HoldenIsHere
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Look- that's Walter's hand holding the gun towards Martha's sequined dress. She has entangled her hand with her thumb resting onto HIS finger in the trigger guard.
Once the shot is fired-really both their hands do it, Walter is so distraught over losing her, he turns the gun on himself and goes down.
Yes Martha and Walter pull the trigger together when Martha is shot (I would argue that Martha takes control) , then Walter shoots himself.
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Debbie Reynold's day presents difficulties--no, opportunities, because, though I admire Miss Reynolds, I can't say I'm a big fan of her movies. But I can still find something to look forward to. It's How Sweet it is! (1968), with James Garner. I don't know anything about it, but it's set in Paris.
It looks like all the others have been often seen on TCM, so old friends can be revisited.
Debbie Reynolds was funny as Grace's mother on WILL AND GRACE.
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MAMMA ROMA with the great Anna Magnani is scheduled during the overnight hours on October 11 (actually early October 12).
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This is my preferred kind of camp, something
that was meant to be taken seriously, deadly seriously
in this case, and is now almost impossilbe to take
seriously.
I see this in a quite a few movies starring Tom Hanks.
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I'm also looking forward to PIERROT LE FOU during the Godard tribute.
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It always amuses me when people comment on the 'artificiality' of musicals where people sing as part of the story, as opposed to the performances taking place as part of actual performances. This in a medium the entire object and craft of which is to distort reality to excessive degrees so that, when taken a picture of, will represent on a two dimensional surface something that will generally be viewed as an acceptable representation of the three dimensional world. The absurdity of people braking out into song in the middle of the action of a movie pales in comparison to the greater absurdity of the motion picture itself.
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.
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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.
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Hey now: Julie Roberts (pronounced Whoo-lee Row-bears) was magnifique in the Weinstock Bros. critically acclaimed Chocolat Brockovich. THE LAST true great film of the millenium.
DON'T YOU DARE CRITICIZE HER WORK! IT IS A FLAWLESS G*****N PERFORMANCE!!!!
All I will say is the fake breasts looked realistic.
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Has anyone read the novel? RO said the other night that Hud was a minor character in the book (which I had not known) I wonder what the plot of the book was like???
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).
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Yes, I liked that sleazy movie very much myself - and what actress conveys a sense of a sleaze better then Virginia Madsen, huh?
Jennifer Connelly has been a huge surprise. In this - one of her early roles - I took her to be a wiling to be nude bimbo actress (magnificent body!) that would barely be heard from in any important way. Wow - was I wrong about that instinct! She has proven herself to be a wondrously gifted actor.
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.
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I hope everyone gets to see this great movie at least once.
It's not very well-known and deserves more recognition.
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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."
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Maybe he just heard her name pronounced and not actually written out. I know they have teleprompters, but maybe it was malfunctioning or Travolta can't see. I don't know. I could *maybe* see how you could come up with something like this if you only heard the name and didn't see it.
That's the only way I can imagine how this happened, otherwise, I'm baffled.
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/).
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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.
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It might have been metioned before, but George Lucas's THX 1138 is scheduled to air on September 7.
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I dunno, Holden. I've heard some parts of that movie can be rather "obtuse"!!!
(...sorry, couldn't resist)
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.)
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By the way, I found it interesting that, when they first meet, and Myra asks him if he, too, is American, he says yes ! Then it turns out he's Canadian !
Not having been around in 1917 - or even 1931 - I don't know for sure if Canadians wouldn't have cared about people mistaking them for Americans. But I have a feeling they would have, and for sure they care very much now. The screenwriter obviously neither knew nor cared much about the difference.
Actually the American - Canadian business is explained in the dialogue in WATERLOO BRIDGE.
Roy is an an American who had joined the Canadian army.
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At the Academy Awards Show 2 years ago Travolta was brought on to introduce a BIG Broadway star who was singing the theme from FROZEN (a hugely popular and deeply insidious Disney movie that you are familiar with if you know anyone under the age of 10)
Her name: Idina Menzel. For some strange reason ( i personally think his wig glue fumes were getting to him) Travolta had a deer in the headlights moment and introduced her as "Adele Dazeem."
it was an extremely odd moment, especially since one gets to feeling Travolta knows Broadway stars pretty well. There was speculation that drugs were involved, or that Travolta's documented dyslexia was flaring up. maybe his Scientology handlers for the evening had given him an extra dose of lithium to keep him from prying off his ankle bracelet and trying to flee.
I don't know, I wasn't there. I'm just filling you in on what went down on the camera.
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.
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Actually, it is pronounced "whee-keedly talen-ted." (he actually sounds a lot like Homer Simpson when he says it.)
I've watched the clip several times. I swear to god, if you pause it, you can see the exact moment the Xanax kicks in.
(Bless his heart.)
I have yet to figure out where he came up with the pronunciation "Adele Dazeem."
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Have to agree with HoldenIsHere--"The Legend of Lylah Clare" (1968) is a must-see camp classic--the film & especially the ending must be seen to be believed.
And don't forget the crying clowns.
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If TCM is starting to show us made-for-cable movies, that's a very good sign. Lots of excellent ones to see.
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.
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. . with a special musical tribute by Adele Dazeem.
"the wickedly talented one-and-only Adele Dazeem."
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Cooperstown (1993), which, if I am not mistaken, is the first actual TV movie ever aired on TCM (can Isn't it Shocking be far behind?). The fact that Turner Pictures was involved in the production is entirely coincidental. Keep your eye out for Hope Lange, if yer interested in her.
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.
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...and no matter how you feel about it, I think we all have to acknowledge that the 1931 WATERLOO BRIDGE has one hell of an ending.
Wasn't anyone else impressed with it?
The ending was so unexpected and I was impressed that it was such an un-Hollywood ending (happy or sad).
Eddie Mueller, Noir Host
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Do you think he could be the REAL Adele Dazeem?