traceyk65
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I was curious about Brenda Frazier and wanted to find out if she indeed did eventually make a movie and surprise! she didn't. She did continue to show up in the Society pages and tabloids for years. She was dubbed one of the poor little rich girls, along with Barbara Hutton and Doris Duke and died alone of bone cancer at the age of 60, having lived fast and played hard. Sad, really.
Here's a warning to Paris Hilton and her ilk...what drugs, alcohol, smoking and far too many late nights can do to your looks in 20 years: Brenda at 46--
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*Birthdays:*
*Arthur Murray*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrzcdeARFM4
Betty Hutton sings about Arthur
*Muddy Waters*
**** **** Man
*Anthony Perkins*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDeRBCfL1hg&feature=related
With some Leading Ladies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_QvfUI813E&feature=related
*Anthony Perkins Movies (besides the obvious)*
On the Beach
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5X-DlsGRso&feature=related
Green Mansions
Pretty Poison
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC2BMIwQl1Y
Desire Under the Elms
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Nirv99Pa_s&feature=related
Evening Primrose
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Another vote here for O'Toole's Henry II in The Lion in Winter! He and Kate had such wonderful chemistry. He was a little young for the role--Henry was 50-ish and O'Toole was only about 35--but he pulled it off with ease.
O'TOOLE ON CHARLIE ROSE:
Here's a link to all eight appearances since 2000--
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*Birthdays:*
*Wow. Many birthdays today!*
*Lillian Russell*
*Alan Dwan*
Robin Hood 1922
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TGUI-LW4DA&feature=related
Heidi 1937
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q7Rx0wiK4M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29CChh-oQrs
*Leslie Howard*
*Dooley Wilson*
Play it, Sam
*Sally Rand*
Fan Dance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AKUGXFLVgc
Bubble Dance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enZcnaRWKXY&feature=related
*Doris Day*
With Rock Hudson
The Man Who Knew Too Much
On Gilmore Girls (Best. Show. Ever.)
*Marlin Brando*
On the Waterfront
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0waNRaz6wU
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Godfather
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> {quote:title=johnpressman wrote:}{quote}
> If you have interest in the Civil War, may I reccomend the movie "C.S.A.". Just a warning, it is the most politically uncorrect movie since "Birth of a Nation". "C.S.A." is an British TV mockumentery about America if the South won the Civil War, complete with fake commericals.
It's a topic that several sci-fi/fantasy authors have taken on. Harry Turtledove's book, _How Few Remain_ begins a series of books leading up to WWII in which the North and South are two separate countries; Winston Chruchill took on the subject in "If Lee Had Not Won the Battle of Gettysburg,: Ward Moore used time travel to fix things in _Bring the Jubilee_. I haven't read it on principle, but Newt Gingrich, writing w/ William Forstchen wrote one too.
Alternate history is fascinating--the authors look at various "pivot points" in history (like the Civil War) and figure out how the world might have turned out differently if, say, the Spanish Armada had defeated Elizabeth's English Armada and Spain ruled England or where the Stuart kings were never deposed by the Georges or where the Carthage wins the Punic Wars.
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One of the best reasons to watch Ten Commandments...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu-u6PwFfLA&feature=fvwrel
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> {quote:title=scsu1975 wrote:}{quote}
> BY POPULAR DEMAND!
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> Coming soon: Wild in the Streets
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THE OLD TIGERS ARE SCARED, BABY! That is one of the funniest taglines, Ive ever read! Can't wait for the review...
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> {quote:title=casablancalover wrote:}{quote}
> I think Orson Welles is the perfect choice for Rochester. Sometimes, when I watch it (and I've seen it many times) I think Welles was the only one who read the book and studied the character of Edward Rochester. He captures the brooding, contrary nature of a man burned first by his own intemperance, then cynically playing up to the manipulations of Blanche Ingram. My favorite version too, hands down. John Houseman provided much the screenplay, which does about as well as you can without it turning into a mini-series.
OK, you all convinced me. I will be watching for this movie!
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Peter O'Toole. He is so versatile as an actor--everything from the wild-n-crazy drunken Errol Flynn clone in My Favorite Year (to which he brought a certain wistfulness in certain scenes) to intense and driven in Lawrence of Arabia to the scheming, game-playing Henry II of The Lion in Winter. And he could do light comedy--he was v. good in How to Steal a Million w/ Audrey Hepburn.
Personal favorite: The Lion In Winter --I originally watched it for Hepburn and was delighted to discover O'Toole, having never seen him in a film before. He was perfect for the larger-than-life role of Henry II and had amazing chemistry w/ Katharine Hepburn as Eleanor (who, incidently, was exactly the right age for the role--Eleanor was about 10 years older than Henry--O'Toole was really too young, but he played 50 very well)
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> {quote:title=filmlover wrote:}{quote}
> Hi, all,
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> Well, three months done so far. And the best is still to come. I hope you are all enjoying this thread.
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Yes, yes we are. Thanks!
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*Birthdays:*
*Buddy Ebsen (why was he up for the Tinman? He?s a natural for the Scarecrow!)*
Sing Before Breakfast
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxjEqgNIFqI
Broadway Melody of 1938
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHTxiAXRzRQ
*Alec Guinness*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I6EDjoihpM&feature=related
Obi Wan Kenobi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrxZvNgIcq4
Bridge on the River Kwai
*Jack Webb*
Dragnet
On Johnny Carson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpVjW30I-YU
*Classic Stars pimp for the tobacco companies*
Uncle Jed teaches Granny how to smoke correctly--sooo wrong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIdqj7YaZOA&feature=related
Fred and Barney take a smoke break--even more wrong
Bob Barker
Lucy and Ricky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppk05iAh9cs&feature=related
Steve McQueen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsK-49XyVvQ
Dick van Dyke Show cast
Jack Webb
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WUz4YjIsX0&feature=related
Edited by: traceyk65 on Apr 2, 2011 4:24 PM because I realized alec Guinness wasn;t even in the Kind Hearts and Coronets video...duh.
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> {quote:title=Jayo wrote:}{quote}
> Am I the only one to see that this is an April Fools joke?
No.
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To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
Reservoir Dogs
A Clockwork Orange
Phffft!
Waking Ned Devine
Raising Arizona
Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Die! Die! My Darling
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*Birthdays:*
*Mary Miles Minter*
*Jane Powell*
Royal Wedding (love the part where they dance in the storm)
Hit the Deck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgAosyZJnaU
*Debbie Reynolds*
Singin? in the Rain
*Ali McGraw* (and others)
Feelin? a little morbid today, sooo?
*Hollywood Murders*
*William Desmond Taylor*
*Thomas Ince*
The Cat?s Meow
*Thelma Todd (clips of her films)*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckpILijFE-o&feature=related
*The Black Dahlia* (this video is fine, just pics of her alive and well, but beware the ?suggestions? side bar?eek)
*George Reeves*
Superman
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Dear god. I felt my heart stutter.
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> No, no, no! Did I just read Paltrow's playing Dietrich? Can you say rollover in your grave? JEEZ! How much did she pay for that part! First off, and tell me I'm not the only one on this, but don't you have to have a modicum of SEX APPEAL to be able to pull off Dietrich? Or did I miss something in all my years and devotion to any Dietrich/von Sternberg movies? She's not going to re-create the club kiss in "Moracco," is she? Tell me there's a God! Can you imagine, if you dare, Cooper having to pull off a scene opposite GP? Would she have a club in her hand? Dietrich was about seduction, in case you don't catch my drift, and I'd like to know from where, at this late date, GP thinks she's going to pull that out of. I have to go, I feel a little queasy, don't tell me anymore . . .
"The as-yet-untitled film will air on the BBC in the UK and HBO in America."
Part of me wants to see it--it's like a train wreck--you don;t want to look, because it's bound to be horrible, but you just have to...
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I agree with some already mentioned, like June Allyson (those bangs! and that goofy grin!) McDonald and Eddy, Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler and Mickey Rooney and have to add Mae West after 1934, Greer Garson (except Pride and Prejudice) Shirley Temple (as a young child--she was better as a teen)and Raquel Welch.
Moderns:
Kristen Stewart (the girl from the Twilight series) and
Jim Carrey (except The Truman Show )
Adam Sandler (who hasn't been funny since "The Hanukah Song")
Keanu Reeves (even his name is annoying)
Aston Kutcher (ditto)
MacCauley Culkin
Each and every Reality "star"
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> {quote:title=ninafan wrote:}{quote}
> HANDS DOWN!! It has to be Gwyneth Paltrow. I am sorry, BUT-In almost every movie she has the same facial expression-similar to that of a very small infant having a really good bowel movement. UGH, and that lazy voice of hers. How did she win an Oscar?
...and she's going to play Dietrich. OY.
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*Birthdays:*
*Richard Chamberlain*
Dr Kildare
Thorn Birds
*Shirley Jones*
Nice?
?naughty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJyBCWiUxho
*Saints and Sinners*
Elmer Gantry
Joan of Arc
Night of the Hunter ?Harry Powell
Gone With the Wind?Melanie
Double Indemnity--Phyllis Dietrichson
Jefferson Smith--Mr Smith Goes to Washington
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWyEc7FAMTg&feature=related
Cruella De Vil--101 Dalmations
Atticus Finch
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Loralei Lee
Altar Keane
Erika von Schluetow
Mortimer Brewster
Senator Seabright Cooley
Philo Vance
Norma Desmond
Washington Dimsdale
Augie Witherspoon
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*I'm gonna be out of tech-range for a few days, so?*
*Birthdays*
*March 27*
*Gloria Swanson*
*Richard Denning*
The Black Scorpion
My Favorite Husband
*March 28*
*Flora Robson*
Fire Over England
*Pandro Berman*
Fred and Ginger Movies
Undercurrent
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cI8ZJHdclA
Of Human Bondage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtI6TT3HTCE
*Frank Lovejoy*
The Hitchhiker
*Dirk Bogarde*
*Freddie Bartholomew*
Captains Courageous
*March 30*
*Turhan Bey*
Mad Ghoul
Prisoners of the Casbah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB5Z8Jd0z3w
*John Astin*
Gomez Addams
**** Tango reprise
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdnKND8qMDE&feature=related
Gomez Sings?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN36usAH3kY
*Warren Beatty*
Splendor in the Grass
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzt9CNYj-6k
Mickey One
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Honestly, classic children's stories are full of nastiness. Hansel and Gretl are abandoned in the forest by their parents and are taken in by an cannibalistic witch, whom they murder in self-defense; Cinderella is turned into a servent by her step-mother, after her father's death; Snow White's stepmother goes to incredible lengths to have her killed; the list goes on and on. And have you ever read the Struwwelpeter stories? Eeek!
After Walt was long gone, Disney made The Lion King--talk about nasty! A young lion's father is trampled to death before his eyes and he's made to believe that it was his fault, driven off and left to die of thirst in the desert.
It's funny though--kids don't get nearly as disturbed about violence as thier parents think they will. It's pretty common, for example for K-garten teachers to do an entire unit around The Gingerbread Man story (I've done it myself), which is really sort of horrible. A childless couple bake a gingerbread boy to be their kid, then it runs away and is tricked into riding on a fox's back, whereupon the fox proceeds to devour it. And most kids don't care. If you ask them how they would keep the gingerbread boy from escaping in the first place, they suggest things like "Chop off his legs!" or "Eat his feet!" They're blood-thirsty little beasts. LOL
Mildred Pierce remake
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Most of the reviews Ive read seem positive, but some of them complain that it's too long, though they praise the acting and Stephen King has the audacity to complain that it's too dark and depressing.
It's supposed to follow the original book; apparently the book contained scenes deemed unfilmable in 1945 (but not of course in 2011...)