HoldenIsHere
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In his introduction Robert Osborne didn't indicate if the director's cut of THX 1138 was airing.
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I'm trying to watch What's the Matter With Helen (1971) - all I can see is singing and dancing. I'm not being psychologically thrilled. It's kinda like the tv mystery movies of the time - Columbo; McMillan & Wife; etc.The color is great.. beautiful to look at. The only odd thing I noticed was the tinge of color in the opening newsreels. Were any of those Hearst Metrotone newsreels from the 1930s in color?-----------------------------------To be fair, I stuck with this one all the way to the end, which I actually liked - the last 20 minutes or so. Once all of the scenes showcasing Ms. Reynolds' dancing skills were out of the way, I was able to see a movie there.. and the thriller part of it's description began to bloom. Ms. Winters was very attractive, as was Ms. Reynolds.Amended 4/27/15/1:38 PM
Yes, the ending was very freaky.
Shelley Winters playing the piano as there is a cut to . . . .(Yikes!).
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I thought the charges of nepotism re: Susan Strasberg are unwarrented. Her father's position in the business may have gotten her a foot in the door and auditions, but the bottom line is talent and box office potential. Noone would have hired her thinking, "The public will want to buy tickets to see Lee Strasberg's daughter." She was universally acclaimed for her Anne Frank on Broadway and was wonderful in "Picnic". I confess I've never seen the widely panned "Stage Struck" which apparently killed her movie career, but hey, everyone should be forgiven for one inept performance.
It is a shame she wasn't given the chance to play Anne Frank in the film version.
Very well put, Vertigo,
Susan's being Lee Strasberg's daughter certainly would not have been a significant motivating factor for a Hollywood studio to cast her in a movie so the charges of nepotism don't really hold up.
Would the average moviegoer at the time have known who Lee Strasberg was?
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I never noticed until someone pointed it out to me on a recent viewing that in WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? Jane (Bette Davis) looks much younger after Blanche (Joan Crawford) reveals on the beach the truth about how she (Blanche) was paralyzed.
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I know TCM has aired A HARD DAY'S NIGHT, but have they aired any other Beatles movies?
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Well, maybe a little, anyway.
(...but then again, don't pretty much ALL middle-aged white male advertising execs prone to fits of perplexity and utter frustration from the years 1964-1972 look pretty much alike?!!)
You make a good point, Dargo.
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Well, for that matter Holden, I never thought Sergeant York..errr, I mean..Dick Sargent and Dick York looked that much alike either.
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I see that Edward Yang's A Brighter Summer Day (1991) which was scheduled for Sunday Sept 6/Monday Sept 7 at 2:30 a.m. has been replaced by Kurosawa's Hakuchi (1951) at 2:45 a.m.. This is both is Canada and the US.
I think Hakuchi was shown not long ago and my guess is that A Brighter Summer Day was to be a premiere. The Yang film is now quite hard to find. Let's hope TCM can secure the rights to show this in the near future.
Yes, I was disappointed to see that A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY was bumped from the schedule.
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I agree it is apples and oranges. Someone mentions Garson's performance in Pride and Prejudice; Garson was 20 years too old for that part. Miscasting like this took place a lot more often in the studio era since stars were under contract and producers were limited as it related to who they could cast for a film. So while Garson does her best in the film (since she was a fine actress), the miscasting mares the overall performance for me.
Now if somehow the studio was able to cast Greer Carson in the role it would have been a different story.
But, alas, Carson was under contact with another studio, one that was not willing to loan out one of its top stars.
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I haven't had any Mrs. Fields cookies in awhile.
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And here are some more movies on this theme:
My Own Private Idaho
There weren't any girls in MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO.
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> {quote:title=GwendolynTheMovie wrote:}{quote}
> I was disappointed in watching the Sunday, February 7, 2010 presentation of Wuthering Heights when Ben Mankiewicz introduced the movie he noted that it co-starred Geraldine Paige, when in fact it co-starred Geraldine Fitzgerald...thanks to the DVR I was able to double check this error of his.
Oh, well, it's not much more egregious than misspelling Geraldine Page's name.
So here is an example of a Sprocket_Man post . . .
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Here's a clip from GYPSY that includes Rosaind Russell's (and Lisa Kirk's) performance of "Rose's Turn."
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I don't know why you keep bringing up that stupid thing. That's a clearly inferior version.
The "extended" observatory scene is just lame. It was rightfully cut down to make the movie better.
And the British demand that the "precognitive dream" be changed, while Menzie's brought everyone back in to shoot an alternate scene so they'd shut up, is most certainly not an improvement. Corny, cheesy, boring - much less cool than the original twilight-zone-y version we all know over here.
The British version is an alteration on a classic that makes for a worse movie and I see no reason for TCM or anybody else over here to show it. Only a lunkhead would even ask for it, let alone make a repetitively-stated issue out of it.
I've yet to hear a single person say the British version is better than the American version. The American version is said to be better every time. Until you came along, anyway.
I've never seen either version of INVADER FROM MARS.
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Didn't she sing the song she performs at the very end of the film? The part where she stands on the darkened stage as Natalie Wood gets ready for the big Hollywood party?
It sure sounds like her.
Rosalind Russell performed the first part of "Rose's Turn" ---where she's basically talking.
Lisa Kirk took over on the "I have a dream" line and it was Lisa Kirk singing the rest of the song.
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Just finished re-reading this one:
"Life is a Banquet" by Rosalind Russell (with Chris Chase)--funny book. most of the emphasis is on her film & stage career. Amusing but skimpy on information after 1968, when rheumatoid arthritis caught up with Russell.
Is it true that Rosalind Russell insisted in her book that she did her own in singing in GYPSY?
It's known today that all her singing in the movie (except for "Mr. Goldstone" and the first part of "Rose's Turn") was dubbed by by Lisa Kirk.
Some of the recordings of Rosalind Russell's versions were included as bonus tracks on a later release of the GYPSY soundtrack album.
I wonder if Rosalind Russell really thought it was her own voice singing ""Everrything's Coming Up Roses" in the movie.
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Here's a clip from THE DAY OF THE DOLPHIN starring George C. Scott and with a wonderful score by Georges Delerue:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsd7INNDNno
I like this movie very much even though the final sequence tears out my heart.
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Just make sure you don't wear white shoes after Labor Day . . .
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Susan Strasberg was pretty good (and sexy) in a little Canadian film called In Praise of Older Women (1978). It starred a young Tom Berenger and has Karen Black in it too.
Too bad TCM did not do something for Karen Black when she passed away.
How this got in a Kim Novak thread, I'm not sure, but hey ...
Yes, Karen Black deserved a full tribute.
TCM did show one Karen Black movie on the day they did their "In Memoriam" tribute to actors who had died during the year.
Romantic movie "happy endings" that made you want to scream
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What TV series was that?