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  1. 9 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:

    They have been talking for six minutes. And they’re still talking.

    This is exactly how I felt during the recent airing of West Side Story, when the lovefest between the living cast members (Richard Byemer intentionally excluded from participating as far as I could tell) went on for over half an hour before the movie started.

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    3 minutes ago, Allhallowsday said:

    I don't know what any of that means

    He's asking if you ever met Eva Marie Saint by virtue of the fact you were born in the same place, taking care not to disrespect the location, which has been much maligned in the Sopranos era. Granted, he's speaking in his usual Fractured Fairy Tales/haiku voice.

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  3. I don't know any of the older ones.

    2496 is South Pacific. Yes.

    2498 is Fun with D*ck and Jane, which I think maybe is airing on George Segal's SUTS day? I haven't seen it.

    2499 is Teen Wolf. Oh, I saw part of it on HBO a million years ago, but I won't count it as one I've actually seen.

    2500 looks like fodder for TCM Underground, I can't identify it.

    So, only one I'm absolutely sure I've seen.

    Edit: Oh, no, wait I think 2500 is one of those drag queen movies. There were two that came out maybe the same year. To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Pretty sure it's the former. I think I can make out the faces of Leguizamo, Snipes and Swayze. I still haven't seen it.

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  4. 16 minutes ago, TopBilled said:

    I won't say it creeped me out, but this story, a story that a network had no probably broadcasting in 1981, would probably not be made today. 

    I also thought about A Teacher, a limited series on FX last year with Kate Mara that might be the modern take on the same subject matter.

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  5. 5 minutes ago, TopBilled said:

    I won't say it creeped me out, but this story, a story that a network had no probably broadcasting in 1981, would probably not be made today. 

    My state passed a law within the past five years that makes it a felony for anyone working in education to have sexual relations with an 18-year-old student, as this appeared to an exploitable loophole that was upsetting people.

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  6. Superman: the Movie was a big staple of my childhood. In recent years, there has been much ballyhood about the so-called "Snyder Cut" of Justice League, but long before then there was the "Donner Cut" of Superman II, which was filmed simultaneously with the first movie but was radically altered before release via re-shoots helmed by Richard Lester of A Hard Day's Night fame. I found this on imdb:

    In late 2006 a new version, Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (1980), subtitled "The Richard Donner Cut", was released on DVD and Blu-ray by the new rights-holders of the franchise. It reinserts virtually everything that could been salvaged from what Donner shot for his intended original version of the film, such as the infamous Marlon Brando scenes, before the producers sacked him. This version uses less than 20% of material filmed by Richard Lester, and since that left a few gaps in the story with no possibility of re-shoots, Donner had to make do with just about every bit of footage he had shot some 25 years before, including some which had only been shot as screen tests.

  7. On 7/4/2021 at 12:17 PM, txfilmfan said:

    I thought Jabba was injected into Episode IV digitally, as Lucas wasn't satisfied with the animatronic puppet device used at the time, and that was the reason that scene was originally cut? 

    Jabba was played by a human actor in the scene as originally filmed. I know this because I had a photo storybook of the movie when I was in second grade. Working from an early draft of the screenplay, I assume, they released the book without knowing the scene would be cut. They had scenes of Biggs Darklighter on Tattooine in the book as well. For the enhanced edition, they removed the actor and inserted a digital Jabba the way he looked in Jedi.

  8. I'm pledging not to rain on anybody's individual choices, so I will just vaguely say I find some of the performers selected too mannered or too stagey for my personal tastes and leave everybody to assume I'm talking about their personal favorite! Seriously, though, if a performer has done something for you, then they've at least partially accomplished their goal. 

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  9. Actors who immediately come to mind for me: Dustin Hoffman, Henry Daniell and the aforementioned Claude Rains.

    Actresses: Piper Laurie, Patricia O'Neal and for a very good chunk of her incredibly long career Katharine Hepburn.

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  10. Yes, that's extremely Burtonesque-sounding, all right. I'm sure everybody remembers Anthony Hopkins dubbing Olivier's voice for the restored "preferences" scene in Spartacus. I think I read Joan Plowright asked him to do it after she heard Hopkins doing an Olivier impersonation at a party.

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