laffite

Malkovich, John

Read into what things. We can't have "things" dawn on us after watching the movie? This is circular reasoning. The sky is blue because the sky is blue. It might be a good to be specific and say you just don't like his acting. To say that he simply slow is problematic because your meaning is not clear. These are not words in the normal lexicon for describing actors. So acting fast means you are impressive. To not be fast means you are unimpressive? Meaning ... what? We are to allow ourselves to be callously manipulated. So we can't read into the movie what we think we see? We are not allowed to read into the movie, curious. Boy, movies are no longer any fun. *** Maybe William Holden (though lamentably too too William Holden) is a low-key sort of actor and I think he is. So therefore he a slow actor and therefore mediocre? And if so, uh-oh, we are going start reading into things after the fact. Yes? What things? I am not attacking you, I feel that there is something vague about what you are saying and I am trying to understand what you're saying. Does the word vitality have anything to do with this? Does fast mean vitality and does slow mean no vitality ? If so, I am beginning to understand. Fast and slow are possibly not good words for this context. Maybe? Maybe William Holden has no screen presents for you. No charisma. And so he is slow. Maybe? If you of a mind speak of this. Talk to me as I were a child. Make it crystal clear what you mean.

Larry King Show

Baby Doll re: unusual pet

Radio Days Re : sisters who hate each other

The Jack Paar Program

Marty

I AM interested in miniseries. I like to find something good that I can binge on over time. Sometimes mere movies are too threadbare. What! Only one episode! I jest, of course. I also have cable and that array of Encore channels. They have a lot really new stuff made as recent as 2020 and even 2021. I try some of it and feel myself on some guilty pleasure trip. Sometimes it holds me, but often not. If you love suspense, allow me to recommend BODYGUARD, a more suspenseful show you may never find, and done rather well. And they don't waste time. You are thick in it within the first 20 minutes. But you must do it before Netflix 's appointment with the chopping block. Oh, and it is not excessively long. Just a few episodes.

I watched about 45 seconds of the trailer. I can't stand cruelty. I am really squeamish about that. I couldn't take Dexter. What a premise! A serial killer specialized in killing serial killers. Boy, if you love serial killer stories, this is your baby. The first episode showed someone being tortured. See ya, Charlie, no way. There is another series from some time ago, a bald guy who is a nasty policeman, a real SOB. I was onboard though reluctantly, until he took this guy's head and held it against hot grating of an electric stove. See ya, Charlie, no way. The story was not so bad in some ways though. Can't remember the title and I don't care to look it up. I could stand that stuff when i was younger but I am to old now and identify with everything, no matter how horrible. It's amazing I got through some of that stuff in those shows I mentioned above. But I am not a sissy. I loved Game of Thrones, Breaking bad, and the movie Fargo. So I still have a pair. Sometimes.

Anthony Andrews

Goliath

Havana Widows (1933)

Gig Young

Vertigo re : favorite guilty pleasure

I felt the same way once. However lately I have enjoyed, When Heros Fly*, Fauda, Bodyguard*, Rebellion*, Peaky Blinders, The Paper, The Queen's Gambit*, Black Money Love (very irritating at times but a lot of good, can't believe I hung on, probably the longest miniseries ever), Borgen, Clickbait, The Sinner, Deadwind, and Broadchurch. The asterisk signifies especially good. I have seen a number so-called original netflix movies but here I am listing just the miniseries. I have also Amazon Prime, Britbox, HBO max (free to me) and none of these seem to have the appeal in sheer numbers that Netflix has (I should exclude BritBox from any negativity because I am a Brit Junkie, especially Masterpiece Theater type stuff. They have all the those brilliant Shakespeare BBC productions that were produced in the 70s and 80s, and select BBC miniseries over the years. Netflix for only $8 a month seems quite a deal. Especially since I am now into slumming. Those shows above are not normally my cuppa but I am being won over. Some of the European shows are quite good. To be sure, I have suspended viewing on a number due to lack of interest. The biggest disappointment is Babylon Berlin, a exceedingly promising show with amazing local color. For some reason, I couldn't stand the lead actress, annoying as heck and I am not even sure why. But the biggest problem (for me) was the management of the story. Just to cryptic to me. I tried to hang in there but finally had to give up because I became damn tired of trying to figure out what the crap was going on.

Hitchcock is one of the least likely to have to prove himself. I am guessing that he had the undying respect of anyone who he cast. In fact I have read that actors have said that he has a rather hands off way of directing. Doris Day in The Man Who Knew To Much approached Hitch during shooting and asked if she is doing it right. It was driving her nuts that he was directing her. I'm not really contradicting you. You could be right in this case. And as has been pointed out he had a mean streak. It's practically sadistic to make someone do multiple takes with a scene like that, one that hardly appears on screen. Perhaps he had the notion that he wanted the scene to be up front and on screen but never got a take he liked.

Why on earth did he need so many takes? The actual jump is hardly visible. Maybe he had a particular way he wanted her arms flailing. I mean this (forgive the unwieldy photo shopping) is about a near as we are for the jump.

And I am going to record it. I mean, no film can be that good. Just kidding, but the enthusiasm that always abounds from "somebody" has me curious.

I'm sorry but I just NEED to talk about DARK SHADOWS *** Well, okay, if you must. But you have to quit when when it gets to a thousand posts. I mean c'mon, enough is enough. No show is that good.

Surely it has something to do with Vertigo. Though Kim didn't jump from a pier.

UNGER, Felix ; played by Jack Lemmon in The Odd Couple

Moby Dick next : unexpected gift

Quincy

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World About a place where illicit goings are scheduled

Quale, Anthony