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1 minute ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
Thanks. Explains a lot......
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1 minute ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
Mercifully yes.
(To be fair I did not see it, but I imagine it was terrible.)
Well, Alan Rudolph wasn't known for helming box office hits.
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Strange. I barely remember the film at all. It must've played out quickly?
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That and weight and unflattering camera angles!
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3 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
MOTHER NIGHT by VONNEGUT is one of my ten favorite novels of all time, and it is the most straightforward, linear and unambiguous novel of his [that I have read.] It was made into an eenty teenty indie movie with NICK NOLTE ca. 1996, which barely saw release. I did not see it, but the potential for a great film is there. IT IS A SENSATIONAL NOVEL.
He also wrote one book, the title I forget, but the premise is that in a small Minnesota(?) town, a private university sits across a lake from a prison for dangerous inmates. in the dead of winter, the lake freezes over to where it can be crossed on foot and then there is a (power failure?) which leads to a mass prison break...the book in fact is really about something else, it kind of never really gets to THE BIG ACTION SET PIECE that the reader is waiting for. it's a highly ambiguous (as I recall it) tale about the two destinies in American life: college or jail. If yhou just took that BARENAKED PREMISE, you could have the makings for a pretty cool movie (I think) or, quite possibly, a delicious disaster with BRUCE WILLIS [or JASON STATHAM] as THE CRUSTY DEAN WHO IS TOO OLD FOR THIS ****; cue the SNOW PLOW CHASE and THE DMX ON THE SOUNDTRACK....
There was a film version of BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS, which is the only VONNEGUT novel I despise, but I did finish it. i was amused by the way he introduces every male character with a description of the size and girth and state of their genitalia, I'd be fine if that became literary convention. however, VONNEGUT EMPLOYS THE USE OF "THE N WORD" THROUGHOUT ITS LENGTH IN A FASHION THAT IS SO OVER THE TOP, SO GRATUITOUS, AND SO SADISTICALLY RELENTLESS THAT MARK TWAIN, DAVID DUKE and RICHARD PRYOR would all ask for a sit-down wherein they could ask "Um, Kurt, who hurt you?"
When was Breakfast of Champions released? I barely remember that.
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On 5/13/2021 at 9:22 PM, Wayne said:
Josie Lloyd, Norman's daughter who passed away just last year, is familiar to classic TV fans from her 4 appearances on The Andy Griffith Show --- twice as Mayor Pike's daughter Juanita/Josephine and twice as Lydia Crosswaithe, the worst blind date in Mayberry.
OMG! SHE played Lydia????????? She was hilarious! Too bad she never became a regular........
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2 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
No. KAY THOMPSON dropping the priceless Vatican relic was the exact moment I reached for the remote.
You didn't miss much.......
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1 hour ago, speedracer5 said:
That's true, but even the men's footprints were tiny compared to my feet. A lot of the women's feet though were super small, but it was hard to gauge because the prints were done in tiny heels. The handprints were a little easier to match. I did look for William Holden because I wanted to sit on the tile, but I didn't see it.
"Pardon me, ma'am, are you sitting on John Wayne?""No she's sitting on Bill Holden."
Yes, the heels definitely distort the size.
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2 minutes ago, speedracer5 said:
Lol. We went to Grauman's Chinese last time we were in Hollywood. So I may/may not do this again. I felt like Ethel comparing all my feet in the footprints. My feet seemingly were enormous compared to the prints. And I'm only 5'2 so I don't have enormous feet. It didn't help though that almost all the women's prints are made in high heels and I was wearing flat sandals. Also, I think age has shrunk a lot of the footprints--even the men's footprints are small.
People were smaller back then too.......
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On 5/16/2021 at 9:39 AM, Swithin said:
I didn't watch the whole movie, just bits and pieces, then the ending. I agree that just being able to kill the creatures by bullets is rather pedestrian, though they did have a nice way of splattering. Although I missed the part of how the creatures came to exist, I gather it had something to do with the scientist's mind. That sort of reminded me of The Brood, and Samantha Eggar's projected creatures without navels.
That part was boring. You didn't miss much (long monologue from the scientist) The film wasnt bad overall
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On 5/15/2021 at 6:49 PM, speedracer5 said:
I was trying to see if I could fit the famous Barney's Beanery into my trip. It is on the original Route 66. Most of the original Route 66 is gone, but there are bits and pieces left between LA and Chicago. I've been on a piece of it in Arizona when my family went to Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam and Las Vegas.
I have a laundry list of things I want to do in LA. There's no way I'll be able to fit it all in, but I'll try.
And, while I don't mind the rain (usually), I hope it doesn't rain! I can have that at home. I want sunshine!
Dont forget the Chinese courtyard. You and hubby can channel Lucy and Ethel!
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Where exactly was Eva Gabor in the film? Did she get cut? Zsa Zsa I knew, she has a few lines. But Eva? That was the first I heard about it.
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On 5/15/2021 at 3:10 PM, misswonderly3 said:
I love this song, but I was always puzzled by the allusion to California being "cold and damp". As a Canadian, one who'd never been to California, I'd always thought California was mostly warm and sunny. Guess San Francisco is different - I'd love to go there. (but the song doesn't specify San Francisco, it just says "California".)
This is a great song, and nobody does it better than Frank. I love the way the lyrics at first seem insulting, until you actually listen to them, and then you realize that the lady in the song is completely admirable, authentic, true to herself, doesn't put on an act, etc. etc.
Can't resist: (although I don't think anyone here would try to argue that "Pal Joey" is a noir, 'cause it ain't. still, any excuse to post this song...)
It's meant as a joke.
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Yes, I caught the later posts. I'm not sure that was the case, but the flashback is so badly edited you can't really tell what the guy's motivation was. Since there was already a gay character in the film, I tend to doubt they would cover it up if he had gay "leanings". I can't recally how that scene was handled in the book. (which was definitely better than the film!) Did you make it to the vacation part at the end? LOL.
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On 5/15/2021 at 4:32 PM, LornaHansonForbes said:
I also made it, I dunno, 30-40 minutes into TELL ME THAT YOU LOVE ME, JUNIE MOON (1970)
Yeah, it sucked pretty bad. I couldn't take anymore when KAY THOMPSON came out dressed like DOMINATRIX AMELIA EARHARDT and tried to make the guy in the wheelchair walk.
The premise isn't bad, but WOOF! everything else...
I dunno if maybe they were trying to go for a VONNEGUT thing or what.
Also, I found the story about how LIZA got her (very badly made-up) scars to be THOROUGHLY UNBELIEVABLE.
I know, a real trainwreck! I thought Kay Thompson's part should've been cut entirely. NOT funny, just bizarre and added NOTHING to the film. Also agree about Liza's flashback. WHY would he do that? It also seemed like Liza got more normal looking as the film went on. Not sure if they played with the make up or what.
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21 hours ago, scsu1975 said:
Romance (1930)
A snoozer. A young rector named Tom Armstrong (Gavin Gordon) falls for the famous opera singer Rita Cavallini (Greta Garbo). But he doesn’t know his friend Cornelius Van Tuyl (Lewis Stone) is just one in a long line of guys who have made sheet music with her. So he ends up looking like a caffone. Garbo’s acting is pretty bad, and the rest of the cast isn’t as good as she is. Henry Armetta plays an Italian. Garbo and Stone have a spaghetti dinner. Garbo keeps calling Stone “Corny.” There is one opera scene; unfortunately the Marx brothers are nowhere to be found.
There was a silent version released in 1920, with Doris Keane as Cavallini. That film is lost. This film should be.
One of Garbo's worst films imo. Love her wardrobe though.......
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15 hours ago, alleybj said:
Such Good Friends is actually quite good and worth seeking out. It may be Cannon’s best performance. Of course, I did kind of enjoy Skidoo, for Carol Channing of nothing else.
I'm not sure it's even been issued on DVD. It did get some good reviews. I've always wanted to see it. Didn't do well and played out quickly, so I wasnt able to on its initial release.
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15 hours ago, Polly of the Precodes said:
I finally watched the TCM Film Festival restoration of HER MAN (1930). Lorna, why are you not all over the performance of your boy Phillips Holmes? And I'm really impressed by the tracking shots--was the audio captured in synch with the video? That would be really impressive for that date.
Yes, I was impressed by the camera work as well. Really made the story more interesting in that it was more or less filmed in a couple big sets. I LOVE Phillips Holmes! He was very good in this.
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On 5/14/2021 at 6:05 AM, Bogie56 said:
Saturday, May 15
midnight. Touch of Evil (1958). Expected on blu ray soon. It will be interesting to hear what Eddie Muller has to say about it. He could certainly start with Quinlan's tie.
SOOOO Glad Noir Alley is finally back! But not sure I want to see this again.
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On 5/12/2021 at 5:49 AM, Bogie56 said:
Thursday, May 13
7:30 a.m. Dodsworth (1936). Did someone mention recently that there was talk of remaking this?
There's been talk for DECADES. I don't see it happening. I don't think modern audiences would be interested in the story.
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20 times?????
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Ann-Margret hyphenated her name........
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11 minutes ago, Allhallowsday said:
I read that the real-life victim the story was based upon read books... in bars...!
Hard to believe.
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18 hours ago, mr6666 said:
Glad they are doing something for him. They skip over so many that have died.
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LOL. Less then 200,000 gross! No wonder I barely remember it!