casablancalover
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I need to see this again. I put it in my Netflix queue.. I keep thinking there is a scene with Dominique (get it? Domin- _ique_ / _nance_ --Ayn cannot be subtle sometimes) where she has a whip. Am I mistaken?
I could go on... I just may...
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It is historically in music, a very sad day... Many Artists died on this date. Jake does a wonderful tribute to them.
Patsy Cline won Arthur Godfrey's talent show on this date. Her winning song, Walking After Midnight:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkkM7K6smQA
Her signature song, Crazy:
I hope her personal life was happier than her songs. I guess such is the country girl's way. Sorry she left us too soon. What a wonderful voice.
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Thanks, MM. It does have some deep universal truths about it, doesn't it? The last line is perfect..
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Interested by the thread, though I couldn't get into the book. I thought the movie pretty campy unintentionally.
I believe the movie could be summed up thus..
Roarke: "I'm the important one."
Wynand: "I'm the important one."
Dominique: "I'm with the important one."
It is an interesting movie where the characters seem to be simultaneously the protagonists and the antagonists. But then, that's Ayn..
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I loved it for Bette Davis and Wendy Craig. I haven't seen it in a long time. I saw The Collector with Terrance Stamp about the same time. Suspense like that was good, though after The Collector, I was watching behind for a while!
Edited by: casablancalover on Jan 20, 2010 11:31 PM
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The anniversary of Ron Townson's birth. He sang with. . .
h4. The Fifth Dimension:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0foZ3gRcWvA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2z0KmhK95Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAST_HH_BoQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u-rdFAVECg
And Jimmie Webb's Up, Up and Away:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWVe3AB8OY8
They had a ton of hits... I hardly scratched the surface..
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That is the wonderful thing about The Phantom Meaness review. You actually appreciate the wit more, when out of the thrall of George Lucas' mastery. It is a fave among USC film school grads.
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Ray Anthony's (musician/bandleader) birthday. Worked with Glenn Miller 1940-1941. The claim to fame I recognize first. The Ray Anthony Orchestra:
Ray Anthony _wrote_ this song. It is not the best youtube video I've seen, but it appears the grandparents are shooting it, so let's be gracious:
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The best stories involve people who are free spirits and independent thinkers. Some interesting suggestions here so far. So rather than making this competitive, let me add some favorites:
*You Can't Take it with You* naturally...
*Love Letters* Jennifer Jones
*Funny Bones* Lee Evans
*The Life of Emile Zola* Paul Muni
*Immortal Beloved* Gary Oldman
*Dead Poets Society* Robin Williams
The list can go on. These characters see beyond the obvious, and embrace not just people, but love to the soul of others.. I love how these stories show their interconnected-ness to their world and how they embrace it.
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This was fun Jonny. But The Towering Inferno ain't Casablanca....
Neither was this: The Phantom Menace.
The Official Review of *The Phantom Menace.*
It is 7 videos long.. Sacastic, mocking, (caution) filled with profanity, and at times very dark, but the reviewer feels really cheated out of his former Star Wars love affair.. I think you might enjoy it.
Edited by: casablancalover on Jan 20, 2010 8:36 AM
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>*The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.*
Gene Wilder, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory 1971
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Kerosene? No, but high-alcohol content after shave. Old Spice, Hai Karate, English Leather and Brut were the favorites.
Those melty polyesters were a problem. But looking at the style of the clothes, burning them was the only solution, if only they weren't being worn at the time.
ValentineXavier-
Be your agent? No thank you. For the first story idea, you must market it yourself. The Hollywood way.
Edited by: casablancalover on Jan 18, 2010 11:23 PM
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This is the first toy commercial I can recall:
youtube is wonderful
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>*I have a bad feeling about this.*
Ewan MacGregor,(ObiWan Kenobi) The Phantom Menace. 1999
h5. No kidding... He really says this.
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Now, Jonny, try to be a little charitable under the circumstances.
There is one movie that was a disaster, and it was actually a money maker....The Phantom Menace..
Rifftrax has something new on the 22nd.. Return of the Jedi... but Phantom Menace is still worse.
We can discuss that...
I am trying to dig up the bizarre phenom review out there...
Edited by: casablancalover on Jan 18, 2010 7:57 PM
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Great choices, AJ, glad you're here. Just finished the stack! Coldplay and Green Day makes me nostalgic for the times my youngest son was home, before his USAF service. Music-- our common language..
I like alternative rock too. *All Time Low*, Weightless:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csS5TCVBx2c
I like your selections. I'll check in later with something for us oldsters... lol.
Edited by: casablancalover on Jan 18, 2010 7:54 PM, to respect a quote she could not attribute.
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I recognized a few names, of course, then I saw *Dead Can Dance*. Absolutely awesome. I didn't know anyone here would be so eclectic in their tastes as I am. The offering is one I knew...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrOjTMWf5eM
I hadn't heard this in years. Thank you. How Cosmic!
It was so nice to post it. Have you heard of Ruth MacKenzie? She is wonderful and does Kulning, (Swedish calling) I've seen her *Kalevala: Dream of the Salmon Maiden*, which is based on the ancient Scandinavian saga of a young woman escaping a loveless marriage by turning into a salmon. The music is quite exciting, and the singing strong.
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> {quote:title=C.Bogle wrote:}{quote}
> What could be more beautiful than the love a boy has for his mother?
More beautiful than the love of a boy for his dog? *Lassie Come Home.*
Now that's one devoted woman!
Edited by: casablancalover on Jan 18, 2010 2:16 PM, who thought that "dog" and "woman" were more respectful words than her original choice.
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Two artists. a distinct sound.
Wynonna Judd:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnr8lMNYzrU
Bruce Springsteen:
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> {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote}
> Ooooh, I just had a great idea for a disaster pic, sort of a combination the The Towering Inferno, and The Poseidon Adventure. There is a huge 150 story sky scraper built on a fault. The fault opens, the sky scraper falls over, into the fault, bottom up. The fault closes on it. The people in the sky scraper have to work their way up to freedom, through the upside down sky scraper. Whadda ya think?
ValentineXavier,
This story idea could go several directions.
I believe the important thing to establish when you share a movie concept (or TV--escaping could take near forever, and you can milk it) is that it is Your Idea.
1. Once a concept is in tanglable form, on paper, in print, on video, in computer.. it's *yours*. That's the bottom line, though in screenwriting we have additional hoops to jump.
The rub here is not the idea, but we don't know who you are, and a plagiarist could simply identify himself/herself as ValentineXavier. I don't think it is nearly as easy to establish identity here as a sign on either. There is far too much phishing going on...
Play it safe here. Have you establish yourself in reality with other real people here? Communication as yourself with people you trust is the only true safety for protecting ideas, because now you also have your friends to act as witnesses.
I'm not saying that you can't share ideas, but have some reality here with people you can trust who know you through other outlets of identification.
Sorry if this isn't my usual quippiness, but *2012* carries a great shot of the USS John F Kennedy crashing in on an unbelievable sunami over the White House...
h4. Every idea risks the potential for success for someone. Make it you.
Edited by: casablancalover on Jan 18, 2010 7:47 AM
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If I remember correctly that 150 story building did have some neighboring buildings... Boy, how big were those things?!! San Francisco--
h2. *LAND OF THE GIANTS*
h6. baseball team
Edited by: casablancalover on Jan 17, 2010 11:18 PM
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I wonder what the dialog would be for that! Next time you watch it, I would love to hear/read the running commentary.
I believe, with just a little coaching, I can get you a gig on Rifftrax with Mike Nelson, Tom Servo and friends. Haha...
h5. CasablancaLover, available for coaching. . .hell, I do it for actor friends already for nothing...
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It really is a fantastic piece of literature, and with great performances. It doesn't do it justice. There should be a better print. I loved Jose Ferrer in that role.
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From the sublime to the ridiculous. The Blues Brothers make their first appearance on SNL this date in 1976. John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd doing their Jake and Elwood to perfection:
Soul Man:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1ehMrK3itM
Everybody Needs Somebody to Love:
h5. There is a fine line between dancer and dork...
?The Fountainhead?, best comedy of 1949
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I have elevator scenes in a screenplay, but I would not have a scene where my lady lead is climbing *exposed* to the top of a *HUGE* building to her love. Who is *LOOKING DOWN* on her. Calling Dr. Freud..
Elevator scenes are best used as metaphors for confessionals. IMHO, Ayn sucked at screenwriting, and yet on the level of The Towering Inferno, delightfully and unintentionally amusing..