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

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> {quote:title=JackFavell wrote:}{quote}

> To get us in the mood for the villa:

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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE9x83bAedw

 

Perfect!

 

And how about this village, girls, as our home base? Seems centrally located to all the best spots, and is charming in its own right:

 

 

 

Edited by: Bronxgirl48 on Apr 26, 2010 12:27 AM

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Oh... little darlin'.... PLEASE tell me you gals have room for one more. (ha..sounds like an episode of the ZONE, doesnt' it?? ha.) I haven't had a vacation since 1998 (NO kidding) and with all that I have had going on lately... I could really use (ever so very much) a little quiet get away time. ha. I don't even need a room.. ha. I won't take up too much space. (despite reports you may have heard to the contrary, ha) I promise.. Just let me sit in the corner during the day and I will stare out the window at the lovely gardens and just "veg" ha. And then at night you can let me sleep on one of the window seats... or on a blanket on the floor even... I will take anything... I am desperate! ha. (You are talking to a sad, pathetic woman, ha).

 

I would even work to pay my keep as your maid or housekeeper (just so long as I don't have to do any dishes or scrub any toilets. (ha) Oh wait. ha. I guess that would sort of defy the whole "maid/housekeeper" job description.. ha.) Let's see.. I need to find SOME way to earn my keep... Do you need someone to hold down the furniture?? I could spend a week just lounging around on a cushy couch. :D

 

(Did I mention I was sad and pathetic? ha)

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"And how about this village, girls, as our home base? Seems centrally located to all the best spots, and is charming in its own right..." - < BRONXGIRL >

 

D'ya think we could go a little more rustic?? If your Mom's not coming, can we bring him along...He was in a nice indie film called "Bella" and danced with Jennifer Lopez. We'll need a dancer if we're going to do the conga line...:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzvfNNxHSeM&feature=related :x

 

"Let's see.. I need to find SOME way to earn my keep... " - < Rohanaka >

 

No no no...no back breaking work for you, Ro. I say...just submit a post in at least five forums of your choice (as long as the Film Noir forum is one of 'em). That should do it. ;-)

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> And how about this village, girls, as our home base? Seems centrally located to all the best spots, and is charming in its own right:

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I was there last summer! I can recommend it. But what about the beach villa, did it get rented from under us? We need our own dock for the yachts to stop by and visit us, you know. :D

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"I was there last summer! I can recommend it. But what about the beach villa, did it get rented from under us? We need our own dock for the yachts to stop by and visit us, you know." - :D < MISSGODDESS >

 

Remember the last lady who had a dock: Joan Bennett in "The Reckless Moment." I'm still

packin' for that trip to the villa.

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Ro- I think everyone should have their own room

 

OH little sweetie... I would glady take EITHER of those lovely rooms... if you are sure I won't be in the way. Someone asked me the other day if "If you could go anywhere you wanted to on vacation, where would it be?" and I said... ha. "TO SLEEP!!" ha.

 

And PS: I wasn't kidding though.. ha. I'd happily sleep on the window seat just for a few "days of get-a-way".

 

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Edited by: rohanaka on Apr 27, 2010 11:16 AM Because evidently I am so sleepy (ha) I don't know how to POST anything anymore... :D

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I'll be back on the boards this evening after work (around 9:30-ish) and catch up -- how wonderful everyone is jumping in, thank you! I did see the original GASLIGHT with Anton, and I'll talk about it when I return. See you all!

 

Edited by: Bronxgirl48 on Apr 27, 2010 2:35 PM

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> How about this one:

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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6syZwMHqNTA

 

Mmmm...very spacious and airy...love those huge windows!

 

How about this one, it's listed as "free"!

 

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http://azurproperties.com/rw/moredetails/pid=1716/Saint-Tropez---St-Raphael/Saint-Tropez-Villa-Home-real-estate.html

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Ohhhhhh! I really want to live there! You can almost tell from the white light that it's Greece.....and what an adorable kitty!

 

I saw in a cooking magazine a few years ago a listing for a vacation in Provence, I think, where you stayed in a little stone cottage - something very much like Colette lived in toward the end of her life. A master chef would prepare all your meals, from the garden outside, and if you wished to you could just spend the whole time gardening during your vacation.

 

Maybe that's a little more work than I would want, but I liked the idea of having a chef at your beck and call.

 

An old mas would be perfect as far as I am concerned.

 

Andrew is taking the vinyl siding off of our house to expose the clapboard, and I keep telling him we should do a stone cottage look - no painting! But he likes wood. It's too bad, our house would really look good in stone. These are much nicer than our house, but I love the way they are so welcoming.

 

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> {quote:title=JackFavell wrote:}{quote}

> Ohhhhhh! I really want to live there! You can almost tell from the white light that it's Greece.....and what an adorable kitty!

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Greece is my next "dream destination". I long to see all that bleached white architecture, dazzling blue skies and aquamarine seas. If the economy continues to falter over there, maybe things will be cheaper than they have been. The cost of traveling there has been what's stopped me from visiting.

 

> I saw in a cooking magazine a few years ago a listing for a vacation in Provence, I think, where you stayed in a little stone cottage - something very much like Colette lived in toward the end of her life. A master chef would prepare all your meals, from the garden outside, and if you wished to you could just spend the whole time gardening during your vacation.

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Sounds divine! I loved reading Collette's reminiscences of her childhood in the South...she could evoke the sounds and smells so eloquently with her words, even in English translation.

 

> Andrew is taking the vinyl siding off of our house to expose the clapboard, and I keep telling him we should do a stone cottage look - no painting! But he likes wood. It's too bad, our house would really look good in stone. These are much nicer than our house, but I love the way they are so welcoming.

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Those are PERFECT!!! But I'm sure your house is adorable and lovely, too, Titania.

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Okay ladies,

 

You want beautiful architecture in a historic setting? Queen size beds that feel like dropping into a sea of flowers and down? Attentive service providers whose only concern is that you have a good time?

 

Get thee not to a nunnery but to next year's TCM Classic Film Festival. The beds at the Roosevelt are to die for and I miss them already. Team up like SueSue and I did and split the cost of a double room (queen beds with mattresses and sheets and comforters and more pillows than you can count) or truly team up and rent a small suite. The bathrooms each have giant towels (the kind we ladies really enjoy) and they don't smell like starch.

 

What are you waiting for? Start saving now! You will love it! Better than a trip to the Greek Isles and you get to talk to Robert O, Ben M and anyone else you pass in the lobby at any hour of the day or night.

 

I'm not joking.

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> {quote:title=redriver wrote:}{quote}

> *9:30*

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> A group of internet posters preparing for a trip to Barcelona are excited by a review of the original GASLIGHT in...

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> *RETURN OF THE BRONXGIRL!!!*

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> *RETURN OF THE BRONXGIRL!!!*

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Might I be Lassie instead? Then I could bite Anton Walbrook as Louis Bauer on the legs and throw him down a well, because he is one mean, unrelenting s.o.b. Charles Boyer is practically Alan Alda in comparison.

 

It's tough to say which is the "definitive" version of this story. I can't quite make up my mind. Maybe....neither, lol? Supposedly the original adheres much closer to Patrick Hamilton's play, but what does that mean? Social commentary disguised as Gothic Grand Guignol on the oppressed role of women and their rule-with-impunity Victorian husbands? Because Anton Walbrook is definitely the head of the household in a way that smooth, suave Charles Boyer could never be.

Walbrook uses his voice as an arsenal -- he barks, cajoles, berates, and practically HISSES. Poor Diana Wynyard doesn't know one moment to the next which verbal assault mode is coming her way.

 

This is a maddening film, no pun intended. There are some creative visual touches, but the director also lets things just plod along, almost as if he didn't want to be accused of being over-the-top with this kind of fulsome period melodrama, so I found everything pretty tepid, dare I say, even dull. There's no romantic backstory as there is in the remake -- when we see the couple, they're already married and preparing to move into the house. Diana and Anton don't quite "mesh" together the way Ingrid and Charles do -- they're just not as "intimate" in their scenes with each other. There's a colorful retired detective (Frank Pettingell, looking marvelously like someone out of a Dickens novel) who has his suspicions and goes about in his own unique way of fishing out secrets. Some dialogue is rather sexually explicit for the time (between Bauer and parlor maid Nancy) and the murder is actually shown, although not quite as graphic, say, as in any number of Universal horror movies of that era)

 

Cathleen Cordell as Nancy cannot hold a candle to Angela Lansbury.

Cordell is irritating as she lasciviously grins her way through the role that Angela truly made her own with economy of gesture, and infinitely more subtlety. Anton is out and out ferocious, and yet there is a curious stiffness to his Bauer, but I'm thinking this may be delibate on Walbrook's part, portraying a maniac who is brilliant at role-playing the moralistic and "stiff"-necked, "sane" husband. He does have an extremely good "end", though -- tied up in a chair, with his now wised-up spouse in front of him with the knife in her hand, through Walbrook's masterful expressions (his eyes) we see the insanity behind the mask of pious and smug authority. He's like a trapped wild animal, a feral beast whose true nature has suddenly been exposed, and it's a bravura moment for this underrated actor.

 

I enjoyed Diana Wynyard in this part, although she does not engage in any showy outbursts of hysteria the way Ingrid does. Bergman (and also Boyer) play their parts introspectively, whereas Anton and Diana are basically stock figures in an old-fashioned "barnstormer". But there's something about Wynyard I was instinctively drawn to as a performer, and she's got me very interested. I now want to see all her work. In some undefined way she reminded me a bit of Vivien Leigh, though I'd still have to get my thoughts together on this to explain it in any rational way. It has nothing to do with any comparable looks -- Wynyard isn't all that attractive, but she has a skilled, understated dramatic presence that caught my eye and made me think of her in parts beyond the parameters of the English stage and film worlds. (Mrs. Treadwell from SHIP OF FOOLS? Maybe even Blanche in STREETCAR? Or am I totally off base?) She also brings to mind Margaret Leighton.

 

Cukor allows Ingrid to "modernize" her character by letting us identify with the advancing stranglehood of her paranoia, the erosion of trust and the indignity of betrayal. In the original, we're not really emotionally invested in Diana's plight, not through any fault in Wynyard's performance, just the limitations of the script in terms of character development.

 

All in all, I'd have to say that the remake is probably "better" overall in terms of almost everything -- production, pace, script, and acting, but it's just too glossy and slick for my liking, so, I guess if I have to choose, I prefer the diffuse, raggedy quaint British charm of the original, even though it's frankly no great shakes. (the lousy YouTube print didn't help)

 

 

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Edited by: Bronxgirl48 on Apr 28, 2010 12:05 PM

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Oh my gosh, THAT CAT!!!! The BLUES!!

 

Does the sleeping doggie come with your free, blue-shuttered house?

 

I'd love to visit Tuscany and the rest of Italy, but my heart as you know is in the South of France, a place I've never visited but one where I believe magic exists, I have two sorts of dream homes there in my mind's eye I could happily retire to, forget about Maine! -- the link I posted of the spacious modern, sophisticated one in Cannes, perched on a hilltop, and one in my imaginings of a cozy, quaint 18th century white farmhouse. (but I NEED air conditioning and modern appliances)

 

Edited by: Bronxgirl48 on Apr 28, 2010 2:29 AM

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> {quote:title=JackFavell wrote:}{quote}

> Oh my ..... That is beautiful! How did you know I have a thing for blue shutters? ---- I would love to live in a cottage or a stone farmhouse...

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Jackie, your stone farmhouse is just what I'm looking for in my "quaint" category. It's so charming and beautiful. I could spend the rest of my days there...

 

Edited by: Bronxgirl48 on Apr 28, 2010 2:32 AM

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