laffite
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A PLACE IN THE SUN
?for our dearly departed and beloved who is now where all good simians go. Oh, and by the way, my good friend Cecil---Cecil, stop looking for the car, I?m making a speech---is going to take my close-up and I know you all just can?t wait to see me?uh, don?t leave, folks?Helloooo, Taaaarz, hold on?hey, hunch, don?t go, you still need to clean up the swimming pool, no more bodies, I promise?? She broke off and was soon alone---except for dear Max, of course. Of course Alan was still there and he was absolutely?
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>I just can't fit Gone With the Wind into that last open hour and a half slot. Don't you hate it when that happens?
Maybe *Cinemaven* will let you make some cuts.
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>*Rohanaka*: Ha... with Miss Favell's permission I say... take her she's yours!! ha. I'll stick w/ "The Real Thing" Jackie just posted..ha. But you will likely have to fight off Molo and Frank for her as well.
Time to sharpen my sword?
>*Molo*: Careful Laffite! That dame has your number...and it's up!
They always have my number?
>*Jackie*: I can't even say what I am thinking. Something about pirate booty.
Pirate booty can be a fascinating subject
>It's all right with me, Laffite--- I am going to capture Ben and stow him away on my own ship..... you can have the girl.
Actually, it was the coke I wanted?honest?
>Did I go overboard with that last comment?
We are throwing lines over the side for you. Pirates are not averse to actually saving people?once in a while, anyway. Oh wait, belay that order! No one overboard at all.
>*Cinemaven*: Aaah...Coke. Boys...quench your thirst.
Actually, I think I?ll go back to the rum, my quenching of preference.
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Uh, say, *Rohanaka*, if you're not particularly thirsty, or you switch to Pepsi or something...could I have your Coke? There is something so, well...there-there...about that particular Coke Jackie sent you.
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The Knights of Columbus (2008)
...with the help of imdb. Okay, so I cheated, but all in the interest of, uh, moving along
Bach
Edited by: laffite on Oct 21, 2009 12:04 PM
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...I like them both
THE LION IN WINTER
BORN FREE or THE BOURNE IDENTITY
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Funny dirty little war
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THE STRAIGHT STORY
...on the level of decomposition of Max II, the color of the coffin, and whether her screenplay was playing well in Van Nuys. ?No, it?s Pomona, dear,? said Joe from the other room. ?It will play well anywhere!,? Norma screamed, ?Another word out of you and the vicuna goes back.? Max grinned apologetically and Alan and Anna May then noticed?
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Natalie Wood
Playing card A Cleaver Mandy Patink__
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THE FORTUNE COOKIE
Popular invented stories
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SABRINA
VERA DRAKE or DAISY KENYON
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THE ATOMIC KID
Departed phone
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PETER?S FRIENDS
?which was really stupid because they didn?t know who Peter?s friends were?in fact, they didn?t know Peter. They knocked on the door of this huge mansion and a balding man with sad eyes answered and said he hadn?t the foggiest idea about Peter?s friends but invited them in for a cooler. He introduced himself as Max and said he had only one friend left and that...
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Boy, there some real hall-of-famers on this thread. Therealfuster! I wonder whatever happened to sweet loliteblue.
(Yes, they were before my time...hmm, I must remember them from a past life)
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>Have I mentioned the plot of "Vertigo" lately?
Tell us again, Fred! Tell us again!
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>oh i know which trilogy you are talking about and i sorta worried about that too before i saw Leslie's version, Fanny, but i watched it anyway, b/c i love her stuff and she never lets me down with her performances. i think you will like it if you give it a chance Swashy!.
And like it I did though it was touch and go there for awhile. And our Miss SOTM did good though she had to share honors. There are not many principal characters in this one but enough to make is seem like an ensemble piece. As for Leslie, she yearns, loves a man who disappoints her, makes an emotional sacrifice, marries a man she doesn?t love, and then undergoes upheaval when her former lover returns. So she has a lot to do and does it well although I don't feel somehow that, overall, the role, despite the above, allows her the full range she is capable of doing.
Yes, I was reluctant to see this movie at first because the of the awful shadow of the earlier French trilogy done in the 30s, but as I live and learn, I find it's a good idea to let go of the imaginings and just sit down and enjoy. I was worried about Maurice. For some reason, I know not why, I had assumed he would be Cesar, which really doesn?t make much sense. It was soon clear how easily he settled being the other guy, Panisse. After all, if you have an older guy who goes for a young girl, who better than the man who can sing ?Thank heaven for little girls? without making us raise an eyebrow.
Charles Boyer is no second fiddle to anyone but I can imagine him thinking, ?O mon Dieu,? upon learning he was wanted for the role of Cesar. Cesar was played by Raimu, who is practically a legend in this role. Boyer lacked the comic edge in some ways but otherwise he had all the bluster of a good Cesar and he certainly looked the part. He wore that Cesar-defining hat so well (and in more ways than one).
Maurice is a toned-down Panisse (not so many temper tantrums) but that worked well too. Whatever one may think of his principal motive in the story he was basically a decent man, and again, who else to play such a role than Monsieur Chevalier.
Due to the inevitable associations of past roles of these two actors, it was difficult for me at times to see them as simple small-town fellows. This was important in the earlier movies where the provincial simplicity of the characters lent a certain charm to the story. But I was won over.
Leslie Caron, at the beginning anyway, had a sort of worldly, metropolitan, foxy look which belied the notion of provincialism but it didn?t matter much because after becoming Madame Panisse, i.e. marrying someone who had a little stash, she was transformed into a picture of well-dressed, well-coiffed elegance.
This is a primarily a love story but it is also the story of an extraordinary and often stormy friendship between two men, Cesar and Panisse. I admit, I struggled with these two actors in these two roles, especially in the early going, but by movie?s end I was totally won over. There is really no need for comparisons after all. Maurice and Charles were really good as these two characters, the shadow of those earlier giants (for the moment, at least) be hanged.
Something I wondered about, how to take an 8-hour trilogy and pare it down to 2 ? hours. They used the main events of the first two movies and basically dropped the third altogether, save for a beginning idea, the illness of Panisse. From there they fashioned a new but essentially similar ending and did it very well too. The story didn?t miss a beat.
Spoiler
At the end I was surprised to see Fanny take the blame for the whole mess. if I remember correctly, this was not so clear cut in the earlier version. Fanny?s confession in this later version makes it seem that Marius got a raw deal, something I had thought from the earlier movies, but there can only be partial vindication for me because Fanny was perfectly justified IMO in doing earlier what she was sorry for later. Had she not acted accordingly her relationship with Marius would have surely been tainted. I?m being vague about the details of all of this to avoid too much of a spoiler. But in this later Leslie Caron version they had Fanny say what she did to tie up a loose end, I believe. And as usual with this movie, it works fine.
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The Devil to Pay ?
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>I think the whole back story with the Schumanns and Brahms is really fascinating.
Did you see the movie? Hans Conried was a good Schumann and having to portray a man who mentally declines. It's been awhile but I remember that he did well with that. Brahms is so often depicted as the old guy with the long beard and cane but as a young man he was quite handsome. Robert Walker was well cast as Brahms. He loved Clara but even after Robert's death, she rejected him although they remained friends...or so I believe. I don't the story either, really. Kate was fine as I remember. They have remarkable ways in movies to convincingly show actors playing the piano. Sometimes the actors will take a few lessons. Kate looks good at the keyboard.
>He did some fine chamber music as well.
The Piano Quintet is one of most famous. The opening measures are so captivating...and famous.
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THE RETURN
?on her acting career that others could have but denied her because of her origins as well not having to look on while white actors were cast in Asian roles. She politely declined libations and observing the effect of all the gaiety coolly realized the apparent truth of what they were saying about ?that Karenina? woman. The voice of the director was suddenly heard calling out, ?Anna?!? But which one? The...
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GLADIATOR
DEMETRIUS AND THE GLADIATORS or THE ROBE
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A SLIGHT CASE OF MURDER
?as they found Alexsei Alexsandrovich Karenin lying on the floor in Viv?s chambers. ?Hey,? said Vivien with alarm, ?This isn?t in the movie.? ?Maybe it?s a rewrite,? said Alan. Vivien groaned, more lines to remember. Little Shirley was singing a happy song in the other room, eerily incongruent with the scene. They drank more kvass (they needed it) and wondered what wouldh happen next. Then...
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NATIONAL VELVET
BLUE VELVET or THE BLUE GARDENIA
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The Rains Came
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>EL DIABLO IS A NAME. A character in a number of DC comics.
Hi *Jenetico*, DC comics! With all due respect, it's a stretch to go to Comic Land when practically every answer has been the personal name of someone in the movie business. But even if so, on the first clue you provided an answer that overlooked a consonant and had a different vowel. On the second clue you provided an answer that was singular instead of plural. Diablo is not plural. Honestly, *Jenetico*, El Diablo could not possibly be the answer.
I guess I thought it was a particularly good clue---for me anyway, not the best of players---and I didn't want to see it go to waste.
But it's only a game. Peace to you, Jenetico.
>By the way, what name were you going for?
*Miles Archer*: I'll just shelve it for now. In the example you gave in your own case, the unexpected response you received was at least a result of a correct reading of the clues you gave.
Now back to the game. Sorry to *all* for the interruption.
laffite
SEEN ANY GOOD MOVIES LATELY?
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(above) Loretta Young in Love is News (1937)
Hi *Movieman*, I ordered this disc from Netflix about a year ago and I also enjoyed both films. I'm straining to recover some memory of them but I'm afraid my poor brain is fighting a losing battle. I believe I preferred the later Tierney version, but both were good. I took these caps at the time and thought I would post them now even though I'm aware you could have easily done the same. But at least it's a contribution I can make in lieu of any meaningful commentary. Both girls were great. Tierney looks absolutely fabulous in this dress. I remember Loretta being very animated, as was Tyrone, as you pointed out. The top Loretta cap is very early in the film before she meets Tyrone. The second is near the end when resolution is near. I'm not a big Tyrone fan but he was okay. My memory is so bad that I don't even remember Don Ameche. Terrible.
It's nice to see this thread revived. I've used it in past and it would be nice if it could get some attention and use. It's a fun thread, you never know what you're going to get.
And now below to the lovely GeneT in That Wonderful Urge (1948), simply gorgeous!