CineSage_jr
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Forget POLTERGEIST; when is TCM going to dig deeper into the pre-1948 Paramount films package from Universal?
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Warner Bros: they have the best commissary, hands-down (runners-up: Disney and Paramount. Stay away from Sony's at all costs).
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I didn't even notice that? Did that happen. I know you are right. I don't see how with her popularity people still make that mistake. How she lost to Gwenyth killed me. She should have won hands down for Elizabeth. And the remake was dreadful. Oh how they should have left it alone. But she was her usual glorious self.
Remember about 13-14 years ago when Julia Ormond was, supposedly, the Next Big Thing? Same thing happened: Americans, in their zeal to sound "sophisticated" kept stressing the latter syllable in her name (as they had a dozen or so years earlier with Jacqueline Bisset). Anyone who'd ever heard of London's Great Ormond Street (where the childrens' hospital to which J.M. Barrie assigned, in perpetuity, all his royalties to Peter Pan, is located) knows how to pronounce the name, but apparently that doesn't include most Americans.
One morning, while appearing on CBS's This Morning, Ormond finally snapped at co-host/weatherman Mark McEwen after he pronounced her surname in the typical American fashion: "It's OR-mond! OR-mond!" I'll never forget it. If only Blanchett were as delightfully testy.
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Just imagine If Lauren Bacall had been in, The Maltese Falcon in Mary Astor's role and in Casablanca in Ingrid Bergman's role! That would have brought a whole new look to those Classic Movies.
What a ghastly thought, especially as regards CASBLANCA. Had the film been made a decade or so later, William Holden would've been the definitive Rick, better than Bogart; most of the other roles could have been well cast with actors popular and available in the early-mid-1950s (though, granted, the 1943 film's use of emigr? actors in generally small roles who had actually fled Nazi-dominted Europe lent an undeniable verisimiltude and poignancy to the movie's tone) . The _only_ one who was irreplaceable was the luminous, heart-stopping and heart-breaking Bergman: _no_ one could have played Ilsa as well or as perfectly.
As for THE MALTESE FALCON, the idea of a still-callow Bacall replacing the mature Mary Astor is ludicrous. Astor's maturity was as essential to the film's plot, and scheme cooked up by Kasper Gutman, as it was to the appeal she had for Bogart's aloof and, ultimately, incorruptible Sam Spade.
Teen-age hotties need not apply.
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Yes; Moore was run over during a pursuit by a rogue New York City cop.
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Americans should bear in mind that the correct British pronunciation of Ms Blanchett's name is "BLAN-tchet," and not "blan-TCHET."
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Of her films that I have watched, Munro seemed to have carried her characters with a "say what you will" attitude.
I don't think it's a particularly awkward sentence, but I'm unclear as to what you mean by "'say-what-you-will' attitude."
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Reportedly "That Hamilton Woman" was Sir Winston Churchill's favorite movie.
Producer Alexander Korda was warned by several friends against making a movie about the "tawdry affair" between Nelson and Emma Hamilton, but he pressed on, anyway. Korda sensed that, like Warner's THE SEA HAWK in the U.S., allegories that mirrored Britain's then-desperate fight against an implacable foreign enemy bent on conquest of the British Isles would resonate with audiences, and he was right.
I don't know that Churchill was really all that fond of LADY HAMILTON (the film's original, correct British-release title); as a historian, himself, he must've chafed at the liberties it took with the facts, but the master orator and politician in him he knew an effective propaganda piece and political tool when he saw one.
Then, too, he was also a friend of Korda's, though I can't say whether he was one of those who advised against making the film in the first place (but I wouldn't be surprised).
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In 1946 both Duel and the Zanuck production Forever Amber got clobbered by the bluenoses for their promiscuous, unrepentant heroines.
FOREVER AMBER wasn't released until October, 1947.
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GWTW
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I would guess that a small extension was glued in place at the top of her hairline, with the hairs in the piece brushed and/or combed upward into her natural hair.
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JUDGE -- "Is there a question in there, Councilor?"
That's counselor (as in legal counsel, not the member of a council).
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Yes, Jean Simmons ...any relation to Gene Simmons ?
The Israeli-born rock-n-roller Chaim Witz concocted the stage name "Gene Simmons" in honor of actress Jean Simmons (though I know her daughter with Stewart Granger, I don't know how much of an honor she considers it).
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You have destroyed any credibility or sympathy you might have had by stating your desire to see stuf like SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT and Alf on TCM.
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Alert? I she on the rampage again??
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GWTW
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It can only be from GWTW: the "widow's peak" in deHavilland's hairline was added by the film's hair stylists (of whom there are many, none of them credited); the feature is not a natural part of Olivia's hairline, and she never had one added for any other film (that I know of).
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There is no nearby hotel near the Arclight on Sunset or the Billy Wilder Theater in Westwood (at least none that I can think of).
The lovely (albeit pricey) W Hotel on Hilgard Avenue (formerly the Westwood Marquis) is about a four-minute walk from the Hammer Museum's Billy Wilder Theater in Westwood Village, by UCLA.
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I noticed this same line in three movies .. "When you lie down with dogs you get up with fleas "
Less memorable than the classic uttered by Hymie Kelly (yep, you read that right), Tony Bennett's character in the classic 1966 potboiler, THE OSCAR: "When you like down wit pigs, ya come up smellin' like gah-bage!"
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GWTW
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No. We had one here in NY. I believe it was NEW-TV. Channel 5.
I think it was like this in the 60's/70's;
Ch 2- CBS national
Ch 4- NBC national
Ch 5- NEW local NYC
Ch 7-ABC national
Ch 9-WOR local NYC
Ch 11-PIX local NYC
Ch 13-NET the local (pre?)PBS, I believe out of Hartford maybe.
Ch's 3,6,8,10, and 12 were the eternal "snowstorm", although I could make funny things happen with the antenna, and eventually, the rotary!
It should be noted that WNEW is now WNYW (Fox); WOR is WWOR (broadcast from Secaucus, New Jersey); WPIX, formerly owned by the New York Daily News; and WNET, always a New York City Station.
Channel 3, WFSB (CBS), is broadcast from Hartford, CT, and WTNH, Ch. 8, from New Haven (independent).
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Usually grumbled wearily in today's action movies: "I'm getting too old for this sort of thing."
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You neglected to mention Victor McLaglen as Gypo Nolan, the informer, in THE INFORMER.
George Arliss as Benjamin Disraeli in DISRAELI.
Charles Laughton as Henry VIII in THE PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY VIII.
Russell Crowe as the gladiator in GLADIATOR.
Forest Whitaker in THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND (a title entirely in Idi Amin's head, but so what?)
Sophia Loren as one of the TWO WOMEN.
Marlee Matlin as one of those CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD (though I suppose she can't hear this)
Jodie Foster as one of THE ACCUSED.
Hilary Swank as the faux boy who can't cry in BOYS DON'T CRY.
Charlize Theron as the monstrous Aileen Wuornos in MONSTER.
Hilary Swank, Clint Eastwood's trainer's MILLION DOLLAR BABY.
Walter Brennan in THE WESTERNER (does the title refer to Gary Cooper's Cole Hardin, or Brennan's Judge Roy Bean...or each equally? We'll never know).
Robert DeNiro in THE GODFATHER, Part II (well, he _was_ the next Corleone in line, wasn't he?).
George Burns as one of THE SUNSHINE BOYS. Enter!
Margaret Rutherford, her Duchess of Brighton (not that there actually is such a title) is one of the V.I.P.'s.
Maureen Stapleton as a left-of-center red in REDS.
Marisa Tomei, the My in MY COUSIN VINNY.
Angelina Jolie, the interrupted girl in GIRL, INTERRUPTED.
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A seven-minute prologue of a "psychiatrist" administering a "test?"
I don't think any audience was ever stable enough to endure _that_.
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THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD; explanations as to why it's been my favorite film for over thirty years should be thoroughly unnecessary.
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This brings up the matter as to why TCM has not -- at least within my memory -- aired TOO MUCH TOO SOON, which features one of Errol Flynn's very best performances as his idol, John Barrymore. Warner's owns the film, so there shouldn't be any problem with the title's availability. One hopes that it will also turn up in an eventual third box set of Flynn's films.
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Why should I?
Burt Lancaster vs Charlton Heston
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I'll take Kirk Douglas and William Holden.