Dargo2
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Ooooh...good one!
(...and here I must have subconsciously set you up with the "Nader" reference...way to GO!...I'm glad you took advantage of it!!!)
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Yep. you've got THAT right, TB.
MissW has one of the best senses of humor around here, and irregardless...ahem...REGARDLESS of gender!!!
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No, actually heuriger, I believe similarly to how schlockmeister William Castle attempted to rip-off Hitchcock's "Psycho" with his own produuction of "Homicidal" , I think "Sunset Avenue" was his little remember 1967 attempt to do the very same thing with Billy Wilder's movie.
(...and as I recall it starred George Nader and Joan Crawford...the latter of which by the mid-60s would take ANY movie she was offered!!!)
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LOL...again.
(...but you have NO idea how close I came to placing that "Well done!" part in parentheses...and for the LIFE o' me, I have NO idea why I didn't!!!)
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LOL
Though I'm sure there HAS to be a "Sunset Avenue" SOMEWHERE in the Greater L.A. area and/or in Arizona, I thought your question there was very funny!
Well done!
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I could of course also be wrong, fxreyman, but I don't believe our friend slaytonf meant ONLY "miniseries", but possibly a series on TCM dedicated to TV movies and maybe miniseries also, and to be broadcast on Wednesday night.
(...though I'm sure he will soon correct either of us he'll find to have misunderstood his intent)
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I hear ya, Brother! And the ONLY reason I broght it up was that I feel we're "kindred spirits" in this regard.
(...oh, and to mildly tweak the noses of some of the "stuffed shirts" around here TOO!!!)
LOL
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>Regarding the greatest of the greats, John Ford, I actually think his best work was in his films WITHOUT John Wayne.
Yep Swithin. I've heard, and as you've probably also heard, that one of Ford's own personal favorites was 1950's Wagon Master.
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Yep, VERY good point, dpompper!
(...yeah, the only thing I like to do with people like that is make fun of 'em by metaphorically "yankin' 'em around the room"...'cause the LAST thing ya wanna do is take 'em seriously and start a discussion with 'em)
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OOOOH, I believe you might be talking about our "Excitable Boy" Leo here, Sepia.
Yep, he occasionally hits the boards shouting his head off, alright!
(...and UNLIKE how you and I will OCCASIONALLY uppercase a word or two in a sentence JUST to imply emphasis in certain words and like we're face-to-face talkin' with people...which STILL seems to bother a few folks around here, huh...BUT, slowly and steadily those folks seem to be comin' around and accepting this little trend of ours, IF you've noticed!)
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Great list here, fxreyman! I'd especially like to watch "QB VII" again, and what I remember another star making turn by Sir Anthony Hopkins.
However, there's another made-for-TV movie you missed placing on your list and which I also remember being a notch above the rest, and sort of an updated take on Orson Welles' pseudo-radio news broadcast of "The War of the Worlds" titled Special Bulletin (1983).
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Nah, not really. This is just a little running joke I've used for years in efforts to kiddingly play upon G.B.Shaw's famous quote about, "Two countries separated by a common language".
And thus, because we Yanks are the only English speaking country in the world that spell certain words in the language differently(and not "bettter" I might add) than does the rest(also see: "Center" for "Centre" among(st) many other examples), I suppose in a covert manner, this is my way of kidding about the whole idea of "American Exceptionalism", also.
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I think that's a great point about how the "rankings" of films and their lead actors in those various films are often predicated upon who the directors were and where their status as directors lay.
And, because as you imply, Vincent Sherman isn't often considered in the same league with the likes of Curtiz and Ford, and even though I personally have never caught a "flaw" in any of his directorial efforts in "Don Juan", I suppose this could've contributed to where this film seems to "rank"
Tom brought up sort of a "caveat" in his initial posting in his thread which might also explain why this film in particular seems to rank slightly lower in Fylnn's filmography, and that was his mentioning something to the effect that "Robert Douglas as the villian may not be Basil Rathbone, but he's very good in it". And while I would agree with Tom's statement, and have always thought Douglas very good in these sorts of roles, I have to wonder if this issue might also play upon the minds of those who "rank" films.
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LOL
(...ya see, this is why I just said what I said in that other thread...YOU play along and aren't any kind of "stuffed shirt" at all)
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Well then, I suppose this might all be for the better.
(...and alas, any of my future labo(u)rs to further address this issue will be met with a less than colo(u)rful ending)
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Just playin' off of what heuriger said here...
>MissWonderly has averaged nearly 4.5 posts a day for almost 4 years.
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Ya know MissW, I gotta say the more I read of your stuff around here, the more I'm falling desperately in love with you and your sense of lighthearted humo(u)r!
(...and so I suppose IF we could just figure out a way to take care of a few messy little roadblocks before us, such as my present happy marriage AND your being Canadian and usin' all those superfluous letter 'u's in some words, whaddaya think here, kid?...have we a chance?)
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OOPS! Yep, you're right, finance. It IS the "Lincoln Memorial"
I suppose my only excuse for this oversight might be that Philadelphia is a lot closer to our nation's capital than are the warm and sunny locales of SoCal and Arizona.
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>FredCDobbs wrote: I wonder why the Italian spelling is used in history books
>We made them an offer they couldn't refuse.
LOL
(..and here before I read your line, I was all set to post the last part of Groucho's Animal Crackers "Elephant" monologue...but NOW I think I'll just slink back to my little abode in Tuscaloosa, Alabama!)
Edited by: Dargo2 on Jan 30, 2013 12:41 AM
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Yeah, YEAH! THAT'S what I'm talkin' about!
So WHO was this guy who wrote that again???
(...thanks Swithin, I think your addition of The Bard's words here was perfectly timed)
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Yeah! And it always that last post of the day of hers that's only half done before she enters it that's drivin' me crazy!!!
(...okay, OKAY..."crazi-ER"!!!)
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Tom, I'd like to reply to this part of your recent posting when you said:
>In Captain Blood his character is bitter, in Robin Hood laughing and ebullient, in The Sea Hawk a reserved courtly gentleman, and in Don Juan a world weary cynic. I think he's outstanding in all four films (surprisingly so in Captain Blood, considering his inexperience as an actor) But I have a very special fondness for Errol Flynn's work as Don Juan. By this stage of the game Flynn had become that cynic you see on the screen but his increase in drinking had been, unfortunately, combined with narcotics. Yes, although Flynn initially thought that no drug could ever rule him, he did become a junkie.
I just wanted to add that I think with your immediate segue to Flynn's personal problem in the above text you might've missed stating another and possibly even more universal "truth" in regard to Flynn's different "types" of heroes portrayed. In this I mean that I think there might be a correlation to the viewers stage of their lives and to the level they might appreciate watching those different personality types.
I guess my point is that while I can't or shouldn't talk for anyone other than myself and my preferences, it seems the older In get, I find that "world weary cynic" type much more fascinating a character to watch on screen than I do those other three types you mentioned.
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You folk'll have to excuse Leo here.
He just gets a little excitable sometimes, that's all.
(...saaay, SPEAKIN' o' which, does anybody here remember that great Warren Zevon song?...OOPS, sorry, THAT might be a little "off-topic" here, huh!...never mind!)
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>Ironic that while MLK preached non-violence, this thread is getting violent.
Yep. And especially since I think there's a part of the great Doctor's famous speech on the steps of the Lincoln Monument where we says:
"And there will come a day when my brothers and sisters who prefer strict adherence to conversational topics, will walk hand-in-hand with my other brothers and sisters who occasionally like to go off-topic."
(...you remember that part, don't ya?...or was that just a "dream" of MINE???)
MLK Day = Sidney Poitier Day
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Come to think of it finance, there's a "Sunset Drive" just a mile or so from my house here in Sedona.
And, where "Sunset Park"(where I occasionally play tennis) is located.