casablancalover
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>*No, I don't think I will kiss you, although you need kissing, badly. That's what's wrong with you. You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how.*
Clark Gable, Gone With The Wind (1939)
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Thank you, MM. I haven't heard this one in some time. I like it very much. Harry Chapin championed the cause of world (and here) Hunger, and he has a food bank set up in his name in SWFL. Sorry that he's gone; he was a good storyteller..
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Bobby Darin became the youngest man to host a TV special (CBS) this week. His guest, Joanie Sommers.
Her big hit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Mew5kyTDw0&feature=related
Another single, not as big a hit:
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> {quote:title=CineMaven wrote:}{quote}
> Girl, what are you doing in here?
Slumming, apparently.
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> {quote:title=CineMaven wrote:}{quote}
> Ah-ha! Totally understand, Blanca. D'ya think she can ever come back from that...or is her career totally over and she just accepts her consolation prize (Antonio Banderas)?
I think Antonio is a fantastic consolation prize! I want one of my own. Think of it CM, a pretty nice retirement.. Banderas better be happy and keep her, or I will recommend Doralee go looking for him.
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> Ooooooh, 'less I be accused of being off-topic, let me quickly quote a favorite line from Elmer Gantry:
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> "Men!"
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> "Don't knock 'em until you've tried 'em."
Cute.. but aren't we the ones knocked?
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>*So, you've been tellin' everybody I've been sleepin' with ya, huh? Well that explains it! That's why these people treat me like some dime-store floozy. They think I'm screwin' the boss! Oooh, and you just love it, don't you? It gives you some sort of cheap thrill like knockin' over pencils and pickin' up papers! Get your scummy hands offa me! Look I've been straight with you since the first day I got here, and I've put up with all of your pinchin' and starin' and chasin' me around the desk because I need this job. But this is the last straw! Look, I've got a gun out there in my purse. Up until now I've been forgivin' and forgettin' because of the way I was brought up, but I'll tell you one thing. If you ever say another word about me or make another indecent proposal, I'm gonna get that gun of mine, and I'm gonna change you from a rooster to a hen with one shot! And don't think I can't do it!*
The Charming Dolly Parton, 9 to 5 1980
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Better representation....
h6. (agents)
Also, look at the roles Streep, Sarandon, and Weaver have parlayed into through the years. Not the ones they started with. If your career rests on one element, when that element changes, it changes everything. Melanie traded too much on cute.
Edited by: casablancalover on Jan 31, 2010 9:18 PM
Edited by: casablancalover on Jan 31, 2010 9:19 PM
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Melanie Griffith is 52. What do you think happened?
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*Elvis:*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EggG5DjCRU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKadTAj1aoo
h5. nothing else is necessary
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I love The Letter so much, I wrote a commentary track for it, for my own amusement. Herbert Marshall characters seem so layered, and he has to underplay them. Opposite Bette, less is more. In the The Letter, we can almost understand Bette's (Leslie) silence for Marshall's (Robert) sake. Then, Robert shows us what Leslie really is by the contrast.
Marshall and Davis have the same dynamic in The Little Foxes. But Hollywood rewards the scene chewers....
BTW- concerning commentary: The voice over has only been effective to me in a few movies. I did like the text block on the bottom of AMC's Features. They would run it twice, back to back for those who like it and those who didn't.
Edited by: casablancalover on Jan 31, 2010 11:38 AM
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If you examine Eddie Fisher not by his motivations, but just by his acts, then you come away holding him in contempt. We don't know another's motivations, unless it is expressed.
And I mean motivations, not excuses. Maybe Debbie, Liz, and Carrie understand him better than he does himself. Interesting topic to bring up on a Sunday, a day of contrition.
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It has taken me quite awhile to find this. It is a Communion hymn, not an Advent one as suggested in the video. While other's partake of the Eucharist, I would be quietly singing this in my pew. It tells us the Futility of deceit and the God's mercy is found in the full confession of your soul.
Have nothing earthly minded...
The tune is Picardy, a very old French chant. *Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence:*
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> {quote:title=mrroberts wrote:}{quote}
> Depending on how the Super Bowl is going, I may switch to the Puppy Bowl . The Puppy Bowl is always a hard hitting, entertaining game.
The Puppy Bowl VI has a great line-up this year. With a rescued team including: Addison (Maltese/Yorkie mix), Bandit (border collie mix), and Eenu (golden retriever/rottweiler mix)..I will catch them early.
But I will be watching the Super Bowl Commercials:
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> {quote:title=CineMaven wrote:}{quote}
> "Thinking takes brains. Just forget you've got them."
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> - Mara Corday in "GIRLS ON THE LOOSE."
>*I have a head for business, and a bod for sin. Anything wrong with that?*
Melanie Griffith, Working Girl (1988)
Edited by: casablancalover on Jan 30, 2010 10:07 PM
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h5. Charlotte is too busy LOL at the *Hitler's angry reaction to the iPad* to post some music...Maybe later..I don''t think TCM will let me link it here. check it out on youtube yourself..
h5. I will put it on my facebook page, however..I will be back later.
Edited by: casablancalover on Jan 30, 2010 10:54 PM
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I love this movie too. I love how the story is catapulted once Pip realizes who is benefactor really is. The characters are so well-realized. Stella is perfect, John Mills and a young Alec Guinness. Finlay Curie as Magwitch and Mr Jaggers and Mr Wimmick (with AP). Miss Havisham is the most pathetic creature, and Joe Gargery is the most kind...
They are all so good, and they create a world that I could not forget.
It is a story of fate as most of Dickens work is that, but this was especially well-told.
-Charlotte
h6. who has also read David Copperfield, and thought that movie version not nearly as good.
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> {quote:title=JonnyGeetar wrote:}{quote}
> Why can't you find any of the old Batman eps from the 60's....I would LOVE to see them again, is it some sort of Fox vs. WB legal haggling thing?
I tried looking after you mentioned it too. What's up with that?
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The song by David Soul was a hit, but David didn't stay around. He was suspected with battery against a girlfriend or wife. His career, sadly took a different route. He fought alcoholism in the Eighties, and he later moved to London. He still works I believe. Saw him some time ago on Little Britain...
A lot of women my age (no comment) wince now when they hear the song.. Let's hope his life is happier now.
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Tony Orlando and Dawn:
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I'm not afraid of actors, or anyone else anymore.
I am with you on the Mr. Freeze... Otto man was the man..
But in Anatomy.. that's what gave it reality for me. I know it was a judge.. To Each His Own.
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This really is a favorite.. Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond:
>CC Baxter: *What about Mr. Sheldrake?*
>Fran: *I'm going to send him a fruitcake every Christmas.*
>She places a deck of cards on the coffee table.
>Fran: *Cut.*
>CC: *I love you, Miss Kubelik...*
>Fran: *Seven. . . Queen...*
>CC: *Did you hear what I said, Miss Kubelik? I absolutely adore you.*
>Fran: *Shut up and deal.*
>And that's about it. Story-wise.
>FADE OUT.
-credit to simply scripts for the screenplay notes.
Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine, The Apartment (1960)
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Snips and Snails....
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Billy Joel sang the National Anthem on this date for Super Bowl XLI. Like so many, he had trouble staying on key. Singing at the Super Bowl is not like singing in your shower; the acoustics are all wrong.. So I found another performance or two of one of my favorite troubadours.
Just the Way You Are:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ounJsqomcv8&feature=related
She's Always a Woman:
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> {quote:title=HollywoodGolightly wrote:}{quote}
> I actually think The Hurt Locker is by far the best war movie that has come out of Hollywood in quite some time.
I actually think Jonny was attempting wit... ;-)
Off Topic: Favorite Music?
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h4. Company, Being Alive: