LornaHansonForbes

It would be great if the Keebler people hired the same agency and they came up with a "LET'S FUDGE!" ad-campaign. THAT would be GENIUS.

I really miss her too. Like if the choice were her or Ben...Well, there's not even a choice there for me....

I bet the announcer lady is just sitting in her apartment, seething and eating cake frosting out of the can like Goldie Hawn in DEATH BECOMES HER, hate-watching the LET'S MOVIE promo on an endless loop as her landlord bangs on her door with the eviction notice.

AND TO BE FAIR, They have gotten "arty" and "modern" with some of the interstitials in the past year and DONE IT VERY WELL: the Joan Crawford SOTM promo was well done, and I thought the SUMMER UNDER THE STARS promos were excellent. And the MARCH: NOW PLAYING promo was really really good. edit- and I've only seen a touch of the SEPTEMBER NOW PLAYING promo, but it looks intriguing This, eh...notsomuch.

...Oh, and one more thing: I know they were going for something "arty" for the promos (which I assume you've seen): but who here wants to watch THE WIZARD OF OZ, SINGIN' IN THE RAIN or JAWS in some distorted aspect ratio, cropped and faintly projected against part of a brick building on a dark night in a city street? Show of hands? Okay...yeah? What? Right: no one.

I bet they canned the announcer lady just so they could afford to fork six figures over to some Madison Ave. agency that came up with "let's movie" about an hour before the presentation meeting.

I go against the grain and say that I am sorry to hear that EVIL STATUE OF LUCY did not get the gig. I'd've gone to see it.

OMG, me too. I was all going to try and be nice and not say anything mean, but homigah totally: that is so stupid!...thank you for showing me the error of my ways. Let's go sit in the corner and be crotchety about it.

Omg, more later, but for now I'm so glad to know that I am NOT alone.

I bought my tix for JAWS at the concession stand, which is apparently where they sell tickets now (having merged it with the box office.)

You know, I readily admit that women are not really "my thing," but at the same time, I can totally appreciate (and on occasion even feel a certain stirring for) the beauty and sex-appeal of Paulette Goddard, Lana Turner, Veronica Lake, Rita Hayworth, Jane Russell (duh), Marilyn Monroe, Linda Darnell, young Crawford...on and on and on. But, for the life of me, I just don't get why men lose their **** over Ava Gardner. I mean, she's a fine actress (and one who got better with practice and more interesting with age) and certainly no dog, but I just don't see what's there that seems to get the engine revving on pretty much every heterosexual man alive when she's on screen. Her face is kind of mannish to me and she just isn't as remarkable a beauty as many of the other actresses of the time. By no means do I dislike her, but I just fail to see why it is that she's "up there" with the most desirable names of all time.

Not as much fun as he would've had with "Sprocker-Man." Oh, he would've ended you for that....

I'm really mad at myself for not going to the DOUBLE INDEMNITY showing in July(?), but I think I'll prolly try to check out PSYCHO. It's nice, because I live in small city, that these FATHOM events tend to come to my local theater. ps- PSYCHO is right up there with MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS and CASABLANCA when it comes to watchability. Turn on any part of it at any time and I'm in.

It's actually LILI with an "I", but it is a charming little film. It's funny how some of the BIG EXPENSIVE MGM MUSICALS of the 1950's don't work well, but some of their really, really cheap ones (like LILI and SEVEN BRIDES...) do. It's like the folks working on the MGM B-projects felt like they had to show-up the "A-Team." PS- A WARNING: watching LILI will result in a near-constant singing of "Hi-Lili-Hi-Lili-Hi-Lo" to yourself for at least three days afterwards.

Patricia Neal day was the one that really sticks out in my mind as being a personal favorite.

I know i did.

It's in the Public Domain, so unlike NBNW, they can show it for free. see also: THE YEARLING.

for example, DON'T EVER get me going on Frances McDormand! ugh!

s'allright. s'cool. no hate. I was thinking of: BATTLEFIELD EARTH and THE CRYING GAME (the first time I recall thinking he was bad) and PHONE BOOTH and (to take it waaaaay back) SPECIES and BLOWN AWAY and some of the parts I've seen from CRIMINAL MINDS and LEE DANIELS PRESENTS OPRAH WINFREY IN A LEE DANIELS FILM: THE BUTLER NOT FROM THE NOVEL "PUSH" BY SAPHIERE, A LEE DANIELS FILM. (but to be fair didn't see that last one in entirety) I also thought LAST KING OF SCOTLAND was bull**** because it was ALL MADE UP but it DIDN'T TELL YOU IT WAS ALL MADE UP (in a way I thought was clear.) I thought the real star of LAST KING was James McAvoy and that Whitaker was using his usual trick of relying on his physicality instead of plumbing his emotional depths to really be an actual person (which is the #1 sense I always get from him, he's either relying on the wonky eye or the height or the weight or something about his physical presence to carry the scene and it seems like he gives flat, uninterested, toneless line reads.) I think by playing fast and loose with the facts, LAST KING kinda sorta belittles the plight of the actual victims of Idi Amin. we agree to disagree though. i think it best...otherwise many will die and the earth will be scorched beyond repair. ps- he's done tons of stuff i haven't seen, so maybe he's great in DOPE or...um, whatever else he's done that I've missed. PSS- i'm a crank. i make it a point to dislike the actors and things that generally everyone else in the world likes.

PS- I'll save you the trouble, Dargo: yes there are two foxes on that poster. groooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwl.

I have to admit though, I do not get THE STUNT MAN. I get THE RULING CLASS- that film is awesome, too long, but awesome... But I don't get THE STUNT MAN.

WOW! With a poster LIKE THAT this thing should've been the highest grossing film ever! IT'S GOT EVERYTHING I LIKE!

Thanks for the FYI. Honestly, I think it would be too heartbreaking for me to watch though....

it's funny you guys mention INDISCRETIONS OF..../TERMINAL STATION, because I just got done watching a rather obscure film Jennifer Jones did for Powell and Pressberger in 1950 called GONE TO EARTH. It was a unique film- with a plot very similar to something Thomas Hardy would've written- about a free-spirited Welsh girl growing up in the rugged countryside with her pet fox and volatile father (ca 1900). She becomes embroiled in a love triangle between the guy from BLACK NARCISSUS and (I think) the wussy guy from THE RED SHOES. (for me, it's a no contest, but I digress.) Sybil Thorndyke is also in it and she is excellent, but the surprise in the cast for me was future Oscar-winner Hugh Griffith as a surly manservant- he was lively, terrific and likeable (I've never been impressed by his work in TOM JONES or BEN-HUR) IT WAS GORGEOUSLY SHOT IN COLOR, although there was a lot of obvious day-for-night photography, but the scenery was exquisite and it had a real air of authenticity re: time and place and period detail about it. Jones was- as usual- terrific- I really like her a lot, and I think it's a shame that she's either forgotten, or dismissed as "David's Girl" or "Saint Bernadette who made a deal with the devil and gained fame\ but lost her soul." She was a splended, lovely and incredibly courageous and risk-taking actress, and one who was damn good with accents. If you want to know the very definition of MOVIE STAR, check her out in RUBY GENTRY (1952). I think the only real fault of the movie is that the ending is OBVIOUS. It had a similar fate as INDISCRETIONS/STATION for the American release- where David O'Selznick cut forty minutes and added narration while cutting crucial characters. That version of GONE TO EARTH is called WILD HEART. it sounds awful.