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"Much obliged, ladies. You go back to what you were doing before I interrupted."
Kyle In Hollywood
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Doubting that the "gals" will befriend ya.
Kyle (who had a co-worker who obsessed Miss Kelly) In Hollywood
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Today's NYTimes has a review of a recently-released DVD of Sessue Hayakawa's *The Dragon Painter* -
"As a sadistic Japanese art dealer who sexually enslaves a Long Island society woman, Hayakawa had set hearts aflame with a sense of danger and exoticism in “The Cheat,” Cecil B. DeMille’s 1915 melodrama. Hayakawa’s subsequent films, for the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company, were so successful that he was able to establish his own production company, Haworth Pictures Corporation, in 1918. Even as the popular press was brimming with “yellow peril” scare stories, Hayakawa and his directing partner, William Worthington, produced 23 features in four years, one of which, “The Dragon Painter” (1919), has now been released on DVD by Milestone Film and Video."
There's more which you can find here -
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/25/movies/homevideo/25dvds.html?ref=todayspaper
(just scroll down past the section about the Gene Autry serial *The Phantom Empire*. Well, maybe you don't want to do that either.)
Kyle In Hollywood
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*"...they were refused admission to the Hollywood Hotel because they were black. Now that's Racial...."* - vallo13
I can't argue that it wasn't. Nor am I gonna try. Jim Crow laws are never defensible.
Kyle In Hollywood
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*"Kyle---beautiful poster from Fairbanks' "Robin Hood". Just lovely."*
I am glad someone took notice of that one. I think it is extra-special too.
Kyle In Hollywood
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*"Why is it o.k. to show bare-breasted black women on film and not white women partially clothed on TV in 2008?"* - 'concerned'
Well, just last week I saw a bare-breasted Beverly D'Angelo skinny dipping with a buck naked John Savage. On TCM.
I didn't see the film last evening so I can not speak specifically to your observations. But, as they were depictions of Africans (I assume), I wouldn't call them racial stereotypes - a term usually applied to African-Americans - but instead refer to them as cultural or ethnic stereotypes. And "Classic Hollywood" is rife with such imagery in regard to many ethinic groups.
Also, I don't think anyone here "gets off" on such imagery.
Kyle In Hollywood
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Tuesday March 26^th^
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Monday March 24^th^
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*"My mom and I were fairly close, but in no way did I feel that she was my friend--she is my mother."*
Just as I would have expected, Sandy.
But I have this feeling your cat is one of the more pampered felines in the neighborhood.. Of course, I hear that an unpampered cat can be dangerous and is often life-threatening.
Kyle In Hollywood
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Unlike the studio era, contemporary actors have to answer to no one. They are in control of their own career and their image. Today there is no "machine" making stars out of what were middling talents like Loretta Young or Tyrone Power. (Who grace the cover of Jeannie Bassinger's book titled "The Star Machine".) Actors have to throw themselves into a completely different machine nowadays to become "stars".
They surround themselves with persons to advise them on their career - but these folks are also on the actor's payroll. I doubt there is a alot of honest guidance or criticism between such folks. One doesn't speak too truthfully to "the boss" if one wants to keep their paycheck - especially when the boss has a healthy set of neurotic insecurities that are very common with "artists". Being blunt means the loss of the BMW.
"Spare the rod and spoil the child" certainly could be an apt description of a generation of actors.
Kyle In Hollywood
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*"Parenting has fallen since single parent homes have become the rave."* - MattHelm
Well, I won' t go that far. I'd hestitate to describe single-parenting as the latest "fashion choice". In fact, in most cases it is probably not a choice of the parents at all. I am guessing the reasons most parents are divorcing isn't to become single parents. Nor would I like to believe that most single adults (or adolescents) are pursuing single parenthood as a status symbol.
I don't think you _really_ meant it that way, did you? Perhaps the better word would be "phenomena".
Of course, if Gildersleeve can raise raise two children successfully, there is hope for other similar households.
Kyle In Hollywood
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*"The Greatest Generation" undoubtedly engaged in much more permissive parenting than their predecessors...*
I think you are off by a generation. The children of "The Greatest Generation" / Depression survivors weren't raised extra-permissively, from my experience. For instance, they still called their father "sir".
Was this more permissive than the previous generation. Perhaps. But nothing like the change in the following generation. It amazes me to think that the children of Baby Boomers believe their role is to be a "friend" to their chlidren and not the parent. It is as if the word "No" has been permanently removed fromtheir vocabulary.
That generation has raised some very selfish and self-indugent children. I've worked with some of the worst of them.
Kyle In Hollywood
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classicdnldy -
I think you are probably referring to *The Gay Parisian* which played just before *An American In Paris*. I read the cable listing for the film and it said it was an Oscar Nominated Short, that it featured the "world-famous "Ballet Russes" and highlighted a particular dancer performing his famous "The Peruvian" (?) number, if I remember correctly. (I saw a little of it myself.)
The short film is from Warner Bros. but doesn't seem to be available for purchase. (Though sometimes shorts are included as "extras" on DVDs of other movies.)
The short does have a listing at the TDMDatabase -
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=400474
Hopefully some of this will be helpful for you.
Kyle In Hollywood
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Sunday March 23^rd^
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*"That was quite apropos after our little conversation on this thread the other night."*
Whatever do you mean? You're not trying to drag me into your faux fights, are you?
'Cause I have my own foe lately and, sadly, there's nothing faux about it.
Kyle In Hollywood
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Well, I've got it on tape - TCM, of course - so I could look it up. But I am in the middle of my annual camp-fest known as *The Ten Commandments*.
Here's what is hanging me up, Dorothy and Toto are brought back to the castle. The Witch tries to remove the shoes, etc. Toto escapes. The witch is still in the room when Toto gets out. Witch turns over the hourglass and leaves.
Then I thought I saw Toto return to the trio in the forest. And they continue back to the castle. I don't remember it cutting back to Dorothy in the castle for the Crystal Ball scene which should be about now.
All I remember seeing is the effforts of the Heroes to approach the castle ("I hope your tail holds out.") ("I want someone to talk me out of it.") They over-power the guards, pop up in the Winkie costumes and enter into the castle. Toto takes them to the outside of Dorothy's door and the chopping begins.
How I missed _the_ scene is amazing to me. I better get checked for narcolepsy.
Kyle In Hollywood
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scsu1975 -
OK. I take everyone's word for it. Somehow I missed it.
Now, does it come before or after Toto runs off to our trio? I always thought it was the scene just before our heroes arrive to knock open the door. And I didn't remember seeing it.
Thanks Rich (and Sarah),
Kyle In Hollywood
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Thanks for your help Sarah1493.
I still believe it wasn't there today. I wish I knew where in the sequnce I listed below the scene actually falls.
Kyle In Hollywood
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SCARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I hope you're noty posting the same thing right now too.
kjk
What was the greatest comedy ever made?
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*RUGGLES OF RED GAP* (1935) - PrinceSaliano
Now that's a display of good taste and good humor.
Kyle In Hollywood