casablancalover
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I am delighted about The Hurt Locker. Paul Ottosson, and Katherine Bigelow. I couldn't help but feel that Sandra Bullock's win had that Sally Field look about it. Anyone else sense that?
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Bernard Herrmann may be my favorite. Here is his work presented in concert with the LA Philarmonic. I love the music to Vertigo and On Dangerous Ground:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWKu78ztvkY
This was Herrmann's last score, Brian DePalma's Obsession, one of his personal favorites (and one of mine):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBu-AzFSrA4
another option:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOsNicwendk&feature=related
I'll work more Herrmann into the week with other great score composers...
Thanks MM for the inspiring idea...
Edited by: casablancalover on Mar 8, 2010 12:19 AM
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Thanks for the 411 on Yeats. I also enjoy James Joyce's Chamber Music.
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> {quote:title=Bronxgirl48 wrote:}{quote}
> A stove and Sean Connery -- what more could any woman want??
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> Gad, doesn't his presence here just scream STAR????
How I love Sean Connery. . . Especially when he plays Celebrity Jeopardy with Alex (Will Farrell) on SNL.. The best!
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*Up In the Air.*
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h4. Pre-Raphaelites, anyone?
W. B. Yeats. Thank you. I hope you post some more too.
I'll see if I can dig up some *Pre-Raphaelites* -Don't know if it's a challenge or not.
I never have heard of an Irish poet that didn't produce reams of prose..
Edited by: casablancalover on Mar 7, 2010 8:10 AM-who's taken to subheadings.
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Leonard Cohen, not singing today.
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h4. What me, worry?
> {quote:title=HollywoodGolightly wrote:}{quote}
> It can be a lot of fun, when you parody some long-accepted genre or style.
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> I guess in their own way, the ZAZ movies might owe a little something to "Mad" magazine, as well.
Oh yeah, ZAZ grew up on _Mad_.. and _Cracked_ and Ernie Kovacs.
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h4. Thank you for this award, and THANK YOU to Turner Classic Movies for not running anything truly Classic.
So, I take it you are watching the Academy do it's thing, and not tuning into TCM. When I saw The Big Knife on the schedule, I thought "how kind and gracious not to be programming seriously."
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>Tess: *I can't imagine you being scared. It doesn't seem to fit..*
>Matt: *It fits.*
>Tess: *It makes things clear. If it helps, I know how you feel. I'm scared too...we can talk, it's the best thing to do when you feel that way. Just talk if it helps.*
>Matt: *Helps what?*
>Tess: *No, no. It really does. I sit in front of a mirror, if I have to..*
Joanne Dru, Montgomery Clift, Red River (1948)
Edited by: casablancalover on Mar 6, 2010 11:36 PM
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> {quote:title=exapno wrote:}{quote}
> I love when some people say, "Oh...how can somebody take a movie like this", or whatever. People just don't understand that acting is a BUSINESS, and sometimes you have to take roles because they pay the rent, or whatever. Look at the rest of the cast - Shatner at thw time was at the nadir of his post-TREK career, and Tom Skerrit was at the nadir of HIS post-MASH career. I am sure that they all had a boatload of fun - it certainly LOOKS like they are having a good time, as they cant possibly take it serious.
Take the money and RUN! (to pay some bills)
> And why trash Shatner?? Shatner is a serious, GOOD actor, when he has the chance. Most of his stuff is very good - including TREK.....it only in the 70s with roles like BBM, he kinda got the caricature (best review of his work in this movie I ever saw, described it as "Captain Kirk on Quaaludes") going....
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> And I hate to say this, but you compare Shatner's body of work, as opposed to Angie's, well.....
Shatner was in Judgment at Nuremberg, for pete's sake! Rio Bravo and Ocean's 11 are the claim to fame for Angie Dickenson (besides being married to Burt Bacharach) She did a ton of television, however.
> i have always thought that BBM is just about the perfect example of a 70's Roger Corman movie - some stars who are in a bit of a career downturn....lots of sex, car chases and gunfire, plus a nice dollop of pure FUN...and all done in about two weeks of shooting...CITIZEN KANE, it aint, but it sure is fun,, if u let BE fun...
> Edited by: exapno on Mar 6, 2010 6:28 PM
To quote Preston Sturges: Some kinds of fun last longer than others.. This movie is still floating around out there.
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I recently saw Red River again. Very good movie. It had been a loooong time; I think I saw it last with my dad, I don't remember when..
I think I like John Wayne best when his character has a serious flaw that that is confronted. Red River is no exception. Howard Hawks and Arthur Rosson set it up fast with Tom Dunson's whatever attitude toward rules and expectations of behavior.
Ditch the wagon train -check.
Shoot the landowner's hired guns -check.
Change brands on cattle -double check.
Through it, he remains a protagonist. So does Clift. It sets up as complicated a story as some romances! It's a road picture, but what a road!
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h4. Wait a minute!! No one told me Big Bad Mama was on very late last night! So the disasters kept coming. . . ?
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>*Without mistakes, there is no forgiving, and without forgiving, there is no love.*
Nan Leslie, The Crowded Sky (1960)
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Don't mind getting green lips with those! haha
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Now you flatter in a way that's slightly perverse. I can take it now. Which one am renting? Better move it up in the queue.
Back at ya
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> {quote:title=JackFavell wrote:}{quote}
> May God give you...
> For every storm, a rainbow,
> For every tear, a smile,
> For every care, a promise,
> And a blessing in each trial.
> For every problem life sends,
> A faithful friend to share,
> For every sigh, a sweet song,
> And an answer for each prayer.
That's a beautiful sentiment, JF. Irish tenors? Nah. I prefer bass baritones with a diastema. I have the Bailey's chillin' for the event. St Patrick's Day should start earlier, maybe the effects wouldn't be so seriously pronounced...
Here in St Paul, most parades are at noon, and I try to be off the roads by then.. Most of the folks have trouble marching by then. Fortunately, very few accidents, though quite a few DUIs.
Had boiled beef and cabbage, once. I agree; never again.
I'll take a Harp, thank you. Guinness is best in *Beef 'n Guinness* or *Guinness Pot Roast*.. YUM!
http://www.britspub.com/menu/index.php?strWebAction=menu_detail&intMenuID=1
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OK, you got me; its in the queue..
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h4. And now, for something completely different.
John Belushi was one of my favorites. He took comedy to a new level. It was like a combination of Marx Bros and L&H with current references. *Saturday Night Live* was such a tradition with me in the early years and I was grateful to have been there since its inception. It is what defines us baby boomers. Unfortunately, youtube removes most of these, so there's history being destroyed. Do they realize this? What you see on there now is mostly about his death, and not how good he was..
A little help with his friends:
Roll over Ludwig, What I say?:
Animal House (caution about language-you were warned):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q47bpOCTcaY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0QqbukAlKQ
More Blues Brothers:
And a bonus for watching:
final version:
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> {quote:title=JonnyGeetar wrote:}{quote}
> Did anyone else feel pure, unabashed joy and delight when the hep-talking, too-cool-for-the-room flight navigator got sucked out the tear in the cockpit in The Crowded Sky ?
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> If only the same had happened to John Kerr....
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> ps- anyone ever seen a film where John Kerr, um, actually acted ?
No, I can't say that I haven't, except for the time in South Pacific when he looked like he was in love with France Nuyen. That looked like acting then. It's hard to emote when there are so few emotions to exhibit..
Edited by: casablancalover on Mar 6, 2010 12:48 PM, 'cuz of that damn there/their/they're thing. I know I'm not alone..
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> {quote:title=clore wrote:}{quote}
> I haven't seen him since CLERKS II. Has he gotten that large? I haven't been on a plane in 15 years, but I've been in seats that were crowded even with average sized people on each side. I've never liked air travel, so since I had to do more than my share when working, I don't miss it at all.
Kevin Smith? Yes, he is still making films, and the dialog doesn't seem to improve.
Absolutely love flying. Wish I could do more of it.
Thanks for your comment clore, but I not sure what everybody else is talking about.
Are we still talking about Airplane here? Geez, cut and paste or click on the quotemarks if too tired to mention the movie.
*References, People, References!!!*
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I thought Judy deserved the Oscar for her performance in Judgement at Nuremberg.
h6. (casblancalover checks her bookshelf): Hey, wait a minute! My Ex has that!? Judgement at Nuremberg is one of mine..
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> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}
> In these old airplane movies, look at how wide the airline seats were in the old days.
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> They are much smaller today, and that is why some people have trouble fitting into them.
Maybe it's the romantic in me, but I thought the 747 was a spacious craft. First trip to Europe was on one, and I had an empty seat next to me (!) and I could stretch out (overnight flight).
I spent a couple flights to FL on a old DC-10, and I liked the space at least in the Emergency Exit rows just fine. Yeah, they let me sit in the rows, but I had to take the aisle seat.
Edited by: casablancalover on Mar 5, 2010 11:19 PM
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It's a shame some misplaced words cost someone their place in the sunshine, He didn't even mention death panels.
Congratulations for all the winners, especially all those hard-working regular folk for The Hurt Locker.