BRONXGIRL'S MOTHER, HENRY FONDA'S HIRSUTENESS, ETC.

[CineMaven]

There's a lot of subtlety to Rudy's expression b'cuz there's no talking to explain everything. A good friend of mine recommended that I see "THE EAGLE." Maybe I should watch this YouTube clip again...but with the sound MUTED.

 

I was at a friend's sixtieth birthday party last night (helping me NOT be home for NO tv) and one of the guests and I were talking about movies and she said: *"Kim Novak couldn't act her way out of a paper bag but her clothes looked great in 'BELL, BOOK and CANDLE'."* I brought up how convincing she was in *"VERTIGO."*

 

 

Was it wrong to try to throw my plastic cup of champagne over her head? I didn't. I wanted to, but I didn't. The nerve of people and their off-hand dismissive way of handing out their "opinion." This has colored my opinion of this guest for all time though.

[JackFavell]

At least she knew who Kim Novak was.... but I totally hear you. It makes my blood boil sometimes when people just dismiss someone I like.... at the snap of their untalented fingers.

 

I had the same thing happen today reading an old newspaper article that said that John Ford had good luck with "actors of limited histrionic ability" like *John Wayne, Ward Bond, Victor Mature and Victor MacLaglen.* Let me tell you, I saw red, because those are ALL favorite actors of mine. They just make it LOOK easy.

 

When I think about it, you make me ashamed of myself. I admit I've made my fair share of dismissive comments in my time...

[Bronxgirl48]

Jackie knows what I mean about the hydration. Right, Jackie, lol?

 

I had to replay the scene where Rudy is "drinking" from that wine cup. He puts his, um, er, well, just watch it again.

 

Am I crazy, or did Rudy look oddly like REX HARRISON (who really does nothing for me romantically except perhaps in THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR) in the scene right after he's seeing the carriage off with Vilma Banky, and then almost getting on his horse but then decides not to. His whole face, and the expression, with his lips, it was Rex. So bizarre. Handsome, gorgeous, but -- Rex Harrison.

 

No more leaky kitchen pipes or mold, but the water damage created some problems, so I need new cabinets, bathroom vanity (the wall is going to be knocked down and replaced, new carpet, tile, etc.

 

Did that guest ever see Kim in PICNIC or THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM?

 

[JackFavell]

Ooh, I have to go watch that clip again...it seems I've missed something.

 

Hydration.... one needs it for extended physical activity ..... which Rudy was fond of..... and for stamina, which apparently he had in spades.

 

[Bronxgirl48]

I watched the cup scene 20 times already.

 

The men of today -- are they hydration-worthy?

[JackFavell]

I'd have to say no.

 

I still don't see Rex Harrison in Rudy. Maybe I am blocking the thought of it out.

 

 

[JackFavell]

Here's a lesson in how to kiss a woman. Do like Rudy, on the right - not like the guy on the left.

 

[CineMaven]

*BRONXGIRL writes: "No more leaky kitchen pipes or mold, but the water damage created some problems, so I need new cabinets, bathroom vanity (the wall is going to be knocked down and replaced, new carpet, tile, etc."*

 

Wow! Who knew there'd be a silver lining in all this, Bronxie. Looks like you'll be getting a complete overhaul. Will this come out of your pocket? If not, French provincial all the way baby!

 

I apologize ladies....I'm so tense it's crazy, though I had a lovely one hour conversation with a fellow baby boomer from Verizon Fios to see about changing our service. Because of being in this tight, tense, anxious state, I watched the Rudy video and honestly didn't see anything special about it.

 

 

Then I read your posts and am now going back to the video.

 

 

Oh Rudy!!! RUDY!!!

 

 

May I offer my apologies to the older actress whom I called a biddy. That was unkind. I see her desperation and her desire and longing for Valentino's character. She's a Czarina, and a predator...an aggressor. She does what rulers do...find that cute hot young thing to bring up to their private quarters. When she goes over to her bar, Rudy looks positively like he's going to cry. He looks scared. When she asks him to "Pour" her face looks so cute, seductive. She's quite attractive in a friendly, Irish Mother kind of way. I could see her wait for Cagney to come home mummified...and she can also be haughty enough to think no girl good enough for her son. But she's quite playfully seductive (or trying her darnedest. Older gals get such short shrift). She's Adolphe Menjou in drag sans the moustache. I like how she circles Rudy and gives him the once over with her eyes. Rudy visibly *gulps*...he looks downright repulsed as though he was a piece of meat and objectified; ha...something no woman has ever experienced. There's more to this scene than I saw initially. And now I find the music appropriate. I like her; she's alternately playful and then mean (when she tells the other officer to get out, leaving her alone with Rudy). Rudy's so happy to get the present of her prize horse. But what a price he's about to pay. *< GULP>*

*"Am I crazy, or did Rudy look oddly like REX HARRISON (who really does nothing for me romantically except perhaps in THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR) in the scene right after he's seeing the carriage off with Vilma Banky, and then almost getting on his horse but then decides not to. His whole face, and the expression, with his lips, it was Rex. So bizarre. Handsome, gorgeous, but -- Rex Harrison."*

 

 

I didn't see Rex Harrison at all I'm afraid. What I did see was Ricardo Cortez and George Raft waft over his Rudy's beautiful face.

 

 

*"I had to replay the scene where Rudy is 'drinking' from that wine cup. He puts his, um, er, well, just watch it again."*

 

 

I've watched it Bronxie and I don't see anything...anything. Help me see O Wise One. I did see him bop over to her to get the drink with a kind of Denzel Washington stride. Oh check it out when she asks Rudy to pour, how she leans in slightly; she wants to drink in allllllll of him...for starters.

 

 

*"Did that guest ever see Kim in ‘PICNIC’ or ‘THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM'?"*

 

 

I don’t know. I stopped speaking to her when I saw the others at my table change topics when they saw her & I have our little discussion. Sorry. I’m senstive about my favorites.

 

 

*Jackie knows what I mean about the hyrdration. Right, Jackie, lol?”*

 

*JACK FAVELL writes: “Hydration...one needs it for extended physical activity...which Rudy was fond of....and For stamina, which apparently he had in spades."*

 

Ohhhhhhhhhhh. (I'm thick!) If you can't work up enough of...well Bronxie, if Rudy doesn't prompt you to be a veritable Niagara Falls...I dunno girl. I just don't know Bronxgirl.

 

 

*JACK FAVELL writes:* *"I had the same thing happen today reading an old newspaper article that said that John Ford had good luck with 'actors of limited histrionic ability' like John Wayne, Ward Bond, Victor Mature and Victor MacLaglen. Let me tell you, I saw red, because those are ALL favorite actors of mine."*

I saw your "hmmmph" comment over at the Oasis.

 

 

 

*"At least she knew who Kim Novak was.... but I totally hear you. It makes my blood boil sometimes when people just dismiss someone I like.... at the snap of their untalented fingers."*

Those who can't teach, teach gym.

 

 

 

*"When I think about it, you make me ashamed of myself. I admit I've made my fair share of dismissive comments in my time..."*

 

 

I have too...but I'm still peeved and pinched. I liked her husband better. He was nicer. She was a redhead. Does that have anything to do with it?

 

 

*Edited by: CineMaven on Jul 21, 2011 2:23 PM - Can TCM hire people who know the html language properly?!!*

[JackFavell]

I have a picture in my head of a bitchy Arlene Dahl type, making a catty comment a la Elaine Stewart in The Bad and the Beautiful.

[CineMaven]

*I watched the cup scene 20 times already. The men of today -- are they hydration-worthy?"*

 

PM me what you're hyrdrating about and I'll tell you if they're hydration-worthy. Yes, I remember the Seinfeld episode with Elaine and...was it Puddy?

 

Ha JackaaaaaAaaaay....or Rhonda Fleming.

[Bronxgirl48]

Believe me, I'm the last person in the world who wants Rudy to look like anybody but himself, lol, so you must know that this Rex thing shocked the living daylights out of me. I wish I could post a screencap of that scene so that people perhaps would think I'm not as nuts as I seem to be. I didn't WANT to "see" Harrison, it was just there, heaven help me. I'M SORRY RUDY!!

 

I love THE EAGLE photos, Jackie. And the kissing "lesson" --, it just goes to show everyone -- NO ONE KISSED LIKE RUDY, NO ONE.

Besame, besame mucho. (so glad you loved that and Favorited it)

 

Edited by: Bronxgirl48 on Jul 21, 2011 3:27 PM

[JackFavell]

the kissing "lesson" --, it just goes to show everyone -- NO ONE KISSED LIKE RUDY, NO ONE.

 

 

Boys, take your girl in your arms, caress her, hold your baby tight.

[Bronxgirl48]

That's right, Jackie. Rudy's screen lovemaking is so natural and organic. It's the whole woman he is interested in, not just her "parts".

 

Okay guys, the Rex bit is 1:23. More importantly, the sensuous cup scene is 5:06. Watch the tongue.

[Bronxgirl48]

My landlady's insurance will cover the repairs. I'll get this place looking like a real villa yet, lol.

 

Really enjoyed your breakdown of THE EAGLE clip! Didn't Catherine the Great always "inspect" her troops before the, uh, main event? Oh boy would I love to inspect Rudy. What a doll. And in that cute outfit, he really does look like a toy soldier come to life. So immensely cuddly and huggable. I need to grab him NOW. What am I going to DO???

 

Rudy once told an interviewer that there was a "Valentino on every street corner in Italy". (I guess that's why he left for America, lol)

 

He was obviously one of a kind, but, is that where I need to start looking?

 

Edited by: Bronxgirl48 on Jul 21, 2011 4:03 PM

[JackFavell]

Ah, now I see what you were so interested in cup-wise. Yumm!

 

That picture of "the other guy" in the photo I posted makes me laugh - how many of us have been groped this way? A grab of the shoulders, a lunge for the chest, or an attempt to get a kiss when a girl isn't ready.....

 

Rudy would make sure you are ready for his kiss.... in fact, he'd make you beg him for it long before it happened. This is the endless appeal of Rudolph Valentino. He knew how to arouse a woman's senses first.

[CineMaven]

*"That's right, Jackie. Rudy's screen lovemaking is so natural and organic. It's the whole woman he is interested in, not just her 'parts'."*

 

Reminds me of that ol' American classic song: "All of me, why not take all of me...."

 

*"Okay guys, the Rex bit is 1:23. More importantly, the sensuous cup scene is 5:06. Watch the tongue."*

 

Oh my....why Bronxie, what sharp eyes you have!!! Yup, guess that'd be all it'd take. I still can't get passed the scene where she holds his head down. Very uhmmmmm.....contemporary.

 

*Really enjoyed your breakdown of THE EAGLE clip! Didn't Catherine the Great always "inspect" her troops before the, uh, main event?"*

 

Thanxx so much. YOU opened my eyes to it. I couldn't "see" it, at first. Inspection is necessary. After all, who wants to suck on a lemon? You know, the Czarina makes me think of a dominatrix... Mistress Catherine she was probably known in inner circles. She intrigues me.

 

*Oh boy would I love to inspect Rudy. What a doll. And in that cute outfit, he really does look like a toy soldier come to life."*

 

I did find the skirt flair a bit distracting.

 

*"So immensely cuddly and huggable. I need to grab him NOW. What am I going to DO???"*

 

Go to the store and check out carpet swatches. What else CAN you do? Oh wait...what about the 28-year old Valentino look-a-like at the supermarket? Hydrate for him.

 

*Rudy once told an interviewer that there was a "Valentino on every street corner in Italy". (I guess that's why he left for America, lol) He was obviously one of a kind, but, is that where I need to start looking?"*

 

...And what do bears do in the woods? Get thee to a villa. Preferably in Tuscany. But let's hold on a second. Get back to reality. If you ran across a modern-day Rudy...would you run away like a school girl; like Katharine Hepburn in "Summertime." Or would you stay and face him like a woman?

 

*******

 

Finally got a repairman over the apartment and we have tv reception again. (No, he didn't look like Rudy or Mitch Miller; think Godfrey Cambridge). Now I can leave the house knowing I'll come back to tv. A friend's having a fundraiser for her upcoming one-woman show. Gotta support.

[CineMaven]

"Rudy would make sure you are ready for his kiss.... in fact, he'd make you beg him for it long before it happened. This is the endless appeal of Rudolph Valentino. He knew how to arouse a woman's senses first."

 

You're so right JackaaaAaaay. Man, I gotta tell ya...watching Rudy in action...and then reading what you and Bronxie write...and then watching Rudy in action again is...well...the watching and the reading...pretty powerful combination.

 

Whew!

[JackFavell]

I still can't get passed the scene where she hold his head down. Very contemporary.

 

I'll say.

[CineMaven]

Your little character faces say a mouthful. Ha!!

[JackFavell]

obviously the only thing I can say is

 

SPIT TAKE!

 

 

[CineMaven]

Right about now I could use ol' SpongeBob myself!!!

[Bronxgirl48]

Before I get, er, down to Rudy, let me just say this about HARUM SCARUM.

 

Could it be the worst Elvis movie he ever made? It...is....so....BAD, in every possible way. A thousand moons will come and go before I lay eyes on this turkey again.

 

 

Speaking of more bad stuff -- I don't mind the Cary one with the dancing caterpillar, but I cannot abide EVERY GIRL SHOULD BE MARRIED.

 

 

My Rodolfo market lookalike is probably married to a very jealous woman, someone like Mercedes Ruehl in MARRIED TO THE MOB. Remember her performance, lol?

 

 

If I ever met a sincere, heart-of-gold Italian street-corner Valentino, my reaction would be more Diane Lane than Katherine Hepburn. Trust me on this.

;;

 

Edited by: Bronxgirl48 on Jul 21, 2011 11:34 PM

[Bronxgirl48]

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LOL!! That's the two of us when we watch Rudy videos.

[Bronxgirl48]

Yay! You got your t.v. back! Believe me, I know how you feel.

 

Can I get a life-size talking Valentino doll? Where would I go about buying one?

 

LOL

 

 

[Bronxgirl48]