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Joan of Arcadia's dad is in Seven Brides.
I had about five very confused seconds of "Joe Mantegna is in Seven Brides?" before I figured out you were talking about Russ Tamblyn. (Also in West Side Story as Riff. There's another movie with great dancing.)
Joe Mantegna was the dad in Searching for Bobby Fischer. Which I need to rewatch. Again.
And yes, Russ Tamblyn. I guess Seven Brides and West Side Story are his two best-known roles.
I had about five very confused seconds of "Joe Mantegna is in Seven Brides?" before I figured out you were talking about Russ Tamblyn.
Thank you! I would still be confused if you hadn't posted that. I adore Seven Brides. One of my all time favorite movies.
This also has the fantastic number "Get Happy," sung by Judy Garland in a tuxedo top and hat, surrounded by adoring dancing men in tuxes.
And I can't help but think about how vitally unhappy she likely was at the time.
Followed it up with Laurel Canyon, [snip] I couldn't seem to concentrate on the Bale-fulness for the luminescent McDormand.
Heh. How powerful is that, that her mere presence can knock the lust for Bale right out of your head.
I remember the "Oh, my God, what happened to them?" reaction I had when Twin Peaks debuted, with both Riff and Tony thirty years older. Where did the time go?
After Boat Trip, just how bad would a movie have to be to be considered "lowering oneself"?
Snow Dogs.
Russ Tamblyn has had a very interesting career. He's also in the super cool JD film High School Confidential. In the late sixties he dropped out and painted and like that until Twin Peaks. I remember him guesting on the TV show Fame, where they used the 7 Brides clip as backstory on his character.
Where did the time go?
Kathy you weren't even alive when West Side Story came out.
Snow Dogs was bad, but unless there's some Vault of Horror type movie with Cuba in it that Ed Wood directed posthumously, I don't think he's done anything worse than Boat Trip. I'd have paid good money to see Catwoman or The Cat in the Hat before shelling out ticket price toward that one.
And in Laural Canyon they also cast an American as a Brit.
Salon has an interesting piece on the Stepford Wife-ing of Katie Holmes. Public lobotomy: entertainment or abomination? Liz Smith does not approve!