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In the film "San Francisco" (1936), the destructive power of the great San Francisco earthquake was created by entire sets being built on hydraulic lifts and shakers which were raised and rocked violently. The impact of the earthquake scenes still hold up even in our present age of computer technology. The film did not receive a "Special Effects Oscar" because one had not been created yet. After this film, the Oscar for Special Effects was started in 1938. There is a difference for me when I watch film of events that are actually happening (i.e., walls falling, floors cracking open and tilting, objects swaying as in the film San Francisco) and scenes where this is being faked by computer CGI.

Irma la Douce --Lou Jacobi as Moustache Brian Donlevy ends up as the bartender recounting his life as The Great McGinty Jackie Gleason, as Joe the bartender, with regular Crazy Guggenheim

Pat Cohan from THE QUIET MAN played by Harry Tyler

Joe from THE SKY'S THE LIMIT played by Victor Potel, significant because of his appearance in the song "One For My Baby", probably the most famous song sung to a bartender

Ted Danson Sam Malone on Cheers Pat Corley Phil the bartender on Murphy Brown Ted Lange Issac Washington bartender Love Boat

It's a Wonderful Life (1946). Sheldon Leonard Casablanca (1942) Leonid Kinskey The Simpsons --Moe Szyslack

From April 24-27, 1921, the Poli ran Her Lord and Master, starring Alice Joyce as Indiana Stillwater and Holmes Herbert as Thurston Ralph. The film was released in March of 1921 at six reels, and is presumed lost. Plot: Indiana Stillwater is a Midwestern girl, the daughter of a millionaire railroad magnate. She has been brought up to have her own way. She meets Thurston Ralph, a British nobleman. She marries him although her family have some doubts as to whether the marriage will succeed. Indiana tells her husband to be stern with her whenever she attempts to assert her independence. When her parents come to London to visit, Indiana asks Ralph for permission to attend a social function. He being “her lord and master,” he refuses, and an argument ensues. She goes anyway, but then word reaches her that she will be locked out of her home if she is not back by midnight. She arrives just after the deadline and is let in by the butler. After having it out with Ralph, Indiana consents to abide by his wishes. Exhibitor’s Herald called the film “excellent in every way,” adding “Alice Joyce strides a length ahead in screen superiority in this feature. She is altogether the finished artist, the lovely woman and the engaging and vivacious screen person.” However, Motion Picture News remarked that the film did “not contain enough dramatic substance for Alice Joyce … the material … would look better compressed into two or three reels.”

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

My favorite Dom DeLuise role is in Mel Brooks' The Twelve Chairs. He is hilarious!

*****Spoiler alert Spoiler alert***** Smoothie is the evil bartender in The Mob (1951)

Dick Wessel as Mr Cracker in HARVEY Eileen Saki as Rosie, proprieter and bartender of Rosie's, in MASH

Brian Donlevy in THE GREAT MCGINTY --bookends with McGinty himself as a bartender telling the customers he used to be governor or a state Murray Hamilton as Alphonse Paquette in ANATOMY OF A MURDER, though Barney Quill was behind the bar when he got shot William Conrad as Chuckles in DIAL 1119 Lou Grant in MARY TYLER MOORE spends a lot of time at bars and at one point becomes a bartender when he buys his own bar

There's really no presence at the parks from The Black Cauldron these days. There might be some oblique reference to it in one of their Halloween parties (like a stage show, or fireworks show). There was a walk through attraction in Tokyo Disneyland that featured an animatronic Horned King. It closed back in 2006.

OK how about a polarizing celebrity? WOODY ALLEN I saw Mr. Allen regularly during the time I worked at the Russian Tea Room (80's-90's). I would say that although he was hugely famous, his appearances at the restaurant did not cause much excitement. We did not enjoy serving him, frankly he was creepy. I remember once serving him a dish and he squirmed away from it in his seat as I set it down ("OHH get that away from me"). Whatever. In the early 1990's Mr. Allen's relationship with his adopted daughter Soon-Yi was big news. Mr. Allen showed up for lunch on a few occasions, appearing to be in damage control. On these occasions, he paraded in with some kids (and various other family members) and seemed to be leveraging media attention. He came in for lunch one Saturday with two or three little kids and another adult. One of the kids (little Asian child) seemed to be very uncomfortable. The poor kid would over-react to Mr. Allen's statements, and gestures. The kid would flinch when Mr. Allen gestured with his hands. I asked Mr. Allen if everything was OK. He said everything was fine. But something was wrong. The kid was clearly acting out to bring attention to something.

His comments about Tom Jones and, basically, his lack of understanding of 18th Century British literature, are stupid. Tom Jones is a great movie and deserved its Oscar.

My favorites from the actual nominees: 1980: Ordinary People 1981: Chariots Of Fire 1982: Gandhi 1983: Tender Mercies 1984: Amadeus 1985: Witness 1986: The Mission 1987: Fatal Attraction 1988: Rain Man 1989: Driving Miss Daisy As you see, I agreed with most of the winners, most of my favorites were not nominated.

THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (1940) Next: lots of screen time for James Mason

Hi Mabel Normand, she was in silent films. Passed away in 1930 she was part of the William Desmond Taylor scandal in the 20s. She died of TB. One of my favorite actresses.😊

Warner Brothers also signed a 10-year distribution venture with Universal. The two studios are combining their distribution efforts. I think Warner Bros just isn't going to produce the dvd/blu ray themselves, I don't think they're ceasing all production.

I was sure someone would get this!...probably because I like the film so much...too bad Columbia messed it up with this Stooge cameo at the end

KISS OF DEATH (1947) next: sushi

A movie cops dread to see.

Well I never imagined that I had anything in common with Jim Jordan, but if he hated The Piano, I guess I do. 😉

Juke Box Rhythm (1959)

It does say that Warner Archive will be kept. That was the most important thing, anyway. They do beautiful work. This week they released Annie Get Your Gun and it's spectacular. Just think, we were able to OWN great movies, cultivate our own libraries, never worry about something being withdrawn, if you wanted to have a collection--and we've opted for convenience and giving control of old treasures back to the suits.

I voted for the SAG awards, so I have seen all of the nomination-leading films. They were almost all heavy-handed message pictures that were ordeals to watch and not anything much to want to see again. The weighted voting is silly, and the Academy is working so hard on pleasing everyone, that it's difficult to credit their decisions. So, naturally, I'll watch. But maybe low viewership will send a message to the Academy...Forgive the Schadenfreude.

Here she is with Elvis in VIVA LAS VEGAS -- "The Lady Loves Me" next a song you'd like to listen to at the beach

Undercover Doctor (1937)

Kathleen Turner next: No Road Back 1957

Some things to consider before the 93rd annual Academy Awards ceremony, which will air tomorrow on ABC: Don't rule out Britisher Carey Mulligan as a strong candidate for the Best Actress Oscar for her performance in "Promising Young Woman." But even if she doesn't win this time, you should check out her formidable filmography sometime. Mulligan's screen debut was as one of the Bennet sisters in "Pride & Prejudice," director Joe Wright's acclaimed 2005 version of Jane Austen's 1813 novel. Her sisters were played by Jena Malone, Talulah Riley and the future Academy Award nominees Keira Knightley (as Elizabeth Bennet) and Rosamund Pike. In 2007, Mulligan guest starred in one of the most popular episodes of the BBC sci-fi TV series "Doctor Who." In "Blink," she played Londoner Sally Sparrow who investigated the arrival of statue-like alien creatures known as "Weeping Angels." They moved when you weren't looking at them -- which made them ultra-dangerous to humans. Sally also had to figure out a way to rescue the Tenth Doctor (David Tennant) and his companion Martha Jones (Freema Agyeman), who were trapped in the year 1969 without the time traveling TARDIS. Mulligan and Pike were reunited in "An Education" (2009), the noteworthy coming-of-age tale about a 1960s' London teen who became dazzled by an older man (Peter Sarsgaard). Directed by theDanish filmmaker Lone Scherfig, the film received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Actress (Mulligan, as the young schoolgirl) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Nick Hornby, based on the 2009 memoir by the British journalist Lynn Barber. Pike played the girlfriend of Dominic Cooper's character. Mulligan played the daughter of the disgraced financier Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) in "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps," Oliver Stone's 2010 sequel to the 1987 film "Wall Street." The 2011 drama "Drive" starred Ryan Gosling as a stunt driver turned getaway man who becomes close to his neighbor -- a young mother played by Mulligan. Directed by Denmark's Nicolas Winding Refn, the film also starred Bryan Cranston, Oscar Isaac and Albert Brooks. Mulligan sang in "Shame," Sir Steve McQueen's 2011 drama starring Michael Fassbender as a New Yorkercoping with sexual addiction. His personal space was invaded by his younger sister (Mulligan), who showed up at his apartment dreaming of stardom as a lounge singer. Written and directed by McQueen, the film also starred James Badge Dale, Nicole Beharie, Amy Hargreaves and Hannah Ware. In 2013, Mulligan and Leonardo DiCaprio headlined the fourth screen adaptation of "The Great Gatsby," F. Scott Fitzgerald's Great American Novel about the Roaring Twenties. DiCaprio starred as the title character, a mysterious man of wealth who threw lavish summer parties in Long Island, N.Y. Mulligan was Daisy Buchanan, Gatsby's lost love now married to millionaire Tom Buchanan (Joel Edgerton). Directed by the Australian filmmaker Baz Luhrmann ("Moulin Rouge!" "Romeo + Juliet"), the film also starred Tobey Maguire, Isla Fisher, Jason Clarke and Elizabeth Debicki. Catherine Martin, Luhrmann's wife and co-producer, received Academy Awards for Best Costume Design and Best Production Design (shared with Beverley Dunn). In 2015, Mulligan headlined a new film version of "Far from the Madding Crowd," the drama based on the 19th-century English novel by Thomas Hardy. She starred as Bathsheba Everdene, a beautiful, headstrong woman who inherited a farm and found herself with three suitors -- a failed sheep farmer (Matthias Schoenaerts), a brash military officer (Tom Sturridge) and the stodgy owner of the neighboring property (Michael Sheen). The film was directed by Denmark's Thomas Vinterberg, a 2020 Best Director Oscar nominee for "Another Round." Suzanne Collins, author of "The Hunger Games" and its sequels, named her key character Katniss Everdeen as a tribute to the heroine of Hardy's story. The 2015 historical drama "Suffragette" starred Mulligan as the fictional Maud Watts, a laundry worker who became radicalized by the movement to attain voting rights for British women. Directed by Sarah Gavron, the film also starred Meryl Streep and Helena Bonham Carter. The 2017 period drama "Mudbound" starred Mary J. Blige and Mulligan as family matriarchs who formed a bond in post-World War II Mississippi. Blige received Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Song (she co-wrote "Mighty River"). Mulligan's Oscar-nominated performance as the vengeance-minded Cassandra "Cassie" Thomas in "Promising Young Woman" has earned her a share of critics' awards -- including Best Actress honors from the Critics Choice Movie Awards, the National Board of Review and the Film Independent Spirit Awards.

Michael Caine was in Billion Dollar Brain (1967) and in Bewitched (2005). Next: Jerry Lewis & Jennifer Lawrence - same initials but different generations!

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I totally agree Toto. The earthquake scenes in SAN FRANCISCO are hard to watch, they do seem realistic. For me I think the fact that actual people are depicted amongst the destruction, makes it more personal. In the same sense the original KING KONG has more personality and more realism than the CGI remake.

RADIO DAYS (1987)

It will be one less this year since I won't be watching. The first time I will not watch in over 30 years, since I was not able to see any of the nominees.

THE GODFATHER: PART II (1974)...HEAT (1995)...THE IRISHMAN (2019) Next: Morgan Freeman & Ashley Judd

Felony Squad Next: Jaclyn Smith, David Doyle and John Forsythe

There were some wealthy African/American families. And you don't have to read too closely to find the homosexual theme. The fear that he is homosexual, or that he will be perceived that way, and that Skipper was driven to suicide by his fears, is what drives Brick's behavior.

Then let's add CLUE

Jurado, Katy

Murder Most Foul

Every Day's a Holiday (1937) Next: Tablecloth

I am ironclad convinced that the sole reason Moonlight, Green Book, The Shape of Water, and other "unexpected" Best Picture winners of the last twelve years happened because of weighted Ranked Voting: Most have the distinct smell of "Yeah, that was the...second-best movie of the year", the dreary critic-bait one that everyone else voted on in the betting pool while you went with your own populist favorite. (How many remember winning '05 betting pools against snooty friends who said "No, gotta be Mystic River...The Academy HATES fantasy, there's no WAY they'd give it to anything as 'trivial' as Return of the King!"? Me, I remember winning one in college, since Amadeus wasn't considered as "important" a Picture as The Killing Fields, and to this day, there exist people who think The Crying Game should have beaten Unforgiven.) And while nobody can agree on the #1 Best Picture, there's usually a consensus on what was the hardworking and earnest but dreary #2 Best Picture for the year, meaning the second-place slot ends up getting a higher point tally of votes than the first-place, and, like Aesop's Tortoise, wins for being mediocre. Last year, we had Ranked Voting as an option for state election candidates as a ballot question, and it was only Oscar geeks like me that knew how to warn newcomers of the lurking danger....

Yes exactly. This means we could also mention WEEKEND AT BERNIE'S (1989) where a dead man is seen by a lot of people (even though they believe he is alive).

Also, "I See Dead People" doesn't mean "animated", so we can include movies where dead bodies are in full view, such as TROUBLE WITH HARRY and ARSENIC AND OLD LACE

Not a surprise. They're trying to get more people to subscribe to HBO Max, where revenue is easier to forecast. According to the first paragraph of the article, titles (at least some of them) will still be available on physical media, but they won't be released by a WB in-house operation. They'll license it to some other company. Warner Bros. plans to shut down its physical media production department. A lot of Warner Bros-produced Films and Television series will still be getting Blu-Ray and DVD releases, though these releases will not be produced by Warner Bros themselves.

Quincy M. E. next: Dennis Cole, Howard Duff and Frank Maxwell

1950 Sunset Boulevard 1951 The African Queen 1952 Singin' in the Rain 1953 Shane 1954 Rear Window 1955 The Night of the Hunter 1956 The Searchers 1957 Paths of Glory 1958 Vertigo 1959 Some Like It Hot