Vautrin
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6 hours ago, Hibi said:
LOL! Yeah, I remember Breezy and Lenz was in it. A big dud! I think Eastwood directed it.......They sound similar.
Yes, Eastwood was the director. He blamed Universal's lack of promotion for the film's
failure. I don't know about that. There just might not have been much of an audience
for it. Straw Dogs was controversial, more for the violence than for the nudity, which
wasn't that big a deal. Today neither would raise an eyebrow.
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6 hours ago, darkblue said:
It was. The character that George plays is called "Twinky".
Changing the title to 'Lola' was an attempt to bring to mind 'Lolita' as a ploy to convince possible new audiences that salacious material might be viewed.
The sources don't really make it clear, but that was the original title. I don't know if Lolita
was the reason for the change. Just about any name sounds better than Twinky. There
are a number of films titled Lola. The only one I am familiar with is Fassbinder's, which is
okay, but not one of his best.
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5 hours ago, Det Jim McLeod said:
Margaret Dumont
For those into hairless dogs.
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Speaking of Santa Rosa, here comes Uncle Charley. Pretty smooth and seemingly
normal for a lunatic. If he hadn't wasted his time trying to kill his niece for no
good reason, he could have gone merrily on his way and knocked off more rich
widows.
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7 hours ago, CaveGirl said:
Walker was bone-chillingly spooky in that role!
Love the tie, and his shoes were great too, probably why Hitch focused on them in a sort of Luis Bunuel way. Thanks, Vautrin!One of his best. A number of characters in Bunuel's films did have a shoe or foot fetish.
Maybe that was autobiographical. Luis would likely have substituted a crucifix for the
lobster and those fancy red cardinal's slippers for Bruno's fancy wingtips.
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1 hour ago, Hibi said:
LOL. Doubt Bronson fans were happy with this one. No action! No wonder I've never heard of it......
I would guess it was a dud at the box office and wasn't shown on TV very much. It sounds a bit
like that William Holden flick Breezy, where Bill falls for a teenybopper. I believe Kay Lenz played
that part, though I'm not positive. Well at least Breezy is a slightly better title than Twinky.
I'm Breezy/Twinky like Sunday morning. See.
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Bruno Anthony. The only loony (or non-loony) with a lobster patterned tie.
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It isn't clear if Twinky was the original title and then someone came to their senses
and decided to change the title or it that was the U.S. title. It seems to be the former,
though I'm not 100% sure. I think I'll stick with Joe Dellesandro and his limp bizkit.
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6 hours ago, Hibi said:
TWINKY, TWINKY??? I dont remember that one!
I caught part of it on TV many years back. Charles Bronson plays the older man in
love with the much younger woman, played by George. Since it was only rated PG or
GP, I guess Susan kept her clothes on. How can you forget a movie titled Twinky?
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9 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
I just imdb'd her, she looks terrific in the photo from 2008....also had no idea that she was British!
she breeds Arabian Horses now and is the widow of actor SIMON MACCORKINDALE (of MANIMAL and JAWS-3D)...I knew someone who worked with him once and said he was the nicest guy alive.
so good for her!
ps- also, she was in DIRTY MARY AND CRAZY LARRY.
She must have been good at hiding her accent when she wasn't playing a
British character. When she was, as in Straw Dogs, it was very obvious.
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1 hour ago, laffite said:
Agree completely and have long thought it. The sex appeal is there but just below the surface. It's what you don't immediately see that is exciting, but it is there, and most palpably so! What is particularly interesting about her is when she speaks in that quivering voice usually due to some upset or something, or even when she is merely saying something with some emotion in it, i.e, then a little edge is taken off her controlled exterior revealing a glimpse (perhaps) this other side of her.
And sometimes she can't quite keep it below the surface and it gets out, even if briefly and
apologetically. Then she has to quickly reel it in again. I didn't mean it in that way. Right,
sweetie. Of course her attractiveness makes the whole thing possible.
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I've always thought Deborah Kerr was sexy. And the more she adopted that
prim, ladylike, I wouldn't even think of such things manner, the sexier she was.
She may not have been sending, but I was receiving. Beep beep, beep beep, yeah.
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3 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
Yah, well, I mean her part in MANDINGO was such a once in a lifetime chance for an actress. Horrible dialogue, offensive subject matter and almost no active role in the plot whatsoever.
I wonder if Audrey Hepburn considered coming out of retirement to play it.
And not even an Oscar nomination. She was robbed. I heard that Audrey had her sights set
on a remake of Pinky with Jim Brown and Rosey Grier. Pinky Toe: Watch your back, whitey.
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6 hours ago, darkblue said:
Yep, defiantly and proudly "showing" her tiddies created raptness in most of us guys.
She had a look that immediately identified her as a "dirty" girl in guys' minds. Always. Every time she was on screen.
Yeah, she had that 20 something naughty nymphet character locked up in the 1970s.
I still get a laugh out of a movie she was in with Charles Bronson titled Twinky. Twinky?
Okayyyy. Susan recently celebrated her 68th birthday. Many happy returns.
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Vacuum cleaner attachments.
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Susan George was one of those dedicated actresses who did not mind being nude
if the character and plot required her to make that artistic move. I applaud her
professionalism. I recall raptly watching her do so in Straw Dogs. And I'm sure
she showed the same artistic sensibility in other films of the 1970s. Bravo.
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I don't think there was anything little about Marjorie Main.
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5 hours ago, Hibi said:
LOL. Yeah, Lloyd's shtick drove me up the wall. I wasnt sorry to see him exit! I think I may have seen this film years ago as well. I dont really remember much of it, but I do remember the ending scene at the airport, so I must've have seen it, or part of it........
It started off somewhat annoying and then went full bore with repetition. The staging of his death
was very appropriate. I couldn't remember if the John Mcintire character was crooked or if his eyesight
was failing. I knew it was one or the other. I agree about the plot being confusing, especially as it
seemed to simply be about finding the two guys who killed the cop. Took a lot of detours along the
way.
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4 hours ago, Princess of Tap said:
What you're seeing on the earlier episodes are teleplays based on the actual Erlel Stanley Gardner stories. Gardner had control and the power to object to any script that he didn't like for the entire series. He produced the series in coordination with CBS.
When you get to the very last episode you can see him portraying the judge.
The reason you see four episodes in a day is because that's how many episodes they have on each DVD disc. I'm watching One A Day because four would be too much for me. LOL
For the most part this summer I've been watching the 2-hour color Mini movies. I really get a kick out of seeing Barbara Hale's son working with her.
As for Raymond Burr, he was quite a handsome and svelt man when he started the series.
Near the end of the miniseries run I don't believe he was able to walk very much because they generally had him seated in a chair or he always had to have a cane.
And BTW Perry and Paul Drake were usually at the scene of the murder before the police but they never had to break in because the door was always unlocked. LOL
I guess ESG liked lowlifes. The last episode was shown a few weeks ago. Now we're back to
1958. I don't know if there is any connection between the DVDs and the TV programming,
especially as the TV ones are edited. I don't watch the two in the afternoon, just the two
at night. And it's funny how often Lt. Tragg shows up at the scene of the crime and in
other places just a minute or two after Perry does.
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5 hours ago, LawrenceA said:
Kelsey Grammar was in An American Carol along with Jon Voight, Dennis Hopper, and Robert Davi, which is a quick indicator for an actor being far right. Leslie Nielsen was in it, too, but as a favor to director David Zucker. Granted, that was 10 years ago, but from what I've read, Grammar is still far right, only he's better at keeping a low profile than bat**** crazy Woods.
I guess Grammer is from the family values side of the conservative spectrum. Four marriages
so far. One better than Trump, Gingrich, and Giuliani. And he certainly isn't out there in public
like Woods. Of course Grammer still has a career left, unlike Mr. Woods.
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2 hours ago, misswonderly3 said:
I don't take kindly to that, Mr. Vautrin. Nyuck Nycuk.
Are you still hanging around, Sleeper? Well Curly called and he wants his
nycuks nycuks back. The firefight at the end was pretty cool. The bad guys
had an armor plated car, but what about the windows? The cops could have
shot at them, though maybe they couldn't get a downward angle. All's well
that ends well.
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Well, combine the two into a new film. The kindly old black dude turns out to be
a pedophile, he later forces the brother and sister to have sex with each other, and
then he bumrushes their mother. Song, song of the south, put yer fiddle right
in my mouth.
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Another nosy cop being killed by public minded citizens who are just out
for a good time. Great way to start a movie. I couldn't remember if I
had seen this one before or not, but as the movie progressed I realized
I had, though quite a while ago. Well done overall, though nothing very
original or different. I thought Johnson was pretty believable as the cop,
even a somewhat disillusioned one. Looks like the killers heard Norman
Lloyd's yuck thing one time too many. Can't really blame them.
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1 hour ago, Princess of Tap said:
Haven't you heard Kelsey Grammer has gone Rogue?
BTW-- I'm currently on the third episode of the first season of Perry Mason ( fall 1957). Before I finish this could take a while.LOL
Do you mean politically? I got the impression that he was a rather conventional
conservative without most of the nutty trimmings. The DirecTV channel that
shows Perry Mason is now around the second season. They run four episodes
a day, seven days a week, so it doesn't take long to get through it. The first
couple of seasons are the most entertaining to me since they still have that
1950s vibe that the later seasons don't. Every other episode is like a miniature
Peyton Place with adulteries, out of wedlock children, financial shenanigans, and
of course murder. And Perry and Paul Drake were a little on the shady side on
occasion. Raymond Burr was even on the thin side, at least compared to the
end of the show when he looked like a human/tank hybrid. Huge.
Did Anyone Watch MANDINGO?
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I hope Kay gave Holden a green lesson about air pollution. I haven't seen it in years, so
I really can't comment on it. A guy dating a girl young enough to be his daughter has a
bit of a creepy factor to it, even if his intentions are worthy. Whatever the reason, the
public wasn't very interested.