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1 hour ago, Moe Howard said:
The man was a walking caricature AND A GOD!!!! He has his own doll/action figure. Dyn-O-MITE!!!
LMREO!!!! Now he's doing Medicaid commercials.......Fame is fleeting.
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38 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
Thank you, I was a little confused about why James was called Henry and why they moved from NYC to the CHICAGO PROJECTS.
Thanks to THE SUPERSTATION, I really enjoyed both GOOD TIMES and THE JEFFERSONS- but (even at that young age) I did not care for the minstrelsy of JJ. Maybe if I rewatched some of the episodes, the character would not be so....
I really kinda liked how JOHN AMOS (as the Dad) was ALWAYS P!SSED OFF ABOUT SOMETHING, and yet somehow he was relateable and even likeable. Both he and ESTHER ROLLE deserved better than what the show ended up more or less becoming.
and Willona was a GODDESS. I especially loved it when she told off PENNY'S BIRTH MOTHER.
I hope Rolle saved her money. I know she left the show in a contract dispute. Her career never recovered. A decade later she was playing domestics again on Murder, She Wrote. She played a maid in several episodes......
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20 hours ago, scsu1975 said:
Not sure if anyone mentioned this (or noticed this), but the guy on the right is Leon Schlesinger. Not sure about the guy on the left ... but it is not Don Ameche, George Brent, Xavier Cugat, or Tor Johnson:
Wasn't that Spencer Tracy? I saw him somewhere.
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12 hours ago, Vautrin said:
You are correct. I must have had a minute of brain freeze. So then he would have been in the slightly less
embarrassing position of having murdered his brother-in-law's father. I had to laugh at how quickly his
sister whipped off her glasses when introduced to the son. Zipppp.
LOL. And she had that squinty look. Nice touch. I hate how characters in older films take off their glasses when undergoing a make over and act like they don't need them anymore.
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17 hours ago, Vautrin said:
I believe that he wasn't thinking very straight at the time, due perhaps to feelings of guilt and paranoia,
and just runs off and commits suicide by train. The ending is pretty delicious when the audience learns
that the body wouldn't have been discovered anyway. A little reminiscent of many episodes of Alfred
Hitchcock Presents that had twist endings.
It's also ridiculous they would dig as deep as they did. The guy just threw some seeds on the ground. They didnt need to dig several feet to dig them up in one season! (doubt it no matter how many seasons occurred).
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9 hours ago, HoldenIsHere said:
GOOD TIMES is referred to as a spin-off of MAUDE, but really Esther Rolle's Florida Evans from MAUDE is a different character than the Florida Evans on GOOD TIMES.
MAUDE's Florida was employed as Maude's maid in Tuckahoe, New York ( a village that is approximately a half hour train ride from Manhattan).
The Florida Evans from GOOD TIMES, however, lived her entire life in Chicago. The Evans family on GOOD TIMES lived in a Chicago housing project, which was unnamed on the series but was strongly implied to be Cabrini-Green, on Chicago's Near North Side. John Amos played Florida's husband on both MAUDE and GOOD TIMES. On MAUDE, he was Henry Evans, a New York City firefighter; on GOOD TIMES, he was James Evans and worked odd jobs in Chicago.
The Florida Evans character was put into a series already in development and her history from MAUDE was erased.
Wow that's really strange. I didn't notice that at the time. Completely erased her past! LOL. I watched the show for awhile, but then lost interest.....
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1 hour ago, Vautrin said:
For the most part I liked Los Tallos Amargos. Not great, but good enough. It usually makes things a
bit more interesting if the story is set in another country where things are done a little differently.
The journalism scam was a little confusing. I'm guessing that they charged a lot for something that
cost very little, lessons made on a mimeograph machine. Could have made a lot of dough off something
like that, at least in the short run. And I give Alfredo credit for not falling for the rookie mistake of not
digging deep enough, the Shallow Grave Syndrome. Now if only he had been into botany he would
have realized that the plant only needed to be transplanted a little way in the ground. Instead he got
splatted by the train. That must have hurt like hell. Even without the Production Code the killer was
punished in the end. He did miss the rather embarrassing position of being the father-in-law to the
son whose father he had killed. Every cloud has a silver lining.
Yeah, that part was ridiculous. Who would plant something that DEEP? Maybe a tree! LOL.
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4 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
I think one of the absolute best things about the show is the character of the Republican Doctor neighbor played by CONRAD BAIN, he is there to be a foil- yes- but he is also a fundamentally decent guy who every now and then makes a salient point. it's the kind of humanistic portrayal of a Conservative that is rare in Hollywood....maybe because they're rare in life.
on the other hand, I cannot help but CRINGE at some of the dialogue ESTHER ROLLE was handed- and yet, as it is with the show, for every cringe, there is a laugh out loud moment or a moment of un-forced honesty.
you can argue about the substance of the clip below, but i think everyone involved is honest and it has some all-around POWERHOUSE ACTING, with an especially ASTOUNDING PERFORMANCE from ESTHER ROLLE:
The show really lost something when they spinned off Esther Rolle's character into her own show.
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15 hours ago, CinemaInternational said:
I was a little stunned on another website when i found out that sweet-faced modest Jane Leeves from the sitcom Frasier had a role here as a drugged out lesbian who wears facepaint that seemingly was inspired by the band KIss. never would have expected that.....
THAT was Jane Leeves? Didn't recognize her! I thought her lips looked familiar though.
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15 hours ago, mr6666 said:
No, wasn't impressed! The second half was better after the murder. I almost bailed on the film due to all the TALKING
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9 hours ago, kingrat said:
Los tallos amargos seems pretty deep into gay subtext. The meeting at the bar is like a gay pickup. Liudas (Vassili Lambrinos) stares at Alfredo (Carlos Cores), and Alfredo can't look away. Although Alfredo has a girlfriend, he doesn't seem all that interested in her, and he is clearly obsessed by Liudas. In the later scene with Alfredo, Elena, and a younger man, any woman like Elena who's been around would assume that a man behaving like Alfredo is attracted to the younger man.
I wasnt impressed with the film. SPOILERS. I was so happy when the co-worker got offed so I wouldnt have to listen to him TALK, TALK, TALK! I almost bailed on the film because of all the TALKING! (Boring beyond belief!) Once he exited, the film got better. There was a germ of a good idea in the story, once the murder happened. Just wish it had been written differently or with a different plotline. What is so interesting about a Mail Order Journalism course????? The low budget sets didnt help either. And all the darkness. People dont even turn the lights on to READ!!!
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I thought Pulp was the only dud in Neo Noir Night Friday. It started out well, but when it hit the Rooney part went downhill. Lisabeth Scott came out of retirement to do THIS? She must've had TEN lines! Caine saved it from being a total miss. I'd seen Body Heat when it came out and liked it, still do. Like many noirs its far fetched, but engrossing. Think this was the first time I've seen it since then. I'd never seen Live and Die in LA and was prepared not to like it from the storyline, but it was my favorite of the evening! Great storytelling; acting; photography; editing etc. That chase scene!
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19 hours ago, kingrat said:
I'm glad I didn't see To Live and Die in LA back in 1985, because I wouldn't have appreciated the fantastic cinematography of Robby Muller, with almost every shot jaw-droppingly beautiful yet without stopping the film in its tracks. Direction, editing, and cinematography are all at the highest level. The story is good enough. There's a noticeable lack of women with jobs other than exotic dancer, informant, or low-rent femme fatale. Despite the female flesh on display, the most important relationships are between the men and are related to the jobs they do. This must be one of the few films without explicitly gay themes that shows the three top-billed male stars naked.
I hadn't seen it either when it came out and really liked it!
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1 hour ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
I just feel for Eddie having to sit there and humor him.
No kidding. LOL.
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Another spot where the nose is WAY OFF! Colman didnt have a nose like that!
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22 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
interesting triple feature tonight of PULP (with MICHAEL CAINE and LIZABETH SCOTT), BODY HEAT (which I have never seen, but want to) and TO LIVE AND DIE IN LA, directed by WILLIAM FREAKIN FRIEDKIN.
I know where I'll be at 8:00 and 10:00 tonight, in my chair with my finger hovered on the mute button.
[WHY oh WHY didn't they let EDDIE host alone, I ask again????? Charisma AND talent are NOT contagious...if THEY WERE, JERMAINE JACKSON would be selling out arenas worldwide TODAY.]
MANK probably wanted to be part of it. UGH!
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11 hours ago, TomJH said:
Another possibility: Xavier Cugat
Why would Cugat be sitting in the audience?
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12 hours ago, SansFin said:
Could it not be both? Did you ever see them in a room together?
Ameche, Sample, Brent
I would say that it is much closer to Brent but the shape of the nose forces me to wonder if it might not be some other person.
Hhhmmpphh! It's NOT me! No way did I have a schnozz like that!
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If they are showing subtitles, how about La Otra with Delores Del Rio? (remade as Dead Ringer with Bette Davis in the 60s). Have wanted to see that for eons.
Has Breathless been on Noir Alley? If so, I didn't watch it.
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4 hours ago, misswonderly3 said:
Bergman did a remake of a Joel McCrea film?
No, Smiles was adapted into a Broadway musical, A Little Night Music by Stephen Sondheim in the early 70s. Send in the Clowns became a top 40 hit.
Where did Joel McCrea come into all this???
Sorry, now that I looked back at my post, I quoted the wrong post. I was talking about Smiles of a Summer Night.
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23 hours ago, EricJ said:
Which is also on film, not that anyone paid attention at the time:
And the, ahem, first of TWO examples of plagiaristic filmmakers stealing obscure foreign material and telling the press "No, really, it's Shakespeare!" 😛
The film wasn't very good and flopped. Rigg is the only good thing in it. They changed the location to Vienna and cut some of the best songs.
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Unfortunately, I think I've seen all the Falcon films, (at least with Conway, not sure about Sanders) so no surprises here.
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11 hours ago, speedracer5 said:
Espionage Agent (1939)
SOURCE: TCM
This film was recorded awhile back. I believe that I recorded it for Joel McCrea. He was excellent in this film; but that is really all I can say about it. Thank goodness he would appear in Foreign Correspondent the next year. It is far superior to this film which has a similar theme.
In Espionage Agent, McCrea plays Barry Corvall, an ambassador at the US Consulate in Tangiers in N. Africa. Dozens of desperate Americans beg to be allowed to leave Morocco. One of the desperate Americans is Brenda Ballard (Brenda Marshall), who presents a forged passport to get out of the country. She was given the fake passport in exchange for her espionage services for the Germans. Barry becomes infatuated with Brenda even after he attends schooling to become a diplomat. He passes the diplomat exams and is assigned to a post in Paris. Much to his mother's chagrin, he becomes engaged (and later, married) to Brenda. However, a colleague of Brenda's, German spy Karl Muller, asks her to use Barry's diplomatic position to steal some secret plans. Brenda then ends up confessing her past to Barry, who promptly resigns from his diplomatic position. He and Brenda join forces and work together to expose the German espionage ring.
Frankly, this film was much less exciting than the synopsis. I was bored with the film until the last act when Barry and Brenda work together to infiltrate and expose the German spy ring. Before that, the film moved very slowly and was difficult to really know what was going on. Brenda Marshall is a very boring leading lady. She is pretty and pleasant enough, but she is just so bland and dull. She lacks the charisma that McCrea has. Marshall's best role, imo, is her appearance as "Mrs. William Holden" in "The Fashion Show" episode of I Love Lucy. McCrea is honestly the only thing that keeps this film from being a complete dud, but even he isn't able to show off his usual panache.
I much prefer McCrea in Foreign Correspondent over this film. While Laraine Day isn't as exciting as say Bette Davis, she's much more interesting than Brenda Marshall. But Foreign Correspondent has George Sanders, who has personality in spades.
Espionage Agent was very meh. I would not be clamoring to watch this again.
It was the basis of the hit Sondheim musical, A Little Night Music. I still haven't seen the Bergman film version.
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