traceyk65
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*Honk-honk honk-honk Harpo Marx!*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg19Md-tZ6A
*Boris Karloff Birthday Tribute:*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTZXQ8VSIVA&feature=related
Boris sings!
As the Grinch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dUvOzHw1C0&feature=related
*Classic Comedy Couples:*
George and Gracie Allen:
Lucy and Desi:
Doris Day and Rock Hudson:
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Just watched Mrs Pollifax:Spy and it inspred a few more:
*Remove a bullet from someone without benefit of either sanitary conditions or anesthesia and have that person neither die of shock nor blood loss (Red Dust , too)
*Get the entire guard contingent drunk so you can more easily steal keys, weapons, etc and escape.
*Find a vehicle left unattended with the keys in it.
*Trade for or steal clothing from the locals and have it fit like it was tailored for you.
And from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom:
*Jump from a plane on an inflating inflatable raft, ride said raft down a glacier, plunge over a cliff into a river, ride the rapids and survive.
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*Geraldine Page Birthday Tribute:*
"My checkout time in any hotel is when I - is when I want to check out." Sweet Bird of Youth:
*Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale*
*Her infinite variety.*
*Sunset Boulevard:*
*Pal Joey:*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unSEh7XqhsM
*Another Man?s Poison:*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQb5M0R1XmQ
*Humoresque:*
*The Graduate:*
*The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex:*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fefKc5UByQ
*Roman Spring of Mrs Stone:*
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> {quote:title=lzcutter wrote:}{quote}
> *That is so very sweet! It was also perfect timing to let him think you were normal until it was too late for him to back out*
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> Sansfin,
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> Hah! You're words are probably more on target than you realize!.
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> The only part I remember is
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> "I will love you in a car,
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> And I will love you near and far
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> I will love you here and I will love there
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> I will love you everywhere!"
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> I'd have to check our wedding video because I know there's more but that was 13 years ago and I'm lucky I remember as much of it as I do!
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> Hint for any young'uns out there, after you turn 50, your memory starts to go to the dogs. You think it won't happen but more often than not, it does.
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> I regret the loss of so many movie facts I used to be able to bring up at a moment's notice. Now, I have to stop and think for a moment or three.
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> Grrr.....
Seriously? You had Dr Seuss wedding vows?? YOU ARE MY HERO!!!
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*Eleanor Powell, queen of Taps would have been 98 today:*
And her little dog too:
*Dancing in Film:*
Yesterday...and Today and from Hollywood to Bollywood:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMA1Vbj9jaU&feature=related
*Classic Hollywood Couples:*
Fred and Eleanor:
(I love this one!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTN-NPtNOHU&feature=related
Fred Astaire and ALL his dancing partners:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95KntET82L8&feature=related
Oops! Missed Goldie Hawn's Birthday today:
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SAY IT LOUD AND SAY IT PROUD: I AM A HARRY POTTER FAN! I'm off to the movies, y'all.
This one's a tribute to Half Blood Prince:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR-OOPn06m4&feature=related
*Classics couples in B & W:*
*Romantic Comedies:*
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> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote}
> tracey, I love children's books and have read many of them as an adult. I think any person who loves to read and who appreciates good literature recognizes that good writing is good writing, and believe me, there are many books for children and teens that are better-written, more insightful, and tell a better story than a lot of "adult" fiction. The Harry Potter series fall into that category.
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> I remember receiving a huge shipment of Harry Potter books a few years ago, when I worked in a book store. I was kind of chagrined -no, annoyed - to see that there were two editions of the same Harry Potter title (doesn't matter which one, since the publisher did it for all of them), The exact same book, same text word for word, but with a different cover, the "adult" edition, was shelved in the adult fiction section of the store, and the " children's" edtion of course shelved in the children's section (actually, there was a children's and a teen's section, so the HP books were kept in three different places in the store.)
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> My point is, it's silly that the publisher felt they had to issue the HP titiles in an "adult" edtion so that adults who wanted to read it supposedly wouldn't be embarrassed to be seen reading a Harry Potter books. The books are great, no need to feel funny reading them. As I said, there's more philosophy, character development, and good writing in the Harry Potter series than in a great many books for adults.
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> Whenever I read children's or teen's fiction, I'm proud of it. I select my reading material carefully, whatever its intended market may be (God , that sounds snooty, sorry) and if I'm reading a kids' book , I'm reading it because I think it's just as valid as an adult book.
I started reading YA fiction to screen books for my daughter, who was just entering her teens at that time and was ready to graduate to more "interesting" (but not TOO interesting) material. She'd read all the HP books to that point and was looking for similar themes and humor. I discovered several good fantasy series and a good humor series that way. People do give you funny looks though, when you buy a kids' book with no apparent kid in tow...
I do wonder about those grown-up types who spend hours upon hours analyzing books like Harry Potter. They are entertaining, yes, but there's just not that much there, thematically. There's a lot more to discuss in the Dark Materials trilogy by Phillip Pullman, but they don't seem get the sort of fanatic following the HP books do.
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> {quote:title=hamradio wrote:}{quote}
> I just had a strange experience and don't have to be there in the flesh. I just watched my local news and saw full grown *adults* camped outside the Pullman Square Cinemas in Huntington, West Virginia for the recent Harry Potter movie. People 30 going on 7.
It amazes me how many adults revere these books. I Googled Harry Potter once a while back and wow. There are hundreds of sites out there, created by adults, who spend as much time analyzing and discussing the books and movies as people spend on the classics on these boards. Unbelieveable.
I have to say, I liked the books and some of the movies, and yep, I am proud to admit it. I have never gone to the extreme of camping out or even seeing the film at midnight (though I did pick up the final book at midnight and read it straight through
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*Happy Birthday to the beautiful Gene Tierney, who could be...a sweet dream or a beautiful nightmare:*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StsZwkulOJo&feature=related
*In response to Kinokima...Charlie Chaplin. Singing. In some sort of crazy Franco-Italiano mix no less:*
*More classic pratfalls and etc--the Three Stooges (this vid almost makes me like them. Almost):*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVuNNfODEiE
*Classic Hollywood couples*:
In Technicolor:
Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell:
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Those were fun. "Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head" really fits Keaton, too.
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> {quote:title=hamradio wrote:}{quote}
> I like the movie ?Letters From Iwo Jima? (2006) seeing how the other side point of view. Having Clint Eastwood to direct and co-produce it sort of took any bias out of it. There were soldiers that were afraid to die, dispelling myths that all Japanese were suicidal or barbarians
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> I found an old expression that suits this thread.
> Those who tell the stories rule society. ? Plato
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Or "It is the winners who write the history books." Though the losers do it too and then both side get to revile the other as liars and revisionists...
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> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote}
> Nobody "entrusts" anyone to make a film. The filmmaker chooses what he wants to do, and makes it, or makes compromises to it, depending on his or her financial situation. Unless you're talking about a corporation or non-profit agency, in any case some organization that has hired someone to make a film for commercial or information purposes.
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> In the case of Woody Allen, he has a deserved reputation for making movies on time and on budget. Considering the quality of his production values and the casts he recruits, he is amazingly economical in his movie-making. He makes what he wants, and I've little doubt would be amazed and possibly offended -more likely amused - if told he is "entrusted" with the task of film making. "Entrusted" by whom?
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> You say of Allen. "Yet he is allowed to keep churning them out. "
> Who "allows" him? Is he going to be arrested by someone if he does it wrong, possibly one of those who have "entrusted" him with his filmmaking? Sometimes , MFF, your posts make no sense to me.
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> Edited by: misswonderly on Nov 10, 2010 1:11 PM
The only thing film makers are "entrusted" to do is make money. Period. Everything else is just gravy.
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No birthdays today, so I'm going to be self indulgent and play tributes to some of my favorites that I haven't honored recently
:*Bette Davis:*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T5Anv6PfZ0&feature=related
*Joan Crawford*
*Dietrich:*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjoM8hkd9po&feature=related
*Precode women:*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRnEX02Kql8&feature=related
*Tracy and Hepburn (I know there's a bit of dissention around here about these two but they were very good onscreen)*
*Mae West*
*Cary Grant:*
*Bogie and Bacall:*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52xcd5sRuao&feature=related
*All About Eve:*
*Disney Villians*
*Disney Girls*
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> {quote:title=judy62 wrote:}{quote}
> What is the song/composer n the Philadelphia Story where Katharine H and Jimmy S are dancing around the pond?
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> Thank you
It's been a while since Ive watched it, but is it the same as the one that's playing at the dance? If so, it's "Ive Got my Eye on You."
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> {quote:title=FrankGrimes wrote:}{quote}
> If you don't mind watching a film on YouTube, here's Scarlet Street:
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S2N7qzhywY
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> And BTW, what's a keystoner?
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> For some reason, I thought you were from Pittsburgh.
Dayton Oh area actually. Probably not that much difference...
I don;t mind youtube movies, as long as they load for me. I'll try it. Thanks!
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> {quote:title=kingrat wrote:}{quote}
> Great topic, LonesomePolecat. There's one other Cukor excursion into noir, KEEPER OF THE FLAME, which isn't bad if you can get over the shock of Katharine Hepburn in noir (what???).
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Well allrighty then. Another person who thinks of Keeper as noir-ish movie. Well 90% of a noir film anyway...quite the change for both Hpeburn and Cukor, though. Hepburn also did a thriller a little later-- Undercurrent, with Robts Taylor and Mitchum. That one has some interesting plot twists too.
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*Happy Birthday to Roy Scherer, who'd have been 85 this year.*
With Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff (yeah, I'd have changed my name too)
*Mischa Auer, one of my favorite comedy character actors also has a birthday today:*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZVL1JwfzRM
*Classic Hollywood Couples:*
Myrna Loy and William Powell
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> {quote:title=Kinokima wrote:}{quote}
> Because there are so many great silent films on recently here is a very nice tribute to them
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Very nice indeed! Bubblewrap always makes excellent tributes--Ive used a few from him/her before. Thanks!
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> > I forgot to mention ARMAGEDDON and THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW. Recent ones that have signaled a revival of the genre.
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> Hardly a "revival", I think....for years several cable channels like Lifetime and Hallmark seem to have become "disaster channels", especially Hallmark, with their never-ending streams of made-for-tv disaster movies. This has been going on since the mid 1990's, and most of these films are utter garbage (cheapo tv CGI effects-fests) compared to theatrical-release disaster films, and NOTHING will ever top the 70's disaster film era (probably my favorite "guilty pleasure" era of movies). I've been a disaster movie buff since films like Earthquake, Poseidon Adventure, Airport 1975, etc., were all the thing to see back then.
Syfy (god I hate that new logo) does a lot of that stuff too. And mutated monster stories with terrible sppecial effects, which I think (and hope) are tributes to old 50's and 60's sci fi flicks.
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> {quote:title=FrankGrimes wrote:}{quote}
> Hi, Tracey -- You're a Keystoner, right?
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That made me laugh!>
> As someone said, there were clues--Lang spent the first part of the movie carefully building the image of a solid (or possibly, stolid) middle-aged guy, with no apparent hangups or midlife crisis. The kind of guy who turns in his taxes early, always drives the speed limit, performs all scheduled maintainance on his car when it's scheduled, because that's what the car manufacturer recommends, etc...He's careful and steady and a little bit boring (but he could do my taxes anytime).
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> That was really good. You should definitely watch Scarlet Street after reading that. I highly recommend doing so while The Woman in the Window is fresh in your mind. The two films are siblings. One is a dream and one is a nightmare.
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> The simple fact that he decides to hide the body rather than go directly to the police should have tipped me off. Up to that point, he'd acted more or less in character--she took him by surprise by showing up as he was admiring her portrait and then inviting herself for a drink. Going back to her place was questionable, but still on the far edge of something this guy might do. But hiding the body?
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> I took all of that to be a challenge to the professor's theories. It's easy to say we'll do "this and that" away from a situation. But what would you do if you were actually in that situation? Away from a situation, we're calm and have the time to think things out. Caught in a situation, that's rarely the case.
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I'll have to find a copy of Scarlet Street , if for no other reason than to restore my faith in Fritz Lang. And BTW, what's a keystoner?
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*Burgess Meredith Birthday Tribute "Wahnk, wahnk, wahnk":*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7xA8_EpLO8&feature=related
(This girl has a SERIOUS thing for our birthday boy...)
*Clark Gable died on this date 50 years ago, but his sex appeal lives on...*
He?s the Candyman:
With his leading ladies:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI2m2Inpbi8&feature=related
King of Hollywood:
As Rhett Butler:
(Whew. I think I need to go have a bit of a liedown?)
*Classic Hollywood couples:*
Gable and Crawford:
Gable and Harlow:
Gable and Loy:
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> {quote:title=FrankGrimes wrote:}{quote}
> WOMAN IN THE WINDOW SPOILED
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> Hi, Tracey -- I'm okay with the ending because I see the film as a mental exercise. I also think it really fits the world of film noir since many bad actions start off as bad thoughts or dreams. I consider most films noir as male nightmares. The Woman in the Window would qualify as just that. It's just that the "heroes" in the other films noir usually don't get the chance to "wake up" before it's too late. So, in this one, the hero saves himself. Quite the twist.
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> I view The Woman in the Window as Lang's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
I suppose so. As someone said, there were clues--Lang spent the first part of the movie carefully building the image of a solid (or possibly, stolid) middle-aged guy, with no apparent hangups or midlife crisis. The kind of guy who turns in his taxes early, always drives the speed limit, performs all scheduled maintainance on his car when it's scheduled, because that's what the car manufacturer recommends, etc...He's careful and steady and a little bit boring (but he could do my taxes anytime). The simple fact that he decides to hide the body rather than go directly to the police should have tipped me off. Up to that point, he'd acted more or less in character--she took him by surprise by showing up as he was admiring her portrait and then inviting herself for a drink. Going back to her place was questionable, but still on the far edge of something this guy might do. But hiding the body?
I will try Scarlet Street. I do like The Big Heat ; I just didn;t realize that was Lang too. I'll have to look up his filmography.
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> > I remember reading that the reason they made him so accomplished was so that the only concievable objection to him would be his race. I personally would be more concerned that my daughter wanted to marry someone she'd only known for two weeks, however accomplished he might be.
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> I agree completely. I was just commenting on the feelings behind the comment about "superni**er." Having an average black guy in the film would not have served the purpose of the film.
True. Especially, since the parents were so successful. If he'd been a plumber or a cab driver or a mailman, they might have objected because he just didn;t "fit" with their idea of a son-in-law, regardless of race. But how could they object to a well-known, dedicated doctor?
) And I am seeing the movie tomorrow. At the matinee , which makes me a little less pathetic, right? LOL
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That made me laugh!
Favorite YouTube tribute videos
in Your Favorites
Posted
*Birthday of Geraldine Fitzgerald:*
In Dark Victory:
In O.S.S. with Alan Ladd:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IARQxE8wuv4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUJjIGRI1pE
*From Broadway to the Silver Screen, via Bette Davis:*
The Little Foxes (Orginally starring Tallulah Bankhead):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayXGM5TyRco&feature=related
Jezebel (originally starring Miriam Hopkins):
The Letter (orginally starring Jeanne Eagels):
*And the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress goes to...*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miBqFRgzgAE&feature=fvsr