LornaHansonForbes
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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.)
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This is the only movie I've ever seen that gave me nightmares...
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.
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To Lorna....:I'm thinking the regulars on these boards must feel they have to tip-toe around you.
bOb39They only whisper my name....
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Did I ever mention that I have a friend whose sister once worked with someone whose husband claims to have seen David Hyde-Pierce in a supermarket? I have my doubts.
If they said he was with a hot chick and acting real macho, they lie.
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Actually Lorna, wouldn't this make her the perfect political candidate for our times???
LOL
(...I mean, can't you just see the large grass roots movement she'd probably be riding high on???!!!)
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.
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Careful, your craw could be FULL of sticks then, lol.
Just breathing is a trial sometimes.
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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.
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LornaHansonForbes--your "red ink editors notes"post made my day--very funny & very accurate--I can't believe she got paid for that piece either.
Thank you.
Fewer things on earth stick more forcefully in my craw than people getting paid to do jobs badly.
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Possibly due to the studios divesting themselves of their contract roster in the 50s, when many were forced to free lance and take what they could get. Leech Woman has always been a guilty pleasure of mine (esp. the MST3000 version! LOL)...
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..."
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SAD NEWS. I was just thinking of her the other day and wondering if she was still alive (after watching Kansas City Confidential again). She projected such a fresh faced innocent girl next door quality in many of her roles, but with toughness underneath. I wish TCM would rerun that Noir Dames discussion show they had with RO around 15 years ago. It would've been perfect for the Summer of Darkness series. She was the last survivor from that show (Marie Windsor, Audrey Totter and I think Jane Greer were also on it)
OMG.
I did not even know this existed.
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I believe you, even though you were three steps removed from Anjelica.
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.)
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Wow, the set of BONNIE AND CLYDE, with Dunaway, who was also difficult to work with, thrown in with Beatty and Hackman, must have been a real picnic.
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.
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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.
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Have no fear; it will be showing on Patricia Neal's day, the 16th. The whole danged cast is getting a day, the film is inevitable!
well, there's no Kent Smith day (thankfully) but yes, good point.
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Joan Fontaine's acting, in my opinion, is amazingly "real."
In THE CONSTANT NYMPH and REBECCA she has such a natural, spontaneous-seeming delivery in stark contrast the patterned deliveries that were typically found in movies in that era.
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.
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hit the button too hard i guess.
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Can't resist busting out the red ink and giving a few editorial suggestions.
LHF
TCM Spotlights Stars
Of Varying Brightness (but none as dim as the author of this)
GENE TIERNEY, left, with Rex Harrison in “The Ghost and Mrs. Muir,” is not necessarily a household name. (20th Century Fox)By DIANE WERTS
Newsday
Who rates as a “star” today?
In this 21st-century age of superstars/megastars — maybe even uber-stars ( it's called an umlaut and it's there for a reason) — it's getting hard to figure ( almost as hard to figure as why you think the sentence above this one deserves to be the lead paragraph for your article.)
That's why each annual Summer Under the Stars festival from Turner Classic Movies seems increasingly vexing (oh heavens, you were vexed! A "Whole Foods is out of Quinoa" kind of vexed or a "The Audi has a ding" kind of vexed? #whitepeopleproblems.) Yes, it's August, the dog days of tube viewing, and we're desperate for something, anything, special to watch (cause God Forbid you read or go outside or spend time with your kids or, you know, show some personal agency in how you spend your free time.) So here comes an entire month (starting Saturday) that promises a 24-hour tribute to a different Hollywood movie star every single day.
Yet some of those “stars” ( in the same sense that you are a "writer"?) are named Mae Clarke, Adolphe Menjou, Virginia Bruce or (the fabulous ) Monty Woolley.
Say what? ( it's your own article, and I believe you just said it, so, you know...proofread.)
Beyond obvious legends like John Wayne or Katharine Hepburn, some of TCM's 2015 Summer “stars” ( again, "really" ? )are downright ( superfluous ) inscrutable, even given the channel's bent ( they make thesaurases as part of your tool bar now, you don't even have to own one.) toward the Hollywood “golden age” ( yes, well, that is "kind of" what they're " all about" ) actors whose films come from the 1930s-1960s studio-era library that the channel owns outright.
No disrespect intended ( the exact thing someone says before saying something really direspectful ). Alan Arkin, Teresa Wright and Lee J. Cobb built decadeslong careers for good reason. They were dependable performers (and this is disrespectul to say in what sense? this is about the first thing you've written that hasn't been disrespectful in some form or another. ). Warren Oates is a god among indie lovers ( do you know the meaning of any of the words you used in this sentence?). Rex Ingram was a pioneering black actor of substance ( as opposed to all those pioneering black actors who were, you know, all fun and games )when Hollywood didn't allow many. And Ann-Margret still makes male hearts flutter 50 years later ( I can see why this deserves its own paragraph )
But no Chaplin? No Keaton — ( former SOTM )Buster, Michael or Diane (okay, now I can see you're trolling us )? No Cagney or Bogart? No Bette Davis ( yes, it's been years since they've played anything with those thr...no wait ) or Bette Midler ( so, how long have you been out of "the home"? )? How many film fans even know that Saturday's kickoff honoree, Gene Tierney, is a woman? ( seriously, is there a gas leak in your apartment? ) And, by the way, where's that guy's guy ( um, yeah, a "certain" "type" of "guy"- to borrow a page from your grammar playbook) ) Gene Kelly?
It's an annual debate ( no it isn't ). Who belongs? Who doesn't? ( can I add a question?: did you get paid to write this? ) Maybe TCM should just repeat the “true” ( "AGAIN" with the "quotes" ???)greats of cinema, year after year. Such as Orson Welles and Judy Garland. Or should that be Denzel Washington and Julia Roberts? ( I want you to go play in traffic. Really, I do. )
Generational disputes, yes. ( no ) Mainstream versus cult. Even as TCM unreels ( I'd try to explain how they actually do it, but your head would explode)
I have to go to lunch. I can't deal with this foolishness for now.
BAD WRITER, BAD, BAAAD WRITER!
(folds up copy of her piece and whaps her on the head with it.)
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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.
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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.
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That would have been interesting.
As good as Bancroft is in the role, seeing Doris as Mrs. Robinson would have really been something.
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I'm only just now getting to read the original article that sparked this post.
I think it was originally written in crayon.
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Gene Hackman would be a worthy honoree, too.
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.)
bOb39
Are they really "stars"? Some questionable SUTS selections.
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and major gold star to you for catching it.