traceyk65
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> > ARGH. WHY DOES MY POST KEEP GETTING SWALLOWED BY THE QUOTE??? I believe you need to enter a hard carriage return at the end of the quote before you begin to enter your message. Using only the cursor controls to move to the next line inserts a soft carriage return which the software interprets as being past of the quote.
> I believe that if you position the cursor at the end of the quote and then press "Enter" then your text will be separate and distinct.
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OK, I'll try that. Thanks!
Edited by: traceyk65 on Jul 1, 2013 8:21 PM Yay! That worked !
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and while I am here...I have forgotten how to post pics! Can someone remind me?
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No Fred, sorry it wasn't very clear!
I was actually talking about the person who wrote the article you quoted. It seemed like she had this point to make about anti-feminism and was disregarding the plot of the movie to make it (if she even saw the movie at all).
If she really wanted to go on about anti-feminist themes, she should have gone after the Wicked Witch of the West, whose transformation seemed to have been fueled by a jealous rage over the Wizard. When she was in love, she was all pretty and sweet; when she was a woman scorned, she morphed into a green-faced hag...
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Everytime I try to quote a post in my response, my response gets sort of absorbed into the quote instead of appearing as separate typing. Any idea why? Ive been posting for years, but took a hiatus and Ive been having this problem ever since I came back. Frustrating.
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> {quote:title=Metry Road wrote:}{quote}Adele always reminds me of Alison Moyet. They have the same qualities. Some influence there I think.
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> Best wishes
> Metairie RoadHmm, maybe. I hadn't heard her music before--I'd have to listen to more before I oculd decide. Thanks!
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OK, What I was trying to say was that I think that author of the quote below may have missed the plot of the movie. It was meant to be a prequel to the traditional Oz movie, not a replacement. It tells the story of how the Wizard got to Oz and how the Wicked Witch of the West became wicked.
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> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}THIS JUST IN....
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> The new Oz film does not include the brave and self-reliant Dorothy, nor any other character that I would identify as having my grandmother’s feminist spirit. The film speaks neither to the many strong female characters that populated L. Frank Baum’s books nor to the feminist, progressive leanings of its author. Instead, it trades in the notion that women are indeed wicked—especially those women not “tamed” by a male love interest or father figure, as well as (horror of horrors!) those women who lack nurturing, motherly characteristics.
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Edited by: traceyk65 on Jul 1, 2013 7:49 PM ARGH. WHY DOES MY POST KEEP GETTING SWALLOWED BY THE QUOTE???
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I'd probably sleep late the next day, then, after a nice breakfast (and maybe a screening of The Adventures of Robin Hood), I'd have my feet up and be regretting (slightly) that I didn;t go on an adventure after all. Shortly thereafter, the wizard would show up and send me dashing out the door (without my handkerchiefs or cloak) to run willy-nilly down to the pub, where the dwarves would be waiting to take me camping. Or dragon hunting. Possibly.
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RE: Marlene's luggage...in her book, Marlene's daughter, Maria, refers to the luggage as the "gray elephants" and tells how, once they were emptied, she used to play in them.
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Didn't Spencer Tracy and Clark Gable make several movies together in the 30's? And I think they used to hang out together too--playiong polo and drinking and such.
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I'd like TCM to get a hold of DESIRE (1936) with Dietrich and Gary Cooper. Coop is so good in this--playing sort of against type (if you think of his type as "strong and silent") he's positively jaunty and downright talkative and a car salesman from Detroit visiting Europe for the first time. He jokes, he laughs, he plays the guitar (!)...he's a goofball. Dietrich is wonderful an international jewel thief who involves Cooper in her heist of a million franc pearl necklace, which she slips into his pocket as they are crossing the border into Spain. She then steals (and wrecks) his car and has to seduce him to get it back (and he doesn;t stand a chance).
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Lately Ive been on a kick for the newer singers who seem to be channelling 50's and 60's girl groups/singers. Adele (I do love that Adele says she makes music for the ears, not the eyes in response to criticisms about her weight), Duffy, The Pierces...along with actual 50's and 60's singers like Vickie Carr, Peggy Lee and Connie Francis.
Duffy "Warwick Avenue"
Adele "Rumor Has It"
Vikki Carr "The Silencers" (and loved seeing the movie the other day!)
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> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}Don't any Americans or Canadians have good rock voices? For uniqueness, you have to go with Neil Young. Bob Seger's material isn't too good, but he has a good rock voice.
Hear, hear! I was a big Bob Seger fan as a kid and even today I crank up "Old Time Rock and Roll", "Roll Me Away" (and pretty much everything except "Turn the Page"). Fun to sing to at the top of your lungs in the car (which may very well be the definition of a "great rock voice/song")Totally takes me back.
We have a rule in my family: "The Beatles may NEVER be changed." However, the kids and I compromised on Paul McCartney and John Lennon songs by adding a corollary to this rule "The Beatles may NEVER be changed, but the sum of the Beatles is far greater than the parts." For the most part, I feel they were only rarely as good solo as they were as a group.
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> {quote:title=obrienmundy wrote:}{quote}The Nancy Drew films are really fun to watch.
I was a huge fan of Nancy Drew as a tween (mostly becasue there was a huge dearth of good kid's books in the 70's--at least at my library anyway). As an adult, I dragged them out for my daughter, who had zero interest (who can blame her? by that time Harry Potter had come along and convinced publishers that there was money to be made in kids books outside of Goosebumps and the Babysitters' Club), but I re read a few and started looking for the original 1930's versions. I picked up the first 5 or 6 on ebay and wow. What a difference! 1930s Nancy is wa-a-ay sassier than the polite, well-mannered girl of the 1950's rewrites. She speeds around town in her roadster, tells off snotty rich people, hides things from the police, uses words of more than 2 syllables and in "The Hidden Staircase," she actually carries a gun (given to her by her father!)
I thought I would like the movies, but I really didn't. Bonita Granville's Nancy is too ditzy and silly and madcap, I think. Of course, the book Nancy (especially in later stories) became a little too much of a Daphne for my taste, so...
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...I owned a movie theatre that played only classic movies and a 1938 Packard Super Eight convertable AND had the money to keep them maintained. And a hobbit hole like Bilbo Baggins'.
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Casablanca, Some Like it Hot and The Apartment, for me, go without saying.
Ive also always like the ending of:
A Foreign Affair (1948) Colonel Plummer (Millard Mitchell) turns down Erika's offer (Dietrich, looking fab at 47--the man had amazing willpower) and sends her off to "change clothes" with a couple of guards, then sends a couple more along to "watch out for" the first two, then sends another soldier to "watch out for" them...Hilarious. And you KNOW Dietrich will never actually be shifting any "von bricks" in that detention camp. (I was a little disappointed that they took the easy and patriotic way out and paired up Phoebe and John--a match made in Hell if I ever saw one--you know they will be miserable--but the ending made up for it!)
The Lion in Winter (1969) After all the scheming and double-dealing and catharsis of the previous 24 hours, nothing has been decided and Eleanor is going back to prison and she and Henry are (more or less) right where they started. You have no idea whether they meant anything they said or how much was real and how much was acting and politics. And Henry calls out "I hope we live forever! Do you think there's any chance of it?" and Eleanor just laughs in reply...
Raising Arizona (1987) H.I.'s long surreal dream sequence about the future and how wonderful life will be and then he ends up by saying, "...{font:Verdana, Arial, sans-serif}a land not too far away. Where all parents are strong and wise and capable and all children are happy and beloved. I don't know. Maybe it was Utah." Wonderful.{font}
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> Witness for the Prosecution comes to mind - it was an unexpected, satisfying ending. Plus, Sir Wildred & Miss Plimsoll were going to prepare for the next defense - would love to see that one played out.
Hmmm. I have argued this before, but I wish this movie ended with the line "I knew he was guilty." The original short story ended that way, but Christie felt it was untidy, so when she re-wrote it as a play, she tacked on the rest. That being said, it would have been fun to see Sir Wilfred and Miss Plimsoll in action again.
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Has anyone mentioned a Lucille Ball drama set?
(I can't remember how to embed pics, so just imagine there's a beautifully-lit glamour shot of Lucy here)
It could include the (non-comedy) films she starred in in the 30's and 40's:
Five Came Back (1939)
12 Crowded Hours (1939)
Panama Lady (1939)
The Big Street (1942)
Lured (1944) (though this one's not RKO, so not sure how that would work)
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> {quote:title=VP19 wrote:}{quote}A little film called "My Man Godfrey," starring William Powell and Carole Lombard. Also, didn't Henry Fonda and Margaret Sullavan team on screen after their divorce?
Yes I think so...and Fonda and Sullavan's divorce, unlike Powell and Lombard's, wasn't exactly amicable.
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No I haven't been around much in a while. I have a hard time keeping up during the school year--this is such a busy board! I'm playing catch-up now.
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Thanks! It was driving me crazy!
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Silvia Scarlett would have been interesting--watching Cary Grant and Hepburn working together for the first time and then having Howard Hughes land his PLANE on the beach nearby...
Any Hepburn/Tracy movie would have been interesting and any set with Jean Harlow. It would also have been a hoot to watch William Powell and Myrna Loy film any of the Thin Man movies.
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So obviously, I'm the only person who cares about Martin Roumagnac, but that's ok, I'm used to that LOL. Anyway, I watched it finally with subtitles, which was a relief, because my French has deteriorated BADLY since college and it was actually a pretty decent film noir(ish). Dietrich plays Blanche, a beautiful woman from Paris who runs a bird shop (what? really?) as a front for her call girl business upstairs. Jean Gabin is Martin, the rather naive builder who falls for her. Blanche is also the mistress of the local bigwig (who has an invalid wife) and decides to fool around with Martin while waiting for the wife to die. Deitrich does exactly what a femme fatale is supposed to do--leads him down the primrose path, then destroys him. They are both very good in their roles--she gives the woman just enough softness that you believe that maybe she does really love him (but she loves money and power more) and Gabin is Gabin and very good at it.
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Hi all--
I was watching a youtube tribute video the other day (yes, I still watch them!) about precode movies and there was a scene that popped with a woman who I'm pretty sure was Ruth Chatterton, wearing a harem girl outfit and doing a little dance. (She's at :14 in this video) Is it Ruth Chatterton? And if so, what movie is it??
Thanks!
Name of film
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I think it might be NIGHT IN PARADISE (1946)