CineSage_jr
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And, for those who missed it the first time:
No, on Hawai'i 5-0 Kono played Zulu, who should not be confused with Star Trek's Mr Sulu, who was played by George Takei (pronounced "tah-KAY"), who should not be confused with Danny Kaye who, in THE COURT JESTER, played bumbling English rebel Hubert Hawkins, who is not to be confused with English actor Jack Hawkins, who played the Reverend Otto Witt in...yup, ZULU.
Got it all straight now?
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I didn't know the "screw" in screwball was a sexual allusion. I think of it as wacky and unpredictable. Like the pitch in baseball. Where is it going? Where did that come from? Some romantic comedy is subdued and thoughtful. Screwball is in a higher gear. THE APARTMENT is sophisticated comedy. So is SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS. BRINGING UP BABY? BALL OF FIRE? That's screwball!
Oh, and you don't think there's a sexual component in a man and a beautiful woman lying in the straw in a boxcar? SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS certainly satisfies the definition of screwball.
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You may also recall Claire de Lune being played by Uncle Bawley (Chill Wills) on the Benedict family organ in GIANT.
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I seem to gravitate towards Miklos Rozsa.
The main body of my record collection gravitated toward Mikl?s R?zsa around 1974, and stayed there.
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No, Kono was the Hawai'i 5-0 actor who played Zulu, who should not be confused with Star Trek's Mr Sulu, who was played by George Takei (pronounced tah-KAY), who should not be confused with Danny Kaye who, in THE COURT JESTER, played bumbling English rebel Hubert Hawkins, who is not to be confused with English actor Jack Hawkins, who played the Reverend Otto Witt in...yup, ZULU.
Got it all straight now?
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SITTING PRETTY (1948) has two sequels, MR BELVEDERE GOES TO COLLEGE (1949) and
MR BELVEDERE RINGS THE BELL (1951).
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I am, though, still hoping that one day there can be a way Martin Scorsese hosts The Essentials. He's one guy I can listen to all day about films.
If you knew how inaccurate Scorsese's liner notes for the recent DVD issue of EL CID (a film he professes to love) are, you might have second thoughts about camping out at his feet.
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Sounds like CRACK IN THE WORD (1965), with Kieron Moore, Dana Andrews, Janette Scott and Alexander Knox, a rather good sci-fi excursion, and one I wish TCM would get around to showing, since it's almost certainly part of the Paramount package they've leased (the old AMC used to run it to death).
The climax of the film, which takes place in Africa at a deep-drilling scientific station that precipitates the near-cataclysmic crack that begins to fissure around the Earth's circumference, involves just that sort of huge segment of the planet's crust launching into space to become a second moon, which narrowly averts the crisis.
Haven't seen it in years, but really want to.
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You all just make want to...protect her.
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A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS can hardly be called a "British" film. It's an English story, shot in England, with many British crew-members (thought not even with an all British cast: American Orson Welles as Cardinal Woolsey, Australian Leo McKern as Cromwell), but was made by Columbia Pictures, an American company, and a (naturalized) American director, Fred Zinnemann.
By all the most significant criteria, A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS is an American film.
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Well, Ben's happily married (I've met him and his wife; were I married to her, I'd be happy, too), so you're outta luck there.
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Despite his appearance, and the roles in which he was cast, Mazurki was an articulate and witty (and, one presumes, far less menacing) man. He was also a 1930 graduate of Manhattan College, which is, despite its name, in the Bronx, NY.
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Higher or lower?
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Prospero:
Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits, and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd tow'rs, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
The Tempest, by William Shakespeare, Act 4, scene 1, 148?158
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But I dislike hearing him say, "Call one eight hun-durd....." because he sounds like an uneducated dope, which I'm sure he's not.
It's people who pronounce "the" as "thuh" when it precedes a word that begins with a vowel, or vowel sound, who sound like uneducated dopes (everybody knows "the" is spoken as "thee" in this case, with "thuh" preceding words that begin with consonants and consonant sounds).
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I believe that I'm not so sure what to believe
When I was a boy
World was better spot.
What was so was so,
What was not was not.
Now I am a man;
World have changed a lot.
Some things nearly so,
Others nearly not.
There are times I almost think
I am not sure of what I absolutely know.
Very often find confusion
In conclusion I concluded long ago
In my head are many facts
That, as a student, I have studied to procure,
In my head are many facts..
Of which I wish I was more certain I was sure!
[spoken:] Is a puzzlement
What to tell growing son
What for instance, shall I say to him of women?
Shall I educate him on the ancient lines?
Shall I tell the boy as far as he is able,
To respect his wives and love his concubines?
Shall I tell him everyone is like the other,
And the better of the two is really neither?
If I tell him this I think he won't believe it-
And I nearly think that I don't believe it either!
When my father was a king
He was a king who knew exactly what he knew,
And his brain was not a thing
Forever swinging to and fro and fro and to.
Shall I, then be like my father
And be willfully unmovable and strong?
Or is it better to be right?...
Or am I right when I believe I may be wrong?
Shall I join with other nations in alliance?
If allies are weak, am I not best alone?
If allies are strong with power to protect me,
Might they not protect me out of all I own?
Is a danger to be trusting one another,
One will seldom want to do what other wishes;
But unless someday somebody trust somebody
There'll be nothing left on earth excepting fishes!
There are times I almost think
Nobody sure of what he absolutely know.
Everybody find confusion
In conclusion he concluded long ago
And it puzzle me to learn
That tho' a man may be in doubt of what he know,
Very quickly he will fight...
He'll fight to prove that what he does not know is so!
Oh-h-h-h-h-h Sometimes I think that people going mad!
Ah-h-h-h-h-h! Sometimes I think that people not so bad!
But not matter what I think I must go on living life.
As leader of my kingdom I must go forth,
Be father to my children and husband to each wife
Etcetera, etcetera, and so forth.
If my Lord in Heaven Buddha, show the way!
Everyday I try to live another day. If my Lord in Heaven Buddha, show the way!
Everyday I do my best for one-more day!
[spoken] But...Is a puzzlement!
..."A Puzzlement," THE KING AND I, music by Richard Rodgers,
lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
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Chagrined to say the least.
But you spelled "chagrined" right (I always have to stop and ask myself if it contains one "n" or two).
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I use to watch the Russian evening news back in the 1990's on C-span and was getting to know about 90% of their alphabet. I could only read names and places but could not translate. Due to budget cuts C-span cancelled it. The letter that looks like a 4 is the CH sound and the letter that looks like a reverse R is a short A (that letter gets the most stereotypical view). Won't go through the rest.
Their news broadcast is somewhat like ours but without the unneeded gossip. Also had sports and weather. Learn the H is Low pressure and B is High pressure.
Sorry, but the "backward 'R'" is spoken as "ya." And the "short 'A'," as you call it, is produced by the letter "O" when it's in the latter-half of a word.
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Yeah, but they can't seem to spell 'compromised' correctly.
Well, the spelling certainly was compromised, wasn't it?
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For the record, it's Charlton Heston (no "e" in Charlton), and Yul Brynner.
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This seems like a good place to quote a photo caption in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Events Calendar for May:
"Citzien Kane, RKO 1941. Zanadu set at the beginning and end of the film. (Shot at the RKO-Pathe Studio in Culver City."
The Academy, for chrissakes!
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It's no more music than the sounds put out by an in incontinent espresso machine -- and a lot of it sounded just like that.
Call what the Barrons did "music," and it gives license to every Foley practitioner in Hollywood to call what he/she does "music."
The Barrons provided sound effects, nothing more and, in so doing, all but ruined the film as far as its dramatic and emotional impact goes (not their fault, of course; in giving the go-ahead for the Barrons' hiring, it was producer Nicholas Nayfack and studio chief Dore Schary who made the fateful and fatal creative decision).
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Nah, if they did THAT people would really go ape sh1t. Leave out the skimpy outfit.
You mean you'd rather have her out there naked?
So would I, but only the Swedish version of the channel would continue to broadcast.
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Once he had the film studio, he sold off the studio but kept the rights to the film library which included all RKO films, all pre-1986 MGM films and the pre-1949 Warner Bros film library that WBros had sold to MGM back in the early days of television.
Turner's acquisition of MGM netted him only the pre-1986 MGM library; the RKO and Warner's libraries were separate acquisitions.
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