Bethluvsfilms
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19 hours ago, Rudy's Girl said:
Does this count?
I would say it would, since his actions throughout the film certainly do turn him into a beast.
Interesting to see Gloria Stuart when she was so young. I used to only know her as the old Rose in 1997's TITANIC.
For someone who wasn't seen throughout the whole film practically, Claude Rains turns in a very convincing and chilling performance.
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On 2/6/2020 at 12:30 AM, spence said:
good actor, but awful person
Please don't bring the "Kirk was a no-good rapist because unproven accusations say so" memos into this thread. We get enough of that from Vautrin in Kirk's obituary thread.
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Kurt Russell
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13 minutes ago, TopBilled said:
You've probably seen 621 and 622 on TCM during Oscar month...630 features Meg Ryan with Denzel Washington.
Oh I definitely have seen 630. It looked a bit more like Nicole Kidman than Meg Ryan to me though.
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8 hours ago, Vautrin said:
I get that it's about paying tribute to a good actor, but many actors have rumors concerning them and those rumors
often become part of their bio, for better or worse. It twas ever thus in Tinsel Town. The Mitchum example was the first
that came to mind. It is lacking in that it was factual, so chose whichever rumor you like. Charlie Chaplin, W.C. Fields,
Bob Hope, et al. Somewhere along the line when these folks are discussed, the rumors will show up too.
How many times do you have to be told that a thread about the passing of a legendary actor is NOT the time nor the place to bring up such an ugly rumor?
As already mentioned the Natalie Wood story is NOT part of Kirk's story because it's never been proven as 100 percent true. What part of this don't you get?
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4 minutes ago, TopBilled said:
It's on Starz, not TCM...certainly a great western.
Darn, I don't have Starz either. Oh well.
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40 minutes ago, TopBilled said:
Sunday February 9, 2020
Out west with Kirk Douglas on Starz
GUNFIGHT AT THE O.K. CORRAL with Burt Lancaster
POSSE with Bruce Dern
THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER with Sigrid Thornton
Really looking forward to GUNFIGHT AT THE O.K. CORRAL. Kirk and Burt always worked well together in any movie they did together.
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623, 624, 625, 626, 627, 629 all cool flicks in my opinion.
Never saw 628. Don't quite recognize 621, 622 and 630, I may or may not have seen them.
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On 1/30/2020 at 7:45 AM, Roy Cronin said:
It was almost a year ago, right after the Oscars, that there was a flurry of news activity about this project: Glenn was signed, a director was found and filming was set to start October 2019.
Recall that there were headlines that This Will Be Glenn's Oscar to Lose!
Since then nothing, and I have been scouring the internet to see if there were any updates (casting, etc.) but have found nothing new.
On the Cats thread, I had wondered if the reception to Cats would kill off production off future musicals, such as Sunset Boulevard. There were comments that a number of recent musicals had been successful, so Cats wouldn't necessarily mean the demise of the genre.
Since some here may be closer to the industry and insiders, I wonder if anyone has heard anything about the fate of this project?
I've noticed that there hasn't been anything more said about the supposed musical movie remake of SUNSET BOULEVARD.
According to IMBD it's still in pre-production.
I wonder if there are problems aplenty going behind the scenes. If there is, and it gets too bad, then indeed the project may end up getting scratched.
Which means Glenn Close may have to resign herself to the fact that she very likely will have to settle for an Honorary Oscar, assuming the Academy deems fit to give her one.
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I can watch Maximus (Russell Crowe) kick Commodus' (Joaquin Phoenix) butt in GLADIATOR all day. Likewise Gene Hackman opening a can of whoop-you-know-what on the racist, wife beating deputy (Brad Dourif) in MISSISSIPPI BURNING.
I loved it when Spencer Tracy put baddie Ernest Borgnine in his place in BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK.
And Denzel Washington bringing down his wrath upon all the kidnappers of his young charge in MAN ON FIRE I never get tired of.
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3 minutes ago, Vautrin said:
A number of movie stars have things that don't redound to their glory. You likely wouldn't have had a tribute thread to
Robert Mitchum after he died without mentioning his pot bust or one to Alfred Hitchcock without mentioning some
rumors about him. It's all part of the show biz merry go round. Of course the Kirk Douglas-Natalie Wood situation
is only a rumor, but in the era of #MeToo it takes on a certain added interest.
You seem to miss the point completely. It's about paying tribute to a great actor (regardless of his flaws, which no doubt he had, just like you and I do), acknowledging his contributions in cinema, NOT continually attacking the man or slandering him over a story that has nothing but unproven speculation to back it up.
Mitchum never made any secret of the fact that he did pot and did jail time for it. You can't compare his 'scandal' to the one you keep insisting on bringing up with Kirk when Kirk is no longer here to defend himself.
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THE ODD COUPLE
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PLACES IN THE HEART
Actor-producer-author Kirk Douglas (1916-2020)
in General Discussions
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It doesn't make YOU look very good continually bringing up an unproven accusation on a thread designed to pay respects to him now that he has died.
Be interested in rumors all you like, but regardless of how you feel about Kirk, you could at least stay off this thread meant to pay respects after his passing and go start a new thread where you can post to your heart's content over and over again how he could have raped Natalie Wood.
And also serial adultery does NOT make one a rapist, nor does it prove one is a rapist.