CineSage_jr
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I reckon Young Mr. Lincoln would be the only one you could have managed then!
Sorry, but YOUNG MR LINCOLN can only be rendered in Lincoln Logs.
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CineSage,
I will be listening more closely to the Mikl?s R?zsa scores from now on in Siodmak's films. Sometimes it takes me awhile to catch on to all the myriad elements of a film's total composition. I had noticed the intensely dramatic scores for the Jules Dassin-directed movies, Brute Force & Naked City before and thought that they added a great deal to the films. When I was researching Mark Hellinger awhile back, I learned that the score for Naked City was one of the last elements of that movie that the producer worked on before his premature death. Did you read that Malvin Wald, one of the principal screenwriters of that film, just died the other day?
R?zsa seldom had time for most producers, as he felt that many, if not most, of them were Philistines who usually interfered with films' music, not because they knew anything about music, but simply because they had the power to.
Hellinger was another matter. He and R?zsa became very good friends, and the composer respected his judgment and taste. When Hellinger died during the latter stages of THE NAKED CITY's production, R?zsa assembled parts of the various scores he'd written for his films into what he termed "The Mark Hellinger Suite" (when released on records, the record company re-titled it "Background to Violence," to which R?zsa objected); the epilogue and finale to THE NAKED CITY, which R?zsa titled "Song of a Great City" (and which closes the Hellinger Suite), as written specifically as a tribute to his friend.
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Seems like a good place to announce that I just one one of the original Egyptian swords and sheath from the Mankiewicz film on eBay. I'd been wanting one for some time, and got a pretty good bargain.
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Okay, may we please have a transcript of the RO/RM conversation, lol??? She did indeed say that (I perked up my ears especially because of the "Gunga Din" criticism leveled against MH here; by the way, is GD a "classic" film???). At any rate, I do think this line says it all (again):
The expression is "prick up one's ears," not "perk." And, if GUNGA DIN isn't a classic, then neither I nor anyone else know what qualifies as one.
She's an actress. So why is she there DISCUSSING film like a film critic? May we please -- pretty please with Jujubes on top -- have a film critic, a director, a producer, a screenwriter, at least an OLD actor or actress who was around when these films were made and has enough sense to talk intelligently (not to mention intelligibly) about them, or -- dare we hope; it is too much to ask??? -- someone who, like RO himself, "makes a living writing about movies"???
As the old saying goes, everyone's a critic, and I have news for you: there are no tests one can take, or licenses for which one may apply, that confer the status of "film critic." All one need do is hang out the proverbial shingle and hope that folks seeking guidance and enlightenment will beat a path to your door.
And being old enough to have been around at the time of the films' releases are a necessary qualification for critiquing them? By that standard, no historian who failed to draw breath during the Punic Wars has any right to write about them.
The fact is that Miss McGowan is a professional, working in the film/television industry for a number of years, and quite successfully. While that does not, in itself, qualify one for the role of film critic, it does invest a body with knowledge that those working outside The Buisness might not have. That the woman is not only interested in, but knowledgeable about, the work of those who preceded her on the Hollywood stage while many around her are indifferent, or worse, is a credit to her, and a resource for those who have an open-enough mind to belive that they might be able to learn a thing or two from her.
But, hey, if everything from CNN to The Weather Channel is going the 20-something-girly-voice-inarticulate-bimbo-showing-thigh-and-cleavage route to boost ratings, the world is surely ending.
That you have apparently taken your name and cue from the Tim Matheson character in ANIMAL HOUSE, Otter, old boy, demonstrates that the world began its plunge toward oblivion long before Miss McGowan accepted TCM's offer to sit down with Bob Osborne and intelligently discuss the films she so obviously loves.
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Modern movie posters are horrible ('ve been collecting the classic kind for several decades). Besides the standard "one-sheet" having been reduced in size from 41" x 27" to 40" x 27," the the elimination of the larger three-sheet and six-sheets (not to mention the immense 24-sheets), they nowadays employ almost exclusively photos, photo-montages and screened photos.
George Lucas and Steven Spielberg are the only ones with the clout to force a studio to go with a painting; whether other producers would use paintings, or just don't have the interest or taste to force the issue with studio publicity departments, is difficult to ascertain.
The new INDIANA JONES poster is very nice, and very much in keeping with the Amsel artwork that graced the two original RAIDERS release posters.
You may recall that the first HARRY POTTER film had a lovely poster; all the subsequent posters used photo-based layouts.
It also doesn't help that John Alvin, one of the most talented of modern painters for movie-poster art, died about three weeks ago at the age of 59.
Now, as for SECRET OF THE INCAS, there's little doubt in the mind of anyone who has ever seen the film that Charlton Heston's "Harry Steele" character was the model for Indiana Jones, both temperamentally and physically, down to the felt fedora and leather jacket (though there's a generous dash of "Marc Brandon," the Robert Taylor character in VALLEY OF THE KINGS, thrown in. By strange coincidence, both films wre released in 1954).
Few people ever accuse either Lucas or Spielberg of being very original, but you have to give them credit for stealing from talented people.
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NIAGARA is pseudo-Hitchcockian claptrap, I'm afraid, and a pale shadow of the films Charles Brackett was making when he was partnered with Billy Wilder.
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Forget these; what's the best film to ever take place on Guam?
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Of course the new demographics would greatly skew the definition of what an "old" movie is.
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It should be noted that the great Mikl?s R?zsa composed the music for both THE KILLERS and CRISS-CROSS (not to mention KISS THE BLOOD OFF MY HANDS, BRUTE FORCE, THE NAKED CITY, THE ASPHALT JUNGLE, THE BRIBE, THE STRANGE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS and, of course, the Noir of Noirs, DOUBLE INDEMNITY).
It's pretty safe to say that a Film Noir isn't a real Film Noir without a R?zsa score.
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Please send some of that beautiful snow here bto L.A.!
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The real punchline in Hitler's marriage to Eva Braun is pronounced c-y-a-n-i-d-e.
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Rosie, you are my posey (not Parker P.; I like you much better).
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BTW, does anyone on the board have TCM On Demand. I know it is available in some areas and unfortunately mine isn't one of them.
I have on TimeWarner Cable, Los Angeles. It's nothing special, only about 20-25 titles at at time, changed too infrequently, and films that're typically shown by TCM on a pretty regular basis. Still, it's nice to be able to dial up a movie I like, when I like.
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Violet forgive me u did spell it right..Henreid..but u spelled spell...
His name was actually Paul von Henried but, in addition to dropping the "von," the U.S. studios for him to transpose the "i" and "e" in his surname to conform with the spelling of the name Reid, which they figured most Americans knew how to pronounce.
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Heres some 64 fair youtube. A fair amount of this stuff still stands. The globe, some towers.
Shea Stadium becomes a casualty in October.
This is what's still standing:
The Unisphere, the world's second-largest globe (The largest? You're standing on it!).
The New York State Pavilion (in a dreadful state of disrepair. Plans are afoot to do some restoration, but the funds aren't available to do more than a little bit at a time).
The Hall of Science (expanded several times, it's now an education institution in the Borough of Queens. The full-size, hollow, rockets outside are now gone).
The Singer Bowl (renamed Louis Armstrong Stadium, it's now the number -two venue for the U.S. Open tennis chanmpionships, with its newer, sister facility, Arthur Ashe Stadium next door).
The World's Fair Marina.
Shea Stadium was never part of the World's Fair, per se. Its construction was timed to coincide with the Fiar to maximize interest in both the exposition and the NY Mets.
Out of 140 pavilions and related structure over a solid square mile, this is all that's left (the United States Pavilion was left standing for about twenty years after the Fair closed, but it eventually became such a magnet for drug addicts and squatters that the city finally tore it down).
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It's a rough world out there, fella. Those with thin skins seldom flourish.
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I met Stefanie Powers a couple of years ago, and I have news for you: she's still a cutie (and this from someone a dozen years hear junior).
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Several of those, especially THE FORTUNE COOKIE are simply grueling, no less.
Oddly enough, though, I find AVANTI! rather sweet and charming (if way overlong at 140 minutes), its only failing being Jack Lemmon's performance, which I find far too shrill and strident (favorite thing: Clive Revill as Carlucci).
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I was going to read your posting, but then decided to just watch the movie again, instead. It's shorter.
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Back in 1950, when Deborah Kerr cut off her long hair in ?King Solomon?s Mines? and she washed it in an African river, as soon as she dried it, it looked like a brand new curly permanent. All of us in the theater had a big laugh about that. I remember that from 58 years ago.
If the perils of the jungle aren't enough to curl your hair, nothing is.
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Fontaine was way too genteel to play Eve, and way too old. Take a look at her in IVANHOE sometime. The film was made only two years after ALL ABOUT EVE, and she appears positively matronly.
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INCHON was never conceived to make money. It was a tax write-off/propaganda effort totally underwritten by Rev. Sun Myung-Moon's South Korea-based Unification Church to spread the gospel of anti-Communism. Whether it was any good or not was utterly irrelevant in the scheme of things -- theirs, or ours.
The only good to come of it was that the film featured an interesting score by the great Jerry Goldsmith (the 2-disc CD of which is now a rare collector's item).
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Corned beef and chocolate cake.
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When this system is implemented over the air television without power will no longer exist. That bothers me.
So, you think that no one's going to market a battery-powered digital TV? Show a little common sense.
Looking forward to watching Ms. McGowan
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perk 1 (p?rk)
v. perked, perk?ing, perks
v.intr.
1. To stick up or jut out: dogs' ears that perk.
2. To carry oneself in a lively and jaunty manner.
v.tr.
To cause to stick up quickly: The dog perked its ears at the noise.
Don't try to correct my grammar, junior; I write for a living...
And I suppose RM is a "professional," but a "professional" what??? So's Britney...
It's prick:
"Prick up your ears
Meaning
To begin listening attentively.
Origin
This derives from the ability of dogs, horses etc. to lift their ears to hear more clearly. The allusion was known by 1626, when Franics Bacon used it in his Essays - On Fame. The allusion to erectness in this phrase, and the similar 'c-o-c-k an ear' are the source of the slang terms 'prick' and 'c-o-c-k' for ****."
And you say you write for a living, but it's up to others to say whether you write well.