laffite
-
Posts
18,566 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
4
Posts posted by laffite
-
-
*hey johnny on the spot!!!*
*looky i found proof of female pirates!!! go helen!*
Heavens to murgatroyd de burgos, greer- and helengirl supreme, where do you find this stuff! So now you think this proves that girls make good pirates. Humph! What it does show is that they make cute pirates. Helen really looks good in these pictures. Cute smile but sorry, that attempt to look fierce is sadly lacking. Laffite and his band of pirates extraordinaire would find this light work. By the way, that is not a fake sword. It's a real sword and if you look closely it's stuck in Helen's leg. She's trying to be cool about it but you can see it hurts like the dickens. Boy, is she gonna tan his hide when they get home.
-
Off the top, I'm remembering how bad I thought Gable was playing Parnell and I caught glimpses of Jack Nicholson as Hoffa and didn't think too much of that either although I may not have given this last a better chance. The actor who should play historical figures must be able to shed their comfortable screen personas and actually be somebody. Some actors are criticized for simply playing themselves in every role and they might not fare well. Forgive my terrible recall but that fine actor (help!) who played Ghandi is a stellar example of what it takes fill the bill. I think you have to almost be an "actor's actor" to do these difficult roles because it generally requires technique, mere image won't do it.
-
*bonjour and welcome back, Lafitte!*
Merci beaucoup! I am quite busy these days
and may not be quite back as yet, but getting
there.
*Maybe Marilyn needn't have relied so much on*
*the Studio, she evidently was capable of coming*
*up with the goods. Poor thing, she just didn't*
*have enough self-confidence.*
Perhaps, but there is no doubt that the Studio
helped her a lot. Maybe this was what she needed
to gain that self confidence. I don't think she could
have done Bus Stop so well without it, for instance. Or
the Misfits. There was never any doubt about her
comedic talents, she had that from the get go. But
she wanted desperately to be a dramatic actress.
Don't Bother To Knock was a real nice coup for her
in retrospect but at the time I don't think she was
given much credit for it. She wanted to do
the Studio and prove herself.
-
*Not sure which poster you're referring to...*
The lobby poster that our Film Fatale posted of Don't Bother To Knock, showing Marilyn in that red gown, etc. That is nothing like our poor sweet Nell.
-
*In my opinion, she gives a performance any actress would be proud of, especially since she was still rather young and green.* (of dbtk)
*She's very sexy and free spirited in Let's Make Love.*
Bonjour, Madame Goddess
DBTK is all the remarkable because it was before her foray with the Actor's Studio. I agree, she does quite well. The long scene in front of the mirror putting the jewelry, a ray of hope for her in this beautiful but troubled face. She showed a lot of poise. There are some nuances in that final scene with the razor blade that are really good. That poster below is weird, it doesn't fit the movie. I know they have to sell the product but it's a shame that they have to do that. She doesn't wear that outfit, etc.
Let's Make Love seems more a Yves film than a Marilyn film. Her show numbers were good but they don't thrill me, probably because I'm not into musicals. But she's very competent there and elsewhere. The business with the joke for a $1,000 is hilarious. It reminded me of something that I would like to share. I want you to tell me whether you think this that this joke is worth a $1,000.
I'm sitting in the waiting room to see my shrink (they call it the mood clinic, haha, oh well, I was always kind of moody
) and there are several of us seated there. There is a woman who is roaming around talking to herself and gesticulating to herself (no, she is not talking on a cell phone). She is not making a commotion nor is she drawing much attention---after all, this is the, uh, mood clinic. After a few minutes, the receptionist sticks her head out of the window and says to the woman, "Excuse me, can I help you?" The woman answers, "No, I'm just waiting for a friend."It doesn't sound all that original, really, but the fact that it actually happened makes it funny. I didn't even laugh at the time. But later, haha. I thought of this when watching Let's Make Love. If anyone thinks this is worth a $1,000 (actually, by today's standards, at least $10,000), please let me know. I may go in to the joke writing business (I may have to get some more dr appts, which won't be hard).
I think this was Yves coming out party here in the U.S. and I thought he was pretty good. Tony Randall was interesting in this movie, he comes off a little differently than usual. It's still a comic role, of course, but there is a sort of restraint, a seriousness to it that is a little different than the usual, I thought, but I really like him that way.
/
-
*hey mon swasheroo!!*
Hey there!
*No confusion approaching. I know practically zero German. Ich habe nicht Deutch verstehen!*
*liar liar pants on fire! heehee!*
Mais non, c?est la verite, In college I excelled en francais but with deutch I was a dummkopf.
*i cant believe i forgot what movie that was in...yes i have that movie and have seen it nearly a hundred times with grandmama. sometimes i try to _over think_ an answer to a question about old movies that i have junior moments. heehee!*
I?ve been noticing that your junior moments have been increasing lately. Maybe you should cut down on your overthinking and try a little more underthinking. Underthinking has it?s disadvantages as it is known to result in junior moments but sometimes the simplicity of underthinking can result in unexpected brilliancies. Like acing math tests or delivering brilliant speeches about bowling alleys (although these great feats can hardly be termed unexpected). Despite a plethora of junior moments, I still think you show a lot of promise.
*That's what I mean, those Italians Just kidding, if it weren't for the Italians, we wouldn't have Rigoletto.*
*of course! we wouldnt have sophia or dorothy! heehee!*
Dorothy? And surely you?re not comparing Sophia with Rigoletto.
*could you imagine if they (the Golden Girls) werent from Sicily? tsk. tsk.*
Are they from Sicily? What do we have here, ?The Godmother?? I think Beatrice would be good at making an offer that couldn?t be refused. I wonder what she would look like with cotton in her mouth.
*i love Rigoletto! it would be a pity if there was no Rigoletto!!*
I have tickets for Rigoletto coming up in April. I bought them eight months in advance to get a discount but to ensure a good seat as well. How?s that for fancy, eight months in advance, woo!
*no, i dont think i could ever use a curse on anyone in my life...with the exception of pirates who love their rummy. heehee!*
Uh oh!
*maybe that witch Harriett would do something like that though! she gives me a fright everytime i watch her. heehee! i think she should get together with lucy van pelt and go bowling...what do you think?*
That?s hilarious. Can you imaging them at a bowling alley. Harriet would yell at the top her lungs, ?SHUSH, SHUSH?. Then she would throw a gutter ball and say, ?Where is Sir Walter Scott in all of this, that?s what I want to know. Where is Sir Walter Scott?? And that yechy Lucy Van Pelt would yell out, ?HEY, DO YOU THINK EVERYONE IN HERE COULD JUST STOP TALKING WHEN I?M BOWLING. I THINK WE NEED A LITTLE QUIET IN HERE WHEN IT?S MY TURN TO BOWL. HOW CAN I BOWL WITH ALL THIS RACKET GOING ON, THAT?S WHAT I SAY. YEAH, THAT?S WHAT I SAY, HOW ABOUT HOLDIN? DOWN THE RACKET AROUND HERE!?
*i dont mind harry Potter, i think the story in itself is genius and really playful and fun to read, but as the books got darker all the way to book 7, i started loosing interest...i am just into Harry Potter for Daniel Radcliffe personally. heehee! he is such a cutie!*
Figures!
*The kerplunk story: darcy take you away.*
*my perfect story!!! great job laffite! see, you could be a screenwriter! can you beg those movie producers to make a movie like this? pretty please!*
I?ll check with my sources in Hollywood. Would you like to play the title role or should we get someone to play you? What young actress could play you, do you think?
*I'm sorry, but pretending never made anyone happy. You have to deal with the real world. Otherwise you will in be thrall to your illusions, which only yield a false happiness. How's that for pirate philosophy?*
*really bad thats what it is! im not surprised! all you bloody pirates think the same! heehee! i saw a Geena Davis movie the other day where she was a pirate. i liked it, b/c she got with another pirate at the end. heehee! its called Cutthroat island. she plays a great strong girl pirate!*
A strong girl pirate? Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!!! Oh, excuse me, ahem, you mean there?s such at thing as that.
*ill probably go back to Guess and find another one, to become my Greer purse again. i just havent had time lately. i didnt lose the fake machete though, so look out! im coming!*
I think you should take your fake machete to Guess. You can wave it menacingly in the air. They?ll give you three or four just to get rid of you.
*They would believe the dirty pirate. No one would believe a girl who bats her eye lashes with a puppy dog pout, 'cause it's obvious she's just bein' a silly little flirt. You see, sometimes we can figure you girls out.*
*hey it worked for Geena Davis and Helen! take that!
*You girls are just incorrigibobble. That Geena looks mighty formidabobble with all those guns. Do you suppose she has a machete? Probably not, ?cause girls or so clumsy with knives, they cut themselves and then go, ?Oh, oh, oh.?
*Oh, I wish, I wish, but oh the agony!*
*Liver and Limas are not for me!*
*I'm still a-sick and fain would die*
*Not sugar plenty nor butterscotch pie*
*Can save me this rueful ache within*
*Though rum I might if God be willin'*
*oh laffite, oh laffite, the story teller,*
*he tells stories of getting his rummy*
*but he aint gonna have it in his tummy*
*for i have hid it and will take thy consequences at hand!*
Oh scotcho, oh scotcho, the rum stealer supreme
Once again up to her wiley ways
No consequences will laffite take
For difficult to find will he it make,
The Wiley One shall seek all the days
But for to find will be but a forlorn hope and dream
*Well, it's okay to pretend but you shouldn't actually say out loud after you shoot your arrows, "Your turn, Mr Darcy, hee hee."*
*"on the contrary mr. darcy, well done." ~ Elizabeth Bennett herself!*
Do you say that too? No wonder your little brother thinks you?re weird. He has a sister who thinks she?s greer and who lies to darcy. She knows he?s no good with a bow and arrow. She?s just butteringscotching him up. You girls are so incorrigabobbebly sneaky.
*Don't worry, I will spare you. But only because I don't want you to miss speech class.*
*how kindly of you sir, to allow me to go to thy speech class.*
It?s cause I want you to make an historical speech (not hysterical) that will be quoted extensively by everybody in the whole world for all time. That?s not asking too much, is it?
*i think he (Schroeder) secretly has a love for Lucy and plays thay concerto when no one is around so her can drool over her memory....*
He drools all the time over her memory. The memory of Lucy Van Pelt, the poster girl for all fussbudgets, would make anyone drool?drool in agony.
*?he remembered who he was when he saw his cute little cottage and paula standing at the gate with tears in her eyes.....oh now im gonna cry!!!*
Here, take my handkerchief.
And about that little cottage. Where?d it come from anyway? Oh, I forgot, we have to put a nice little country cottage out of nowhere because this is such a sappy movie. Who was living there anyway at the end of the movie? They should have come out the door, and said, ? GO ON, GET OUT OF HERE, THIS IS PRIVATE PROPERTY, GO KISS EACH OTHER AND BE SAPPY SOMEWHERE ELSE, GO ON, BEAT IT. THIS IS MY COUNTRY COTTAGE NOW, OFF WITH YOU, YA BIG SAPPIES!!? (There should be a sign in the yard that says, ?The Van Pelt Residence.?)
*but the movie only shows pelicans like once in the whole thing just to explain what the brief is. but the next time my parents watch it, ill think of how beautiful they are and ill be okay. heehee!*
I have not lived in vain. I have exorcized those negative associations you had of that movie (and of pelicans). Maybe I should get a psychiatrist stand like Lucy Van Pelt and cure people of their bad associations. If I did that though, I wouldn?t be a horripilating fussbudget like that incorrigebobble Lucy Van Pelt, Queen of the Fussbudgets. And I would charge a lot more than five cents.
*my next speech coming up is suppose to be a how to speech and im talking about how to bowl a good game. i love to bowl and used to be in a few leagues. i wish i could talk about greer though. it would be much more elegant and fun!*
Maybe there will be an assignment to give a speech about one of your favorite persons in history. It doesn?t seem altogether unlikely that that might happen. Then you could give a brilliant speech about Greer. Tell me about your bowling. Have you ever bowled a 200 game? I am terrible at that drat game. I think I bowled a 149 once.
So maybe I?m back now from my long voyage on which I?ve been plunderin? the weak and easy and generally wreaking havoc on the high seas in the inimitable laffite style but now you will excuse me while I peruse the booty reaped from those who befall the fate of great pirates of the sea and who are now bereft of their possessions but always shall laffite while drinking his rum and counting his doubloons keep his eye here in the hope of a few rejoinders from that greer girl extraordinaire and hoping ever earnestly that it will be soon forthcoming and not as gald dang long in arriving as this one took for which laffite offers his most humble apologies.
Adieu, chere amie, jusqu?a la prochaine fois.
laffite
-
That's wonderful, Susan. And thank you for sharing your experience with us. Continued good health to you!
laffite
-
POINT OF NO RETURN
RIVER OF NO RETURN or THE RETURN OF MARTIN GUERRE
-
The Public Enemy
re: golden goal
-
GRAND HOTEL
PSYCHO or THE GRADUATE
-
24
"Sorry, I wouldn't let you cut in line if you were the last man on earth, you silly looking fop."
-
the incredible shrinking man
nw : quiddity
-
*All of this is of course my opinion (and an opinion of a young teenager) so it probably doesn't really mean anything...LOL!*
I'm sure you're not quite serious about that (hence the LOL?). You amaze me for what you know and the way you express yourself, especially for a "young teenager." Your opinions mean quite a lot. I don't think you need me or anyone else to tell you that but I think this often when I read your posts. I hope you will continue to freely air your views.
I've seen Laura within the last two years and I thought that DA was a bit blah, but now I have something to look for in case I see it again (if I ever get around to it.) Thanks!
I agree generally regarding JamesS though I think I like him a little better than you do (but not much). And, for some reason, I am reluctant to start in on Hepburn-Tracy series. I have seen Pat and Mike, which came a bit after their prime, so to speak, but I have not seen anything else. Spencer was a very good actor, in fact, even brilliant at times, and I guess Kate fans will say the same but I have I hard time with her. Not one of my favorites. If I am loathe to dive into the movies of this famous duo, maybe I can blame it on Kate.
-
Proof
nw: coalesce
-
*24*
-
the pirate
-
Titanic (43)
LITTLE WOMEN (32) or LITTLE WOMEN (49) or LITTLE WOMEN (94)
-
White Wilderness
nw: assay
-
THE BISHOP'S WIFE
WIFE VS SECRETARY or THE GOOD HUSBAND
-
*oh it wasnt too bad. this morning on the way to school, a car was going the wrong way, heading toward me down the street,so i hit the brakes and stopped, but he was still coming at me so i swirved out of the way and spun around quite a few times before i hit the metal rail on the side of the road. the other car didnt even stop. im okay, ill live. heehee! i only have a bruised up knee and the leftside of my body is really hurting from hitting the door, but other than that im fine. i just need to rest, im really worn out from going to school while bruised up, but i didnt want to miss any classes. ill just watch some sappiness tonight with greer and darcy and then greer with smithy. heehee!*
Swerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrve! BAM! Spinning car (a few times around no less) BANG GONG, against a metal railing. Oooh, my knee hurts, oooh my side hurts. Oh well, let's see, will I be late for Speech?
Aren't you the cavalier one
I'm glad you are okay.
L
-
*hey swasheroo/johnny on the spot!*
hey there, helen and greer fan/survivor supreme
*i sent your discs in the mail yesterday. your package is very colorful, i decorated it, so you should be able to recognize it. heehee!*
I'll be looking for it. Grazie!
*i had a car accident this morning, so my body is really sore right now and i still have to go to speech class. heehee!*
Oh, is that all? Another morning in the life of greer? A "car accident" and a "heehee" in the same sentence. You have a dramatic flair. Please be careful, we are all used to you here and want you to hang around with us for awhile
Now about that accident...?
-
*The Criterion DVD of Pepe actually has a small bonus feature where specific scenes from Pepe and Algiers are compared. It's amazing how similar they are. I'm dying to see Algiers soon. B-)*
That's interesting to me because the similarities were so obvious to me as well. True, we have the same story but the two movies seemed almost to be the same screenplay and have the same director. Some of the dialog seemed exact, for instance. If I take you to mean that you haven't seen Algiers yet, then you have a treat ahead. Hedy Lamar, not the greatest of actors by some accounts, certainly holds her own and not just because of her beauty. She was a good choice for this role, IMO.
-
The Wizard of Oz
clandestine
-
*I caught up with Pepe Le Moko over the weekend*
Casbah street, 1875
Well, I hope you didn't get lost in the labyrinth...
I agree, a great movie. I like Algiers quite a bit too. I think Boyer makes quite a good Pepe and Hedy is surprisingly good. As always with me (sigh), memory doesn't serve well but I seem to remember thinking both versions were worthy of each other.
COOL OFF TIME FROM THE HEAT WAVE
in Hot Topics
Posted
*Perhaps this isn't the place for it, but I wanted to tell you that I rented "The Cherry Orchard" with John Gielgud and Peggy Ashcroft and it blew me away. Finally I understand Chekhov! It took me ten minutes to figure out who Judi Dench was, she was so young! Thanks for posting that picture of Ian Holm on the "who am I" thread. I would never have seen this wonderful play if you hadn't.*
Hi Jackie, long time no talk. How are you? You wrote the above on Oct 9 after which time you began an haitus from the boards for a couple of weeks. I don?t think you ever saw my response because so many posts occurred by the time you came back. So I am reprising your post and my response because I was very happy that you took the time to see The Cherry Orchard and so glad that you enjoyed it. Here is original response to your post above, very nearly unchanged.
I loved it too! Peggy Ashcroft does some of the finest acting I've ever seen. If you got this from Netflix then you may have been sent the double feature, the one that has a second BBC version of the play done 20 years later (in which Dench plays Ranevskaya,) on the other side of the disc. _If so, did you watch it?_ I thought the comparison was interesting. Dench does this role her own way but she can't match Ashcroft, IMO. And, of course, Ian Holm. There is almost something comically over done about his Petya but I like how he did it, with much verve...such intensity, such idealism, no wonder Judi leaps into his arms and says, "Oh, how wonderful you said that" after one of his fiery verbal effusions. And, yes, Judi is so young...and adorable. And what energy! The production is full of energy.
*Finally I understand Chekhov!*
Oh, I wish I had your confidence! I'm not clueless but I never know whether I have it all with stuff like this.
This is such a great play! There is a movie of same made in 2001 with Charlotte Rampling and Alan Bates as Ranevskaya and Gayev that I like a lot. This movie has a few scenes at the beginning that I guess are meant to provide a little backstory (Ranevskaya in Paris prior to the actual beginning of Chekhov?s action, e.g.) that works okay, but the movie settles down and more or less presents the whole play in order. I like Bates and Rampling both. You might want to try this.
Here, the link below, is that scene with Petya and Anya in the garden, in which Petya looks at the orchard with a frisson and says, "You're cherry orchard frightens me." Oh, Petya, the "perpetual student" as he is referred too (Is this where that expression comes from?)
And now, Jackie, back to the present. May I repeat my query above and ask you, did Netflix send you the disc with the a version of the play on each side? If so, it may have been nevertheless difficult to watch both, that would be quite an exercise, though the comparison is interesting. The Ashcroft version is the better of the two.
I am preparing another recommendation for you, I hope you don't mind. We gotta give ole Chekhov and the BBC a little bandwith time here. with a thank you to our hostess, Barb, (hi!).
laffite