redriver Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 A friend of mine in Chicago said, "Small towns are scary. You get off the bus and everybody knows it." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFavell Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 > {quote:title=redriver wrote:}{quote} > A friend of mine in Chicago said, "Small towns are scary. You get off the bus and everybody knows it." Boy, is that the truth. And you can never escape what people think of you. If you start out on the wrong side of the tracks, that's how people will see you, no matter your accomplishments or how far you rise in the world. The version of *Our Town* done some years ago with Spaulding Gray pointed that part of the story up - it was brilliant. The play finally made sense to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CineMaven Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 JackFavell writes - "Oh, that This is Your Life episode was so worth it! How gracious Bette was, and how honest. I loved how Olivia rushed up to hug Bette! How very sweet they were toge-ther. I also loved seeing Bette and William Wyler together..." When it works right...it's a great relationship: director & actor. I've got to find it and check it out again. Helenbaby writes - "I only wish I could summon up the ....courage to act like those dames that Miss Stanwyck & Miss Davis played. It would have saved me from lots of stuff throughout the years." We can't change the past...but we can the present...and the future. Go Helen...go Helen..... Redriver writes - "A friend of mine in Chicago said, "Small towns are scary. You get off the bus and everybody knows it." I live in NYC and there's something to be said about the anonymity here. But I'm actually looking for the peace and quiet and slower pace of a small town. JackFavell writes - "Boy, is that the truth. And you can never escape what people think of you. If you start out on the wrong side of the tracks, that's how people will see you, no matter your accomplishments or how far you rise in the world." True. Guess the trick would be not to care too much what people think. I am still learning that trick. Anybody got that down pat yet? I need lessons. Just finished watching "(500) Days of Summer" with Joseph Gordon Levitt. Yeah...it's a modern movie but such a great commentary on who we fall in love with. I highly recommend it. I'm now watching "Lifeguard" now. 1976 with Sam Elliott and Anne Archer. Parker Stevenson's so pretty. But Sammy, Sammy Elliot...is gorgeous. Tall, athletic, hairy and that Tom Selleck mustache. :x Loved him in "Tombstone." Uhmmm...is he still with Katharine Ross? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissGoddess Posted October 6, 2010 Author Share Posted October 6, 2010 Love Sam Elliot's voice. Did you ever see him in *A Death in California* where he played that charismatic villain? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brackenhe Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 Sam Elliot--the man & voice of my dreams. Sigh. What a man, what a man, what a mighty good man!! He had a cameo in *Up in the Air* (George Clooney) and still looks darn good. That's a fairly recent film that I just loved. He & Clooney sitting together is just about more than I could bear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CineMaven Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 Yeeeeeeeup. Low & growly with a drawl. Oh yeah...I love his voice too. "Love Sam Elliot's voice. Did you ever see him in A Death in California where he played that charismatic villain?" - < ( MissGoddess ) > You know, I don't know this movie at all. Gotta look that up. "Sam Elliot--the man & voice of my dreams. Sigh. What a man, what a man, what a mighty good man!!" - < ( Helenbaby > I saw "Up In the Air." I'm not remembering Sam in there. What's wrong with me?? Oh, Vera Farmiga is an unsung, under-rated jewel in today's crop of actresses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brackenhe Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 Sam plays the pilot who sits with Clooney when he gets his card--you know which scene I mean. Also, earlier in the film, Clooney is on a moving sidewalk and he goes by a big poster for the airline with Sam's picture on it. I've only seen Vera Farmiga in The Departed & this but she's very good in Up in the Air. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CineMaven Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 Ahhhhh. Thanx! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissGoddess Posted October 7, 2010 Author Share Posted October 7, 2010 Mave, for you and helenbabe: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CineMaven Posted October 7, 2010 Share Posted October 7, 2010 Hmmmmmmmmmmmm. A friend and I had drinks at Puck Fair (Irish bar near Houston Street) and we saw Sam Shepherd at the bar. I say Jessica Lange and Katharine Ross are two very lucky ladies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redriver Posted October 7, 2010 Share Posted October 7, 2010 We're allowed to go off topic on this thread, right? You know what Shepard play I like a lot? TRUE WEST. That thing is intense! I saw it on PBS, via Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre. John Malkovich and Gary Sinise as the brothers. You've nailed the urban experience vs. small town. I lived in Chicago for thirty years. Wonderful city! You do have anonymity. Nobody cares who you are and what you do. I've recently returned to the slower, more peaceful pace I grew up with. In the long run, I prefer it. Haven't had to worry about parking since I came back! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SansFin Posted October 7, 2010 Share Posted October 7, 2010 > {quote:title=redriver wrote:}{quote} > I lived in Chicago for thirty years. Wonderful city! You do have anonymity. Nobody cares who you are and what you do. I lived in a big city four years and never saw people who lived in apartments on either side of me. When living in a small town I was depositing my paycheck and the teller asked if I wanted to keep out more cash because the dress I had looked at in the window down the street the week before was now on sale. Capuchin likes to tell how he learned to not lock his car in Detroit because people would break out windows to get in but he had to lock his car in small town in Missouri or he might come back and find people had put into it bags of tomatos and zucchini which were excess from their gardens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lzcutter Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 *You know what Shepard play I like a lot? TRUE WEST. That thing is intense! I saw it on PBS, via Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre. John Malkovich and Gary Sinise as the brothers.* I saw *True West* at a small Hollywood playhouse on La Palmas that is now closed. The play starred Randy and Dennis Quaid. It was a great evening of theater. Both were excellent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OllieTSB Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 I laughed with HELENB's comments about "wishing" for Bette Davis treatment of men - and was fondly recalling the wonderful little quip from Meryl Streep about doing just that - watching those film, hoping they'd learn how to "scare the hell outta men". Personally, I hardly ever dash off the porch onto the lawn with my back turned on a gun-totin' femme. Not any more! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CineMaven Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 "We're allowed to go off topic on this thread, right? You know what Shepard play I like a lot? TRUE WEST." - < ( redriver ) > We're not going off topic. We're rambling. We're rambling and roaming in conversation with each other. I remember "TRUE WEST" with Tommy Lee Jones back in the 80's here in NY. Wish I'd seen him then. "Personally, I hardly ever dash off the porch onto the lawn with my back turned on a gun-totin' femme. Not any more!" - < ( Ollie ) > Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redriver Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 I'm guessing Randy was the weird one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redriver Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 I'm always thinking about whether to roll up my windows. But it's not theft I'm worried about. It's rain! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 > {quote:title=JackFavell wrote:}{quote} > Bronxie - > > I am going to have to go back and watch Wuthering Heights again, just for Hindley - I must admit I gloss right over him on my way to Cathy and Heathcliff. I just hated him so much, I never thought of looking at the actor's work before. Time to check him out! On the strength of Hugh's peformance in WH, to my eyes, I think it would be worth it to see what else this actor has done. I'm excited now! I hope he won't be a "one-trick pony", though, ha! (talk about focusing on selected characters -- I was watching IN NAME ONLY the other day and trying to see the story from Maida's viewpoint. Didn't work, lol) Edited by: Bronxgirl48 on Oct 8, 2010 4:58 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFavell Posted October 9, 2010 Share Posted October 9, 2010 Now listen, Bronxie, I just went and looked up Hugh WIlliams. First of all, he was born at Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex..... isn't that wonderful sounding? It could be the biggest rat hill in England, but that name! Wow. It conjures up pictures of the stately home, don'tcha know. Second of all, it turns out he was in two of my favorite movies - *One of Our Aircraft is Missing*, which I have only seen once, but thoroughly enjoyed. I don't remember it well, but it is a Powell/Pressburger film. Now for the weird part - He was in the 1935 *the Personal History, blah blah blah....etc......of David Copperfield*. He played Steerforth, and I swear, Bronxie, I have always wondered what happened to that actor because he was fantastic in the role! I thought he was so much better than Frank Lawton, who played David as a young man. I never dreamed it was the same man who played Hindley, and that is a testament to Hugh's acting skills. The other movies he was in that I recognize are a 1930 version of *Charley's Aunt* with Charlie Ruggles - Hugh plays Charley. He was in a version of WIlde's *An Ideal Husband* in 1947, directed by Alexander Korda, with Michael Wilding, Paulette Goddard(!), C Aubrey Smith, And DIana Wynyard. Smashing. The only other movie that I've heard of is *Khartoum*, from 1966. He played Lord Hartington. He was a dramatist as well (what is the difference between a dramatist and a playwright?) as an actor and co-wrote *The Grass is Greener* with his second wife Margaret Vyner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFavell Posted October 9, 2010 Share Posted October 9, 2010 >(talk about focusing on selected characters -- I was watching IN NAME ONLY the other day and trying to see the story from Maida's viewpoint. Didn't work, lol) Maida is so hateful, I don't think it's possible to look at things from her point of view! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissGoddess Posted October 9, 2010 Author Share Posted October 9, 2010 > > He was a dramatist as well (what is the difference between a dramatist and a playwright?) as an actor and co-wrote *The Grass is Greener* with his second wife Margaret Vyner. Wow! That really does surprise me! One of my favorite comedies, that. And I liked Steerforth best, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFavell Posted October 9, 2010 Share Posted October 9, 2010 I've never seen The Grass is Greener. At least, I don't think I have... Steerforth is such a great character in the movie.... He is so gentlemanly, and yet there is that dark side to him, and he KNOWS it.... he's split in two. The scene where he asks David to always remember him the way he is at that moment really makes me emotional. It's very sad. I think Hugh WIlliams captured the Byronic nature of the character. Edited by: JackFavell on Oct 8, 2010 8:56 PM for too many "so's" and too many "really's" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OllieTSB Posted October 9, 2010 Share Posted October 9, 2010 Hmmm... Grass Is Greener... One Of Our Aircraft Is Missing... sounds like a chance for more tortures to be delivered! he he he he... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFavell Posted October 9, 2010 Share Posted October 9, 2010 Oh, Ollie, stop reading my mind! You don't even give me a chance to go look up the movies.... Unfortunately, it really is torture, because every time I get a movie, I realize there are two more that I want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CineMaven Posted October 9, 2010 Share Posted October 9, 2010 ?I was watching IN NAME ONLY the other day and trying to see the story from Maida's viewpoint. Didn't work, lol)? - < ( Bronxgirl ) > HA!!! Poor Maida. She was a conniving wench, wasn?t she? Her dark beauty was quite a contrast to Lombard's blonde openness and friendliness. "Maida is so hateful, I don't think it's possible to look at things from her point of view!? - < ( JackFavell ) > HA! Wives are always hateful when they don?t let their husbands be with their true loves. I hate when that happens. ?Hmmm... Grass Is Greener... One Of Our Aircraft Is Missing... sounds like a chance for more tortures to be delivered! he he he he...? - < ( Ollie ) > Oh boy, I see Samuel S. Hinds on the table in "THE RAVEN" and the giant pendulum?d blade tick-tocking towards my Sammy?s chest, and you Ollie...as Bela Lugosi saying in your thick Hungarian accent: "I like to torture!? "Unfortunately, it really is torture, because every time I get a movie, I realize there are two more that I want.? - < ( JackFavell ) > Which reminds me of Wimpy who would eat a pile of hamburgers...but the pile would never go down. Ever notice that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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