JackBurley
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That's great, wordmaster! I didn't know Lauren Bacall was in Birth and wasn't really aware of who Ted Levine is. Thanks!
And now:
Sitting Bull (1954) to Raging Bull
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Sitting Bull (1954) to Raging Bull
Okay, now what's the quicker way, wordmaster?
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And you're sure it's the leprechaun king? It's driving me crazy that Tina Martin seems to have made a career out of playing leprechaun queens... and Martin would fit... Not that I can think of a bishop named "Tina"...
In the meantime, I'll continue wracking my brain by envisioning every omnibus scene in movies that I can recall...
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I believe Love Happy was their final film together...
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You missed your cue. While looking at your rushes, as you see the Ford go by the screen with the curly-headed kid in the back seat, you were supposed to say, "Who is that child? I'm going to make him a star!".
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Does it seem like I'm always advertising for local theatres? It's just that San Francisco's Castro Theatre is in the midst of a Beatles Festival. Vaudeville lives!
August 26 - The Sun Kings perform the Beatles set from their final concert at San Francisco's Candlestick Park in 1966. Followed by screenings of I Wanna Hold Your Hand and The Magical Mystery Tour. Then Rock journalist Ben Fong Torres recounts his experience at the Candlestick Concert and presents a 1976 interview he did with Paul McCartney, reminiscing about the 1966 concert, San Francisco and his days with The Beatles. And then a screening of A Hard Days Night.
August 27 - A Sing-along showing of The Yellow Submarine; Concert footage from The Beatles' Washington DC concert. Richard Lester's How I Won the War and a sneak preview of the new Lion's Gate film The U.S. vs. John Lennon.
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The barely remembered Cindy Carol played Gidget in Gidget Goes to Rome. (Um, drdoolittle? I've been waiting for you down in the Musicals forum... Won't you join me? http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?messageID=7826676)
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"You must be tired, what the heck is 'my bad?!!!"
Get hep to the jive, Mrs. L! "My bad" is in the parlance of today's youth. It stands for the admittance of guilt: "Am I bad!". It's kind of a coy, embarrassed apology. Solid Jackson!
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Ah, the days when San Francisco was affordable. The days of Pal Joey and Vertigo, The Birds, Bullitt... Actually, one of my earliest memories of Haight Street was an unusally sunny day in the summer of 1967. We were driving down the street and I was agog by all that was going on along it. Hippies and eccentrics in abundance. Brightly colored fashions and crazy hairdoos, painted faces; people walking (and dancing!) in the middle of the streets. Guys standing in the middle of the bumper-to-bumper traffic, selling the Haight/Ashbury newspaper. I was fascinated by it all. My reverie was only broken by the voice of my mother saying, "Lock the doors!".
I giggle at the memory now. My mother terrified by the neighborhood where I now live. Hmmm... you weren't selling any newspapers in the middle of the streets back then, were you Mr. Dobbs?
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"Doug Shearer didn't really know much about sound; he wangled himself the job of recording supervisor on the basis of being Norma's brother when Metro was desperate to get their sound department up and running in 1928. Conseqently, Doug Shearer was allowed to establish his own little fiefdom at the studio, and rule it with unquestioned authority for almost a quarter-century.
As a result, MGM's films were rather poorly recorded -- especially the film scores -- all through the 1930s and '40s; they didn't start to modernize until John Green took over the music department in the late 1940s, and Franklin Milton took over the sound department, in the mid-1950s."
I was surprised by this take on Mr. Shearer because it was my impression that he was well-respected in Hollywood for his work. My impression is probably the result of MGM propaganda, but he won seven Oscars (5 for sound), was nominated twenty-one times, and I understood that he was a great innovator in eliminating background noise in recordings. Wasn't it his idea to have a musical soundtrack -- the first one being his for The Broadway Melody (1929)?
Another image popped like a balloon...
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"Hey, Jack, I used to live in San Francisco back in those days. I was in the Grateful Dead?s house on Ashbury Street several times. I was there one day when Otto Preminger came up trying to get inside. Jerry Garcia threw water balloons at him from a second-floor window. I was across the street one time in their office, when Janice Joplin came in. That?s when I found out why she wore all the floppy hats and the feathers. That was back in the days when Pigpen was their drummer."
Then I imagine it's possible you've been in my apartment, Mr. Dobbs. I live in an apartment where Janis Joplin once resided; very near the Grateful Dead house. You might get a kick out of the GD house now, as young kids now make pilgrimages there and gaze at it with starry eyes. The house itself is in great shape, and the present owners considered selling it a couple of years ago (and then thought better of it). They're very tolerant of the gawkers, so it's a nice match. Jimi Hendricks' girlfriend lived on the bottom floor of my building, and grizzled hippies often stop by and tell me stories of when Jimi would jam there.
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Thanks!
Scarlett Empress?
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Regardingin location shooting: There are "location scouts" who are sent out to find appropriate places to shoot and make the arrangements to do so.
Oliver Stone shot scenes for The Doors in front of my apartment. And I imagine the Art Director was very busy working with the props and costume people. The entire street (in the Haight/Ashbury) was sent back in time: cars were towed and classic cars of the period were brought in to replace them. Storefronts were repainted, the front of my place was covered in macrame. Each store remained in the same ilk, but all the windows were changed. For example, at the newstand, all the magazines were replaced with those from the 1960's; dress shops had their mannequins redressed for the period.
Regarding the credits: it's my understanding that the heads of departments were usually listed, though their responsibilities on the picture might have been nothing more than initialing someone else's designs. So when the studios were spitting out 52 pictures a year, the Art Director would be listed on the credits for all of them; though it was his design team who actually laid out the plans for the pictures.
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I can imagine Mr. Chandler was deeply in the closet (both figuratively and literally) with regard to his cross-dressing. I doubt it's something he would show his daughters, so they wouldn't have had any exposure to it. I had heard that Williams' biography recounted this tale and that her reaction to him was to scream and throw him out. I was very disappointed and decided not to read the book. A pal of mine knows her, and I had the opportunity to meet her; but I declined as I was so disgusted after the book came out. However, I'm ready to buy an Esther Williams DVD set!
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The Russians are Coming! The Russians are Coming! ?
What were the polka dots in One Two Three?
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"The Bad Seed - this 50's movie seems to get a lot of play, and i've never understood why. it has the no-budget looks of an old soap opera, all the characters are unlikeable, not one scary scene, and it doesn't have a real ending."
Why? 1. Because of Eileen Heckert's two heartbreaking tour de force scenes; 2. I find Nancy Kelly's archaic style of acting a view to the theatre's past (and I find that interesting); 3. Patty McCormack's perfectly creepy Rhoda is a campy delight.
Did you know that the real ending was changed to please the morales of the code? In the play, Rhoda actually kills her mother. Rhoda survives and it's implied that she'll kill the neighbor next (she wants a piece of her jewelry). This would have been a much more eerie finish, but a bolt of lightening is certainly lends a finality to the tale.
I'd also like to add that i think leonardo dicaprio's most highly touted film appearances, 'Catch Me if You Can', 'Gangs of New York', and 'The Aviator', were all overhyped and overrated; especially 'The Aviator'.
So far, DiCaprio's work gets better as you look earlier into his career. He was best in, and showed much promise in What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, This Boy's Life, and The Basketball Diaries -- all from the mid-1990's.
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Certainly there's a faster (and more furious) method than these four levels. I'd gladly defer to anyone who can find it...
The Fast and the Furious < Dorothy Malone > Basic Instinct
Basic Instinct < Sharon Stone > Bobby
Bobby < Lawrence Fishburne > The Death and Life of Bobby Z
The Death and Life of Bobby Z < Paul Walker > The Fast and the Furious
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"he said there was one coming up that he thought had the qualities of the early stars, her name was Virginia Madsen. Needless to say, I had to scour the movie listings and credits to find her, which I did, and he was right, unfortunately she was used as a sexy 'bomb' and only recently has been getting meatier roles, remember he's been gone for nearly 15 years now so she's past her leading lady chances by this time."
Au contraire, Virginia Madsen's leading lady status has just begun. Apparently she's graduated from ingenue to leading lady. I'm happy to report that she has four movies coming out in the next year, and she's the leading lady of the three of them. She's currently shooting In the Shadow of Wings, and has completed shooting The Number 23 as the female lead to Jim Carrey, The Astronaut Farmer , and Ripple Effect with Forrest Whitaker and billed over Minnie Driver.
I'm very impressed with your late husband; that he as able to see her star quality. Even though I'd seen her in movies like Dune, I wasn't aware of her until I saw Sideways only a couple of years ago. Your husband could have been a talent scout!
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Shearerchic posted the results here:
http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?threadID=86501&tstart=0
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"That part should have been played by someone like Joan Crawford, because by the time she reached 30 she already was losing her earlier freshness."
Huh? Miss Crawford was 30 years old in 1934 and fresh as a Comet cleanser wielding daisy. I think it wasn't until she woke up at age 45 that she discovered she mislaid her freshness somewhere on the Warner's lot...
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June Haver had an affair with Georgie Jessel (mid-1940's), quit Hollywood and became a nun (early 1950's), left convent and married Fred MacMurray (mid-1950's). Don't we lead dull lives? Anyway, she passed away last year.
June Havoc was the sister of Gypsy Rose Lee. The musical Gypsy portrays Gypsy's mother as the ultimate stage mother in pushing Baby June to stardom. "Baby June" = June Havoc. I guess she hated Gypsy and the book on which it was based. But she was in a lot of movies: My Sister Eileen, Gentlemen's Agreement, When My Baby Smiles at Me, even Can't Stop the Music.
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My, he was dashing, wasn't he?! What a dazzling smile. You're correct: he was born (Luis Antonio D?maso de Alonso) in Ju?rez and he died on May 15, 1994. His father was a bullfighter. His family moved to the States when he was a kid, and he made his first movie appearance when he was only 13. He was married twice: to Constance Bennett and Guillermina Cantu. As far as I know, he had no children. He was living in Beverly Hills when he died from cancer at age 89.
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As long as you're here Mr. Mongo, I wonder if you (or any other readers) know how June Havoc is these days? I understand she's living in Wilton, Connecticut. It seems that someone should be interviewing her, or including her on the audio commentary of Gypsy or something...
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While awaiting drdolittle's response about Show Boat I'll tell y'all that I just finished watching Betty Grable and June Haver in the splashy Technicolor musical The Dolly Sisters. This movie features a great look: beautiful costumes, a fantastic color palette, terrific set designs, and one of the most horrifying production numbers I've ever seen. "The Darktown Strutter's Ball" is on a level of bad taste to rival the notorious "Goin to Heaven on a Mule" from Wonder Bar. The number of chorus girls in blackface must have put a crimp in the studio's stock of Max Factor's Egyptian No. 2. Though the scene takes place at the Folies Bergere, the number pays "homage" to New York's Harlem district, with the chorus dressed as allegories to gambling (dice and playing cards) and watermelons. By the time Misses Grable and Haver pop up dressed as (please pardon the expression) "pickaninnies" in bloomers, blackface, and ribboned hair; my jaw had dropped to the floor. I understand for years this scene was cut from television broadcasts. This is the biggest production number in the entire movie with gargantuan effects and lavish values; it's appalling how much money and misguided creativity must have gone into this appalling scene. I listened to the audio commentary for this scene, and [commentarist] Drew Casper doesn't seem to notice that anything is out of the ordinary. It's like the "elephant in the room" that no one speaks about.
A movie you could never get tired of!
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"So, Papa Jack, where do you get your knowledge of 'the parlance of today's youth'?"
I live in the Haight/Ashbury district of San Francisco. I'm surrounded by urban youth...