normandie7
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Surely the award for the most annoying voice in the movies goes to Butterfly McQueen.
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Franchot Tone and Morgan Freeman.
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Jake and Bill, LOL, bet they also called each other dude.
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Watched "2001: A Space Odyssey".
A masterpiece!!!!!!!!
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Watched "The Lady from Shanghai" last night. What an amazing movie!
Everett Sloane gave a great performance.
I feel angry about the fact the studio cut out entire HOUR out of the movie.
Can it ever be restored again to the director's vision?
With each new movie I see, my respect for Orson Welles grows.
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My guilty pleasure is "Mommie Dearest". I don't know what it is, I just feel mesmerised by that movie. Know all the lines too...
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Bette Davis was just wonderful in "The Catered Affair". Oh, that lady could act!
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Indeed, if you intend to watch LOTR trilogy, get your hands on the "special extended DVD edition". Basically, it is director's cut with lots of scenes that add a lovely touch, but were cut out of theatre edition for understandable reason of making the lenght of the movies cinema-audience friendly.
Do tell us your verdict after viewing.
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I thought you all might enjoy this little write-up in one of London's newspapers today:
"Alien-bashing midget Tom Cruise might have morphed from Hollywood's Most Bankable Film Star into International Laughing Stock thanks to his unconvincing whirlwind romance with wonky-faced weirdo Katie Holmes but his ex-wife, C-list actress and fellow Scientologist Mimi Rogers is full of support.
"I'm happy for him", gushes Rogers,who abandoned her trip to London to promote a poker website when it became clear journos were more interested in talking about Cruise than her roles in cinematic classics such as Dumb and Dumberer.
"Some people say he's just doing it for publicity", says Rogers. "But he's the biggest star in the world, so it's not as if he needs it".
Well done, Tom - at least that's one person convinced.
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I'd invite Orson Welles to find out exactly how the studios butchered his movies and what was his real vision behind each movie. I think he'd enjoy staying with me as I am an excellent cook.
Next I'd invite Fred Astaire and take him down Picadilly, The Ritz, Burlington Arcade, the works. This is where he loved to shop when in London. He could give his perspective on how much London had changed since his heyday.
Bette Davis would be next guest at my home. My husband can't stand her, I'd love to annoy him and let this lady **** her way through the long weekend with us.
Joan Crawford would be the ultimate guest though, perhaps she could teach me how to scrub my kitchen floor properly. Hell, I'd let her clean my whole house. Afterwards we'd go shopping at Harrods followed by the cocktails at The Lobby Bar@One Aldwych.
I could only have one guest at a time, since I only have one guest room.
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I hear Tom Cruise appeared to be losing his marbles on Oprah show while jumping on the sofa during the interview. What's going on with this guy?
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I read a couple of months ago that Gwyneth Paltrow is preparing to play Marlene Dietrich in the upcoming movie based on Deitrich's life.
Now, I don't know about you, but I just can't see it. Gwyneth as Marlene...what a joke. I don't think she'll be able to pull it off.
She is just to weak and willowy, while Marlene definitely had a masculine side to her.
I wonder who will direct this movie. Does anyone have more info?
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Hmmm...perhaps you are right. She does have a point about Tom Cruise using his private life to promote a movie. Something that used to be a desperate measure has become a norm now.
Last weekend Daily Mail (British newspaper) had an interview with Mimi Rogers, Tom Cruise's first wife. She couldn't understand why he needed to advertise himself through his private life as he is already a superstar.
However, it was transparent that she was talking about him to gain publicity for some poker-related thing she's currently involved with.
Pot calling kettle black...
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I think David Niven summed it up best:
"To be an actor it is essential to be an egomaniac; otherwise it doesn't work."
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Russell Crowe is a fantastic actor, he was great as John Nash in "A Beautiful Mind" too. Most of his performances are very inspired and, as you say very "convincing". He seems like a very intense person, I wish he would behave in a more civilised maner towards other people. He blows his top off to often...
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Sean Connery's sentiments were echoed by Clint Eastwood. In one of his interviews he said that he longed for the times when people would think up movies like "Casablanca". I couldn't agree more with both of them.
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Woddy Allen is a superb film-maker, but his films aren't really laugh-out loud funny, they are more intellectually funny, if you know what I mean.
I love The Blackadder, a british TV series, that was produced by the BBC a few years ago. It is outrageously funny, but in a british way, don't know how much it would appeal to the american sense of humor. Anyone of you seen it?
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Tom Cruise CAN act - he gave a wonderful performance in "Born on the Fourth of July". However, since then he hasn't really acted, he's just grinned his way through the movies. As if he suddenly decided he was too cool to act. And what's with him and Steven Spielberg? He seems to be the only choice of the leading actor for Spielberg's movies lately, wether appropriate for the role or not. Strange.
Lauren Bacall's remarks, even though correct, are somewhat unladylike. She seems to bear a lot of grudge, bitterness maybe. I don't know, maybe I'm wrong, but I somehow think less of her now after lashing out, first at Nicole Kidman and now Tom Cruise.
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Why Mel Gibson? Anyone who comes out with something of the caliber of "The Passion of Christ" has my respect.
Agree with Vin Diesel though. The worst 'actor' who has ever walked upon the earth.
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There's a line in "Carlito's Way" that stabs me right through the heart every time:
"Yes, I had a dream once...but I hate my dream now".
I relate to that part of the story.
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So I hear Mike Myers will remake "The Party", originally starring Peter Sellers. Why, oh why do they do this? We already have Steve Martin embarrassing himself in Peter Sellers' shoes, and now Mike Myers. Allegedly, the new film will be politically correct. It probably won't be an Indian character and there won't be an elephant.
"The Party" is a totally silly movie and I always laugh my head off watching it. It works because it is set in the sixties, I can't imagine any Hollywood bigshot hosting a party like that nowadays.
Birdie num-nums. Great stuff.
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Robert Mitchum. Also Franchot Tone for his voice.
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Jude Law is a british equivalent of Tom Cruise - so full of himself, always posing for the camera (it always makes me laugh) and takes himself much too seriously. After last weeks developments, we now know he's also a loverat and a swinger.
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"Gladiator" was very good.
I relate to "Carlito's Way" on a personal level.
"Finding Nemo" is always fun to watch.
Apart from those and LOTR trilogy I can't think of anything else made in the last 10 years that was worth watching.
Makes you wonder,huh? What has the film industry come down to?
WHAT WAS ORSON WELLES ETHNICITY IN MOVIE LADY FROM SHANGHIA?
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Orson Wells' character in "Lady from Shanghai" was Irish.
I can understand your confusion as his attempt at irish accent wasn't very convincing. Still, the movie was great, one of my favourite movies of all time. And Rita Hayworth - just beautiful!