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"That's one of the tragedies of this life; that the men who are most in need of a beating up are always enormous."
J.D. Hackensacker III (Rudy Vallee) / The Palm Beach Story
Kyle In Hollywood
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"I would love to be on Ben's TMZ show although I have never seen it. Is it online or anything? What channel/time is it on?" - KPR
TMZ - tv is syndicated and can be found at any timeon a local channel. In LA it is found on the local Fox affiliate.
If you want to know what it is like, go to TMZ.com.
(And I may "rule" but KPR still rocks!)
Kyle In Hollywood
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When y'all are done, I've got the juice boxes and graham crackers ready for your snack time.
Then you can choose what you want to do next - finger paints or modeling clay?
There is so much mis-information and paranoia being thrown around in here I feel like I am at the Free Republic website.
Kyle In Hollywood
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"I did not invite Ben to the tattoo parlor, TCM contacted me about it..." - KPR
I think we try to get you on Ben's TMZ Show now. Got any paparazzi following you around Seattle yet? Maybe we can hire someone to videotape your every move.
I'd rather see my favorite 'posi-punkrocker' than Paris anyday.
Kyle In Hollywood
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"31 Days Of Oscar Movie Posters"
Tuesday February 12th
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"You have no idea what a long-legged gal can do without doing anything at all."
Gerry Jeffers (Claudette Colbert) / The Palm Beach Story
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"My Man Godfrey has some of my favorite lines ever..." - JackFavell
"All you need to start an asylum is an empty room and the right kind of people."
Kyle In Hollywood
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cinemafan -
Thanks for the additional info.
I didn't read the credits - but I kow that Lyle Lovett is singing at the end of the movie under the shots of the studio audience. And the tempo of the Lyle Lovett rendition is very close to the original theatrical style of the song. It should start out close to waltz time and have a plaintive tone.
Thanks for letting me know that the song is credited as "Moritat" in the credits also. I knew that was the German Title of "Mack The Knife" as a very dear friend was in a New York/Broadway Revival of "Threepenny Opera" and got to open the show singing "Moritat". This was the 1970s Public Theater revival with Raul Julia. (Does 'threepenny.org' have that recording available online?) His version is even played on the digital cable "Showtunes" music channel on occasion. (R.I.P Roy!)
Kyle In Hollywood
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Taking a quick break from the "31 Days Of Oscar Posters" -
A news story appropriate to this thread.
From The New York Times 11February 2008
John Alvin, Designer of Memorable Film Posters, Is Dead at 59
By DENNIS HEVESI
John Alvin, who created memorable images for movie posters, billboards and advertisements, including the two fingers touching above the Earth’s surface for “E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial,” died on Wednesday at his home in Rhinebeck, N.Y. He was 59.
The cause was a heart attack, his daughter, Farah Alvin, said.
Mr. Alvin painted striking images for more than 135 films in a 35-year career, working on projects for directors like Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Blake Edwards, Mel Brooks and Ridley Scott.
“He captured the heart of whatever the assignment was,” Federico Tio, executive vice president of marketing for Walt Disney Studios from 1990 to 2005, said in an interview on Friday. “John became synonymous with almost all of the recent posters for Disney” — for films including “Beauty and the Beast,” “Aladdin,” “The Little Mermaid” and rereleases of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” and “Pinocchio.”
“We actually started using him as an adjective,” Mr. Tio said. “We called his work Alvinized.”
For the 1974 horror spoof “Young Frankenstein,” Mr. Alvin painted looming stonelike title letters rising from a castle that is superimposed over a full moon, with a crazed Gene Wilder and Peter Boyle as the Frankenstein monster tipping his top hat. For “Blade Runner” in 1982, he used a large composite of Harrison Ford’s face over a futuristic city. His 1994 poster for “The Lion King” shows animals of many kinds surrounding a rock to view the newborn monarch.
More recently Mr. Alvin painted posters for the “Star Wars,” “Harry Potter,” “Lord of the Rings” and “Pirates of the Caribbean” series.
John Henry Alvin was born in Hyannis, Mass., on Nov. 24, 1948, the son of Albert and Rena Troutman Alvin, both career Army officers. His daughter said that as a child Mr. Alvin was awe-struck by big-budget movies like “The Vikings” and “The Time Machine” and began sketching his recollections of scenes. In 1971 he graduated from the Art Center College of Design, which was then in Los Angeles and is now in Pasadena.
In addition to his daughter, an actress, who lives in Manhattan, Mr. Alvin is survived by his wife, the former Andrea Brown, whom he met in art school and with whom he later worked on several projects; and a sister, Suzanne Alvin of Seaside, Calif.
In college, Mr. Alvin did some freelance work for Anthony Goldschmidt, an art director in Hollywood. It led to his big break, when he was asked to paint a poster for Mel Brooks’s comic western “Blazing Saddles.”
Mr. Alvin’s poster showed Mr. Brooks wearing an Indian headdress with a headband in Hebrew reading, “Kosher for Passover”; superimposed was an image of Cleavon Little on horseback in sunglasses with a Gucci saddlebag.
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"...I don't know how it correlates with Notorious."
How did you determine that "Les Enchaines" referred to Notorious? Are you collecting all the foreign language versions of your favorite films too?
kjk
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There is more about Warner Bros. 85th Anniversary on the TCM website here -
http://www.tcm.com/movienews/index/?cid=193683
Also, the documentary "You Must Remember This:The Warner Bros. Story" will be shown in three parts on PBS in September 2008.
I wonder what special plans TCM has in store in recognition of the anniversary?
Kyle In Hollywood
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Did you say "C'est derrierre?"
Are you calling me what I think you are calling me? Harrumph!
So what exactly is the translation of "Les Enchaines"? I haven't a clue. Never took French.
Kyle In Hollywood
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That's great Kim. What a wonderful surprise.
So, did you REALLY invite Ben Mankiewicz to the Tattoo Parlor or is that just some Variety hyperbole? Oops. Big Word. Or did Variety stretch the truth a bit?
Kyle In Hollywood
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"1945's "And Then There Was None" I will Not give it away. the ending is a great suprise." - vallo
I Just Watched That! It was a horrible Public Domain DVD but I saw it.
I had never seen any version of "Ten Little Indians" and I can't imagine any version being more fun than this one - C. Aubrey Smith. Mischa Auer. Judith Anderson. Walter Huston. Barry Fitzgerald. Roland Young. Richard Hayden. How could any movie with that cast NOT be pure pleasure.
And I didn't figure out the ending before it arrived either.
Kyle In Hollywood
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Re: Laura
In defense of the folks who haven't seen Laura, to the best of my knowledge, the film has never been shown on TCM. So don't feel too guilty if you haven't seen it - yet.
And with 20th Century Fox being a bit more generous to TCM with their classic library, maybe it will show up soon.
Kyle In Hollywood
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cinemafan -
The minute you mentioned Lyle Lovett, I knew that was the answer to the end title question.
Singer Lyle Lovett is crooning "Mack The Knife" over the End Credits. If the Bobby Darin recording is also listed in the credits of the film, then that "Mack The Knife" must appear earlier in the film. And it may be just a short snippet of the recording. These days, any recording that is heard in a film will be listed in the end credits.
{I just stuck in my copy and Bobby Darin is singing "Mack The Knife" under the Opening Credits.}
And 'gwtwbooklover', Lyle Lovett is a pretty talented singer/songwriter. (He is the guy with the strange haircut that dated Julia Roberts back in the 90s.) Check Him Out.
Kyle In Hollywood
Message was edited by: hlywdkjk to add the Opening Credits Info.
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Ya know, I'm looking at my plans for the last third of the "31 Days.." event and I am thinking I may need to make a few changes - particularly around the 22nd to the 26th.
I don't think L'Ombre d'un Doute and Les Enchaines are worthy of being placed in this thread. Or maybe some viewers of this thread aren't worthy.
Hmmm.....
Kyle In Hollywood
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31 Days Of Oscar Movie Posters
Monday February 11th
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"For myself, the first thing I'd nab is the new Jazz Singer collection on DVD - primarily because of the Vitaphone shorts collection it contains..." - Gregory1965
I was trying to find some collections of musical shorts but they are difficult to locate without an exact title to search for. I think I did see a Paramount (?) set of musical shorts - all jazz bands, I think. Anyone know if it is interesting?
Kyle In Hollywood
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"I'd go for some of the Criterion DVDs. The one I'd buy first is The Lady Eve..." - Dianabat
Actually I have taken the Criterion The Lady Eve home from the library a few times. And the accompanying Sturges documentary was rebroadcast on PBS this past year so I have a copy of that.
But keep dreaming for me. And thanks for sharing those daydreams with me.
Kyle In Hollywood
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FrankGrimes suggested -
Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection
The Val Lewton Horror Collection
Film Noir Classic Collection
The F.W. Murnau Collection
Fritz Lang Epic Collection
Preston Sturges: The Filmmaker Collection
The Cary Grant Box Set
Lewton. Lang. Murnau. Noir.
Boy, I am glad they put names on these posts or I would never had known that FrankGrimes suggested these!
Actually, I have two Box Sets you suggest on the short list of potential buys already - Hitchcock and Sturges. If anything, owning those two sets would free up a lot of space on the VHS shelves.
(But isn't it odd that North By Northwest in the Masterpiece Boxset?)
Kyle In Hollywood
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"Glad to hear that you dug the W+W team in RIO RITA!! I totally love those two dudes!!!" - markbeckhuaf
It was part of Kentucky Kernels that I caught the other month. The other titles were Hips, Hps. Hooray and (I think) Cracked Nuts.
All three of those films were also part of TCM's "April Fools" Festival a few years back.
That month they also presented The Cuckoos, Girl Crazy and High Flyers.
http://www.tcm.com/thismonth/article/?cid=92571&mainArticleId=92499
(Keep scrolling down to find links to articles about each of the titles. It's a long list of "Fools" they saluted that month.)
Kyle In Hollywood
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I know I've seen The Dentist on TCM. I want to say it was during the "April Fools" event about three or four years ago -
http://www.tcm.com/thismonth/article/?cid=92500
It's not listed as being part of the event so I could be wrong. Maybe it was during the Short Film event a year or so later. But I swear it was presented at least once. And I seem to remember it being a short presented between two other films. (Perhaps between the showings of The Bank Dick and Never Give A Sucker An Even Break that month.)
And it turns out The Fatal Glass Of Beer was shown once too.
http://www.tcm.com/thismonth/article/?cid=88122
Haven't a clue when that was.
Kyle In Hollywood
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Hello 'lindalou' -
I haven't looked at the wikipedia or imdb entries but the tcmdatabase entry notes that Jane Powell hosted a radio program in Portland on KOIN Radio.
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/participant/participant.jsp?spid=154704&apid=79308
(Info in the tcmdatabase is fact-checked and needs a published reference for inclusion.)
Even if you can't reach Jane Powell, you might be able to confirm your Mother's participation through the radio station, the Portland library or a Portland Historical Society.
Kyle In Hollywood
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"If it weren't for graft you'd get a very low type of people in politics"
"The Politician" (William Demerast) / The Great McGinty
Kyle In Hollywood