Vautrin
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Yeah, Dostoyevsky couldn't help but put his own personal beliefs into his novels.
The atheistic liberal Westernizers had to come out on the bottom and the believers,
though flawed, came out on top. I don't have a problem with that because most
readers likely know about his religious beliefs and so they know what they're going
to find in the books. One of my favorite characters was old man Karamazov, always
playing the buffoon and outraging everyone around him. Too bad he is knocked off.
The human misery in many of Dostoevsky works never depressed me. While there are
many realistic elements in the books, there are also many melodramatic ones, so
I take them with a grain of salt while admiring his talent.
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I prefer high class porn as the movie theater floors are less sticky.
I notice when I scroll down to just below the eyes on the I Am Curious
(Yeller) it looks like Joni Mitchell.
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I guess if people want to go around eating pigs' rectums that's up to them. I'll
stick with a chocolate milkshake. It seems that suicide among the middle aged is
increasing in general and not just among celebs.
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1 hour ago, Princess of Tap said:
I believe Mick Jagger's last girlfriend committed suicide and she was also some kind of a famous fashion designer.
This was several years ago and it jogged my teenybopper memories that he had two other girlfriends who also attempted suicide:
I think they were the sister of legendary model Jean Shrimpton, Chrissie Shrimpton and singer Marianne Faithfull.
Then there's been all this talk about how Brian Jones may have committed suicide, but I never fell for that either.
I'm sure Mick Jagger's not the only toxic rock and roll singer, but he does seem to leave a lot of trash in his wake.
You could be right. I don't keep up with that stuff and I've forgotten about the now long
ago past. There was also a theory about Jones being murdered, but I still think it was an
unfortunate accident. Maybe these people had their own problems and Jagger had little
to do with their actions. Have some sympathy.
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7 hours ago, CaveGirl said:
Adding to that scenario, Dobbsy gets healthy and runs into Robert Blake, a few years later all grown up who reveals to him that Dobbs is not really his real name, but he is actually B. Traven, and Blake is his kid who has been panhandling for years in Tampico. Blake tells Dobbs that what he thought he had lived looking for gold, was implanted memory, and it never happened. Hence he needs to go back to Germany and recover his being retained family fortune since he was part of the royal family of the Kaiser, and his pen name there is Ret Marut, and he is a famous celebrated author, thought to be dead like Ambrose Bierce. The End.
Unfortunately, this story has a tragic ending. Dobbsey and Bobby fell into the hands of
Dr. Josef Mengele who, due to a temporary eye condition, mistook them for twins. Enough
said.
I haven't read any of Bierce's stories, but I do enjoy his Devil's Dictionary:
Egotist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.
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2 hours ago, sewhite2000 said:
Of course, Nipkow put a laughing emoji to a method of suicide.
I think this is the first time ever I've started a thread on a celebrity death. Usually, the rest of you beat me to these things by hours or even days. So, I feel some sort of "ownership" of the thread. Usually these things are very respectful, but the one I've created is full of blase responses, mockery, indifference and contempt that anyone who was rich should be depressed enough to kill one's self.
I didn't really know much about Bourdain the man, but his show was fantastic and will definitely be missed. I don't know that anyone is ever going to show how a mutual love of all kind of food can bring the world together again the way he did. Those of you that had barely heard of him were absolutely missing out.
I guess this shows that even in the world of gastronomy there is a place for bad taste.
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4 hours ago, Princess of Tap said:
Never heard of Kate Spade until she died. Apparently she made a fortune from recycling the styles of old handbags.
Bourdain I may have seen once or twice on CNN promos.
Two very rich and entitled people who had nothing to live for-- both apparent suicides.
We can all be relieved, at least, to know that Mick Jagger had nothing to do with either of these unfortunate incidents.
I had heard of Kate Spade before and knew she was famous for her handbags and gladrags,
but that's about all. Same with Bourdain. With so many media outlets, it's common for folks
not to know much about celebrities beyond their name and what they are famous for.
Yes, Jagger is in the clear, Keith too, but where were Hillary, Podesta, and Big Daddy George
Soros? Needs looking into.
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I "knew" Bourdain in the same way I "knew" Kate Spade, just as another celebrity
that I didn't have much interest in. There are really a surfeit of celebs so it's hard
to take much interest in many of them. I would guess that Bourdain stuck his head
in an oven, but that would be too obvious.
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The NYT's movie critic I remember best is Vincent Canby. Read his reviews most days,
though I obviously don't remember much about them now. I get the impression that
when Canby started he was a bit daring, but he was there so long that by the end he
was likely considered an old fogy.
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How dare anyone knock the Tsar of Noir. Don't you know Eddie had a book on the
NYT's best seller list. I repeat, Eddie had a book on the NYT's best seller list. Have
you had a book on the NYT's best seller list? Case closed.
I recall reading about Herbert Marshall and Vincent Price cracking up on the set of
The Fly in Penny Stalling's Flesh and Fantasy. I would recommend that book to
any film fan. It is light-hearted and funny and covers many topics with a ton of
stills and photos.
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I think that twist ending to Diabolique would be a hoot. But as a Vera Clouzot fan,
I can't see her, even in a movie, messing around with Charles Vanel. Yikes.
Yes, old Fred C Dobbs was a pretty mean article, but I still felt sorry when he was
killed by Gold Hat and his buddies. Let's see, Fred is seriously wounded, but he plays
dead until the bandits leave. Then the barber from Tampico, who likes to go for long
hikes on his day off, discovers Dobbs and nurses him back to health, throwing in
a free hair cut. Dobbsey hangs around Tampico, what a town, and buys another
lottery ticket and wins again. But he has learned his lesson. Instead of going
prospecting for gold he returns to the U.S., buys IBM stock and lives off the dividends
until he dies in his bed without his boots on.
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2 hours ago, CaveGirl said:
Hop Sing and his imitation of Uriah Heep probably got him in a heap of trouble, after meeting up with Leslie and company and he learned his lesson by the time he got hired by Ben Cartwright and then he became all compliant and unassuming. I agree, Bette would have packed heat and gone off shooting anyone who got in her way. The book does not end like the movie, and thank goodness for that.
Maybe he got the hint and took a slow boat to California, along with a time machine.
I've never read the short story. The way the cop just happened by just at the time
of the murder was a little cornball, but hey, that's Hollywood.
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6 hours ago, Hibi said:
Yes. I just meant that new episodes had started. I had seen the earlier one also. Crazy stuff. Then she gets off for it........
Yeah, she was way out there even for an ID show. Making all the other kids go in when she
called her own children in. Crazy. She could have fired a warning shot or hit the other guy
over the head or fired into his leg, etc. I wonder if her hubby was the little wimp he appeared
to be in the show. One thing that cracks me up is the criminal "mastermind" who goes into
the police station and confesses, maybe not fully but enough to get them in real trouble. Yeah,
that's some criminal "mastermind." I'm watching Perry Mason on Family Entertainment TV
instead of some of the ID shows. Of course they repeat the prime time shows later in the night.
Perry Mason is kind of a strange show for family entertainment considering all the messes that
they get into.
One neighbor I don't even know and have seen maybe once. The other is a smile
and wave neighbor, so I'm okay.
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1 hour ago, Hibi said:
LOL. Did you notice that Fear Thy Neighbor is Back?? (speaking of noirs). It was on Sat. night with new episodes!
Yes I did. The first one about the nut in Montana who thought he was king of the mountain
is a repeat, but the one about the nutty mom in Tennessee (I think it was) was a new one.
I feel sorry for the people who are killed, but it's hard not to chuckle at folks getting into such
deep trouble over mostly trivial disputes. That woman was really a nut case.
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1 hour ago, Hibi said:
Are you kidding? That moon had a supporting role! (non-speaking, of course like Gale).
Yeah, it should have been nominated. (Victor) Sen Yung was very effective as the mega
obsequious law clerk. There were a few occasions when James Stephenson looked like he
was ready to take a swing at him. VSY was a lot friendlier when playing Hop Sing on
Bonanza. In real life I like to think that Bette would not have gone passively to her fate,
but grabbed a gun and started shooting.
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I watched it mainly because I haven't seen it in a number of years. It is a product of
Hollywood at its studio era prime, but I consider it a good movie but no great shakes.
Bette seems to be giving poor Herbert Marshall a giant middle finger in the films they
appear in together. Old Herb usually has a small hissy fit, then spends the rest of the
time sobbing quietly into his dinner jacket. It's kind of funny, despite the seriousness
of the plot. The Gale Sondergaard character isn't all that believable, and looks like she just
stepped out of a Terry and the Pirates strip. What I like most about the picture is the
life style of the British colonials among the exotic world of Malaya, sort of like a PG version
of White Mischief. My only true complaint is that there weren't enough shots of the moon
appearing and disappearing behind the clouds.
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After about the first twenty minutes it went back to the correct ratio.
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8 hours ago, CaveGirl said:
Honest to Gloria Blondell, I love all movies of Tod Browning. His love of carny folk and ability to show them as people and not objects, in films like "Freaks" and all his other wonderful classics, is testament to his character in my book. Love his absolute fondness for the seeming weird and outre, and general mien at producing such distinctive films, unlike any others of the time.
I haven't seen too many of Browning's films, just a couple of his "talkies." Browning spent some
time as a carny in his younger days, that's probably why he was interested in that environment.
He definitely had a unique perspective, armadillo-wise.
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1 hour ago, Sundance said:
The Spanish version was made in the evenings somewhere near the desert which included the use of armadillos. For the English version, the same set was used in the day including the armadillos which Browning approved.
The bottom photo of the crawling insect that LawrenceA posted
could be found in the California desert as well.
Maybe armadillos had some special significance for Browning. But they still look humorously
out of place in Dracula's castle, not that this does any damage to the overall film. I would
have gone with hedgehogs myself, but to each their own.
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Didn't they make a Spanish speaking version of Dracula after hours. Maybe
they put the armadillo in for that and forgot to take it our for the U.S version.
I never drink...sangria.
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6 hours ago, CaveGirl said:
Snappy dialogue for sure and Bogart was always up to it, with that overlying commentary. Poor Elisha! My mother always said she felt sorry for him since he always looked worried, even as late as in the film "The House on Haunted Hill". To this day, I've always wondered if he was Junior, then just what did Elisha Cook, Senior look like? I think the time has come to find out, so excuse me while I go hunting him down online.
Cook did often look like he was nervous and that someone was about to come out of a
closet and beat the **** out of him, which wouldn't be too hard to do considering his
small physique. He had the same look in the TV shows he guested on.
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1 hour ago, CaveGirl said:
Now that makes sense! I hate to brag but I have really great voice identification skills. I was the only one in my family who could tell on the phone, which twin was calling of my two cousins, who not even their mother could tell apart on the phone. And of course, I can usually tell celebrity voices on tv commercials plus I won 100 bucks once for betting a guy that the person singing the song, "Don't Let Go" was not Elvis, so hearing that Wilmer might have thrown his voice in the area of the falcon, makes a lot of sense. Thanks, Vautrin!
I feel a little sorry for any guy named Wilmer, even if he was a jerk. One of my favorite parts
of The Maltese Falcon is the interplay between Gutman and Spade in the former's hotel room,
the whole I like to talk to a man who likes to talk to other men who like to talk, etc. Cracks me
up every time.
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Wonder why he was called Woody.
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