vallo13 Posted April 12, 2006 Share Posted April 12, 2006 Larry ,Good luck with the surgery,all the best! vallo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vecchiolarry Posted April 12, 2006 Author Share Posted April 12, 2006 Hi Vallo, Thank you. How kind of you.... Larry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lzcutter Posted April 12, 2006 Share Posted April 12, 2006 Larry, I am sad at the thought of not being able to hang out with you at the end of the month but I certainly understand. My best thoughts are with you for a speedy recovery and I will keep my fingers crossed that you make it down this way sometime later this year. Take care and get better fast! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vecchiolarry Posted April 12, 2006 Author Share Posted April 12, 2006 Hi, Thanks Lynn. Larry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bansi4 Posted April 12, 2006 Share Posted April 12, 2006 Larry, I hope that it's nothing too serious, and wish you the best of luck. Be sure to bring along your laptop, so as to keep us informed, and to also relate some of your quips. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vecchiolarry Posted April 12, 2006 Author Share Posted April 12, 2006 Hi Mongo, Thanks. It is nothing too serious -- spurs on my cocsyx (sp?) that need to be removed or I'll be unable to walk soon........ I can now sing, "I've got spurs that jingle, jangle jingle!!"........ Larry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feaito Posted April 12, 2006 Share Posted April 12, 2006 Good luck with your surgery Larry and a very speedy recovery. Message was edited by: feaito Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
path40a Posted April 12, 2006 Share Posted April 12, 2006 Good luck with the surgery Larry, hope it all goes well and you have a speedy recovery! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vecchiolarry Posted April 12, 2006 Author Share Posted April 12, 2006 Hi Fernando and Path, Thanks, I appreciate it. Larry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandykaypax Posted April 12, 2006 Share Posted April 12, 2006 Larry, I hope that your surgery goes well and that you aren't absent too long from the boards! I love reading your posts. Sandy K Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharlieT Posted April 12, 2006 Share Posted April 12, 2006 Spurs on the coccyx? Sounds like a pain in the butt. CharlieT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vecchiolarry Posted April 13, 2006 Author Share Posted April 13, 2006 Hi Charlie & Sandy, You're right -- it is a pain above the butt that has become a pain in the butt!!!!! Thanks for the sympathy though; I hope none of you ever experience this... Larry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vecchiolarry Posted May 1, 2006 Author Share Posted May 1, 2006 Hi Lynn, Did you get a chance to see the Pola Negri documentary last night? I'd be very interested to hear about it, if you did. I seem to recall reading that you are or will be travelling, but don't remember just when or even if you said...... I'm recuperating - first in hospital for 3 days and then at home and in physiotherapy. I am on drugs but slowly being weaned off them and taking asprin. I'm still dozy but then as several of my friends have said, "What else is new!!"....... Larry, just half a nut case, now....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lzcutter Posted May 1, 2006 Share Posted May 1, 2006 Larry, Unfortunately, I was delayed in my return home this weekend and unable to see the documentary. I hope it gets another showing here sometime this year. Am glad to hear that your surgery went well and sounds like you are on the mend. Best wishes to you for a speedy recovery!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vecchiolarry Posted May 19, 2006 Author Share Posted May 19, 2006 Hello Everybody, The Pola Negri documentary was shown at Cannes last night. It apparently did very well, although I don't know if it's in competion for anything. One comment was that we needed more actresses with her 'spitfire quality' in films today. The film next goes to London and Warsaw in June and then to MOMA in NYC in September. No word on my contribution to the movie; so I don't know whether to get my tuxedo out of mothballs for the Oscars!!!! Yes, I am delusional!!!!!!........ Larry Message was edited by: vecchiolarry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vallo13 Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 Well best of luck Larry, and good to see you back on the boards. vallo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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vecchiolarry Posted May 19, 2006 Author Share Posted May 19, 2006 Hi Too Many Notes, Thanks. Better not to do a book as there are too many relatives to dodge. Bullets and knives to dodge all over the world. I have relatives in Canada, USA, France and Italy -- so there's no safe place to hide... Larry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vecchiolarry Posted May 25, 2006 Author Share Posted May 25, 2006 Good Morning Jack, - I didn?t know Sydney Guilaroff that well but he was quite a nice man. He was from a Russian family from Winnipeg and he sometimes styled my grandmother?s hair and they spoke Russian together. Nell joked that they were plotting another revolution! He cut my hair a couple of times, once parting it in the middle as a joke and declared that I looked like Hedy Lamarr!!!!!! NOT? - I remember reading his obituary just a few years ago and there is a book by him too. - Sydney usually only did the stars? hair, not just anybody?s but he had full supervision of the hair department. - he suffered from periodic outbursts of tuberculosis. - I met him when he did Angela Lansbury?s hair on ?Kind Lady? - he fussed with Ava Gardner?s hair, while she played poker with us ?boys? on ?Show Boat?. He told us that she cheated but we all knew that anyway. Ava always gave us our pennies back. - Sydney was a good friend of Pola Negri and Mary Astor. - he and Irene, the costume designer, often dined together in the commissary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackBurley Posted May 25, 2006 Share Posted May 25, 2006 Thank you, Larry. Mr. Guilaroff was featured in a scene in Scorsese's New York New York, doing Liza Minnelli's hair. Do you suppose this was his only on-screen moment? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vecchiolarry Posted May 25, 2006 Author Share Posted May 25, 2006 Jack, I've never seen "New York, New York". Martin Scorcese and Robert Deniro turn me off.. Love Liza though, so maybe I'll have to rent it just to see Sydney. He and most of the MGM staff have all been on camera. Sometimes in movies but they're not recognized by the public. But it is fun to see an old film and then shout out, "Oh there's Helen Rose or Melvin Pringle" and everyone says, "Who??".. I love seeing old faces, even mine....... A funny story about Melvin Pringle, who was head of props, he once jumped into a bathtub with Lana Turner after she had finished a tub scene in "The Merry Widow" and they had a laugh filled bubble fight and ruined her makeup and hair and she just said, "Looks like Mel's given everybody the rest of the day off!!"...... I'm sure Sydney is on lots of film somewhere. Larry Message was edited by: vecchiolarry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
movieman1957 Posted May 25, 2006 Share Posted May 25, 2006 Larry: Now you really have our attention. Any chance you'd tell us where we might find you? (Imagine, talking to a real movie star/accountant!) Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vecchiolarry Posted May 25, 2006 Author Share Posted May 25, 2006 Hi Chris, I was a greater accountant than I was a movie star. I was in "Show Boat", "Lovely To Look At", "Kiss Me Kate", "The Prodigal", "Diane", "The Ten Commandments" and "The Vagabond King"... In the last, my brother and I are the two boys praying with candles yet,in front of Kathryn Grayson in church Mostly background and crowd scenes; but the few times I was in the front, I was cut!! Ouch..... If you want to know the name of the face on the cutting room floor, it's MOI.......... Larry Message was edited by: vecchiolarry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackBurley Posted May 25, 2006 Share Posted May 25, 2006 I wish there was some reference for us to find these details. I would love to see Helen Rose on film, for instance. And now I must go to the "Suggest a Movie" page to enter The Vagabond King... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
movieman1957 Posted May 25, 2006 Share Posted May 25, 2006 Unfortunately, you and Kathryn are not currently scheduled. (Darn.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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