LornaHansonForbes

(when you get right down to it, the only real difference between CECIL B DEMILLE and JOHN WATERS is that one had a much higher budget to work with.)

12/3/21 two films have already aired, but look for them on TCM ON DEMAND- THE SILVER CORD (1933)- an RKO Precode which premiered on TCM recently- and MADAME SATAN (1930) an UTTERLY BONKERS C.B. DEMILLE PIC that i was just by chance reading a review of this morning.

I can truly appreciate the effort here, but it's a little "YEA THOUGH I WALK THROUGH THE SHADOW OF THE UNCANNY VALLEY" for me...

I REMEMBER ONE NIGHT ALMOST 15 YEARS AGO.... TCM somehow by accident ran a colorized print of THE BELLS OF ST. MARY'S... It was like being HIGH ON LSD AT AN EXTRA TACKY QUINCENERA. I kinda dug it to be honest. But mostly I'm a firm "no" on colorization.

I think the gallons of booze might have played a part as well. ps- THE DEVILS RAIN is a masterpiece compared to FOOD OF THE GODS.

SEE, THIS IS WHY I LOVE THIS SITE. Even when I don't mean to, I learn new things. 6 though? That seems so arbitrary for rankings. I kinda wonder if maybe ALFRED settled on a 1-5 scale, but then had an interview with a YOUNG RIP TAYLOR that made him designate an extra-special rating for certain individuals as he dusted all the glitter off his suit.

I keep meaning to look this one up, I’ve *never* seen it. But I do recall hearing about it on the playground at school.

everytime i watch IDA LUPINO in anything, I always remember that she was, in fact, very British- if I recall correctly, she lived in ENGLAND until she was 17 or 18 and came to America to audition for the ill-fated 1933 ALICE IN WONDERLAND. Her whole family were BRITISH STAGE ACTORS, and she's very convincingly American in her later parts, but the combination/hybrid of the accents is so distinct and unusual, sort of like a TRANSATLANTIC/BRITISH AUCTIONEER WHO'S LIVED IN BROOKLYN FOR A FEW MONTHS. ...also, I think there is a hint of exaggeration (deliberate and loving) in her interpretation of what an AMERICAN WOMAN of the time was like.

And I had a loud, obnoxious one for TACO BELL. It's like RUSSIAN ROULETTE with ADS ON YOUTUBE these days.

APOLOGIES FOR ANY ADS THAT MAY PLAY FIRST.

I WAS LITERALLY THINKING OF IT THIS MORNING!!!!!!!

Me either, ‘cause Honey, it is EXPLICIT (It might actually have more sex and nudity than any other Waters film)

I think it's mainly the hair

It has a great opening scene, but it loses all focus and goes downhill fast and the SETS get OUTLANDISHLY CHEAP AND SMUTTY AND DARK, it's like a GRADE SCHOOL PLAY IN HELL...I kinda think maybe the lead actress (the black maid GRISELDA) quit because she exits the film so strangely 2/3 into it. Here is part of the opening, FYI, the whole film is actually on youtube, but really, it's one i recommend only for YOU JOHN WATERS COMPLETISTS/ SICK F***S out there. (of which, I am both.) UNBELIEVABLY NSFW BTW EDIT- OMG, THIS CLIP IS LIKE WATCHING MYSELF

That reminds me...I have to go light a prayer candle for KIM BASINGER. (I just hope she's well.)

I'm 43 and I have been a lifelong solid "5" on The Kinsey Scale (that's the really gay rating, right?) and I recently saw BODY HEAT for the first time and spent a weekend questioning my sexuality thanks to KATHLEEN TURNER'S breasts in this film.

I also enjoy her in FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC, fault-riddled film that it is. but MAN, she has been in some low rent DUDS, ie GRIZZLY II and MAMA DRACULA.

He did however escape being married to LINDA LAVIN to find such a real and lasting happiness with second wife JESSICA WALTER that it was said her recent surprise passing had a lot to do with his some 18 months earlier (it is said that she missed him terribly.)

BIG THANKS TO KATIE G FOR ALERTING us to a copy of THE MAN I LOVE (1947) on u-yay ube-tay. I watched it the other day, it's not a great print, but it's such an old-fashioned film that some scratches and hiss add some charm. I like to think of this film as belonging to a WARNER BROS ANTHOLOGY SERIES entitled GIANT SHOULDER PAD THEATER. the experience is not entirely unlike watching football (but more interesting). I half-expected a few scenes to end with IDA THROWING SOME BLOCKS AND TACKLES as the NOTRE DAME VICTORY MARCH starts on the soundtrack....

THIS IS SUCH A STRANGE FILM FOR ME. I am curious if anyone in the modern audience had issues with the way the script passes no judgment on THE COMPLETELY ABSENTEE FATHER (played by JAMES CRAIG if i rightly recall?) it BOTHERS ME SO MUCH that there is no tension caused by his COMPLETE ABANDONMENT OF HIS WIFE AND CHILD, both of whom deserved scenes where they each got to PUT HIM ON BLAST for taking a powder for the last decade and then tell him TO BUST OUT THE CHECKBOOK ASAP AND GET READY TO MAKE SOME BACK PAYMENTS FOR CHILD SUPPORT

Maybe they hired THE RIDDLER to be the EXECUTIVE IN CHARGE OF THE GRAPHICS DEPT. ...?

I'm not sure if TCM has a combination site/set design overseer, but someone, somewhere sent out an internal memo that THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS TOO MUCH CHARTREUSE... To wit I say, THE HELL THERE ISN'T AND I WILL FIGHT YOU ON THAT ALL THE WAY TO THE GOD****ED SUPREME COURT IF I HAVE TO. ...and even CLARENCE THOMAS hates CHARTREUSE.

it's got a fun ending too.

Yes, I can’t remember the name of the actress who plays the vigilante gospel singer in POLYESTER, but she sort of plays the lead in DESPERATE LIVING (1977?) Which is by far John Waters’ darkest most unbalanced film, I’ve seen it a couple of times and it’s very unsettling. ( And spoiler, after it seems like her character is going to be the lead, she actually dies about halfway through.) Also she has a nude love scene with MINK STOLE That has burned itself into my brain.

this is another fun scene in POLYESTER that doesn't contribute a thing to the overall plot.