Mr. Gorman
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Before I lost interest in watching the Oscars altogether the ♦main♦ reason I watched was to see the "In Memoriam" segment and since I never knew where it would be in the telecast I had to keep it tuned to the show and wait. With the advent of Wikipedia and 'Recent Deaths' page (which I check often) I no longer need to watch the Academy Awards unless by some chance there's a new movie I really like that's up for an award. There hasn't been in a number of years.
Going back to the 2005 Academy Awards does anyone remember for sure if JOHN VERNON was or wasn't mentioned during the memorial tribute? He died at age 72 on February 1, 2005. That's the last time I can vaguely remember watching and being annoyed he wasn't mentioned . . . but 12 years on perhaps my memory has played some tricks on me and DEAN WORMER did get a mention?
Were I the producer in 2005 I'd have ended the memorial segment with the clip from 'ANIMAL HOUSE' where he says "Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son".
Sure to get a laugh and keep the morbidity to a minimum.→ Leaving ROBERT VAUGHN out was especially pathetic.
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SHERMAN HEMSLEY. He was quite the opposite of George Jefferson in real life.
next: When you think ♦Movies of the 1980s♦ this actor/actress pops into your head!
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I must confess, EricJ, that I don't know what the hell you're talking about?? What "kid's" gone? I don't follow post-2004 film releases at all so I'm lost as to what you're referring to.
→ I don't follow the movie-related activities of the Weinstein Brothers, either. I just knew they directed that low-grade '86 movie. If one is not interested in '80s Zeitgeist I'd avoid the film altogether.
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In the 1980 movie 'FAME' there's a scene where the kids start dancing on the sidewalks, streets and cars 'n' taxis in NYC with music blasting out of 1 taxi in particular.
In the 1976 NYC-based movie 'APPLE PIE' the last 10 minutes of movie is characters dancing on the streets of New York City. On top of a white Ford station wagon most prominently + also on the sidewalks and on the sides of buildings. Irene Cara appears at the end of 'APPLE PIE' as one of the dancers. She comes running out of her apartment building and is very noticeable. One of the great movie endings I've ever seen.
I cannot believe the street-dancing scene in 'FAME' was just a coincidence; "borrowed" is the proper word I do believe.
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Perhaps TCM could show some more '80s-era musicals. Would that not be too kool for skool? TCM aired the 1984 Canadian-made musical HEAVENLY BODIES not long ago late on a Saturday night (Underground!) and of course aired FAME (1980) very recently.
Here's some more 1980s-era musical stylings caught on film:
BREAKIN' (1984) -and- BREAKIN' 2: Electric Boogaloo (1984)
BODY ROCK (1984) Starring Lorenzo Lamas.
CROSSOVER DREAMS (1985) Starring Ruben Blades. Salsa music is on display here.
SALSA (1988)
RAPPIN' (1985) I remember the tagline for this: "Rappin' . . . this movie had to happen!"
DELIVERY BOYS (1984) This was released on 'New World Video'; I remember seeing this for rent in various video stores in the misty past. Could DELIVERY BOYS be ripe for re-discovery? (Probably not, but it could be a 'TCM Underground' feature like HEAVENLY BODIES was).
GOOD TO GO (1986) (aka: "Short Fuse") Features a kind of music called 'go-go music'.
PLAYING FOR KEEPS (1986) Directed by Bob and Harvey Weinstein. Dated teen-themed musical sorta movie.
. . . and let's toss the, uh, 1991 musical something COOL AS ICE in to the brew. Starring Vanilla Ice. How could one go wrong watching this slice of entertainment?
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You didn't spray Raid in your face did you, joebug, before typing out your thread heading? Perhaps you watched DUMB AND DUMBER TO recently?
It should be 'TOO MANY MUSICALS'.
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After reading a goodly number of posts below I have come to the conclusion:
Oily to bed, oily to rise . . . makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. And shiny.
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Also, in THE TOWERING INFERNO remember O.J. SIMPSON saving Jennifer Jones' cat? O.J. gives it to Fred Astaire at the end of the movie cos Jennifer J. fell out of the scenic elevator and got mangled on the way down. (Not that she would've lived anyway falling 100+ floors . . . but hitting the side of the building sorta iced it).
I like the Leonard Maltin review of 'TOWERING INFERNO' where it states the movie "spends its time devising grisly ways for people to die".
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There is 1 particular "crime of fashion" I remember distinctly, but it's not from a movie. Remember when Johnny Carson retired from "The Tonight Show" in May 1992? Bette Midler was on singing a song to Johnny wearing what looked like a black pantsuit with yellow tennis balls in the middle flying around. Really awful.
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British actor FREDDIE JONES
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ELLIE (1984) Shelley Winters, Edward Albert, Pat Paulsen, George Gobel, Sheila Kennedy and Patrick Tovatt.
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I've seen KLUTE several times and this is the first time I've even thought about what became of the cat. Fancy that.
There is good news for those who want to watch a movie set in NYC involving a single woman who has a cat where we find out what happens to the leading lady's puddy tat! It's WINDOWS (1980). See it today!
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There's FLASH AND THE FIRECAT (1975) where the mode of transportation is dune buggies. Directed by Ferd and Beverly Sebastian (GATOR BAIT).
next: A movie you know is bad, but you like it anyway. Guilty pleasure time!
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RABID (1977-Canadian), a David Cronenberg exercise in venereal horror.
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THE LATE SHOW (1977) One thing, however: The lying takes place off-screen. Lily Tomlin comments on how she just lied to the police to Art Carney and Bill Macy, but we don't actually her being questioned.
Next: The worst-directed movie you've ever seen. (I know what you're thinking . . . yer thinkin' "Why is there a director credited when there was no direction?")
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The 1983 TVM "MADD: Mothers Against Drunk Driving", C-100m. (On MCA Home Video; I have a copy).
next: The first film that comes to mind with a title that in no way indicates what goes in the film. I reckon you could say a 'misleading' title?
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So the roly-poly German prof wrote some dark and disturbing poems? Hmm . . . here's a poem for your perusal. It is a bit long, but stick with it.
"HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL"
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A man emerges from his house of decay
The trees are all dead
The leaves . . . on the ground
No birds sing here
No animals stir
The staleness in the air
is not easily dismissed
As dead flowers bloom with the blackness of hate
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The blue death has come
With the cold wind of autumn
It does not illuminate
It Only Thickens
Encroaches
-Silently-
Leaving burns on the frozen faces
Of the fever-gripped and forgotten
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Pervasive melancholia grips the land
Massacre-ing the virginal innocence of youth
Twisted desires of the flesh bring infertility to all
Groping for the light
The seeping drip of Hell in to our own dark souls
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It is the sacrifice of the human spirit
To a god with a cloven hoof
That tears ragged skin
From a ravaged face
There is no rest
No peace
No grace by which we could exist
Can permeate the impenetrable spectre of the grey fog
And its eternal permanence over a desolate Earth
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Horrors beyond human comprehension
Reach from beyond the Grave
To pull
And tear
And choke
the fabric of our sanity
Woe be to the neophyte --
brimming with good intentions --
Who ventures to this barren landscape of Eternal Night
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Shapes of vague abstraction
Form in the misty gloom
Idiot colors filter through the muddy darkness
The unclean lake of muck and mire
Spews forth age-old evil
From deep within
Horned demons gore the undefiled
Their claws of wickedness
Severing the arteries of purity
Their vulgar fangs dripping with the sharpness of freshly drawn blood
As the scent of sulfur suffocates the pleading innocents.
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Recent posts on this thread have jogged my memory. I remember a college course in German where, on the first day of class, the instructor casually mentioned how Germans tied their shoes . . . in little Nazis, of course.
On to the next semester.
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I watched GOLTERPEIST last night. I last saw it about 3 or 4 years ago. I admit to still enjoying "Poltergeist" quite a bit. A trivia-oriented thought occurred to me as to why 'CRAIG T. NELSON' bills himself with a middle initial . . . could it be because when Craig T. got started on his acting career in the late 1970s there was already an actor busy at that time named 'CRAIG RICHARD NELSON' and that's how he figured to differentiate himself from the other Craig Nelson? I remember Craig Richard Nelson from "The Paper Chase" and "A Wedding" + he appeared later in the run of "The Carol Burnett Show". He was of a heavier weight in "The Paper Chase" than he was in "A Wedding".
A THOUGHT: Maybe TCM could have a JoBeth Williams evening; start with TEACHERS (1984) then on to ENDANGERED SPECIES (1982) and finish with POLTERGEIST. A 3-fer.
I liked ENDANGERED SPECIES more than Leonard Maltin and his reviewer buddies did. Think they gave it only a star-and-a-half. *½
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All these makeshift memorials chock full of 'stuff' all around. Even in the middle of nowhere where I reside there are still some of these phony 'tributes' with junk piled up near the highway. → And maybe the deceased teenager who wrapped his car around a tree at 90 mph was just coming back from a coke buy and couldn't wait to get back home so he could snort his dinner. BUT . . . Junior Druggie Speedster didn't make the curve and done got hisself good and deaded. The cops then scraped his mangled remains off the concrete abutment nearby and put 'em in a shoe box to bring home to Momma.
I'll concede I may be a tad cynical.
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I cannot remember the last time I watched the Academy Awards. It's been a while. I don't feel like I've missed anything of value by skipping watching in recent years.
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So the IMDb Message Boards are now ♦toast♦, eh? No big deal. Only 1 regret of all the things I typed out on the Msg. Boards: I wrote a thorough description and opinion of what could've happened to the 1978 comedy 'THE CHEAP DETECTIVE' just before it's release. There was obviously some pre-release cutting done (note the 2 editors credited in the opening and the fact you don't see 'Carole Wells' as 'The Hat Check Girl' + over the closing credits you'll see a number of other actor credits for people who do not appear in the film). I think 'THE CHEAP DETECTIVE' runs 92 minutes. Maybe it ran 100m. before those last-minute cuts? Phil Silvers had 1 line at the end as 'Hoppy'. I wonder if he originally had a few more lines?
I hadn't posted regularly on the IMDb Msg. Boards for years, but I did look up what I typed for "The Cheap Detective" last week before it kicked off.
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I remember watching ENSIGN PULVER on TCM. It wasn't really a bad movie, but I thought it paled in comparison to MISTER ROBERTS. And I reckon I'm not alone in that opinion.
When I was in high school there was a grading system of 'A-F'; I'd give ENSIGN PULVER a firm ' C- '. I felt Walker was too melancholy in Lemmon's role and that threw the film off-balance enough to lower the entertainment value significantly. ENSIGN PULVER was supposed to be a comedy. I think. I didn't laugh once, but I did watch it all the way through.
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Speaking of SIDNEY POITIER . . . sort of.
Has anyone here seen the 1972 low-budget action picture "THE DAREDEVIL"? It's a short film (70 minutes) and very fast-paced. It stars George Montgomery (who gives the role all he's got as an amoral, less-than-likeable race-car driver), Terry Moore and Sidney's much-older brother CYRIL (b. 1911) as a mortician who's out to get Montgomery.
I can't help but think the makers of the 1974 movie "DIRTY MARY CRAZY LARRY" saw "The Daredevil". There are several parallels that can be drawn between the movies.
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I noted several posts below there was a mention of a PSA. It got me to thinking . . .
Y'all just have to check out the 1973 British public service announcement called 'DARK AND LONELY WATER'. It's 1 min 30 seconds and the voice of the piece's narrator should be well familiar to anyone on here.
It's on YouTube, LiveLeak and probably other sites.
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Sure to get a laugh and keep the morbidity to a minimum.
Oscar "disconnect"
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I was thinking that after reading about Warren Beatty on this thread: He really hasn't made that many movies. Without going to the IMDb or Wikipedia to check I think the number is only 22 films. → As a memory exercise of sorts I shall endeavor to list them all and year of release. Shouldn't be too difficult. (One thing, however: I do not recall the name of Warren's very recent film release. Shucks).
Rules Don't Apply (2016)*
Town & Country (2001) (filmed mostly in 1998).
Bulworth (1998)
Love Affair (1994)
Bugsy (1991)
Dick Tracy (1990)
Ishtar (1987)
Reds (1981)
Heaven Can Wait (1978)
Shampoo (1975)
Fortune, The (1975)
Parallax View, The (1974)
McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971)
$Dollars$ (1971)
Only Game In Town, The (1970)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Kaleidoscope (1966)
Promise Her Anything (1966)* (EDIT: I did miss this one)
Mickey One (1965)
Lilith (1964)
All Fall Down (1962)
Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, The (1961)
Splendor in the Grass (1961)
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Did I miss any? Beatty's contemporary, Jack Nicholson, has been in about twice the number of films as Warren. I don't think I could list most of Jack's flicks without checking a source.