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I haven't meticulously been following this conversation, but I did try to do my chart based on the website that was recommended earlier. I'm a Leo (which of course I knew); Libra ascendant (which goes against something I heard in the past); Moon in Gemini;
I have no earth signs. I have 4 fire signs, 5 air signs, 1 water sign; 9 masculine, 1 feminine, 3 cardinal, 3 fixed, 4 mutable.
Not sure I understand the other stuff; for example Jupiter in Sagittarius; Saturn in Leo; and all the houses.
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The Sheltering Sky (1990)
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The New World (2005) is a fine film, directed by Terence Malick; perhaps the only one of this films that has moved me. Pocahontas and Captain John Smith are characters.
You didn't say (or did you?) that the films should focus on American history? If not, there's tons of other films, like Becket and The Lion in Winter, which combine to give a good depiction of Henry II and his times, even if some of the facts are not accurate (e.g. making Becket a Saxon was a total fiction).
I think if you show Gone with the Wind, you could also show Little Women (perhaps the 1933 version), which shows a slice of Yankee life during the Civil War.
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I've used this before, but it's such a great song:
"September in the Rain" sung by James Melton in Melody for Two (1937)
Next: How about "air" in the song (not necessarily in the title).
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2 hours ago, TomJH said:
The guy on the left looks like Spencer Tracy as Mr. Hyde.
I thought the guy on the left might be Frank McHugh.
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58 minutes ago, Swithin said:
Thanks! I wasn't at the stadium in East London; I was on the other side of town, in West London, watching it on TV with my friends.
And now I'm reminded that it was actually the 2004 Athens Olympics we watched in London. I was home in NYC watching the 2012 London Olympics. But in any case, these films are awesome!
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21 minutes ago, NoShear said:
The LONDON OLYMPICS opening cermony was awesome, and it's awesome you got to be there, Swithin...
Daniel Craig on his Majesty's secret service:
Thanks! I wasn't at the stadium in East London; I was on the other side of town, in West London, watching it on TV with my friends.
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3 hours ago, NoShear said:
If haven't yet viewed, yes, some of the proverbial pomp and circumstance of the 1948 games' opening ceremony is on display for you...
It was interesting viewing the hammer heaving: I think some of its footage showed up later in wee Geordie (1955) for the fictional Olympic competition.
Imre Nemeth, the '48 victor, is shown, and his son might be seen later this evening in Games of the XXI Olympiad (1977): Miklos Nemeth way outdistanced the Montreal field in the men's javelin throw!
Although I'm looking forward to that, I was hoping for the 2012 ceremony. I was in London at that time and watched it with two friends, one since died.
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53 minutes ago, scsu1975 said:
I guess that's my favorite episode of the series, and she has the best lines! Ralph is lucky that she didn't stab him with a fork. Btw, Ms. Garde also created the role of Aunt Eller in the original Broadway production of Oklahoma!
Betty Garde stabbing Hope Emerson with a fork in Caged (1950)
Betty Garden (center) in Oklahoma!
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15 hours ago, NipkowDisc said:
they didn't show it in the movie, wanda skutnick was so ugly she could scare criminals straight.
Don't you think she was lovely on the The Honeymooners?
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Donald Crisp was in The Sisters with Laura Hope Crews.
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8 hours ago, speedracer5 said:
Even in The Sisters, another film that I enjoy watching, I do find it hard to believe that of all the women in the room, Bette would catch Errol's eye. I've even seen this film with my dad and my husband and both said that they found it hard to believe that of all the women in the room, Errol would zero in on Bette.
The Sisters is one of my favorite Bette Davis films. I think she's beautiful in it and that the character has a magnetism that her sisters don't. As for Errol, I've never thought of him as a particularly handsome bloke, but in The Sisters, he is! The unmoustachiod look suits him.
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Actually, although I said I don't like the Hammer films which focus on the classic Universal characters, I do remember enjoying The Scars of Dracula (1970). I haven't seen it in ages, though.
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I like some of the non-Universal related Hammer films. Quatermass and the Pit is brilliant; Curse of the Vampire, The Reptile, and The Gorgon are satisfying. There are others as well. I'd like to see a festival of non-horror Hammer films, of which there are many.
How can you not like this lady:
Jacqueline Pearce in The Reptile
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28 minutes ago, Eucalpytus P. Millstone said:
Five Years Later
Actually, Count Dracula did need an invitation!
Quoth Professor Abraham Van Helsing in Dracula written by Bram Stoker:
"He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please."
Furthermore, the rule about vampires requiring an invitation to enter a dwelling was not new.
Why do Vampires Have to Be Invited In?
Well I hope the vampires don't have to wait five years to be invited in!
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1 hour ago, NipkowDisc said:
living corpses meh! how about 50 foot giant women?
voodoo doan impress me.
You might like Macumba Love. I think you'll find something in it to interest you, and you won't need your binoculars!
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16 hours ago, jameselliot said:
I'd like to see Sven program White Zombie. One of Bela's best and very eerie.
White Zombie is a great movie. I have a degree in Theology and did some Voodoo study. White Zombie -- and the whole movie zombie phenomenon -- was inspired in part by Seabrook's The Magic Island, published in 1929. A fascinating book, though rather sensationalist. Anthropologist Alfred Metraux's Voodoo in Haiti (1958) is a scholarly approach.
I love the opening of White Zombie, with the burial at the crossroads, and that haunting music/chanting.
Images from Seabrook's The Magic Island. I have a first edition.
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2 hours ago, TikiSoo said:
On this message board, that "compliment" would insinuate the person has a big caboose. (one of the earliest, long running threads)
I know, my comment to him was before that thread arose, else I certainly wouldn't have made that comparison!
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25 minutes ago, Dargo said:
Have just now done what you've suggested here Swithin, but sorry, I'm not seein' that here.
(...left or right profile, he still looks like ol' tubby butt Georgie to me)
I once told a friend of mine -- a great classic film buff -- that he reminded me of George Brent. I meant it as a great compliment, but he was offended.
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58 minutes ago, Dargo said:
Yep, and not only MGM stars but also quite a few Fox stars too, and such as Tyrone Power and his dancing partner Sonja Henie.
If you pause the film (as you may have done) before the mystery man turns, from his left profile, seen only briefly, he does look more like Ameche than Brent.
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2 minutes ago, Dargo said:
Yes, but this is the very point of my thread here, Swithin. That in essence, WHOEVER this was, and I'm sure NOT someone associated in the least with the making of this cartoon short nor affilitated with the Warner Brothers animation department at all either in the past or the present, was INcorrect with their identification of Ameche as the seated movie star who turns to profile himself during the opening sequence. AND that whoever this person was, just might have assumed it to be so primarily because of a point someone earlier made in this thread...the idea of this caricatured actor's proximity to that of an old co-star of his, Claudette Colbert.
(...nope, still say the boy or boys at Termite Terrace intended their drawing to be that of George Brent, and primarily because it obviously looks a heck of lot more like HIM and who was ALSO a big W-B contracted movie star in 1941 I might add, than it looks like Don Ameche)
I was surprised that a Warner Brothers cartoon would have focused so much on MGM stars. Although many WB stars were included, many were not.
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The news about Britney Spears brings to mind the tragedy of the great Frances Farmer. Here she is singing "Aura Lea" in Come and Get It (1936), which takes place in Wisconsin but has the feel of a western (cowboy hats, logging, etc.).
And here she is 20 years later, returning to show business, singing "Aura Lea" on the Ed Sullivan Show:
Another song sung by an actor/actress who had a tragic life.
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This is posted in the IMDB summary:
"A tour of Ciro's Nightclub packed with caricatures of many top stars, including (in order) Cary Grant, Greta Garbo, Edward G. Robinson and Ann Sheridan, Johnny Weissmuller, James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart and George Raft, Harpo Marx, Clark Gable, Bing Crosby, Leopold Stokowski, James Stewart and Dorothy Lamour, Tyrone Power and Sonja Henie, The Frankenstein Monster, Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Curly Howard, Oliver Hardy, Cesar Romero, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland and Lewis Stone, Kay Kyser, Peter Lorre, Henry Fonda, J. Edgar Hoover, Ned Sparks, Jerry Colonna, and Groucho Marx; many more just get sight gags, such as Claudette Colbert, Norma Shearer, William Powell, Don Ameche, Wallace Beery, C. Aubrey Smith, Boris Karloff, Arthur Treacher, Buster Keaton and Mischa Auer." -
Two great English character actors grace The Mummy (1959): Raymond Huntley (left), and Felix Aylmer (center), with Peter Cushing.
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on svengoolie tonite
in General Discussions
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On Svengoolie tomorrow, July 24, 2021:
In terms of plot, performances, design, and sheer creepiness, Edgar Ulmer's 1934 pre-code masterpiece The Black Cat is one of the great films.
" Did you hear that, Vitus? The phone is dead. Even the phone is dead."
The Lugosi/Karloff chess game likely inspired Ingmar Bergman's similar scene in The Seventh Seal.
Karloff's character, architect Hjalmar Poelzig, is named for Hans Poelzig, a German architect, but is said to be based partly on Aleister Crowley.
There's even a little humour, particularly in this scene between Henry Armetta and Albert Conti.