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B - The Thrill of Brazil (on TCM tomorrow)

Ustinov, Peter - directed Lady L

Pennies From Heaven

Marx, Groucho

Hope you'll enjoy the tribute very much, clearskies!

Lonely are the Brave - the vanishing cowboys next: The Last Picture Show

Stevens, George - directed A Place in the Sun

Z - Zentropa

The Grapes of Wrath

Henry Fonda was in Once Upon a Time in the West with Jason Robards

I do hope the new Flicker Alley version looks good - let us know after you've watched it!

Thanks, TripleHHH, I'll see if I can locate one with the sellers!

Thank you, Dougie. And you're right, going to watch this movie was probably one of the most exciting things for a lot of us who were kids back then. Even more astonishing was the fact that we enjoyed the movie so much, even though, for the most part, it constitutes nothing but a series of complete or partial setbacks for the heroes we'd grown to love in the first movie. By the end of the movie, I think Lucas had made a good point that sometimes the greatest victory is to simply live to fight another day. You don't get that in a lot of movies aimed primarily at younger audiences.

Fun facts about Danny Kaye: * Birth name: David Daniel Kaminski * His father, Jacob Kaminski; his mother, Clar; and his two older brothers, Mack and Larry, emigrated from Ukraine to the United States in 1910 * He awarded 3 Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 6125 Hollywood Boulevard; for Motion Pictures at 6563 Hollywood Boulevard; and for Radio at 6101 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.

The Comic - overlooked Reiner film? next: The King of Comedy

You're welcome - and enjoy!

> {quote:title=Poinciana wrote:}{quote} > Anyone want to give your opinion of Heavenly Creatures? When this came out in theaters here in America, nobody really seemed to know who Peter Jackson was, but for a handful of dedicated film buffs. The movie itself seemed a revelation, with some quite hallucinatory imagery that I found very memorable. Overall it's still one of my favorite Peter Jackson movies. Other Australian favorites include Flirting (1991), from the director of The Year My Voice Broke and starring Nicole Kidman and Thandie Newton, before they became famous in America.

Yes, The Killers with Burt Lancaster

O'Connor - Allen Jenkins in Professional Sweetheart

Powell, Michael - co-directed The Red Shoes

U - Road to Utopia

Jones, Jennifer

Gig Young was in Teacher's Pet with Doris Day

Libeled Lady

Very sad news *Eddie Carroll, voice of Jiminy Cricket and Jack Benny impersonator, dies at 76* He became the second actor to voice Disney's diminutive character, beginning in 1973. Carroll also staged one-man shows in tribute to the legendary comedian. By Valerie J. Nelson April 11, 2010 Eddie Carroll, an actor who for decades gave voice to Jiminy Cricket in Disney projects and impersonated Jack Benny in a noted one-man stage show, has died. He was 76. Carroll died Tuesday from a brain tumor at the Motion Picture and Television Fund Hospital in Woodland Hills, said his wife, Carolyn. "He was so proud to do both roles," his wife said. "He just admired the whole fantasy of Jiminy Cricket, and he loved the man . . . who was Jack Benny." In 1973, Carroll became the second actor to voice the cricket, who was the title character's conscience in the 1940 animated film "Pinocchio." Before auditioning, Carroll studied Jiminy's signature song, "When You Wish Upon a Star," sung by Cliff Edwards. The Canadian-born Carroll realized that he needed to adopt a Midwestern accent. His agent did "back flips" when Carroll got the part, he told the Dayton (Ohio) Daily News in 2008. "He knew the role was a cottage industry," Carroll said. " . . . There's something practically every month -- a singalong film, computer game, recording as spokesman for Disney on Ice, a show at Disneyland or Disney World." No one else has voiced a Disney character for as long as Carroll did, said Rick Dempsey, senior vice president of Disney's Character Voices division. "He totally was Jiminy Cricket," Dempsey said. "He really took what the character was into his own heart and in a sense lived that in his own life. He also was one of the best Jack Benny impersonators on the planet." When a crew member on a 1982 film set ruined a scene by dropping a prop, Carroll broke the tension by bursting out with a trademark Benny line, "Oh, for heaven's sake, Rochester!," and "everybody laughed," Carroll later recalled. It led to him being cast in the one-man show, "A Small Eternity With Jack Benny," which opened in 1983 in Santa Monica. After touring in that show for a year, he wrote a tribute, "Jack Benny: Laughter in Bloom," and continued appearing as the comedian, who died in 1974, until late last year. He often toured six months a year. Los Angeles magazine's reaction to the show in the 1990s was typical: "Before our eyes, he truly becomes the legendary comedian." Laura Leff, president of the International Jack Benny Fan Club, told The Times: "Jack's humor is based so much around character, and Eddie was able to recreate that in a very authentic way. It was the next best thing to having Jack himself there." Eddie Eleniak was born Sept. 5, 1933, in Edmonton, Canada, and acted in high school alongside another student, Robert Goulet. A bout with polio was not far behind him when Carroll came to Los Angeles in the mid-1950s with Goulet as part of an NBC talent program. Soon after moving to the U.S., Carroll served in the Army. For two years, he wrote and produced shows for Armed Forces Radio and Television. When his mother suggested he needed a simpler last name, he adopted "Carroll" for a favorite aunt. In an acting class after the war, he met Jamie Farr, who would appear in the TV series "MASH." They formed a production company in the 1960s that developed a number of projects for networks and studios. "We were like brothers, and we still are," Carroll said in 2005 in the Toledo (Ohio) Blade. Carroll had appeared in more than 200 commercials, according to his website, and was a regular on the early 1970s variety program "The Don Knotts Show." To portray Benny, Carroll taught himself to play violin and joked with a Times reporter in 1999: "Thank goodness Benny wasn't a great violinist or I'd be in trouble." After walking onstage as Benny, he would put the violin down and drolly say, "Don't look so relieved; I play it later." Actress Erika Eleniak of TV's "Baywatch" is his niece. For almost 37 years, he lived in Encino with his wife, whom he married in 1963. He is also survived by his children, Tia Monti and Leland Carroll; and two brothers, Bob Elen and Dale Eleniak, all of Los Angeles.