while also using terms like "youse".
i don't think i'm really explaining myself very well.
next time i hear an example i'll try to take note of it, i guess the problem is i'm usually lying in the dark when i listen. ::)
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Re: strange talking style
« Reply #6 on: April 07, 2009, 01:10:40 AM »
Radio
Broadcast from January to December 1949, The Damon Runyon Theatre dramatized 52 of Runyon's short stories for radio.
(FROM WIKIPEDIA)
sounds cool, anyone ever heard any of this?
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Re: strange talking style
« Reply #7 on: April 09, 2009, 05:11:05 PM »
I'm working on getting a few of those episodes wednesday.  I'll post here when they're available.
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Re: strange talking style
« Reply #8 on: April 10, 2009, 12:43:00 AM »
I'm working on getting a few of those episodes wednesday.  I'll post here when they're available.
tres cool.
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Re: strange talking style
« Reply #9 on: April 11, 2009, 08:19:50 PM »
I've got five episodes up so far but I can't post the player here.  Visit this page.  I'll post each episode individually, with a link to download the mp3, when I have a bit more time...
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Re: strange talking style
« Reply #10 on: March 19, 2010, 01:16:16 PM »

One of the early episodes (I believe) had someone who sounded a lot like Charles Calvert as the main character "Danny Clover." Charles played Sgt. Gino Tartaglia in a lot of the later episodes. I'm wondering if the original poster is referring to Tartaglia's verbal candences. He has a thick New York accent and seems to bravely attempt to overcomplicate his narrative!

The shows always had great closings and was very poetic: "Broadway...My beat."

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Re: strange talking style
« Reply #11 on: March 19, 2010, 02:28:24 PM »

One of the early episodes (I believe) had someone who sounded a lot like Charles Calvert as the main character "Danny Clover." Charles played Sgt. Gino Tartaglia in a lot of the later episodes. I'm wondering if the original poster is referring to Tartaglia's verbal candences. He has a thick New York accent and seems to bravely attempt to overcomplicate his narrative!

The shows always had great closings and was very poetic: "Broadway...My beat."

Love it!
i dig what you're saying, i love old Danny Clover too but this was a different thing.
there were two NYC guys who had accompanied an upper class kind of girl to a football game and spoke in the wildest way... man, it's been making me crazy, i think about it all the time.
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Re: strange talking style
« Reply #12 on: March 19, 2010, 02:33:25 PM »
I've got five episodes up so far but I can't post the player here.  Visit this page.  I'll post each episode individually, with a link to download the mp3, when I have a bit more time...
AAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!
it only took me 1000 years to listen to the stories on that link, that's it!
that's the crazy stuff i was talking about!!!!
thanks Jim!
man, i need to start paying attention... i wonder what else i've been missing?
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Re: strange talking style
« Reply #13 on: March 19, 2010, 03:24:35 PM »
All this reminds me of Frank Costanza's "strange halting way of speaking."

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inANd0iiY-s" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inANd0iiY-s</a>

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Re: strange talking style
« Reply #14 on: April 09, 2010, 10:09:34 PM »
I've got five episodes up so far but I can't post the player here.  Visit this page.  I'll post each episode individually, with a link to download the mp3, when I have a bit more time...
anywheeze, what's the dealie-o with that insanity?
Get this and get it straight, crime is a suckers road and those who travel it wind up in the gutter, the prison or the grave.
There's no other end; but they never learn.
- P. Marlowe