The_Film-Flam_Man

We know you're cloning blue-eyed, black-haired little boys and placing them with domineering step-fathers and over-protective step-mothers, Herr Doktor.

> {quote:title=NAZIE wrote:}{quote} > hi my name is NAZIE, I thought we beat those guys in World War II. Are you, by any chance, living in Argentina?

Appalling.

I met him once, in the mid-1980s. If there was something special about him, it's that for four years he was able to work alongside the universally-despised Bob Crane during the making of Cummings's TV series Love That Bob! without killing him (that happy chore was, of course, left to others).

> {quote:title=StuartESGardner wrote:}{quote} > *This was originally released in widescreen with a ratio of 1.85:1, but every video release I'm aware of and every television broadcast has been full frame / pan and scan / chop and crop. Not even TCM has been able to give the film a proper presentation.* The simplest solution is to merely re-title the film "Some of Me."

To hell with that! Where's Errol's real epic paean to the island: CUBAN REBEL GIRLS?

> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote} > CITIZEN KANE was not really Welles' debut. Sort of like the "Rookie of the Year" award in baseball. What constitutes a "rookie"? It's very simple: KANE was the first narrative feature film directed by Welles. To use your own analogy, documentaries and shorts (as in Too Much Johnson, the film-within-a-play Welles made to screen during performances of his Mercury Theatre production of William Gillette?s 1894 comedy) are the minor leagues, plain and simple, and have no bearing on the "rookie's" performance in the Majors.

> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote} > So why did Miss Wonderly hire Miles Archer, and then kill him a few hours later? Why does Auric Goldfinger bother to tell all the gang bosses he's collected at his Kentucky farm his scheme for robbing Fort Knox, only to immediately gas them to death just for the hell of it (while sending boss Solo off to be shot by Odd Job and then crushed inside the Lincoln Continental, just because he demanded his money upfront. Why not just gas him with the others)? Utterly illogical, all of it, to the point of being inane, but it's the movies: the writers need their set-pieces into which they can cram a lot of exposition, and they expect that the audience wiull be so engaged that they won't notice (and, in the case of the great, ever-watchable GOLDFINGER, they're right).

Why even ask? Everybody takes a back seat to Orson Welles for CITIZEN KANE.

Neither are drunks, Mr Bender.

> {quote:title=ugaarte wrote:}{quote} > TED HEALY > ____________ > > I've always seen this guy in a 'Bad' Light. > > Being the Lead of the Stooge Team, > Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard & > later, Jerome 'Curly' Howard . . . > Ted Healy would Verbally & Physically Abuse > them as Part of the Vaudvillian Act. > > According to Wikpedia, when the Team starred in, > 'Soup to Nuts', FOX offered the 3 Stooges Contracts > without Healy. When Healy found out he told > FOX that the 3 Stooges were his Employees, thus > causing FOX to withdraw their Offer . . . > > When the Stooges found out what had happened, > they left Healy and began their Act on their own. > Healy Threatened to 'Bomb' any Theatre that allowed > the Stooges to Perform. > > The 3 Stooges Finally made a 'Clean' Break from Ted Healy > due to his Alcoholism & Abrasiveness. They were, literally, Healy's Stooges. Without knowledge of that, the name "The Three Stooges" really makes no sense, since any stooge has to be somebody's stooge.

> {quote:title=scsu1975 wrote:}{quote} > Let's be fair. They won the French Revolution - but then again, they were fighting the French. Who is "they?"

> {quote:title=ugaarte wrote:}{quote} >But looking over your Response Again, > I Realized 'Brief Encounter' IS the Name of the Movie. You thought, maybe, it was referring to a Fruit of the Loom ad?

"I don't pray. Kneeling bags my nylons." ...Lorraine Minosa (Jan Sterling) to Chuck Tatum (Kirk Douglas) in ACE IN THE HOLE

> {quote:title=skimpole wrote:}{quote} > And with the same idea, what 10 films provide the essence of France? (As opposed to its history?) The titles are irrelevant; all you need to know is that every one of them was directed by Jerry Lewis.

I think that by merely nominating the most American of films, one automatically establishes a standard against which all others must be measured, thereby making the other nine rather irrelevant. As such, I think that the Billy Wilder-Walter Newman-Lesser Samuels ACE IN THE HOLE is the quintessential American movie in that it states categorically and fearlessly that everything previously said about the very society that created it is a lie.

Without going into specific titles, I'd say that the Ealing Comedies are probably the most British of all British films.

Many's the time I'd encounter Ballantine in the checkout line of my local supermarket here in Hollywood. He'd always be ready with a wisecrack, and enjoyed being remembered. Now that the obituary has acquainted me with details about the man's life I never knew, I have to say that...a daughter called Saratoga? Now there's a man who surely loved the ponies.

> {quote:title=lzcutter wrote:}{quote} > *Gunga Din* great theme. Sly old Alfred Newman clearly wrote that theme to the meter of Kipling's poem, "Gunga Din." I've always wondered if George Stevens, or anyone else back then (or since), ever noticed.