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Debbie Reynolds was funny as Grace's mother on WILL AND GRACE.

MAMMA ROMA with the great Anna Magnani is scheduled during the overnight hours on October 11 (actually early October 12).

I see this in a quite a few movies starring Tom Hanks.

I'm also looking forward to PIERROT LE FOU during the Godard tribute.

Also, people who criticize the "artificiality" of sung dialogue in a musical usually have no issues with dramatic moments is movies being punctuated by a music score OR with the camera moving in for a close-up OR with a fade in and fade out OR with actors artiificially dropping their voices in "dramatic" moments.

I've turned on a channel ---I don't think it was TCM--- and found a frozen frame before. I agree that it is annoying.

All I will say is the fake breasts looked realistic.

The movie HUD is adapted from Larry McMurtry's novel Horseman, Pass By. The main character of the novel is Homer Bannon (the role played by Melvyn Douglas in HUD), and the novel is narrated by his grandson Lonnie (played by Brandon deWilde in the movie and referred to as Lon). In the novel, Hud is Homer's stepson (his second wife's son) not his son. In the novel the Bannon's housekeeper is a black woman named Halmea rather than a white woman named Alma (the role played Patricia Neal in HUD).

Yes, Jennifer Connelly and the entire cast of REQUEIM FOR A DREAM were wonderful. The movie is depressing (the lives of all 4 of the main characters take such tragic turns) but the acting is brilliant. Ellen Burstyn was robbed of an Oscar that year. It's the year that Julie Roberts won.

I hope everyone gets to see this great movie at least once. It's not very well-known and deserves more recognition.

Here's a clip from one of my favorite I LOVE LUCY episodes: I love the parts (not in the posted clip) where she gives two different readings to the line "I don't know what they do to food."

There's an interesting article from the "All Things Linguistic" website arguing that Travolta's mispronunciation was not due to dyslexia as some had speculated and analyzing how he re-shuffled the sounds of her name rather than the letters: So Travolta, or really his subconscious, has re-analyzed the d from Idina preceded by a vowel that probably gets realized as schwa most of the time plus the el from Menzel into the more familiar name “Adele”. Then he’s recombined an assortment of the available sounds into a last name that sounds vaguely unfamiliar, just like Menzel is to many people. He keeps the medial /z/ of Menzel, ditches the el because it already got used, and borrows the d and the i+nasal from Idina. Some people, like the creator of this parody twitter account, interpreted the first name as “Adela”, which could have gotten its final -a from Idina as well. Notice that the scrambled version doesn’t introduce any sounds that weren’t already there in the original, it just rearranges the existing ones, in some cases quite far from their original positions, in order to sound more like familiar words. This is also atypical of dyslexic-type reordering, which tends to be straightforward swapping (as in hekalopter for helicopter), or based on letter shape and closeness rather than sound: for example bisghetti for spaghetti, or dose for does, and often results in less familiar results. Furthermore, if you listen to Travolta’s pronunciation of “Dazeem”, it sounds like he’s trying to give a general “foreign” quality to it, especially to the d (which I think is probably actually a dental, unaspirated /t/).

The version of JUDGEMENT OF NUREMBERG that TCM aired yesterday (August 22) as part of Marlene Dietrich's Summer Under The Stars day was the widescreen version --- even though it's not noted as such on the TCM schedule. I didn't watch the entire movie, but I turned it on at one point while I was awaitng a guest to arrive and was pulled in as usual.

It might have been metioned before, but George Lucas's THX 1138 is scheduled to air on September 7.

Dargo, I completely deserved that one. No apology necessary from you. I've corrected my original post. It was very late when I posted that. (Alternate explanation: ANGLES IN AMERICA is the musical version starring Adele Dazeem.)

Actually the American - Canadian business is explained in the dialogue in WATERLOO BRIDGE. Roy is an an American who had joined the Canadian army.

For me the following year when Ms. Menzel got her "revenge" (this is in quotes because ithe revenge was an obviously scripted moment) by introducing Travolta as "Glom Gazingo" turned into an even weirder moment. After Menzel's scripted "revenge," Travolta joined her on stage and pronounced her name correctly (another scripted line) but while doing so Travolta repeatedly caressed her face. I suspect this face-touching business was unscripted judging by Menzel's reaction.

I have yet to figure out where he came up with the pronunciation "Adele Dazeem."

And don't forget the crying clowns.

It would be great if they aired ANGELS IN AMERICA. After I saw that the for the first time I remember thinking I wish I hadn't seen it because it was so good I'd like see it all new again.

"the wickedly talented one-and-only Adele Dazeem."

TCM aired COLD SASSY TREE during Faye Dunaway's day during last year's Summer Under The Stars. I think it was also Turner (TNT?) production.

The ending was so unexpected and I was impressed that it was such an un-Hollywood ending (happy or sad).

I am very, very, very looking forward to LITTLE MURDERS.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KsCmjUsnak "Those who are tardy do not get fruit cup."