DownGoesFrazier
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Hey, DGF! Speakin' of Leary here...
About a year ago or so, I saw the following documentary film about the guy and his close friend and fellow Harvard professor Richard Alpert, aka Ram Dass...
(...you might want to check it out if you might be interested in the subject matter at all...it's a very good film)
Someone should now post "Legend of a Mind" by the Moody Blues.
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Same old, tired movies aired every 4th of July. Howards of Virginia, John Paul Jones, the movie with Cornel Wilde! When can we have something different on that date??? I've learned to avoid even watching TCM on the 4th.
Another thread title doesn't agree with this one. Why no YANKEE DOODLE DANDY this year?
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Yeah, well, I HAVE heard that taking LSD will sometimes create a biological reaction within some people that mimic an increase in endorphins one experiences after a rigorous physical workout.
(...but I wouldn't of course have any firsthand knowledge of this, as Jack Webb would keep me on the straight and narrow after I saw that one Dragnet 1969 episode where he called the stuff "the bomb" as I recall)
LOL
One of the mantras of cardio exercise gurus is "Earn your Highs". They are obviously thinking about Timothy Leary.
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Well...just slightly off the topic - but another film Grant was offered was Arabesque... According to an interview with Gregory Peck the whole Sophia Loren - Cary Grant thing became problematic and Grant turned it down. Peck complained that it was fine for Grant - but that chase through the cornfield became a real issue for Peck, as Grant was in better shape and Peck had arthritis...
Better shape? He must have had good genes. Grant never did any exercise
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I always thought it was a VERY good film. One of the few book-to-film adaptations that stay close to true of it's source. Of course it helps that the book's author also adapted the screenplay.
It seems a lot of people I know who saw it never caught on about the homosexual relationship between "Doc" and Janeway("Janey")
My DENTIST at the time, although liking the movie, got quickly tired of all the "Is it safe?" jokes his patients would lay on him.
DGF----I think those are memorable scenes too, but I would add:
When Janeway confronts the neighborhood Puerto Rican gang busting into Hoffman's apartment with a gun, they look at him nonplussed and smoothly pull out all THEIR heat!
Sepiatone
In general, Schlesinger provided a very eerie look and feel to the film, which also was a plus.
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MARATHON MAN---not a great film, but as many individual memorable scenes as any film I can think of. The best are Olivier being recognized on Jewelers' Row by a woman he had abused in the concentration camp, and the final scene, where Olivier was forced to swallow the diamonds.
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I am certain that I have heard that Cary Grant was offered the lead in the film MY FAIR LADY, and he responded that Rex Harrison should get to reprise his stage role, and that if Harrison wasn't given the role, he wouldn't even see the film.Last night Ben said that Grant was offered the lead in THE MUSIC MAN, and Grant said that if Robert Preston wasn't given the role, he wouldn't even see the film. Was this Grant's usual response when he turned down a role?
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For Pete's Sake?
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Betty Grable
HOW TO BE VERY VERY POPULAR
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oui oui, DGF.
Your thread.
This is being done to benefit Mary Healy's husband.
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Barton - - if Osborne really did give him a reference or select him then, I'm sure he's quite knowledgeable and Worthy.
However, just because somebody stands on the red carpet at the Oscars in 2016 that doesn't mean that he knows anything about what went on at the Oscars for the last fifty or sixty or seventy years, does it?
Also, you can work for Fandango and Entertainment Weekly or whatever and not know a damn thing about classic films.Right. That would have made Joan Rivers an appropriate Oscar historian.
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Ann Sheridan was in "Appointment in Honduras" with Glenn Ford.
Ford was in GILDA with George Macready
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The Mating Game
Fred Clark
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Sorry, DJ, that's not it.
Mick Jagger in his doctor's office.
THE ENGLISH PATIENT?
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Well, at least it sounds like it's making you happy. What's a few decades matter when you're having fun?
Not interested in climbing on the one-person bandwagon?
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Dargo--
2 things--
In our house my mother wouldn't have allowed a 1 Second Rule!
And anyway it just took the dogs a half-second to snarf down any food dropped on the floor anyway.LOL
Apparently your boy Hoff doesn't have any 4-legged dogs at home.
He said once in an interview that all his dogs have 6 legs.
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I'm not setting myself up for anything. The post you quoted is just about a love for music,whatever genre or genres a person likes.
Whether someone makes an effort to familiarize themselves with a new (to them) type of music is a different matter. I was talking about music that one already loves.
However, yeah, sure, I'm open to many different types of music. Often one has to hear something a few times before actually "hearing" it. One listen only does is not really enough to "get" everything a particular piece of music has to offer.
I was pretty smug a few weeks ago about my knowledge of classic alternative rock. It turns out that what I knew was only the tip of the iceberg. The whole wide world of post-punk has opened up to me, about 35 years later than it should have.
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I think the newbies will eventually get comfortable and let their more engaging personalities shine through. At least that is what I am telling myself.
You are assuming that they HAVE more engaging personalities.
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Back to what I was originally trying to say here:
By the way, since, sadly, I am not a musician, I'm talking about listening to music as opposed to playing it. If you can sing or play an instrument, I admire you. But this is more about "appreciating" music than creating it.
I think the kind of person who loves movies ( and I chose the word "love" as opposed to "like" on purpose) is also likely to love music. Film-lovers who come to this site often also start or participate in threads about music.
But music is something apart from books, plays, or movies in that you don't need to have a plot, or characters. There's no investment of time the way there is in reading a book or watching a film (obviously, with a film it's about 2 hours, with a book it could be as long as 2 months...) You can listen to music and do something else at the same time. I suppose I mean mindless tasks, because when I play music I don't have it as background sound, I pay attention to it.
Also, to me anyway, music is much more about the senses than movies are. Yes, film is a visual art /entertainment form, and there are many great movies that are as much about what you see as they are about story. But in general, most movies have characters and plot, and a large part of why we enjoy them is connected with that. You have to comprehend what's going on in a film to enjoy it.
With music, all you need is to be able to hear. It's a direct connection between sound, ear, and brain. And to respond to it emotionally, all you need to do is listen to it.
This is not to say that I don't love movies, obviously I do. But for me, because the effect of music is more immediate and direct upon my senses ( well, the sense of hearing) than either reading or film-watching is, it moves me in a different way than books or films do. It's deeper, it's more direct, it's more emotional.
You're setting yourself up for this question..... Do fyou feel that you are receptive to learning genres of music with which you are not familiar?
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Lauren Bacall continued to be cast as the smart one in How To Marry a Millionaire with Betty Grable
Grable was in CALL ME MISTER with Dan Dailey
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100 years old.... amazing!
One of the all-time greats.....
Today's the day. Happy 100th. The best ever performance by a lead actress in a film------in THE HEIRESS.
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If he never saw the stage version (which, by the way, I don't believe for a second), how does he know that the director threw out its book and made a film film more based on the original stories? He went through life basing his opinion of what "friends" told him?! What a moron.
I don't want to seem insensitive or shallow, but I can't spend two or so hours looking at Liza Minelli, especially in garish makeup.
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I think everyone who sends me an email is "cute".
Except of course,Stephen Talbot lookalikes.
You must not receive the type of E-mails that I do.
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airs Friday Jul 01, 2016 2:00AM-4:00AM
TERROR AT LONDONBRIDGE
SYNOPSISA detective (David Hasselhoff) thinks Jack the Ripper's ghost came to Lake Havasu City, Ariz., with the bridge.
CASTDavid Hasselhoff, Stepfanie Kramer, Adrienne Barbeau
MOVIE INFORMATIONReleased: 1985 | Runtime: 120 | Genres: Mystery | Directed By: E.W. Swackhamer
This is from the Comet tv schedule, Dargo.
I know this won't offend anyone here, since I wrote that it was only for your eyes, which would mean no one else will be reading it.
I thought that I was the one that didn't know how to send private messages.
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