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18 hours ago, cigarjoe said:
The Silent Partner (1978) A bank teller Eliot Gould is held up at gun point by a Santa Claus (Christopher Plummer), during the holidays in Toronto. The robbery takes place after a large deposit is made.
The plot flaw is that the robbers only get Canadian currency.
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I'd rather watch The Hellstrom Chronicle. It's more truthful.
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5 hours ago, skimpole said:
And while doing the Pentagon Papers from the view of The Washington Post is an odd way of doing it, the result works fairly well.
It's also ironic how people are praising The Post and excoriating the release of the Nunes memo.
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10 hours ago, slaytonf said:
It's easy to change clothes, but not hair.
You can shave it off.
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Scarlett's new dress is made from the shower curtain at the Bates Motel.
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9 hours ago, Swithin said:
I wanted "Come Saturday Morning" or "Jean" to win.
"Jean" just doesn't work for me. It starts off by not rhyming: the first two lines need to be "Jean, Jean/Roses are green", except of course that roses are not green.
(Yes, I know the leaves in the next line are in fact green.)
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9 minutes ago, Dargo said:
Was there a reason why Harry Nilsson's "Everybody's Talkin'" which was featured in 1969's Midnight Cowboy wasn't nominated? Did it not qualify for some reason?
Wikipedia says it was written in 1966, and not originally for the movie. That's why it wasn't eligible.
"Don't You Forget About Me" from The Breakfast Club is another big hit that was ineligible for the same reason.
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2 hours ago, Bethluvsfilms said:
Think Lewis was just a sore loser that Parker had the bigger hit.
Lewis would go on to get his own nomination for "The Power of Love" from Back to the Future, although he lost to Lionel Richie's "Say You, Say Me" from White Nights. Both songs were #1 hits.
And neither of them were as big a hit as Richie's earlier nomination "Endless Love", or 1977 winner "You Light Up My Life".
Enjoy the earworms.
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3 hours ago, EricJ said:
Like most of the 80's winners, Stevie Wonder took it just from sheer radio-overplay hypnosis,
All five songs were #1 hits, so they all received a lot of airplay.
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6 hours ago, speedracer5 said:
My favorite ice skating event is the pairs skating. It's amazing how close the female skater's blade comes to her partner's face sometimes when she's being thrown into the air.
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16 hours ago, slaytonf said:
Or biathalon?
For Your Eyes Only.
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16 hours ago, LawrenceA said:
Gold Is Where You Find It
Of course it's where you find it. If you didn't find it, it wasn't there, was it?
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I use the time between movies to use the facilities, or make a cup of coffee or get a glass of water or whatnot.
It's like the intermissions between periods of a hockey game, or worse, halftime in soccer. (Since soccer has no natural breaks during the halves, halftime is loaded with ads.)
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That's George O'Hanlon, the voice of George Jetson.
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Garland's singing is vastly overrated. (Like Barbra Streisand in that regard.)
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Dorothy Dandridge should have won the Oscar over Grace Kelly, not Judy Garland.
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40 minutes ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
My advise for anyone that has a public facing job would be to stay out of politics on social media.
Hasn't been working for Taylor Swift. Well, she seems to be succeeding with her fans, but there's also a lot of whining from people saying effectively, "You need to push our political views on your fans!"
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Actually, Muller compared the second half of Tomorrow Is Another Day to Shockproof, not Gun Crazy.
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If Alexander Hamilton and the Founding Fathers can be played by black actors, Alec Guinness can play a Japanese man.
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I like Born Yesterday and Harvey. Although I think Hope Emerson should have won Best Supporting Actress, not anybody from All About Eve or Sunset Blvd.
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Having said that, there's no reason anybody has to be honest about their location.
And Overeasy, the point I was trying to make is that just reading the news on the radio off a paper script is hard enough; doing what Tiffany and Ben and Bob and Eddie do with camera presence and knowing what to do with your arms and such is that much harder.
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57 minutes ago, overeasy said:
yet I think she was done a major disservice by TCM. She clearly was not ready for this. Having worked with and directed talent for 25+ years, I can tell you you can't just "work with" people to create charisma, charm or other undefinable characteristics.
In college, I was a member of the college radio station, and read the news in morning drive one day a week. That, where I didn't even have to worry about blocking or facial expressions or mannerisms, was hard. I can imagine what reading a script on TV must be like.
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Death of a Scoundrel (1956).
Delightfully trashy guilty pleasure movie stars George Sanders as a refugee from Czechoslovakia who makes his way to America by ratting out his brother (played by real-life brother Tom Conway) to the Reds after said brother steals his wife. Sanders, in America, proceeds to climb his way to the top financially by committing one fraud and blackmail after another. He gets his just desserts at the end, though. Well, and in the beginning too since the movie is told in flashback from the point of view of Sanders' assistant (Yvonne De Carlo). Zsa Zsa Gabor (the ex-Mrs. Sanders) plays a widow whom Sanders uses at various points.
Sanders is hissable throughout the absolutely ludicrous plot. Best scene is when he's horrified at the thought of actually having made people money honestly. 8/10
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19 hours ago, Swithin said:
One of Oscar's worst choices took place in 1945, when Bing Crosby won for Going My Way. The winner that year should have been Alexander Knox, for his brilliant portrayal of Woodrow Wilson.
As horrendous as the hagiography of Wilson is in the movie, Knox gives an excellent performance and probably did deserve the Oscar. Fred MacMurray didn't even get nominated, thank you Barry Fitzgerald. Edward G. Robinson probably should have gotten a Supporting Actor nod, although I'm not certain if he would have been up for that what with the Oscar rules.
Going My Way screwed a lot of movies out of Oscars. This is the one time Hitchcock had a directorial performance that stood out, with Lifeboat. Hitch had the bad luck of being up against some superlative directing jobs in other years.
I'm not certain what should have won Best Picture: Double Indemnity? Gaslight? But it shouldn't have been the tediously schmaltzy Going My Way.
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