casablancalover
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Beautician at Sydneys #1: [to "Gillingswater"] You don't look a day over 35!
[walks into room]
Beautician at Sydneys #1: That old gasoline truck, she's 60 if she's a minute.
Beautician at Sydneys #2: Who is she?
Beautician at Sydneys #1: Gillingswater.
Beautician at Sydneys #2: Oh, that old bag! One more permanent and she won't have a hair on her head.
Beautician at Sydneys #1: She's got plenty on her arms baby!
Olive: She sure does shed, don't she!
The Women (1939)
Edited by: casablancalover on Mar 1, 2011 12:59 PM
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I think the back room of the Boutique where I work, the Genteel Southern ladies there would contribute that much in a week!
There's the image, and the reality...
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Now I'm curious. What is the first rule of science?
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I am getting a nice collection of movies to avoid on netflix..
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I love those! Thanks for posting.. I think I recognize Mrs. Miniver (upper right corner)..? and In the Good Old Summertime (lower left corner). . ?
Who's are those?
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>John Bernard Books: *What about the other one, Mike Sweeney?*
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>Gillom Rogers: *Now you watch out for him, Mr. Books. He's mean, and he hates you.*
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>John Bernard Books: *Well, we'll see if we can't clear that up tomorrow.*
Duke & Ron Howard, The Shootist (1976)
Happy Birthday, Ron Howard.
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>Corporal Miller: *To tell you the truth, I didn't think we could do it.*
>Capt. Keith Mallory: *To tell you the truth, neither did I.*
David Niven, Gregory Peck, The Guns of Navarone (1961)
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>Confederate Family Insurance Speaker: *A man fills many roles in his lifetime: provider, protector, master of the house. As a father you have a vital role in your family's life. They depend on you to be there. We help to make sure you can fulfill that promise, because..*
>(pause) *... no matter what they call you*
>(pause) *...at the end of the day*
>(pause) *...you know you're just*
>(pause) *...dad. Confederate Family Insurance - for over one hundred years. Protecting a people...*
>(pan past the Confederate Family to a slave trimming their hedges)
>*...and their property.*
C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America (2004)
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Down here in a Southern State, satire is totally lost on some of them. Most of them love their Stephen Colbert..
"You know, that SC boy with the funny ear who's made a name for himself on that comedy channel." -actual quote. SC down here never stands for Southern California.
I am getting better at NOT dropping my jaw..
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I am always bothered about the Technical Awards Luncheon. It always sounds like an Auxiliary thing, like not real awards, yet it's AMPAS sanctioned.
Edited by: casablancalover on Mar 1, 2011 10:48 AM, having fun with editing.
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h3. ****!!!!
I knew I saw that get-up somewhere before!
h6. or is it Gaddup?
Edited by: casablancalover on Mar 1, 2011 10:37 AM
The proper reference is get up, though I believe the hyphen adds to its gravity. As in:
She was wearing the most godawful get-up..
Edited by: casablancalover on Mar 1, 2011 10:47 AM
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> {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote}
> Plot and character development aren't exactly the same thing. I don't think that many who saw it would deny that the plot is complex. I cited that it was based on a bestselling novel to demonstrate that it had a plot that wasn't paper thin. I know that doesn't assure that the film will be good. I've seen plenty of films I thought were great, but were poorly rated, and plenty that are highly rated, that I think stink. So, the opinion of Rotten Tomatoes is not definitive for me. I think that the film's biggest problem is that the plot was too complex to be properly dealt with in the time allowed. Too much was left out, and not enough background on the characters.
That maybe the biggest challenge of adapted material. What to cut, what to keep. If you can pare the story down to a sentence, you can make a good movie out of it if the talent is there. I wouldn't attempt a logline for The Good German..
imdb describes The Third Man: Arriving in Vienna, Holly Martins learns that his friend Harry Lime, who has invited him, recently died in a car accident.
That's just a summary of the opening, and not a logline these days, however.
A logline for The Third Man:
A writer seeks an old friend in Vienna, and finds his most compelling story...
The Third Man
imdb logline for The Good German: While in post-war Berlin to cover the Potsdam Conference, an American military journalist is drawn into a murder investigation which involves his former mistress and his driver.
I think you can tell by the logline the better movie.
Edited by: casablancalover on Mar 1, 2011 10:31 AM
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> {quote:title=infinite1 wrote:}{quote}
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> I actually thought it was an excuse to run the complete soundtrack again, drum it into people's heads to get them to run out and buy the LP/Cassette or later the CD.
Nah, if that were the case, they would have better music. Even if replayed, bad music doesn't get better the second time you hear it.
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> {quote:title=clore wrote:}{quote}
> I've seen that attributed to numerous others, but usually with an extra "get me"
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> Who is Mary Astor
> Get Me Mary Astor
> Get me a Mary Astor type
> Get me a young Mary Astor
> Who is Mary Astor
So True!
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So true. Even if she's great at remembering names, there will be one or two people who slip through the cracks, and they could be the ones who will cause the most trouble.
I didn't hear her thank Leo DiCaprio or Leo McCarey for having Leo in their names.. And who was that trash hauler that took care of all her "past"?
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It looked so f-in' easy, Oops!
> {quote:title=Hibi wrote:}{quote}
> Who was the technical winner who talked for like 5 mins or more? I couldnt believe they didnt drag him offstage. I FF'd through that one. He talked longer then Melissa Leo!
You get a handle for quotes and phone with second hand countdown. 2:53 for Melissa Leo.. Didn't time the Visual Effects or Editing, but they start the music ("Hurry it up, Buddy!") around :50 by that time in the evening, I guess. Because they're not movie stars, it only seeeems looonger.
I think Melissa Leo still forgot to mention 3 or 4 people. She'll hear from them this week, or they will delete her from their phones. That has to be the most dangerous part of that practice of naming all the people who've helped you through the years.
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Hey! There's a Category I hadn't considered.
h4. Best Reboot of a Motion Picture.
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Yeah, and it was like watching your child give the worst performance in the school play. Reinventing an Awards show is so counter-intuitive you sorta rejoice at their failure.
Awards are about *Tradition*. That is why they are screwing up in an accelerated fashion. They have left tradition in the dust. I would have agreed with your mom, but even the obit video was off-putting..
"Smile" ? ? ?
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h4. From the sublime to the . . .
Today's inspiration, from the Worst Oscar's Ever thread:
h6. Warning. Naughty words, but it is an Oscar winner.
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> {quote:title=CineMaven wrote:}{quote}
> I still think TCM could make the broadcast a more cohesive event and showcase and marvel at the love of films. They can do away with Best Song, ("Moon River"is a classic but "It's Hard Out There For A Pimp" is....wha'?) I know it's a hard job Academy...but ten films for Best Pix?? Really?? Let's do the hard job and pick five really good films. "Gone With the Wind" "The Best Years of Our Lives" "Rebecca" "Toy Story 3." Which one of these things is not like the other? I was uncomfortable with their imaging of Bob Hope at the podium as if he were there. And did they have someone imitate his voice introducing the next presenters???
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> This old codger still goes to current films...but I wish the Oscar telecast would bring back the glamour. Perhaps there could be a happy mixture of a younger celebrity presenting with an older star...and yes lzcutter, withOUT Bruce Villanche's "humor."
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> I will always watch the Oscar show...but in recent years, I'm not really happy about it. :-(
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> Edited by: CineMaven on Feb 28, 2011 12:11 PM...the nouns man, the nouns.
h4. Ditto, Darling...
The Songs this year seemed totally forgettable. What were they again??
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I texted a friend throughout the whole painful affair last night, but don't want to repost my favorite quippy quips about it. I still am grateful that I didn't have to work and I would have missed it.
But it was like watching your children in the School play giving the most wooden performance ever! I am empathic to the pressures of the broadcast. Also, since the Wall Street scandals, notice how Price/Waterhouse/Cooper is very quiet about their work. I was understanding they are still the auditors for the voting.
I love the idea of putting forward RO. The kids in Hollywood (25-40) know him and love him; don't be fooled by hype to the contrary. Truth be told, the youngsters in Hollywood are FAR MORE aware of the movies of the past than we credit them. It's the 40-something spastics that are still recovering from the cocaine abuse decades ago (when they thought Flashdance was the height of avant-garde) that we are suffering from in these broadcasts. The producers are the reason we see the show we see. The buck stops with them.
The King's Speech was the front runner in the Best Picture, and didn't have look back, even if the Academy put up 20 movies for Best Picture. That was the thing about this year's Oscars for me. It seemed like destin accompli...
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I had a slightly different perspective on last night.
I thought Franco had the worst position in the program. Here he is nominated for Best Actor (It was a excellent performance) but he had to face Colin Firth in the front rows all evening! It appeared that Mr Franco was the unwilling recipient of the Mr Congeniality award at this Oscars. I wouldn't have wanted to be where he was. That's a lot grace to show publicly, and I thought what I saw was severe detachment, not haughty aloofness. What were the Producers thinking?
And when the show started, I thought, where's Billy Crystal? Then, there he was..
I did like the Black Swan take. If only she did an AFLAC quack.
I am still trying to figure out Inception, and yet apparently it is this terrific movie. :/
Edited by: casablancalover on Feb 28, 2011 11:23 AM
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>*If little faults proceeding on distemper shall not be winked at, how shall we stretch our eye, when capital crimes, chewed, swallowed and digested appear before us?*
Kenneth Branaugh, Henry V (1989)
Edited by: casablancalover on Feb 28, 2011 12:27 AM
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During the Academy Awards, they played the music from Henry V, while introducing the lifetime achievement awards . I love this music, and hear it is heard in the original film.
Favorite line from movie.
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Wow, what a story! Thank you for answering the question. I was thinking the first rule of science was to observe and record accurately, and thinking it wasn't fitting..
Suppose I should use a quote . .
>*It's not fittin', it's just not fittin'*
Hattie McDaniel, Gone With the Wind (1939)