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14 minutes ago, Dargo said:

Any particular reason why you (and if you'll excuse the expression in this case) lowballed that estimate here, Lorna??? 

honestly, i edited the post from my lascivious original.

which implied that ALL her neighbors and their kids and her coworkers and even most of us were...you know.

but it was maybe "too much."

(the truth often is)

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I will, however, say that I DO MISS THE LAURA DERN TRIBUTE TO BARBARA STANWYCK, which seemed a lot more heartfelt and genuine than JENNIFER JASON LEIGH's and I loved the bit about her school bus driver stopping on front of STANWYCK'S HOUSE every day on his way to drop them off at Beverly Hills Elementary...

"NOW GET OUT KIDS, AND KISS THE GROUND IN FRONT OF THE GATES!!!!! AND HURRY UP, WE GOTTA DO THE SAME THING AT EVE ARDEN'S PLACE DOWN THE BLOCK!!!!"

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2 hours ago, Katie_G said:

It was funny in When Harry Met Sally.  Now, not so much, especially when a client called me yesterday afternoon and it sounded like I was watching porn!  Okay, that didn't actually happen, but it could have.  I need to keep the remote within easy reach at all times.

 

honestly, at least 1/3 of your neighbors are probably looking at porn at any given moment anyway so, really it works out in the end.

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and VANESSA REDGRAVE should sing the lyric "You've got a problem with the way that I am/
They say I'm trouble and I don't give a damn" while WAVING A PLO FLAG.

GOD I MISS THE NINETIES!!!!!!

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ps- I'm having a fun time imagining JOAN PLOWRIGHT belting out the multiple "OH YEAHS" in QUEEN OF THE NIGHT.

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22 minutes ago, CinemaInternational said:

The Oscars that year really missed out on what could have been a camp performance for the ages. That was the year of the much derided year of the Woman theme for the Oscars. The ceremony could have opened with some of that year's nominees trying to belt out the song: Joan Plowright, Emma Thompson, Marisa Tomei, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Catherine Deneuve with the vocal assistance of that night's honorary winner Liz Taylor, while Miranda Richardson, Judy Davis, Susan Sarandon, Mary McDonnell, and Vanessa Redgrave would be breakdancing to the music. I think it could have been a comedy act for the ages.

sounds better than what they went with as tribute to "year of the woman"...

A MUSICAL NUMBER CALLED "LADIES NIGHT" which was performed by LIZA MINELLI.

I will be merciful and not post it here.

IT WAS MOST UNFORTUNATE

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10 hours ago, King Rat said:

Anyone up for filming a reaction video of me discovering who Alyssa Edwards and Jinkx Monsoon are, possibly followed by another reaction video of me discovering I'm sorry I found out who they are? I'm way behind on YouTube Trivia!

i messaged you.

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9 minutes ago, LawrenceA said:

All hail Martine Beswick!

It was extremely uncanny how much she and RALPH BATES resembled one another.

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I watched DR JEKYLL AND SISTER HYDE (1971), More because I am a HAMMER HORROR completist and not because there was anything about it that particularly engaged me, although I guess they do get bonus points for working BURKE AND HARE and JACK THE RIPPER into the mix. 
 

Kinkily amusing at times. Directed by ROY WARD BAKER who had a pretty wild and varied career, a year after the livelier SCARS OF DRACULA.

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4 minutes ago, CinemaInternational said:

I guess there was than one a few years back where the song was disqualified after it was revealed that its writer had made promotional phonecalls. But other than that, its hard to think of a nominated song that was less featured in the film it was up from.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Original_Song

oh. one weird example i can think of offhand is A KISS TO BUILD A DREAM ON being nominated for THE STRIP when it had come out years before,

 

**although it is a great song

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also, WHITNEY did not attend (having just given birth, I think), so NATALIE COLE performed

 

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22 minutes ago, CinemaInternational said:

We still see some of Queen of the night in the film..... what is strange though is how the Oscars nominated the song "Run To You"... which is only included in the film for about 25 seconds, with only a brief glimpse of Whitney in a music video. It's honestly the strangest nomination in the history of the song category.

Sadly, my copy of INSIDE OSCAR has fallen completely to pieces and i had to junk it, but I kinda want to challenge you on this statement. there's GOT to be a weirder BEST ORIGINAL SONG NOMINEE out there in the annals of the awards...

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3 minutes ago, CinemaInternational said:

I know the reviews for The bodyguard were not strong in 1992, but its a really fun noir tinged romance. I liked it. And the soundtrack is wonderful. Only quibble: I wish they had followed Libby Gellman-Waxcner's suggestion and make the stalker either Sally Kirkland or Marsha Mason, both hunting for an Oscar, rather than the man they did go with.....

also also, I recall miss Gelman-Waxner bemoaning that we don't see more of QUEEN OF THE NIGHT in THE BODYGUARD, and suggesting it is probably a lot like the SATAN'S ALLEY number in STAYING ALIVE.

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1 minute ago, CinemaInternational said:

I know the reviews for The bodyguard were not strong in 1992, but its a really fun noir tinged romance. I liked it. And the soundtrack is wonderful. Only quibble: I wish they had followed Libby Gellman-Waxcner's suggestion and make the stalker either Sally Kirkland or Marsha Mason, both hunting for an Oscar, rather than the man they did go with.....

I guarantee you, nine out of ten people who've seen the movie forgot that dude. he was an ODD casting choice.

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23 minutes ago, CinemaInternational said:

No  problem with that lineup. In fact they would all have made good nominees. (And I just found a Used copy of Alternate Oscars, thank you for the link)

If listing performances that popped for actresses in 1992 (not necessarily an endorsement for the films they were in though), they would be:

Fairuza Balk/Gas Food Lodging
Kim Basinger/Final Anaylsis
Geena Davis/ both A League of Their Own and Hero
Catherine Deneuve/Indochine
Mia Farrow/Husbands and Wives
Whoopi Goldberg/Sister Act
Goldie Hawn/ the trio: Death Becomes Her, CrissCross and Housesitter (which actually made Andrew Sarris's top 10 list for English Language films of 1992, amazingly enough)
Whitney Huston/The Bodyguard
Julie Kavner/This is My Life
Jennifer Jason Leigh/Single White Female
Shirley MacLaine/Used People
Samantha Mathis/This is My Life
Mary McDonnell/Passion Fish
Michelle Pfeiffer/for both Love Field and Batman Returns
Sharon Stone/Basic Instinct
Susan Sarandon/Lorenzo's Oil
Madeleine Stowe/The Last of the Mohicans
Meryl Streep/Death Becomes Her
Tilda Swinton/Orlando (1992 in the UK; 1993 in the US)
Emma Thompson/Howards End
Uma Thurman/Jennifer 8
Sigourney Weaver/Alien³
Alfre Woodard/Passion Fish

and don't forget a certain MISS RACHEL MARRON for her STUNNING DEBUT QUEEN OF THE NIGHT:

(LET'S SEE EMMA THOMPSON DO THAT!!!

..Seriously. I mean it. I would LIVE to see EMMA THOMPSON perform QUEEN OF THE NIGHT.)

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16 hours ago, CinemaInternational said:

That's a very popular opinion nowadays that she should have won the Oscar for being Catwoman. It would have been a very good win.

As for her post-Wolf movies, I did think One Fine Day was an effective throwback to screwball comedies and that A Thousand Acres was a great showcase... for Jessica Lange. I did like the musical remake of Hairspray (know that you didn't though), and Cheri in 2009 was a good part for her.

it really would have..,although 1992 was an infamously bad year for women's roles, I think it was a bad year for conventional women's roles, but commercial films actually had some fun parts.

I still recall the paper, which I styled to match the format of an entry in DANNY PEARY'S book ALTERNATE OSCARS (which, if you have not read it, GET A COPY NOW). I'm sure that this is going to get some real derision, but I thought the winner should have been PFEIFFER for BATMAN RETURNS with the other four "worthy" nominees being GOLDIE HAWN and MERYL STREEP for DEATH BECOMES HER, SUSAN SARANDON for LORENZO'S OIL and SHARON STONE in BASIC INSTINCT.)

 

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**And no, I will NEVER stop referencing KEN RUSSELL'S "THE DEVILS."

 

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12 hours ago, HoldenIsHere said:

Yes, the "reactors" in those videos are giving a performance.  It would not surprise me if some of the "first time  watching" videos are later "takes"--- if the  "reactor" was not pleased with their first "genuine" reaction.

I  have more respect for people who upload analysis videos ----  where they discuss what they think is exceptional about an acting or a singing performance. With these kinds of videos there's  no pretense of a "first" reaction.  The people in the videos are discussing a performance they have seen or heard many times so any enthusiasm they display  seems like less of a show than what we see in the "first time reaction" videos.

I have to admit though, there are certain reaction video ideas that I am down for.

Like I would enjoy watching a REACTION VIDEO OF A BUNCH OF JESUIT NUNS WATCHING "KEN RUSSELL'S THE DEVILS" FOR THE FIRST TIME! or, say A GROUP OF EVANGELICAL YOUTH MINISTERS REACT TO SEEING LUCINO VISCONTI'S "THE DAMNED" FOR THE FIRST TIME!!!" or, best of all, ALYSSA EDWARDS REACTION VIDEO TO SEEING "THE LEGEND OF LYLAH CLARE" FOR THE FIRST TIME!"

 

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2 minutes ago, CinemaInternational said:

Couldn't have been any worse than Leigh's voice in 1996's Kansas City. Look, I usually like her in films and I usually like Robert Altman films (he directed that film), but her voice in that film wasn't right. She was trying i think to have the = beat of Jean Harlow's voice, but unfortunately her voice sounded more like James Cagney in one of his most sneering gangster parts. The voice was made all the worse by having her play almost all her scenes with Miranda Richardson, who underplayed beautifully.

THE HUDSUCKER PROXY is JJL at her worst voice-accent-overracting-staccato-wise.

I know she has her fans, but I don't like her and I don't think I've ever liked her in anything.

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43 minutes ago, CinemaInternational said:

Unfortunately, Wolf was the beginning of her career decline, but she had a pretty extraordinary run there from Ladyhawke through Age of Innocence. One good film after another.

HOW DARE YOU????!!!! THERE WAS NO MICHELLE PFEIFFER CAREER DECLINE!!!! SHE IS AN AGELESS ETERNAL ANGEL WHO PRESIDES OVER US ALL!!!!

-KIDDING! I totally know what you mean.

I actually wrote a paper for AP ENGLISH in high school in 1994 wherein I argued that MICHELLE PFEIFFER should have won THE BEST ACTRESS OSCAR in 1992 for BATMAN RETURNS.

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9 minutes ago, txfilmfan said:

It's more difficult now for TCM to generate those interstitial (Ms. Forbes' vocab is fab) tribute videos they used to do for the studio-era stars, because there are few people in Hollywood left who knew them, or worked with them, or even idolized them (like Meryl Streep with the Bette Davis video).  So it's either move on to tributes to more modern stars (which some will complain about), keep replaying the tributes they recorded 20 years ago (which some will complain about), or create content that goes in a new direction (which some will complain about).

 

i don't miss that JENNIFER JASON LEIGH tribute to BARBARA STANWYCK, wherein she referenced STANWYCK'S EXTENSIVE EMOTIVE ABILITIES in the most "THIRD GRADER READING A BOOK REPORT THAT THEY DIDN'T WRITE ON A BOOK THEY DIDN'T READ"-tone of voice I think I have ever heard.

it was like watching a tribute to ANNA MAGNANI narrated by BEN STEIN,

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TCM THE WINE CLUB!

TCM THE TEE-SHIRT!

TCM THE FLAAAAME THROWAH! (the kids love this one)

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7 minutes ago, mkahn22 said:

I DVR most of the movies I'm going to watch, but keep TCM on in the background often and will turn the volume up on some of the "in-between" stuff. It used to be better overall - none of the wine and other merchandise hawking  - but I still enjoy some of the montages, "What a Character" and similar segments,  pre-view clips, etc. It makes the station feel a bit more "alive." But if I watch it too often, it's too repetitive. 

YES, I RECALL GETTING QUITE TIRED OF THE MERCHANDISING!

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I watch everything ON TCM ON DEMAND or TCM ON HULU on demand, so I don't ever sit through the commercials like I used to, and I kinda sorta somewhat miss it...

but not much.