Topic: A DIFFERENT DRUMMER (Read 20822 times)

bk · « **on:** June 15, 2004, 12:00:02 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, you know the notes backwards and forwards and forwards and backwards, and now it is time to post every which way but loose.

Tomovoz · « **Reply #1 on:** June 15, 2004, 12:34:37 AM »

Hayley Mills in "Tiger Bay" and "Whistle down The Wind", Jodie Foster in "The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane" and the remarkable H J Osment in "The Sixth Sense" and "AI". I liked the triplets in "The Shipping News" too. Paulette Goddard in "Modern Times". I guess she was still fairly young.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #2 on:** June 15, 2004, 01:19:14 AM »

Good Morning!

Why, Oh, Why am I not in bed yet?!?!?!

Ah, well...

I adored the young boy in "Cinema Paradiso", and also in his subsequent performance in another film - sorry both the name of the child actor and the other film escape me right now... Hey, give me a break, it's 4:15AM here in Richmond, VA?!?!?

There are a few others, however, I've always admired the work of any child actor in any horror film. I just have to wonder if the studios ever keep psychiatrists or some other sort of professional on set should the need arise. I don't know how Linda Blair did it in "The Exorcist". As well as the aforementioned Hayley-Joel Osment in "The Sixth Sense".

Osment? Osmond? -Someone needs to get to sleep....

I'll come up with more specifics as soon as I wake up later today.

Oh, and BK - the Monty Python's "Spamalot" - is that the title of the piece? - sounds very interesting. I remember reading the casting breakdown - very eclectic to say the least.

Good Morning, and Goodnight.

Michael · « **Reply #3 on:** June 15, 2004, 03:57:43 AM »

Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz
Scott Jacoby in That Certain Summer and The Little Girl Who Lived Down the Lane
Tatum O'Neil in Paper Moon
Linda Blair in The Exorcist (all those 4 letter words she said) and her slew of victim roles after that Sarah T: Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic, Born Innocent (and the infamous rape scene), Sweet Hostage, and then the film that began her downward spiral of bad film roles Victory at Entebbe.

Dan-in-Toronto · « **Reply #4 on:** June 15, 2004, 05:00:58 AM »

Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz
Hayley Mills in The Chalk Garden
Roddy McDowell in How Green Was My Valley

Tomovoz · « **Reply #5 on:** June 15, 2004, 05:11:05 AM »

Thanks DR Jose. You see sleepy people (not quite dead).

Tomovoz · « **Reply #6 on:** June 15, 2004, 05:12:41 AM »

Forgot to mention the Oscar nominee from "Whale Rider". Great performance.

Dan (the Man) · « **Reply #7 on:** June 15, 2004, 05:24:22 AM »

Aside from the already mentioned:

Justin Henry in Kramer vs Kramer
Anna Paquin in The Piano
Christina Ricci in both Addams Family movies
Heather O'Rourke in Poltergeist
Heather Matarazzo in Welcome to the Dollhouse

Matt H. · « **Reply #8 on:** June 15, 2004, 05:34:37 AM »

I think SPAMALOT is a risky proposition, but it could be nutty fun like FORUM if the score is interesting. I withhold judgment until I hear the score. (Won't this be the set show from hell?)

Matt H. · « **Reply #9 on:** June 15, 2004, 05:37:03 AM »

Favorite child performances:

Claude Jarman, Jr. in THE YEARLING
Bobby Driscoll in THE WINDOW and SONG OF THE SOUTH
Patty Duke in THE MIRACLE WORKER
Judy Garland in THE WIZARD OF OZ

Dan-in-Toronto · « **Reply #10 on:** June 15, 2004, 05:54:53 AM »

I'd love to see a movie made about the child actor "Bobbitt," who appears in the story of that name in Thomas Tryon's "Crowned Heads."

Dan-in-Toronto · « **Reply #11 on:** June 15, 2004, 05:59:51 AM »

So what will we be serving at the HHW 50,000-post celebration?

William E. Lurie · « **Reply #12 on:** June 15, 2004, 06:19:25 AM »

Patty McCormick in THE BAD SEED and Brandon deWilde in MEMBER OF THE WEDDING.

Regarding the Monty Python musical, it's all in the casting. If they can get people who are as crazy as the original --- and tailor the work to them --- it just might work initially. I always felt that Python skits started out great but then petered out. They didn't know how to end most of them, but the beginnings were so funny you almost didn't care.

Dan-in-Toronto · « **Reply #13 on:** June 15, 2004, 06:25:00 AM »

The Dead End Kids (including Gabe Dell) in DEAD END.

Jane · « **Reply #14 on:** June 15, 2004, 06:48:30 AM »

Panni, I still listen to things my mother told me, not that I listened when she was alive. I promised her to always clip coupons and to send in my Publisher’s House contests. Tomorrow she would have been 85.

BTW, a friend of my had a similar experience, no torn underwear but he was wearing a gag gift he had received of “big wopper” underwear.

Panni · « **Reply #15 on:** June 15, 2004, 06:49:36 AM »

Good morning. Many of my favorite child performances have been listed. Let me add...
Jean-Pierre Leaud in LES QUATRE CENT COUPS
Natalie Wood in MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET
Jamie Bell in BILLY ELLIOT
Jodie Foster in TAXI DRIVER
Drew Barrymore in ET
The children in SMALL CHANGE
The group in STAND BY ME
The yet unknown boys who will one day play BENJAMIN KRITZER

Jrand73 · « **Reply #16 on:** June 15, 2004, 06:58:34 AM »

Tuesday already!

So many of my favorite child performances have been mentioned, so I am renominating several:

Hayley Mills in PT & POLLYANNA!
Judy in WOZ.
Bobby Driscoll in THE WINDOW.

I will also add:

Billy Gray in THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL
Tommy Rettig in RIVER OF NO RETURN
Harper Carter in TITANIC (1953)
DR Susan Gordon in THE FIVE PENNIES
Bobs Watson in ON BORROWED TIME

Jrand73 · « **Reply #17 on:** June 15, 2004, 07:00:32 AM »

And here is your Allison Hayes picture of the Week!

She is supposed to be seeing a giant and a spaceship...but I imagine it's a teamster with a cigar in his mouth waving a tree branch at her!

Jane · « **Reply #18 on:** June 15, 2004, 07:00:41 AM »

To add to the fine list of names, two boys who were wonderful in almost anything they did.

Dean Stockwell: THE BOY WITH THE GREEN HAIR and GENTLEMAN’S AGREEMENT.

Freddie Bartholomew: CAPTAINS COURAGOUS

Dan (the Man) · « **Reply #19 on:** June 15, 2004, 07:02:19 AM »

I just read that they have arrested a suspect in the Robert Lees murder. The guy sort of looks like Jack Black. Here's a CNN link

Jane · « **Reply #20 on:** June 15, 2004, 07:22:27 AM »

I hope they have the right person and he's off the streets. The mystery is why is did such a thing. Very sad.

Jennifer · « **Reply #21 on:** June 15, 2004, 07:26:19 AM »

DR Jason: I did not see the WB's Superstar. Just wasn't my cup of tea. But can you tell me what happened at the end (assuming it's over). Was the person extremely annoyed to find out that the show has been mocking them?

Btw, come to think of it I did see a few minutes of it a week or two ago. And these people were awful beyond belief (I mean they made William Hung seem terrific). It was just so unbelievable to me that these kids thought they could sing. I really cannot believe that none of their friends or family would have clued them in throughout their life.

Jennifer · « **Reply #22 on:** June 15, 2004, 07:29:21 AM »

And re: the name Coco

I think the fact that the child will have famous parents will help. I don't think anyone will mock her.

Btw, I guess they got them name from COurteney COx. It's a cute name, although I have not heard it used for a kid (only animals).

MBarnum · « **Reply #23 on:** June 15, 2004, 07:30:34 AM »

Favorite child performances:

Ann Carter: Curse of the Cat People

Susan Gordon: Attack of the Puppet People

Bonita Granville and Marcia Mae Jones : These Three

Karen Dotrice: Three Lives of Thomasina

Donnie Dunagan: Son of Frankenstein

DearReaderLaura · « **Reply #24 on:** June 15, 2004, 07:30:56 AM »

As soon as I can awaken the sleepyhead, we'll head west. BK, I hope you are not on a low-carb diet this week.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #25 on:** June 15, 2004, 07:52:31 AM »

Thanks DTM - like DRJANE, I hope they found the right guy...and he DOES look like Jack Black!

Matt H. · « **Reply #26 on:** June 15, 2004, 08:01:30 AM »

I really love Freddie Bartholemew in DAVID COPPERFIELD.

And let's not forget Shirley Temple. I think CAPTAIN JANUARY is her most accomplished work as a child.

Matt H. · « **Reply #27 on:** June 15, 2004, 08:03:17 AM »

DR JRand, mentioning ON BORROWED TIME reminds me how much I enjoyed the MGM movie of it I saw on TCM several years ago. Always worth watching again.

MBarnum · « **Reply #28 on:** June 15, 2004, 08:20:02 AM »

How could I have forgotten Shirley Temple! Wow...she was great in Baby Take a Bow and the one where James Dunn plays a pilot. Can't think of the title just at this moment.

Dan-in-Toronto · « **Reply #29 on:** June 15, 2004, 08:21:01 AM »

Fact du jour:

"With disdain for appearances, Gustav Mahler made it a point to wear shabby hats and coats with torn linings."

News:

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