LornaHansonForbes

and major gold star to you for catching it.

Thanks. I'll ease up on Ms Wertz from here on out too. I think I've filleted her sufficiently. (Everybody's got a mother.)

scary movies don't scare me, but BLAIR WITCH tripped me all the hell out. Ps: I'm really surprised none of the primary actors have gone on to greater things though.

They only whisper my name....

If they said he was with a hot chick and acting real macho, they lie.

you're right. At this point I guess we may as well get on our knees and bow down to her, for she will be our Overlord someday.

Just breathing is a trial sometimes.

Someone should give the chick who wrote this her own weekly column called I Don't Know Anything about Anything, but if you ask Me....By Diane Werts. I can just see some of the headlines: Is the Only Difference Between Iran and Iraq a "Q"? Yes.; Integrate Major League Football Already!; I'm tired of Washington: Let's Make Detroit the New US Capital; and Switching to the Gold Standard for US Currency will Result in Lots of Sore Backs, Hernias. In the minute we, as a nation, pause every morning to say "I'm sorry, do what now?" she will have unified us as one. Get the mantle ready for that Pulitzer, Diane.

Thank you. Fewer things on earth stick more forcefully in my craw than people getting paid to do jobs badly.

TERRY "Tell me, does my aunt keep any liquor in the house?" MIKE NELSON "Well, there's never enough to keep. I can show you some stains by the couch though..."

OMG. I did not even know this existed. I SECOND THE MOTION!

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I know. There's nothing that seals the veracity of something more than "I used to know a guy who worked for someone who knew someone..." (but for the record, we were very good friends and he worked for a HUGE agent at ICM.)

I can't recall the exact whys and wheres, but I was recently reading a quote from Anjelica Huston about working with Gene Hackman on THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS and she said (to paraphrase) "we were all so excited to be working with him and then he showed up. To this day, when any of us who were in the cast get together, he's all we end up talking about, and not in a good way" she also mentions that she felt like she needed to "protect" the director Wes Anderson from Hackman's bullying. And for the record, I was very good friends with someone who worked for Anjelica Huston's agent (at least 10 years ago.) They dealt with Anjelica all the time and said she was the nicest, kindest, most drama-free client that agent had and he LOVED her.

I've always been puzzled by the trajectory of her career- she was a beautiful woman and a pretty good actress, and she started out so well- KISS OF DEATH, a romantic comedy with William Holden, RED RIVER, NIGHTMARE ALLEY, KANSAS CITY CONFIDENTIAL...then it was TV roles, a brief "resurgance" in THE KILLING and some Z-Films like LEECH WOMAN, THE VAMPIRE and PHANTOM PLANET. (LEECH WOMAN and PHANTOM PLANET were both featured on MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 during the Sci-Fi era, with the former being one of my favorite episodes.) she maintains a sort of dignity in the bad movies, but I always wondered how it was that she ended up there...but at least she has five or so real classics to her credit, which is more than can be said for many.

well, there's no Kent Smith day (thankfully) but yes, good point.

If you havent seen Joan in Max Ophuls' 1948 film LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN, check it out a_s_a_p. For a while it was even available on youtube. Tcm has shown it recently. It is La Fontaine's finest hour and a damn good film.

oops.

hit the button too hard i guess.

Okay, I went back and looked at it. It doesn't look that professional in the layout. I still hope no one got paid to write this.

I don't usually do this, but I think we're getting away from the real issue here, WHICH IS: seriously, have you all read the article featured in the OP? It's been a while since I've read something so unfettered in its stupidity. I daresay Rex Reed couldn't write something dumber than this, even if he (for once) tried. Does this person write for, like, an actual entity or are they just really gifted at laying out the design of their blog to make it look professional? Did they make money for writing this? I'm mad if they did. Nothing but questions on my end.

As good as Bancroft is in the role, seeing Doris as Mrs. Robinson would have really been something.

I'm only just now getting to read the original article that sparked this post. I think it was originally written in crayon.

True, but it is my understanding that he is incredibly difficult to work with and downright malicious on set; whether it's worse than Barbra or Warren, I dunno....but it seems like he's burned a lot of people, maybe too many (after all, they want someone to show up at the ceremony.)