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| Joe Vitus |
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| She claimed he got off on wearing women's lingerie and she broke up with him because of it. But friends who knew her at the time say she never mentioned anything about it, and they say she only wrote it to drum up publicity for her book. And no one else who was involved with Chandler corroborates the claim. |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2013 12:54 am |
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"The Great Gatsby" has Bollywood style glitz and soap opera style melodrama. None of the characters is interesting. A brief appearance by Amitabh is probably the best part of the movie.
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| Marc |
| Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2013 1:42 am |
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| There should have more Amitabh and less Gatsby. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2013 4:10 am |
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Joe Vitus wrote: She claimed he got off on wearing women's lingerie and she broke up with him because of it. But friends who knew her at the time say she never mentioned anything about it, and they say she only wrote it to drum up publicity for her book. And no one else who was involved with Chandler corroborates the claim.
I devoutly hope her stories about Bette Davis and Gary Merrill are true. Dishier dish has never been printed. Though the very idea of Bette Davis and Esther Williams as frenemies is almost too much to comprehend. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2013 4:15 am |
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whiskeypriest wrote:
Not Bringing Up Baby. The sexual dynamic is all wrong for Beatrice and Benedick. It Happened One Night, or The Awful Truth.
True. Or Adam's Rib. And the scene where Beatrice overhears Hero and Margaret conspiring is straight out of I Love Lucy. In fact, the Katharine Hepburn production I saw staged it like a Lucy episode, with Hepburn hiding under a tiny round table with a long tablecloth, which moved around the room following the two other women. It was ridiculous--and hilarious. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2013 2:05 pm |
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whiskeypriest wrote:
My first three thoughts after reading the review:
1. Whew. Not Dargis. I can see the movie after all.
2. Not Bringing Up Baby. The sexual dynamic is all wrong for Beatrice and Benedick. It Happened One Night, or The Awful Truth.
3. MAaN rises or falls on its Dogberry? DOGBERRY?
3 puzzled me, too, though I'm pretty stoked about Nathan Fillion in that role. Fillion could give us a Dogberry so memorable as to comprise a rising tide that floats all boats. If they need floating.
Fans of "Person of Interest" may be pleased to discover that Beatrice is Amy Acker who plays, rhymingly enough, PofI's arch-hacker. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2013 8:24 pm |
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Joe Vitus wrote: She claimed he got off on wearing women's lingerie and she broke up with him because of it. But friends who knew her at the time say she never mentioned anything about it, and they say she only wrote it to drum up publicity for her book. And no one else who was involved with Chandler corroborates the claim.
Oh yeah, I remember that from way back, but I didn't know it came from her autobiography. It was in one of the Confidential-like mags, maybe even in Confidential, but I think it had been banned by then. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Sun Jun 09, 2013 3:28 am |
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| Nope, wasn't in Confidential, which had long since met its demise. Was first mentioned in 1999 in her autobiography Million Dollar Mermaid. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Sun Jun 09, 2013 4:31 am |
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| Gary is probably confusing it with his own penchant for wearing ladies undergarments. Though he claims it's just part of his "research" into J Edgar Hoover .... |
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| knox |
| Posted: Sun Jun 09, 2013 5:01 pm |
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| Sounds like The Iceman got "platformed" at the start of May and then never saw national distribution. Frustrating for a Michael Shannon fan. Hope the same fate doesn't await Much Ado. I can so picture Amy Acker as a Beatrice. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Sun Jun 09, 2013 6:19 pm |
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| I'm mighty frustrated Much Ado isn't showing here. I'm more interested after reading reviews. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 2:17 pm |
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Having read some critiques of This Is the End, I can't wait to see it. Seems to be wildly hilarious, with apocalyptic visuals, violent death and horror movie tropes.
Sounds damn good to me! |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 9:13 pm |
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Can I really be the first one on this forum to see "Much Ado About Nothing"?
It's wonderful. Condensed to come in under two hours, it whips by like a breeze. Acker and Denisof are delightful, funny, moving, sweet, sharp. Fillion is a perfectly straight clown. All the other actors are excellent, and there's never a moment when Shakespeare's dialogue seems archaic; it all comes so naturally and easily that it's almost like there's a glamour on that big sprawling house that makes it all work.
I went to Lincoln Center after work to catch the 7:00 show, and had to search for the theater, which used to be in a different place, not helped by the fact that there are two movie theaters on opposite sides of the street, both showing the film, though only the Walter Reade is showing it exclusively. (One is on the Met side, one on the Julliard side.) Of course I went to the wrong one first. But I'd given myself plenty of time, and was there with half an hour to spare. By the time the film started, there were maybe fifty people in the audience, and at the end, everyone applauded.
Coming home on the subway, I thought about reading my Charles Stross novel but didn't want to dull the romantic glow that the film left me with. So I just sat there and meditated on the wit of Beatrice and Benedick, and the clumsiness of Dogberry, and the elegance and style of the whole package. And wondering if there's anything Joss Whedon can't do. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 9:23 pm |
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| Obviously I am going to see this film (MAAN), but am considering waiting for video of some sort. Carol, is there any reason why seeing it on the big screen is important? |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 9:27 pm |
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| If you have a fair-sized TV, I'm sure it'll be fine on DVD or whatever. In fact, I was thinking that I'd like to have a DVD of it myself. I'm glad I saw it with an audience, though; there was a lot of laughter, sometimes at places I wouldn't have expected it (but it wasn't improper). And I always get a kick when people applaud at the end of a movie. |
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