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On 7/9/2021 at 5:01 AM, Bogie56 said:
Saturday, July 10
11 p.m. Devil’s Angels (1967). Biker picture with John Cassavetes.
OMG! I'd never heard of this film. He must've really needed the money. Didn't Faces come out the next year or so?
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1 hour ago, nakano said:
Gable had a breath problem because of his false teeth -in the early 30,s it was not the same.Kirk Douglas 'badmouthed' Crawford in his first bio, at least he said she had a firm and trim body...,i,am sure he enjoyed it,Crawford liked to congratulate and invite newcomers for dinner at her house......I usually like Douglas but he reminds me of Anthony Quinn (who i despise) with his kiss and tell,Flynn never said a word about anybody(almost) and he had a longer cv than the last two..Douglas had a small single line for Natalie Wood in his bio by the way. Crawford was a fantastic lover and this was a known fact in Hollywood, Guys were waiting in line to get an invitation and she was a beautiful woman.
Well, if it happened and you are writing your memoirs, why not write about it? Who wants to read a boring story with no conflict and everybody is nice to everybody?
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14 hours ago, Allhallowsday said:
And I always thought it was 'cause I insisted on doing my own hair/makeup.
CLASSIC JOAN!
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37 minutes ago, Allhallowsday said:
Trog and I were not just co-stars!
LMREO!!!
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It didn't look so smooth in her later years. Maybe she wasn't getting any.
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Something one would wear around the house like Joan did.
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12 hours ago, Fausterlitz said:
From starsandletters.blogspot.com:
"Gregory Peck, Fred Astaire and Anthony Perkins starred together in Stanley Kramer's On The Beach (1959) and during production of the film they realized they had all been leading men to Audrey Hepburn. Peck was Audrey's romantic lead in Roman Holiday (1953), Astaire in Funny Face (1957) and Perkins in Green Mansions (1959). While filming on location in Australia, the men decided to send Audrey a message via this fun picture, autographed by the three of them. I'm sure Audrey must have been thrilled to receive this."
Or possibly just as confused as the rest of us...
Help for what???
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13 hours ago, HoldenIsHere said:
Yeah, John Waters mentioned at a screening of BOOM! about Katherine Hepburn turning down the role of the Witch of Capri. She was insulted that she was asked! (Kind of reminds me of Mary Pickford's reaction when she was approached about playing Norma Desmond in SUNSET BOULVEVARD.)
BOOM! is a a favorite of John Waters and he has said that it personifies his taste and influenced his aesthetics . He also said that Elizabeth Taylor's performance as Mrs. Goforth in BOOM! was big influence on Divine. Waters and Divine watched BOOM! many times when they were young. There's a part of PINK FLAMINGOS that was cut from the final version that was a direct homage to BOOM!
LOL. This doesn't surprise me!
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2 hours ago, TikiSoo said:
It's really unfortunate she insisted on doing her own make up....she was not good at it and along with that awful hair-do, absolutely ages her beyond her years.
I would guess she didn't want anyone to discover her secret skin "lifting" appliances similar to what Dietrich/Stanwyck routinely used. Don't know why, every make up artist employed them as well.
That wig/fall must've weighed a TON!
(let alone the necklace)
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7 hours ago, Moe Howard said:
The whole soundtrack sounds like it was lifted from Hazel. It was AWESOME !
Really built suspense, didnt it?
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On 7/10/2021 at 7:13 PM, kingrat said:
Lorna, about X, Y, & Zee: Susannah York very earnestly does all the "creating a character" things one might do in an ordinary movie, but you'd think Michael Caine would have taken her aside and said, "Darling, this is a piece of caca and all you have to do is show up and take the money the way Liz and I are doing." So much of Elizabeth Taylor's later career seems to consist of variations on her aging, shrewish, and drunken character in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, but she's no longer getting dialogue by Edward Albee, direction by Mike Nichols, etc.
And to follow up on the interesting discussion of Jane Fonda: Fonda strikes me as having no real center to her personality, so she goes through phases to find meaning in her life: Sex Kitten Jane, Political Jane, Serious Actress Jane, Fitness Jane, Born-Again Jane, Philanthropist Jane, and so on. Some of us have known people like that (especially if we were around during the 1960s), but not many have the money and celebrity that Fonda has had.
Yes, Liz, did variations of Martha in many of her post Woolf films. (To very diminishing box office returns). Need a shrew, call Taylor!
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On 7/10/2021 at 12:36 PM, LornaHansonForbes said:
I just watched OBSESSION (1976)- the image above was SO GIANT, I figured I should just let it have its own space.
I really liked this movie a lot more than I expected to- although I don't quite see why BERNARD HERRMAN got an Oscar nomination for re-heating his score for VERTIGO, maybe his dying helped push him over the hump that year.
warning spoilers possible
as you watch this movie, you will inevitably more or less guess the ending, BUT there are a couple of really well-done surprises at the reveal- which was marred for me by the fact THAT THE SOUND WENT OUT ON MY TELEVISION during the denoument (I thought for a long time it was just DePalma being "arty" before I realized "no.")
thankfully it was just a glitch and i resumed watching after turning the tv off and back on.
I'm always going to be a little standoffish with CLIFF ROBERTSON over the SHAME episodes of the BATMAN tv series, but I respect the talent that is there. question: was this the film where he discovered the head of Columbia was stealing money on?
GENEVIEVE BUJOLD is a fascinator- even with a bad haircut- and she has a particularly standout scene where she handles some complicated dialogue about restoring a fresco on the wall of a church in Italy and discovering an original artwork underneath that is pivotal.
If I liked DON'T LOOK BACK at all I would suggest it as a double feature with this film, but I really don't.
quite well filmed and photgraphed, I didn't mind the constant Vaseline on the camera, but I couldn't help but wonder if the shooting of this movie and MAME in the same year didn't perhaps jump-start the petroleum crisis of the 1970s.
there was only one thing that I did NOT like in this movie and that is JOHN LITHGOW. He is dreadful. Some actors are just utterly incapable of subtlety. They compulsively overract.
I have never liked JOHN LITHGOW- with the exception of the time that he admonished the audience upon winning his third inexplicable Emmy in a row for THIRD ROCK FROM THE SUN for honoring him for work that he thought was AWFUL.
THANK GOD I wasn't in the audience because I would have instantly done one of these:
Would think MAME would've caused a vaseline shortage for other films!
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15 hours ago, kingrat said:
I haven't seen any of those Alan Rudolph movies, but I have seen others. Roadie is like a made-for-TV movie with Kris Kristofferson, nothing special. Made for Each Other (I think that's the title) with Timothy Hutton and Kelly McGillis is awful; individual scenes are fine, but the movie has no rhythm, doesn't make a whole lot of sense, and seems LOOOONG. I have a couple of friends who really liked The Moderns, but I was less fond of it. Linda Fiorentino seems to be from the Troy Donahue Academy of Acting, though I understand she is good in other movies.
But there's good news, too. Some people hate Welcome to L.A., but I liked the movie a lot. It's like Nashville (where Rudolph was an assistant director) but without the "This is a metaphor for America" pretentiousness. Choose Me is one of my favorite films from the 1980s. As with Welcome to L.A., the characters keep meeting in odd and unexpected ways. Lesley Ann Warren has her best role ever as a woman who falls for a guy (Keith Carradine, in one of his best roles) who is an outrageous liar, or is he? Genevieve Bujold (love her) gets to play a radio version of Dr. Ruth.
Trouble in Mind is a little more problematic than the other two--Divine as a male gangster is an interesting idea that doesn't quite work. I would never have cast Genevieve Bujold as a diner owner named Wanda, but I would have been wrong. Wanda is the ex-lover of Kris Kristofferson, who, instead of begging her to take him back, goes after a girl (Lori Singer) who's younger than Wanda and has lots more long curly-permed hair. Bujold handles this with far more maturity and objectivity and kindness than I would have, and the film is worth seeing for her great performance.
I haven't seen Remember My Name in a long time, but I liked it. One of the few Rudolph films I did like. Great score by Alberta Hunter.
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Just now, Bronxgirl48 said:
I would generally agree; however at times Ben does, as I've stated previously and with my "Exclusive Insights By Ben Mankiewicz" (intended of course as irony, lol) thread, surprise me by pulling some thoughtful and perceptive comments out of his hat. These are few and far between but still welcome.
Yes, every once in awhile!
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1 minute ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
HE DIED IN 1994, so maybe he was "troubled..."
Also a possibility he was tied to organized crime, I read where PETER YATES recruited several of the actors on the film because they actually had ties to the Boston underworld (ie ALEX ROCCO.)
Yes, I looked him up after I saw his name and saw that. Sad.
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On 7/10/2021 at 1:18 PM, LornaHansonForbes said:
EDDIE COYLE SPOILERS BELOW!
MITCHUM was as great as I remember although he sits out large chunks of the film.
I also enjoyed the guy who looked like EVIL JAMES MASON.
but I kinda think that the best performance in the movie was from PETER DOYLE- he has scenes where he seems very stilted and awkward in his delivery, and then we discover that is because he is a disingenuous, underhanded ratfink selling out everyone and he then SEIZES the last 10 minutes away from MITCHUM and OWNS THEM.
Yes, Mitchum doesn't dominate the film. It's really an ensemble cast with several of the younger actors carrying a good part of it.
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On 7/10/2021 at 4:45 PM, LornaHansonForbes said:
he was cute. and he had a great scene (in THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE) selling hot machine guns to an aspiring BONNIE AND CLYDE-type couple Who want to use them to rob banks.
dumb question, but what is the name of the River in Boston?
Mystic?
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On 7/10/2021 at 1:15 PM, LornaHansonForbes said:
Rewatched EDDIE COYLE last night and liked it, I still feel like the film could flow a little more, and it seems at times to be a detached movie, watching the characters from a distance, as an outsider (maybe because the director is BRITISH.)
still, enjoyed all the DISMAL locations and GIANT CARS.
If that MERCEDES BENZ the robbers drove was a TURBO DIESEL, I bet you $100 it's still on the road today with 760,000 miles on it.
I liked it. It was confusing for awhile and I'm still not sure I understand all the plot points. Did Eddie sell out the gun selling guy or was it Peter Boyle? I was surprised how small Mitchum's part was. He was basically part of an ensemble cast. Some of the big scenes involved others. Felt really sad how his end was no more than a pothole in the plot. Part of the confusion for me in the beginning was I couldnt figure out what kind of character Richard Jordan was playing.
Peter Boyle turned out to be a twofaced creep!
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On 7/10/2021 at 7:37 AM, LornaHansonForbes said:
I really wish they had let EDDIE MULLER host NEO NOIR NIGHT by himself.
YES! Seeing Eddie and the Mank together made me realize how LITTLE MANK brings to the table. It's all his name, I guess. A real lightweight!
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On 7/10/2021 at 4:27 PM, ElCid said:
The Bribe is on at 12:30AM (late Sat. night) and 10:00AM Sunday. I like it, but can't really say why. Cast is good and everything works well.
I do too. It's slow and on the talky side, but the atmosphere helps. I can't help thinking of Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid as I watch it though, as so many clips from the film are used in it.
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On 7/10/2021 at 4:45 PM, LornaHansonForbes said:
he was cute. and he had a great scene (in THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE) selling hot machine guns to an aspiring BONNIE AND CLYDE-type couple Who want to use them to rob banks.
dumb question, but what is the name of the River in Boston?
Why didnt he go on to better things? He was smokin HOT in Eddie Coyle! I'd seen him before, but never knew his name.
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16 hours ago, jameselliot said:
Warning Shot is a mediocre, overblown TV movie shot in widescreen with effective crime jazz music by the great Jerry Goldsmith. There's more going on in any episode of Barnaby Jones or Mannix. The last 15 minutes doesn't work. While an efficient, minimalist actor, David Janssen played the same character in everything--namely himself. He'd look sullen, guilty and suspicious ordering a dozen bagels. When he encounters the various guest stars, such as Eleanor Parker close to reprising her role in the more interesting An American Dream, he just stares at them and doesn't speak. In their intro, Eddie calls The Fugitive the most noir television series of all-time. It was a great show, but that description goes to Peter Gunn, in my (pulp paperback) book.
I happened to see part of it when I was switching channels. I couldn't believe LILLIAN GISH was in it! WTH?
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On 7/11/2021 at 2:13 AM, Bronxgirl48 said:
Ha!!
Actually I thought John did a good job. He was pretty frightening in his own laconic Ireland way.
This movie was better than I remembered. Moody photography and some fair suspense. Those dumb, naive teens, though -- ugh!
Joan, however, looked and sounded drunk. No polite way to say it.
Yes. Especially in that scene where she was yelling at the girl. Yeah, the teen actors (and kid) were awful.
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on svengoolie tonite
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Well, it's up to the reader to decide what to believe. I didn't read Quinn's book, so I can't comment on that. A memoir, rather than something written by a biographer by its very nature is not neutral or necessarily objective, depending on how truthful the person is. If the person is older when they write it, many of the people they knew may be dead. So they shouldn't write anything bad about them, because they can't object?