Buffista Movies 5: Development Hell
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YouTube has an old Living Color sketch where Jim Carrey did a great Vanilla Ice
If it's the same one I remember, I fucking LOVE that sketch. To YouTube, away!
They're also trying to get him for the role of Paul in the remake of Dune.
This, however, makes me want to cry FOREVER.
Speaking of incandescent Eddie Murphy performances, Dreamgirls holds up better on rewatch than I thought it would. (Or possibly I was overestimating just how much my annoyance with the guild audience had interfered with my first viewing.) EM still steals absolutely every second he's onscreen.
Still think of Eddie Murphy every time I want ice cream.
You can't afford it
Cause your mama's on the welfare
And your dad's an alcoholic.
Not JZ, but it won't air in the States until February. Care to hook a couple sisters up??
Indeedy. Shoot me an email.
So...F/C/M: Paul Gross, Bruce Campbell, Nathan Fillion.
C - Bruce Campbell, though I had a huge thing for Brisco County Jr. when I was younger.
F - Paul Gross. Naughty smile, lip nibble, tongue thing, oh my.
M - Nathan Fillion, because by all accounts he is adorable and relatively normal and guh. Plus, you know, you get the F anyway.
So.
I almost had to divorce Joe last night. I was watching a PBS thingy on George Stevens. He had NO IDEA who George Stevens was.
I have instead told him that he is banned from ever watching movies again, unless he watches
Gunda Din,
A Place in the Sun,
Giant,
Shane, and
The Diary of Anne Frank.
I know he's not a movie buff unless the films have some sort of space conveyance in them, but George Stevens ranks up there with Cecile B. DeMille and Orson Wells and Alfred Hitchcock as directors that changed not only how movies are made and viewed, but Hollywood itself.
Silly husband.
Who?
Oh, I wish I was joking.
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George Stevens.
He started as a camera man in the early 1920's, filming in the west.
Rex the King of the Horses,
I believe it was called.
He went to Hollywood and started directing the
Laurel and Hardy
shorts and the rest, as they say, is cinematic history.
He directed Katherine Hepburn's first film,
Alice Adams.
He also directed
The More The Merrier,
which is one of my favourite screwball comedies EVER. (Connie Willis did a fabulous homage to the film in her short story, "Spice Pogrom," with an alien in the Charles Coburn role. It's adorable.)
Also: I had the biggest crush on Joel McCrea.
They were showing clips
The More the Merrier
last night. It's one of his films I haven't seen, and I was cracking up. They showed the scene where she was explaining to Charles Coburn "At 8:01 I'll enter the bathroom. At 8:02 you'll start the coffee. At 8:06 you'll enter the bathroom."
Heh. Poor beleaguered Jean Arthur and her schedules. I love to see her feathers ruffled. And her insufferable fiance and that tiny apartment!
They did a remake of it in the 60's with Cary Grant in the Charles Coburn role and set it during the Tokyo Olympics (it's called Walk, Don't Run I think.) It was quite charming, but not as effortlessly effervescent as The More The Merrier. I wonder whether TMTM is out on DVD? I really should own it.
