LornaHansonForbes
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Is there any NSFW content?
that's a cute top. That's a cute top. I want to borrow it.
No. there's no audio no visuals nothing like that just straight printed trash. However as I said I view it using Firefox and often it starts not responding and I have to close, Firefox is so polite as always apologizing and taking me right back to where I left off. So safe for work, don't know if it's laden with filthy horrible viruses from the Russians are not.
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Richard Harris's use of guyliner in CAMELOT was before its time.
Ewan McGregor can get away with guyliner. Lead singer of Green Day too.
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Agnes Moorehead in BEWITCHED....ok no one on earth has EVER worn more eye makeup than Agnes Moorehead in BEWITCHED.....BUT Richard Harris still wears A LOT of eye makeup in CAMELOT.
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It will help on boring work days............
okay honey, I would quit my job 100 * over it wasn't for the site. Another warning though, sometimes it has issues loading not responding you have to close it down to reopen it. But seriously so juicy
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You wonder what the king is doing tonight? He's at the Camelot CVS, picking up his Max Factor supply for the month. (It's buy two get one free, and he wants to get the free gift.)
there were prostitutes working in Reno in the seventies who wore less blue eyeshadow than Richard Harris does in CAMELOT.
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Lucille Ball in MAME wears less eye make-up than Richard Harris in CAMELOT.
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I saw the show, and it remains the greatest cast I've ever seen on a stage, all the way down to the last member of the ensemble. I think the biggest difference between the two (musical talent aside), is that the show played more magical on stage. Everyone was elevated. On film, even with blue eye shadow on the king, and fake looking trees, everyone is so base and, well, common. So, while Vanessa was very earthy in her portrayal, she really wasn't particularly special. Certainly not special enough to understand why this knight who so loved this king, would risk everything for her. He could have had any other girl in town, who was equally as ordinary. The other thing that comes to mind, is the show actually played like a fairly major comedy, for the first, at least 1/2 of it. I recall major laughs. Nothing was funny about the film. It was all rather, dreary, even when they were frolicking.
HOMAHGAH!!!! I wasn't even three lines into your post when I was saying out loud "oh my God yes!" In re: Richard Harris's guyliner.
Okay, I admit it: he looks good. Guyliner works on some guys, but look, Richard, Love, just because you can get away with it doesn't necessarily mean it's right for this role.
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LMREO!!! Thanks for the info. I'll have to head on over there............
by all means do, but you've been forewarned: you start clicking on the items and the next thing you know it's Wednesday 2 weeks from now and you're sitting there looking like Howard Hughes.
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LOL. Considering all that, was nice of Babs to say anything..........
I have discovered an absolutely fabulous gossip website called Crazy Days and Nights. The thing they're famous for is blind items, and later on revealing those blind items. Their database has about a hundred pages of them-.they even every now and then have an "old Hollywood" blind item wherein they dish on 30s and 40s stars.
anyhoo: one I stumbled across the other day was this:
"this permanent A+ list, multi-talented icon went on a talk show the other day and spent the entire interview texting. The crew had to bend over backwards to try and prevent her constant tapping and typing on her phone from being visible the entire time. Besides that she was none too pleasant to deal with. At the end of the interview she stood up and asked the host for a hug, to which the host replied "**** off." "
the star? Babs herself. The host in question? Gayle King. (I so want for this to be true.)
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I dunno....isn't the fact that people kept hiring him enough of a reward for David Niven?
SOTM...really?
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Thanks for the research!
here's more:
Co-stars Barbra Streisand and Omar Sharif had an affair during the making of Funny Girl which Sharif details in his 1976 autobiography The Eternal Male. Later he told Rex Reed, "She's a monster. I had nothing to do but stand around. But she's a fascinating monster. Sometimes I just stood on the sidelines and watched her. I think her biggest problem is that she wants to be a woman and she wants to be beautiful and she is neither."
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Actress/singer BARBRA STREISAND has honored the memory of her late FUNNY GIRL co-star OMAR SHARIF, insisting she is "profoundly sad" at the loss.
The Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago icon suffered a fatal heart attack on Friday (10Jul15), aged 83, and pals including his The 13th Warrior co-star Antonio Banderas and his 10,000 BC director Roland Emmerich were among the celebrities to offer up sweet messages online.
Now Streisand has added her tribute to Sharif, recalling how he rose above the criticism of his casting and their interracial love scene in 1968's Funny Girl to deliver a remarkable performance.
In a statement, she writes: "Omar was my first leading man in the movies. He was handsome, sophisticated and charming. He was a proud Egyptian and in some people's eyes, the idea of casting him in 'Funny Girl' was considered controversial. Yet somehow, under the direction of William Wyler, the romantic chemistry between Nicky Arnstein (his character) and Fanny Brice (Streisand's character) transcended stereotypes and prejudice.
"I feel lucky to have had the opportunity to work with Omar, and I'm profoundly sad to hear of his passing."
The role won Streisand the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1969.
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Anyone know if Barbra made any public statement about Sharif? Just curious........
I haven't; of course nothing could ever top the statement Omar made about Barbra (something about her being a "monster"- and they were former lovers too!)
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Well, here is the real deal, from a very very very short cameo in the Monkees flick Head. And he looks a bit svelter than normal here:
Dang Tor!
Jenny Craig worked for you.
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They did dub him. CAMELOT, on film, plays like an overlong hippie love-in.
YES!
Love it.
...and it's funny, because I get what they are going for in the film- the fact that the actor playing Arthur can't carry a tune even though his heart is thorougly in it; and the actor playing Lancelot has this rich, melodious, (but ironically dubbed) singing voice is really a metaphor for their characters (and the sexual prowess of each.) And Vanessa Redgrave's chic, worldly Guinevere is technically a more sensibile rendering of the character- (when Julie Andrews sings her [admittedly wonderful] rendition of THE LUSTY MONTH OF MAY, one gets the impression that her idea of "a nasty thing or two" to do is ripping the tags off a couple of mattresses; whereas Vanessa lays the sex on with a trowel.)
...but in the end: resoundingly it's a big NO!. Even what seems like a more logical portrayal of the characters just does not hold a candle to the original Broadway cast and the souffle collapses before our very eyes.
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Wednesday, July 15
6:15 p.m. His Brother’s Wife (1936). Another Barbara Stanwyck film that I haven’t seen.
And noteworthy because it is the film on which she met future husband Robert Taylor, and the only time they costarred with the exception of the awful 1964 film THE NIGHTWALKER.
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It is strange that Mayo is in this non Warner Brothers picture since she was under contract with WB. I assume she was 'traded' for another United Artist star? Raft was no longer under contract for WB at the time. Note the issue wasn't their height since Mayo was 5-5 and Raft 5-7. So no ditch was required for Mayo (well as long as she didn't wear heals)!
oh, okay. For some reason I thought this was a Warner Brothers film, but now I remember seeing the United Artists logo. Yeah maybe there was some sort of a backroom deal worked out.
thanks for the FYI.
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I'm not sure about that. Wouldnt they have to get permission to run the clips? Would think there would be some time constraints on how long that would be. (the rights to show them). Since they dont know when someone is going to bite it, that could be a long time. But I dont know for sure.
By the way, does anyone know if Cher is dying??? The Star was running it as front page news a couple months ago. And now last week The Enquirer was....
I want to say that if it's a very brief clip that is used, and used for the purposes of a memorial, then maybe they don't have to get permission to show it.
Of course it's entirely possible that I have absolutely no clue what I'm talking about.
I don't know about Cher. Now you've given me something else to worry about. If I see her I'll be sure to ask how she's doing. (we travel in similar circles.)
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That is odd about Mayo. I hope I dont have to wait a year before TCM runs it again. Nothing worse than not seeing the end of a mystery film!!!
well, if it means anything to you: it has a rather predictable ending (at least from the perspective of the last five minutes or so.)
but the climax is pretty well done and clearly cost a whole lot of money to do, and is rather unique for a film noir.
(sorry: I'm not making you feel any better about missing it am I?)
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RED LIGHT was a weird weird movie. Not bad, but weird. the thing I most remember would be a lot of the unusual camera angles and movements that the director uses, in fact there was one really tight zoom-in on George Raft that reminded me quite a bit of the famous zoom Spielberg used years later in JAWS where the camera zooms in tightly on Roy Scheider as the young boy on the beach is eaten.I was so ticked I missed the last half or Red Light due to a remote glitch. I hope TCM shows it again. The first part was interesting. Bummed.
Yes, I noticed the similar cues in the score.........(the other film)
(there is probably a more technical term for it that I don't know.)
The other thing about RED LIGHT that struck me as odd was that Virginia Mayo is in the film for maybe all of 10 minutes- possibly even less. That's really strange because she was at the absolute peak of her stardom and this was her follow-up to WHITE HEAT.
(I sometimes wonder if maybe they had a hard time getting female actors to work opposite Raft.)
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Remember, movies are not real life. It's people playing roles. There is of course a level of "theatricality" to any actor's work; but Parker's pales in comparison to the hamminess of Swanson and Davis, who are actually playing actors.
But, I think with CAGED, there is an effort being made at gritty realism, and elements of Parker's performance are out of step with that. I also think it is important that the viewer not be made to feel manipulated- and I do commend the film for saying something about the sad state of prisons in America (something that has not improved)- but again, there is a touch of manipulation, of sensationalism and of theatrics that turns off some viewers to the ideas the filmmakers are putting across because there is something disingenious about how they are being related to us.
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You mean how every single Meryl Streep performance strikes me? She never, ever, ever lets me forget she is A C T I N G!!!
If I may tack on, she is not just ACTING, but also ACTING, for your consideration.
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"The River" (1951) was the 2nd new one--directed by Jean Renoir & cinematography done by Claude Renoir--simple story set in British colonial India very well directed & acted--but again, the Technicolor was an absolute knockout--individual scenes looked like they were painted onto the film, not photographed--can't recommend film highly enough!
I was home on a lunch break and turned on TCM for background noise as I checked my mail, etc. There was a scene where a homely little girl is talking to her mother, asking her "am I pretty?" and she and the mother proceed to have a long, frank discussion about the role of women, the nature of beauty and what it means to be a mother.
I stopped what I was doing and possibly even said out loud "what is this movie?!"- I mean, people did not talk like this in films made before 1960- which this movie clearly was. I looked it up on the schedule- and saw that it was based on a novel by Rumer Godden.
I watched a little more, then actually made the choice to turn it off, not because it was bad, but because I found a copy of the source novel at my local library and wanted to read it first.
(have it at home now, but have not starting reading it yet- so don't ruin the ending for me!)
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I'm mad at myself for using the word "mannered" in referance to Parker's work in CAGED. It's a go-to word for too many critics when we can't find just the right (or simpler) way to say "I don't entirely buy that they ARE the character as opposed to someone playing a character in a movie/play."
Please don't think I'm saying she was a bad actress or is bad in the role- far from it- but there is a level of theatricality to her work that I think the director would've been wise to have worked with her to eliminate.
Omar Sharif has died
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sorry. Voice transcription may have heard some of that last message wrong, but I'm in a hurry I've got to get to work sorry bye. More later.