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2 hours ago, Hibi said:
WOW. Bette wont like that. I dont think they've EVER pre-empted a SUTS for anything since it started!
John Wayne also got canned this year, replaced by Natalie Wood.
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Just now, LornaHansonForbes said:
Who was the other?
Squeaky tried to kill Ford on September 5, 1975 in Sacramento. Sara Jane Moore then tried to make a hit on him in San Francisco on September 22, 1975. The mark of Moore's bullets is still in the stone facade of the St Francis Hotel to this day.
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40 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
As it should be. Manson was a **** and his followers were nitwits. I think pretty much every single person they killed was a result of mistaken identity.
Although Squeaky did get close to Gerald Ford...
Gerald Ford must have had some sort of complex after two women tried to kill him within a month.
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For the record, the 20 shortest nominated performances:
1. Hermoine Baddeley in Room at the Top (1959) -- 2 minutes, 19 seconds
2. Ethel Barrymore in The Paradine Case (1947) -- 3 minutes , 52 seconds
3. Claire Trevor in Dead End (1937) -- 4 minutes, 22 seconds
4. Maria Ouspenskaya in Dodsworth (1936) -- 4 minutes, 57 seconds
5. Beatrice Straight in Network (1976) -- 5 minutes, 2 seconds
6. Jane Alexander in All the President's Men (1976) -- 5 minutes, 9 seconds
7. Sylvia Miles in Midnight Cowboy (1969) -- 5 minutes, 19 seconds
8. Judi Dench in Shakespeare in Love (1998) -- 5 minutes, 52 seconds
9. Ned Beatty in Network (1976) -- 6 minutes
10. Carolyn Jones in The Bachelor Party (1957) -- 6 minutes, 1 second
11. John Marley in Love Story (1970) -- 6 minutes, 3 seconds
12. Geraldine Page in The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984) -- 6 minutes, 6 seconds
13. Ruby Dee in American Gangster (2007) -- 6 minutes, 10 seconds
14. Basil Rathbone in Romeo and Juliet (1936) -- 6 minutes, 16 seconds
15. John Lithgow in Terms of Endearment (1983) -- 6 minutes, 28 seconds
16. Diane Cilento in Tom Jones (1963) -- 6 minutes, 34 seconds
17. Maximillian Schell in Julia (1977) -- 6 minutes, 49 seconds
18. Thelma Ritter in Pillow Talk (1959) -- 6 minutes, 58 seconds
19. Holly Hunter in The Firm (1993) -- 7 minutes, 24 seconds
20. Charles Durning in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982) -- 7 minutes, 26 seconds
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8 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
I liked the book, but I remember being kinda iffy on this movie...one thing about it that put me off- I went in knowing that RICHARD BURTON was nominated for BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR for it back in 1952, so I kept expecting him to take a back seat to OLIVIA or maybe for there to have been a surprise rewrite where his character dies or gets sent to the Looney Bin or something, but no: he is ON SCREEN FOR LIKE 99.999% of the movie- which was odd because I know that happens nowadays all the time, but it was weird to see it happen 60 years ago.
**IT MIGHT even hold a record for the most screen time ever in the supporting category.
7 hours ago, jakeem said:I have a feeling this guy might be a close second.
Burton's screentime in supporting for My Cousin Rachel is a close second in the longest performances ever nominated in leading stakes. A person I knew once made a list of the 20 longest performances nominated in supporting. I'm retyping the list here for the two of you..... the people in bold won.....
1. Frank Finley in Othello (1965) -- 90 minutes, 43 seconds
2. Richard Burton in My Cousin Rachel (1952) -- 83 minutes , 57 seconds
3. Jennifer Jones in Since You Went Away (1944) -- 75 minutes, 38 seconds
4. Ethan Hawke in Training Day (2001) -- 74 minutes, 27 seconds
5. John Ireland in All the King's Men (1949) -- 73 minutes, 18 seconds
6. Peter Firth in Equus (1977) -- 73 minutes, 1 second
7. Randy Quaid in The Last Detail (1973) -- 70 minutes, 41 seconds
8. Rooney Mara in Carol (2015) -- 70 minutes, 37 seconds
9. Gene Hackman in I Never Sang for My Father (1970) -- 68 minutes, 9 seconds
10. Charles Coburn in The Devil and Miss Jones (1941) -- 67 minutes, 35 seconds
11. Tatum O'Neal in Paper Moon (1973) -- 66 minutes, 58 seconds
12. Mahershala Ali in Green Book (2018) -- 66 minutes, 38 seconds
13. Jeff Bridges in Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) -- 66 minutes, 23 seconds
14. Al Pacino in The Godfather (1972) -- 66 minutes, 22 seconds
15. Christoph Waltz in Django Unchained (2012) -- 66 minutes, 17 seconds
16. Patty Duke in The Miracle Worker (1962) -- 65 minutes, 43 seconds
17. River Phoenix in Running on Empty (1988) -- 65 minutes, 12 seconds
18. Phillip Seymour Hoffman in The Master (2012) -- 65 minutes, 11 seconds
19. Timothy Hutton in Ordinary People (1980) -- 65 minutes, 4 seconds
20. Jaime Foxx in Collateral (2004) -- 64 minutes, 13 seconds
Brad Pitt's screentime in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is 55 minutes, 12 seconds, making his performance the 13th longest winning performance in the history of the supporting categories , behind the five in bold above, plus in order: Haing S Ngor/The killing Fields (1984), Jack Albertson/The Subject Was Roses (1968), Christopher Walken/The Deer Hunter (1978), Alicia Vikander in The Danish Girl (2015), Peter Ustinov in Topkapi (1964), Walter Matthau in The Fortune Cookie (1966), and, surprisingly, Shelley Winters in The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) who beats Pitt's screentime by 2 seconds.
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2 minutes ago, chaya bat woof woof said:
I like Brad Pitt but Manson still gives me nightmares. Have HBO so I will be able to see Jo Jo Rabbit.
The person who plays Manson has less than two minutes of screentime in a 161 minute film. His followers are seen more often than he is.
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3 hours ago, speedracer5 said:
I actually watched quite a few from 2019—Motherless Brooklyn, Little Women, Once Upon..., Jojo Rabbit, and Judy. Once Upon... and Jojo were my favorites.
I saw 37 films from last year, and there are still a few more i would like to see (Dark Waters, A Hidden Life, Ad Astra, The Goldfinch, etc). But as it stands, here is how I ranked things.
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Just thinking, although it has been talked about before, how nice it would be if TCM had a sister channel for classic TV shows from the major networks, call it TCT, say. Have shows air just like it used to be, an episode a week, and have a vast array of series, 96 hour long shows and 144 half hour shows, or something like that spanning from shows done in the 50s all the way through the 90s. What do you all think?
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2 minutes ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
I wonder if the timing of the John Lewis death had an impact on coverage: We interrupt this tribute to a civil rights leader with the news of the death of the star of Gone with the Wind....
Maybe. That could be it.
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Also I wish there had been more coverage of her passing on TV. It has not been mentioned much.
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I gasped when I saw this on the bottom of a TV screen yesterday. (at times like this, I wish I had internet at home) It greatly saddened me, even though we all knew it would be coming some day. It feels like we have lost one of the last few greats of the classic era, and aside from Jane Withers, the last real link to the 1930s golden age.
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Startling timing in a way. An episode of Jeopardy! from 1992 in which he was one of 3 celebrity contestants is set to be rebroadcast on Monday.
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It's been a bit of an oddball day. This afternoon, I saw most of The Big Trees on demand which was pretty good, and I stayed up late last night for the oddball pairing of A Dream of Kings and Who'll Stop the Rain. The former with Anthony Quinn was very well acted by him, Irene Papas, and Inger Stevens and was a very moving story, but, being a 1969 film, it made some odd moves to "juice" it up with being provocative. I didn't need to see Anthony Quinn in only briefs or to hear him give a sex talk to a 14 year old boy around a certain solitary sexual activity. If it hadn't been for those scenes it could have been a 9; it will have to settle for an 8. And Who'll Stop the Rain has to be one of the more explicit films that I've ever seen on TCM. The language is very rough for a 1978 film, and given the subject matter (involving Nick Nolte, Tuesday Weld, and Michael Moriarty caught up in a drug carrying deal), it should come as no surprise that there are many graphic scenes of drug abuse, all presented unflinchingly. I watched it for Weld, and she delivered with an absolutely stunning performance.
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Eddie is indeed an exceptional hosts with very informative intros. Of the other hosts, I feel Alicia Malone is captivating.
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21 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
And yet, with THE WITCHES, There is enough of a buildup of suspense and horror that HUSTON’s GARGOYLE MAKE-UP does not totally take you aback (Or seem out of place) In fact I think there were even images of it in the trailer.
with SUPERMAN III, The entire hour and 20 minutes that comes before the demon robot possession scene is mostly slapstick comedy, Richard Pryor, and silliness...
and then, HOLY ****, The robot scene happens and it is just SO ODD and UNSETTLING and OUT OF PLACE With the rest of the movie. I could also understand anyone who developed a terrible case of claustrophobia from seeing it.
It’s really one of the most UNSETTLING MOMENTS in all filmdom And I *quite distinctly* remember losing my **** completely in the theater at the age of six.
They really should start an internet support group for 80s kids, because its as though Hollywood really wanted to give them nightmares via films due to unsettling imagery in Superman III, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Gremlins, The Neverending Story, The Black Cauldron, The Watcher in the Woods, Labyrinth, Clash of the Titans, Beetlejuice, Ghost Busters, Time Bandits, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Return to Oz, The Great Mouse Detective, Dragonslayer, The Dark Crystal, The Care Bears Movie, Legend, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Young Sherlock Holmes, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Last Unicorn, The Goonies, and Who Framed Roger Rabbit. There are probably others too. In any case, a lot of these films sent kids into therapy for years.
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9 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
I will NEVER forget the robot scene in SUPERMAN III.
The director must’ve had some MAJOR issues with his mother or something.Judging from the comment section on YouTube, a lot of people who saw Superman III as children were traumatized by the scene, so you are definitely not alone. I didn't bother to see the full scene, but I saw the images on the search engine, and that still looks creepy and freaky. the image itself is closer to some sci-fi or horror film for adults, not for a film that a lot of children were destined to go see. (But then again, the same can be said for Angelica Huston's witch makeup in The Witches, with the decaying skin, the grey dry hair, the talons for hands, and a nose that makes Jimmy Durante's look small)
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I never saw Superman III, and her role was tiny in Yanks, but I definitely remember her as the self-absorbed mother of suicidal, fragile Lori Singer in Short Cuts. Memorable performance, and she got several opportunities to sing in that film, and she had a great singing voice.
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Just now, LornaHansonForbes said:
Yeah I like the Moldavian massacre, It really takes me back to the days when there were big cliffhanger season finales.
A lot of people pointed to the Moldavian massacre as the point where the show began to decline afterwards.
I think the reason for the decline might have been because only two minor characters died as a result of that scene (Ali Macgraw and Billy Campbell). Judging from the scene as it played out on the DVD, most would have guessed at the time that Gordon Thompson's Adam would have been a goner with the shot to the chest. If they had been willing to bump off a bigger player or two (exactly who is anyone's guess or personal preference, even though we all know they would have never killed off one of the three leads) , things might have been a bit different. Even so, it doesn't strain credibility as much as "Pam's dream/nightmare" season of Dallas.
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6 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
The one in the Lily Pond is better; Also the one from the (unfortunate) reunion is fun. Apparently (Judging from the sequins and the feather boa’s) in the years since falling off the balcony, Alexis secured a contract with Frederick’s of Hollywood as one of their staff designers
Yeah, that lily pond one was something else. i flipped ahead to the season 3 discs just to see that clip. I've been enjoying it so much actually, that i bought the reinforcement pack (seasons 5 though 7) collected to help me go forward with this. i did check out that notorious "Moldavian Massacre" scene at the end of season 5. That thing was rather cinematic feeling and completely bonkers.
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On 7/13/2020 at 7:31 PM, LornaHansonForbes said:
In re: DYNASTY
I would definitely be curious about seeing the show again, but I seriously doubt it could live up to this modern day reinvention:
Here, the catfight I saw in the one episode today (with obviously male stunt doubles for both female leads) It's a real hoot.
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1 hour ago, TopBilled said:
Interestingly, Pamela Bellwood was written out at the beginning of Season 3. She has a very dramatic "final" episode, which results in Claudia being carted off to the looney bin. She turns up one more time later in Season 3 when Steven visits Claudia, I think, at the institution. Probably Bellwood was kept on contract, but the storyline dictated that she remain off-screen for awhile.
She returns at the start of season 4, full time, when Claudia is released and then she soon marries Steven. She had a lot of storyline in season 4 and season 5, which was the highest rated season. In season 6, Bellwood was pregnant and had a reduced workload. Meaning she missed some episodes or that she only had one or two scenes in several of the episodes in which she did appear.
She was let go at the end of season 6, and that time she had an even more dramatic exit than she did back in season 3. Take a look:
i heard about that in a TV book. Just a pity a long running character was written out so quickly..... And what were thouse curtains made of? Petrolium?
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I think it was perhaps the best film of the 80s. Definitely one of the top 10 of that decade, that's for sure.
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Speaking on intros, they recently stopped using the pop-up book intro in the morning. I miss it. Reminds me of wonderful mornings and happy times.
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On 7/13/2020 at 7:31 PM, LornaHansonForbes said:
In re: DYNASTY
I would definitely be curious about seeing the show again, but I seriously doubt it could live up to this modern day reinvention:
I've been seeing a lot of Dynasty this week. I'd never actually seen it before, although the clips I had seen seemed very juicy. So, since Sunday, I have polished off the equivalent of 22 episodes or about 10% of all the episodes they did. i think the show hit its stride when Joan Collins came in at the beginning of season 2. It became juicer, spicier, funnier, more rounded. (Plus Heather Locklear just entered so that's another delightful schemer to add into the mix)
Season 1, only 15 episodes, was filled with potential and had many good things about it, but it wasted too much time on drilling at an oil rig. I think its interesting though looking at that first season that John Forsythe's character was the villain of the season, often shown in very unflattering terms. Linda Evans was touching, Pamela Sue Martin was a real hoot any time she got a catty line, Al Corley gave a very good understated performance as Stephen, but the MVP of the first year for me was Pamela Bellwood, who hit emotional notes perfectly. They must have really liked her since she ended up being the only one in her subplot not to be written out of the show at the end of that first year.
Also, tangentially related, in reading about the 80s show on Wikipedia and its characters, that new version of Dynasty that they air on the CW sounds like an absolute mess. it seems on the reboot, Fallon is the main role, they have recast Alexis, Krystle was killed off in the first year, random murders taking place, oy!
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Dame Olivia de Havilland Memorial Tribute-- 24 Hours August 23
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The only two things I can guess is maybe they felt Wayne had been featured a lot with the John Ford tribute this month, or because of the controversy surrounding the John Wayne airport.