I'll just jump in my time machine, go back to the twelfth century, and ask the vampires to postpone their ancient prophesy for a few days while you take in dinner and a show.
Giles ,'Selfless'
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DavidS - Aug 31, 2004 2:15:49 pm PDT #3441 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Aims - Aug 31, 2004 2:20:44 pm PDT #3442 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Amused, elegant
Old, made an inappropriate joke.
P.M. Marc - Aug 31, 2004 2:45:21 pm PDT #3443 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Clooney pings the Gable button for me.
Cary Grant liking boys has been fairly well-known for as long as I can remember, and I've liked Cary Grant since before he was dead.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 31, 2004 6:57:18 pm PDT #3444 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I have to weigh in on the Gable front — Clooney has the charm, but I just don't get the sense of sophistication off him that would be necessary for the "next" Cary Grant.
As for the rumors about Grant and roomie Randolph Scott, why, how in the world could anyone mistake them for a couple, or indeed Grant for anything other than a red-blooded heterosexual?
DavidS - Aug 31, 2004 8:30:42 pm PDT #3445 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Sweet.
And an addendum, if one could call it that, to Cary Grant and Randolph Scott's lifelong friendship, taken from Grant's biography, "Cary Grant: The Lonely Heart," by Roy Moseley and Charles Higham. Mr. Mosely interviewed the maitre d' at the Beverly Hillcrest Hotel. The maitre d' saw both actors in the 1970s, sitting in the back of the restaurant, after the place had emptied. They were holding hands.
Fred Pete - Sep 01, 2004 3:55:10 am PDT #3446 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Charles Higham
Higham also wrote a bio of Errol Flynn -- who wasn't so much bisexual as couldn't-keep-it-in-his-pants.
tommyrot - Sep 01, 2004 4:00:25 am PDT #3447 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Hence the expression, "In like Flynn."
Fred Pete - Sep 01, 2004 4:13:14 am PDT #3448 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
tommyrot, that expression may actually date (so to speak) from his statutory rape trials.
Polter-Cow - Sep 01, 2004 4:27:36 am PDT #3449 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Hitchcock fans, this looks like a pretty sweet deal.
I saw Hero last night. The cinematography, sound, and music were excellent. I had a little trouble getting into the story after a while. It didn't help that I was tired, so I was kind of in and out for the last fifteen or twenty minutes, which caused me to miss the key moment of development in our protagonist. But soon I stopped caring so much about how events actually happened. I wanted something new.
Also, it may help to know going in that it's rather fantastical. The characters do fly around Crouching Tiger style for no apparent reason, and the number of arrows flying through the air is always ridiculous.
It looks good and sounds good, but I can only give minor to regular, rather than major, props to the narrative. And I'm the guy who loves non-linear storytelling.
§ ita § - Sep 01, 2004 4:31:35 am PDT #3450 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The apparent reason is that it's the genre.