heidigunn
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Gee, I really threw everyone into a dither with my post. Let me clarify a little. I, too, loved the 'Plastics' line, and I had the Simon & Garfunkle soundrack on tape. I like the music from a lot of movies I don't care for. I agree with Ken 123 in that the storyline was 'distasteful', but Ken, that's what started this, I gave it a second chance as a full adult and found it very wanting, however, AB definetely improved with age.
Garbomaniac: He didn't 'steal' another guys girl, she came running.
lzcutter: as for a 'suffering saint', AB played many strong women previous to this e.g. 7 Women, and Pumpkineater, and lots of dramatic roles on TV.
His parents were so dippy, and that scuba gear was ridiculous, and he was such a dweeb, I couldn't find anything at all interesting about him. He had graduated College for Pete's sake, and he still didn't know what to do with himself except lay around the pool all summer?!!? My folks would have given me a two week vacation of lounging then kicked me out at 7:30 a.m. the 3rd Monday and said 'get a job!' (which he never did, throughout the whole movie, where did he get the money to follow her?) Mrs. Robinson was a b***h, and her husband was an idiot. His parents didn't know what to do with him, I could have told them! Anyway, it gave us a great soundtrack, but the movie itself was just too imbecilic. However, It WAS a sign of the 60's, because so many young people 'dropped out', as the saying goes.
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I always found Marlene very 'hard' looking, like the only type of guy who would find her attractive or exciting was a gangster who would want a woman as tough as himself. I could never see a sweet guy like Jimmy Stewart falling for her in Destry, and felt he was better off with the other girl. Marlene's eroticism, or exoticism seemed to go along with a whip and black leather boots. I actually started to like her when she was older and began playing character parts, like Witness and Nuremburg.
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I am a HUGE movie fan. I like movies from ALL decades, but my preference is the 30's, 40's, and 50's. A big part of my reason is there are literally hundreds of movies from that era that I have seen countless times. Most of the movies I've seen from the 60's, 70's, 80's and up are one timers. I have a few on tape that I've seen two or three times, but very few.
Some repeats for me are:
Steel Magnolias (countless times)
Pretty Woman (countless times)
The Way We were (at least 6 times)
Independence Day (at least 10 times)
Die Hard (contless times)
The Terminator (at least 10 times)
From the 80's, 90's and up:
Erin Brokovich (at least 5 times)
Frequency (countless times)
The notebook (three times to see if I missed something)
Mona Lisa Smile (at least 5 times - Big Julia Roberts fan
The reason I list these is because some movies 'live' for you, and you don't want them to end. I could list a few that I have seen so many times, I can say the lines quicker than the actor. They are not, however, big movies. Good Morning Miss Dove, is a quiet little movie with Jennifer Jones which nobody ever mentions but I can watch it over and over, and over again. Another is Valley of Decision (Greer Garson & G. Peck), when it ends with them driving away, I don't want it to end, I want to see how they get along, and if Connie changes, and if Ted ever comes back.
I don't know if I'm explaining correctly, but a classic to me, means forever, no matter how old it is, the story comes alive for me, I love the people, the lives they choose, and the circumstances they find themselves in. In most of today's movies I don't feel that way when the movie ends, except the few I listed. Writers don't make their characters human enough for me now.
Okay, I'll shut up now.
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Where were all of you people a few weeks ago when the argument was raging that these new commercials or promos were a prologue to mighty changes coming to TCM?
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There are 25 listed here, are there aother 25 not listed?'
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I wish TCM had given birthday times to Lizabeth Scott in the morning, and left the afternoon and evening to Greer Garson and shown more of her movies, like That Forsythe Woman, and Blossoms in the Dust. Her 'A' movies are so much better than Scotts 'B' movies except the first with Stanwyck as the star.
After all, The Defiant Ones was just on three weeks ago, as was Not as a Stranger (although I love Robert Mitchum), and Ship of Fools has been on hundreds of times.
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I think for pure facial beauty, it's a close race between three:
Natalie Wood
Elizabeth Taylor
Gene Tierney
I don't think there is anyone on screen today who comes close to any of the above three.
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I never compared this movie with the Disney version except to point out the ending was different. The book I read to my kids when they were little had the same ending, long before the Disney movie (30 years before). The gliding was obviously a people mover runner when she entered the castle. At the end he mentioned it was night, yet she was standing in the sunlight. The whole movie was filled with contradictions.
"The sign of a good foreign movie is when you are so caught up in the movie and suddenly realize you have forgotten you are reading subtitles."
I find the opposite, I get so caught up in reading the subtitles, I lose the movie, it's like reading a book instead of watching a movie.
I prefer English (Great Britain) movies because of their dry wit, and if it must be foreign, I prefer Italian, because they are more 'earthy', but being an American, I prefer American films. I'm not talking about patriotism, I'm talking about language, because even English films are sometimes hard to understand.
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I feel the need to apologize to dog lovers. That last post of mine sounded much more harsh than I planned. I admit to being paranoid to big dogs like German Shepherds, and such but small regular sized, dogs do not bother me. I guess it's like someone said, dogs are like children, it's all in the way they're trained. But you have to admit, many of the mini/toys are very hyper and DO have that high pitched yip, yip bark. I can tune out a baby crying, but not that.
Time for Cavett
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In the first place, it's not a matter of inconvenience, it's a matter of flying fur. It happenen to me, The three people I was with, the waitress, and I all have blond and/or gray hair, so how did a short, very curly piece of black hair end up on my steak? From the little dog who yip, yip, yipped all through our drinks, our ordering, with much repeating, and our soup and salad, and finally our main course arrived, and within seconds of it being put in front of me, I found this piece of hair. Needless to say, I sent it back and ordered chicken instead to make sure they didn't just wipe it off. Also, yes I prefer a crying tiny human being over that high pitched yipping of a toy or mini dog. As I said:
"Love the, care for them, sleep with them, just leave them at home!"
I can't believe they won't let me have a cigarette after dinner, but a dog can interrupt my conversation with friends, and ruin my food. I'm not saying I hate dogs, I simply don't consider them as extended family, even when I had my own. They slept in their own beds, and ate their own food, and were not allowed in the kitchen. What really burned my butt was that ditzy woman never left, nor did the restaurant ask her to remove the dog! Shows how our world thinks nowadays.
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As for Kevin Costner that Dragonfly thing was horrible and I was bored to sleep with Upside of Anger (that was Joan Allen's movie, but anthing she's in is her movie, but he was excellent in JFK and Thirteen Days, and let's not forget the Untouchables. I can't figure out if he changed agents, or just cannot read because after Dances with Wolves he should have continued on a total upward swing. Actually disregarding his goof up last week, Mel Gibson has lost a lot of ground since Braveheart also. I don't recall any real grabbers in the last few years.
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I have to admit the eyes and nose are kind of unattractive but what I cannot abide are these ditzy women who have the toy and mini dogs. Not the dogs, the women who carry them around in their handbags, or into restaurants because "Oh, she's just a baby". Baloney ! ! ! It's a dog, and it does not belong in a public restaurant on a bus, elevator, or any other place where dogs are not allowed. Love them, care for them, sleep with them, I don't care, but leave the darn things at home when you go out in public.
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It's beyond my understanding how an actress, who can portray a suicidal, tormented woman, and a partially blind teacher of a blind, deaf and mute child such as Anne Bancroft could lend her brilliant talents to a piece of junk like The Graduate unless it was on a dare, or bet, and she lost.
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Unfortunately I prefer my fairytales in cartoon character form except the Rogers & Hammerstein TV version of Cinderella many years ago. In the first place, the story wasn't finished as in the B&B Disney where all the characters turned back to people. The hands/arms on the candlabras were meaningless, and the rest were equally dumb. It seemed like a very old silent movie to me, with overdone acting and horrible lighting, including no sound effects. The whole thing reminded me of a cheap "C" movie. However, I have found many french movies to be this way, too long and drawn out, with bad acting and unattractive people, as the one shown last week.
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This is actually in reply to the original post. Many people have been nominated and won for musical parts, but few movies themselves have been chosen for Best picture which I think is a shame. If you consider all that goes into a musical, not just acting, but choreography, music, sets, design for both streetwear and the musical spots, and so much more. Technically, I think musicals, especially ones like Moulin Rouge and Chicago (hated both) and the old ones, Oklahoma, South Pacific, Flower Drum Song etc. deserved a whole lot more attention from Oscar than they received, for the whole movie, not just one or two roles.
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As a rule I dislike remakes intensely with a few exceptions, but one musical I would love to see remade is Rogers & Hamersteins' Cinderella (made for TV) originally with Leslie Ann Warren and Stewart Damon, also Walter Pigeon and Ginger Rogers. It was run long before the days of VCR's and I would like to see a re-run of it, or a remake even for TV again. The score is great, and I did buy the album, yes the GREAT BIG 33-1/3 RPM black record (dating myself?) and I sang along until I knew every word. Last year my grandaughters school put it on for the spring play, and I sang along with every song, which brought back memories of the original.
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My simple and humble opinion is:
Light comedy - Billy Wilder ..
Suspense - Alfred Hitchcock . . :0
Outdoorsy - John Ford . .
Of course I would choose Steven Speilberg for SciFi .. B-)
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Mr. MB Flakes:
You'll find, if you listen to a couple of other Billie Halliday recordings, that they all have that lushly, sexy quality about them. That's why jazz ethusiastics even today claim her as the greatest jazz artist of all time. I can't disagree with them. She was 100% unique and distinctive.
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Please include my thanks. I, too, thank you!
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When I registered, I used a rather lengthy password and would like to change to a shorter one. I cannot find a way to get into my registration to do this. Can you tell me how it is done?
Also, why do some threads go way over the set margins? Often to read a post you must slide way over to see the last couple of words. How does this happen?
Thank you
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I realize I'm out of line here, but had to get this off my chest. With network TV having become the 'vast wasteland' as was predicted in its early days, I'm so glad to find two notable personalities again combining their talents. If you are looking for an hour of remarkable entertainment, catch Studio 60: on the Sunset Strip next Monday night. Aaron Sorkin and Thomas Schlamme have done it again. I've mourned the passing of West Wing for months now, but again amid all the reality, cold cases, forensics, and idiot suburban housewives slush and muck, comes a program for adults with quick, witty lines, expressive acting, and top notch direction. These guys would be so great for writing movie scripts, but I hope they never leave TV, because this is the kind of writing we need in movies. Perhaps then we would not be innundated with so many re-makes, and remodeling of old stories.
Again, I apologize for using this forum but this new series really grabbed me in the premier last week and again on Monday night.
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I can't say I blame Martinez for using only his first initial in place of a name. What a moniker to hang on a little kid only 3 years after WWII. - What were they thinking?!!!
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This is one time I must disagree heartily. As a young divorced mother, working at night, I felt it would be good to have a dog in the house with the kids and teen babysitter. A friend had to let go of her 7 mo old dog because she lived in a 'no dogs' apartment. Having been there and seeing the pup from day one on a nearly weekly basis, I offered to take the pup who was sweet and playful. I walked up to him saying "hi toby", and the next thing I knew I was in the car being rushed to the hospital. For some reason the dog had attacked me, mauled my arm, and back, and put lacerations around my eye which needed stitching. From this I lost three weeks of work, due to an eye patch, making things very tight for the next few months. By now the outer scars have gone, but the inner ones remain. I have since given German Shepherds a very, very wide birth. Unfortunately all big dogs have a frightening effect on me.
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Hopefully that means he's choosy about his roles, and not that he has a bad agent, or casting agents don't think of him.
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Yeah, Stoneyburke:
Even if we disagree on dogs, and TCM promos music, us old coots have to stick together, before the pillow hits us.