Dargo2
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Yep, BUT did you ALSO know that Bobby, let us say, "embellished" her story quite a bit?
Uh-huh, 'cause all Billy Joe REALLY succeeded in doing with his jump was getting a rather badly sprained left ankle and a few other various but minor contusions, and would later be seen working the swing shift at the Meridian Mississippi Piggly Wiggly!!!
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>Anthony Quinn's Gauguin is a real hothead.
Yeah, well, you have to remember this was a few years before he'd go off to be surrounded by a bunch of Polynesian babes and learn to mellow out a little bit.
(...Gauguin that is, NOT Tony)
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Uh-huh, yep...and who's third cousin twice removed in the McCallister family would later become very famous for jumping off a certain bridge located in the Deep South!
(...well at least that's what I'VE heard anyway)
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Okay, and now back to "how bad movies have been since the Johnson(no, not THAT "Johnson") Administration".
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Btw folks, and just a quick segue back to the subject of "nudes" here...
I have a "new theory" about "Carlos Danger" here...you know the guy in NYC who won't go away.
Uh-huh, ya see, I THINK the guy was just texting nude pictures of himself and specifically of his "nether regions" because he rightly felt that that was his most aesthetically appealing part of himself, THAT'S all!
(...uh huh...'cause BOY is he one UGLY dude...I mean if YOU had a freakin' nose like THAT guy, wouldn't YOU be inclined to do the same thing TOO???)
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>If you removed all the biopics from Hollywood's "Golden Era", the overall quality of the period would rise at least 10%. The sports biopics were merely the worst of the lot, though some of their unbelievably inane miscastings (Gary Cooper as Lou Gehrig; William Bendix as Babe Ruth) and invented incidents take that particular sub-genre into Ed Wood territory.
But...but...Andy, I keep readin' by some folks in this thread that ALL movies were better made back in the day than in the past 40 years or so???!!!
(...and so are you SURE about this comment of yours???)
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Word is Cary Grant was a big fan of "The Honeymooners" and thus pressed the producers of this movie in getting Audrey for this part.
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Ann Jillian
(...and who I thought never looked hotter than when she became a brunette for her role in 1983's "Mr. Mom")
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Oh, okay. I see what your point is now, John.
(...but hey, isn't it kinda "ironic" that THAT biopic made in 2002 is far superior in every way to the biopic made about Babe Ruth that starred William Bendix and that was made during Fred's "Hollywood's Golden Era", NOT to mention more than a few OTHER poorly made biopics done during "Fred's era" TOO?!!!!)
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>I just think it's hard to transfer paintings to the film medium, though I suppose directors are welcome to try.
Well John, I thought director Julie Taymor and cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto did an excellent job of doing just THAT in the 2002 biopic "Frida".
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I see you've decided to join me in "snickering over here in the background" too, eh MissW?!
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Good one, PLG.
(...but of course Eugenia meant to say "DisneyLAND")
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OH! You mean like THIS?...
(...sorry, I couldn't find a pic of that Jag with a nude Elizabeth Hurley in it, so THIS'LL just have to do!)
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>In the same way that Classic Cars are revered, is it therefore not possible that 30s/40s/50s movies are also revered and just maybe because they were better made. Ask any guy who worked on the assembly line in the 1950s and I am Sure he is going to say that cars were better made back then !.......if not, then why else the interest in them ??
Oh Twink, you have NO idea how much I appreciate you now takin' this tact, my dear. And THAT'S 'cause I myself just the other day was thinkin' of introducing this "analogy" of automobiles into this baby, BUT thought it might be (mis)construed as irrelevant to the conversation.
AND, the very REASON I'm glad YOU brought this up is because...you are SOOOOOO wrong about the cars of '30s, '40s, '50s and even later being "better than cars are now".
Yep, you're SOOOOOO wrong my dear, and the REASON you're so wrong IS that cars have NEVER been safer, better handling, more powerful, more reliable, AND more fuel efficient and cleaner burning than they are NOW!
Yep, and SOME of 'em are absolutely as beautifully styled as the cars of old. In FACT, have you SEEN the new Jaguar F-type my dear??? It's friggin' GORGEOUS!!!
(...and so, might there now be another "analogy" you might wish to enter into the conversation here in order to attempt to make your point?...'cause THIS one is DEFINITELY off-the-mark, my dear!!!)
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> I think we've highjacked it long enough.
Yeah, well, far less than the other day when everybody went on and on about Fred MacMurray, my dear!
(...AND as I recall, it wasn't even Fred's BIRTHDAY!!!)
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>The points you make about the camera work and the care early film makers took are valid...
True, but NOT when in service to further imply that more modern cinematographers haven't been imaginative and sometimes even innovative in their craft...and as Fred here seems to have been implying recently.
In fact, and as just one example in this regard of "more modern" cinematographers' style and craft, Frederick Elmes, who worked with director David Lynch to film the innovative "Eraserhead" and "Blue Velvet" films come first to my mind.
(...aaah, but Five'll getcha Ten, Fred has never watched those films in his life!!!)
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Yeah..YEAH! So WHEN are the REST of you people out there gonna GET it, HUH?!
(...nope, there hasn't been a decently made movie since LBJ was pullin' the ears of his beagles on the grounds of the White House rose garden!!!)
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Twinkeee my dear, unfortunately it appears you completely misunderstood the joke there.
Nope, Dennis Miller was NOT making fun of Jerry Lewis' condition nor was I by mentioning his comment, BUT that he was making fun of the idea that was circulating a few decades ago that many of the French cinephiles thought Jerry Lewis was a "comic genius" and on a par with Charlie Chaplin, and that they ALSO considered Depardieu as a "sex symbol".
(...get it NOW?!...and btw, this joke was done YEARS before Lewis' ailment and his subsequent bloating)
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Well, ya KNOW MissW. back in Fred's day there would have been NO way that the...ahem..."operatic" story of Mozart in "Amadeus" would have featured..for shame..NAKED WOMEN like it did!!!
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Well, once again, thank Dennis Miller...the guy who I might add once made me fall off the coach when he did SNL's "Weekend Update".
And particularly, the time while he was "reporting" Gerald Depardieu's latest little "social faux pas" back in the '90s, and after he turned around to look at the picture of the overweight slob that the French actor had become by that time and which had been shown behind him during his "report" and commenting..."Hmmmm, well folks, if THAT is France's 'biggest male sex symbol', then I THINK I'm now starting to understand that whole thing they have for Jerry Lewis over there TOO!!!"
ROFL...yep, still to this day and every time I think of that line!!!
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You've just reminded me of old Dennis Miller comedy routine here, Twink.
Dennis talks about his "theory" as to how the makers of these different pills might have come up with the names of their products, and when he gets to "Cialis", he says it sounds like the makers of them might have named it that while maybe thinking of what Ralph Kramden would be telling his wife after taking one of those pills and while pointing down at his genitals..."SEE ALICE?!" I TOLD ya these things work, didn't I?!"
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>Confusion, my foot! I could pick out Robert Fuller in the dark. As for Robert Horton, there's no comparison. Wagon Train got it right the second time,
Ummm...okay then. Whatever ya say, wouldbe.
(...but tell me, could you ALSO still pick out Robert Fuller if say Robert FORSTER was in that same dark room???)
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Uh-huh...and thus the very reason Steven Bochco's "Cop Rock" bombed with television audiences back in the early '90s!
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I love the movie too, ccf. But sorry, I didn't catch this showing of it.
And so, are you talking about the hilarious scene where O'Toole wraps the fire hose around his waist and jumps off the building?
Tootsie ??? not AGAIN!
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Well stated, fx. Yep, I think you made a reasonable argument for continuing this thread.
It's just that I've personally found THIS topic to be like "banging one's head against the wall" after a while, because "The Traditionalists" around here seldom seem to give an inch and seem almost totally incapable of even occasionally admitting that any points which are offered in rebuttal to theirs(and such as yours) might also hold some merit.
Uh-huh...does this remind you of any particular place ELSE in this country of ours??? LOL
(...eeeh, don't answer that...it might be construed as being against the rules of this website, ya know!)