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I thought about mentioning that the movements are just too fast. that hyperkinetic bull started with the new wave of Disney animation starting with sheet like Aladdin. why so much speed? it seems to me that the speed is to cover up how truly lousy the animation and lame comedy is in today's cartoon sheet.

anderson cooper will insist that cnn shower as much attention on her as anthony bourdain.

it's a wascally twick! a few moments of vintage-like animation to fool the unwary. I like what I just saw but maybe that's where it ends.

babe power!

"there you are, you little cheat! I have you in the palm of my hand, husband! now you're all mine!"

looks like my sister's first husband.

the bust makes her look like a man. she is supposed to be one of the most alluring women who ever lived. that bust makes even Rachel Maddow look like miss America.

Rochefort must've told his men to shower by now.

or "miss taylor, can you knock it off with the chili already".

imagine a cameraman saying "hey liz, you just let out another one".

maybe it was a debeaned puree.

reading up on Cleopatra last nite found out how historically inaccurate this movie is. she had numerous children by a number of men. after caesarion she had 3 children by antony so she was no slouch in the procreating department. although an Egyptian queen she was not of Egyptian ancestry but macedonian descent and she had the learning of a scholar. she was one smart babe.

uta hagen reminds me of mrs folger the coffee lady.

prior to cleo coming into Rome on that gold thingamachig we get this floor show with the dancers and the colored smoke kinda like a super bowl halftime event. this one babe twists and prances right up to the camera and all she has on her bozingas are these tassles flinging to and fro... who was she?

I have to agree with those who say this film has gotten a raw deal. every time in recent years that I sit through it I like it more and more. martin landau shoulda gotten more screen time because his acting is first rate. everybody's acting is first rate. manckiewicz directed liz taylor pretty good for she is cleopatra. the editing coulda been better I suppose. I mean a shot of cleopatra's murdered son laying in a wagon. that shot is unforgivable. I suppose it is meant to get it across to the audience that octavian is a monster. I like the film but not that. the scene with antony watching cleopatra sailing away from the disastrous battle of actium is priceless. he looks like a guy who just had his quarter pounder pilfered. it's almost laughable. it's a great, great film and I think that is slowly being realized. alex north's score suggests the haunting timeless beauty that Cleopatra possessed and I do notice those recycled chords of his Spartacus music during the battle of actium.

open up the floodgates, I say. open them up to a new source of programming other than their fixed unchanging stasis coffer of pet films. yes! they can start off with some alternative political fare like will; g. Gordon liddy and abc-tv miniseries Washington; behind closed doors with Jason Robards a hoot as president Richard Monckton. trump's gonna be reelected so tcm get on the bandwagon!

yeah, webber certainly didn't mind playing villains.

the car needs a sequel. I assume that schtootz james brolin would not agree to star in it since he's such a big man after marrying yentl. bet dependable Ronny Cox would do it.

watching the car this past Saturday had to listen to svengoolie's stupid ravings about the cast. he refers to a young Ronny Cox. Cox already had a TV series under his belt he starred in created by earl hamner namely Apple's Way so it's not like he was just starting out when he appeared in the car.

got interested in him after watching him in a 2-part episode of Barnaby Jones last nite on Decades. reading his IMDb bio it says he bore a close resemblance to Kevin McCarthy. that is BS. webber didn't look anything like McCarthy. I sometimes would confuse him with ed nelson.

yeah, nice model.

always a favorite of mine. deserving of cult status it is building. my favorite scene is when the car sends roy jenson over the edge to a fiery death. that's one mean demonic car. and when they're on the scene of the two bicyclist's deaths, we get this creepy and brilliant closeup of the car driving maniacally around the desert in the distance. brilliant underappreciated filmmaking.

hey, a recording of the colorized special on CBS. Lucille ball was a master of reaction.

how about some shots of the Bronte sisters house on the moors from Devotion.

like Collinwood on Dark Shadows.