Sepiatone
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ACCKKK!
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She was in a handfull of pictures before this in similar small roles. I think this was made just before her huge impact in *Niagra* .
I also think this movie came towards the end of when these types of comedies were in vogue. If so, it was a great way to end an era.
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I'm not sure if it's TLC or DISCOVERY that shows these programs. Check them out. You might, however, find yourself wondering just WHAT these folks find to be proud about.
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Naw, I don't think TCM has shown this movie to excess. It's just I couldn't resist bringing up the old Chuck Berry song title.
I first saw this way back when I was about nine years old or so. Watching it last night brought several things to mind.
1. Cary Grant really DID have a penchant for "natural" looking comedy. In that he made it look so easy and sellable. No, it didn't take THIS movie to prove it to me, but it did help remind me of it.
2. Ginger Rogers was more than Grant's match in this or any OTHER aspect. And damned attractive no matter the age!
3. At 26, Marylin Monroe was at her "hottest", and made the "dumb blonde" a position of honor. "Miss Laurel, go to every Ford agency and bring back Dr. Fulton!" "Gosh, Mr. Oxley. Which do you want me to do FIRST?"
3. Was that sports car Cary bought a MORGAN? I WANT it!
4. That baby Rogers mistakenly thought was her husband is MY AGE now!
5. I always feel better when I see KATHLEEN FREEMAN in a movie.
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That your Dad took a 10 year old to see a movie called "The Psycopath" is what struck me. Never saw it. What's it all about, Alfie?
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LOL....hybrid of Divine and Audrey Meadows. EEwww!
Wasn't Divine a sort of hybrid to begin with?
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There WAS an incident here in Michigan some years back(I believe it was the latter-half 1990's) where some guy got in trouble after his canoe capsized and he yelled the "F" word. Some lady got upset 'cause her "precious" overhead it and she called the local constabulitory. THEY cited an obscure, 19th century law, still on the books, that made it a jailable offense to use such language in public. I think he was given a hefty fine and had to do community service. He paid the fine, did the service, but was obdurate in his refusal to apologize.
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My jury is still out on those spanish speaking versions. There are so many other great L&H features they could have shown instead, yet in some way, they WERE interesting.
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My step father was Hungarian and HATED Gypsies. He never elaborated why. Many of the "Gypsy" persuasion in this country seem to want to get by without adhering to the same laws and social "rules" the rest of us are required to, from what I've personally seen. But I don't think that's actually inherent in the entire Gypsy culture.
What I CAN say is that those "reality" shows, like "My Big, Fat Gypsy Wedding" don't really do much to promote a good side to being Gypsy. Well, that and the fist fights and parking lot barbeque a Gypsy family incited at the funeral home when my nephew's Mother-in-law was in state. Women dressing like hookers at a funeral home might strike some as low class. Also letting the kiddies treat the funeral home as their personal playground doesn't sit well with other people, either.
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Lost a job? For using the "F" word?
What were you, a kindergarten teacher?
Incidentally, remember, George Carlin had the same thing happen...
"I was fired from the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas for saying the word 'SH**'. In a town where the BIG GAME is called CRAPS! You could hear Texans from the casino yell, 'Aw, SH**! I CRAPPED!' They fly THOSE guys in FREE. FIRED me! SH**!"
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I do enjoy the dialogue in that Sim movie. Some things so simply put, others more entertaining...
"You're just the kind of buck they're looking for these days".
"...Nip along smartly...".
"I'm not in the habit of conducting my business in the teeth of inclement weather."
"Sit down and have a nice warm by the fire".
"WOO! CUR!"
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STORK!(snort!)...DAMN YOU, Tiki! Made my coffee go down the wrong PIPE!
Yeah I too remember being refused service at a local Sander's counter because my hair was long. Why, at the time, it must have been down to my COLLAR!
Not exactly a total BLACK experience, but it gave me a taste( or WHIFF) of what it must have been like.
Hey, GYPSY, eh? Did you get married in one of those God-awful 100 pound GOWNS?
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No, what I meant was that MY reply WAS to a post by RM. I even clicked on the "dialogue bubble" on his post. But when I clicked "post message", Duck's name wound up on the "reply to" part.
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I must stand on my head! I must stand on my head!
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I know I'LL be glued to my chair!
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That list COULD get long, too. My favorite might be *The Ladykillers* . That one just cracks me up. Couldn't help but fall in love with that little old lady!
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And the above reply was originally a response to RM. I don't know HOW Duck's name got there...
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Highjacking threads is par for the course in ANY online forum. It really doesn't bother me too much if the highjacking goes in interesting directions, as it did in this thread. Recently, I started a thread poking mild fun at Addison's thread which featured an impressionist doing Bette Davis' voice singing "FELIZ NAVIDAD" over film clips of many Davis movies. In MY thread, I claimed to have difficulty watching a broadcast of *The Little Foxes* because I kept waiting for Davis to break into "FELIZ NAVIDAD", and the thread immediatley turned into a Bette Davis appreciation society thread. NOT my intention at all. Come to think of it, the thread had NO intention whatsoever short of levity. But so it goes.
While it's good to have a message board where our interest in old movies could be stated and shared with others of similar interest, it's also good that within this forum, we can express our thoughts on other matters that might be of no interest or go largely ignored by those we know in our private lives. It's good to know somebody shares your views, or even disagrees but does so with a sense of calm decorum, and in some cases show us a reason for changing our minds. At least in here, we're restricted by the site's rules of etiquette, and can share or express our differing views WITHOUT it turning into a vitriolic free-for-all as it might in a typical face-to-face discussion, or from MY experience, in Facebook.
As far as discussing racism in these forums, I see nothing wrong in tackling the subject academically. However, there's nothing remotely academic about racism. You can pass laws against it, instill rules against it and even forbid any racist viewpoints being written and spoken in public. It's not going to end it. The best you can hope for is to force the racist to come up with an intelligent sounding arguement for it's existence. And I don't really see that ever happening.
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It bothers me to use referrences such as "B" word, "A" word, "F" word. It's as if we're addressing a bunch of little kids. I'm assuming this forum is attended by ADULTS. And when the subject matter is LANGUAGE, in particular PROFANE language, the auto-censor should be disabled so we can proceed like grown-ups.
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DANG, Tiki! When I was in high school( '66-'69), we weren't allowed to wear shorts AT ALL, except maybe in GYM CLASS!
But this reminds me of a bit some comedian did a few years ago on the now gone "BONNIE HUNT SHOW":
"My next door neighbor was complaining to me that his teen-age daughter dresses way too sexy. You know; doesn't wear a bra but should, her shirts don't cover her mid section, and pants so low you can see the top of the crack of her butt. I thought about this for a minute and realized, y'know? My DAD dresses way too sexy!"
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Either way, the story has become so ingrained in our psychs that the title has actually become a VERB. Recently(and coincidentally), one of those "true crime" shows( like "The First 48"), I heard a detective say, "It was clear he was GASLIGHTING her!"
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Questionable grammar notwithstanding, I'll gladly concede, James.
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Anyway, I though George Carlin settled this in '72.
To go on...My Mom, who could cuss as well as any drunken sailor, had no qualms about any "profane" word, EXCEPT the "F" word. Absolutely hated it. But, she hated my ex-Mother-in-law MORE. So one day when they were both at my house(sometime in the early '80's), I had a movie on from HBO, and THAT word popped out of the TV speaker. My Mother-in-law started a "vapors" quality epistle about the WHY of the need to use such language in a movie, and to the surprise and shock of all in the room, my Mom told her, "If you don't LIKE the Goddam language, just shut the fu**in' TV off!"
It's all boiling down anyway to where the "QUEEN MOTHER" of dirty words will become commonplace in areas that now forbid it's usage. We're already hearing language in TV commercials we rarely(if ever)heard even in movies. But some censors are relentless.
One night on Craig Ferguson's "Late Late Show", he was working a hand puppet. The camera was held in close-up of the puppet, and Ferguson, providing said puppet's voice, let loose an expletive. The expletive of course, was "beeped" out, but what was funny was that the PUPPET'S MOUTH was PIXILATED! I always wondered if that was intentional for comic effect, or if the censor was THAT tight-azzed.
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In another forum I belong to, we discussed a similar situation in regards to "Rock'n'Roll" singing. I mentioned a guy I knew in high school who always wanted to be a singer/frontman in a rock band, but his voice was too much like PERRY COMO'S. He'd have done well in these days of the popularity of the Buble/Connick Jr. vocal stylings. But as it was the late '60's, it was no dice. I have no idea whatever became of him.
What this goes to illustrate is that a vote for the "best" female singer/actress depends heavily on the material given them to perform. One wouldn't give Ethel Merman or Judy Garland the part in a movie about the life of an opera singer, unless they wanted a Dorothy Commingore type of result. Or was willing to dub it. But to present the true voice of any performer, the material would have to jibe with the vocal abilities/limitations of the one chosen for the part. This makes it difficult in these kinds of discussions because, surprisingly enough, studio heads more often than not got it right. Durbin couldn't have done *Meet Me In St. Louis* as well as Garland, and Garland would have seemed ridiculous in most Durbin vehicles. In many cases it becomes an "apples and oranges" arguement.
In more contemporary times, actor JOHN TRAVOLTA has proven to have an acceptable singing voice, with some well sold recordings to his credit, and even did his own singing in the movie musical *Grease* . But I would hesitate to cast him in "The Vaughn Monroe Story". Unless he was lip-syncing to an overdub.
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If he's willing to wait a year or two, he could find it at a THRIFT STORE.
I recieved that e-mail, too. But I didn't try to enter, so I don't know if I would have had any trouble.
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