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19 hours ago, LawrenceA said:
I canceled my subscription to EW many years ago when it became a trashy, tabloid-y clone of People and US Weekly, and they fired everyone on their staff who was over 30.
AGREED 100% But back then it was the only game in town & L. Maltin as you know started on tv there as well although at first I didn't like the way he graded flix on the 0 to 10 system
TMZ is sooo obnoxious! Not the TMZ Live show, but the asinine one whjere all think they are so funny?
14 hours ago, EricJ said:Uh, EW isn't a "so-called" tabloid. It's not what it gloriously was in the 90's, but whatever happened to it, it's still probably THE best default movie/TV/culture magazine out there for focusing on hit-culture, while every other "celebrity" magazine (including the late lamented TV Guide
) is more interested in stocking cult-of-personality to keep agents happy and binge audiences strung out and exploitable.
When I see "Summer Preview" or "Fall Preview" at the stands, that's not just an event, it's a reference guide. Now shaddup and quit shouting at clouds.
as I wrote many times, I only think "Dunkirk" a good at best release (***-out of 4 stars)
Do you remember the tremendous "Premiere magazine?" Despite it going under in 2002 I still saved quite a number of those issues. Something I rarely do with my EW mags,. except the special issues & recall "Films of the Golden Age"/"Classic Images?" I still; saved some of them.
EW also-(like TCM) to conduct another in depth suvey of readers all-timers
LawrenceA, do you have an idea as to why our favorite website & network TCM seems to refuse to conduct a fans favorite's p[oll???
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To date "Star wars: The Last Jedi" (**1/2) has domestically sold $446m. in tickets, but it looks as though it will not get close to the better (***1/2) "Force Awakens" though it will positively make it into the all-time top ten
1st place "SW: Force Awakens" ($936 million)
2nd "Avatar" ($760m.)
3rd *"Titanic" ($670m.)-(NOTE: Even more to it's credit, they couldn't show the long epic as much)
4th "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" ($653m.)
5th place "Avengers" ($623m.)
6th "he Dark Knight" ($535m.)
7th "Rogue 0ne: A Star Wars Story" ($535m.)
8th "Beauty and the Beast" (2017) ($502m.)
9th "Finding, Dory" ($486m.)
& 10th place td "Star Wars" ($461 million)
BUT, adjusted for inflation the legendary *GWTW" has sold over $1.6 billion in tickets! It cost 23 cents back then in '39
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WHAT THE.... STILL NO VOTES FOR SHEMP?
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2 hours ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
First I"m very surprised to see James Stewart or James Cagney listed (and trust me I love those named James!).
I'll give my wife's picks; Gary Grant, Tyrone Power, Errol Flynn, Gregory Peck, Robert Taylor.
Since our friend James-(with one of the best avatar's by the way!) also cited his wife's pix, I'll include my ex-wife's Antonio Banderas & my mother too-(*Kevin Costner, but of all-time she just loved ELVIS the most)
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& EW's Worst for 2017-(only the top 5)>
1st "The Emoji Movie"
2nd "Geostorm"
3rd "he Snowman"
4th "The Book of Henry"
& 5th worst by them is "Wonder Wheel"-(hey, stop picking on *:"THE WOODMAN!")
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4 minutes ago, LawrenceA said:
What are some examples of EW being PC? I see people throw that term around a lot, but rarely explain what they think is PC behavior.
LawrenceA, thanx for reply, but this magazine has changed over the past 27yrs
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& for those like a pal o'mine, Jakeem covers all the years awards & such Here is Entertainment Weekly's other 9
favourite releases
2nd "Call Me By Your Name"
3rd "The Shape of Water"
4th "Get 0ut"
5th fav of it's editors "Foxtrot"
6th "Hostiles"
7th "LadyBird"
8th "Molly's Game"
9th "Faces Places"
& 10th "Wonder Woman"
NO "Three Billboards..,." "Darkest Hour" "Phantom Thread" & others???
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Personally I think "Dunkirk" is a fine war-picture (***-out of 4 stars) & has strangely,. considering no big stars, made $200m. domestically alone! It's certainly no "Pvt. Ryan" or "Thin Red Line" though & I think last yrs *Oscar victor for editing & Sound *Mel Gibson's "Hacksaw Ridge" was a bit better myself But, as the 101yr old *0livia de Havilland's movie says "To Each His 0wn" I reckon' so
Like most things unfortunately in our current era EW is also now very PC I miss "Premiere"
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23 minutes ago, TomJH said:
YOWZA!!!
SORRY! thanx to TomJH as well
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20 minutes ago, TomJH said:
YOWZA!!!
EXCELLENT SHOT PAL THANKS! & how many beautiful actresses in that era would shoot entire sequences in her undies?
They talk about child actors not succeeding into the adult cinema, but she obviously made it Dean at first didn't want her in "Rebel...," neither did Nicholas Ray because they still thought her a child star
WB's publicity always tried to say she was 5'3 when in reality she was barely 5'0
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19 minutes ago, Dargo said:
OH yeah!
(...especially in that "merry widow" corset she sports in that one scene...YEEOWW!!!)
THANX DARGO! I know what your sayin' & she was sooo cool, nice & never a negative word was said about NATASHA-(NATALIA NIKOLAVNIA ZAKHARENKO)
Her monster of a mother was a 180 opposite though & lived to be almost 86
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(TRIVIA: Most likely know already that Steve along w/*Coburn & James Garner studied under Bruce Lee. Lee was quoted as saying *Coburn was the fastest, but Steve was the strongest
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I know one, but *"The Duke" may not have taken the supporting role Robert Preston-(marvelous actor!) had 1972's "Junior Bonner" (***1/2)
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Marvelous images! *"The Duke" was not only his fav. actor, but his idol! Too bad they never worked together though. TO YOU FELLOW TCM-ITES, JUST FOR FUN, WHAT FILM COULD THEY HAVE DONE TOGETHER BY THE WAY?
Steve was 5'9 at best & *JW 6'4 & 1/2, but sadly for him, his tiny feet (5 & 1/2) made him 4-F for WW2
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10 minutes ago, NipkowDisc said:
"when I want to to know how to act tough, I just look at the Duke. -steve McQueen
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& most fans & otherwise still really don't know *Gable was a bookworm! He hid this fact from the public because he thought it would hurt his image as a tough guy
actually they say he was reading in his hospital bed when he went
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Just now, TomJH said:
One of Hollywood's best looking leading men, THE KING HIMSELF!
Clark Gable.
Oops, guess I could have picked a better photo to prove my point.
Ah, there we go!
He was "The King" of an empire called Hollywood & was even officially voted that title by over 20 million moviefans in a 1938 poll!
His first wife had his teeth fixed though A truck driver before Hollywood
Though many leading ladies-=(i.e. *Vivien Leigh) complained of his bad breath, his teeth were always a nightmare for him
Many books say *Gable was Valentino in Jack Dempsey's body
(P.S. Hollywood & the *Academy should still be ashamed of themselves for not even nominating him a 4th time for his greatest work as an actor in "The Misfits"-(posthumously of course)
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Just now, Dargo said:
Well it's "soytenly" a better shot of Bugs than the previous one anyway!
Possibly my all-time favorite WB's cartoon short & otherwise is the one with all the heavyweight stars of the Studio-System I forget it's name right now, have it online somewhere & used to video tape it constantly?
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WHERE IN THE.... IS WALLACE BEERY HERE THOUGH SPORTS FANS?
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10 minutes ago, Dargo said:
Gotta say that that doesn't look like an "official" Warner Brothers portrait of our favorite wascally wabbit here, dude!
(...is that your own bit of "artwork" there?)
AGREED! & BUGS IS MY MAIN MAN OF ALL THE CARTOONS!
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2 hours ago, hamradio said:
Some of the top attractive actors today are Brad Pitt, Leonardo DeCaprio, Ben Affleck, Steve McQueen.
Classic actors would be Clark Gable, James Stewart, Robert Taylor, Gary Cooper.
"The King of Movie Cool: Steve McQueen"-(l930-80) was my very first hero/idol as a wee-lad of about agers 9 to 15! Plus, if course during the early to mid 1970's Evel Knievel
Matter of fact back then they had few & far between movie mags except Rona Barrett-(YUK!) But I would always search for shots of McQueen
Neat how you devided era's up
1 mistake Steve is a classic actor
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OOPS, I neglected to include Frank Morgan-(l890-l949) he'd be my 4th fav character player
& many may not know he was one of the legendary Hollywoods Irish Mafia
*Tracy, *Cagney, Pat 0'Brien, Frank McHugh, Robert Armstrong, Lynn 0vermann-(I think?) Ralph Bellamy, Morgan & for some reason Boris Karloff
They used to gather every Tuesday
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1 hour ago, Bethluvsfilms said:
There is the great Donald Crisp who worked among many fantastic actors including Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, James Cagney and Elizabeth Taylor, to name a few. He always made a movie worth watching just being there.
Alan Hale always lent excellent support in every movie he was in.
And I can't think of John Wayne without thinking about Ward Bond who was his frequent co-star in many of his movies.
Claude Rains is another excellent character actor who always brighten any movie he was in.
Upon my first trip to whats left of Tinsel-Town & I was at the veeery top of 318 acres in Glendale's "Forest Lawn, park" & while trying to get a long shot of *"The Great: Tracy's" garden grave & a huge George Washington statue near it, I fell down a large hill & there it was, I was alongside the very modest grave of DONALD CRISP!
On that note, Maureen 0'Hara once spoke of him & called him a typical "Scot" & would take all to dinner & then make them pay
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I'm shocked that not 1 fellow TCM-ITE included NATALIE WOOD though???
Especially when you see her in the likes of "Splendor..." "Daisy" "The Great Race?"
) is more interested in stocking cult-of-personality to keep agents happy and binge audiences strung out and exploitable.
EW magazine votes for "Dunkirk" as best of 2017
in General Discussions
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But be certain it & "Shape of Water" d the field with the most overall nominations come Tuesday January 23rd., 2018
& even if "Dunkirk" doesn't take home the biggie for Best Film, it's already a lock to win for Best Sound Mixing, Sound Effects, Film Editing & maybe it's score by past winner *Hans Zimmer & Hollywood is dying to recognize for the first time to date Christopher Nolan
If I were among the approx 8,467 voters I'd easily cast my ballot for "Three Billboards..." however I am still seeing "Darkest Hour" "The Post" & maybe "Shape of Water" It was the first new releasew I'd give 4 stars to in a year with "La La Land" ($155m.)
THANK YOU!