Arturo
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Plastic surgery aside, I find it difficult to tell it's the same person.
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Kind of also looks like Caitlyn Jenner.
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Plastic surgery aside, I find it difficult to tell it's the same person.
Wow,.Marlo Thomas looks uncannily like the way Lucia Mendez does now, the Mexican telenovela star/singer, who no longer looks like her beautiful former self, with all the plastic surgery SHE has had.
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The car chase indeed was filmed in Washington, but to any Washingtonian it's a hoot. The call from Walker to Van Heflin was inferentially made from a location somewhere near Scott Circle at 16th & P Sts,, and when Walker's cab passed down 16th St. heading south, a black limo pulled out of the old Soviet Embassy just below Scott Circle, and started tailing him.
Now the fastest way from that point to the then Justice Department building* at 9th and Pennsylvania would be to turn east onto L St., shoot downtown to 9th St., and then turn right (south) and go straight to the destination, where presumably a phalanx of straight-jawed FBI agents would immediately rush our newly turned patriot informer straight up to Van Heflin for a debriefing session. But instead, the cab decided to go in the opposite direction, heading west before turning south, and somehow wound up on Rock Creek Parkway headed towards Independence Avenue. But unfortunately, that big black Commie limo had enough gas in it to make it to the part of Rock Creek Parkway where it passes the steps where they used to stage the Watergate concerts, and with a few rat-a-tat-tats our hero was dispatched to his reward, quite a bit further away from the FBI headquarters than he was when he began his cab ride. Perhaps the cab driver was in on the conspiracy, although he may just have been trying to straddle the taxicab zones in order to jack up the fare. I was once a cab driver myself, and they can be a devious lot.
As I've said before, this was one strange movie, but then that was one strange time.
* Which is where the FBI was located at that time.
Ok now, now you're channeling the essence of Holly Hunter in BROADCAST NEWS.
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Be careful about any excess levity, MissW, or you may find yourself in Leavenworth.
There was a young girl who would dither
Despite her attempts at come hither
Levity is a sin
Dropping names to fit in
So she left to the strains of a zither
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Pretty Baby was certainly controversial. Banned in Ontario.
So was Brooke Shields' other early hit, the remake of THE BLUE LAGOON.
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I've seen it before, on FMC. I'm a fan of Grable's and Fox musicals in general. But this is really bottom of the barrel stuff, done at the height of Grable's wartime pin-up popularity. I guess the studio thought they could turn out any old c r a p with Betty and they'd make a killing. They were right. Shame on them.Oh, Brother. I just caught a couple of minutes of Pin-Up Girl and they had some ridiculous roller skating number. If that was any indication I'm glad I'm missing it!
PS.....I just realized that this is Pin-Up Girl month, as I tuned in at the end of this film, getting ready to watch GILDA. So I guess this is why TCM chose to show this weak movie, since it's an obvious opener for the theme.
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Well, I went to a movie in Century City, and Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, along with Rob Reiner and a woman, were seated two rows in front of me.
I once saw Madonna in the audience.at.a movie on the westside. She and a flamboyant male friend giggled throughout the movie, which wasn't a comedy. I went to the snack bar/restroom a few times that evening. Unfortunately, she made.a beeline out if there before the credits were over.
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Thursday, June 4
7:15 a.m. Elia Kazan’s A Face In the Crowd (1957) with the glorious Lee Remick, Patricia Neal and Andy Griffith.
6:00 p.m. Travels With My Aunt (1972) Someone mentioned this in the Favourite Road Trips thread quite recently.
8:00 p.m. onwards. Bulldog Drummond films that somehow omitted the original Bulldog Drummond (1929) with Ronald Colman. Colman was nominated for an Oscar for that one so it is a real pity it isn’t being shown here.
Lee Remick was so incredibly sexy on THE LONG HOT SUMMER, another virtue of that very good film.
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I was seated next to Andrea Martin on a flight from NYC to Toronto on the evening of December 8, 1980.
I remember the date as my cab had gone by the Dakota earlier in the evening and by the time I got home in Toronto and turned on Monday Night Football, Howard Cosell was breaking the story that John Lennon had been murdered.
It was unusually warm in NYC that evening. Very strange and sad day, indeed.
Wow. What a sad night.
About four years ago, I was on a flight back from Mexico City with some friends. On that fight was Banda / Reality TV star, Jenny Rivera, and her new husband (or so my female friends said). As she sat in First Class, us peons could'ln't fawn over her or ask for her autograph or selfies until we were on our way to Customs at LAX. Jenny died last year in a plane crash, flying out of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, on her way to another tour stop.
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You Can't Run Away from It is a really bad movie. First June Allyson looks like she could be Lemmon's mother and she plays the character in her typical 'not very nice' women persona. There is no chemistry between the two (compared to Gable and Colbert who have lot of it even when they are at each other throats).
This is a remake that makes zero sense to me (well except for why Powell, June's husband, would wish to direct and produce the film).
Now Lemmon was very versatile, so I could see using him in a remake to add a comic element to the character but the heiress needed to be a much younger and desirable women.
Totally agree.with you there. June Allyson ruined more 50s remakes of 30s classics, as well as expose her to withering comparisons to the original actresses' sparkling performances.
It seems to me that the film might have been halfway decent, and Lemmon would have had a more worthy costar, if Columbia's own Judy Holliday had done it; they had already proven their chemistry. or better yet, have William Holden reteam with Holliday.
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Whither the zither doth dither...........
Is that Orson Welles reciting Shakespeare?
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Lol. Reminds me of the time in the late 70s, when my aunt, principal of an elementary school in East LA, invited me and several cousins go there for an event that promised to have a bunch of celebrities, the main one being Erik Estrada, then at the height of his CHIPS fame, as well as one of the few Latinos to be seen on English language tv. Well,.that jerk Estrada.was a no-show, and us kids were not happy with the biggest name there, Mr. Whipple of Charmin fame.Hey, aren't you an LA dude, James? The City of Angels is swarming with celebs.
Though, that said when I was a young man and went to LA for the very first time I expected to trip over celebs. But the only person I spotted when I was there was Jo Anne Worley!
Much later I lived in LA for about a year and it was a different story.
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How could this one slip my mind.......
About four or five years ago, our boss took all the supervisors to a restaurant in Marina Del Rey. Well, outside the picture window was a familiar face, we thought. It was left up to me to go out there and ask, "Aren't you the world's most exciting man from the Dos Equis commercials?" He said yes. To this day, I couldn't tell you his name if my life depended on it lol.
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Unless the white writers, aware of this term used among blacks,.decided to use it to get it past the white censors.who, the writers rightly surmised, did not know the term.Funny. But Thanks, but I have to say...
"boojum" as a referrence to females. In strictest terms, words like "s n a t c h", and "p o o n t a n g" ALSO refer to females, only not so innocently. "boojum" sounds just as crass and crude as the others. Of course, I'll have to look into it to see what the FIRST THREE definitions are!
Another consideration.
When did "urbandictionary" claim it's definition was determined, and these days, whenever anything is preceded with the word "urban", it usually means "African American", which may NOT really be the case here, since none of the people using it in the move WERE African American, and I doubt screenwriters back in the late '50's would rely on African American slang to be used by anyone white.
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Offhand, to me it sounds like it could've been derived from b o s o m.
There is a tall spindly, spiny tree-sized plant, found only in the central desert in Baja California, and one small patch across the Sea of Cortes around Puerto Libertad, Sonora (don't ask me how I know this), known in English as the Boojum Tree. In Spanish, it is called cirio, which means candle, which can roughly describe its appearance. It has also been described as looking like an upside down carrot.
Anyway, I remember reading that early Yankees to the area knicknamed it Boojum Tree because it reminded.them of one such named in the writings of Lewis Carrol, I believe.
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I posted the above last week, intending to respond soon, but I got sidetracked. And then I found that article which I posted, which does a great job of discussing the gay aspects of Gilda. I agree with but won't repeat what you can read in that article. But here are my additional thoughts:
It's always a challenge here, to bring up the gay subtext of a beloved classic film, when the gay themes are not explicit. Well, they couldn't be in those days; and even if they could, symbol and implication are time-honoured ways of expressing meaning in art. It has always been obvious to me that Gilda has a very strong gay them -- I hesitate to call it a subtext, because it's really the text.
I haven't seen Gilda for a while and hope to watch -- or a least record -- it tomorrow. My original thoughts were that Johnny (Glenn Ford) is a gay man, kept by Macready, who through the super human powers of Uncle Pio's "Goddess"" (i.e. Gilda), ultimately falls for Gilda's charms and becomes straight, by the end of the movie. (Gilda being just like the "Mame" of her song "Put the Blame on Mame." Mame can do anything -- i.e., Mame is also a "goddess.")
(My comment about the goddess being demystified by her husband is a reference to Orson Welles, to whom Rita Hayworth was married and who filmed her in Lady from Shanghai, a film in which a woman, perceived to be a "goddess," turns out to be a murderer. I don't know if Welles thought of Gilda when he made Lady from Shanghai, but it does seem that, in the one, Hayworth is raised from a "tramp" to a goddess; in the other, basically the other way around. But that's sort of a jokey comparison which may or may not have been on Welles' mind).
Again, the article I posted so well discusses the gay aspects of Gilda in detail, so I don't need to. I just want to point out a couple of things: Johnny and Gilda have had some sort of a relationship before the film begins. I think maybe there was no sexual consummation of that relationship. In one scene, when Johnny is taking Gilda away from a (Latin) dancing partner, she says: "Something about Latin men; for one thing, they can dance; for another thing..." So Gilda may be saying to Johnny, you couldn't screw me because you don't like girls. Later on, when Johnny greets Gilda when she returns home after one of her late nights, he comes down in his bathrobe. Gilda says, "How very pretty you look in your nightgown."
So, although I hadn't read the article (here's the link again, below) until last week, I'm beginning to agree with the thesis that, even though they get together at the end, Johnny and Gilda will not find happiness. He just cannot perform, and she needs sex. I used to think she magically converted him; or at any rate, got him to emphasize the attraction to woman, which was one side of his "bi" nature. But I think maybe he is not bi-sexual at all, and there may be no future for him and Gilda, apart from him picking her up from joints every night; or waiting for her to come home. Just like he did in Buenos Aires.
I think Welles intentionally did his best to deconstruct Rita's prevailing image of Love Goddess when he did THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI. Since.much of the cementing of that.image was the result of GILDA, it seems like his take on that film. And he did it to p i s s off Columbia mogul Harry Cohn, who viewed Rita only from the angle of his prize commodity. It worked, maybe too well, as the general public was turned off as well.
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BERKELEY SQUARE DANCE, in which a group of idealistic and radical Berkeley students stage a sit-in, and find themselves transported to the Ozarks of the mid 20th Century, where the are forced to stand up and do nonstop square dancing. Tor Johnson is featured in both storylines, as the leader of the police force ready to break up the peaceful sit-in, bullhorn in hand; and in the other guise, as the caller of the different square dance.steps. Yvette Mimieux plays his radical hippie daughter in the Berkeley scenes, and his daughter/love interest.when in the Ozarks.
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Since TCM has been showing clips from SUNSET BOULEVARD during their Essentials promo I see that Wiliam Holden does look 30ish rather than 40ish.
But I still say that Gloria Swanson looks younger than 50.
When I first saw SUNSET BOULEVARD I was struck by the fact that visually the age difference between the two did not seem be that great.
This is something like SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH, where the aging screen beauty played by Geraldine Page, who was like 39, and the "younger" gigolo, Paul Newman, who was about 37.
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One.time, back in the late 80s, I was with a friend at a boutique on Melrose, where my friend was.trying on outfits. In come Latoya and Janet Jackson, who proceeded to do the same. Well, it seemed that Latoya was craving some recognition,.while Janet just rummaged through the racks. Being a fan of the various Jackson family members, but mostly Janet, I walked up to them and said how much I loved their music, and how beautiful they looked, etc. I got both their autographs, and was able to talk a bit with Latoya, who was eating it up. Janet just mostly smiled.Another brush with celebs happened when I worked in the rental dept. of jewelry at the place I worked my summer jobs for 6 years. Each summer depending on what was needed, I would work in different departments.
One morning Diana Ross showed up to rent jewelry for the Supremes upcoming appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. She showed up a few times while I was there. Mostly long dangly earrings for the group. She was lovely to work with, She did not behave in a prima donna way with me. She was friendly and thoughtful about how to coordinate the jewelry with the outfits that were also rented that they used for their tv appearances.
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On.FMC (all.times eastern):
Wednesday, 6/3:
3:30 am: TALES OF MANHATTAN (1942)..................6 am: DAYTIME WIFE (1939)................7:15 am: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE (1945)..............8:30 am: THIS IS MY AFFAIR (1937).................10:15 am: PRINCE OF PLAYERS (1955).................12 pm: 13 FIGHTING MEN (1960)...........1:10 pm: THE LITTLE SHEPHERD OF KINGDOM COME (1961)...........
Thursday, 6/4: CAPTAIN FROM CASTILE (1947)...............6 am: PRINCE OF PLAYERS (1955)...............7:45 am: 13 FIGHTING MEN (1960)...........9 am: THE LITTLE SHEPHERD OF KINGDOM COME (1961)..............10:50 am: CAPTAIN FROM CASTILE (1947)...............1:15 pm: HOLIDAY FOR LOVERS (1959).............
Friday, 6/5:
3:30 am: HOW TO STEAL A.MILLION (1966)...............6 am: DO YOU LOVE ME (1945).................7:45 am: HOLIDAY FOR LOVERS (1959)............9:30 am: THE GIFT OF LOVE (1958)..................11:15 am: A YANK IN THE R.A.F. (1941)...............12:55 pm: HOW TO STEAL A MILLION (1966)........
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THE LONG HOT SUMMER LOVIN.......Alan Carr decided to remake the Faulkner based 1950s classic as a musical in the late 1970s, and hoped to reteam the winning costarring team from GREASE, John Travolta and Olivia Newton John. Unfortunately, Travolta, hot off the one-two punch of SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER and GREASE, turned this one down, choosing instead another surefire film MOMENT BY MOMENT.
Anyway, the producer decided to.get.another big star, and who bigger than Tor Johnson. He happily chose to fill Travolta's dancing shoes, but was dismayed that in the interest of more dance numbers, his role became a combination of the parts played by Paul Newman and Orson Welles. So he had to sing songs of being a real man, and the only one worthy of being with Newton John, his daughter. After an incestuous summer of sex.and.mint juleps, not to mention big production numbers on the lawn of their grecian mansion, Olivia returns to school.breathlessly weaving stories set to music of her trysts. A more tangible manifestion became evident shortly after the new year, leading to the Busby Berkeley inspired finale.
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I wouldn't consider them royalty, but I have met Mexican pop princess Thalia, and her sister Laura Zapata. Both parlayed roles in telenovelas into singing careers, except that Talia became a huge star, and her sister went back to soaps. Thalia has done little since.marry music megalominiac mogul Tommy Mottola, previously married to Mariah Carey.
Anyway, I.met them.many years ago in Mexico City,.through one of my best friends. She is a cousin to them.
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This deserves posting in several threads ....
"World domination. The same old dream. Our asylums are full of people who think they're Napoleon. Or God."
- James Bond in Dr. No
Unfortunately, some that should be in asylums are running around inflicting others with their delusions.
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Sorry I saw your post late, but it's not odd Gene Tierney or Spencer Tracy didn't get top three billing; MGM billed Tierney 10th and Tracy 11th. One of my favorites, Van Johnson, only rated 9th billing. Looks like MGM put everyone they had under contract into this film.
About Advise and Consent (1962)--I've seen this one and her role as a Washington D.C. party hostess lasts about five minutes. Film was done to finish out her contract, which was suspended after her 1956 nervous breakdown.
Well, Tracy and Tierney were the stars of PLYMOUTH ADVENTURE, so of they were billed that way, then the studio must've decided to list everyone alphabetically. I'm sure the adds, posters and other promotional materials clearly listed the star attractions correctly.
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I liked the opening.credits from.FROM.THE TERRACE, the simple images and color.schemes, although in no way among.the best. Sort of reminded of two other films.from roughly that period, IMITATION OF LIFE and THE V.I.P.S, each denoting wealth in the opening cretids.
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I thought that Tor would be better cast.as the craggy heights.