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Don't think anyone including myself thought of both versions of BEN-HUR? Just notice tcm will be airing in on sunday & reminded me
Not many Easter flix vs Christmas obviously
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23 hours ago, TopBilled said:
How about HARVEY (1950)..?
good one again
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17 hours ago, speedracer5 said:
There’s also a really funny interview with him and Dick Cavett.
Of course, his episode of “The Lucy Show” involving Lucy Carmichael and showing Jack his new bank vault is hilarious.
caught that episode many yrs back
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11 hours ago, David Guercio said:
Is Peter Bogdanovich actually blind in one eye now or are one of the lens of his glasses just a little blurry?
don't know I've been watching him for decades even on THE SOPRANOS but looked off the other day?
He is about 81 now
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15 hours ago, slaytonf said:
Is it a great movie? Well, I dunno. The Brits cherish it. All I know is whenever I chance across it, even only intending it as a temporary bridge to something else, I end up watching to the end. The songs and dance numbers are entertaining. And the rousing title theme is terrific. And there is one truly fine song toward the end ("Doll on a Music Box") that I can't understand why hasn't become a standard. You can't knock the principals, especially Sally Ann Howes, whose voice is a ray of sunlight in a despairing world. There is capable support from a list of familiar faces, who each get a moment or two to grab center stage: Lionel Jeffries, James Robertson Justice, Robert Helpmann, Anna Quayle, and Gert Frobe. The last playing with wonderful bombast the role of Baron Bomburst. They exaggerate their performances just the right amount to create a whimsical tone that keeps the movie from being crushed by its scale. And it is one of the handful of movies featuring adorable children you do not feel an overpowering urge to reach out and strangle. Credit director Ken Hughes and cinematographer Christopher Challis for the visual charm and wit. The pace is energetic and never drags even in the quieter interludes, and there are real thrilling shots, like when Chitty is first rolled out into the sunlight, and the aerial shots of the Great Western Railway train and Chitty. Rowland Emett designed the car, and Caractacus Potts' fantastical machines which are a delight and hilarious to see (mal)function.
Great or not, I get hooked.
was taken to see it as a little kid, but haven't seen it for many years since
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didn't check is tcm reairing it?
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8 hours ago, Sukhov said:
my mom used to own the album back in the mid '70's, but it got stolen
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to me personally and especially in the l970's and '80's woody allen
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Who likes Pauly Shore?
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3 minutes ago, Rudy's Girl said:
I almost forgot Monty Python's Life of Brian!
Can you believe I've yet to see entire comedy, only clips Did go to THE MEANING OF LIFE (l983) (***) is it great?
John Cleese to me is easily #1 of the group & as a kid my mom used to watch their tv show & I first got a sampling then
The utterly terrific l988 A DUISH CALLED WANDA ($63m.) can't really be called a true PYTHON comedy, who disagrees? But it's at times fantastic, especially KEVIN KLINE as Otto in his Oscar winning turn
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21 minutes ago, sewhite2000 said:
Has anyone mentioned Bob Hope? As a kid, I only knew him from those TV variety specials, and while I dutifully watched them because I thought they were of some importance, I was pretty meh on them. But I've since seen a number of his movies from his earlier career, and he was often quite funny.
Ditto Burns and Allen in their brief joint movie careers.
I somehow forgot him too? Even solo he lead the annual $Box-0ffice$ for 1949 & holds the record by far as all-time most Oscar host with 15-18 years Love him or hate him, you can easily see THE WOODMAN WOODY ALLEN in his performances Matter of fact yrs ago-(40) WOODY said his ideal weekend would be to simply watch BOB HOPE movies I read that in a comic book I used to own but lost it over the yrs
Look at BANANAS, PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM, LOVE AND DEATH for just a few examples
HOPE really selected a memorable yet off eat final resting place on a stage-(I forget right now where though)
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Steven's 1965 GREATEST STIRY EVER TOLD (**1/2) had some casting problems & hat to say it but the biggest one was JOHN "THE DUKE"WAYNE as a Roman & the asinine line he had?
& he's easily among my all-time favs THE DUKE
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Just now, skimpole said:
TCM last showed Ordet in December, while I always thought it made much more sense as an Easter movie. There are going to be two movies based on Jesus' life on TCM this Easter, plus three that touch on it. I can understand why TCM would agree that Monty Python's Life of Brian would not be the best choice. But I don't know a critic who thinks The Greatest Story Ever Told is as good as The Gospel According to St. Matthew, which TCM has never shown.
Scooped me, never saw any of it, but read about it I hate the tv movie versions where the look like male models & have perfecto teeth, don't you
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To me they still don't have them like THE STUDIO-SYSTEM though Like Ballclubs they were Who plsyed for whom,etc
CHAPLIN-(Mack Sennett, others & later just built his own DREAM FACTORY still there on La Brea Avenue in mid TINSEL-TOWN, turned into Jim Henson prods & there is still a huge statue of KERMIT THE FROG on top)
KEATON (started out on his own then L.B. Mayer hated comics at MGM & cast him in fluff & then you an see BUSTER is loaded after awhile playing 2nd fiddle to Durante at Metro SINATRA got fired from there for once making a joke to L.B. at the race track about a woman as just 1 example)
LLOYD-(don't know what DREAM FACTORY he was with?)
STAN & OLLIE (Hal Roach)
MARX BROS (-played for Paramount & then M-G-M, but only due to Thalberg)
W.C. FIELDS (Paramount & then had an alcoholic breakdown & went to Universal)
THE THREE STOOGES (were at Columbia fir 25yrs Moe who ran the business end thought it only right despite his 2 bros dying & Harry Cohn, to finish out the entire contract Back then COLUMBIA was the bottom of the barrel in the industry called Poverty Row)
ABBOTT & COSTELLO (almost always Universal)
DEAN MARTIN & JERRY LEWIS (Paramount) & so on
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WHO ARE THE ONLY 3 SNL CAST MEMBERS TO LATER BE UP FOR ACADEMY AWARDS?
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& also check out online a great video that rappers just idolized with WAKEN-(actually a song & dance man, his idol being Gene Kelly)
Called FATBOY SLIM, he doesn't even say a word & is all by himself throughout, but it's tremendous!
Just rewatched it again the other day saved it in favorite's
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WHO EVER SAW WILL FARRELL & CHRISTOPHER WALKEN IN THE FAMOUS COWBELLS SKIT???
If not I;m positive you can locate it online, I did a couple times If you look closely-(not here) but in other SNKL skits you can clearly see WALKEN reading his lines off stage
His real name y the way is RONALD WALKEN & just turned 77
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19 minutes ago, sewhite2000 said:
I saw him in Downhill with Julia Louis Dreyfuss just before all the movie theaters closed. I wouldn't exactly call it a dark comedy, but it's a muted comedy, a remake of a European film. A little bit of a different role for him. He's still playing sort of his stereotypical man-child but in a more realistic way. I assume it's on streaming by now and recommend it. He and Dreyfuss were promoting the film heavily. The even presented an award together at the Oscars. But I don't think it did much box office.
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Who else loved THE BLUES BROTHERS, not at first as just an SN skit but the entire l980 movie?\
It made $54m. but at that time was called incredibally $expensive$ due to the massive amount of cars
& hate to say it speaking of sequels but l998's BLUES BROTHERS 2000 was alright (**1/2) ($18m.)
Mostly due to it's music though & not comedy like the 1st
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Though also gone far too soon I think JOHN CANDY was great & at just about anything he tried
Aykroyd & his pals say he wasn't addicted to anything except smoking & most of all food
He weighed over 335-350lbs when they found CANDY dead in bed of a massive heart attack, filming a lousy picture called WAGON'S EAST
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8 minutes ago, sewhite2000 said:
I saw him in Downhill with Julia Louis Dreyfuss just before all the movie theaters closed. I wouldn't exactly call it a dark comedy, but it's a muted comedy, a remake of a European film. A little bit of a different role for him. He's still playing sort of his stereotypical man-child but in a more realistic way. I assume it's on streaming by now and recommend it. He and Dreyfuss were promoting the film heavily. The even presented an award together at the Oscars. But I don't think it did much box office.
you mean Farrell, that new release was never even on the radar for some reason He had his weaker one's too BEWITCHED & wasn't he in THE STEPFORD WIVES don't think so, but positive he was in BEWITCHED with NICOLE KIDMAN (**)
Though to me nowhere near the dynamo that JOHN BELUSHI was VOLCANIC!
Never forget the day he just up & died in l982 at THE CHATEAU MARMONT-(got to go by it a lot on tour) & immediately called my friends & told them JOHN BELUSHI just died, well, they thought it was one of my gags at first
De Niro & Robin Williams had stopped by his bungalow earlier but found the girl too trashy& he was hanging with & left Think her name is CATHY EVELYN SMITH
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Ryan as a matter of fact had 3 the yr he went the 3rd being the ok (**1/2) THE OUTFIT (l973) opposite DUVALL
A TERRIFIC REMINDER
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1 minute ago, Mr. Gorman said:
Jeff Bridges worked with Robert Ryan twice not long before Ryan died. Besides THE ICEMAN COMETH there was LOLLY-MADONNA XXX.
O YEAH, GOOD ONE PAL I saw that a few times, starting in the l980's
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9 minutes ago, CinemaInternational said:
I would also say this about Will Ferrell. He was excellent in a dramatic role in Stranger than Fiction, an overlooked film in my opinion.
went to that one as well/reviewed pretty good (**1/2)
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by the way it usually reminds me whenever I see anything about HARVEY, that was a remake long in the planning stages & with TOM HANKS usually the name that came up first, wonder what happened?