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Oh, I agree whole-heartedly. Peck and Olivier in a scenery-chewing smackdown, poor James Mason just trying to collect his check with a little dignity, and the out-and-out cognitive dissonance of having Steve Guttenberg turn up as the Israeli nazi-hunter/student at the beginning.
Yep. I don't know whether to cringe or laugh. Or both. It's one I've tried hard to forget.
Mmm'John Garfield.
Mmmmm.
Oh, where was I?
Garfield and Turner are of the sexy to the power of 10 in The Postman Always Rings Twice.
My favorite clothed-but-sexy-as-hell scene is the cabin scene from The Lady Eve. You know, with the removal of her strappy sandals and Stanwyck playing with Henry Fonda's hair and how you could see Fonda's character going utterly glassy-eyed with lust (but not knowing what the hell to do about it)? Her confident sexuality, the fact that she is in complete control of the situation yet obviously finding him rather adorable--I love it. Barbara Stanwyck was da bomb.
I LOVE that scene.
It's cliche and not the steam comig from them kind of chemistry, but the chemistry between Kate Hepburn and Cary Grant in Philadelphia Story.
Jimmy Stewart was hot in that,too. And that is not a sentence I type every...ever, actually.
Actress Sharon Stone has quit smoking and drinking after suffering a brain aneurysm in 2002. Stone, 46, who's making a come-back as villainess Laurel Hedare in the summer blockbuster Catwoman, had to fight for her life after being rushed to a San Francisco hospital. And she insists the experience changed her: "When my brain exploded, it was the best thing that ever happened to me. I have such a better life now. I'm at the point in my life where if you don't want my peaches, don't shake my tree. I'm into Happy Town, and if you don't want to live in Happy Town, move, hit the friggin' bricks, baby."
Ah, like Demi Moore's "comeback" in Charlie's Angels 2 ? Also, can you call it a blockbuster before it's actually busted any blocks?
Maybe it's so obvious as to not need to be said, but Bogie and Bacall in To Have and Have Not. That movie just crackles with the sparks between them. Also The Big Sleep.
Yeah, some real life couples come off as flat and uninteresting when they play a couple onscreen. But those two are probably responsible for random strangers making out in the theater when their movies originally played and there was too much chemistry to stay contained in the screen.
I'm telling you, for several months after watching To Have and Have Not, it took *major* effort to stop myself from slinking around town and calling random strangers "Steve".
Lauren Bacall was so freakin' cool. Sigh.
Grant and Bergman in Notorious. Colin Firth and Scarlett Johanssen (although they never touch each other) in Girl with a Pearl Earring.