sewhite2000
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The moment from the movie that replays the most in my mind is when Lee Grant confesses, "I took a BEG!" A ... beg?
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Well, of course, we're not given any confirmation that they're all biological children that I'm aware of. So many of them seemed similar enough in age that it seems it would have been difficult for Ma to be producing that many! So, yes indeed, maybe they took in some "strays".
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The first time I ever saw Detective Story was on TCM, so I know it's aired before. MovieCollectorOH's database says that it's aired on TCM nine times, but the most recent was July, 2014. So it has definitely never been on Noir Alley, which started much later than that.
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Ah. I kind of half-suspected that, which is sadly often the case with celebrities who haven't been heard from in awhile. Sorry to hear that. My maternal grandfather and my brother's mother-in-law, who's still living, both suffered from Alzheimer's, so I've seen more of that up close and personal than I care to see again. Very sorry to hear that.
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Hey, everybody please take note of Men Don't Leave (1990), which I assume is a TCM premiere, tomorrow night as well! One of only two feature films ever directed by Paul Brickman, the other being the immortal Risky Business. I think he's very sporadically done some television work in the last 25 years, but I feel like he must have largely gone into some other business besides directing. This one is more muted than his prior slapstick, if cynical, sex comedy. There's an age-inappropriate relationship between Joan Cusack and Chris O'Donnell that's mostly played for laughs. Probably wouldn't ever be allowed in any mainstream Hollywood film today. Also, a nice performance from Charlie Korsmo, a child actor with haunting, wide eyes, sort of the Haley Joel Osment of his day. He went on to be in Dick Tracy, The Doctor and Hook before having his only major grown-up role in Can't Hardly Wait, before apparently mostly retiring from the business.
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Well, yeah, his looks were what I was mainly referring to. All the weepy characters he played, I think was his effort to show he was a great Ac-tor
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He's been very quiet for a guy who used to be all over the place, hasn't he?
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I never got the sense that Ma and Pa were all that into each other, but Good Lord, they produced a lot of offspring, didn't they?
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Gershwin Fan, the way we knew Dougie still had the soul of Cooper, even though he lacked most of his memories, was that he still loved coffee!
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7 hours ago, Sgt_Markoff said:
James Dean ...masculine?
If by masculine you mean every woman in America under the age of 50 wanted to sleep with him, then yeah, he was probably masculine. But I'm assuming you are probably not a woman under the age of 50, so you apparently have a different opinion.
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On 11/17/2018 at 8:47 AM, Sepiatone said:
he didn't make it clear later in the movie MARATHON MAN, as he did in the novel, that DOC and JANEWAY( "Janey") had a homosexual relationship.
Wow, really? Possibly it wasn't considered terribly essential to the plot. Possibly there was some pressure from the studio not to include that element in the movie.
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6 hours ago, jakeem said:
It's interesting that the name never seemed to hurt the billionaire crimefighter Bruce Wayne
Well, Dr. Frederic Wertham had some ideas about Bruce living in that manor with his young ward ...
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So, I've read in several different articles over the years that when CBS put on an Incredible Hulk TV show in the late '70s, there was one adamant exec who was not going to let the Hulk's human persona be named Bruce Banner, even though that was his given name in the comics, because he thought the name "Bruce" was too suggestive of gay culture. Never mind the most famous Bruce in the world, Bruce Jenner, had just won the decathlon and certainly seemed to be the pinnacle of heterosexual masculinity (maybe the guy was onto something; we all know what's happened since that time). So, Bruce Banner became David Banner. I have many friends and acquaintances my age who never read a comic book in their life. When they went back to Bruce for the new millennium Marvel movies, every one of them was like, "Why did they change David Banner's name to Bruce? It was always David!", none of them having any idea he was Bruce in the comics they never read.
Okay, well, I was watching Here Comes Mr. Jordan last night, and the name of the dead millionaire whose body Joe Pendelton inhabits is BRUCE Farnsworth! Not sure how I never noticed that before. Well, in the 1978 remake, right around the time Hulk was first on the air, Heaven Can Wait threw out the name Bruce and made it LEO instead! Was that also because the people behind that movie thought Bruce was simply too prissy and mincing a name?
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10 hours ago, hamradio said:
This was a deleted scene in "Spartacus" (1960)
Is that Jean Simmons??? I know there's a scene in the actually released version where you see more of her than probably any other film.
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Is Charlie Chaplin dancing with the globe in The Great Dictator inspired by this?
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24 minutes ago, cigarjoe said:
or instance I'm watching The Woman In The Window on Noir Alley, in a great crispy clear print, and Joan Bennett is wearing a pretty shear see-through top and I can swear I see her ****.
I watched this movie on YouTube sometime in the past year or so, and I thought the same thing.
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12 hours ago, calvinnme said:
unless Hollywood just assumes that everybody who was alive and able to go to the movies in 1976 is dead or suffering from Alzheimer's now.
They don't assume that. They're just not particularly interested in marketing to those viewers! It's been 42 years since the last version. They assumed that was ample time that the vast majority of the viewers they wanted to snare (aka not old people) had forgotten or never heard of it. I mean, it only took them 10 years to start Spider-Man over and have another movie with Uncle Ben getting shot again. Hollywood actually showed incredible restraint to wait this long to do this movie again.
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They did! It's called Robert Osborne's 20th Anniversary Tribute, made when the network and his time hosting on it reached their 20th anniversary, and it's aired 13 times in the last four years.
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Shannon can actually be a man's name, too. There's Shannon Sharpe and probably others I'm not thinking about.
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7 minutes ago, Sgt_Markoff said:
Have you heard of the renewed 'States Rights' movement? That aggressive and disturbing lobby of agitators who aren't satisfied with the US Constitution? They seek to re-convene a constitutional convention and modify the founding charter of our country. They want to make it more PC.
I haven't heard of what you're talking about. My knowledge of "states rights" is that it's a term historically mostly used by white southerners who wanted to deprive every other race of their ability to vote and other rights. In fact, just the opposite of being PC. Dating back to John Calhoun.
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On 11/13/2018 at 4:45 PM, Hibi said:
Valmont was SOOOOO slow. I can see why it flopped. (I hadnt seen it before) Dangerous Liasons (which beat it to the box office and I did see) was much better.
I saw both of these movies when I was in college, but I saw Dangerous Liasons first, and I'm sure that prejudiced me. I thought Valmont was all right, but it is definitely funereally paced, while DL has many sharp, punchy, highly dramatic and engrossing moments. Sorry, Milos Forman, because I love so much of the rest of your career!
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10 hours ago, calvinnme said:
Hi! Glad to see a new poster! However, the day Lady Gaga gets nominated for best actress after Myrna Loy went all of those years without one nomination in that same category I think I'll just drown myself. Plus I don't get the love for A Star Is Born, unless Hollywood just assumes that everybody who was alive and able to go to the movies in 1976 is dead or suffering from Alzheimer's now. It's a derivative plot that has been done to death from every conceivable angle - 1976, 1954, 1937, and 1932 if you count "What Price Hollywood?" where it is the actress' director-best friend who is on the alcoholic downhill slide, not her husband. Just my two cents.
Definitely NOT a new poster, Calvin. The style is immediately recognizable as "Spence". The obligatory asterisks by all Oscar nominees confirms it. Had no idea "Spence" was actually a woman ...?
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TCM had two nights in a row of performers I'd never heard of before in Mary Carlisle and George Formby. I love that after about 17 years of watching TCM, there is still so much I have to learn. I watched all of Trouble Brewing and then only about the first 10 minutes of Let George Do It before I was too sleepy to continue. I wanted to stay up for the scene Ben M. promised of George punching Hitler in the face, but I couldn't make it.
I thought Trouble Brewing was a pretty fun romp. There weren't a ton of moments that produced a genuine laugh in me. A lot of it seemed to pale in comparison to Formby's American counterparts from the same era. A lot of it, like the extended scene where Formby is forced unwillingly to be a waiter at a ritzy party while he tries to retrieve a piece of paper tucked in a woman's stocking, reminded me of The Three Stooges. I did give a pretty hearty guffaw in the scene where he's forced into a wrestling match, and the floaties he's just tucked under his shirt because he thinks he's going swimming make him look like he has breasts. No way anything like that could ever have remotely flown with American censors in 1939.
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Joan Crawford comes extremely close in Grand Hotel, in the scene where she - Spoiler Alert! - discovers Wallace Beery has murdered John Barrymore, her robe is falling off her all over the place.
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There was obviously a big clampdown on that stuff just a handful of years into the front end of your time frame, and a resurgence near the end. Not sure how much there was in the middle.