Obscure Blake Edwards of the day: 1956's HE LAUGHS LAST, which B.E. cowrote w/ Richard Quine & directed! A Technicolor, Runyonesque Mafia comedy!
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April 12, 2026 at 9:46 PM
Obscure Blake Edwards of the day: 1956's HE LAUGHS LAST, which B.E. cowrote w/ Richard Quine & directed! A Technicolor, Runyonesque Mafia comedy!
m.ok.ru/video/127779...
m.ok.ru/video/127779...
If you are familiar with simpsons character Fat Tony, you’re about to hear where his style of Runyonesque speech originates.
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October 5, 2025 at 4:26 AM
If you are familiar with simpsons character Fat Tony, you’re about to hear where his style of Runyonesque speech originates.
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Over all I liked #NobodyLivesForever Very Runyonesque, not particularly original, but enjoyable. #TCMParty #NoirAlley
November 3, 2024 at 4:49 PM
Over all I liked #NobodyLivesForever Very Runyonesque, not particularly original, but enjoyable. #TCMParty #NoirAlley
From 1938-42, Lucille Ball was known as “Queen of the B’s” at RKO, starring in seven or eight programmers a year. Some were great, most mediocre – but through them, she developed a gift for one-liners, a flair for physical comedy and a relatability that audiences relished. #TheNoirCollective (1/4)
September 17, 2026 at 12:05 AM
From 1938-42, Lucille Ball was known as “Queen of the B’s” at RKO, starring in seven or eight programmers a year. Some were great, most mediocre – but through them, she developed a gift for one-liners, a flair for physical comedy and a relatability that audiences relished. #TheNoirCollective (1/4)
I just noticed that the way @eddiemuller.bsky.social speaks is very Runyonesque. Especially today.
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October 5, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I just noticed that the way @eddiemuller.bsky.social speaks is very Runyonesque. Especially today.
#tcmparty #noiralley #TheBigStreet
#tcmparty #noiralley #TheBigStreet
He's using it to highlight how Runyonesque dialogue became integral to noir.
October 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
He's using it to highlight how Runyonesque dialogue became integral to noir.
Loved getting such fantastic Damon Runyun background from @eddiemuller.bsky.social (including how #TheBigStreet fit into #NoirAlley this week😁). But my favorite part was hearing about Eddie's father "just doing a Damon Runyun" and seeing his 'Damon Runyun Favorites' book! #Runyonesque #TCMParty
October 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Loved getting such fantastic Damon Runyun background from @eddiemuller.bsky.social (including how #TheBigStreet fit into #NoirAlley this week😁). But my favorite part was hearing about Eddie's father "just doing a Damon Runyun" and seeing his 'Damon Runyun Favorites' book! #Runyonesque #TCMParty
Guys and Dolls, because of the runyonesque speech patterns and people trying to pull fast ones
what is the best musical of all time and please explain yourself so i know whether or not to be angry at you
November 14, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Guys and Dolls, because of the runyonesque speech patterns and people trying to pull fast ones
calming myself down and relaxing by making long lists of things and starting them off by saying "foist of all" in a heavy old timey Runyonesque accent
we're bringing it back
we're bringing it back
April 10, 2024 at 8:42 PM
calming myself down and relaxing by making long lists of things and starting them off by saying "foist of all" in a heavy old timey Runyonesque accent
we're bringing it back
we're bringing it back
#NowWatching You and Me (D:Fritz Lang M: Kurt Weill, 1938)
"one of the oldest films of its era, a mash-up of 'learning play', romcom and proto noir, peopled with Runyonesque crims, spiked with off kilter gags and stunning songs from fellow refugee from Nazism Kurt Weill."
"one of the oldest films of its era, a mash-up of 'learning play', romcom and proto noir, peopled with Runyonesque crims, spiked with off kilter gags and stunning songs from fellow refugee from Nazism Kurt Weill."
December 21, 2024 at 4:24 PM
#NowWatching You and Me (D:Fritz Lang M: Kurt Weill, 1938)
"one of the oldest films of its era, a mash-up of 'learning play', romcom and proto noir, peopled with Runyonesque crims, spiked with off kilter gags and stunning songs from fellow refugee from Nazism Kurt Weill."
"one of the oldest films of its era, a mash-up of 'learning play', romcom and proto noir, peopled with Runyonesque crims, spiked with off kilter gags and stunning songs from fellow refugee from Nazism Kurt Weill."
Over all I liked #NobodyLivesForever Very Runyonesque, not particularly original, but enjoyable. #TCMParty #NoirAlley
November 3, 2024 at 4:47 PM
Over all I liked #NobodyLivesForever Very Runyonesque, not particularly original, but enjoyable. #TCMParty #NoirAlley
#MusicChallenge
#USCityTunes
Day 29. Chicago.
My Kind of Town.
Frank Sinatra.
"And each time I leave, Chicago is
Tuggin' my sleeve, Chicago is
The Wrigley Building, Chicago is
The Union Stockyard, Chicago is
One town that won't let you down
It's my kind of town"
youtu.be/don1x4DHn2A?...
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Day 29. Chicago.
My Kind of Town.
Frank Sinatra.
"And each time I leave, Chicago is
Tuggin' my sleeve, Chicago is
The Wrigley Building, Chicago is
The Union Stockyard, Chicago is
One town that won't let you down
It's my kind of town"
youtu.be/don1x4DHn2A?...
My Kind of Town (Frank Sinatra) | Robin and the 7 Hoods | Warner Archive
Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964) #WarnerArchive #WarnerBros #Robinandthe7HoodsIt's The Rat Pack with a very special VIP "plus one" in this sly Runyonesque musica...
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January 29, 2024 at 4:14 AM
#MusicChallenge
#USCityTunes
Day 29. Chicago.
My Kind of Town.
Frank Sinatra.
"And each time I leave, Chicago is
Tuggin' my sleeve, Chicago is
The Wrigley Building, Chicago is
The Union Stockyard, Chicago is
One town that won't let you down
It's my kind of town"
youtu.be/don1x4DHn2A?...
#USCityTunes
Day 29. Chicago.
My Kind of Town.
Frank Sinatra.
"And each time I leave, Chicago is
Tuggin' my sleeve, Chicago is
The Wrigley Building, Chicago is
The Union Stockyard, Chicago is
One town that won't let you down
It's my kind of town"
youtu.be/don1x4DHn2A?...
Very Runyonesque, too
October 26, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Very Runyonesque, too
I adore this menu! It’s very 30s from the green cover to its Damon Runyonesque “The Cafe Superior” moniker.
A breakfast menu offering a choice of a “pick-me-up or bracer”is on the nose.
So give me the 3 deck club sandwich, banana cream pie & iced tea.
And charge it to that big palooka at the bar!
A breakfast menu offering a choice of a “pick-me-up or bracer”is on the nose.
So give me the 3 deck club sandwich, banana cream pie & iced tea.
And charge it to that big palooka at the bar!
December 29, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I adore this menu! It’s very 30s from the green cover to its Damon Runyonesque “The Cafe Superior” moniker.
A breakfast menu offering a choice of a “pick-me-up or bracer”is on the nose.
So give me the 3 deck club sandwich, banana cream pie & iced tea.
And charge it to that big palooka at the bar!
A breakfast menu offering a choice of a “pick-me-up or bracer”is on the nose.
So give me the 3 deck club sandwich, banana cream pie & iced tea.
And charge it to that big palooka at the bar!
Damon Runyon by William Auerbach-Levy, c. 1935
"Of all the pop formalists, the purest and strangest may be Damon Runyon... The 'Runyonesque' floats free, spectrally, above the real Runyon."
- Adam Gopnik
"Of all the pop formalists, the purest and strangest may be Damon Runyon... The 'Runyonesque' floats free, spectrally, above the real Runyon."
- Adam Gopnik
October 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Damon Runyon by William Auerbach-Levy, c. 1935
"Of all the pop formalists, the purest and strangest may be Damon Runyon... The 'Runyonesque' floats free, spectrally, above the real Runyon."
- Adam Gopnik
"Of all the pop formalists, the purest and strangest may be Damon Runyon... The 'Runyonesque' floats free, spectrally, above the real Runyon."
- Adam Gopnik
I hadn’t heard of her before discovering this fact & now I annoy random strangers going “read Brightfellow & Trafik & Gazelle, they’re aces.” I also became a big teenage fan of Damon Runyon after seeing their lyrics described as “Runyonesque” & going “I must find out what that means, my good sir.”
I recently learned that Steely Dan’s song “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number” is about the great surrealist writer Rikki Ducornet and I’m still struggling to process that information.
December 20, 2024 at 4:10 AM
I hadn’t heard of her before discovering this fact & now I annoy random strangers going “read Brightfellow & Trafik & Gazelle, they’re aces.” I also became a big teenage fan of Damon Runyon after seeing their lyrics described as “Runyonesque” & going “I must find out what that means, my good sir.”
A critic commenting on their “Runyonesque lyrics” also made me go “What does that mean?” & that’s how I became a fan of Damon Runyon.
April 8, 2024 at 2:25 AM
A critic commenting on their “Runyonesque lyrics” also made me go “What does that mean?” & that’s how I became a fan of Damon Runyon.
I'm in Louisville. Kentucky. Doing Two Gentlemen of Verona. Set in a late-'40s Runyonesque Vegas. The races of the cast are varied in ways that wouldn't go in late-'40s Vegas. No one cares. Except about the dog.
July 17, 2026 at 3:41 AM
I'm in Louisville. Kentucky. Doing Two Gentlemen of Verona. Set in a late-'40s Runyonesque Vegas. The races of the cast are varied in ways that wouldn't go in late-'40s Vegas. No one cares. Except about the dog.
To celebrate Blake Edwards' birthday, a bonus Obscure YT of the day: BE's second film as director, the 1956 technicolor Runyonesque comedy HE LAUGHED LAST with Frankie Lane & Lucy Marlowe, cowritten by Richard Quine! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JfB2kbq_Hg
July 26, 2023 at 4:34 PM
To celebrate Blake Edwards' birthday, a bonus Obscure YT of the day: BE's second film as director, the 1956 technicolor Runyonesque comedy HE LAUGHED LAST with Frankie Lane & Lucy Marlowe, cowritten by Richard Quine! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JfB2kbq_Hg
SORROWFUL JONES (1949) — 12:00 am ET — 1h 28m
(TCM Primetime: AAPI Heritage Month | Art Direction by Albert Nozaki)
Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, William Demarest; directed by Sidney Lanfield
A Runyonesque bookie receives a gambler's little daughter as a marker for a bet.
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(TCM Primetime: AAPI Heritage Month | Art Direction by Albert Nozaki)
Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, William Demarest; directed by Sidney Lanfield
A Runyonesque bookie receives a gambler's little daughter as a marker for a bet.
#TCM #TCMParty
AAPI Heritage Month
May 14th, 21st & 28th at 8 pm | 12 Movies
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May 29, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Watching the 1980 and then the 1934 versions of Little Miss Marker tonight on TCM.
No surprise: The original has way more Runyonesque dialogue throughout.
Casting surprise: Twice as many Black people in the original—FWIW two in menial roles instead of one.
#TCMParty #LittleMissMarker
No surprise: The original has way more Runyonesque dialogue throughout.
Casting surprise: Twice as many Black people in the original—FWIW two in menial roles instead of one.
#TCMParty #LittleMissMarker
July 20, 2026 at 3:20 AM
Watching the 1980 and then the 1934 versions of Little Miss Marker tonight on TCM.
No surprise: The original has way more Runyonesque dialogue throughout.
Casting surprise: Twice as many Black people in the original—FWIW two in menial roles instead of one.
#TCMParty #LittleMissMarker
No surprise: The original has way more Runyonesque dialogue throughout.
Casting surprise: Twice as many Black people in the original—FWIW two in menial roles instead of one.
#TCMParty #LittleMissMarker
Very Runyonesque word. Suspenders, cigars, snap brim fedoras, newsboy caps. A one-armed announcer with a ravaged voice named "Lefty." You know the drill.
December 14, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Very Runyonesque word. Suspenders, cigars, snap brim fedoras, newsboy caps. A one-armed announcer with a ravaged voice named "Lefty." You know the drill.
There is something Runyonesque in Lutz Seiler’s Star III (trns Tess Lewis) in its specific time / location / band of characters - but here Berlin, the squats and bars post wall fall, the idealists, the poets, the dreamers. And a levitating goat. Loved it.
October 4, 2024 at 8:16 AM
There is something Runyonesque in Lutz Seiler’s Star III (trns Tess Lewis) in its specific time / location / band of characters - but here Berlin, the squats and bars post wall fall, the idealists, the poets, the dreamers. And a levitating goat. Loved it.