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Date Posted: 18:40:03 03/27/12 Tue
Author: Leah
Subject: The Wormwood Cup
This is one of my favorite eps. If it was the only Bonanza ep I had ever seen, I would know just from watching it what an excellent actor Michael was. I've seen it many times and I still cry when Little Joe does on the ending. I believe Michael could feel empathy for whatever was happening in any program he was acting in. I think a lot of that ability was because of the things he suffered in his early years as a child and teen. He turned those difficult bad times into something good, kind, and caring within himself. He was a good role model for that. I would hope that I might be able to learn to do that somewhat myself.
Leah
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Re: The Wormwood Cup -- Rick, 23:12:50 03/27/12 Tue [1]
Mike not only acted his work-- he lived it onscreen.
R :)
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Re: The Wormwood Cup -- adamseve, 07:00:10 03/29/12 Thu [1]
Mike made a couple movies after Bonanza but was he serious about a move to the the big screen like Bruce Willis, Tom Hanks and Pierce Brosnon. Tom Selleck tried but did better on tv. Or did Mike just want to control it all? adamseve
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Re: The Wormwood Cup ( Eugene Maurice Orowitz, 1936-91) -- Joe H., 07:20:50 03/29/12 Thu [1]
A'sE:
I think that the answer to your question can be found over at:
1.) http://ponderosascenery.homestead.com/files/castbios/joe.html +
2.) http://ponderosascenery.homestead.com/files/joe2.html
- - Joe
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Re: The Wormwood Cup ( M.L. thrice married) -- Joe H., 08:12:46 03/29/12 Thu [1]
An interesting quote from page 2 of thrice married, and then this:
"I don't know if Charles Ingalls would have stayed married to Caroline as long as he did, except that it was a long way to the next house in those days." (;-)
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Re: The Wormwood Cup ( Eugene Maurice Orowitz, 1936-91) -- Amber Joy Vaughan (Sad), 12:30:05 04/22/12 Sun [1]
I do not like when Michael Landon married three times, it is not right, he had to be married one time. And now he has 8 kids, but when Mark Landon was alive, Michael Landon Sr had 9 kids, but not anymore. he has 8 kids now.
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Re: The Wormwood Cup -- Rick, 17:13:03 03/29/12 Thu [1]
Mike candidly said he could do more with series television a season, rather than make a few movies a year. He was smart and made more money that way.
Rick
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Re: The Wormwood Cup (obit .for 'ol Charlie) -- Joe H., 07:13:03 03/29/12 Thu [1]
Yes Leah, of L.J. sure did a passionate obituary-like statement to the crowd on the streets of Virginia City for 'ol Charlie at the end of this episode as seen the other day by me again too.
- - Joe
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Re: The Wormwood Cup (or "The Gamble") or: _______ -- Joe H., 07:52:22 03/29/12 Thu [1]
Sorry for the confusion, as the obit for 'ol Charlie was in "The Gamble" one the other day? No (see below) of entitled: ______ ?
In reading page 1 of 2 about Michael, I see that his 2nd adopted son with Dottie, his first wife [of two? - yet to read page 2 here (;-)] was and is still(?) living, named: Josh, and so him now a writer too?, like the "Josh" on that Bigfoot one was with Howard Duff the actor as Samuel Clemens changing his pen name from Josh to Mark Twain?
Right now, I'm at that: " Michael recalled, "Mainly, I wanted to get across the idea to whites just why black people are angry and frustrated and I wanted to help cool some of the backlash. One black writer saw the show and said to me. 'You've gotten so close to what it's like to be black, I could hardly believe it was written by a white man.' For me that was my Emmy."
Congratulations Michael for THIS "Emmy'>
- - Joe
The Wormwood Cup: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0529863/ "A pretty woman arrives by stage and places this Notice up: I will pay $1000 to the man who kills Joe Cartwright in a fair fight... See full summary » " Of I did see the first part of this again the other day, but not the ending: "The ending has a lot of drama, and it is also a bit sad. This is one of the better episodes of Bonanza."
The Gamble: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0529721/ Nope that wasn't it either. Re: Little Joe is his family's only hope when he escapes from a kangaroo court that has framed the Cartwrights for a bank robbery and sentenced them all to hang." What was that episode title: ________ with 'ol Charlie? the other day. Where the land speculator had people trying to stake claims on The Ponderosa. To check the TV LAND website: http://www.tvland.com/tv-schedule How do you get back to Wed., March 28th (or was it Tuesday? yeah! I think it was Tuesday, as I was on the road early yesterday).
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Re: [ M.L. - the 2-page info]. -- Joe H., 08:46:03 03/29/12 Thu [1]
Thank you Rick, as this report by you was "very" interesting reading of by his adopted daughter's bedside in the hospital after her car crash, and then saying goodbye for the final time to his T.V. Dad too, on pages 1 + 2 respectfully, . . .
and leaving a $100 million estate, wow!
Plus who was that: "Nathan Trupp" character who went gunning for M.L.? and why at the Universal studios? where he was not at that location. Of two guards shot dead in the incident. Terrible! This Trupp at GOOGLE gets to: http://articles.latimes.com/1990-05-26/local/me-199_1_universal-studios "Trupp had been turned away after asking to see Landon, who he believed to be a Nazi...Trupp's delusions about Nazis may be rooted in his upbringing by a mother who also suffered from schizophrenia and an obsession with Nazis. Hobson said that before Trupp was born, his mother lived in a German "Hell's Kitchen" area of Baltimore where many residents were pro-Germany during World War II and treated her badly."
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Re: [ M.L. - the 2-page info]. More info on Trupp: (& "Hell's Kitchen") -- Joe H., 09:28:37 03/29/12 Thu [1]
RE: http://articles.latimes.com/keyword/nathan-n-trupp/featured/2
"in the deranged belief that all three men were Nazis."
and: http://articles.latimes.com/keyword/nathan-n-trupp
""His statements were: 'I was seeking out Michael Landon, . . . a man obsessed with hunting Nazis, . . . . "
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Hell's Kitcken at GOOGLE gets you to not Baltimore, but New York at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_German_Americans over to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Raft (1901-80), of maybe this gangster stuff of what Trupp was craving? "George Raft - (born George Ranft) actor, father was an immigrant from Germany" see footnote #169 = ^ [136] "Raft was born George Ranft in Hell's Kitchen, New York City to Conrad Ranft (a German immigrant) and an Italian-American mother, where he quickly adopted the "tough guy" persona that he would later use in his films."
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Back to Trupp:
http://articles.latimes.com/1988-12-03/local/me-905_1_mental-problems
"Philip Trupp (50, a writer in Washington, D.C. in 1988) described his brother as a "struggling artist" who worked with clay and painted but was never able to earn a living from it. He worked at odd jobs, such as casting dental plates, Philip Trupp said, and relied largely on money from a family trust fund that reportedly gave him $100,000"
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"Sheriff's Sgt. Ernie Roop said. "He eventually questioned one of the security guards that he eventually shot, asking if he could use their phone to call Landon."
Trupp was told that he would have to use a pay phone to try to reach Landon, who produces and stars in the NBC television series "Highway to Heaven," Roop said. Landon is not under contract at Universal Studios and was not on the lot at the time, a studio executive said.
Two days earlier--his birthday--Trupp allegedly walked into the Bagel Lovers shop in Albuquerque and fatally shot a woman and her father, who operated the family business. Then Trupp killed the woman's husband when the man followed him out the front door, Albuquerque police said."
plus: http://murderpedia.org/male.T/t/trupp-nathan.htm
""Mission from God" so it must have been from one of the episodes of H to H he saw that made him flip out?
cc: to parkdietz at parkdietzassociates dot com
"and on actor Michael Landon by Nathan Trupp in 1989 (during which two guards were shot and killed at Universal Studios). Neither Byck nor Trupp achieved proximity to their intended victims during the crimes. Other examples have never been released to the public. " (Sept. 2010, of others!?)
- - Joe
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