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All I know is that he's the best-looking Scot in history.
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Debbie Reynold's day presents difficulties--no, opportunities, because, though I admire Miss Reynolds, I can't say I'm a big fan of her movies. But I can still find something to look forward to. It's How Sweet it is! (1968), with James Garner. I don't know anything about it, but it's set in Paris.
It looks like all the others have been often seen on TCM, so old friends can be revisited.
That - and 'Divorce, American Style' - are the only two I'll be recording. James Garner and Jason Robards being the reason.
I've never really cared for Reynolds. She's as un-alluring as June Allyson is to me, I'm afraid.
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MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 2015
The Thief Who Came To Dinner (1973)
There Was a Crooked Man (1970)
Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
I already have 'Garcia' in my collection - but I'm so excited about recording 'Thief' and 'Crooked Man' ! Haven't seen them in decades.
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Alan said in a interview that he loved the character he played in JOSHUA,THEN AND NOW 1985.Yesterday was a highlight of SUTS for me. I still have seven of Alan`s films to watch. Kevin Pollak has a online interview show that I watched on You Tube. Alan was a guest, and they were discussing the movie INDIAN SUMMER 1993 witch they were both in. I saw the movie on it`s release about thirtysomethings returning to their summer camp for a reunion. Alan plays the camp director. The movie he is making now is a remake of GOING IN STYLE with Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine. The original 1979 film starred George Burns, Art Carney, and Lee Strasburg.
Loved 'Indian Summer'. Really charming movie.
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If You Ever Met Sir Sean Connery
I'd be scared.
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some head on cnn called trump a political strongman akin to huey long. there's a fire. trump is pointing to it but his competitors woan even smell the smoke.
it is really quite simple. people are gettin' tired of the BS.
jobs gone and factories built elsewhere. people are feeling that they have taken this crap long enough.
28 years of Republican rule plus another 7 years of Republican obstruction.
What else did you expect?
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I just read this, and I have to emphatically agree. I love Jeff Bridges, he's one of my favourite actors living today. He's been in so many good movies, and he makes everything he's in, better.
Two that come to mind off the top of my head : The Big Lebowski (of course ! one of his most famous and popular roles,he so clearly had a lot of fun making this one) and Crazy Heart .
So many good Jeff movies.
'The Fabulous Baker Boys' (1989) is a favorite.
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I'm at the library right now. Looking around the room, I'm surrounded by low-IQ street thug morons.
Ask if any of 'em would like to go to spinning class with you. Instant friendships that could last a lifetime!
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TCM aired COLD SASSY TREE during Faye Dunaway's day during last year's Summer Under The Stars.
I think it was also Turner (TNT?) production.
If TCM is starting to show us made-for-cable movies, that's a very good sign. Lots of excellent ones to see.
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Donald Trump Just Stopped Being Funny
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/donald-trump-just-stopped-being-funny-20150821?page=3
As fun as that was to read, I don't quite get the headline. I've never found Donald to be funny - not once. Are maggots funny? Is cancer funny? I've always found him repulsive. Never funny.
However, the effect he's had on the other Republican hopefuls and on the Media is hilarious.
And Boston has always been chock full of low-iq, street-thug morons. It's a lot like Philly that way. Not gonna put that on "the Donald".
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The Hot Spot (1990) Directed by Dennis Hopper, with Don Johnson, Virginia Masden, Jennifer Connelly
Yes, I liked that sleazy movie very much myself - and what actress conveys a sense of a sleaze better then Virginia Madsen, huh?
Jennifer Connelly has been a huge surprise. In this - one of her early roles - I took her to be a wiling to be nude bimbo actress (magnificent body!) that would barely be heard from in any important way. Wow - was I wrong about that instinct! She has proven herself to be a wondrously gifted actor.
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Friday, Aug. 21st--all times E.S.T.:
6:00 a.m.--"Full Moon High"--(1981)-- a "TCM Presents"-- a 1980's take on "I Was a Teenage Werewolf?
1:00 p.m.--"Wait Until Dark"--(1967)--classic Arkin thug, + a classic Audrey Hepburn performance
Dang - I missed 'Full Moon High' this morning. I'd heard it was really funny parody.
Wonder if TCM will ever show it again.
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Vautrin,
It was Andrew Loog Oldman. I'm not sure if it was he that coined them the bad boys of rock n roll. Love your take on Bill Wyman.
When I used to watch them on Shindig, Hullabaloo, and shows like that in '64 and' 65, it was Wyman who gave me the best kick with his bored gum-chewing, suit-wearing thing. Where the Beatles wore uniforms, smiled and shook their heads all the same, the Stones all dressed differently and affected an individual stance.
I loved being a teen in the 60's. Greatest time to be one EVER!
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Can't fathom? Anyone with a lifestyle like Keith would be lucky not to look even MORE wasted.
I'd trade lives with him in a nanosecond.
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It's really not a spoiler that Mae Clarke is murdered in PENTHOUSE; it happens very early on and is one of like, five conflicting plots going on at once. Trust me, knowing that going in will do nothing towards spoiling any aspect of PENTHOUSE.
I stand by it to the point where I'm not even going to go back and edit it out.
...now if i had revealed how WATERLOO BRIDGE ends, that would be a **** move.
You can tell yourself whatever you like, but when Holden asked how big a part Mae had in the movie, he wasn't asking to be told what happens to her.
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I didn't agree with his politics, but he was well spoken and intelligent.
You understood what the hell he was saying?
Even when I'd read his column I'd shake my head and say "this guy really needs to learn how to write". All I could get from him was a showing off of how many words he knew.
I guess I was just too dumb for that much abstruse, dense, circular logic.
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Why did you have to spoil the plot? I know you didn't care for the movie but Holden may have wanted to watch it.
Spoilers are a bad habit for Lorna. Wish he'd break it.
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Every movie that I have seen Alan Arkin in I liked.
Yeah, if he's in it, there's always gonna be something to like. He's incapable of giving a bad performance.
Tomorrow is, hands down, the best - the highlight day of SUTS 2015. Hope you all have about 22 hours worth of room on your recorders. Get it all - It's worth it.
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I remember when 'A Big Hand for the Little Lady' played in our theater back in 1966. None of us knew anything about it.
What a delightful, surprising movie for that era. I remember the audiences really enjoying it.
Jason Robards is absolutely brilliant!
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Thanks for posting that video of 'Far Away Eyes', Vautrin.
Mick really is a great frontman, isn't he? A lot of natural acting talent he has.
It's strange maybe that I have no use for country music - not since the 50's-70''s anyway. New Country just annoys me - I repeat, no use for it.
And yet, when classic rockers do country, I often like it.
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I don't think the Stones ever consciously set out to be offensive, or outrageous
Maybe...little bit (Robert DeNiro here).
They became one of the harder-edge bands in the late 60's onward - a fair bit different from the blues-rock they'd been earlier in the decade when Brian had more influence.
My point is, there were times when I felt they would throw some stuff in that they knew was hard-edged to the point of 'badness' (in the punk sense). Some offensiveness couldm't help but be picked up by some people (some girls!). The album cover of 'Beggars Banquet' alone would indicate a certain direction toward a certain kind of offensiveness. Even the title 'Let It Bleed' had something of an offensive sound to it.
All in good fun, wot.
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might as well ask them for the expanded UK cut of William Cameron Menzies' Invaders From Mars.
I don't know why you keep bringing up that stupid thing. That's a clearly inferior version.
The "extended" observatory scene is just lame. It was rightfully cut down to make the movie better.
And the British demand that the "precognitive dream" be changed, while Menzie's brought everyone back in to shoot an alternate scene so they'd shut up, is most certainly not an improvement. Corny, cheesy, boring - much less cool than the original twilight-zone-y version we all know over here.
The British version is an alteration on a classic that makes for a worse movie and I see no reason for TCM or anybody else over here to show it. Only a lunkhead would even ask for it, let alone make a repetitively-stated issue out of it.
I've yet to hear a single person say the British version is better than the American version. The American version is said to be better every time. Until you came along, anyway.
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Yep. I remember a photo of Frye doing that. He did get most of WFB's tics. In was kind of gross in real life, like Buckley was a lizard waiting to catch an insect.
Buckley was a jag off.
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I love the 1931 'Frankenstein'. It's my favorite of all of the Universal Frankenstein movies. I love the no music. I love the imagery. I love the pathos that is so abundant in that original chapter. Truly great cinema.
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HITS & MISSES: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow on TCM
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James Mason enthusiasts take note - 'Hero's Island' (1962) should not be missed. Although one of his lesser-known pieces, he's pretty damn good in it.