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Regarding Warren Beatty, who started off this thread, I like him, but I do find it a bit odd that somebody described as larger than life offscreen often ends up seeming low-key and quiet on the big screen. I think his best performances were in Bonnie and Clyde, Heaven Can Wait, and especially Lilith.

I remember I had a severe dislike for a while of Lawrence Harvey after seeing 1961's Two Loves, but that kind of dimmed after I saw The Manchurian Candidate, The Running Man (the 1963 film with Lee Remick), and Room from the Top. And for a while, i was rather harsh toward Jack Weston.

So both leads from the 1981Best Picture winner are gone now.

Time Bandits (1981) --- 5.5/10 --- source: HBO This rubbed me the wrong way. I loved The Fisher King, and liked The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Brazil, and 12 Monkeys, but Terry Gilliam lost me here. It's a curiously nihilistic and sadistic fantasy ostensibly for kids that has very little narrative momentum and relies solely on visual bravado to help get it through. Admittedly it is an imaginative film, and there are brief little moments of amusement, but the whole thing seems very wrong-headed and misguided. Fun closing song from George Harrison, though.

I think that Julie Christie's finest hour was probably Far from the Madding Crowd in 1967, an elegant, well-mounted version of a literary classic.... with no balalaikas in sight. She also had some snap in a smaller role in Billy Liar (1963). Her two late career nominations, for 1997's Afterglow as a former horror film actress with an unfaithful husband (Nick Nolte) and 2006/2007's Away from Her as a woman in the fog of Alzheimer's were both simple, unadorned, touching performances.

I urge Hollywood to remake Coyote Ugly, only with a cast of Coyotes this time. They can find enough of them in LA.

Sad news. She did such a great job in Days of Heaven.

Same here. Actually this might really sound weird, but I was born in the 90s, and I grew up watching First Wives Club on a rather regular basis beginning at the age of 4. I think in part because of it and some other films I saw a lot when i was young, it left me with a lifelong respect for actresses.

Thank you for all your thoughts. And actually it was in large part your love of 90210 (coupled with some others mutual love for it here) that made me start it (beginning with the pilot). been enjoying it very much so far and got introduced to a marvelous song to boot.

Just finished up You and Me. Such an oddball little film, but Sylvia Sidney carries it, and the opening sequences are fascinating.

It is indeed a great, fun little watch. And the whole cast seems to be having a ball

1. St. Elsewhere (1982-1988) 2. Murder, She Wrote (1984-1996) 3. The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970-1977) 4. That Girl (1966-1971) 5. Dynasty (1981-1989) 6. Remington Steele (1982-1987) 7. The Waltons (1972-1981) 8. I Love Lucy (1951-1957) 9. The Golden Girls (1985-1992) 10. Falcon Crest (1981-1990) 11. Murphy Brown (1988-1998) 12. Poirot (1989-2013) 13. The Muppet Show (1976-1981) 14. Columbo (1968-2003) 15. The Carol Burnett Show (1967-1978) next in line: Scarecrow and Mrs King (1983-1987), The Wonder Years (1988-1993), The Rockford Files (1974-1980), Lou Grant (1977-1981), Ellery Queen Mysteries (1975-1976), Designing Women (1986-1993) I'm working hard to expand my horizons with this, and Dynasty and That Girl shot up the ranks quickly. There are some others I recently started that have great future potential: The Andy Griffith Show, Gidget, Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, The Odd Couple, The Streets of San Francisco, Taxi, Cheers, Newhart, Family Ties, Miami Vice, thirtysomething, Twin Peaks, Beverly Hills 90210, Sisters, NYPD Blue, and The Practice. I let 2000 be the cut-off point, because even with the recent TV experiment, my knowledge of TV shows that started since 2000 is close to nil.... although I have to say that Downton Abbey was wonderful, Call the Midwife is nicely handled, and I loved two series I started testing recently: Gilmore Girls and Boston Legal. Another side note: Most of these weren't even on the air when I was born.....the curse of being a 90s kid.....

And it is still one of the best films ever made

Incidentally, Neame directed another film with Walter Matthau the following year called First Monday in October. It's not as good as Hopscotch and unfortunately has a egregiously overgraphic and unnecessary scene involving a pornographic movie screened as part of an obscenity case, but most of the rest of the film was old-fashioned and charming. It was a battle of the sexes comedy ala Tracy and Hepburn with Walter Matthau as a liberal (and recently divorced from Jan Sterling) Supreme Court justice and Jill Clayburgh as a new conservative addition to the court, the first woman to be voted onto the court. They clash, but they ultimately come to mutual understanding, and to some degree of love. The film came out only a month after Sandra Day O'Connor was appointed to the court so it was certainly timely. It's worth a look.

Still making my way around the wide world of TV series. I am up to having tested 32 series for the first time in the last month. I'm wrapping up the pilot episode of Laugh-In right now.

Welcome!

I had seen most of the films that were on for her day before, and they were very good films. I see where some of the films I have not seen, You and Me,An American Tragedy, and The Wagons Roll at night are on demand on Watch TCM so I'll try checking those out soon. But Sylvia is always great.

In one regard, its no surprise that it skews more modern. There were very few female directors working on high-profile films until the 1980s. And since the showcase only shows one film per director, it makes sense then that it goes modern. That said, we still have one by Dorothy Arzner, and one by Ida Lupino, and Elaine May is indeed showcased, via Mikey and Nicky.

Of the original big three networks: ABC, CBS, and NBC, which one had the shows you watched the most?

Glad to see you back and glad to hear that you are on the mend.

as did I, and it was such a warm, enjoyable film.

I kind of feel awkward at the moment, these last few weeks, because I have really been plunging myself into the world of TV shows in a way that I've not been prone to before, with heedless abandon. And I don't know, I've usually a big movie person, and yet I've been giving movies short shrift these last few weeks. And since early July, I have seen episodes of the following shows for the first time: Dynasty, Family Ties, That Girl, Perry Mason (the Raymond Burr one), Alice, thirtysomething, Taxi, Three's Company, Barney Miller, The Practice, The Streets of San Francisco, and Sisters.

Congratulations, Lydecker!

And its streaming in full on Hulu if you want to revisit it.

So I take it that if you had been a writer for the show, you would have killed him up in either the Moldavian Massacre or the El Mirage fire.