JackBurley

Thanks! I just went requested another at the Now Playing page here on TCM. Hopefully they'll send another. If not... anyone have an idea where I can find one? The Tower Video/Records newstand is closed (*grasping a tear-stained handkerchief*)...

I didn't order mine on line and you can use my method. Instead, I sent my check and request for subscription to: Now Playing Post Office Box 420933 Palm Coast, Florida 32142-0933

Has everyone who subscribes to Now Playing already received their January issue? I still haven't. Wasn't worried about it until now, as the new month (and year!) edges nearer...

There's another good thread on this piece that includes the words. You might be interested: http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?messageID=7863437

Perhaps this was already mentioned, but I just noticed the use of the gong effect in the song ("Press On") and how beautifully it works as an homage to Ken Richmond. He was the 6'5" wrestler who struck the gong before the opening credits for the British J. Arthur Rank Studio pictures. During the TCM Remembers piece, it uses the footage of Mr. Richmond hitting the gong just as the gong is struck during the song. He passed away last August 3. RIP Mr. Richmond and nicely done TCM!

These are movies they were both in: Rio Bravo (1959) The Wings of Eagles (1957) The Searchers (1956) Hondo (1953) The Quiet Man (1952) Operation Pacific (1951) 3 Godfathers (1948) Fort Apache (1948) They Were Expendable (1945) Dakota (1945) Tall in the Saddle (1944) A Man Betrayed (1941) The Shepherd of the Hills (1941) The Long Voyage Home (1940) Conflict (1936) College Coach (1933) The Big Trail (1930) Born Reckless (1930) Three Girls Lost (1931) Maker of Men (1931) Salute (1929) Words and Music (1929) But to get back to the topic, I'd like to see a list of James Bond movies; including the odd ones like... wasn't there a British Bond movie in the 1950's?

Best Supporting actress? I think Jennifer Hudson should be nominated as Best Actress. Of course, then she'd lose to Helen Mirren... We have a Dreamgirls thread started in the Musicals Forum. Come join us! http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?threadID=93451&tstart=0

"Does anyone know how many flicks Ward Bond and The Duke did together???" Twenty-three? I guess it depends on what you mean by "did together"... 23 counts movies like Words and Music. They were both in it, but didn't have a scene together...

I agree, Ms. B. I don't understand it at all. I look at movies like Notorious and La Belle et la Bete with their spectrum of sleek greys, sparkling silvers and rich blacks and wonder why anyone ever yearns for color.

"I saw 'The Pursuit of Happyness' with Will Smith. It was really good---but you just can't wait for the ending!" As you could see, this movie was filmed extensively in San Francisco. The company was here for quite awhile and Will Smith became very popular with the locals. He was down-to-earth, gregarious and very accessible. Tales of him greeting people and being helpful were all over town. There is a park near my apartment that is very popular with dog walkers. I returned from a vacation a couple of summers ago to find that a BART train station had been built in this park. It was a boggling site to see! I wasn't aware that the Bay Area train service was extending into our neighborhood, and how did they get it done so quickly?! (We're still working on earthquake damage from 1989, after all!) Turns out the station was built for the filming of Pursuit of Happyness. It became somewhat of an attraction; people from different neighborhoods coming to get their picture taken at the "BART Station" that led to nowhere. In a few weeks, the station was gone; the berm was replaced, new sod laid, new trees planted; as if it were all a dream.

The movie was shot in black and white (unfortunately against the wishes of director Michael Curtiz). When Ted Turner had his "bright" idea to popularize classic b/w films by colorizing them, Yankee Doodle Dandy supposedly was the first one to get the "paintbrush". But colorizing didn't catch on, and now it's copies of the original print that gets released. I imagine Turner (or whomever owns the library now) still has the color version stashed away in a shameful closet.

"After Mr Gower, Warner's biggest role is as the avuncular lama, Chang, in Capra's LOST HORIZON." You're talking about his "biggest role", Mr. Sage. I was talking about his best known roles. If I said he was one of the waxworks at the card table in Sunset Boulevard, I'm betting I'd receive more looks of recognition than if I brought up Lost Horizon (which might even elicit the dreaded response, "With Liv Ullmann?"). This is with regard to the general public, of course. The denizens of this board would be familiar with all of the above, as well as so many of his other movies (his many Capra films; The Rains Came, You Can't Take It with You, etc.).

"I think that you should still be able to take the movie back Jack." Maybe you're right. I just realized that the cover came in an additional cardboard cover. Though I removed the cellophane from the outside, the cover inside the cardboard is still sealed. I'll try tomorrow. Thanks everyone! Ms. Sallie, that's quite a haul. Congratulations! Is Band of Brothers the same thing as Bande ? part? Oh Ms. 64, here's my blurb on Dreamgirls: http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?threadID=93451

In 1982 I took my first trip to New York City. I was there for only four days, but it was a heady experience. I saw Joan Sutherland and Alfredo Kraus sing in Lucia di Lammermoor; Pavarotti in Mozart's Idomeneo and the now-legendary disastrous premiere of Peter Hall's production of MacBeth* -- all at the Met. We also saw Amadeus and Dreamgirls on Broadway. Since Dreamgirls was my first Broadway show, I was feeling both excited and nostalgic to see Bill Condon's latest Christmas gift, the movie version of Dreamgirls. (This is the guy who brought us Gods and Monsters and Kinsey.) He managed to put this together in a way that stays true to the original musical; from the color pallette to the cross-cutting opening as we're introduced to the many characters. It really brought back to me much of the feeling that the original evoked. I predict this will become a cult movie, with midnight screenings and the audience throwing glitter during the finale. There are touches of camp -- some of the montages showing Beyonce's various stylings harkened to Barbara Parkins in Valley of the Dolls. Jennifer Hudson gives a strong performance; surely she'll be nominated over the next month's awards season. I'd never seen her before, but understand she was a contestant on American Idol. I don't see how she could have lost. Does anyone know who won the season she was on? "And I am Telling You I'm Not Going" is a showstopping number. As I recall, when Jennifer Holliday sang this on stage, it brought down the first act curtain. The movie could use an intermission here too; as the audience needed time to recover. The number received a roar of applause and cheers; one of the strongest audience reactions I've seen at a movie. I told my companions that I could only think of two other singing numbers that have the same showstopping effect: Judy Garland's "The Man Who Got Away" from A Star is Born and Barbra Streisand's Don't Rain on My Parade in Funny Girl. One of my friend's countered that it's Streisand's "My Man" that stops that show. Any thoughts out there in the Musical Forum? Other showstopping songstresses? A pal of mine saw Dreamgirls in a private screening in early November. He said that Jennifer Hudson and Beyonce were great, but that the movie had some slow parts, and sections that either didn't work or didn't need to be there. But he joined us today for a second look and was surprised to see that the final cut was quite different -- and much better. All the sections that he didn't like before were gone. Unnecessary establishing shots of the venues where the Dreamettes sang; and an entire segment devoted to the filming of the movie-within-the-movie Cleopatra were excised to better effect. __________ * The New York Times hailed it as "the worst new production to struggle onto the Metropolitan Opera's stage in modern history."

I ripped the cellophane cover off of it already; do you think it's still take-backable? Oy vey in the manger. Ms. 64, I don't want to hijack this thread, so maybe I'll post about Dreamgirls in the "seen any good movies lately thread" or in the musicals forum...

But the cover reads "Full Screen Edition". Is the old adage true? Is there hope that I needn't judge the look by its cover?

I think you might have missed the history of this post that Victor gave in another thread, Mr. Sage. He was unable to post anything; being less than victorious and garnering a series of error messages. Lo, his "hi" may have seemed a new low as a topic, but it was a high in the battle against poor technology.

"I got a whole bunch of DVDs..." You can't just say "a whole bunch of DVDs" on the movie board! What DVDs did you get? I found the Frank Capra set and The Devil Wears Prada under mine. I was stunned to see that Devil is in "full screen format". I assume that means it's not letterboxed; and that it's pan and scan? Why would a studio release it this way? Oh and I saw the glamorous musical Dreamgirls on the big screen today. 'Twas a merry Christmas!

"Next to playing old man Gower, actor H.B. Warner's most famous role was that of Christ in the 1927 silent version of "The King of Kings," directed by Cecil B. DeMille." I always thought Mr. Warner's second most known work (after King of Kings) was as one of the "waxworks" in Sunset Boulevard...

Both intermissions and entr'actes were (and are) rare. For on thing, the movies have to be long enough. And I believe the same movie might have both, depending if you're seeing the Roadshow edition or the regular edition. The roadshow would have the entr'acte; the regular would just have an intermission. DVDs of these movies often include overtures and entre'actes (if I were home, I'd look at my collection and give you some examples. I believe the Oklahoma! DVD might feature the overture and entr'act.). As I recall, Les Enfants du Paradis had an intermission, but no entr'acte. Dreamgirls has been playing the roadshow edition of the movie in San Francisco for the past weeks. Costumes from the movie are on display; the designs in the lobby. Audience members are given a program. It's been years since I've seen a studio put out a roadshow movie. I had the roadshow programs for Funny Girl and Hello Dolly, but gave them to a pal who's a Barbra Streisand fanatic a few years ago.

The San Francisco Chronicle recently featured an article about the recreation of the house from A Christmas Story; it's Cleveland's newest tourist attraction. Brian Jones bought the house in February 2005 and poured his heart -- not to mention $240,000 -- into renovating it to make it resemble the house in the movie. He's opened it for tours and has created a gift shop and a small museum in another house across the street. In reality, A Christmas Story House is only part of what viewers remember as the Parkers' home, the place where Ralphie schemed to get a Red Ryder BB gun. It's really the house's exterior that stars in the film; most interior shots were filmed on a set. The house is in Cleveland's Tremont neighborhood, and is instantly recognizable to fans of the movie, thanks to the meticulous restoration of the exterior and the iconic leg lamp glowing in the window. ICI Paints matched the exterior paint colors, so the yellow siding and green trim wear the precise shades they did in the 1983 movie. Inside, the match is less exact. Although the set was designed to roughly fit the house's general footprint, the rooms were bigger and the set had features the real house lacked -- a dining room, for example, and a staircase with two landings. So Jones hired a contractor recommended to him by the Cleveland Restoration Society, to renovate what had been a duplex and make it resemble more closely the interior of the Parker home. It's more a suggestion of the movie set than a replica, but they took pains to re-create it as faithfully as possible. The construction crew took out a first-floor bedroom and cut a hole in the ceiling to put in the stairs, and a fake fireplace was installed to mimic the one in the movie. A bathroom was gutted to allow for widening the kitchen, which is outfitted with a brown-painted wainscot, the same model of White Star stove that appears in the movie and a sink with doors below, just like the ones Ralphie's brother, Randy, hid behind. The crew even cut the 12-inch-square, brown-and-white linoleum floor tiles down to 9 inches to match what would have been available at the time the movie was set, around 1940. The house is gradually being furnished, largely with donations from fans. Someone even ponied up a spherical silver shot-glass set, just like the one that sits atop the Parkers' floor radio. He's convinced his investment will pay off. ?Fans flock to the setting of Field of Dreams, and that's out in a cornfield in Iowa,'' he said. Jones also bought a house across the street to serve as a ticket-sales center, gift shop (they don?t sell BB guns) and museum. Here visitors can browse a collection of A Christmas Story' memorabilia that includes Randy's snowsuit and toy zeppelin (whoopee!), a reproduction Red Ryder BB gun with a compass and sundial in the stock, photos snapped during filming by neighbors and actors, and framed reviews of the movie, not all of them complimentary. A display of blooper scenes points out such goofs as the visible trampoline that boosted Black Bart over the backyard fence and the dual flagpoles that appear in the movie, one in the front of the school, one in the back. Oh, and they have a website: http://www.achristmasstoryhouse.com/

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That's happened to me in the past. After several attempts and error messages, all the posts will appear repetitively. Welcome to the party! Ms. Cutter's advice is excellent. For lengthy posts, be sure to copy before committing to the "post" button.

Well Entr'acte literally means "between acts". The piece of music that's played is the "entr'acte"; as opposed to the "overture" which is played before the movie. I suppose "Intermission" is more akin to "break". Film intermissions usually don't have a score; a card reading "Intermission" would come up on the screen and everyone would run for popcorn and the lounges. Roadshow productions would feature an "Entr'acte" score is intended to keep the audience in the mood of the picture.

I got this disk a couple of weeks ago, Mr. Cliff. All due to your "head's up". Thanks!