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At least people in CA can see the film...nothing like this ever happens in Phoenix, AZ!
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I wish Phoenix, Arizona would do this! Lazy city! LOL!
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*Robert Mitchum!*
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Public intellectual:
An intellectual (involving thought and reason) is one who tries to use his or her intellect to work, study, reflect, speculate, or ask and answer questions about a wide variety of different ideas.
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The Desert Sun wire services ? June 25, 2008
_*Free screening of 1939 classic film "The Women'' in Palm Desert tonight*_
The Palm Springs International Film Festival will present tonight a free screening of the George Cukor 1939 classic film "The Women'' at the Palm Desert campus of Cal State San Bernardino.
The film stars Norma Shearer as a wealthy Manhattan wife who seeks revenge against shopgirl Joan Crawford, who steals her husband.
The 7 p.m. screening at the campus' Indian Wells Theater, 37500 Cook St., is part of the festival's summer film series ``Drama Queens.''
A remake of the film is currently in production starring Meg Ryan, Annette Bening and Eva Mendes.
For more information, call (760) 322-2930.
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Found this thought I would pass it along!
*06/24/08 - Tyler*
*Silver Screen Classic Musicals at the Tyler Public Library*
The Tyler Public Library's Silver Screen Movie Musicals for adults and teens bring timeless movies from Hollywood's golden era to the big screen every Thursday evening at 6 p.m. in the Taylor Auditorium. Every film this summer is based on great literature.
"To celebrate Independence Day, we're showing South Pacific on July 3," says Evelyn James, programming associate for the Library. "The current Broadway production of South Pacific recently won seven Tony Awards including Best Musical Revival. Its portrayal of Americans in the midst of an alien culture in wartime is as relevant today as when it first thrilled audiences over 50 years ago."
The 1958 screen version of the musical stars Rossano Brazzi, Mitzi Gaynor and Ray Walston. Set on a remote U.S.-occupied South Sea island during World War II, this is the story of two parallel romances; a Navy nurse "as corny as Kansas in August" falls for a wealthy French plantation owner who is father to a pair of mixed-race children. The other story is the love affair between a young American officer and a native girl.
South Pacific is based on the "Tales from the South Pacific" by James Michener and is well known for its extraordinary score by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II - the songs include Some Enchanted Evening, Younger than Springtime, Bali Hai, There Is Nothin' Like A Dame, I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair and A Wonderful Guy.
The musical is also a deeply-felt drama and considered by many to be the finest musical ever written. In its original 1949 Broadway production, South Pacific ran for five years to extraordinary acclaim and countless awards include nine Tonys and the Pulitzer Prize.
The summer-long classic film festival continues in July with Guys and Dolls and Meet Me in St. Louis. The final Thursday night Silver Screen Classic is The Sound of Music on July 24, 2008.
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*Gregory Peck!*
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*TCM gets the Elvis Mitchell treatment in July 2008!*
*TCM has picked up on Mitchell and will feature him in July 2008 as he discusses the movies that have had a profound influence on notable people's lives.*
*On Mondays in July, Mitchell brings his in-depth interview style to Turner Classic Movies (TCM) with the new, half-hour original series "_TCM Presents Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence_."*
In each episode, Mitchell will sit and talk to real cinematic stars, learning how classic film has influenced their lives.
*July's featured guests include:*
*Sydney Pollack*
*Monday, July 7, 8 p.m. (ET)*
With deep respect, TCM presents this interview, which turned out to be one of the last interviews Pollack gave before succumbing to cancer at the age of 73.
Mitchell said of Pollack:?Sydney doesn?t just lecture about what movies are supposed to be. You can feel his abiding passion and affection for film.?
Sydney Pollack gave Mitchell great insight: ?I?ll tell you the thing that makes a film director the happiest is a film living on for a while. The Way We Were still gets played. That?s an old movie. Tootsie still gets played. That?s an old movie ? that?s 25 years old.?
*Bill Murray*
*Monday, July 14, 8 p.m. (ET)*
?Bill doesn?t like doing interviews very often, so people don?t always have a sense of how complex and thoughtful he is,? shared Mitchell.
Bill Murray talks about some of his comedy icons: ?With the Marx Brothers, you?re surrounded by murderer?s row ? Harpo, Chico, Zeppo, all these brothers are comedy assassins. They?re just killer.?
*Laurence Fishburne*
*Monday, July 21, 8 p.m. (ET)*
?When Laurence Fishburne talks about film, you realize he?s talking about movies that have some weight in his life,? said Mitchell.
Laurence Fishburne shares his own starstruck memories: ?When I met Dennis Hopper, I was 15. I had no idea who this cat was. He was like no other person I had ever experienced. He was completely free and in the moment, and he was bound by no rules at all. So I thought, ?I want to know how you do that. HOW do you do THAT??
*Quentin Tarantino*
*Monday, July 28, 8 p.m. (ET)*
?There is no living person who knows movies better than he does,? reveals Mitchell.
Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino talks about passion for film: ?It?s easy for a normal audience to see any kind of B-movie from any era with the many cheesy elements and put themselves above a movie
When in this crazy, weird, sleazy little exploitation movie did you start caring? The fact that now you care and are invested: that?s one of my favorite things that can happen in cinema.?
*The series returns in November with guests Joan Allen, Edward Norton, John Leguizamo and Richard Gere.*
(Elvis Mitchell is an African-American public intellectual and a former film critic for The New York Times (1998-2004).)
http://www.nj.com/entertainment/tv/index.ssf/2008/07/the_art_of_the_interview_elvis.html
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I know how U all feel....I was hoping for some of her lesser known films like..."Party Girl" or "Twilight for the Gods" W./Rock Hudson! Somehting new! Oh well, I guess TCM likes boring!?
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The Crimson Kimono (1959)
Two detectives clash over the hunt for a stripper's killer in Los Angeles' Japanese district.
Will be shown on TCM on Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
@ 5:00pm (PT) Arizona Time!
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June, 24, 2008
_*Historic theatre holds summer classic movie series*_
*The Columbus Association for the Performing Arts' Summer Movie Series returned for its 39th season and will host "His Girl Friday" Wednesday.*
"His Girl Friday," starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell, is the second of 21 films in the series. The series will continue through late July in downtown's historic Ohio Theatre.
Most of the films in the series are classics that will be familiar to many Ohio Sate students.
Other movies in the series include "Monty Python's Life of Brian," "When Harry Met Sally," "The Color Purple," "Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious," "Back to the Future" and "Sparrows."
Along with these films, the Columbus Association for the Performing Arts will also show themed movies, such as an apparent Christmas in July theme with "The Muppet Christmas Carol" and "White Christmas" scheduled to run in mid July and "CHICK FLICK FRIDAY!" with the showing of "When Harry Met Sally" July 18.
The series allows many viewers to experience classic films the way they were first seen in theaters, such as the 1985 staple "Back to the Future."
Seeing the film in the theater setting is much different than at home on television, watching the same plot and hearing the same old jokes takes on a different form when hearing an entire theater of people laughing and gasping at those familiar moments.
"The atmosphere is much different; it really draws you into the film," said Tyler Bicknell, a senior in mechanical engineering.
The setting of the series is also important to the flavor the films take on when they are shown, providing patrons with a chance to experience an important piece of Ohio history along with the films.
The Ohio Theatre is located at 39 E. State St. between Third and High streets. Since its inception in 1928, the theater has been a venue for films, plays and other performances. In the late 1960s it faced demolition, but was rescued from this fate by the "Save the Ohio" campaign.
After it was saved from demolition, the theater was then purchased by CAPA, who renovated and restored the facility.
*For the series, CAPA is offering a strip of 10 tickets, good for any film, for $21.50 at Ticketmaster.com or the Ohio Theatre ticket office. The general admission tickets "day-of-show" cost $3.50 for adults and $3 for seniors, and are available an hour before each show.*
Students can learn more by joining the Facebook group "CAPA Summer Movie Series" or by visiting CAPA's Web site at capa.com.
"His Girl Friday" will be shown at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Ohio Theatre.
Andy Koenig can be reached at koenig.286@osu.edu.
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*Classic films to screen at Tennessee Theatre*
By Amy McRary (Contact)
Friday, June 20, 2008
*Movie magic is back for the summer of 2008 at the Tennessee Theatre. Film fans may have their own DVDs of some of these films at home, but there's nothing quite like watching a movie on the big screen - the way Cecil B. DeMille and Louis B. Mayer intended.*
*The downtown Knoxville theatre's annual Summer Movie Magic classic film series presents six movies made from 1934 to 1979. Tickets (plus service charges) for each film are general admission and cost $8 for adults, $6 for ages 12 and younger or senior citizens 60 and older. Series passes are $40.50 and $30.*
The films selected this year include an Alfred Hitchcock classic, the movie that made Vivien Leigh an international star and the film that helped cement Marilyn Monroe's sexy image. Selections vary from a 1934 classic black-and-white screwball comedy to the shoo-bop sha whada whada good times of the 1979 musical "Grease."
The movies begin Sunday, June 22, with 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. special screenings of "Thunder Road." The 1958 black-and-white film stars Robert Mitchum as a Korean War veteran and moonshiner. Mitchum gets in trouble not only with the police, who want to put him in jail, but also with big-city gangsters who want to take over his trade.
"Thunder Road" has special appeal to Knoxville; its story is said to be based on the life of a 1950s area moonshine runner whose fatal car crash happened along Kingston Pike near the Bearden area.
Mitchum's son, James, who had a part in the film, is scheduled to attend the June 22 showing. The East Tennessee Region AACA (Antique Automobile Club of America) will display "Thunder Road" period cars.
*Other films in the series are:*
*"The Seven Year Itch"* - Perhaps the most enduring part of this 1955 Billy Wilder comedy is the scene of Monroe standing over a subway grate as her white skirt sails up. The story goes that Monroe's then husband, baseball great Joe DiMaggio, was furious that onlookers enjoyed the scene's filming.
*"Vertigo"* - Alfred Hitchcock's thriller about a retired San Francisco police detective (Jimmy Stewart) obsessed with a beautiful woman (Kim Novak).
*"Grease"* - John Travolta. Olivia Newton-John. Stockard Channing. "Beauty School Dropout." "Hopelessly Devoted to You." "Look At Me, I'm Sandra Dee." Almost 30 years after it was made, the musical shines with youth and nostalgia.
*"It Happened One Night"* - The 1934 Frank Capra film won five Academy Awards. It's a classic story - Claudette Colbert is a rich girl running away to elope with another man when she meets, hitchhikes with and falls for a dashing Clark Gable. Hollywood legend says when Gable removed his shirt in one screen, revealing he wore no undershirt, sales of undershirts plummeted.
*"Gone With the Wind"* - The romanticized film about the Old South may show its age in the historic facts but holds up as one of the great love stories of the movies. Rhett Butler, who could be played by no one but Gable, and Scarlett O'Hara, a Southerner played by the English Vivien Leigh, remain one of the silver screen's most romantic couples.
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*Classic films to screen at Tennessee Theatre*
By Amy McRary (Contact)
Friday, June 20, 2008
Movie magic is back for the summer of 2008 at the Tennessee Theatre. Film fans may have their own DVDs of some of these films at home, but there's nothing quite like watching a movie on the big screen - the way Cecil B. DeMille and Louis B. Mayer intended.
*The downtown Knoxville theatre's annual Summer Movie Magic classic film series presents six movies made from 1934 to 1979. Tickets (plus service charges) for each film are general admission and cost $8 for adults, $6 for ages 12 and younger or senior citizens 60 and older. Series passes are $40.50 and $30.*
*The films selected this year include an Alfred Hitchcock classic, the movie that made Vivien Leigh an international star and the film that helped cement Marilyn Monroe's sexy image. Selections vary from a 1934 classic black-and-white screwball comedy to the shoo-bop sha whada whada good times of the 1979 musical "Grease."*
The movies begin Sunday, June 22, with 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. special screenings of "Thunder Road." The 1958 black-and-white film stars Robert Mitchum as a Korean War veteran and moonshiner. Mitchum gets in trouble not only with the police, who want to put him in jail, but also with big-city gangsters who want to take over his trade.
"Thunder Road" has special appeal to Knoxville; its story is said to be based on the life of a 1950s area moonshine runner whose fatal car crash happened along Kingston Pike near the Bearden area.
Mitchum's son, James, who had a part in the film, is scheduled to attend the June 22 showing. The East Tennessee Region AACA (Antique Automobile Club of America) will display "Thunder Road" period cars.
*Other films in the series are:*
*"The Seven Year Itch"* - Perhaps the most enduring part of this 1955 Billy Wilder comedy is the scene of Monroe standing over a subway grate as her white skirt sails up. The story goes that Monroe's then husband, baseball great Joe DiMaggio, was furious that onlookers enjoyed the scene's filming.
*"Vertigo"* - Alfred Hitchcock's thriller about a retired San Francisco police detective (Jimmy Stewart) obsessed with a beautiful woman (Kim Novak).
*"Grease"* - John Travolta. Olivia Newton-John. Stockard Channing. "Beauty School Dropout." "Hopelessly Devoted to You." "Look At Me, I'm Sandra Dee." Almost 30 years after it was made, the musical shines with youth and nostalgia.
*"It Happened One Night"* - The 1934 Frank Capra film won five Academy Awards. It's a classic story - Claudette Colbert is a rich girl running away to elope with another man when she meets, hitchhikes with and falls for a dashing Clark Gable. Hollywood legend says when Gable removed his shirt in one screen, revealing he wore no undershirt, sales of undershirts plummeted.
*"Gone With the Wind"* - The romanticized film about the Old South may show its age in the historic facts but holds up as one of the great love stories of the movies. Rhett Butler, who could be played by no one but Gable, and Scarlett O'Hara, a Southerner played by the English Vivien Leigh, remain one of the silver screen's most romantic couples.
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Mon., Jun. 23, 2008
Variety
*Publicist Howard Brandy, whose career spanned nearly five decades in Hollywood, died Monday in Los Angeles after a long illness. He was 79.*
Raised in Brooklyn, Brandy served in the Marines during the 1950s, then settled in Los Angeles, where he went to work in the music industry. He represented teen heartthrobs Fabian and Frankie Avalon before going on to work with Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Sam Cooke, the Fifth Dimension, Lionel Richie, the Captain & Tennille and the Monkees. He also headed publicity for A&M records, Uni Records and Motown.
Brandy was known throughout Hollywood for his unusual voice that sounded like canvas dragged over rough road. Actor-producer Gene Kirkwood recalls an incident when Motown producer Berry Gordy left Brandy and Stevie Wonder alone together in a hotel room. "The minute Howard spoke, Stevie jumped up on the bed, terrified," Kirkwood said. "He'd never heard a sound like that before."
He worked on the Beatles' films "Hard Day's Night" and "Help!" but his film PR work kicked into high gear with 1967's "Privilege." He worked on publicity campaigns for many films, ranging from "Young Frankenstein" and all the "Police Academy" movies to "The Last Emperor."
Other films included "Silent Running" (1972), "The Omen" (1976), "Quest for Fire" (1981), "My Favorite Year" (1982), "Gorky Park" (1983), "Runaway Train" (1985), "Russia House" (1990), "The Last Seduction" (1994), "About Schmidt" (2002).
He also worked on such TV fare as the remakes of "East of Eden" and "The Magnificent Ambersons."
Brandy was involved with Academy Award campaigns for pics including Woody Allen's "Sweet and Low-Down," Pedro Almodovar's "All About My Mother" and "Sexy Beast."
Brandy also did press for top studio execs Ned Tanen, Mike Medavoy and Alan Ladd.
"I've known Howard since 1964," said Medavoy, now the head of Phoenix Pictures. "You don't meet that many individuals who have his warmth, his enthusiasm and his integrity. It was always evident in the work that he did and in the way that he lived his life."
In the book "The Moose That Roared: The Story of Jay Ward, Bill Scott, A Flying Squirrel and a Talking Moose," Brandy said he looked up Ward after stumbling upon Bullwinkle on TV, then became Ward's West Coast PR man in 1961.
His long relationship with "Rocky and Bullwinkle" creator Jay Ward led to several classic publicity stunts. One was a cross-country trip allegedly trying to create a national referendum urging statehood for Moosylvania, which ended in Ward and Brandy pulling up at the White House in full costume on the day the Cuban Missile Crisis erupted.
The strong-jawed visage of Canadian Mountie Dudley Do-Right was modeled on the profile of Brandy.
Brandy's wife, Rose Einstein, was formerly VP and publishing director of the Variety group and is currently VP and associate publisher of the Hollywood Reporter.
In addition to Einstein, he is survived by two daughters and a son.
A memorial service will be held Friday at 11 a.m. at Hillside Memorial Park, 6001 W. Centinela Ave., Los Angeles.
Donations may be made to the Motion Picture & Television Fund Foundation, P.O. Box 51150, Los Angeles, CA 90051-9706.
*Howard Brandy, publicist, dies at 79*
*Was said to be inspiration for Dudley Do-Right*
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His latest film is perhaps one of the very worst, only slightly less a catastrophe than the one that came before it...........................By this statement it just means....
Your Just mad beucase U haven't seen it you have nothing to add!
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GRAND RAPIDS, Minn.,
June 23, 2008 (UPI)
*GRAND RAPIDS, Minn., June 23 (UPI) -- Two actors who played Munchkins in the classic film "The Wizard of Oz" plan to attend the Judy Garland Festival in Grand Rapids, Minn., organizers said.*
Garland, a Grand Rapids native, famously played Dorothy in the iconic 1939 movie.
Munchkins players Margaret Pellegrini and Jerry Maren are to headline this weekend's festivities, which will also feature appearances by actors dressed as the Tin Man and Scarecrow characters, as well as talks given by Garland historian Steve Sanders and collector Michael Siewert.
Pianists Richard Glazier and Lorie Line are slated to perform music from Garland's heyday, while 15 of the entertainer's gowns are to go on display in the Judy Garland Museum.
A free screening of "The Wizard of Oz" has been planned, as well, organizers said.
John Kelsch, executive director of the museum, said in a statement: "There's no place like home. Seventy years ago this year, Judy came home to Minnesota for a triumphant visit."
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"The Happening" makes me want to talk to plastic trees and plants! LOL!
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You people are funny and a blast! I hope your as this nasty to your "OWN" friends and family!
For your info I never posted a George Carlin RIP thread...I made a comment ...but I never started the thread...Film_Fatale did! LOL!
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*An Animation Classic from the Novel That Enthralled the World.
Watership Down Deluxe Edition October 7, 2008 from Warner Home Video!*
BURBANK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--On October 7, Warner Home Video will celebrate the 30th anniversary of the classic fantasy film favorite with the DVD debut of Watership Down Deluxe Edition.
Adapted from British author Richard Adam?s first and best-selling novel, Watership Down, set near Adams? boyhood home of Hampshire, England, is based on stories the author would tell his children to pass the time on family trips. Never out of print, the novel was declared by Penguin Books in 1985 to be their second best-selling novel of all time1 (the first being ?Animal Farm?) and went on to win the United Kingdom?s Carnegie Medal for outstanding children?s literature.
This animated film adaptation is a thrilling allegorical adventure that celebrates traditional values of loyalty, courage and spirit, with a voice cast of well-known British actors such as John Hurt, Richard Briers, Harry Andrews, Simon Cadell, Nigel Hawthorne and Roy Kinnear. The featured song ?Bright Eyes? was sung by Art Garfunkel and later released as a single.
Watership Down Deluxe Edition will sell for $19.97 SRP.
Synopsis
Nestled among the rolling hills and peaceful meadows of England lives a community of rabbits. When their warren is threatened, a small group of brave rabbits illegally escapes into the unknown countryside in search of a safer home. Led by the visionary Fiver, the courageous Bigwig, the clever Blackberry, and the honorable Hazel, they embark on a danger-filled journey, where they must use their strength and cunning to survive, while pursuing their dream.
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*Thanks to the Magnolia and the Asian Film Fest Dallas folks, you'll have a chance to see the Sam Fuller noir classic, The Red Kimono, on the big screen this Tues., June 24, 2008 at 7 p.m.*
Here's the good part: it's free! Just pick up your ticket(s) at the Magnolia box office on the day of the screening.
Since this film is hard to find on DVD - and even harder to find playing anywhere on a big screen - this Turner Classic Movies digitally-projected simulcast presents a rare opportunity.
The film follows a pair of hardboiled LAPD **** (as in, "detectives") as they investigate the shooting of a stripper in the Japanese quarter of the city. A romance develops between Detective Joe Kojaku (James Shigeta) and Christine Downs (Victoria Shaw), a key witness.
Unlike other questionable Hollywood casting selections, Shigeta was an actual Asian-American, born in Hawaii. When he kissed actress Shaw on-screen, it represented a shocking breach of racially-based popular entertainment norms. The film has often been shown on late-night television with the kissing scene edited out.
Robert Osborne - as usual - will introduce the film for TCM, this time in tandem with special guest programmer Peter X. Feng, assoc. prof. of film, ethnic and cultural studies at the Univ. of Delaware.
Not to be missed.
http://www.pegasusnews.com/news/2008/jun/23/asian-film-fest-dallas-free-screening-crimson-kimo/
*The Crimson Kimono (1959)*
*Two detectives clash over the hunt for a stripper's killer in Los Angeles' Japanese district.*
*Will be shown on TCM on Tuesday, June 24th, 2008*
*@ 5:00pm (PT) Arizona Time!*
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By Mike Blackerby
Monday, June 23, 2008
The calm of another serene Sunday afternoon along South Gay Street was interrupted by vintage car chases and talk of bootleggers and their wicked moonshine.
There was even a palpable hint of danger in the air.
For just a couple of hours Sunday, you might have sworn the downtown Knoxville thoroughfare actually was "Thunder Road."
*Jim Mitchum, son of "Thunder Road" star Robert Mitchum, was on hand at the Tennessee Theatre to mark the 50th anniversary of the release of the movie, which told of running moonshine in the mountains of Tennessee and Kentucky in the 1950s.*
Jim Mitchum even commandeered a jet-black 1950 Ford Custom Deluxe belonging to "Thunder Road" enthusiast Bill Blalock of Gainesville, Ga.
Mitchum, with Blalock in tow, gunned it down South Gay Street as he evaded the pursuit of a 1957 Ford Custom 300 unmarked police car driven and owned by "Thunder Road" buff Clarence Haven in a scene right out of the opening frames of the movie.
Blalock's 1950 Ford is identical to the car in the movie, from its 35-gallon moonshine tank - full, of course - in the trunk to the oil sprayers under the rear bumper.
There's even an old Browning shotgun in the trunk, just like the one Lucas Doolin (played by Robert Mitchum) might have used in a pinch in the movie.
Blalock saw "Thunder Road" for the first time in June 1958 at the Tiger Drive-In in Tiger, Ga.
"I was 14 years old and with two of my buddies," said 64-year-old Blalock.
"They had dates, and I was the spare tire. I remember everybody talking about the movie. People were heavily into moonshine down there, and there was a lot of interest in it."
Blalock, who was among about 50 vintage car owners along for the ride for the 50th anniversary of the "Thunder Road" premiere tour, said he was hooked on the movie the first time he saw it.
"It's not just a car-chase movie. It has got a lot of the history of this part of the country. Mr. Mitchum wrote the story and did a lot of research. The movie deals with the thoughts and independence of the people."
Jim Mitchum, who is a dead ringer for his famous father but about three inches taller at 6 feet 3 inches, agreed that the lure of the movie had much more to do with people than cars.
"This movie says a lot about the rugged individualism of the real heartbeat of the country," said 67-year-old Mitchum, who appeared in "Thunder Road" as his father's younger brother, Robin Doolin.
"It wasn't really a car-chase movie. It was a movie about people that had cars in it. There was no pretense about the movie. The characters were just normal people."
Mitchum said he is humbled by the popularity of the movie - which was shown twice Sunday at the Tennessee Theatre.
"Thunder Road" was a drive-in staple in the 1960s and 1970s but has picked up even more of a cult following through its exposure on video and cable television.
"A lot of people in their 30s and 40s come up to me and say that's the first movie (they) remember seeing. That's pretty amazing. ? It seems like there's more interest in the movie now than ever. I don't know if it's just because that was a simpler time, or what."
Of course, it didn't hurt to have a mega-star the stature of Robert Mitchum in the picture.
"He always had this mystery about him," said Jim Mitchum with an obvious measure of respect and reverence for his father, who died in 1997.
"There was this element of danger to his characters," he said.
Knoxvillian Bob Christian estimated that he has seen "Thunder Road" more than 200 times.
As a child growing up in the moonshine hotbed of Clayton, Ga., Christian said the movie was right on in its depiction of bootleggers - and therein may be much of its appeal.
"I grew up with kids whose dads did it for a living," he said. "The people that were doing it didn't think they were doing anything wrong."
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/jun/23/classic-1958-film-thunder-capturing-hearts-50-year/
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My mother met Vincent Pirce to. Back in the 80's, Mr Price wrote several Cookbooks. Well 1 time he came to some Cooking/ Wine Tasting event here in Phoenix, Az, & he was there to sign his cookbook. My mom who just passed away, she still had the cookbook, well it now sits on my shelf. My mom always stated he was just a nice man, that knew alot about wine.
When I was growing up, Ben Johnson used to live out in Apache Junction, Az. Well back in the early 80's there was nothing out there like now..just lots of desert etc. Well I use to wash neighbor's car for an extra buck or to. Well I use to wash this really nice old guys car. Well 1 day walking through his home, I noticed his Oscar. (Very young and still learning about films) he told he was Ben Johnson, & the Oscar was for his film "The Last Picture Show". After that for the whole summer of 1984 or 1985 (before he passed) he talked to me about his career, let me hold his Oscar (WOW!) and well, introduced me to "The Last Picture Show". My mom and I had dinner W./him about 2xs. When He passed away in Mesa, Az, but he was buried in Oklahoma. We were both invited to his funeral but unable to go.
There is a tourist attraction called: Old Tucson Studios. Alot of films were made there both for TV & the theater. My mom & I met Kenny Rogers when he was there filming "The Gambler".
My mom met alot people out at Old Tucson Studios. She met Michael Landon to, from my understanding this is where some of "Little House on the Prairie" was shot.
In Denver, I met Pam Grier when was there for a Black Exploitation film fest. She came to kick off the film festivale, introduce "Foxy Brown" & do a Q&A W./the audience about her career. Nice lady. She signed my DVD copy of "Jackie Brown".
My mother met alot of famouse people. Both my parents were in the Air Force and stationed all over the world. My Mother always told the story about how she bumped into Spiro Agnew at the PBX in Germany, not really thinking about who he was, she just said excuse me, & before she could move past him the Secret Service surrounded her & freaked her out. Well after some time & explanation, he took both my Mom and Dad for Breakfast to apologize. He was in Germany doing something for Nixon, but this is all I remember from the story.
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The Associated Press
June 18, 2008
LELAND, Miss. - Kermit Scott, the man believed to be the inspiration for Jim Henson's proto-Muppet, Kermit the Frog, has died. He was 71.
Scott's brother-in-law, Aaron Moss, said the retired philosophy professor who lived in Monroe, Va., died last month.
Henson and Scott grew up as friends in Leland, a small Mississippi Delta town now home to a Muppets museum.
Family and friends said Scott shared his namesake's whimsical smile.
The Henson family moved away from Leland and the two lost touch.
Scott went on to become a philosophy professor at Yale, Purdue and Millsaps College, and was an advocate for the poor. He and his wife, Aadron, founded the Welfare Rights Organization and the food bank of Lafayette, Ind.
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*Dody Goodman (1915-2008)* - Comedienne, Actress - Played "Blanche", the principal's secretary in Grease and Grease 2 and Tom Hanks' absent-minded secretary in Splash and Splash, Too (in which Hanks was replaced by Todd Waring). She also appears in Silent Movie, Max Dugan Returns, Private Resort, Cool as Ice, Frozen Assets and Bedtime Story, and she had a recurring role in the Alvin and the Chipmunk cartoons, including the 1987 feature, The Chipmunk Adventure, providing her voice to the character of Miss Miller, adopted mother of the Chipettes. She died June 22 in Englewood, New Jersey. (AP)
*Sidney J. Bartholomew Jr. (c.1954-2008)* - Production Designer, Writer, Director - Won an Emmy for his work on TV's: "Pee-Wee's Playhouse" before collaborating on most of the Farrelly brothers' films, including: "There's Something About Mary", "Dumb & Dumber", Kingpin, Shallow Hal, Me, Myself and Irene, Stuck on You, The Heartbreak Kid, Say It Isn't So (produced by the Farrellys) and Osmosis Jones, in which he appears. He also co-wrote and directed the 2003 soccer comedy Just 4 Kicks, which starred Tom Arnold. He died June 15 in Los Angeles. (Variety)
*George Carlin (1937-2008)* - Comedian, Actor - Appears in: Dogma, Outrageous Fortune, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, Jersey Girl, The Prince of Tides, Car Wash, Scary Movie 3, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, With Six You Get Egg Roll and the documentaries The Aristrocrats, F*ck, Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism and The N Word. He also voiced characters in Cars, Happily N'Ever After and Tarzan II. For info on his death, read William's full post.
*Cyd Charisse (1921-2008)* - Actress, Dancer - Starred in Singin' in the Rain, Brigadoon, Party Girl, Ziegfeld Follies, The Band Wagon, It's Always Fair Weather, Two Weeks in Another Town, The Silencers and Silk Stockings.
*Jean Delannoy (1908-2008)* - Filmmaker - Directed the 1956 adaptation of The Hunchback of Notre Dame starring Anthony Quinn and Gina Lollobrigida, This Special Friendship and the Jean Cocteau-scripted Love Eternal and co-wrote and directed 1946 Cannes-winner La Symphonie Pastorale, Shadow of the Guillotine (Marie-Antoinette reine de France), Inspector Maigret (aka Woman-Bait), Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case, The Baron of the Locks and Mary of Nazareth. He died June 18 in Guainville, France. (AP)
*Franc G. Fallico (1942-2008*) - Coroner - Appears as himself in Werner Herzog's: "Grizzly Man". He died of cancer June 14, in Alaska. (Anchorage Daily News)
*Wera Frydtberg (1926-2008)* - Actress - Starred in the German films I Often Think of Piroschka, The Crammer and Aren't We Wonderful. She died June 16 in Munich. (Steffi-line.de)
*Henri Labussi?re (1921-2008)* - Actor - Voiced the character Panoramix in many of the Asterix and Obelix animated films, including: "Asterix Versus Caesar" and "Asterix and Cleopatra", and the character Professor Tournesol in the early '90s Tintin series. He also voiced a different character in The Adventures of Asterix and lent his voice to the French versions of Babar: The Movie and The Smurfs and the Magic Flute. He appears in Yves Robert's: "The Twin" and "War of the Buttons". He died of an aneurysm of the aorta June 15, in Paris. (Big Cartoon Forum)
*Bruce Lister (1912-2008)* - Actor, Screenwriter, Story Analyst - Appears in MGM's 1940 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, William Wyler's The Letter, Lloyd Bacon's Boy Meets Girl, Frank Lloyd's If I Were King, Fritz Lang's Man Hunt and Cloak and Dagger, Raoul Walsh's Desperate Journey, Mervyn LeRoy's Without Reservations, Mitchell Leisen's Golden Earrings and Richard Brooks' Something of Value. He passed away June 13. (LA Times)
*David Mitton (1939-2008)* - Director, Screenwriter - Adapted the "Thomas the Tank Engine" children's books into a hit TV series. He wrote and directed many episodes of the show and served as a consultant on the 2000 feature Thomas and the Magic Railroad. He died on May 23, one week after suffering a heart attack, in London. (Variety)
*Eugene Persson (c.1934-2008)* - Child Actor, Producer - Appears in: "Earth vs. the Spider", Bloodlust!, The Stratton Story, Nicholas Ray's On Dangerous Ground and the Ma and Pa Kettle series of films, including The Egg and I, which spawned the franchise. He also produced the 1967 film Dutchman, which starred his then-wife, Shirley Knight. He is best known for co-producing and co-creating the play "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown." He died of a heart attack June 6, in New York. (Variety)
Flore Marina Sandoval (1960-2008) - Makeup Artist - Did makeup for: "Maria Full of Grace", Barbet Schroeder's "Our Lady of the Assassins", Francesco Rossi's "Cronaca di una morte annunciata" and Sergio Cabrera's "Details of a Duel". She also was a hair stylist for Roland Joff?'s "The Mission" and "Maria Full of Grace". She died in a fire, along with her husband and son, June 15, in Queens, New York. (IMDb)
*Kermit Scott (1936-2008)* - Philosophy Professor - Childhood friend of Jim Henson who was the namesake for Kermit the Frog. He died May 26 in Lynchburg, Virginia. (AP)
*H. O'Neil Shanks (1917-2008)* - Former Executive Secretary for the Screen Extras Guild. He died June 16
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Jun 23rd 2008
`Big Bird' costume creator Kermit Love dies at 91! :LO(
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June 25, 2008
*Kermit Love, the costume designer who helped puppeteer Jim Henson create Big Bird and other "Sesame Street" characters, has died. He was 91.*
Love died from congestive heart failure Saturday in Poughkeepsie, near his home in Stanfordville, Love's longtime partner, Christopher Lyall, told The New York Times.
In addition to his work with Henson, Love was a designer for some of ballet's most prominent choreographers, including Twyla Tharp, Agnes de Mille, Jerome Robbins and George Balanchine.
Love also designed costumes and puppets for film and advertising, including the Snuggle bear from the fabric softener commercials.
"Sesame Street," public television's groundbreaking effort to use TV to teach preschoolers, premiered in 1969. Henson designed the original sketches of Big Bird, and Love then built the 8-foot, 2-inch yellow-feathered costume.
It was Love's idea to add a few feathers designed to fall off, to create a more realistic feel.
"The most important thing about puppets is that they must project their imagination, and then the audience must open their eyes and imagine," he told The New York Times in 1981.
Love also helped design costumes and puppets for Mr. Snuffleupagus, Oscar the Grouch and Cookie Monster, among other characters. He even appeared on the show himself as Willy, the fantasy neighborhood's resident hot dog vendor.
But Love always insisted Henson's famous frog wasn't named for him, according to The New York Times.
Caroll Spinney, who has played Big Bird since "Sesame Street" began, said he knew Love was gravely ill but didn't know he'd died until Tuesday.
"Kermit was definitely a totally unique person," 74-year-old Spinney said. "He looked very much like Santa Claus but was a little bit more like the Grinch."
In addition to designing the Big Bird costume, he added, "Kermit really helped me with dramatic coaching, and he was wonderful at that."
Born in 1916, Love began making puppets for a federal Works Progress Administration theater in 1935. He also designed costumes for Orson Welles' Mercury Theater. From there he began working with the New York City Ballet's costumer.
In his 2003 book, _"The Wisdom of Big Bird (and the Dark Genius of Oscar the Grouch): Lessons From a Life in Feathers_," Spinney recalled that after a year on "Sesame Street," he felt he couldn't live in New York on his salary.
Love told him to give it a month; the next week, Big Bird was on the cover of Time magazine and Spinney couldn't imagine leaving.
On the set of Sesame Street: Big Bird, director Helmut Hermann, Samson and Kermit Love.