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More from Citizen Kane;
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Bernard Herrmann
Citizen Kane overture:
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... Let me explain a little. I don't think he'll change. At 21 or 22, so many things appear solid and permanent and terrible which 40 sees in nothing but disappearing miasma. Forty can't tell 20 about this. Twenty can find out only by getting to be 40. And so we come to this, dear: Will you live your life your way or George's way? Dear, it breaks my heart for you. But what you have to oppose now is the history of your own selfless and perfect motherhood. Are you strong enough, Isabel? Can you make a fight?
I promise you that if you will take heart for it you will find so quickly that it's all amounted to nothing. You shall have happiness and only happiness. I'm saying too much for wisdom, I fear. But, oh, my dear, won't you be strong? Such a little short strength it would need.
Don't strike my life down twice, dear. This time, I've not deserved it.
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
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Probably could think of a 100 more, but what first comes to mind
Doris Day wears a yellow dress with a pearl and sequined studded top in LOVER COME BACK
You mean this one?
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Sometime in the 80s, I was in England, visiting my husband's ancient and eccentric aunt. For some reason, she apparently had no sense of taste or smell (or so my husband told me.)
At one point on the visit, she opened up a can - one of those triangle shaped cans, I've seen them with ham in them - of chicken. Chicken! Canned yucky chicken with that jelly-like stuff cradling it.
I could not eat it and forget how I managed to avoid it and still remain polite.
Aunt Agnes thought it was a big treat !!
whoa, did she live through World War II? Then I could understand it. I had read some GIs, many years later, would suddenly have a hankering for SPAM. Maybe the same thing was happening for her.
btw- Did Dargo find the Academy Awards thead?
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RIP - Lesley Gore
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The More the Merrier :
Benjamin (Charles Coburn) and Joe Carter (Joel McCrea)
Benjamin: What's your name?
Joe Carter: Carter.
Benjamin: Bill Carter?
Joe Carter: Joe Carter.
Benjamin: I used to know a fellow named Bill Carter.
Joe Carter: Wasn't me.
Benjamin: Don't you suppose I know that?
Joe Carter: What'd you ask for, then?
Benjamin: I guess I know what Bill Carter looked like.
Joe Carter: Not like me.
Benjamin: Oh, then, you know Bill Carter.
Joe Carter: No, I don't, but he sounds like a great guy.
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Benjamin: Probably your name isn't even Bill Carter.
Joe Carter: Probably not. It's probably Joe Carter.
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This is a wonderful, sexy little movie. It was on a couple of weeks ago, and I saw only parts of it because it was too late, but this time I caught the parts I missed. The chemistry between Jean Arthur and Joel Mcrea is fantastic: the scene where he's showing her the travel case and their faces are so close together, the necking scene on the steps, and then the conversation when they're in bed in their separate rooms, and the ending... Don't know how they got this one past the censors.
DID YOU SEE THAT NIGHTGOWN IN THE LAST SCENE !?!
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My grandmother used to say, some people grow up and some people just grow older.
Kings Row (1940)
I am the master of my fate and the captain of my soul. -Invictus
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SansFin wrote: As Time Goes ByOne evening of four movies with a specific theme with each movie having been made in a later decade than the previous movie. The movies are to progress with the first movie being made no later than 1939 and last movie no earlier than 1980.The theme which unites the movies is of your choosing. It may be genre, director, actor, cinematographer or any other factor.These are not to be remakes or use the same source material as other movies in the evening.As I understand it, I could then use 4 stories of childhood remembrance, taking place in a previous decade and told in flashback, but produced in another decade as outlined in your instructions, right?Peter Ibbetson (1935)I Remember Mama (1948)To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)A Christmas Story (1983)
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Well, I'm not a "musical snob", although, full disclosure: I am a "music snob".
I'm also, for lack of a better term, a fairy tale snob.
I've heard a lot about "Into the Woods" over the years, I guess ever since the original musical production opened. It was staged a few years ago at the Stratford Festival (in Stratford, Ontario.)
But, although I love the Stratford Festival and go to several productions every year, I had no desire to see "Into the Woods".
This is because I am a folk/fairy tale snob. I love the original stories from long ago, and dislike messing with them. I went into some detail about this on a thread that appeared here in the summer, about "Maleficent".
Yes, yes, I know, folk tales have their origin in the oral tradition of storytelling, which means, almost by definition, they are going to be "messed with", changed a little with every telling, and altered over the years.
Still, I believe that each and every one of the stories mashed into "Into the Woods" has a worth and meaning of its own, and that meaning is diluted, trashed even, when blended in this way into one big overwhelming fairy tale extravaganza.
So I never had any interest in the stage production of "Into the Woods", nor have I any for the film version.
By the way, at least half of the tales borrowed for "Into the Woods" , specifically "Little Red Riding Hood" and "Cinderella", are not from the Grimm brothers' collection, but from the French annotator of fairy tales, Charles Perrault.
Apologies to all the people who've posted here, whom I like and respect. I guess I'm just a fairy tale crank.
ps: For a fascinating and useful analysis of traditional folk and fairy tales, read Bruno Bettelheim's "The Uses of Enchantment".
ps2: The music snob in me suspects that the songs from "Into the Woods" are sub-par, melodically speaking. However, this is an unfair assumption, since I must confess I've never actually heard them. But most latter-day musicals (and, yup, the '80s count as latter-day when it comes to musical productions) are very much lacking in the quality of their songs. (Like "Wicked". Oh dear, what rubbish...) There are a few exceptions to this, such as some of the works by Webber and Rice.
ps3: I read the plot synopsis for both the film and stage versions of "Into the Woods". Holy witch's teat, could it get any more complicated? Way too much plot, as far as I can tell.
I know this is all snooty and sniffy, and I'm sorry to sound that way. But I dislike what I feel is the "hijacking" of traditional fairy tales, a deplorable trend in recent Hollywood movie-making. I always get the feeling that the vast majority of the audience for these films, and even the filmmakers themselves, are unfamiliar with the real thing.
I have always liked Sondheim, not because of the music originality or scoring excellence (maybe I should have characterized my co-workers as "Broadway purists" rather than musical snobs) but his poetry of word play in the song.
To each his own..
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The Fountainhead.
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I liked it, although the gang I worked with were mixed opinion. Some were what I would call "musical snobs" and disturbed by the cuts of song or reprise and story line. Sondheim remained intact to me, so I liked it.
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Bio 47's thread
"We will find a way. It might fail, and if it does and I am still alive, I will try to pass on my information, my mission, to someone else. Perhaps to a better man, who does not fail. Because there is always someone else. . . That is the mistake the Germans always make with people they try to destroy. There will be always someone else. "
To Have and Have Not (1944)
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Proud Mary, because Tina Turner never, ever does anything "nice and easy"..
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JEM: Atticus says cheating a black man is ten times worse than cheating a white.
To Kill a Mockingbird
(1962)
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As long as you don't drop below the 120 package you get HD (If you have HD for life like I do), CNN, TBS and TNT. If you go lower than that you just get basic SD with no CNN or MSNBC just Fox News.
A side note...
I called dish and told them to cancel my service that I was getting ready to call Comcast Xfinity to take me back. They gave me Blockbuster for $5.00 a month for 6 months and gave me a 12 month special for 49.00 for the 200 package, 12 months with no contract saying you can cancel at anytime if you stay. I agreed to the deal saving $30.00 a month.
Now, I have two friends with Xfinity who pretty much were able to "pick and choose" their offerings doing the same thing. They insist the "rules" of the lineup aren't hard and fast if you work for a better deal. It will take me more than that to being me back.-- like a 40% less for cable.
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Svengoolie is risking his reputation with showing some good quality.
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Gee, I'd like to learn French. I got an idea that they don't translate some of the best parts.
Eve Arden in Three Husbands
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This conversation maybe moot, in terms of cable vs. streaming. The home entertainment market is in a state of flux, not unlike cable's introduction in the late '70s/early '80s. Streaming has seriously eroded enough of the market that telecommunications is rethinking it all again.
HBO has seen the light. Mine is but a small voice, but I hope TCM just starts transition from cable to streaming. The feedback from sales is once the buyer has a AppleTV/Roku/Chromecast device, they start cancelling the cable. And these devices sell at a relatively painless price once the technology jumps again for upgrading. Comcast and Time Warner have held on too long to their old model and technology. Even the oldsters like me are abandoning them.
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Maybe Ward and June were right to warn Wally and Beaver about Eddie.
As I assume you already know, this is another urban legend that has been
out there for a long time. There is a slight resemblance between John Holmes
and Ken Osmond, but that's as far as it goes. Besides, a motorcycle cop/porn
actor would be a pretty strange combo.
For a writer, a motorcycle cop/porn star is a perfect combination.
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Because those are the rules between grown-up men and women, or should be. The trouble is, the game is so one-sided for a man.
-Cary Grant
Indiscreet (1958)