deeanddaisy666
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Well, yes and no.
Perhaps years and years ago, during the FDR didn't sit in a chair day of journalism, a 'star' might have expected some decorum from the press.
But now? An actor, talented or a hack, 'star' or not, KNOWS what they are getting into when they go into the profession. So, along with the bling, bling and the 36K square foot houses and the ability to jump on Oprah's couch, SHOULD come the expectation that paparazzi will want to document them sitting on the john if they can.
So, puhleeze, enough with the 'I vant my privacy' bleatings. You knew what you were getting into when you shot for the stars, and got them.
Boo hoo, cry all the way to the bank, little buddies.
dolores
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Not at all, feaito. Wow, thanks TCM, I have '33, '35, '37 and Paris GDs.
I am missing my hunk in Match King and Mouthpiece. I remember watching Skyscraper Souls, the Skyscraper had as big a part as WW!
Lovely films.
dolores
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Why thanks feaito! It makes me smile that you associate me with my hunk Warren...so that makes it official, he's mine, all mine!
And ack! on The Mouthpiece, I neglected to tape it when TCM first showed it. I hope it will be rerun one of these days.
I just looked and I have GD of 1933, 1935, and 1937 taped. I should have me a GD marathon.
dolores
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Very interesting site, thanks Gerb.
Last I watched them, yes the Chan movies looked tired. But like you, I'm glad I have them -- in fact, I never even realized they were subject to the Little Rascals Big Brother syndrome.
What would I do without these kind people deciding for me what it is I will watch?
dolores
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GM, did she say that???
I read somewhere that she said: I vant to be left alone.
Which is true? You would know!
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No problem, Gerb. I understand... I thought you meant 'folksy' type movies from the 1930s and 1940s, which I love as well. I love a movie that shows a city, any city. I like cityscapes and apartments and men wearing fedoras and women wearing suits or long dresses. I like venetian blinds and old cars.
No matter where Chan went, he maintained this same sensibility for me. I liked Sen Yung and Moreland and Harold Huber and Wong and Luke.
Stepin Fetchit was a bad portrayal in CC in Egypt, imo, the tone was very cruel. I never got that with Moreland.
I didn't get caught up in the 'oh what a racist movie' aspect of these movies unless it was cruel. I enjoyed them for what they were at the time.
And you certainly don't have to explain how you feel about foreign movies, heck I don't like Chaplin and that's that, where I am concerned. I would rather sit through an Andrea Bocelli concert than watch a Chaplin movie...no, wait, I'd rather eat glass first before watching either.
I know, wasn't that routine great?
I taped many from AMC but didn't get Moto. I hope TCM gets both of these series some day. They can deep six the Winters ones though, those were just BAD acting.
dolores
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Gerb, I thought Toler was superior as well. I believe Oland was recognized as superior, but I am not sure why. I don't think you'll be able to keep from cringing when you see the Winters versions...they are awful, an embarrassment to all the other actors forced to act with him.
I think Moreland's routine where he and the other actor finished each other's sentences was priceless.
I also liked the Moto series with Lorre.
Gerb, I'm curious as to what you mean by 'domestic'?
dolores
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Filmlover, which conversion machine did you get? I may eventually someday perhaps do the same.
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You're absolutely right, TMN. I was given the Godfather Epic as a gift (on VHS tapes, I'm afraid) and I've never again watched it on television. Is the Epic available on DVD (or Blue whatever is next?)?
nygirl1089, I know exactly what you mean. I love hearing the Sicilian dialect, since that's what I grew up with. By the way, you have to rent or buy The Wise Guys with Danny DeVito and Joe Piscopo -- when the old lady says to the mob guy: BaFanGool, it's the funniest thing in the movie!
GF one and two are movie making at their best, three is an aberration that can and should be ignored. The rearrangement of the storyline in the Epic so that the timeline makes sense is excellent. When DeNiro cuts Don Cheech (sp?) across the gut in Italy - oooo fah.
GF one and two are/is one of the best movies of all time. No contest. Heck, I even liked Brando in this movie.
dolores
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Wow, you really are annoying.
Annoying, see def.: pompous windbag = annoying.
Annoying.
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Oh, susanlenox, I wasn't pretending at hoi polloi (which, by the way, I just searched on and it does NOT mean the snooty upper crust....interestingly, it has come into usage to mean the opposite of what it does mean, which is the general masses...interesting and confusing!), I have long used ja-eat? and have glommed onto (isn't glom improper???) 'word' and 'duh' and other more colorful 'in' phrases.
Heck, even 'Kleenex' as one point wasn't ubiquitous.
I have to share a story that has puzzled me since 1972 -- I was in a grammar class in college in da Bronx (I was an English Lit major/English teaching minor student) and the grammar teacher went around the room with certain words to hear our pronunciation. Well, I, yours truly, was singled out because the teacher had never heard the pronunciation of whatever word it was I used. What has puzzled me since 1972 was the word I was called upon to pronounce -- more's the pity, since my impaired memory will be less than likely to remember it. However, I found it fascinating that here I was, in da Bronx, not at that time a bastion of impeccable grammar, and here I was being singled out for my pronunciation. Add to the picture that I was painfully shy...who, me!?...at the time, and you can imagine that I wanted to crawl under my desk.
Damn and blast, wish I could remember that word! I think it had to do with the long or short 'a', but I can't be sure.
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GM, have you read 'Eats Shoots and Leaves'? I've heard good things about it, but haven't yet read it.
Trite phrases, the language is rife with them. Add me to the list of people who cringes when incorrect grammar and trite phrases make it into the mainstream.
One of my favorites is: 'all's I'm talking about'. That works out to mean: 'all is I am talking about'. Hmmmm, makes perfect sense to me! :0
Many others are used by young and old alike now, especially by the old who want to appear hip: 'Whatever', 'Not', 'Yo', 'Talk to the hand' are just but a few.
I think the days of white gloves and hats are gone, GM, and with them an attempt at formulating a phrase beFORE it comes out of one's head.
I too am guilty of using modern 'lingo' phrases, especially the rude ones, but I like to pride myself on the knowledge that I can use the language, if required. I wonder if those who pepper every single last sentence with 'like' 'um' 'you know' CAN construct a sentence if so asked? Somehow, I doubt it.
dolores
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Oh, what a story, Larry. Thank you for sharing.
When much younger, I remember watching Constance in Topper on The Million Dollar Movie (I think). I fell instantly in love with the dolman-sleeved satin dress she wore and vowed to have one just like when I married.
Well, I got the satin, but not the dolman sleeves. Samuel Lange wasn't available to me.
I also fell in love with what I thought was a Cord. Turns out it wasn't, thanks to info from those here.
It's still one of my favorite movies of all time, Grant and Bennett were just soooo beautiful in that movie at that time, and I am over the moon about fantasy movies.
Meanwhile, I loathed her sister with Eddie Robinson in Scarlett Street!
dolores
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I know work stressors too, Dan. That's why this place is so great for relaxation, when I actually do relax.
However, I don't think Allen is excusable on this one. As far as I know, Allen and Mia had the kid living in their house (then again, did they have separate residences, which I read somewhere?) and he was at the time a 'father' to her.
So as liberal (as far as live and let live, not politics) as I am, I can't give him a 'get out of jail free' card on this one. It's icky. Heck, he could just have chosen one of the other of Mia's kids, then. Or gone to the playground and picked one of those kids.
Nope, too icky. Not incest per se, but damned icky. It reminds me of the stupid sitcoms on teevee, where every one of the house mates falls head over heels in love with each other. Um, hello? You live in New York, last I looked there are lots of people there they could have dated.
Same with Allen.
Ick.
dolores
P.S. Wait, did I now misinterpret your post? Were you just noting the definition of 'incest', and not saying it was understandable what Allen did?
Let me know and I'll delete this post.
*sigh*
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If she is still acting, she's giving 'em hell in heaven (or hell).
No, she died in June of 2003 in Connecticut.
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I thought What's Up Tiger Lily was brilliant when I first saw it.
Not so much now.
I do like his range. I don't like his personal morals.
dolores
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I like Kate too. I wouldn't say she was sweet, what comes to mind when I think of her was 'ballsy'.
I think she was ahead of her time...independent in her choice of roles, independent in her willingness to stick with the love of her life even if he couldn't leave his wife.
Not sure she ever lived in Hollyweird but maintained a residence in CT and from what I can read and saw, told it like it was. Self confident, intelligent, and always herself.
I admit I never read books on her, so all of the above is just my impression gleaned from her movies and her interviews.
That said, she wasn't one of my favorite actresses. She was 'yare' in many of her movies (I liked her with George Arliss), but she always screamed Katharine Hepburn to me. She could never be guilty of understated acting. Nor could many of the other 'stars' of the period, for that matter. She was like the female Cary Grant, she could act believably in many different roles, comedy or drama, and for that earned my admiration, but she didn't melt into the role. However, at least she didn't chew the scenery as Bette Davis did (well, except for the calla lilies speech).
If I had to choose, I guess I'd say I loved her. Well, liked her a lot.
dolores
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? Katie, I thought I was responding to your question on why we discuss granular categories of films?
I know that stars and directors have little to do with a film's genre, it's already set in the book/screenplay/mind of the writer(s).
I was just explaining (badly, it seems) that higher levels of film descriptions involve actors I dislike, so I'd have to discount comedy and drama because of Chaplin.
dolores
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Katie, I think we drill down here because dramas could involve Chaplin and comedies could involve Chaplin, and since I hate Chaplin, I'd have to say I hate comedy and drama!
But seriously, we like to nit pick and genres is a subject that appeals to me. I dislike westerns in general and John Wayne in toto...but liked Stagecoach, so go figure. And I also dislike war dramas in general, but A Farewell To Arms gets to me every time.
But I like genres (I think I just like the word genre), because film noir and fantasy are classified as genres and I could wap rhapsodic about these two types of films forever.
dolores
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Hah! Katie, I don't even get to watch most of the movies I tape. I expect some day, when I'm retired, to finally get to watch them all...after transferring them all to DVD (or the latest technology) of course. Having been burned by AMC, I've done pretty well in taping all the b/w movies a person could want.
BTW, RT is 'out there'! Interesting, but out there, especially the photo section and the online fascination of one poster for another's picture. It always amuses me that one poster will assume another is being honest with their picture. Ah well.
You mentioned RT is coming out with a 'music' thread -- I wonder if the denizens there like Leonard Cohen, whom I currently adore? At any rate, it seems the moderators are fairly decent, their offenses that result in banning are reasonable.
Oh, I have about 1200 movies taped that I have yet to watch. Enough for a (my) lifetime.
dolores
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Katie, sent the same explanation to you in a PM.
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Hope you don't mind, sgd, I'm sending the explanation in a PM, since probably all here are sick of reading about me and TWoP.
Katie, the moderation here (so far) seems to be minimal. Everyone here, imo, is polite, intelligent, and moderate. When necessary, the posters rise to the task of moderating trolls.
I've not seen many nice sites like this in my travels. I'm one of the more hot-headed posters and I do my best to censor myself.
dolores
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Cool. If RT is quick moving with a lot of hot headed folks, I'll fit right in with the television forum.
I was banned from TWoPfor speaking my mind on the 'rape' scene in Rescue Me. The moderators ascribe to the tactics used by the Gestapo, and not only censor posts, but go into them and edit them.
I'm now on my third banning, and I've had it with them.
By GD, you mean General Discussion, right? And OT is off topic?
P.S. Thanks, I just registered. They look WILD over there. Hah, no need to worry about censoring, from the look of some of the titles!
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Wow, shows how well acquainted I am with The Third Man. Shame on me.
SEEN ANY GOOD MOVIES LATELY?
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Thanks, GM. He is to me what Garbo is to you...hey I should change my name to WWManiac!
I can't explain it. It's indefinable. Lucky for him he's not around, or he might be putting out a restraining order on me.
Another one I'm not sure I have, GWYM. Will have to look for that too now.
He made 66 movies, according to IMDb. *sigh*
I feel like a bobby soxer.
dolores