HollywoodGolightly
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> {quote:title=CineSage_jr wrote:}{quote}
> PS: That Cliff Robertson won the Best Actor Oscar for, of all things, the treacly CHARLY, over Peter O'Toole's Henry II is one of the great injustices in Academy-voting history.
For some strange reason, playing mentally-challenged characters always seems to give actors an edge with the Academy.
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Joan Fontaine was in Jane Eyre with Agnes Moorehead
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Sometimes, I'd like to think that nostalgia for the past, at least for some of us, is not limited to the classic movies and actors and directors of the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Maybe for some of us it also extends to the snacks we may sometimes enjoy with our movies.
The reason I bring it up is because I have recently learned that a major soda manufacturer is bringing back something it hadn't used _for decades_ in this country: sugar.
Yup, sugar, as opposed to the nefarious-sounding contraption known as High-Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) that has been used since the early 80s to sweeten almost all commercial drinks. (Apparently, most other countries around the world still use sugar).
I remember with fondness the days when cola drinks were actually sweetened with sugar. And now, the good old days are here again (if you know where to look).
There is just no comparison, in terms of both taste and aftertaste: sugar beats HFCS any day of the week, and twice on Sunday. Most people I know find the aftertaste of HFCS to be rather... yucky.
(Needless to say, whether it's sugar or HFCS, moderation is still a very good idea)
So, for what it's worth, I'm glad this major bottler has brought back the sugar.
Now I'll just go and get the popcorn.
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There's a cool article on the new "Trek" in this Sunday's New York Times (includes very minor spoilers):
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The Godfather, Part II
nw: trepidation
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The Killing
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Very different women.
next: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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That is the right movie, visualfeast, congrats.
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Sorry, it's not Foreign Intrigue Kid.
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Astaire, Fred
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I never got to see the series on A&E, but many of their specials have been included in the DVDs of major classic movies as bonus material, and they're just incredibly awesome.
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Out of the Past - first rate noir!
Next: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
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TCM is finally bring Bond... James Bond to its viewers, with the old-school 007 movies starring Sean Connery, as well as several other Connery movies, in May 2009.
The fun starts May 1 with Dr. No, From Russia With Love and On the Fiddle
Then on May 8, it's Goldfinger, Thunderball and Woman of Straw.
On May 15,You Only Live Twice, Diamonds Are Forever and The Anderson Tapes
On May 22, Marnie, The Hill and The Russia House
On May 29, The Wind and the Lion, The Grain Train Robbery and Robin and Marian.
It's going to be a fun month for Connery fans!!
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Errol Flynn was in San Antonio with Alexis Smith
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Young, Robert
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Villa, Pancho - Wallace Beery in Viva Villa! (1934)
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> {quote:title=LonesomePolecat wrote:}{quote}
> Night of the Hunter?
No. But you're right about one of the actors.
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In the Good Old Summertime
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*batteries not included
nw: caravan
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Peter Joshua (and Regina Lampert)
Cary Grant (with Audrey Hepburn) in Charade
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Xavier Cugat
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> {quote:title=CineSage_jr wrote:}{quote}
> FXM last showed it about four months ago.
If FXM means Fox Movie Channel, then I either missed it, or I recorded it and forgot that I had.
I do that sometimes. My memory is not what it once was.
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Gandhi
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He was a poet, a scholar and a mighty warrior. He was also the most shameless exhibitionist since Barnum & Bailey.
It is one of the beautiful things about great movies that they can be enjoyed in so many different ways. I enjoy Lawrence in my own way, I suppose, and I'm glad others can enjoy the film in some way.
No, I don't suppose we'd ever reach the same conclusions about Lawrence himself.
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Jane Russell was in Macao with Robert Mitchum :x