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De Niro steals Mean Streets
Watched it again last week (got it from the library so I could record the extra features as well).
De Niro plays Johnny as a complete wingnut. Out of control.
Early De Niro - a lot of fun to watch. Scorcese says he based that whole thing on the neighborhood where he grew up.
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And, in case nobody noticed, there's two nuns in the innuendo laden number singing about "scoring." The mind boggles.
Such a fun movie!
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"Toddlers and Tiaras" has the same effect.
Hmmm. Don't think I've ever seen a street prosti wearing a tiara.
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If he had an interest in THAT many, he'd be hard-pressed to book ANYONE on Bandstand that was not affiliated with a company of which he had an ownership interest. Clark never got in trouble for payola. Alan Freed DID.
Well, Freed was a huge drunk. When your liquor bill is as high as his, payola helps to defray the expense, ay.
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I'm still waiting for "The Victors," Carl Foreman's stark 1963 view of American G.I.s in Europe during the final stages of World War II. The noteworthy international cast includes George Peppard, Melina Mercouri, Eli Wallach, Jeanne Moreau, George Hamilton, Romy Schneider, Vince Edwards, Elke Sommer, Peter Fonda, Senta Berger, John Mitchum, Rosanna Schiaffino and Albert Finney.
James (billed as Jim in that one).
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There were twenty (20) shillings per pound.
The shilling was subdivided into twelve (12) pennies.
The penny was further sub-divided into two halfpennies or four farthings (quarter pennies).
2 farthings = 1 halfpenny2 halfpence = 1 penny (1d)3 pence = 1 thruppence (3d)6 pence = 1 sixpence (a 'tanner') (6d)12 pence = 1 shilling (a bob) (1s)2 shillings = 1 florin ( a 'two bob bit') (2s)2 shillings and 6 pence = 1 half crown (2s 6d)5 shillings = 1 Crown (5s)Ahh, The Third Age of Middle Earth. So adorable.
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A favorite from '65, one of their best covers.
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Well, we know by now, right? The thread was originated (excuse me, CREATED) in 2014 but can be used every year mid-SUTS for the sole purpose of accumulating more views. Starting a new thread every year might be an option but sadly the view count will have to start all over again, which let's face it is a real bummer. And that's assuming of course that we need a mid-SUTS thread to begin with, which we don't. There are at least a couple other SUTS threads flourishing that provide ample opportunity to post opinions making this current 2014 rehash redundant. The good news is that there has been lately a marked decline of such threads in the rehash mode, which is greatly appreciated, at least from this quarter.
Who in the world would care about something as pedestrian as "view counts" for a moribund thread? I mean, to revive a dead thread of past SUTS that has nothing whatever to do with the currently-playing SUTS program just to add view counts to a past-its-due-date previous year's discussion seems so ......
peculiar. I think that's the word I used in the opening post. Doesn't make sense. To me, anyway.
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Connery turned down the role of Gandalf???!!! WHY???!!!
'Cause he's not gay?
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Pretty Woman always bothered me.
That movie made my 6 year-old niece want to be a street prostitute with thigh-high boots. Her parents (my gen-x brother and his wife) thought it was so cute.
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How come someone is discussing being half way through 2014's SUTS?
Wouldn't it have made a great deal more sense to engage in being "half way through this year's" in a current 2015 SUTS thread than to bump up a moribund one?
So peculiar, but hey - maybe that's just me.
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GREASE 2 was better.
Apart from Stockard Channing, who I'm fond of, 'Grease' is a movie I have no use for. Olivia looks like a 35 year-old teenager for heaven's sake - and the less said about John Revolta, the better.
Now, 'Grease 2' - that I liked. I have it in my collection. Michelle - yum, she's cute and youthful.
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Although, now that I've re-read skimpole's OP, I now have to admit that he never actually mentioned anything about or limited the discussion to just romantic "comedies", and so just forget what I said here.
I don't know, Dargs - I think you were on the right track there.
Aren't all romantic movies basically comedies? Especially the "dramatic" ones.
Just kidding, ladies.
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Why SURE I own a tennis racket, dark!
In fact, years ago while watchin' some old move I learned it can not ONLY be used out on a tennis court with great effectiveness, but can come in mighty handy for straining spaghetti too!
YEAH, kind'a like THIS guy is doin' here...
Shirley's looking pretty worried about it. A germiphobe maybe?
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Nah, I would've just used the name Mark instead in my little joke there, of course.
So you're not picking anyone up in the morning for tennis??
Do you even own a tennis racket, you fibber?
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Not really, at least with regard with language, trying to get folks to think you're fluent, for example. I'm not fluent in French but I have a degree in it and I've studied enough to know that the google translation here would surely not fool a native French speaker. The translation is too literal, a one-to-one correspondence between the words of the two languages. Google's problem is that it would not know the appropriate French usage to make it truly French. It just translates word for word which is not the proper way to translate. For instance, "aller a" is probably not as an acceptable translation for "go to" (in the sense of relying upon). The google machine doesn't know any better. Probably "compter sur ..." (count on) which is pretty literal too but in this case works (but most of the time literal translations like that will not ring true to the native speaker.) The "aller a" is a dead giveaway that the person (or google) is not well versed in the language. The whole of that passage is definitely wince worthy, to my eyes and ears anyway.
Good to know. I won't use it on anyone who's a native French speaker, then.
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And which come to THINK of it is the time I told my friend Matt I'd pick him up for our tennis matches tomorrow morning!
(...thanks for the reminder, dark ol' buddy...I owe ya one...I almost forgot!)
Always here to help.
Good thing I didn't use the quotation from Mark instead, ay?
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folk who are too lazy to even look up anything as to its veracity..... leads me to have no desire to waste my time trying to convince those who resist using their “eyes to see and ears to hear".
He who has ears to hear, let him hear (Matthew 11:15)
Good thing I didn't use the quotation from Mark instead, ay?
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Former Ku Klux **** Grand Wizard David Duke throws support behind Donald Trump
Lindsey Graham probably got Duke to do it.
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I can't say it in French, but my handy dandy free translation site can.
Yep, thanks to Google Translate, anyone can now pretend to be fluent in anything.
Faking smartness has never been so easy.
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Well, I'm nothing if not eclectic.
And maybe just a little electric.
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Something that was likely fairly shocking back in '74 looks rather tame now.
Wasn't shocking exactly, but the usual complaints about Peckinpah's "over-done" violence was definitely heard.
Everything from the 70's, pretty much, that was a cause for the formation of all those watchdog groups has been rendered "tame" by what's gone on since, though, I agree.
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Oh, CaveGirl, I'm so glad you're back. Please stick around and enlighten us poor stupid fools who are too dim-witted and too uneducated - not to mention lazy - to even begin to understand a complicated and nuanced concept such as flim nyoor ( did I spell that right?)
We were lost for those days you were away. O, CaveGirl, all I ask is that you remain on the TCM boards and help guide us unenlightened plebian idiots to the light - or, I suppose, dark.
You are so much more intelligent than us wretched unsophisticated cretins. We need your superior cerebral abilities to instruct and delight us ( oh, wait, that was Philip Sidney. Well, you can do it too.)
A thousand thanks. or should I say, mille merci.
I like this - so I'm quoting it just for kicks.
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misswonderly3 posted in the suts day by day thread:
What, Warren Oates day and no Two Lane Blacktop ?
Warren, a perennial supporting player for such a majority of his career - a tremendous amount of it in tv episodes - is one of those strange cases where an actor becomes almost a cult hero to audiences everywhere, who see him time and again and always seem to enjoy his presence in everything they see. Actors, too. I've heard it said that in the early 70's, everybody wanted him to be in whatever movie they were making, although the way it was put was "everybody wants to be in a Warren Oates movie" - a peculiar saying considering he wasn't generally a lead actor (not a star in the usual sense of the word).
'Two-Lane Blacktop' has become a cult item. I saw it several times in the 70's - including on its initial run in theaters. How does a rocker of 1971 not want to see a movie starring a young, long-haired James Taylor, Dennis Wilson and Warren Oates? Just yesterday I got the 2-disc Criterion edition from the library. Warming up the dvd recorder.
Anyway, I'm blathering. I was intending to respond to your post with:
'Two-Lane Blacktop' for sure, missw!
Fact is, there's an whole bunch of movies that could comprise another fabulous day at TCM, such as
Cockfighter (1974)
The Hired Hand (1971)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
The White Dawn (1974)
The Border (1982)
Kid Blue (1973)
Sleeping Dogs (1977)
Race with the Devil (1975)
The Shooting (1966)
Dillinger (1973)
Drum (1976)
Stripes (1981)
Heck, even 'Return of the Seven' (1966) should be shown by TCM - ridiculously inferior sequel to 'The Magnificent Seven' though it is, Warren is the best thing in it (with apologies to Yul Brynner) and I'm always amazed that a movie with such a "classic" styling is never shown here.
Other Oates work that would be great to see - if TCM would just show some made for tv movies - would be 'The Movie Murderer' (1970). And who wouldn't like to see him as Rooster Cogburn in the tv version of 'True Grit' (1978)? I missed it way back when and would love an airing of it!
That TCM even gave us a Warren Oates day this year is a hopeful sign (for me). I'm hoping it means that someone in programming is as fond of him as I am, and that there's the potential for another Warren Oates day in the future! Lots more possibilities.
I'm very happy that we did get 'The Thief Who Came to Dinner' (1973) yesterday. Although a Ryan O'Neal vehicle, Warren was terrific in the co-star role. Thank you TCM!!
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Romantic movie "happy endings" that made you want to scream
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What's that, now?