LornaHansonForbes
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Oh wow! I just watched some of the "The Bewitchin' Pool" on YouTube...they replaced Mary Badham's real Southern accent with June Foray (Rocky the Squirrel) doing a fake Southern accent. Very strange.
June Foray also did the voice of Natasha Fatale (of "Boris and Natasha"). Now, had she dubbed Mary Badham in THAT character's voice, the episode would be an all-time classic. (Kind of a LYLAH CLARE prequel.)
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It just ocurred to me that MICHAEL CAINE has never been honored. That's overdue.
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Why's that, Lorna?
(...what?...there aren't any dogs sitters worth their salt in Carmel CA these days or somethin'???)
Somethin like that yeah. I don't know if they are true or not, but various media reports have portrayed her as somewhat reclusive, loathe to travel and disdainful of HOLLYWOOD (she's very conservative.)
She also hasn't made a film since 1968, so you know, there's that too.
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"the guys in my poker group, you know what they say?
They think it should be called:
The Sun also SUCKS."
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No comparison with Jerry. Jake Barnes totally bombed at
the Peoria Improv with his stand up routine. A disaster.
i WOULD GIVE THIS POST MY FULL WEEK'S ALLOWANCE OF "I LIKES" IF I COULD.
ps- I really enjoyed the one where they stop making spermicidal lubricant and Lady Brett Ashley has to go on a drugstore crawl to horde as much of it as she can before it's gone forever.
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I was thinking, one of the reasons why I found THE EGYPTIAN so interesting is because- with 50's biblical epics- they are either deliciously bad but substantively lacking or well-meaning and dull as dishwater.
THE EGYPTIAN- at least as much of it as I was able to see- was an intriguing mixture of camp and class....and all so watchable (and with an intriguing and very clear, and slightly subversive, moral to it.)
again- please encore this one, TCM.
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Oh, so it seems you TOO know of that apocryphal story(according to snopes) about Johnny Carson's supposed ad-lib to Zsa Zsa one night on his show, eh Lorna?!
God Bless You for getting my dirty joke.
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Doris.
Damn straight. She's earned it. But I doubt she'd show up.
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MARY OF SCOTLAND is a fascinating failure, not just for Hepburn, but for director John Ford who was waaaaay out of his element with this one. it is definitely one that I would recommend people watch though, as there is some interesting backstory to it.
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I think one of my favorite internet comments of of the past few years was on the sad occasion of Joan Rivers' passing:
"She died as she lived: in surgery."
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The only eyebrow raiser on the list for me is RAYMOND MASSEY, more because he wasn't a particularly good or even interesting actor, and his star status is debateable.
Some of the other names get slight eyeroll from me, but more because they've appeared so many times before- ie Katharine Hepburn.
But overall I'm fine with the list.
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Michael Jackson wished you were right, 1000 times.
Only 1,000?
Pretty low estimate if you ask me.
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LOL. Whatever it took...............
Amen to that.
(seriously though, when she took it off, I bet she looked like Katharine Helmond in BRAZIL.)
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I dont think Stanwyck had work done. She used that rubber band method to pull her face back like Lucy did in her later years.....
That won't no rubber band, Honey, it was a bungee cord.
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"All those things that
happened to us.Everything
that went before....
you’ll forget
it.
You’ll see. I’ll make you
forget it. After it’s
done, after itsall over.
Over and we’re safe,
itll be just you and me.
You and me, the way it
should’ve been all
along from
the start."
Burt Lancaster Yvonne DeCarlo
Dan Duryea as "Slim"
a Robert Siodmak film
When you DOUBLE-CROSS
a DOUBLE-CROSSER, IT'S A
CRISS CROSS
They played it WITH BULLETS!
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-when I first saw TE, it was on a VHS--her tinseled wigs just looked a distraction--when I saw them again, I thought they were quite beautiful.
I kept thinking "Oh, I bet Venus or Serena would totally rock one of those in a heartbeat."
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I don't think any actor aged as badly as Curtis.
I dunno, are we talking strictly classic era or modern-day too? Cause have you seen Nick Nolte, Ryan O'Neal, Travolta, and Mickey Rourke lately?
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This latest little discussion about dubbed voices in movies/TV shows reminded be of something that crossed my mind as I was watching HIS KIND OF WOMAN last week.
One of the villainous characters in that movie was played by Paul Frees, aka 'The Man with a Thousand Voices'. And I don't know if anybody else feels this way but because his voice was so very distinctive and so often used for dubbing purposes, narrating/voice-over work and to lend voice to many a cartoon character during his long career, whenever I actually see him in a role in some movie I have a very hard time taking him seriously in the role he's playing, and in addition always thought his deep resonant voice never quite seemed to match his overall appearance.
(...so, anybody else ever notice this?)
"sharrup your mouth!"
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NEFER
Whey. Beefore jew toushay me I must geef jew huh wharnee.
SINUHE
Warning?
NEFER
Der ees a reesone de Goddessss huff lahff takes de form huff hey cat.
SINEWY
When I look at you I care nothing for cats or gods.
NEFER
Look Sinuhe. Hay cass paws har soff. But dey hie clawss. Hay cass takes playsure een dormenteen hiss veecteem. Nohunteel de cree ter hees nearly debt does ee show peetee... han putta hen to eet.
SINUTAB
What has this to do with you and me?
NEFER
Jews ha leys hessperience, hen hie must be whah hi ham. Leaf now han do no reyturn true dee gay hen my wall, hor jew may reegred heet hall jour lie-fuh.
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I only now remembered it, but did anyone else get a kick out of the constant presence of Nefer's cat in her scenes?
I really kept waiting for her to ask someone to come and pet her...well, you know.
*I also also note that a la the cat in the SAY A PRAYER FOR ME TONIGHT scene from GIGI, the feline actor in THE EGYPTIAN also seemed to have been given something to sedate it....and maybe to keep from clawing Darvi's eyes out for her line reads.
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With all the bald heads in this film, I'm surprised Tor Johnson did not appear, unless he had a cameo as one of the buildings. I would have loved to have heard him and Bella Darvi going at it - a virtual assault on the ears.
In the chaos surrounding the film after Brando backed out, Tor was approached- but in a rare show of discretion, emphatically refused to sign on, telling his agent to inform Zanuck that "Tor no like Bella Darvi; he no understand word she say and she crap actress."
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And on a related note ... why was Mike Mazurki's voice dubbed? Because he would have sounded too much like Moose Malloy?
According to imdb, it was because of his heavy "street" accent.: The voices of the characters played by Mike Mazurki and Leo Gordon were dubbed by other actors for a more classical - and less American-street - quality.
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the more I think about it, the more "the Sun Also Rises" resembles "Seinfeld" in my mind. If I recall correctly, it is also about a group of friends: 3 men and 1 woman. And again it's pretty ambitiously plotless. seriously, 200 pages and not a damn thing happens.
it's been 20 years since I read it, but I do recall liking "A Farewell to Arms" very very much. I very enthusiastically followed it up with "for whom the bell tolls", which I was extremely disappointed in it.
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I always enjoy seeing the clip (Word of Mouth maybe?) that TCM aired with Patricia Neal talking bout how John Garfield described her character to her by saying "You're a wh*re, you know what I mean. You're a wh*re.".
"yes John, I know what you mean."
"really? Cuz you seem like a real classy dame. When I say w**** I mean someone who...."
"yes I know."
"For money."
"right, I got you John."
(I think it was from a documentary about Garfield.)
Hemingway Novel vs Movie
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1. If you're really interested in a particularly egregious example of "far too many words," spotty punctutation, story ambiguity and blatant racism, may I recommend LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL by Thomas Wolfe?- a book I have tried to make it though about six times, the last attempt ending somewhere circa page 400 with my well-worn copy flying across the room. THE SUN ALSO RISES may be about nothing, but at least it's only 200 pages about nothing. ANGEL is 800 pages about [...] N O T H I N G.
In fact, if you want a head start, I'll sum up the first 400+ pages of LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL for you:
a kid grows up in Asheville, NC in the early twentieth century. His mom runs a boarding house and his dad drinks a lot.
There. Boom. I just summed up the entirety of the 400 pages (with tiny margins, small font and chapters that don't start on new pages.)
It is also the MOST ambitiously, dowright poetically racist thing I have EVER read.
2. I hate how instructors in the same dept. never get together to compare their assignments, because they always end up assigning the same damn stuff over and over again, and often it's the most milquetoast, easily digested and deconstructed stuff. It's like, guys, there are works out there BESIDES THE TEMPEST and THE GREAT GATSBY you could assign....