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.
I really enjoyed The Old Guard, even though I found a lot of the tropes pretty predictable
Same. I am enough of a "Charlize Theron saves the world even though she is so. fucking. tired." genre fan to be pretty forgiving of tropeyness.
She even
drives through the desert!!
Sorry, thought that might be a spoiler...
I loved the Eurovision movie in that it was exactly what I wanted to watch at the time I watched it. And I've been listening to the songs on repeat.
Palm Springs is up to the hype. And I am no Samberg fan, he's more subtle than a lot I have seen him in and the female lead (the mother from HIMYM) is lovely.
Yeah, I really enjoyed it. I love a film where the male and female leads
fall in love by spending time together and actually doing stuff, rather than locking eyes across the room.
