HoldenIsHere
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Stop. Holden. Stop.
It isn't right to bash Tor.
My apologies to Tor.
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I was actually thinking it might fun to see JAWS on the big screen in a theater with an audience.
I hope it comes to Chicago.
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Aug 29.
George C. Scott. It would have been nice to see the rarely screened The Flim Flam Man (1967)
I hoping that THE HOSPITAL would air.
It was scheduled for a George C. Scott tribute not too long ago but was bumped prior to the air date.
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Had I known BRAINSTORM was going to be on I would have recorded it too. Instead of missing both it and ICE PIRATES which I'd never seen.
BRAINSTORM (1983) was Natalie Wood's last film. She died while this film was in production.
Natalie Wood had been acting since she was a young child and was one of only a few child stars that was able to successfully transition from child-to-teen-to-adult roles. She was only 43 when she died November 29, 1981.
Though Natalie had already completed most of her major scenes, her death shut down MGM production of BRAINSTORM. However, after a display of interest in her last film was demonstrated, additional funding was acquired and director/producer Douglas Trumbull rewrote some scenes and used a body double in others (a la Jean Harlow's last film SARATOGA in 1937), enabling the completion and distribution of BRAINSTORM in September 1983.
BRAINSTORM is also scheduled to air on June 25.
I knew about the last minute schedule change so I DVRed BRAINSTORM but the formatting was off.
On the SD channel it started out letterboxed then switched from letterboxed to window boxed (quite a small window I might add) for the first few minutes.
Finally it settled on window boxing.
I hope the formatting is correct for the next airing on June 25.
I don't think this formatting issue was due to the print.
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I can get being miffed over the Allyson thing, but Pat Neal was a babe.
Yeah, the Patricia Neal comparison was less annoying to my mother in terms of the physical appearance.
I think it was Patricia Neal's deeper voice that was the issue.
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I'm also a big fan of Natalie Wood and have avoided trying to watch this film. Her death was such a tragedy, an avoidable one no less. If she were still alive, she'd be 75 and could still be working. Just think how many great films she could have made. While she was a great child actress, my favorite part of her career is her peak in the 1960s when she was an adult and taking on more adult roles. She was such a good actress and so pretty, it's a shame that she died the way she did.
Yes, Natalie Wood was never taken seriously as an actor because of her beauty.
I wish she would had been allowed to use her own singing voice in WEST SIDE STORY.
Although she did not have the trained voice of Marni Mixon (who ultimately dubbed Natalie's singing) Natalie's voice was more than adequate and actually sounds more appropriate for the character.
If the movie were made today. Natalie Wood most likely would not have been dubbed.
The really sad part is that Natalie was told during the production that her own singing voice would be used in the movie when all along it was planned to dub her.
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Every time I see this thread name, I think of that horrible scene in a 1959 horror movie (Reader Discretion Advised) where someone actually gets needles (well, spikes) in their eyes when looking through a booby-trapped pair of binoculars, yike. Can't remember the name of the movie right now, it was pointed out to me recently in another thread but I can't come up with it. No matter, I don't recommend it.
I also think of A CHRISTMAS STORY and the comments about "shooting your eye out" with the gun when I see this thread.
I do recommend that movie though.
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Forget Broderick Crawford's smelly old bathrobe.
For just $350 USD you can get a replica Orson Welles bathrobe and help fund the completion of his last film The Other Side of the Wind.
Does that mean in comes only in Orson Welles' size?
At least this purchase supports a worthy cause.
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Unless I missed it, no one has claimed a crush on Tor Johnson yet.
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I suppose I should know this, but perhaps some of my Canadian compatriots can tell me .... is this Fox movie channel available on cable in Canada?
I'm still trying to determine if I have this channel.
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SHADOWS OF THE TWELVE ANGRY THIN MEN. Tor Johnson gives a bravura performance portraying all the members of a jury, yelling at.himself in a dozen voices as they grapple with the fate of an accused man. One of the personae he portrays, the jury foreman, spends his nights sleuthing as.he looks for clues. In the midst of the tense proceedings, he blows off steam by imbibing cocktails at one Manhattan watering hole after another, along.with his droll wife,TorA, and their witty bantering.provides moments of much needed levity. Unfortunately, he decided to take his wire terrier to the deliberations. And in the surprise ending to this tense, grim film, AsTor ate the verdict.
12 Tors for the price of 1!
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When I read the title, I thought you wanted to know our reactions to S L U T S.......LOL!
Yes I saw it that way too when I first read it.
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Thank you for letting me know. I don't always check the schedule too closely. Love that crazy film. I knew Milo O'Shea. A great actor and a dear man.
I've never seen BARBARELLA but am very much looking forward to it.
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I've never seen KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN but I want to.
I've heard that originally William Hurt and Raul Julia were originally cast in the opposite roles but the parts were switched before production began.
I think it was William Hurt who pushed for this change.
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My mother was mistaken for Doris Day by several people in NYC in 1959.
I some photos from that year she does look an awful lot like her.
Someone once told my mother than she reminded him of June Allyson.
She was not pleased with this comparison.
She was also told at least once that she resembled Patricia Neal.
She didn't like that comparison much either, but she liked it better than the June Allyson one.
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I just watched The Front Page a 1974 Billy Wilder film starring Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon. This film was hilarious. It was almost like Matthau and Lemmon's characters in Grumpy Old Men but younger. I loved the 1920s setting (I find the 1920s a fascinating time in American history) and the cast of characters. I especially loved Carol Burnett as the prostitute and Susan Sarandon as Lemmon's poor fiancee. This was a great movie, a good pick from Netflix.
The source material for THE FRONT PAGE was also the basis of HIS GIRL FRIDAY, but in HIS GIRL FRIDAY the character of Hildy Johnson became a female.
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The other Affleck ... Casey.
Seriously good in The Assassination of Jesse James (2007) and showing a lot of promise in To Die For (1995)
I think Casey Affleck is extremely underated.
He also had a role in GOOD WILL HUNTING, which was co-written by his brother and Matt Damon.
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One Robin Hood movie that I've never seen is Richard Lester's ROBIN AND MARIAN (1976) which stars Sean Connery and Audrey Hepburn as an older Robin Hood and Maid Marian.
Lester made this movie around the time he was making other period pieces , most notably the Musketeers movies with Michael York as D'Artagnan.
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Tonight in the overnight hours TCM is airing BRAINSTORM, Natalie Wood's final film.
She died before completing work on the movie.
I'm a big Natalie Wood fan but I've avoided seeking out this movie but I have decided to DVR it.
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I used that as a bit of trivia in the Games Forum a couple years ago. Someone actually chided me, mentioning how crude I was to have done so (mentioning the first toilet flush in film). Obviously, they had never seen Psycho (..someone here who hasn't seen Psycho..? ) and didn't realize the toilet contained no waste, only torn paper.
Yes, Marion Crane's sister finds some of the torn paper next to the toilet when goes to the Bates Motel looking for information about Marion's disappearance.
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I think TCM is pretty camp.
BARBARELLA is scheduled to air on TCM on June 24 (actually early June 25).
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It's becoming hard for me to believe there that was ever a time that I did not know Tor Johnson existed.
Yes, there's before-Tor and after-Tor . . .
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If I'm not mistaken August 1 has disappeared from the schedule altogether. Changes??
There'a problem bringing up the August 1 daily schedule.
I've only been able to bring it up as part of the weekly schedule.
http://www.tcm.com/schedule/weekly.html?tz=CST&sdate=2015-08-01
My TCM Recordings For June
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Yes, TikiSoo, I'm excited about this one as well especially because it features a young Helen Mirren.