CineSage_jr
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But what do you think of Chevy Chase?
The Maryland town is lovely, especially in Spring.
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Wow. And he just officiated at the Elizabeth Montgomery star ceremony. Too bad. I hope they can find someone to keep it going!
One Darren Stephens shuffles off his mortal coil, then the other, Abner Kravitz, and the two Mrs Kravitzes, and now Grant.
That Endora never stops taking revenge.
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How about TCM's running a "65 Days of WGA Strike, and Counting, and no Oscars Ceremony" film festival?
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Bogart's at his very best in THE AFRICAN QUEEN. James Agee's script, John Huston's direction, and his having to play opposite one of the three best actresses with whom he ever co-starred (Kate Hepburn, of course) forced him to stretch as an actor in ways that he hadn't previously, and never would again. His Oscar was richly deserved.
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The three most overrated people in showbusiness are:
Chevy Chase,
Chevy Chase,
and
Chevy Chase
and the fact that the older he gets, the more he resembles the late Charles Nelson Reilly doesn't help much.
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DOORWAY TO HELL was no stinker, just a very early entry (1933) in a formula that Warner's would return to, and refine, again and again for years.
How many great movies are there from 1933, and the early years of the talkie era in general? Fewer than you think.
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I don't know about anyone else but the decision by Time Warner to go Blu Ray on all its videos in future is a crippling blow to my collection.. I cannot and will not replace my collection with all new DVD's just because they can perform this outrage. Hopefully, some manufacturer will come up with a dual player that will play both formats for those folks like me who have a pretty large DVD collection. What do you guys think?
It's not an "outrage"; that there are two competing formats was, and is, no secret, and early adopters of new technologies/formats frequently get burned, if for no other reason than the devices they buy are quickly superseded by more elaborate and better-performing units, usually sold at cheaper prices.
You have no one to blame but yourself.
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Warner's was pretty egalitarian, though even the hoity-toity MGM cast a black kid as one of the residents of BOYS TOWN.
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Thermonuclear war will do that to a person's memory.
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BLACKBEARD, THE PIRATE.
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You might mention that, in addition to being Geoge Clooney's uncle, Ferrer was the father of respected actor Miguel Ferrer.
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I never liked the old FLASH GORDON serials -- too silly. Now, the Crabbe BUCK ROGERS serial, that's another matter. A bit grimmer, but agreeably so, and altogether superior; sadly they're not on DVD, and haven't been telecast in decades.
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Why, Bob's a great song-and-dance man (oh, reviews; I thought you said revues).
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It ran in the family; Luther Adler was, of course, the younger brother of famed acting teacher Stella Adler.
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It's Luther Adler, though how a good Jewish boy even gets to be named "Luther" is a mystery to me.
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Milland and Wayne go down to search a sunken ship for a cast member (whose name I will not reveal). Only one comes back up.
Not exactly: it's a piece of her clothing they're seeking.
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Wilder was actually born Sucha, now in Poland, though it was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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But in REAP THE WILD WIND, we have to put up with Ray Milland's ventriloquism.
True, but at least the dog in DeMille's picture is real, and not figurative.
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Don't worry; plenty more celebrities will expire between now and the end of 2008.
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It looks a bit like Donald Pleasance (the Man with the Hypnotic Eye).
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the comment was that my opinion was LUDICROUS.... my response was to that comment.
You're halucinating; you were the first and only one to use the world "ludicrous" in this thread.
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You know something that bugged me recently and I wonder if anyone else noticed it. The little piece on TCM about the remakes for " Shop around the corner" and the interview with Meg Ryan. She is talking about the comparison between the original and the remake "you've got mail", and she says," I didn't care for the orignal movie", What the heck did she mean by that? Why did she sign on for a remake of something she didn't like? hmmm...I'm sure the quote is slightly out of context, but still.
Ryan dislikes the original because Margaret Sullavan has had no evident cosmetic surgeries.
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It's THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY.
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The Day the Earth Stood Still is one of a handful of Sci-Fi films that I love (my least favorite genre, next to comedy), but I think Keanu Reeves is actually an excellent choice for Klaatu. I don't find that horrible casting at all. Still, I have absolutely zero interest in a remake of a film that is so perfect, just as it is. Particularly when there are so many find that I dislike, and would love to see remade.
Remember how one would have to stop and think whether it was Zulu as Kono, or Kono as Zulu on TV's Hawai'i 5-0?
The producers of the new DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL seem to have insured that same kind of questionable immortality by casting the only actor in the long history of movies whose given name begins with a "k' and ends with a "u," guaranteeing that television viewers a generation from now will be asking themselves, "Is it Keanu as Klaatu, or Klaatu as Keanu?"
Keanu barada nikto.
Time Warner to go to Blue Ray on all its videos!
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Why are you so rude to people?
Do you think blu-ray is the "ultimate" format that will never be superseded?
What about 8mm, super8, 16mm, Beta, VHS, VHS-C, 8mm video, mini-disk video, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, CD, wire recorders, full-track 1/4-inch reel-to-reel, half-track, quarter-track, cassette, 8-track cassette, mini cassette, etc, etc., etc.
Blu-ray is only a temporary format, just like all the others.
Rude? No. Butally honest? Yes.
Of course optical-disk technology will be superseded, but that's not the issue. As the Betamax-VHS struggle of thirty years ago proved, chosing the losing side in a format war can marginalize someone who's invested a lot of money hardware and software as to the choices they have in buying new films, blank cassettes and technologically superior devices. Even those who bought VHS early had to contend with rapidly evolving technology, with more bells-and-whistles, and equally rapidly dropping prices.
Buying into a new technology or format is never a good idea. Period.