casablancalover
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I've read in MissWonderly's post:
>Come on people, if you all are such big fans of this lady's movies, let's hear it for The Pajama Game ! Just thinking about omitting this from a list of her best films gives me Steam Heat !
I finally saw The Pajama Game and loved it; very cute. I loved the Labor Day picnic scene too. And the fight for 7 and half cents.
But it it proves to me you're Canadian, for the backdrop of the story is Unions vs. Management and corporations. The union gets its raise, after Doris and John negotiate. As you have maybe seen nowadays, Americans are told we are not to accept negotiation.. If we give in a little to have what we want, now we are told we are weak.
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Some happy, some sad, some redemptive.
*Great Endings:*
Stagecoach
Gunga Din
The Red Violin
The Best Years of Our Lives
Cinema Paradiso
Field of Dreams
Meet John Doe
I Was a Fugitive From a Chain Gang
Shane
Vertigo
Immortal Beloved
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Just saw/heard your post of Beethoven on another thread. I love that! It was used in Immortal Beloved, a movie I consider impossibly romantic.
While I was on that page, I saw two other real music pieces that I hope you like. Something restful before bed.
Clair de Lune
Moonlight Sonata
h5. Bonne nuit, tout le monde.
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Need to get you folks up to face the day..
Ric Astley:
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>*Four years ago something terrible happened here. We did nothing about it, nothing. The whole town fell into a sort of settled melancholy and all the people in it closed their eyes, and held their tongues, and... failed the test with a whimper. And now something terrible's going to happen again -- and in a way we're lucky, because we've been given a second chance.*
Walter Brennan
Bad Day at Black Rock
(1955)
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>MM1957 asks:
>Does that mean it is yours?
No, Mine is in February. It is the birthday of someone I love; he doesn't post here. He knows.
But there is one other Beatles song I always think of on birthdays, but I didn't want to rub it in; maybe you think of this one too..
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Will you revive from the chaos in my mind
Where we still are bound together
Will you be there waiting by the gates of dawn
When I close my eyes forever!!!!!
Found on postings with this beautiful song from Norway and Grieg..
We mourn with them in their grief.
Solveig's Song:
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>*Welcome back to the fight. This time I know our side will win.*
Paul Henreid,
Casablanca
(1942)
h5. Hollywood's Masterpiece
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Let's quiet things smooth..
Richard Cheese:
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Hum, it's still Saturday night.
Jet:
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Kenny's okay, but it's Saturday night. My theme song:
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One more tonight from The More the Merrier
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqVr-OWQZSU&feature=related
-just the exchange of wrong names gets me laughing..
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>Major Strasser: *Don't worry, we're not going to broadcast it.*
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>Rick Blaine: *Are my eyes really brown?*
Conrad Veidt, Humphrey Bogart
Casablanca
(1942)
h5. Hollywood's Masterpiece
Edited by: casablancalover on Jul 23, 2011 10:17 PM, she forget her tag..
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I always like the song, never knew the title.
Kenny Rogers, picking his battles:
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The Home Alone house is in a very lovely part of the world too.. Winnetka Ill.
It's not a movie house, but I always liked Mary Tyler Moore's place in Minneapolis.. It is real house.
http://www.tvacres.com/homes_mary.htm
I did tour the house used in the Grumpy Old Men movie:
http://www.iamnotastalker.com/2010/05/11/the-grumpy-old-men-houses/
It was open for a rare tour of classic craftsman architecture in St Paul. They are all next to each other in St Paul.
Edited by: casablancalover on Jul 23, 2011 9:41 PM
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Perfection! Ewell playing that piano makes me laugh every time! I get goose-pimply all over too! LOL
Another love scene I really adore. Watch Joel McCrea's hands..
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On the other hand:
You can visit the Ennis/Brown House in Los Angeles. It is a FLW beauty, up on a hill. It's been restored following damage from it's botched original materials, hillside life and earthquakes if I remember correctly. It has been seen in Blade Runner and recreated for The Rocketeer and Predator 2.
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Fonda's Thursday is someone I cannot equate straightforward, which I like. His stubbornness is amazing. His ego did remind me of Custer, yet Thursday doesn't remind me of Custer's early story at all, though legend alluded to at the end sounds like the way the newspapers covered Little Big Horn.
I was wondering about Collingwood's asides. He seemed totally emasculated by Thursday. I kept thinking Collingwood and Thursday go back far. I do admit missing the early part of this showing, and now I wonder if something was alluded to that I missed. Was there something of their history together, before Fort Apache? The Civil War glory is what I kept thinking that Thursday was trying to capture, and it didn't happen.
Thursday struck me as an officer just as you described, but I would add his leadership style isn't just self-destructive, but not all socially skilled, first, in his exchange in the O'Rourke home trying to get his daughter to leave, and then noting his woodenness at the NCO dance. To hear him speaking of "an officer and gentleman" to the younger O'Rourke, it was high irony to me.
I enjoyed the story. What is the prelude story? Any ideas?
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I find this movie absolutely fascinating. I will catch you after..
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h5. Every line quotable-
>*The day you left Paris.. If you knew what I went through.. How much I loved you. How much I still love you.*
Ingrid Bergman
Casablanca
(1942)
h5. Hollywood's Masterpiece
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h5. Every line is quotable-
> *Might as well be frank, Monsieur. It would take a miracle to get you out of Casablanca, and the Germans have outlawed miracles.*
Sidney Greenstreet
Casablanca
(1942)
h5. Hollywood's Masterpiece
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In a discussion in another thread it inspired this favorite scene of mine. I think of it every time I want to paint a room..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZwOGVWqHAw
h5. I write this from my office, which is painted white; not a cold, hospital, antiseptic white. It's warmer, but still doesn't suggest any other color but white...
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Malibu Creek State Park..
I have stepped inside it too. It has all the charm a County Parks administration office.
Edited by: casablancalover on Jul 22, 2011 10:49 PM
Clips of my favorite scenes
in Your Favorites
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Would you like to dance?
BB is so lovely, I agree. Her first partner looked like Jon Lovitz! What a delightful mis-match.
It looked like a light mystery. I have just started French, so they will need to speak slower for me, lol.
Keep them coming..