Dargo
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Well, I suppose I do have to admit that after hearing Fred MacMurray was a tightwad and a terrible tipper, I've never been able to fully appreciate any of those Disney flicks he played such a nice guy in, since.
(...actors and their politics or their "life style"?...don't give a damn...BUT be a lousy tipper and NOW you've got my ire up here, dude...HATE lousy tippers!!!)
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You forgot one here, Kikiki...
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On 10/25/2021 at 12:01 PM, omm said:
Why does Alicia Malone say to Ben 'And you hate joy' during one of the commercials?
Because hating "spunk" had already been taken...
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I think Merle Oberon (in Hotel 1967) looks rather fetching here...
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BUT speakin' of Natalie Schafer...
Yeah CG, I like your idea here.
(...you can thank me later for gettin' this baby back on track)
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8 hours ago, Sepiatone said:
Makes me wonder....
My not being an encyclopedia of movie statistics, I wonder how many of the people we generally regard as "character actors" have actually won a "best supporting" Oscar?
There may be a few(or quite a few) but I really can't name any. ( and where's that "blush" emoticon I was mentioning elsewhere?
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Sepiatone
8 hours ago, JamesJazGuitar said:What an interesting topic and one I have yet to see discussed at this forum. I assume character actors won about a third; I.e. most winners of a best supporting Oscar are either up-and-coming-soon-to-be-stars , or established lead players (or secondary leads) or aging stars that took on a lesser role in either an ensemble type film, or film that featured other major stars.
Of course there were character actors like Hattie McDaniel that won for Gone With The Wind and it also depends on how one defines a character actor \ supporting player; That same year (1939), Thomas Mitchell won best supporting actor in Stagecoach. I don't really consider Mitchell a character actor, but more of a secondary lead, but maybe I'm just splitting hairs here.
Yeah, well, you guys DO know that the BEST Supporting Actor Oscar winners could do one-arm push-ups, don't ya?!
Uh-huh, like THIS guy here...
(...and somethin' I'll bet Thomas Mitchell could NEVER do!)
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10 minutes ago, JamesJazGuitar said:
If this ugly site was torn down it would be fine with me. Yea, I understand the history,,, blah, blah, blah,,,,,
If a city wishes to retain a building it should have to purchase it at market value. Instead the L.A. county law allows the county to take control without having to pay a dime.
Wait now, James!
As I understand it, YOU are half-Japanese, NOT half-Chinese, RIGHT?!
And so now I must question YOUR right to say or feel this way!
(...tell ya what...seein' as how I'll once again be back in SoCal this coming weekend for that British motorcycle rally I attend every year, meet me Saturday at about 1pm at Old Town Torrance's Red Car Brewery & Restaurant and so I can present further arguments to you in person as to the errors of your thinking here)
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Just now, LornaHansonForbes said:
aka, a company that FOR YEARS has profited off the image of a MERMAID on their packaging WHILE AT THE SAME TIME EMPLOYING EXACTLY 0 ACTUAL INDIGENOUS PERSONS OF THE SEA OR TRANSPECIES INDIVIDUALS.
(SHAKES HEAD AND SIGHS)
Oh yeah, that's right.
Sorry, I guess I forgot about the plight of the poor mermaids out there, didn't I Lorna.
(...guess I still have a ways to go before I can proudly claim to be fully woke, huh)
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Well, it's about time!
As a nearly woke person, I say this outrageous example of "cultural appropriation"-- remember here, Sid Grauman nor ANYONE he commissioned at the architectual firm of Meyer & Holler that designed it, had even an OUNCE of Asian let alone CHINESE blood coursing through his veins -- should have been torn down YEARS ago!!!
Uh-huh, and so I say they build the world's largest Starbucks coffee house there instead.
(...there can never be too many of those, ya know)
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22 hours ago, cigarjoe said:
He's in
12 Angry Men 1957
Al Capone 1959
Middle of the Night 1959
Breakfast at Tiffany's 1961
Cape Fear 1962
Seven Days in May 1964
After the Fox 1966
Hombre 1967
Catch-22 1970
Little Big Man 1970
All the President's Men 1976
You've missed listing one of my favorites of Balsam's roles, CG:
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three 1974
(...gesundheit)
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5 hours ago, DougieB said:
Viveca Lindfors in King of Kings (1961), looking more like a Bond girl than a Biblical figure. The whole movie had a 60's vibe, Viveca most of all. So-called "Bible" movies generally reflected the time in which they were made, sometimes with pretty silly results from a present day vantage point. Some scenes featured variations of this basic do, with pearls woven through it and even with a veil at the tippety top. She set a high bar for Elizabeth Taylor to meet a couple of years later in Cleopatra. (Liz, of course, met it.)
Blue-eyed Jeffrey Hunter as Jesus Christ here is now asking...
"Whaddaya mean by this?"
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3 minutes ago, Mr. Gorman said:
There's a lot of scenes like that in movies, tho, isn't there DARGO? Either you can suspend your disbelief -- even if ever-so-briefly -- or you cannot. Just one of those things that crop up in films too numerous to mention.
Ergo, DARGO, let me recommend a movie where you can watch and be +positively+ revolted without having to suspend your disbelief to Unholy Levels! 😁
POOR WHITE TRASH 2 (1974) [Aka: "Scum of the Earth"]. Guaranteed enjoyment . . . or something.
Oh yes, Mr.G. There certainly are.
(...and it seems especially so and ironically or coincidentally in THIS case, movies made starting around 1981...and directed by that ripoff artist Brian DePalma)
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1 hour ago, Twokeets said:
I didn't care for most of Mr. Cantone's Halloween selections, particularly the 2 movies on Halloween itself--Blow Out and Psycho. For me, these are not really Halloween movies. And also, I find the Brian DePalma movie too creepy and murdery to enjoy. A lot of DePalma's movies seem on the misogynistic side, in my opinion. Though I love Carrie! But for Halloween, I would have preferred the TCM selections to have more witches, ghosts, etc. and also an implied sense of justice in the storylines. I enjoy when a villain is defeated. It can be a thrilling battle but with an end that doesn't leave you feeling depressed, as Blow Out does for me.
Re the ending of Blow Out...
This was the second time I watched this film, the first time being when it was first released, and all I can say is, well, how much did DePalma want me to suspend my level of disbelief in this movie?
I mean REALLY?! Travolta drives his car at high speed through hundreds of people in that parade and somehow doesn't hit anyone, but THEN after he crashes into that store's display window, all they do is call for an ambulance to take him away to the hospital and there's not ONE cop who was chasing after him while he was doing this? Or worse STILL, after endangering all those people in that parade, no one else thinks to call for the cops to take his sorry butt to jail. But THEN, while Travolta is in that ambulance with the head injury, he suddenly awakens and bolts from it in efforts to save Nancy Allen's life???
Nope, after watching THAT all unfold again last night, I could NOT believe Mario Cantone AND Ben actually RAVED about this stupid flick!!!
(...as you can maybe tell, I came away thinking this movie wasn't very good the FIRST time I watched it 40 years ago, and after watching it again last night, my opinion of it and ESPECIALLY its ending remains pretty darn low)
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Now HERE'S ya a couple of New York City boys (yeah, like that old Pace Picante sauce commercial went..."NEW YORK CITY???!!!"
) who JUST don't somehow look quite right wearin' coyboy hats...
(...well, at least Bogie here isn't sportin' that gawdawful mustache that he had in Virginia City anyway)
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11 hours ago, slaytonf said:
He tossed one, but did you ever see him wearing one?:
Yes, in the first couple of films, Dr. No and Goldfinger, Connery is seen wearing a Homburg style hat in a number of scenes.
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16 minutes ago, NoShear said:
Well, I was not next to his shop - much to his relief, Dargo, but in his proverbial backyard.
Lemme guess here.
You'd ride your Schwinn Stingray over to his shop every so often to check out his latest creations, right?!
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9 minutes ago, lilypond said:
As a child, my cousin got to be an extra, by default, in "Junior Bonner". She was hanging around the famous courthouse square in "Presket" (ha) and ended up in a crowd scene, I think. Love everything about that town, the pines, Thumb Butte, and on and on. Great location for a movie.
She's probably in the 4th of July parade scene. As you probably know Lily, Prescott is home of the country's oldest rodeo which takes place during that holiday.
Yep, it's a quaint little town, alright. It was also where my wife and I first retired to after working at LAX for many years. Lived in Prescott for two years before moving here to Sedona about ten years ago now.
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3 minutes ago, NoShear said:
In case you were wondering about this Valley boy, yes, I got to see its BAT-ardization in its other garage when I was a kid, Dargo:
Wow! Cool.
So, you lived pretty close to Barris' shop there, eh NS?
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36 minutes ago, Sepiatone said:
I might hesitate to some that I like the early '70's film BILLY JACK. Sure, not great cinema, but a fun, nostalgic look back on the misconceptions held about the "counterculture". And an early precursor to martial arts in movies.
Sepiatone
And filmed in Prescott (pronounced "PRESS-ket" by the locals...pronounce it "Press-SCOTT" and the locals know you aren't one) Arizona.
Btw, another movie of some repute filmed there would be director Sam Peckinpah's Junior Bonner starring Steve McQueen.
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18 minutes ago, NoShear said:
I think one of your earlier submissions is worthy of your above praise, Dargo:
Ah yes! The 1954 Lincoln Futura concept car. And later on to be garaged in Bruce Wayne's bat cave.
(...well, after custon car builder George Barris applied some changes to it anyway)
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Tony Randall and the 1957 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Roadster he drives in the movie Pillow Talk...
(...cars don't come any nicer than this one)
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9 minutes ago, txfilmfan said:
That Touch of Mink, with Cary Grant...
This is the one, I think, that solidified Ms. Day's image as the 40 year old virgin, summed up by a quote supposedly attributed to Oscar Levant: "I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin." This film spends most of its time having Day and Meadows in a dither over the prospect of having sex with Grant (without the benefit of marriage), to the point that Day's character gets hives over the thought of it when he takes her to Bermuda. And for good measure, there's a subplot with Gig Young worrying his therapist that he might be gay.
And which now brings to mind one of Johnny Carson's Carnac The Magnificent lines:
"Pickeled herring...Dr. Christain Barnard...Doris Day."
"Name a sturgeon, a surgeon, and a virgin."
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Watched this film twice and back when it seemed to be a staple on HBO (I think it was) in the mid-2000s.
The scene in which they reenact James Dean's death while he was driving his nearly purchased Porsche 550 Spyder was especially memorable for me, and considering that I had recently purchased a replica of that particular model of car.
I also remember that of the three attractive actresses who co-starred in it...Holly Hunter, Rosanna Arquette and Deborah Kara Unger...it was the latter who I found I just could not keep my eyes off of...
(...it's a strange film indeed, and one that one definitely must be in the right frame of mind in order to appreciate in any manner at all)
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And here I would've thought TCM inviting Antonia Carlotta over to Atlanta so she could've co-hosted the evening with Ben would have been a natural.
(...I've said the following before around here ya know, folks...TCM should give this bright, articulate and attractive young lady some on-air exposure)
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Spot the error
in General Discussions
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And, Fredric March's name is misspelled as "Frederic" in the closing credits of The Best Years of Our Lives.
(...in fact, I've often seen it misspelled in this way on these very boards when his name is mentioned)