CineMaven

Hello Chandler: "I hoping the film will be shown in New York at Lincoln Center next year. I'm trying to get a tribute done there, but nothing is definite. There is going to be one in LA in November, if you're in the area." I don't think I'll be on the West Coast this year. (Going to Killeen Texas this August though). If you can swing getting a tribute to Tyrone Power at Lincoln Center...I won't miss out like I did with Gene Tierney's "Leave Her to Heaven." Will there be guest speakers at the November event, who remember Tyrone Power??? Or his kids??

NOW who's pilfering: http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?threadID=124543&start=0&tstart=0 Fred C. Dobbs wrote: "If he called Wong, did he get the Wong number?" Steven Colbert would be disappointed in you.

Accusations of pilfering again, ey? Oy! Ay yi yi! Why aren't you watching the great Anna May Wong.

May I please have tea with that sarcasm? Message was edited by: CineMaven...uh, I meant "with that sympathy."

Now you're bringing Kim up?? Oh there's a special place for you SCSU!

Gee, what a fast turnaround time the posts have here. No no no. These were not my words "Nightwalker." I am quoting the milady 'MissGoddess.' Oy vey. I just had to go back where I copy & pasted and be sure that... Oy vey! What a revolting development this is turning out to be. Anybody got a great Dane to protect me?

Easy easy. I copy and pasted her comments and then had to go back to make sure it was Miss Goddess and not Bronxgirl. I gave the proper credit. Those are two of the best writers on the board and would not dare take credit for anything that's not mine. Hawkeye!! Message was edited by: CineMaven It's too late. You've already embarassed me. :-(

I think the picture below will really please MissGoddess. These are her thoughts from the Film Noir thread re: "Screaming Mimi." "I have to admit I didn't like SCREAMING MIMI at all. I thought it was more than seedy enough---in fact, that's what turned me off about it. I don't think I've ever seen an "exploitation" film before, but if this was not an example of that, it sure smelled and felt like one. However, I don't hold it against any of the performers, who were all very good, especially my new "crush", Philip Carey. Oooooh, boy what a cutie he is. To me he resembles a more sensual looking Charlton Heston. And I see that he's super tall---6' 5" according to one source---yummmy!"

"I see," said the blind man. This is going nowhere...fast.

Nightwalker: "I heard she later raised a nephew and was last seen plannnig a trip to India murmuring something about life being a banquet..." Who's on first? What's on second? The 1958 and 1974 film versions of what? (Yeah...yeah. I don't know's on third).

She probably could have gotten Marcello Mastroianni or Alain Delon, or Omar Sharif or Jean-Paul Belmondo or any of those international playboys. Saaay, remember, you're the one who brought up Forrest Tucker and Robert Preston. At least I didn't say Sonny Tufts.

I always thought George Clooney looked like Rory Calhoun. Ohhhhhh...the beefcake will make a wonderful basis for my dreams tonight. Thank you! Rock Hudson in "Giant" didn't look so bad either.

Violets...I am to freaked out by that episode to go back into YouTube and watch it for the credits. Feets, do yo' stuff!!!

MONGO: "CineMaven, both Gwynne and Ankers were Universal beauties who were a joy to watch in the B films of the 1940s." They certainly were. I absolutely loved both those ladies. Thank you for including that picture below (c. 1980) I've never seen Ankers in anything but that upsweep pompadour ladies of the 1940's wore. "Captive Wild Woman" and "Jungle Woman" are two of my Acquanetta favorites. Thank you so much for this spotlight!

Why not Guinn "Big Boy" Williams???

"Tom Jones" and "9 1/2 Weeks." My ex and I went to see "Deep Cover" a 1992 crime drama starring Laurence Fishburne and Jeff Goldblum. There was some great foodstuff in that movie, so much so that we went shopping that afternoon and bought steak, shrimp and pigged out, big time. Don't forget the flick where Stanwyck brings a soldier home and she's supposed to cook a big meal for him and... Oooh, I'm hungry.

Chandler: "I am so pleased to read this post. I hope you will inspire other people to see this film, which I happen to think is a very beautiful one. With, I might add, the most sensational looking human being who ever lived." If he had starred in a film with Hedy Lamarr, we all would have been blinded. He truly was a perfect looking man. Chandler: "I love that monologue Tyrone does, and I think the end of the film is gorgeous, with those drums and the walking right into the camera. I think it's a stunning film. A stunning man in a stunning film. Why ask for the stars, we have the moon. This film is so underrated. I don't understand it." Cinemaven: Let me start by paraphrasing this quote: "Who is that pale copper Apollo?" I enjoyed "The Rains Came." But I have to say this with all due respect though, the movie is kind of the typical Hollywood fare...dipping a toe into the miscegenation pool. It's like "White Cargo" or "Lady of the Tropics" or "The Slender Thread"where a Caucasian falls for an 'Other' and for reasons beyond their control (thanx to the crackerjack Hays Office and other censors) keeps the two apart or shows one going downhill becuz they want the 'Other.' I for one would take a chance in hell for the opportunity to have Lamarr in "...Tropics" or Power in "The Rains Came." Look at young Richard Carlson's downfall when he falls in --lust-- love with Lamarr's Tondelayo. I say this Chandler to say that I see the strings of the PuppetMaster. I see that Loy drinks from a dirty glass and is now one of the stricken ones...which prevents her from kissing Tyrone full on the mouth; she settles for a hug.(I know...I know...so she doesn't infect him. Righ! :-() I notice the sexist strings working this story as well. George Brent is a playboy, has a bad reputation, is a borderline alcoholic but he's allowed to be reborn and made clean by the love of a good girl (Brenda Joyce). Why can't Loy be allowed the same consideration?? Why can't she be wiped clean? Her husband has a list of men she has slept with. (That was the only way I knew she was a loose woman. Sometimes 30's coded messages escape me). But the rains took care of that blustery blowhard of a husban. (It was kind of nice seeing Nigel not being so blubbery and play it mean. What'd Loy see in him in the first place other than money? Could no conjugal relations have been the reason he needed to buy horses??) So I see the strings that keep white and 'Other' apart. But with that said, it didn't make me not like the movie. I enjoyed it; the opulence, the romance and self-sacrifice. Great camera move when Loy realizes she drinks from the wrong glass. GREAT special-effects with the earthquake and the rains. Really nice! But it's the romance...the forbidden. I was kind of shocked at how beautiful Maria Ouspenskaya's eyes were and shocked as the head nurse adds another death on the tote board inferring Loy's demise. That nurse was probably in love with Power. But at the risk of making this thread soo soooo lengthy (only my devoted fans will read this far) it is Tyrone Power all the way. It's like the camera's gaze on Rita Hayworth in "Gilda" or Elizabeth Taylor and Sophia Loren in anything. In fact, the camera could just follow Tyrone Power doing nothing but walking. His speech is eloquent and heartfelt. Yep, this is his picture all the way. And Loy was the benefactor of this. In my next thread, I'll quote some lines I liked. Please indulge me this length. Tyrone Power really gets to me. But you could tell that already.

Boo! Hillbillies stereotyping crazy-a$$ **** in Hollywood movie!

Well girlie...you were right. That was a big mistake I made. I still have the heebie jeebies. As I watched it, it started to come back to me but I went the whole nine yards. "My what a pretty neck..." ugh!!! Mistake. Are you happy??

"The Razor's Edge." And to think Bill Murray did the re-make. I shudder.

Wholesome squeaky-voiced Bernadette Peters is adult content?? What university is this?

I see...I see what's happened. I'm responding to one person, while clicking the wrong person's reply button. Sorry 'bout the mix-up. Let me be clear here: To Fred C. Dobbs: You could've kept the joke up. I wasn't insulted. And I'll be sure that when I'm answering you, I click the reply button to you. You've straightened me out, Fred. To SCSU: "I think you two should get married ... by the way, do you look alike?" Fred probably doesn't want to marry me. I'm a little too feisty with my mouth re movies. Besides, he wants great beauties like Hedy Lamarr to hold him around the waist while he rides her on the back of his chariot down the Ventura Highway. Personally, I'm waiting for Frank Grimes, but I have to wait on line behind MissGoddess and Bronxgirl. They fight like cats-and-dogs, but that spells love in cinematic terms. No feud here. Hopefully all is cleared up. Now back to the thread. By the by...Betty Field & Ann Sheridan sure DO look alike. This is a great thread.

Now Fred, how can you say this when... CM: "I have always thought that Bernadette Peters reminded me of Lana Turner. So, I'm not crazy! Fred: "Well, actually, she does look like Lana, but you are.... Oh, nevermind." ...I allowed you to attribute a quote to me: Fred C. Dobbs - Posted: Jun 3, 2008 7:04 PM in response to: CineMaven "No! Fred! Please don?t jump! I beg you! Don?t jump!! Ok.

I don't remember this show. I do remember "Stump the Stars."

It's wonderful she acknowledged TCM's showing of her films. She was one of the screen's greatest beauties.