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| mo_flixx |
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billyweeds wrote: Earl wrote: Well damn, Billy, you beat me to it!
The crossword connection is the only thing that keeps Ulee's Gold in my mind. What a snoozerama!
Ina Balin's reputation has been enhanced by crosswords, too. "Actress Balin" or "Balin and Claire" (Inas). Eero (Saarinen) is well-known to many non-architecture buffs through...crosswords. Gimme some more, Earl!
Also Terri Garr. |
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| daffy |
| Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 1:47 pm |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 2:45 pm |
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mo_flixx wrote:
Also Terri Garr.
If you're spelling it that way, you're not solving many crosswords. It's T-E-R-I (only one "R"). |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 2:52 pm |
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| Oona Chaplin and Opie from Andy Griffith show are also xward favorites. |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 3:05 pm |
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Yikes!! Posted this in Current by mistake:
I was disappointed in Pride and Prejudice. Not in the film or the wonderful performance of Keira Knightly .....but in the special features. All the comments about how Mrs. Bennet was the glue and spirit of the family, etc. When I read the book, I distinctly remember thinking what a pain she was pushing her daughters out to any man who would marry them. I always thought Lizzie was much closer to her father. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 3:34 pm |
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Earl wrote: Tim - Thanks. I remember now that you wondered why we didn't get an onscreen depiction of Gertrude's description of Ophelia's death, but, as you said above, that was more Branagh's decision than hers. An unlikely theory: Perhaps Branagh wanted to put more up there, but the budget and/or the shooting schedule limited what he could do. I'm trying to give him the benefit of the doubt because I cherish that film.
Here's another. Maybe in a movie that visualizes so much of the play's imagery, Branagh wanted to emphasize a key moment by handling it in a radically different way that other sequences in the film. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 4:11 pm |
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Befade wrote: Yikes!! Posted this in Current by mistake:
I was disappointed in Pride and Prejudice. Not in the film or the wonderful performance of Keira Knightly .....but in the special features. All the comments about how Mrs. Bennet was the glue and spirit of the family, etc. When I read the book, I distinctly remember thinking what a pain she was pushing her daughters out to any man who would marry them. I always thought Lizzie was much closer to her father.
Responded to this in Current. Don't beat yourself up over it. The lead time from big screen to DVD is getting so slim it's easy to forget what's what. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 4:12 pm |
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| Julie Christie was a force of nature in Dr. Zhivago. I don't remember her in anything else except Hamlet. Even allowing for the passage of forty-one years, I couldn't reconcile the two images. For one thing, in the latter film her eyes were brown, while in Zhivago they were a most magnificent blue. |
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| Earl |
| Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 8:46 pm |
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| Since we're talking about her, let's wish Julie Christie a Happy Birthday. She is 66 today. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 8:54 pm |
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Earl wrote: Since we're talking about her, let's wish Julie Christie a Happy Birthday. She is 66 today.
Wow. And still lookin' good (though somewhat different). |
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| Marj |
| Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 9:22 pm |
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I was a Darling groupie, if there is such an animal. I loved that movie and watched it whenever I could. And this was when I was very impressionable, so I wanted to look like, sound like and be Julie Christie.
And yes, Yam, she was a major force in Doctor Zhivago. So much so that as good as Kiera Knightly was in the remake, it just didn't fly. But that may have been more the fault of the actor playing Zhivago. And the fact, that this was like trying to recast Gone with the Wind.
I must see Afterglow. It's one of those movies I just keep missing by a hair. |
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| Marj |
| Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 9:36 pm |
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Btw, I caught The Weatherman the other night and what an excellent performance by Nic Cage and a beautifully understated one by Michael Caine. I think Cage fares better in lighter films though I would hardly call this film an out and out comedy. It was dark, and there were times that I wished it would pick up its feet and move along. Somehow as good as the film was, I kept feeling the pacing was off.
But I sometimes feel when there is a problem with the pacing it may be my problem moreso than the film's. Sometimes one just isn't in the right frame of mind for a film like this. Still I'm glad I saw it, and I'm glad to see Cage back on his game. |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 12:48 am |
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I haven't been doing crosswords for a long time.
Do they ever mention a clue 'Eero's father?' Ans.:Eliel. |
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| Marj |
| Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 3:43 pm |
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I must see Afterglow. It's one of those movies I just keep missing by a hair.
It's odd to quote oneself I admit. But after I wrote this I actually did find Afterglow on DTV. And what a find it was!
Afterglow begins with what apears to be a series of cliches, then quickly unwinds to find itself seeking out the underbelly of all of them. The film turns out to be a true comic drama and reaches the stratosphere due to the performances of Julie Christie and Nick Nolte.
Nolte is noted more for his performances off the screen but here he is marvelous. Christie is too, as a washed up B movie actress who has trained herself to a tee, to sultryness, mysteriousness, and is a marvel at never letting on how unhappy she really is. But of course we do see this, and the performance she gives is nothing short of miraculous.
This film is a rare find. It is a must see, if for no other reason to see Nolte and Christie. It is one of those films that stays with you long after its credit's roll. |
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| Mr. Brownstone |
| Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 4:39 pm |
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Earl & Joe:
It's very possible the budget ran short - the last act of the film feels exhausted. For all of the inventiveness Branagh crams into the first 3 1/2 hours, the climaxes all come off as rather tepid. |
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