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I remember just seeing "The Naked Maja" ('58) & being distracted by the predominantly Italian cast who were later (badly) dubbed by American actors. But it was a pretty dopey otherwise also, so whatever....
I watched too, Mr.6666 and it was dopey.
But that Tony Franciosa sure was a cutie in his little Goya outfits!
Shelley Winters must have had something as she sure had some attractive husbands and boyfriends like Tony and Vittorio Gassman and Farley Granger and Burt Lancaster.
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Well, to be fair on yourself - if the party of the 1st part successfully filed a patent application for the design or creation of the aforesaid confectionery, that the party of the 2nd part was deemed to have copied, then the party of the 1st part could decide to initiate legal proceedings against the party of the 2nd part for their infringement of the intellectual property rights of the party of the 1st part established in their patent application.
But, yeah - those product names do seem like a way to skirt around a trademark lawsuit.
Ooh. Underwear-less consumption of steak. Shocking!
All these alternate words & spellings they use on this side of the pond. Is it catsup? Or ketchup? What a kvetchup!
However, I found an explanation of the use of ketchup/catsup online (proof that the internet never lies) -> http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Ketchup_v._Catsup
Wasabi is also very effective for this purpose...
As Churchill once said, we are two nations divided by one language!
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Sorry won't be happening, Nipper.
The Long Island Medium has just predicted that Harrison and Stevie will be residing at Forest Lawn by that time! -
One of my favorite movies that started so many careers, even of dubious fame like the Thigh Master is George Lucas' "American Graffiti".
Starring Richard Dreyfuss, who of course just like co-star Ron Howard had been in things as a juvenile, but also starring Cindy Williams, Mackensie Phillips, Bo Hopkins, Harrison Ford [small part as Bob Falfa!], Suzanne Somers. Kathleen Quinlan, Susan Richardson, Kay Lenz, Joe Spano and Debralee Scott.
Sure some of the careers were in things like "Mary Hartman" and "Eight is Enough" or cheapie B-pictures but still.
They all had fairly decent careers afterward on tv and in films, and besides that AG is just a wonderful trip down memory lane.
What movie can you think of that started off some careers?
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Though I like songs by the Beatles, the Stones, the Monkees, the Hermits, going from the sublime to the ridiculous I might still accord a group that can achieve the same spectral heights of sound, without having to resort to having the London Symphony backing them.
I guess I will still love a song like "You Really Got Me" by the Kinks, even if I know deep down that they cannot recreate it live due to the fact that on the recording it is probably Jimmy Page playing the amazing guitar licks.This is the same reason I would rather hear Brenda Lee sing live, than Olivia Newton-John.
On the other hand, the fact the Beach Boys could not recreate "Good Vibrations" live does not take away from its recorded quality.But if you can do something all by yourself and your little band unit, I'm more impressed.
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Frank Buck and footage from his "Bring'em Back Alive" stints.''
I decided to wear Max Factor Jungle Red lipstick and nail polish while watching as it seemed so appropriate.
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I guess if you had a long-term studio contract, you did what they asked you to do in those days. In her last film at MGM, Jeanette MacDonald "supported" Lassie. Such is show biz.
But TB, surely Lassie would not have swayed the attention of Louis B. Mayer for future production roles, like Jeanette competing with another human female would, of Janet Blair's pulchritude.
Personally though I do find Lassie very attractive knowing full well she was a he. On the other hand, the model dog for Tramp in "Lady and the Tramp" was a female.
Go figure!
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It was great, at least what I saw of it!
Here's the sad part though. I missed the beginning which doesn't really matter since I've read the book and seen every screen version made of it, even though some change the story in places, so I know the outcome, but still.
So I decide to watch on Day 2 all the way to the end of part 2, but fell asleep. And then I wake up and have again missed the beginning but got to watch scenes I also missed the first time. Then I don't think they are reshowing it, but apparently they did and I go to sleep again and wake up at like 3am and now they are showing the beginning but now I'm too tired to watch at all.
So I hope they show both parts again soon because from what I saw it was excellent!
I forgot to mention that the snotty little rich boy who gets bumped off first, who was running people down with his car [or should I say roadster] looked and acted just like Shep, who is real and stars in the Bravo reality show, "Southern Charm".
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"Ulysses"!
So much better than the book by James Joyce.
Doesn't need footnotes or the Cliff Notes explanation and Milo O'Shea is so cute.
Great topic, Sepia and excuse my facetiousness as I could not resist.
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I don't know if they were serious or not( but knowing the person, it's hard to say...) but someone I know said a similar sort of thing when they were watching THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD. And his wife was bored and picked up the remote to change the channel and he shouted, "DON'T! I wanna see how it ENDS!"
My Dad used to say off the wall stuff like that. Like one time he exclaimed at the end of some movie, "Everytime I SEE this movie, it always ends the same way. The guys DIE at the end. You'd figure by NOW they'd have learned better!" And one of MY favorites---
"I think it's time to buy a NEW TV set. I've already SEEN all the shows on THIS one!" (it was summertime, and back then it was also known as "rerun season".)
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Trust me, Sepia she WAS serious. That was why my friend, who had been born in Japan and who had brought this grandmother over to the US of A, thought that it was so funny. Grandma had lived through WWII in Japan so one would think she knew what occurred at Pearl Harbor and would not even need to see "TTT".
Love the tv stories about your dad. I remember hearing of elderly relatives in my family who would dress up to see "Ed Sullivan" in the early 1950's, as if he could see them in the audience.
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Not only that, but she probably wore out her Thesaurus!
Not only that, but my initial response is that I guess there had to be something about BLOW UP to like.
As far as fans...well, even the drabbest looking mediocre actors/actresses manage to get plenty of those, so Hemmings managing a few proves nothing. Let's take for instance WARREN BEATTY-----------
It's believed that truckloads of women find him just GORGEOUS! however, he did nothing for either one of my wives. Same could be said I guess for KRIS KRISTOFFERSON. I knew several women at the GM plant I worked at who "got wet" at the mere mention of his name! They didn't care that he couldn't act for sh!t, while there are scads of other women I know who just can't stand him.
So, there's just no accounting for taste---or lack thereof----
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Sepia, you know I love you but I never use a thesaurus.
That would be cheating and the nuns told us that was against one of the commandments. If the word does not come off the top of my head naturally, I do not type it. I also don't use any spell checking device since I think I can spell well. Now don't consider this bragging because I have many bad qualities that I will not be discussing here sadly except for money.
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I can't provide specific names, but there are several mid '60's Japanese "GODZILLA" movies that come to mind( and tie for first place!), MOTHRA and all of them like that.......
Sepiatone
It's been some time since I've seen that monstrosity and I don't mean Godzilla himself, but I do remember Raymond Burr looking a mite embarrassed what with all the shenanigans in the way they basically incorporated two films into one with all the Japanese acting mixed with American stars. Thanks, Sepia!
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Just kidding, I know it is spelled "Dolby" but did that for Spinal Tap fans here.
What I really want to know is which film to you has the absolute worst dubbing? This theme came to my mind last night while watching the film on El Greco with Mel Ferrer.
At times he would sound like it was really being recorded in situ, but the other actors would sound like they were being dubbed off the sound stage. I guess that everyone could have been being dubbed, due to wanting the sound to be pristine with no external sound but who knows.
My vote for worst dubbing is the film "Shock" [beyond the Door II"] directed by Mario Bava, with Daria Nicolodi as the mother of a rather horrid child. Either that or I just think he is horrid since the English dubbing for his voice was so atrocious that it made my skin crawl.
He would screech all his lines and could beat out Ella Fitzgerald for making glass break.
Next?
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Janet Blair was under contract at Columbia Pictures in the 1940s. The Pennsylvania native grew up in a musical family and had started her show business career as a singer with an orchestra. When she arrived in Hollywood, she was handed parts that usually supported bigger names. For instance, she played Rosalind Russell's kid sister in MY SISTER EILEEN, and she turned up in the Technicolor show biz spectacle TONIGHT AND EVERY NIGHT with Rita Hayworth. Occasionally, she received a starring role-- she played opposite Glenn Ford in the noir FRAMED; and she was a lead in the comedy THE FULLER BRUSH MAN with Red Skelton. When her contract ended at Columbia, she returned to live performances, and toured the country in 'South Pacific.' Next, she was on Broadway in a comedy called 'You Never Can Tell.' She did some television work in the 50s but mostly gravitated towards nightclub work. She had a few supporting roles in films during the early 60s, and in the early 1970s, she was cast as Henry Fonda's wife in the weekly series The Smith Family.
Janet Blair present and accounted for..!
I love Janet Blair, TB and just yesterday ordered the dvd of her most off the wall and outre film, "Burn, Witch, Burn" or as it is also called "The Night of the Eagle". In this film, she uses shall we say some potent spells and incantations to assist her hubby's professorial career and is fabulous in the role. It is one that I doubt most people would have ever thought to cast her in, since she is normally so bubbly and sweet. This film also stars the Mad Nun from "Black Narcissus" so I highly recommend it!
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I remember being on a Kimchee jag, and getting my girlfriend to sneak a jar of it in her purse, along with several mozzarella cheese sticks and a baggie of wheat thins crackers.
We'd always buy a beverage at least, but the garlic smell would give us away. Ushers could smell it down the isle and would flash their light at us. Would sure clear a space around us though!
Stephan, your story reminds me of the time I was in Manhattan and had just bought a big jar of pickles and some bagels to take back to the hotel, and then my friend decides we should go see an afternoon flick. So guess what we snacked on in the theatre?
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Great topic!
Well, to begin with I think Sonja Henie was slenderized a lot, since she looked a bit chubby to Hollywood's impresarios. Good old Tyrone Power was beautiful but almost had a unibrow, and after that was fixed he was gorgeous.
Even lovely women like Rhonda Fleming had their nose fixed if you really look at her beginning films, as did Barbara Bel Geddes and even Marilyn Monroe had some work done. I think.
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So glad you asked, GPF and it is my pleasure to explain.
I would say that Hemmings' appeal began firstly, in "Blow-Up" due to his very arty looks, with the face of a fox [as some reviewer back then described it] and his artfully arranged blonde hair, and the very cute and Carnaby Street type togs he was wearing in the film. Plus to women viewers at the time, a male looking a bit feminine like the Beatles and other British Invasion groups was an "in" thing. If you really looked at Redgrave and Hemmings in the film, she was the more masculine and he the more feminine. I think he was also fetching to the ladies in "Barbarella" and did have a unique style and humor expressed on film, and I liked him in "Deep Red" too.
Now after his cutesy British mod looks had faded, and he just had to rely on his incipient talent, I think he still had something unique. Perhaps not for everyone, like the very mainstream Gregory Peck, but to a specialized audience. If one likes British films and men who are British, then Hemmings would have been the cat's meow. I am not implying by this that he did not have acting prowess by the way, just saying at first I think his appeal was more viscerally connected to his outer facade. And by the way, Gayle Hunnicutt was married to him was she not, and she must have seen something attractive about him.
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My choice would be "Tora! Tora! Tora!". Once is surely enuf.
I have a funny story [at least to me] about this film. A friend of mine who was born in Osaka, but has lived in the US for years was watching this film with her at the time 85-year old grandmother in California, who had lived through World War II. The family decide to go out for dinner and want to turn the movie off, but grandma does not want to go. They ask her why and she says "I can't leave without seeing what happens at Pearl Harbor."-
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Monday March 14, 2016
Directed by an actor on Amazon Prime
SHIELD FOR MURDER directed by Edmond O'Brien
RIDERS TO THE STARS directed by Richard Carlson
TIME LIMIT directed by Karl Malden
SHORT CUT TO HELL directed by James Cagney
I was thumbing through my old book "Who's Who in Hollywood" last nite and was reading up on actress Nancy Kelly, who I always liked so much after seeing her in "The Bad Seed" and it mentioned that she had been married to Edmond O'Brien which I never knew and found interesting. As usual, thanks so much for all the work you do posting these daily write-ups, TB!
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Maybe Capote was deliberately appalling in service of his assertion that all good actors are stupid.
As Capote once said, being intelligent for an actor, gets in the way of reaching those emotional sturm und drang moments that are so electric on film.
I remember Capote being challenged on this by someone saying "But what about Laurence Olivier?" and Capote said not at all bemused and I may be a bit paraphrasing "I know Larry and he's not that bright and he would agree with me."
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While watching "The Lodger" last night I reflected upon one of my dashed dreams, that of having Laird Cregar and Raymond Burr [in his less that svelte days] playing brothers in a film.
Cregar died so young that obviously this was an impossible casting coup, but if he'd lived I think they could have been a most diabolical pair in a crime film, sort of like the Cray brothers.
What dream casting will never occur and just breaks your heart?
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I would not recommend this movie to anyone cos it's not just a garden-variety bad movie but really awful . . . however, if you dig watching bottom-of-the-barrel movies the ending of the 1969 movie SINNERS' BLOOD is a real headscratcher. I'd swear the filmmakers ran out of money. I'll guarantee if someone dares watch this junk they'll be astounded by the 'What The Flock?' ending. But not in a good way!
Directed by some guy named Neil Douglas. Released on VHS and DVD (by Code Red, I think, with an extra scene added).
My biggest issue with the movie is it's just not very involving despite all the sleazy elements.
Well, Mr. Gorman I've never heard of this film but just checked it on IMDB and thought I'd see what else the cameraman had done and it was...nothing!
But one of the ladies in it was in "Count Yorga, Vampire" so that's something and it sounds like a fun, cult movie so thanks for adding it to the list.
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Will Mary Tyler Moore's character ever be able to reconcile with her son (Timothy Hutton) after the end of Ordinary People?
I say no.
She was a real pain in the **** and even Donald Sutherland could not stand her by the movie's end plus she was still mad about the blood left in the grout in the bathroom from the son's suicide attempt, remember?
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Well...if THIS is what the OP intended, all I can add is that in the Park Theater in the '50's and '60's, the only soft drinks you could get were dispensed by the 8oz cupfull out of a vending machine. IF you were lucky enough to have the cup drop down!
I also remember they sold potato chips in what were claimed to be "silent" bags. And, DANG if they WEREN'T!
But, the Park's popcorn was just so-so, and cheap enough, and once the box was empty and flattened, flew pretty much "frisbee-like", when thinking back on it( and nobody having ever heard of a frisbee), and the noise made when you blew into the opening of certain empty candy boxes. BOSTON BAKED BEANS made the LOUDEST noise! But, I'm old enough to recall when smoking still wasn't prohibited from the main theater seating.
And how we'd sneak bleach filled squirtguns in to squirt the maroon jackets of those particular snotty usher's who thought their advanced age(16!) and flashlight gave them license to give us "punks" a hard time!
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Boston Baked Beans were the best, along with Non-Pareils and Milk Duds.
You probably could break a tooth on those BBB's though.
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That's hilarious, SCSU!