ValentineXavier
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Leo McKern
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Since Perry Mason was mentioned (I am a fan,) I have to mention my favorite TV lawyer, Leo McKern, playing Rumpole of the Bailey.
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I always thought my grandmother looked like Zasu Pitts. When I told my mother that, she told me not to tell my grandmother, that she would be insulted! I guess that was because Zasu played characters that were, well, a bit pixilated, to use a term from a film.
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Fred, if Hitler hadn't declared war on us just then, he would have done it later. After all, he had already published a book, including his declared intention to take over the US, and split it with Japan. Better we fought him when we did, than let him take over more first.
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Vengeance of the Zombies on Broadway Ladies, and
Sky Murder on a Honeymoon for Three are pretty cute, too.
I'm tempted to try and write synopses, but I'm not familiar with all of the films.
I am a bit less in awe, knowing that you are using a computer and a database. But still, nice job, coming full circle, with one title!
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Well, Jeff can act, and in a wide range. OTOH, to borrow Dorothy Parker's line, John Wayne's acting runs the gamut, from A to B.
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Not in any particular order...
Kurosawa
Kenji Mizoguchi
Fellini
Jean Cocteau
Luis Bunuel
Orson Welles
John Huston
Lindsay Anderson
Fritz Lang
Kenneth Anger
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Well, I think I, and others, have tried to be creative, so thank you for that!
Calling making long strings "mechanical" caused me to think that a computer, with say, the IMDb database of movies, might make a string pf a few thousand! Yow!
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Dolly was good in *The Best Little **** House In Texas*, and *9 to 5*. I couldn't call myself a big fan, but I like her. Once, when asked what she thought of 'dumb blonde' jokes, she said 'They don't bother me, because I know I'm not dumb, and I'm not blonde!'
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I liked The Two Ronnies, but only knew one other person who did.
I also remember The Goodies, sort of a cross between The Monkees and Monty Python. I watched it, but mainly by default, in the days before cable with a million channels. They did have one very good ep though. It was Apartheight, a satire on South Africa's apartheid system, but everyone was separated by height.
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Ida Lupino and Howard Duff
Malcolm McDowell and Mary Steenburgen
Federico Fellini and Giulietta Masina
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> THE FUGITIVE KIND -- don't be put off by Leonard Maltin's comments -- "Even the worthy Homer sometimes nods."
Maltin used to say "the film goes nowhere." Well, the film is about people who are going nowhere, they are trapped, everyone of them, by various things. As might be guessed from my handle, *The Fugitive Kind* is my favorite Brando film, and favorite Tennessee Williams film. But, it is a very sad film, filed with great performances.
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Moto and Chan had totally different styles. I like both. I'd say that the Moto movies and the best of the Chan movies are pretty much equal. But, there are a lot fewer Moto films. They didn't have the time to go downhill, and get stale, like the Chan films did. I agree, I'd like to see both on TV, but especially the Moto films, since they are rarely shown.
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> After the short the TCM announcer gal said, to paraphrase, ".... Elizabeth Taylor's extraordinary acting career to her dramatic death".
Perhaps she was so taken with the ending of *Cleopatra*, that she thought Liz couldn't have survived it.
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I like the Coen Bros. work. They've done just about every genre but a Western. So, it's about time they did one. Plus, it stars the Dude! I'm looking forward to it.
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> Doesn't someone have to have distinctive "Latin" features to be considered a Latina, or else at least be from Latin America? I didn't think someone from Spain was racially classified as a Latina.
Although some argue that those defined by the now in disuse term "Latin" - i.e. those from the European countries where the romance languages are native - are included in the more modern terms latino/latina, I would agree that best use of those terms is for people from Latin America. So, it would have been better if I has said that Rita Hayworth, aka Margarita Carmen Cansino, was Hispanic. I actually thought she was Mexican, before I checked. But, the example still serves to refute the accusation by CV that I was rebutting. Please pardon my inexactitude.
It occurred to me later that Dolores Del Rio was a latina actress (Mexican) of the classic era who some might consider a heartthrob. I guess that Katy Jurado is probably my favorite Mexican actress acting in US films back then, but I don't think of her as a heartthrob.
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I think Jean Arthur had a sexy voice. Ella Raines also.
I think Orson Welles and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. had great voices.
I always enjoyed Akim Tamiroff's voice. Of course, he was usually doing an accent, often with a bit of humor.
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> I don't feel advanced enough yet to buy any software required to manipulate any electronic equipment.
For lots of inexpensive DVD players, you don't need to "buy any software," to make them region-free. All you need to do is enter a code number with your remote, and it will be region-free. It takes no computer expertise whatsoever.
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SansFin, I'm impressed! 15 titles strung together! I'm also intimidated - I thought I would try to string together 6 or 8, but I doubt I could equal 15.
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> But what about a movie like the Exorcist? To really find the movie disturbing doesn't one have to buy in the basic point of the movie that there is such a thing as a devil and other Christian Catholic
> concepts in order to find the movie really disturbing. Like I said being agnostic I found the movie to be somewhat camp,
Exactly the same for me. I thought the growling and projectile vomiting was hilarious! Same goes for *Rosemary's Baby*.
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Yes, *Audition* is disturbing! If you like Japanese horror, you might want to check out *Cure* as well. But, the most disturbing film I ever watched was Pier Paolo Pasolini's *Salo: 120 days of Sodom*, also the most powerful anti-fascist fil I ever saw. It is a depiction of Nazi depravity. To quote from the IMDb: "Four fascist libertines round up nine teenage boys and girls, and subject them to 120 days of physical, mental, and sexual torture." It all takes place in a castle. It's a film you only need to see once.
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I don't think enough of Benny Hill to hate him, but I don't think he's funny.
Speaking of British comedians, I liked The Two Ronnies, but I'd bet many don't.
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Strangely, my post from last night has disappeared, so I'll repost what I can recall.
Of my female heart throbs, two have not been mentioned so far. One is Merle Oberon. The other is French actress Arletty, who I would nominate as sexiest actress of all time. She starred in *Children of Paradise*.
Of course there weren't a lot of black or latina leading ladies in that era. Rita Hayworth, nee Margarita Carmen Cansino, was Spanish. I think the hottest black actress was Josephine Baker. Unfortunately, she had to go to Europe to make films.
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I think that Will Rogers could do quite well today. I don't say that because of the sort of films he made back when. I think so because he was a political satirist at heart. There is plenty to satirize now, and he would be a LOT freer to do it, in film.
Great English actors
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Well, if we are going to include more modern ones, I'll add Helen Mirren and Malcolm McDowell. Well, actually, both have been acting since the 60s...