TomJH Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 2 hours ago, Sepiatone said: Y'know, I long thought it was Brando's sheriff character that called the guy "Bubber". Everyone else sounded like they called him "Bubba". And Brando's character called him "Bubber" for the same reason there's folks who pronounce the word "warsh" instead of "wash". A peculiar Southern colloqialism. Whitefang Yeh, you're right, Sepia, there was a lot of what sounded to be "Bubba" name calls in the film, though with Brando's usual mumble it could have been either "Bubba" or "Bubber." And I still say incredibly handsome, preppy looking Redford hardly looks like a guy with that name. His performance, though, is pretty good in The Chase. "Come on now, Bubba, or Bubber, or whatever your name is." Perhaps the one mildly amusing moment in a pretty dark film occurs when one man, one of the film's biggest trouble makers played by Richard Bradford, asks Henry Hull, a notorious gossip and busy body, as both await outside the sheriff's office, what's going on. Hull responds, "I don't know." "Well if you don't know," Bradford says, "nobody does." 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tikisoo Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 3 hours ago, CinemaInternational said: Another lousy movie in the new year: Amistad (1997) Funny you should mention that movie....it was the first movie I ever remember looking very "dark" and "blue"- a subject being discussed inbox another thread. I have zero memory of that movie, only the impression the color photography imbedded in my minds eye. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LornaHansonForbes Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 the AMISTAD tragedy is referenced in my favorite WHITNEY HOUSTON song ever, MY LOVE IS YOUR LOVE ("And the chains of Amistad couldn't hold us..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LornaHansonForbes Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 20 hours ago, CinemaInternational said: Muldaur's big plunge on LA Law ended up becoming a metaphor for the series itself, as the series which had been a critical and audience favorite and mostly a calm and cohesive working environment fell entirely to pieces shortly after she left the show. The episode where she was killed off aired in March of 1991 as part of the show's fifth season, which would become the series' fourth to win Best Drama series at the Emmys. To make it even more shocking, they killed Roz off at the end of the episode's first main act. It was later revealed she was killed off the show because the writer/producer who created the character, David E. Kelley was leaving the show to create his own show Picket Fences (and later another trio of law shows: The Practice, Ally McBeal, Boston Legal), and he didn't want to see the character get softened or maladjusted by the new troop of writers coming in because Roz was his favorite character and one he had created himself. In addition to Kelley leaving at the end of the fifth season, so too left original cast members Harry Hamlin, Jimmy Smits, and Michelle Greene, which left a gap on the show. Some new producer came in, didn't even last the whole sixth season, as show quality sagged and ratings dipped. Kelley , Smits, and show creator Stephen Bochco (doing groundwork at the time on NYPD Blue) came back in for just a handful of episodes to try to shore things up, which was enough to keep the show up for Emmys that year. Richard Dysert won the show's final award that year. But by season's end, Susan Dey, another original cast member left, as did would-be cast replacements Amanda Donohue, Cecil Hoffman, Tom Verica, Michael Cumpsty and Conchata Farrell. Season 7 brought in the showrunners from St. Elsewhere and Northern Exposure. They were a bad fit for LA Law, as fans of the show started turning it off in droves as the show sank in quality. The season opener, inspired by the riots after the verdict in the Rodney King case, was regarded as the only decent episode of the season. And yet another original cast member left, this time Susan Ruttan. And the Emmys dropped the show entirely. NBC still decided to go in with a final year with new producers, bizarrely even folding in two characters played by Debi Mazar and Alan Rosenberg from a cancelled Bochco show, Civil Wars, that had aired on a rival network, ABC. The final year was regarded as a big step up from the previous year, but the show had lost its momentum and the ratings were on par with the previous year. Jill Eikenberry got one last farewell nomination at the Emmys (much like Angela Lansbury, they loved to nominate her, but always stiffed her over in the end); she lost to Leigh Taylor-Young on Picket Fences. And NBC decided to give LA Law's timeslot to a certain new medical show called ER.....and the rest they say is history 17 hours ago, King Rat said: Thanks for the background information. My lawyer friends used to hoot at the opening scene in many of the [LA LAW] shows where all the lawyers would sit around the conference table and talk about the one case they were working on. As if! March you say? I suppose if ROZ hadn't fallen down that elevator shaft, she might have run into BEVERLY SUTPHEN of SERIAL MOM fame and been murdered for wearing white after Labor day. I personally think it's WINTER WHITE and I love it, I also think the RULES OF FASHION HAVE CHANGED, but I know there are those who would VIOLENTLY DISAGREE. I loved LA LAW when I was about 8-12 years old, but I drifted after ROZ died for the reasons you mentioned. ALSO..... My Father, bless his heart, is an ATTORNEY IN PRIVATE PRACTICE [in North Carolina] and he would go absolutelyeffinNUCLEAR over the NUMEROUS THINGS LA LAW GOT SERIOUSLY WRONG IN RE: THE LAW as we would try to watch an episode... I can still here him now... "Lemme tell you somethin Son, I dunno what the laws are in California, if any attorney pulled that **** in open court here, the Judge wouldn't even call him to the bench to let him know what an idiot he was, he'd just tell him in Open Court!!!!" 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LornaHansonForbes Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 also, all these years later, one of the real oddities of LA LAW was the character of BENNY, a mentally disabled office boy played by LARRY DRAKE, an actor who was not mentally disabled and later on became DR GIGGLES and played the killer AVE WIELDING SANTA on TALES FROM THE CRYPT. Did he maybe even win an Emmy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricJ Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 1 hour ago, LornaHansonForbes said: the AMISTAD tragedy is referenced in my favorite WHITNEY HOUSTON song ever, MY LOVE IS YOUR LOVE ("And the chains of Amistad couldn't hold us..." Yeah, it was sort of the Wakanda Forever of its (90's) day, and Amistad would have been Spielberg's biggest disappointment if "A.I." and "The Terminal" hadn't come along so soon afterwards. As a str8 person who found Whitney annoying (I remember listening to Whitney's "The Greatest Love of All" on every radio station and joking "If the lyrics express her concern, from this rendition, Whitney should reassure herself that she is in no immediate danger of not loving herself enough... 🙄"), all I can say is, yes, she WOULD throw a 90's Amistad lyric into one of her songs. also, all these years later, one of the real oddities of LA LAW was the character of BENNY, a mentally disabled office boy played by LARRY DRAKE, an actor who was not mentally disabled and later on became DR GIGGLES and played the killer AVE WIELDING SANTA on TALES FROM THE CRYPT. And the uber-villainous Durant in Sam Raimi's Darkman (1990)...Remember the name: Robert. G. DURANT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LornaHansonForbes Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 9 minutes ago, EricJ said: Yeah, it was sort of the Wakanda Forever of its (90's) day, and Amistad would have been Spielberg's biggest disappointment if "A.I." and "The Terminal" hadn't come along so soon afterwards. As a str8 person who found Whitney annoying (I remember listening to Whitney's "The Greatest Love of All" on every radio station and joking "If the lyrics express her concern, from this rendition, Whitney should reassure herself that she is in no immediate danger of not loving herself enough... 🙄"), all I can say is, yes, she WOULD throw a 90's Amistad lyric into one of her songs. And the uber-villainous Durant in Sam Raimi's Darkman (1990)...Remember the name: Robert. G. DURANT. I think Wyclef Jean wrote YOUR LOVE IS MY LOVE. I also thought MINORITY REPORT was not great... Yes, I forgot LARRY DRAKE in DARKMAN...even before he did LA LAW he was in some off-beat stuff, he has a small role in TRUCKER'S WOMAN, an extremely amateurish 1970's trucker film shot in South Carolina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speedracer5 Posted January 13 Author Share Posted January 13 6 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said: March you say? I suppose if ROZ hadn't fallen down that elevator shaft, she might have run into BEVERLY SUTPHEN of SERIAL MOM fame and been murdered for wearing white after Labor day. I personally think it's WINTER WHITE and I love it, I also think the RULES OF FASHION HAVE CHANGED, but I know there are those who would VIOLENTLY DISAGREE. I loved LA LAW when I was about 8-12 years old, but I drifted after ROZ died for the reasons you mentioned. ALSO..... My Father, bless his heart, is an ATTORNEY IN PRIVATE PRACTICE [in North Carolina] and he would go absolutelyeffinNUCLEAR over the NUMEROUS THINGS LA LAW GOT SERIOUSLY WRONG IN RE: THE LAW as we would try to watch an episode... I can still here him now... "Lemme tell you somethin Son, I dunno what the laws are in California, if any attorney pulled that **** in open court here, the Judge wouldn't even call him to the bench to let him know what an idiot he was, he'd just tell him in Open Court!!!!" Pronounced “La-Law,” of course. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CinemaInternational Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 2 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said: also, all these years later, one of the real oddities of LA LAW was the character of BENNY, a mentally disabled office boy played by LARRY DRAKE, an actor who was not mentally disabled and later on became DR GIGGLES and played the killer AVE WIELDING SANTA on TALES FROM THE CRYPT. Did he maybe even win an Emmy? He won two emmys..... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cigarjoe Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 **** of the Dead (1965) is a sort of topless GoGo ballet directed by Stephen C. Apostolof (under the alias A. C. Stephen). The screenplay was written by director Edward D. Wood Jr. It was filmed in "Astravision and "Sexicolor." Probably would garner a PG-13 rating if I had to guess since that rating system didn't come out until 1969. It stars the Amazing Criswell as "The Emperor of the Dead," Fawn Silver as "Princess of the Night", aka the Black Ghoul. Criswell is in Bela Lugosi drag, while Silver comes off as a younger sexier Vampira. She displays an ample bosom and a bouffant hair do and if I had to guess would say that Elvira Mistress of the Dark homaged some of that look along with Carolyn Jones' Morticia Addams. Two "normal" people (if you can call Ed Wood generated characters normal) Bob and Shirley, are driving around So Cal arguing over the decision to use this night to search for a cemetery. Bob is a writer and feels that horror in the next big genre so the search for the cemetery is for" inspiration." They are captured by the shows two comics The Mummy, and The Wolfman. Meanwhile The Emperor with the Princess acting as sort of a mistress of ceremonies summon various dead women (strippers) to perform various dances in costumes to gyrate among the gravestones. The actual dancers have in the majority very professional and surprisingly well choreographed routines. Bunny Glaser as Indian dancer Mickey Jines as Hawaiian dancer Rene de Beau as Fluff dancer Colleen O'Brien as Street Walker dancer Lorali Hart (credited as Texas Starr) as the Cat dancer Dene Starnes as Zombie dancer Stephanie Jones as Mexican dancer Nadejda Klein as the Slave girl dancer Rod Lindeman as the Giant Barbara Nordin as Skeleton girl This film was restored to mint condition" byNWR" who restored the Film Noir Guilty Bystander that was recently shown on Noir Alley. 6/10 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Rat Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 1 hour ago, EricJ said: I remember listening to Whitney's "The Greatest Love of All" on every radio station and joking "If the lyrics express her concern, from this rendition, Whitney should reassure herself that she is in no immediate danger of not loving herself enough... 🙄" Good one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sewhite2000 Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 4 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said: I think Wyclef Jean wrote YOUR LOVE IS MY LOVE Correct, I believe. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aritosthenes Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 -- Never Gonna Snow Again. -- WOW. GORGEOUS, Transportive, Sexy, Articulate, Detailed, Controlled - yet Flowing, Sensuous Film. I'd (subjectively) say EXQUISITE. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt9526784/ (+)10/10. While this title and me just kinda tripped over one-another a little while ago. EASILY One of my Favourite 2021 Cinema. Sent from my Galaxy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tikisoo Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 21 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said: the RULES OF FASHION HAVE CHANGED, but I know there are those who would VIOLENTLY DISAGREE. The "rule" is no white SHOES (& purse) between Labor Day to Memorial Day (fixed-thanks Sepia!) but also implies no white pants/skirts and especially shorts because it's not summer. "Winter white" is more cream and is welcome if worn near the face, as in a sweater. The entire idea of dressing "seasonally" is to not look stupid, but dress appropriately. Your clothing is the direct, non verbal message to others: "I care/do not care". Sadly, Americans just don't seem to grasp the concept of dressing appropriately. Not appropriate for age, size or weather condition. It definitely sends the message, "I'm lazy, my clothes don't fit & don't care if the world knows it" One reason I love classic movies is for the clothing. The charactor's personality is always reflected by their clothing and some, like current SOTM Kay Francis were trend setters for the public to aspire to & emulate. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomJH Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 2 hours ago, TikiSoo said: Sadly, Americans just don't seem to grasp the concept of dressing appropriately. Not appropriate for age, size or weather condition. It definitely sends the message, "I'm lazy, my clothes don't fit & don't care if the world knows it" In Canada, too. I call these "accordion pants" and I frequently see them worn by adolescent males. Why do they wear them? Because others their age do and they are at an age when being seen as "cool" is all important. Question: What is cool about wearing pants that are falling to the ground? Ours not to reason why. I remember seeing a clip on the news of a teenager running from the police who got caught because his accordion pants slipped down causing him to fall to the ground. Very cool! Even the cops were laughing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 4 hours ago, TikiSoo said: The "rule" is no white SHOES (& purse) between Memorial Day/Labor Day, but also implies no white pants/skirts and especially shorts because it's not summer. Odd, I've always thought between Memorial Day and Labor Day was late Spring AND Summer! Sepiatone 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nakano Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 22 minutes ago, Sepiatone said: Odd, I've always thought between Memorial Day and Labor Day was late Spring AND Summer! Sepiatone She probably made a mistake,I always knew of no white after Labor Day. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katie_G Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 59 minutes ago, nakano said: She probably made a mistake,I always knew of no white after Labor Day. Nakano, I miss your reviews of those crazy films. 😉 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nakano Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 24 minutes ago, Katie_G said: Nakano, I miss your reviews of those crazy films. 😉 Well I know HIBI wants to see The Thing with Two Heads..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nakano Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 Wyoming Mail 1950 Universal .Directed by Reginald Le Borg.Stephen McNally Alexis Smith Howard Da Silva.Great cast with Richard Egan Ed Begley James Arness Whit Bissell. Good western with interesting story as McNally goes undercover to catch robbers attacking the mail trains in Wyoming .At last,not only McNally is not the villain but he gets the girl! Above average.Nice colors .87 minutes 6.5/10 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CinemaInternational Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 23 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said: March you say? I suppose if ROZ hadn't fallen down that elevator shaft, she might have run into BEVERLY SUTPHEN of SERIAL MOM fame and been murdered for wearing white after Labor day. I personally think it's WINTER WHITE and I love it, I also think the RULES OF FASHION HAVE CHANGED, but I know there are those who would VIOLENTLY DISAGREE. I loved LA LAW when I was about 8-12 years old, but I drifted after ROZ died for the reasons you mentioned. ALSO..... My Father, bless his heart, is an ATTORNEY IN PRIVATE PRACTICE [in North Carolina] and he would go absolutelyeffinNUCLEAR over the NUMEROUS THINGS LA LAW GOT SERIOUSLY WRONG IN RE: THE LAW as we would try to watch an episode... I can still here him now... "Lemme tell you somethin Son, I dunno what the laws are in California, if any attorney pulled that **** in open court here, the Judge wouldn't even call him to the bench to let him know what an idiot he was, he'd just tell him in Open Court!!!!" Nobody wants Beverly on their tail..... Seriously though, I think that LA Law was a wonderful show. One of my favorites in fact due to the acting and the literate scripts, even if it take a lot of liberties with the real law system and had often boxy visuals. The year of Roz's plunge was a turning point on TV and not a good one. 1991 saw the end of the palmy days for LA Law and Designing Women, and the end entirely of China Beach [Legitimately, the best show ever aired on TV], Dallas, thirtysomething, and Twin Peaks, all fascinating series. And several good shows that started that year (I'll Fly Away, Brooklyn Bridge, Homefront) never got the audiences and runtime they deserved. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CinemaInternational Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 The Witches of Eastwick (1987) Well, this was certainly a wild wide. Part comedy, part fantasy, part romance, part horror film, The Witches of Eastwick is truly nutty in the many twists and turns and even though its ultimately some form of silly nonsense (albeit with far more projectile upchucking that one would want), its made to be a very enjoyable experience by five fine performances and smooth, confident directing. Its one of those films that needs to be dominated by personalities, and fortunately they are here in spades: Jack Nicholson, never oilier, as the malevolent, seductive ghoul, Cher, sharp and earthy, Susan Sarandon, elegant with great comic timing, Michelle Pfeiffer, fresh and winsome, and Veronica Cartwright, haunted and fascinating. With them all working their magic (both figuratively and literally), we end up forgiving the film for its berserk special effects heavy ending, as the rest is tart and well handled. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nakano Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 Dead Man's Eyes 1944 Universal .Directed by Reginald Le Borg. Lon Chaney Jean Parker Thomas Gomez Paul Kelly and Acquanetta.... Another 'horror -mystery' entry with Lon not much horror or suspense a bit slow,he is an artist who blinded himself by accident or was it ?? He is the 'object of desire ' for Acquanetta and Jean Parker .64 minutes Excellent print 6/10 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LornaHansonForbes Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 56 minutes ago, CinemaInternational said: Nobody wants Beverly on their tail..... Seriously though, I think that LA Law was a wonderful show. One of my favorites in fact due to the acting and the literate scripts, even if it take a lot of liberties with the real law system and had often boxy visuals. The year of Roz's plunge was a turning point on TV and not a good one. 1991 saw the end of the palmy days for LA Law and Designing Women, and the end entirely of China Beach [Legitimately, the best show ever aired on TV], Dallas, thirtysomething, and Twin Peaks, all fascinating series. And several good shows that started that year (I'll Fly Away, Brooklyn Bridge, Homefront) never got the audiences and runtime they deserved. spoiler kindasorta but not really- there were 2 LA LAW moments besides THE FALL OF ROZ that I will always recall- 1. There was a CIVIL RIGHTS case of some kind (police brutality?) and when the jury's verdict is to acquit, THE COURTROOM GOES BERSERK and erupts into violence, and (I think) this was BEFORE the LA RIOTS (ca. 88?) . It was jarringly prescient 2. aLSO there was a long story about 2 parents accused of murdering their infant son and you get the sense that they're being railroaded by the system and the lawyers fight for them and get them acquitted...and the last shot of the show is when the lawyer (Susan Dey?) realizes, having just gotten them off for murder, that they were in fact guilty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CinemaInternational Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 1 minute ago, LornaHansonForbes said: spoiler kindasorta but not really- there were 2 LA LAW moments besides THE FALL OF ROZ that I will always recall- 1. There was a CIVIL RIGHTS case of some kinds (police brutality linked?) and when the jury's verdict is to acquit, THE COURTROOM GOES BERSERK and erupts into disarming violence, and (I think) this was BEFORE the LA RIOTS. It was jarring. 2. aLSO there was a long story about 2 parents accused of murdering their infant son and you get the sense that they're being railroaded by the system and the lawyers fight for them and get them acquited...and the last shot of the show is when the lawyer realizes, having just gotten them off, that they are in fact guilty. If this riot one you mentioned was before the Rodney King case, it seems its the episode called "Watts a Matter" from April 5, 1990.... which was only a week after the other episode you mention "Justice Swerved" on March 29,1990. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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