Sukhov
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Santa Claus (1959)
Next: East Coast of the US
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12 hours ago, sewhite2000 said:
I saw Mary Poppins Returns last night, which is set during the Great Depression, and there are black actors cast in several roles of professional prominence that almost certainly don't reflect the reality of being black and living in London in 1930: there's an attorney, a milkman, a receptionist to a bank president. I don't know how you feel about this kind of revisionism where the casts of period pieces are "multicultured" up, even if that's not historically accurate. I made a mental note of it, but it doesn't bother me. Seems wrong to deny roles to actors of color because "that's not the way it was".
Pretty much how I feel. It's irrelevant to me unless the story is specifically about racism in that time period or something similar.
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11 minutes ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
But did the kid grow up in a way you approve????
E.g. (from Wiki): He supported Barack Obama in the 2008 Presidential Election[76] and opposed Proposition 8, calling it "nothing but hate and discrimination".[77]
Uhhhh... I think his "masculine persona" comment was supposed to be sarcastic or facetious, James.
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Trotsky - This is a very short made for TV miniseries that is structured like a film. I found it to be very well done though not necessarily historically correct. It follows Trotsky's final days in Mexico as he looks back upon his life and what he did in the revolution. It shows his interactions with Lenin, Sigmund Freud, Frida Kahlo, Kamenev and other historical personalities. It follows from his days in the Tsarist era to the Kremensky government and post- Revolution. Despite what you would expect, it also does not shy away from showing his brutality.My favorite scene is when Sigmund Freud and Trotsky clash over their opinions on Freudian Psychoanalysis. Trotsky says it is nonsense and Freud counters by saying Trotsky has the temperament of a religious zealot or serial killer. Freud appears to him later on as Trotsky looks back upon his brutality. Freud utters "The only ones who do not fear death.... are already dead." I found that to be a well done scene. Some of the violence is a bit over the top though, including one scene where the Trotskyists slaughter a funeral procession that wished to get in his way. The battle scenes are all done in a very graphic and action style that I enjoyed. The important personalities of Tortsky's life appear to him in visions that symbolize the latter Trotsky's conscious and regret. I have to say that this was an extremely well done film and my favorite of the year.
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2 hours ago, Stephan55 said:
Hah, I remember that from that other place...
I went back there last night to retrieve the name of one of CG's potential alter egos (not GC or Fuster, but the other "guy") and the entire thread was gone, like a f a r t in the wind.
Here's to hoping that Lawrence catches this and replies with the name of that third person, as I am on a quest to read every post of theirs that I can find to compare...
So far I am discovering some rather discomforting (for me) potential revelations???
Real Fuster/ Fuster, Gordon Cole, Rip Murdock and Cave girl. Those are the ones I'm aware of anyway. Are you discomforted by finding out he's probably a guy? It's an honest mistake. You can't trust anyone on the internet.
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9 hours ago, NipkowDisc said:
I'd like to see a modern screwball comedy where fertility clinic nurses kidnap guys for breeding purposes.
You might have heard of it already but A Boy and His Dog has a plotline like that where they kidnap a guy to use his **** to impregnate women.
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21 minutes ago, LawrenceA said:
I also generally have no problem with reviving old threads. I do it myself on occasion, although often not from that far back. However, I get irritated when a thread is bumped merely to post "Never heard of him", or it references some commercial from 15 years ago that no one remembers, or as you said, an old obit thread. In a few of those instances, after someone posted about the seemingly pointless behavior of bumping a decade old thread only for a poster to say that they didn't know who someone was or making a lame joke, the bumpee would then try to comment on some other aspect of the original thread, be it racial movie habits or the knowledge of younger generations for classic cinema. If that later justification was truly the impetus for bumping the old thread, maybe the poster could try stating that in their first post instead of a "who is that?" banality, or better yet, start a new thread on the subject they wish to discuss.
I'm not sure what was said after I logged out last night, as most of the comments or threads seem to have been deleted. But perhaps some of the complaints aren't just about thread bumping, and may be symptomatic of a profound dislike of some posters' style or way of expressing themselves. I know I've been the target of that kind of animus, as have you.
The moderator deleted the thread because I called his azz out for being the same poster as Cavegirl and Rip Murdock and Gordon Cole.
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Romeo and Juliet from Reefer Madness
Next: song has pig latin in it
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This one is up on Netflix now and looks very good. Definitely going to check it out.
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Trolley Song from Meet Me in St. Louis
Next: song from an operetta movie
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Meet in Pyongyang (2012)
Next: South Africa
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From the foreign language editions-
1. Täältä tullaan, elämä!, Tapio Suominen, Finnish edition
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My top FF films of 1980
1. Cannibal Holocaust, Ruggero Deodato, Italy
2. Mon Oncle D’Amerique, Alain Resnais, France
3. The Last Metro, Francois Truffaut, France
4. Kagemusha, Akira Kurosawa, Japan
5. Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears, Vladimir Menshov, Russia
6. City of Women, Federico Fellini, Italy
7. Oblomov, Nikita Mikhalkov, Russia
8. Unsung Heroes: Panmunjeom, Ryu Ho-son, Ko Hak-lim, North Korea
9. Unsung Heroes: Operation Fog, Ryu Ho-son, Ko Hak-lim, North Korea
10. Unsung Heroes: A Dangerous Confrontation, Ryu Ho-son, Ko Hak-lim, North Korea
Unsung Heroes: On that Moonless Night, Ryu Ho-son, Ko Hak-lim, North Korea
Unsung Heroes: Peril, Ryu Ho-son, Ko Hak-lim, North Korea
Unsung Heroes: Seduction, Ryu Ho-son, Ko Hak-lim, North Korea
Unsung Heroes: Island of Death, Ryu Ho-son, Ko Hak-lim, North Korea
Unsung Heroes: the Shade Cast by Laughter, Ryu Ho-son, Ko Hak-lim, North Korea
And I have also seen....
Unsung Heroes: the Battle Continues, Ryu Ho-son, Ko Hak-lim, North Korea
Unsung Heroes: Destiny, Ryu Ho-son, Ko Hak-lim, North Korea
Holocaust 2: The Revenge, Angelo Pannaccio, Italy
Antropophagus, Joe D'Amato, Italy
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36 minutes ago, Dargo said:
Okay.
My first job with the airlines for a few years as a young man was working at TWA's reservation office in downtown L.A. Boy, what a monotonous and soul-sucking job THAT ever was, to say nothing about that long and congested commute to downtown L.A. from my apartment in Redondo Beach each day...but I digress.
One night while working the International desk, I got a call from a woman who she said had made an earlier reservation for her young son to fly to Rome Italy as an unaccompanied minor, and evidently to visit his father/her first ex-husband, and she said she now had the contact info TWA needed for her son to fly as an "U-M".
When I asked her if she had the record locator number, she then gave it to me and then pulled up her son's reservation in the computer.
As I went over the reservation aloud with her, I noticed it said the boy was being dropped off at LAX by his mother, Jennifer O'Neill, and then paused for a second asking her if this was the very same Jennifer O'Neill who I had fallen in lust with while watching the movie Summer of '42. She giggled a bit and then replied that it was indeed the same person.
Well, the conversation then tended to "stray' a bit from the business at hand, and we ended up talking for about 20 minutes about all sorts of things, and which would ultimately end with my suggesting that because I better get back to work due to a now high number of callers waiting to talk to me, if in the future I might need to contact her about something in regards to this reservation OR perhaps for, say, a little "get-together" with her sometime, I now had her phone number.
She seemed perfectly okay with the latter suggestion and even said she WOULD like to meet me sometime as I seemed like a "very fun guy". We then ended the call.
Unfortunately though, I never would follow up on this, as I'd very soon meet another beautiful young lady coworker(who reminded me of Samantha Eggar from the very first) and who I'd start a live-in relationship with that would last 3 years.
(...and so bottom line...who knows?...IF I would have followed up with this Jennifer O'Neill hook-up, you COULD perhaps be reading about all this from one of Jennifer's NINE freakin' EX-HUSBANDS!!!)
Very nice story. You should have dated her and married her. Think of all the juicy celebrity gossip you could share with us!
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9 minutes ago, Dargo said:
Ever tell you folks about the time I came THIS close to hooking up with the absolutely gorgeous(but evidently kind'a screwed up in the head a bit) Jennifer O'Neill?
(...yep, true story alright)
Was it when you were on the Dating Game? I'd like to hear the story.
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Zabriskie, Grace
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I concur! It's a very beautiful film. My favorite character is the Rabbi who saves the children from peril.
One good scene in the original TV version that isn't in the movie version is when the ghosts of the priest's wife and child return to taunt the kid who lied about them.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/20/obituaries/donald-moffat-dead.html
Donald Moffat, 87, a Top Actor Who Thrived in Second Billings, Dies
Donald Moffat, the character actor who nailed Falstaff’s paradoxes at the New York Shakespeare Festival, a grizzled Larry Slade in Eugene O’Neill’s “The Iceman Cometh” on Broadway and a sinister president in the film “Clear and Present Danger,” died on Thursday in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y. He was 87.
His daughter Lynn Moffat said the cause was complications of a recent stroke.
It might have surprised many Moffat fans to learn that this stage, screen and television actor was a naturalized, thoroughly Americanized Englishman who in the early 1950s had been a player with the Old Vic theater company, the London crucible of many of Britain’s most ambitious performing arts.
Mr. Moffat (pronounced MAHF-at) had long ago lost all traces of his British accent. And in a career of nearly a half-century, he amassed virtually all of his remarkable 220 credits in the United States — roles in some 80 stage plays (he directed 10 more), about 70 Hollywood and television movies and at least 60 television productions, including series, mini-series and anthologies.
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That really sounds a lot like the ending of the 1945 Gershwin biopic Rhapsody in Blue.
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1 minute ago, cigarjoe said:
What part is garbage the Santa part or the Mexican part?
The film obviously. It's considered one of the worst films of all time. You should see it though. You'll laugh at how awful it is. MST3K ripped it apart in one episode.
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20,000 Years in Sing Sing
Next: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
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Hawk, Deputy, played by Michael Horse in Twin Peaks: Missing Pieces (my father strongly looks like this character/ actor
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The Romance of Trains
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