sewhite2000
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Oh! The wording of my thread title was also unintentionally humorous, I see, given Mr. Spacey's proclivities. Perhaps I should have said "To Be Released" instead ...
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speedracer, I haven't seen GWTW in a theater, but I went at random on an Easter Sunday, the year was either 2013 or 2014. The theater was abandoned as I've never seen it. There might have been more people going to see movies at noon on a Tuesday than there were this particular evening. Having no idea what was even playing, I strolled up to the ticket window about 6:53 and saw that The Ten Commandments was starting at 7 pm. I can't recall now if this was a TCM/Fathom Events thing or not. I don't really recall any Robert Osborne or Ben Mankiewicz intro. Maybe Paramount just put it out because it was Easter Sunday. Anyway, I had no time at all to think about it (which was probably for the best!) and said "What the hey?" and bought a ticket. While I'd seen bits and pieces on TV many times over the years since childhood, I'm pretty sure I'd never sat down and watched the whole thing from beginning to end. The number of people at the screening were in the single digits - more than five, but fewer than 10. So, I could sit wherever I wanted. I took a center seat about a third of the way back, as everyone else was bunched up in the last five or six rows. I had the whole front half of the theater to mayself.
Commandments is 18 minutes shorter than Wind, according to imdb, but at 220 minutes, it is still one looong movie. I don't recall now if there was an intermission. I guess if there was one built into the movie itself, then we probably had one. About the time Moses goes into exile, maybe. I got very uncomfortable as we rolled into the fourth hour. The final 25 minutes or so of the movie, I stood up and walked over to the side of the theater and stood with my back against a wall, stretching, for the remainder of the movie. Anyway, glad I saw it in the theater, but it was a bit of an ordeal.
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1 minute ago, Gershwin fan said:
He's joking because the title is "Billionaire Boy's Club" and you know what Spacey's scandal was about. I think that was the pun he was getting at.
Ah, I get it. Amazingly, the irony of the title escaped me, though I did not he apparently went out of his way to work with the baby-faced and handsome Mr. Elgort in two movies in a short time. Don't know if he was hoping that might lead to something ...
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I'm aware of Benny Carter, but not so much to actually identify him by sight. Thanks for the info! I'll look for him next time I watch the movie.
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8 minutes ago, scsu1975 said:
Between the topic of the thread and the phrases in the post, there is way too much here to lampoon. I will resist from doing so.
I'm unsure if you're saying something specifically I said or my choice or wordage is worthy of lampooning, in which case, though I may respond angrily, I would like to hear what you have to say. I will try to be adult enough to withstand it, since you've apparently already implied it's worthy of mockery, I guess I would at least like to know specifics. If you're just saying the news itself is worth lampooning, then never mind.
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Well, if you read the link, they say they feel the hundreds of cast and crew members (who were not Kevin Spacey!) who put hours into it deserve the closure of a release.
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Billionaire Boys' Club, on the shelf since 2016, is apparently going ahead with an August release. With Kevin Spacey in a supporting role behind lead actors Ansel Elgort, whom Spacey also worked with in Baby Driver, and Taron Egerton of the Kingsmen movies. The filmmakers have sent impassioned messages via social media essentially begging the public not to crucify them and citing what they feel are legitimate reasons for releasing the film, which I suspect will make about zero dollars. They claim the movie was completely wrapped and in the can before any allegations against Spacey were made.
http://www.vulture.com/2018/06/kevin-spacey-next-movie-will-be-released-in-august.html
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And some films feel like they really don't need to be remade, but that doesn't stop Hollywood. For example, there was a Ben-Hur remake about two years ago. I know the Heston version was itself a remake of a silent version, but suddenly after 60 years we needed to do a version where (Spoiler alert!) Messala doesn't die and he and Ben-Hur become besties at the end of the picture? And now, Steven Spielberg is going to remake West Side Story? Can't we just occasionally let a work that's become definitive to stand?
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5 hours ago, mr6666 said:
pretty sure they've aired OKLAHOMA. CAROUSEL & KING & I previously
Okay, here we go. Thanks as always to moviecollectoroh:
Oklahoma has aired on TCM a whopping 32 times but not recently. Last airing was December, 2011.
Carousel has aired on TCM nine times, most recently in June, 2016.
The King & I has aired on TCM 11 times, the most recent also in June, 2016. Was there a special spotlight on musicals that month as well? Feels almost certainly yes, after I see that coincidence.
The inclusion of one or more of these this time around certainly would have helped give the spotlight a little more of a democratic feel and not so MGM-heavy, as important as that studio was to the genre.
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1 hour ago, Dargo said:
Hey! Wadda youse talkin' here, huh?!
Doz two weres some'a da bestest fadders I ever seen in'a movie!
Yeah! Real fam'ly men dey weres.
(...'n doan youse fergit it!)
I have to wonder if your choice of "doan" had a hidden meaning ...
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Been away from my computer for several hours. I meant to credit you as my source for that info!
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50 minutes ago, jinsinna13 said:
Ricardo was selected for SUTS last summer. I can't recall what movies they played, though.
It was 10 MGM films all made between 1947 and 1953 and also Warner Bros.' Sayanora (1957) and the Italian production The Reluctant Saint (1962).
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I think he would be an excellent choice, one could TCM could do easily (and cheaply) with all those MGM films, although it would be wonderful if they could show the longevity of his career by spotlighting on his final night Wrath of Khan and Naked Gun (both Paramount) and Spy Kids (Dimension). OJ's presence in Gun has probably diminished the TV presence it probably should have had, but I could look past that.
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Marcar, what is this mysterious Sugarland "incident" to which you refer?
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Nick Nolte, who played the son of terrible fathers in both The Prince of Tides and Affliction, plays a terrible father himself in Ang Lee's version of The Hulk, which has been dismissed from Marvel Cinematic Universe continuity but is an unusual father-son psychodrama masquerading as a superhero movie.
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8 hours ago, calvinnme said:
I loved William Powell's performance, but he is just a hideous inflexible human being as a Victorian age dad in "Life With Father". Irene Dunne loosens Powell's character up a little bit with her sweet performance as the mother, even if she is somewhat obsessed with the importance of baptism.
Well, if nothing else, he was a good provider for his sons, looking at that Fifth Avenue (?) palace that they lived in. They certainly didn't want for anything, and even so, they weren't spoiled. And, um ... he encouraged a healthy interest in sports and an open mind about dogma? He tried to his fatherly duties and explain to his son about women, but clearly being clueless himself in that area, that didn't go so well.
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15 hours ago, dhardhag said:
Has TCM ever shown “Beyond the Forest”. Turner used to have it in their library—they ran it occasionally on TNT.
I thought this question had already been answered in this thread, otherwise I would have responded sooner. I guess it was answered in another thread! Apparently Beyond the Forest did indeed have a single airing on TCM in November, 1994. It appears to be one of those movies tied up in some sort of legal limbo, possibly with the estate of the author of the source material? I'm not sure if it's from a play or a novel.
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I read the terrific Stanwyck bio A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True, 1907-1940, by Victoria Wilson when it came out five years ago. I had already kind forgotten about Stanwyck and Fay adopting a boy in the five years since I read it. As I recall, Remember the Night is the last film discussed in the book and she'd been married to Robert Taylor for about a year at the book's end. Presumably, there will be a Vol. 2 one of those years ...
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Visually, it is maybe more conventional than Leone's Westerns, but I think the cinematography and art/set direction are first-rate.
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Scrolling back, I see I missed Calamity's post saying it was done for TCM's 20th anniversary, which would have been 2014, information confirmed by jimmymac71's post. So, it hasn't been around as long as I feared, but four years is an eternity to still be airing this piece for a bit of music that apparently was almost never used outside of the promo itself!
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On 6/15/2018 at 4:54 AM, TikiSoo said:
Interesting....thanks for posting that.
I really like seeing Gaga out of costume, as a regular person.
I've only seen the Gaynor/March and Garland/Mason versions....this seems to be about singers, not actors. The only flaw I see is that singers can be popular "stars" forever-like Elton John, Billy Joel, Mick Jagger, etc. Musicians don't seem to have as fickle or short a career as movie actors.They seem to have picked up specifically from the 1976 version with Streisand and Kristofferson, that first shifted the story from the world of acting to music. As others on here have hinted, it may be the only version the makers of this version have seen.
I think there can be long or short spans in the spotlight in both professions. Thanks to the touring business, I think it's easier for those who make music to make a living for a longer time, maybe. Although in the last few years, the explosion of scripted content on all those streaming channels are probably giving more actors than ever a chance at a revived career.
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Once Upon a Time in America is a masterpiece, in my opinion, but you've got to commit to the four-hour version. i would hope the butchered, nonsensical shorter versions aren't even commercially available anymore, except used. I can understand how they way it begins might not be everybody's cup of tea, if the mystery of that incessantly ringing phone doesn't draw you in. But I would urge you to give it another chance! I've often hoped TCM would show it, though there's some pretty graphic nudity and sexual situations that would probably shunt it off to the middle of the night.
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Sugarland had their first hit song in 2004, so who knows? If you told me you had definitive proof that promo was 14 years old, I probably wouldn't argue with you!
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Oh, man, that is bringing back horrible memories of high school chemistry. I don't know how I passed that class. I didn't understand any of it! We used to joke that the whir of the fan on the overhead projector as the teacher worked out all those equations instantly put everyone in the room to sleep.
"New" Kevin Spacey Movie Coming Out, Apparently
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Honestly, I don't think it's like Hollywood has a "short memory". The people behind this film know they're probably going to get raked over the coals, but they would like to put the movie out for the sake of everyone else who worked on it. Sounds like they don't have the budget to wipe out all of Spacey's scenes and reshoot them with another actor like Ridley Scott did. They have taken the preemptive strike of saying they don't endorse Spacey or his actions and are asking for empathy on the part of the public for the sake of the rest of the cast and crew. I don't know that they'll get it!