Fedya
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I remember the first time I saw *Rhapsody in Blue*. I missed the opening credits, and about five minutes in, George meets his music teacher, at which point I immediately cried out, "That's Albert Bassermann!"
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> Am I remembering correctly that there's a scene in which Tony Curtis throws a typewriter at the creature, saying, "Take that, Manitou!"
I guess you can learn something from watching *Autumn Leaves*: how to deal with an attacking Manitou.
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Instead of a regular spoiler, I'll just give the IMDb link instead:
I don't think that gives anything away unless you click on it. :-)
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A few minutes of thought eventually yielded a famous film released in 1950 as the correct answer.
Most people woulnd't recognize the names of any of the stars in the cast.
Edit: Oh, and there's no real trick here.
Edited by: Fedya on Nov 14, 2012 4:05 PM
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They honor everybody's favorite veteran every year: Elvis Presley. :-)
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> Now if only we knew a Frenchman to bring her to Hollywood in April!
Why would she want to be anywhere within three time zones of Joan Fontaine? ;-)
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> I've heard Hitchcock sought them out ( "junky" novels) just to get a basic plot idea, and then reworked it from there. This kind of book was his preference, the only exception I can think of being *Rebecca*, from the very literary Daphne DuMaurier novel of the same name.
Hitchcock also did a film version of Sean O'Casey's *Juno and the Paycock*, which may "only" be a play and not a novel, but definitely wouldn't be considered "junky".
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> Wonder when they gonna make "The Wild Women of the TCM Message Board"???
They all get the heebie-jeebies thinking of George Brent's rear panned-and-scanned. ;-)
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Would it by any chance be *Auntie Mame* ? A lot of scenes in that movie end with just a spotlight on Mame (played by Rosalind Russell).
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You don't enjoy Merle Oberon's death scene? :-)
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I think the last time it was on TCM was for the Gay Images in Film festival back in 2007. Richard Barrios, who presented, discussed Claudette Colbert's asking one of her attendants to jump in the bath with her, but I don't think he mentioned Joyzelle's lesbian dance trying to woo Elissa Landi.
I love the movie -- it's so over the top.
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I don't know whether it's serendipitous timing or a jarring tribute, but TCM's schedule lists HMS Bounty Sails Again!, the short promo for the 1962 version of Mutiny on the Bounty, airing after The Taking of Pelham One, Two, Three (that is, overnight or early tomorrow morning around 5:15 AM ET).
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Perhaps you could get the Wienie King to pay for the apartment for you. :-)
I'm in the Catskill Mountains, about 90 miles north/northwest of NYC. Surprisingly, I didn't lose power at all. I got the impression one of the lights was "winking" when I was watching *Assignment -- Paris* yesterday evening and the winds were strong outside, but that was it.
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Groucho Marx played "God" in *Skidoo*.
George Arliss played *The Man Who Played God*, I suppose. ;-)
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> You know what I've noticed about this thread? With a couple of exceptions, just about all the hated worst-ever film titles are movies made after 1960.
You want one from before 1960? And from a major studio to boot? OK, how about [*Half Angel*|http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043615/] (1951)? Loretta Young plays a woman who hates lawyer Joseph Cotten by day, but sleepwalks at night, and when she sleepwalks, her other personality loves Cotten.
There's also a terribly unrealistic courtroom scene as the climax.
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There are a lot of movies that I think of as "so bad they're good", that I can laugh through like *The Crowded Sky* (the method actor of whom his agent says, "Even his hostilities have hostilities"). Or *Skidoo*, or a bunch of those 1960s sci-fi movies with ultra-low budgets. There's one -- I think it's *They Came From Beyond Space* -- where one of the characters ends up with what looks like a spaghetti colander on his head to block out mind-control rays! Oh dear god it's bad but funny.
Then there are movies that aren't quite that bad, that I like to call, "Not very good, but a hell of a lot of fun". I think I used that exact line when I posted about *Violent Saturday* some years back.
And then there's *Dondi*, which is so bad it's not even "so bad it's good". A plot involving a dumb lie, and the characters telling ever bigger lies to keep the original lie from becoming known. An unsympathetic and irritating child actor. Arnold Stang was irritating too, and I had no interest in the relationship between David Janssen and the love interest. Terrible, terrible, terrible.
I also had a severely visceral reaction to *Member of the Wedding*. I wanted Ethel Waters to smack Julie Harris into the next county.
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> ABSOLUTELY! That "Letterboxing" promo is outdated. It REALLY only applies to when one is watchign a widescreen movie on an older 4x3 television screen...NOT a newer 16x9 HDTV.
I have to pick a nit or two with this. 16:9 is just about 1.78:1. Cinemascope is 2.35:1 if memory serves. I don't remember the aspect ratios of the other 1950s formats offhand. But there still are movies that are going to have a fair amount of letterboxing even on 16:9 TVs.
(Technically, there probably ought to be a small bit of black at the top and bottom of your HDTV on a "regular" modern movie, since I believe they're filmed in 1.85:1. But I'd presume they'd just crop a bit off each side like sometimes seems to happen with films in the Academy ratio, where you see part of a letter at the edge of the credits chopped off.)
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> The fiercely independent Hepburn famously once said: "Anytime I hear a man say he prefers a woman in a skirt, I say, 'Try one. Try a skirt."
I'd like to see how a kilt-wearing Scotsman would have responded to this.
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> *If anyone can tell me how to get a tilde over that second n, I'll do it...
You mean an ? or an ??
If you've got a Windows PC, you should be able to do it by holding down one of the ALT keys and typing 0209 (for the ?) or 0241 (for the ?) on the number pad of your keyboard.
Alternatively, you should have a character map utility somewhere in the system utilities that has all the foreign characters, which would enable you to type the ? or the ? in S?, se?or. (I suppose you could memorize all the alt codes, which are the Unicode code points.)
The one other alternative is to load the Spanish keyboard layout, which with Windows would give you the opportunity to switch between keyboard layouts. (I've got three keyboard layouts installed: standard English QWERTY, Russian, and a "Czech" layout which has all the Central European characters, most importantly the German characters. So I can use that to write about Karlheinz B?hm or Milo? Forman.)
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*The Man Who Found Himself* which aired today will be airing again on the 22d, which is Joan Fontaine's 95th birthday.
Not a particularly satisfying ending, and the father was an utter drip.
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> Nope sfpcc1. Actually it's more like the film *They Saved Mussolini's Brain*...which was a documentary about Amtrak's failed experiment in the 1980s to see if THEY could get THEIR trains to run on time!
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It's the song that plays over the opening credits of *Dr. Strangelove*.
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If memory serves, "Tubular Bells" was not originally written for *The Exorcist*.
And certainly, "Try a Little Tenderness" had nothing to do with nuclear war!
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[This|http://www.imdb.com/search/title?countries=ca&release_date=1930,1930] might be a more relevant list for Miss Wonderly. :-)
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"Nobody's perfect", from the end of *Some Like It Hot*.