casablancalover
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You wouldn't necessarily know it from Prime Suspect.. What a versatile actress.
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Simon and Garfunkel are in their 70th year, this year..They're poets, so I'm certain they are thinking of this song.
[Old Friends|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M24Yhd7N91s&feature=relmfu]
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h5. .. the highwater mark...
Ha, there's a game screenwriters play. The first one who mentions zombies to the plot -loses.
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>hibi wrote:
>OMG! The whole Bloody Mama movie is on Youtube. I just saw Varsi's nude scene (topless). I'd forgotten Robert DeNiro and Bruce Dern were in it too (never saw the film)......
lol.. Somehow, I understand what you meant.
I don't know. I always thought even if there is gratuitous nudity, it still makes sense. As far as these '50s potboilers go, the gals would have no problem getting the guys take them to movies then.
But Bloody Mama? I suppose Varsi gets killed.
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I watched WRITTEN ON THE WIND again the other night. I learned that these movies are so special in the way it captures not just the storytelling but the way women wanted the story told. Filled with drama queens: the sweet damsel victim, the heartless b*tch, and the haunted, careless no-account the damsel marries, and the noble best friend who is so caring he's almost emasculated by his goodness. Thank heavens, people still kept a gun in the desk!
I found Hudson playing the emotionally unavailable Mitch ironically poetic.
h4. Call Mr Tweezerman
But I couldn't stop laughing, not at the story (which you think I would) but Dorothy Malone's eyebrows.. Two dark caterpillars, moving in trembling anger at her frustration at not being able to bed Mitch Wayne.
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Oh, I had forgotten, *The Sin of Harold Diddlebock ..*
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*Happy Birthday, Gary Cooper..*
Not from a movie, but his quote-
>Movie acting is a pretty silly business for a man because it takes less training, less ability and less brains to be successful in it than any other business I can think of.
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THE LADY EVE and SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS
THE LADY EVE is my favorite Stanwyck role. Fonda is so delightfully clueless, and it's a great ending.
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To me, a story well-told is not indulgent; I loved reading that! We never know the connections we make. Time doesnt stand still, it is a continium.
What historical moments will we have today?
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I love you, and that's All I Know:
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When my son completed his basic training at Lackland AFB, many of us parents celebrated at the fine places along the River Walk. It is a very interesting story how it came into being.
In early years, the rains flooded San Antonio's streets often, and the city's business community had the idea to have the river paved over with streets and serve as an storm drain. The local conservation society fought that idea and won out with a plan of a local architect, H.H.Hugman, to create walkways and landscaped banks that would attract foot traffic.
It was originally conceived in 1929 and was finished with WPA funding and local taxes in 1941. The River Walk I toured ran for 8 miles, it will be expanded to 15 miles in 2013.
It is a lovely way to treat the city and it's residents and visitors like myself.
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The Hearst Castle has the coolest Evening tour.
Mid Coastal CA north of Santa Barbara is sublime beyond description to me. Just loved it. Sideways tour, anyone?
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Great link, Lynn! Thank you! I have bookmarked that link.
I have visited many of the locales in past trips to LA, and like Mank's tour, it's best experienced through the people you meet and the stories you hear that make it so memorable.
I do have mixed feelings about the --Kodak-- Hollywood and Highland Center. It is such a Mall.. My first impression of it was it would be like Musso & Frank's Grill -being operated as a Cheesecake Factory. Nice, but contrived.
But then, what is Hollywood but contrived?
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Eugenia-
As depressing as it is, I would still like to walk certain locales and try to picture it as it was. I still get a thrill visiting the Hollywood Bowl, not just for the concert, but for the movies shot there. Still love the Griffith Observatory for the same reason.
I used to prepare tours (create walking tours and included the history of the place helping the participants visualize the once surroundings), and I always thought it would be fun to create a tour of some of the more interesting sites in classic movie Los Angeles and the films associated with them. Maybe I can still do that, even offer it as day outing at the Classic Film Festival. It would be a great way to meet some the other classic movie lovers..
I loved visiting the Blandings house at Malibu Creek State Park.. there is still so much to cherish.
And there were replicas built!
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The last video brought back memories of a wedding many years ago we were invited to where I invited to join in with the girls. It was just like the video in the opening; we laced arms in a circle and did the steps.. But the band was giving us a break for the first eight bars.. then they played the speed we hear on the video...Dang it got so FAST!! LOL ... wears me out watching it. The spinning part I knew, but by then I was too tired!
the young men were the stand outs... Thanks for posting it!
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How sad.
I always thought the removal of the Babylon set of DW Griffith's INTOLERANCE from the LA landscape was one of the cities lost treasures.
Incredible it lasted as long as it did.
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Just a perspective of mine about threads.
There are many posters here, even if we only see 12-21 at any one time.
Different threads running similar or identical subjects hasn't bothered me. I view the message boards as a big reception, where we come to post on a discussion that we recognize or with people we recognize. Like a big reception, we cannot be everywhere, not all subjects are of interest, and figuratively speaking, we will see the one closest to the door when we enter. This is not a negative judgment from me of the other similar threads out there, just one of convenience or interest. And like a big reception, it could be just a fact that different people will be discussing the same things within their group and not aware it is happening elsewhere.
I feel bad when some take personally if they do not get replies, but in my case I am not choosing one over another, and it is understood when the conversation runs it's course, the subject changes.
Edited by: casablancalover on May 6, 2012 3:35 PM
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Actually, it does go back to the fine pictures that spark the memory, or rather the deja vu experience to me. It's deeper than nostalgia; it is a connection to history. That's why I think the thread is so well titled.
I just brought a little multi-media to it. I am more into other decades on the Favorite music thread right now.
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This is truly a one of born at the wrong time - deja vu - experiences
Check out a Hangar dance, maybe near you.
Edited by: casablancalover on May 6, 2012 10:11 AM
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Springfield -not Springsteen.
Seen on a parking lot in a Ft Myers shopping strip.
I didn't stick around to see if she -it is a she- is young or old, or in shoulders pads and chick-mullet..
This went all over the car, except the roof. I don't know why she didn't think helicopters flying overhead wouldn't have wanted to know of her idolization of Rick.
A song to take us back to 1984.
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I guess I know the dream. I will get right on it..
Edited by: casablancalover on May 6, 2012 12:45 AM
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h3. Happy Birthday, Orson
>*Paris, France, 1789. Thirty years later, under the reign of Louis XVI, longstanding grievances between aristocrat and peasant were about to boil over. The pot in which these troubles boiled was kindled with the firewood of oppression and injustice and heated by the flames that sucked the air from gasping peasants. Would the pot cool off, would it merely simmer, or would it boil over in the kitchen of France - to stain the floor of history forever?*
Orson Welles, narrator
START THE REVOLUTION WITHOUT ME
(1970)
Edited by: casablancalover on May 6, 2012 12:05 AM
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If I fell
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So beautiful. Thank you.
Born in the wrong time (?)
in Your Favorites
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You don't need to travel far for a story either, take for instance, my walking route through the neighborhood:
This sweet little cottage is part of two lots in Dean Park.. The rest is taken up by a huge Banyan tree on one side, and a lovely garden on the other. The design was very popular in the 1920s through 1935, and I guess this one was of that era. It is perfectly maintained. I do not know the history, but I am grateful it's still there.
The shaded path to the garden on the other side.
My walk always takes in a newer view too, but it is not unwelcome, for it's very much charming look itself.
These two buildings are new; since 1998; but they are of fine design and they do create a placid view for the few of us who stride the bridge on foot.
Edited by: casablancalover on May 8, 2012 10:35 PM