Fedya
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> And yet another little bit of our collective childhood passes.
I was born in 1972. Annette Funicello was not part of my childhood. This is not to say anything bad about her work, of course.
(I know we also have posters older than Annette, so she wasn't part of their childhood either.)
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> Since Robert Young's character in The Guilty Generation doesn't want the world to know that he is the son of a gangster, I don't quite understand the logic of Harry Cohn's complaint.
To be fair, Young's character is supposed to be a successful architect. At least, successful enough to get a contract to design multiple hotels; besides, he's already won an award for his designs. I'd think that calls for being well-dressed.
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> This is a freak event in Fredericksburg to have snow on March 25. The movie that the snowstorm destroyed??? The ironically titled "Spring Is Here". Aaaaaaargh.
You didn't miss much. I recorded it the last time it was on back in 2006 or so, and it was so boring I fast-forwarded through the musical numbers!
I don't think they've run *Tanned Legs* (which I recorded the same morning) since then, either. At least that one had some legs and Dagwood Bumstead. (On the other hand, the last time they had a tribute to Lake earlier this year, they showed some different not-particularly-good movies.)
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> I remember vividly her death in that plane crash, and how Life Magazine (I'm pretty sure it was Life) printed a picture of her body at the crash scene and was blasted for doing so.
It wouldn't have been the last time [Life magazine ran such a photo|http://kottke.org/08/07/the-most-beautiful-suicide].
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> And what, you may ask, does any of these people have to do with the movies? Well, except they've all been in them, at least once.
I for one wouldn't mind seeing TCM show *Americathon*.
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> I just really wish they were showing the rarely aired Othello at 8:00, and not 4:00 in the GD morning.
"I wonder if he means gold-diggers... or that other well-known word."
Glenda Farrell, *Girl Missing* (1933)
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Did anybody get up to see Queen Gertrude when Olivier started his soliloquy?
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They totally ignored Allan Dwan, too.
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I didn't see a thread for it, but [Ruth Prawer Jhabvala|http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/04/movies/ruth-prawer-jhabvala-writer-dies-at-85.html?hp&_r=0], who wrote the screenplays to a bunch of the Merchant-Ivory movies, has died at the age of 85.
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> "Wow...those RICHARD EGAN kisses were to DIE for!"
What does Mme. Sepiatone think of Richard Egan's kisses in *A Summer Place* ?
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> Could you really picture Jimmy Stewart uttering "f-bombs"?
Jimmy Stewart, maybe not, but [Tony Randall|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iih5LjRHqdE], yes.
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> (Last photo I could find):
If you want some more Easter photos, try [here|http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2301644/Here-comes-Peter-Cottontail-And-hes-bringing-awesomely-awkward-Easter-family-photos-him.html]. They're not Hollywood-related, however.
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> I just think the idea of boiling puppies for medicinal purposes is distasteful even as a story element in a film.
I probably would have been laughing over how bizarre the idea is. And I say this as a dog lover.
I also like cats, and thought the old [bonsai Kitten|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonsai_Kitten] website was a hoot. It astonished me how many prudes got up in arms about what was fairly obviously a spoof.
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> The expression "phone it in" doesn't even work here. Burton seemed as if he sent HIS performance in by *carrier pidgeon* !
So he sent his performance in by Walter's brother? ;-)
OK, OK, on a more serious note, the Christian-themed movie I wouldn't mind seeing on Easter is *The Sign of the Cross*. Because you can never have too much lesbian dancing or bathing in goats' milk to go with your Christian virtue.
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I was hoping for some zombie movies to celebrate the Undead Jesus.
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I had a much bigger problem with the print to *Crime Wave*, which looked like it was herky-jerky and the movement all wrong.
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> The first season of DOWNTON ABBEY copied the famous scene in MRS. MINIVER where Dame May Whitty decides to let the stationmaster win the flower show award he deserves. If you know the original, this is boring.
The original was fairly boring too.
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> Gad. Is there a worse movie with more talented people in it??
*A Woman's Secret*, which was on just after, would give it a run for its money. It stars Melvyn Douglas, Maureen O'Hara, and Gloria Grahame; is directed by Nicholas Ray; and has a Herman Mankiewicz screenplay from a novel by Vicki Baum ( *Grand Hotel* ).
And yet, the whole thing is a mess.
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> To be clear: what makes me cringe is when a famous scene from a movie is recreated or echoed in a film.
There are also the near shot-for-shot remakes. *Twist Around the Clock*, for example, is an almost shot-for-shot remake of *Rock Around the Clock*. Musical acts aside, of course.
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> The only post 1940 movie she made that I can stomach ( that I've SEEN, anyway) is *Mildred Pierce*.
You don't like watching Crawford go way, way, WAY over the top? *Queen Bee* is a riot, for one. And boy is she fun going up against Robert Stack in *The Caretakers*.
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> There are earlier instances, or at least one, I know of. A Yasujiro Ozu film, titled Dragnet Girl (1933) has posters for two films in it: The Champ, and a French poster for All Quiet on the Western Front. It has a third poster, likely of a Hollywood movie, that starts "Million Dollar. . . .," but I can't figure out the entire title. But I don't think this instance can be cited as the originator of the trend.
The 1933 MGM movie *Should Ladies Behave* (the answer to that question is of course an emphatic NO!, but that's another story) begins with several of the main characters seeing a performance at a theater. During the admission, a couple of them go out on the terrace. In the background there's a big honking advertisement for Wallace Beery and Marie Dressler in *Dinner at Eight*.
Actually, I always like trying to make out the names of movies on posters and marquees in movies, to see how many of them are real.
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"Let's get out of here."
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You can thank the [Jimmy Fallon Tax Credit|http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/exclusive-tentative-state-budget-jimmy-fallon-tax-credit-article-1.1295513#ixzz2ODbmeJCC] in this year's NYS budget for the (possible) move back to NYC:
> Budget documents state that ?a talk or variety program? that gets the credit ?must be filmed before a studio audience? of at least 200, have a production budget of at least $30 million or run at least $10 million in capital expenses ? and has to have been shot outside New York for at least 5 seasons prior to relocation.
Of course, pretty much every state has tax credit schemes to try to lure movie production companies to shoot there. Ah for the days of making films entirely on utterly phony back lots. :-)
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Stevens appeared in all of three movies, and at least one of them, *Going My Way*, is lousy.
Adultery in the movies--love with the bland stranger?
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> But are there are any movies about wives with such odd taste?
Bette Davis' love interest in a lot of her films was George Brent, who was there mostly because he was so bland he'd make her shine by comparison.