traceyk65
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Mississippi Mermaid 1969 with Belmondo and Catherine Deneuve
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My husband swearing at my car...and "Wicked Ways" by Garbage.
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What is it with the Royal Family and headgear? Is it some sort of law? Or just custom?
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Very cool idea. I'll be checking daily...
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Ok this one's been around since Shakespeare (maybe longer) I think, but in movies, whenever you meet a person of the opposite sex and immediately loathe them, you will inevitably end up together.
The police always catch the bad guy due to superior detecting or because they coerce or trick him.her into confessing and never because the bad guy was stupid and forgot to renew his license plates or had a tail light out...
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Besides the obvious ones (Mrs Danvers, Tony, Vandamm, Bruno), I've always liked these villains as well:
Danielle in To Catch a Thief.
She's ballsy as all get out and sexy-she practically dares Grant to catch her.
Abbot in The Man Who Knew Too Much, mostly because he's Peter Lorre.
Charles Tobin in Saboteur
Otto Kruger is nicely sinister as the Nazi/Fascist who first befriends, then betrays the hero.
I love Cary Grant in Suspicion. I refuse to believe in the "happy" ending--he was trying to kill her and he did let his buddy drink brandy..
And though she wasn't really the villain (though she's sort of an accomplice) Dietrich was wonderful as Charlotte Inwood in Stage Fright.
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> {quote:title=voranis wrote:}{quote}
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> Do the TCM programmers have a bias against the more action-oriented genres such as westerns, science fiction, and horror? Do they consider them inferior to dramas, musicals, and madcap screwball comedies? It seems like if something's going to be cut, it's more likely to be one of the action-oriented genres.
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> I like all the genres, but I'm just wondering if the programmers allow their personal preferences to affect programming decisions...
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> Robbie
Huh. There are months when I think they play far too many westerns and war films and not enough comedy and musicals. But I am not exactly a fan of westerns or war films, so more than one a day would be too many for me. LOL
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Cate Blanchett
Johnny Depp
Robert Downey Jr
Jude Law
Frances McDormand
Amy Adams
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Dracula, Iron Man (recently on TCM--I think that's where I saw it anyway), Frankenstein, Waterloo Bridge (on Forbidden Hollywood 1). That's it.
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2 words...Harry. Potter. LOL
No really I know that's not all they did for 2010. But I bet it was a large chunk.
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> > I was wondering is there a counterpart for men--like malicious males. Or are only women capable of this crime?
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> There are examples of this in film noir. Two of them are Lawrence Tierney in BORN TO KILL and Robert Young(!) in THEY WON'T BELIEVE ME.
Robert Montgomery (though he wasn't entirely successful) in Night Must Fall (what was in that box??)
Cary Grant should have been evil in Suspicion but sadly, wasn't.
John Gilbert in Downstairs (though again, he wasn't totally successful).
Errol Flynn was almost Bette Davis' male fatale in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, but then she chopped his head off...
Jeff Chandler in Female on the Beach seems to get the best of Joan Crawford.
John Garfield accidently does get the best of Joan in Humeresque.
All this makes me wonder if Hollywood wouldn't let a woman really be done in by a male fatale? Whether it was chauvanism or chivalry, is open to interpretation.
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*Birthdays today:*
*William Haines:*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i25pPUD7P4U
*MGM--already more stars than the heavens by 1926:*
*Silent Screen Men:*
*Lovers:*
Valentino
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbcD-aXXfyI&feature=related
Gilbert:
Gilbert and Garbo:
*Clowns:*
Laurel and Hardy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6O9FB90kAU&feature=fvw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2H8yaGidMw&feature=related
*Swashbucklers:*
Fairbanks
*Silent Ladies:*
*Vamps:*
Nita Naldi?Valentino?s vamp:
Theda Bara?THE Vamp:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91EuPTqetYQ&feature=related
*?Sophisticates:*
Gloria Swanson:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw9rtE1YhKU
Pola Negri:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GskSvff4ZH4&NR=1
*?Innocents:*
Janet Gaynor:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE5Vf_IQLrI
Mary Pickford (who was a little of both):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2TzZ7f5S4Y&feature=related
*?.and Flappers:*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3svvCj4yhYc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqIrKJ1Q1nw&feature=related
Joan:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPEzC37nBq8
Clara
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j36-tYjqtj4&feature=related
Colleen:
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*In honor of the von Sternberg night Monday:*
von Sternberg and Marlene:
The Docks of New York:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grxKRFw-hes&feature=related
The Epic that almost was?I, Claudius:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPoI9kyzcTE&feature=related
*And now for something completely different?*
Classic Romance:
Classic Actresses with Sarah Maclachlan:
Classic Actors with an interesting cover song:
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I enjoyed _I'd Love to Kiss You: Conversations with Bette Davis_ by Whitney Stine. Bette Davis is very open and frank with him about pretty much everything. Interesting. I also enjoyed _Swanson on Swanson_ by Gloria Swanson and _Tallulah: My Autobiography_ by Tallulah Bankhead. _The Last Mogul: Lew Wasserman, MCA, and the Hidden History of Hollywood_ by Dennis Macdougal was fascinating. The behind-the-scenes story of Hollywood is probably more interesting than whay goes on the screen...and I had no idea there was a Jewish Mafia. Huh. And...they're not strictly factual, but Garsen Kanin's books about Hollywood are very entertaining. _Tracy and Hepburn_ is about well, Tracy and Hepburn and the friendship he and Ruth Gordon had with them over the years. _Hollywood_ is an account of Kanin's early years in Hollywood--his anecdotes involving Sam Goldwyn and Carole Lombard are a lot of fun. Moviola is more a novel, told in flashback from the point of view of an elderly movie mogul (modelled loosley on Zukor, I think) and tells the story of movie-making from the ealriest Nickelodeon days up through the 70's. There's a very funny section about Selznik's search for Scarlett.
I got _My Wicked, Wicked Ways_ for Christmas and am looking forward to starting that one soon.
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Just saw there's going to be a von Sternberg night Monday! How did I miss that?? Excited to see Shanghai Express and Morocco and also Shanghai Gesture. I do wish they'd show some of the silents that just came out on dvd--I'd love to see Underworld or Docks of New York--the preveiws Ive seen look gorgeous! He even makes Emil Jannings look good.
Edited by: traceyk65 on Dec 31, 2010 2:24 PM
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> Everytime I hear "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" on the radio I not ashamed to say I cry.
Me too. Especially the ending with the wives and children...
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I always though of Sarah MacLachlan as more alternative? Or maybe a sort of folk-rock mix? She was, after all, one of the forces behind Lilith Fair...
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*?I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of everyday life...? ~~Sherlock Holmes*
*Some of the stranger tribute videos I?ve come across:*
Beautiful Dirty Rich Crawford:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atPzWRhJbew&feature=related
Baby Jane:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcyOAJ__c8s
Bette Davis Eyes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O14s_03Is88&feature=related
Julie Andrews is?SCARY MARY!
Ghostbusters starring Bob Hope, Fred McMurray and Dean Martin:
Breaking Benjamin goes to Oz:
James Cagney making weird noises (1 of 5 videos...seriously):
True Grit and Spartacus?with penguins:
Painting Elvis on black velvet?with Cheetos:
This one may just top them all?it?s Psychedelic Dietrich!
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Hmm. I think you both may be right. The classic femme fatale is more evil--she does what she does deliberately and often for gain. But you can stretch the definition to include women who maybe doesn't deliberately lead the guy astray--he goes bad to impress her or to help her out of trouble. Contrast the two roles played by Joan Bennet with Edward G Robinson--in Scarlet Street, she's actually out to get him, but in Woman in the Window, he gets in trouble by trying to help her. In both cases, she's been his downfall, but only in the first does she do it with evil intent.
This video doesn't answer the question, but it's fun...
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> {quote:title=jamesjazzguitar wrote:}{quote}
> Yes, there is a thing called the holiday romance and thus the title. Have you ever been in one?
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> I have and while it wasn't like the movie (hey I would of married for the money!!), it was similar in that during the vacation the gal I meet appeared to be such free spirit and nothing about the future was discussed or about jobs or politics but only two young people 'in love'.
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> Well once I started seeing her after the vacation I found out she was very controling etc... I don't think she acted that way on vacation just to hook me (I'm not that great of a catch, ha ha), but being on vacation and away from her family allowed her to be different.
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> But I do see your point and like most movies there are always holes in the plot if one digs too deep.
Oh heavens no. I was much too shy as a teenager and young adult to ever get involved with anyone that quickly! I did have friends who tried that though and it never turned out well.
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> It's too bad Shirley retired from the big screen two years later. I think she could've gone on to be a regular contributor of the John Ford Stock Company. Her motion picture career should not have ended the way it did. She was eclipsed by her child star days, but she had the talent and appeal to go on as long as Mickey Rooney or Jackie Cooper.
My thoughts exactly. She would have been ideal for the 50's--wholesome and spunky. She'd have fit right in with June and Debbie and Jane and company. I read her autobiography and I guess that no one really knew what to do with her once she became a young adult. She was put in a lot of dreck, with good roles like those in Fort Apache and The Bchelor and the Bobby-soxer few and far between.
Edited by: traceyk65 on Dec 29, 2010 9:54 PM
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> The oddest duet of all had to be Bing Crosby and David Bowie at Yuletide. ...Let's start a campaign for a Michael Buble---Iggy Pop joint concert.
Now that would be weird.
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Came across this little gem today. Marlene Dietrich and Rosemary Clooney do a duet! Shouldn't work, but somehow, it does:
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*Birthdays today:*
*Who can turn the world on with her smile? Mary Tyler Moore, of course:*
On The Dick van Dyke Show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWW5rDTJ584&feature=fvsr
This is, um?interesting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MdryiSJzEo&feature=related
*Funny Ladies of film (and TV):*
Lucy:
Lucy in Londontown:
Mabel Normand:
Fanny Brice:
Marie Dressler:
with Jean Harlow:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zQe-lVm7L4&playnext=1&list=PLCBDF3280F195212D&index=23
Jean in Red Dust:
Mae West:
Rosalind Russell:
Martin Roumagnac
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I really want to see this movie. This video makes it look very intriguing.