FrankGrimes Posted June 25, 2008 Share Posted June 25, 2008 You big meany. I bet you're of the majority of those who like the film, right? I believe those who like The Fountainhead are in the minority. As for me... Hand the squash over, bucko, and nobody gets hurt...**throws her hands over her head and drops into the fetal position** meaning me! I'm not going to fall for that trap. You've smacked me silly too many times before. You're just waiting for me to help you up before you pull a gun on me... again. You're just like "Dominique," Meany. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coopsgirl Posted June 25, 2008 Share Posted June 25, 2008 It looks like that cowboy thing is in California so I'm not familiar with it. That's so cool though that they want to show one of your videos. That was sweet of you to send him some of mine but yours are great too and you should be proud of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coopsgirl Posted June 25, 2008 Share Posted June 25, 2008 *Gary painting early 1950s* *Gary and Jane Wyman were voted best actor and actress by people in Belgium and France in the poll in the Cine-Revue magazine in the early 50s* *Cloak and Dagger with film crew in shot* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissGoddess Posted June 25, 2008 Share Posted June 25, 2008 What great pictures you posted, Angie! I really like the one of him painting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coopsgirl Posted June 26, 2008 Share Posted June 26, 2008 I liked the one of him painting too. Good looking, talented and sweet - he had it all . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainingviolets21 Posted June 26, 2008 Share Posted June 26, 2008 Coopsgirl - so I can finally see what you look like I pictured you as a blonde, I truly think you are Gary's biggest fan ~ And what a pleasure to meet Maria... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coopsgirl Posted June 26, 2008 Share Posted June 26, 2008 It's so funny that you pictured me as a blonde b/c I naturally am blonde. I just like red so I dye it. I think it runs in my family b/c my grandma always dyed her hair red too . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rohanaka Posted June 27, 2008 Share Posted June 27, 2008 Hello Coopfandan and Coopsgirl-- I just wanted to stop by and thank you for attempting to revisit the topic I was hoping for in the Sgt York thread on one of the other forums in here--(and you too, Helen baby if you are reading this) Thanks for the interest in the film and the topic as well. For obvious reasons I won't rehash, I have removed myself from that thread....but wanted to say that I appreciated all three of your comments about the film. I know there are a lot of people out there who enjoy all aspects of this film (even the spiritual ones) so I just wanted to say thanks again for your comments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coopsgirl Posted June 28, 2008 Share Posted June 28, 2008 Here are a couple more videos I made. The first one is about Gary and the second is about William Powell and Myrna Loy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissGoddess Posted June 28, 2008 Share Posted June 28, 2008 Perfect, Angie! I just love the Powell/Loy clips you chose! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coopsgirl Posted June 28, 2008 Share Posted June 28, 2008 Thanks! I'd been wanting to do the Powell/Loy one for a while and finally got around to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissGoddess Posted June 28, 2008 Share Posted June 28, 2008 It's a great job, I'm going to email it to some friends. I think you really have a career there somehow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoopsGal Posted June 29, 2008 Share Posted June 29, 2008 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brackenhe Posted June 29, 2008 Share Posted June 29, 2008 > {quote:title=rohanaka wrote:}{quote} > Hello Coopfandan and Coopsgirl-- I just wanted to stop by and thank you for attempting to revisit the topic I was hoping for in the Sgt York thread on one of the other forums in here--(and you too, Helen baby if you are reading this) Thanks for the interest in the film and the topic as well. For obvious reasons I won't rehash, I have removed myself from that thread....but wanted to say that I appreciated all three of your comments about the film. I know there are a lot of people out there who enjoy all aspects of this film (even the spiritual ones) so I just wanted to say thanks again for your comments. Thanks rohanaka. I felt like maybe I was making you feel uncomfortable with what I said and I didn't mean to. It was a shame how sometimes thread will develop into a big fight over something like what happened there and a couple of other threads that I can't seem to keep my nose out of. But I'm not really a trouble maker. In real life, I'm really kind of reserved. Sometimes my buttons get pushed over stupid stuff and it really had nothing to do with what you posted but what happened later. Enough rehashing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoopfanDan Posted June 29, 2008 Share Posted June 29, 2008 With all the Gary Cooper movies released in the last year by MGM from May 07 to May 08 (12 total), it's really a good thing considering someone just posted over at HTF this story on their finacial troubles as we might not see anymore from them in standard definition or in upcoming Blu-ray high definition. For the record they only have two more titles owned by them to release of Gary Coopers in Return to Paradise and The Naked Edge. We are very fortunate that we got all we did including a completly restored "The Westerner". "But MGM is choking on $3.7 billion in debt, requiring more than $300 million in annual interest payments while it delays paying down the principal, its financial statements show. Bargain hunters are circling the company as it continues to bleed cash. For the fiscal year that ended in March, MGM reported a loss of about $400 million; it posted about the same amount a year earlier. The mounting losses have caused financial headaches for an investor group led by Sony, which brought together Comcast and four private equity funds to buy MGM from Kirk Kerkorian for $5 billion in 2004. A bright spot for MGM has been its prized library of old film titles. That unit threw off $558 million in cash in the latest fiscal year. But amid an industrywide downturn in DVD catalog sales, by the end of August MGM will have received the last in a series of guaranteed video-distribution fees totaling $625 million from 20th Century Fox. Though that deal has three more years to run, the guarantees are expiring, which means that a source of steady income will be far less predictable. And Parent's production effort - after unsuccessful moves putting the MGM logo on other companies' poor-to-middling films and turning over United Artists, an MGM unit, to Tom Cruise - could sharply increase MGM's costs next year. Sloan, undeterred, said Parent's push could also bolster the studio's value in a sale. Comcast, which owns 20 percent of MGM, has already passed on buying the rest; 20th Century Fox, which releases MGM's movies overseas in addition to managing its library, is seen as MGM's ideal buyer. Neither company would comment. Being of someone who will look at a glass half full, I would hope this would give MGM the idea to start digging deeper in the vault and release some great films they have locked up. Especially since Fox's guaranteed payment ends this year." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissGoddess Posted June 29, 2008 Share Posted June 29, 2008 I love the picture of Coop with Bob Hope and Marlene! I've never seen that one before. Thank you for posting all those, Kim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissGoddess Posted June 29, 2008 Share Posted June 29, 2008 So Fox may be a contender to buy MGM? It sounds crazy, but maybe it would be a good thing because heaven knows, they are much, much better about releasing their old titles than MGM on it's own was. And they usually put lots of great extras in. I'd like to see The Naked Edge cleaned up and released, as well as Return to Paradise. They are both attractively filmed and The Naked Edge could even be marketed to the "noir" crowd if they packaged it right, Fox's definition of "noir" being fairly loose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coopsgirl Posted June 29, 2008 Share Posted June 29, 2008 It's just crazy that MGM whose slogan used to be 'we have more stars than the heavens' has fallen so far. Here are some more pics from my most recent ebay search . *Souls at Sea* *Mr. Deeds promo pic* *C.S. Bull photo shoot 1934* *Meet John Doe - this one is my fave* *The Virginian* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoopfanDan Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 Anyone care to take a guess at what this new Ultimate edition of Casablanca in Blu-ray will run in September. Looking at the immense size of the box and all the stuff it includes, this one may run for 80 dollars list price. I'll be getting it regardless though as it is one of my favorite movies. I'm hoping that when High Noon is released in Blu-ray it will be in a true Ultimate edition like this with all the bells and whistles: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TripleHHH Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 I think that photo of the box set is for the standard DVD box set, but my guess is there will be a blu ray box set as well..this is a MUST...I bet Maltese Falcon will get the same treatment at some point & Gone with the Wind will get yet another massive treatment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoopfanDan Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 Well from the post at Digital bits it stated it would be coming out in both editions: "A Casablanca: Ultimate Collector's Edition box set is also coming to both DVD and Blu-ray Disc. Both will include 40 minutes of special features, 2 feature-length commentaries, branded travel-related premiums, a photo book, and much more." I'm not sure which one the photo is of. Hopefully it is the SD version and we can pick up the Blu-ray version in the standard blu-ray case for about 20-30 dollars street. Yet I will buy this movie even in the deluxe packaging, if that is the only way it comes out as I would for Gone with the Wind or The Maltese Falcon. I think Gone with the Wind, Ben Hur and North by Northwest are all slated for release in 2009 according to the release calander at digatal bits: http://www.thedigitalbits.com/articles/barriemaxwell/hdm042908b.html Casablanca will mark the first 40's black and white classic to come out on blu-ray and the second black and white over all with the Longest day being the only other. Message was edited by: CoopfanDan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coopsgirl Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 The Spoilers* *The Texan* *A Man From Wyoming* *Promo Pic* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoopsGal Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 Those pictures make me melt, Angie...especially that Spoilers one. YOWZA!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coopsgirl Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 The very bottom one is my fave. I've been trying to find a good electronic version of it and I was happy when I did. I set it as my wallpaper and I was looking at it and I had a dizzy spell. I get them sometimes so it was probably not from staring at Gary, but I got tickled at myself just the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFavell Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 I like the Man from Wyoming one- Gary looks as if he just might start laughing......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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