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Tanx flash! (too bad they're not showin' it on 7-28) until I get inspired, thread's open.....

okay, WAG, Stand Up and Cheer ??

wazzat Support Your Local Gunfighter ?

starlite, so was metz correct?

ya know hep, this may, indeed BE fun, but I, for one, just ain't gettin' how this is supposed to work. (maybe I'm just dense)

hey guys, I apologize if this one didn't belong in an easy thread (sometimes it's hard to judge) it happened to be on my mind to remember to record it on Fri., since it was new to me & sounded good. The film was.... & thread's open.......

The song "Put Me To the Test" from Cover Girl ('44) w/Gene Kelly, was a complete reworking of an instrumental used in the 1937 Fred Astaire musical A Damsel in Distress. lyrics=Ira Gershwin, melody=J. Kern ??

thread's open.....

airs Thurs., 7-24 for Kirk Douglas: 10:15 pm ET C- 85 min documentary Kirk Douglas: Before I Forget (2009) Kirk Douglas shares stories about his life, his family, his work, and his philosophy in this documentary. ARTICLE: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/2020556/Kirk-Douglas-Before-I-Forget/articles.html

thanks, lavender During WWII, this oscar-winning actor had decided that despite his age, he just couldn't sit out the war, and hoped to enlist quietly in the navy The next day he was sent to boot camp in San Diego -- where he was immediately detained by the Shore Patrol and returned to Hollywood! His studio chief had used his influence to get a deferment so that he could cast him in a new movie, which the boss claimed would help the war effort. This treatment by the studio left a bad taste in the actor's mouth for the film, the boss, and the studio. For the rest of his life, the actor routinely cited this film as his least favorite movie. -film & actor?

hint: a dark theme regarding the struggles and failures of a man trying to take a criminal shortcut to the American dream.

next: I'm Van Gogh painting pure sunlight. I'm Horowitz playing the Emperor Concerto. I'm John Barrymore before the movies got him by the throat. I'm Jesse James and his two brothers. All three of 'em. ??

thanks, flash next: "There are two types of people in this world: those who like Neil Diamond, and those who don't." - film, speaker?

what, ME trust MY memory?? LOL Nah,....the wonders of the internet next: "If I wasn’t really curious to learn something from it, I wouldn’t have made the film. Learning means, why do I want to understand him? He’s a whole other human being. I want to understand him, because understanding him is going to help clarify myself to myself." -speaker, subject?

The Last Gangster ('37) ?

thanks, starlite how 'bout this one: You certainly could have fooled (the producer), who went full-steam ahead with his musicalization of a property that should have been left alone to begin with. Casting actors with little to no musical training & badly dubbing them was bad enough, but choosing a project that worked best in its original format was double trouble. ???

and the translation of As Good as It Gets !!

maybe Darryl F. Zanuck ? (there's a song title also, but assume it's not that)

maybe The Clock ('45) ?

maybe Black Hand ('50) w/Gene Kelly?

maybe Birdman of Alcatraz ?

that's the one, metz you're up....

"Minnelli was the ideal choice to bring the story to the screen. A former stage designer known for his visual style that mirrored and amplified the dramatic story of each of his films, he was the right match for a movie about a painter." -Gotta agree there, the visual style and detailing of the scenes to resemble Van Gogh's paintings was quite remarkable... "Kirk Douglas wanted to play Van Gogh ever since director Jean Negulesco told him he resembled the artist. He threw himself into the role, to the point of taking on so many of the artist's stormy, unstable traits he frightened his wife in his off-hours at home." -thought this was one of Douglas' best roles and certainly Oscar-worthy. Though Yul Brynner won that year for "King and I", which was also great. (Okay, this last remark has been moved to a separate thread...) One thing I've always wondered, is if an actor who's done a part on the stage and has had months or years to perfect his part in front of a live audience, should be given the same award consideration as an actor who's got one chance on film, AND whose performance is affected by the director and film editor ?? (just a thought)

- meekly request -use, but intends to return -either -snatch

airs late Sun., 7-27 2:45 am ET 98 min drama La Haine (1995) PREMIERE After a youth is tortured by the police, a riot explodes on the streets of Paris in this examination of racial tensions in France. Dir: Mathieu Kassovitz Cast: Vincent Cassel , Hubert Kounde , Said Taghaoui widescreen ARTICLE: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/443232/La-Haine/articles.html 4:30 am ET 90 min drama Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1961) A factory worker lives for the chance to have fun on the weekends. Dir: Karel Reisz Cast: Albert Finney , Shirley Field , Rachel Roberts . LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW: D: Karel Reisz. Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field, Rachel Roberts, Norman Rossington. "Grim yet refreshing look at angry young man, who in a burst of nonconformity alters the lives of girlfriends Field and Roberts. Superbly enacted. Script by Alan Sillitoe, from his novel. One of the first and best of Britain's "angry young men'' dramas of the '60s."