Sepiatone
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Sorry, but after too many years of "Riverdance", and NOW with Donny Wahlberg's show about Boston cops, and the "Southie Rules" reality show, I'm all "Irished out"!
Add the fact that I don't really like corned beef AND cabbage(together, at least), don't care for whiskey or that bottled sewage called "Guiness", there will be NO "Happy St. Patty's Day" around MY house!
Sepi O'Tone
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You know you'd have to make the mistaken assumption that everyone in a particular age group thinks alike. Which isn't true. I've often stated that my wife, who's older than me, doesn't easily gravitate towards the programming of TCM. And one of my brothers-in-law, who's 15 years my senior, thinks it's funny that I like, "All them old, creaky" movies.
On the other hand, when another BIL and I were talking about old "Twilight Zone" episodes, and the "Alfred Hitchcock" programs he found on some website, HIS son scoffed, "Who wants to watch all that old sh** anyway?", HIS best friend chimed in, "HEY! I LIKE a lot of those old shows".
My younger daughter, who is 37, never misses a Sy-Fy "Twighlight Zone" marathon. Her older sister, 40, thinks "that old crap" is useless. My 67 year old cousin's 16 year old GRANDSON keeps getting into my cousin's LED ZEPPELIN LPs. The kid LOVES them. AND Hendrix. My 25 year old niece can't get enough LAUREL & HARDY and BUSTER KEATON. HER 27 year old boyfriend can't STAND "Them scratchy old flicks"
In many ways, all TCM needs to do is to generate EXPOSURE. People of all ages will find it and love it.
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Edited by: Sepiatone on Mar 13, 2013 12:06 PM
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All I really know about Jackson is that he seemed to, in a shorter time span, go the Louis Gossett route.
First, he was listed as "Sammy Jackson". Then a couple of flicks later, he was "Sam Jackson" then eventually, he's Samuel L. Jackson"
The first film I heard of him in was that so-so flick in the earlier '90's with Nicholas Cage. "SAMMY JACKSON?" I asked myself, "Surely NOT the guy from the TV version of *No Time For Seargents* ?" But subsequently, I got around to who this highly talented fellow really was.
And FRED! A movie clip of Jackson with CUSSING in it? How does such a thing EXIST?
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Cool!
NOW, along with LOL and ROTFL, we can add FOOMCL!
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From what I've read about novak's career, finance, *Boys Night Out* was panned critically, and largely ignored at the box office. Don't know why. I always kind of liked it.
*Of Human Bondage* wasn't a big draw for her, either. But I thought she did the role well. In HER remake, it's LAURENCE HARVEY I have an issue with. I think Harvey was a really good actor. But he didn't do much for his "Bondage" part.
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There always seemed to be several sides to Monroe, heard from different angles from different people. Those who worked with her had one take, those who knew her APART from movie making had another, and old friends had yet some OTHER side to tell.
Hers is as tragic a story as that of Elvis. If the fans who "loved" him actually loved him enough to leave him be, he might still be alive today. Marylin, however, would be pushing 87, and might have died by now, anyway. But maybe lived until close to now. Who could really say?
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You can tell the puppet's French because he's wearing a beret, and doesn't have any hands, which means he fights with his FEET! ( won't go where what he does with his face...)
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Good point, Top. I mean, look at the themes listed by RM. In three of those, *Imitation of Life* would fit nicely. And I'm sure, with little effort, many here can think of several that would work in all four!
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Don Cheadle has that same ability, MissW. Know what you mean.
But what, outside of his movies, do we know about Samuel Jackson? Could be, comparatively, he lives a spartan lifestyle. Made several shrewd investments. That's MY guess, anyway. He certainly isn't dumb enough to turn down work. Witness his appearance in some mighty good movies. But then also *Snakes On A Plane* . Betcha he got PAID for THAT one, too!
Gotta love 'im!
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Since *Psyco* never went in depth about the Mother/son relationship, it's open season for "artistic license". I would expect, however, in these times the writers will likely go overboard in the sea of absudity. It IS television, after all. Just look what they did with initially good ideas like *Lost* and *Heroes* .
And you're right...the kid DOES kind of resemble Perkins!
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I've never been a big Cher fan, but I'll say this:
She'll probably speak more articulately than Drew Barrymore, and she's easier to look at than Alec Baldwin.
I only hope she doesn't show up wearing one of her Halloween level Oscar gowns!
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I'm beginning to wonder if Capuchin isn't my step brother...
HE was the "life of the party", too!
In keeping somewhat on topic, if you asked HIM the time, he would go into explaining how the WATCH worked. One time, I hit what most people referred to as the "funny bone". I then asked off-hand as to why people CALLED it the "funny" bone. HE then started to explain that there wasn't an actual bone in this case, but rather a group of nerves that react to impact in the particular way...BLAH BLAH BLAH!
Right now, I'm regretting bringing the whole thing up!
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I've always been a fan of this movie. Just a good story that as well played by everyone.
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As for now, until or unless she specifies, we'll never really know if she was referring to any particular ROLES Remick did, or was just alluding to Remick's assertiveness in achieving them.
I also long had the feeling that her line in *Picnic* , where she cries to Holden about wishing everyone would stop thinking of her as only being pretty( can't recall it verbatim) kind of summed up how she might have felt about her career. She DID have a few meaty roles during her time, but studio bosses, being what THEY were, probably didn't often look past the wrapping. A few of the movies she made that I liked, such as *Boys Night Out* , were dismal box office flops, although her character in that, and other failures, were stronger females who managed to outsmart most of those around her.
For the record, I was never forwarding the idea that Ms. Novak wasn't appreciative of her career or where she wound up. And though I knew she only mentioned Remick and HER roles, my speculations of her in roles OTHER THAN any of Remicks 's, such as "The Golden Girls" or nurse Ratchett, was only an expansion of the idea.
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Remick may have been only one example, Lavender. To me, it sounded as if she resented being somehow typecasted in her career. And that's understandable. It seems critics, the "professional" kind, go on about some actor or actress always doing the same-old, same-old. But when that actor does something out of their "box", they voice dissapointment: "This isn't the type of role we're accustomed to seeing so-and-so do!" and ultimately pan it. When Jim Carrey, a guy I'm NOT a big fan of, did that movie about Andy Kaufmann, I not only thought the movie was well done, but that Carrey did a top rate job in his portrayal. The critics, however, weren't as kind, maybe because it wasn't Carrey's usual schlock.
Or, here's another example.
Denzel Washington's Academy award winning performance in *Training Day* was disliked by his FANS for the same reason. THEY preferred "their" Denzel to be the ultimate nice/good guy/hero.
Getting back to Novak, she doesn't really have too much to complain about. She took her shot and did better than too many to mention. At this stage, she's well remembered, living well and still has people that are fond of her.
And Remick's dead.
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It's a moot point anyway, Cap the hair splitter. I've reset my zone.
One would have thought Alaska to be in line with Pacific time, but it seems to be a few hours off ANY nearby time zone! Since Mr. Palin wanted to secede, I say let 'em.
Anyhow, I've spent so much time reseting all the clocks in my house to DST that I'm tiring of this whole "time" discussion.
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Edited by: Sepiatone on Mar 10, 2013 12:52 PM
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They don't sell wire hangers any more, Twink. They've been replaced with those PLASTIC ones that I never seem to have enough of. But back in the day, they certainly were sold in retail shops, Or discount places like Woolworth's, Kresge or Neisner's. You know...the old "Five and Dime's". Waiting to accquire enough wire hangers from the dry cleaners when I was a kid would have meant we'd have pounded NAILS in the walls to hang up our clothes. DRY CLEANERS? Well, LA-TEE-DAH! My Mother wouldn't have THOUGHT about such extravagence.
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I think because Novak's been highlighted these past days and the center of attention on TCM for a while, we're all waxing a bit too much on her movie history. She may HAVE been good in either DOWAR, or ANATOMY, but we'll never really know. They surely would have called on her to stretch a bit more as an actress, compared to the roles she's done before( and after). So the curiosty vibe works for me.
How about a couple of Monroe roles, say, *Bus Stop* or *The Misfits* ?
How do you think she'd have done as NURSE RATCHETT? Or even later, moving in with the other "GOLDEN GIRLS"?
You could do this kind of crap till the cows come home...
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I'll try that once I'm done here, but there's one factor. I LIVE in the Eastern time zone, and there's only FOUR time zones in the continental U.S.! And I'm noticing a FIVE HOUR difference!
It's not causing a problem, it's just something I noticed that had me flubbered.
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OK 5:17...
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As I type this, it is 12:16 pm. When I post it, it'll probably list the time as 5:16pm.
What gives?
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I had to laugh, Miles. When your post read, "Here's the enlarged photo" of Moran, all I saw was the CHIMP!
THEN I found the scroll bar. At first, I thought you were pulling a "Dargo".
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LOVE it, MissW! I am blushing.
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I also noticed she didn't buy any WIRE HANGERS. OR Duraflame log-sized EYEBROW PENCILS!
One detail I did notice...even back then, Ive never seen a soft drink machine in a supermarket before. OR since.
Seeing this 44 year old film reminded me of that grocery shopping scene in the original *Yours, Mine, and Ours* where Lucy and Henry buy three overloaded carts full of groceries for UNDER $200! Try THAT today!
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Who's the Richest Movie Star in the World?...SAMUEL JACKSON !!
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So, FRED! You're a REPORTER of some kind?
I thought reporters did RESEARCH! Had you done some, you'd realize the word is NARCS, NOT "Narks", the "narc" part coming from the word "NARCotics".
Nonetheless, an interesting take on *Jackie Brown* . And MY thought was the movie was ALREADY a sequel of sorts. Of PAM GRIER'S earlier movies as that character.
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