dpompper

Waaaahhhhhh!

Brenda Lee?

For some reason, viewing "King of Comedy" has eluded me.

I'll avoid any cheap shots w/ regard to the "weirdos" reference.

Twilight Zone time.

Newsflash: We're in the 21st century. Use your wikipedia to look up "to vent one's spleen."

So, this begs the question. Will today's youth, weened on SFX, grow up considering story to be un/less important?

I groove to YOU, Mark. Love reading your posts. Unfortunately, too many chores calling my name this morning.

<Sheesh. What a bunch of crybabies.> Easy. Don't read those posts, then. If there are regular "offenders," use the ignore button. Changing others' behaviors (if that's your goal) is NOT going to happen by using a message board alone. If venting your spleen is the goal, mission accomplished and bravo/a!

AGAIN, he's misplaced his "weight thing."

<Forget that Cooper guy > Indeed, I TRY to! Yes, yes, yes, Susan Hayward for SOTM. A lovely and talented woman who could play anything with a range more vast than a Whitman's Sampler!

<But I find Davis's character in the Little Foxes to be more disagreeable than the one in The Letter. > Ah, now there's an important comparison that offers a bit of a crack in my rationale. I can't take my eyes off of Regina -- and I DO like her perhaps BECAUSE she's so evil. She grew up with those awful brothers and had to learn to develop and master her own brand of cunning. Her husband let her down: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayXGM5TyRco Her own ambitions also presented a more attractive alternative for Alexandra's future life -- living in Chicago and traveling the world rather than staying at home and marrying her awful cousin. So . . . I guess that's why I'd argue that Bette's LF character is much more watchable than the one in TL. Also, her hat/veil in LF is amazing! Edited by: dpompper on Mar 8, 2013 1:49 PM

au contraire! Most of the characters have some redeeming quality . . . or are pitiable for the circumstances in which they find themselves. (I just couldn't pity Bette's character in "The Letter," I guess.)

I have "Fantastic Voyage" (not to be confused with Lakeside's groove) on DVD, too. Saw it in the same theater -- one year earlier in 1966. Again, I remembered it almost verbatim when I saw it again as an adult. (I really was a weird kid.)

<I confess to owning the anniversary DVD edition (though I havent watched it in a long time)> I have it, too! I first saw it in the theater with my mom and aunt. I would have been SEVEN. Surprisingly, I "got" most of it at that tender age and remembered it very clearly when I saw it again only a few years ago.

I know what you mean, sepia. Once upon a time, I worked a second job as a bartender for a Jewish caterer who contracted MANY bar/batmitzvahs and weddings.

Well, how about that! Thanks, mongo. I'd never seen a photo of them together.

Obviously a guy who dyes his hair. I marvel at this generation of oldsters -- all with red-tinted hair.

I tend to not appreciate films that have characters I don't like. For example, Bette Davis is my all-time fave actress. Yet, I simply do not like "The Letter." I'll watch it -- to see the maestra in operation -- but I don't like the film.

Charles Dickens was the MASTER at character names! Cool website about this: http://charlesdickenspage.com/characters.html Edited by: dpompper on Mar 7, 2013 5:55 PM

LOL . . . it had its "clunky" moments, to be sure. But I think that's an ingredient that made it MUCH better than BC (which was slick and got all the critical/popl culture acclaim -- even though Kevin Costner was left on the cutting room floor.) (Besides, I CANNOT stand Meg Tilly or her sister, Jennifer!) I don't remember the scene you mention (a good excuse to watch my DVD again). Edited by: dpompper on Mar 6, 2013 6:11 PM

Remember "A Clockwork Orange?"

Unlikely I'd ever be mistaken for a boy.

I'm with you, AT . . . Richard Widmark deserves SOTM, too. Part of the lineup MUST include "Night and the City" (1950).

<Yeah The Big Chill was okay. Sooner or later somebody was probably going to do a boomers get older and grow up (sort of). I like Return of the Secaucus Seven better. More realistic and down to earth.> Could agree more. Love John Sayles . . . and this was the film debut for David Strathairn in 1979.