Dargo2
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Hmmmm...I don't know, O.R.
Maybe the people presently holdin' the rights to Will's movies HAVE met a man they didn't like...in charge of TCM's film acquisition.
(...btw, welcome to the boards!)
Edited by: Dargo2 on Aug 6, 2013 2:52 PM
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Another good one there, Rich.
Which btw reminds me of Bob's intro of last night's showing of "Ben-Hur", and in which he stated that Chuck was "best known for that role", AND to which I remember thinkin' to myself, "Nah-uh...Chuck is probably best remembered for playin' the "Let my people go" guy.
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>Jo Van Halen?
LOL
I see you..ahem.."jump"-ed on THAT one there, Rich!
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And now that we have THAT settled...
How about THIS Academy Award-winning actress who always reminded me of Miss Totten...errr...I mean TOTTER ???
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"What makes the Hotten Totten so hot?...Courage!"
LOL
(..ahem, Twink...the lady's last name IS "Totter", not "Totten")
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Yeah, as I recall it was his over consumption of the alcohol that caused him to not remember her.
(...though I still don't care HOW blitzed I would've been, if I wouldn't have remembered a night with the gorgeous Natalie, then just take me out and shoot me on the spot!!!)
LOL
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Yeah, well, that "type" would've been hard to play by anyone, I'd say.
(...I mean, unlike the character McQueen is saddled with playing, if I were the young man that had gotten the gorgeous Natalie Wood pregnant, first, I'm SURE I would have remembered her, and secondly, I wouldn't have hesitated for a minute in professing my undying love for her and asking her to marry me!!!)
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>And even though it gets a bad rap, I was always kind of fond of Soldier In The Rain . Is that one not available to TCM?
I remember it being shown within the last year on TCM, Sepia.
Remembering not being that impressed with it though having hadn't watched it in decades, I thought I'd give it another shot, and yeah I have say I kinda got into it.
McQueen of course is playing against type(or at least what would later become known as his type, anyway) and a character that would have probably been given to, say, a young Earl Holliman as a little slow on the ol' uptake type. However, once I accepted him in that role, I thought he was quite good in this film.
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Hey Mark, I've been dyin' to ask this for quite some time now, and so...
Do you look anything like this guy here?
(...'cause that's how I envision you every time I read your posts)
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Yep John, I suppose "a perfect storm of events" is as good a way to describe what happened as anything.
I just wonder how some folks could ever reason it was "suicide"?! The kid was on a roll career-wise, and must have thought his life was lookin' brighter and brighter every day.
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> I remember watching a program a few years back that looked in detail at Dean's car accident, and from what I recall, it seemed more like a case of careless driving than a suicide, though I suppose we'll never know for sure.
I've never heard anything in regard to his death even remotely being termed a "suicide", John. It's causes were deemed to be a result of three different factors...one being the poorly designed highway intersection where the accident took place in central California, one being that Dean was driving approximately 10-15 miles per hour faster than the posted speed limit as he came up to that intersection, and one being the driver of the Ford, Donald Turnupseed, failed to see the small Porsche 550 Spyder race car driven by Dean and coming in the opposite direction until it was too late.
(...btw, regarding the last cause, I've mentioned this before around here but I've owned a replica mid-engine Porsche 550 Spyder for about 6 years now, and ever since I purchased it my wife refers to it as "The Death Car"...and NOT just because this was the model of car being the one that James Dean met his fate while behind the wheel of one, but because the first time I took my wife for a little spin around SoCal with it, we happened to pull up between a Cadillac Escalade SUV and a Hummer H1 at a stoplight on a major boulevard, and she looked up at both of those monsters and said, You do think the drivers of those things can see us down here?", and to which I replied, "Probably not, and that's why I drive this little baby like I ride my motorcycles, VERY defensively, 'cause half the doofuses out here on the road who shouldn't be allowed to have a drivers license, don't notice motorcycles either, of course!")
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You might be onto somethin' there, finance...though as big an old movie fan as he is and thus would suspect Bill to also be a bit of a history buff, wouldn't ya think he would've picked up on his own misnomer.
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>He didn't NEED a car in LA? Who lives in LA with no car? We're not talking Manhattan here.
Whaddaya talkin' about here, finance?
This was Los Angeles in the year 1950...and when that city had the largest inter-urban rail transit system in the world...and of course before Judge Doom(he of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" fame) and his ultimately successful plan to get rid of the rail system in La La Land!
(...yep, all Joe would have had to do to get around would have been to take the Santa Monica Blvd line which would have been just steps from Norma's house of horrors in Beverly Hills!)
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Personally I can't say Jeff was any more "noble" than Joe. Both of them pretty much immediately knew they were playing with fire by becoming involved with those crazy bitc..errr..women.
And so, even though it was a sexual attraction that Jeff at first had with Kathie which might have dawn him into her little web, in MY book that gives him to extra "pass" over the actions of Joe's.
Though, I suppose on the OTHER hand, because Jeff knows he's "sacrificing" himself at the end by bring Kathie to justice, one COULD say HIS actions at the end were more noble.
(...but either way, what makes both of these two films such standouts is that you have two intelligent but flawed characters fleshed out by two very good and very interesting to watch actors who were very adept at playing cynical world-weary types)
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>I was amazed - I mean, even my kids (11 and 14) know when the war started and ended.
So Sarab, do you ALSO have one of those bumper stickers on your car that says somethin' like, "My kid is an honor student at Such-and-Such Elementary School"???
'Cause from what I hear AND see, most kids NOW days haven't got a freakin' clue WHAT happened in the world before they were born, and are PROUD of that fact!!! LOL
(...btw, if you're a Canadian, of course that bumper sticker would say, "HONOUR student"!!!)
Oh, and one more thing here, folks...how many of you had tears in your eyes after Ruggles recited the Gettysburg Address? I know I did!
(...AND btw, one of the things my 5th grade classmates and I had to memorize and recite in class back in the day...AND something I doubt kids today are required to do)
Edited by: Dargo2 on Aug 5, 2013 12:35 PM
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>Like I said Joe actions shouldn't of resulted in his death so I also sympathize with Joe at the end. Like Jeff in Out of The Past, we are given hope that their character can turn things around with the help of a good women. But this being noir, it cannot be. One has to meet his fate.
Actually a very good comparison of two otherwise very bright guys having the fates line up against them because of their meeting two crazy dames.
(...and you're right James, neither of them should of..ahem..should HAVE
come to their sad conclusion, though a more positive ending would have definitely made for two lesser films) -
>Also, the mansion Norma and Joe inhabit has an eerie compelling life of its own. It's almost as though once one has entered its environs, one cannot escape. The place is holding Joe almost as much as Norma is. It's like there's a spell, or a curse, on all who enter there.
Hmmmm...does this remind you of a certain old Eagles tune?
(...ya know, I DID always wonder if Norma's mansion might've smelled a bit of colitas)
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Wouldn't that depend if you're includin' the Time during that time???
(...I mean, that would be kinda like Truffaut not includin' the Pips when he made "Day For Knight", right?!)
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Well, ya know what they say dontcha, MissW:
"One ounce of an alcoholic beverage a day is medicinal, but anything over that amount will surely and eventually take its toll."
(...and if you watched that 1976 Carson interview last week with the then 58 year old Holden, then you know what "they say" is pretty much spot on)
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I thought Holden's turn on the recently shown Johnny Carson series, in which he's there to plug "Network", was one of the best of the lot.
(...and btw, of his earlier pre-'50s stuff, I've always enjoyed his performance, along with Loretta Young's and Bob Mitchum's, in "Rachael and the Stranger")
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I don't know Sepia. I think it'd be pretty hard to top the classic response Jack Benny gave on his radio program and to the guy who walks up with gun in hand and says to him, "Your money or your life!"
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Now listen to me, rookie! This game of posting things around here is only one HALF skill. The OTHER half is something else. Something BIGGER!
You gotta have HEART! All ya REALLY NEED is heart! When the odds are sayin' your message won't post, that's when ya gotta start......again.
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>....and larger, easier-to-read text!
Well, ya can't say TCM doesn't try and cater to their primary demographic then, can ya!!!
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"Lady OF the Lake", finance???
I didn't know Bob Montgomery also did a movie about King Arthur.
(...so did he use that hackneyed camera gimmick in that one TOO?)
Oh, that face, that fabulous face. Whose is it?
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Yep, and she's also great in the film 'Wild River", in which she plays an old woman who refuses to sell her piece of 'bottom land' to the federal government while the TVA project was being built.