Replies: 90 Unseemly Comments
Oops, I almost forgot to mention, dear reader Craig Brockman reminded me that today is the nine-month anniversary of these here notes - isn't that amazing? Isn't that just too too? If this were a pregnancy, we'd give birth to something today. So, at the very least, let's give birth to some cheese slices and ham chunks and pointy party hats and colored tights and pantaloons.
Posted by bk @ 08/09/2002 09:56 AM PST
Well, I think Mommie Dearest is up there with Valley of the Dolls as a risibly bad mainstream film. Also, as the BK mentioned, Lost Horizon, the musical is so bad it's hysterical. Alligator is pretty awful. Anything after the original Exorcist (II and III) ranks as rank. Earth Girls are Easy is pretty awful. Ms. Jane Fonda made one of the funny bads when she did Barbarella. Gosh, there are so many, I'm running out of time and space.
Your turn
Posted by Ben @ 08/09/2002 10:07 AM PST
I think "Mommy Dearest" takes the cake on this one. I love it. "Flowers in the Attic" and "The Poseidon Adventure" rank right up there, too.
Posted by Jason @ 08/09/2002 10:29 AM PST
Oh! Let us not forget yet another Michael Caine gem, "Jaws IV." I think that's the one where the shark chases Mrs. Brody to the Virgin Isles or wherever. SUCH a ridiculous movie. At least "The Poseidon Adventure" and "Mommy Dearest" are fun and campy.
Posted by Jason @ 08/09/2002 10:39 AM PST
"The Poseidon Adventure"? Really? I've rather been partial to the film for its sustained suspense/excellent storyline and some topnotch performances from Gene Hackman, Shirley (not Shelley) Winters and Ernest Borgnine (comparative to what they were doing in "other" films at that time).
Oh, well! I suppose it HAS come to this by now. Back in '72, this was the hottest ticket at the movies. Now it is considered by some to be risibly bad. It's no masterpiece, I admit. Only, surely not in the same league with "Mommie Dearest" or "Lost Horizon" or "The Swarm"?
I guess my age is definitely showing.
At any rate:
"Can't Stop the Music"
"Grease II"
"Ishtar" (woof!)
"Heaven's Gate" (I've SEEN the director's cut...and it's lamentable).
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 08/09/2002 10:43 AM PST
Also, forgot to salute our 9 month anniversary. Pointy hats, pantaloons, cheese slices and ham chunks for everyone. Followed by the ever present CAKE
Hooray for us!
Posted by Ben @ 08/09/2002 10:44 AM PST
Another Caine/Fonda(Jane) fiasco, "Hurry Sundown"
Posted by steveg @ 08/09/2002 10:51 AM PST
I remember when the lovely Ms. Nancy Walker was filming Can't Stop the Music in the Village in 1980 (what on earth possessed her to direct that movie, she must have BEEN possessed) and people were calling it Can't Stop the Mucus. Also, at the same time the lamentable Cruising starring Al Pacino as a cop looking for a killer of gay men. Oooh, so bad (I think, anyway) that it's almost unwatchable.
Ron: I do like Poseidon Adventure also. I know that it's looked at now as mostly a camp classic but, you're right, there is some good work there, especially Ms. Winters and Mr. Jack Albertson
Posted by Ben @ 08/09/2002 10:52 AM PST
Now, now...I like "The Poseidon Adventure." I just think it's funny, that's all. "Xanadu" is another...haha...and I adore Olivia Newton-John.
Posted by Jason @ 08/09/2002 10:56 AM PST
I guess I can't post today, since I don't know from movies.
Posted by Laura @ 08/09/2002 11:04 AM PST
Okay folks, here are some of the past Broadway Radio Shows for you to consider when selecting this weekend's encore show:
Interviews:
Stan Chandler & Kirsten Benton
Lisa Richard
Wayne Moore
Adryan Russ
Tammy Minoff (the now-famous epic)
Sharon McNight
Bruce Kimmel's Favorite Showtunes
Mark Savage "Pinafore!"
Billy Barnes
Other Shows:
Dueling Divas
B'way Legends: Cook & Stritch
Broadway Covers #1
Broadway Covers #2
My Top 10 Cast Recordings of 2001
Live on B'way: Bea, Barbara & Elaine
Just use the email link to send me your choice. Thanks!
Posted by Donald @ 08/09/2002 11:08 AM PST
Frogs. Poor, poor Ray Milland! Especially with the newspaper ads that had a giant frog with a human hand sticking out of its mouth, looking for all the world like Audrey II. Nothing to do with the film.
Posted by William F. Orr @ 08/09/2002 11:11 AM PST
Xanadu, forgot about that one! "I'm a muse" "Well, I'm glad somebody is."
Laura Post away, we are not a group to necessarily stay on topic anyway.
Posted by Ben @ 08/09/2002 11:14 AM PST
I cannot believe that no one has yet chosen LucyMame. Even a worse debacle since, casting of Ms. Ball excepted, it should have been good!
Posted by Phil Crosby @ 08/09/2002 11:33 AM PST
Last Tango in Paris convinced me that Pauline Kael didn't know from movies. It was definitely not like buttah!
Posted by William F. Orr @ 08/09/2002 11:34 AM PST
Ron P.,
I share your feelings
("feelings, wooo,woooo..." )
about Poseidon Adventure ;
compared to what we call
blockbusters nowadays, i think
it is quite good, and well acted
!
Now, I'm gonna have LOADS
of ennemies, but I think
CHOCOLAT was pretty bad !!!
Posted by François @ 08/09/2002 11:45 AM PST
Here's a vote for Live on Bdwy!
Posted by Phil @ 08/09/2002 12:11 PM PST
Laura: Don't feel left out. If you don't know from movies, do you know from funky?
Have any favorite funky songs (even the Funky Monkey???).
My favorite funky song -- and it's been going through my head all morning (don't ask my WHY...I don't KNOW why):
The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)
( Simon & Garfunkel )
Slow down, you move too fast
You've got to make the morning last
Just kickin' down the cobble stones
Looking for fun and feelin' groovy!
(La,la,la,la,la,la, feelin' groovy)
Hello, lamp post, whatcha knowing?
I've come to watch your flowers growing
Ain't ya got no rhymes for me?
Doot-in' doo-doo, feelin' groovy!
(La,la,la,la,la,la, feelin' groovy)
Got no deeds to do, no promises to keep
I'm dappled and drowsy and ready to sleep
Let the morning time drop all its petals on me
Life, I love you, all is groovy!
(La,la,la,la,la,la, feelin' groovy)
(La,la,la,la,la,la, feelin' groovy)
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 08/09/2002 12:19 PM PST
Ron: How weird! I was just listening to that song a few minutes ago. The Simon and Garfunkel Concert in Central Park was on PBS the other night and it made me want to pull out my recording of it. Oh, what nostalgia this site has let me indulge myself in. Yes, I just ended a sentence with a preposition. So sue me!
Posted by Jason @ 08/09/2002 12:22 PM PST
Lucy as "Mame" has got to be one of the worst... and so needleesly so. Great sets, great costumes, great cast (except for Lucy), great everything. And yet there it sits like so much fish. Pity.
I kind of liked "The Poseidon adventure" when it came out. Yes it's cliched as they come, but so is "High and the Mighty" and any of those. That's what that genre is all about. (did I just say "genre"? Next thing you know I'll start saying things like "jejune" and "So's your old man!"
"Poseidon Adventure 2," however sucked. It was just bad, not even bad funny.
Posted by Kerry @ 08/09/2002 12:33 PM PST
AT LONG LAST LOVE
MOULIN ROUGE (I really do have a love/hate relationship with this film).
CAN'T STOP THE MUSIC
PROPHECY
NEWSIES (which our very own BK introduced to me by letting Debbie Gravitte record a couple of its numbers); I knew that we were in for trouble when the editor chose to cut away FROM Ann-Margret in the middle of a line in a song!
MAME - except for the two minutes plus singing "loving you," a pain to sit through.
On the other hand, Bertolucci's LAST TANGO IN PARIS is one of my favorite films, with a great score and a brilliant Brando; try watching it and AN AMERICAN IN PARIS as a double bill, you'll find so many similarities that you'll wonder why the Lerner estate didn't sue for plagiarism!
SHE-DEVIL with Meryl Streep and
Roseanne! yikes!
VALLEY OF THE DOLLS
Posted by td @ 08/09/2002 12:44 PM PST
And although it was posted late yesterday, we should take this time to have very special cake and pantaloons to celebrate Ben's and Anthony's anniversary!
Cheese slices and ham chunks for everybody!
Posted by Kerry @ 08/09/2002 12:52 PM PST
The Exorcist II: The Herretic has to be the worse mainstream film. I've never been more disappointed with a film. Terrible writing, fake sets, lamentable acting, embarrassing directions and two different versions.
The Swarm, Beyond the Poseidon Adventure, When Time Ran Out!
Posted by Michael Shayne @ 08/09/2002 12:53 PM PST
Oh yes, "At Long Last Love." I remember the ads of it going to open at Radio City. Horrible movie (and it could have been so good). Again, what a waste of talent and money. It gave a whole new meaning to sitting there like so much fish. And REALLY old fish at that!
Posted by Kerry @ 08/09/2002 12:55 PM PST
Now, has anybody seen
AUTUMN IN NEW YORK ???
-- you don't have to answer that
one !
Even E. Strich, who has a
small part, could not save this
dull production..... even though
Winona Ryder is a mighty fine
actress, in my book !
Posted by François @ 08/09/2002 12:58 PM PST
How about "Steppin' Out" with Liza Minelli and Ellen Greene?
Posted by Jason @ 08/09/2002 12:58 PM PST
Mention of "Exorcist: The Heretic" reminded me of its score by Ennio Morricone.
And thinking of Morricone led me to think of another film with risible awfulness:
"Mission to Mars" (the Morricone score, by itself, on CD, is a great listen -- but it's laughable with the film..and the film is a sorry sight..and major waste of talent).
Jason: Stop it! You'll have me thinking we've got a psychic link going on!!
Meanwhile, has anyone seen "Legally Blonde"? I watched it on DVD this past weekend.
What a HOOT! It had several belly laughs, including a near rib-cracker, I laughed so hard.
But, maybe it's just because I was in the mood for it!
"You got into Harvard Law School?"
"What! Like it's hard?"
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 08/09/2002 01:01 PM PST
Hey, Jason - I LIKED "Steppin' Out" - it's just sooo earnest...Two movies that I think are awful just happened to be nominated for Best Picture: "Moulin Rouge" and "Gosford Park"! I won't even bother with MR, but as for GP - well, all that talking and talking and talking and talking REALLY got on my nerves, and when something actually HAPPENED in the movie...well, by that time, I couldn't care less....I'd rather watch "Xanadu" a hundred times than watch either of these turkeys ever again...tra la!
Posted by Anita @ 08/09/2002 01:27 PM PST
Speaking of LucyMAME, has anyone else noticed that when Mame referred to Beau as Rhett Butler it was in 1929, 6 years before the novel GTTW was released?
Posted by William E. Lurie @ 08/09/2002 01:48 PM PST
Interesting, isn't it, that someone takes a movie to task for having too much talking. Once upon a time, movies actually had dialogue, and people paid to hear it.
I would have to nominate "Rocky V" as one of the worst ever. And for those of you who snicker and say, "well, of course!" I remind you that the original "Rocky" won an Oscar for Best Picture. And to those who scoff "well, it's a sequel", I only say "Godfather II".
For a comprehensive list of the worst films of all time, check out the following link:
http://www.thestinkers.com/100stinkers.html
I can't claim to have seen all of these films, but those I have seen definitely deserve their "rank"ing in this list.
Posted by Dave @ 08/09/2002 02:21 PM PST
Anita,
Why would one watch a film
AGAIN if one doesn't like it,
unless one likes to suffer ?!!!
I guess I'm strange because I
deeply enjoyed GOSFORD
PARK..... Might be too British
for some, by the script is a
masterpiece; it TALKED to me
and i cared for the characters.
It's a social study -- with
humour -- of a time NOT so
gone-by......
I agree, it did not have special
effects, lots of action, and wall
to wall music. Novello's music
is very old indeed.
Posted by François @ 08/09/2002 02:24 PM PST
By the script; read "but" the
script.
Cheers!
and TTFN !
Posted by François @ 08/09/2002 02:28 PM PST
Francois: Ciao! Mon ami!
Now, about that last sentence.
Translation please????
: )
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 08/09/2002 02:39 PM PST
TTFN: Ta Ta For Now. (We used to use that line in 6th grade...::ahem::)
Did anyone see "Attack of the Killer Tomatos?" How 'bout it's spin-off, "Attack of the Killer Clowns?" Laughable. Simply hilarious.
Oh, Francois...j'aime beacoup "Gosford Park." :-) It reminded me of being back in England...go figure. Ha!
Posted by Jason @ 08/09/2002 02:49 PM PST
Jason. Are you there? Contact me re David Campbell Cd on email if still interested.
Tastes in movies! I loved Gosford Park and thought Moulin Rouge an interesting idea and thus worthy. Not for me were "Notting Hill" and "Beaches". I have mentioned before my thougths on "Steel Magnolias". "Lost Horizon" and "Xanadu" get special mentions as being total duds. "Blame It On Rio" was a total waste of time. (Maybe unfair as I saw it as an Inflight Movie. "Black Stallion" and "Little Miss Marker" were in the same league.
Posted by Tom from OZ @ 08/09/2002 03:05 PM PST
Sorry, Tom...I thought "Beaches" was a real wallow -- a movie-movie of the first magnitude!
It was what it was! Even with Barbara Hershey's overinflated lips!
On the other hand, I wondered why on earth anyone ever thought Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant would have enough chemistry to overcome that screenplay.
What was the name of that Mary Tyler Moore-Dudley Moore wowzer -- about the little girl who was dying and wanted to dance the Nutcracker at Radio City Music Hall? Woof! Woof! The performers were sincere, but yoiks!
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 08/09/2002 03:49 PM PST
Dear Jason: You are so "incorrigible!" I know what TTFN stands for.
I'm looking for a translation for:
>>By the script; read "but" the
script.>>
That's the sentence!
> To me, this is a signoff.
> Ditto!
Perhaps it's code???
By the prop; handle "but" the prop.
There, did I answer correctly???
: )) (That's a double-chinned smiley -- it means I'm having a laugh and I'm not vain, so please don't anyone think I am picking on Francois or Jason).
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 08/09/2002 03:53 PM PST
Part of that last bit disappeared. The statement about "To me this is a signoff" and "Ditto" referred to the terms "Cheers' and "and TTFN".
(Note to Mr. Mark Bakalor: Those words were copied from a previous post...they appeared on the screen of the comment box and I duly worked around them. But they vanished! Any clues?)
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 08/09/2002 03:56 PM PST
"SIX WEEKS" -- by golly, it was "Six Weeks"! That was how long the little girl had left to live. She was played by Katherine Healy...quite a good young actress back in 1982, even in this film.
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 08/09/2002 03:59 PM PST
"But the script", because I
made a typo and typed BY
instead of BUT....
TTFN; I know, I know, I'm very
childish -- I like
Winnie-the-Pooh ( but it's not
reciprocate ! ) and, on top of
that, as some of you know, I'm
French.
It's funny : I seem to get
reactions about how I write
things, rarely about what I
"say"....
Oh well, that won't stop me
from posting here though..;
anyhow; I'm a pervert and i
love to be picked on......
Posted by François @ 08/09/2002 04:02 PM PST
Francois: I get it. I got it! I wish I had gotten it much, much earlier, but that's how I am.
I agree with you on "Gosford Park," by the way!
: )
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 08/09/2002 04:39 PM PST
Gee whiz !
Hope I didn't scare people
away, did I ?? -- what an ego,
what an ego !!! --
Is it what is called "stopping
the show" ?....
AT LONG LAST LOVE had the
peculiarity of having the songs
recorded LIVE, like in the
thirties and forties; what you
saw is what you heard.....
Posted by François @ 08/09/2002 04:41 PM PST
Ron,
By George, you got it ! By
George, you got it !
Now, once again........
Alan Bates was just excellent
in GP ! Excellent, indeed; like
they would say there...
Boy, Jason, you must have
had a very aristrocratic
childhood, I say, good old
chap.
Should we envy you ?
Posted by François @ 08/09/2002 04:48 PM PST
Aristocratic !
aris-tro-cratic was de trop, as
Cole Porter would say...
If I'm the bottom, you're the
trop!
Posted by François @ 08/09/2002 04:52 PM PST
I'd forgotten about At Long Last Love - I remember going to see it opening day with Mark Haggard, my co-director on Nudie Musical - we wanted to see it for its style - to see if we could learn anything. I came out of the theater, shell-shocked, and said, "Well, I've definitely learned something - there is no way to not be better than that."
I remember the opening ads touting 16 great Cole Porter songs. By the end of the first week, I believe it went down to 12 great Cole Porter songs - then when the film went really wide, it was 8 great Cole Porter songs.
Posted by bk @ 08/09/2002 04:57 PM PST
Alan Bates. Now there is someone who can act. He does not need dialogue to convey his thoughts. Brilliant. What made Gosford Park so great for me was those types of performance (and direction). I loved the relationship between Maggie Smith and her servant - a mutual dependence in some ways. Loyalty of and to the classes. I will not defend the class system but "Loyalty" is a concept that has gone missing in the last 50 or so years. (I used to believe in Customer/Retailer loyalty too)
Posted by Tom from OZ @ 08/09/2002 04:59 PM PST
Re: AT LONG LAST LOVE.
Bogdonavich actually went back and re-cut the film for television; as it now stands, I believe there are twenty Cole Porter songs!
The soundtrack album, a true guilty pleasure, does not contain Ms. Kahn's opening number "Down in the Depths (on the 90th Floor)" nor Mr. DelPrette's "Tomorrow." In going back to the film, Peter must have realized that more of the second leads would have been a far, far better thing to have done.
Posted by td @ 08/09/2002 05:07 PM PST
Totally OT (off topic in Internet Lingo--not Old Testament), my Joe and I had a delightful day today. Yesterday he slapped some paint on part of the front porch, trying to decide what color gutters to get. Today he wanted to study Painted Ladies, the book of colorful Victorian houses, to help him decide, so we spent the whole day in the back yard relaxing.
I started us with Dueling Roses: Bette, Tyne, Angela, and The Merm. Followed that with several Terry Trotter Sondheim albums, The Fantasticks in Jazz, and finally Lisa Richard. My friend Tom Toce's song "You Make Me Laugh" reminded him of me. Bruce's song made him laugh. Bruce's commentary made him laugh.
We spend a good deal of time laughing. I hope Ben and his Anthony laughed a whole lot today. Congratulations and cheers!
Posted by William F. Orr @ 08/09/2002 05:12 PM PST
I'll vote for the Tammi Tappin show. I missed that one. Sounds like a hoot.
Posted by Michael Shayne @ 08/09/2002 05:17 PM PST
I saw "Autumn in New York" on a plane, where, sadly, there was no escaping it.
My two nominations: the Kylie Minogue/Charlie Schlatter suck-fest "The Delinquents", and the Pet Shop Boys' truly astonishing (but for *all* of the wrong reasons) "It Couldn't Happen Here".
Oh, the horror. The horror.
Posted by Stephen Farrow @ 08/09/2002 05:56 PM PST
Francois: Have you, perchance, discovered the great Ken Russell films -- "Women in Love," "The Music Lovers" and "The Boy Friend"?
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 08/09/2002 06:17 PM PST
WHORE by Ken Russell.
CRIMES OF PASSION by Ken Russell
I'll say no more for the time being.
Posted by Jonathan @ 08/09/2002 06:40 PM PST
Ron,
Yes, yes, yes ! I saw all those
films when they came out...
Like we say in French: you're
talking about a time that
people under the age of 20
can't remember !!!
I LOVED Boy Friend in spite of
the treatment the original work
is given. Sort of a spoof of a
spoof....
Women In Love, as some of
my American friends would
say, is VERY interesting...
And Chamberlain is amazing, I
think, in Music Lovers...
Russell is full of excessess
and that makes him so much
more ... interesting....
What about VALENTINO ?
Quite "disturbing" no ?
Glenda Jackson is now into
politics !!!!!
Posted by François @ 08/09/2002 07:07 PM PST
Please, forgive my spelling !
It's 4:05 am here, I'm not a
spelling bee, some sad news
put me in a distraught mood
and..... I am cansado, fatigué,
well....tired.
excesses ?
Posted by François @ 08/09/2002 07:12 PM PST
Jonathan,
Tell us more, tell us more!!
--Did she put up a fight ?
--oops, sorry !
Where is Jason gone ?
Posted by François @ 08/09/2002 07:17 PM PST
I have a feeling I am going to have to email Donald as well.. but where the @#$% is Susan Egan's name on that list of possible encores? What? So she already had an encore radio show, we can't have more? Oy.. I'm plotzing ovah heahhhhhh
More later... and HAPPY 9th MONTH!! (I can't wait until a few months now when we refer to this site like a todler "HHW is 15 months!")
Posted by Craig @ 08/09/2002 07:47 PM PST
I'm here, my pets!! Have no fear. Unfortunately I fell asleep when I got home from work and now here I am...awake after a six--yes, SIX--hour nap! No wonder my sleep pattern is so messed up.
I'm so flattered that Francois actually asked where I was. Well...now you know. Nothing glamourous or exciting...just snoring away. I am curious to know why, Francois, you think that I must have led a very aristocratic childhood...and I'm going to leave the "I'm the bottom, you're the top" comment alone. ::ahem:: I think it would be best, though I do appreciate the use of Cole Porter. Hahaha...
You know one movie that always has me rolling in the floor (though this one is intentionally funny)? "Waiting for Guffman." I think that has got to be one of the best movies I've ever seen. Thoughts...?
Posted by Jason @ 08/09/2002 08:35 PM PST
Jason,
I just thought that if Gosford
Park reminded you of your life
in England, then your
environment WAS aristocratic,
wasn't it ?
Now; you're the one to tell us....
Snoring is far from aristocratic
though....
And yes, bottom/top stuff
should be left alone ! Besides,
I have NO idea about what
you're alluding to.
Mr Porter has NO clue either...
Either, Eisner ? Let's call the
whole thing off, shall we ?
Posted by François @ 08/09/2002 08:52 PM PST
BTW,
I did not write "you're the top"
but "you're de trop".... trying to
play with words...
Anyway, You're Mickey Mouse !
Or cellophane, since you told
us the other day that people in
NYC tend to bump into you.....
And I'm camembert......
Posted by François @ 08/09/2002 09:02 PM PST
What are you doing still awake, Francois? Tu as besoin de sleep, n'est-ce pas? Sorry...I forgot how to spell the word for sleep. :-\
No, I didn't live in a mansion out in the country, but we did visit several of them and I was just reminded of the beautiful fields and trees and all that jazz. We most certainly didn't have servants in the house, either. The people in "Gosford Park" would NOT have eaten Kentucky Fried Chicken.
Posted by Jason @ 08/09/2002 09:04 PM PST
Bruce,
9 months ! 9 months !
You're a father again !??
Is it a boy, or is it a girl... or is it
AT LONG LAST LOVE ?
Posted by François @ 08/09/2002 09:06 PM PST
Jason,
I was teasing you....you didn't
have to answer so frankly, or
brucely, or .... please stop me !
Who am I, all of a sudden ?
I am still awake -- and i 'd
better be ! -- 'cause I work
night audit !
Posted by François @ 08/09/2002 09:11 PM PST
sleep is sommeil in French !
Posted by François @ 08/09/2002 09:13 PM PST
I know you were teasing...so was I. I was just being dramatic. It's what I do. :-D
Posted by Jason @ 08/09/2002 09:13 PM PST
Bad Movie that I wish I could forget:
CALIGULA!
Has anyone else actually *experienced* this travesty?
Posted by td @ 08/09/2002 09:17 PM PST
I'm sure SOMEONE in this room has experienced caligula...but not me. Oh! You meant the movie! Nope...sorry. :-\
Posted by Jason @ 08/09/2002 09:19 PM PST
That's what we heard about
you, Jason !
You're such a tease !
Posted by François @ 08/09/2002 09:22 PM PST
HA!
Posted by Jason @ 08/09/2002 09:25 PM PST
69 being my favorite
#................................. I will post
and say "ah! ah!"....spelled the
French way 8
Posted by François @ 08/09/2002 09:49 PM PST
that 8 is unseemly !
It should have been "!"
Posted by François @ 08/09/2002 09:51 PM PST
The fresh croissants and rolls
have just arrived....
Come down and have some if
you're still awake !
Anybody home ?
Posted by François @ 08/09/2002 09:53 PM PST
Huit? I'm confused by that last post, Francois.
Posted by Jason @ 08/09/2002 09:53 PM PST
Ooh! I get the prize for 70 Posts 70!!
Posted by Jason @ 08/09/2002 10:12 PM PST
Or not.
Posted by Jason @ 08/09/2002 10:13 PM PST
un oeuf is un oeuf !
oeuf = egg
"enough is enough" dixit -- I
mean singxit --Barbra
Steisand.
but 8 is not un oeuf
un oeuf= un neuf
neuf= nine !
Follow the bouncing ball !!
Abusively shifted, hence typed
"8" instead of "!"
I think I need a valium.
Posted by François @ 08/09/2002 10:26 PM PST
Re: Ken Russell
Jonathan: You will notice I cited three films which I called "Great."
Like EVERY director out there, he's made some stinkers, too.
"Savage Messiah" is quite wonderful, and "The Devils" is not without interest.
: )
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 08/09/2002 10:30 PM PST
I'll take you up on that offer of croissant and cafe!
Isn't it amazing that this Unseemly Message Board has come to life on a Friday evening!??!
We'll probably be lucky to get 20 posts daily for the next two days.
But if you folks are out there, make a poopy prognosticator out of me and prove me very, very wrong...by treble or more (in other words, 21 or 22 won't do it).
"Farscape" is on, but I'm taping it. I am in no frame of mind to watch TV right now. I'm doing PC things that must be done in order to re-boot my system to its factory settings. The warranty techs have given up trying to figure out why things are happening to my PC...no sound (Aughghghghgh), weird DSL dropouts requiring me to restart the computer just to get back online...weird stuff.
Maybe it's one of them there viruses in my system and McAfee can't get rid of it!!
Is anyone out there constantly amazed - as am I -- that there are a heck of a lot of very nice people here????
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 08/09/2002 10:36 PM PST
Speaking of which, where is Robert Armin tonight?
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 08/09/2002 10:37 PM PST
Sadly, I saw the thing known as Caligula. It should be burned, it has not one redeeming feature and is really quite evil.
Things are hoppin' here tonight, and we LOVE that.
Posted by bk @ 08/09/2002 10:46 PM PST
Now, why on earth did I spell
camember with a T and
Streisand without an R is
beyond me...
I'm beyond myself...
I'm almost off -- well, you know
what I mean....I'm ALWAYS
off...
So I'll "see" you in some 12
hours!
Some place, same site !
Good night to all of you; I'm
going to bed in an hour....
Bonne nuit, all y'all !
Thanks for your kind words,
Ron ! It takes one to know
ones !
Posted by François @ 08/09/2002 10:57 PM PST
Speaking of Caligula, Lehman Engel announced to our class that he was conducting the score--but I think he had his name taken off the credits. Gore Vidal wasn't too happy, either.
François:
The score is 40 - 0
quarante - l'oeuf
forty - love, as we say here.
Ron:
Fartscape is quite weird tonight. See if you can guess the villain. Meanwhile, I didn't catch any coprophilia in tonight's episode.
Posted by William F. Orr @ 08/09/2002 10:59 PM PST
Perhaps, given the grotesque creatures we were treated to, they decided to spare us.
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 08/09/2002 11:28 PM PST
I, too, saw "Caligula" in the theatres when it came out. I remember later reading interviews with John Gielgud and Peter O'Toole saying that they basically had to be completely drunk for their scenes. That helped redeem them in my eyes. So what was Malcolm McDowell's excuse? Who directed and produced that? Was it someone like Robert Evans?
Posted by Kerry @ 08/09/2002 11:49 PM PST
Caligula was directed by Tinto Brass, with hardcore footage shot by Penthouse's Bob Guccione.
Posted by bk @ 08/10/2002 12:00 AM PST
I never saw "Caligula" but I did see an interview with John Gielgud on AMC a few years ago and he said that he was originally offered a certain part in the movie but had decided to turn it down. He was later offered a different part (which he took) and was on a plane with Peter O'Toole who was telling him about a part that he (O'Toole) was just offered. Gielgud didn't have the heart to tell O'Toole that it was the part that he (Gielgud) had originally turned down.
Posted by George @ 08/10/2002 12:07 AM PST
I have awoken in the middle of the night, and it is the fault of everyone on this site that I was dreaming of "The Poseidon Adventure," but this time Shelly Winter's husband was played by Shelly Berman. I wish I could remember the dialogue, it certainly was better than the original.
Posted by S. Woody White @ 08/10/2002 03:00 AM PST
Which reminds me in the personal ads when someone says the have a swimmers body is Greg Louganis or Shelly Wintes in the Poseidon Adventure?
Posted by MDS @ 08/10/2002 07:59 AM PST
Which reminds me in the personal ads when someone says the have a swimmers body is Greg Louganis or Shelly Wintes in the Poseidon Adventure?
Posted by MDS @ 08/10/2002 07:59 AM PST
A joke should be told twice I always say. For those who didn't get the first time.
Posted by MDS @ 08/10/2002 08:00 AM PST
I noticed a few LucyMame comments here and felt compelled to mention that the letterbox release unfortunately has better audio engineering. I was appalled to hear Lucy sounding acceptably bad, versus her paint-peeling "singing" in the standard cut. (Yes, I've watched it several times.)
They've cut the heart of of this film - avoid the letterbox and you'll enjoy the true unbelieveability of LucyMame.
Posted by Vic Vinson @ 03/15/2003 10:18 AM PST
