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jakeem, top billed and all, please reply & or drop ,e a few lines
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Don't know if thois was really necessary, but wanted to cover all bases, especially on here "The Mt. Summit" of "Classic Cinema Websites!"
Got amother & can you believe FREE computer today & for the very first time I didn't get any e mail updates,replies the works
So just needed to be positive my fellow cinefans
(P.S. It's rather unlikely that others on here went to go & see the new thriller "47 Meters Below"
& can't blame you if you didn't. it was from (*1/2-bad) to (**-mediocre) at best
Certainly no "Jaws" of course or a fine thrillers from a few yrs back "0pen Water" (***) ($30m.)
Anybody see that little known & scary picture by the way?
I had fully intended this weekend to check out the Oscar friendly looking remake of 1971's "The Beguiled" (strong ***) But unfortunately it now seems poised to get a wide release-(maybe?) on July the 7th
So this was just a backup I enjoyed most of "Pirates f the Carribean-franchise" But #5 is enough for this moviegoer & it's fallen fe;ll short this time out of $B.O.$ expectations
& am sooo fed-up with comic releases.
& on the note, I didn't find last summer's "Batman vs. Superman" (**) entirely lousy, but the immensely expensive adaptation was darn close to it!!!
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Lydecker’s TCM Challenge #36 Notes
Week of December 9 – 15, 2018
SOTM: Una Merkel
The Essential: The Untouchables (1987)
Friday Night Spotlight: Mad Scientists
Guest Programmer: Joe Gillis (Sunset Boulevard)
Silent Sunday: A Woman of Affairs (1928)
TCM Import: The Saga of Gosta Berling (1924)
TCM Underground: Creepy Circus Movies
Challenge #1: How to be a Detective (Goofy)
Challenge #2: Kick-**** Heroines (Star Wars)
Challenge #3: Una Merkel (Never-Before SOTM)
Challenge #4: Disney Tearjerkers
TCM Premieres:
The Saga of Gosta Berling (1924) (Exempt PR)
The Secret Witness (1931) (Exempt PR)
The Case Against Mrs. Ames (1936)
Star Wars (1977) (Exempt PR)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) (Exempt PR)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) (Exempt PR)
Little Miss Nobody (1936)
Shadows Over Shanghai (1938)
Under-Cover Man (1932)
The Strange Case of Clara Deane
The Woman Accused (1933)
From Heaven To Hell (1933)
The Girl in 419 (1933)
Midnight Club (1933)
His Double Life (1933)
Good Dame (1934)
The Untouchables (1987)
101 Dalmations (1961) (Exempt PR)
Bambi (1942) (Exempt PR)
Psycho-Circus (1966) (Exempt PR)
By decade:
1910’s: 1 1960’s: 11
1920’s: 4 1970’s: 4
1930’s: 44 1980’s: 3
1940’s: 17 1990’s: 4
1950’s: 12 2000’s: 1
A few notes:
Sunday begins with “Clue Club Mysteries” which were released by Warner Brothers starting in 1935. I’ve long been fascinated by these movies which started out with a Clue Club title card. (What the hell did it mean?) After doing a bit of research I found out that the Clue Club was merely a gimmick to get kids to join the club (and get a card!) and return for the next Clue Club movie for a chance to win “valuable” (I bet) prizes. Sunday also says Happy Birthday to Dalton Trumbo, showcases the “Two Faces of Fred” (Fred can be very, very good or very, very bad) as well as the wonderful Greta Garbo.
Monday (insert Tarzan yell) we celebrate 100 years of Tarzan movies, then enjoy some gypsy films. Monday night I finally get to salute one of my absolute favorite actresses, Una Merkel, as my SOTM. Because Una did 93 films, her tribute spills over into Tuesday morning, followed by Hitchcock Blondes Without Hitchcock. Tuesday evening, our guest programmer, Joe Gillis of Sunset Boulevard introduces some of his favorite films including: “Just a Gigolo” (because he is one), “The Player” and “In A Lonely Place” (because screenwriters, both alive and dead figure prominently) “Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?” (because Norma Desmond and Baby Jane are not that dissimilar) and finally, “The Drowning Pool,” for obvious reasons. Wednesday we say Happy 125th Birthday to the incomparable Edward G. Robinson and then move on to my Star Wars Challenge topic -- “Kick **** Heroines” (A tip of the hat to Carrie Fisher.) Thursday, it’s all about snow (with nary a holiday movie in sight,) a salute to the Morgan Brothers (Frank & Ralph) and a marathon of some of my favorite detective movies inspired by Goofy’s “How To Be A Detective.” Friday begins with a Paramount Pre-Code Festival (lots of premieres here!) followed by my Friday Night Spotlight -- Mad Scientists. Saturday morning is all about “Big Bands,” followed by Disney Tearjerkers. All of these films made me cry when I was a child and still make me cry. Saturday Prime Time is dedicated to Bookkeepers starting off with my Essential, “The Untouchables.” TCM Underground is all about creepy circus movies, and boy, these are some of the weirder ones. That’s all, folks!
ABSOLUTELY 4 BIG STARS ON WHAT YOU COMPILED!!!
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(TYRIVIA/NOTE: A few years ago I think it was Billboard, not certain but they chpose/voted on thee all-time great Rock N'Roll number & Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone' was voted as A #1.
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On June 25, 1967, The Beatles participated in The BBC's "One World" live television special, which was transmitted by satellite to 25 countries. For the occasion, the Fab Four introduced their new song "All You Need Is Love." It was released the following week and became a worldwide No. 1 hit.
It took many yrs but the truth finally came out that it was JOHN LENNON who was the brains,etc of THE BEATLES Personally I rate "IMAGINE" as not only his finest, but over anything they did as well
& officially they have sold more records/albums then any artist in music history>
1st place The Beatles
2nd Elvis Presley
3rd Michael Jackson
4th place Madonna
& 5th Elton John
(Strangely, "The Chairman of the Board: Francis (Albert) Sinatra is not in the top five, despite 6 decades ogf music & over 1,800 albums & over 2,000 records being sold)
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Most on here are already well aware that the Korean war-(l950-53) has been barely covered by Hollywood.
There was always a running joke that the marvelous tv series "M*A*S*H" (l972-83) lasted for over 11 seasons & that war only lasted 3, at least with U.S. involvement anyway
& for yrs it's been truly difficult to even cite (10) motion pictures that covered the forgotten war?
the sole flix I can think of are>
"M*A*S*H" (l970)-(I'm not a fan of Donald Sutherland myself though & if only Alan Alda had portrayed Hawkeye Pierce in the theatrical version)
"The Manchurian Candidate" (l962)
"Battle Circus" (l953)
"Men in War" (l957)
"Pork Chop Hill" (l959)
"MacArthur" (l978)
& please help out, I simply can't really think of any others???
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Not just to Jakeem, but to anyone who's seen these trailers,etc???
Who has caught footage of a couple up[coming releases that just bleed OSCARS?
"Churchill" "Murder on the 0rient Express" "The Beguiled" & "The Woodman's' 47th as director "Irrational Man"
Plus, "Gotti" starring John Travolta, though I don't know if it's even finished yet or not?
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to which I'll always remember George Costanza-(Jason Alexander's opinion of *Audrey "She was a Delicate Flower"
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I'm in the minority, but I was disappointed with this year's TCM Remembers. The singer's voice was very warbly. The way some of the clips were presented were weird. (Poor Gloria DeHaven was camouflaged into a wall.) It was nice, however, to see Gene Wilder, David Bowie, Alan Rickman, Doris Roberts, Gloria DeHaven, Richard Davalos, Anton Yelchin, and especially the darling Robert Vaughn again.
I apologize in advance for sounding like a prude, but everything I wrote above is my opinion.
Isn'ty Davalosn now gone though?
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HOW ASININE, this was among the (13) polls I held on (Film Fanatics (A Celebration of Hollywoods Golden Age) & they diret;y edit the winners of each poll directly onto you fans???
It's a companion pc spring-off
NOT FAIR
THEY ARE NOW CHEATING &TAKEN ALL 913) OF MY POLLS CONDUCTED ON THERE & THEY THEN FPOORWARD ONTO YOU FOLLS???
(NPOTE: See my previous posts & you'll see exactly whast I mean)
"DIRTY POOL"
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Please help, these were by my own scientific polls on (TCM FANATICS-(A CELEBRATION OF HOLLYWOODS GOLDEN AGE) on PG
& all was fine, editor JOHN BALL was the one that suggested I poll the fans on there I did about (3) more as well & all was cool, then all of a sudden the blocke'd me out &* for reasons I simply can't understand???
ANY SUGGESTIONS
Personally I m certain this is a 2nd string editor that did this though
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I had conducted (12-14) polls of fellow fans on that tcm offspring FB page-(TCM FDANATICS) & people jumped all over them
Here are just a few for those interested on how they voted?"
1st tcm-(fanatics) poll
Favorite movie: *"Casablanca"-(by a lot)
Actor: Tracy-*all were surprised, including me & w/.great pal Bogart coming in a close 2nd)
Actress: Bette Davis(A BLOW OUT!)
Director: Hitch
Scores: (tie) "Vertigo" & "Lawrence of Arabia"
Movie comics: Bob Hope=(a huge surprise, I like Hope a lot, but over Chaplin, Keaton, Fields, Stan & Ollie, Laurel & Hardy & yes, my guilty pleasure of sorts The Three Stooges)
Musicals: "Singin' In the Rain
Westerns: poll on there: "The Searchers"-(though close race)
Most attractive stars-(female &male):
Elizabeth Taylor & Rock Hudson
& a couple more
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A POLL: WHAT (4) MOVIES WOULD YOU PICK AS A "GP?"-("Guest Programmer")
If any one of you TCM fans were to win -(& even if you didn't) the networks annual contest of not only being invited to the GA network\\ ,m I think winner also has to host entire day presenting the movies.
T-Short-(not bragging but I got it as a gift already, about 5yrs back-(too bad they still don't offer (3) TCMitems/memorabilia I was also lucky enough to get "SCENE-IT?"-(tcm/dvd board game), the original ceramic watch, baseball cap &* more, including books All of which I strongly suggested on these forums!? Almost 4-got hanging above this desk is pt of my own "Walls-of-Fame" & another rare-(maybe Amazon.) collectible most may love to have is a "TCM Gangster Watch" & the topper is it has the original logo,like "Dick Tracy"-(something else they shoulda 'stayed with)
Point being these winners seem to also get most of that memorabilia-(not TCM Coffee Mug-(ceramic & not the cup they use on tv) & of course "SCENE-IT?"=(have nobody to play it with to be honest & is well versed with anything pre Ben Affleck?)
CUT TO THE CHASE NOW, IF YOU WERE INVITED TO TCM' HEADQARTERS
WHAT (limited to 4) OF YOUR TOP FLICKERS WOULD YOU HAVE AIRED ON TV???
For myself:-(NOTE: Given "GFI" "GFII" are not eligible, still,)
#1, "Kane" (l94l-RKO Radio)-(although "GFI" is my favorite, I agree with most it's the greatest film yet produced) I got to visit some of it's fmr sets on the-(FOR NOW) RKO side of the Paramount tour)-(ADULT TRIVIA I'll not really repeat here of course, but "Rosebud" was
referring to something that only WR Hearst & Marion Davis shoulda' known about No wonder Hearst was furious!!!) & in late '85, just after Orson went, it was reported in USA Today that Spielberg purchased that "Sled" at auction for over $1 million; when asked he said
"He Always Wanted to be Reminded about greatness" unquote Don't know if it's still there or not
hanging in work room about his desk or not though WHAT ELSE CAN BE SAID ABOUT THIS HEAVYWEIGHT,except in the famed every (20)years & literally legendary by now, started in 18952 & the voters are critics & filmmakers all-over this planet & "KANE" took the top spot for 50yrs Out of the blue that staggered people for 2012 "VERTIGO" upset it!!!
2. "Captains Courageous" (l937-MGM) (barely my fav. of "The Great: Tracy's)-(his fav.in his diary &
Nuremberg) TREMENDOUS FAMILY ENERTAINMENT "Black Rock" or "Inherit the Wind" come close. Much shot off Catalina Island & mot knew he up set last yrs Oscar victor Muni to win "The Golden Boy" & would win 2nd consecutive victory) & the only movie death scenes greater>"Kong ^& Cagney) He loathed make=up & when J. Crawford saw him with the curly hair & yelled "Oh My God It's Harpo Marx" unquote For 41's "Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde" he insisted to having a limo drive him up next to s. stage door
3. "Some Came Running" (l958-MGM) (Not my fav, of FS' (58) but the one that sticks to you more. I even own it on dvd & vhs. Among Scorsese's topo ten in any genre NOT A RAT PACK FLICK THOUGH & for yrs Shirley MacLaine called it her fav. role-(SHE STOLE THE SHOW) But in recent yrs she thinx her Oscar winning turn in "Terms..."is her fav. & yet another power house score by E. Bernstein)
4th choice as a "GP" "Splendor in the Grass" (l96l) (NATALIE's ultimate role in every sense possible! It was her favorite, she named that ill-fated yacht "Splendour" & more Her 2nd of just 3 AMPAS shots, but lost-(she was broken hearted) to S. Loren "Two Women" & she was all-over
movies that year too, just completing "West Side.." "Gypsy" (l962) & more. The topper was most all members of the cast, crew & director were certain she'd take it & just from watching the dailies
Tpo her it was a schocker. On another note her great pal Steve McQueen went through same thing w/"Papillon" & either heayweight were up for these roles & on NATALIE, although "Splendor/..." is her ultimate role, for some reason I can't take my eyes of of her in 1965's vastly underrated "Inside Daisy Clover?"
SO IN SHORT MY TCM "GP" FILMS TO AIR ARE:
"Kane" "Captains Courageous" "Some Came Running" & "Splendor in Grass" (ALSO-RANS:
No #1 would be "GFI" & "GFII" but the 2 epics would take over 4 hours. Some just for fun a couple (HONORABLE MENTIONS/RUNNERS-UP: "Modern Times" (l936-UA), "Dumbo" (l94l-Disney/RKO)-(that is if the network ever gets legal rights?), "The Searchers" (l956) & "Vertigo" ('58)& our late great friend R. 0sborne's top four if limited to just (4) like us?: "A Place in the Sun" (l95l-Paramount), "Random Harvest" (l942-M-G-M), "The Razor's Edge" (l946-Fox),"200l: A Space 0fyssey" (l968-British)-(TRIVIA: The also already gone Gene Siskel said heaven to him would watch "2001) over, over & over
& Osborne outright told 93yr old S. Donen on stage once that (7) of his top pix were his.
SO, I & MANY OTHERS WOULD LIKE TO SEE YOUR "GUEST PROGRAMMER" "ESSENTIAL CINEMA" CHOICES!?
I always w/something like this passed data around to many other sites
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Ugh...sounds awful. I like a few of the cast, but I felt something was off in the first trailer I saw, so my expectations were already tempered.
As I often complained-(&cwith TCM) we desperate need to keep up with the Jone's as they say & FINALLY conduct our own fans poll???
We are the sole print & cyberspace place yet to do these & it's asinine! EW did it-(NOTE: This avalanche of polls came on the heels of AFI's massive 1998 one)
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Depp is playing the Ratchett role, so his screen time should be limited.
good early scoop
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Which could be said of his Jude Law-Michael Caine remake of "Sleuth" as well, before Branagh inexplicably (well, can't say we don't know why, but it's still puzzling) stripped out Anthony Schaffer's ingenious third act and turned the entire story into one elaborate attempt at a gay hook-up.
It has me understandably worried about his take on Poirot, as well. (Since Poirot may be foppish and persnickety, but there are women in his past...)
Even when David Suchet did the story for the Granada TV series, their version inexplicably mangled one of the key red-herring clues, making one of the relatively innocent suspects look "guilty", so they could play up the drama of Suchet's Poirot looking the other way, for her happiness.
Even so, since we don't know any of their names, notice how everyone keeps referring to the characters by the '74 actors' names?: "Josh Gad? Oh, yeah, he's playing the Tony Perkins secretary..."
Sleuth was absolutely brilliant & a battle royal between Olivier & Caine! Both snagged more Academt noms for the film by J.L. Mankiewicz-(also up for BD) Hollywood remade it in 1982's only ok (**1/2) w/Caine again, Christopher reeve & Dyan Cannon
Another irony, Marlon was pitted for The Godfather for leading actor vs 0livier & Paramount wanted lord 0livier in the role 1st of Don Vito Corleone. Olivier detested "the method" & was terrible to Marilyn during "Prince & the Showgirl"
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I think it's showtime & it's airing again right now "BECOMING: CARY GRANT"
I don't quite rate it a great special, but certainly very good (***1/2) & A must for his legions of fans!!!
It even covers hisbattles with LSD, back in the '60's was legal too. Myriad of docs would prescribe it to patients I forget the other high profile actor that went through the same thing
& starts at the beginning in poverty,etc & of course the most important thing CLIPS!
& I'm not giving it away-(not to you fans) when he died backstage at 82 in 1986 Think it was Iowa of a massive stroke
These retrospectives are just incredible though, where college students get to ask questions, clips & Q & A
James Stewart & Gregory Peck did a couple in later yrs & it was ironic that 2 elderly English ladies spent their entire fortune just to fly over & see them & Archie Leach
Cary Grant (Alexander Archibald Leach) (l9054-l986)
Born: Bristol England
Died: Iowa
Internment: the pacific ocean
Ht: 6'1 & 1/2
Film Debut: 1932 "I Am No Angel"-(but appeared & awfully in a B-movie prior to that)
Final film: "Walk Don't Run"
Amount: (66)
AFI Recipient (O)
AFI's Ranking 1999's "100yrs...100 Stars" (#2nd only to Bogart)
Oscar nominations:
1941 "Penny Serenade"
1944 "None But the Lonely Heart" (RKO)
SINS OF OMISSION:
1937 "Awful Truth"-(O)-(Danny Peary of book "Alternate Oscars" votes for him as Best Actor for this)
'38 "Bringing Up Baby"
(no nom.)1940 "His Girl Friday" (O)
1944 "Arsenic & Old Lace" (O)-(but my "Alternate Oscar winner)
& my own to (4) if I were a TCM "GP"
"Bringing Up Baby"-(my fav.)
"Gunga Din" (l939-RKO Radio)
"His Girl Friday"
& North by Northwest" (l959-MGM)
Got to drive by his fmr mansion-(again, humble compared to Heston's & a couple others) on Beverly Grove Drive
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As I wrote, a cable channel-(think it's showtime) ironically is airing a 90min docu on Adam this month & mainly on everyone's huge attempt to get him a WOF-STAR He got it, though shortly before his demise
He was my 1st HERO then a few yrs later at about age 9 to 15 it was McQUEEN & EVEL KNIEVEL
But by 1979/80 my A #1 idol/hero,etc was "THE GREAT: SPENCER TRACY" & still of course is, but "THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD: SINATRA" runs a close 2nd & 3rdly, "THE GREAT ONE: GLEASON"-(though more to do with TV's Ralph Kramden)
Covering "Movies' "Music" & "TV"
Though typically of "Hollywood Chamber of Commerce" & it'ds ;legendary "Walk-of-Fame"-(est: 1958 & 1961)
Frank only has (3) stars, Gleason (2) They are given for film, tv, music, stage & radio
Gene Autry holds record with (5) & Bob Hope (4)
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WOW, I just posted another thread on exact same thing???
Far too premature, but in it's history-(30yrs or more) they usually include at least1 summer rel4ease & we have "Dunkirk" & "The Beguiled"-(heard nothing but great things about it too)
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Like it would ever happen, though one year I did enter it's annual contest as they are airing a lot lately Of course I lost
& the topper is they show Ben & others that won on top of "THE ROOSEVELT HOTEL" a place I've been into & a bit on top more then the motel I stayed in at 777 N. Vine-(you can see Paramount from it)
My top (4) movies if a "GP"-(NOTE: Only due to the network still getting "GFI" & "GFII" rights):
"Kane" (l94l-RKO)-(NO COMMENT NE$EDED)
"Captains Courageous" (l937-MGM)-(barely my fav. of Tracy's only after "Black Rock")
"Some Came Running" (l958-M-G-M)-(not FS' finest, but still great stuff, ort jazz as he woulda' said & Scorsese pix this in his overall top ten)
& "Splendor in the Grass" (l96l)-(gotta' have 1 of hers' though for some reason I've studied "Daisy Clover" a lot more)
WHAT ARE YOURS? & must be in it's library
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I not only saved all my "NP Guides" for yrs-(boxes full) & apparently it's a good thing now given that is also going bye, bye?
& of course inside each the monthly "GP"-(where due to time constraints & legal issues, like not able to air "GFI" "GFII" & even "GFIII") or the full length Walt Disney masterpieces. & on that note, recall the 1930's shorts w/the dogs being strapped-up,etc Where did they go? It musta' been very painful for the pups.
Back to "GP's" after my boxes were full, I kept files on such & such & their top (4) fav. motion pictures
Have the terminated them or not though???
Told this story before & you can easily look it up Osbo's first celeb interview-(around & in 1965) was summoned to NATALIE WOOD's humble house on Canon drive in B. Hills-(man, compared to Heston's, which takes up blocks!? & you can easily check out his MANSION & EVEN WHAT IS CALLED "HIS MAN CAVE" Heston didn't collect a few guns, they are everywhere & there's no room left, so rifle after rifle is just ;laying all over the others & the ground) I own a few guns, but he seemed to be getting a wee-bit insane.
Anyway, NATALIE let him in & was in between "Great Race" & "Daisy" & he spilled his stuff all over the place & as he says instead of losing her temper she got on the floor & helped him straighten his files out! She made him so comfortable that whenever he finished a "GP" show he did a quiet "Thank you Natalie" unquote
But let me know if TCM still does these?
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Question to all you fellow TCM-ITES, did Dave get to choose his top 4 all-time flix, like the marvelous "Gues Programmers" that Mr. 0sborne did so well?
I've watched Letterman since his 1982 debut on NBC-(Bill Murray as usual brought the house down in singing "Physical" & it was only appropriate he ended his show a couple yrs ago
& Dave once said "Scarecrow" (l973) was his favorite film.
But & please let me know, are they still doing the "Guest Programmer" thing?
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Just wrote our buddy (JAKEEM) about this
They are finally showing early previews/trailers for the expensive, elaborate & dressed to the 9's
remake of Sidney Lumet's 1974 "Murder on the 0rient Express"-(December)
Kenneth Branagh directs & plays Poirot & also on hand: MICHELLE PFEIFFER, Johnny Depp, William Dafoe, Judi Dench, Penelope Cruz & others.
Reckon' Dench may take over Ingrid Bergman's 3rd Oscar winning pt?
(TRIVIA: The late & ridiculously never took home a statuette for his scoring
But, his peers, or some other site voted his score for the '74 version as A #1 by anyone.
Too bad they couldn't sway Sean Connery to jump back on board as a cameo
At any rate-(& I think I asked this already) who was the finest Hercule Poirot to date?)
My vote goes with Finney myself, unrecognizable & only age 48 then
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The 2 roles that first gained him notice were "My Beautiful Launderette" & "A Room with a View"
On my post-(check it out) I 4-got another Irish drama "The Boxer" where he obviously portrayed one A fine film (***) but not among his best His pal Jim Sheridan directed him in that, "My Left Foot" "In the Name of the Father"
But, I can never get over the fact he did not score again for "Gangs of New York?"-(it went 0 for 10)
The record for losing is still tied between "Turning Point" & "Color Purple" (0 for 11)
His character in "GONY" must rank among the all-time great villians & was a true one
His longtime wife has been Rebecca Miller daughter of legendary & (CREUL) writer ARTHUR MILLER-(l9l5-2005)
Well us Micks still have a few Irish & how powered actors>Liam Neeson is just one, for now.
& many may not know JACK NICHOLSON is also Irish.
(P.S. can you name anymore?)
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THANK YOUI! It's a strange picture & especially considering Clint's image at the time. Not a big **** though & just prior to "Dirty Harry"
Oscar victor *Geraldine Page is the leading lady & the tragic Elizabeth Hartman is in support
I like to rate things in their own right though