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A website that works and then doesn't, without rhyme or reason, intermittently, and
doesn't do what it is supposed to do. Sound familiar? There's more than one out
there. But, since a Cat has nine lives, I'll try again, with Into White.
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It's doubtful anyone would call Beat the Devil Huston's best film, but I find it to be
one of his most enjoyable. Many of the usual suspects back in place for a nice
little tongue in cheek take on film noir, including, naturally, Huston's own contributions
to the genre. Was channel surfing and caught about the last hour. Sort of an early
version of a movie about nothing much at all, but very entertaining nonetheless. I
liked Edward Underdown's performance as the ultra stiff-lipped Harry Chelm, who
got the goods in the end. Well done, old chap.
Bogart put some of his own money into the production, and it didn't do very well at
the box office, which may have given Bogart a jaundiced view of the movie. He said
that only phonies liked it, which might have been his thinner wallet talking. Even Bogie
got it wrong sometimes.
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Disregard previous post due to SMFYTPOS {...} website.
Message was edited by: TCMWebAdmin mild profanity
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The artist now known as Yusuf Islam, and formerly known as Cat Stevens, and before that
as Steven Georgiou, had a birthday a few days ago (61st). Happy Birthday. Here he performs
Longer Boats.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF3Cjbk1zU
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One of the most interesting supporting characters, the occasionally lovable con artist
Angel Martin, played by Stuart Margolin to a tee, on The Rockford Files. He always
added something extra to the episodes he appeared in. Jiimmmmeeeeee.
Though it originated in England, it did run on ABC for a while: The Avengers with
Patrick MacNee and Diana Rigg as John Steed and Emma Peel. Great chemistry
between the two stars. "Mrs. Peel, we're needed."
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Oh, how about Carol Post, played by the lovely Connie Hines. Wiillbbuuurrrrrrr.
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Black Francis, Frank Black, Boston Blacky, Frankly Mr. Blackly, or whatever his name
may be, and the rest of the Pixies perform a high energy alterno number, including deep
questions such as the species limits on heaven's gate and a little supernatural mathematics,
entitled Monkey Gone to Heaven.
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Little Big Man: Plastics Store Indian
Next: Who is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?
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Yes, it's a variation on that line. To my best recollection, the line appears in
parenthesis next to "I Am the Walrus" ("oh, no you're not!" said little Nicola.)
I think the l in little was in lower case, so my bad. The Beatles are #1 in my
book. Roll up.
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There is something enjoyable about a simple unadorned opinion. Yes, the reasons
for finding the Kettle movies dull might have been enumerated, but the basic idea
seems pretty clear. Boring is boring. Sometimes it's that easy, yawl.
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SMFYTPOS. Another **** website, time to go to plan B. The Move perform
another psychedelic pop hit with another unsurprising title, +I Can Hear the Grass
Grow.+
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SMFYTPOS. Another **** website, time to go to plan B. The Move perform
another psychedelic pop hit with another unsurprising title, +I Can Hear the Grass
Grow+
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Like quite a few British groups, The Move were popular in the UK, but couldn't catch a
break in the US. They had a good run of hit singles in England in the late 60s and
early 70s that went nowhere in America. That's life. Here is a short piece of their
psychedelic pop, with the unsurprising title Flowers in the Rain.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6o5FOs2SjQ
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Next: Things to Come
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I believe the reason for Lennon's reluctance to wear his glasses, especially in public,
was a matter of personal vanity. He thought he was a cool guy and cool guys don't
wear glasses. It really wasn't until around 1966-67 that he appears in them in public.
On The Ed Sullivan Show appearance he is without glasses (Sorry girls, he's really
a four-eyes) and there are lots of stories about the mishaps Lennon got into by
not wearing them.
Holly, I think Cronkite had a piece about the Beatles on his news show, not that they
actually performed on the show. Sullivan saw it and book them, or at least that's the
story. And the rest is a magical mystery tour.
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Toots was a wonderful songwriter himself, but here he covers a John Denver classic,
with a little adjustment in the lyric geography and to a very pleasing result.
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The great Pretenders get real with Chrissie front and back in black, perform a fine live
version of Oh. Oh. Ooohhhhh Back on the Chain Gang
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The Trouble with Harry: High lead diet
Next: The Wrong Man
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Night Must Fall: So do eyelids (1937 version)
Next: The Lady Vanishes
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The top of the toppermost. The Beatles do Nowhere Man live at Munich in 1966.
Macht schau.
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This is a whole lot of allegories to put on such a frail structure as this rather paint-by-numbers
horror movie. The Divine Comedy and the significance of Beatrice in that work is a long
way from this swirling soup of sex and supernaturalism. It's hard to see how it can bear
all that weight. It has enough of a problem being just a somewhat better than average
horror flick, with a few silly obsessions thrown into the mix. Since Darren plays a musician
who has problems with dead/undead loves, maybe there's an Orpheus Eurydice connection
in there somewhere too. I hope TCM plays this one again, and not so late in the evening,
so I can see the whole thing for curiosities sake, not because the last two-thirds of the
movie will be any better than the first third.
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Now you know why Claire Trevor always wanted a drink.
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Haven't thought about City Confidential for a while. It was a good show by itself,
but Winfield's narration, sort of a sly winking 'that's the way things go,' with a touch
of humor, really added quite a bit to it. Sadly, he died in 2004, ending his wonderful
contribution to the program.
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The King of Comedy: French still wrong
Next: Pardners
What is the best film by John Huston?
in Films and Filmmakers
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> {quote:title=HollywoodGolightly wrote:}{quote}
> > > If that's what happened, I guess it just shows that actors who invest their own money in movies they star in should have a thicker skin.
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> What else did Santana Productions make, besides this one and In a Lonely Place, I wonder?
The Wiki entry on Bogart has a brief but informative section on Santana Productions. Besides
In a Lonely Place and Beat the Devil, they also produced Tokyo Joe, Sirocco,
Knock on any Door and one or two others. Apparently, the box office on these films
wasn't very good. but, in the best Hollywood tradition, there's still a happy ending. Bogie
sold his interest in Santana to Columbia for one million dollars, equal to two years of
his Warner Bros. salary when he started Santana in 1948. And he still had the boat too.