traceyk65

> {quote:title=Arturo wrote:}{quote} > *Except I don't think Gloria Swanson was much like Norma Desmond--definitely NOT living in the past.* > > From what I've read, apparently at this time Gloria turned down a number of roles that were not up to snuff in terms of the importance of the part overall, very Norma Desmond-like if you ask me. I think she just turned down roles that were too much like Norma Desmond repeats--she didn;t want to get locked into that role. The only Norma Desmond-like thing about her was the fact that she was always the star, wherever she went, somthing that could be said about a lot of those old Hollywood stars (for example, Joan "If you want the girl next door, look next door" Crawford.)

Very good movie. Thelma Todd is excellent in it as is Clara Bow. I have it on DVD--no idea whether this is bootleg? http://www.lostflix.com/clr4.htm

*Birthdays Today:* *Clark Gable* With his leading ladies: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI2m2Inpbi8 *Helen Chandler* In the film Daybreak: As Mina Harker: To Lucy and Mina?through the years: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5mRimUvu6k *Vampire Evolution:* Max Shrek as Nosferatu 1922?creepy, ugly, evil: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csYEHsw9D2M&feature=related Bela Lugosi as Dracula 1931?classy and handsome, still evil: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX0mfKWKnSc&feature=fvst Lon Chaney Jr as Son of Dracula 1944?turns into a bat and cloud of smoke; thinks spelling his name backwards is fooling us; still done in by fire and daylight: Christopher Lee as Dracula 1958-1972?sexy Dracula has female victims practically begging to be bitten; climbs walls like a gecko; done in by daylight, stakes and ice water and hurt by crosses and Holy Water but can apparently be revived with blood; evil: The Lost Boys--Edward Hermann and Kiefer Sutherland as Master Vamp and prot?g? 1987?uber-cool teenage vamps as frontmen for secret Master; super strength, flying ability; burst into flames in sunlight, insensible during the day; done in by Holy Water, garlic, stake through heart; evil but only because they need a mother?s care: Gary Oldham as Dracula 1992?sexy, yet creepy at the same time; can go out in the sun; done in by stake through heart; tormented and searching for his one true love, who turns out to be?Winona Ryder?? Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen 2007?arrival of the Vegetarian Vamp; moody and sullen teenager; super-human strength, climbs like a monkey, runs really fast; can survive on animal blood; killed by beheading or fire; freaking sparkles in the sunlight; has a reflection; plays baseball??

OK, not sure of this is what you mean, but here goes: Theme--Homage to Classic Stars in Rock/Pop Songs: *Bette Davis Eyes by Kim Carnes:* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Al9blQOhNw *Candle in the Wind (Marilyn) by Elton John*: *James Dean by the Eagles:* *Bela Lugosi?s Dead by the Bauhaus:* *Marlene by Noir Desir* *The Right Profile (Montgomery Clift) the Clash:* *Frank Sinatra by Cake:* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZZlQAOLXjA *Just Like Fred Astaire by James:* *Michael Caine by Madness:*

OK, I was so busy reading the newspaper clippings I totally missed the first 6-7 Time Travel references...I need more sleep.

*Birthdays today:* *Tallulah Bankhead* Tallulah and Groucho: *Jean Simmons* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI4PYTxbqKY&feature=related *Eddie Cantor* Makin? Whoopie in early Technicolor (or a reasonable facsimile): In the very precode (and incredibly tasteless) "Keep Young and Beautiful" from 1933's Roman Scandals: *Joanne Dru* Red River: Howard Hawk?s Women: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FXpfYQPSGY

Birthdays today: *Dorothy Malone* Peyton Place: *John Ireland* Red River: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WId6X6uszK0&feature=related My Darling Clementine: *John Ford Films:* How Green Was My Valley: The Searchers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkJMVDnwCLU&feature=fvsr The Quiet Man: *Howard Hawk Films:* Bringing Up Baby: To Have and Have Not: Sgt York:

> {quote:title=VP19 wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=traceyk65 wrote:}{quote} > > > {quote:title=filmlover wrote:}{quote} > > > All I did was step into the Quantum Leap Accelerator and, suddenly I was in the body of a newsstand seller on this *Sunday, January 29th, 1939*: > > > > > > > When do you get your DeLorean? LOL > > This is "Quantum Leap," not "Back To The Future"; think Scott Bakula, not Michael J. Fox. (The body-changing part should have tipped you off.) Yeah, I know. It seemed like you were using a different show/movie about time travel each time (the first one was Time Tunnel, right?) so I wondered if you were going to be maybe valet parking the deLorian for this crazy white-haired guy and decided to take it for a spin and you got it up to 88 mph when WHAM!...

> {quote:title=filmlover wrote:}{quote} > All I did was step into the Quantum Leap Accelerator and, suddenly I was in the body of a newsstand seller on this *Sunday, January 29th, 1939*: > When do you get your DeLorian? LOL

*Birthdays today:* *John Forsythe* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9AmqoQnPjM *W.C. Fields* *Famous Drunks:* WC Fields: Humphrey Bogart: Ernest Hemmingway: Winston Churchill: *Victor Mature* Doing Hamlet:

*Birthdays today:* *Ernst Lubitsch* The Shop Around the Corner: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME2XorNBVOs&feature=related Trouble in Paradise: To Be or Not to Be: One Hour With You: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg1FRJpp99M http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY28AiP6ahU&feature=related Angel: (Melvyn Douglas and Herbert Marshall just met and find out they once shared a girl in Paris?, they still are but don?t realize it?yet) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeBq7XBh58w&feature=related Ninotchka: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB_955wov7w Billy Wilder explains ?the Lubitsch Touch?: *Precode Musicals and musical numbers:* Murder at the Vanities: Gold Diggers of 1933: Wonderbar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeDCger8veU Blonde Venus: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyVrH1OfVjw She Done Him Wrong: George Whites Scandals: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaikFA06eGs&playnext=1&list=PLCDCFCEDF608260FF

*Birthdays today:* *Donna Reed* Stepford Wives: Harriet Craig: *Sabu* *Kipling:* Gunga Din: Jungle Book: Captains Courageous: *Troy Donohue* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmoIzIaXVWI Fifties Teen Idols: Teen Queens of the Fifties/Sixties:

Poochie Brown. Bubbles Salmon Schinasi... the names are cracking me up.

> {quote:title=musicalnovelty wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=traceyk65 wrote:}{quote} > > > {quote:title=musicalnovelty wrote:}{quote} > > So, who is Ernest Borgine? I see on TCM's Home Page that they are running his 2009 "Private Screenings". > > > > He's an actor. He mostly did/does character-type roles--played a lot of cowboy/outlaws and rough and tough army types. He won an Oscar in the 50's for the film Marty, playing a man who finds love late in life, after he's pretty much given up ever finding Ms Right. Most recently he's been the voice of Mermaid Man on the kid's cartoon Spongebob Squarepants. (BTW the voice of Barnacle Boy is Tim Conway, best known from his work on the Carol Burnett Show in the 70's and 80's) > > Here's his IMDB page: > > http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000308/ > > > Of course I KNOW who he is!! > > I was just picking on TCM for misspelling his name ("Borgine") on their Home Page! Sorry--I'm a little slow tonight. T_T

> {quote:title=hamradio wrote:}{quote} > Sometimes it does not work. "The Brady Bunch Movie" is a good example. Its simply *not the same.* But you have to admit that writing an entire movie (A Very Brady Sequel) about that pseudo-Chinese horse was very funny. Good grief, can you imagine how many times the writers had to watch those TV episodes before someone went, "OMG! The freaking horse! It's in every episode! Let's use that!"

> {quote:title=MyFavoriteFilms wrote:}{quote} > > Surprised nobody's brought GILLIGAN'S ISLAND to the big screen. Should we thank our lucky stars? YES.

> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote} > > Having seen *Badlands* a few times now, it occurs to me that the Coen Bros. were almost satirizing it in *Raising Arizona*, especially with Nick Cage's v/o narration. > > Interesting you should say that. I recently received a boxed set of Coen Brothers movies, and am on a bit of a personal Coen Brothers revival. I've also been motivated to dig out a book I have on the Coens, which I must confess I'd never read; do you ever do that, buy a book on impulse ("Hey, this looks interesting..and it's on sale !" ) and then leave it to languish on a shelf, filling you with remorse and guilt every time you glance at its reproachful cover ? > > Anyway, I'm finally reading that book, and it is reminding me that there are many Coen Brothers movies I have seen only once, and that a long time ago. *Raising Arizona* is one of the above; I've mostly forgotten its details. I'll have to remedy that soon. > > Sorry, slight digression from thread topic. Carry on, everyone. I didn;t even know there was a boxed set of the Coens! Cool--something else for my Wish list this year...which films are in it (if you don;t mind digressing a bit more?)

> {quote:title=MyFavoriteFilms wrote:}{quote} > Another film I watched on TCM was THE BAD SEED. I had never seen this one before. The performances are excellent. > > It's a little too stagey, and some of the dialogue about psychoanalysis is rather heavy-handed. There are some holes in the plot. And a few scenes should definitely be trimmed to avoid dragging. But I think with polishing, this could be a successful remake. Didn;t someone remake it w/ Macauley Culkin in the 90's? The Good Son or something like that?

Undercurrent 1946 w/ Katharine Hepburn (woman marries a man who turns out to be a psycho) Undercurrent 1999 Lorenzo Lamas (guy needs money, seduces someones wife for pay...well definitely NOT the same plot line)

Sounds like the chairs' original owner might have been related to my grandma. After she died, we kept finding money taped to bed frames, sewn into curtain linings, etc, etc. I just hope we found it all...

> {quote:title=Arturo wrote:}{quote} > Gloria Swanson as a silent screen movie queen, living in the past. Also has Erich Von Stroheim as a former moviemaker, Cecil B. DeMille as a still active moviemaker, Hedda Hopper as a Hollywood gossip columnist, and assorted "waxworks" from silent films: Buster Keaton, Anna Q. Nillson, etc. . . SUNSET BLVD. of course. > > Edited by: Arturo on Jan 25, 2011 7:04 PM > > Edited by: Arturo on Jan 25, 2011 7:05 PM Except I don't think Gloria Swanson was much like Norma Desmond--definitely NOT living in the past. Edited by: traceyk65 on Jan 26, 2011 7:42 PM for TYPOS. I have to learn to type better.

Just some additions: For singer bios add: Sing Sinner Sing (1933) supposed to be about singer Libby Holman(which was remade as Reckless w/ Harlow a few years later) To Vampires add: Buffy the Vampire Slayer The Lost Boys And as a correction (becasue I am just that **** about my favorite books ) Tolkien referred to his world as Middle Earth...

> {quote:title=MyFavoriteFilms wrote:}{quote} > *BALLET* > > > > - ON YOUR TOES > - I WAS AN ADVENTURESS > - DANCE, GIRL, DANCE > - FANTASIA > - THE RED SHOES > - THE STORY OF THREE LOVES > - HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN > - LIMELIGHT > - THE TURNING POINT > - FAME > - WHITE NIGHTS > - NUTCRACKER: THE MOTION PICTURE > - BILLY ELLIOT > - BLACK SWAN > - TUTUMUCH > > I loved Billy Elliot! Such a good movie!

*Birthdays today:* *Paul Newman* *Joan Leslie is 86 today:* Dancing with Fred Astaire: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tx1trIfZbI&feature=related *Buddy Pictures:* Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: The Sting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lY92P-bSl0&feature=related Some Like It Hot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xRJcUmt6Io&feature=related Thelma and Louise: Hope/Crosby Road Pictures: Nuns on the Run: The Odd Couple:

> {quote:title=musicalnovelty wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=traceyk65 wrote:}{quote} > > *Birthdays today:* > > > > *Ernest Borgnine is 94 today:* > > > > > > Clip from Marty: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItzdA6XzmSA > > > > Johnny Guitar: > > > > > > The Dirty Dozen: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0weydVs3t2Y > > > > The Wild Bunch: > > > > > > Ernie?s finest performance--Mermaid Man! (kidding!): > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZYY8QWYERs > > > So, who is Ernest Borgine? I see on TCM's Home Page that they are running his 2009 "Private Screenings". He's an actor. He mostly did/does character-type roles--played a lot of cowboy/outlaws and rough and tough army types. He won an Oscar in the 50's for the film Marty, playing a man who finds love late in life, after he's pretty much given up ever finding Ms Right. Most recently he's been the voice of Mermaid Man on the kid's cartoon Spongebob Squarepants. (BTW the voice of Barnacle Boy is Tim Conway, best known from his work on the Carol Burnett Show in the 70's and 80's) Here's his IMDB page: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000308/