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Harry & Yoko head to Fort Knox with GOLDFINGER and memories of NORTH BY NORTHWEST at Mt Rushmore! NOW WITH VIDEO!!!
Hey folks, Harry here... ya know - people ask me - why do the Rolling Roadshow?
It's an incredibly expensive trip to see a bunch of movies... but it's so much more than that. Yoko and I are halfway through this trip. We've seen a wedding performed by the man that performed it in FANDANGO in the Gazebo from the film. It took us to Las Vegas & Zumanity. Then to lunch with Stallone & Arnold. Then that same night, to cocktails with Ron Jeremy in the tackiest Armenian joint ever. Then to Disneyland. On to Santa Cruz and it's 100 year boardwalk with 4000 LOST BOYS fans, then through Redwood National Forest by way of Highway 1 and the Pacific Ocean. Then to Crater Lake - and finally across the bridge to "Castle Rock" from STAND BY ME - then through Yellowstone and Old Faithful ejaculating and the stunning BIG HORN NATIONAL PARK and the Crazy Horse Memorial- and now... I've just seen the only screening in history of NORTH BY NORTHWEST at MT RUSHMORE! Hearing Bernard Herrmann's score in full booming surround sound with the majestic backdrop of Mt Rushmore... it was... beyond breathtaking. Then we stayed in the Alex Johnson Hotel (the hotel that Cary Grant was supposed to be staying in Rapid City, SD... but never made it to in the film. It's pretty awesome, btw.
Now - we're on our way to Fort Knox... to see GOLDFINGER with the troops - with the Gold Depository Building as our backdrop. Can you imagine? And on the way, we eat an Omaha steak and sleep with the St Louis Arch out our window. I've met quite a few of you along the road and look forward to the rest. If you can make it to Fort Knox - I'll see you there!
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what does this have to do with 1-18-08?
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North by Northwest is one of my favorite movies! Wish I could have been there.
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Please don't tell me you were that close to the Badlands and you didn't go? Unacceptable. No more beautiful, peaceful place in the US. Perfect for the Roadshow. Very jealous of the Rushmore showing.
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Last I checked, Harry and Co. run the site jackass... if you know it won't interest you, why bother clicking it?
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That's an amazing pic. Please tell me there's no Photoshop trickery there.
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If you don't think that seeing NORTH BY NORTHWEST at Mount Rushmore or GOLDFINGER at Fort Knox is cool, I don't know what's wrong with you.
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you and your missus a great big congrats! Would be great to meet you there at the after party. We Kentuckians have always held a special place in our hearts for Goldfinger for obvious reasons! Even if Ft. Knox doesn't really contain any gold and is just there as a front to draw attention...we still love to think of the last 45 minutes of the film showing the good ol' Bluegrass! See ya there Harry!
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Aug 01, 2007 10:16:05 PM CDT
Harry At Ft Knox You Should Tour The Patton Tank Museum
by red dawn don
I have been through it twice. It has over 30 Tanks inside and a huge room of General Patton items. It is well worth your time and the price is sweet. It is FREE to the public. You can take a virtual tour on-line at [generalpatton .org]
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That pic is straight out of camera - just resized from the 40 inch tall version.
Bored wife. If you have a wife that hates to travel, meet famous people, stay in awesome hotels, eat great food - and hates Vegas shows - then you are probably either miserable or single. -
Than watch him eating pussy...
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It looks like Roosevelt is telling a ghost story. He's holding the massive flashlight somewhere behind those trees, and George Washington is too chicken to listen.
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Damn this sounds sooo cool. I wish i could do this stuff...Oh wait i live in the real world, i gotta work a real job. I have a wife and kids. And responsibilty's...shit like that....Oh well, yeah i'm jealous...sigh....guess i'll just watch 300 on blu-ray again....TONITE WE DINE IN HELLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I'm interested in the VIP tickets. Since the show is Friday 8/3, and there's no way the tickets can be mailed to me in time, can I just print out the receipt and bring it to the show? TIA.
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Tinseltown Terror, I live in the real world and work a real job as well. But we had a few days of vacation time to burn, so my husband and I made the 8 hour drive to Mount Rushmore from Colorado to see North by Northwest. Sometimes it's okay to take a couple days off from responsibility. :-) When I have more time maybe I'll put some of my photos online.
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What i wanna know is : Did Arnie or Sly display any steroid related rage towards eachother - Perhaps they duked it out like Arnie and the russians from the start of RAW DEAL? Come on Harry, inquiring minds want to know!!!
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You'll only find heartache, disappointment and rednecks.
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...but why are all the articles about this trip before the events?!?!? last year it was all reviews of the experience, allowing us to get involved, now it's just too tempting to read! are you gonna write them all up when you're finished harry? and how come no reader reviews have been put up on any of the screenings? apart from boogie nights. gutted
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my problems are boundless with this post. first and foremost, i must correct a most destructive err on behalf of the person whom used the NORTH BY NORTHWEST and GOLDFINGER references. first of all, GOLDFINGER is not a respected film amongst film scholars. film. second of all, neither of these films featured the truly real fort knox. they were mere sets. i know most of you haven't gone to film school, but i'm going to let all you in on a small tiny secret...movies use sets. that means in the before mentioned films, fort knox wasn't featured. only set replications of fort knox were featured. in a word: duh.
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I made it out to Rapid City many years ago, but, oddly, I can't remember a whole lot about it.
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Cool pic, i saw goldfinger the other day at my local cinema. It's been re-released in the UK in digital format for the British Summer of film.
More details here if you're interested.
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THE CLOCK IS TICKING LADIES AND GENTLEMEN
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Does anyone actually care about what Harry and his wife are doing or find these articles interesting?
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Last time I was there (about 5 years ago) I was stunned at how much the cafeteria at the Visitor's center looked exactly like the one in the movie. That may have been a soundstage too, when (SPOILER) Eve Marie Saint shoots Cary Grant in front of Bela Lugosi and James Mason, but man it was cool.
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...in Goldfinger was re-created on the Pinewood lot. Not done on location, but faithfully accurate. "Stripes", however, was filmed at Ft. Knox.
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missing the Shining showing from last year or the year before. I was only a couple of hours away and heard about it too late myself.make another Colrado trip or figure out a way to do something in Kansashell I'd come see Sissy Spack in Kansas if you did a showing here
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I read the novella many years ago, but I don't recall: was it set in Oregon, or was it set in Maine like most Stephen King's of tales? If it was in Maine, I was just curious what prompted the change.
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I wish I could go on a trip like that.
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Why read you asshole. I myself think it's a great series.
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Alongside the likes of Johnny Depp, George Clooney, Hunter S. Thompson, Dianne Sawyer, Colonel Harland Sanders, the guys of My Morning Jacket, Denny Crum (naturalized from LA), Milt "The Stilt" Wagner, Fuzzy Zoeller, Foster Brooks, Mitch McConnell (though I disavowed him back in the late 70's), Zachary Taylor and four of my favorites Booker Noe (aka Jim Beam),Bill Samuels IV (aka Maker's Mark), Muhammad Ali and Abraham Lincoln. Not bad company to keep. The Patton Museum is indeed very cool and right on the grounds of Ft. Knox. My Grandfather's picture hangs in the Louisville Slugger Museum 25 minutes north on I-65...he made baseball bats for 27 years. Every big name in the game from 1950 to 1977 swung one of my Pa Paw's bats (he made the "custom" bats and he had a hand in creating the black finish aka "The Smith Dip" used ONLY on pro bats). He's probably my favorite Kentuckian...even though he came from Chatty-noogie.
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Well - first off - this isn't the honeymoon... this is work. Shitty job, eh?
second - the honeymoon will be a two week cruise from Moscow to St Petersburg (most likely).
We'll also be going to Belfast and backstage with the Rolling Stones in New York this year. Enjoy Universal Orlando. -
I've never been before, but I am an honorary Kentucky Col - so I feel a kinship to the state that gave me my honorary title.
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Don't forget whom got you in the door, kind sir. You're Welcome! Will you be in Baltimore? I'll but y'all a Dewars if so.
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Maybe I can hook up Massa & the gang, if they are interested...to quote Chris Walken from "King of New York"..."You're Welcome. (bang bang bang) You're All Welcome!!!!"
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Harry, it won't be a true Goldfinger experience unless you and the Mrs. find a barn and then re-enact Bond's "fight" with Pussy Galore!
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Unless you consider the only state that makes Corvettes lame. And some of the coolest cult actors are from good ole KY. CHARLES NAPIER, HARRY DEAN STANTON and WARREN OATES being three excellent ones. WARREN OATES is insanely funny in "Two Lane Blacktop." A one-of-a-kind film.
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I hope you enjoy yourself and discover that there are much better films in Russia than those lousy Brat/Brother movies you've been pumping on this site. Watch Antikiller or Oligarch or anything but Brat.
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Well shine my shoes and see you at the Derby! I dinna know that one.
I am not Herbert.
The Corvette factory is in Bowling Green, about 2 hours South on I-65. Another side trip well worth the time, if you have it.
He's not Herbert! We reach!
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I live here. And I'm officially inviting and welcoming you.
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that scene on mt rushmore is classic..... what's next on the list... silicon valley in a blimp?
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YOURE WELCOME
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I wouldn't be so quick to poke fun ay Harry's trip as you are planning on vacationing along the Redneck Riviera.
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"LOOK, HOLY SHIT, THE PROJECTION IS LINING UP WITH THE ACTUAL MOUNTAIN... WAKE UP PATRICIA, LOOK, THE SCREEN IS... Hold on, you missed it... NO, THERE, LOOK! MT. RUSHMORE, SEE??"
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Don't worry, there is a name for with what you're experiencing; it's called "player-hating," as in, you're player-hating. The only cure is to cold-turkey quit hating, immediately desist from drinking any haterade whatsoever, and also to direct your hate not towards the player but rather towards the game itself.
I hope this advice can help you overcome your tragic condition!
And dude, if you're jealous of Mori, I don't know what to say. I mean, I am not especially a fan of his, but as far as I know he is pretty much an overworked family man busting his ass trying to make it in Hollywood... while being a "new dad." I personally wouldn't trade places with him, I get an ulcer even thinking about it. Are you jealous of his huge DVD collection? Sure he got to work with Carpenter and has done some other cool stuff, but it's not like he's coasting and living large; to the contrary Mori seems like he's uptight from over-pressure. -
The Shining show last year was at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado. It's the haunted hotel inspired the story and that Stephen King stayed at when he wrote The Shining. They would have filmed the movie there but the inside is fairly nice and didn't have quite the "slightly creepy" look to it that the producers wanted. So even though it's not the hotel in you see in the movie it does have a lot to do with it.
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Some how I picture him re-inacting John Candy's scene from "The Great Outdoors" with the old 96er 96 ounce steak. Dan Aykroyd: "Has anyone ever actually finished one of those?" Waitress: "Oh goodness no, not in my lifetime!"
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Wish I would have know you were coming to Rapid, I would have bought you a beer.
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Aug 03, 2007 2:27:48 AM CDT
Some of you are misunderstanding Harry's motives here.
by excaliburffolkes
He doesn't write and post these kind of articles in order to rub it on everyone that he's there and we're not; he does it to try and share all these cool moments with us, his readers and fellow movie geeks. I bet Harry would love nothing more than it if everyone who reads AICN could attend these kinds of events with him.
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In Atlanta we have Screen on the Green, Summer Movies at the Fox Theatre and even Georgia Tech is doing outdoor movies on the cement on Wednesdays. I don't often get to go to them because of my schedule, but I will say, seeing Fellowship of the Ring in a theatre with 5000 people at the Fox was amazing. Not as good, perhaps as the BNAT experience, but so cool. You have a completely like-minded crowd to see something. The odds of annoying-ass cell phone calls or crying kids is practically nil... I can't wait for Harry and Tim and Yoko and Karrie to show up in my town and show some movies to us all. I will be driving to the Deliverance showing, and seeing the Burt-A-Thon (just re-watched Smokey and the Bandit last night, matter of fact) here at the Starlight Drive-In. I love that Atlanta has a 6 screen drive in that is well attended here. I will also be doing the Scavanger Hunt, and driving to Texas to win my Trans Am. My team and I will be sharing it, a week of driving at a time. I can't effin' wait! It's about 2 weeks out. I am looking at hotel rooms, routes, and planning what to take. This is an sweet way to spend a couple of days driving with friends, seeing the countryside, and a movie with people who will soon be your friends. And, later, having some kick-ass stories to tell. For all those jerks out there trying to rain on this parade of awesome... get stuffed. Don't read the articles. Change the channel. I have met Harry on a number of occasions, and I have never seen his 'fame' go to his head. He's a genuinely nice guy who loves this stuff. Why is that bad? And since he's found his awesome partner to share his life with, how is THAT bad? Some of you guys are just jackasses. I'll see you in Atlanta, Big Red!
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Wish there were more of 'em. I can't afford to travel, so I am temporarily living vicariously through other people with more interesting lives than I have. I appreciate Harry and Patricia sharing these little snippets of their trip. I hope you two (and all those who can be there with you) have a blast and maybe I'll see y'all next year. BTW...I'm a Hoosier, which makes me a Kentuckian who didn't make it to Detroit (my Kentuckian Great-Grandpa's favorite line!).
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You say expensive, but how expensive? I think we are gonna make the full trip next year. How did you play your route?
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...and I realized in the bit with Harry that he looks freakishly similar to me. Slap a pair of Coke-bottle glasses on him and get Jebus (the magic man) to make him walk again, and Harry Knowles would be a dead ringer for me.
Harry, do you realize how much of a pimp that makes you? You let that little secret out, and women are gonna cling to you like Lindsey Lohan clings to coke! -
...not related to our late dearly departed 'Tylanol' are you? - you got the same kind of potty mouth = )
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Are you two going to attend Dragon*Con in Atlanta?
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Oddly - Mrs Knowles was born in the United States. Grew up in Austin. Was a cheerleader and a Blue Belle. She still works her job in retail. And she would probably say she married me because I'm sweet, loving and caring. And for some insane reason, I'm cute to her. Miracles never cease.
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You're completely delusional. I quit my job as soon as we got married, and have ambitions of becoming a famous actress or something.
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Id just like to say your beautiful. Congratulations.
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What the fuck is your problem? What has Harry and his wife ever done to you? I bet you are a loner with a boner who can't get any and you put out all your frustration here.
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You really need to get a life you asshole.
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Aug 04, 2007 8:58:54 AM CDT
So....how did you find me old homestate of Kentucky?
by kentucky colonel
And if you say "On a map" I'll Rochambeau you, lover-boy.
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This entire "home movie" could be orchestrated with Bernard Herrmann's NORTH BY NORTHWEST music--but scored entirely with tubas. Think about it!
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You guys think you could smear on the jealousy a bit more? Christ, it must be lonely where you guys are, in the basement cellar wanking it to pictures of Halle Berry and Jessica Biel. Seriously...have you guys ever kissed a girl before? And no your family doesn't count.
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I've been meaning to get this off my chest for days, since after seeing what "Yoko" looked like for the very first time from the wedding photos. So, Harry's what, like, 35 years old or so? Goddamn, so he snagged a chick that's only 20, AND hot to boot? Harold Knowles, you're an inspiration to us all. ;) You lucky motherfucker.
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Now that sounds like a new hit song for Weird Al Y. if ever I heard one. BTW Harry and Yoko/Patricia some late gratulations from Holland from Sander de Regt (if you don't remember me, check your own archives)
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you enjoyed your stay in the Bluegrass State. I still can't believe Fort Knox let you set up a screen even that close to the gold vault! And it was pretty flippin' awesome when the film got to Kentucky and then Fort Knox to be there and have just driven by the gold vault on the way in! Nice! I got the poster to commemorate it for a sweet price after the show. Was cool to give you congrats on your nuptials in person! I was the guy in the CTU shirt hahaha (yeah yeah....still a Jack Bauer acolyte even after season 6). HOpe you get thru here sometime again! I'm out!
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You two are like the new Harold and Maude.
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Nice to meet you too. And yeah, I'm obese and have reddish hair (though it's definitely more brown), but I'm kinda proud to look like one of the coolest geeks out there.
If you don't like Harry, that's your call, dude, but come on... insulting us on a forum is a little lame, don't you think?
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