DownGoesFrazier
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Ok: I did see one movie I've been waiting forever and a lifetime to view....what DID you watch Lorna? Tell me yours, I'll tell you mine...
Will this be done by personal message, or are you going to let the rest of us in on this information?
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When this Steely Dan song came out I couldn't figure out the title no matter how many times I heard it on the radio. It may have been decades before I found out what it all meant via the internet. We had it tough back then! But it was mysterious and challenging, the guessing of it all was a major after-school occupation. Now we can simply type in Taylor Swift's or The Weeknd's latest tune and learn everything and then some.
I'm a big Steely Dan fan. I think their two best songs are "Deacon Blues" and the obscure "Glamour Profession".
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William Powell
MISTER ROBERTS
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Thanks. In a somewhat hard to believe movie, a rather unpopular U.S. president, who has been supported by special interest groups, does an about face and appoints his personal assistant to be a sort of Elliot Ness type federal agent and break up the criminal rackets. The efforts bring about a big change in the president's popularity. Can you name the movie and the actors who played the president and his assistant?
GABRIEL OVER THE WHITE HOUSE? Walter Huston and __________?
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To quote the theme to one of the Bond movies,
Nobody does it better
Makes me feel sad for the rest
Nobody does it half as good as me
Baby I'm the best.
..in contrast to "Baby, you're the greatest".
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Here's an unpopular opinion......I think one of the most overrated actresses of all time is Grace Kelly. Besides her ridiculous diction (which I presume she had to learn to overcome her Philly accent), I still think the Academy was out of their minds to vote for her over Judy Garland in A Star is Born.
She wouldn't have had a typical Philly accent. Only the people from the relatively less wealthy neighborhoods had that. She grew up very wealthy in a mansion in East Falls. She obviously received Hollywood diction lessons.
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From what I've read of the actual case, Graham's guilt was not
exactly clear cut and I doubt she would get the same sentence
in 2017.
If she really LOOKED like Susan Hayward, she would have walked.
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I have to say more than any one critic or film historian, Richard Schickel is responsible for my whole conception of the Golden Era of Hollywood-- the movie stars and Studio heads and directors who made it happen.
It was reading his books and magazine articles that first truly ignited my hunger to learn more about Hollywood legends. He had a way of truly describing the bigger than life aspect of the star, while at the same time retaining and understanding the very human and vulnerable quality of the star.
A Great era deserved a great film historian and that was Richard Schickel.
Did he ever have any connection with TCM?
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I can't believe you wouldn't know this:
Why I bothered to post this, I don't know, since I don't even like the song that much.
I listened to this song, and like many disco songs, it is terrible. But there are a lot of great disco songs, if you look for them. France Joli's "Come to Me" and "The Heart to Break a Heart" are two examples..
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You'll never be a great spokesperson for an Anti-Smoking group.
You'll carry a banner to ban cigarettes until a pretty face smiles at you and you offer to light one up for her.
Which reminds me of a joke by the great Rodney Dangerfield:
I asked her if she enjoys a cigarette after sex. She said, "No, one drag is enough."
Sorry for the digression from the main topic of this thread. Back to Mr. Roberts (a non smoker, I believe) . . .
I guess they didn't have smoking and non-smoking cabins on the ship.
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You'll never be a great spokesperson for an Anti-Smoking group.
You'll carry a banner to ban cigarettes until a pretty face smiles at you and you offer to light one up for her.
Which reminds me of a joke by the great Rodney Dangerfield:
I asked her if she enjoys a cigarette after sex. She said, "No, one drag is enough."
Sorry for the digression from the main topic of this thread. Back to Mr. Roberts (a non smoker, I believe) . . .
Once a smoking sexy women ages, she becomes much less appealing for two different reasons.
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Seems kinda sad as well.
A variation on the Norman Bates line------"A man's best friend is himself".
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Composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim wrote scripts for the "Topper" TV series.
Good work. Your turn. Despite great connections such as Oscar Hammerstein, and great talent, it took him several years to make it big. He broke through with "West Side Story" (1957)
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I thought you objected to smokers as a health concern for society.
This kind of observation is something else entirely. So "appearances" is all that matters to you then when it comes to smoking?
I am an anti-smoking zealot who, to this day, finds that smoking by a sexy women enhances her sexiness. Smoking by ANYONE ELSE I find objectionable. I am aware that there is a major inconsistency here. So sue me.
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I really loved the one where she plays the sarcastic best friend.
There's nothing worse than a sarcastic remark that falls completely flat. Arden specialized in those, and I didn't like her voice either.
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Hmmm...and here I never knew you held Bogart in the same low esteem as you do William Powell.
(...well, it would follow here, wouldn't it?!)
Bogart didn't show grace and dignity. He showed other traits, like sleaziness.
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How about a woman?
Is your ongoing crush with Sophia over now, too?
In a sexy women, it ehhances her appeal. Don't ask me to explain this. It may be that, as an impressionable youngster, I was subliminally affected by the Julie London Marlboro commercials.
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Patsy Gallant.
I don't know who Patsy Gallant is, but the disco diva from Canada that I was thinking of was France Joli.
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Hint: The TV sitcom was based on a novel, and the novel had already given rise to more than one film.
Another hint: The first name and last name of the gentleman in question begins with the same letter.
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Thanks for the info, I kneaded that.
Anyone who spells the word "blocknead" must be a blockhead.
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It may have been on PBS' "American Experience" many years ago, but whichever program it was said there were many American-born Japanese people who willingly denied their heritage to pass themselves off as Chinese to avoid being placed in one of those internment camps. German-born people or those who had German surnames were harassed in many parts of America during WW1. My Mom's side of the family is Italian, but I never heard any stories about my grandparents being targeted or ridiculed by others during WW2. Of course, my parents were of the generation that never spoke of anything that bordered on the unpleasant to either me or my siblings when it came to stuff like that.
Chinese and Japanese look very different. In most instances I can tell the difference.
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While I know that much of the humour of Mr. Roberts is broad (John Ford was not a director known for much subtlety when it came to comedy), I find it difficult to resist any film with such an impressive quartet of male stars.
There's an easy chemistry in the scenes shared by Henry Fonda, William Powell and the young and ever-so-eager Ensign Pulver played by Jack Lemmon. It's touching to see Lemmon's admiration bordering on hero worship of wise veteran Fonda's Mr. Roberts. And Powell brings a grace and dignity to his playing of wise Doc that makes this a fine curtain call for the veteran star.
One of my biggest quibbles with the film has always been with James Cagney's broadstroke take on the Captain. On the one hand, it may well be that the actor plays his black-and-white comic villain this way (a really nasty little man at the core) because he was being faithful to writer Joshua Logan's stage portrait of same (does anyone know the stage version well enough to know if the Captain's characterization was so black and white?).
Perhaps for the sake of the film, too, it makes it clear as to who is to be hissed by the audience, and Cagney's Captain certainly fills that bill.
On the other hand, I have to feel some exasperation with this film because I think James Cagney was one of Hollywood's greats actors, as well as stars, but you really wouldn't know it by this performance. He was an actor capable of bringing subtle shadings of vulnerability to a tough guy role but perhaps that was the last thing the makers of this film wanted. Thus a great actor plays it like a cartoon.
I also find it difficult to find grace and dignity in a man smoking one cigarette after another.
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While I know that much of the humour of Mr. Roberts is broad (John Ford was not a director known for much subtlety when it came to comedy), I find it difficult to resist any film with such an impressive quartet of male stars.
There's an easy chemistry in the scenes shared by Henry Fonda, William Powell and the young and ever-so-eager Ensign Pulver played by Jack Lemmon. It's touching to see Lemmon's admiration bordering on hero worship of wise veteran Fonda's Mr. Roberts. And Powell brings a grace and dignity to his playing of wise Doc that makes this a fine curtain call for the veteran star.
One of my biggest quibbles with the film has always been with James Cagney's broadstroke take on the Captain. On the one hand, it may well be that the actor plays his black-and-white comic villain this way (a really nasty little man at the core) because he was being faithful to writer Joshua Logan's stage portrait of same (does anyone know the stage version well enough to know if the Captain's characterization was so black and white?).
Perhaps for the sake of the film, too, it makes it clear as to who is to be hissed by the audience, and Cagney's Captain certainly fills that bill.
On the other hand, I have to feel some exasperation with this film because I think James Cagney was one of Hollywood's greats actors, as well as stars, but you really wouldn't know it by this performance. He was an actor capable of bringing subtle shadings of vulnerability to a tough guy role but perhaps that was the last thing the makers of this film wanted. Thus a great actor plays it like a cartoon.
Powell? One man's "grace and dignity" is another man's "boredom and catatonia".
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Vautrin, that's what I call a feel-good video. I wonder if all those people were friends of the Chili Peppers, or just hopefuls auditioning to be in a Red Hot Chili Peppers video? Either way, they all look as though they were having a great time.
Here's one for you, Miss Canada. Name a disco diva who was from Canada.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DORIS DAY!
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