CineMaven
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Those're great screen captures of "Sunrise" you have there. That scene in the moonlight with Goerge O'Brien and the frenzied Margaret Livingston was great. It's like he was besotted or addicted to the City Woman. He seemed like a hulking Frankenstein monster in that boat (shades of "A Place in the Sun") scene when he considered drowning Janet Gaynor. Glad he thought better of that idea (though she does seem kind of a drip compared to that flapper). George O'Brien makes me think of Victor Mature.
...And Buddy Rogers in "Wings" is a cutie pie. Makes me think of a young Robert Downey Jr. Question: did those last scenes with Rogers and Richard Arlen seem a little 'brokeback' to you? Or am I looking at it with jaded 21st century eyes...
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I'm looking at "Sunrise" now and was surprised to hear the Alfred Hitchcock's tv show theme song in the movie. Was this a classical piece of music??? I thought it was just made up for Hitch's tv show. Guess I was wrong, huh?
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Hyedenny...that was a fantastic response!
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Then you must catch Mary in "Desert Fury" with the wonderful Lizabeth Scott. "FRITZIE!"
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I'm loving that ending, the music and Teresa Wright and Dana Andrews hooking up professing their love. The music swelling gets me.
It'll be on Tuesday nite at eight (NY time) as will "All the King's Men" (at 10:00pm) with a fantastic performance by Mercedes McCambridge.
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I was totally in love with the curly-headed and very handsome Gene Reynolds.
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Hi Sandy, glad to see I'm not alone in my appreciation of Doris Day.
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"Congratulations NY! ! ! Are you a Mets or Yankees fan? I hear from other NY'ers you can't be both..."
Yep...NY is quite a happy camper with the Giants' win of the Superbowl last nite. From my window I could hear people cheering and screaming "Go Giants!" As for the Yankees & the Mets (baseball, you know) I can root for the Yankees, but my heart belongs to the Mets.
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I love the ending of "The Big Sleep" as Bogie and Bacall sit there looking out the window waiting for the cops. The siren gets louder and louder; he watches her looking out the window, then she sees him looking at her...the music swells...great.
"The Strange Love of Martha Ivers" where Lizabeth Scott & Van Heflin are driving away from death and destruction in Iverstown. "Don't look back," says Heflin. "Don't ever look back. You remember what happened to Lot's wife." "Whose wife," says Scott. "Sam's wife," he says. "Sam's wife," repeats Lizabeth as they drive off with the projected back screen behind them.
"Casablanca" shows Bogey and Claude Rains walking off into the foggy mist of a beautiful friendship while Norman Bates in "Psycho" stares wryly at the camera (a tad cross-eyed) while "Mam" tells us: "...I wouldn't even hurt a fly." Then there's the skeletal image softly superimposed over Norman's face as the car with poor Marion's body is being dredged up.
Indulge me one more please...Norma Desmond ready and walking into her close-up deranged... demented...A STAR!!! I love fade-out
Aaah the movies. You gotta love 'em!! Nice question.
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SCSU...When did Monty Wooley play Nostradamus. I don't remember that pix.
CineMaven.
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Julieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! xoxo
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Sometimes Oscars are given to folks and projects for what they represent.
I think Clark Gable should have won as Rhett Butler than Robert Donat as Mr. Chips. Gable probably robbed someone more deserving back in 1934, and he most egregiously lost for a performance where he displayed bravado, romance and heartbreak no parent should endure. Also, loving someone who does not love you...ow!
But I wonder which is the bigger travesty...being robbed of an Oscar for your performance, or never having won or even nominated. Geez!
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GO GIANTS!!! And Congratulations. What a friggin' nailbiter.
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers???? Sheesh. No chance of a wardrobe malfunction there. :-(
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Golly gee Kubrick. I just asked for one thing. Awright, I'll pick one. Family. There. There!!
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R-r-roll, roll, roll in the hay. Ay yi yi. Que linda!
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He might be a ham...but he had great thighs, don'cha think?
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Crikey!!! Sorry. :-(
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OUCH! Can't these celebs stay sober while we try to put the film together???
Okay, Plan B since we might not be able to wait for Eva to dry out: Jennifer Lopez. Okay hear me out...hear me out. We'd have to keep a tight rein on her 'cuz she's no great shakes as an actress...but remember the actresses (Jean Harlow, Lucille Ball) who came before her. She has to be a hot temperamental...uh-oh, I lost you, didn't I??
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You have a thing against baritone babes? (Don't you like Lizabeth Scott?) Okay. I still want to go with a younger cast. C'mon man, we've got to make the studios money or they won't fund our fantasy project.
Charlize Theron, Eva Mendes, Vince Vaughn (manic) and George Clooney.
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Don't want Ruby Dee to win an Academy Award. I am rooting for Amy Ryan for "Gone Baby Gone." She was riveting. Ruby played the same ol' role: "oh lawdy lawdy... my son! my son!"
Go Amy. Oh and while I'm at it: GO GIANTS!!!
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I saw "Moonstruck" once. I literally cannot watch it again. It probably was a consolation prize for not winning one for "SIlkwood."
I'm mad about Helen Hunt. True, it doesn't seem that she's doing much lately. And I did not care for "As Good As It Gets" but it's not about giving an award to someone who'll squander it and make voters feel they wasted their vote. Look at Dorothy Malone or Lou Gossett among others. What else have they done of note?
And yes...that Garbo, Stanwyck, Grant, Day etc. never won is a travesty of a sham of a travesty.
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YOUR CHECK IS IN THE MAIL!!! A MILLION, RIGHT???
THANK YOU FOR THE JULIE CHRISTIE CLIP. SHE LOOKED WONDERFUL!!!
The very first Academy Award I watched was when Sidney Poitier and Julie Christie won. I've been watching ever since. Thank you again SCSU! I'm a big fan of Christie's ("Dr. Zhivago" "Far From the Madding Crowd" "Shampoo.") THANK YOU!!!
IS BARBARA STANWYCK PRETTY???
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Virginia, read "The Lady Stanwyck" thread and let's not reduce great actresses down to just their looks.