CelluloidKid

_Groundhog Day_ (1993) is the 1 film where Andie MacDowell sold herself out, and Bill Murray needed to pay the rent!

Can we "TORCH" this thread...LOL...."Osborne calling Randolph Scott "Randy" was the reason this happened....I just thinking this is all about someone trying to start a fight and reading into something is not even there...If Robert calling someone "Randy" freaks them out "THAT" bad...then write a letter to TCM or Robert himself.... (SINGING: "To the Tune: "I've Written A Letter to Daddy) I've Written A Letter to Robert Asking him to call Randolph ...Well, Randolph not Randy because it up sets (IN a deep voice...Very Looooooowww!) MMMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! LOL!!! PLLLLLEEEASE.....INSTEAD OF "Martin Scorsese" I call him Marty.....and if this is a gay slant...WOW this fighting words..... PEOPLE NEED TO STOP READING INTO THINGS THAT ARE NOT THERE!! SOCIETY TODAY HAS GOTTEN TO POLITICAL HAPPY! *HERE IS OUR NEW TOPIC ...* *California Taxpayer Protection Act* I want to call your attention to a statewide initiative in California that may change the debate on the automatic citizenship that is wrongly bestowed upon children born to illegal aliens and foreign visitors in the United States. The initiative -- The California Taxpayer Protection Act -- is being planned for the June 2010 California ballot. This may seem like a distant point on the horizon, but it's really not when you consider the herculean efforts necessary to secure a spot on the ballot in the state. Supporters are being sought from across the nation for this important initiative.

Houdini .. _Houdini_ (1953) WHICH IS ON TODAY! *NEW WORD: Greeting!*

Jude Law was in: _Wilde_ (1997) Directed by Brian Gilbert! *NEW DIRECTOR: Brian Gilbert!*

What was sad, is that Brad Renfro's death and career was over shadowed by the death of Heath Ledger...No offense to the Heath fans, but I felt more loss for Brad than Heath...I always thought Brad Renfro was a damn good actor, who really never took off! I can't wait to see his last film: _The Informers_ which hits theaters on May 1, 2009!

*After seeing: _Groundhog Day_ (1993) as 1 of the 10 best American movies of all time, Stanley Fish lost all creditability with me!*

True.... *But if watch any version of _Poltergeist_ there is one (1) very noticeable bad cut...* *It's the scene right after Diane as all the freaky stuff happen in the kitchen.* It's when Diane must convince Steven (Craig T. Nelson) that night by showing him there are ghosts. Right after Diane explains the "Push" feeling of sliding across the kitchen floor, She then shows Steven the push (Or sliding across the floor after the chair!) W./Carol Anne. Carol Anne slides across the floor (football helmet!), makes some comments about it's burns,& she wants pizza from Pizza Hut, and Diane is like I"I need to wax the floor again!" or something to this effect...While Diane is talking, the camera cuts to Steven's (Craig T. Nelson) reaction ....There are about 2 or3 frames of this frightened look on his face, while up against the kitchen wall, before he says anything, there is "REALLY BAD CUT" we're Diane and Steven are "NOW" at the next-door neighbors asking them about any disturbances and getting bitten by mosquitoes! *WOW! Very noticeable!* THIS BAD CUT IS NOTICEABLE...EVEN IN THE "Poltergeist (25th Anniversary Edition) DVD" which came out "Last Year"! *What is funny if go to Wikipedia and read the Plot of "Poltergeist"...This is how "They describe the scene..*. At first the ghosts play harmless tricks and amuse the mother, including moving and stacking the kitchen table chairs. Of course, Diane must convince Steven (Craig T. Nelson) that night by showing him. He then announces that "Nobody goes into the kitchen until I know what's going on." The line: "Nobody goes into the kitchen until I know what's going on." is said "After" Carole Anne disappears in one instance! This is line is not even heard on the "Poltergeist (25th Anniversary Edition) DVD" ...NOR did I hear it when my partner was watching it the other day on TCM!...I can't remember ever hearing this line!

What about _Billy the Kid versus Dracula_ (1966) there is a fine mess!

I love both the 1956 and the 1978 version....the worst "Remake" or "Reboot" was: _The Invasion_ (2007) W./Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Jeremy Northam!! What a laughable mess!

John Saxon was in: _Black Christmas_ (1974) directed by: Bob Clark! *NEW DIRECTOR: Bob Clark!*

It seems there are different cuts etc from VHS to Laserdisc to DVD! I found this info about .... alternate takes, deleted scenes...But I know there is a lot more out there in the vaults etc.! *Deleted Scenes @ poltergeist.poltergeistiii.com* www.poltergeist.poltergeistiii.com http://www.poltergeist.poltergeistiii.com/deleted.html

_Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story_ (1987) done with barbie dolls is twisted! I saw it years ago, "Before" You Tube was ever thought of! *Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story* http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=622130510713940545 Openly gay, experimental filmmaker Todd Haynes burst upon the scene two years after his graduation from Brown University with his now-infamous 43-minute cult treasure "Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story" (1987). Seizing upon the inspired gimmick of using Barbie and Ken dolls to sympathetically recount the story of the pop star's death from anorexia, he spent months making miniature dishes, chairs, costumes, Kleenex and Ex-Lax boxes, and Carpenters' records to create the film's intricate, doll-size mise-en-scene. The result was both audacious and accomplished as the dolls seemingly ceased to be dolls leaving the audience weeping for the tragic singer. Unfortunately, Richard Carpenter's enmity for the film (which made him look like a selfish jerk) led to the serving of a "cease and desist" order in 1989, and despite the director's offer "to only show the film in clinics and schools, with all money going to the Karen Carpenter memorial fund for anorexia research," "Superstar" remains buried, one of the few films in modern America that cannot be seen by the general public. Now finally you have a chance to see this piece

Katharine Hepburn ...I can't stand this woman!! I hate her acting, she gets on my nerves!

*Per Movie Database:* *Soundtracks for: _The Girl from Petrovka_ (1974* *"Nyet, Nyet, Nyet"* *Music by Roy Budd* *Lyrics by Jack Fishman*

Should restoration include alteration....This question should be asked to George Luca since he messed W./all the early "Star Wars" films and added in new footage etc!

Austria ... _The Sound of Music_ (1965) *NEW WORD: Hedonophobia!*

*Career bookends from Michael Powell* *Sony pairs two of the British director's dramas, the brilliant 'A Matter of Life and Death' from 1946 and the little-known erotic idyll 'Age of Consent' from 1968.* By Dennis Lim Los Angeles Times, CA January 4, 2009 *In his long and jagged career, British director Michael Powell went from national treasure to forgotten figure and back again.* *The Michael Powell Double Feature set, out this week from Sony, pairs two very different romantic dramas from his filmography: "A Matter of Life and Death," the 1946 mystical fantasy, a classic of 20th century British cinema, and "Age of Consent," a largely forgotten erotic idyll made in 1969 during a period of self-imposed exile in Australia.* Born in 1905, Powell began his career in the silent era and worked his way up through the ranks of the British film industry, directing what were termed "quota quickies," low-budget productions whose main purpose was to maintain a minimum number of British movies on local screens. In 1939, he began his storied collaboration with Emeric Pressburger, a Hungarian-born screenwriter who got his start in Germany and relocated to England after the Nazis came to power. The partnership soon developed into an unusually close and intricate one: Powell and Pressburger set up their own production company, the Archers, and shared writing, directing and producing credits on an uninterrupted run of good-to-great movies in the 1940s: "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" (1943), "Black Narcissus" (1947), "The Red Shoes" (1948), "Gone to Earth" (1950). "A Matter of Life and Death" began as a government-commissioned propaganda project to improve postwar Anglo-American relations. Powell and Pressburger responded to this assignment by fashioning a love story between British bomber pilot Peter Carter (David Niven) and American radio operator June (Kim Hunter), who receives what they both believe is his final distress call. Plunging from a burning plane without a parachute, he survives -- apparently because the heavenly emissary sent to ferry him to the afterlife was thwarted by the thick British fog. Peter and June fall madly in love but must defend the merits of their earthbound romance when the death-cheating airman is summoned to "the other world" to appear before a celestial tribunal. Retitled "Stairway to Heaven" for its initial U.S. release (its distributor insisted on a less morbid title), "A Matter of Life and Death" reverses the "Wizard of Oz" color scheme. Heaven is a chilly black-and-white metropolis, while Earth is a lush Technicolor paradise. The vibrant palette both matches and intensifies the surge of emotions that drives the story. The original PR mandate surfaces in the big trial -- the prosecutor is a resentful Bostonian, killed in the Revolutionary War, and trans-Atlantic differences are aired and smoothed over. But the movie is above all a dizzying romance, a strange and affecting portrait of love as a salvation and a delirium. Powell called "A Matter of Life and Death" his favorite of all his films. He was not nearly so enthusiastic about "Age of Consent," based on a novel by the Australian painter Norman Lindsay. In the years between these films, he and Pressburger had gone their separate ways and fallen from critical favor as British movies leaned toward kitchen-sink realism. Powell could barely get a project off the ground after the hostile reception to "Peeping Tom," his 1960 thriller about voyeurism and violence. It is now considered a cinematic landmark, thanks largely to the efforts of Martin Scorsese, a devoted Powell champion who introduces both films in this set. "Age of Consent" stars James Mason as a successful Australian painter who leaves behind the Manhattan hustle for an immersion in nature. On an island off the Queensland coast, he looks for inspiration and finds it in the form of a young Helen Mirren, a beautiful wild child who becomes his frequently nude model. Both mischievous and melancholic, the film meanders pleasantly between goofy slapstick and autumnal retrospection (Powell died in 1990). While it doesn't come close to his earlier achievements, it returns to his signature theme of obsessive artistic creation, perhaps most vividly played out in "The Red Shoes." As was frequently the case with Powell, there are hints of self-portraiture. When Mason's character talks about what moves him to paint -- "light, color, life, people, sensuality" -- he could be speaking on behalf of Powell, one of cinema's great voluptuaries. calendar@latimes.com

Jeff Morrow was in: _The Robe_ (1953) directed by Henry Koster! *NEW DIRECTOR: Henry Koster!*

*Congratulations to _Johnny Guitar_ - One of 25 films just named to the Library of Congress National Film Registry!* *Other Joan Crawford films already on the list of 500 slated for special preservation for their cultural significance:* _Mildred Pierce_ (named in 1996) _Grand Hotel_ (named in 2007) _The Women_ (1939) (named in 2007)

Hedy Lamarr was in: _Dishonored Lady_ (1947) "A" film which is based on the play _Dishonored Lady_ (1930), which In 1936, a US Federal Court said that the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film _Letty Lynton_ (1932), based on a novel by Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes, also plagiarized the Sheldon-Barnes play _Dishonored Lady_..........*& in the center of the storm* .... MISS. JOAN CRAWFORD WAS IN: _Letty Lynton_ (1932) (Or the "Lost Crawford" film in the Joan circles!) Directed by: Clarence Brown! *NEW DIRECTOR: Clarence Brown.!*

LOL..... About next week...I will pop the popcorn! Happy New Year BTW!! *Anyways ...here is a link ...try this for local date & time showing ....It was also at the bottom of the article!* *_Cinema's Exiles | PBS_* http://www.pbs.org/wnet/cinemasexiles/ *WOW ...U Can it even get it on DVD!!!* *Shadows in Paradise: Hitler's Exiles in Hollywood DVD* http://www.shoppbs.org/sm-pbs-shadows-in-paradise-hitlers-exiles-in-hollywood-dvd--pi-3303081.html *_Description_:* By 1939, 30,000 intellectuals and radicals were exiled from Europe; 80% were Jewish. These dramatic events sent many of the greatest minds of the 20th century into exile in the United States. In some ways, Los Angeles in the 30s and early 40s may be seen as its afterglow when scores of ?migr?s, fleeing the upsurge of European fascism, briefly transformed Southern California into one of the capitals of world culture.

Robert Morley was in: _Marie Antoinette_ (1938) W./Tyrone Power! *NEW STAR: Tyrone Power!*

Leslie Howard was in: _The First of the Few_ (1942) W./Cinematography by Georges P?rinal! *NEW CINEMATOGRAPHER: Georges P?rinal!*

*Lana Turner and Ava Gardner.*

_The Yellow Rolls-Royce_ (1964) WAS directed by Anthony Asquith! *NEW DIRECTOR: Anthony Asquith!*