Cinemascope
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I liked Billy Bob a whole lot better before I learned he'd compared himself to Coop.
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> Oh. On topic. I don't think they're worth jack. My
> opinion is worth as much, if not more, than most
> critics. They just managed to figure out how to do
> the least amount of work for a nice hunk of money AND
> get into the movie theaters for free. So I have to
> hand them that. But being clever doesn't mean I
> should listen to them. Oh no.
It really couldn't be that much fun when they have to watch all or most of the movies that come out, including those they know are going to be really bad.
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I enjoyed the book, too. But as far as adaptations go, I'd go with this one over any other.
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This:
http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?threadID=97932&tstart=0
is a link to a web page. You just click on it and it takes you to the page, without your having to type in the address on your browser.
Hope that helps.
P.S. "web" is short for WorldWideWeb, the Internet.
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TCM probably couldn't get the rights to Laura, which is a Fox film. Most of Gene Tierney's films show on Fox Movie Channel 'cause that's where she made a lot of them. One exception is The Mating Season, which was a Paramount movie IIRC.
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A long link meaning a long web link...
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Oh, believe me, Marty's adaptation is one heck of a lot better than the original RKO version. Way better.
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I'd love to watch those, too!
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I will cross my fingers too!
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It's got lots of photos, too!
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Probably right.
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That sounds about right. Here's more details still from the book "The RKO Story" --
The fate of The Magnificent Ambersons was sealed one evening in March 1942 when the film had its first preview at a theater in Pomona, California. President George J. Schaefer attended and, in a confidential letter to Orson Welles who was then in South America working on It's All True, Schaefer described the experience as being 'like getting one sock in the jaw after another for over two hours.' The Pomona audience kidded the picture, laughed in the wrong places, and talked back to the performers.
Flabbergasted by the crowd reaction and sickened by the knowledge that $1,125,000 of the studio's money was tied up in the film, the president ordered editor Robert Wise to cut approximately 40 minutes out of it. It seemed to play better at this length, but preview audiences still complained about the downbeat ending so a new, more positive finish was filmed.
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The RKO-Mercury Productions co-venture was released in August, two months after George Schaefer's departure. It was not handled gently by the distribution arm, playing in some theaters on a double-bill with one of the Mexican Spitfire comedies. RKO's ultimate loss came to $624,000.
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Yeah, those won't be out a minute too soon!
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I don't have a clear favorite. I'm still waiting to screen the movies in the set, plus one that I TiVo'd from the FMC (Little Old New York).
At this time, what I'd like to see most is The Gang's All Here but properly restored to its original Technicolor beauty!
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I do hope you're right. But it's still a case of "hoping for the best but expecting the worst" for me.
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I'm not even sure who if anyone could rescue it from PD hell... who would have access to the original negative, if any still exists?
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More breathtaking than some of Eleanor Powell's numbers from the 40's?
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Any one of those movies would be awesome to have.
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So anyone else have a chance to watch it yet?
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Well I guess they're about the same as some Broadway shows... heh, well Broadway shows not including The Producers maybe.
Come to think of it I don't think I've watched any Broadway shows since Mamma Mia.
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I love it, too but haven't seen it in a while.
Might give it another viewing but first I need to watch my Alice Faye set!
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I'll give it a try next time I post a long link
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I'd love to find out myself, although I would doubt she'd be eager to 'fess up!