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What's your favorite Hepburn/Tracy movie?
I don't really like their movies together. He always has a scene where he takes her down a peg for being so uppity and feminist.
I much prefer her with Cary Grant.
If I had to choose one though, I'd take Adam's Rib.
But that's partly because I like the supporting cast.
I'm missing something here, right?
They mentioned Bernard and Dorris during the beginning of the SAG awards, movie starring Ray Fiennes and ... Meryl Streep?? about the Dorris Duke and the sexual escapades in her house.
Two or three years ago Bob Balaban (the director), cast and crew came to my place of work and were scheduled to leave before the native staff needed to get into the mansion to decorate for our Holiday Open House. Long story short, they stayed weeks longer, everywhere we moved out of their way to accomadate, they suddenly decided they needed. The final straw was when we were working in the largest and most difficult room that had only one exit, and we couldn't leave or work during takes in the next room. So it was stop/start (and having to pee real bad cuz I had no clue what was going on). The whole production, from what we learned, was made possible by bumming expensive favors off various businesses and organizations and friends, so to have them fucking around with the schedule of a non-profit to accomadate their shoe-string production (and their slander of a family that was still alive) left me with little love for Bob Balaban & co. They literally would not get off of our lawn. I'm sure they payed us plenty to have us bending over and twisting into pretzels like a whore, but having to work around that during our highest stress time was personally not worth it.
What's your favorite Hepburn/Tracy movie?
Adam's Rib and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.
Gris, I think Salim wanted to die in the bathtub of money so that there would be blood all over it, making it literally "blood money." And poetry or something.
Maybe "Woman of The Year" just to be different.
Woman of the Year has too many watch from the hall moments for me.
I guess it's been a while since I've seen it. Guess Who is great too...I love Sidney Poitier.
I just couldn't get past the fact that the questions were asked in chronological order to his life story. I know they said up front that the whole thing was about destiny and blah blah blah, but I just could not reconcile myself to how utterly stupid the framing device was. I did love the soundtrack, though.
ION, I finally caught up with Iron Man on DVD and thought it was great fun. And now I would like a snarky British AI valet who builds robots for me. They have those on Amazon, right?
Jessica, that definitely required you to just Go with It, but I loved the framing device enough to let it go.
What's your favorite Hepburn/Tracy movie?
I don't really like their movies together. He always has a scene where he takes her down a peg for being so uppity and feminist.
Even in Desk Set? I haven't seen it in a while, but I don't remember that.