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TOR CHIA SONG
In which the suprisingly light on his feet Tor Johnson takes over a role once meant for Lana Turner, and is cast as.a.demanding.stage performer, singing.and dancing and wowing Broadway audiences in the process. Complications ensue when he does a number in blackface, which proves controversial, but is allowed to remain in the show. Worse, his blind piano player/bff accidentally uses a chia seed paste instead of baby oil,.and rubs it all over the star's bald countenance. Tor ends up with a.new image for the show, which is commemorated for posterity in the new promotional photos for the show. Johnson in blackface, with a.light green fuzz of a dubious nature covering his once bald ball of a head.
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Here's a suggestion....mayhaps not a snappy answer, more like a borderline tongue-twister (or two)......Full disclosure: I cannot think of a snappy answer to that. Not even a bad pun. Eek, where is my mind?
Speaking of levitation, here be the Pixies. Levitate me, baby. and turn it up.
Tor's tremendous torso tried to twist and turn, led to lots of levity looking at the lengths lent levitating his lardnessed load.
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I haven't gone through.the whole thread, so I apologize if it's been mentioned, but I really love the ooening credit sequence for MY MAN GIDFREY, the 1936 version of course; I couldn't tell you how the opening for the 50s remake goes, if my life depended on it.
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I'm glad that Comcast wasn't allowed to buy TWC because they all ready own Universal. It's better that a smaller company like Charter now owns it. Someone was going to buy it because it was for sale so if not Charter then who?.
Question: If Comcast owns Universal, and if they had become owners of TCM, would the Universal/Paramount library of films been made accesible to TCM?
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Alice Brady as Mrs. Bullock in MY MAN GODFREY:
"I am positive I didn't ride that horse here last night, because I didn't have my riding clothes on."
"It's so silly to think of Godfrey with those pearls on".
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A wedge is the NY equivalent of a hoagie/sandwich/sub/grinder/hero/po'boy/insert your own local nomenclature for a long roll filled with anything your heart desires.
Jarrod. Made a mint shilling for Subway, and supposedly losing weight eating only their disgusting *see above*.
The Mexican version would be a torta, but a true torta has to have the bread smeared with a bean paste, and include avocado.
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Was Johnson Tori Spelling's real dad?
Not sure, but I wouldn't put it past him to have inspired the Tory Party, from U.S. history.
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For those who get FXM Retro (FMC), tomorrow, Thursday, May 28 @ 10:05 am est, they will show the 1972 crime drama, TROUBLE MAN, which came early during the Blaxploitation wave. It features the great jazzy score by Marvin Gaye (his followup to his masterpiece "What's Going On"), including the sublime title tune. I have never seen this film.
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Thanks misswonderly. I did contribute awhile back, maybe a couple of years ago, but as my laptop started to give me problems, and I had to rely on my computer at work, then I could only be on for short whiles, and I guess I didn't visit as many threads as before.Arturo, this deserves better than an "LOL" (an internet acronym I never use.)
I literally AM laughing out loud. You should have been posting 20th Century Vole ideas ages ago.
PS.....levity.and humor are such key ingredients.to well balanced.lives.in all endeavors, or should be, imho.Being able to apply these qualities makes for healthier outlooks, and keeps one from taking oneself so seriously. While I wouldn't go so far.as.to say nothing's sacred, I'd go fairly close.
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My pick for Thursday, May 28, is Alice Adams (1935) with Katharine Hepburn and Fred MacMurray. It's not as well known as some of Hepburn's other films, but I found this film to be very sweet and enjoyable. It's also an early film role for Fred MacMurray. Hepburn plays Alice Adams, a social climber who is trying to climb out of poverty. She attends a dance and meets wealthy Fred MacMurray. The family is in dire straits after Hepburn's father is ostracized from society by his disgruntled former employer. The family tries to do everything they can do to try and impress MacMurray and hopefully get him to marry Hepburn.
I really liked this movie. It's not a huge blockbuster or fancy Technicolor movie. It's just a sweet little romantic film starring two actors I like--Hepburn and MacMurray.
I totally agree about this movie. Bette Davis always maintained that she felt her oscar for DANGEROUS was a consolation prize for the previous year's OF HUMAN BONDAGE, and felt her oscar should've rightly gone to Hepburn for ALICE ADAMS.
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Tor Johnson stars in SUMO LIKES IT HOT. He played a WW2 Japanese fighter on awol,.and hiding out in plain sight as a sumo wrestler. When the military police finally caught up with him, and he was brought to trial, the judge asked him why he went into hiding. His defense was, "I was disgraced,.and so I had to commit the ultimate solution. And I was NOT about to commit Hello Kitty, poor thing!".
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The rumor is that Brian Wilson, in a moment of self doubt, had an earlyldraft of his lyrics to "Fun Fun Fun", tested in front of a hall full of young fans. The consensus was that the proposed lyrics wouldn't fly, so we don't have line of "And we'll have fun, fun, fun, till my daddy takes the TorBird away".
Most of the comments sumitted.were along the lines of....."I'd like to see him try, with Tor sitting in it!"
Ba dam bam!
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You mean something like this?
ALL ABOUT HEAVE
"One more for the road. And throw in a few breadsticks, while we're at it."
"I really shouldn't drink on a performance night"
"Ah, come on, one more magnum won't 'make any difference...."
"That's right, a little whoosiness enhances one's line readings."
"uhoh...blech !"
Yup, that's the scene alright. Thanks misswonderly.
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Still yet another classic from Joseph Mankiewicz, and again no stills to post.
DIVE ZINGERS, in which James.Mason makes rendezvous with Danielle.Darrieux and Michael Rennie in out of the way Istanbul.watering holes,.and.in moments of levity and mirth amid the world.war tensions, trade the latest jokes and anecdotes.secretly supplied by the British Intelligence. The most popular are about Hitler's mother. Little do the parties know thaf Mason has a lucrative trade supplying the most risque jokes about der fuhrer, copied.with a micro camera, from a safe at.the British Embassy. The gestapo privy to this classified information share in the fun.
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The movie with Doris Day and Ray Bolger is APRIL IN PARIS (1952). I saw it on TCM a while back. I admit part of the reason I watched all the way through was because the coupling of Doris and Ray is soooooo mis-matched it impelled me to pay attention! I thought Doris and Ray were likeable enough, but they just don't look like they belong together despite their amiability. That said, I would watch the movie again because it DID entertain me, even if not the way the filmmakers intended.
Trivia: The 1990 Leonard Maltin guide has a different write-up of the movie than the 2nd edition of the LM Classic Movie Guide. However, the rating was the same: **½ stars out of **** meaning it's "worth watching".
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APRIL SHOWERS is a 1948 movie with Jack Carson and Ann Sothern, btw.
Sorry, I did know that. It was a long.weekend, I was tired......but the funny thing is I was humming.the title tune as I was posting a different title.
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You don't mean me, do you? I've seen it a number of times and loved it. Lemmon never better. And can't get enough of Lee Remick.
Sorry, I meant the OP speedracer. Guess I must've been sleepy when I posted.
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In Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (directed by Roy William Neill, who directed most of the Rathbone/Holmes films), Larry (the Wolf Man) is taken by Maria Ouspenskaya from the Wales to Vasaria -- he has heard that Dr. F. can cure his werewolfery. He hooks up with Baroness Elsa, Dr. F's granddaughter, played by Ilona Massey. He and the Baroness are invited by the Mayor (Lionel Atwill) to the village fete. "The Festival of the New Wine," an operetta-like production number, is sung by Adia Kuznetzoff, a Russian- born actor who seems to have been a bit player in many movies. At one point in the song, Adia sings to Elsa and Larry:
"To they I toast come drink with me, that may they ever happy be
And may they live eternally..."
Well, Larry gets hysterical when he hears those lines, jumps up, grabs Adia, and shouts:
"Eternally! I don't want to live eternally!" -- which spoils the fun for Adia and all the villagers, who slink away.
It's a nice touch -- a musical interlude in the midst of a horror film. Other examples which I particularly like are "Hey You!," sung by Ann Codee at the beginning of The Mummy's Curse; and "I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls," sung by Evelyn Ankers in The Mad Ghoul.
You're examples.sound.like.much needed.levity among.the horror.
On.a lighter,.though related note, there's the batch of.songs.done by Phyllis Diller and others in the MAD.MONSTER PARTY. The only title I remember, sung by a band.of skeletons, is "It's the Mummy".
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PINKY (1949) and IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (1967/.
Two films where small.incremental.steps.forward happen when northerners come.to the small town.South, and.are.deemed."uppity", and they don't.accept it.
GOOD.GIRLS.GO.TO.PARIS.and.THE.GREEKS.HAD A.WORD.FOR.THEM.
Fun times.for.travellers.abroad.to.Europe in the 1930s.
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I saw you mentioned DAYS OF.WINE.AND ROSES another.thread. I seriously doubt it will.make.this.thread on,e.you've seen it.
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Yes, absolutely. If making up a list of many nominees Colbert in Three Came Home would be right up there along with the others you mention too. They are all in my top 10 for 1950 by the way!
I also liked ...
Machiko Kyo in Roshomon
and further down the list
Joan Bennett, Father of the Bride
Patricia Neal, Three Secrets
Jean Simmons, The Clouded Yellow and So Long at the Fair
Jean Kent, The Woman In Question
Kathleen Harrison, Trio
Maj-Britt Nilsson, To Joy
Jane Wyman, Stage Fright
Peggy Cummins, Gun Crazy
Carla Del Poggio, Variety Lights
and even
Maureen O'Hara, Rio Grande
There just are not same amount of quality roles for women in film these days.
Awesome.additions Bogie. So many great peformances that.year, it's mindboggling.
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Nesmith's mother invented Liquid Paper. I believe Nesmith himself came up with the idea that launched MTV.
Nesmith's mother invented Liquid Paper. I believe Nesmith himself came up with the idea that launched MTV.
That's.right,.I had forgotten about.that. He was known as.the Intellectual Beatle, er Monkee,.right?
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Anne Meara, Lovers and Other Strangers (1970)
This 'forgotten' film has so many good performances in it. I broke down an bought a copy earlier this year.
I totally agree. Haven't seen it in ages. Do you know if TCM plays it?
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I was just thinking of her a couple of days ago, when someone posted that Jerry Stiller, her husband, was George Costanza's father. And I tbought it funny, and said,.why not sah he was Ben Stiller's father. And of course, Meara.was.his mother.
RIP lovely, funny lady.
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I wish TCM would air THE DAY OF THE LOCUST.
Count.me in on.thaf wish. I love this film.
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Yes, or some of her early 60s stuff that's rarely seen, like LET NO MAN.WRITE MY EPITAPH, THE BALCONY or WIVES AND LOVERS. Those, along with late 40s,, early 50s titles of hers from Universal would have made for a special Shelley Winters tribute.