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Oooooh. Lynn, these are lovely. O.K. Tell us about the house and the party, and don't forget about a play-by-play on the hor's d'oeuvre's tray.
I choose Coop's place! Barb, which one do you choose?
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Maybe you and Rudy should seek shelter immediately!
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oohlala! Cheyenne and Sugarfoot!
How about ebay, Mongo?
Or the auction house from the TCM Festival this year? Bonham's.
You can find info about them at the Club TCM page:
http://www.tcm.com/festival/programs/general/457417/club-tcm.html
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Those sound great, Jackie. Right now I am working on *A Year in the World* by Frances Mayes. When I need a break from essays that always begin with "In today's modern society" I indulge in a bit of House Hunter's International, or a scenic film like *River of No Return* with the Canadian Rockies as the scenic landscape. I'm watching and grading right now.
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Of course, Mongo! I may not post much here, but I do travel your thread with abandon!
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Hubba-Hubba Guy Madison, Mongo!
Love that candid with Eve Arden and her hubby. I would have truly enjoyed having a career like hers. She had a lovely family and happy home life, and was very level-headed.
I also enjoyed that candid of Glenn Ford and his son, Peter, whom I met at TCM Film Festival 2012.
He was so funny. He had just had his father's biography published.
Thanks, Mongo!
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I just viewed the hour long episode with Lillian Gish and it was delightful. Almost as in-depth a performance as her appearance in *Night of the Hunter.*
She was such an accomplished performer. I just found her autobiography at a used book store and can't wait to get to it.
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"When a woman goes bad,men go right after her..."
So true, Miss G!
Cinemaven, Thank you. Sometimes the simplest solutions are the best!
Frank, men AND women are such fools when it comes to love. That's what makes life
so interesting!
Movieman, you always have something good to say!
Jackie, I am still giggling over that photo! It reveals exactly how I feel.
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I will be all done by Thursday of next week. No problem.
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Dear Jackie,
I....can't.....hardly....tap....this...here...note...cuz...eye....yam...laffin'...lak...a....hyena...
at...a...group...grubfest...
Too cute!
Reduce the stack by 1/2 and I'm almost there......
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I really have enjoyed reading this MAJOR ramble concerning *The Macomber Affair.*
*The perspectives, points of view, poetry, and personal comments are fascinating.*
I needed a good read after all those college research papers. Thank you Miss G, Jacks, Kingrat, Cinemaven, and rohanaka. If I've left anyone out, do forgive.
The word just begins to live!
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A very Happy Birthday to you, Mr. Osborne!
And many thanks for hosting Turner Classic Movies for 18 wonderful years!
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The Little Mermaid?
Sue Sue is signing off now....
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Little Miss Rerun, here.
I will once again request that Joan Collins be engaged, uh, well, we know she's been engaged,( and married a few times, too) for an introduction to one of her greatest cinematic roles, and the precursor to Alexis on Dynasty.
Yes. Once again. I beg and plead for Joanie to grace our TCM Film Fest 2013 presence to regale us with her international wit and wisdom to chat up the behind-the-scenes style and action surrounding (TA-DAH) *The Opposite Sex*, starring June Allyson, Ann Sheridan, Ann Miller, Leslie Nielsen, gorgeous hunk Jeff Richards, and Agnes Moorehead (pre-Endora, post Dark Passage Madge).
What about a double bill: *The Women* and *The Opposite Sex?*
Yes, it's a remake of *The Women*, another truly popular festival hit. Just ask anyone in the audience this year at the TCM Fest 2012.
Yes. It has music.
Yes. It has fancy clothes.
And yes, you can almost taste the champagne and smell the perfume.
Maybe Joanie's little sister, Jackie, can be persuaded to visit, too, and highlight the psychology of show business women and their devious machinations.
How about Joanie and Jackie discussing the dynastic legacy of a popular play by Claire Boothe Luce that continually keeps being remade?
Yes, Ma'm!
(And for those of you who haven't seen it, "yes, Ma'm" is a signature sound byte from the film.)
Whaddya say, fellas?
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Jackie, Gary always seemed like he had a few of the answers, especially the ones about what to do with a demanding, bossy femme fatale like our Bette.
Bronxie, I just feel like I had a whirlwind tour of 19 episodes of House Hunters International. I definitely feel a lack of art direction in my abode. My toothbrush holder is...well...just a toothbrush holder that came attached to the backsplash.
Beachy Bonjour Tristesse? Peachy....
I just adore your "Cannes" do attitude towards the indoor decor...
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Bronxie, I think those QVC Gem and Jewelry episodes are filmed in Miltown......
And Lynn, I am raising a flute to Ann in celebration of her personal anniversary.
(You would want mebbe me to use a piano yet?)
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Well, Miss "Bumpy Ride" Bette must have seen something she liked.
Sans, HA X 2!
I've been wondering the same thing, Miss G, and hope the Bronxster is having a wonderful life.
So what's the scoop, Bronxie, dear Building and Loan Pal? Is there enough closet space for those Ruby slippers? Did Mrs. Blandings really build her dream abode?
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I also have been enjoying the wonderful apps. Thank you, TCM!
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As soon as I had arrived at the Hollywood Roosevelt, I unpacked after the unusually smooth check-in process, enjoyed a long, tall glass of iced tea, and felt the call of the styled.
I headed for the elevator, and felt I truly hit terra firma when I landed in the lobby and was swept up in the hustle and bustle of preparations for the festival. Club TCM was still being tweaked and polished, but the Givenchy juggernaut was pressing me on. The doors were flung wide open, and I stepped in.
All was unusually quiet, but a man was feverishly reviewing notes at a table just to the right as I entered. I quietly interrupted his reverie, and enquired if I might move closer to the warm glow that would eventually draw every mover and shaker to sift through the crush of the party central crowd.
The glass case was almost humming with electricity as I grew closer to one of the most beautiful gowns ever seen on film, and ever worn by Audrey Hepburn. I felt my pulse quicken as each step I made drew me closer to the dress that would mesmerize me and every other passholder bold enough to venture near.
I heard myself gasp as I stood before that lovely creation, and it held me in suspended animation for a moment that I hope will never dissolve from my memory.
As I glanced at the lovely appliqued buds in the flowers varying in shades of black and grey, my eyes slowly fell to the floor of the luminous glass case, and I saw something that I never expected to see. I had never noticed it in the photos, and certainly never realized it was there when I viewed *Sabrina,* but the 3- inch black ruffle surrounding the hem of the garment was like a ruffly strand of icing on the cake.
In the film, when Audrey is standing on the grass as she makes that breathtaking entrance, the little black ruffle is obviously overstaged by the understated elegance of Audrey. Entranced by the entirety of seeing the gown in person, and being surprised by its delicacy of its creation, finding and realizing the ruffle had been there all the time so surprised me, I heard myself say "oh, how lovely," but no one really heard me.
Every time since that first glance at Givenchy inspiration, I would always gravitate to the shrine no matter how many times I breezed through Club TCM, and I wasn't the only passholder astonished at some aspect of its spectrum of loveliness. Several times I heard visitors gasp and say, "Why, I didn't know it had a ruffle on the hem!"
Someone heard me after all. Maybe it was Audrey.
Audrey Hepburn and William Holden in a publicity still from *Sabrina*
*The dress was personally chosen by Miss Hepburn from Givenchy's 1953 collection.*
*For more about that lovely silk organdy overlay or the deliacy of the applique,*
*follow this link to the dress diary from Sunday Couture at :*
http://www.kartanonrouva.net/couture/ressabrinabw.shtml
Up next: How I met Deb and Al
Don't forget to have fun!
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I feel that there was such a wide array of choices this year that the festival venues just seem to expand and allow for such a variety of genres that passholders have become the benefactors of the largesse.
A Broadway to Hollywood theme would be tempting and would certainly provide an array of presenters.The addition of a Fairbanks and Flynn feature on a double *Robin Hood* bill would certainly please me.
Presenting films associated with stylish actors and actresses costumed by the greats (Banton, Irene, Orry Kelly, Adrian, Kalloch, Walter Plunkett, Edith Head, and more) is always a crowd-pleaser, and judgiing by the popularity of stylish vintage finery, would always find a welcome wagon. The Club TCM fashion presentations were certainly popular. And Deborah Nadoolman Landis was a wonderful presenter as well as her friend, Booth Moore.
Lynn, Countess, Kyle, Kingrat, filmlover and Cinecrazydc---all fine comments that I certainly agree with.
And Lynn, the third time would be the charm for Shirley Jones. :^0
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Darryl, it was a lovely, little black dress!
Countess, thanks for the adorable photo!
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My friend Deb Adair's charming hubby Al, who works for LAPD, also related an interesting tale about a professional call he made at the Hollywod Roosevelt Hotel in the 1990's, and I'll have more about that a little later...
Don't forget to have fun!
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Photo courtesy of Turner Classic Movies Festival 2012 Photo Gallery
The third annual Turner Classic Movies Film Festival held in Los Angeles at the historic Hollywood Hotel was the place to see and be seen this past week. Festival passholders from as far away as India, Scotland, and Nova Scotia, as well as 49 of the contiguous United States were well represented, as well as many Houstonians who were also swept up in filmdom fervor. The popular film channel also celebrated its 18th birthday with hosts Robert Osborne, Ben Mankiewicz, film favorites Robert Wagner, Peggy Cummins, Margaret O’Brien, Kim Novak and many others attending the festivities with hundreds of TCM Film Festival 2012 passholders dressed in their finery.
Photo courtesy of the Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund and TCM Film Festival 2012 Photo Gallery
Early festival goers were able to catch a glimpse of Hollywood’s “Dress of the Century,” the Audrey Hepburn inspired Givenchy creation for the 1954 film *Sabrina* . The lovely gown was on loan for the festival from the Audrey Hepburn’s Children’s Fund, and was a popular exhibit in the heart of Club TCM, a gathering place for passholders and panel discussions, situated in the “Blossom Room,” the sight of the first Oscar ceremony in 1929.
Even before the first official event of the festival began at 1 p.m.on Thursday, April 12, glitterati were circling the famous pool and its environs. On Tuesday evening, an after- screening cocktail party for crew and fans of *Waiting for Lightening* , a documentary film seven years in the making, was held by the Hollywood Roosevelt pool bar, where Marilyn Monroe modeled for photographers early in her career. Oscar-nominated Emmy winning sound mixer Deb Adair, whose last film was *Moneyball* with Brad Pitt, was in attendance at the *Waiting For Lightening* premiere with her husband Al, an L.A.P.D. officer who has collaborated with crime novelist Joseph Wambaugh on several of his award-winning detective novels.
Deb Adair and Brad Pitt at the final wrap party for *Moneyball* (Photo Courtesy of Deb Adair)
Ms. Adair revealed that her work as a sound mixer allows her the privilege of collaborating with directors so that she can “make films come to life with sound” because “sound is half the experience of going to a movie.”
Rob Dyrdek from MTV’s *Ridiculousness* was also spotted at the poolside party Tuesday night.
Check out the TCM FILM FEST 2012 PHOTO GALLERY at:
http://www.tcm.com/festival/about/gallery-openingnight.html
Visit the Audrey Hepburn Children’s Fund website at :
http://www.audreyhepburn.com/menu/index.php
More Later...
But in the meanwhile, don't forget to have fun!
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Wolfie, so true, isn't it?
cinecrazydc, Thanks for your comments, and check your PMs.
hlywdkjk, a very salient observation and subtle request from the Zen Master. I agree 110%!
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O.K., Barb. I am packing and ready to move!
Houdini never had such a magical spell to cast. The spacious family room opening onto the patio with that vision of the pool does it for me.
What a cozy "get away" from the Rat Pack even though Frank's place isn't that far away. I am detecing a faint odor of toasted Brie and freshed grilled tomato and basil crostinis right before I dive into the pool while wearing my Esther Williams vintage one-piece as I hear the tinkle of ice cubes as I rest my vodka collins on the coffee table...