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That was my problem with this year's as well. Also, did they leave out Leonard Cimino?

Of course, Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau were not the "original" Odd Couple but Art Carney and Walter Matthau were. Lemmon replaced Carney in the film which is a shame. I saw the original production and Carney was far superior. I wouldn't call GYPSY one of his lesser credits. When the lights are dimmed on Broadway, as they surely will be, that will be the major reason why. I believe he is the last living Merman leading man -- and he was 14 years younger than she was!

FORTY GUNS is a minor masterpiece. Give it another chance but don't compare it to THE FURIES which is one of the greatest Shakesperean westerns ever made.

There hasn't been a single good book written about Barbara. I seriously doubt there ever will be. She was notoriously guarded about giving interviews and rarely revealed anything about herself. She surrounded herself with people who were just like that. So there is very little material available. She left almost no written words or notes, nothing. I think the reason that serious books haven't been written is that many people start and then can't find the material to write the book so you end up with half-baked things like the Callahan book.

Don't get me started on Victoria Wilson. She has been writing that book for 15 years. I've had 3 encounters with her over the years, all via voicemail. I've kept them for the time that that book ever gets published. They were all unpleasant. A film critic I'm friends with gave her my name and number. I'll tell just one story. She called and left a message for me that she was interested in talking to me about Barbara for a book she was writing. I called back, left a message telling her that Barbara would never want anyone to discuss her with anyone even so many years after her death and that, regrettfully, I'd have to decline to speak to her. She left me another message stating and I quote directly "it would be best for you to talk to me or I'm just going to write what I want." That was enough for me. She is not a serious scholar, she's just another threatening scandalmonger. I wanted nothing to do with her then and don't know. She has NOT had the cooperation of Barbara's closest friends, colleagues or family. Most of them were long dead when she started the book and there's hardly a soul left on earth who knew Barbara intimately. Those that did -- like Nancy Sinatra -- are too old and infirm to share their stories or wouldn't do so in a million years. So I'll be very curious to see what claims she makes about who she talked to when the book comes out. Sorry for ranting but this was one of the worst experiences of my life with an author. I felt violated and threatened. There are only three people who know the complete story of Barbara and her son. The other is Frank Fay. None of them are talking. None of them ever did. We aren't ever going to know anything definitive about it and I could care less since it has absolutely nothing to do with her as an artist. The same is true of the whole "lesbian" issue. Although I think the evidence there is more complete. I knew her for 30 years. She was never anything less than completely open. I never got any sense whatsoever that she was in love with women. Quite the contrary. And there has never been a single woman who has ever come forward -- even now almost 23 years since her death -- to claim she ever had an affair with her. So I'm inclined to think that this story is just about as ridiculous as they come. Watch the films and the TV programs, that's all that matters.

All of them, of course, but especially MY REPUTATION. It's one of her less known but it was one of her favorite films. It's a lovely film and Lucile Watson steals a few scenes as well. The closing train station scene has spawned countless parodies but it's a keep and it would make a stone cry.

I agree but that's usually the films or the material. She is never bad. Except when she's really, really good

He was a "bad seed" as they see. In trouble constantly. It had nothing to do with her being a "bad mother." She finally decided she'd had enough and once Stanwyck had enough, that was it. You were gone. She had no time for BS, so to speak.

I don't believe Edward G. Robinson, like Myrna Loy, was ever nominated for an Oscar. They "made up" for it by announcing an Honorary Oscar for him in 1973 when they knew he was dying. He died before the presentation could be made. Shame.

Worse? Barbara Stanwyck never gave a single bad or false performance in her entire career. Ever. Period. Part of what makes CRIME OF PASSION so much fun is just how lurid it is .... when she goes berserk at the dinner party with all the house wives and their banal chatter. That is one great scene. And so true of that period or any time period where all anyone talks about is their husbands, their recipes, and their bratty kids.

Dick van Dyke is a legend and most deserving of this honor. It has nothing to dow with just film. It's about acting. The TV has a "screen" just as film has a "screen." There are far more TV actors in SAG than film actors. Last year's recipient was Mary Tyler Moore and when Dick van Dyke came onstage to present her the award he received a prolonged standing ovation. I think they realized they hadn't honored him yet and now they are. I hope he'll mention Stan Laurel. They were very close in Laurel's later years and he admired van Dyke very much and once said that the best impression of him ever was by Dick. Bravo!

The two big howlers are: THE MATRIX A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN Give me a break. What a joke. Not a single Bob Hope (without Bing Crosby) movie in the entire film registry? These kinds of things are so stupid.

Louis Calhern was very sexy and attractive ... just the voice alone makes me wet. I wouldn't cross the street for Gregory Peck.

Hated the music. I didn't think this year's edition was as good as the ones in years past (last year's rain motif was especially moving) and there was too much background stuff and not as much time on each individual person, IMHO.

Every time I see it, I hope that Cary Grant and David Niven would run off together and leave annoying Loretta Young in the dust. They're a far more appealing couple

Veteran actor Jack Klugman, the last surviving star of 12 ANGRY MEN, has died at the age of 90. Best known for his TV work on The Odd Couple and Quincy.

You must be the only person on earth who doesn't think BS is a great actress. The general consensus is that she may have been the most versatile and greatest screen actress. Hardly anyone had her range in so many different roles and hardly anyone seemed more natural onscreen. Her reputation, unlike many, has only risen in the 23 years since her death. She is the greatest.

Count me among those who love both Christmas in Connecticut and The Walking Dead.

I love Rosalind Russell but she's terrible in this role and the whole movie is a disaster. Gypsy is one of the 5 greatest musicals ever written and its a shame that every film version has been awful.

Actually, the answer to your question is YES. This is is Capra's first significant/great talkie.

Tell that to Grace Kelly, Inger Stevens, Ingrid Bergman, and a host of other beautiful women who found him very attractive. For me, on the sexless list would be Gregory Peck. He's about as sexy as over-boiled broccoli. Then there's Edward G. Robinson, one of my favorite actors. The thought of him in a sexual situation ... Well, lets not go there.

Not surgically enhanced? You're not serious, are you? Loretta Young was one of the first stars to have plastic surgery and she did so throughout her life.

No, they were not related. And Ed Sullivan had nothing on Jerome Robbins who was universally despised by anyone who ever worked with him or had a casual encounter with him. A deeply unhappy man who took it out on the world (but supremely talented!).

I prefer not to live in a fantasy world in which everything is seen in the best possible light through rose-colored glasses. I prefer truth and reality. The truth and reality is that Loretta Young was a despicable person who judged others by her own "later sanctimony" and now her fans wish her to not be judged by the same -- or better -- standards that she applied to so many? Not gonna happen. I'm not trashing a dead celebrity. I'm telling the truth about a dead celebrity. Something she refused to do herself about herself for the whole time she was on this earth including to her own family. That's not something to be celebrated. On top of that, she had, IMHO, absolutely not a shred of talent.

It doesn't help me because I can't stand her early movies or her late ones for that matter. I just don't care for in any way -- person or "actress."