CelluloidKid
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"Blade Runner" Niiiiice Choice! Love that film! Also What about "The Omega Man"!
Then there is always "The World, The Flesh and the Devil"
(Harry Belafonte plays a miner who gets trapped in a small cave-in. He digs his way out to find every living soul on earth has vanished; that is until he discovers Inger Stevens)!
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Did You Know...Christopher Lee, who played Scaramanga in The Man With The Golden Gun, is Ian Fleming's cousin
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I have heard that Sean Connery wasn't supposed to be the first James Bond. Roger Moore was Ian Fleming' s original choice to play James Bond.
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What is funny is that Ian Flemming is also the author of the children's book "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang".
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The casting of Scarlett is the most fascinating part of the "Making of GWTW".
I'm a huge fan of "GWTW", Own a copy too!
I think that it is so fascinating that so many famous or soon-to-be-famous actresses were either screen-tested, auditioned, or considered for the role of Scarlett, including Katharine Hepburn, Norma Shearer, Bette Davis, Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Crawford, Lana Turner, Susan Hayward, Carole Lombard, Irene Dunne, Merle Oberon, Ida Lupino, Joan Fontaine, Loretta Young, Miriam Hopkins, Tallulah Bankhead, Frances Dee, and Lucille Ball.
I still that it is interesting that four actresses, including Jean Arthur and Joan Bennett, were still under consideration by December 1938, before filming began. But only two finalists, Paulette Goddard and Vivien Leigh, were tested in Technicolor, both on December 20, 1938. Selznick had been quietly considering Vivien Leigh since February 1938 when Selznick saw her in "Fire Over England" and "A Yank at Oxford".
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The Re-Make of Blood and Sand is stange! The Original tile is: Sangre y arena (Spanish).
Sharon Stone is not bad! IT was 1 of her early filsm whe she waws 1st starting out!
An interesting remake of the original "Blood and Sand" (1914) is given an erotic and soapy revamp in the remake.
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Thanks for the info! I love to read books on movie stars, the movie studios etc!
There is a brand new Joan Crawford bio coming February 5, 2008!
It's called: Not the Girl Next Door: Joan Crawford, a Personal Biography (Hardcover)
by Charlotte Chandler!
I just pre-ordered it form Amazon.com
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In the book-length interview, Hitchcock/Truffaut (1967), Hitchcock told fellow filmmaker Fran?ois Truffaut that he considered his 1956 remake to be superior, saying that the 1934 version was the work of a talented amateur, the 1956 version the work of a professional.
& don't forget the film won an Academy Award for Best Song for "Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)," sung by Doris Day at several points in the action.
The song reached number two on the U.S. pop charts and number one in the UK.
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Promises Lyrics
Artist(Band): Badly Drawn boy
Album: Born in the U.K.
Promises
I promise you will get old
I promised you everything
To protect you wherever you go
I'll give you this diamond ring
Just promise you will remember
A promise should last forever
Right up to the dying embers
Of a fire that burns so slow
It's a different day everyday
Don't want you to walk alone
But how long we carry on
When all of these things have gone
Just promise you will remember
That promises last forever
Still after the last dying embers
Of a fire that burns so slowly
It's a beautiful thing to do
Sometimes you just have to walk away
Remember I do love you
Have courage in what you say
And promise you will remember
That promises last forever
Still after the dying embers
The fire that burns so slowly
And sometimes you just have to walk away
Sometimes you just have to walk away
Wishing today was yesterday
Yeah, sometimes you just have to walk away
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I'm still curious about happend W./the Joan Crawford film "Great Day!"??
Great Day!
A Harry Beaumont-directed MGM musical starring Joan initially set for release in 1931; production started in the fall of 1930, but after around 8 weeks of shooting, the film was scrapped at considerable cost to the studio ($280,000 according to Joan and US), largely due to Joan's extreme unhappiness with her southern belle performance ("I just can't talk baby talk," Joan told LB Mayer after viewing the rushes, which she thought were "God-awful.") Another effort was made to make the film in 1934, this time starring Jeanette MacDonald, but this also fell through.
I think I repeated myself!
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One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things.
~John Burroughs
HAPPY 2008 EVERYONE!!!
Another fresh new year is here . . .
Another year to live!
To banish worry, doubt, and fear,
To love and laugh and give!
This bright new year is given me
To live each day with zest . . .
To daily grow and try to be
My highest and my best!
I have the opportunity
Once more to right some wrongs,
To pray for peace, to plant a tree,
And sing more joyful songs!?
William Arthur Ward quotes
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Tell me what "End of the world films you like? (End of the world, dystopia etc) Let's Discuss!!
Mine Include:
Miracle Mile
The Day After
Testament
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Logan's Run
When Worlds Collide (1951)
Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
On the Beach (1959)
Fail-Safe (1964)
Blade Runner
Metropolis (1927)
Night of the Comet (1984)
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Hairpsray The Musical
The Wickerman Re-Make (Nic Cage has to go)
The Apple (Bad 80's musical)
Black Christmas Re-Make
Halloween Re-make (Rob Zombie shld be kicked out of Hollywood)
A.I.
Jaws: The Revenge
The Blair Witch Project
The Fog Re-Make
From Justin to Kelly
The Hills Have Eyes Re-make
Pearl Harbor (2001)
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
'Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
The Sting 2
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LOL!!!
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Hands down!! Evertyime I watch "Breakfast at Tiffany's" & it get's toward the end of the film where it's raining (After and the famous closing sequence that shows Paul's "lecture" to Holly and Holly's self-discovery of who she really is and who makes her truly happy) & she goes to find the cat (which she tossed out of the cab "BEFORE" the speech & Audrey (looking top die for in Givenchy, even when it's raining!!!) Yellign "Cat, Cat Cat""!! Then George Peppard pops up and helps her find the cat, & when they do, they hug & the camera pulls back to them kissing & holding the cat while "Moonriver" swoons loud, "Oh God"!!!!
The tears come & fast!
I cry everytime!!
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YES!! EVEN "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"
Butch Cassidy and Sundance do have a rather odd relationship and it?s unclear as to what the filmmaker?s true intention was with that. Sundance gets angry when Butch Cassidy is fooling around with women. They ride a horse together, for several hours. Butch rides around on a bike while "Raindrops Keep Fallin? on My Head" plays. And they spend virtually every waking moment together.
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I have said it once, I will say it again! Check out: "The Celluloid Closet" which is a 1995 documentary! Very interesting!
The documentary interviews various men and women connected to the Hollywood industry to comment on various film clips and their own personal experiences with the treatment of LGBT characters in film. From the sissy characters, to the censorship of the Hollywood Production Code, the coded gay characters and cruel stereotypes to the progress made in the early 1990s.
I always thought "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" had some "VERY" thin gay overtones!!!!
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Halle Berry & that catsuit ! Her lycra catsuit was replaced with slashed leather pants, a bra, and a mask-cap, and she leaps from rooftop to rooftop in stiletto heels (her costumes get skimpier as the movie progresses). ROFL!
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The last story, "Nightmare at 40,000 Feet" that saves the film with John Lithgow as a VERY nervous plane passenger who sees a creature outside his window damaging the engines. It's scary and exciting....as we expect from the Twilight Zone.
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I loved the futuristic fashion that Jane Fonda as Barbarella wears!!
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Amazon.com sells: "Tyrone Power Collection" which has the films: (Blood and Sand / Son of Fury / The Black Rose / Prince of Foxes / The Captain from Castile) (1948)!
This DVD boxed set shows Tyrone Power as Twentieth Century Fox (that is, Fox head honcho Darryl F. Zanuck) saw him: handsome, dashing, prone to swordplay and adventure. Zanuck's instincts were in tune with what audiences wanted to see from Ty Power, and the athletic actor was one of Hollywood's most popular stars from the late 1930s through his exit for WWII service--and he remained popular in the late 1940s, although he chafed at his limited casting opportunities. The real Tyrone Power may well have been more interesting than these movies suggest, although you wouldn't know it: he comes across as earnest, square, and unfailingly attractive.
The earliest film in the set is the 1941 Blood and Sand, a Technicolor-crazed remake of the old Rudolph Valentino silent picture.
Then 1989 there was a Spanish remake was directed by Javier Elorrieta and starred Chris Rydell, Sharon Stone, and Ana Torrent!
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Bette Davis will have a stamp coming out in 2008!! Nice honor! She's the 14th inductee into the "Legends of Hollywood" series.
But still! I'm left scratching my head and saying: What?! Bette has a stamp and Joan Crawford doesn't??
Ideas for stamp subjects should be mailed to:
CITIZENS' STAMP ADVISORY COMMITTEE
U.S. POSTAL SERVICE
1735 N LYNN ST STE 5013
ARLINGTON VA 22209-6432
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"Valley of the Dolls" had some bad cloths and hair!
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My Favorite Tyrone Power Films were:
Alexander's Ragtime Band
Marie Antoinette
The Rains Came
The Mark of Zorro
Blood and Sand
The Black Swan
The Razor's Edge
The Black Rose
Witness for the Prosecution
I was at Frys Electronics yesterday 12/30/07 & I bought "Prince of Foxes" on DVD!
I can't find " The Eddy Duchin Story" W./With Tyrone Power & Kim Novak to rent!
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?Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did, backwards and on high heels?.