butterscotchgreer

very TRUE! Casablanca is far from my favorite movie, but bogie in particular is very good in it, his emotion isnt boiling over, but it is very collective and you really see it all in his faces. he has a VERY emotional face and you can always see what he is thinking in his face. i love that about bogie, especially in The Maltese Falcon. i always wondered if he was really in love with mary astor there, b/c he gave her up at the end! of course she may have deserved it, but i wonder if he didnt want to do that in the first place. Message was edited by: butterscotchgreer

oh my goodness, do you really think he should give him the poison? he looks fatal after transformation! this looks more frankie's speed. heehee!

hey jackie! wow! you DID get carried away! dont tell her to let him go april, we can all hold on to gary's strong leg, then he will protect us all together! i think frankie should be scared of gary! heehee! yikes! what if frankie does have that long of legs? he'll tumble over gary! oh no!

i did! i did! i wanted to see it so badly, i hadnt ever seen it before. i dont think it is my fav of robbie's movies, but it is at least loverly to see him so gorgeous in it. i did wish they would have centered around him and merle a little more also. thanks for those caps, april, i jsut love his handsomeness!

It's always that way, people who never really watch the movies they criticize. I have been dragged to enough modern bloody and violent movies that I feel I have every freedom to speak against how trashy they are but when knuckleheads start attacking classic movies and the style of acting (which actually was highly individualistic back then---after the mid-thirties there was no one particular style of acting dominating all the studio players across the board) when they've never even sat down and really watched anything, then I could spit!. Or if they have watched some, it's with that filter through which they see everything, a jaundiced and attention-deficited filter. I"ve heard the "over acting" cry alot, too. I always marvel at that because part of the reason I am unimpressed by many newer actors and actresses today is they think an emotional or angry scene has to played SCREAMING their brains out. I get so frustrated because that to me is a sign of an amateur. Underplaying, if anything, was more emphasized in older films---not overplaying. thank you sweet april! i completely agree. most people today that i know of, think that you have to "show too much emotion" to get anything played across the screen. they think it will get more people's attentions, but in reality, they dont realize how overly done it is. its almsot rediculous how much screaming and arguing goes on in movies of the modern age. bette davis may scream a lot, but she doesnt over act any of it. its the same with bogie. he had a sense dynamic tention, yet was so serene. even then he was so powerful with all of his scenes that totally goes in one ear and out the other, if you know what i mean. heehee!

im surely! too bad he's locked up in the closet with a fire in there with him and when he finally forces the door down, out comes the poison!

oh no! we better hurry in that case. time to freak out! AAAAAAHHHHHHHHH! heehee! its nice to know i be remain calm in a crisis situation.

heehee! okey dokey! yeah now that i think of it, cheesy does sound more his speed. yucky, it does nothing for me. heehee! now we have to find him....or do we?

hey sweet april! ehre are some of my favs of betty and bogie!

yes i have just recently read her auto bio she rereleased and i must agree with you on the interesting note. To me, he's one of those rare men that, though not conventionally handsome, had a most compelling and attractive personality. oh my goodness, you took the words right out of my mouth. i completely agree, although most people i know with the exception of my grandmama and grandpapa thik bogie is highly overrated. they think he has a weird body, weird teeth, not handsome at all, and over acts......i always put up a fight on that subject. heehee! thats just because they havent seen many of his movies, which actually happens to be a fact. heehee! they just dont give him a chance. i mean you see him with betty in The Big Sleep, and HOLY MOLI! heehee, or as an ex-xon in High Sierra, or the unkempt, but soft Mr. allnut in African Queen and you cant even compare his characters. he is so charming, yet not oozing of it. She developed wonderful character over the years and she generally credits Bogie with influencing her in many ways. yes i noticed this throughout the rest of the book after he died. i felt happy for her when reading, b/c she had gained so much and was so optimistic about many things. i thought that was so touching!

it seems that rope didnt help any last night. heehee! he's still free and roaming somewhere. i hope he isnt stalking us and then when he finds us hes gonna scare us to death!

Rhett and I set it on fire with our love. Then he rebuilt if for me with his ill-gotten gains. What a man! now thats what i call a passion filled statement! heehee! OH, "Madeleine"! I've got our pois...I mean our new batch of goodies for Mr Grimes...but how to administer it. Any suggestions Miss Tea? oh goodie, now let's see, we could put some in a bucket and when he walks in here and opens the door it will spill all over him, hence the poisoning begins! but we cant let any info leak out. it has to be a total surprise......that was a bit on the cheesy side. heehee!

charleton heston was always a good looking man! i wish bogie could have lived longer, it must have broken betty's heart when he died. they looked so happy and cute! i love Under Two flags. victor was so good in that one!

She doesn't love either! She's at some vanity fair doing some wicked shopping for trashy British society guys. I've lost all hope and faith in her. I always thought she was a cute Southern belle with wrongheaded opinions but now I know the truth. She set Tara on fire yeah i cant see sweet april setting anyone on fire....that would be like seeing audrey hepburn not eating anything when getting nervous in Charade. heehee! You can marry your serial killer dreamboat, if you like. I was merely trying to warn you about his murderous "love." mamma mia! heehee! smithy and mr darcy are the sweetest kindest dreamboats......and MELODY! i cant forget about my melody jones. do you truely think smithy could be capable of even handling a knife? he would probably get so confused, he would end up dropping it on the floor. poor baby! Smithy naturally caused Paula to stop breathing when he strangled her and then buried her in the courtyard. i personally cant see any of that happening in Random Harvest. honestly. maybe in Shadow of a Doubt. heehee! Like a Texas girl has any chance of showing no emotion at all. Now I've heard it all. Such stubbornness. phew you are really having fun murdering poor sweet april and me tonight arent you? i can at least be optimistic about it and hope for the best right? now im stubborn? well your obstinate!!

I wish I was hallucinating that the Gone with the Wind girl did not abandon Tara, but it's true. I shall never view her the same. I'm thoroughly disappointed and depressed. yeah well, you are still halucinating! she didnt abandon tara, she just loves rhett more than tara! so there! april we need to make another batch of that good stuff we used on frankie, it appears to be working on him, the only trouble is that we now need to make a spell for him not to pick on us....like that will ever happen. I'm not picking on anyone. I'd never do such a thing. I'm always very serious. yeah right! you are the biggest softy in the world......who likes to trample on girls' dreams of one day marrying their true loves. odd combo! larry is not treacherous! for goodness sake! smithy wouldnt even touch larry. in fact i think they would be good friends. heehee! as for bunny lake..... Smithy didn't do a thing to Larry, but Smithy murdered Rebecca, Bunny Lake, and Paula. You've got a badge, arrest him! im not going to arrest smithy for being a swetheart and loving paula until the day they both die, which will happen of natural causes by the way. heehee! how indecorous of you to keep them apart from each other! im utterly ashamed of you. heehee! Which one of you is Grace and which is Maddy? I'm sure Sweet T would LOVE to be Grace. oh yeah....actually that would be easy, i just wouldnt have to show emotion at all. heehee!

I'm working on a fresh batch now! It will make him think you and I are Madeleine Carroll and Grace Kelly so he'll be nice to us. that sound like a marvelous plan! im all up for it, now how to stage the attack?

So I'm guessing this is the wrong time to mention that Mr. Darcy is one of my dream men? oh no! i love my mr darcy! but stay away from mr grimes, he will give you trouble about it.

You really need to stop playing with your imaginary doll "April." and you need to stop halucinating things. april we need to make another batch of that good stuff we used on frankie, it appears to be working on him, the only trouble is that we now need to make a spell for him not to pick on us....like that will ever happen. Ask Treacherous Larry if he knows where Rebecca is. Her and Bunny Lake seem to have gone missing. I'm thinking Smithy murdered them both. larry is not treacherous! for goodness sake! smithy wouldnt even touch larry. in fact i think they would be good friends. heehee! as for bunny lake.....

That's what I call putting English on the ball, Little Miss Darcy. And I thank you. well its the least i could do, since you have saved me plenty of times for the dutchman, little miss butler. heehee!

No you didn't! You were out with that Belle! okay honey boy, what is going on? SWEET april has just S. O. S. ed me because you are being so mean! heehee! such treachery flows from the mouth of a person whom picks on rhett butler and mr paul! how cruel!. wow im pretty good at larry oiliver talk.

wow! im sorry i have been away raking leaves today. im coming to help in the thread now!!!

april! thank you! i love any pic of bogie and betty together. heehee!

I always pick the raisins and nuts out of deserts. im the same way! i dont like raisins or nuts especially in my desserts. I like my chocolate "pure" and not "bumpy". you lost me there april. yucky. i dont like chocolate. okay so my parents think i was switched at the hospital. heehee!