rainee
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The Picture of Dorian Gray when it shows the painting. The used to creep me out when I was a kid. Other than that The Wizard of Oz. When Dorothy opens the door and it goes from sepia to amazing color, it was like magic, still is.
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I really don't remember the first movie I ever saw, it's been awhile. But my dad and I always watched movies together. We didn't get along very well most of the time, but we could get along for 2 hours or so and watch a movie. He loved "The Mummy" and that is one of my first memories. I was hooked. It was great when I was a kid, movies where on TV all the time then.
And when you went to see a movie in a theater, it was so special. A cartoon, a Lowell Thomas news reel, TWO movies. I did embarrass my mom a bit though when the movie "Grand Prix" was on the marquee when I was a kid. I just read it out the way it looked like it should sound, loudly, with a crowd waiting to cross the street. Dad just smiled, mom was not amused. Those where the good old days, for somethings at least.
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I hope they at least have a better song than "There's Got To Be A Morning After". It was ok they first 100 times I heard it but the 101st was murder.
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John Wayne was a dirty word in our house when I growing up. So was Ronald Reagan. My dad was in the military and thought Wayne was a hypocrite. We would watch his movies but not for him.
I really can't take Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Angelina Jolie either. Not because of their recent publicity but just don't care for them.
I also don't get what everyone sees in people who are famous for being famous (Paris Hilton) and then trying to make actors out of them. I wish they would stop.
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> Peter Coyote, absolutely.
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> Also, Mason Adams (Charlie Hume in Lou Grant
> the teevee show and the voice of Smucker's and tons
> of other voiceovers) and Joseph Sirola...MR.
> Voiceover.
Great additions. I've always like to hear Peter Coyote and Mason Adams. I love distinctive voices. Voices that all you have to do is HEAR them and without looking, you know who it is.
Others on my list of great voices:
James Earl Jones
Morgan Freeman
Claude Rains
Walter Brennan
Richard Burton
Lucille LaVerne
Hattie McDaniels
James Shigeta
Strother Martin
Edgar Buchannan
Sean Connery
Brian Blessed
Derek Jacobi
Sidney Poitier
George Sanders
Alan Rickman
and many, many more.
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After your impassioned plea, I would like the opportunity to see some more Virginia Bruce films. I can't say if they are good or bad because I haven't seen that many.
There are alot of lesser known actors that I would like to see featured such as Ralph Meeker, Nat Pendleton, Strother Martin, Eugene Pallette, Isabel Jewell, Elisha Cook, JR, Allen Mowbry, Misha Auer, Henry Danielle, H. B. Warner
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After reading everyones take on B & W vs Color, I did a little poll on my own kids. They couldn't conceive of seeing some of their favorite movies in color. My oldest son loves "Some Like It Hot". All of us love "Young Frankenstein" and Karloff's "Frankenstein". They all said they like B & W.
Too be fair however, my kids grew up watching movies. Perhaps if you've turn 18 and have never seen one in your life it might be harder to enjoy them.
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> I also think "Gigi" is French for Pedophiles Who
> Can't Sing. It's one of Robert Osbourne's favorite
> films. But I don't boycott him or TCM because they
> show Gigi.
> ROFL. Glad I'm not the only one who is made
> uncomfortable by Chavalier leering through "Thank
> Heaven for Little Girls"
Gigi creeps me out. Chavalier is like the uncle whose lap you didn't want to sit on. I had one of those uncles. I wouldn't let my kids watch Gigi when they where kids. When they finally did see it they all thought he was creepy too. I didn't say anything to them how I felt about it as I wanted them to make up their own minds. I wouldn't stop watching TCM because they show it however.
As far as stereotypes go, I like Dolly Partons saying about enjoying dumb blonde jokes. "I know I'm not blonde and I know I'm not dumb" If I boycotted the stereotypes of Japanese, Irish, Dutch, women, blondes and all the rest, I wouldn't have anything to watch. I would rather watch something like BOAN and be able to and teach my children was is offensive in it, than to have censored or completely lost to decomposition.
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Tears of the Sun has great music.
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I would hope that a film such as BOAN had the power to inspire watchers to become readers. I look at BOAN as being based on a novel, just like The DaVinci Code is. Some of the things in both books are factual but a lot aren't. I watched it last night along with my husband and 3 of our children. We had a discussion going through out the movie on stereotypes, race relations and history. I don't see BOAN in a good light in general. But maybe by being shown it will open a discussion. I can see that people who are bigots would like this movie because it would reaffirm their belief that the **** was necessary.
I've never understood white actors in blackface. My only memory of Amos and Andy comes from watching it on a tiny TV in a barber shop in Mexico. I knew they weren't black and didn't understand it then.
I am Japanese, Irish and Dutch. I've dealt with people who blame me for Pearl Harbor, have asked if I am an alcoholic and if I skate. Stereotypes are everywhere, based on gender, nationality, race, religion. They do bother me, however if I stopped watching movies every time there was a Japanese soldier that is cruel or an Irishman who is drunk or a stupid woman, I would be limiting myself on viewing material. I usually try to educate the idiots who say these things to me. But it is amazing how many idiots there are.
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Robert Osborne is how old??? I hope I look that good at his age. I was thinking early 60's, tops! He's very handsome and that hair of his beautiful. Way to go Robert!
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I do seem to have a preference for male slime than female but Blanch Yurka and Lucille LaVerne in "Tale of Two Cities" just have to leave a slime trail when they move about. Wonderfully wicked.
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Sunrise is being shown frequently IMO. I would love to see more of Keaton than is being shown lately.
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> Have you seen the neo-screwball comedy What's Up
> Doc?? It features Love Story star, Ryan
> O'Neal and Barbra Streisand and was release two years
> after after the wild success of the tragic love
> story. Toward the end of WUD, Miss
> Streisand's character looks deep into Mr. O'Neal's
> eyes and utters, "Love means never having to say
> you're sorry." He returns her gaze and says, "That's
> the stupidest thing I've ever heard."
Yeah, I have seen it, and boy do I agree. To me that line takes the cake for stupidity. As my husband says, "any man who believes that is just asking to sleep on the floor."
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If they start burning books in a movie it becomes a horror film for me. But my dad and I loved to watch Boris Karloff in The Mummy when I was a kid. My dad knew every line in it.
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I'm so glad that Glenn Ford is going out in public on his birthday (he and my mom share the same birthday, she being 10 years younger than he). I thought he was a wonderful actor in a comedy, drama, western...whatever. I've watched Superman about 6 times, but only once all the way to the end. The other times I've quit watching when Jonathan Kent dies. The movies over for me at that point.
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I just saw On The Beach last night. I hadn't seen it in 30 years probably. It's pretty depressing in a good way
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Sorry no, it's Alyson. She hates Elvis Costello, btw. The song came out a long time before she was even thought of, but I liked the name and didn't know anyone named that. Still don't. Also the character Alys in The Lion In Winter was a factor too. I liked the spelling.
Forgot that my cousin was named Katheryne after Hepburn. We are big on "Y's" in my family.
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"Love Means Never Having To Say Your Sorry" Wrong!!!! Love means saying your sorry, all the time. I really hated that movie and that line makes me sick.
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I remember when I was pregnant with my oldest ( who we named after an Elvis Costello song, btw) it seemed like a lot of girls where named Crystal, and all the spelling variations there of. It dates you I think because all those girls are now in their early 20's. We did name our son after an old west figure and thought we would be the only ones with that name. First visit to the pediatrician and there where 2 other Garretts. Next 3 kids we named after family members. Although I did want to name another daughter after Sydney Greenstreet.
I've know a couple of Myrna who had no idea who Myrna Loy was, they just know they where named for her.
I generally name pets for stars: Stan, Ollie, Curly, Moe. Or character names: Uncle Buck (a steer), Earp (a lamb), Miss Piggy.
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Alan Rickman is a pretty slimmy guy most of the time. He doesn't speak, he hissses like a snake. Same with Jason Isaacs. Both of them are great slime balls. Just love both of them. When you see them being a sweet person, it throws you off a little as in Truly, Madly, Deeply.
Stother Martin has always been a favorite of mine since I saw The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. Lee Marvin was a creepy guy in that too.
And I have to agree with William Atherton too. I remember people cheering when he gets decked in Die Hard.
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> Thanks for the recommendation on Chushingura, I will
> check it out.I like long films so that is no problem
> at all, in fact I Iean towards them and BBC series of
> the 60's and 70's that run 14 hours or more (The
> Forsyte Saga (1967), The Duchess of Duke Street
> (1976), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1978),The
> Pallisers (1974) etc.
Sounds like me, Hamlets just a short story to me. I've had people tell me that they had a hard time following the story because there are so many characters in it. It's the story of the 47 Ronin (masterless samuri) so that tells you some of what your up against. I hope you like it as much as I do. I'm also part Japanese so it's a story I heard, alot.
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Every picture my parents took me to see when I was kid. Some kind of child abuse. Also The Egyptian. What a waste of good talent. They all needed to be mummified in the first 3 minutes.
Also Queen of the Damned. That last I was talked into seeing by my daughter, who really just wanted a ride to the theater with a couple of friends. I never wanted to open a vein so much in my life. I wish remotes came standard at theaters. The worst was listening to 3 teenage girls all the way home saying what a great movie it was. I finally asked "In what universe?" The other kids are brain dead, but my own blood was convinced this was the height of movies.
And since Will Smiths Wild, Wild West just came on the radio, add that piece of work to the list. Waste of good film.
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Thanks for the article and other info. I just can not understand the logic of some of the awards that are given, but refusing a group of people that put so much into a movie. I would love to see some of the pretty boys who are "actors" do more than break a sweat.
But I do agree that it sounds like a union issue. Maybe someday soon they will get the recognition they so deserve. Maybe when they quit calling Brad Pitt an actor. (I'm living for the day)
How did you all get into classic movies what is you story?
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> Who was in The mummy ? and thankyou for your story
> Rainee
Boris Karloff was in it. We used to say all the lines in unison for most of the movie. Drove my mother crazy.