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On 1/1/2019 at 9:36 AM, TopBilled said:
On the Starz streaming site, there is a category of films called Screen Legends.
These people are included as legendary movie stars. See if you agree:
JULIA ROBERTS
HARRISON FORD
JIM CARREY
EDDIE MURPHY
TOM CRUISE
HEATH LEDGER
MORGAN FREEMAN
MEL GIBSON
GOLDIE HAWN
JUDE LAW
ROBIN WILLIAMS
JOHN TRAVOLTA
ROBERT DE NIRO
ADAM SANDLER
ROBERT REDFORD
AUDREY HEPBURN
WINONA RYDER
ANTHONY HOPKINS
JOHNNY DEPP
WILL SMITH
MATT DAMON
STEVE MCQUEEN
JAMES GARNER
KEVIN COSTNER
DONALD SUTHERLAND
RICHARD GERE
JESSICA LANGE
ALBERT BROOKS
AL PACINO
STEVE MARTIN
PAUL NEWMAN
NICOLAS CAGE
KIRK DOUGLAS
CLINT EASTWOOD
DENZEL WASHINGTONJulia Roberts? Kill me now...
Jude Law is the John Loder of his day. I'll stop with that since I'm too tired to continue being snarky.-
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Maybe the TCM staff manning such enterprises needs reviewing. I wouldn't worry though much about not getting any new books on movies or movie stars, since most of them are written by the same network of people who just do some hasty research, slap some photos in the tome and then market it, and probably have their friends give it glowing reviews online.
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On 12/30/2018 at 11:47 AM, Det Jim McLeod said:
Nobody expects The Spanish Inquisition! Or that a member of Monty Python would become a knight, is he the first of them to be honored in this way?
No, no one expects the Spanish Inquisition but everyone should expect anyone who can sell a dead parrot to be knighted, like Palin.
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On 1/1/2019 at 11:08 PM, MovieCollectorOH said:
I had a lengthy post which included this scenario, then decided I was trying to cover too much ground and some genius here would only quote one sentence to pick apart.
So you have been assailed by that same "genius" also, eh?
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On 1/1/2019 at 2:38 PM, Ida said:
I absolutely hate those movies --the plots are lame! They are not funny and so predictable. Plots are always about a husband who starts his day with a drink in his hand or already drunk, his wife is always richly dressed and her face is already made up and continuously befuddled and doesn't know what to do with her hands on camera and she doesn't know what to do with her movie husband either. They spend all their days drinking, smoking, visiting other rich people who are drinking. You know who was funny? Cary Grant. OMG, "Bringing up Baby" is funny physical comedy. It never gets old. Mr. Grant
moved on to serious movies with plots of twists and turns. Please excuse any typos.
Typos are inexcusable, but do invariably point to one of the many reasons why you don't enjoy the Thin Man movies. By the way, don't blame William Powell for starting the day with a drink, because often when I read posts here I have to resort to drink also.
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On 12/29/2018 at 6:01 PM, cigarjoe said:
This was quite a while ago on the TCM Western Board that's the Wayne Western with Ella Rains and Gabby Hays if I remember right, no?.
Yep, pardner and don't forget it also had in it film stalwarts like Paul Fix, Raymond Hatton, Walter Baldwin, Clem Bevans, Russell Simpson and a relatively young Ben Johnson.
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20 hours ago, TopBilled said:
I should point out the girl who plays Eyer's sister in COME NEXT SPRING is Sherry Jackson. She was in quite a few movies, and she had a regular role on Make Room for Daddy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherry_Jackson
Eyer also played one of the kids of Ma and Pa Kettle, poor laddie!
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59 minutes ago, kingrat said:
The French film Tous les matins du monde is about, and features, the music of the 17th-century composer Marin Marais. The Ravel Piano Trio figures prominently in the great film Un coeur en hiver. You might not want to watch either of these films when you're feeling depressed.
Fantasia, of course, has a lot of classical music, and The Competition, one of the unsung films of the 90s, is about a piano competition. One of the Prokofiev piano concertos is prominently featured. One of the movements from Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals provides the theme music for Days of Heaven. Although Yes, Giorgio! is a dumb movie, Luciano Pavarotti sings many of the most familiar tenor arias.
In the 1930s and 1940s classical music was part of the common movie and radio culture, and Toscanini and Stokowski were big celebrities. Movies might include mini-concertos that sounded like Tchaikovsky or Rachmaninoff, like Richard Addinsell's Warsaw Concerto in Dangerous Moonlight. Carnegie Hall includes numerous classical music celebrities and compositions.
This is just the tip of the iceberg.
Love Ravel and I'm never depressed. Forgot about Saint-Saens even though I own the soundtrack to Days of Heaven. Thanx for the nods to the other classical pieces and Stowkowski and Toscanini whose names are almost forgotten by the majority of the public.
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1 hour ago, Sepiatone said:
Outside of composer/performer biopics ( A SONG TO REMEMBER/ AMADEUS/ SONG OF LOVE/ etc.) PORTRAIT OF JENNIE ('49) features a lot of DEBUSSY on it's soundtrack. And PETER LORRE'S old "M" has some GREIG playing in it.
I'm sure there are plenty others that do feature many snippetts of classical pieces in them, but none immediately come to mind. But I'm sure the good folks here can sufficiently fill in the gaps.
Sepiatone
Oh yeah, In the Hall of the Mountain King is marvelous as are the others mentioned. Thanx.
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24 minutes ago, rayban said:
Yes, but it is not really a neglected performance.
You perhaps have not "neglected" her performanceand rate it highly but I've never seen it mentioned here by anyone else in the TCM audience. I think Fossey and the film seemingly are much less commented on in the TCM environs, than people like Natalie Wood, John Howard Davies, or others mentioned in this thread.
If you are saying the film intelligentsia who write books about movies do put Jeux Interdits and Fossey's performance in its proper perspective as a classic film and role, then yes, I agree with you wholeheartedly but I thought we were remarking on TCM poster standards. -
36 minutes ago, Sgt_Markoff said:
There's a lot of people who dislike 'Its a Wonderful Life'. Nothing incompatible with the fact that a huge amount of people do like it. Its no poor reflection on anyone, either way.
I totally agree. Everyone is allowed to dislike anything for any reason but it should only be relevant to said person. I only find it amusing when some go beyond the "each to his/her own" taste theorem, into judging the intrinsic quality of a film or anything, based on just their own feelings, saying things like "Well, Miss Julie isn't a great film because I was so bored watching it." This falls into the pearls before swine dictum and is always worth ignoring as sound commentary.
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I enjoyed the use of Mozart's and Vivaldi's music in Elvira Madigan and Chopin's Nocturne in The Amazing Mr. X. Would enjoy hearing about other films with classical pieces being utilized.
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I admire Brigitte Fossey in Jeux Interdits.
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3 minutes ago, TheCid said:
Found an interesting article on the internet. Apparently William Lawrence Boyd (Hopalong) and William "Stage" Boyd. Cannot verify the validity of the post though. See the comments.
Far be it from me to besmirch the character of any actor without proof, so I won't reveal what I've been told but I've heard quite a lot more than what is mentioned in that article, but don't know the veracity of any of it. Such remarks were given to me by people in the collecting field of western articles who were privy supposedly to many aspects of Boyd's later career as a tv cowboy icon.
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10 minutes ago, Sgt_Markoff said:
Oh come now my good man. I can't in good conscience ever permit such praise. All the veteran posters on this site are far in advance over me in terms of the lore they dispense. They have facts and figures at their fingertips which make me a piker. I knew I was in good company when I first arrived here and saw TopBilled posting about ...about...umm well actually the first post which I landed in was the Perry King Appreciation thread but you know what I mean. These guys are information sponges!
My good man, at least let me bestow the honor of being inducted into the joint Alexander King/Jack Douglas Appreciation Society. Hopefully no one here will chastize me for singularly awarding you this membership status or take task with me for comparing you to Douglas by mentioning that it is undeserved due to you not having shared connubial bliss with anyone named Reiko. For those thinking this is off topic, I can only say their lack of knowledge of the contributions of both King and Douglas to entertainment makes me very sad.
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15 minutes ago, Sgt_Markoff said:
G Man, thanks for speaking up there with that opinion. I'm currently abstaining from the practice which drew down such wrath on my head but I can't promise to swear off it for good. I think what it proved though, was that reaching backward into the archives, can be refreshing. A good number of the resuscitated discussions generated a slew of fresh insights and commentary.
I think some might see it as a Pyrrhic victory for you, Sgt. but they are misguided and short sighted. Perhaps you are just a bit out of your milieu but I learn much about films from your every post. Though some might take umbrage at your sophistication and knowledge of film and the world, I am thankful for your astute insights. I mean really...film is just a persiflage and an adjunct to life in general and if one has not a real life than they make too much importance of their reel life, which is mostly childish prattle.
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30 minutes ago, Sgt_Markoff said:
29 milliseconds ago, GordonCole intimated:
Try as I might, I canter make heads or tails of this sentence. Neigh after even multiple reads. Can you run it past us again?
Whoa, Nellie. Bar the gait and spare the reins. Uh, I think I was trying to make a distinction between situations in film discussions about equines from supposed masters of dressage who are more likely masters of massage. There's no Gallup [gallop] Poll about such things but I can't canter to evading what is supposed to be levade but is more likely just an ambling ambiance. Sorry for the horsing around. It's not my vault. Sometimes an old nag will just bring such bits of info out of me.
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16 hours ago, Sgt_Markoff said:
aeons ago, LawrenceA hissed:
Well I had an idea which was even better. A labor-saving and efficient idea. Reviving dormant threads that are ripe, ready, and bursting for fresh re-discussion. You saw what happened to that. Can you really censure me for taking a diffident posture after such ill-treatment?
Reviving older threads that are interesting is better than contributing to already moribund ones that have been freshly posted. Isn't that the theme of many TCM devotees anyway since most people here like to talk about old superior classics over new yet inferior films.
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41 minutes ago, TheCid said:
Personally, I like the Autry movies a whole lot more than the Cassidy movies. When I was a young whipper-snapper, I had a Hopalong Cassidy mug.
And I had a plastic bank that my dad got me, with a replica of Hopalong's head, and the hat could be removed to get out my pennies. But I'd still rather go with Leonard Slye than either Gene or William. I'd rather not get into a few other reasons about Hoppy for my decision if you follow my drift.
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2 hours ago, TikiSoo said:
Well for the most part, I don't care for Hitchcock's films. I find most of them manipulative and somewhat of a bore.
That said, I think PSYCHO is one of the greatest crafted films of all time-everything aligns perfectly.
I also enjoy SHADOW OF A DOUBT and STRANGERS ON A TRAIN mostly due to the stellar performances, which I think truly elevates an otherwise implausible story.
If you watch the shot by shot remake of PSYCHO, it illustrates my point of the original actors' talent bringing credibility and weight to a movie, making it "great" instead of "average".
I so agree. Hitchcock can be boring. I have always wished he had chosen some more exciting tales like the one by D.H. Lawrence which was filmed as The Rocking Horse Winner. Movies with such items that also lend themselves to combining themes like painting of such items of even body-less hobby horses by craftspeople can be much more inspiring than the typical suspense fare that Hitch was wont to pursue constantly. Too bad Hitch was not more motivated to make films about the inner yearnings of characters and their need for artistic expression via such amateur proclivities as daubing paint on these equine replicas. I do think Alfred could have outdone any stylings done by the director Anthony Pelissier if given a chance to work outside his preferred area of film.
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16 hours ago, cigarjoe said:
I think you have to approach this as an aficionado of a genre, who has seen a lot of the films. If you are just a casual dilettante you'd be hard pressed to have been able to view enough Western films to sort them out and differentiate great from average, as you state above. If Westerns are your genre you'll watch them when ever you find them shown both Film and TV series and you can tell pretty quickly the general quality of a film.
Once you stray past the most well known Westerns the overall quality does go South pretty quickly.
Good points. Thanks for your sage thoughts. By the way did Tall in the Saddle make the cut?
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On 12/13/2018 at 8:19 PM, kingrat said:
Sarge, you're not alone. I'd never heard of Kevin Hart. Apparently I haven't missed much.
Ask TikiSoo. I bet she could give you a rundown on all Kevin Hart's entertainment credits being quite knowledgeable about such "artist" related facts.
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15 hours ago, Gershwin fan said:
Thread who? Never heard of 'im.
Don't know about missing threads but still looking for your missing post about the ten different accounts you mentioned that you say another poster has had here. Enquiring minds are waiting for that list. Thanx, Gershwin Fan.
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1 hour ago, TikiSoo said:
No surprise there...
And no surprise you wouldn't...
Screen Legends, according to Starz
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Don't go all Looney Tunes on us with that Acme stuff, Sgt. or I will turn the Road Runner loose on you.