MattHelm
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I believe you ought to leave the sauce alone when posting.
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Rathbone played the lead in the original Love From A Stranger, and Hodiak was the lead in the remake.
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Pal Joey
Shadow of A Doubt
Ministry of Fear
Ride the Pink Horse
Night of the Hunter
The Stranger
Artists and Models
La Dolce Vita
It's a Wonderful Life
Planet of the Apes
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I would love to see a movie on the HUAC blacklisting trials ... one that shows the truth and not the Hollywood-created myths associated with it. Every movie/documentary on the subject portrays the accused as being innocent, though in reality there were mountains of evidence that incriminated them. The truth is stranger than the fiction.
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I wish they would stick to actors or directors ... for awhile now they've had the Who's Who of Who Cares on there picking the movies.
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When is the last time they had a Richard Widmark month? I'd love to see them acquire Pickup On South Street. What a great movie.
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They had a symposium on the Charlie Chan movies on Fox Movie Channel a year or two ago. The panel consisted of Chinese-Americans actors/personalities, who protested that the Chan movies were racist. How could the portrayal of a brilliant person like Chan be negative, or racist? Other than being brilliant, he quotes Confucius, which promotes Chinese philosophy/culture. No word was mentioned about Mr. Moto, though.
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I think that's why too. They didn't show Jackie Cooper's Christmas Party either, I don't think, probably because it's on the, A Christmas Carol DVD.
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I'm not a big fan of Bogdonovich, but I don't think it's disrespectful of him to mimic an actor or actress while reiterating what they said to him. It's obviously done affectionately. My problem with The Essentials is while they show great movies, they show them over and over and over, as if there are no other great movies out there. I don't think TCM needs The Essentials at all, since the films are in their library anyway and can be shown anytime (and are). It seems TE season is very short and is repeated as if it were a major network show. I don't know if TE hosts choose their own movies to show, but they all seem to choose the same ones half the time. The movies are great, but let's see something else that's great.
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Was it, After The Ball?
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As Peter Bogdonovich says, Welles was about 40 years ahead of his time when he made CK, as well as everything he did. CK was vastly different compared to anything that had ever been seen then, and I think the reason why some people don't like it is because it's not the usual Hollywood formula of the time. Welles feels that his career suffered after all of that, but I see a lot of great movies and performances. I think what he really regretted was the commercials he did.
He probably was sorry about Marion, but I don't think he affected her by CK one way or the other. Her career was already over in 1937 thanks to Hearst. I think if Hearst had kept quiet and didn't make a big thing of the movie, the general public would never have connected Davies with him and the movie. Hollywood would have, because they already knew all about it anyway (Hedda Hopper certainly caught on). In fact, everytime CK was announced at the Oscars for that year, some stars booed. I just found a copy of Marion Davies' posthumous autobiography online for 75 cents. Interestingly, it has a Forward written by Welles. I can't wait to read it.
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Annie Hall ...
(Woody Allen approaches a couple on the street)
Woody: Here, you look like a very happy couple, um, are you?
Woman: Yeah.
Woody: Yeah? So, so, how do you account for it?
Woman: Uh, I'm very shallow and empty and I have no ideas and nothing interesting to say.
Man: And I'm exactly the same way.
Woody: I see. Wow. That's very interesting. So you've managed to work out something?
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It was either $300,000 or $350,000 ... I know it was in that range and an even number.
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The answer to the Dean Martin movie/song is ... "I'm Not The Marrying Kind."
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She made one movie prior to Hearst taking over her movie career, which wasn't a career at that point. It was Runaway Romany, which was financed by her first newspaper magnate boyfriend, Paul Block, and directed by her brother-in-law, in 1917. Hearst produced her second movie, Cecilia of the Pink Roses, in 1918, and then controlled everything she did thereafter. As an example of Hearst's power, when that movie came out no one liked it, yet he had all his papers print raving reviews, giving the impression it was well received, which Welles showed in CK.
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I disagree with Garland not being able to do serious comedy. I consider A Star Is Born to be a serious musical comedy, and she was great in the heavy parts.
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Me thinks it was Movietone.
Happy New Year.
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You got to admit, at least they didn't show the usual cliche footage of the stars waving goodbye in slow motion.
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Rags Ragland.
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I just saw the tribute for the second time, and was shocked to see Linda Martinez passed away. She was a such a young, beautiful and talented woman. I remember seeing over and over again, the composer competition she was in, in between movies on TCM, a couple of years ago. While most of the people that passed this year were old, this is a tragic loss.
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I love Best Years of Our Lives, but think that It's A Wonderful Life should have won for best movie that year. It definitely won in the long run.
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I can't picture anyone else but Loretta Young in The Farmer's Daughter.
A friend of mine met Loretta Young in the 50s. She was a waitress at The Toll House Inn in Whitman, MA, home of the Toll House Cookie. The restaurant was built around apple trees that sprung from the floor and flourished throughout the dining room. Loretta Young came in and sat at her station. Young ordered their famous onion soup to start. When my friend brought her soup over to Young's table, a precedent occured ... an apple dropped from a tree and landed in Young's onion soup just as it was about to be served to her. There was a big silence because no one knew what to say. Another soup was provided and the meal went on.
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Bobbie Anderson who played a young George Bailey plays a kid in the snowball fight scene in the park in TBW; Karolyn Grimes plays Niven's daughter and was Zuzu Bailey ... and probably more of the same kids were in both movies.
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I tend not to like remakes really, but exceptions are movies that are based on books, and/or require modern special effects that can only enhance the writer's vision and realize his fantastic characters. King Kong is a good example. I wouldn't mind seeing The Wizard of Oz redone, not because it would be better or replace the classic, but because L. Frank Baum deserves his vision to be as he imagined it. When he pictured a lion, he meant the lion to be a lion. I think the writer's vision is more important than even what we consider a great classic film version. But remaking an original Hollywood classic is another thing.
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Thanks Helen, but your advice on ill-advised remarks is ... ill-advised. I guess I only get the abridged version of the TCM message boards and not the Deluxe edition you seem to have, so I missed the fine print in Larry's original post that outlined the specific criteria on acceptable reasons for finding celebrities annoying and irritating. However, I must point out that a) politics have nothing to do with my selections, if that were the case the list would be much longer,
I made no remarks, I only listed names, which is what the thread asked of us. So, the political fight belongs to you. I'm sorry my selections unhinged you, and that your ideology caused you to cast assumptions upon me. Some of the people I've listed are in movies I like and I may like as actors ... I find them annoying as people. I didn't think I'd have to provide details as to why they annoy me, since there was no " ... and why." attached to the end of thread's title. And again, I'm sorry if that's due to my abridged version of the message boards.
I don't know what you wrote about Reagan, maybe someone thought it was an inappropriate remark, an inappropriate time, or both. I might not have agreed with what you said, but I would never try and censor anyone's right to write about anything here, as you've done, and may I say rather discriminately, to me. Thanks for your tolerance.