I love The Lion in Winter and Flynn's Robin Hood--that's a great night of movies!
There are cockroaches in Mexico big enough to own property.
Cordelia ,'Lessons'
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Kathy A - Apr 26, 2010 9:23:10 am PDT #7917 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
DavidS - Apr 26, 2010 9:38:30 am PDT #7918 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Isn't it, Kathy?
There's some cool stuff coming up on their schedule - a night of John Ford's cavalry movies, and several of Garbo's silent movies.
Speaking of shorts, I just Tivoed the coolest thing. It opens with Lionel Barrymore playing a suave, banker-like Satan in his Art Deco hell. He's got a raven on his desk, and a super hot goth swing era babe tending to him. She's got these fantastic victory rolls in her hairstyle that mimic horns on the head and looks fantastic. Anyway, Satan Barrymore gets Adolf Hitler on the phone (this is from '41) and tells Hitler how they'll ruin America, the one evil of evils, which will undo the country: Inflation!
Man, I wish I could do screen caps because Satan's goth swing babe is so cool.
DavidS - Apr 26, 2010 10:01:27 am PDT #7919 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
So at the end of that short I also captured one of TCM's Word of Mouth pieces (tributes to a particular actor) and this one was about Bette Davis. Several actors lauded her influence and gifts (Jane Fonda, Gena Rowlands, Robert Wagner) but it was Ellen Burstyn (who looks fantastic in her older age, incidentally) who had the money quote. She actually had lunch with Bette Davis early in her career and relayed this choice advice from Bette:
"My advice to you, dear, at the beginning of an illustrious career is that not everybody can be your friend. So you choose your enemies. And when you see them you walk right up to them and say, 'You are my enemy.' And do you know how you recognize your enemy?"
"How?"
"Anyone who gets in the way of your work."
Badass.
javachik - Apr 26, 2010 10:27:05 am PDT #7920 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
megan, I've got the complete Wire and you're welcome to borrow it.
Hayden - Apr 26, 2010 10:32:59 am PDT #7921 of 30000
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Wow, I missed a lot of shittalk and sarcasm about Kubrick (and, to some extent, about me) while I was gone.
DavidS - Apr 26, 2010 10:50:38 am PDT #7922 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
and, to some extent, about me
Sorry, man! I wasn't trying to run you down. I really was curious about your charge of "facile nihilism."
Talking smack about Kubrick actually turned up a pretty wide set of opinions, though. (Including a previously unsuspected Barry Lyndon fandom contingent.)
Daisy Jane - Apr 26, 2010 10:55:31 am PDT #7923 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
DavidS - Apr 26, 2010 11:01:59 am PDT #7924 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
This is waiting at home for me. It looks like something you would like, Hec. Also, smonster.
Indeed, I'm all over that Southern Gothic death trip.
Fred Pete - Apr 26, 2010 11:02:54 am PDT #7925 of 30000
Ann, that's a ferret.
It opens with Lionel Barrymore playing a suave, banker-like Satan in his Art Deco hell.
Lionel Barrymore as Satan is an interesting casting choice. Though Laird Cregar in the first Heaven Can Wait owns that role.
Scrappy - Apr 26, 2010 11:03:31 am PDT #7926 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
70's paranoid cinema (yes - everyone IS out to get you) at it's most drive-in friendly,
I actually SAW Race with the Devil at a drive-in! It was on a crazy double bill with some musical at a theater in some small Vermont town, and we went just for the drive-in experience.