JamesJazGuitar
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She did look good. She was a guest judge on Top Chef about a year or so ago, and I don't wish to sound mean, but she looked worn out and heavy.
Now I assume this TCM hosting is very current (i.e. done in the last few weeks if not days), and she looked a lot younger and thinner than she did on Top Chef.
Yea, she wasn't that polished but it appears TCM doesn't pick guest host for that reason.
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With regards to this whole obesity thing: do you mean all the talk about obesity or the fact that a majority of people are obese?
Funny how you mention spinning the dial. My dad would yell at me for the same thing. Now my wife gets on my case for 'spinning' the remote! Of course it isn't because I can break it but because I don't stay on one station very long. To keep things peaceful I just go to TCM!
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Olivia was so bored doing this Elizabeth and Essex that it shows in her acting. She had just done Gone With The Wind and was hoping for some better roles and then Jack puts her in yet another movie with Flynn and Olivia isn't even the star. Jack did this kind of things on purpose to keep actors in their place. This was the start of the end for Olivia and Warner Bros. Her best work was on loan out in Hold Back the Dawn. Olivia gets yet antoher oscar nod, but if that didn't help her get better roles until she left the studio (after the famous lawsuit that she won).
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And here I am, about to go to Laguna Beach, right to the spot where the Captain Blood sword fight with Errol and Basil was done since it will be in the high 70s today!
Well at least your will have a white Christmas! Stay warm my friend.
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Being a major fan of Joan's sister, Olivia, I just had to 'check out' Joan's films. The funny thing about these two is Joan's best work are in her early films and with Olivia it is her later period.
Those 3 early Joan pictures you mention are first rate production and Joan does her part very well. Note that bost sisters early pictures where first rate productions that got Oscar bids, but Joan played a bigger part in her early movies than Olivia.
I liked Joan in Born to Be Bad and a few others but, yea, her best work was in the early 40s. Joan just didn't have the range that Olivia had.
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I have always wondered: Did the casting of Brent allow Bette to shine more OR if an actor with more 'spice' was casted would many of these movies (some very great ones like Dark Victory), be better?
I'm not saying he was a bad actor only that he lacked punch. But of course these were Bette Davis movies so maybe it helped her shine.
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Both movies you mention do have "teen angst" appeal and I can see why younger people could relate to this. To me the difference with Breakfast Club is some of the characters showed their 'angst' in a subdued way, instead of everyone being over the top.
In other words while the teens in Club all had some form of teen angst how they displaced it varied. This was what was interesting (but of course very specific stereotypes had to be used; jock, spoiled girl, pot smoking rebel, etc...).
So I find BC more realistic than RWAC but than again I'm from the BC generation so maybe I'm just bias. As I said before it isn't that either movie is 'dated' but that Rebel just over does the drama to make it's point. BC does it more with humor.
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I agree that Jean was great in Shane. The comment about the west being hard on women is an interesting one. Jean was 52 53 when the film was made. Thus it is very unrealistic for a women of that age to have a son around 10 years old. So we have to assume that Jean's character is in her late 30s or early 40s since most women wouldn't have their first child after turning 40.
Jean didn't look 'old' by any means and fit the part very well. I'm glad they didn't case a much younger women in the part but that is somewhat surprising. i.e. to make a movie more marketable producers will often cast a 'hot' younger women. Here they casted a great mature actress.
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We agree here 100%. The love triangle is the core of the movie. Interesting you mention To Have and Have Not. The initial screenplay called for Bogie and the wife of the Free French guy were to have a love affair but after Hawks saw the sparks created by Bogie and Bacall he removed that part. We do some Bacall being jealous of the wife (e.g. 'trying to measure her weight,,'), but Hawks quickly goes away from that angle since the B and B angle was so hot.
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I agree that Mason and Della together would of been in poor taste but none of the 3 main character ever have any sexual partners. Paul likes to look and the show points this out offen but I don't recall ever seeing him actually get even a kiss!
The same with Della. These were good looking people. So I still find it strange the shows producers didn't add a little sexual tension to the show by adding a boyfriend or girlfriend for Della or Paul.
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It is hard to believe or accept that Mitchum is in a bad noir but this one comes very close.
If Taylor and Mitchum traded places it might of worked better. At least seeing Mitchum lose it at the end might of added some value. Other they Ryan not many are better at losing it than Mitchum.
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Have you ever read the book? The book also has racist scenes and characters but the overall message is clearly not racist and instead promote the view that all men are equal.
I'm glad that TCM shows all content. It is up to the viewer to educate themselves about what TCM will show and then made their choice to view or not view shows.
The vast majority here at CFU do not one some 'programmer' to make these choices for us.
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Burr is good in His Kind of Women playing a gangster.
I have read many of the Mason books and Della and Mason flirt a lot in them (to me it is implied they have a thing), but in the TV show it is very clear they do not. I always wondered if this is related to the fact Burr was gay. It is very common in TV shows to have the male and female stars have a thing (especially once a TV show is starting to wind down after a few years) as a way of adding interest to the show. The TV show never did this. If the show was made today, at least Paul and Della would of hooked up by the third year!
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I agree with Mrroberts take on this. I really don't think the boy had mixed reactions to the Mitchum character but at the end he might of felt sorry for him only because he didn't like the law (police), did to his dad.
As for the girl; well she was a very young girl and it doesn't take a lot of charm (often just some candy!), to win their affection.
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To me the macguffin doesn't swallow the movie since the basis of the movie is one of romance.
In other words the lives of 3 little people are all that really matters here.
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Yes, I saw that part of the movie (I didn't watch the entire movie because I had seen it so often). I admit that I did shed a tear while watching Eileen Hacket in that drunk scene. It is very realistic how she goes from one emotion to emotion. It really packs a punch. The only thing I found unrealistic is that the mother of the bad seed was able to NOT break down. She was already an emotional basket case since she knew her kid was a killer. I just don't see how she would of been able to keep it together and instead not of shouted out 'yes, I know something I'm not telling,,,, my kid KILLED your kid'.
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You may be correct that I just don't like any of the 3 characters Dean played and that if Dean was to play a subdued character I would enjoy his acting 'style' more.
I really don't think so and of course we will never know. As for acting drunk; the most brilliant acting I have seen in this regard was John Garfield in The Breaking Point in the scene where his wife shows up at the bar while he is talking to O'Neil.
I also mention Garfield because this is the type of acting style I believe is better than the Dean 'oh, my,,, the sky is falling,,,' type. But again, maybe if the role called for a low key performance Dean would of done a great job. I just don't think so.
What you define as gut-wrenching I find very annoying.
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Having some more time to think this over, I believe Fred has a point as it relates to 'trust' and Ilsa, Victor and Rick. Neither man can predict which guy Ilsa will decide to be with by the end of the film. In fact Ilsa admits this to Rick and asks him to decide. Rick decides that llsa should go away with Victor but llsa appears willing to stay with Rick in exchange for Victor being able to leave Casablanca. llsa didn't know Rick's plan was only a ruse and that Rick had no intention of separating Victor and llsa.
All of the above are plot elements contain in the movie and not something made up or based on speculation. Where Fred and I see it differently is that I wouldn't frame llsa conflict in terms of 'trust' and what Fred implies is a clear lack of character on the part of llsa. So maybe I'm being too much like Rick; a sentmentalist. But to me Fred's POV here is too cold and bitter towards llsa.
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The reason Bette didn't get the part was because Jack Warner demanded that Errol Flynn get the part of Rhett as part of a package deal. i.e. Jack wasn't going to load out Bette, the top female star at the time, to another studio producer, unless Errol was part of the deal.
Selnick already had Gable for the part (almost a requirement by the general public at the time), so he said no to Jack.
I'm glad he did. As much as I love Bette I don't think she fits the part and as noted she had already played a similar role the year before (but in a much more serious and dramatic way than the 'silly' way Scarlet acts in GWTW).
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Tommy was also one of our favorites. We also liked the Beatle US releases with that super stereo effect. I had the best system in town (Quad system in a square room), and we would listen to some songs with only the left channel playing and then with only the right, and then with both. This way we could really hear only the specific sounds more clearly. With the Quad system I had a few Quad albums. These were records made just for a Quad system. The sound would 'move' from each speaker and create a really neat effect. ELP released a few Quad albums as well as one by Johnny Winter.
We would also go to Joshua Tree National Park. Now making this a controled environment was more difficult but we did it. Would would hike to a known 'power place' (indian term) far from our camp site and pack in enough for the day and return before dark.
Cary Grant appears to have overused the experience but maybe he had more 'issues' to work out than I did!
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I agree with you that 'Rebel' is unintentionally campy. After seeing Rebel I always wonder if Dean was just a bad, over the top actor or if he was asked by the director to be over the top. But after I saw his other 2 movies I have decided Dean was just a bad, over the top actor. A few weeks ago I saw a TV short he was in and he was just as bad in that. i.e. his acting was campy there also.
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I have a very different take of llsa than you do and this is based on 2 terms you use; Dumps and Trust.
Rick didn't dump llsa. He never planned to take her away. That was just a ruse Rick played on Renault so he could get Victor out of jail and get both Victor and llsa out of Casablanca. Rick WAS bitter at the start but he matured and wasn't bitter by the end. The use of the term 'dump' implies bitterness.
The same is true for the use of the term 'trust'. Again, llsa believed her husband was DEAD. Once she found out Victor was NOT dead she went back to her husband. This is why llsa acts so 'strange' in the cafe and asks Rick for forgiveness IF they never meet again (since she knew she was NOT going to meet Rick at the train station). llsa didn't tell Rick at that time because she was afraid he would stay in Paris and thus be hunted by the Nazis. Thus llsa actions here were nobel given the situation.
Victor understands what is going on and he has no trust issues with llsa. Victor makes this very clear in two scenes; One with llsa before he goes to the meetting and after the meeting with Rick before Victor is taken to jail. Victor doesn't ask anyone for an explaination. I fail to see why viewers of the film would need one.
Victor has faith and trust in his wife and so do I.
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Only Paul and John play on The Ballad of John and Yoko.
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I have to assume Fred was joking that Ilsa is in any way like Moffat in Out of the Past.
Anyone that does feel that way has a very bitter view towards women.
Anyone else noticed morals slipping on TCM ?
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Good to see that no one that replied to this thread agree with the original poster.
The bottom line answer to the question posed here is NO!