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Pipe smoking in fiction (novels, TV, movies)
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I do know that when I was a pipe smoker my wife complained about the ashes in my pockets. Also, Horace Rumpole is noted for having cigar ash on his vest at all times.
It looks like Paul Giamatti is puffing in his latest movie The Holdovers.
Odo Proudfoot - Hobbit
Hans Landa, Inglorious Basterds...the farmer is also smoking a pipe, a simple hardwood or cob with a bamboo/wood stem. Great scene.
Alf Garnett - In Sickness & In Health.
I didn’t see this one previously mentioned. Donald “Duck” Dunn, bassist on The Blues Brothers; quite possibly one of the funniest movies around. It was one of my dad’s favorite movies and we watched it the morning before his viewing at the funeral home.
Funny meme I saw today
Raymond Burr
Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
1956
Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
1956
Everyone remembers Raymond Burr appearing in the US release of Godzilla.
No one remembers when Godzilla returned the favor by appearing in an episode of Perry Mason.
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That is hilarious. I never watched Perry Mason so, of course, I was not aware of Godzilla's courtroom appearance.
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There was quite the kerfuffle when Godzilla, instead of swearing to tell the truth, ate the Bible and the judge.That is hilarious. I never watched Perry Mason so, of course, I was not aware of Godzilla's courtroom appearance.
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In the Coen Bros.' remake of True Grit, Matt Damon's Texas Ranger LaBoeuf smokes a curved pipe during a campfire scene about an hour into the movie. The pipe was light-colored and appeared to have an amber or amber-colored stem, so I'm guessing meerschaum.
What kind of tobaccos would have been available in Texas or in Fort Smith in Arkansas, in the 1870s?
What kind of tobaccos would have been available in Texas or in Fort Smith in Arkansas, in the 1870s?
This article goes into some detail on pipes and tobacco on the frontier.
There was Indian tobacco, but traders also carried more Western tobaccos, including Mississippi Plug, which was chewed but also smoked in pipes and rolled cigarettes.
Pipes and Tobacco of the Frontier | Muzzle Blasts Archives 1986 — The NMLRA
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I note that Mark Twain was born in 1835 and died in 1910, so he would have been a seasoned pipe smoker in the late 1800's.
He smoked a wide variety of traditional pipe tobaccos, some of which we are familiar with today such as Players Cut and various turkish blends.
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Watching the Larry McMurtry prequel series to Lonesome Dove, Dead Man's Walk from 1996. Keith Carradine plays a scout in 1840s TX who is guiding an ill-conceived and ill-fated Ranger expedition to conquer (!) Santa Fe. At least twice in Part Two, we see him smoke what looks to be a briar with a bamboo mount, using a smoldering twig to light up. Skip through to 1:58:
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I watched 1941's The Wolf Man this weekend and verified that smoke does indeed emerge at a few points from the pipes clenched by Ralph Bellamy and Patric Knowles. Plus the gravedigger who becomes Larry Talbot's first victim is smoking a smooth-looking bent billiard in the moments before Talbot the Wolf leaps upon him.
The billiard Bellamy smokes is a substantial thing, not very long but with a good-sized bowl.
The billiard Bellamy smokes is a substantial thing, not very long but with a good-sized bowl.
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In the first of the Dr. O'Reilly series of novels, An Irish Country Doctor, Patrick Taylor has his lead, Dr. Fingal O'Reilly, smoking a briar in several chapters, and a meerschaum in one. And in one scene, we are told explicitly that he takes tobacco from a tin of Erinmore Flake, stuffs it into his pipe, and lights up.
The novel is set ca. 1965 -- JFK's death is clearly recent. The Beatles are mentioned as being current, and there's a reference to "this new band the Rolling Stones." As I understand it, Erinmore goes back a lot further than that.
The novel is set ca. 1965 -- JFK's death is clearly recent. The Beatles are mentioned as being current, and there's a reference to "this new band the Rolling Stones." As I understand it, Erinmore goes back a lot further than that.
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John Dickson Carr, in his 1951 fantasy/time travel/mystery The Devil in Velvet, has his hero, Prof. Nicholas Fenton, in 1925 Britain, "calm[ing] his nerves with a soothing pipe of John Cotton[.]" Is that the same blend sold today? If so, I had no idea the brand could be that old.
Fenton travels back to 1675 London, where he takes over the body of the historical man he's researched, Sir Nick Fenton, a notorious but well-to-do rake and hellraiser. During the course of the story he smokes the tobacco of the time in clay pipes. "Tobacco smoking was easier. Though no pipe bowl, save a china one, makes hotter smoking than a clay, the Virginia tobacco was far better than he had expected. It crept up the long stem, deeply soothing to the lungs [!], without scraping off the roof of his mouth."
Fenton travels back to 1675 London, where he takes over the body of the historical man he's researched, Sir Nick Fenton, a notorious but well-to-do rake and hellraiser. During the course of the story he smokes the tobacco of the time in clay pipes. "Tobacco smoking was easier. Though no pipe bowl, save a china one, makes hotter smoking than a clay, the Virginia tobacco was far better than he had expected. It crept up the long stem, deeply soothing to the lungs [!], without scraping off the roof of his mouth."
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Father Phillips' pipe, seen again this past weekend ...
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