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Charles "Buddy" Rogers was in the film _Wings_ opposite Clara Bow! *Clara Bow!*

Nabors, Jim

Quiet American, The

Angela Bassett needs a bigger career?? What! Miss. Bassett is an Emmy- and Academy Award-nominated, and Golden Globe-winning actress! She also got a Star on the Walk of Fame this year to! How much is bigger!??! She is not A List actress, but still she is making movies and is in demand! I met her when she was in Phoenix, AZ several years back to film _Waiting to Exhale_ (1995) , very nice lady! Her Best film was _Boyz n the Hood_ I love Miss Bassett as an actress. *_Filmography:_* F/X (1986) Challenger (TV) (1990) Kindergarten Cop (1990) Boyz n the Hood (1991) Critters 4 (1991) City of Hope (1991) Passion Fish (1992) Innocent Blood (1992) The Jacksons: An American Dream (1992) Malcolm X (1992) What's Love Got to Do with It (1993) Vampire in Brooklyn (1995) Panther (1995) Strange Days (1995) Waiting to Exhale (1995) Contact (1997) Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's (1997) (documentary) How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998) Music of the Heart (1999) Supernova (2000) Whispers: An Elephant's Tale (2000) (voice) Boesman and Lena (2000) The Score (2001) Sunshine State (2002) The Rosa Parks Story (2002) Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives (2003) (documentary) (narrator) Masked and Anonymous (2003) The Lazarus Child (2004) Mr. 3000 (2004) Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) (voice only) Akeelah and the Bee (2006) Time Bomb (2006) (TV) Meet the Robinsons (2007) (voice) Meet the Browns (2008) *_Upcoming:_* ER (2008) Gospel Hill (2008) Of Boys and Men (2008) Nothing But the Truth (2008) Notorious (2009) Toussaint (2009) The Princess and the Frog (2009) (voice)

analogy .... _The Day the Earth Stood Still_ (1951) *NEW WORD: Peeping Tom!*

LOL!! Somehow my entire comment didn't get posted! _Cinderella_ & _Rear Window_ are 2 seperate things! I don't believe anyone has a copyright on Cinderella s since Cinderella has been known to exist since the Greek times. Cinderella has been books, plays, operas etc, Ok, back to _Rear Window_, Yes the concept or the idea of someone thinking they saw a muder & nobody believes them may have been used in other films or Tv, but from my research, there hasn't been almost complete rip-off of the theme to Rear Window as _Disturbia_ (2007). I mean every critic and anybody who has seen _Rear Window_ then looks at _Disturbia_ will see almost the same film, but set in a differnt era etc. According to the lawsuit, "_Disturbia_" and the "_Rear Window_" story are "essentially the same." Both are murder mysteries beginning with a man who, while peering from his window, witnesses strange behavior in the home of his neighbor. The protagonist in all three of the works behaves in essentially the same way, interacts with similar characters and the plot unfolds in basically the same way, the lawsuit said. *The problem is that both _Rear Window_ and _Disturbia_ are based on the short story "Murder _from a Fixed Viewpoint_" and Hitchcock went out and acquired the rights to the story and Disturbia did not.* ----------------------- *__'Disturbia_' is a ripoff of '_Rear Window_,' lawsuit claims_* Los Angeles Times, CA - Sep 10, 2008 When the sleeper hit "_Disturbia_" hit theaters last year, every major movie review of it mentioned the Alfred Hitchcock classic "_Rear Window_" and with good reason: The makers of "Disturbia" clearly delighted in paying homage to 1954 thriller with their plot and plenty of little touches. But when exactly does winking homage turn into cinematic thievery? Attorneys for the estate of the late Sheldon Abend (one of the true characters in Hollywood; more on him in a moment) filed a copyright infringement lawsuit on Monday in Manhattan. The suit names Dreamworks, Paramount Pictures, executive producer Steven Spielberg and others involved in the making of "Disturbia" and claims they essentially made a remake of "Rear Window" without bothering to pay for the rights to the source material. (Here's a bare-bones Associated Press story on the suit, and a meatier Reuters article.) You can't watch "Disturbia" and not think of "Rear Window": Both present a confined voyeurs (one by injury, one by house-arrest electronic cuff) who spy on their neighbors by staring down through their windows. One neighbor, it turns out, may be a murderer, but can the voyeur prove it and also keep a distance from the danger? The sublime 1954 film, which starred Jimmy Stewart, Grace Kelly and Raymond Burr, was based on "It Had to Be Murder," a short story by Cornell Woolrich from 1942. Woolrich died in 1968 and the rights to the story were bought by Abend.

Yeah but _Cinderella_ & _Rear Window_ are 2 seperate things!

pell-mell... Actually 2 movies come to mind...._It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World_ (1963) & _Rat Race_ (2001)!!! *NEW WORD: Galivant!*

Andrew V. McLaglen directed _The Wild Geese_ W./Roger Moore! *NEW STARE: Roger Moore!*

Hmmmm sometimes during around the holidays like Christmas or Mother's Day you can find some classics for $5.00....I found "_Roman Holiday_" on DVD for $5.00 and "_The Out of Towners_" (1970). I try to stay away from Walmart, but I have friends that go all the time, & I found out that different Walmart's have different DVD's for $5.00. Also Costco carries alot of classic DVD's to! Borders Books and Music to have alot of classics on sale every now and then! Best Buy & Circut City are the worst when it comes to finding classic films on DVD. They never seem to carry any at all! Everytime I go into either Best Buy or Circut City I'm always told to go to their website and shop. So 9X10 I stick with amazon or classic flix or even Legend Films!

Myrna Loy was in _The Red Pony_ (1949) (I really liked this film when I watched it the other night on TCM!) W./Robert Mitchum! *NEW STAR: Robert Mitchum!*

circumambulate ....._Elephant Walk_ (1954) *NEW WORD: Gallivant* My Partner loves this word!

*Billy Wilder and Dean Martin on the set of _Kiss Me, Stupid_*

*Billy Wilder and Dean Martin on the set of _Kiss Me, Stupid_*

I Re-Rented _Disturbia_ last night (09/14/08) since my Partner didn't see it when it came to theater. I went with a friend instead, I always told him "You were never missing anything by skipping this film!". (He had no interest, but now with the lawsuit he was interested!). My Partner did like the film, he just found the ending went a "tad"over the top towards the last 30 minutes of the film when _Disturbia's_ initial pacing and action morphs into a "run-of-the-mill slasher/horror film. As I re-watched it, I still saw the echoes of _Rear Window_ through out. _Disturbia_ was just a "Re-Working" of _Rear Window_ for the You Tube Generation! It could have been a Lifetime TV Movie of the week!

014 "If you look a the fries...it's a sign of things to come!".

Donald Crisp directed the film _Don Q, Son of Zorro_ in 1925 W./Douglas Fairbanks! *Douglas Fairbanks!*

Ironside, Michael

Maureen O'Hara was in the film _Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation_ W./James Stewart! *NEW STAR: James Stewart!*

I have never seen "_Wild Is the Wind_" (Good Film BTW!), but as the film moved along there were certain scenes where I felt that Authur Miller borrowed and put into his screenplay for "_The Misfits_" (1961)!!! "Wild Is the Wind" on the plus side it solid film, W./a strong story about Anthony Quinn (Gino)playing a sheep-farmer near Reno--still grieving after the death of his beloved wife--who marries his sister-in-law Anna Magnani (Gioia) and brings her over from Italy. Just like the wild horses Gino tries to tame and break, he does the same W./Gioia so he can shape her into his dead wife he misses. Which by doing this pushes Gioia away from her new husband & into the arms of her husbands son. WOW! Very powerfully acted & great Cinematography to! *_The Good:_* Along with her Oscar winning role in "_The Rose Tattoo_", this is another great acting job by Anna Magnanni. Directed by (1 of my fav directors!) George Cukor! It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Anthony Quinn), Best Actress in a Leading Role (Anna Magnani) and Best Music, Song (for Dimitri Tiomkin and Ned Washington for "Wild Is the Wind (song)"). *_The Bad:_* I wish _Wild Is the Wind_ (1957) was on DVD. From my understanding and research it was never placed on VHS, & there are no DVD plans!

Charles Bickford was in _Fallen Angel_ (Film Noir!) W./Alice Faye! *NEW STAR: Alice Faye!*

I always loved "Westworld". Yul was at his best!

Isn't the October 2008 Vanity Fair issue the best!!!??! WOW! Imagine all that stuff in those two file cabinets!! I saw a blurb about the September 2008 Vanity Fair issue and the contents of MM's things on Entertainment Tonight about 2 weeks ago. As a fan I was just stunned. I read the article 2xs!

*BRAND NEW BOOK!* *I Just picked this up the other day, very interesting read!* _Released: June 2008_ *Carole Landis: A Most Beautiful Girl* *by Eric Lawrence Gans* *Book Description:* Despite appearing in twenty-eight movies in little over a decade, Carole Landis (1919-1948) never quite became the major Hollywood star her onscreen presence should have afforded her. Although she acted in such enduring films as _A Scandal in Paris_ and _Moon over Miami_, she was most often relegated to supporting roles. Even when she played the major role in a feature, as she did in The Powers Girl and the film noir I Wake Up Screaming!, she was billed second or third behind other actors. This biography traces Landis's life, chronicling her beginnings as a dance hall entertainer in San Francisco, her career in Hollywood and abroad, her USO performances, and ultimately her suicide. Using interviews with actors who worked with Landis, contemporary movie magazines and journals, and correspondence, biographer Eric Gans reveals a tragic figure whose life was all too brief. Landis's big break came in 1940 with Hal Roach's _One Million B.C_. She appeared in thirteen Twentieth Century-Fox pictures between 1941 and 1946. In 1942-43, Landis entertained troops in England and North Africa in the only all-female USO tour. The trip led to her memoir, Four Jills in a Jeep, and a Fox movie of the same title. After her last American film in 1947, she completed two projects in England while having an affair with married actor Rex Harrison. Tormented by a love that could not lead to matrimony and depressed about growing older, she took a fatal drug overdose on July 5, 1948. *From the Publisher:* This account of the tragically brief life of the actress who became every serviceman's pin-up --Provides one of the first biographies of this dynamic but tragically short-lived star --Features over 30 photographs --Tells a special kind of heartbreaking story: Landis was desired by many, loved by none