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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."

This is waiting at home for me. It looks like something you would like, Hec. Also, smonster.

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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.

Frankenbuddha - Apr 26, 2010 11:09:00 am PDT #7927 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

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.

Heh, so did my sister, which is how I heard about it. I think it was on a double-bill with Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry.

DavidS - Apr 26, 2010 11:10:56 am PDT #7928 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Lionel Barrymore as Satan is an interesting casting choice.

He's obviously playing it rather broadly for comic effect. There's more than a little Count Floyd in his performance.

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