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> {quote:title=RayFaiola wrote:}{quote}
> I'm probably the biggest Reagan fan in the room, but I don't think it's appropriate to put him on currency. Way too soon. And there is no reason to replace Grant.
I agree.
Ha! Reagan can win in a popularity contest against Ulysses S. but definitely not Cary!!!
I say put Cary Grant on the $50 bill, I bet there would be more "large bills only" requests to bank tellers.
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The Academy and their rules are stupendously ridiculous. I already have my issues with them as a whole, dating back to the beginning of the awards...remember when it was a popularity contest and the "most liked" won, or people were allowed to have 'silent' campaigns for votes? *cough* Walter Brennan
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Thanks for keeping this thread going Holly!
I forgot that FMC's website lets you see the current and next month's schedule...next month they are bringing in the original "Night and the City" into rotation. It is airing three times - great for those of us who haven't brought ourselves to spend the $40 on the Critertion DVD. Hangover Square will also be airing twice in April.
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I need to see the 1991 Cape Fear. I know Encore Mystery and Drama channels have been showing both versions. I'd be lying if I said I don't enjoy Robert Mitchum as the creepy guy - to the point where I pause for hysterical laughter (particularly in the scene when he asks Peck to "check our her jiggle")
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My DVR will be burning rubber all day tomorrow. I don't think it gets any more underrated than John Garfield. Very Random, but he is my favorite in 'Thank Your Lucky Stars" - yup, all 5 minutes of his bit!
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> {quote:title=wouldbestar wrote:}{quote}
> If I wanted a group to see an example of great film acting, I would say watch the movie version of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. It is a classic take on the line Turn chicken manure into chicken salad. Were it not for Newman, Taylor, Ives, and the rest being at their best, you could not sit through it. Cleaned up, it doesn'tt make sense. Are we to believe that all of a sudden, Brick and Maggie stop fighting and start sleeping together?
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> To really see what Tennessee Williams was trying to say, you need to see the TV version Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood made in the late 70s when homosexuality could be explored. There is no happy ending; just a portrait of a marriage that probably never should have been. Im not saying Wagner and Wood could not act, far from it; just that this version was the most accurate.
This is good to know. Do you know if that version has ever been released to DVD or even VHS? I would love to compare the two.
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> {quote:title=primosprimos wrote:}{quote}
> An EMAIL? To his FRIENDS? Not to the Academy officials?
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> Again, to his friends??? So let me get this straight, one of his FRIENDS groused to the man, in this case the Academy, on this producer? About content in a PRIVATE email?
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> This is wrong on SO many levels.
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> Not the least of which is violation of privacy on what is in an email.
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> Chartier should start a blog, giving out the emails of his FRIENDS, so folks everywhere could send emails to his FRIENDS and tell them what they think of them.
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> Incredible. What a world.
Please get out of my head! Wow and wow....I guess "friend" has a very loose definition and interpretation depending on the circle, eh?
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> {quote:title=JarrodMcDonald wrote:}{quote}
> You're right, it's a stretch...but an acceptable stretch. LOL
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> Sometimes these biopics become very fictionalized, especialy if they use composites.
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> TCM has a night scheduled where they will play several films about Wyatt Earp. Among them, GUNFIGHT AT THE O.K. CORRAL and HOUR OF THE GUN. I don't know if those can be considered true biopics. Though they are technically about real historical figures, many liberties are taken and both these versions differ significantly.
What night is this? And will they be playing *My Darling Clementine*? It is my favorite Wyatt Earp/Doc Holiday film. My Darling Clementine is played fairly often on FMC and Encore Westerns.
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Millard Mitchell was in KISS OF DEATH with Coleen Gray
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You both make good points.
The truth is, remakes and films with screenplays taken from literary works should actually be better today since there isn't any real censorship. Someone like Tennessee Williams' whose work always seemed to have sexual undertones could really be appreciated. The problem with films today is that the sex or the violence is always overdone while the script is so weak. If a director does "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" today, I'm almost certain they're going to throw in a gay love scene - because movie goers have gotten so blah that innuendo in a plot is no longer allowed and they need the message spelled out; or the Maggie character will be sleeping with everything moving. I am all for remakes or adaptations when done well, but I am never enthusiastic these days when I hear of it.
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Edmond O'Brien introduced me to film noir and I have been in love ever since.
A few years ago "DOA" was playing early on a Saturday and I happen to catch the beginning....some way to start a movie! I have loved the film, and him, ever since. After watching DOA, I instantly wanted to watch every film noir out there, every gritty mystery! Anyway, for this, O'Brien will forever be cemented in my positive opinions of "classic Hollywood".
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Jack Carson was in PHFFFT! with Kim Novak
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I think it is Flaxy Martin....it was last played during her birthday tribute in the day time. White Heat doesn't really give Mayo's character the opportunity for such witty dialogue, although Flaxy Martin does.
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> {quote:title=JonnyGeetar wrote:}{quote}
> i think the reason Streetcar is thought of so highly is that it was so different from everything that came before (acting,sex, story). i think it's a great film, but if, i dunno, let's just say Torch Song is on, I'll choose the latter everytime.
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> *it's a shame they diluted cat on a hot tin roof seven years later.*
An understatement! If you are not familiar with Williams' work, you would have thought Newman's character was just an angry drunk on crutches!
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> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}
> > {quote:title=jamesjazzguitar wrote:}{quote}
> >but I guess you are saying that no movie should ever be remade.
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> No, that's not what I said.
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> *I believe that bad remakes should not be made, such as most modern remakes.*
bingo.
What these "modern" box office draws( are they even? sigh) did to "The Women" is despicable.
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> {quote:title=midnight08 wrote:}{quote}
> I'd also like to know if the bio talks much about her friendship with Barbara La Marr and Zasu's adoption of her son. At one time I read about a bio on Barbara in the works but I think it fizzled.
I too would like to know this! The more I see her in films, the more interested I become in her work...she was such a talent!
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Interesting "unpopular opinions".
I love Brando. I think sometimes he got caught up in his "method" acting so in some roles he tends to seem over the top with his speech and facial expressions. This is evident in Desiree and A Streetcar Named Desire.
John Boy - I couldn't agree more about Grant and Kerr. I have watched An Affair to Remember several times and I enjoy it each time - although I just don't see the chemistry. Then again, I don't see any sex appeal in Deborah Kerr. She has an elegance, but as a leading lady, she seems a bit prudish. I once thought this about Grant with an older Bergmann in "Indiscreet" but after watching the film again, I could feel familiarity between the two and eventually appreciated their chemistry.
I think I said this previously, but Hitchcock's last four films were not great, his suspense methods in the '50s worked for him and I wish he would have stayed with that genre.
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> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}
> > {quote:title=jamesjazzguitar wrote:}{quote}
> > Since Hitchcock's verision of Suspicion was not faithful to the book I can see this specific movie being remade as a darker thriller instead of the light hearted comedy that is the Hitchcock version.
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> This is a classic movie message board, not a literature message board. We like classic *movies*.
Also, I am about 45% sure, for marketing purposes that the "remake" will make more reference to Hitchcock's work than the book.
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> {quote:title=primosprimos wrote:}{quote}
> Hah. What a good post, LoveFilmNoir. I've long maintained that Cary Grant and James Cagney are the best actors of all time, based on their range.
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> JarrodMcDonald , you have too much movie intelligence for your own good.
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> Do you find many of your peers to be idiots when it comes to media? If no, you are lucky.
It is amazing how much I agree with your posts throughout the message board!
Cary Grant IS the best actor of all time, followed by Bogie, followed by Cagney....had TCM made Cagney star of the month in Jan, I probably would have them tied....being able to see their work so closely back to back.
Anyway, the "essentials" will definitely be determined by an audience. If someone saw Ameche in "Cocoon" and said they wanted to watch his other films, I know of the films that I'd like to introduce them to, but at the end of the day, depending on the person, I may just end up telling them to check out "Folks!" and "Harry and the Hendersons"
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Interesting, I too watched the Three Stooges as a kid and now I can't even stomach sitting through a single short. I attempted to watch a Laurel and Hardy movie on FMC and within 20 minutes I simply said "You've got to be kidding me" and deleted it off of the DVR.
As for sci-fi...I am willing to admit that my attention span for special effects and "futuristic" stuff is rather low and can really be keeping me from seeing the greatness in certain films (Like 2001).
As for horror, I like some horror flicks from the 50s-70s....even the earlier horror from the 30s and 40s is watchable....maybe because it is barely horror from today's standards. But it is complete campfest once there is the over the top screaming, cheesy lines, too-obvious special effects and the ill-flowing sex scene with nudity thrown in for the film's appeal. I just can't watch it.
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> {quote:title=Web wrote:}{quote}
> I just checked the schedule and there's listings! I'm so excited. I can't wait to see this one: *Acai Berry EXPOSED.* Sounds suspenseful: "Health Reporter Discovers the Shocking Truth About Acai Berry." Was that a Curtiz film?
LOL! That was a good one!
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> {quote:title=audreyforever wrote:}{quote}
> Right now I'm looking on recording Blood and Sand, which happens to be a Tyrone Power vehicle I have not seen.
The best part about Blood And Sand is that you will appreciate the ENTIRE cast - Linda Darnell, Rita Hayworth, Laird Cregar, Anthony Quinn, Lynn Bari and John Carradine.
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> {quote:title=talkietime wrote:}{quote}
> AMC's narrowscreen PANNING AND SCANNING will make a viewer scream and heave stuff at the TV.
Nothing tops when HBO and Cinemax play a Fox Cinemascope/Technicolor feature from the 50s that is rarely played on FMC or any other channel and they pan and scan the crap out of it! They been playing a Jean Simmons favorite of mine lately - Desiree - and boy oh boy...you only see the letterboxing during the credits and at the end as she walks down the steps leaving Napoleon (Brando). Drives me crazy every time.....but this weekend I had the pleasure (or was it horror) of watching Girl in the Red Velvet Swing and I guess I didn't realize how tall Milland must have been because half his head was cut off in quite a few shots....as was Michael Rennie's in Desiree!!!
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This May 2010 schedule reminds me of the build up from the "Who Shot Mr. Burns?" story line from the Simpsons! LOL
'Gilligan's Island' headed to the bigscreen
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> {quote:title=PrinceSaliano wrote:}{quote}
> Starring Will Smith?
I just let out an Eddie "Rochester" Anderson wail! Thanks!