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Urecal, Minerva

Gold, Tracey

Hmmpph!! What about my performance in The Rains Came???

More celebrities (almost classic era) that I recall serving at The Russian Tea Room... A few that I annoyed: Jennifer Grey came in on a date with Johnny Depp about 1990. Every food course or beverage she ordered was very minimal. A waiter's job is to upsell, which I tried to do but she rebuffed me every time, gradually becoming increasingly curt with me as the meal progressed. Johnny Depp seemed to be amused by this, but did not comment. When I tried to hand them the dessert menus, Ms. Grey told me (paraphrasing) "no, no we don't want dessert, like I didn't want soup, like I didn't want another glass of Champagne..." In a slow flat monotone, I said something like, "Strawberries Romanoff are refreshing and light..." Jennifer Grey: "Just two double espressos!" As I walked away from their table I heard her imitating me, speaking to Johnny Depp (she affected a deep monotonous voice): "Strawberries Romanoff yecch yecch blah blah blah". From that point on, I pretty much shut up. Johnny Depp continued to look amused, he was pretty cool. Don Johnson came in for lunch in the late 80's or early 90's. He arrived first, and I recall I had to remove place settings from the table, or add place settings. Or some task that caused us to be close up for a minute or so. At first he was smiling, eye contact, cordial, how are you, etc etc. I asked him how he was doing, etc. etc. He had a movie out at that time (I wish I could remember which one but I can't, I did not know if it was flopping) and I asked , "How's the new movie, Mr. Johnson?" His smile turned to an severely annoyed look... 'Just get me a Diet Coke." Arnold Shwarzenngger (spelled incorrectly, who cares) came to the restaurant a number of times and each time left his mark, with some bad interaction with staff or with another customer. In my case, I was serving his group dinner and there was heavy business discussion going on. At one point I was refilling wine glasses at his table. So I hold the bottle over each guest's wine glass and each guest nods or shakes their head or in some way tells you non-verbally what to do. Schwarzenwhatever actually shoved my arm away to prevent me from pouring wine. Some that I did not annoy: Sigourney Weaver had lunch one day with mega-agent Sam Cohn. Ms. Weaver wore an awesome-looking white dress. When she sat at the table the front part of the dress bunched forward and exposed a lot of her...... self (I could look right down to her belly button). During the lunch I had to prepare a dish at the table for Ms. Weaver... Rather than cover herself up, she looked me in the eye and chatted while I was rolling her blini, or whatever I was doing. Very a propos by her, I thought at the time. Smart lady. E.G. Marshall, I recall serving lunch one day. I happen to speak with a slight Brooklyn/NY accent. Mr. Marshall, as lunch is concluding asks me if I was from Minnesota (he liked my accent). It was a good joke, my accent is a anything but Minnesotan.

"Do the Right Thing" is set during a summer heat wave, and the heat is important to the story.

Deadline -- U.S.A. (1952) A Face in the Crowd (1957) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) The Insider (1999) Good Night, and Good Luck (2005) The Post (2017)

Absence of Malice (1981) Spotlight (2015) Meet John Doe (1941) Five Star Final (1931) The Running Man (1987)

Audrey 2 turns Seympur into a media celebrity in LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS

Susan Hayward was an outstanding actress who won an Academy Award as Best Actress for her riveting portrayal as murderess, Barbara Graham. In the 1958 drama, I Want To Live. (1958) She should have won multiple Oscars as well for other performances. Including I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955) & Smash Up, Story of a Woman (1947). She is one of my favorite classic actresses from the Golden Age and would love to view some her memorable films during the daylong Summer marathon, Summer Under the Stars.. She outshines in just about every role she starred in. Died too soon but left a lasting impression upon the Silver Screen with her memorable acting skills. Starring opposite some of the top leading men of that era. Including, The Flying Seabees with John Wayne, My Foolish Heart with Dana Andrews, Snows of Kilimanjaro with Gregory Peck, With A Song in My Heart, Woman Obsessed with Stephen Boyd, David & Bathsheba with Gregory Peck, Demetrios & The Gladiators, with Victor Mature, the President's Lady with Charleton Heston, Untamed with Richard Egan, Ada with Dean Martin.

The Long Gray Line 1955 The FBI Story 1959 Spirits of the Dead 1968

Vance, Vivian

Talmadge, Norma

Sarandon, Susan

Raft, George

Everyone said that the Fox network would never work and that it would go off the air quickly. Ironically, it was the stink over Married with Children, The Simpsons, and Shannon Doherty's loss of virginity episode on Beverly Hills 90210 that really gave them their start and kept them on the air and in business. Talk about irony......

Weston, Kay- Marilyn Monroe in River of No Return (1954)

So I'm driving and I have sports-talk radio on. This is at a time I'm typically not driving (which is the only time I list to AM radio); the host mentions: this is our noir segment. Say what???? It appears this is a recurring part of their broadcast. They go on to discuss The Naked Kiss, mentioning director Sam Fuller, the year it was made, 1964, give a description of the movie (but make it clear they don't want to give away the story), and play audio clips from the film. I was in shock. (as in Shock Corridor the Fuller film made before this one). This host has been on sport stations for years in So Cal, but I had no idea he was into this. Then they go on to another film; The Longest Day. They compare the film to Saving Private Ryan but go on to say, well, The Longest Day, has Robert Mitchum, storming that beachhead and what can be better than that.

1953

The Harvey Girls (1946)

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Milland isn't a pleasing sight in The Thing With 2 Heads!

The Story of Three Loves 1953 Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man 1962 Nevada Smith 1966 Plaza Suite 1971 The Last of Red Hot Lovers 1972 California Suite 1978

Does Cory Feldman count as a classic star? How about Joan Jett? The first indie I worked on, back when I was still a film school undergrad, I was her PA on set and stand-in. She was pretty intimidating (even for a punk like me) with her rough persona, but very nice.

32 SHORT FILMS ABOUT GLENN GOULD

Cushing, Peter

BEND OF THE RIVER (1952)

There are several movies where I ask "How did that get past the code?" Like "Born To Kill". SPOILERS AHEAD. You have promiscuity, divorce, gambling, murder, and a one-way unrequited gay relationship in the first fifteen minutes. Although the two main characters "get theirs" so to speak, what about that detective who spouts Bible verses while contemplating his next bribe? He is a most detestable person, perfectly willing to let somebody get away with murder as long as he gets paid, and yet the film ends with his moralizing. And then there is the wealthy sister. Did she say what she said to Tierney's character just because she realized that he'd go into a homicidal rage against Trevor - he did! - just to get even for the fact that the guy never loved her? She certainly did not "get hers" either. Back to "Possessed" - Maybe because they had to have Louise "sort of" get away with it - Not responsible for killing David because she is insane - the script had David painted as a most unsympathetic character. Just my take. More than likely David dying saved Louise' stepdaughter from years of unhappiness, although I'm sure it would be awhile before she saw it that way. I did get what you said about Possessed being a sort of ghost story. They never show the first wife. You just hear her voice and you see the back of her when they are pulling her body out of the water. So it is easy to imagine her as a ghost.

Zerbe, Anthony

Maybe all that can be assumed though the we don't really know the details. The movie makes it clear that David is what triggers her mental illness (is he a symptom or the cause, we aren't given anything) and that she is unable to accept his rejection of her. In all other respects she appears stellar, she seems responsible and wholly competent as a nurse and her exceedingly thoughtfulness and unselfishness in deciding to sacrificially decline to marry without the stepdaughter's blessing is astonishing. The movie is no doubt flawed. They were intent on mental illness being showcased as a social consciousness issue at the expense perhaps of story issues. Maybe the relationship needed more backstory.

It's a pose. Virtue signaling. Pre-emptive but yeah. They're saying, "Please don't call us and b!tch out our phone reps. We know these are white actors playing native Americans but what are we gonna do? The boomers love this crap. Don't worry. They'll be dead soon."

It's maybe getting a bit late to still be discussing Possessed, but I did want to make 3 more comments about it. I'll try and be brief ( I know, I know....) 1) To be honest, I'm a bit miffed that no one here responded at all to my observation about one reason why Joan's character would be so obsessed with Van's. It's made as clear as was possible for a mainstream 1947 film that Louise (Joan) and David had been "intimate"; to put it bluntly, had had sex. Possibly over the entire summer. this would be a big deal for a "respectable" woman like Louise. She was a nurse (ie, relatively respectable , not a floozie), and she probably did not make the decision to go to bed with David casually. Back then, a "respectable" woman might have reasonably expected an offer of marriage, or at least, a declaration of love from the man she was sleeping with. It was not something a woman like Joan's character would have done lightly , back in 1947. I truly think this could be one major reason why she was so shocked when David declared he did not "feel that way" about her. If you read nothing else in this paragraph, read PRE-MARITAL SEX in 1947 WAS A BIG DEAL FOR A WOMAN LIKE LOUISE 2) Anyone else think that for a while, Possessed kind of turned into a ghost story? Those scenes where Louise thinks she sees Dean's dead wife, especially the one in the lake house, when Dean runs up to his dead wife's room and sees Louise, terrified, backing against the wall and going, "No---NO ! " , staring at something we can't see, are really eerie. We know it's Louise's mental illness, but it's definitely scary and ghost -like. Oh, also in the lake house, when Louise sees the buzzer ringing for "Mrs. Graham's room". ghostly. 3) How did this movie get past the code? I thought they had a rule then that a person could not get away with murder. Ok, I know Louise is bonkers, and that will be taken into consideration at her trial. But it's implied that the jury will be lenient on her - poor lady, she was crazy, she couldn't help it -- and who knows, maybe she'll end up spending a year in the looney bin and then be back in Raymond Massey's arms (ugh). It does not show that she gets any "just desserts". Also, Carol (Dean's daughter) would never ever forgive her for killing David, so the whole family would be messed up forever. Maybe that IS the punishment.

Haha thanks! My taste ranges from 20s & 30s swing/ Jazz to 60s & 70s psychedelic rock and occasionally heavy metal. It's a very broad range I'd say and I somehow still refuse to let myself listen to the music most my age are listening to, nothing against it, but it just sounds like noise to me.😂

TOO MUCH TOO SOON (1958) Next: THE TARNISHED ANGELS (1957) two with Dorothy Malone.

Up in Arms (1944)

Ghostbusters (1984) Next: Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, Paul Lukas

Mrs. Robinson, Anne Bancroft in The Graduate

Easy for me, The Graduate.

Hey everyone -- Ray Massey in all his charismatic psychopathic glory is coming up tonight on TCM in ARSENIC AND OLD LACE!! This is my favorite Capra film, even if Brooklyn is depicted as picturesque, quaint and Early American-historical. As a Bronxite this always rankles, lol, but even I must admit that my hometown borough was never thought of in those glowing terms, at least in the movies. CHARGE!!!

My gal Stef and the car designed by master custom car builder Gene Winfield named the "Piranha" and which was featured in the TV series The Man (and The Girl) from U.N.C.L.E.: (...I'd guess John DeLorean might've seen this car at one time and before he started out on his own little venture)

THE ENDLESS SUMMER (1966)

I knew you'd get this one quickly. Yes Dinah and George Montgomery. Dinah Shore was such a lovely woman. I loved her talk show and I have a couple of her cookbooks. I've used some of her recipes and they were delicious. Good work Princess, your thread.

media coverage makes Carole Lombard a celebrity in Nothing Sacred Burt Lancaster uses his media clout to control lives in Sweet Smell of Success Angela Lansbury uses her media empire to pick the presidential nominee in State of the Union media coverage saves Santa from the asylum in Miracle on 34th Street

I long time did like this '55 Sunbeam Alpine in this flick. Whitefang

The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1932) Next: a movie with a forgettable or bland title

From June 9-11, 1921, the Poli featured Straight From Paris, starring Clara Kimball Young as Lucette Grenier, Bertram Grassby as Robert Van Austin, and William P. Carleton as John Van Austin. The film’s release date is uncertain, but it was six reels. The Library of Congress holds an incomplete copy. Plot: Lucette Grenier is on an ocean liner headed for Paris, where she is to purchase women’s hats for her millinery. Robert Van Austin, a wealthy aristocrat, falls for her. They become engaged, but Van Austen’s mother frowns upon their plans. She threatens to cut off her son should he marry Lucette. Van Austin’s Uncle John intercedes on their behalf. But then Lucette learns that Van Austin is seeing a Broadway showgirl. She breaks off her engagement with him, and, instead, finds happiness with John. Exhibitor’s Herald called the film “a pleasing romance, nicely acted, with a wonderfully clever cast in support.” Motion Picture News remarked “no picture could be more perfectly mounted, from a box-office, if not from a true-to-reality standpoint. There are ocean liner salons, a fashionable millinery shop, ballroom scenes, dining room sets, and a remarkable eighteenth century court scene, which are used to prove the aristocracy of the forebears of the twentieth century milliner back in the golden days of France.” Bertram Grassby retired from films in the late 1920s. In 1928, he was asked to play the part of “Felipe” in The Ramona Pageant, which was being staged in Los Angeles. At the time, he said this would be his last performance, as he was filling in because of an emergency. The next year, the pageant officials approached him to reprise the role, and were pleasantly surprised when he accepted. “I am happy you have asked me, because the Ramona Pageant is the most appealing production in which I have ever appeared,” said the British-born actor. “I have the keenest admiration for the people of Hemet and San Jacinto in preserving the traditions of Southern California in such beautiful fashion. While I have definitely retired from the stage, if you should want me again next year I will be glad to serve. It will give me great pleasure to contribute a small part in such a remarkable community enterprise.” In fact, the actor played the part for the next few years. After retiring from acting, Grassby became a successful interior decorator. In 1936, he did some work for actress Alice Brady. “Mr. Grassby is doing my sitting room in lumbago blue,” she remarked in an interview. “My dressing room is in brown with a quaint flowery paper. When I first saw that brown paint I wanted to find Mr. Grassby and shoot him. But, when he got the paper on I discovered it would have been a mistake to shoot him. It is old worldish.” In 1946, Grassby, now living in Scottsdale, AZ, was one of several artists to form a group entitled the “Arizona Craftsmen,” whose purpose was to advance ancient Native American art and contemporary Southwestern crafts by adapting them to the practical needs and customs of the present day. He also was on the staff at the Contemporary Studio of Design, which decorated homes, cottages, clubs, and cocktail lounges. Grassby died in Scottsdale in 1952.

Back in those days, studio productions used DC power for everything. Running DC in the water and waterproofing the plug in connections was simply a way of doing things and doing them safely. With Local 728 as a union entirely dedicated to lighting, you had experienced guys running that power into the water and they knew how to keep the actors and everyone on the set safe.