Dargo2

OOOPS!!! Sure finance! So NOW ya tell me this and RIGHT AFTER my lastest posting in that "FULL SERVICE" thread over in Hot Topics!!! (...where the heck are ya when I really NEED ya, ol' buddy???!!!) ROFL!!!

Yep finance! I'd say the chances of Kirk becoming one o' those "Mean Drunks" nobody wants to be around might be pretty good, huh! And like I was sayin' earlier in this thread, I had a little "personal interaction" with the guy years ago at the airport, and while I don't know if the guy had already had a few that day, I can tell ya he wasn't exactly "Mr. Congenial" when I talked to 'em! (...or for THAT matter, when I noticed some star-struck passers-by who'd walk up to him and who'd ask for his autograph...If I wasn't at work I swear I would've told the guy that THAT was part of bein' a freakin' "Movie Star", dude!...learn to LIVE with it, 'cause THAT'S why you make the Big Bucks...if ya DIDN'T want this, then ya SHOULD'VE stayed on the freakin' stage where NOBODY'll recognize that hole in your freakin' chin!!!) Edited by: Dargo2 on Jun 11, 2012 4:19 PM

kriegerg69 wrote: "{font:arial, helvetica, sans-serif}I think they tend to overreact simply because it is "rediscovered" or "lost" footage. I happen to enjoy the footage....but I can agree it's not only silly but also that most of it ISN'T dancing at all, but Bolger being hoisted aloft and flown about on wires, and then bouncing back and forth against the rubber fence posts, first forward then with the film running in reverse.{font} {font:arial, helvetica, sans-serif}NOT dancing at all." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Well yeah, I suppose that that's not really "dancing" there, krieg my friend, BUT did you ever consider the possibility that this scene MIGHT have some international cimena significance to it??? Uh huh! I mean who's to say some Hong Kong-based filmmaker didn't see this footage years ago, and THIS is the reason why all those Kung Fu flicks have scenes like that in 'em, HUH?! {font}

Yeah, I saw it, Hibi. Don't waste your time. Like ya said here, it was "updated". Yep, they changed it from a spiral staircase to an elevator...and somehow usin' Mr. Otis' invention didn't quite give ya that same spooky sense about the whole thing!!! (...juuuuuust kiddin' of course)

I've always loved Mamet's "House Of Games", TB....well, except for Lindsay Crouse's stilted and monotone line delivery in it, anyway. Yeah, I know she's supposed to be playin' an uptight shrink in the thing, but because of this decision of her's, or maybe her's and her then husband(Mamet), to play it that way, I thought it detracted from the film.

mark wrote: "The way some people are today, I wonder how many are going not to see him walk across the falls, but in hopes that they'll see him fall." ----- Why'd ya feel the need to qualify that statement about people with the word "today" there, Mark??? I'm pretty sure the idea of people being drawn to the proverbial "Train Wreck" has been around for a long long time. (...of course, since the advent of the televised 24 hour news cycle, I suppose your point MAY BE just a little more valid nowadays, huh!)

AndyM108 wrote: "...she(Garland) and Frank Sinatra are the only two (American) singers capable of playing roles that have this level of emotional depth with any authenticity." ------------------------------------------------------------------- Well Andy, maybe that's true, however this statement of yours brings to my mind the first time I ever watched "The Country Girl", and how I marveled at how good Bing Crosby was in the role of Grace Kelly's alcoholic husband. (...yep, I remember thinking somethin' like, "Man! I didn't know he had it in him!")

Fedya wrote: "Technically, it's a helix, not a spiral." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VX then wrote: "Yes, a true spiral staircase has a center column. But, that sort of staircase is commonly referred to as a spiral staircase." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Uh huh...yeah...well then, I gotta ask you guys somethin' here: If you'd put two of these here "Helix" kinda staircases together at your house, could ya then start up a business and work at home doin' DNA testing on people???? (...I've heard that COULD BE a growing field out there, ya know!)

Yeah! WELL SAID, Filmgoddess! In FACT willbe, for your information, I once knew a guy who changed! (...and word is she's MUCH happier now!!!)

Hmmmm...I'm guessin' you were a real Hanna-Barbera fan in your younger days, eh Tom?!

Yep, you're right, RM. I was kinda "incommunicado" there for a while back during my move from Prescott AZ to Sedona. (...and, "you bet your sweet bippy" this is one beautiful locale around here, ol' buddy!)

What, slaytonf? You've never heard of "casting against type" before or somethin', dude??? Yeah, actually, you have a point there, I suppose. Yep, what ya said DOES kinda make sense. (...gotta question here for ya though...when did you start affecting this here Ricky Ricardo Cuban accent???..."One THIN that bothers you", ya SAY???) Edited by: Dargo2 on Jun 10, 2012 3:59 PM

Yeah RM! I think I remember this movie. That was Cary Grant in "Napalm and Old Lace", wasn't it???!!!

Wow clore! That kinda makes ya wonder how Mature's career might've been boosted a little while longer IF ONLY while he was playin' Hannibal in that movie he would've dropped the name of Spartacus, huh?! (...though somehow I don't see Kirk willingly handing over that part to him!)

During my many years with the airlines working the ticket counter and the boarding gates at LAX, I "met" scores of 'em. Among the most memorable and the "biggest" were probably Bob Hope, Ginger Rogers, Kirk Douglas...the first two being very nice, and the last one...well, not so much. I once met Vincent Price at a screening of "Champagne for Caesar" at the Director Guild Theater in Hollywood a few years before his death. Charming gentleman, as you would expect.

REALLY ham?! Well then, I guess I must've MISSED those babies, 'cause in the last few months I'd have SWORN any thread that "dare" mention HER name all went the way of the Dodo bird eventually, dude! (...well, there ya go I suppose, directcurrent...seems my "answer" here wasn't quite accurate, huh...though PLEASE don't automatically discount any OTHER answers I may have for you in the future...remember, as Joe E. Brown told Jack Lemmon on that old mahogany Cris-Craft runabout, "Nobody's perfect!")

Now WHAT the heck are you guys tryin' to tell our new friend directcurrent here, HUH?! Why SURE he can close a freakin' thread any ol' time he WANTS!!! Directcurrent, HERE'S all ya gotta do to accomplish this: JUST mention the name "JANE FONDA" in your thread and VOILA!!!! Uh huh! Now granted, it MIGHT take a while, but EVENTUALLY your problem here WILL be solved, dude! (...geeez, gotta say I'm kinda shocked none of you guys who've been around here a while thought o' this earlier!!!) ROFL!!!!!

Ya know Joe, I always DID wonder what Gene there looked like in his younger days and before hosting "Match Game"! Oh...wait...never mind. (...hey, what the heck are YOU groanin' about here, huh?!...ESPECIALLY after that "bread" joke o' yours down there, dude!!!) LOL!

Well Fred, that "makes me think she is crazy" is what I always thought this film was supposed to make you contemplate. IS she nuts, OR are there really ghosts at that manor. It's kind of like how in "The Haunting", I believe the whole idea of the story is to ask the question if Julie Harris' character Nell going nuts or is Hill House really haunted.

finance Wrote: "Are there real-life instances in which people are unable to speak for many years because of a traumatic childhood event? (Dorothy McGuire)" ----- Well finance, while the following shocking event didn't happen to the guy until he was an adult, Adolph "Harpo" Marx USED to talk in all the skits he and his brothers performed on the Vaudeville stage. But THEN, on that fateful first day of shooting "The Cocoanuts" and when he accidently walked into Margaret Dumont's dress room by mistake and saw her completely nude, it was SUCH a traumatic event in his life, that...well...I THINK you know the rest of this story from here, don't ya???!!!

Totally agree there, finance. That was probably THE most "confused" movie ever made! I mean, was it supposed to be a Comedy, a Romance, a Drama, or WHAT?! Whatever genre or genres it was supposd to be or mixed as, none of 'em clicked at all. And, as much as I've always like Daws Butler voice, there was really no reason to at all to have him narrating this thing throughout. Gotta say though, this film is example one of that often mentioned fact that Natalie Wood sure never appeared to go through that "awkward adolescent" stage, as so many other child actors have. Oooh-wee, was she ever a cutie in this one. Btw, I did the math, and I couldn't believe David Janssen was only 25 years old when he played the Captain. He looked a lot older than that there. Of course, this could be one of the reasons the guy died at the "ripe young" age of only 48. Maybe he started at a very young age trying to out-drink William Holden!

I didn't watch it earlier today TCMfan, however I do remember catching this version a few years back, and I recall thinking at the time that I didn't buy Ms. Powell in the role of Mildred for a second. (...of course, that could be because I had already pretty much typecast her in my mind as only playing the whiny, teary-eyed and somewhat clingy type for years before seeing her in this role, a role which demands the cold and calculating type to play it)

Man! Gotta say, some of you folks around here would sure need a bunch of Purell!!! Me...I can think of only one person who I would've like to have had the opportunity to shake his hand...Jimmy Stewart, 'cause few if any actors other than him could take the roles of "Mr. Average American Guy" and so often turn them into characters who seem interesting enough to spend two hours watching on film. And, from all reports, he always seemed like just a real down-to-earth guy in his personal life, too. (...btw finance, that "Harold Russell" line down there was TOTALLY tasteless!!!...but then AGAIN, you KNEW I'd get a kick out of it, didn't ya ol' buddy!) LOL

Well willbe, NOT to totally dismiss your suggestion of "Rocky Horror", AND not to get into that whole "cult" definition can o' worms thing in THIS thread, such as a certain other thread got into recently , I'd say "Rocky Horror" isn't quite a good example of what I was proposing here, because, as I'm sure you've already guessed by now, I'd say "Rock Horror" would fall more under the "Cult Classic" category than it would, say, the "Popular Classic" category enjoyed by "the masses", such as my suggestion of "Grease" would. Though you still may disagree with me here, of course. (...and now that I've given a second thought to my respose here, I might have to admit I've put too fine an edge on this) Edited by: Dargo2 on Jun 8, 2012 6:53 PM

Getting back to my earlier posed question here of, "Has there ever been a classic or new classic movie musical using Rock music?"...unless I've missed somebody earlier mentioning it, I would say "Grease" might fit the bill here, though of course the music in it is more "Rock and Roll" than "Rock". Btw, has anyone here gone to see the play "Rock of Ages", which is the basis of this new film about to be released and which has some pretty big names acting in it? I haven't, and so this is why I ask here. From the commercials I've seen for the movie on TV recently, there seems to be a lot of major hit late-'70s and early-'80 Rock songs being performed in the story, and so I suppose, depending upon the story, the direction, the dialogue and the pacing, it could be pretty good.