Film_Fatale
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Happy Birthday, indeed, to Jean Simmons! B-)
(Where are the Simmons movies today?)
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Lampert, Regina - Audrey Hepburn in *Charade*
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January, Joe - John Wayne in *Legend of the Lost*
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It's a good point that many movies being shown this year are TCM premieres - such as Elia Kazan's *A Tree Grows in Brooklyn*, a movie that has also never been released on DVD.
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Ford alert: Fox Movie Channel will be showing *My Darling Clementine* on Sunday, Feb. 1st at 9:30am ET
http://foxmoviechannel.com/movPrime.asp?ProgramId=4432113
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> {quote:title=joefilmone wrote:}{quote}
> Exciting poster! ( those boots on Zorro look a bit kinky ...?!)
I assume the French are exaggerating a bit, perhaps?
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Just in time for Superbowl weekend... B-)
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-0201-football-pg,0,298046.photogallery
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*Hair stylist Bette Iverson dies at 79*
Veteran worked on 'American Graffiti,' 'Truman'
By PAT SAPERSTEIN
Bette Iverson, the key hair stylist on films including "American Graffiti" and "The Truman Show," died Dec. 12 of throat cancer in Los Angeles. She was 79.
Iverson was Emmy nommed twice, for miniseries "Sinatra" and TV movie "Haywire."
She also served as hair stylist for the most of the episodes of the "Get Smart" series. Among her other credits were "The Untouchables," "Dead Poets Society" and "thirtysomething,"
A member of Local 706 Makeup Artist and Hairstylist Union from 1963 to 1995, she also owned a hair salon in North Hollywood and a nightclub in Studio City during the 1960s.
Read the full article at:
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> {quote:title=rayallen wrote:}{quote}
> Ditto...I mean, after being inundated with those annoying ads can there possibly be anyone who wasn't aware of it by now?
One word: _procrastination_.
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Which schedule were you looking at? The one on tcm.com has been showing *Eddie and the Cruisers* for at least the last week.
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Diane Lane is good in *Ladies and Gentlemen The Fabulous Stains* - and so is Laura Dern!
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*HAPPY BIRTHDAY...*
*EDDIE CANTOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*
(Jan. 31, 1892 - Oct. 10, 1964)
*TALLULAH BANKHEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*
(Jan. 31, 1902 - Dec. 12, 1968)
*MARIO LANZA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*
(Jan. 31, 1921 - Oct. 7, 1959)
*JEAN SIMMONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*
(Jan. 31, 1929)
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*Turner Classic Movies tip for Jan. 31, 2009: Sweet Smell of Success*
by Doug Krentzlin, DC Classic Media and Performing Arts Examiner
_?Sweet Smell of Success,? TCM, Sat., Jan. 31, 2009, 8 p.m. (EST)_
Writer Clifford Odets was the American Theater?s Poet of the Gutter. No one, not even Ben Hecht, could combine cynical lyricism with urban slang better than he could and none of the numerous screenplays he contributed to had better dialogue than ?Sweet Smell of Success? (1957).
Scripted by Odets and Ernest Lehman (based on Lehman?s novella), ?Sweet Smell of Success? is a film noir/black comedy starring Burt Lancaster as influential New York newspaper columnist J.J. Hunsecker (a caricature of Walter Winchell) and Tony Curtis as sycophantic press agent Sidney Falco who does Hunsecker?s dirty work for him.
Hunsecker?s younger sister Susan (Susan Harrison) has become romantically involved with clean-cut jazz guitarist Steve Dallas (Martin Milner). This displeases Hunsecker because he has, well, shall we say very possessive feelings towards her. Assigned by Hunsecker to break up the romance by any means necessary, Falco uses his connections to plant some gossip in the papers hinting that Dallas is a dope-smoking Commie.
Produced by Lancaster?s partner James Hill and directed by Alexander Mackendrick, ?Sweet Smell of Success? is a favorite among film buffs mainly because it has some of the best lines ever written for a film. For example, when Falco reveals his scheme, Hunsecker responds admiringly, ?I?d hate to take a bite out of you. You?re a cookie filled with arsenic.? (The single best line, however, goes to Emile Meyer as corrupt cop Harry Kello. After being insulted by Falco, Kello laughs and calls out in a sing-song voice: ?Come back here, Sidney. I want to chastise you.?)
Other invaluable assets include James Wong Howe?s razor sharp black-and-white cinematography and Elmer Bernstein?s hard-hitting jazz score. (The Chico Hamilton Quintet play themselves.)
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*Turner Classic Movies tip for Jan. 31, 2009: The Pink Panther*
by Doug Krentzlin, DC Classic Media and Performing Arts Examiner
_?The Pink Panther,? TCM, Sat., Jan. 31, 2009, 6 p.m. (EST)_
Director Blake Edwards originally conceived the original 1964 version of ?The Pink Panther? as a ?gentleman thief? comedy in the tradition of ?Raffles? and Ernst Lubitsch?s ?Trouble in Paradise,? with David Niven (who played the title role in ?Raffles?) starring as debonair cat burglar Sir Charles Lytton a.k.a. ?The Phantom? in what was to be the first in a series of his exploits.
One of the supporting characters was the cuckolded husband of Lytton?s mistress Simone (Capucine), a bumbling French police inspector named Jacques Clouseau. As it turned out, Peter Sellers (who was a last-minute replacement for Peter Ustinov) gave such an outrageously hilarious slapstick performance as Clouseau that he became the main character in the subsequent sequels. (To this day, most people think of Sellers as the star of the picture, rather than Niven.)
?The Pink Panther? is the name of the largest diamond in the world owned by Princess Dala (Claudia Cardinale) of the fictional Middle Eastern country of Lugash. While the Princess is vacationing at a winter resort in the Italian Alps, Sir Charles is planning to steal the priceless jewel. Complicating the caper is Lytton?s nephew George (Robert Wagner) who hopes to follow in his uncle?s footsteps.
Also staying at the resort are the Clouseaus. The Inspector has come there in hopes of finally apprehending the elusive Phantom. George soon finds himself attracted to Mrs. Clouseau who desires Sir Charles who is falling in love with the Princess. Inspector Clouseau, on the other hand, can?t get any romantic attention from anyone, particularly not his wife.
Written by Edwards and Maurice Richlin with a wonderful jazz score by Henry Mancini, ?The Pink Panther? was so popular that Edwards decided to make Clouseau the main character in his next movie, the film version of the international stage hit ?A Shot in the Dark.? The animated credits by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises were also popular enough to lead to a series of ?Pink Panther? cartoons. The original poster (above) was the work of the great comic book artist and caricaturist Mort Drucker.
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*Turner Classic Movies tip for Jan. 31, 2009: Rear Window*
by Doug Krentzlin, DC Classic Media and Performing Arts Examiner
_?Rear Window,? TCM, Sat., Jan. 31, 2009, 1:30 p.m. (EST)_
?Rear Window? (1954), based on Cornell Woolrich?s short story ?It Had To Be Murder,? is one of Alfred Hitchcock?s best films ever. It?s also one of his more influential pictures as well, spawning an insanely bad made-for-television 1998 remake and the 2007 variation/homage/rip-off ?Disturbia.?
In the impossible to improve on original, James Stewart plays L.B. Jeffries, an adventurous magazine photographer recovering from a broken leg in his tiny Greenwich Village apartment during a sweltering summer heat wave.
For lack of anything better to do, Jeffries observes his neighbors through the windows of the courtyard of the apartment complex he lives in. Gradually, he begins to suspect that traveling salesman Lars Thorwald (a pre-?Perry Mason? Raymond Burr) has murdered his nagging invalid wife.
The supporting cast includes the gorgeous Grace Kelly as Jeffries? girl friend, Thelma Ritter as his nurse and Wendell Corey as a police detective.
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*Turner Classic Movies tip for Jan. 31, 2009: D.O.A.*
by Doug Krentzlin, DC Classic Media and Performing Arts Examiner
_?D.O.A.,? TCM, Sat., Jan. 31, 2009, 9:45 a.m. (EST)_
A man walks into a police station and says he wants to report a murder. When asked who the victim is, he replies, ?I am.?
Thus begins ?D.O.A.? (1950). (D.O.A. is police jargon for "dead on arrival.") Directed by former cinematographer Rudolph Mate (whose credits include Hitchcock?s ?Foreign Correspondent? and Lubitsch?s ?To Be or Not To Be?), this is one of the one of the most morbid and perverse film noirs ever.
Edmond O?Brien stars as Frank Bigelow, a small town accountant and notary public on vacation in San Francisco. Encountering a group of partying conventioneers at his hotel, Bigelow accompanies them to a jazz club where someone spikes his drink with a radioactive liquid.
When he sees a doctor the next morning complaining of stomach pains, Bigelow is informed that he has been given a poison for which there is no antidote. With just 24 hours to live, Bigelow sets out to track down his murderer. The trail leads him to a wealthy Los Angeles importer named Eugene Phillips who committed suicide a few days earlier.
The suspects include Phillips? widow (Lynn Baggett), his brother Stanley (Henry Hart), his business associate Halliday (William Ching), his secretary Miss Foster (Beverly Garland), his mistress Marla (Laurette Luez) and gangster Majak (Luther Adler). And since no film noir would be complete without a psychopathic henchman there?s decorated World War II veteran Neville Brand making his movie debut as Chester, a giggling sadist who gloats about how much he looks forward to killing Bigelow.
?D.O.A.? was so popular that it?s been remade twice, in 1969 (retitled ?Color Me Dead?) and in 1988. Home video note: Since ?D.O.A.? has been in public domain for several years, most of the video transfers are pretty bad, but the DVD issued by The Roan Group is taken from an excellent print.
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Warren William
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> {quote:title=redriver wrote:}{quote}
> Can you believe this? After not having a DVD player for years, I finally got one. And the only copy of "Aircraft" in town is VHS! And I've never seen it.
And you don't have a VHS anymore?
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Anthony Mann's *Desperate* will be showing tonight at the Noir City 7 festival as part of a double bill with Michael Curtiz's *The Unsuspected*.
(Another Mann noir, *Two O'Clock Courage*, will be shown on Saturday)
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*The Unsuspected* (also shown at this year's Film Noir 7 festival) is scheduled to play again on _March 10._
*The Unsuspected* (1947)
The producer of a radio crime series commits the perfect crime, then has to put the case on the air. Cast: Claude Rains, Joan Caulfield, Constance Bennett. Dir: Michael Curtiz. BW-103 mins, TV-PG, CC
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> {quote:title=scsu1975 wrote:}{quote}
> One day they want to take away our guns, the next day our rabbit ears - this is a slippery slope.
But rabbit ears are so 20th century...
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> {quote:title=clore wrote:}{quote}
> But, it will give me more time to run some DVDs which I've yet to catch up with, so maybe it's a blessing in disguise.
Well they say there's always a silver lining...
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Happy 80th Birthday to Jean Simmons
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You're right about *Elmer Gantry* - although TCM apparently scheduled it as part of a Burt Lancaster tribute.
I wish they'd gone with a Jean Simmons tribute instead, especially since she's celebrating her 80th birthday.
Oh, well...