Best films about unemployed layabouts

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> Stranger than Paradise
> Trainspotting
> Breaking Away
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The Queen
Madness of King George
Nicholas and Alexandra
Mrs Brown
Elizabeth R

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Halmyre

What in Swansea are going on here?!
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"David Oberman" wrote in message

> No Man wrote:
>
>>> The Graduate (well, we never did see Ben get a job)
>>
>>Plastics.
>>
>>We sure saw him do some hustling, though, including one long run to and
>>fro the church from the time he ran out of gas.
>
> Plus up & down Highway 101 between Santa Barbara & San Fran in record
> time. He'd NEVER be able to do that these days.

John Denver tried to solve that problem---fly around it. I think this week
it will be 10 years to the day of his death. A good caring man, but he was
no
Lindbergh.

Of course if you're in no hurry, Highway 1 is the scenic way to go.

Del
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Del Stanley wrote:

> Of course if you're in no hurry, Highway 1 is the scenic way to go.

Ah, yes. I live in Santa Cruz, and when my brother came out from
flatland Texas, we were able in an hour and a half show him San
Francisco, and then another day another hour and a half took us to Big
Sur. I don't know if there's any country else you can show that wide a
span of sights. Where?


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'... my name is Noman; this is what my father and mother and my friends
have always called me.' - Odyssey; Book IX
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On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 09:36:03 -0400, Sean O'Hara
wrote:

>
>I forget, did Alfie ever have a job?

How about _Arthur_?
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On Tue, 9 Oct 2007 12:54:12 -0400, "Paul B. Thompson"
wrote:

>My Man Godfrey (the William Powell version)

Several rich layabouts there (rich housewives).

But this makes me think of cases where the rich wife has some
sycophant living off of her largess.
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Howard Brazee wrote:

>>My Man Godfrey (the William Powell version)
>
>Several rich layabouts there (rich housewives).
>
>But this makes me think of cases where the rich wife has some
>sycophant living off of her largess.

Hmmm...just thought of another unemployed layabout: "Sunset Blvd"







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Howard Brazee wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Oct 2007 12:54:12 -0400, "Paul B. Thompson"
> wrote:
>
>> My Man Godfrey (the William Powell version)
>
> Several rich layabouts there (rich housewives).
>
> But this makes me think of cases where the rich wife has some
> sycophant living off of her largess.

In the case of _Godfrey_ the real layabout was the protégé Carlo (Mischa
Auer). The older sister Cornelia, for example, is a wastrel, perhaps,
not a layabout; she's much too busy with her parties and her schemes to
be a layabout.

--
Frank in Seattle
____

Frank Richard Aloysius Jude Maloney
"Millennium hand and shrimp."
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"Howard Brazee" wrote in message

> On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 09:36:03 -0400, Sean O'Hara
> wrote:
>
>>
>>I forget, did Alfie ever have a job?
>
> How about _Arthur_?

Jennifer Connelly's slothfulness ultimately led to tragedy
in "House of Sand and Fog."
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On Oct 9, 7:54 pm, "Frank R.A.J. Maloney" wrote:
> Howard Brazee wrote:
> > On Tue, 9 Oct 2007 12:54:12 -0400, "Paul B. Thompson"
> > wrote:
>
> >> My Man Godfrey (the William Powell version)
>
> > Several rich layabouts there (rich housewives).
>
> > But this makes me think of cases where the rich wife has some
> > sycophant living off of her largess.
>
> In the case of _Godfrey_ the real layabout was the protégé Carlo (Mischa
> Auer). The older sister Cornelia, for example, is a wastrel, perhaps,
> not a layabout; she's much too busy with her parties and her schemes to
> be a layabout.
>
> --
> Frank in Seattle
> ____


<< THEY SHOOT HORSES DON'T THEY? About a period when folks weren't
unemployed by choice
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Was there any Andy Warhol movie that was not about
unemployed layabouts?
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xanthus666 RemoveThis @att.net wrote:



> << THEY SHOOT HORSES DON'T THEY? About a period when folks weren't
> unemployed by choice

They certainly weren't layabouts in that film, or in the harsh
Depression reality of its setting.


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have always called me.' - Odyssey; Book IX
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And has nobody mentioned the number one film of the genre, "I Vitelloni"?
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