JackFavell
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A Star Is Born and Becky Sharp
Absolutely! These are quite historical and should be restored or available immediately.If only someone would listen to us about these things....
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I kind of like those stagebound early musicals, there is something appealing to me about stage shows brought to the screen in tact. But I used to be in theatre, so that may influence my opinion....
I haven't seen the 20's Showboat yet, but I am working my way through a lot of precodes right now so it can't be too far down the list....
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The Technicolor is good, but I remain convinced that the movie could use a serious restoration, and possibly also being rescued from PD hell. I think the print that TCM shows is good, but it could look so much better with a good restoration
I totally agree with you about the restoration. This is a movie that badly needs it- because even over the relatively few years since i first saw it, it has deteriorated.
Drum Boogie, Yeah!
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Isn't he though? And he's the spitting image of an ex of mine. I mean, they could be twins.
Lucky....
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P.S. Have you ever seen The Gene Krupa Story?
No, but Gene Krupa is HOT.
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I just loved the clip of them- the drummer was playing what I think was a suitcase(!) with two hand brooms...
They were awesome and cute- they were all dressed in late twenties style clothes, kinda preppy, and the drummer did a really slinky tap dance during one of the songs that made me get all excited.
Can you tell I like drummers?
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Richard Basehart is a babe.....
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I recorded Rio Rita too, but only saw a bit of it while getting my daughter ready for school when it was on. I had no idea about the missing footage, but I can tell you, I'd like to sock the person who stole it on the nose! I can't wait to watch it all the way through, even at 105 minutes....
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Hey, I found a really nice webpage devoted to The Mound City Blue Blowers- you can play their songs if you have Realplayer...
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I LOOVE Judy Garland, but the truth of the matter is, I don't really like the 1950's Star is Born. Oh, I like the Born in a Trunk number and Swanee, but for some reason, the movie just creeps me out. I guess Judy is too much victim in it for me.
The 1937 one to me is infinitely better- Janet Gaynor is just a whole lotta fun, doing impersonations of famous stars, and she is extremely likeable. She is a movie star that you can identify with, just a normal woman thrown into the craziness of Hollywood. And Fredric March is awesome! A very sympathetic character, as opposed to James Mason, who is kind of ....yecchhhy. MArch is super at combining the snotty parts of the character with the sweet...
The supporting cast is outstanding, including Lionel Stander, Andy Devine, Adolphe Menjou, and best of all, May Robson as Esther's crotchety but loving granny.
But to me, the real star of the movie is the outstanding Technicolor- it is just so saturated and beautiful. I love watching this movie unfold, but be sure to bring an entire box of kleenex with you so you don't cry into your popcorn...
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Oop! I found it on IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0170335/
They were called The Mound City Blue Blowers. They were the cat's pajamas!
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Thnaks for the info, Goddess. I don't know if it was me or not (now I know my memory is shot), but I taped every single movie that was on yesterday including "What Price Hollywood" so if all goes well, I will watch it soon. I think it may be the best movie shown in this groupof RKO precodes. I watched Seven Keys to Baldpate while it was on, and although cute, I deleted it afterwards. Richard Dix is OK but not really my cuppa. I think Rio Rita et al... might be more to my liking. What Price I may have seen before, but can't remember, and the 1937 Star is Born is one of my favorite weepers. In fact, I think I will have to watch a double feature of these two....
Did anyone see a short subject today between A Night at the Opera and the Dick Cavett -Groucho interview? It was a Vitaphone Varieties entry called "The Opry House" and the musicians in it were fabulous- doing late twenties versions of My Gal Sal and Let Me Call You Sweetheart, among others. They rocked!I can't find any info on TCM about who the band was.
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Stunning..
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I really love William Bendix, he's always great. But for me, *The Glass Key* was all Brian Donlevy... he was amazing! For someone who played a rat, or sadistic characters so well, TGK was a revelation. What a doll he was! He made Ladd and Lake disappear for me. I loved his mixture of good and bad... Now I would take Donlevy any time over Bellamy, Grant or Ladd....
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Kay was indeed wonderful - and what I liked most about *Confession* was that she OWNED that movie once she finally made it onto the screen. It was hers alone.
She had the most amazing carriage and deportment of any star I can think of. But in the movie, I was shocked because I literally didn't recognize her. It wasn't just the look but the way she held herself that was so different- and she kept it all the way through the entire film.
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Quotations by Paul Newman
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"The light that you think you emanate is not necessarily the light that other people see. You think of yourself as a shy, retiring whatever it is, and some other people will see you in an entirely different way. ... You have to constantly learn. Obviously, you have to start with some kind of gift, but people don't understand that. ... I don't have a gift for anything. I've only had a gift of pursuit." ? 1990.
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"I remember a speech I did at a graduation. I was saying how you spend your whole life trying to get 'it' and you never know what the 'it' is. You want to connect somehow, to be in touch, and this business is terrible because it encourages you to create that protective wall. Otherwise, you get eaten alive." ? 1994.
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"There aren't many jobs you do where you do your work and people criticize you in print and on television about it. 'He's really off. He shouldn't do that.' ... They praise me, too, but that can be just as bad." ? 1994.
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"I didn't seek out those (anti-hero) roles. They're probably written better. ... Maybe it's because the writers, good writers try to choose people who are loners or are anti-heroes for characters. You can probably find some good connection between that and their own writing talent." ? 1994.
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"I've been trying to quit almost everything I do for the last 10 years, and I've managed to quit absolutely nothing. ... I was going to give up my race team, I was going to quit racing. I was going to quit films. I was going to turn the salad-dressing business over to somebody else. And get out of politics. And unfortunately, I'm busier now than before." 2002.
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"I used to make three pictures a year, and now I make a picture every three years. Things change. There have been a lot of good things out there, but they weren't the kind of pictures that I wanted to make. I didn't want to do pictures about explosions. I don't want to do pictures about shattered glass and broken bodies and blood. That just doesn't interest me." 2002.
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On his longevity: "Luck. ... Genetics is luck. Appearance is luck ... being born in the United States." ? 1999.
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On working with Robert Redford on "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "The Sting": "We were lucky. We did two almost perfect films together. And to try to maintain that special quality is pretty tough." ? 1999.
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On continuing acting or not: "There's a lot of stuff floating around, but I don't like to talk about it until it's in cement. I think I'd like to make one more film and then take a powder. It's time Joanne and I spent quality time together." ? 2005.
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On his Newman's Own food business: "I got into the theater because I was running away from the sporting goods business. I could never understand the romance of it ? I mean, of any (retail) business. ... Now that I'm in this business, I understand the allure of market share, and killing the opposition. ... Yes, I'm very competitive." ? 1999.
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On auto racing: "Young (drivers) think about winning. I think about whether I'm going to have a pulse. ... When you get older and older, you start slowing down. Everything is off one-50th of 1 percent. Your eyes are a little off, your reflexes, touch ? everything. You multiply that by just a factor of 1 percent, that's two or three seconds a lap." ? 1990.
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"I don't regret anything. It came at the right time. I was getting bored acting. ...You become passionate about one thing, it leads back into something else. If you can gain a sense of passion and commitment in your life in one arena, it's bound to bleed back into other arenas. ... In all the things I started to attack ? football, tennis ? I had no gift for it at all. I had no gift for racing, either. It's just something that I really wanted to do." ? 1990.
"I'm thrilled. I'm on a roll now, and maybe now I can get a job." _ Joking after winning his first best-actor Oscar in 1997.
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Yes, Ella. it's very rare, though. And he seemed to have such a good time giving, too....
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"He was smiling... That's right. You know, that, that Luke smile of his. He had it on his face right to the very end. Hell, if they didn't know it 'fore, they could tell right then that they weren't a-gonna beat him. That old Luke smile. Oh, Luke. He was some boy. Cool Hand Luke. Hell, he's a natural-born world-shaker. "
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I have never really thought about Paul Newman not being around... I feel very sad today that the man who has always been there is gone.
"He was smiling... That's right. You know, that, that Luke smile of his. He had it on his face right to the very end. Hell, if they didn't know it 'fore, they could tell right then that they weren't a-gonna beat him. That old Luke smile. Oh, Luke. He was some boy. Cool Hand Luke. Hell, he's a natural-born world-shaker."
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Thanks, Jake, for the wonderful quote. I was about to post a quote here too. Not from a movie, but from Newman himself.
?We are such spendthrifts with our lives,? Mr. Newman once told a reporter. ?The trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I?m not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out.?
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Ro- We should all have such a dilemma! I hope you had a great day! Take some time for yourself (if you can) in the next week....
That'll be the day.......
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?We are such spendthrifts with our lives,? Mr. Newman once told a reporter. ?The trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I?m not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out.?
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Sad news today- Paul Newman has died, after a battle with cancer.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/movies/28newman.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
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Oh, wait. Go and get cake....have fun!
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Ioved your comparison of The Virginian and High Noon! I would never have thought they were so alike.
I had to get hubby to come and watch "High Tech Noon"- he's an engineer and a Star Wars buff.