JackFavell
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> {quote:title=CineMaven wrote:}{quote}Holy Cow, J.F....S.F. You both have very expensive champagne tastes. *I don't have a thing in my wardrobe closet to wear that bracelet with.*
Silly. You buy the wardrobe to match the bracelet... an excuse to go shopping.
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WHY did I look?
I don't know what a kovsch is, but it's obvious to me that I need one. or more.
And a square cut Siberian Amethyst ring.
It's my birthstone.
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Little sisters have very bad memories! Take it from me.
I'll check out the O.
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I know! One doesn't automatically think, "Martin Balsam, sexiest man alive!" But he has a great voice and an appreciative eye....
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That was fascinating! Those clothes!!!!!!!!!!
I think they were improv- ing the first three segments.
Tippi (or Tupsie) was really poised, maybe not relaxed, because she had to think on her feet (or heels) and maneuver in that tight dress. She had a lot of charm and was very confident in herself - I would have been shaking in my shoes standing like that in front of Hitch and a well seasoned actor like Balsam. Who looked like he was having a GREAT time. Ooh la la!
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>I agree. There are times when you need to prevent someone from hurting themselves. But the "Glue Man" painted all the young women with a guilty brush, thinking all of them were out to do bad. How would he know? Some would be. Maybe even most. But all? And how would he feel if someone was judging him? There is always going to be someone who disapproves of one's way of life. "He's not enough, he's too much."
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>The "Glue Man" judged Alison before he ever knew her. Then he got to know her. He wouldn't have dumped his glue on her if he had known her. When someone is nameless and faceless to you, they mean less. One of the hardest things to do in this world is to treat the nameless and faceless as someone you know. We are right and everyone else is wrong... unless they agree with us.
This conversation is starting to remind me of Decision at Sundown and The Bravados - how do you know whether you are really right or just deluded?
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Ha! I like that pioneer woman! Admitting to liking dump cake AND admitting that she eats the large clumps of cake mix! my kind of cook.
oh, and I love zingers!
Edited by: JackFavell on Nov 29, 2011 12:43 AM
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We had a great time on Thanksgiving, Jake - family and good food and happy times.
I am sorry to hear you won't be posting as often. I hope you are well, and I look forward to seeing what you do post. I haven't been posting nearly as often as I used to either lately so I can understand if you are taking a break for a bit. It won't be the same without you looking in every morning and evening.
Edited by: JackFavell on Nov 28, 2011 9:50 PM
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I really like Spaceman, but I like almost all of Nilsson's songs, just like with George. There are very few artists where I like all of their work, but these are two men whose overall style really appeals to me. Each has great depth, and each has great humor as well.
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You guys bring a tear to my eye talking about George. You know how I feel about him. I agree about his reputation going up since his passing.
I watched a documentary on Netflix last night called *Who is Harry Nilsson and Why is Everyone Talkin' About Him?* it was quite good and had a couple of interesting anecdotes about John Lennon and George.
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hilarious!
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Very true.
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Whew! Glad I'm not the only one.
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Oh geez. thanks. silly me.
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Holy cow! How did I miss that? Was that the reason for the emphasis on the carriage coming to get him at the end?
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Love the Marshall Crenshaw and the db's tunes.
Here's another Marshall Crenshaw that I like:
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DO you think he will run away from that truth, though? Revert to his former self? I mean, what else does he know? It's a bitter bitter thing to think of Stefan aging, either way, changed or unchanged.
Edited by: JackFavell on Nov 22, 2011 9:43 AM
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I felt sorry for them both.
I think that what Grimesy-my-boy said was exactly right - these are universal descriptions of man and woman. The way they each think and feel, very generally speaking.
That's not to say that we don't have a little of each other in our genes... for instance, there is quite a little Stefan in me, squandering my time and talent on nothing at all, stopping to smell the roses too frequently to have ever worked out a career... but basically, I think like Lisa. I feel emotion like Lisa.
If anything, I felt sorrier for Stefan, for in the end he is left with nothing and a view of everything he might have had, had he been less shallow. Lisa had her child and her great feeling, and I wonder if she would have said her life was wasted at the end..... I somehow don't think so.
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Ophuls is just sublime, I don't know how he does it, he makes these movies out of nothing at all - a look, a memory and a stairway. A carriage, a hat, a piano, a wasted life.
Whose life was the more wasted, I wonder?
The scene where Lisa finally SEES Stefan, for the very first time really, late late in the movie, after years and years of looking at him, loving who she thought he was...... and she finds the cruel, callow and the heartless in him. .... she hears him, not through the filter of her love, but the plain unromantic reality.... well, I'd like to know what it was that Ophuls actually did in those scenes to make US see and feel what she sees and feels so deeply.
It's almost sickening, knowing what she gave up, and how little he would care, should she have let it slip.... she cannot tell him. His words that have always seemed meant only for her, have no special meaning after all, she only invested them in her mind with depth and specialness. His quiet longing for a true love was really only a line, at best a petty longing for a little diversion, some champagne and a cuddle with another warm figure.
And yet ......
There is something..... something unsatisfied in Stefan that makes me think that she was not far off the mark... she saw he was longing for something different. I think the saddest part of the movie was that in her fear and longing, her retreating....she was possibly the perfect woman for him, one who might have inspired him, and helped turn him from a selfish boy to an emotionally complete man and artist. I was hoping for at least this at the end, that she would inspire him to change and play his music again.
But this makes the tragedy all the more awful, that it is probably too late for Stefan to change or to go back and play the way he did. It's over for him, just as it is for Lisa, and her son. But now he has self-knowledge, and it's too terrible to contemplate. The very thing he wanted, that would make him a better man, is the very thing he tossed aside through simply being himself. It was in his nature to take and to waste - himself, and others.
They were two ships that passed very close in the night, brushing against one another even, missing their opportunity to have a real deep emotional relationship, a huge love, only by a hair. In many ways they were exactly the same - and perfect for one another. She, who could not commit to the reality that she made for herself (her husband and son) and instead lived all in her imagination; and he, who could not commit to any woman, but longed for one woman who was different. To go through one's life searching, wanting, but never knowing that it's near, and then to only learn how close you came when it is all but over, well that's devastating and what's more, it's tragic.
I loved what you said about a new kind of ending catching your attention and imagination, one that leaves you with questions. Here is where I see the *Vertigo* comparison strongly, because that was my main reaction to the Hitchcock film.
I wonder why no one brought up Ophuls a few years back when we were all taking the film classes that used to go on here. This film is definitely about looking, and has a voyeuristic quality about it. My god, some of the shots, the ones looking down from above the stairway, were breathtaking! Maybe I just don't remember it being discussed, because I didn't know the film. Ophul's style is so suited to Lisa's romantic imagination, that when he pulls back to Stefan's actual mundane life, and films it steadily and flatly, it's a real shock to us. The heady flight of the camera comes down to earth for once in the movie and the dizzying music is not there to carry us along anymore. It's kind of like seeing beautiful Morris Townshend come back from California with his seedy moustache and threadbare shirts..... with the same lies, the same silly phrases.... only it's worse, because we actually experience it from inside Lisa, all in one swoop, as she stares at Stefan. As heartbreaking as Catherine's shock is, Lisa's is more so, since she finds self awareness - she sees her own grandiose folly in loving him...at the same time, Stefan misses his opportunity for happiness through his careless chatter that she has heard all too often before.
Edited by: JackFavell on Nov 21, 2011 7:49 PM
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Love the XTC! Perfect for this time of year!
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That is a wonderful thing to say, Wouldbestar! I truly appreciate it. I hope you will continue to post your thoughts here at TCM city, I always enjoy what you have to say.
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Thanks for the congrats guys!
I think I deserve something for sticking around that first couple of years......
. I'd rather say thanks to you folks, who make me WANT to be here - the erudite, intelligent and enthusiastic people who make this such a GREAT place to chat about wonderful CLASSIC FILMS. _movieman -_
Congratulations to your lovely daughter! Happy Birthday to her and many happy returns. I hope you guys had a lovely time.
_Bronxie (and MissG and Ro) -_
I watched *Chase a Crooked Shadow* too, while the kids were downstairs giggling and tearing the house apart during the sleepover. I did NOT expect that ending either - but no SPOILERS here, Doug, Jr.! I did wish that somehow, RIchard Todd and Anne could have gotten together... it seemed headed that way for a few moments anyway. I LOVED the villa, and the little boat house, and the setting with the terraced land all around on the edge of the water.
My first real alcoholic drink was the one that Todd fixed for Anne in the little guest cottage boathouse -- the swimming drink? I think it's called a Kir Royale - and has white wine and cassis in it. Did I miss something? I thought he didn't know what drink to make.... how did he figure it out? Or was that part of the coaching session?
As for *A Man Called Peter* , I watched with the sound turned down, so I could hear any more giggling or sneaking around in the middle of the night, and put a stop to it. I probably didn't have to, since they were REALLY LOUD in their sneaking.
I wish I'd been able to hear the scene where RIchard was in the basement? at the furnace, and breaks down while Jean was in the hospital or something??? It looked really good, but by that time, hubby was asleep so I couldn't turn the sound back up. He started to cry! and leaned up against a brick wall... I don't know if they were having problems, or if she was sick, but he started to pray I think. It seems to me that by missing that, I missed the best part of the movie.
Oh, and there was another scene of Todd "relaxing" at home that just cracked me up. He was wearing the most stiffly pressed and starched blue shirt and tan pants I've ever seen! Barely a button unbuttoned at the top.... the outfit was so perfect, I thought it looked like it could have stood up by itself. He couldn't have been any more straight-laced and unrelaxed looking if he'd been wearing a priest's collar! It made me want to scream out loud. I literally wanted to knock him down and roll him into the dirt like Tracy Lord does to George Kittredge in *The Philadelphia Story.*
Edited by: JackFavell on Nov 19, 2011 8:25 PM
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Gosh I love that one Jeff. Clara's outfit is adorable! Is it hard to color a fabric with flowers like that?
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God the spin and meaning she gives to those few lines in Cool Hand! Wow. It's such a great, meaty, and terribly sad scene. Yup. She's brilliant.
Another good cougher too.
The Annual FrankGrimes Torture Thread
in Your Favorites
Posted
> Along Came Jones
> A Day at the Races
> Earrings of Madame de...
> Great Expectations
> The Last Sunset
> Me and My Gal
> The Pearl of Death
> The Phenix City Story
> Plymouth Adventure
> Safe in Hell
> The Scarlet Claw
> The Tattered Dress
> Wife vs. Secretary
The Phenix City Story
The Tattered Dress
Safe in Hell
Me and My Gal
Earrings of Madame de...
Wife Vs. Secretary
The Scarlet Claw
Great Expectations
Along Came Jones
A Day at the Races
Plymouth Adventure
I can't for the life of me remember which Holmes story is The Pearl of Death, and I don't know The Last Sunset. I haven't seen the Phenix Story, but am guessing it's another of the Confidential style noir films you love.
Edited by: JackFavell on Nov 29, 2011 6:17 PM