Whoa. Good myth.

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Buffista Movies 5: Development Hell  

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DavidS - May 18, 2007 11:14:04 am PDT #8614 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Samuel Beckett had an interesting life. (He was a fighter in the French resistance movement among other things.)

ETA: Works really well as a vid.

It does. Everybody should see Full Contact. It's probably my favorite Chow Yun Fat movie. Plus it's extremely slashy.


§ ita § - May 18, 2007 11:19:22 am PDT #8615 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

What a precious spirit in such an incongruous package.

Huh.

I'd never thought of it that way. But I didn't know he was a wrestler until some time after his death.

eta:

Now I'm earwormed with Fezzik saying "It's no my fault being the biggest and the strongest."


Hayden - May 18, 2007 12:23:09 pm PDT #8616 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

Cool Andre factoid--when he was a little boy, he couldn't ride in the school bus due to his size, so he got a ride from the man in town with the biggest car. The man's name was Samuel Beckett (yes, that Beckett!).

I heard this story recently in a tv documentary on Beckett. The man was awe-inspiring.


DavidS - May 19, 2007 8:39:24 am PDT #8617 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I nabbed the '35 version of Midsummer Night's Dream off TCM.

It's fun! I don't know why people rag on it. Sure it's very 1935, but that's the charm. Maybe it's Mickey Rooney as Puck, but I like him fine.


Kathy A - May 19, 2007 8:57:48 am PDT #8618 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Pre-pubescent Mickey Rooney could get away with the over-the-top acting style, but by the time he was in the Andy Rooney films, he had given himself over to it and it's almost painful to watch. (Seeing Boys Town, he almost ruins the film, even with Spencer Tracy to counter him.)

The most restrained I ever saw Rooney was in The Black Stallion.


DavidS - May 19, 2007 9:11:28 am PDT #8619 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

The most restrained I ever saw Rooney was in The Black Stallion.

He was great in that role.

Hard to remember that he was Ava Gardner's first husband, huh?


Kathy A - May 19, 2007 9:17:10 am PDT #8620 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

I have no idea what she saw in him. IIRC, he was a drunk in the '40s, as well as a real arrogant ass.


JZ - May 19, 2007 9:19:11 am PDT #8621 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

I have no idea what she saw in him.

(sure to be a crosspost with Hec) Teh Sex. Arrogant and drinky, sure, but also apparently a great lay, and she credited him with showing her how much fun sex could be.


Kathy A - May 19, 2007 9:24:00 am PDT #8622 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

The Black Stallion is a movie that's really grown on me over the years. When it first came out, I loved the cinematography, but thought the story really lacked (I was a big fan of the book, and hated the fact that they made Alec some seven years younger than he was in the book). Now, I love the interaction between Kelly Reno and Mickey Rooney, as well as the wonderful performance by Teri Garr. Reno was really a good actor--too bad he only did the two Stallion films.

ETA: Seriously?!? He was that good in the sack?


Matt the Bruins fan - May 19, 2007 10:16:44 am PDT #8623 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

Eight marriages.