Willow ,'Storyteller'
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Walk on the Wild Side is one of my fav Bass credits, and it's also a famous theme which was done and re-done by jazz dudes for years. As for the movie itself: Stone Butch Barbara Stanwyck! Capucine!
Blood on the Moon is my favorite Noir/Western. EM and I used to call it Plaid on the Moon (you'll see once you note the costuming choices). Rare Robert Preston role before Music Man.
Wasn't Preston mainly a theatre guy?
Wasn't Preston mainly a theatre guy?
He did a ton of theatre, but his filmography has him making movies ever year from 1939 to 1963. He did a lot of Westerns in the 40s.
Robert Preston
"There's nothing worse than an old queen with a headcold."
And also, "Greetings, Starfighter!"
I remember, from YEARS ago, an interview with Robert Preston in which he talked about getting the Harold Hill role. He kept telling his agent he wasn't a singer and his agent pressured him to audition. Preston went to the audition and was asked to perform the "oh we got trouble" patter song ... and the rest is history.
Does anyone else remember him in "Semi Tough"? it had send-ups of various therapies and there was a scene in which he's had all his office furniture removed because he'd been advised that "creeping" (crawling) was the solution to everything. There was also an exquisitely satirical take on rolfing (with Burt Reynolds as the subject).
I'd love to have seen that interview. His enthusiasm and humor were for me the most compelling things about him.
And I misquoted, above. The correct line is, "Oh god. There's nothing more inconvenient than an old queen with a head cold. A-CHOO!"
Not sure if this is the right place for it, but the Smart Bitches have a review of the Will Ferrell Eurovision movie. It has embedded clips and such. The reviewer had some things she liked, some she didn't and is specific.
I really enjoyed The Old Guard, even though I found a lot of the tropes pretty predictable. I knew Booker was going to betray them; that Quyen (sp?) was going to come back as a villain; that Copley was going to second-guess his loyalties.
I would like to know when Nile had time to redo her hair between getting picked up by Andy and when they went to London...
I assumed that was indicative of time passing (so Andy could heal up and etc), and was glad to see it because I was wondering about her hair! Like, how long would it have stayed in those braids -- the regular amount of time or no?
I wished I had seen it in the theater.