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Thanks Poinciana. I will check to see if my local library has a copy.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080715/ap_en_ot/black_movies
*New US postage stamps honor early black cinema*
By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - Josephine Baker looks straight at you with bright eyes and shining smile, fearless and demanding attention.
The time is 1935, and the St. Louis native who transfixed France and much of Europe with song and dance stares out from a poster advertising the film "Princess Tam-Tam." Baker starred as a simple African woman presented to Paris society as royalty.
Baker's movie is one of five recalled on a set of U.S. postage stamps being released Wednesday to honor vintage black cinema. Ceremonies marking the sale of the stamps will be held at the Newark Museum in New Jersey, which is holding a black film festival.
"So many things happened in her life that she had never expected," her son Jean-Claude Baker said Tuesday.
"I guess that if she was with us today she would be very honored. At her death she was a French citizen, but she never forgot she was born in America," he said in a telephone interview. "She would be delighted and very moved."
"Despite all the difficulty of colored people in her time, she triumphed over all the adversity that she and her people had to endure," he added.
Another poster, for a 1921 release, provides a taste of the racial divide that sent the young Baker to Europe to pursue her career.
"The Sport of the Gods," the poster proclaims, is based on a book by Paul Laurence Dunbar, "America's greatest race poet," and it adds that the film has "an all-star cast of colored artists."
Other posters in the set of 42-cent stamps are:
? "Black and Tan," a 19-minute film released in 1929 featuring Duke Ellington and his Cotton Club Orchestra.
? "Caldonia," another short at 18 minutes, which was released in 1945. It showcased singer, saxophonist and bandleader Louis Jordan.
? "Hallelujah," a 1929 movie released by MGM. It was one of the first films from a major studio to feature an all-black cast. Producer-director King Vidor was nominated for an Academy Award for his attempt to portray rural African-American life, especially religious experience.
In addition to Jean-Claude Baker and his brother, Jarry, the ceremony was scheduled to include Louis Jordan's widow, Martha Jordan; Paul Ellington, grandson of Duke Ellington; Newark Mayor Cory A. Booker; and Gloria Hopkins Buck, chairwoman of the film festival.
Josephine Baker may be best remembered in the United States for her singing and dancing in Europe, but she also earned military honors as an undercover agent for the French resistance in World War II. Later, she was active in civil rights work and appeared with Martin Luther King Jr. at the March on Washington in 1963.
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Sorry, hamradio, but having "a passion" for something isn't an excuse to act immaturely, imho. There are a lot of people here who are as passionate about classic film as anyone else, yet they're not flooding and spamming the forums with lots of senseless and pointless threads. And if his interest is truly focused on classic movies, why does he post so many things that have very little (if nothing) to do with classic movies?
And, yes, filmlover explained why he'd used bolds in this thread...
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Well I would agree he seems to crave attention so much, he may actually enjoy getting negative comments and criticism, rather than no response at all. However, even if he's completely ignored by everyone, he will continue to flood the forums with lots of useless threads. We really should just ask the folks at TCM to do something about it.
Many forums have a limit on the number of threads users can start each day -- and it's because of immature people like him.
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I do agree with you that nearly everything CK does demonstrates an egocentric drive. It's unfortunate that he has such a deep-seated desire to promote whatever is important to him as though it should be important to everyone else, too. And I certainly do not think someone in his 30's would be likely to behave that way.
I'm all for not using bold letters on thread titles anymore. I must confess I have used them myself on some occasions, mostly hoping that it would help avoid people accidentally creating duplicate threads (which is sometimes an honest mistake when someone doesn't notice another person's thread).
Personally, I couldn't care less who starts a thread on any given subject. It is very unfortunate that CK has demonstrated that he not only wants to make sure to post on just about everything that he comes across online, but he also wants to be CREDITED as the one person who found the information (even when many others already know such information exists online). It comes across as a person incredibly in need of attention.
I also find it most unfortunate that CK will post obits on people who have very little, if nothing to do with classic movies, or even contemporary movies. It just makes me feel as if he's constantly hunting down the obit of just about anyone, just for the sake of upping his post count at every possible opportunity.
For me the overall effect of all of CK's threads over the last 6 months or so is somewhat like the effect of having a very loud and very obnoxious child constantly SCREAMING and doing things to get attention and acting in the most disruptive way possible, in an environment in which kids are not usually present (or at least are well behaved). It is very, very annoying.
Sorry for the rant! I've tried to be patient for more than 6 months now.....
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Happy b-day, Forest Whitaker!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(July 15, 1961)
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In his Tuesday column about new DVD releases, Dave Kehr of The New York Times recommends *A Throw of Dice* (1929) and several old Columbia serials, now released by other companies since Columbia simply let the copyright expire ages ago....
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/15/movies/homevideo/15dvds.html
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> {quote:title=hlywdkjk wrote:}{quote}
> *"Are you appearing in any comedy clubs this weekend?"* - ydobon
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> I have been approached to fill-in for Michael Richards. And Bernie Mac.
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> But I think I'll just hang around here instead.
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> Kyle In Hollywood
Awwwwwwwwww
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/15/movies/15joffe.html?ref=movies
July 15, 2008
*Charles H. Joffe, Movie Producer, Is Dead at 78*
By DENNIS HEVESI
Charles H. Joffe, a co-producer of Woody Allen?s movies and the business expert in the talent agency that managed the budding careers of a host of high-profile comedians that also included Robin Williams, Billy Crystal and David Letterman, died on Wednesday in Los Angeles. He was 78 and lived in Los Angeles.
The cause was lung disease, said his wife, Carol.
In 1978, when Mr. Allen?s ?Annie Hall? won the Academy Award for Best Picture, it was Mr. Joffe who picked up the Oscar at the ceremony in Los Angeles while Mr. Allen remained in New York playing clarinet in a gig with his jazz band.
Mr. Joffe was the brash, wise-cracking, cigar-chewing contract bargainer in the talent agency Rollins Joffe, which booked Lenny Bruce?s first act in New York in the 1950s. The agency later mentored, among others, Dick Cavett, Robert Klein, Tom Poston, Mike Nichols and Elaine May, Martin Short and Martin Mull. The firm, founded by Jack Rollins, later became Rollins Joffe Morra & Brezner.
When it signed Mr. Crystal in the 1970s, he was struggling as a member of a comedy act called 3?s Company while moonlighting as a substitute teacher on Long Island. Mr. Rollins told him he should work alone; Mr. Joffe handled his contracts. By 1985, Mr. Crystal was earning $25,000 for each ?Saturday Night Live? show, a sum that, as his character Fernando would say, was ?mahhh?vlous.?
Mr. Joffe ?excels at nailing down the big money in negotiations,? an article in The New York Times said that year.
Eric Lax, author of ?Woody Allen: A Biography? (Alfred. A. Knopf, 1991), said in an interview Monday that starting with Mr. Allen?s movie ?Take the Money and Run,? in 1969, ?Charlie was able to guarantee Woody total artistic control over his films, something almost unheard of in Hollywood.?
?Woody got casting approval, script approval and final cut,? Mr. Lax said, ?and he?s kept it ever since.?
Mr. Allen?s films are billed as Jack Rollins and Charles H. Joffe productions. But it was Mr. Joffe, as an agent, who traveled with Mr. Allen when he began acting and, later, making movies.
Charles Harris Joffe was born in Brooklyn on July 16, 1929, the son of Sidney and Mae Popper Joffe. His father was a pharmacist. His mother died when he was in his 20s, and his father remarried.
In addition to his stepmother, Esther Joffe, and his wife, the former Carol Holofcener, Mr. Joffe is survived by a son, Cory; two stepdaughters, the film director Nicole Holofcener and Suzanne Joffe; and three grandchildren.
Mr. Joffe graduated from Syracuse University in 1950. While a student there, he ran a business managing and booking bands into local nightclubs. After graduating, he moved to New York and was hired by the MCA talent agency. Three years later he went to work for Mr. Rollins; by the early 1960s he was a partner.
Mr. Lax said Mr. Joffe?s advice to Mr. Allen could be blunt, in a fatherly kind of way. In 1966, when Mr. Allen was playing James Bond?s illegitimate nephew in ?Casino Royale,? a spoof of the Bond thrillers, he became very frustrated.
?Woody saw the dailies and said, ?This stuff is just awful,? ? Mr. Lax said. ?And Charlie said, correctly: ?You?re trying to get into the film business. It?s going to be a big picture, and you?re in it with a lot of stars. You?re having a nice time in London, playing poker every night, visiting all the museums. Just shut up.? ?
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Any Hitch fans looking forward to the showing of Richard Schickel's documentary about Hitchcock following *Young and Innocent* ?
I don't believe I've ever seen them, although I could have watched it a long time ago and forgotten about it. But it does not seem to be otherwise available on home video, so it's definitely a must-TiVo for me.
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I do hope they'll be able to schedule as many silents as it's humanly possible. And I'm sure Lon Chaney has many fans among TCM viewers!
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> {quote:title=MissGoddess wrote:}{quote}
> WONDERFUL, Holiday Affair is coming to dvd!! It's one of my favorite Robert Mitchum movies! And I also like Blossoms in the Dust.
It's definitely good to know it's going to be out on DVD soon. Now I'm hoping for the release of *Remember the Night*.
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> {quote:title=scsu1975 wrote:}{quote}
> >He looked like he'd sprained something in almost every movie I've seen him in
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> He was remarkably restrained in Call Northside 777 ... unlike his other movies, where he should have been placed under restraints. By the way, I must say he was one terrific actor.
Well, I do like him a lot, he was always compelling on-screen. I don't remember *Call Northside 777* very well, but I do have the DVD so I'll keep that in mind next time I'm watching it.
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> {quote:title=marcco44 wrote:}{quote}
> yea..... it took me a while to digest this film, felt immersed in the french street culture and its coarse behaviors which took me a while to get used to...... piaf for half the film is ABSOLUTELY DECREPIT, it was painful just to watch her. cotlliard is brilliant putting this across.....her transformation into this character is simply unreal.
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> i myself liked that the film jumped back and forth in time, making it feel dream-like and surreal..... the st. therese vision & and (especially) the last meeting of piaf & the boxer were the most surreal sequences & among my favorite scenes in the film.....i would love to know if these scenes were invented by the director, or if the real piaf recounted these experiences.
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> the singing sequences were amazing, some of the songs were recreated by modern-day artists and the others were piaf herself..... all sound as if they were recorded yesterday, and are brilliantly lip-synched by cotlliard. once again, it took me a while to warm up to the perception that piaf was a powerhouse singer of equal magnitude to garland or streisand ---- this is my first in depth exposure to her.
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> my only quibble here is that the songs themselves were not subtitled on the dvd, i would have liked a translation.
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> this is a bravura, extroverted performance the academy loves to give oscars to...cotlliard was flawless playing (in what was for me) a troubled, disturbing (to my senses) character whose singing voice was extra-ordinary.
It is definitely an amazing performance. I'm really looking forward to the next movie in which she stars. J'aime Marion Cotlliard!
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> {quote:title=tobitz wrote:}{quote}
> Only 12 days until the next Gloria appearance on TCM ( *The Bad and the Beautiful* again).
> I mention this mostly just to get the Gloria thread back to the top.
> I'm also way overdo to thank molo for telling me about those other two. That was the first time I'd seen *In a Lonely Place* and it immediately became a favorite of mine.
I love Gloria and I love *The Bad and the Beautiful*, thanks for the reminder.
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> {quote:title=Poinciana wrote:}{quote}
> In honor of Roz being SOTM, I'm rereading Life Is A Banquet, Rosalind's autbio. The chapter on The Women is VERY interesting. And are we not surprised that Roz was gutsy, hugely self-confident, and extremely intelligent. She outwitted, let's see, the nuns the girls' academy she attended, her landlady, studio heads, directors, and co-stars who got their panties in a wad over somethingerother. And she did it all without making enemies. What a lady!
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> Looking forward to reading the new bio of her advertised on TCM, Forever Mame.
When's Forever Mame coming out?
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> {quote:title=pancakes_barbara wrote:}{quote}
> I loved the picture they showed of Barbara Stanwyck with the boxing gloves on the Bill Murray episode...can any one find it on-line?? I couldn't.
Thank you for pointing out that photo. I don't have one, but I'd love if anyone here could find one and post it.
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> {quote:title=CineMaven wrote:}{quote}
> I found Bill funny, knowledgeable and commonly eloquent.
That he was. I still think he looks funnier without the mustache, but whatever.
Only wish TCM had been able to get *The Moon's Our Home* on tonite's schedule. Oh well.
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Bill Murray better be funny tonite....
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> {quote:title=scsu1975 wrote:}{quote}
> >Did Lee J. Cobb have a sprained ankle?
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> No, I believe he sprained his spleen during 12 Angry Men.
He looked like he'd sprained something in almost every movie I've seen him in...
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A more complete and detailed version of this story is now available:
*Microsoft?s Xbox 360 to Stream Netflix Movies*
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 video game console will be able to stream thousands of movies over the Internet, thanks to a deal announced Monday with Netflix Inc. that highlights the way gaming devices are expanding into all-purpose home-entertainment hubs.
The arrangement, revealed at the E3 Media & Business Summit in Los Angeles, will let Netflix subscribers stream 10,000 movies and TV shows to Xbox consoles for viewing on television sets, beginning this fall. Xbox had movies and shows available for download before, but only half as many.
''This generation of consoles will change the face of home entertainment more than any other generation before,'' said John Schappert, corporate vice president of Microsoft's interactive entertainment division.
As Microsoft vies for a stronger foothold in the living room, so is rival Sony Corp., which has tried to make its PlayStation 3 into a broader entertainment device by including Blu-ray high-definition DVD players in the consoles.
The deal with Microsoft also marks an important expansion for Netflix, whose 18-month-old streaming service -- which supplements its DVD-by-mail program -- has been available on computers instead of TVs, unless consumers had bought a small streaming device from a Netflix-backed startup called Roku Inc.
Microsoft already has sold more than 10 million Xbox 360 consoles in the United States. More than half of Xbox 360 owners pay $50 a year for a ''gold'' membership, which will be required for access to Netflix's ''Watch Instantly'' library. They also must subscribe to Netflix, which charges $9 per month for the least expensive plan that includes unlimited streaming.
In partnering with Microsoft, Netflix may be building the streaming service to prepare for the day when the convenience and widespread availability of video downloading kills its DVD-by-mail service.
Although Netflix Chief Executive Reed Hastings still believes DVDs will be around for years to come, he has already poured more than $40 million into developing the streaming service.
Until recently, Netflix's streaming service hadn't been a big hit with the company's 8.2 million subscribers, because there was no way to easily watch the movies on anything but a computer.
That began to change two months ago when Roku began selling a small set-top box that could stream to movies to any television set. Roku sold out its initial supply of the $100 player in just two weeks. The device is now back in stock.
Microsoft had been widely expected to embrace Netflix's streaming service, partly because the two companies seem like natural allies. They share a common rival in Apple Inc., which has battled Microsoft in the personal computer market for decades and last year emerged as threat to Netflix with a downloading service for renting movies and TV shows.
What's more, Hastings sits on Microsoft's board of directors, although he says that connection had nothing to do with the Xbox deal.
While the Xbox 360 will have exclusive rights among the video game consoles to the movie streaming service, Netflix is still looking for other ways to reach TV sets. The company already has announced that LG Electronics will include streaming capability on a Blu-ray DVD player that will debut this year. Hastings also has promised at least one more major consumer electronics company will unveil a set-top box for Netflix before 2009.
The popularity of the Roku device already has proven that Netflix subscribers want to be able to stream entertainment from the Internet to their TVs, Hastings said, though he acknowledged that ''the quality of content'' is still lacking. Netflix's DVD rental library is 10 times larger than the streaming service, which rarely offers the latest home-entertainment options from movie and TV studios.
Hastings hopes to add about 8,000 more titles to the streaming service during the next 18 months.
Netflix shares gained 60 cents, 2.2 percent, to finish Monday at $27.61. Microsoft stock fell 10 cents to close at $25.15.
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> {quote:title=scsu1975 wrote:}{quote}
> Brannigan is a fun movie, and Judy Geeson is such a cute British lass.
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> That was interesting about Wayne turning down the part of Dirty Harry. I could just hear him now ... "Ya have ta ask yerself one question ... do I feel lucky? Well ... do ya, pilgrim?"
That would have been priceless...
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_*Turner Classic Movies pick for July 15, 2008: Brannigan*_
?Brannigan,? TCM, Tuesday, July 15, 2:30 p.m. (EST)
By most accounts, John Wayne (along with Frank Sinatra) was among the first choices to play the iconic role of maverick cop Harry Callahan in 1971?s ?Dirty Harry.? (Supposedly, they both turned it down because of the profanity.)
When Wayne realized what a great part Harry would have been for him, he decided to make up for it by doing two cop pictures that were obvious knockoffs of ?Dirty Harry?: ?McQ? (1974) and ?Brannigan? (1975).
The more entertaining of the two, ?Brannigan? is a typical ?fish out of water? comic action film with Wayne as Lt. Brannigan, a tough Chicago cop who is sent to England to extradite American gangster Larkin (John Vernon). When Larkin is unexpectedly kidnapped and held for ransom, Brannigan is forced to track him down while going head-to-head with the Scotland Yard man on the case, Commander Swann (Richard Attenborough).
Although it comes nowhere close to the quality of ?Dirty Harry,? ?Brannigan? succeeds as a guilty pleasure with some highly amusing moments, such as the opening scene where the Duke kicks in a counterfeiter?s door and stands there, saying ?Knock, knock.?
Best of all, is the hilarious moment when, while interrogating a suspect, Wayne plays ?good cop? to the ?bad cop? of Attenborough (who is considerably shorter than Wayne).
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Below are some additional titles out this month on UK DVD from Optimum Home Entertainment?
14th July 2008
Emerald Forest - ?15.99 - Based on a true story, The Emerald Forest features Powers Boothe as Bill Markham, an American engineer working on a dam project in the Brazilian jungle. When a local tribe known as ?The Invisible People? abducts his infant son, Markham begins a ten-year search to find him, only to discover eventually that his boy has grown into a fully-fledged tribesman. Can Markham persuade him to return to civilisation?
Extras include a new John Boorman interview and the original trailer.
The Jeunet & Caro Box-Set - ?19.99 - Although they have only made two feature films together, Jeunet & Caro?s films are instantly recognisable for their distinctive heightened look and innovative visual flair. This box-set features both the surreal black comedy Delicatessen that made their name, and dark fairy tale City of Lost Children, as well as The Bunker of the Last Gunshots - a little seen short film from Marc Caro, who?s eagerly awaited directorial debut is out later this year.
Presented in anamorphic widescreen with French DD2.0 audio and English subtitles, extras on Delicatessen include Jean-Pierre Jeunet Archives, a making of and the original trailer. City of Lost Children features 5.1 audio, a making of featurette, an interview with Jean-Paul Gaultier, behind the scenes footage and commentary by Jean-Pierre Jeunet (in French).
The Ultimate Godard Collection - ?99.99 ? This 14-disc collection brings together 13 of the great director?s works: Le Mepris, Alpahaville, Passion, A Bout De Souffle, Made In The USA, Pierrot Le Fou, Une Femme Est Une Femme, La Chinoise, Le Petit Soldat, Detective, Notre Musique, Helas Pour Moi and Eloge De L?amour. With the exception of Le Mepris, all have been released by Optimum before and the discs are identical. Le Mepris is presented in 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen with French Mono audio and English subtitles. The only extra is a trailer.
Alongside the special packaging (see pictures below), the set also offers a bonus disc with the following content:
# The Dinosaur & The Baby, classic interview between Fritz Lang and Jean-Luc Godard (60 min)
# Jean-Luc As Seen By Luc, Short film by Godard?s long time friend and director Luc Moullet (8 min)
# Godard, Love, Poetry, Exploring how Godard?s relationship with Anna Karina has fed Godard?s cinema (52 min)
21st July 2008
Robbery - ?12.99 - Inspired by true events (the great train robbery of 1963) Robbery is an uncompromising portrayal of swinging London?s criminal underworld. Directed by Peter Yates, the film stars Stanley Baker, Frank Finlay, Barry Foster and William Marlowe.
Presented in 1.33:1 with Mono audio, there are no extras.
Celluloid Kid, please stop making duplicate threads
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CK, I think people have been asking you very nicely to try to refrain from posting so much stuff that doesn't really need to be posted. Is it hard for you to understand why people on the boards ask you to do this?
Do you really have to post more useless threads containing the exact same information that is already in another thread? Why would it be necessary? Only so that you can boost your ego by seeing your name next to it?