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> I am looking online for the documentary, but can only find it in the box set. Netflix doesn't seem to have the box set. Maybe it's time to check the library....
Actually Netflix has all 5 movies in the Budd Boetticher set (for that matter, Classicflix does too). The documentary is included as a bonus feature in Disc 1, *The Tall T*. But as Lynn pointed out, it's also going to be showing on TCM very soon.
Good luck with the tiles! B-)
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Lynn,
For anyone who didn't catch it when it showed on TCM, *A Man Can Do That* is also included in the Budd Boetticher DVD boxset.
> I haven't seen The Bullfighter and the Lady. I do know of a bull-headed lady, though.
The king of wrong-headedness and the bull-headed lady might want to get to know each other. They might make a good couple.
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> We took my youngest stepson to see this (it was about a 13 or 14 years ago so he was still pretty young at the time... He'd say... "where's Harvey?" and we'd tell him, "Didn't you see Harvey? We did." ha.
Must have been a lot of fun to watch "Harvey" performed on stage. That's so cute about teasing your youngest stepson, I'll bet he must have been wondering for a long while why he couldn't see him.
*("It's just a harmless little bunny...")*
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It's a great movie, with awesome performances by Lynn Redgrave, James Mason, and the whole cast. I didn't get to watch it until fairly recently and so of course it was amazing to see Redgrave and Charlotte Rampling as young ladies, since I've grown used to watching them in more recent movies. In hindsight, it's good to know they've had such great careers since they made this movie.
And as for the movie itself, I think it's one of the best British movies of the 60s, right up there with "Darling" and "Far From the Madding Crowd". And not to point out the obvious or anything, but it's interesting to see how much society's attitude towards unplanned pregnancies has changes since 1966.
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What about Easter? You could get some Easter rabbits for your posts.
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> All I remember is, in The War of the Worlds something of ours made the aliens die! lol
Well, what really killed all the aliens was the author's deus ex Machina when you think about it.
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> About the "Outer Limits" title, that has to be the lamest title ever made. What scary about a sine wave on an oscilloscope? LOL I can do that with my Heathkit audio generator(s) and oscilloscope.
Maybe some people are easily scared!
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Hi Marnello,
I did a quick search and found 12 Ingrid Bergman movies scheduled to show in the next 3 months:
(all times Eastern)
*Goodbye Again*
Apr 06, 11:30AM
*Intermezzo: A Love Story*
Apr 07, 09:30PM
*Spellbound*
Apr 11, 04:30AM
*Rage In Heaven*
Apr 24, 10:00AM
*Goodbye Again*
May 08, 09:15AM
*Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde*
May 30, 08:00PM
*Bells Of St. Mary's, The*
Jun 01, 04:00PM
*Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde*
Jun 02, 06:00PM
*Casablanca*
Jun 07, 02:30AM
*Notorious*
Jun 27, 08:00PM
*Spellbound*
Jun 27, 11:15AM
*Gaslight*
Jun 28, 02:15PM
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> They are showing The Quite Man at 8:00 PM EST
Well, "The _Quite_ Man" sounds like QUITE a good movie. I'd even be happy to watch "The Quiet Man".
georgiegirl - those leprechauns of yours are QUITE lovely
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Did you happen to see M. Night Shyamalan's "The Happening"? I think that was kind of a pandemic. It was still a lousy movie, of course, but that goes for most of what he's done lately.
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> Anyway, enjoy the Irish movies on March 18th....Happy March 18th everybody.
I guess you could always record them on the 18th and save them for the next St. Patrick's Day.
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> Hey, wasn't the remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still about a virus sent to earth to kill us off to save the earth?
Was it? I thought it was about Keanu Reeves being sent to Earth to scare us with his acting ability.
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That's a slightly scary-looking leprechaun. If I ran into a leprechaun, I would much prefer he looked more like this:
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There's a couple of key similarities - the flames and the hand (in the case of Exodus, actually several arms)
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Dorothea Holt Redmond dies
Illustrator worked on 'Gone with the Wind'
By VARIETY STAFF
Illustrator and designer and Dorothea Holt Redmond, who helped Alfred Hitchcock visually conceptualize many of his films, died of congestive heart failure Feb. 29 in Hollywood. She was 98.
Starting in the industry at David O. Selznick's studio, she became the female to work in the production design field, where she worked closely with art directors to create the look of films through detailed illustrations.
She worked with Hitchcock on drawings for films including "Shadow of a Doubt," "Rebecca," "Rear Window," "To Catch a Thief" and "The Man Who Knew Too Much." She also worked illustrations for films such as "Gone with the Wind," "The Best Years of Our Lives," "The Ten Commandments," "Funny Face," "Sabrina" and "White Christmas."
Working for Walt Disney in the 1960s, she designed a private apartment above New Orleans Square in Disneyland, where visitors may now stay overnight. She also designed several restaurants and shops in New Orleans Square and the mosaics for Cinderella's castle.
Born in Los Angeles, she studied architecture and graduated USC and then received a degree in illustration from what is now Art Center College of Design, where she later taught. She married producer Harry Redmond, whom she met at Selznick's studio. Before joining Disney in 1964, she worked for architects William Pereira and Charles Luckman, where she rendered and illustrated buildings such as the restaurant at Los Angeles International Airport and the L.A. County Art Museum.
Last year, her illustrations for several Hitchcock films were documented in an exhibit at the Motion Picture Academy, and she was also named a Disney Legend.
She is survived by a her husband of 69 years, a daughter, a son, three granddaughters and three great-grandsons. Donations may be made to the Motion Picture & Television Fund.
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I didn't realize they'd played the trailer so very often. Hope people will still check out the movie, because it's a really great Wayne movie.
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Hey, I found another Greer Garson portrait!
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*Montana*
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Millard Kaufman, 92, dies; Oscar-nominated screenwriter
Kaufman wrote the screenplay for 'Bad Day at Black Rock' and co-created the cartoon character Mr. Magoo.
By Dennis McLellan
March 17, 2009
Millard Kaufman, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of "Bad Day at Black Rock" and the co-creator of Mr. Magoo who waited until he was 90 to become a first-time novelist, has died. He was 92.
Kaufman died of heart failure Saturday, two days after his birthday, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, said his son, Frederick Kaufman.
A former newspaperman who launched his screenwriting career after serving in the Marines during World War II, Kaufman quickly made a mark on pop culture by writing the screenplay for "Ragtime Bear," the 1949 cartoon short directed by John Hubley that introduced the near-sighted Mr. Magoo.
The character, which was voiced by actor Jim Backus, was modeled in part on Kaufman's uncle.
"My uncle had no problem with his eyes," Kaufman said in a 2007 National Public Radio interview. "He simply interpreted everything that came across his way in his own particular manner, and he could at times be a little bit difficult, but he would only see things the way they existed highly subjectively to him."
Kaufman wrote the screenplays for "Unknown World" and "Aladdin and His Lamp" before spending more than a decade as a writer at MGM, where he was known as a top script doctor.
His first screenplay for the studio -- "Take the High Ground!," a 1953 movie about Army basic training starring Richard Widmark -- earned him the first of his two Oscar nominations.
Then came his Oscar-nominated screenplay for "Bad Day at Black Rock," the 1955 suspense-drama starring Spencer Tracy as a one-armed World War II veteran who finds more than he bargained for when he gets off the train at a tiny desert whistle-stop.
Other Kaufman film credits are "Raintree County," "Never So Few," The War Lord," "Living Free" and "The Klansman." Among his TV credits are "Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb."
Early in his Hollywood career, Kaufman fronted for blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo on the 1950 film-noir crime classic "Gun Crazy."
Kaufman didn't know Trumbo, but they shared the same agent, George Willner. When Willner asked Kaufman if he'd be willing to put his name on the script, Kaufman later recalled, "I had sense enough to say, 'Let me talk it over with my wife.' "
"But we discussed it and we believed it was rotten that a man couldn't write under his own name," Kaufman told Daily Variety in 1992, the year Kaufman officially requested that the Writers Guild of America West take his name off the credits and replace it with Trumbo's name.
"Any time I had speaking engagements where they included that film in my credits, I always set the record straight anyway," Kaufman said.
Christopher Knopf, a screen and TV writer who met Kaufman at MGM in the early '50s, said that "the greatest facility for him was he was absolutely unafraid to face a blank page with no guarantee of anything."
"A lot of writers today cannot write unless somebody will call up and say, 'You have an assignment,' and that was not Millard; he wrote," said Knopf.
Kaufman had a major screenwriting assignment at age 86, but then the project fell through.
"I decided, knowing that nobody my age gets work in movies, and that I had to do something, otherwise I'd get into terrible trouble, that I would try writing a novel," he told The Times in 2007.
That was the year "Bowl of Cherries," which a New Yorker writer described as "equal parts 'Catcher in the Rye' and 'Die Hard,' " was published.
Kaufman's second novel, "Misadventure," is due out this fall.
Born March 12, 1917, in Baltimore, Kaufman spent two years as a merchant seaman after high school.
After earning a bachelor's degree in English from Johns Hopkins University in 1939, he moved to New York City and worked as a newspaperman for the Daily News and Newsday.
In 1942, he joined the Marine Corps and saw action on Guadalcanal, Guam and Okinawa.
In his later years, Kaufman wrote the screenwriting book "Plots and Characters: A Screenwriter on Screenwriting."
Said Knopf, who met with Kaufman and other Hollywood veterans for weekly lunches at a Santa Monica restaurant: "When you were around him, he elevated you about the craft that you were in and made you want to do the very best you could possibly do."
In addition to his son, Kaufman is survived by his wife of 66 years, Lorraine; his daughters, Mary Carde and Amy Burk; and seven grandchildren.
Services will be private.
Instead of flowers, donations may be made to the Motion Picture and Television Fund.
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Morton Lachman dies at 90; gag writer for Bob Hope, sitcom producer
By Elaine Woo
March 19, 2009
Morton Lachman, one of the creative minds behind Bob Hope who was a writer and producer for the famous comedian for more than two decades before shifting into sitcom production in shows including "All in the Family," "Gimme a Break" and "Kate & Allie," died Tuesday at UCLA Medical Center. He was 90 and would have celebrated his birthday Friday.
The cause was a heart attack and diabetes, according to his family.
For 28 years, until 1975, Lachman was a key member of Hope's gag-writing machine, along with such writers as Larry Gelbart, Hal Kanter, Gene Perret, Sherwood Schwartz and Mel Shavelson. He also co-wrote and produced Hope's television specials.
He later produced, directed and wrote for such shows as "The Red Skelton Hour," "Sanford" and "That's My Mama." He also wrote for 11 Academy Awards and six Grammy Awards shows and co-wrote the movies "Yours, Mine and Ours" (1968, 2005) and "Mixed Company" (1974).
Among his awards were two Emmys: one for outstanding comedy series in 1971 for "All in the Family" and the other for directing an episode of "ABC Afternoon Playbreak" called "The Girl Who Couldn't Lose" in 1975.
Born March 20, 1918, Lachman was a Seattle native who often was mistaken for a New Yorker ("People just naturally assume . . . every writer went to high school with Woody Allen in Brooklyn," he once quipped.)
He aspired to become a journalist when he was a student at the University of Washington in the late 1930s. But after World War II, when he got out of the Army, he saw an ad in Variety seeking gag writers for singer-comedian Eddie Cantor. That job led him in 1947 to Hope, who invited Lachman to pitch jokes for his radio show.
The self-described "introvert from Seattle" found himself in a room full of gag writers vying for Hope's approval. He jotted a joke on an old envelope and shyly gave it to the star, who read the joke to himself, then crumpled the paper. When all the other writers finished pitching their gags, Hope recited Lachman's joke, earning big laughs.
Over the next decades, he traveled the globe with Hope, who was "fabulous to work for if you were a writer," Lachman told Daily Variety in 1996. "He was comfortable in his own shoes, and not jealous like a lot of comics."
Lachman recalled in that interview one occasion when the comedy icon was "at a loss" to explain how people were treating him. "We were in Red Square for the first show from Moscow ever done. We were passing Lenin's Tomb and passing thousands of people and nobody looked at him. He said, 'Mort, this is weird. Nobody knows me.' I said, 'Congratulations, now you know what it's like to be me.' He laughed and hugged me."
Lachman is survived by his wife, Natalie Gittelson Lachman of Los Angeles; three children from his first marriage, JoAnn Culbert-Koehn, Diane Lachman and Robert Lachman; three stepchildren, Celia Gittelson, Eve Gittelson and Tony Gittelson; a sister, Doris McKeever Keenan; eight grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Services will be held at noon Friday at Mount Sinai Memorial Park, 950 Forest Lawn Drive, Los Angeles.