Vautrin
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3 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
2. Have you heard that Elvis Costello is not doing well? Apparently an aggressive form of cancer.
I had not heard about Elvis. Ray Charles is waiting and he's not in a good mood.
Just kiddin'.
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4 hours ago, Hibi said:
I agree. Very talky and boring. I'd seen it once before. Decided to give it another try and regretted the wasted time. Cyd's numbers could have been cut entirely, but I guess if you have Cyd in the picture she has to dance...
Can you believe Paula Zahn is back???? Her show was only off the air 2 months and a new season starting! KILL ME NOW!
Maybe MGM should have just added color to The Asphalt Jungle and left it there.
I will say that Cyd was pretty sexy all around, but that doesn't, by itself, make
a good movie. Very little to be entertained by in this one. Now at the very beginning
she was a party girl, but that lasted about fifteen minutes.
Zahn is back and ID's got her. I've seen the promos, but haven't been paying much
attention to the details. So the fingerprints would be an important clue to the killer?
Yes, the fingerprints would be vital to identify the killer.
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3 hours ago, sewhite2000 said:
Your post is very funny, and I think your heart is in the right place, but in 2018, I cringe at the use of "Uncle" in front of any stereotypical name that's obviously meant to imply a specific race.
In a minor way, I'm getting my revenge on all the Indians who call up all
day long and say their name is Steven or Bill or Jim. Yeah, sure buddy.
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2 hours ago, Princess of Tap said:
"The White Man's Burden " was written by Rudyard Kipling.
" You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din "-- Rudyard Kipling
I'll be looking forward to Ben's introduction for that classic George Stevens movie " Gunga Din ".
I thought Gunga Din was kind of a collaborationist, an Uncle Singh. Leave it to whitey to
call exploiting the hell out of people a "burden." I like the British colonial flicks where the
natives kick the **** out of the limeys. Zulu is one of my favorites.
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Anybody like the Mankman who disparages the civilizing efforts of Europeans in
attempting to improve and uplift the lives of foreign savages should be horsewhipped
within an inch, or perhaps half an inch, of their lives. God speed the Bengal Lancers.
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Partay Girl. Even if one considers this as just a crime film with a few musicals
numbers thrown in it's rather dull, especially in the first hour. After that, with Bobby
in jail and Lee planning to get rid of him, things heat up a tad, but not enough to save
this one. And it's apparent that ol' baldy didn't watch a lot of crime flicks or he would
have groked that LJC was about to open a a thin silver club of whoopass on his noggin.
Live and learn. As Eddie made an offhand reference to Godard, I think he could have
saved this thing. Take the original film, every ten minutes interpolate a black and white closeup
of Anna Karina reciting from the works of Lenin and Mao and you might have something of
interest. Until then, I'll stick with the Elvis Costello tune.
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13 hours ago, CaveGirl said:
You mean you didn't love seeing each member of Zep receive their summons to play music at their own little abode, like seeing Zoso at Loch Ness in the old home of Aleister Crowley?
I find the then seen as narcississtic tendencies of the group, now to be camp to the utmost! But you are right, the criticism was well founded but Zep did not allow much concert footage ever to be done so at least we have this example of their excesses to enjoy. Thanks, Vautrin!Since I haven't seen the film since, most of the fantasy sequences have thankfully been
erased from my mind. I took a look at the Wiki entry on the movie and Zep were not
satisfied with some of the concert footage so they had a replica of the MSG stage built
in the recording studio and redid the parts they didn't like. John Paul Jones had had his
hair cut in the interim and had to wear a wig to match the look of the concert. I must
have had money to burn since I also bought the soundtrack album. Haven't listened to
it in ages.
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I remember seeing The Song Remains the Same when it was shown in college,
which showed a movie just about every night. I will give the same criticism
that everyone else seems to give--the concert footage is pretty good, but
the stories that each member of Zep did are pretty bad. They should have
been excised from the film after the first go around. Blah Dog.
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2 hours ago, CaveGirl said:
I own that book!
It has some, shall we say, interesting photos. It's part of my rock and roll collection along with Little Richard's autograph and my Elvis charm bracelet, and flasher button.For some mysterious reason, there is a fair amount of photos of women with their boobs
front and center. I haven't really looked through it in a while, so I don't know how accurate
the text itself is, but I would guess more so than the original, Hollywood, Babylon. And there
are some grisly pics in there, one of Otis Redding as he is fished out of the lake. I really don't
have much in way of rock and roll memorabilia. I still have the ticket stubs from early 1970s
David Bowie concerts, but you don't have to be very special to go buy some tickets.
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The definition of noir has expanded over the last few years, so now anything
goes, or almost anything. I can see a movie about a serial killer being a noir,
but to each their own.
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I've read in a number of places that Daltrey was on the short side, though I
don't think any mentioned his exact height. Considering that the Who were
notorious for their discord, having a good punch was an advantage. It's
not the dog in the fight...
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9 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
I just love the expression and everything about the guy who is standing next to the lady with the aggressively feathered hair in this photo.
He looks like he's seriously weighing his chances on jumping over the fence and giving Moon the butt whooping he deserves for his "Little Mr. Luftwaffe" get up.
I feel a certain camaraderie with him, thanks to present circumstances, and I'd 10000 times rather hang out with him than Keith Moon, even if DR PHIBES was one of his favorite films
He would have probably been more offended if Moon wore a Klan outfit. I first saw this photo
in a book titled Rock 'N' Roll Babylon, an obvious take on the Kenneth Anger book, dealing with
rock bad behavior instead of Hollywood bad behavior. I think Moon enjoyed shocking people more
than making any political statement. He is dressed up as General Rommel, who, as far as Nazis go,
was fairly harmless. There is also a two page photo spread of Keith in the nude on a bearskin rug,
which proves that, even without wearing a uniform, Moon can be offensive. I'd rather read about
Moon's various exploits than have been there for them.
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Adele who?
I do see a slight resemblance, but I'm sticking with VM.
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Hey, everybody has a bad day, or night, once in a while.
Substitute, me for him,
Substitute, Erwin's my kin.
Substitute, it's just for fun,
I think I'll get my Weltkrieg done.
I'm just thankful they didn't make a movie out of Who's Next or The Who By Numbers.
I think Moon always had large eyebrows. It's just that his boyish bangs hid those
big caterpillars. When his hair wasn't in the way, there they were in all their glory.
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Stop whining about your dead partner, McGraw. Instead of ducking for cover,
he just stood here and practically said Shoot me. Someone that stupid almost
deserves to get wasted. You see it all the time in TV westerns. Some dope is
hiding behind a rock and then, for no good reason, just steps out into the open
so Marshall Dillon can shoot him. Get a clue, will ya?
I thought Talman was pretty good as the head cheese. He was mean but not psychotic.
Compared to most of these heist jokers, he did fairly well. Of course we know that in the
end he won't get away with it, but I was still rooting for him. One of those a job well done
salutes. I remember reading about Talman's legal trouble before, but I always forget the
details. Nude party? The thought of Hamilton Burger in the nude is a pretty disturbing
thought picture, though not as disturbing as Lt. Arthur Tragg in his birthday suit.
If I paid money to see Adele Jergens "act," I'd immediately go to the management to get my
money back. I know it's 1950, but this thing is about as sexy as a dental appointment.
And comparing her to Virginia Mayo? Are you out of yr freaking mind?
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1 hour ago, TheCid said:
I looked it up on Wiki and I know I've seen it, but don't remember it very well. Will have to watch it.
I guess if I don't clearly recall it, I really need to watch it again. And I don't mind rewatching
movies that I have seen a number of times. I've seen Narrow Margin now four or fives times
and still enjoy it, though the twist ending is no longer a surprise.
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Armored Car Robbery sounds like one of those movies I might have already seen,
but can't be sure until I see the first few minutes of it. At least it gives some
indication of what the movie is about, unlike such one word noir titles as Framed,
Pitfall, Impact, Jigsaw, Manhandled, etc., etc. And being only 68 minutes long,
you don't really care if it isn't great.
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3 hours ago, CaveGirl said:
You can tell a femme fatale by her hair and Jane's is way too tight and controleld and looks like a hair helmet. Tight hair is for uptight folks and loose hair like Mamie Van Doren's or Diana Dors means loose morals in films. This is why Jane was the perfect wife for Robert Young and not Errol Flynn. The hair thing goes for men too. Haven't you ever noticed how that hair that looks sprayed into a tight shape on some televangelists, usually belongs to someone who is a faith healer who thinks dancing is the next step to being in a den of inequity.
I rest my case, and my case of Aquanet too.I can't say I've ever paid a lot of attention to the particular hairstyles of the various
femme fatales. I'll have to take a closer look and see if it's true about these bad wimmin.
But I agree on the often bad hair of the TV evangelists. By their rugs ye shall know them.
Joel Osteen has pretty nice hair, but he likely has a personal hair stylist on the payroll.
This is my hair stylist, this is my comb, I do what they say. Hairelujah.
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2 hours ago, CaveGirl said:
I have a feeling if William Castle had heard the term "Ailuro" he would have turned it into a gimmick for a film being that he came up with the terms "Emergo!, Percepto! and Illusion-O!"
It would have been touted as something like:
Put on your 3-D glasses and feel your skin crawl as you see sex-hungry cats who want to devour you, advance toward your nether regions with fangs protruding, in wonderful three-dimensions with the new Ailur-O! technique!
No caterwauling please!Yep, I can see Castle rigging up something with a plastic "claw" coming at the
patron's hand while a hissing sound plays. Just imagine all the stuff Castle
could pull with today's computers. Catnip.
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I'm glad others noticed that hideous dress/black out curtain that Jane Wyatt was
wearing at the start of the film. Not being much of a fashionista, I figured maybe
that's what high society dames wore at the time. I enjoyed one brief shot where
she tilts her head back slightly and blows out the smoke from her ciggy, as if to
say Why are these common people all around here bothering me? And yes, the
scene where Cobb and Dall are getting ready to go to beddy bye in the same
room was hilarious. Call the vice squad, ASAP.
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Egbert Souse drove a coupe.
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Lee J. Cobb is no Cary Grant, so I'm sure he would be happy that a woman like
Wyatt would go out with him. And then the old softie fell in love with her. I
never really minded Cobb's overacting. You soon realize it goes with the Cobb
territory and learn to accept it. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I
wondered what would have happened at the trial. Cobb would be guilty of
accessory after the fact and obstruction of justice at the least. Of course he
would have been kicked out of the police department, but I don't think he
would have spent too many years in prison. But Wyatt might have said that
Cobb killed her hubby and she was an innocent bystander. I wouldn't put it
past her. I just happened to see John Dall on an episode of Perry Mason
last week where he played a shady art dealer.
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9 hours ago, CaveGirl said:
Speaking of "hairballs" I just saw a report on tv the other day about the biggest one in the world. This is what I found online:
"Garden City, Kansas: World's Largest Hairball. Found in a the stomach of a cow that was slaughtered at a nearby meat-packing plant. It weighed 55 pounds at the time -- it was wet then, but it's drier and lighter now -- and is 38 inches around."But do cows really count? And then there's the question
what is an ailuro and why should we fear them?
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3 hours ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
Again, I don't recall Drake escorting a pretty thing on a date during the finale. Instead what I do recall is him wanting to do that AND being clearly blow off by the women.
Even Maxwell Smart had better luck with the ladies.
It didn't happen that often, but when they're all together at the finale, I seem to recall
Paul occasionally leaving with a pretty thing for dinner. Maybe the ladies felt sorry for
Maxwell Smart.
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social justice???
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I'm thinking of sending Nip The Childrens' Guide to Irony for Christmas.