traceyk65
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> {quote:title=redriver wrote:}{quote}
> The book is kind of lackluster too. I've never hated a Stephen King book. He's very imaginative. But that was about when he began to run out of steam. The story of PET SEMETARY is kind of flat. The same goes for CHRISTINE. His earlier work is exciting and personal. Very well written. Later stuff? I wouldn't know.
I guess the thing Ive never really liked about his work is that he's a good writer--strings words together well, the phrases scan and flow, but he's so nasty. I don't mean nasty like dirty-minded, but he takes things too far. Much farther than he needs to to make his point. Kind of like Suddenly Last Summer, I always feel the need to rub myself with salt or maybe bleach my brain after readin/watching anything by him. (Unfortunately, my husband is a fan, so whenever there's a King film on TV, he's watching it)
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I love The Quiet Man ! Two leads perfect for their roles, wonderful supporting cast, Ireland looking like Ireland's sopposed too but probably doesn't and one of the most entertaining fight scenes in the movies. (I normally don;t like all the casual slapping and punching in older movies, but sometimes, it just adds to the film and this one does--so funny!)
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*Birthdays Today*
*Edmund Goulding*
That Certain Woman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJj-OapRUSg&feature=related
Grand Hotel
*Michael Redgrave*
The Lady Vanishes
1984
*Vera Lynn*
*Carl Reiner*
On The Smothers Brothers Show
The Two Minute Hamlet
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*Birthdays Today*
*Moms Mabley*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj3-rigrQ7c&feature=related
*Betty Compson*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPQx3FAwXaw
*Ursula Andress*
*Bond Girls*
Diana Rigg
Honor Blackman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxWza7NIbvw&feature=related
Jane Seymour
Jill St John
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If it's Paramount, then maybe it would work.
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I've tried twice to watch Dr Strangelove and fell asleep both times. I know it's supposed to be hilarious and all, but I just don't get it.
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> {quote:title=Im4movies2 wrote:}{quote}
> Despite the brilliance of Bette Davis I had a hard time staying awake watching The Corn Is Green not just once but the three times I tried watching. Someday I'll get to stay awake and see the whole thing.
I think the Hepburn version is better--she was closer to the right age (Ethel Barrymore starred in the play, I think) and it was the 70's, so they could be much more frank about the situation.
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> {quote:title=VP19 wrote:}{quote}
> As a Carole Lombard fan, I'd have loved to have seen her team up with another top actress of the time, preferably in some sort of buddy comedy. Imagine Carole with Jean Harlow (they were good friends in real life), or a Lombard-Loy teaming (ditto with Carole and Myrna as friends, though I don't think Lombard socialized as much with her as she did with Harlow). Even Lombard and Marlene Dietrich teaming up might have had potential.
What about a remake (yeah, yeah, but it happened ALL the time in the old days:) ) of Trouble in Paradise with Dietrich, Lombard and either Gary Cooper or William Powell? Or something along those lines--a sophisticated comedy, with Lubitsch directing.
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Pet Semetary. I got talked into seeing it by a friend and about halfway through, I was just done. The scene in which the father and grandfather fight at the 2-yr-old's funeral and knock the coffin over and it opens...nope. (found out later the 2-yr-old comes back to life as some possesed demon child and kills his mother--who would let their child play taht part???) I have enough crap permamnently burned into my brain, thanks.
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Interesting idea--if TCM could pull it off. I think she did most of her work at Fox and aren;t they terribly stingy with their movies?
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*Birthdays Today*
*Robert Donat*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXxp_7K91K8&feature=related
*Russian Movies*
Scarlet Empress
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABROXMa1uG0
Dr Zhivago
Fiddler on the Roof
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oD-FxyX6_c
Anna Karenina
Anastasia
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*Birthdays Yesterday*
*Jerry Lewis*
?Typewriter?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWJBfvWjlk0&feature=related
The Errand Boy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MA3406YJUg
*Conrad Nagel*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrVGIGHRJQM
*Mercedes McCambridge*
Johnny Guitar
*Birthdays today:*
*Brigitte Helm*
*Happy St. Patrick?s Day!*
*The Irish Mafia*
*Spencer Tracy*
*Frank McHugh*
*James Cagney*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb5xXBhFz2Y&feature=related
*Pat O'Brien*
Angels With Dirty Faces
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgc085FsAJc'>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgc085FsAJc'>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgc085FsAJc'>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgc085FsAJc
Knute Rockne All American
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgc085FsAJc
McHugh and Cagney do Shakespeare
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> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}
> Tonight, BOMBSHELL should be in the prime 8pm slot, not the later slot. BOMBSHELL is vintage Harlow. PUBLIC ENEMY is vintage Cagney, not Harlow.
Not to mention that she's really quite awful in Public Enemy...but she got better!
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Birthdays today:
*George Brent*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9xgfRWGaOE
DarK Victory
*J Pat O Malley*
Jungle Book
Alice in Wonderland
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWtQ2M92qyw
*Zarah Leander*
*Bette Davis? Leading Men*
Herbert Marshall
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny3av_v6_RE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayXGM5TyRco
Charles Boyer
Henry Fonda
Leslie Howard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjJj9SfvyOM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOtNLL2CaIg&feature=related
Deception (she gets 2 leading men in this one!)
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*Birthdays today:*
*Michael Caine*
The Italian Job:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dgc2rXedGMw&feature=related
Alfie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyShmXPoLJo
*British Actors/Actresses of the 60?s*
Peter Sellers
The Redgraves
Lynn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NemyPX5ssik
Vanessa
Julie Christie
Maggie Smith
David Hemmings
Peter O Toole
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> {quote:title=JonnyGeetar wrote:}{quote}
> > {quote:title=Sprocket_Man wrote:}{quote}>
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> That said, if Bette's two (arguably undeserved) Oscars paved the way for her marvelous winning streak from 1939-1942, fine, but I still say Jezebel STINKS!
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> PS- don't worry. No one ever agrees with me.
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> Edited by: JonnyGeetar on Feb 28, 2011 11:12 AM
Actually, I agree with you. Though I love the scene where she arrives late to her own engagement party and flips the tail of that riding dress over one arm--wow. I know it was a different year and all, but of her Warner Bros wonder years roles, my favorite is The Letter.
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*Birthdays today:*
*Dorothy Gish*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS9__rUDXP8&feature=related
*Jesse Matthews*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soywIx509Hw&feature=related
*Silent Stars:*
*British imports*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZWukR8yrS4
Vivien Leigh
Angela Lansbury
James Mason
Sean Connery
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Lost a few days...
*Birthdays today:*
*Gloria Stuart*
The 1933 ?Stars of Tomorrow:
*Gregory La Cava*
Stage Door:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdI0dAIxOMM&feature=related
My Man Godfrey:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI0ogBZ9xuE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9Yq8u27ThA&feature=related
*Clare Boothe Luce*
Classic Hollywood Quotes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnS-dde1qTM&playnext=1&list=PLDDDD52A5268A53A9
AFI Movie Quotes:
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> {quote:title=Arturo wrote:}{quote}
> *My first thought on hearing that Marlene Dietrich had told Louella that she was going to Palm Springs to work on her tan was how would the studio allow it, since she always appeared so pale in the movies? But then I remembered this was during the "box office poison" period after Paramount had bought back her contract.*
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> Even during the height of her popularity in the early 30s, Marlene never made more than two films a year. So she probably has always had plenty of time to work on her tan, or concentrate on other pastimes.
In the bio her daughter wrote, she says that the summer of 1938 was the first year that Dietrich got a tan. I guess she liked the way it looked, if she was still working on it 9 months later.
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Sorry about leading this so far off topic (but I did have help) The whole Indian vs European thing is a button of mine...I understand that the native tribes weren't always right, but really, don't peple argue all the time about "defending what's ours"; isn't that what they were doing? More or less?
OK done now. How about those performances by Tracy and March? I love the way they both (esp March) sit in the background while the other does a speech, waving fans and other scene-stealing activities. Cracks me up.
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> {quote:title=LuckyDan wrote:}{quote}
> Couple of things.
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> >On *June 23*, the very day that Bouquet penned his letter to Amherst from Philadelphia, Trent reported that two Delaware dignitaries, Turtle's Heart and Mamaltee, visited Fort Pitt late at night and asked to speak with post officials ...
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> Trent recorded that visit and the blanket exchange on May 24, not June 23, and even if it had been in June, he still would not have been in receipt of any orders from the Brits to infect the Indians with the virus.
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> Col. Bouquet's "P.S. I will try to inocculate the Indians by means of Blankets..." to Gen. Amherst was written several weeks later, on July 13. Clearly Trent was not acting under any orders from Amherst. Or anyone else.
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> The Bouquet-Amherst correspondence may indicate intent, but Trent's prior actions do not prove anything involving conspiracy occurred.
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> Then there is the question of how likely transmission of small pox via bedding might be. The virus enters through the nose. Transmission-by-blanket, while not impossible, would seem less likey than, say, direct contact with an infected person with a nasty cough. I assume if Trent had access to a "Small Pox Hospital" he also had access to a small pox victim to do the job right.
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> Regarding "the invoice"
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> To Sundries got to Replace in kind those which were taken from people in the Hospital to Convey the Smallpox to the Indians Vizt:
> 2 Blankets @ 20/ ?299 099 0
> 1 Silk Handkerchef 10/
> & 1 linnen do: 3/6 099 1399 6
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> I can't find an historical record or photo of this document. I don't say it's phony, but it does have the look and feel of a "Baby Milk Factory Iraq" T-shirt about it.
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> Tracey said that maybe Trent's "regard" for the Indans might not have been a friendly one. There is nothing in the tone of his journal entry that indicates hostility. He is said by those who have studied his journals to have kept very detailed records. It would seem, if he had planned germ warfare and had targeted the Delaware, Shawnee and Mingo, he would have spoken up about it with some pride.
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> Finally, to JBH, by europhobe I mean those who maintain that the white men were eee-vil and bent on genocide. Ward Churchill, for example.
OK, I've been looking at the dates and realize that Trent and the pox blankets was about 50 years before the Cherokee Removal, so we're actually talking about two different instances of "germ warfare." My question regarding Trent is this: if he meant no harm and really admired the Indians, why blankets from a pox hospital? Why not fresh new blankets right off the ship? Or out of the storeroom or whatever? Why give them blankets that had been used by people infected by small pox? (I looked it up--small pox can be spread by contaminated clothing or bedding--that's why they burned the clothing and so forth of people who had it.)
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I'm not a genius at this, but here's a link to youtube's help site--the section specifically on uploading videos:
http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/topic.py?hl=en&topic=16560
You'll have to creat an account, but that's not a big deal.
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*Birthdays today:*
*Lou Costello:*
Who?s on First?
The Mustard Sketch:
*Classic Comedy Routines:*
*Marx Brothers:*
Night at the Opera:
Horse feathers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IrCgCKrv8U&feature=related
*Jack Benny vs Mel Blanc:*
*Your Show of Shows:*
The Clock:
*Monty Python:*
The Ministry of Silly Walks:
The Holy Grail:
*Did you ever find Bugs Bunny attractive when he put on a dress and played a girl bunny?...Uh, me either...*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv1nJ8GqdMY
*Carol Burnett:*
The Dentist:
*The Blues Brothers:*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHa_jqxnn4o
*Rochelle Hudson*
*Classic Actresses:*
Lucky Gable
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I'd like to have seen him with Bette Davis or maybe Marlene Dietrich. Those two ladies rarely had a leading man who could match them on the screen--Spencer Tracy, Gary Cooper and John Wayne come closest for Dietrich and maybe Errol Flynn or Gary Merril for Davis.