darkblue
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I can't help them. they're too far gone.
I think you're the one who's too far gone.
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No wonder Hollywood keeps losing so much money year after year. The theaters are virtually empty every day and home entertainment sales are almost dormant. They'd better start listening to Nipkow if they wanna survive.
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NO RECENT FILMS OF ANY INTEREST
Maybe if you expanded your mind a little. Do some drugs or something.
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When I try watching TV shows today, I just can't get interested in the charactors. They seem to be very bland and I don't care what happens to them. Too "cartoony"....too "bland". Just nothing seems to strike that delicious balance anymore.
Like that godawful Big Bang Theory. Oh man, but that show is nauseating.
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I wonder whatever happened to the newbie who began this fascinating thread. I'd hope that someone with such an original mind would stick around awhile.
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I was gonna say the Marx Brothers too. They are so much funnier pre-code. "This magnificent chest-- no, this mag-- no, this magnificent chest..."
Kinda makes me wonder what was in those 3 minutes of 'Horse Feathers' (1932) that got censored out.
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as if, for example, the cousins of the Windsors, the Saxe-Coburg-Gothas of Belgium, were as fictional as Tintin.
Might as well be.
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Then don't say THE MONARCHY as if the House Windsor were the only monarchy in the world. Not everybody in the USA is of British ancestry; as a Puerto Rican of Spanish descent the House Bourbon is of greater relevance to me.
touchy.
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There goes Strangelove and Citizen Kane
Maybe we could have a poll where the nominees have to have won a New York Film Critics award for best picture.
That would be based on more credibility than what the Academy has.
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More than half of the "Best Pictures" of all time never won the Oscar. Some were not even nominated.
Would you include them as well?
No. I'm pretty sure the OP is limiting this poll to best picture Oscar winners only.
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Although Lemmon/Mathau were pretty good (WM especially) in "The Odd Couple", who agrees with Ken Levine that the tv pairing of Tony Randall & Jack Klugman ended up being the ultimate Felix/Oscar potrayals??
Yes. One 90 minute movie versus a hundred and more hours of series television makes the tv coupling far more of a pop culture recognizance.
Of course, the two Felix Ungers were very different characters. Lemmon was a fairly regular guy who happened to be fastidious. Randall was a MUCH prissier sort in every way imaginable.
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my recording got messed up by the weather, but I liked what I saw.
Bummer. After waiting all these years, I'm very thankful to TCM for giving me the opportunity to get that one recorded.
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Probably.
It's a rare mental illness at work there, to be sure.
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Laughing my bum off watching that, jakeem!
Shatner is so pervy with Joan beside him. He can't stop staring at her unceasingly and talking sexy sex sex. What a guy.
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For me, the shining moment of Joan's acting career will always be as Sister Edith Keeler in 'The City on the Edge of Forever' (Star Trek, season 1).
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He has a prominent place on my list of favorites. Saw a lot of his 60's movies when I worked as an usher from 1965-70. Our theatre showed them all and I became a fan from 'Situation Hopeless, But Not Serious' on, enjoying every single performance he gave, one by one.
A very special screen actor.
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Here's a great bit from SCTV. It's supposed to be an episode of 'Monster Chiller Horror Theatre" but, as often happened, the wrong thing gets aired. In this instance it's a tape of Dick Cavett interviewing Bobby Bittman about Bittman's movie 'Funny Stuff'. The interview starts at the 2 minute mark.
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Truth is, though, I thought that this was largely a parody of a lot of second rate Vegas comics. The pretentious self important aspect of the character does perhaps owe a debt to Lewis.
Indeed, it was a composite of personalities and styles from Shecky Greene to Sammy Davis to Jerry Lewis to Rat Pack personalities in general - Johnny LaRue, Lola Heatherington and Sammy Maudlin playing into that as well.
Lewis did become the major personality force behind the Bittman projection - "as a comic in all seriousness".
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Perhaps his films seem funnier when they're in French.
Maybe they're laughing because the dubbing is out of sinc.
They also laughed themselves silly at the Jackovasaurs we sent over there.
Oh, wait - that might have been a dream....or a South Park storyline.
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Could someone please courier over a box of tissues to TopBilled. He's crying again.
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No matter what his motive, I'll bet Lewis liked it, and may have thrown some of the cake at other customers.
He most definitely would NOT have liked it.
Lewis is not known for his sense of humour. He's inordinately proud and always took himself and his position way serious.
The Bobby Bittman character that Eugene Levy created so brilliantly for SCTV was very much based on Lewis' humorless and self-important real-life persona.
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Waiting for a really funny moment or two in most Jerry Lewis movies can be excruciating. An example of this is 'The Disorderly Orderly' - there is one hilarious sight gag involving him trying to roll spaghetti on his fork. It's the only laugh out loud moment in the entire movie.
This is common to his films and makes watching them a tedious endeavour. I've found only three exceptions to this generality:
'The Delicate Delinquent' (1957) has some funny silliness going for it early on.
'The Nutty Professor' (1963) has some early moments that are quite humorous - that all ends of course the moment the nerdy professor turns into an obnoxious puke.
The other is the only Lewis vehicle that I ever found to be truly funny as a movie - almost the whole movie is hilarious. That would be 'The Patsy' (1964). Easily the greatest film of his solo career - and with the batch of Hollywood legends that appear in it, it's a wonder TCM has never run it.
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Jack Lemmon owns the role of Ensign Pulver. So far, anyway.
As Shelly Levene in 'Glengarry Glen Ross' he was so brilliant that that may also be a role that can't be improved upon by anyone else.
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John is a great Russell. 'Lawman' was one of my favorite westerns.
Here's another great Russell - my favorite actress named Russell. Theresa.
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Best Pre-Censor Movie/Actor/Actress
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Elvis Presley was the marquee star of every movie he was ever in! He's a household name! Who the hell is William Warren?