Richard Kimble
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Well, I thought of another extravaganza that would make most sane people flee in horror but that I enjoy. It's another self-basted turkey from 1962 by the redoubtable director J. Lee Thompson and (as in Kings of the Sun) starring Yul Brynner and featuring Brad Dexter.
This one is Taras Bulba and although it's meant to be taken seriously, it's instantly subverted by casting an over-aged Tony Curtis as Brynner's young son. The blue screen inserts are appalling, the dialogue is ripe and Argentinia is supposed to be the Ukrainian steppes. The uplifting finale revels in the heroic Cossacks sabering the Polish Cavalry into a crevass.
So why do I own it and watch it every few years? Probably because I have severe daddy issues, but I like the photography, Franz Waxman's rousing score, supporting players Sam Wanamaker, Mickey Finn, Vladimir Sokoloff, Perry Lopez, George Macready and Guy Wolfe.
This was supposed to be UA's big Christmas epic that year. It wasn't.
Are there any other defenders out there?
It's not a bad sword and sandal actioner. I haven't seen it in ages, but as I recall its big flaw was a dull romance that stopped the story dead every few minutes.
Doesn't it have a scene where you can briefly see Tony Curtis' hairpiece come off?
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This sounds like one I would enjoy - a good heart-wrenching, make-you-think-about-it as you're leaving the theater kind of movie. I really get into those self-sacrificing scenarios.
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Of course we read top to bottom, but it makes sense to read the last post first. If a thread has 2,000 posts and the beginning of the thread was at the start, the 1st post, to get to the present conversation we'd have to scroll all the way through countless already read pages to get to where the conversation is at the moment.
and innumerable other message boards.
Free Republic, Democratic Underground, Bodybuilding.com (over 5 million threads)
are asking for is the option to switch to the chronological order format used by IMDb,
There is already a button that will take you to the first post you have not read. All we
One last thing, you should be a little kinder to our friends up north considering we have been stabbing them in the back for the past five years or so with continued delays of a particular round object.talking about.
I know I will feel like a fool for admitting this, but the fact is I have no idea what you are
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Sarcasm - true. But not exactly what we'd call "clever" sarcasm
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I also scroll down until I come to the last post that I've read and then move upwards.
I don't know what country you're in, but here in America we read top-to-bottom.
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Larry Edmunds assisted with a book signing during TCM Film Festival and then on Sunday had Shirley Jones in person for signing books and memorabilia.
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Are you Jennifer Love Hewitt?
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I would think you'd want to read the latest post first. That is the way I think most message boards work.
IMDb, Free Republic, Democratic Underground, FlyerTalk (1.3 million threads), Digital Spy (1.7 million threads), City Data (1.7 million threads), Bodybuilding.com (5.7 million threads) are all oldest-post first.
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The Arrow is not there for threads with under 5 pages
Since they have an arrow that changes the post order on a thread, can they not give you the option to have the post order changed throughout the board, and let this be your default setting?
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I recently read up a bit on LE and actually was considering starting a thread about the bookstore, which I know only by rep (I've never been to California).
Larry Edmunds was born Lawrence O’Connell Edmunds in North Carolina on March 13th, 1906. He migrated to Hollywood at some point and landed a job working for bookseller Stanley Rose. He then branched out on his own in 1938 and opened his namesake bookshop at 1603 North Cahuenga Boulevard. And while the place did not specialize in movie-related publications at the time, it became a huge hit with the Hollywood set and Larry struck up a friendship with several of his famous patrons, including W.C. Fields, Basil Rathbone, William Faulkner, and John, Ethel and Lionel Barrymore. Rumor has it that he became more than friends with a few starlets, as well, such as Mary Astor, Marlene Dietrich and Paulette Goddard. Sadly, mental illness and alcoholism got ahold of Edmunds and in February 1941, while living in a guest house behind the property pictured below, he stuck his head in his gas stove, killing himself. He was 34.
I once read in some book about '30s Hollywood that Edmunds got started selling books out of his car trunk to screenwriters at Hollywood studios, who could not find modern novelists like Faulkner, Joyce, and Kafka at L.A. bookstores. But I have not been able to confirm that online.
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Last-post-first for threads STINKS
Try reading a thread with lots of replies from the beginning. Just try. I dare ya.
Powers that be, please add a first-post-first option
PLEASE
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Suspiria jumps to mind. An Italian-made horror film that stars Jessica Harper, Joan Bennett, and Alida Valli in a story about a bizarre ballet school where the girls keep disappearing. Odd story aided by a driving music score.
I've never seen it, but it has a cult following
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Been anticipating this topic.
First is a clunker from 1963 titled "Kings of the Sun". Yul Brynner is an American Indian - sorry, I don't know if the tribe was ever specified. George Chakiris, Shirley Anne Field, Richard Baseheart, Leo Gordon and Brad Dexter are Mayans! Despite, or because of the casting, I just pop open a beer and soak this one up. Perhaps the beer is the problem.
KOTS is actually a fairly entertaining movie. It's main flaw is the expressionless performance of George Chakiris, whose stoneface could have been used as a block in the pyramid.
Another is from the same year, Ralph Nelson's "Soldier in the Rain". It stars Steve McQueen (advertised as the Great Escape Guy) and Jackie Gleason (the Great One) and features Tuesday Weld, Tom Poston, Adam West and Tony Bill. It's supposed to be a wacky military comedy until it turns dark and has a really nasty bar room brawl tossed in. McQueen (rightly) later dissed his own performance but I find it charming and it reminds me of my own service time.IMHO SITR does not work at all. I've seen few films that were so totally misjudged.
However, very near the end, there is a brief, unexpected scene involving Gleason's character -- or more precisely, his office -- while McQueen and Bill watch, that has stayed with me ever since I first saw it. I always mention it in "Great Moment In Bad Movies" threads, and it's probably my favorite moment in any Ralph Nelson film.
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Head is a classic -- IMHO, the most innovative American studio film of the 1960s.
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One interesting difference between the book and the movie is the physical appearance of Waldo. In the book he is described as overweight. In the section narrated by Laura, she mentions his "fat b-u-t-t-o-c-k-s" on the couch. And at the end of the book (narrated by Mark), Waldo and Mark tumble down stairs after Waldo tries to kill Laura, and Mark describes being crushed under the weight of Waldo's 250 pounds.
Could the role of Waldo originally have been intended for Fox contract player Laird Cregar?
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RK, I like The Green Slime too.
I don't imbibe, but those who do can play a drinking game by taking a swig every time Robert Horton says, "That's an order mister!"
And an asteroid might destroy Earth, but could it really dent Robert Horton's hair?
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Then I'm gonna go out on a limb here RK, and guess you also probably like "Where It's At"(1969) starring our boy David Janssen as a Vegas casino boss during that era, and featuring a storyline with overtones of the conflict between the Rat Pack/"Mad Men" vs the Counterculture generations.
I've only seen WIA once, in part, at least three decades ago. It didn't even work for me on a camp level. Casting deadly serious, vaguely creepy and in any case overage Robert Drivas as the juvenile was a mistake that could not be overcome.
As for Janssen, he showed a light comedy touch on Richard Diamond, but here he was ill-served by Garson Kanin's direction.
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I have a great affection for late '60s/early '70s movies (both theatrical and TV) with scenes set in the bars of country clubs, with 50 year old Hefner wannabes with short hair and sideburns in turtlenecks and plaid pants, listening to bossa nova and swilling martinis after playing 18 holes.
I consider Banning (1967) to be the masterpiece of this sub-sub-genre.
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Thought I'd keep the hyperbole of the original thread
Whys and wherefores welcome
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The Oscar
How To Commit Marriage, Skidoo, and pretty much any movie where Old Hollywood tries to understand hippies
The Green Slime
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The one group you named I have some recollection of is the Jefferson Airplane, but it's not because of their music, it's because I used to be acquainted with Jack Casady when we were both at Alice Deal Jr. High School in Washington. He and I used to accompany a mutual friend on his Evening Star paper route. Jack used to spend every evening going from one side of the DC area to the other, soaking up every kind of music he could: R&R, R&B, country, blues, bluegrass, the whole nine yards. I never cared much for the psychedelic sound, but I had to respect his background and his dedication. Another guy from that band, the guitarist whose name escapes me (Korkunen or something like that), went to my high school, but he was a few years older and I never met him.
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stuff I like will be posted here & if ya don't like it, no need to let me know cause I could care if anyone does or doesn't.
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Richard Kimball
What does the constitution have to do with the level of civility we're trying to achieve in these forums?Civility is fine, but are you trying kill debate?
Lively discussion is what makes a forum. Do it without personal attacks, but keep it interesting.
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The WHY doesn't matter
The Whys are more interesting than just a bunch of lists
may offend some peopleThe Constitution does not guarantee the right to not be offended (contrary to what some in the PC crowd may claim)
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The real LAURA mystery is why NTA was so cheap that they wouldn't pay the music license fees for the non-Fox-controlled music and thus CUT two scenes from the picture when they released it to television. They also did this to WAKE UP AND LIVE, JOHNNY APOLLO, and quite a few other Fox pictures.
Was "Over The Rainbow" cut from the NTA print of I Wake Up Screaming?
I still don't understand how an MGM song got in there in the first place.
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