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ice cream parlor ......... _Ghost Story_ (1981)
*NEW WORD: Snow!*
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Charles Bickford WAS IN: _The Song of Bernadette_ (1943) with Jennifer Jones!
*NEW STAR: Jennifer Jones!!!!*
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*Fri, Jan 22, 2010!!*
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*Yeah ..... Thank's TCM for another "RARE" Joan Crawford film!!!!*
*_The Bride Wore Red_ (1937) ...Fri, Jan 22, 2010 @ 12:15pm Arizona Time! Check Your Local Time!*
_Notes_: In production from 6/5/37 to 8/10/37.
*Bride Wore Red, The. MGM, 1937.*
Directed by Dorothy Arzner, 103 minutes. Joan stars as "Anni," a cabaret singer masquerading as a society girl to land a rich man, in her 7th and final film with husband Franchot Tone. (Robert Young plays the rich guy, and Tone the rather fruity flute-playing postman who loves her.) Joan had looked forward to working with a female director, but by the end of filming, she and Arzner weren't speaking.
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*The Coen Bros. 'True Grit' Snags Christmas Release*
January 21, 2010
Screen Rant
Ross Miller
*We learned in March of last year that the great Coen Brothers were set to bring us a remake/new adaptation of True Grit, which was originally a novel that was adapted into a classic John Wayne film of the same name in 1969 (the one and only time Wayne won an Oscar, FYI). The Coen?s version will star Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon and possibly Josh Brolin.*
In an update, Variety recently reported that Paramount Pictures is planning on releasing True Grit on Christmas Day 2010. That puts it on the latter end of the season when ?Oscar-bait? films usually get released, and if they make it anywhere near as good as their multiple Oscar-winner, No Country for Old Men, then I have no doubt we?ll see the Coens making yet another appearance at the Oscars in 2011.
Bridges is set to play U.S. Marshall Rooster Cogburn (originally played by Wayne), who teams up with Matt Damon?s lawman character (originally named La Beouf and played by Glen Campbell). Damon is listed as co-starring, so it appears the previous talks he was in for the role went well. There?s no mention of Brolin in Variety?s article, so either that means talks fell through with him or they?re still going on (I suspect the latter ? after all, Brolin starred in No Country for Old Men).
There was a casting call last month for the part of the 14-year-old girl whose father is murdered (by the character Brolin would play if he?s cast), which sets the whole plot in motion. There?s no word on who the studio has in mind for the role, but the guys over at Collider make a smart suggestion with Chloe Moretz, who is fast-rising stare due to her roles in both Kick-**** (where she swears like a sailor) and the English-language remake of Let the Right One In, entitled Let Me In. I personally think Collider is right on the money with that casting suggestion.
Are you looking forward to the Coen Brothers? version of True Grit? Is Moretz a good choice to play the little girl or do you think another young actress would be a better choice (if so, who)?
As stated, True Grit is set to be released on Christmas Day this year. Shooting is expected to begin this March.
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*Turner Classic Movies to Welcome Mel Brooks to TCM Classic Film Festival in April, Including Presentation of Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame*
Jan. 20, 2010
ATLANTA, Jan. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- *Legendary funnyman Mel Brooks is set to be a featured guest at the TCM Classic Film Festival in April. As part of the festivities, TCM will partner with the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce as they honor Brooks with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, which marks its 50th anniversary this year. Brooks will also introduce a festival screening of his first feature film, The Producers (1968), which earned Brooks an Oscar? for Best Original Screenplay.*
"Mel Brooks is one of the funniest men in the world today, and he has made life much happier for all of us, thanks to The Producers, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein and so many of his other movie comedies," said Robert Osborne, who will be on-hand at the festival as its host. "We're very pleased he's going to join us at the TCM Classic Film Festival and look forward to toasting him in celebration of his well-deserved star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame."
Director, producer, writer and actor, Mel Brooks 2001 smash hit Broadway musical The Producers--winner of a record-breaking 12 Tony Awards?. Three of those (Best Score, Best Book of a Musical, Best Musical), along with two Grammy Awards? (Best Musical Show Album and Best Long-Form Music Video), went to Brooks himself. He recently followed it up with the successful Broadway production of Young Frankenstein, which won the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical.
Brooks began his distinguished career during television's Golden Age as a writer for Sid Caesar on Your Show of Shows in 1951. In 1955, 1956 and 1957, he received Emmy? nominations (with others) for Best Comedy Writing for Caesar's Hour. In 1952, Brooks wrote sketches for Leonard Sillman's Broadway smash-hit revue New Faces of 1952, and in 1957, together with Joe Darion, he wrote the book for the Broadway musical Shinbone Alley, which starred Eartha Kitt. In 1962, he wrote the book for the Broadway musical All American, starring Ray Bolger.
In the '60s, Brooks teamed up with Carl Reiner to write and perform The 2000 Year Old Man albums, which became immediate bestsellers. In 1960 and 1961, Brooks and Reiner received Grammy nominations for Best Spoken-Word Comedy for 2000 Years and for Best Comedy Performance for 2000 and One Years, respectively. In 1997, Brooks and Reiner teamed up again for The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000. Both a book and CD were released, the CD winning a Grammy in 1998 for the Best Spoken-Word Album, Comedy.
Brooks wrote and narrated The Critic, a short satire on avant-garde art films, which received the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Subject in 1964. In 1965, he teamed up with Buck Henry to create Get Smart, the long-running television show starring Don Adams. Brooks, along with others, received an Emmy for Outstanding Writing Achievement in Comedy-Variety in 1967 for The Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris Special. In 1968, he wrote and directed his first feature film, The Producers, starring Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder, which earned him an Academy Award? for Best Original Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen. He then went on to create a remarkable string of hit comedies: 1970, wrote, directed and acted in The Twelve Chairs; 1974, co-wrote, directed and acted in Blazing Saddles and was nominated, along with John Morris, for Best Title Song, "Blazing Saddles"; 1974, co-wrote and directed Young Frankenstein; 1976, co-wrote, directed and starred in Silent Movie; 1977, co-wrote, directed, produced and starred in High Anxiety; 1981, wrote, directed, produced and starred in History of the World, Part I; 1983, produced and starred in To Be or Not to Be; 1987, co-wrote, directed, produced and starred in the hit sci-fi spoof, Spaceballs; 1991, co-wrote, directed, produced and starred in Life Stinks; 1993, co-wrote, directed, produced and starred in Robin Hood: Men in Tights; 1995, co-wrote, directed, produced and starred in Dracula: Dead and Loving It; and 2005, co-wrote and produced The Producers, the film version of his Tony-winning 2001 Broadway musical and was nominated for a Grammy for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, "There's Nothing Like a Show on Broadway."
For three successive seasons, Brooks won Emmys for his role as Uncle Phil on the hit comedy show Mad About You. His visionary film company, Brooksfilms Limited, founded in 1980, has produced some of America's most distinguished films, among them David Lynch's The Elephant Man, David Cronenberg's The Fly, Graeme Clifford's Frances, Richard Benjamin's My Favorite Year and David Jones' 84 Charing Cross Road, starring Anthony Hopkins and Anne Bancroft.
Last year, commemorating his lifelong contributions to American culture, Brooks was named among the most recent recipients of the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors.
*About the TCM Classic Film Festival*
The TCM Classic Film Festival, which is set to take place in Hollywood April 22-25, 2010, will be a landmark celebration of the history of Hollywood and its movies, presented in a way that only TCM can, with major events, celebrity appearances, panel discussions and more. The four-day festival will also provide movie fans a rare opportunity to experience some of cinema's greatest works as they were meant to be seen - on the big screen. TCM will announce additional special events, guests and programming in the weeks and months ahead. The central hub for the festival will be Club TCM, located inside the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. The Roosevelt, which served as the site of the first Academy Awards? ceremony, will be the official hotel for the festival. Only passholders will be allowed entry into Club TCM, which will include a festival lounge, panel discussions, social events, a boutique and poolside screenings. Event locations include Grauman's Chinese Theatre and the Egyptian Theatre.
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Alan Ladd was in: _They Met in Bombay_ (1941) directed by Clarence Brown!
*NEW DIRECTOR: Clarence Brown!*
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*January 22 - _The Bride Wore Red_ (1937) - 2:15pm (12:15pm - Arizona Time!) - This film was the last of seven Crawford and co-star Franchot Tone (her then husband) would make together.*
*Adrian for MGM, gown for Joan Crawford in The Bride Wore Red in red pave bugle beads, gold beads, red crepe, 1937.*
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George Macready was in: _The Big Clock_ (1948) directed by John Farrow!
*NEW DIRECTOR: John Farrow!*
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*Under the _Tuscan_ Sun (2003)*
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*_M_ (1931)*
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In the trailer for _The Feminine Touch_ (1941)
*All Times Eastern - Check Local Schedule for Times !!*
*TCM will celebrate Kay's birthday on January 13th with a mini marathon of films.*
Playgirl (1940) will be shown on January 12th at 7:45 am.
*_January 13, 2010 schedule_:*
7:00 AM The Goose And The Gander (1935)
8:15 AM Another Dawn (1937)
9:30 AM Comet Over Broadway (1938)
1:15 PM Women Are Like That (1938)
2:45 PM It's A Date (1940)
6:15 PM Always In My Heart (1942)
12:00 PM Secrets Of An Actress (1938)
6:15 PM Always In My Heart (1942)
4:30 PM The Feminine Touch (1941)
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Jean-Pierre Aumont married Maria Montez, a Dominican actress. She was known as the Queen of Technicolor, and their marriage was very happy; however, she tragically drowned on 7 September 1951 after suffering an apparent heart attack, in the family's villa at Suresnes, France.
*Celebri-links ... Maria Montez*
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*_Above Suspicion_* (for A)!
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*French New Wave director Eric Rohmer dies*
Tue, 12 Jan 2010
*Eric Rohmer, a leading filmmaker of the French New Wave cinema whose films explored love and intimacy with stark realism, has died in Paris at the age of 89.*
He emerged in the 1960s and was active as a key member of the French New Wave. He worked with Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut, who are main figures of the genre in France.
The films he made under the rubric Six Moral Tales between 1962 and 1972 brought international prominence.
The French director mostly known for My Night at Maud's and Claire's Knee was internationally known for his films' long, philosophical conversations.
Rohmer's most recent film, the 17th-century costume tale Romance of Astree and Celadon, was released in 2007.
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Don Taylor's last major film role came in _I'll Cry Tomorrow_ (1955) directed by Daniel Mann!
*NEW DIRECTOR: Daniel Mann!*
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*Q - _Quigley Down Under_ (1990)*
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*?African Queen? Finally Gets Release Date*
*The Final Film from AFI's 100 Greatest Movies to Arrive on DVD Makes its Long-Awaited Premiere March 23, 2010 Including Nearly an Hour of All-New Bonus Material!!*
*One of the most wanted classic films for DVD will finally get its due March 23 (order date Feb. 9) when Paramount Home Entertainment releases 1951?s The African Queen on DVD and Blu-ray Disc.*
The title has been released on VHS but never before on DVD or Blu-ray.
Paramount also is recognizing the classic film with commemorative, limited-edition DVD and Blu-ray sets.
The romantic adventure earned Humphrey Bogart his only Academy Award (Best Actor), was directed by John Huston (The Maltese Falcon) and also starred Katharine Hepburn. Paramount took six years to restore the film using 4K digital technology. One of the film?s original production companies, Romulus Films, provided the studio with the original three-strip negative, which Paramount cleaned up frame by frame.
The film?s cinematographer, Academy Award winner Jack Cardiff, screened the film and Paramount recorded his comments for the bonus features.
Among the special features for the single-disc DVD and Blu-ray are a new documentary, ?Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen,? which includes new interviews with film experts, including director Martin Scorsese; and incorporates home movies and archival footage to walk viewers through the making of the film.
The limited editions also will include an audio disc with a recording of a radio version of The African Queen, broadcast by the Lux Radio Theater; a Senitype film frame collectible reproduction; collectible postcards; and a reproduction of Hepburn?s out-of-print memoir, ?The Making of The African Queen or How I Went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall and Huston and Almost Lost My Mind.?
The single-disc DVD is listed at a low $19.99, with the boxed-set priced at $34.99. The single-disc Blu-ray will be $26.99, with the Blu-ray boxed set priced at $43.99.
*_THE AFRICAN QUEEN DVD & Blu-ray_*
THE AFRICAN QUEEN DVD is presented in full screen format with English, French and Spanish Mono and English, French and Spanish subtitles. The Blu-ray is presented in 1080p High Definition with English, French and Spanish Mono and English, English SDH, French, Spanish and Portuguese subtitles. Special features are as follows:
?Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen--This comprehensive documentary takes a look back at the production with commentary about the cast, the challenges of the filming locations and how the spectacular cinematography impacted the industry overall. Includes on-camera interviews with notable Hollywood icons, critics and crew members from the film including Martin Scorsese, Tony Huston, Richard Schickel and more, plus never-before-seen archival images and home movie footage provided by the estate of cinematographer Jack Cardiff.
The Commemorative, Limited-Edition DVD and Blu-ray box sets include the above along with:
?An audio disc with a recording of the Lux Radio Theater presents The African Queen radio broadcast
?A Senitype? film frame collectible reproduction
?Collectible postcards featuring reproductions of images related to the film
?A reproduction of Katharine Hepburn's out-of-print memoir The Making of The African Queen or How I Went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall and Huston and Almost Lost My Mind.
*_For Cover Art and more info_:*
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*_Product Description_*
A cult classic slasher film that delivers suspense, murder, mysteryand yes topless co-eds in this high quality transfer from a recently discovered pristine 35mm print. Flirtatious young sorority sisters (Soap Opera stars Eileen Davidson and Kathryn McNeil) who are days away from graduation set out to throw one last decadent celebration. Unbeknownst to them, the strict matron of their house hides a horrendous secret thought long buried. A gruesome accident is witnessed by a hideous fiend, hidden within the once nurturing dwelling, which triggers a rampage of death and destruction. Before the end, the peril faced by this sisterhood will push them to the brink of annihilation. And rivers of blood will drown all who enter The House on Sorority Row.
*_Bonus content includes_:*
Trailer, Photo Gallery, Commentary by Mark Rosman, Eileen Davidson and Kathryn McNeil, Storyboard Comparisons, Alternate Ending Presentation
Run time 92:01:00
Aspect Ratio 16x9 (1.78:1)
Disc configuration DVD 9
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*Jerry Mathers was also in the film The Seven Little Foys (1955) directed by Melville Shavelson!*
*Celebri-links .. director Melville Shavelson!*
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playoffs .... _Field of Dreams_ (1989) ..also the film _Rhubarb_ (1951)!
*NEW WORD: _Peculiar_ People Day Always January 10th!*
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*_Queen Bee_ (1955)*
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Michael Redgrave was in: _The Night My Number Came Up_ (1955) direcgted by Les Norman!
*NEW DIRECTOR: Les Norman!*
The Bride Wore Red (1937) ...Fri, Jan 22, 2010! Check Local Time!
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*Probably the real "star" of the film, and the source of its title, was the red beaded gown by Adrian, worn by Joan Crawford in the climactic ball scene. The dress was reused in fashion show sequences in The Big Store (1941) and, finally in color, in _Du Barry Was a Lady_ (1943).*