Vautrin
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5 hours ago, Sepiatone said:
Well, that's probably because SHE WASN'T REAL!!!
Sepiatone
Even for a sitcom character she was pretty clueless. Have to admit she was a bit of a
dingbat, though a nice one.
I think I saw House of Strangers quite some time ago when it was on the Fox Movie Channel or
whatever it is now called. Very entertaining, with Eddie G. chewing the scenery like Godzilla.
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2 hours ago, Gershwin fan said:
He killed them all at once or was it a serial killing?
All at once. They were a family that lived next door to him and they had had a number of
disputes over the years. His wife left him, which didn't help his disposition any. One night
he took his rifle and just went into the house and started shooting members of the family.
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2 hours ago, overeasy said:
I remember reading A Place In the Sun in my late teens, then later seeing the movie. The movie script pretty much removed any backstory about the Clift character, which I thought hurt it a lot. All of his early life was purged and so we had little idea about why he was so intent upon "rising above it."
Yes there was very little about his family and employment background which certainly
explains quite a bit about his ambitions and his actions and was a significant part of the
novel. Other, later sections were also edited down. In a way I can understand that because
An American Tragedy is a very long book. The edition I read was 800 +/- pages. I no
longer look on a lot of films adapted from novels as really adaptations but as two separate
works of art.
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5 hours ago, Sepiatone said:
I'm not sure of what's being referred to(movie or actual incident) But reading what I put in "bold" did make me think of my favorite quote concerning EDITH BUNKER's approval of capital punishment:
"As long as it ain't TOO SEVERE."
Sepiatone
This was an actual incident. The guy was a kook who killed three or four people, who were
his neighbors and had being feuding with him over a number of years. As kind as Edith
was, she didn't have a good grasp on certain parts of reality.
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The Master--confounding readers, hanging fire, and scuffing walls since 1875.
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1 hour ago, Hibi said:
Yeah, I think you missed the first episode. This is weird. Not on AGAIN? Yeah, I was glad when he got the needle!
Probably. My local TV section isn't always accurate but they likely are correct on this. I'm against
capital punishment but there are some circumstances that make me wonder, like this one. I can't
recall the reason, but his victims had a gun but didn't use it, maybe they couldn't get to it in time.
A very sad story.
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7 hours ago, Hibi said:
Yeah, scandal rags would make up stuff purporting to be from her diary to sell papers. I wonder if Fear They Neighbor is on tomw night? It wasnt on last week for some reason. It cant be over allready? 3 episodes?
I only remember two episodes, but I might have missed one. Even for the crazy scheduling
of ID, it was strange that it seems to have disappeared so soon. According to my local
weekly TV section it isn't on this week. I got a laugh out of the Lovelady, TX. police
department. The guy target shoots all night and there are bullet holes in the house, but
they aren't sure it he was the culprit. That turned out to be a dumb decision.
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Probably down at the Red Cross rolling bandages. I always though Mrs. Archer
was much sexier than the running hot and cold Brigid O'Shaughnessy.
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6 hours ago, Hibi said:
Several books about the trial came out around the same time a few years back. I read one of them. Hubby's lawyers, if I remember correctly, subpoenaed George, but he hid out and they couldn't find him to serve it! According to Mary's daughter, Mary turned out to be an indifferent mother despite the custody fight...(not in the Mommie Dearest category, but rather aloof).
I didn't realize that after all that back and forth Mary turned out to be an indifferent mother. The
Crawford children would have seen indifference as paradise. From the little checking I did around
the internet, the diary was not allowed in the trial, though the husband did leak parts of it to the
papers. There is also the possibility that parts of it were forged, likely some of the more salacious
entries. After the trial it was locked in a bank vault and finally destroyed in the early 1950s. Might
make a nice little indie film.
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I thought the trial had something to do with child custody, though I don't recall all the details.
I also don't recall if excerpts were read in court or if that was blocked by the judge. Hollywood
Babylon has some fact and some fiction in it, but the chapter about Mary Astor's case hewed
pretty close to the real court case, for which there was obvious documentation. Kaufman
certainly wasn't any Cary Grant. Maybe it was his wit and sense of humor.
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One of the first times I read about Mary Astor was in Hollywood Babylon when her diary was
read in some trial she was involved in. It went into ecstasies over how George S. Kaufman
and his five acter sent her all shivering under the night sky stars. I watched The Great Lie last
night because I hadn't seen it in years. Entertaining no doubt though the plot is pretty hokey,
even for a 1940s women's picture. From my calculations Georgie was away for about a year and
yet his hair turned grey? Thankfully the picture ended before little Pete got too annoying but it
was getting pretty darn close.
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Didn't watch the series but got a kick out of the promo of D Lemon doing the Travolta
paint can stroll from SNF. Sorry to hear about the circumstances surrounding the death
of William Frawley. If it happened during baseball season, I hope it was just after the
Yankees won a game. R.I.P. Money belt.
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No, but Susan Alexander Kane was the greatest opera singer who ever lived.
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Balaban looks like one of those nerdy kids who would deliver the groceries in 1950s TV shows.
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Those thick black glasses were the basic style back in the 1960s. Now if a famous movie or rock
star were wearing them now, they might be hip, but if the guy looked like Balaban they would
still be nerdtown.
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4 hours ago, lydecker said:
Yep. I was looking forward to this but nothing happens in this movie until Barbara O'Neil appears. Endless Dunne-Boyer scenes in deserted (or near-deserted) spots while they emote. I could not believe the end. What a waste of time and I was so looking forward to this never-seen film.
I guess it's partly how much of the stranded in a storm scenes one can take. To me they
last too long and drag the film down quite a bit in the middle. The late entrance of Barbara
O'Neil helps somewhat, but that can't salvage what went before. I think the kindest way to
think of this one is to call it a misfire.
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4 hours ago, TopBilled said:
It's based on a James M. Cain short story called 'A Modern Cinderella.' Not sure how many liberties the screenwriter took, however.
It would be interesting to read the story and see how if differs from the movie. As Ben mentioned,
Cain sued because the screenwriter had taken some of the storm scene from another one of his
books though Cain lost his suit. I do give them credit for having a somewhat ambiguous
ending instead of having Barbara O'Neil commit suicide or get run over by a car.
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This was a weird animal. It began like a romantic comedy of the working class girl meets
eccentric rich guy variety and then turns into a rather overwrought melodrama, complete
with thunderstorm, followed by a flood. The downpour seems like it would never end.
Thank goodness it finally did. Barbara O'Neil gave the finale a little added oomph, but
it ends with a whimper. Charles Boyer does his sophisticated, soigne Frenchmen/European
thing again. He does it well, but it gets tiresome after you've seen it for the third or
fourth time. This has some promise but needs to be sent back to the garage for a major
overhaul.
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19 hours ago, Dargo said:
And here I thought he told his mom he was out in Modesto California cruising around in his friend's '58 Chevy Impala with his new bleached blonde girlfriend.
(...oh wait...never mind...now that I've got MY glasses on now too, I can see that's not the same kid)
Looks like Woody Allen was heading to see a Bergman flick at the New Yorker but somehow wound
up in a Times Square fleapit watching a low-budget sci-fi movie. Of course the chronology would be
wrong. That's no problem in Hollywood. I remember one time my friend and I were over in NYC and
we came back to where we parked the car and it was gone; it had been towed. We took the bus
back to Jersey and I had to tell my mom some story about needing the car which she fell for, so
we could drive back to New York and get the car out of the impound. Funny now, wasn't too funny
then, at least until it was all over.
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Veda took umbrage at the sad fact that no matter how much dough ol'
Mildred made, she was nothing more than a low-class, common frump.
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7 hours ago, NipkowDisc said:
Mister, you won't tell my mommy I gave you a ******* will you? Please mister, don't. She
thinks I'm at Carnegie Hall practicing.
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The popcorn's better.
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My local movie theater has started to show studio era and later films on Sundays and Wednesdays.
Coming up are South Pacific, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Maltese Falcon, and The Big Lebowski.
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Sam's great grandson is the rapper Sam I Ain't. He recently released his second album Rick Blaine
Don't Mean **** To Me U C on Casablanca records.
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HITS & MISSES: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow on TCM
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Yes her lack of knowledge was a foil to his utter bigotry which she didn't share in, but
that an adult could be so ignorant was hard to digest, even in a sitcom. I know they've
shown LATB in the past. I'm also a little surprised that they aren't showing it after
Michael Douglas in their promo about Kirk said that that was Kirk's favorite movie.
Maybe, for whatever reason, it wasn't available. I will likely watch Town Without Pity. I
haven't seen that in maybe fifteen or twenty years.