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| bartist |
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Quote: Mr. Magoo didn't command top salary?
Liability coverage for the extremely myopic is quite steep. You have to take a pay cut. |
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| knox |
| Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 9:30 am |
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| Different times....I recall seeing Zotz on the tube in the late 60s and being wowed by the slo-mo f/x and such. I was 9, roughly. |
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| knox |
| Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 11:15 am |
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| GROMIT, replying to your Twilight Zone commentaries over in the TV thread. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 12:19 pm |
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bartist wrote: Quote: Mr. Magoo didn't command top salary?
Liability coverage for the extremely myopic is quite steep. You have to take a pay cut.
He also had a three-year stint as the husband in I Married Joan and a surprising number of supporting roles, including James Dean's father in Rebel Without a Cause. The other famous person in the cast of Zotz! was Margaret Dumont, although Cecil Kellaway had a pretty good career as a supporting actor, getting nominated twice for an Oscar. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 8:49 pm |
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bartist wrote: Quote: Mr. Magoo didn't command top salary?
Liability coverage for the extremely myopic is quite steep. You have to take a pay cut.
And to Syd, I loved I Married Joan. They used to rerun it when I was in junior high. Sadly, according to Backus, Joan Davis was a selfish bitch. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 9:22 pm |
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Joe Vitus wrote: bartist wrote: Quote: Mr. Magoo didn't command top salary?
Liability coverage for the extremely myopic is quite steep. You have to take a pay cut.
And to Syd, I loved I Married Joan. They used to rerun it when I was in junior high. Sadly, according to Backus, Joan Davis was a selfish bitch.
Where did you read this? |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 4:59 pm |
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knox wrote: GROMIT, replying to your Twilight Zone commentaries over in the TV thread.
I haven't seen the TZ eps you mentioned.
I didn't get too far into S5, and then I started watching a few movies and then moved on to Underdog and now All in the Family.
It's funny, some of the AintheF interactions come off differently than I remember. I'm not sure if it's just hazy memory or that I'm a good deal older. It always takes me a while to get used to laugh tracks. I've always loved Archie's malapropisms -- groinecologist has long been a favorite, but another good one: AB talks about a priest "sprinkling incest all over everyone" |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 10:05 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: Joe Vitus wrote: bartist wrote: Quote: Mr. Magoo didn't command top salary?
Liability coverage for the extremely myopic is quite steep. You have to take a pay cut.
And to Syd, I loved I Married Joan. They used to rerun it when I was in junior high. Sadly, according to Backus, Joan Davis was a selfish bitch.
Where did you read this?
I think it was quoted in an article covering his lawsuit against Sherwood Schwartz (who, of course, had nothing to do with I Married Joan). |
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| Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 10:10 pm |
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I MARRIED JOAN!
WHAT A GIRL! WHAT A WHIRL! WHAT A LIFE!
I MARRIED JOAN!
WHAT A MIND! LOVE IS BLIND! WHAT A WIFE!
GIDDY AND GAY, ALL DAY SHE KEEPS MY HEART LAUGHIN'.
NEVER KNOW WHERE HER BRAIN HAS FLOWN.
TO EACH HIS OWN.
CAN'T DENY
THAT'S WHY I
MARRIED JOAN! |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 11:43 pm |
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Anna Karenina (1935) This is the Garbo version of the oft-filmed tragic tale of a woman who leaves her husband and child for a dashing officer, then loses him, and finally meets a train although she doesn't have a ticket.
Garbo's fine, although she doesn't seem fragile enough, and Basil Rathbone's even better as her husband, who becomes ever more cold and self-righteous as jealousy allows him to use society's codes to get back at Anna. However, Frederic March is totally inadequate for his part (Vronsky); he's simply not exciting enough to be the man for whom Anna ruins her life. John Gilbert played the part in the silent and I wish he'd gotten to play it in this one (although they'd have to have filmed it a year or two earlier, since Gilbert was out of films by 1935.)
I hadn't seen any versions of the story or read the book, but it struck me how many of the important scenes in the movie take place involve trains. Not just the final scene and the one before it, but also Anna's first two meetings with Vronsky.
Other stars in the film are Freddie Bartholomew as Anna's son (Garbo and Bartholomew are quite good together), May Robson as Vronsky's mother, Maureen O'Sullivan as Kitty (another woman after Vronsky) and Reginald Denny as Vronsky's fellow officer.
I also have Camille on disk, so I'll be reporting on that in the next few days. |
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| Joe Vitus |
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| Camille is my favorite Garbo movie. But even in this version the climactic meeting between Marguerite and Armand's father is deadly dull. (She begs, he refuses, and this is repeated ad infinitum...it doesn't even work in La Traviata.) |
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| Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2013 3:10 am |
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Syd, did you finish Werckmeiester's Harmonies?
(maybe I missed your comments?)
What did you think? |
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| Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2013 10:36 am |
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gromit wrote: Syd, did you finish Werckmeiester's Harmonies?
(maybe I missed your comments?)
What did you think?
I thought it had some very striking scenes--the arrival of the truck carrying the whale, the riot, one where Janos is just walking down the street--but was also very sluggish, which seems to be the director's style. I had trouble keeping my eyes open during some scenes.The title reference to Werckmeister--I had to look him up--was very apt.
From this and Kontroll, I conclude Hungarians, or maybe just Hungarian directors, are pretty weird. |
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| Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2013 7:31 pm |
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Joe Vitus wrote: Camille is my favorite Garbo movie. But even in this version the climactic meeting between Marguerite and Armand's father is deadly dull. (She begs, he refuses, and this is repeated ad infinitum...it doesn't even work in La Traviata.)
I haven't reached that point, but I see Fritz Leiber, Jr., is Armand's new brother-in-law. |
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| Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2013 11:28 pm |
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It pulls on the heartstrings pretty hard, but I really like Camille, and Garbo really is that good. I found it really believable that Armand (a painfully young Robert Taylor) could fall for Marguerite and vice versa. The supporting cast is generally superb, although, as Joe mentions, the scene with Armand's father (Lionel Barrymore) was off somehow.
I like Garbo best when she's happy, or at least when her characters are acting happy, and she is a lot here. I especially like the interlude on the farm where she's recuperating, and the farm girl comes back to the surface, but then there are the city scenes with the somewhat ironically named Prudence, and Olympe and Gaston and the Paris nightclubs and gambling clubs. Directed by George Cukor and it's one of his best films. |
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