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Someone needs to post about the 20th Centuty Vole production of tHE FLY.

It may have already been mentioned, but I want to single out one of my favorite silent movies (one of my favorite movies period): WINGS directed by the great William Wellman. This movie was made less than 10 years after the end of the war so the events in the movie have a "current" feel rather than an historical one. The 2012 restoration that has aired on TCM --- with the original orchestral score by J.S. Zamecnik, complete with sound effects like the ones that accompanied the original release of the movie --- is fantastic. .

The character that Michael York plays in the movie CABARET has an interesting history. The character is based on Christopher Isherwood, the English author of Berlin Stories. In I AM CAMERA the character is English and is called Christopher Isherwood. In the musical play CABARET he is called Cliff Bradshaw and is American. In the movie CABARET he is English again and is called Brian Roberts.

Yeah, I saw a documentary where Farley Granger was commenting about ROPE and he said he wasn't sure if James Stewart knew if his character was supposed to be gay at least subtextually.

I must admit that I don't know who Jean Peters is. On a side note I was once describing a Jean Simmons movie to one of my co-workers who had a puzzled expression on his face as he heard the details. He apparently he thought I was talking about Gene Smmons.

Yes, the photo appears to be from around the time of his 21 JUMP STREET days.

Awww, Dargo, I love PORTRAIT OF JENNIE so it's hard for me to read the part about the "starving artist with a seeming very questionable proclivity for under-aged girls": but, yeah, I guess it's true. But Jennie does magically age rapidly to be closer to Eben's age as the movie progesses so the creepy element does go away.

Yes, Jack Lemmon plays the role of the alcoholic in THE DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES very well as does Lee Remick. The scene where he's searching for the bottle he'd hidden in one of the pots is one that really struck me. But seeing this movie once was enough for me. Knowing people in real life who've suffered from substance abuse issues, the movie hit too close to home.

My uncle told me that in the days before VCRs he and his sister (my mother) would often make audio casette tape recordings of TV shows. One interesting one that he played for me was a recording of an episode of the old BATMAN TV series for my mother who for some reason wasn't able to see it. The recording includes his descriptions of the visual elements.

Yes, many movie actors (then and now) have their personal make-up artists and hair stylists. Often in the credits you'll see the make-up artist or hair stylist for a specific actor (male or female) in addition to the general make-up or hair credit.

Does anyone on these boards have a 1st edition copy of Shirley Jones's autobiography that includes the Joan Collins story that was removed from future printings and the ebook after Collins's cease and desist letter? It will likely be a collector's item.

When I saw GEORGY GIRL (another movie introduced to me by TCM), I noticed that James Mason spoke with an English North Country accent rather than than the accent he usually uses. I wonder if perhaps his accent in GEORGY GIRL was James Mason's "real" accent since there was no reference in the movie to the character being from northern England..

At first I read this as "Betty White."

Or maybe North by Northwesterns?

Maybe next week we'll know.

Argh! The Maltin review gave this movie 4 stars so I figured it was likely not good. I see the movie is scheduled to play again in July. I'll try to catch it then..

Yes, misswonderly, I have seen Gus Van Sant's MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO and I love that movie. The movie includes a brilliant performance by the late River Phoenix. His emotional honesty in the movie is astounding. The Bob Pigeon character in MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO is clearly modeled on Falstaff and Scott (played by Keanu Reeves) is the Prince Hal character.

According to the host's commentary during the showing of THE STEPFORD WIVES during the spotlight on costume design, the original idea was for the Stepford Wives to be wearing bikiins (or some other skimpy costume) in the final scene in the supermarket. I think the costume designer's ultimate choice of the ugly ruffle dresses made a better point although there may be some who would have liked the bikinis.

Yeah, speedracer, I also don't usually get into Top 40 hits, but I do love "Sexyback." I especially love the collaboration between Justin Timberlake and Timbaland on the song . Mix engineer Jimmy Douglas explained the title of the song, and how it affected the concept: "Justin [Timberlake] goes in the chorus 'Go head be gone with it', I called the song 'Be Gone With It', just to label it. So they're developing this song and they're going nuts and loving it, and as they play it, and I'm like: 'I don't think this hook is strong enough.' But then, at the very last minute, Justin very, very cleverly decided to call it 'Sexyback', and that changed the whole dimension of the song. The first thing you hear when you listen to the song is 'I'm bringing sexy back', and after that you don't care or don't notice that there is no hook. And then there's the unique thing of Timbaland acting as a narrator, saying things like 'take it to the bridge', or 'yeah'. Every time Justin leaves a space, he fills it in. It's two guys interacting." [

Oh, wow, I didn't know any of that.

You're welcome, Arturo. LAURA is such a fascinating subject to me, both the movie itself and the "making of' aspects of it.

Thanks for this information, Arturo. If with the censorship it still woud have been interesting to see.

Is you making a pun? You caught me . . .

Ah, yes, a clip from the EAST OF EDEN screen test. Paul Newnan read for the role of James Dean's brother.

I do remember the August schedule was avaialbe by May 7 last year. Not sure why I remember that . . .