LuckyDan
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I didn't know Robert Walker was a big drinker.
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I rarely look at imdb reviews, true, and I am referring to cases where products or movies can be reviewed and the reviews replied to. Comment secions.
I do like reading Ebert's site and I find him to be a very entertaining writer. Kael can be interesting even if she's usually grinding a socio/political axe. John Simon can still be accessed. He was great at high-brow snark.
I think we are living in a time, and it it has been true for a good while, where effective written communication isn't valued all that highly. We have a kind of "well you know what I mean" default position on lapses in grammar and proper usage, a reliance on stock phrases that pepper both conversation and messages, even news reporting and opinion pieces.
But alright. I'll leave you to the celebration. Hope you get lots of hearts!
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I like it when I see a review like that one though and somebody replies, "Well said."
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I once tapped thumbs down on something when I meant thumbs up.
It's not all that meaningful without any explanation. I'm sure there are liked reviews that go something like, "I just watched this movie. I feel this is a very good movie. I liked watching this movie. I think you also should watch this movie too as it is a very good movie."
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4 minutes ago, TopBilled said:
I may share that one a bit later, to provide a contrast!
I don't think I am being stubborn. I really feel it was a good piece of writing, but I think people who read it felt I was attacking the characters instead of why the film as a whole does not work. The characters are based on real-life people. So maybe they thought I was attacking the real-life people. I don't know. As I said I won't delete it because I think that point of view, which I espoused, needs to be present.
Are all your non-negged reviews positive while the thumbed down one is negative?
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I'm more interested in reading the one that got dragged.
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4 minutes ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
It can help with ones timing as a singer to play rhythm guitar. But that is just for me; My guess is that Bono wants to be like Elvis (ha ha).
I find it quite difficult to play and sing usually but the rhythm is so square here, yes it might be helpful to keep time with a guitar. Plus it looks dam cool for the movie. He's a hell of a foot stomper, too.
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Recorded at Sun Studios in late 1987, with the Memphis Horns, U2's tribute to Billie Holiday.
Not sure why Bono has a guitar, unless he just liked wearing it while he sang. Maybe to be like Elvis. Doesn't seem to be audible.
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Many in the pro Mia camp point to the Connecticut state attorney, Frank Maco, saying that he found probable cause existed. (The "probable cause" comment is relative only to the arrest warrant, and as Allen defenders point out, Maco doesn't say what the probable cause was.)
I found his statement here and it is an exercise in weaselry. In case the link doesn't work for everyone, I made some screen shots of what I believe are relevant excerpts regarding the weakness of a criminal case against Woody, which should have been sufficient for Maco's purpose.
But no. He spends most of his time describing Dylan as fragile, and stresses that he doesn't want to subject her to having to testify in a criminal proceeding. He says it something like 8 times over five pages.
Maco makes many references to the custody trial and Justice Wilk, and concludes that justice was served well enough in that decision. And oh, yeah, the criminal case is weak.
So. We have a state attorney saying essentially, yeah I believe this guy's a p3do, but I'm going to let him go on being a p3do because ... I don't want to upset his victim?
Woody sought disciplinary action against Maco for misconduct. A lengthy investigation resulted and Maco was cleared.
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On 2/20/2021 at 6:43 AM, UMO1982 said:
The "documentary" looks like it's made by two witch hunters who saw a headline for their project. From what I read in the NY Times, they went into to project with the assumption that Woody Allen was guilty (although he's never been legally charged with anything ... not even a parking ticket). It's obviously then not an impartial documentary. It features the "usual suspects" any does not include the several adopted children who cam out for Allen and against Mommie Mia. It's basically tabloid journalism on film.
Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering. Their previous work includes a documentary about sexual assault in the military, a documentary about sexual assault on college campuses, and a documentary about sexual assault in Hollywood.
Edit: Not Hollywood but the hip hop recording industry, specifically one victim. They seem to be getting more specific as they go along.
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Just now, Allhallowsday said:
No, it was PRETENDERS Learning To Crawl tour, 1984, I think SIMPLE MINDS' big hit came the next year.
Yes I remembered 85 as being the year of Don't You Forget About Me. I remember Jim Kerr quoted by a local jock as saying they weren't changing their sound, that their hit song was "just for the movie." I thought, they're selling records at last and apologizing for it?
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1 minute ago, Allhallowsday said:
I saw SIMPLE MINDS open for PRETENDERS in 1984. That was a great show.
Was that before they hit? Or just after? I saw the Pretenders open or The Who at American Airlines Center in 2006. They were still impressive.
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1 minute ago, LsDoorMat said:
Woody has his problems too. Starting with cheating on his girlfriend with her daughter, grown or not, that he has known since she was a child.
"Grown or not" is a pretty big thing to toss aside. But let's remember she was in fact grown.
And that does seem to be the scorn that unleashed the fury.
I haven't and won't see it, but I do find Moses's piece very compelling.
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11 minutes ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
Uh, no media outlet would show it and no company would distribute it to be shown in theaters.
Plus he'd probably have to fund it himself.
And he has told his side. A few times now. To the authorities and to the public. I can't imagine he wants to dwell on it any further, and certainly not to the degree that making a persuasive documentary would require.
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When my granddaughter was a toddler she used to sit in my lap as I watched videos on the PC. She would sit transfixed on this one and demand replays.
Now she's a middle schooler and swears she has no recollection whatsoever of this video.
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31 minutes ago, CinemaInternational said:
The one other child who ultimately reconciled with Woody wrote this in 2018.
http://mosesfarrow.blogspot.com/2018/05/a-son-speaks-out-by-moses-farrow.html
Plus him, you also have her former servants, all of whom, spoke about bizarre perversities, and you even had other Hollywood figures make comments against Mia, such as Katharine Hepburn.
That is a heartbreaking read. Thanks for posting it.
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Shane has a couple of wince-inducing scenes that are necessary to set up the payoff. This is one of them.
Although, Tory does get in a nice little piece of trash talk before the lights go out.
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43 minutes ago, chaya bat woof woof said:
Loved the movie (Color of Money) - great song by Clapton and Robbie Robertson. And, since there is a thread devoted to him, what else can I say (Paul Newman)!
It is good hearing that one again. This version has Clapton miming a performance with his black strat in all his 80s splendor, mixed with some footage - and a little sound - from the movie.
Wiki quotes an unsourced item from Songfacts that says Robertson was in charge of the music for the movie, but Warners would not let him sing any of his songs because he still owed them an album. Fact is, Robbie can't sing. And he knows it. But a great song and very well delivered by Clapton.
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37 minutes ago, Allhallowsday said:
The first show included routine performing of the album Graceland. The 2nd show was much more recent and a dreadfully hot night ... with lots of booze! Freebies on the premises from my friend who worked there me and my other friend had bought tickets for the show but retreated from the venue because of the oppressive heat. The show again was uninspired, but it was so damned hot, to be fair, I don't blame PAUL.
Booze, Si, Heat No
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9 minutes ago, Allhallowsday said:
If I remember right, Still Crazy After All These Years was well received. I never paid much attention to Grammy awards.
"Mother And Child Reunion" was on this album:
I'm conflating two memories. The broadcast I thought he said that on would have been for 1971. He said it in 1976. Award shows were still television events in those days. For me anyway.
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Heard this one in the car yesterday. Always liked it. It reminds me I bought a Cry Baby wah pedal last year and I haven't even gotten it dirty yet. This would be a good song to get the hang of it with.
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10 minutes ago, Allhallowsday said:
PAUL SIMON did at least two great albums in the '70s, There Goes Rhymin' Simon being one of them. I saw him twice, 1st in the '80s and 15 or so years ago. Memorably bad shows.
Was the other the one with "Mother and Child Reunion" on it? I got a little clock radio as a gift one year and I kept that thing buzzing. That song was in heavy rotation. Then he made his famous acceptance speech at the Grammys where he thanked Stevie Wonder for ... not releasing an album that year. That one?
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25 minutes ago, Vanessa17 said:
I happened to read a news article that mentioned the Supreme Court case relating to this today, so here's a Wikipedia article. According to this, the Supreme Court okayed states making people get vaccinated in 1905. They ruled that schools could require vaccinations in 1922.
I think I'm more confused after reading that than I was before.
At the risk of misconstruing you yet again ... Maybe you are mistaking the court saying the states can do something for the court saying the states must do something.
States run the schools, so even if the court said they could require vaccinations to protect public health, not all states felt the need.
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33 minutes ago, UMO1982 said:
Why on earth would he?
Like being invited to dinner by a family of cannibals.
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