coopsgirl
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*Ad for Legion of the Condemned (1928)*
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It?ll probably be another year and half before I say another bad thing about him too (if you disregard my rants about how awful *The Fountainhead* is)
. About Elvis?s snacks, I grew up on peanut butter and banana sandwiches and it?s like eating a little bit of Heaven; provided of course you don?t get Salmonella from the PB!
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Eating cheese with applie pie has been around a long time. I love cheese but the thought of eating those two together grosses me out too. In the scene in *Meet John Doe* where Gary is ordering room service he orders apple pie with cheese. I thought he had better taste than that
. The only kinda weird thing I do food wise is putting salt on watermelon and I got that from my dad. If you put just a little on there it will bring out the sweetness. Too much though and you just get salty watermelon
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*bet you got all sorts of compliments when you were a kid*
Yeah, then puberty hits and it's all downhill from there!!
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I bet you were a cute kid
. I certainly don't think of myself as model material (I guess I'm cute/pretty but not model good looking) so it's cool to see people that look like you doing stuff like that. It's weird to watch that movie b/c it's kinda like watching myself. Our eyes are exactly the same and it's just too freaky. What's weird though is I don't look like that same actress when she grew up. I guess we're just enough different to look different as adults.
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When I was little I looked like the girl from *Curse of the Cat People*. Same hair and everything. You put glasses on her and it's me. I also have an ad that my mom found back in the mid 90s in a Better Homes and Garden magazine and the girl in it could have been my exact twin. We would have been the same age and we had the same hairstyle and everything.
Clearly I missed my calling and should've been an actress/model instead of a social researcher
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How could you rat me out for the terrible cook that I am? Okay due to popular demand (well not really) I?ll tell the meringue story. I was about 14 and for some reason I got on a real cooking jag. So one afternoon I decided to make a pie that had a meringue topping. The recipe said beat the whites until they formed stiff peaks. I got out the mixer and mixed and mixed and nothing ? no peaks. So I went to the hand wisk and after about 20 minutes of beating and wisking my mom got home and seeing my beginning to sweat and looking quite worn out she asked what I was doing. I told her I was waiting for the peaks to form and she busted out laughing. Unbeknownst to me you only have to wisk it a few minutes and then you just pull the wisk up out of the meringue and if it stays up in a peak it?s ready. I was waiting for them to magically appear on their own. It?s a good thing she got home when she did or she probably would have found me passed out on the kitchen floor with a wish in one hand and the bowl in the other mumbling about the peaks
. My Betty Crocker days didn?t last long and all I can say is pity the poor man who marries me. He better like frozen dinners.
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I?m also convinced Grace won b/c they ?uglied her up?. She couldn?t act her way out of a paper bag in my opinion which I?m sure no one cares for
. *Greatest Show on Earth* shouldn?t have even gotten a nomination much less won Best Picture for ?52. I?d take that one out and put *Singing in the Rain* in its place. However I would have given the award to *High Noon*. For me the best pics of the year are *HN* and *SitR*. I don?t like the Broadway Melody part of *SitR* though and I think it drags the film down so that?s why I would put it in the #2 slot.
I also don?t think Joan Fontaine ever deserved to win an Oscar. She was a mediocre actress and while she may be a lovely person as well as Grace Kelly, they just weren?t that good.
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Thanks Chris! I know what I'm doing next Sunday :x.
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If it was up to me, every movie would have a Frank (i.e. Frank James ?Gary? Cooper).
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I don?t have kids but I still don?t like the bad language or too much sex. I don?t mind dirty humor when it?s actually funny and not explicitly shown in films like *Blazing Saddles* and stuff like that which is cleverly done. Since I started to watch more classic films over the past couple of years, I have watched less and less new stuff. I used to watch *CSI* (the original one in Vegas) regularly but since I got used to old movies, I found the show to gory and seedy so I quit watching it. Older ?new? type films I used to like (like stuff from the 90s) I don?t watch much anymore either b/c of too many sex scenes. Again this is b/c I have gotten used to old movies that don?t explicitly show that. I can use my imagination (which may be better than actually seeing it anyway
) to elaborate in those areas. Some people may see that as being prudish or not realistic but I prefer to think of it as being tasteful and decent. -
The TCM logo is in the top b/c it was recorded off one of the European TCM channels. I wish they would play it here in the U.S. too so more people could see that one. It's basically an art deco gangster film and I love that style :x.
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I?ve only seen her in *City Streets* (1931) with Gary Cooper but she was good in it. Here are some screencaps.
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I sent you a PM about the movie.
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It would be fantastic to have hair/makeup/wardrobe people to follow you around and make sure you look great all day. They might look a little strange though hanging around my cubicle
. It would be fun to go somewhere and have your pictures done in that old Hollywood glamour style. I nearly always close my eyes though during the flash so that might not be a good idea for me
. I agree that Rocky was lucky in some ways but it wasn't exactly all sunshine and roses being Mrs. Gary Cooper. She was a real classy lady though and handled all the various situations (the paparazzi, crazy female fans, and his affairs) with grace and dignity. I don't think he could have chosen a better gal (except for me of course :x ).
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I was browsing through the Corbis website looking at pics from the 30s and this one of Rocky (Gary's wife for those who might not know) came up when she was briefly acting under the name Sandra Shaw. She would have been about 19 or 20 here. It's a beautiful pic.
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Here's some more stuff from my scrapbook.
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A woman named Lily is singing the version I used. I liked this one a little better than Enya?s so that?s why I chose it.
That?s a good idea for a thread. I think it seemed to take more talent and skill to film a black and white movie than one in color. Color selection was very important b/c you needed to get the right look for b+w. I?ve read before that instead of using something like black for an outfit that was supposed to look black they would actually use other shades like really dark red and that filmed better. You can do a lot more with lighting and shadows too than you can in color films.
As far as color films go though, you can?t beat 3-strip Technicolor used from the mid 30s to mid 50s. That is just the most gorgeous color palette you will ever see. It just had a depth and richness to it that is lacking in all other color processes unfortunately. I wish they hadn?t stopped using it. I mean come one, does it get anymore gorgeous than this? :x
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You can add many of my videos as you want.
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I had a Raggedy Ann and Andy too! I don't think those are ever gonna change
. I also had a cute set of teddy bears that looked like the ones from 'Goldilocks and the 3 bears' and I'd have tea parties with them since my little table had four chairs. That reminds me of a silent movie version of that story and it?s from the early 1900?s when teddy bears were first starting to become popular. Near the end a guy shows up dressed like Teddy Roosevelt on safari and he and Goldilocks chase down the three bears (people in bear costumes) and he shoots the mamma and poppa bears and then Goldilocks takes the baby bear as a pet. It was really pretty freaky.
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*What I like about your videos, is that if you know the movies they are from, the video actually tells a story.*
That?s one of the tricky things with some of them is that if you know the movie, the video makes more sense. There is another I made with *Peter Ibbetson* clips called ?Marble Halls? and I picked that song b/c it?s in the movie in the scene when Gary goes into the party at the Duchess?s house. It was a brilliant selection by the filmmakers since the song is about a dream itself. It was funny b/c when I first saw that one I recognized the song and was singing along with it and it took me a while to remember what I knew it from. Finally it hit me it was on an Enya cd I had. I looked it up and was surprised to find it was from an opera from around the same time as the film is set so it was not only current for that time but also fit perfectly with the story. Filmmakers nowadays don?t seem to be nearly that clever anymore with little touches like that.
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He looked so cute standing there holding that little horse. It was so sweet.
No, I didn?t think of a name for him in the dream but it would have to be something real cute like Applejack or something like that. My Little Pony was a new thing when I was a kid (and now they are celebrating their 25th anniversary!!!) and my fave was this one named Applejack.
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Totally off topic, (is there actually a topic here though?
) I gotta tell y?all about the dream I had last night. I?m not a pet person at all but I do love miniature horses and if I had to have a pet that?s what I would pick. So last night I dreamed that I was a waitress in a diner like in the 50s and it looked more like a real diner as opposed to what we see in more modern movies that are set in the 50s. Anyway, Gary was one of our regular customers but he was just a regular guy so not famous or anything like that. Well he came in one day (dressed like Will Kane ? yummy!) and he told me he had a present for me. So we went out back and in a little pen was a miniature horse and he went over and picked him up and told me it was for me. I just couldn?t believe it. Then Gary set him back down and I was petting him and playing with him and Gary was happy b/c it had made me so happy. He was tan with a blonde mane and tail and a little white around his nose. He looked kinda like the ones in these pics. 
It was such a cute dream :x.
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I don't mind if you add it to the TCM fansite.
Working for the state government (especially in one of the few states not currently in the red, thank goodness) is a little more stable than working in Hollywood so I guess I better keep my day job
. As far as what you said Wendy about me knowing the movies I?m working with, I should as many times as I have watched them
. That does make it quite a bit easier b/c I can be at work listening to a song and I can kinda storyboard the idea in my head and then get on the computer at home and put it together. I can?t help but hear songs and then either put dance routines (from all my years in dance lessons I guess) or movie scenes to them. I?m glad y?all liked the song too. When I first heard it the line that jumped out at my was one from the chorus where she says ?I wanna stay, I feel safe here in your light?. It reminded me of a couple of dreams I?ve had about Gary where he saved me from something and I felt safe with him so that song made me think of him. I try to stay away from the longer songs (anything much over 3 minutes) b/c they can be tricky and seem to drag on sometimes but I was happy with how this one turned out. I?ve got tons of ideas and songs for a lot more so my creative well isn?t dried up yet
. Shirley Bassey has a lot of good songs that fit him and those should be fun b/c they?re real cutesy. Another woman, tikilizzy is her youtube name, has made some good Gary videos too and she used one of Shirley Bassey?s songs ?Kiss Me, Honey, Honey, Kiss Me? and it?s real cute.
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