ValentineXavier
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It's pure speculation on my part, but I noticed that TCM had listed *TDDoKJ* as being letterboxed, even though it was made for TV, and surely had an aspect ratio of 1.33:1. Perhaps they were offered a LB print, then realized that would not be the OAR, and so refused it. I'd like to think that, anyway...
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Much as I enjoyed, and agree with, her essay, it's easy to see how TPTB of the time would decide she needed a lobotomy, from their point of view.
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I would name her, but I don't want her to be inundated by requests for the film. I'd bet that those copies for sale through Amazon are made from the old VHS tape, or a TV screening. AFAIK, it has never had an official release. Just my guess, but it may be a rights issue with Durbin's songs.
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Who was Billy Brown would be the more pertinent question...
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> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}Marriage is a "different direction"?
You're right. It's just another kind of acting.
Edited by: ValentineXavier on Dec 5, 2011 7:28 PM
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Yes, the wikipedia does offer some excellent info on *Mulholland Drive*. I recommend the "Dreams and alternate realities" section. There is also much good discussion on the IMDb forum for the film. Many believe that there is an objective, real, explanation of all the surreal goings-on, and I am inclined to believe that is quite likely. Many spoilers, of course:
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From *The Magic Christian*, with Ringo Starr and Peter Sellers:
>*Youngman Grand, Esq.:* Dad, do you think words corrupt?
>*Sir Guy Grand KG, KC, CBE:* I don't know, let's try. Agnes?
>*Dame Agnes Grand:* [looks up from the television] Yes?
>*Sir Guy Grand KG, KC, CBE:* ****.
>*Dame Agnes Grand:* Shh! [turns back to the television]
>*Sir Guy Grand KG, KC, CBE:* [watches her a moment] Well, there's no immediate physical change.
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From *Time Bandits:*
>*Evil:* God isn't interested in technology. He cares nothing for the microchip or the silicon revolution. Look how he spends his time, forty-three species of parrots! Nipples for men!
>*Robert:* Slugs.
>*Evil:* Slugs! HE created slugs! They can't hear. They can't speak. They can't operate machinery. Are we not in the hands of a lunatic?
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I enjoyed it. I saw it when TCM ran it ~ one year ago. It all takes place in a library, and I work in a library. They used the same book trucks we still use today, and it all looked very familiar. I found these sorts of things interesting. Also - unusual for the day - were hints of a S&M relationship between Sanders, and his female accomplice.
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Thanks for the heads-up. I will check it out!
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Trumbo finally got his film made, and directed it himself. The very powerful *Johnny Got His Gun* came out in 1971, at the peak of the Viet Nam War.
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Maybe next time, I'll add some mezcal, and call it "mole borracho."
Actually, the way I cook it in the oven, the chicken is completely immersed in mole, and it "Really infuses the chicken with flavor and it just falls off the bone when done." Maybe I'm just not so good at doing it in a pot, but to me, it's a little too much like boiling, which I think takes the flavor out of things, and my way is more like slow roasting, which I think concentrates flavors. I wish we could have a mole cook-off! I'm sure we'd like each other's mole.
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Here's the caption to the picture, from the wikipedia article on mole:
>Selling mole mixes at the Feria Nacional del Mole in San Pedro Atocpan
I use Dona Maria's too. I grind up some dried chipotles, and crush a square or two of baker's chocolate, and add those. Besides, (or even instead of,) chicken broth, I sometimes use beer, or even orange juice to make the sauce.
Also non-traditional, I put the chicken pieces, closely together but in a single layer, in a roasting pan, and cover it with aluminum foil. I put that in the oven at 350 deg. for about an hour. I remove the aluminum foil, pour the chicken broth that has formed into the mole sauce pan, stir, pour the mole over the chicken, and return it to the oven for about an hour, uncovered. There are endless varieties of moles, better than we can do with the staple Dona Maria's but I stand by my oven method for cooking!
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They'd both have your b*lls for breakfast, but Jane would cook them with her eggs. Linda would eat them raw.
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> {quote:title=AndyM108 wrote:}{quote}
> And The Big Sleep or L.A. Confidential ? Ha! Those'll take me another 30 years!
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Then my advice is to never watch *Mulholland Drive*, because you will never sleep another day, the rest of your life, trying to figure it out.
*Miss W.,* I think TCM's "Brief Synopses" are a bit too brief. Some of them could describe a lot of films. So, sometimes when I am trying to remember if I saw a film, I will check the "Detailed Synopsis," and quit reading when I remember if I've seen it. As already noted by several others, they can also be a help in understanding a film, after one has seen it. So, I'm glad they are there, but quite agree that they need to be divided into paragraphs.
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Thanks! The first couple of times I tried, it wouldn't even post the link - I could see it in my post in "Edit," but not as actually posted.
I could spend a couple of hours smelling and buying the wonderful moles they have, then days cooking the different varieties.
Much as I love mole, tamales, various dishes of the Yucatan - like tzic de venado, pescado tikin xich, cochinita pibil, and pavo in relleno negro - probably my favorite Mexican food is a simple fresh, hand-made corn tortilla, melted Chihuahua cheese, and chorizo, possibly a bit of salsa de chile fresca, rolled up and eaten!
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From Kurosawa's not-to-be-missed *Dode's Ka-den*, to Boston **** films, much to like in that schedule.
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Here's a photo of a place I'd like to visit:
If anyone knows how to post the photo, please do.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/MaravillasMoleSPA.JPG
Edited by: ValentineXavier on Dec 3, 2011 9:47 PM
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From *Eating Raoul:*
>*Susan (Edie McClurg)- Swinger in Fur:* We're into B&D but not S&M. We met at the A&P.
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IMO, FLIX just proved its reason for existing by showing *Eating Raoul* in LB. I haven't seen that gem on cable for years.
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> {quote:title=darkblue wrote:}{quote}Someone at Warners really hates that movie. I think Russell might have **** off whoever it was very badly.
I don't think it was a matter of Russell **** off anyone at WB, I think it is people at WB that are prejudiced against the film. I will buy the BFI version, as it will be 2.35:1, and be a quality print.
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There's actually an even better doc, with the dull title *Where Lies the ****?* It is about gays trying to find role models in films, and life, where there were very few open ones.
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> > Given Texas' proclivity to rewriting textbooks to suit their politics and religious beliefs, that means nothing. Recently, they tried to write Thomas Jefferson out of their history books.
> Fine. Choose your textbook, Or your online source. Find anything that indicates Mexican abolition of slavery led to revolution. It's simply not the case.
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You may well be right about that, I am not disagreeing with that specifically, just one bit of 'evidence' you offered. As a native Oklahoman, who lived in Texas in the 50s, and visited it in the 60s and 70s, I can attest that many Texans, then at least, thought that Mexicans were a step or two down the evolutionary ladder from African Americans. Hopefully, those repulsive prejudices are almost extinct. I haven't been there in a long time, so I don't know. But, at one time, they were pervasive.
Addendum: Of course, most holding those beliefs wouldn't acknowledge evolution exists...
Edited by: ValentineXavier on Nov 30, 2011 4:16 AM
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Sounds really familiar, like it has been on TCM in the last year, but I can't quite come up with a name. It sounds a bit like *My Name is Julia Ross*, but I don't think that's it.
Screen Directors Playhouse episodes
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I wouldn't mind Playhouse 90, or East Side, West Side. There was some good, classy TV drama, amongst trite crapola, back in dem days...