filmlover
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The new schedule just came out for the Hollywood Bowl:
In addition to AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals (Sept. 3/06), there will be nights for Bugs Bunny on Broadway (7/7);
an all-star cast doing a staged reading of Sunset Blvd with the Hollywood Bowl orchestra playing the Waxman score (8/6);
Walt Disney's Fantasia - The Great American Concert (8/18 and 8/19);
John Williams and the Music of the Movies (9/1 and 9/2);
and American Film Classics featuring selections from The Heiress, The Red Pony, On the Waterfront and others (9/12).
As to film noir, the Egyptian and the Aero theaters are running the 8th Annual Festival of Film Noir:
The Damned Don't Cry, Ruby Gentry, and Beyond the Forest (4/8/06);
Angel's Flight, The Naked Street, and Don't Bother to Knock (4/9);
The Long Haul of A.I.Bezzerides and Thieves Highway (4/12);
Dark Arc (4/13);
Nobody Lives Forever and The House on Telegraph Hill (4/14);
Underworld USA, Nightfall, and No Man of Her Own (4/15)
The Man Who Cheated Himself and Night Editor (4/16);
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Are you calling Field of Dreams a "silly fantasy"?
Alright, put 'em up.
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Exactly. your go, and make it not too hard, it's Monday morning, lol.
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Nope, but you are close. You have to include Professor Moriarty, and the Sherlock Holmes tries to take his niece in the film.
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Nope.
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Oops, Professor Moriarity's niece.
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The Great Profile stops Sherlock Holmes from taking Professor Moriarity's daughter.
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Re having to to like the Essentials...
Excellent point. For example, 2001 A Space Odyssey is an essential film for people to see, but I don't care much for it. I end up falling asleep during it each time. "Essential" basically means, as I understand it, a film that is essential to seeing in order to have a rounded education in film history. I'm sure we can all think of films considered classics and essentials that we would recommend people see but we don't particulary think is great by our individual standards. Another example is The Red Shoes, I find it interesting for its stylized camera work and colors, and would recommend it to someone who has not seen it, but I doubt I would list it in my 100 favorite movies.
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I can't agree with you there. Ben Manckiewicz is a daytme host, and it is the weekend. If I go to a film on the weekend, or pretty much anytime, I am casually dressed. Ben doesn't strike me as a button down, tie-wearing person. Robert Osborne sets the right kind of note for what he does and looks good doing it. But I certainly expect a host who is talking about cartoons or westerns to go casual.
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Little Caesar?
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I watched part of the remake and it had none of the charm of the original.
P.S. -- Mongo, hope I didn't intrude in answering the question about the title of the film before you did. After all, the name of the thread is not "Ask Filmlover".
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Did you ever have one of those days?
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Oops, The two Bennett films (Topper and Topper Takes a Trip) were first and second, and THEN came Topper Returns with Blondell.
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Oh, and actually Topper himself was never a ghost. He was the living henpecked husband that Roland Young played who was followed around by the ghosts of his friends, the Kerbys (played by Cary Grant and Bennett), in the first film, then the woman played by Joan Blondell in the second, and Bennett again as Marion Kerby in the third.
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Mongo is correct about that. There was a sequel with blonde Joan Blondell. Could either of them be the one you were thinking of?
As far as Veronica Lake goes, she was in two excellent comedies, I Married A Witch and Sullivan's Travels.
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This sounds like "Unfaithfully Yours", which was remade later with Dudley Moore.
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Sorry, but it has to be Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity.
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Say, Matt, that's right. And you've made me think...Clark is never around when Superman is. Could it be...is it possible -- ? Nah, couldn't be. One wears glasses, the other doesn't.
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It was a hard choice because there are things in everybody?s listings that I would like to see on TCM. (I have a listing below and I know how hard everyone worked on theirs.) One thing I looked at was how interesting the themes were and what I would like to see. Another was following the guidelines that path40a listed at the beginning of the challenge. I looked at each one several times, and I would like to vote for everyone (including myself, lol), but as I can only vote once, so I will say?Hlywdkjk
P.S. - when you get a chance to look at mine, please know I DO know how to spell Billy Wilder's last name, but my fingers messed up
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I'm back.
Hello, Dolly
Streisand in The Owl and the Pussycat
Matthau in The Sunshine Boys
Michael Crawford in A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum
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pktrekgirl, do I hear "Bad Boys, Bad Boys" playing in your background, lol?
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Things are so crazy with my work this week, I better let you open this up to everyone.
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Mongo,
Ignoring Aaron Copland should be a treasonous offense, for he was America. He had several great film scores.
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Rusty,
I agree with you about Taxi Driver. Very powerful score emotionally. He died before the film was released and they added a credit at the end acknowledging him.
I love Spartacus, too. Especially the tender love theme. If you like North, check out his Rich Man Poor Man soundtrack. Excellent work. And though the Righteous Brothers are what people think of when they hear the song, Unchained Melody, the music is by North for his film of the same name.
My two favorite composers have been Miklos Rozsa and Alfred Newman. if you haven't been exposed to their music, there are a number of soundtrack albums out there by them. For Rozsa, his career encompassed everything from The Thief of Bagdad to Double Indemnity to Ben-Hur (his greatest score) to ... well, the list goes on and on. Alfred Newman was basically the head composer at 20th Century Fox. Great scores include The Mark of Zorro and Captain from Castile. You can also see him conducting the orchestra in the suite "Street Scene" at the beginning of the film "How to Marry A Millionaire".
TCM Programming Challenge Voting
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Wow, path40a, I am flattered by your vote. Coming from the person who organized this means a lot! And I feel humbled when I read again through your e-mail what the others have accomplished in their listings. There are so many great ideas. Even if I don't win the competition (though I know none of us ever thought about a competition at the time we did it, because we were doing it for fun and no contest had even been mentioned), I feel it is a honor to have your vote.
After this is finished, we MUST do another schedule.
Thanks again!