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DeHavilland made her appearance at tonight's screening of THE HEIRESS at the L.A. County Museum of Art, at which she was, if anything, even more engaging and charming than she was at the Academy tribute last Thursday (of course, this evening I was in the scond row, whereas I was much farther back at the Academy). Close-up she sure looked like the same Olivia her fans have come to know and love from her films, and one could not help but be struck by the genuine twinkle in her eyes and delight at having an audience who cared about the life she's lived, and the thoughts she consented to share with us.

I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that G?bbels was referring to a film without overt political content, such as SABOTEUR or LIFEBOAT. SHADOW OF A DOUBT's depiction of small-town America as a hiding place for a depraved murderer (think Fritz Lang's M), strikes me as something that Herr Doktor G?bbels may have seen as an indictment of American morality that could be used as propaganda by the Nazis.

O LUCKY MAN! was an idea that Malcolm McDowell brought to Anderson. What shortcomings the film has (and there are many), can probably be chalked-up to its rather bastardized beginnings. Anderson is a much-under-appreciated director, whose work deserves to be seen by a wider audience. Parhaps TCM should look into programming a series of his films. I never met Anderson, but he was a kind of second father to one of my losest friends, who later served as Anderson's assistant director on 1987's THE WHALES OF AUGUST (boy, has my friend got stories to tell about working with Bette Davis, none of them complimentary!).

My one regret is that neither of the two clips shown from THE HEIRESS (screening tonight at the L.A. County Museum, with in-person introduction by Miss deH -- gotta get dressed and leave for the show) was a scene featuring Ralph Richardson as Dr Sloper. As great as deHavilland is in the film (it is certainly her crowning achievement), Richardson is simply...astonishing (there's no other way to describe his performance), one of the two best performances I have ever seen on film (the other is Judi Dench in HER MAJESTY, MRS BROWN).

How so? Forgot as in had a ticket and meant to go?

Mussolini admired the grandiosity of Hollywood's product, and resented their eclipse of Italy's film production during World War I, a position that Hollywood, of course, has never relinquished. In his desire for Italy to regain its pre?minence in cinema, and convinced of film's indispensible power as propaganda to further the ends of his Fascist state, he ordered the construction of Rome's giant Cinecitt? studios (opened 1937). Of course, Cinecitt? is, ironically, best known as the facility at which some of Hollywood's biggest epics of the 1950s and '60s, such as BEN-HUR, HELEN OF TROY, QUO VADIS and CLEOPATRA, were produced, thanks in no small part to the availability of cheap labor and building materials in post-World War II Italy.

No offense taken whatsoever, Susan but, as I wrote, women's fashions are, as the King of Siam was wont to say, a puzzlement.

Hitler, in THE LADY VANISHES.

The event was covered on some local TV news progams, but since I refuse to watch those entertainment shows, I really can't say...

I think that the new color scheme is for one reason, and one reason only: to make Rob Zombie happy.

Susan, I'm not Adrian, nor Mitchell Leisen, nor Vincente Minnelli, nor Sidney Guilaroff, nor Isaac Mizrahi. Like most (straight) males, I'm fairly clueless about women's clothing and hairstyles (and, since I'm apparently now a sponge, as Spencer Tracy's Henry Drummond demanded in INHERIT THE WIND, I have the right to think!). I will say that Miss deH was wearing a cream-colored skirt-suit, and had her hair up in what a Los Angeles Times's article about her described as an "impeccable French twist" (for whatever that's worth). And Vecchio, there were local L.A. TV news crews there, as well as videographers hired by the Academy. There will certainly be a tape of the evening in the organization's archives, but I can't say whether any of us will get a chance to see it outside the Academy's walls. It's hard tgo imagine, though, that some portion of it won't make it to TCM in the not-too-distant future, especially since the evening's host was Bob Osborne.

Are three identical question in three threads really necessary?

Are three identical question in three threads really necessary?

No, it's not LOGAN'S RUN. It sounds vaguely familiar, a movie-of-the-week, though I can't recall any details.

I think the answer is...George Gershwin[/u].

Well, why wouldn't powdered uranium -- or anything else -- fit in a wine bottle? Of course, the color and texture of what was in the bottles is totally wrong (a good thing Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld never saw the movie, or we'd have invaded Brazil by now) but, as Hitchcock observed, it's just a Maguffin, and the audience don't care.

Well, I hope this one's more successful than her other attempts. She obviously loves the idea, but it just may not be in the cards.

I was there, too, and it was, indeed, a lovely evening. It's impossible to look ay Miss deH, either in film or in person, and not lament that i was born forty years too late.

I just got back from the Academy Tribute to DeHavilland, and all I can say that the audience members fell in love with Miss DeH, and she with them. A lovely, lovely time, and the Lady was quite moving in her thanks for being so honored and remembered. Afterward I had a very nice conversation with TCM's own Bob Osborne (who hosted the event), with whom I shared a mutual friend (now deceased). Osborne was quite gracious in the time he devoted to any and all who sought him out. By the way, there were about 120 people on the standby line; about fifty of them got in (meaning only fifty no-shows out of 1800 tickets sold in advance. Quite a tribute to her, in itself).

THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD and HOLD BACK THE DAWN are on Friday the 16th at the L.A. County Museum, not Thursday. Tonight, Thursday, the 15th, was the Motion Picture Academy's tribute to DeHavilland (at which clips from the above films were shown, of course), from which I have just returned. It was a lovely evening: the audience fell in love with Miss DeH, and she with them. Afterward, I had a very nice chat with the evening's host, Bob Osborne, whom I've met in the past (we had a mutual friend).

Please understand that I'm not correcting you, but I am trying to make it easier for everyone else who reads your (or anyone's) postings to find additional information elsewhere, a process aided greatly by knowing the correct spelling of something.

THE HEIRESS is now owned by Universal, not Paramount. As for THE AFRICAN QUEEN, Paramount does now own the rights to the film, which took a long time to clear up. The film is now undergoing restoration.

Stapleton played (and won an Oscar for) a character called Emma Goldman in REDS the year before. That must be what you're thinking of.

Well, Cary called my Dad and we met him at The Plaza Hotel. Just remember that the next time Cary swung by the Plaza, he got a bottle of bourbon poured down his throat, was strafed by a crop-dusting biplane, and ended up dangling from Abe Lincoln's eyebrow atop Mt Rushmore (with a few harrowing adventures in-between). By the way, jjj, do you and your brother still have your autographed photos of Old Cary Grant?

Aston-Martin.