darkblue
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Most of the theaters I frequent have "reminders" about talking and cellphones before the movie starts, but it doesnt stop people from doing it.........
Theaters are in need of an infra red device or something that disables all cell-phone activity electronically within the area of an auditorium. It would force people to leave the auditorium in order to send or receive calls. Let 'em talk in the lobby if they must.
If it can be imagined, it can be done.
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'Downhill Racer' is coming up next week and it seems like forever I've been waiting.
It's different. Quiet but intense. I haven't seen it since its run at the theater I ushered back in 69. Loved that movie and thought I'd never see it again - thought it had pretty much become one of those lost at the bottom of the pile movies (like Little Fauss and Big Halsey) that tv will never show again.
Yay for TCM!
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Tends to destroy the credibility.
Only for the superficially-minded.
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Is youngish late 50's? Redford is 78.
Yeah, that's right. Us boomers are always youngish. 50-70 is the new youngish.
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My mother loved Robert Redford, but I just never cared for the guy. I was a bit taken aback when I saw he was going to be a star of the month on TCM. Like, who cares?
I do. Best star of the month in years. If only they'd gotten 'Situation Hopeless But Not Serious', 'The Hot Rock', 'Little Fauss and Big Halsey', and 'Tell Them Willie Boy is Here' into the mix, I'd be almost perfectly happy.
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Nothing "supposedly" about Marlon and Wally. That was real.
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One of my favorites is the haunting "Experiment In Terror" .
Absolutely my favorite Mancini theme. Plays in my mind relatively often. Love when the violins come in and reach up.
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I can't count all the movies that have been made less enjoyable for me if I've read the book first. I'm talking pretty much every single time.
After decades of this phenomenon I've concluded that: Reading the book first is ALWAYS detrimental to the enjoyment of the movie; seeing the movie first does NOT necessarily ruin the reading of the book.
Of course, if one finds the movie to be not that enjoyable - as in boring - one MAY be discouraged from reading the book at all. Still, I have learned the hard way that many, many movies that people have raved about have left me disappointed because of the spoilers I've carried into the viewing. I missed out on a lot of the excitement that way.
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Didn't she also, in another commercial for "Chanel #5" (I think there was a series of them came out around that time), talk about "blueberrys" and how she "lofvd" blueberries?
Funny what kinds of things stick in our minds, isn't it?
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Since this thread is not specifically related to classic movies, I suggest it be moved to another forum. Perhaps "Chit Chat". Or, since it is undeniably popular with certain posters, "Favourites".
I myself am bored with seeing this never-ending thread taking up space in the heavily visited "General Discussions" forum.
(sauce applies equally to goose and gander.)
Possibly the most pointless thread ever created. But, it'll never go away as long as Topper and Nipkow are here.
Every time we're almost free of it, one of them goes bumpity, bump, bump.
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Yep, according to that link it was Deneuve who said it alright, however I wonder how LeBrock and Pantene would or could have also used the very same line without getting some flack from Chanel?...
Same parent company? Same advertising company?
I don't remember the Kelly LeBrock commercial - but then again, I barely remember her at all.
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Sounds like a Joan Rivers line.
I think it was Rita Rudner.
Here's an article that makes reference to that 'don't hate me because I'm beautiful' line. I'm really surprised you don't remember this - it's the very first thing that comes to my mind at the mention of her name. Of course, I've been a tv addict most of my life and consequently saw that damned commercial about a thousand times.
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I'm not sure it was actually Deneuve who said that in one of the old Chanel No.5 commercials she did back in the day, dark.
As I recall, it was actually another beauty, Kelly LeBrock, who said that on one of those Pantene hair care product commercials back then.
(...I think, anyway)
It was definitely Deneuve.
Forget who the comedienne was, but I remember her doing an imitation of Deneuve saying - in accent - "don't hate me because I'm beautiful" and following it with a deadpan "that's not why we hate you".
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"Catherine Deneuve" ya say, rr???
Well, to tell ya truth, I don't know AND wouldn't care WHAT her "diagnosis" would have been!
(...as long as I could have gotten REAL close to her for at least one night and she was at least HALFWAY sane!!!)
Remember when she used to say "Don't hate me because I'm beautiful" all the time on those commercials. Boy, did she p!ss a lot of women off!
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I work for a guy who can't stand being around people but he has a serious infatuation with a palm tree. What category does he fall in?
Captain Morton?
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Thank you. You're right about how people say ridiculous things if one is childless. Someone told my brother he was selfish for not having children.
Selfish, shmelfish! There's a lot to recommend being child-free in this day and age.
People that criticize it with that whole "selfish" crap are just bitter from envy.
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I read a novel in the early 70's by William Peter (The Exorcist) Blatty called 'Twinkle, Twinkle Killer Kane'. It was about a bunch of military men - soldiers, pilots - who'd gone off their rockers and were being kept in an insane asylum that was inside a kind of castle or something. In the late 70's Blatty revised the novel somewhat and renamed it 'The Ninth Configuration'.
'The Ninth Configuration' was then made into a movie in 1980. It starred Jason Miller, Stacy Keach and Scott Wilson. Definitely, mental illness was very much the theme.
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Do they ever show that on TCM? I like Sean Connery. Didn't see that one.
Yes, it's been on a couple of times. Best chance to see it is probably during a Joanne Woodward tribute.
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I get a kick out of how the nuthouse doctors tried to cure Sean Connery of his anti-social behavior by operating on his brain in 'A Fine Madness' (1966). When he awakens in recovery he's all meek and mild and whispery - and then he bursts forth with strangling, demanding "give me back my book!"
Good stuff.
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You are right. I liked that movie very much.
Thank you for saying I'm right. Always nice to hear. I'm glad you liked it as much as I did.
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Possibly the best movie I've ever seen about a mental disorder is 'A Beautiful Mind' (2001).
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Here again, the combination of the studios' PR and media have "sold" him to the public.
Studio PR and media have absolutely no influence on my enjoyment or lack thereof of Tom Hanks' acting. When he's in a good movie and does a good job in that movie - which has been often - I enjoy him. When it's a poor movie (in my opinion) I tend not to enjoy his acting so much.
There is no one on this planet that is more immune to PR and media manipulation than myself. I reject your premise - including on behalf of others - in its entirety. Nobody likes Tom Hanks because of PR. If they like him, they like him for his movies - period.
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(...noticed all that too, have ya?!)
Yep. Like you, I don't use the ignore feature - never have - so I see everything.
Although one thing I can't see is private messaging that doesn't involve me - and I get the feeling there's been some doozies in the recent past for you.
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That movie was not a dramatization of mental illness. There was nothing wrong with Farmer. She was simply abused for having her own unpopular opinions and being critical of power - be it social, political or Hollywoodian.