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3 hours ago, Princess of Tap said:
Fred Astaire received the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award in 1981.
He was honored by Gene Kelly, Baryshnikov, James Cagney, Eleanor Powell, Bob Fosse, Audrey Hepburn, and Cyd Charisse.
The host was one of his best friends David Niven.
Ginger Rogers did not attend but sent her regrets in a letter.
It's easy to locate the entire list, especially on it's marvelous www.afi.com website
They were established in 1967 but didn't start the award until 1973 with *John Ford.
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*Wayne was likely too politically outspoken though, it didn't matter nearly as much then though with this pc garbage, but probably did Example is him outrageously being voted down the AFI 1999 list at 13th of all-time male actors?
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2 hours ago, jakeem said:
Duke failed to lick The Big 'C.' If he could have hung on just a few years longer, he might have been honored.
To Jakeem, you really hit the bullseye on *"THE DUKE!" Personally I easily rate him among it's all-time top 3 screw up's too
1st though is *CHAPLIN
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11 hours ago, Wayne said:
I'm guessing that Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, Francis Ford Coppola, Doris Day, and Robert Duvall have all declined the honor and continue to do so. Otherwise, one of these individuals would surely be this year's recipient. Not sure if Woody Allen fits in this category or if the AFI is bypassing him in order to sidestep controversy. He's another artist worthy of this honor.
I doubt the AFI has offered the honor to Olivia de Havilland, although she is certainly worthy.
*"The Woodman" probably, no, almost certainly would never have personally accepted it though, unfortunately
Agree 100% though on *DUVALL!
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Most already know that for some reason & within the last year it's virtually impossible to log back-in to these great forums?
But why?
It didn't used top be like this & once in, you cannot sway from here or get logged back out
PLEASE HELP!
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1 hour ago, spence said:
But his *Oscar winning role as Sefton in 1953's "Stalag 17" is probably his best role & Joe Gillis in "Sunset Blvd"
Miscast in 1939's "Golden Boy" (**1/2) though, John Garfield was made for that part
TCM has never had George Raft (l895-l980) as STOM, a one note actor & *cagney said Raft was the real toughest guy in Hollywood.
Same goes for Reagan? But also pretty flat as an actor
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31 minutes ago, speedracer5 said:
I agree. In a film with many extreme personalities, Peter Finch and Faye Dunaway mainly, I thought Holden really stood out. He did an excellent job. I will also say that I didn't think that Beatrice Straight was so amazing in her small part that she deserved the Oscar.
Great, now I may have to watch Network now. Lol. Maybe I'll make it a double feature with A Face in the Crowd.
*Finch wanted to campaign for leading actor, same way *(Hopkins did for *"Silence of the Lambs" (l99l)
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& at the time I believe her performance was the shortest to ever win an *Academy Award.
She beat Jodie Foster in "Taxi Driver' too
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Most likely know that *Oscar winner: *George Clooney-(l961-) received the current AFI-(American Film Institute) award for Lifetime Achievement, however who should be it's next recipient?
For years I went on about them ignoring Peter 0'toole & they waited too long apparently
& it's list is very long of AFI snubs over the years-(NOTE: Unlike *Oscar it's recipient must accept award in person, hence no: *Kate Hepburn, *Brando, Garbo,etc )
I like *Clooney a lot, but he's not done enough, just in my view anyway & who deserves or a predix of whom should get it next time?
THANX
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On 1/15/2018 at 2:29 AM, limey said:
Ideal movie fate for our nightly forum spammers...
"BULLIT"
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Just once again noticed the jerks with the Asian spam, why isn't it blocked though?
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Who's STOM for March?
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2 minutes ago, spence said:
But his *Oscar winning role as Sefton in 1953's "Stalag 17" is probably his best role & Joe Gillis in "Sunset Blvd"
Miscast in 1939's "Golden Boy" (**1/2) though, John Garfield was made for that part
He truly had the leading actor role in the brilliant "Network" though *Finch was magnificent, but really in my opinion more a supporting work
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On 2/15/2018 at 9:02 PM, kingrat said:
Undercurrent really should be better than it is, given K. Hepburn, Mitchum, R. Taylor, and Minnelli. It's a fairly standard damsel in distress story. One man is a villain, one is Prince Charming--but which one? I wouldn't discourage anyone from seeing it, but the casting doesn't work. Hepburn and Robert Taylor have little chemistry, but Hepburn and Mitchum have absolutely none. They loathed each other on the set.
Band of Angels won't replace Gone with the Wind as a Civil War drama, but it has its strengths. Yvonne De Carlo discovers that she is not 100% white, although she has been raised as a young Southern white lady, and is sold into slavery. Clark Gable then becomes her owner, and you won't be surprised to learn that he isn't altogether a bad guy. Sidney Poitier has a strong supporting role. I remember a few years back that a poster who identified herself as biracial said she thought De Carlo was a good choice for this film.
I personally only rate "Band of angels" ok (**1/2-out of 4)
Good one about *Kate & Mitchum. She also loathed Nick Nolte during the awful (*) 1985 "Grace Quigley"
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On 2/15/2018 at 9:22 PM, sewhite2000 said:
Re: William Holden as SOTM. I just did a count. Looks like they're showing 31 movies, 15 of which I personally have never seen before. So, that's pretty good for me personally, although most of the ones I haven't seen are Westerns, which isn't my favorite genre to begin with.
Broken down by studio, looks like we have:
11 from Columbia
5 from Warner Bros.
4 each from Paramount and MGM
3 from United Artists
2 from 20th Century Fox
1 from RKO
1 from Village RoadshowThat's quite a few from outside the library, and quite a few from Columbia, especially. Overall, I'm quite pleased, but there are some omissions that I wish had been included to make it more comprehensive. Here are some I would have liked to have been added:
The Dark Past (Columbia, 1948)
Sabrina (Paramount, 1954)
The Bridges at Toko-Ri (Paramount, 1954)
The Country Girl (Paramount, 1954)
The Lion (20th Century Fox, 1962)
Paris When It Sizzles (Paramount, 1964)
Casino Royale (Columbia, 1967)
Breezy (Universal, 1973)
The Towering Inferno (20th Century Fox, 1974)Boy, he had quite a year at Paramount in 1954, didn't he? But the only one of his movies from that year TCM is showing is MGM's Executive Suite. I hate they're not including either of his films with Audrey Hepburn, with whom I'm pretty sure he had a real-life affair. Sabrina could have made a nice double feature with Invisible Stripes. How many people know Holden and Bogie were in two movies together, 14 years apart?
Anyway, another six or 10 movies would have really made this thing comprehensive, in my opinion. But I'm still pretty happy.
But his *Oscar winning role as Sefton in 1953's "Stalag 17" is probably his best role & Joe Gillis in "Sunset Blvd"
Miscast in 1939's "Golden Boy" (**1/2) though, John Garfield was made for that part
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On 2/15/2018 at 9:02 PM, kingrat said:
Undercurrent really should be better than it is, given K. Hepburn, Mitchum, R. Taylor, and Minnelli. It's a fairly standard damsel in distress story. One man is a villain, one is Prince Charming--but which one? I wouldn't discourage anyone from seeing it, but the casting doesn't work. Hepburn and Robert Taylor have little chemistry, but Hepburn and Mitchum have absolutely none. They loathed each other on the set.
Band of Angels won't replace Gone with the Wind as a Civil War drama, but it has its strengths. Yvonne De Carlo discovers that she is not 100% white, although she has been raised as a young Southern white lady, and is sold into slavery. Clark Gable then becomes her owner, and you won't be surprised to learn that he isn't altogether a bad guy. Sidney Poitier has a strong supporting role. I remember a few years back that a poster who identified herself as biracial said she thought De Carlo was a good choice for this film.
It's disgusting & typical of this era were are in that the legendary *"GWTW" is banned from playing in theaters!!!
Even the famed "Tampa Theatre" down here now also refuses to book it again It's not among my favorite's, but should be seen on a big screen, luckily I did get to go to it 3 times over 35yrs
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On 2/15/2018 at 9:22 PM, sewhite2000 said:
Re: William Holden as SOTM. I just did a count. Looks like they're showing 31 movies, 15 of which I personally have never seen before. So, that's pretty good for me personally, although most of the ones I haven't seen are Westerns, which isn't my favorite genre to begin with.
Broken down by studio, looks like we have:
11 from Columbia
5 from Warner Bros.
4 each from Paramount and MGM
3 from United Artists
2 from 20th Century Fox
1 from RKO
1 from Village RoadshowThat's quite a few from outside the library, and quite a few from Columbia, especially. Overall, I'm quite pleased, but there are some omissions that I wish had been included to make it more comprehensive. Here are some I would have liked to have been added:
The Dark Past (Columbia, 1948)
Sabrina (Paramount, 1954)
The Bridges at Toko-Ri (Paramount, 1954)
The Country Girl (Paramount, 1954)
The Lion (20th Century Fox, 1962)
Paris When It Sizzles (Paramount, 1964)
Casino Royale (Columbia, 1967)
Breezy (Universal, 1973)
The Towering Inferno (20th Century Fox, 1974)Boy, he had quite a year at Paramount in 1954, didn't he? But the only one of his movies from that year TCM is showing is MGM's Executive Suite. I hate they're not including either of his films with Audrey Hepburn, with whom I'm pretty sure he had a real-life affair. Sabrina could have made a nice double feature with Invisible Stripes. How many people know Holden and Bogie were in two movies together, 14 years apart?
Anyway, another six or 10 movies would have really made this thing comprehensive, in my opinion. But I'm still pretty happy.
As a kid of about 10 I went to the local dumpy theatre in Delaware & saw "The Towering Inferno" several times, because Steve McQueen was my first idol/hero.
*Billy wilder though desperately wanted his idol Cary Grant in *Bogey's role for 1954's "Sabrina"
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On 2/15/2018 at 10:32 AM, TomJH said:
I noticed the MGM cartoons, as well. Is it the first time they've been on the channel since Cartoon Alley, which Ben M. hosted when he first came on the station?
I noticed that they're also showing a Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan film every Saturday am, as well, giving those mornings an appeal for the kid in us.
Now if they could only get Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Green Jeans to show up.
AGREED 100% ON THE CARTOON'S, ESPECIALLY WARNER BROS. & LOONEY TUNES. Speaking of kids' struff, by now most probably know that *Hanks is playing "Mr. Rogers"
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Is this topic about where films were shot?
Because the 1985 fantasy "Cocoon" ($76m.)( that also won Oscars for Best supporting actor-(Don Ameche) & Visual Effects was filmed down here in St. Petersburg, FL & I got to be on the set in the summer of 1984 for about 8hrs it was filmed right next door to the apts I lived in & the rest was shot a couple miles down the road at another retirement Community. met *Ron Howard, Tahnee welch-(what happened to her>), *Maureen Stapleton, *Jessica Tandy, Gwen Verdon & Steve Guttenberg on this long day, but the 3 guys' W. Brimley, Cronyn & *Ameche weren't there that day or shooting elsewhere. I was just 19 then & first time I saw movies shot out of sequence. It was a huge thing then & covered in all the newspapers
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He died same weekend as NATALIE around November 29th, 1981
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On 2/13/2018 at 4:28 PM, TopBilled said:
Thanks Larry. Just checked a little while ago. Glad Bill Holden was selected. His hundredth birthday occurs on April 17.
^ *Holden was R. 0sborne's all-time favorite actor, as well as *Kevin Costner, Bill Murray & Alec Baldwin's
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On 2/15/2018 at 11:39 PM, Stephan55 said:
You Lucky Guy!
I think Ruth Gordon was such an incredibly talented lady. Great writer (esp. with her husband, partner and collaborator Garson Kanin, very funny stuff), and wonderful actress. Whether the part was small or large, drama or comedy, always a joy to see her on the screen. Though I think that she really excelled in comedy.
She is one of those people that I would just like to sit and listen to hear talk about anything in her life for as long as possible. She seemed to have lived life to its fullest. And I am envious of any one who could say that they actually met her, leave off knew her well enough to have conversed with. Do you treasure that book? I bet you do!
Se 1953's "The Actress" MGM with *"The Great: Spencer Tracy"-(strangely won a Golden Globe but was not up for another Oscar?) It's based on her-(Jean Simmons) as a young girl
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The late Hal Ashby is among the biggest forgotten filmmakers of the 1970's, with this, "Coming Home" "Last Detail" "Being There" & more
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Cort also had a very small role as a weasel in 1995's powerhouse "Heat"
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GREAT SHOT!!!