traceyk65
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> {quote:title=redriver wrote:}{quote}
> I'm so old I still think of Crosby, Stills and Nash! I like Neil Young's music, though.
We had, until recently, a local music/headshop called Dingleberry's (yes, I know, ewww, but i think it was around before the more recent meaning of the word) and they referred to them as C, S, N and (sometmes) Y. Used to make me laugh everytime I went in there.
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> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}
> Was that Cameron Mitchell that Bacall picked?
I think so. Or Rory Calhoun. Either way, they fall short of Willaim Powell in my eyes.
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What about Christopher Lee? He's still alive and (presumably) well, was Dracula for many years (among other horror roles) and is very intelligent and articulate.
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> {quote:title=hlywdkjk wrote:}{quote}
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> Jack Shaheen sounds like a very engaging co-host for the series, I look forward to checking in on the commentary often.
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> Kyle In Hollywood
He does sound interesting, especially if they give him time to talk...
Is there a full listing of all the films to be shown? I'm wondering if the Valentino Sheik movies will be shown? Ive never seen them. And also, Yay! for Kismet (1944) Absolutely silly and bearing no resemblance whatsoever to any real Middle Eastern Kingdom, but lots of fun!
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*Birthdays*
*Bea Lillie*
Fairies at the Bottom of our Garden
*Josef von Sternberg*
The Shanghai Gesture
Dietrich
*Erich Korngold*
The Adventures of Robin Hood
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya-W35guPuo&feature=related
Captain Blood
*Bob Hope*
Thanks for the Memories
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6oHxq77_MI&feature=related
*In honor of Memorial Day, here?s to the USO*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLargNxIE9k&feature=fvsr
WWII
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5VxgHvRews&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJijfPBd55s&NR=1
Korea
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22GkBTAC7QQ&feature=related
Vietnam
Afganistan
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I really like this documentary as well. I'd love to have it on DVD. It aired recently, but unfortunately isn't airing again anytime soon. I don't think women were really in power in the early 30's (sadly, women have rarely ever been in power), but many precode movies would like us to think so. And they do it in a very entertaining way.
The book is excellent and just came out not too long ago in paperback. As for movies, the documentary suggests a few good choices. For Precode 101 (to quote Mick LaSalle) and films that are available, try Baby Face (the one with the secretary (Barbara Stanwyck) sleeping her way up the building) Female (a fun gender-switch with Ruth Chatterton as a female auto exec sleeping her way through her secretaries--though the final five minutes don;t really fit with the rest of the movie) Red Headed Woman, either She Done Him Wrong or I'm No Angel w/ Mae West and one or more the Busby Berkely musicals, especially Gold Diggers of 1933. Red Dust is another good choice, but not available on DVD, though it may be around on VHS? no idea.
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> {quote:title=redriver wrote:}{quote}
> The word for a man who sleeps around is BACHELOR! I laugh when I hear the term "sex addict." You mean, A MAN!
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> My dog is a ****. She'll sleep with anybody. She curls up next to them, not a care in the world. She usually winds up with me. But if I'm not available, she's fine. Stretch out for nap. You've got company!
Hey now, there are a few men out there who don't think with their man parts...
This is going to sound wierd, but I used to have a car that wasn't a tramp. You had to handle Aloysious (yes, I named my car) just right or he wouldn't run properly--always stalling out and so forth. Then my next car was, to quote The Lion in Winter, "...like a democratic drawbridge, going down for everyone." That car didn't get a name--no personality.
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> {quote:title=LonesomePolecat wrote:}{quote}
> Isn't that funny about Gary Cooper -- yeah, to me, he's a good everyman but not attractive, and yet he was a notorious ladies man. WHY?! Well, tastes change, I guess.
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Clara Bow and others claimed he was very well-endowed. Tallulah always maintained he was the main reason she came to Hollywood (though she was probably exaggerating. Probably)
As for Bogey, I find him pretty sexy--very cool and cynical, but with a remarkably boyish smile for such a craggy-faced guy. And that lisp! So incongruous.
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> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote}
> William Powell to me is like Bogie...what I said about him was, he's not handsome, and I personally don't think I'd be attracted to him, but I can understand why women were. Like Bogart, he had a great sense of humour, often ironic and understated, a sharp wit, and a way of seeming cool no matter what was going on around him. These are likable and attractive qualities. Yay, William Powell !
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> ( or maybe it was just that pencil-thin mustache.)
Hear, hear! I will always stand by my statement that Lauren Bacall picked the wrong hubby in How to Marry a Millionaire. How in the world she could pick whats-his-name (see? I can;t even remember the guy) over William Powell will forever be a mystery to me.
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> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}
> That's easy for you to say. He's Chevy Chase, and you're not.
LOL
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. I remember reading a discussion of the film "Quicksand" where the general consensus was that no matter how great a script, Mickey Rooney could never pull off the sex appeal of a Philip Marlowe, Sam Spade or Mike Hammer.
Mickey Rooney is a lot of things, but sexy...he isn't.
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> Maybe TCM didn't think horror was right for May.
I was thinking that when I discovered that both he and Christopher Lee had birthdays yesterday. Seems odd that two horror greats would have been born in May...seems too "light" a month.
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> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote}
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> Hey, why are there so many words for this for women, and hardly any for men? Plus, the few that do exist for men are mostly vaguely complimentary. (I'm not Molly Haskell.)
My teenaged daughter and her friends refer to trampy guys as Man Hos. (There should probably be an apostrophe or something int here somewhere, but oh well)
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*Birthdays*
*Ian Fleming*
Interesting editing on this one-Bond vs Bond vs Bond Vs Bond?
*Carroll Baker*
Baby Doll
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUPtZ6IjVHQ&feature=fvwrel
*The Dionne Quints*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgAjV78xbV4&feature=related
*Yesterday-Wow. Two horror greats...with May birthdays??*
*Vincent Price*
*Christopher Lee*
With an interesting take on Beethovan?s 5th
Man of (nearly) 1000 faces
Ok this is just?well, I?ll let you watch it
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*Birthdays*
*Ian Fleming*
Interesting editing on this one?Bond vs Bon vs Bond Vs Bond?
*Carroll Baker*
Baby Doll
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUPtZ6IjVHQ&feature=fvwrel
*The Dionne Quints*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgAjV78xbV4&feature=related
*Yesterday?Wow. Tow horror greats?with May birthdays??*
*Vincent Price*
*Christopher Lee*
With an interesting take on Beethovan?s 5th
Man of (nearly) 1000 faces
Ok this is just?well, I?ll let you watch it
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> {quote:title=LonesomePolecat wrote:}{quote}
> Yeah, Bad & the Beautiful does look like Wilder.
A little too glossy though. Wilder's films always have a sort of noir-ish (Berlin-ish?) feel to them. Except maybe the ones with Audrey Hepburn...
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> {quote:title=Kinokima wrote:}{quote}
> How about Katharine Hepburn in Bringing up Baby? The screwball heroine is not how I would classify her but I think she is excellent in this film and it is one of her best performances.
And it opened up a whole new type of role for her--she'd never really done a lot comedy up to that point--just Stage Door, which more like a "dramedy" and Holiday (can't remember which came first--Baby or Holiday) and next thing you know, she was starring in The Philadelphia Story, Woman of the Year, Adam's Rib, Pat and Mike, Desk Set ...
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I haven't had time to do one of these since the 2nd or 3rd challenge, but the timing of this one is just about perfect. Our last day of school is June 10 and I'll have a lot more free time then. Possibly. LOL
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> {quote:title=voranis wrote:}{quote}
> Thursdays in June! I am looking forward to Drive-In Double Features on TCM. Finally, TCM delves back into the classic sci-fi vaults! Although I would prefer more alien films instead of monster films, there are still plenty of great movies to choose from. And lots of TCM premieres!
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Me too! My sister and I have been on a kick of watching these old classic cult flicks for a while now (curent faves: Barbarella, Night of the Lepus and Attack of the Killer Shrews! ) and we're looking forward to expanding our horizons. June looks like a great month for fans of really bad movies!
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In another forum about a week ago, someone (good that I'm so specific, huh?) mentioned that they had noticed a horse painting in any number of classic films. So I went looking for similar items and found a poster on Youtube who's done my work for me! And has really great taste in music too...Thanks Barthesian, whoever you are!
*Recurring Paintings in Classic Movies:*
*Framed Butterfly pics in Classic Movies:*
*And finally--the Murphy Bed:*
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Coming up on the end of the school year, too much to do?
*Birthdays*
*May 20*
*James Stewart*
*May 21*
*Robert Montgomery*
I just love this one??Sing Sing Sing? replay:
A more serious Robert?to Britney Spears? Oddly, it works:
*May 22*
*Laurence Olivier*
Hamlet??Get thee to a nunnery!?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vXtWb__8lE&feature=related
*May 23*
*Douglas Fairbanks Sr*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8Y7DNZExas
Mark of Zorro
*Herbert Marshall*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny3av_v6_RE
*Joan Collins*
She was once blonde???
*May 25*
*Bill Bojangles Robinson*
The step dance
Busking w/ Shirley Temple
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBG7P7ChRGk&feature=related
*Ian McKellen*
Macbeth
Gods and Monsters
*May 26*
*Norma Talmadge*
*John Wayne*
Billy Idol did a song about John Wayne??? Um, ok.
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oops, double post...
Edited by: traceyk65 on May 26, 2011 9:18 PM
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> {quote:title=traceyk65 wrote:}{quote}
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> > Marlene Dietrich was somehow beyond these labels. Like her or not, she's always portrayed very independent women who get what they want, be it money, power, sex, or love, whatever way they want - but usually that way is sex. Because she played this type of woman from the very beginning, audiences seem to have accepted her in that kind of role. There are quite a few of her early films I haven't seen, so maybe she wasn't always a naughty lola. But she certainly excels at playing that kind of character.
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That's one interesting thing about Dietrich--she seemed to "get away with" that type of woman long after the Production Code went into effect. She does pay for her sins by taking a bullet for her man in Destry Rides Again and Rancho Notorious, but she more or less gets off scott free in Desire, The Spoilers, Angel (did she or didn't she sleep with Tony? Apparently her husband doesn't really care, so long as she goes to Vienna with him) Kismet (cheats on her hubby, the Grand Vizier and gets banishment with her lover as punishment. This in a culture that still executes women for adultry...), Flame of New Orleans, Golden Earrings and even A Foreign Affair (does anyone really belive she moved even a single von brick in that prison camp?)
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> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote}
> Marlene Dietrich was somehow beyond these labels. Like her or not, she's always portrayed very independent women who get what they want, be it money, power, sex, or love, whatever way they want - but usually that way is sex. Because she played this type of woman from the very beginning, audiences seem to have accepted her in that kind of role. There are quite a few of her early films I haven't seen, so maybe she wasn't always a naughty lola. But she certainly excels at playing that kind of character.
Ive only seen 2 of her silent pictures, but according to the summaries in one of my books, she was the tramp about half the time. There are a couple of these I'd like to see and can't find-- The Art of Love, in which she plays a "love" coach teaching a young prince about sex; and The Woman One Longs For in which she plays a mysterious woman seen briefly on a train by a man who becomes obsessed with her (even though he's on his honeymoon!) and agress to help her escape her lover (who has recently helped her kill her husband).
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Followed the Sheryl Crow link from a few days ago and found these two videos from what must be from an Eric Clapton and Friends show? Anyway, very nice?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6F2qExLsic&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9kUphljI2o&feature=related