Sepiatone
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I think it was it's thinly veiled anti-Viet Nam theme that helped it win popularity with American audiences, but lose favor with the Motion Picture Academy. And since, in reality, no white soldier survived Little Big Horn, Custer's behavior during the battle is really anyone's guess. For all we know, he might have been the FIRST one to go, instead of near the last, as portrayed in most movies about the incident. We do know the attack on the reservation at the Washita river is not accurate. There WAS a battle at that river, but I don't think there was a treatied reservation there.
But we here are all too familiar with movies that take license with facts of historical events, aren't we?
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I don't know what the aim was in *Bonnie And Clyde* , but Peckinpah claimed that he was shot once, and at the time, everything for HIM seemed to slow down.
Don't know how true that is, but that was HIS story.
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With all the too-doo about *Tootsie* in another thread, no mention was made about *Little Big Man* following it. I almost missed it last night!
Yeah, well, I KNOW I have it on an old VHS tape( That still looks like new!), and my VCR still works like new. But I never really TIRE of watching this marvelous film.
This one, for me, HAS to be at the top of Hoffmann's best work. He's done fantastic work since then( *Marathon Man, Lenny,* etc.), but LBM is a MASTERPIECE! And I realize it's probably been discussed widely on this forum, but not since I was a member. So THERE!
Not only a first rate performance for Hoffmann, but Chief Dan George, Faye Dunaway, Martin Balsam, Richard Mulligan and Jeff Corey give unforgettable performances as well. And a true coup for Arthur Penn.
And WHO can forget Chief Dan George's referrence to "the BLACK white man"? An astute observation from an objective third party.
WAY at the top of my favorite movies.
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Re: Your referrence, Tom, to Charles Laughton showing both shame and gratitute on his face in "Hunchback".
That Laughton could DO that through all that make up was awe inspiring! And don't apologize for digressing from the topic...there WAS a kind of "courtroom"" scene in that movie as well.
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I liked "DOUBTFIRE" ok, although that restraunt scene towards the end was overstretching it a bit.
Just loved the part earlier when William's, in full "Doubtfire" regalia was dancing around the house to Aerosmith's "Dude Looks Like A Lady"!
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It just didn't seem that compelling to me. No sense of order or proceedure. I don't believe even back then in those regions that courtroom proceedures were that lax or disorganized.
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Here's a good one for ya, Fred.
My "ethnic" heritage is Polish. I am the son of an only child. My Mother's cousins are also MY cousins. And one of them a long time ago married a Japanese woman he met while working in Japan as a teacher on an American military base. They had two children, whom I've never met. But I'm told they look a lot like their Mother.
Move forward several years...My cousin and his Japanese wife divorce, and my cousin meets and eventually marries a Jewish woman.
One day( 16 years ago) she gets a letter from the local Jewish community organization that there will be free testing of Jewish residents to screen for the Tay-sacks(sic) enzyme to find out who might be carrying this. He goes to the community center with her. While sitting around waiting for the blood test results, my cousin catches the elbow of a passing doctor to ask him if there's anything he can do to help, as he was never the kind to just sit around. The doctor tells him they have all the help they need, so just wait for his test results. He informs the doc that he's there with his wife, and is not Jewish. So the doc says, "Oh, then you CAN help. We could use a sample of your blood as a comparison study".
So my cousin gives him the blood and sits back down.
After a time, the doc comes back and informs my cousin's wife she isn't carrying the Tay-saks. But he turns to my cousin and tells him, "But YOU are!" My cousin scoffs and reminds the doctor that he ISN'T Jewish. The doctor replies, "I'll bet that SKELETON in your closet IS!"
To verify, the doc takes another blood sample from my cousin and hand carries it through the test. The result is unquestionable. 100 years after my Great Grandfather lands on U.S. soil, we learn we're JEWISH!
MY amusement comes in the form of imagining two Japanese looking people going into a doctor's office to be tested for TAY-SACKS!
I just knew my anti-semitic Grandfather on the other side of my family was spinning in his grave!
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Edited by: Sepiatone on Mar 16, 2013 1:56 PM
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Lavender, I've noticed that good( or great) actors playing so-so to good out of work actors seems to be a difficult thing for some to do. Especially if that actor character has too huge an ego.
Hoffmann in *Tootsie* did a fine job of it. His only "competitor" in this aspect is RICHARD DREYFUS in both *The Goodbye Girl* and *Moon Over Parador* .
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Wow! I was a BIT off on the timeline. But THANK you, Calvin!
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I agree. And it's in one of those, I believe, there's appearances of a young and uncredited CLINT EASTWOOD as a lab assistant.
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Like CLAUDE RAINES, I am shocked. SHOCKED that it took ELEVEN POSTS for someone to mention *Anatomy Of a Murder* !
It's too bad that too many here seem to have this hatred for Tom Cruise, because the courtroom scenes in *A Few Good Men* are excellently done. Even the ones WITHOUT Nicholson. I reccomend taking the time Euginia.
And otherwise, my list doesn't stray too far from the norm:
TOO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
THE VERDICT
PHILADELPHIA
NUTS
YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU
And there are two movies which titles I can't recall. One is a movie from I think the early '90's, in which Cher, I think, defends a deaf homeless man (Liam Neeson) for murder, and another early '60's movie in which Anthony Franciosa plays a down and out lawyer who defends a woman for murdering her husband. Anyone who supplies those titles has my undying gratitude!
As for the ones that DON'T work for me, I've put them out of my mind so far I can't think of them. Maybe the courtroom footage in HENRY FONDA'S "ABE LINCOLN" movie.
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Edited by: Sepiatone on Mar 16, 2013 1:18 PM
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I'm with Dargo on this one. In the early days of Nickleodeon, they used to run those old YBYL shows. Before that, our local PBS station would occasionally show them on weekends. AND I can still recall seeing it as a kid. I always loved the way Groucho would rib some of the contestants, some who didn't seem to realize they were being ribbed. Or how he would shamelessly hit on the young women who were contestants.
I do recall one show in which an 11 year old CANDACE BERGEN was a contestant, as well as JOHNNY WEISMULLER on another.
It does gall me to think some would destroy such entertainment history treasures because they're "taking up space". NOW I wished they saved those OSCAR LEVANT films!
Sepiatone PS. SOMEbody had to concieve and sell the idea of making KINESCOPES. THAT guy deserves a special corner in Heaven!
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I've always liked this movie. Two main reasons:
1. Hoffmann convincingly pulls off the transition between being a man and a woman. Too many, even the admitted "cross dressers" over exaggerate the femininity.
2. His woman character closely resembles one of my favorite high school English teachers, an excellent educator and highly respected by all her students.
But the only problem I have now with it is in concentration. I keep hearing in my head the song satirist MARK RUSSELL wrote that year, "TOOTSIE FOR PRESIDENT" and the line, "With Dustin Hoffman as your running mate, you'll pick up twice the pay!"
I always liked Bill Murray's line in the movie, "You...****!"
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"Bobbin' my head"? When hearing DISCO INFERNO?
YEP. Usually over a BARF BAG!
Next thing I know, you'll be trying to convince me BLONDIE was ROCK'N'ROLL!
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I wouldn't bother with *Ice Station Zebra* . While having a good cast, and footage of submarine and sea, the Antarctic "land" scenes look as if they were shot on old sets left over from the TV show *Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea* . You half expect to see DAVID HEDDISON pop up any second!
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You gotta wonder at what kind of RESPECT it shows a SAINT, on a day set aside for him, by celebrating it with getting fish-faced on green beer and fouling the air with the side effects of corned beef and cabbage!
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ALAN MOWBRAY was always delightful in that role. Always thought if I ever had a butler, it would be like him.
EDWARD EVERETT HORTON, in his later years was also good.
Then, of course, there's the unflappable ARTHUR TREACHER.
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Driving in my car yesterday afternoon when news of the white smoke came over the radio. The announcer went on and on in speculation of WHO it could be. He kept phrasing things like..."WE never had an American pope. WE never had a BLACK pope! WE haven't had a non-European pope since..."
I thought, "Whaddya mean WE?" I'm an agnostic, Episcopalian baptized Polack whose family has a Jewish background! I don't give a DEAD FLY'S EYE who the pope is!
Huhn..."WE"!
Phhht!
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I'm retired. So now I usually hit the sack about the time I used to get up for WORK!
If TCM's "Underground" looks interesting, I'm usually still up to watch it.
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Clearly, Gerard has become France's answer to Marlon Brando!
Over the years, I've heard many of the "old timers" in entertainment wax nostalgically about the Catskills. It's on my list as one of those places I'd have liked to have gone to that are now gone. Like the old SANDS hotel/casino in Vegas, or JACK DEMPSEY'S in NYC.
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In my last post Fedya, I addressed the notion that pidgeon-holeing any age group as to their entertainment tastes is foolish, as I know plenty of people from many age groups who feel differently about these things.
I don't see CHER as an attraction for a younger audience, since there are no doubt many under 30 who have NO idea who the hell she is!
I'd go with DARGO'S subliminal hint that if that was the case, Justin Timberlake might have been the better choice, and even HE is getting "long in the tooth" entertainer-wise.
And finance, I personally find it hard to believe that ANYONE can actually "groove" to DISCO!
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What a world, huh? No longer do musicians need to get together in a studio. They can literally "phone in" their performances( it's supposedly how Fleetwood Mac put together "RUMOURS").
No longer do actors have to go out on "location". You can now "green screen" the locale.
You really haven't any NEED for actors. You can just CGI them! Even the VOICES can be created electronically.
OY!
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You might want to redo that image, darkblue. all I got was a little box with a red "X" inside.
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I haven't read it yet( I'll get around to it), but just by your quick summary, it appears to be a movie that wouldn't have been MADE in it's time period. THAT'S piqued my interest.
It's funny how, in spite of loud protest to the contrary, attitudes have largely changed. There's a KINDLE TV ad that shows a man and woman sitting next to each other on a beach. She mentions to the man, "My HUSBAND is getting me a drink." HE replies, "So is MINE." Then they both turn and wave at two men at the bar.
You'd have never seen that ad 10 years ago. OR your movie made 65 years ago!
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Couldn't believe my eyes!
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I think it's best to simply appreciate TCM for what it does, and not have a tizzy because it's not what WE would prefer it to be.
This sort of thing doen't bother me, or most of us it seems.
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