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*Attention Greer Garson fans!*
That's a wasted post, FF, I don't think there are any Greer Garson fans here.
(well, maybe one...)
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Pleasantville
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Great picture, Jackie! Now that's what I call Peaceful Co-Existence. Are those your pets?
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*lzcutter* wrote:
>MissG,
>I hope there comes a time again very soon when you will feel comfortable posting here again. You are a long time member of this board and your thoughts and rambles have been appreciated very much.
May I add a two cents and say that I certainly agree with the above. I am a Johnny-come-lately and as is my wont a little behind the curve and not quite sure what is going on and what has happened as I have not widely read the forum of late and I don't really feel like being a busybody and going back to inform myself of the matter...but not having you here, *Miss Goddess*, is nothing less than a shock to me. We all have to do what we have to do but I am hoping most fervently that you will see your way to come back to us. Not having you here is just not right. I am quite sincere when I say that if it is possible that a forum can be diminished by the absence of a single member, then I say that this is what's happening with you not here.
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*Catwoman* wrote:
>This is carzy of course but the Benny Hill Show was soooo hilarious to me. What a great BBC comedy series.
Not to everyone's taste depending on the bawdy factor, but yes, very funny. Thanks for the reminder, I haven't seen any of his stuff for a long time. He is well represented on netflix, I see. He used to be on the BBC Channel. I just checked the schedule for the next few day but did not see him there. He's a funny man.
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*well i did it foor your best silly pirate!*
Everybody's always doing things for my own good. But it never makes me any better. I think Laffite, the pirate, is beyond redemption.
*who knows where i might have hid the rum next*
Yeah, who knows? But you would have found a good place. See, being a girl, you are very adept at being sneaky. Long ago we used to think that girls were made of...
sugar and spice
and everything nice
...but now we know better, of course. When God made woman he put the sugar and spice in okay but he added a little sneaky in there too.
*ian holm has gotten so cute as he has aged, you just wanna kiss his sweet cheeks!*
How about these cheeks?
*Well, pray tell, how was it done with geena davis?*
*by catching and killing the bad guy so he wouldnt kill anyone else*
Wow, that Geena's some girl, whew! Can she cook?
*just because she's a girl, doesnt mean shes sneaky at everything!*
Riiiiiight.
*she just happens to possess a trait of sneakiness,*
Oh, just happens. It doesn't have anything to do with being a girl. Ooooo-kaaay
*how do you think she got her husband Taylor Hackford*
Let me guess. She was...uh...sneaky?
*you should hear that story. its a pip!*
Why don't you tell it? I'm always in the mood for good pip, especially if it's a ripping good pip.
*you saw her play an innocent gypsy/rich girl who was innocent just trying to help the villagers*
That the problem. Playing the innocent was subterfuge. Babbie was actually quite sophisticated and she was being sneaky pretending to be innocent. Tsk, tsk. Well, at least she doesn't go around and killing people like that Geena does. And she probably can't even cook.
*and just happened along the way snag a guy who in turn just happened to be the man of her dreams and vice versa....these wonderful things happen sometimes! heehee!*
But only in the movies and the BBC.
*and she has won the Acandemy Award BTW! for The Queen*
Congratulations to Helen...to her I most humbly bow, queen or no.
*are you kidding? the whole family is already fighting over her VHS collection, its a lulu, really!*
How many tapes does she have? Can you say without betraying a family secret? I have about 1,100 with probably 2,000 movies, mostly from TCM.
*start barking! heehee*
Sorry, I'm having too much fun just running around. But I'll jump through a few hoops if you have any.
*but you better apologize to greer! you hurt her feelings.*
*"smithy! smithy!" was a very heartfelt part of the movie ya know!*
Yeah, I know. No one lets you forget.
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Here are a few more caps from the movie:
Do you know this actor?
Or this one?
As you know, Hermia and Helena spend a lot of time in the forest where they get muddied up in the grime. It doesn't seem to hurt their looks that much.
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*bonjour drunken captain jack sparrow!*
Who me?...(hiccup)...why, I cann no mo drinshk cuz' (hiccup) som'un stole mah rum (hiccup) and thass a factsh. (hiccup) I wonner who it war.
*no silly, im not talking about The Little Minister silly! i know you have a copy of that, i meant the Midnight '68 version you have a VHS copy of in your library.
*Ohhhhhhhhh...
Here are some screencaps of Midsummer's Night of '68 using my camera, these are off the VHS. If she looks sad in some of these pictures, it's because she is sad quite a bit in this play. But, of course, there is a happy ending. If you like these, I can make some more for you.
BTW, I have some dandy caps of Ian Holm as Puck. Wow, with what energy he plays this part. Also, Diana Rigg is a sweety looking thing and I'll post some of those as well.
*trying to make the world a better place with a bottle of rum and a camp fire? wow! heehee! thats not how it was done with geena davis!*
Well, pray tell, how was it done with geena davis? Now watch what you say, this is a family-friendly thread.
*helen can be sneaky in just about every way possible in those BBC specials.*
Gee, that's an understatement. She can be sneaky probably every where. She's a girl, ain't she?
*i love that they casted her as an innocent naive girl who had no clue what she was doing until everything hit her at once. she was so funny!*
She played an innocent naive girl? Boy, that must have required some acting on her part.
Which story was that? She should have gotten the Academy Award.*grandmama taught me her system. she has said that if she dies, noone in the whole family, not even grandpapa could understand her system, only i can. heehee!*
Yup, yer grandma knows what she?s doin?. She had it all planned from the very beginning. Her collection is a legacy?to you.
*i wish greer had a special society too.*
Well, I hate to break this to you but to have a special society you have to be ready for prime time and I?m afraid that some people just haven?t made the grade. I mean it takes more than just a few sappy movies to have a special society. You have to do more than just say, ?Smithy, Smithy,? over and over again in the same movie. But don?t worry, she may have a special society some day---in a billion years.
(oooh, I think I'm in the doghouse now. woof woof)
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*bonjour johnnny on the spot!*
Bonjour Helengirl of Troy
*I see you mentioned our favorite, "The Little Minister", and thanks to you I found out about this?_and I even own my very own copy*_
*you might have a copy of it?! my jaw just dropped! find it,*
Uh, please reread what I wrote. Of course, I know where it is. And you know where I got it too, silly one
*we cant have a pirate in a drunken rage going around to people's camp fires singing silly songs about innocent people can we?*
Why not? We should all try and make the world a better place.
*she won the Laurence Olivier Shakesperean award a while ago.*
Larry would be proud of her...I think.
*have your seen The Country Wife yet from that box set off netflix?*
Yes, I did. I think I wrote something over in P&P about that as well as some of the other things she did on those old tv shows that you recommended. Yes, she was up to her subterfuges in that one, sneaky girl.
*that is her playing Tatania lying down there on the cover.i would love to see that version as well to comapre it to her 1968 version.*
Remember though, she did not play Tatania in the earlier one. She played Hermia.
*but grandmama is recording it to get a better copy of it. she does this to every movie she already has a copy of in her VHS library. our whole family thinks she is crazy, but i dont!*
Neither do I. When the VHS era was in full swing I recorded everything and have records on what I have. I also used to replace older recordings with newer ones if I thought I could improve the quality. People would ask me, "What are you going to do with all those recordings?" That was not always a happy question but in many ways it's a stupid one. I love my archives. I have, for example (as I mentioned before) the '68 version of Midsummer and just a few days ago I realized I had A Doll House that I was able to watch on the spot. I'm always finding things there I don't even know I have. So, I understand your grandma and I tip my hat to her. She's got the right idea. And she has you to do it for, which I'm sure makes it more fun for her.
Again, nice pictures of Helen. I don't have access to youtube. Do they actually show the whole thing? How did your friend get those caps?
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The Music Man
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Ho, *_Jackie_,* I think your daughter just invented
water polo all over again. I can't wait for the
playing of Super Pool I. I love the idea of the fans
being in the water. It might be kind of hard
eatin' that finger food though.
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Bonjour Helenfan extraordinaire!
*...and of course, you know i had to add Helen Mirren! heehee!*
Absolutely! I see you mentioned our favorite, "The Little Minister", and thanks to you I found out about this?and I even own my very own copy
, a real gem. You refer to those plays that Helen did for the BBC, ?The Play of the Week? on British television and some of which are available on NetFlix. You have a boxed set, but for the rest of us, we can do a search on Helen Mirren and there they are, some of them anyway. I do need to catch up on my Helen Shakespeare although I have seen the ?68 version of Midsummer (a long time ago, alas) in which she plays Hermia, (Diana Rigg plays the other young lover and no other than Ian Holm plays, you guessed it, Puck). I have a VHS copy of that somewhere that I got off the tv.Thank you for posting those pictures of Helen. They are nicely chosen, giving us three quite different Helens. I like the menacing, but beautiful Tatania. And that?s Tatania lying down as well, n?est-ce pas? How appealing she looks (sigh), O Beautiful Helen.
And, Meine Kleine Butterscotcherin, thanks for dropping by the new thread on the block and don?t be a stranger, okay? BTW, did you see the alert for Enchanted April coming up on Feb 10 on TCM? Have you seen that one? If not, this is your TCM homework for the week. I figure any movie with three love stories in one is something that you will enjoy
*"Moll" was played by Alex Kingston.*
Hi Chris, thank you for that. I should look these things up?And I?m corrected on Alfred Molina (thanks, FF), Josie?s husband, who says, ?You?re not eating your fish, give it here, it?s a shame to waste it,? while she desperately tries a way to tell him about the trip.
...minor spoilers
The husbands are hopeless. Jim Broadbent writes a serial, or something, about Esmeralda, an Egyptian slave girl, and talks cynically about this with his wife (MirandaR) who stares straight ahead with a glazed look and with total exasperation, thinking how hopeless it all is. When I watched this for the first time I wondered why the ladies just didn?t leave them altogether. There?s Jim leering at Polly with that goofy grin, yike. And the marvelous scene when he climbs the stairs and at the point of exhaustion looking for...but wait, I?ll say no more. But what happens next almost made me do a weepie and that?s unheard for someone as unsappy as me
. I?m really glad this one is coming up, I?m ready.//
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Hi, *_Molo_*, I just saw your entries. Yes, I was in error. The two episodes to which I refer are Anne Seymour and then Anne of Cleves, which I believe are III and IV. And I think you have the joke right. I think it's funny. I mean it's one thing to buy time but it's something else again to be a hopeless optimist. You never know what a horse may do, though
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*Enchanted April (1991)*
*Four women search for happiness on an Italian vacation.*
*Cast: Miranda Richardson, Joan Plowright, Josie Lawrence, Polly Walker Dir: Mike Newell C-93 mins, TV-PG*
I was once chided for liking this movie so much. I was told it was a chick flick. No matter, the film is an exercise in excellence. I remember being so taken that I watched it more than once and in a relatively short of period of time. This movie is flawlessly directed. Also rounding out the cast is Jim Broadbent and Michael Kitchen. Also, Josie Lawrence's movie husband, is his name Medina? The movie weakened a bit for me near conclusion as it veered a bit to closely to the syrup, but all in all a minor flaw, considering all that came before. Miranda Richardson is a favorite, where has she been lately? I may have more to say about this one as I watch again. Thanks for the heads up on the schedule.
And yes, anything goes here along these lines. Seeing Newell and Miranda in the same sentence reminds of another movie, Dance With a Stranger, which came a few years earlier. Rupert Everett is so young in this one you won't recognize him. Miranda is excellent. The story of a real person and a real incident.
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*_Jackie_* sez: *So while I was typing, you moved away......
**_Molo_* sez: *He moved while I was typing too.
*As you can see, my timing is impeccable. Yike!
This thread won't be prolific but at least the matter will be in one place from now on. Now that we have Netflix and the like these old productions are no longer the stuff of esoterica (is that word? we have to be high brow here
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Hey Molo
*Thanks for making me sound highbrow enough to actually know very much about BBC productions.*
Oh, you mean you're not highbrow! Good! We don't like high brows here. High brows are expressely forbidden to post here. They are so...you know, high brow.
*I just thought you would want to know.
*I noticed the error and made the change. But you are too quick for me. You high brows are really fast...
Apologies to Chris for the error.*Unfortunately, as is evidenced by my recent posts, I have been straying lately more toward Lassie, the Bowery Boys, and how Norma Shearer looked without make up.
*Well, anyone who is not watching the BBC would do very well where you're straying.
*I do however own copies of the 1970's BBC productions of The Six Wives of Henry VIII and Elizabeth R. I thought Keith Michell and Glenda Jackson were both spectacula...*
They are great, the both of them. My favorite episodes of Wives are III and IV. The latter was Annette Crosbie, am I right. It's been awhile but that Catharine was a toughie, wasn't she. Now that's how you handle royalty. The actress who played Jane Seymour was good too. That's my favorite episode. I'm trying to remember the joke she told him about the horse. Do you remember? These episodes have to be revisited.
*They are very stagey of course...*
Oooh, I hate that word. I only use it when it is over-the-top in some way. There are times when the quality of staginess can be effective and entertaining.
*Anyway that is the only contribution I can make right now regarding BBC productions.
*Thanks for posting. As a history buff, I hope you will be back here with more.
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Hi *_Jackie._*..you wrote:
*I would love to see a version of "A Doll's House" in which Torvald is NOT portrayed as a bit of a monster....*
Well, Torvald is Torvald. I just wonder if Anthony is too nice a guy to play him.
*Nora is not one of my favorite characters, maybe because she is closer to my own personality (I always wanted to play Hedda instead, she is far more exciting), but I think it's time I took another look at her, from a more mature place in my life. I remember seeing a BBC version of Hedda Gabler with (?) Janet Suzman? I think, and it was such a great part - then when I was in college I kept getting cast as Thea in scene studies.... very disillusioning......Sadly, I would probably make a pretty good Nora.....*
I don't understand why playing Nora should be so "sad" to play in the way I think you mean. Her bearing and demeanor on a minute-by-minute basis anyway do not suggest the downtrodden and repressed, not to me, anyway...although she apparently harbors illusions that supposed to suggest that she is. But I think I like Nora better than you do, I like her spunk (I wouldn't want to play her though
)UPDATE: To my delight, I found in my archives Juliet Stevenson as Nora in the original broadcast with none other than the venerable one, Alaister Cook, as host. If you haven't seen either one of these, Jackie, I would probably recommend this one (Netf has it.) For one thing, it is probably more complete. The Hopkins-Bloom version was apparently cut and some of the dialogue is moved around. I think both Stevenson and Trevor Eve are probably truer representative of their respective characters, taking nothing away, however, from the Hopkins-Bloom team. Juliet is a bit more scattered and vulnerable. Trevor Eve is severe and domineering in a way that Hopkins seems not to be and is more unctuously condescending to his "little songbird." He has a scene where he becomes exuberantly frisky with Juliet, chasing her around the room. He is unbelievably good here and is almost likable. When Juliet lowers the boom Trevor Eve is the picture of a man deconstructing before your very eyes, some of the finest acting I've seen in a long time.
I have not seen nor read Hedda Gabler, so I don't know anything about Hedda nor Thea. Jackie, have you done some acting? Come on, now, let's hear a little about that.
*House of Cards was AWESOME! Witty, frightening, epic, suspenseful, timely, and tremendously fun! I am a big fan of first person narrative, and more to the point, characters talking to the camera. Sir Ian Richardson..... well, there is nothing to say that hasn't already been said of his great performance.....*
Ouch! I haven't seen House of Cards. I've just put the first one in my queue.
*As for the few other recent BBC dramas I have seen, none seems to compare to the earlier stuff.....*
True. The BBC is still probably doing some good things but what they show on Masterpiece Theatre has certainly suffered compared to earlier times.
*_Movieman (Chris)_* sez: *I love BBC productions too. I go all the way back to "Danger UXB" and "House of Cards...Moll Flanders" from the mid 1990's was also quite fun.*
Hi Chris! I was morbidly fascinated with Danger UXB when it was on. I thought some of that was harrowing. What a great idea for a drama...unexploded bombs, ooh... And yes, Moll Flanders was really good. I'm glad you mentioned that, I might go after that one again. I have that actress' face brightly in mind but I cannot name her off hand. I seem to recall this production being appropriately spicy as needs be. O that Moll!
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Maybe it's time for the BBC (and related matter) to have a thread of its own. So far, these discussions have been hosted by other threads and are scattered about here and there. So BBC television dramas, filmed plays or filmed stage productions, or anything related is fair game here...
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EDITED: Jackie, I'm transferring a post I had HERE for you to a new thread, please see BBC thread here on FAVORITES
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*Laffite - I take it you don't have A/C where you live?*
No, I live in a box on a street corner and I haven't had electricity installed yet.
You mean air conditioning, of course...as much as I dislike the heat I don't feel I need it. I live near the coast and the ocean breezes keep things comfortable for the most part in the summer and it doesn't really get that hot, not like the oppressive heat in other places. I would think most people here _do not_ have AC, unless one lives _inland_ at least 15 miles. There it gets quite hot in summer and it's a different story.
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*bonjour mon swasheroo aka johnny on the spot!!! heehee!*
bonjour mon scotcherooski aka the Un-connected. (Glad that you are once again among the Connected. How did it feel to be "invisible"?)
*well just to impress you and frankie...yucky! heehee! no it was an interesting game.....*
No, you were right the first time...yuckeeeeee!
*have you had a chance to watch a Charlie Brown Christmas yet?*
No, not yet. I was hoping you might let me wait until next year. It's not that I don't appreciate but I hate to be un-seasonal, haha! (of course, that's not as bad as being unconnected), But yes, I shall see it, quite soon. If that Miss Van Pelt doesn't behave herself I may have to turn it off, though. You know how I feel about fussbudgets of the Van Pelt variety.
*you must tell me about Rigoletto when you see it too. its coming in austin too on stage and i wanted to get tickets, but i wasnt able to get them in time. silly me!*
Ho, ho, and if it was a Gary Cooper film festival or a Greer Garson marathon, do you think you would have been able to get tickets? What a question!
Still, you tried. Is this the full opera that's coming to Austin, or something other? These operas are on tour and I wouldn't be surprised if it was the same production.BTW, don't let "Frankie" give you a bad time about GG although I admit he has a point here and there. And of course we know that watching GG can't compare with watching a production of Rigoletto. Still, we must remember she's not all that bad either...for a girl.
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*Honestly, Laffite - we need to switch places.....*
It's a deal...but you have to let me have your house
... I remember your brief description some time ago of your "little house" in New England somewhere thereabouts. You made it sound so quaint and nice. But even with the house I'm afraid it might be a little too cold there, even for Laffite. Although I kick and scream about trifles here in Sandy where weather doesn't even exist there is a threshold that cannot be breached without more kicking and screaming, this time for opposite reasons when I find myself in the colder regions. On January 21, 1985, while living in NYC, the temperature was -2F with a WC of -35F. I remember the date because I found out later that it was the coldest day in NYC in 43 years. For most of that January the temps were zoned with highs of 19 and lows of 16 and I was totally out of my element. I had all the accoutrements for cold weather, hat, overcoat, scarf, etc., the whole thing and I couldn't get comfortable all the while looking at other people who seemed to be perfectly fine. So there you have it, I'm a wuss after all when it comes to the coldest of the cold. But I do recall feeling comfortable in the 32-40 range, very invigorating.What a great picture! It looks like it could be the first snowfall of winter, there is still a little mud on the ground. Thanks for posting it. I want to see more pictures by Hassam.
Laffite, who maybe doesn't like the cold all that much after all...
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*But if I win, you must pay me. I want more posts from you, monsieur! And not just about football!
*Hi Jackie, thanks! And since you are a co-winner I will oblige with a post something other than football (and most willingly, too), although I may hear you groaning when you see the matter since I am still on the BBC kick, to wit:
Anthony is really great in Ibsen's A Doll House, although he makes his character maybe more sympathetic than he is supposed to. After all, the character is stodgy, arrogrant, and a bit shallow when it comes to certain matters and yet I feel almost more sorry for him that his wife at the end of the play. Claire Bloom understates her final scene and to great effect. She is wonderful here. I found my eyes on her whether she was talking or not. I say this not with reference to her beauty, but to her acting.
I had seen an earlier bbc production of another Ibsen play, "Little Eyolf," that is so bad IMO that not even AnthonyH nor Diana Rigg could save it. Charles Dance is in this one and has a dreary part that goes no where. It's hard to image Charles boring but it's not his fault. He is very young in this one.
Speaking of Diana and Charles, I wonder if you've seen the Rebecca that was done about 10 years ago on PBS. I really liked it. Yes, this is a tired old story, we all know it by heart, still it can be a very interesting watch if for no other reason than to check out the acting. Charles Dance as Maxim has that towering presence that he seems to have developed especially as he aged and as we saw so readily in Bleak House (2005). When Diana Rigg made her entrance as Mrs Danvers, my first thought was, oh no, she's going to over do it. But no, she has two terrific scenes where we see the true Mrs Danvers, she is so polished, she goes for broke with these scenes and pulls it off. I can't think of the girl who plays the new bride but I had reservations about her as well, such a mousy thing but with a strong character not usually associated with this role. She won me over. Oh, and the guy who plays, uh, Jack Favell, is quite good as well. I certainly recommend this one.
Well, maybe one day soon, I'll get back to some of our TCM classics, it's about time. I have Dragonwyck coming from NetF. I have not seen it. It was not available on DVD for a long time but it is now here and NetF has it. Have you seen that one?
Laffite, who's had enough football for awhile...
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Well, down here in Sandy Eggo we are having disgustingly warm weather. It never really gets cold here (by general standards) but when the temperature is supposed to dip down to cool it would be nice if it would do so. We have just had the warmest January on record. Day after day after day in the medium to high 70s. For those people (namely, me) who like the cool, cool, cool of the day and evening I feel cheated...for while it is at least possible to have unseasonably warm weather in "winter," does it follow that we might once in a while get a little unseasonably cool weather in Summer?
Neeeeeeeeewwwwwwww!
It NEVER happens, I mean NEVER.
So far February ditto. Tomorrow the projected high is 76 although the days that follow the highs are forecast in the low 60s. Yeah, right, just watch those miserable desert wins once again blow from the East.
Trying to cool off from the "heat wave."
How can someone who's never had it so good complain so much?
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*Oh well I'm sure you will recover real soon.
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I'm working on it.
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