Topic: IMAGINE MY SURPRISE (Read 34832 times)

Panni · « **Reply #180 on:** February 27, 2004, 05:16:33 PM »

I'm back. Miss R. and I had some god chats about men - she admits that her choices have been somewhat flawed - and other things. She's a funny lady and such a pro!
So the interesting thing about GIFT OF LOVE...
It's about a small town high school student (Eldon Henson) who has only one way to make it to college and out of his town - through football. But he gives up any hope of this when his diabetic grandma's (Miss Debbie) illness becomes so severe that she must have a kidney transplant or die. He and his grandma have a really close relationship - more like mother and son. Despite her objections, and those of everyone around him, he gives her a kidney - thereby ending his hopes of a football career.
Now I know you're all groaning. But it wasn't cloyingly sweet. I try REALLY hard not to write like that.
Anyway, United Airlines ran the movie on some of their Christmas flights. A man saw it and wrote down on the magazine he was reading the number that was given at the end of the movie for the National Kidney Transplant Association (or whatever the name is). When he got home he called and registered. So one day he gets a call and is asked if he would donate a kidney to a total stranger. --- And he did! (That's unusual.) So somebody who might otherwise be dead is alive today because of this film. Now that's pretty cool.

Danise · « **Reply #181 on:** February 27, 2004, 05:17:50 PM »

Speaking weird sandwiches, my Mom used to pack Ketchup and cheese for my lunch. I HATED them.

JMK, Guess I HAVE to check out the Planetarium! I can't wait to get my map of the city, then I'll have a better idea as to where everything is.

Panni · « **Reply #182 on:** February 27, 2004, 05:26:45 PM »

Quote from: bk on February 27, 2004, 04:38:02 PM

I played Kennedy's son.

Good casting. You look exactly like him.

bk · « **Reply #183 on:** February 27, 2004, 05:49:57 PM »

I liked Anne. It was her first big starring role in a pilot. She and George played a May-December couple (is that what they call it?) - in the pilot, they meet and try to decide if such a romance can work. I played his son, Irene Tedrow (whom I adored) played his mother and my grandmother, and there were two or three others in it whose names I can't remember.

I only remember working with Peter Kastner and Joseph Wiseman - I love McDevitt so I assume I'd remember if I'd worked with her.

Michael · « **Reply #184 on:** February 27, 2004, 05:50:08 PM »

Quote from: bk on February 27, 2004, 04:38:02 PM

Here's Michael's next challenge - the name of the pilot I did with George Kennedy and Anne Schedeen for CBS. I can never remember the name of it. It was created by Elliot Schoenman who would later create Cosby, directed by Charles Dubin. I played Kennedy's son.

go here to my website http://www.brucekimmel.com/generations.htm

Panni · « **Reply #185 on:** February 27, 2004, 06:11:41 PM »

Who starred in Francis Ford Coppola's first movie (I think it was his first) and what was the movie's title? There is a clue in one of the recent posts.

Tomovoz · « **Reply #186 on:** February 27, 2004, 06:16:06 PM »

Dementia 13. I think he had a hand in two earlier films though. There was a mention of Finian's Rainbow on today's posts too. I am of course quite comfortabe with dementia.

Tomovoz · « **Reply #187 on:** February 27, 2004, 06:16:58 PM »

Forgot about the "Who starred?". I don't have a clue. (Dementia does that!)

MBarnum · « **Reply #188 on:** February 27, 2004, 06:18:00 PM »

Quote from: Panni on February 27, 2004, 06:11:41 PM

Who starred in Francis Ford Coppola's first movie (I think it was his first) and what was the movie's title? There is a clue in one of the recent posts.

The first movie I know of him making was Battle Beyond the Sun but it starred a bunch of Russian actors...Coppola did some scenes of some monsters fighting that were added into the film when it was released in the US. Do I win, or am I way off?

MBarnum · « **Reply #189 on:** February 27, 2004, 06:18:50 PM »

Quote from: Tomovoz on February 27, 2004, 06:16:06 PM

Dementia 13. I think he had a hand in two earlier films though. There was a mention of Finian's Rainbow on today's posts too. I am of course quite comfortabe with dementia.

Dementia 13 starred Mary Mitchel, Luana Anders, and William Campbell.

MBarnum · « **Reply #190 on:** February 27, 2004, 06:20:15 PM »

BK, Irene Tedrow is great! There were so many wonderful character actresses in the 50s, 60s and 70s who never got there due, but showed up in all the tv shows! Did you ever work with Dorothy Neumann? I love here!

Panni · « **Reply #191 on:** February 27, 2004, 06:22:04 PM »

I just looked up the dates, Tomovoz. I was wrong about it being the first. It's the first I heard of him - so I thought it WAS the first. Me, me, me!
I was thinking of YOU'RE A BIG BOY NOW, starring Peter Kastner (who was mentioned in one of bk's Pilots).

Michael · « **Reply #192 on:** February 27, 2004, 06:22:48 PM »

Quote from: Panni on February 27, 2004, 06:11:41 PM

Who starred in Francis Ford Coppola's first movie (I think it was his first) and what was the movie's title? There is a clue in one of the recent posts.

I think you are refering to You're a Big Boy Now with Peter Kastner, but it was not his first film. He shot new footage for what would become Battle Beyond the Sun it was originally a Russian film and he used the name Thomas Colchart. He then made some nudie films and his first real film although uncredited was The Terror with Boris Karloff. He was one of five directors, Roger Corman (credited director), Monte Hellman, Jack Hill and Jack Nicholson (who was also in it) were the othe directors

Panni · « **Reply #193 on:** February 27, 2004, 06:23:21 PM »

Oops (Spoo) I'm so embarrassed. Sorry. Not the first, not the first.

Tomovoz · « **Reply #194 on:** February 27, 2004, 06:27:54 PM »

At least we had to do some thinking and research Panni. I did not like to mention "Tonite For Sure" in case their were children about.

bk · « **Reply #195 on:** February 27, 2004, 06:32:51 PM »

I have a lobby card from Tonight for Sure, one of Coppola's nudies.

Jane · « **Reply #196 on:** February 27, 2004, 06:43:09 PM »

Panni, yea pretty cool!

TCB our festival has begun. What do you think of THE COMEDY OF ERRORS in a Vegas like setting?

JMK · « **Reply #197 on:** February 27, 2004, 06:50:28 PM »

I did a version of Twelfth Night with Gershwin songs interpolated, modern dress, nightclub/casino setting. I wanted to die, but there was too long of line already just from the paying audience.

Panni · « **Reply #198 on:** February 27, 2004, 06:51:19 PM »

Quote from: Jane on February 27, 2004, 06:43:09 PM

What do you think of THE COMEDY OF ERRORS in a Vegas like setting?

A few years ago I saw MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM in a fifties rock & roll setting. It was faboo! Went back twice it was so good.

Michael · « **Reply #199 on:** February 27, 2004, 07:05:11 PM »

Which reminds me Kronenberg:1582 aka Rockabye Hamlet. A score by Cliff Jones who wrote a special material song called I Love You Because Your Trash for the Julie Amato Show and which I made my TV debut in. She sang it to me

Michael · « **Reply #200 on:** February 27, 2004, 07:05:55 PM »

DVD Player: The Extended version of Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.

S. Woody White · « **Reply #201 on:** February 27, 2004, 07:15:56 PM »

Quote from: Dan (the Man) on February 27, 2004, 01:27:46 PM

...I sometimes long for the days when I dreamed of being a failed playwright living in Paris who smoked and drank and whored his days away, while his unused typewriter sat on his desk waiting to be sold to supply a nasty cocaine habit.

So instead you're living in Philly?

S. Woody White · « **Reply #202 on:** February 27, 2004, 07:22:58 PM »

DR Robin: Get well soon!

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Panni · « **Reply #203 on:** February 27, 2004, 07:24:02 PM »

Quote from: Michael Shayne on February 27, 2004, 07:05:11 PM

W Julie Amato Show and which I made my TV debut in. She sang it to me

Are you a Canadian?

Tomovoz · « **Reply #204 on:** February 27, 2004, 07:26:50 PM »

I think Michael will be watching LOTR. Yes! He is from Canada.

Jed · « **Reply #205 on:** February 27, 2004, 07:33:03 PM »

I forgot to do my media check!
DVD - empty
VCR - empty
(hmmm... maybe it's not so surprising I forgot to do this...)
CD - The Intimate P.D.Q. Bach, The Ill-Conceived P.D.Q. Bach Anthology, and, currently being listened to, The Wurst of P.D.Q. Bach

S. Woody White · « **Reply #206 on:** February 27, 2004, 07:42:17 PM »

Quote from: JMK on February 27, 2004, 04:38:04 PM

Re: Peter Kastner!! Does anyone remember his short-lived sitcom The Ugliest Girl in the World? He cross-dressed and became a famous fashion model.

For some reason, instead of Peter Kastner I first thought of Kurt Kasznar. Which would have been interesting casting for that series, indeed!

bk · « **Reply #207 on:** February 27, 2004, 07:45:15 PM »

I'm watching Camp. I'm afraid I'm going to have a minority opinion on it, so if you love this film, skip that paragraph in tomorrow's notes. That is, IF I don't shut it off before it's over.

Michael · « **Reply #208 on:** February 27, 2004, 08:02:55 PM »

Quote from: Panni on February 27, 2004, 07:24:02 PM

Are you a Canadian?

I was.

Michael · « **Reply #209 on:** February 27, 2004, 08:12:19 PM »

Quote from: bk on February 27, 2004, 07:45:15 PM

I'm watching Camp. I'm afraid I'm going to have a minority opinion on it, so if you love this film, skip that paragraph in tomorrow's notes. That is, IF I don't shut it off before it's over.

How is Stephen Sondheim's acting performance in it?

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