Frank ... yeah, there were a few Americans in the original, including Peter Dinklage, who is listed as appearing in the remake. Also, it was directed by Fozzy Bear.
Every planet has its own weird customs. About a year before we met, I spent six weeks on a moon where the principal form of recreation was juggling geese. My hand to God. Baby geese. Goslings. They were juggled.
Wash ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
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evil jimi - Sep 08, 2009 4:03:48 pm PDT #4126 of 30000
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
le nubian - Sep 08, 2009 5:50:24 pm PDT #4127 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Frankenbuddha - Sep 08, 2009 6:07:20 pm PDT #4128 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Frank ... yeah, there were a few Americans in the original, including Peter Dinklage, who is listed as appearing in the remake. Also, it was directed by Fozzy Bear.
Yoda, you mean I think.
I'm not going to begrudge Peter Dinklage the work. He's an amazing actor, but...
evil jimi - Sep 08, 2009 7:43:53 pm PDT #4129 of 30000
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
Yoda, you mean I think.
For shame, Frank! Sure, he did Yoda but before Yoda there was Fozzie Bear on the Muppet Show! Which is why the two sound remarkably similar...hence my never being able to take Yoda seriously. I keep expecting him to twirl a bowtie and yell Wah Wah Wah! :)
Beverly - Sep 09, 2009 12:06:12 am PDT #4130 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
There's a famous story of filming Empire Strikes Back on Dagobah in Yoda's house. Luke's talking about reaching out with his feelings, and Oz pops Piggy up into the set.
"FEElings? Come over here behind this sofa and I'll SHOW you about FEElings!"
Frankenbuddha - Sep 09, 2009 3:57:07 am PDT #4131 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
For shame, Frank! Sure, he did Yoda but before Yoda there was Fozzie Bear on the Muppet Show! Which is why the two sound remarkably similar...hence my never being able to take Yoda seriously. I keep expecting him to twirl a bowtie and yell Wah Wah Wah! :)
And before Fozzie there was Grover (who I think sounds even more like Yoda).
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 09, 2009 5:37:55 am PDT #4132 of 30000
"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
The monster at the end of this book, I am.
tommyrot - Sep 09, 2009 2:46:35 pm PDT #4133 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
The Beatle Movies That Never Happened
Talks a lot about the Joe Orton script Up Against It.
Eventually, according to Philip Norman in Shout!: The Beatles in Their Generation (New York: Fireside, 1981), “a script was commissioned from Joe Orton, the young, working-class dramatist whose macabre comedies, Loot and Entertaining Mr. Sloane, had each been huge West End successes” (278). Orton fashioned Shades of a Personality into Up Against It by taking the original premise and combining it with his earlier (The Silver Bucket) and current projects (The Vision of Gombold Proval). The script, as described by Orton himself in The Beatles at the Movies, contained “political assassination, guerrilla warfare, and tranvestism” and called for the Beatles to “have been caught in-flagrant, become involved in dubious political activity, dressed as women, committed murder, been put in prison, and committed adultery” (133). Orton completed his script at the end of February 1967. It was returned in early April without explanation.
It is easy to understand why Orton’s script was rejected. The Beatles’ public image was still under the dogged control of Brian Epstein and Up Against It would definitely have hurt that image. Paul McCartney, according to Carr, was more candid with the reason the Beatles rejected the script: “The reason why we didn’t do Up Against It wasn’t because it was too far out or anything like that. We didn’t do it because it was gay. We weren’t gay and really that was all there was to it. It was quite simple, really. Brian was gay, and so he and the gay crowd could appreciate it. Now, it wasn’t that we were anti-gay—just that we, The Beatles, weren’t gay” (135). However, if the Beatles were indeed interested in completely shedding their mop-top image, then perhaps a project such as this would have been perfect.
It is more likely that they merely had had enough of making movies and wanted to focus on their personal lives as well as their music. It was during this time that the Yellow Submarine animated project found momentum. This was a project the Beatles had initially agreed to believing it would fulfill their contractual obligation to United Artists. When it turned out that it would not, the Beatles lost interest in the film. But the negative reaction to the self-made Magical Mystery Tour and the positive press Yellow Submarine was garnering quickly won them over (it would seem that the Beatles were as image conscious as their manager was). Ultimately, the third film owed to United Artists would have to wait another two years. The story of Up Against It ended tragically when it was discovered that Kenneth Halliwell, Orton’s lover, had savagely murdered the young playwright and then killed himself. In a bizarre twist of fate, Brian Epstein died nine days later and the search for a third Beatles’ film project effectively ended.
Polter-Cow - Sep 09, 2009 9:09:18 pm PDT #4134 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
9 looks fantastic, but I do agree that the story doesn't quite live up to the visuals. It's a decent yarn, but I was hoping for a little more, I guess. I would still put it in the Fresh category, though.
DavidS - Sep 10, 2009 7:55:56 pm PDT #4135 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I'm doing a little write-up on Greta Garbo and have been doing some research.
Can you guess how old she is in this picture? (That's a candid, btw, with minimal makeup and no fancy lighting.)
Answer: 50!
Side note: She was a shrewd businesswoman and invested heavily in real estate in the 30s, owning a good chunk of Rodeo Drive. Her estate was worth $20 million when she died. She left it all to her niece.
Also: Louise Brooks (who had a brief fling with her) said Garbo was a totally masculine dyke, and a very charming and tender lover.