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I like musicals on the screen but admit the talent is not like it was with a Vincente Minnelli, for example, directing. and he loved to include "bizarre" sequences in his films. As I watched PHANTOM OF THE OPERA again, I thought I wonder if Minnelli would have liked this. I think so. Some of the music just gives me goosebumps it is so gorgeous. Frankly, though, while I liked it a lot, I do wonder what audience Andrew Lloyd Weber thought would attend it.he certainly does not need the money from the film. I wish he would film his SUNSET BLVD the musical with Streisand before it is too late and it probably is too late as she is nearly 60 though looks great.

Kim Novak. VERTIGO, KISS ME STUPID, LEGEND OF LYLAH CLARE, BOYS NIGHT OUT. I am in a minority perhaps of one, but still think her OF HUMAN BONDAGE is pretty good. SOPHIA LOREN. Wish TCM would show FIVE MILES TO MIDNIGHT. Have a VHS but would love to put that on DVD.

has DEBORAH KERR even given a TCM interview? I think she lives abroad. but what a career.

glad someone mentioned Maureen O'Hara. I see bits and pieces of her making comments sometimes but never a full interview. I think she has enough credits for a SPECIAL OSCAR. Or no? QUIET MAN, the performance of a lifetime, HOW GREEN WAS MY VALEY, LONG GRAY LINE AND ALL THE FORD films. she is even strong in those Universal programmers. even with less than thrilling material, she was always excellent.

I think PHANTOM OF THE OPERA is the boldest film of the year for people sing to each other. no excuses for a song like in the wildly overrated CHICAGO IMO. I note the soundtrack was in the top 20 here in a SF paper yesterday so someone is going and enjoying it. I think it a wonderful gothic fairytale with great music except some of the Gilbert and Sullivan type patter with Carlotta goes on too long. Butler is fine in a difficult part. The lead soprano is perfect. WISHING YOU WERE SOME HOW HERE AGAIN lingers strongly in my memory. But I would have cut the swordfight that follows. still an excellent movie musical.can't wait for the DVD.

re MITZI GAYNOR. TCM always shows SOUTH PACIFIC with her wildly underrated performance. TCM should have UA'S 1959 HAPPY ANNIVERSARY with her and David Niven. but never see that. perhaps rights problems. I think Mitzi Gaynor had a wonderful personality but a lack of good roles available to her. she is very good in the otherwise not too good ANYTHING GOES 56. never forget when she almost brought the Oscar house down doing GEORGY GIRL when it was nominated for best song in the mid 1960s. wonder who owns the rights to her old musical TV shows?

Olivia deHavilland looked and sounded great on the recent GWTW DVD. It would be worth going to Paris to film an interview. on the way or way back they could stop at Joan Fontaine's, too. where is Eleanor Parker, WOMAN IN WHITE, BETWEEN TWO WORLDS? perhaps they interviewed her. one I would like to see is LIZABETH SCOTT. TCM has shown DEAD RECKONING, TOO LATE FOR TEARS and I think STRANGE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS and, of course, THE RACKET produced by HOWARD HUGHES!!! she made PULP in 72 than vanished.

JENNIFER JONES. is she a recluse now??? try and get her for an interview. Duel in the Sun Song of Bernadette Since you went away Love Letters Beat the Devil Portrait of Jennie Madame Bovary We Were Strangers (coming to DVD) and where is Doris Day?

where is Jennifer Jones? no audio commentaries on DVDs. I would like to see her introduce LOVE LETTERS, a real sleeper and worthy of more than two stars in Maltin, BEAT THE DEVIL, CLUNY BROWN and PORTRAIT OF JENNIE. or even MADAME BOVARY 49 for which she should do an audio commentary. Her CARRIE just released and it holds up very well on DVD.

DAY OF WRATH is available on DVD from CRITERION in a great Dreyer set of films. WAGES OF FEAR DITTO. DARK CORNER might still be around on VHS. STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN DITTO though I am told a DVD is in the works. Cinemax once had a selection of films not available on home video. wish TCM would do the same. especially some of the ones ebayers offer at stupid prices and awful prints such as FOOTSTEPS IN THE FOG MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT Thanks

anyone announced for a special? my choice: JEANNE MOREAU. talk about a long career.

Happy 2005. gotta be better than 2004. those poor sad victims in So Asia. I just discovered this board after years of being a TCM fan. actually, COURT TV was nasty IMO and shut their board down last night for a few days for fear of New Year's Eve people getting out of control. so here I am at TCM and glad I found it. I also wanted to vent about the possible exclusion of the 1929 THE LETTER as an extra on the DVD of the 1940 version due next week.

meant to say NOW OUT OF OOP, not not.

a boxed DVD set of old NORMA SHEARER films. most are not OOP on VHS so hope that is a good sign. and a boxed DVD set of the grat MARIE DRESSLER POLLY MORAN comedies...or at least show them again. thanks and the 1929 THE LETTER as promised for the THE LETTER 1940 DVD as an extra!!!!