Richard Kimble
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>Walt Disney cast her in Mary Poppins after seeing her on Broadway in Camelot
Even though she is totally unlike the Mary Poppins of the books
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>I am a progressive, so I always like improvement.
I am a conservative, and I also like improvement -- when it is improvement. Otherwise, when change is not necessary, it is necessary not to change.
But change is needed:
1. We need a preview function
2. Stop the automatic logging out
3. Make quoting and other functions easier.
What is the point of being divided into "Hot Topics" and "General Discussions"? Why not just one general board?
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>the first thing that came to my mind is "re-logging in." currently, my log in status expires after 20-30 minutes and i have to log in (or "refresh") all over again unless i am in the process of posting something on a message board.
I hate this and hope they get rid of it
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In case their are any aspiring documentary filmmakers out there in search of a subject... While Muscle Shoals, The Funk Brothers, and The Wrecking Crew have had films made about them, I don't know of one about Nashville's A Team. Though there was a hit song about them, The Lovin' Spoonful's "Nashville Cats".
Grady Martin played the epochal distorted guitar on "The Train Kept-a-Rollin'" by Johnny Burnette and The Rock & Roll Trio (1956)
Other Nashville Cats included Bob Moore (bass), Buddy Harman (drums), Hank Garland, Chet Atkins, Harold Bradley (guitar), Hargus ?Pig? Robbins (keyboards), Floyd Kramer (piano), Pete Drake (steel guitar), and Charlie McCoy (harmonica):
A website on The A Team maintained by bassist Bob Moore.
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>As a criminal in BLACK HAND. Some might call this miscasting, but the studio bosses probably thought they were giving him a chance to stretch his acting muscles, while coming up with a new way to market his talents.
And they probably didn't have musical property ready for him, so instead of paying him to sit on his butt for a month, they put him in a B&W crime film -- much cheaper to produce than a Technicolor musical.
Kelly claimed that after his Broadway success in Pal Joey he was signed by David Selznick as a *dramatic* actor. Selznick didn't do a whole buncha musicals, so there may be some truth to this -- or perhaps DS was thinking about going Goldwyn and making a musical every year or two.
Of course that didn't happen, and Kelly proved even less suited to Selznick than Hitchcock was. After several months of inactivity Selznick lent him to MGM for For Me And My Gal, soon afterward selling them Kelly's contract outright.
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>The unforgettable and truly funny scene where Alvy and Annie are getting to know each other, they're hanging out on Woody's balcony and sipping white wine (this is the '70s). *Allen the director* does something so clever and original, he gives us each character's inner thoughts about what's going on with voice-overs.
That's writing, not directing
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>Any "wanted man" like Richard Kimble may also be a little envious of someone who is notwanted
I agree, Spike Lee is not wanted
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>i should've specified that "the front" was a Martin Ritt _*joint*_
Please keep that crap on the Spike Lee board
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>What's your favorite Universal Monster?
Lou Costello?
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A few years ago Allen was quoted as saying that he did not consider himself a great director. I can't find the quote on Google and don't feel like spending hours wading through pages of Woody vs. Mia looking for it.
As for OJ, he was unquestionably one of the 5 greatest running backs ever to play football. Is Woody Allen one of the 5 greatest directors?
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>I know of no untoward scandal involving Young
"On September 27, 1978, Young, age 64, married his fifth wife, a 31-year-old German actress named Kim Schmidt.
On October 19, 1978, three weeks after his marriage to Schmidt, the couple were found dead at home in their Manhattan apartment. Police theorized that Young shot his wife and then turned the gun on himself in a murder?suicide. A motive for the murder-suicide was never made clear" -- Wikipedia
>I've never really been a big fan of Salmi anyway
IMHO he was one of the great western villains. Maybe he was just playing himself.
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>Well, he's not REALLY an "artist", but he HAS been in some movies. I find it hard for me to watch any movie O.J. Simpson has been in.
OJ was a far greater at his craft/art of football player than Woody Allen is at his of director
And will you watch Gig Young? Albert Salmi?
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>I'm considering it, but first I'm going to boycott Steve Allen movies, see how that goes, and then move on from there.
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>Later, in the 70s, Gordy moved his operation to LA, in order to be near the Hollywood establishment, and became actively involved in moviemaking. He started with a bang, LADY SINGS THE BLUES, but despite some successes over the years, he never had the same impact on movies as he did on music.
Motown's most notable contribution to film was producing, believe it or not, the TV miniseries Lonesome Dove
Those interested in the Motown sound should check out the documentary Standing In The Shadows Of Motown, which profiles The Funk Brothers, the legendary session band who play on almost all the label's hits.
I know of two other documentaries about rock and roll session musicians of the '60s.
This one deals with the Alabama band behind many great soul classics.
This film profiles the L.A. musicians who played on hits by the Beach Boys, The Monkees, and many others
Unfortunately TWC has never been officially released due to apparently insoluble problems with music rights clearances. It can be found online, if you know where to look.
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>So you've boycotted his films since "Annie Hall", yet you have a critical opinion of over 30 films you've never even seen? Sorry, but "Manhattan", "Radio Days", "Hannah and Her Sisters", "Crimes and Misdemeanors", "Husbands and Wives", "Bullets Over Broadway", "Match Point", "Midnight in Paris" and many others are among the best movies made in their respective years. It is your uninformed (and childishly alliterative) opinion that is pretentious.
I've actually seen most of those
Sorry, but I've never recovered from the trauma of Interiors (I still have occasional nightmares to this day). I'm not really interest in WA's inferior imitations of Wilder and Lubitsch, and I'm definitely not interest in his imitation Bergman. I don't even much care for original Bergman.
The tragedy is that WA was once one of the world's greatest comedy writers, and seemed on his way to becoming a great comic filmmaker. Instead he chose to make bland yuppie mini-dramas. At least we still have Bananas, Sleeper, Getting Even, and Without Feathers.
> It is your uninformed (and childishly alliterative) opinion that is pretentious.
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I've been boycotting Woody Allen movies since 1978
because they are preciously pretentious pieces of pompous poop
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> I thought Nicholson WAS a good fit as McMurphy
For me, Jack Nicholson is the safe, cleaned up Warren Oates. JN isn't bad, but Oates would have brought a sense of danger to the role that JN lacked.
FWIW, Ken Kesey actually claimed Kirk Douglas was the best McMurphy. KK may have sincerely believed that, or it may have been his way of dissing a hugely profitable film that he saw virtually no money from.
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> The queen is Ethel Merman
IMHO Andrews missing out on the MFL film has caused more harrumphing than any other single example of this practice, although there has been plenty of gnashed teeth over Merman getting snubbed for Gypsy. Of course for career snubs Merman is the champ.
>ANNIE GET YOUR GUN (1950)..again, Merman's role in the stage production is taken by Betty Hutton, though MGM initially cast Judy Garland. Merman would reprise the role again on Broadway in the mid-60s.
Merman also did a super-truncated version for TV in the mid '60s. I believe the press agent in this was played by Jerry Orbach
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>The thread title is meant to be interpreted in a variety of ways. And certainly, it applies to more than Butterflies Are Free.
You didn't make that it clear, so I limited my original comment to BAF.
In the larger sense the queen of this category would surely be Julie Andrews re My Fair Lady
Lee J Cobb was passed over for the Death of a Salesman film but fortunately for posterity did a TV version in 1966. Same with Jason Robards and The Iceman Cometh -- he did a TV production in 1960.
Other originators I would like to have seen:
Zero Mostel - Fiddler on the Roof
Ben Gazzara - A Hatful of Rain and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Cliff Gorman - Lenny. I once had a double LP recording of this production, and I've always felt Gorman's Lenny Bruce was far superior to that of Dustin Hoffman.
Not Broadway or an original production, but perhaps the stage performance I most wish I could have seen: an LA little theatre production of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, starring Warren Oates as McMurphy (1966). Jack Klugman, who saw this as well as Kirk Douglas on Broadway, said it was the best McMurphy ever. Douglas IMHO was totally wrong for the role, and Nicholson doesn't quite seem right either. But Oates, with his hillbilly thuggery and causeless rebelliousness crossed with childlike impetuousness, might have been perfect.
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>The play is set in New York City while in the film the setting was changed to San Francisco
Ditto for the same year's Play It Again Sam, which was moved b/c of a strike in NYC. I don't know if that's why BAF was moved.
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Well my first thought is dissent with your assertion that the film is "great".
I will the say that, having a long-standing crush on Blythe Danner, it would have been nice if she'd repeated her role, since then her film career might have gone somewhere.
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>And was it out of some sort of respect, or against the law to film actual currency? Notice in all studio era movies clear into the '50's used that hokey looking paper money.
It was actually against US law. I know of one exception this -- Anthony Mann's T-Men, where it is mentioned at the beginning that they have government approval to photograph the bills.
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>"The Star Spangled Banner" can be heard in a lot of movies.
Well, okay. Name some.
I just remembered that it's played in Tora Tora Tora by the Navy band as the planes attack, but that's outside my studio era time frame. And of course it's in Woodstock from the same year.
FWIW as late as 1971, the pilot for Happy Days showed Richie and his dad standing hand over heart as the TV station signs off. But song they're listening to is "God Bless America".
Clearly, there was some hesitancy in the old days about using the SBB onscreen.
The "other actress" considered for the MY FAIR LADY movie
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>His first choice for Henry Higgins was Cary Grant. Perhaps if a "name" such as Cary Grant was in the film he might have considered Julie Andrews
According to a bio of Rex Harrison, that is pretty much what happened. Grant was approached, with the idea that Andrews would then be considered for Eliza (thus saving the large salary Hepburn would demand). But Grant gave his famous refusal.
Still Jack Warner was determined to cast a proven box office draw as Higgins. He then approached...
Are you ready...?
*Rock Hudson* to play Higgins. Supposedly Hudson's closest advisers urged him to accept the role, but he ultimately declined.
At this point Hepburn was cast as Eliza, giving Warner the superstar he insisted on -- but Jack Warner wasn't finished. He strongly considered casting Peter O'Toole as Higgins. O'Toole was fresh off his LOA triumph, as classically trained as Harrison (if not more so), and perhaps most importantly for Warner, was 25 years younger than Rex H.
Ultimately O'Toole was not cast (explanations as to why differ -- perhaps it was the stories spread by producer Sam Spiegel claiming he was difficult on the LOA set), and Rex ended up as the screen Higgins.