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- May 19th, 2024, 8:08 am
- Forum: Musicals
- Topic: AFI's 25 GREATEST MOVIE MUSICALS OF ALL TIME
- Replies: 49
- Views: 1280
Re: AFI's 25 GREATEST MOVIE MUSICALS OF ALL TIME
My favorite movie musical never makes any lists ever. I saw a summer stock production of Li'l Abner as a kid and have loved it ever since. Interestingly, Paramount Pictures backed the creation of the Broadway show (1956) with the specific intention of making a movie version. The movie (1959) kept mo...
- May 17th, 2024, 8:21 am
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: I Just Watched...
- Replies: 3788
- Views: 227447
Re: I Just Watched...
Jeanette Basinger, for one, has discussed how difficult it is for actresses in their later careers to play ordinary women. Instead, they play Exaggerated Women. She notes that even Ginger Rogers and Lana Turner, less exaggerated than, say, the later Bette Davis performances, tend to be cast as actr...
- May 15th, 2024, 4:21 pm
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: Coming up on TCM...
- Replies: 169
- Views: 35146
Re: Coming up on TCM...
So sorry I missed this. I love Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid. I must not have checked the tv schedule that night. :( Even if you had remembered you would not have been able to see it. There was a glitch in the video on TCM that evening so it was replaced with another showing of Carnival Story . TCM has...
- May 15th, 2024, 4:08 pm
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES
- Replies: 2709
- Views: 166502
Re: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES
"What if twenty or thirty million women started rationing lipstick?" "But I can't return my 127 tubes of rouge! The Health Department won't let me!" "But do we want to keep hoarding?" "Let's pool our resources -- that's democracy!" Uh-oh, lol. The war turned ...
- May 14th, 2024, 6:58 am
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES
- Replies: 2709
- Views: 166502
Re: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES
Sean Connery was one of those actors who really improved the more he aged. ... hes really at his best later on in Robin and Marian and The Russia House. Agree about Sean (although I haven't seen THE RUSSIA HOUSE or ROBIN AND MARIAN). Agree about Sean getting better with age. Wasn't excited about Ro...
- May 13th, 2024, 6:01 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: For Bronxgirl48: Mother's Day
- Replies: 34
- Views: 924
Re: For Bronxgirl48: Mother's Day
My favorite movie mother:
- May 13th, 2024, 8:36 am
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: Top Ten Robert Ryan Films
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2189
Re: Top Ten Robert Ryan Films
I guess I'm a little out of step, but my favorite Robert Ryan movie is About Mrs. Leslie (1954) with Shirley Booth, in which he played a married but lonely industrialist who befriended in a mostly platonic way a kindred spirit (Booth) and vacationed with her once a year, the only time he felt he cou...
- May 13th, 2024, 8:19 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: In Vinyl Veritas
- Replies: 257
- Views: 63559
- May 13th, 2024, 7:59 am
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: Favorite one word title movies
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1390
Re: Favorite one word title movies
BOOM! (1968), based on a lesser Tennessee Williams play. As Burton's character described it to Liz's as waves crash against the cliffs below her home in a movie swarming with metaphors: "Boom. The shock of each moment, of still being alive." OK. Got it.
- May 13th, 2024, 7:15 am
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: June 2024 Schedule Posted
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3428
Re: June 2024 Schedule Posted
State Fair (1933) is down for Janet Gaynor but, as in the case of Thelma Ritter / Jeanne Crain, the real star attraction is Will Rogers as the head of the farm family. A young Lew Ayers is in it too. I think TCM showed it way back but I still have my copy from AMC days and that was a terrible print...
- March 3rd, 2024, 10:50 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: In Vinyl Veritas
- Replies: 257
- Views: 63559
- February 8th, 2024, 12:43 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: In Vinyl Veritas
- Replies: 257
- Views: 63559
- February 5th, 2024, 5:16 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: In Vinyl Veritas
- Replies: 257
- Views: 63559
Re: In Vinyl Veritas
The Grammys also featured one of the "sources of light" of my generation, Joni Mitchell. Brandi Carlile mentioned in her intro that she's had to learn to walk three times in her life, as a child, after she had polio and after a crippling aneurism. Yikes. What a life and what a career. Peop...
- February 2nd, 2024, 5:25 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: In Vinyl Veritas
- Replies: 257
- Views: 63559
- February 2nd, 2024, 5:20 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: In Vinyl Veritas
- Replies: 257
- Views: 63559