Sepiatone
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Thanks Fred, I'll try that.
Dabb, I knew you probably reposted who that was, but by the time I returned to the thread, it went two extra pages, so getting back to THAT was the difficulty! All settled now, thanks for all your patience.
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Thanks for the link, Addy. Just read it.
hilarious!
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More power to 'em!
Thanks heaps for the links!
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Back in the early '90's, I reworked the lyrics to Bob Dylan's old song "IT'S ALL OVER NOW(BABY BLUE)" into a "reality check" ballad called, "IT'S ALL OVER NOW( BABY BOOM)". One of the lines went;
"The music that the elevator plays;
are all the songs from your old rebel days!"
The comic strip "Doonesbury" did a similar thing in which Mike Donnesbury visits his kid brother, who runs a "soft rock" radio station which featured music by Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith and the like!
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Used to be my favorite show, Hibi. Couldn't WAIT to see who was going to be among the list of celebrity suspects! Curse my cable provider for dropping MeTV last year!
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Thanks, lavender.
Now, if only someone can tell me WHY this is happening...
Sepiatone PS: I've never HEARD of Camilla Sparv!
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I think what hurts it is we KNOW what Andrews looked like BEFORE her "female impersonator" phase, or that the audience is IN on the ruse. I don't know. My only other issue with V/V besides the music(more on that in a bit) is the idea that PRESTON'S character infers that he CHOSE to be gay, when in fact, too many are STILL arguing the notion of the "Chosen/hard-wired" lifestyle debate.
My only issue with the music is this:
While many of the tunes in V/V are wonderfully done, they STILL don't bring to mind the music one might have heard in ANY Paris nightclub in the late 1930's. That's all.
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My wife is older than me, and often she'll try to wrest the remote from me when I put on some "****" old movie on TCM. But every once in a while, she'll just let it ride and take an interest. I'm still not sure what makes the difference. It's not easy to tell which "****" old movie she'll sit still and watch or not. But she's good at identifying old time actors and acresses that I can't think the name of. I only know for sure that she won't tolerate most "silents" with the exception of Buster Keaton.
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I always saw *Alfie* as a morality play. It WAS updated with JUDE LAW in the title part. While Law is a fine actor himself, he is NO Michael Caine. But the point of my mentioning it at all is to point out the timelessness of the original. At this stage of my life, I've seen and personally known a few "Alfies" in that time. When we're younger, Alfie always looked like that "greener grass" we all wished to graze on, but they actually all wind up the same all alone wasted lives with too many bridges burned behind them. Now, when they NEED someone to see them through, we're all too busy with our own problems and situations to give them the help they once thought they'd never need.
ALFIE was NOT the first movie to deal with "backroom abortions" however. There WERE others, but just not as stark. You're right to insist that this movie is an "essential".
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For some reason, on Kid Dabb's "Fabulous face(post '50's)" thread, I can't click on a previous page. When I try, I get to a page with nothing on it but the graphics at the top of any page, and the only thing highlighted on it is "forum home". Any other thread gives me no problem like this, and I can't figure it out. This means the information from Kid's thread I'm looking for can't be gotten to.
So I'll ask here...WAS that one photo of Capicine...or NOT?
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Many on your list, Bingfan, wound up with their OWN television series. Or at least on the cast.
Andy Devine
William Demarest
Mildred Natwick
Buddy Ebsen
Ward Bond
Ed Wynn
Sam Jaffe
J.C. Flippen
Lyle Talbot
Dean Stockwell
Edgar Buchanan
Ellen Corby
I'm sure others on that list had their own shows, but I can't think of any.
Soaps? Yep, a few old timers there. celeste Holm was mentioned, but her husband, William Addy, was it, was on one too. And don't forget RUTH WARRICK'S long run on ALL MY CHILDREN. Along with VAN HEFLIN'S sister...
About Burke's law, it wasn't only the "classic" actors that would show up. Often it was our first glance at many contemporary stars, too. Other than on big screen or on the radio, that is...
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The opening of *The Pink Panther* was always a bit of fun. There was, it seems, a similar opening to a semi-spoof done in the early '60s with Rod Taylor called *The Liquidator* , that sort of spoofed THAT sort of thing.
But I'm in the middle of nicotine withdrawal, and kan't--oops---CAN'T think striaght!
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Exactly! Costume wise, it had the right look.
MUSICALLY, it didn't give me Paris in the '30's.
Vegas was just FINE, dpompper.
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For some reason, the site won't let me get on page 68 of this thread. Was that CAPUCINE or not?
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We've heard from one well respected member here that the nightclub scenes in *Cabaret* gave him the sense that it was more '70's San Francisco than '30's Berlin.
Yet, while watching *Victor/Victoria* recently on TCM, I got that same vibe! How come no mention here about THAT? Is it because JULIE ANDREWS is more highly respected than LIZA MINNELLI?
Or what?
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Capuchin, you've obviously NEVER been to Detroit! If you had, you'd have realized that cheap hookers here will NEVER look that good!
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My wires did NOT get crossed. They were TOTALLY MANGLED!
Thanks for pointing it out. Apologies to all.
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I couldn't say which movie this heist resembles, but you can bet SOMEbody is thinking of making a movie out of THIS one! And I'll bet the crooks in the movie will look a lot better than the actual crooks, and you can bet the rent that the HEIST will look more sensational than the actual one.
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I like that idea, Fabian. If it CAN be done, then DO it!
Yes, some kind of voice-over intro to the late night/early day presentations would be nice.
But it's one little thing I miss...after a movie ends, TCM will show a short, three film list of what's coming up. They USED to have the year in which they came out listed as well. Now they DON'T. I miss that.
I also don't mind some of the "side story" stuff that comes up by RO and the M. As long as it pertains to the movie we just saw. there are a lot of times they don't.
Oh, and welcome to the forum, Fabian. Can't wait to see your other ideas.
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Well, NO, VX. Looks like now there's THREE of us!
I also state, upon seeing them, that I'd LOVE to have some such car that appears all new and shiny in some pre code. In just that condition!
But back to all that research done on the surviving "Seven Brides". Excellent work. It's always a shame that while the movie still gets celebrated and regularly shown, the principles that made it great have faded into such abysmal obscurity. They deserve at the least to be aware of how much joy they STILL bring to many people.
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As long as nobody brought up "one trick pony" Busby Berkely, I'm good. And I'm on the fence on this one. Both have done movies I like. AND movies I never cared for. Comparing the two based on musicals alone won't settle anything if some who liked the work of either director doesn't really care for musicals. And there's a LOT of people who don't. I myself have a short list of musicals I can sit and watch, and one of my favorites is *West Side Story* , which was co-directed by Donen.
But that really doesn't settle anything, does it?
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BOTH those hair-do's are MILD compared to many I've seen in the barrio! Even the GREEN one. Don't know WHAT anyone's complaints are.
Also, I have no idea who they are, or if the green haired lady is the same woman from the earlier hair pic.
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(GROAN!) Valentine mentions a scene from the book where Marion appears naked on a fountain and water is shooting from all points of her body. YOU, TB, go on to say that the code caused many things to be "watered down".
Intended? Or NOT?
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In Gladwin MI, I met several Amish men. NONE of them spoke the way Earnest Borgnine did in *Violent Saturday* .
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Funny( I thought)comment on "Bell, Book and Candle"
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My wife was surfing and stopped for a minute when TCM was showing this. It was during a close-up of Kim Novak when my wife said, "Look at her eyebrows."
"What ABOUT them?" I asked.
She THEN asked, "I wonder what kind of BUTTERFLIES they turned into?"
*!?!?!*
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