CineMaven
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"Posted: Oct 6, 2010 7:49 PM in response to: SueSueApplegate
Thank you SueSue. I think Anne has been in a number of classics: "Blackboard Jungle" "Bad Day at Black Rock" to name two. I think she'd be great!! How 'bout her with Leslie Nielsen???"
Sadly now, this will not be possible.
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"The shocker is that as a young man John Derek was just as beautiful as his future wives."
Wow! That cracked me up!!! LOL. And very true. He was beautiful. He almost made Tony Curtis look like Joe Schmoe.
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"Why are the brainiacs at TCM taking air time away from movies with this documentary crap?" - < The Destroyer >
HA! That's the second funniest thing I've read in this thread.
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CHANTEUSE: "It's not decent the way I throw myself at you."
SLIM (The Gangster): "You're only paid to sing to the customers."
CHANTEUSE: "Look, why don't you soften up and give me a tumble?" holding onto his arm.
The gangster angrily yanks his arm away from the girl singer.
CHANTEUSE: "I don't know why I stay in this dump!"
SLIM (The Gangster): "Because you got a contract."
CHANTEUSE: "I must be crazy. You're mean, you're cruel, you're cold blooded..." SLAP!
He's smacked her in the face. She wimpers.
SLIM (The Gangster): "Shut up!! Shut up!!"
Yup....I think I'm in love now with Jack LaRue.
For me, sexy in an actor is not necessarily cute, friendly, palsy-walsy. He doesn't pet dogs and kiss babies. He doesn't have the moral character of a Saint. See, I have different feelings towards Richard Carlson & Jeffrey Lynn, who I adore mind you...than I have for Tyrone Power and Cary Grant, who I love. But my feelings for Stephen Boyd or Yul Brynner or Anthony Quinn...well now, that's a horse of a different color. THAT is the $700 million dollar question. ($64,000 a question doesn't cut it anymore...especially in this economy...and not if I'm truly going to wrack my brain to give an honest answer to you).
And I do have an answer.
But just remember it is the answer for me, and me alone. I speak for no other Maven or Boca Queen; no goddess or peacemaker.
Oh it's sick and twisted alright alright. My answer'll include feeling weak in the knees, faint of heart and butterflies in my stomach. I'd have trouble breathing and my pulse will quicken with these guys. My answer involves actors who can have me anytime, any place, anywhere...at a moment's notice, with a sideways glance or a touch of their hand or a nod.
Why?
Because I think they're sexy.
And what makes them sexy?
Well...
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NICE GUYS FINISH FIRST:
I love my boys-next-door...my frat boys. The collegiate type. They?re nice and friendly and playful. These are just a few of my favorites:
Timothy Bottoms, Paul Rudd, Ryan Reynolds, Richard Carlson, Jeffrey Lynn, Wayne Morris, Richard Greene, Van Johnson, James Stewart, Henry Fonda.
These are my cutie pies...my little puppies. But sexy...
DAZZLING PER-****-SHUN:
I know. I know. It?s so rude to stare...but I can?t help it. I love these guys for their good looks. They are so good looking, do you doubt they stepped down from the heavens? I just want to be with them, look at them, bask in their reflection. (I think of footage from the ?Gone With the Wind? movie premiere. Look at Lombard on Gable?s arm). These men are, simply put, perfect: Tyrone Power, Robert Taylor, George Hamilton, John Gavin, Stewart Granger, Harry Belafonte, Tony Curtis, Robert Redford, Rock Hudson, Laurence Olivier (?Wuthering Heights?), Cary Grant, Louis Jourdan, Montgomery Clift.
You scoff at my choices? You mock my shallow adoration? Who doesn't want good conversation, romance, moonlight dinners or week-ends in a snow covered cabin? Tyrone Power calls you for a weekend in Carmel, and you?re turning him down? Not me. These men are gorgeous. Sexy? Hmmm that?s another story.
Next up: Sexy beasts...
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CineMaven: I feel so sorry for Claire inside that coach. I was more affected by the psychological suicide of offering her shoulder to Mrs Malloy. Claire is so beaten down at that point in the story, a scarlet woman in a coach, surely she must have known she would be refused. Her sigh of disappointment while looking out the window is as much an acknowledgment of forlorn hope as actual rejection.
I came home a little while ago and turned to TCM and saw that very same seen I saw on YouTube this morning with Claire offering the canteen. Whew! I haven't seen "Stagecoach" in a very long time. I know...I must give up my card carrying Maven membership b'cuz of course, without doubt, this film must be put in a time capsule for future generations.
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"I have a sneaking suspicion that I actually saw part of The Last Voyage, and it was the part with the kid, who was awful. Drown her now!"
HA!! Yeah she was a cloying annoying little girl, wasn't she? She was no Shirley Temple.
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"Why do I know the name Tammy Marihugh? Something tells me she's been discussed here before and not in a good way."
Uhmmmm...yeah. And when the Boca Queen gets you in her sights...no one is safe. Not even women or children. Let us know what you think of Woody. Oh...and the movie too.
RIP Leslie Nielsen. :-( And I pictured him with Anne Francis appearing at TCM's film festival next April.
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Swell...see how easy it is to bamboozle a man? Sexy, isn't it?
And by the way...ponder this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_wUPZLs7BE&feature=related
This might be more up your alley, MovieMan.
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'Scuse this sidewinding sodbuster for just one extremely brief observation. John Wayne hands Claire Trevor the canteen which she drinks from. She offers it to the crusty ol' gent who brusquely says no.
Claire's reaction as she sort of slinks down in her seat is so subtly done. She's been hurt.
That's my girl!
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Hi there Soo...
Great commentary on "Moguls and Movie Stars." It's so easy to put something down and some can't see the forest for the trees; but you explained all the reasons this mammoth effort by TCM
is worth a view. I've been enjoying this series. I believe Part 5 will be repeated tonite so get your vcr/dvr/dvd player ready.
Very nice review. Thanx!
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Nah...it was a toss-up between Slim Pickens and Chill Wills. But I loved Chill in "LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN" and in "GIANT" so he made the cut.
Hey...you make your own sexy beast list!! And leave me to my fantasy. If I'm not mistaken...you're a Doodles Weaver groupie, right?
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Maybe I was focused too much on Doris in "Romance on the High Seas." When I think of her in "Silk Stockings" all I can see is STEREOPHONIC SOUND! It's been a long time since I've seen it. Again maybe I was busy looking at Cyd Charisse, which is another way of saying that maybe I don't find Janis sexy in the same way I think of Doris or Cyd.
Rose Marie??! Men! Always wanting sexy funny and taking funny sexy for granted. ( > sigh! < ) To your credit, the producers did down play Janis' sex appeal in "Romance..." Look at all those crazy high collared outfits they put her in; and then in those curls in that upsweep hairdo she had. Had they let her look va-va-va voom, it might've blown Doris (at that point in her career) out of the wa-
ter. (Thought Doris was sexy in "Love Me Or Leave Me"). With Doris in "Romance..." they were introducing the new girl on the block-a solid little blonde bundle of energy. (Love her in "My Dream Is Yours"). Also liked the fact that I betcha Doris had something to do with putting Janis in her movie a decade or so later with "Please Don't Eat the Daisies" where another one of my faves had a small role as a society matron throwing a party: Margaret Lindsay.
For the Sexy Actors list I'm compiling for this treatise, which I hope to share with all of you before the day's end, I'm just about all over the psychological map with my reasons for finding actors like Douglas Dumbrille, Slim Summerville, S.Z.Sakall, Rondo Hatton, Chill Wills, Gabby Hayes, and Charles Laughton, sexy beasts. Hmmm...I'm feeling kinda tingly just thinkin' about my boys.
Women! Ain't we fickle?
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MOVIEMAN writes: If we are getting into what is sexy I might have some ideas but I'd love to hear what the ladies think in addition to Ben Johnson.
MISS GODDESS replies: I'll have to think about it. I can rattle off WHO I think is sexy, but to analyze WHY may take some actual thinking...and this is something I never think I have to think about...I just feel it!
JACK FAVELL chimes in: To me there is a big difference between merely good looking and sexy. And some people are sexy to me because they have a brilliant mind, or because they move well, or because they are talented...I think I have to have some kind of compassion for the person to really find them sexy. I don?t know why. It's really tough to figure out WHY you find someone sexy.If you line up ten movie stars in a row, I would be more likely to pass over the best looking man, for the man who has character, or the man with depth or warmth.?
It?s said our movie stars are like American royalty. Mythology buff that I am, I see them as gods and goddesses alighting from Mt. Olympus and vaporizing onto the silver screens of movie palaces near you. They?re made perfect by primping, pampering and grooming. Whatever genetics they brought with them from North Carolina or Sicily...Sweden, Cadiz, Ohio or South of the Border were heightened to the nth degree by the magic of Max Factor, Adrian or George Hurrell.
Apparently, there?s all kinds of sexy as illustrated by everyone's very interesting posts on this personal and subjective topic. I surmised a few things from you all:
* What men find sexy in women is different from what women find sexy in women
* What women find sexy in men is different from what each other woman thinks is sexy in men
* Women can be femininely or masculinely sexy (There's a difference between Marilyn and Bacall)
* Sometimes the most stunning of beauties (i.e. Hedy or Tyrone) may not necessarily be sexy
* Ava-Gloria-Sophia-Marilyn are constants in the sexy firmament
* Men may not be entirely comfortable discussing what actors they find sexy
I'm a very visual person. And I am attracted to attractive people. Or should I say, I'm attracted to people who I find attractive. The second tier of my human attraction is to a person who is smart, kind, funny, moral, ethical, clean, honest, has character and all the rest of those intangible goodies that makes us look like a good person for wanting someone with those intangible qualities.
But that ain't sexy.
So here I turn my gaze to men...actors...sexy actors...or more accurately actors who I...for me...IMHO...find sexy. Confusing? HA! You should be inside my head. But no worries, I have Freud on speed-dial.
THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE SEXY. OH...AND THEN THERE'S SAMUEL S. HINDS...
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Hmmmm...let's imdb her and look over her filmography; see if she didn't. She wasn't a real vamp, you know. She wasn't the curvaceous buxom type so that might have something to do with it. Let's both check. Maybe in "The Man Who Came to Dinner"?? I liked her round the girl way in "Nora Prentiss."
Awww...just count me a fan.
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May I chime in? Good point, J.F. I think her "Oomph" status was due to her saucy attitude as well as her killer looks. She didn't really do the sexbomb thing. She was kind of a pal to a guy..albeit a pal with lustrous hair, long legs and a coppery voice that wouldn't quit. She also looked like she knew the score...rarely if ever, played a wide-eyed babe in the woods.
But ohhhhh brother...a babe indeed.
Still compiling my list of (IMHO) sexy actors. Prerequisites include tall, dark, handsome. Athletic, swarthy, heavily testosteroned, with five o'clock shadows...and a bit on the mean side. Rough.
HIM: "You'll take it and like it!"
ME: "Purr....."
You know...the kind you won't bring home to Father.
Edited by: CineMaven on Nov 30, 2010 9:19 AM
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Thank you TCM. I am enjoying this documentary very much.
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Ha!!! Gasted my flabber...ooh, that sounds painful.
On a serious note, I want to send you my sincere congratulations for winning this latest challenge. I know how difficult it is to try and create something people will find clever and unique and enjoyable.
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Dot, of course. She's a great example. She is very sexy in the Douglas Sirk films, but also projects longing and pain (rather like Ava, only in her own way).
Yes, you?re right Miss G., It is Dorothy Malone. And you?re right again when you talk of her pain and longing. The YouTube video I selected (Britney Spears & Douglas Sirk) might seem so silly and frivolous... but I think it was well done and the editor selected scenes that revealed her sexuality as well as her longing for a man she?ll never have. (She also wears my favorite outfit...the plaid blouse and pedal pushers; I?m a plain and simple maven).
Your screencaps are excellent examples too. Grimesy, I hope you catch more of their work.
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So why post it here among her fans.
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Soooooo not only do we have a Programming Challenge winner in our midst...but you are (practically) married to MacGuyver.
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> You are so right about Jack LaRue. He was steamy, when they kissed and kissed and it took forever ...I swear, it was for a full minute long, while the goofy italian waiter hammed it up a la Leo Carillo. I thought she was going to pass out. I would have, the minute he put his big hands on me. He is my new favorite bad boy. I think he's swell.
> Well, the kissing looked plenty real to me, because I don't think you could fake it for that long. They must not have had a production code over there in stolid olde England. And I swear there was a little open mouth action once... but maybe it was just wishful thinking on my part.
> Once you go LaRue, you never go back, I guess.
OMG! THAT really killed me. HA!!
> It's really not much of a movie, but I still enjoyed it.
Well...I guess I picked at my dinner plate too when I was a kid, and just ate the good stuff.
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Wishful thinking. < Sigh! > ...the stuff that dreams are made of.
Guess I'll be heading over to Barnes & Noble tomorrow morning. Linden Travers sort of looks like Elizabeth Russell ("Cat People").
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Thank you Laffite.
MY memoirs? Oooh dear boy. You could use that to put a baby to sleep. My life is veddy veddy boring. I only have the actors I find sexy to spice things up for me.
Now instead of lurking and driving by...won't you share with us what actresses you find sexy? Inquiring minds really do want to know, monsieur. Come on...give me a list of your top ten fa-
vorite sexy actresses. Go on... you can do it.