Swithin
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William H. Macy
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13 hours ago, Vidor said:
My goodness that's condescending. It's not a matter of the rest of America being too dumb to appreciate theater, it's a matter of the rest of America being literally unable to see the works that compete in the Tonys. Grammys, Emmys, Oscars--people have a chance to see that work. Unless there's a movie, the only people who will see "The Ferryman" are New Yorkers.
I saw The Ferryman in London, it was brilliant. Some of the plays/musicals may actually travel to other parts of the USA, on tour. I believe a tour was planned for The Ferryman, to fourteen cities in the US and Canada, but Covid intervened.
Some people watch award shows without having seen (or heard) any of the nominees. I don't watch the Oscars as regularly as I used to, but I watched most of the show this year, without having seen (or wanting to see) any of the movies. There are young people all over this country who dream of going to the theater, and sometimes the Tony Awards show brings them closer to that dream. And it is after all history and education as well as, one hopes, entertainment.
And I never said that the residents of Dogpatch are dumb, But, to continue in a condescending vein, I wonder if, wherever you are, you have a thing called a "remote." It has buttons on it. If anyone doesn't want to watch the Tony Awards, they can press some of the buttons, and other programs will appear! 😊
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44 minutes ago, Vidor said:
Sounds like a good show for WOR then! Just, you know, almost zero appeal for the rest of the country.
They used to show the first hour on a local station, then two hours on a national station, but I think they gave that up. The Olivier Awards, which are the British equivalent, are now shown on one of the cable channels occasionally, or streamed online.
I think you have a point, though. Theater is more for intellectual, upscale audiences mostly around New York; not for Dogpatch! Maybe they could be streamed for those few in the regions who are interested.
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Symphony No.6 ("Pathétique") by Tchaikovsky -- Maurice (1987) played at Oxford
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30 minutes ago, LsDoorMat said:
Then there is always blaming the wife for bad coffee... common through at least 1980 (Airplane).
Papa Eddie is played by Rolfe Sedan, who played the postman Mr. Beasley on Burns & Allen. He also played a mailman on a few episodes of The Addams Family and had a long career in movies and television.
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11 hours ago, Vidor said:
Never understood why anybody cared about the Tonys. Only people who go on vacations to New York watch any of those shows.
There are many millions of New Yorkers and suburbanites who go to the theater. And besides, televising the awards is supposed to encourage you all to come to New York and go to the theater. But as a New Yorker, I resent it when they try to put big movie stars on the Tony Award show, in the interests of getting national audience. They're out of place, unless they live locally, or have careers in the theater as well.
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John Carradine was in The Last Hurrah with Donald Crisp.
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"Let Me Call You Sweetheart" -- Anna Christie (1930)
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1 minute ago, ElCid said:
It is a railroad water tank and nobody drank water from it. Strictly for use to water the steam locomotives. Note that it has an open top so all kinds of debris, dead animals and who knows what was likely to be in it. Not to mention algae growing in the tank.
If that's the case, how gross for the ladies to be swimming in the midst of dead beavers, skunks, possums, etc!
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58 minutes ago, TikiSoo said:
"Nude" shouldn't be an issue. Peeing in the pool, maybe.
At the risk of being gross, the issue for my friend was bits of body hair in the drinking water. When he talked about it, he would make spitting noises, as if spitting out bits of hair.
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I have a friend who continues to be repulsed by the opening scene in Petticoat Junction, where the girls are (presumably) swimming nude in the water tower. I think he might have appreciated a warning of some type, like: DON'T DRINK THE WATER!!
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"Who" -- Sunny (1930) sung by Marilyn Miller, probably the biggest Broadway musical star of her day; and Lawrence Gray. When Miller appeared in Sunny on stage, it made her the highest paid star on Broadway.
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Repulsion (1965)
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I like Ken Russell movies but feel that some of them are not as good or outrageous as they're claimed to be, for example the composer films. I think Russell's greatest films are Women in Love (a noble attempt to bring D.H. Lawrence's novel to the screen); The Devils (which is rarely seen, perhaps thanks to naughty things that the nuns do); and The Lair of the White Worm, a very enjoyable film based on a Bram Stoker story. (A really disappointing film is Gothic, which should have been much better).
Hugh Grant and Peter Capaldi in The Lair of the White Worm
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Carrington (1995)
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An Eric Rohmer masterpiece and one of my favorite films:
A Summer's Tale (1996)
From a review: "An engaging piece of observational cinema, this film is a pleasure to listen to, as the young people talk passionately about what’s important in their lives as they dance around their potential involvement with each other.
It may seem like nothing much is happening on-screen, but by the time “A Summer’s Tale” is all over, it feels like everything important has been said and done. Welcome to the magic of Rohmer..."
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Quiggin, J.G. -- Adrian Scarborough in A Dance to the Music of Time (1997)
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Ellen Corby was in Caged with Betty Garde.
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7. He played Stanley Kowalski to Uta Hagen's Blanche DuBois in the national tour of the original production of A Streetcar Named Desire. Some critics preferred the Quinn/Hagen pairing to the Brando/Tandy pairing (which they also liked).
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On 6/5/2021 at 10:52 PM, LonesomePolecat said:
Just bumping this up-- I know you guys have watched a movie lately!
Yes, but it was a recent clue, and I (for one) don't want to repeat a song/music from the same movie, which is still the last movie I saw (Michael Collins). I've used it three times, most recently last week!
But I've just started watching Becket (1964):
"Main Title/King Henry II arrives in Canterbury Cathedral" -- Becket (1964)
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Rod Taylor was in Welcome to Woop Woop with Tina Louise.
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I love his films, though I haven't seen any in quite a while. In addition to The Apu Trilogy, I'm a big fan of Days and Nights in the Forest; and The Philosopher's Stone (Parash Patar). Tulsi Chakraborty plays a particularly endearing character in the latter film.
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3 hours ago, TikiSoo said:
Thanks to this board for the recent Richard Dreyfuss thread-I sought out unseen movies of his at the local library & came up with LOST IN YONKERS '93. Turns out it's not a Richard Dreyfuss film at all, it's a MERCEDES RUEHL film!!
I love Mercedes in one of my favorite films of all time, THE FISHER KING '91 and lament there isn't enough Ruehl in the world. Richard Dreyfuss is his charismatic self here, but briefly, this is Bella's story through & through.
It's kind of a slowly paced period piece, beautifully costumed, set, lit & photographed. It's beautifully written (of course) being based on a Neil Simon play. The acting is great and this had a woman director, Martha Coolidge.
Like action, comedy or romance movies, this is one of those kind of movies that strikes some, like myself, just right but may be a complete bore to others. It's basically the story of two boys sent to live with their grandmother for a period of time while their Dad goes off to work a job where they can't go. Grandma is a strict old lady who owns the sweet shop (every kids dream!) downstairs from their apartment. The kids fear of the old lady's staunch demeanor is only tempered by their Aunt Bella (Ruehl) who is a sweet beautiful woman with the mind of a child. Dreyfuss plays another sibling-one who turned to a life of crime- who really just pops in & out of the film creating a catalyst for the story progression, drama & some comic relief.
But Ruehl rules this film-she's on screen a lot and always a welcome joy. She is lovable, saucy and overcomes her repression second only to Bette Davis in NOW, VOYAGER. It's also nice a bit about what made Grandma/Mamma so hard is included in the script. Loved it.
Funny note: All through the film I noticed how beautiful Ruehl's hair was styled-eerily similar to my own hair, mine's just not as chic. Rolling through the end credits I see MY NAME as Ruehl's hairdresser! I know there's a Hollywood hair stylist that shares my name, but it's always startling to actually SEE it!
I've never seen the film but want to, as my old friend Irene Worth plays Grandma.
So, I guess your real name is TikiSoo Guilaroff?
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The Dead (1987)
John Huston's adaptation of James Joyce's story is a perfect final film and the director's best film.
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First Movie SONG That Comes to Mind
in Games and Trivia
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"Gathering Up the Shells at the Seashore" -- sung by Jan Duggan in The Old Fashioned Way (1934)
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