CelluloidKid
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*_Fargo_ (1996)*
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Central Park ..... _The Out of Towners_ (1970)
*NEW WORD: Mardi Gras!*
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_The Dark Corner_ (1946) has a very simple plot ...a secretary tries to help her boss, who is framed for a murder.... great quotes and dialuge and very interesting role for Miss. Ball.
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*Interesting poster!*
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*It lQQked strange!*
*A feast for Disney junkies, the doc ?Walt & El Grupo? (opening today at the Screenland Crossroads) chronicles a 1941 trip to South America by Mickey Mouse?s creator and a group of his artists.*
Read more here:
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*Carmen Miranda!*
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Nine was suggested by Federico Fellini's semi-autobiographical film 8?.
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*_Lady Sings the Blues_ (1972) is 1 of my all time favorite "Bio" films. It was a film my mother introduced to me as a young boy, I remember growing up with both the music of Miss. Ross, and the music of Lady Day.*
_Lady Sings The Blues_ (1972) film about jazz singer Billie Holiday loosely based on her 1956 autobiography which, in turn, took its title from one of Holiday's most popular songs.
It was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning none.
The nominations were for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Diana Ross), Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Carl Anderson, Reg Allen), Best Costume Design, Best Music, Original Song Score and Adaptation (Gil Askey) and Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced.
The film was also screened at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, but was not entered into the main competition.
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*_Lady Sings the Blues trailer:_*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpqD4FozSoI
*Try to find on CD _Blue_, also referred to as _The Blue Album_*
Recorded in late 1971 and early 1972[2], the album was conceived as follow-up to the successful Lady Sings the Blues soundtrack but was shelved in order to return Ross to the pop charts with the more pop oriented "Touch Me in the Morning" single and album. Finally released in 2006!
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I know ... 20 yrs ...POOF! LOL! The film holds up well!
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_Pete's Dragon_ (1977) ....!???....
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*Kate Winslet to Channel Joan Crawford in HBO's 'Mildred Pierce' Remake*
by Lesley Goldberg |
Article Date: 02/12/2010
SheWired
*Can you handle five hours of Kate Winslet?*
Better yet, can you handle five hours of former _Heavenly Creature_ Winslet in 1920s garb? We?re talking corsets and possible Flapper attire, here, ladies.
No, you?re not dreaming. HBO is making what for many is only a great daydream into a reality. According to The Hollywood Reporter, HBO has picked up the rights to Mildred Pierce, a five-hour miniseries from openly gay writer-director Todd Haynes, who directed _Far From Heaven_, a thoughtful re-imagining of Douglas Sirk's fifties' classic All that Heaven Allows.
Mildred Pierce, an adaptation of James M. Cain?s novel, centers on Mildred Pierce Beragon (Winslet), a proud single mother struggling to earn her daughter?s love during the Great Depression in middle-class Los Angeles.
The 1941 novel was previously translated to the big screen in 1945 in a vehicle that starred Joan Crawford in the title role and Ann Blyth and Jo Ann Marlowe as her daughters. Crawford won a best actress Oscar that year for her portrayal of the single mother in the noir thriller.
Aside from Winslet?s casting, no other roles have been filled.
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*Restored "Metropolis" shown outdoors in snowy Berlin*
Reuters
Fri Feb 12, 2010
*BERLIN (Reuters) - More than 2,000 cult film fans braved snow for an outdoor screening of "Metropolis," Fritz Lang's chilling, monumental vision of mechanized society, in front of Berlin's Brandenburg Gate on Friday!*
The 1927 dystopian classic, including 30 minutes from the original feared lost forever, was also shown at a gala performance for 1,800 accompanied by a live orchestra and beamed simultaneously to the outdoor crowd in the heart of Berlin.
"Metropolis," which now runs for more than 2-1/2 hours, forged a template for generations of science fiction cinema and its enduring influence has been cited on films from "Blade Runner" to "Fahrenheit 451" and "Star Wars."
"It's the mother of all science fiction and I could hardly wait to see the 30 minutes they found," said Stefan Kolb, 25, a graphic designer. "It's special to watch this outdoors. But if I could have got a ticket for inside, I'd be there instead."
"Metropolis" -- depicting a tumultuous class struggle in a vast, urban society -- was the first film to be entered into UNESCO's Memory of the World Register, which aims to preserve cultural achievements of outstanding significance.
First released in 1927, the film set a century later was a commercial flop at first and nearly ruined the studio behind it. Soon after its premiere, the movie was heavily cut to make it more accessible and several new versions emerged.
Efforts to restore the film were made over the years but roughly a quarter of it was feared lost for good. Three reels, found in Argentina in 2008, have been restored and all but six minutes of the original 153-minute version were screened.
"It was an incredible stroke of good fortune -- 'Metropolis' is a national cultural treasure," German Culture Minister Bernd Neumann told Reuters at the Brandenburg Gate. "It's a great event even if there's a bit of snow coming down."
Filmed at Babelsberg studio outside Berlin, "Metropolis" uses science-fiction to explore social tensions between workers and owners in capitalism.
The film is set in a massive, towering city of the future called "Metropolis" where a downtrodden working class slaves away on giant machines while the sons of the rich idle away their time in luxury and decadence.
"I thought on a cold snowy night like tonight there might be two people standing outside watching at the Brandenburg Gate," said Berlinale director Dieter Kosslick. "But there are more than 2,000 out there. It's incredible."
Monika Doerhoefer, a 38-year-old student watching with her boyfriend, travelled from Bavaria to see the new version.
"It's fascinating to see the vision of the future they had in the 20s," she said. "I've seen the shorter version before and couldn't wait to see the original length. It's a classic."
(Editing by Louise Ireland)
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*Marilyn Monroe: Amazing never-seen-before photos of the late-lamented Hollywood sex siren*
By Jody Thompson, Mirror.co.uk 5/02/2010
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*_Juarez_ (1939)*
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*_Y Tu Mama Tambien_ (2002)*
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Storm's popularity was capitalized on when she served as hostess of the NBC Comedy Hour in the winter of 1956. That year she starred in another situation comedy, The Gale Storm Show (aka Oh! Susanna), featuring another silent movie star, ZaSu Pitts.
*Celebri-links .... ZaSu Pitts!*
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*Kramer, Stanley* - An American film director and producer responsible for some of Hollywood's most famous "message" movies.
His notable films include The Defiant Ones (1958), On the Beach (1959), Inherit the Wind (1960), Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), Ship of Fools (1965) and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967). His work was recognized with the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1961 and during his career has been nominated for Oscars 9 times.
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*Janssen, Famke*
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Sterling Hayden was in: _Johnny Guitar_ (1954) with Joan Crawford!
*NEW STAR: Joan Crawford!*
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Sterling Hayden was in: _Johnny Guitar_ (1954) with Joan Crawford!
*NEW STAR: Joan Crawford!*
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*Berlin Film Festival Turns 60 Without Polanski*
By Mike Collett-White
February 10, 2010
*BERLIN (Reuters) - The Berlin film festival turns 60 this year, and a host of Hollywood stars will walk the red carpet over the next 10 days to mark the anniversary.*
*One who will not is Roman Polanski, whose latest movie "The Ghost Writer" has its world premiere at the event on Friday but who is under house arrest in a Swiss chalet.*
Organizers are hoping that A-listers like Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, jury member Renee Zellweger and Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan make up for his absence and ensure 2010 is a success after criticism of the quality of recent editions.
The opening film, kicking off a crush of screenings, interviews, parties and dealmaking in Berlin, is Chinese movie "Apart Together" directed by Wang Quan'an who won the best film Golden Bear in 2007 for "Tuya's Marriage."
Apart Together follows a group of aging ex-soldiers of the National People's Party who get permission to return to the mainland from Taiwan for the first time since they were forced to retreat to the island in 1949.
Lui Yansheng is not going back to see family members like the others, however, but to seek out his long-lost love and their son who was born after he fled over 50 years earlier.
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=9801504
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Otto Preminger directed Joan Crawford in: _Daisy Kenyon_ (1947)!
*NEW STAR: Joan Crawford!*
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*Fred Morrison, inventor of the Frisbee, dies at 90*
By Emma Brown
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, February 12, 2010
Fred Morrison, 90, a pilot and carpenter most often credited with inventing that most ubiquitous of backyard toys, the Frisbee, died Feb. 9 at his home in Monroe, Utah. He had lung cancer.
People have been tossing flat, round objects for millennia, and the origins of the Frisbee have been shrouded in conflicting claims and legend. But it was Mr. Morrison who created the flying disc that was eventually marketed to the world, giving rise to a beloved form of egalitarian picnic entertainment and spin-off sports including Ultimate Frisbee, canine Frisbee, freestyle Frisbee and professional disc golf, a sport that's grown large enough that its champions can now make a living on prize money and sponsorships.
Inspiration for Mr. Morrison's flying-saucer toy came in 1937 at a Thanksgiving feast in Southern California. He and his girlfriend, Lucile "Lu" Nay, entertained themselves by tossing a popcorn-tin lid in the backyard. The lid eventually became dented, ruining its aerodynamic potential, and the resourceful couple snatched a cake pan from Mr. Morrison's mother's kitchen.
Cake pans, it turned out, were sturdier and flew better -- so much so that one day, when the two were flinging a pan back and forth on the beach, an impressed passerby offered to buy it. The pan had originally cost a nickel, the stranger offered a quarter -- and that exchange was enough to whet Mr. Morrison's entrepreneurial appetite.
"That got the wheels turning," he told a Norfolk, Va., reporter in 2007. "There was a business."
He and Nay, whom he eventually married, sold the pans at local beaches and parks. Mr. Morrison was at work on a new and improved flying-cake-pan design when he went off to World War II as a fighter-bomber pilot. Shot down while flying a mission over Italy, he spent 48 days as a prisoner of war in a German camp.
After the war, Mr. Morrison and Nay settled in Southern California. He went to work as a carpenter, but he continued sketching designs for his better-than-ever cake pan. When a series of alleged UFO sightings launched a national craze for all things extraterrestrial, Mr. Morrison took advantage, designing and launching the world's first plastic disc, the Flyin-Saucer, in 1948.
No one knew quite what to do with a Flyin-Saucer unless the possibilities were demonstrated in person, so Mr. Morrison and his then-business partner, Warren Franscioni, traveled to weekend fairs and carnivals to sell their aerial wares.
Still, sales sagged and the two parted ways.
Undaunted, Mr. Morrison tried again in the mid-1950s. He developed a new mold for a disc he called the Pluto Platter, stamped with the names of all the solar system's planets around its rim. Again he made the rounds at local fairs, this time dressed in space-travel garb. "Play catch," read the instructions written by his wife on the back side of the Platter. "Flat Flip Flies Straight, Tilted Flip Curves -- Experiment!"
A young California company called Wham-O, which had made a name for itself with the Hula Hoop, took notice of the Platter's brisk sales. In 1957, Mr. Morrison signed over the Pluto Platter rights to Wham-O in exchange for lifetime royalties.
On a trip to the East Coast, Wham-O executives discovered that young people had their own name for the Platters -- "Frisbies," after the Frisbie Pie Co. in Bridgeport, Conn., a bakery whose pie tins had long been popular for tossing on New England college campuses. With a slight change of spelling to avoid trademark trouble, Wham-O's Frisbee was born.
Wham-O representative said the company has sold well over 200 million Frisbees, which have grown beyond their roots as casual playthings.
In addition to professional disc golf, in which players attempt to hit targets rather than sink putts, athletes play Ultimate Frisbee, a cross between soccer and football whose American players' association claims more than 27,000 members; Guts, in which players attempt to catch each other's high-speed throws without breaking their fingers; and canine Frisbee, in which people throw Frisbees to their dogs, who compete for the most impressive catches.
The World Flying Disc Federation tracks a slew of world records, including longest Frisbee toss (about 820 feet by a Swede named Christian Sandstrom) and maximum time aloft (16.72 seconds by American Don Cain).
Walter Fredrick Morrison was born Jan. 23, 1920, in Richfield, Utah, and moved with his family to Los Angeles as a teenager.
After making his deal with Wham-O, Mr. Morrison continued working as a carpenter until 1961, when he took a job as a building inspector. He quit in 1967, when the Frisbee royalties eliminated the need for a day job.
Mr. Morrison kept seeking the next big fad in toys, but his Crazy Eight Bowling Balls and Popsicle Machine, both bought by Wham-O, never came close to matching his first success. In 1983, having divorced, he moved to an 80-acre ranch in Monroe, Utah, not far from where he was born. He bred race horses and operated the local airport and a motel.
A complete list of survivors could not be confirmed.
Wham-O employee Ed Headrick reportedly believed himself to be the true father of the modern Frisbee. He re-designed the Pluto Platter in the 1960s, eliminating the no-longer-fashionable space theme and adding concentric grooves that reportedly stabilized the disc in flight, eliminating wobbles. Despite securing a patent on his version of the disc, he didn't earn royalties from Wham-O and went on to found the Professional Disc Golf Association.
Troubled by the profusion of myths circulating about the provenance of the world's first plastic flying disc, Mr. Morrison co-authored a book on the subject with Frisbee collector Phil Kennedy. "Flat Flip Flies Straight! True Origins of the Frisbee" was published in 2006.
Mr. Morrison never liked the Frisbee name. "He thought it didn't apply to anything," Kennedy recalled in an interview. "It was just a crazy name that didn't mean anything."
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*_Zabriskie Point_ (1970)*
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Rita Hayworth was loaned to MGM for: _Susan and God_ (1940) with Joan Crawford!
*NEW STAR: Joan Crawford!*