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bigbrotiki
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Mar 25, 2002
Posts: 10605
From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
|  Posted: 2013-02-26 8:04 pm Permalink
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On 2013-02-26 19:13, Gunga Galunga wrote:
While not a TV show or movie, I remember going to the arcades quite a bit as a kid, and coming across a fighting game called World Heroes 2. There was a character named "Mudman" who hailed from Papua New Guinea. He was actually the first "Tiki" anything I ever stumbled across as a kid and I was instantly fascinated with what this was all about.
Below is a link from Youtube of a person playing as Mudman in a game, enjoy my first taste of Tiki!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae1zHxHKnjg
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Nice name, Gunga! Here's the real mudmen:
http://www.burtglinn.com/Mudmen.html
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markmywords
Tiki Centralite
Joined: Jan 11, 2011
Posts: 49
From: Sacramento
| Posted: 2013-03-04 11:42 pm Permalink
Stumbled across a pleasant surprise this evening:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=hells+half+acre
looks like Hell's Half Acre is finally getting a re-release (and on blu-ray no less, wow).
One of my favorite, all-time Tiki/South Seas/Noir films...
[ This Message was edited by: markmywords 2013-03-04 23:50 ]
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creativenative
Tiki Centralite
Joined: Feb 17, 2012
Posts: 83
From: Island of O'ahu
| Posted: 2013-03-05 03:46 am Permalink
Thanks for the info. MMW. I'm buying one. Hope its a good print.
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Atomic Tiki Punk
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jul 19, 2009
Posts: 4212
From: Costa Misery
| Posted: 2013-03-05 2:22 pm Permalink
Thanks for reporting in markmywords, I have been trying to get a quality disk of this for some time.
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tikilongbeach
Grand Member (first year) 
Joined: Aug 05, 2011
Posts: 741
From: LBC via DFW
| Posted: 25 days ago; 12:04 pm Permalink
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On 2013-03-05 14:22, Atomic Tiki Punk wrote:
Thanks for reporting in markmywords, I have been trying to get a quality disk of this for some time.
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The Egyptian Theater is showing Hell's Half Acre on June 1st as part of their tiki night.
"Starting at 5:00 PM, King Kukulele & The Friki Tikis and the Polynesian Paradise Dancers will perform in the courtyard, where you can also enjoy tiki vendors and a no-host bar with your favorite Polynesian drinks.
At 7:30PM, join us in the theatre auditorium for a slide show and a 50th Anniversary tribute to the Enchanted Tiki Room by Bob Baker's Marionettes, followed by a screening of HELL'S HALF ACRE."
www.americancinemathequecalendar.com/content/tiki-night-hell%E2%80%99s-half-acre
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tikilongbeach
Grand Member (first year)
Joined: Aug 05, 2011
Posts: 741
From: LBC via DFW
| Posted: 25 days ago; 12:37 pm Permalink
In Airplane! There is the famous Saturday Night Fever dance scene in a sailor/Polynesian bar called Magumba. There's plenty of bamboo, matting, glass fish floats and nautical lamps. There are a couple of masks too, but I can't make out what they are exactly. It was filmed on site at Paramount Studios.
Ted Striker was "stationed in Drambuie, on the Barbary Coast". 
The pool party scene in Anchorman is a luau complete with plastic tiki lights, tiki torches, lots of bamboo furniture and bamboo tiki lights that look like they're from Oceanic Arts.
You can see one of the bamboo lamps hanging over the head of the blond in the purple dress.
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[ This Message was edited by: tikilongbeach 2013-05-27 07:28 ]
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