Fedya
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I wonder how many of the people tut-tutting about these revelations like the films of Roman Polanski.There is no doubt in my mind of what happened constituted an absolutely awful abuse- simulated or not.
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Well, it is the 1850s.Well, ya know Fedya, ANY group who'd wear a red dress when it's not appropriate usually aren't in complete control of their faculties, ya know...
(...oh man...I think I've had way too much coffee today...sorry)
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This would be the first time Jezebel commenters were sane, I think.ps- i really, really recommend reading the comments section for the jezebel.com article, they make some EXCELLENT POINTS.
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This Moby Dick is a very loose adaptation of the Melville story. (According IMDb reviewers, it's probably better considered a sound remake of The Sea Beast (1926).) Ahab has a love interest, and if memory serves, Ahab kills the whale and survives.6:15 a.m. Moby Dick (1930) another Barrymore that I have yet to see.
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Okay. I thought the controversy was margarine vs. butter.
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Unfortunately, every time TCM has blocks of shorts like this, the scheduling is screwed up. A couple of weeks back, Silent Sunday Nights was five canine-themed two reelers. The monthly schedule, the weekly schedule, and the box guide all had different running orders for the five shorts.
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My property does not belong to you, thank you very much.Buildings are somewhat "public" property,
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Actually, Mary Tyler Moore was cast as Laura Petrie on The Dick Van Dyke Show a year before marrying Grant Tinker.
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Billy Chapin, probably best known for playing the boy who protects his kid sister and her doll containing a substantial sum of money from evil Bob Mitchum in Night of the Hunter, has died aged 72.
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I think the house is stunning and truly unique-worth preserving!
Then buy it and preserve it yourself.
I served on a city's historical commission and we were there for was preventing historic properties from being badly altered; like vinyl siding, pink paint on a log house or an 8 foot stockade fence around a Victorian home.
Ah, so you were one of those people who got their rocks off bossing other people around.
Seriously, "historic districts" are almost as bad as HOAs in trying to order people around in what to do with their houses. Trying to tell people what color they can paint their front door, for example. From Detroit, for example:Window and/or door replacement, provided that the design and mate-rial(s) conforms with the original, and the color conforms to the Detroit Historic Districts Paint and Color Guidelines; where the existing door or window is not original to the structure, the replacement should be compatible with the architectural design of the structure.
President Truman learned the hard way that living in a historic home that you're trying to keep up with the times can be a nightmare. The White House was a mess when he got there, and matters hit a head when a leg of daughter Margaret's piano fell through a floor. It turned out the whole White House was in a parlous state, and they had to completely gut the interior and rebuild the insides.
I suppose the movie that might fit here is George Washington Slept Here.
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Apparently Bob Hope's Los Angeles house costs a bundle to keep up, so daughter Linda has decided to sell the house with the proceeds going to the Bob and Dolores Hope Foundation.
But Linda must have made some enemies along the way, because some city councillor has decided to try to get the place declared a historic landmark. Not that he has to pay one red cent of his own money for any of this. Either the owners will be stuck with a white elephant, or if the city were to buy it (not that that's likely), it would be the taxpayers funding this politico's vanity project.
Still, if you start turning Hollywood stars' houses into historical landmarks, pretty soon so much of the city is going to be a historical site that the city will become stultified. (In many ways, this is happening to places like Venice, Italy.)
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It should also be pointed out that one of the Young Frankenstein airings was added due to the death of Gene Wilder, in TCM's programming tribute to him.
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The movie itself is the problem, starting at the very beginning with Maurice Chevalier's ultra-creepy rendition of "Thank Heaven for Little Girls".
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FXM Retro has run prints of Tales of Manhattan with the Fields section back in it the last time they had it out of the vault earlier this year.
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I prefer to think of the curtains as a Macguffin.
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My first thought was The Mayor of Hell, too.
Note that the movie was more or less remade twice, first as Crime School with Humphrey Bogart in the Cagney role, and then as Hell's Kitchen with Stanley Fields. Ronald Reagan also appears in Hell's Kitchen.
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Sunday, November 27/28
This week's Silent Sunday Nights slot has five two-reelers, all with canine themes. However, as often happens with blocks of shorts like this, the weekly and monthly schedules don't agree on the order, and other sources don't agree with what TCM puts out either.
The five are two Hal Roach Our Gang shorts (Love My Dog and Dog Daze); two Fatty Arbuckle shorts (Fatty's Faithful Fido and Fatty's Plucky Pup); and, the Harold Lloyd short Number, Please? The Arbuckle and Lloyd shorts are all in the public domain so you can find prints of them on Youtube.
The TCM Import continues the canine theme, but instead of Mondo Cane, TCM is running Umberto D at 2:00 AM.
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The King's Vacation (1933)
George Arliss plays Philip, a reluctant king who was about fourth in line, and when the people ahead of him died, he had to leave his wife Helen (Marjorie Gateson) and infant daughter Millicent behind to take the throne and a Queen (George's real-life wife Florence) the people will approve of. So when it seems revolution is coming, His Majesty is more than happy for it to come as long as he can abdicate peacefully.
The King and Queen both leave the country and go their separate ways, with Philip going back to Helen and the now grown up Millicent, in the hopes of marrying Helen again. But things have changed: Helen has been living off of Philip's name, and has a suitor in Barstow (Vernon Steele). Millicent, meanwhile, has a boyfriend in non-singing inventor John (Dick Powell) whom Mother doesn't approve of but Dad does. Philip runs into the Queen, and finds that she grew to love him over the years.
The story is typical early-30s piffle, but it's piffle starring George Arliss, which makes the movie more than worth watching. Heck, Arliss could make a dramatic reading of the telephone directory worth watching. Most of the rest of the cast handle themselves well, although they're clearly all supporting players to Arliss.
7/10. Arliss did do better stuff, but this isn't bad at all.
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The Star Wars Holiday Special is also on Youtube for the time being.
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After reading about Florence Henderson's death this morning, I checked to see if A Very Brady Christmas is on Youtube. It is for the time being.
(There are also a lot of Florence Henderson Wessonality commercials, but those have nothing to do with Christmas.)
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The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969)
Katharine Hepburn plays another in her long line of self-centered blankety-blanks, this time being something like a precursor of The Brady Bunch Movie: she seems to be stuck in fin de siècle Paris, when the rest of the city is going through the student revolts of 1968.
Yul Brynner leads a band of Parisians presented as cardboard buffoons, who have learned that there's oil underneath Paris, so they're going to drill for it! Hepburn and her friends don't like this, so they're going to put a stop to it.
The movie is an absolute bomb. The plot is tedious and meandering at best; the characters are thoroughly irritating, unfunny cardboard archetypes; and they're all stuck with dialog that's worse than the biggest mistakes Shaw ever set to paper. (I was very much reminded of Caesar and Cleopatra, where the entire cast seemed to act as though it was the funniest thing that one of the characters was named Ftatatita. No, it's not funny.)
The music is horrid 60s mood music, and there's some awful cinematography presumably imposed upon the cameramen by the director -- some awful soft-focus photography, and then the freeze-frames when the men are talking about the worst thing they've done in life.
-1/10. Awful, awful, awful.
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Actually, it's only seven of the ten. The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle and The Barkleys of Broadway are missing, but I can't remember what the 10th one is.The entire Astaire/Rogers marathon.
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle is a really underrated movie if you ask me.
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Did you try looking for it on Youtube?
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In Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison, the Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr characters come across a goban and stones, but have no idea how to use them properly.
Seriously, "historic districts" are almost as bad as HOAs in trying to order people around in what to do with their houses. Trying to tell people what color they can paint their front door, for example. From
A Lost "Glass Menagerie," Rediscovered
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The problem is, it's still Tennessee Williams.