From: Jeff Jewell <?????????????????>
Subject: A PD submission

Hi Steve,

Once again I must say that your dedication to the pipes digest is greatly
appreciated by all that you serve.  Thanks...

James "BriarPipes" Lawson said:

>I continue to be struck by the pipe that Lee Van Cleef smoked in the second
>movie "For a Few Dollars More."  It is  large, 3/4 bent, tan in color, and
>appears to be a sandblast.  It seems to have an amber (or maybe bone) stem.
> What a pipe!

I was very intrigued with it myself and had some of the same reactions,
such as: 

>I wish I had taped the movies (they were shown in the letter-box format).  To
>me, just the image of Van Cleef slowly and deliberately lighting that pipe,
>makes the movie memorable.  He looks legit' smoking a pipe. 

I also thought that Van Cleef was either A) a real life pipesmoker or B) did
some very good rehearsing because he looked very natural.

What I'm hoping is that there is a PD reader who has a way of getting a
video frame into a .GIF or .JPG file -- Also, I've often thought of putting
a page up off my homepage (which is under very slow construction right now
at www.cris.com/~jcjewell) that is dedicated to pictures and .AVI or .MOV
files of famous people or movie clips of pipe smoking.  I need to start
keeping track of who I see and where I see them, though.  Another movie that
I saw not long ago, I don't remember the name of it, but it had Bryan
Denehey (sp?) in it as Leslie Groves, the military officier in charge of the
Manhattan project.  Many of the nuclear scientists smoked pipes.  I suppose
it was much more common then (that was before my time :)

If there would be an interest in seeing such a collection of pipe pictures
and video clips, and other PD readers had some things to contribute, I'd do
the HTML work and put it up.  Write me:

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--Jeff "Charlie" Jewell

[ I believe that the movie about the A-bomb was titled "Fat Man and Little
Boy." Don't remember that Groves smoked a pipe, but Oppenheimer definitely
did. Excellent picture, BTW. -S. ]


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