darkblue
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The long-forgotten, slow-burn occult number 'The Mephisto Waltz' (1971). Starred Jacqueline Bisset, Alan Alda, Barbara Parkins.
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But MissW, baby, in all your name permutations on the Board -- I think you are the champ here, at least of admitted name-changes -- you've demonstrated that names are VERY important! Before long, we'll probably get Missw4, or something like that!
And that's worth more than someone's life? I doubt strongly that missw would agree with that. These are, after all, membership id's - not even real names.
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Yes, went to see the film because of Ed Sullivan's recommendation. Poor little El Topo Gigio, his first major film role and he gets castrated!!!!
Speaking of ....... I have to go watch Game of Thrones now.
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I still don't understand why Rosie O'Donnell was cast as Betty Rubble in the FLINTSTONES movie.
Uh, yeah - not too oversize for the part, ay.
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Did you like the move adaptation from the 1990s starring Matt Dillon?
Not especially - though I will say Dillon is a better actor in that role than Wagner was. I also like looking at Sean Young more than Joanne Woodward. She's not as good an actor, but she's easy on the eyes.
It's a compelling book. The movie versions lose something from it.
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I'm not a big fan of Hammer's remakes of our beloved Universal monsters (their Mummy is particularly dull), but there was one Dracula I liked. And it was the one TCM didn't show when they did all the Hammer Draculas a few years ago. I think it's called The Scars of Dracula. I'd also like to see Countess Dracula again, I don't remember it that well.
I do think Quatermass and the Pit is a masterpiece; and Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde has its (albeit campy) moments.
I've always thought 'Brides' was the best Hammer period piece ever made.
Scars I like because it has a decent Dracula dispatching - unlike many of them.
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I saw her in an Alfred Hitchcock Presents (or was it Karloff's Thriller?)
Found it. It was a 'Thriller' episode (although she did do an Alfred as well). It's called 'Masquerade' and it's really good.
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I LOVE Elizabeth Montgomery, Holden. And I mean love.
She was S-E-X-Y.
I saw her in an Alfred Hitchcock Presents (or was it Karloff's Thriller?) episode with its customary twist ending wherein she is revealed to be not quite the victim we thought.
Hot, hot, hot. What a beauty.
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She has.
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When I think of him, I think first of '1984'. My favorite O'Brien performance.
Second, I think of 'The Wild Bunch'.
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The only reason I care about seeing 'Witchfinder General' is to hear the correct music while watching it.
There's a version that has bare breasts in it too, but that doesn't matter - adds nothing to the narrative.
It's the music that matters. Apparently, Americans were too cheap to pay the original composer's royalties and substituted a far inferior musical track.
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Maybe this is how Pat came to be.
Ooooohh.....that tickles......
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I believe Paul Morrissey's outlandish 1973 film 'Flesh for Frankenstein' (aka Andy Warhol's Frankenstein) was somewhat controversial at the time. Some critics said it went way too far. I remember hearing reports of people getting sick in the theater.
Gosh, I loved the 70's.
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It's been a long time since TCM showed 'Suspiria' (1977).
That'd be a terrific October treat.
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By the way, A Kiss Before Dying stinks.
Loved the novel.
Way disappointed in the movie.
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By the way, would a woman consider being compared to "Betty Rubble" a compliment , even if its intended to be one?
Why not? She was the hot one on the show.
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DGF made another boo-boo.
In his pants?
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Between my husband and I though, we have some 200+ recordings and are only at 32% full, so I've got many more recordings ahead of me.
Wow. What mode are you recording in?
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Its Robert Vaughn , not "Vaughan".
Yes, it is. Why in hell would anybody add an "a" there?
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I see Jane is vacationing in B.C. at the moment. Can't keep a good woman down.
I'd love to keep her down with me for a while.
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Rip Torn in 'The Cincinnati Kid' (1965).
With so many stars in that one - McQueen, Edward G., Ann-Margret, Karl Malden, Tuesday Weld and such - it's easy to forget Torn's excellent performance as the heavy in the story. But, I never did - and have been a fan ever since.
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So - just trying to clarify for myself here, speedy - when you say "this movie was ridiculous", you mean that in a good way?
As I said in another thread about the film, I love Nightmare Alley. But I'm kind of a sucker for almost any film with a carnival locale. Even though you just know that life in such a place would be hard, dangerous, and dirty (that last one, literally), there's something fascinating about carnivals as depicted in old movies. Nightmare Alley does not glamorize the carnival, but for some reason I still want to be there when I watch it.
Helen Walker's character - what a piece of work! And, interesting, I think it's the first, and possibly the only time, that I've seen a woman threatening to have a man certified for the insane asylum.
But while it lasts, she and Power really do have quite a clever little scam going, don't they? Til, of course, they both have to get too big for their collective britches. (hm, weird image...)
I keep reading about what a great performance Power gives.
But for me, it's Walker who makes the film truly worth watching. She's perfection. Too bad the movie flopped at the box office - it should have made her a star (kind of like 'Cuckoo's Nest' did for Louise Fletcher).
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'One Way Pendulum' at 4:15 pm on Monday sounds worth checking out. Supposed to be "very un-pc" according to the one comment at IMDb.
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What would you all like to see?
I would love to see 'Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman'. Love that movie.
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Jaws
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Hooper was not a surfer boy in the novel. He was a seriously obsessed scientist. There was nothing funny about him. All the characters in the novel were much more intriguing than those in the movie.
The novel was serious and scary. The movie was a comedy - it was decided to make Hooper silly - possibly because that's the way Dreyfuss was able to play him - or, more probably, to make the movie more child-friendly so kids would flock to it repeatedly.
But people were entertained by the movie - they got to laugh a lot. It was just a big disappointment to those of us who read the book first.