Topic: BEFUDDLED WITH INSUFFICIENT CHILI (Read 6970 times)

Cillaliz · « **Reply #60 on:** March 31, 2014, 01:04:36 PM »

Now if he would just go look at the great office space that just opened up on the 6th floor. I told him he should see it, and he said "Oh, I won't be ready for that for a year..." LOL.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #61 on:** March 31, 2014, 01:05:46 PM »

"...without love
Life is like a beat that you can't follow
Without love
Life is Doris Day at the Apollo..."

--HAIRSPRAY

Jane · « **Reply #62 on:** March 31, 2014, 01:15:33 PM »

Quote from: Jrand63 on March 31, 2014, 12:17:41 PM

There are a couple of movies to add to my list:

By the Light of the Silvery Moon
On Moonlight Bay....

Leon Ames, Rosemary DeCamp, Billy Gray, AND Mary Wickes.....what's not to like?

Nothing.

Jane · « **Reply #63 on:** March 31, 2014, 01:16:35 PM »

Quote from: Cillaliz on March 31, 2014, 12:48:51 PM

I said I even live alone and can't sleep when other people are in the house. He said "What about guests" I said "I don't have guests". He's kept his door shut most of the day.

Jane · « **Reply #64 on:** March 31, 2014, 01:18:33 PM »

Quote from: Cillaliz on March 31, 2014, 12:51:00 PM

It actually went fine, though. He's definitely not in a hurry to leave, but if he's quieter, I'm good with that. I'm also keeping my door shut, so it's a lot better in here. I don't think it will be an issue and he was actually glad that I told him that when he gets to the point of adding a secretary, it won't be here.

Good. It sounds like all will be fine.

Dan M · « **Reply #65 on:** March 31, 2014, 01:20:19 PM »

I wanted very much to like IT HAPPENED TO JANE because of Jack Lemmon and especially Ernie Kovacs. For me, the movie had lots of promise but never got out of second gear. Even the change in personality of one of the main characters wasn't all that much of a surprise. Doris Day was okay in the movie and Jack Lemmon was being Jack Lemmon. Sorry to say it was an inert experience for me.

Dan M · « **Reply #66 on:** March 31, 2014, 01:25:06 PM »

Hitchcock's THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH is, of course, Hitchcock, so I am biased into liking it. Doris Day was, to me, a surprise in the movie because I had no preparation from her other movies that she could be dramatic and believable. She is quite touching when she is on the telephone with her son. "Que Sera Sera" is an all-time great song which serves a purpose in the movie other than just being a random stop-the-storyline-and-let's-sing-a-song plot deadener of which so many other movies are guilty.

Dan M · « **Reply #67 on:** March 31, 2014, 01:30:21 PM »

THE PAJAMA GAME with Doris Day and John Raitt is great entertainment. I just need to dry clean my memory of the Harry Connick version (I don't like him, as he started out as a third-rate Sinatra impersonator).

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #68 on:** March 31, 2014, 01:31:52 PM »

Hmmmmmmmmmmm.....I like Harry Connick Jr. very very much because he is NOT Frank Sinatra whom I loathe.

Dan M · « **Reply #69 on:** March 31, 2014, 01:35:52 PM »

I did this a while back. I watched SEND ME NO FLOWERS and then SECONDS. Gave me a whole weird Rock Hudson experience because of what happens in the first movie and how he comes to be in the second. There seem to me at least many veiled hints in these movies about the real Rock. Generally, I enjoy the DORIS DAY-ROCK HUDSON-TONY RANDALL triangle. But, with what we know from the intervening years, that was clearly an isoceles triangle tipped in Tony's favor.

Dan M · « **Reply #70 on:** March 31, 2014, 01:41:19 PM »

Quote from: Ron Pulliam on March 31, 2014, 01:31:52 PM

Hmmmmmmmmmmm.....I like Harry Connick Jr. very very much because he is NOT Frank Sinatra whom I loathe.

I guess we will have to agree to disagree. I've tried to like HC all these years and he just doesn't click for me. I even saw him in person and nothing. I did try.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #71 on:** March 31, 2014, 01:47:51 PM »

I guess I wish there had been a third angle to the triangle rather than Tony Randall....there was never any possibility that Doris' strong characters would end up with Tony's saps.

If - as in THAT TOUCH OF MINK and TEACHER'S PET - the 'other guy' had been Gig Young, then it would have been a contest.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #72 on:** March 31, 2014, 01:49:09 PM »

I think I liked JANE because of the chemistry between Day and Lemmon....and I like Kovacs, too....and I like movies when Doris has kids because (contrary to the kids' experience in the making of the films) - she really seems like she likes those kids as her own.

singdaw · « **Reply #73 on:** March 31, 2014, 01:53:13 PM »

Quote from: Ron Pulliam on March 31, 2014, 10:41:47 AM

Do you mean someone like Dennis Day?

Yes - but Susan Dey would work, too.

Dan M · « **Reply #74 on:** March 31, 2014, 02:00:14 PM »

Quote from: Jrand63 on March 31, 2014, 01:49:09 PM

I think I liked JANE because of the chemistry between Day and Lemmon....and I like Kovacs, too....and I like movies when Doris has kids because (contrary to the kids' experience in the making of the films) - she really seems like she likes those kids as her own.

I agree with everything you say, but I sometimes feel that Richard Quine's touch is off. All the leads were good; it was the overall movie that didn't gel for me.

bk · « **Reply #75 on:** March 31, 2014, 02:01:14 PM »

Picked up boxes o' books and Grant will be here this afternoon to do his thing, after which all copies will be shipped in the morning or maybe even tonight. Then I had some bacon and eggs, and have been on the phone ever since, mostly with my wonderful orchestrator, David Siegel, who's halfway done doing our new orchestration.

Dan M · « **Reply #76 on:** March 31, 2014, 02:16:40 PM »

I always enjoyed Doris Day's title sequence songs for her later pictures. While the songs may not have always been classics, they had a good beat, she delivered her all, and somehow set the mood as you "entered" the movie proper.

Dan M · « **Reply #77 on:** March 31, 2014, 02:24:36 PM »

I know in my heart that THE GLASS BOTTOM BOAT isn't classic cinema, but it is Frank Tashlin, the opening is lots of fun, and Rod Taylor is a good foil to Day. Many in the supporting cast are good: Paul Lynde, John McGiver, Ellen Corby, Dick Martin. I never "got" Arthur Godfrey and to me he is the same whether he was on TV or on the big screen. Maybe it's a generational thing. I've also often wondered if the Andy Griffith character, Lonesome Rhodes, was inspired by Godfrey because the avuncular fellow he seemed to be masked the ugliness he had for many.

Dan M · « **Reply #78 on:** March 31, 2014, 02:31:47 PM »

I don't really remember "The Doris Day Show" which she kind of did under duress, but for which she was the pro that she always was. Has anyone revisited the series and is it worth watching?

Jane · « **Reply #79 on:** March 31, 2014, 02:35:09 PM »

Quote from: Dan M on March 31, 2014, 01:20:19 PM

I wanted very much to like IT HAPPENED TO JANE because of Jack Lemmon and especially Ernie Kovacs. For me, the movie had lots of promise but never got out of second gear. Even the change in personality of one of the main characters wasn't all that much of a surprise. Doris Day was okay in the movie and Jack Lemmon was being Jack Lemmon. Sorry to say it was an inert experience for me.

I still think it is fun even if it isn't a great movie.

Jane · « **Reply #80 on:** March 31, 2014, 02:37:15 PM »

Quote from: Dan M on March 31, 2014, 01:25:06 PM

Hitchcock's THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH is, of course, Hitchcock, so I am biased into liking it. Doris Day was, to me, a surprise in the movie because I had no preparation from her other movies that she could be dramatic and believable. She is quite touching when she is on the telephone with her son. "Que Sera Sera" is an all-time great song which serves a purpose in the movie other than just being a random stop-the-storyline-and-let's-sing-a-song plot deadener of which so many other movies are guilty.

She wasn't a surprise as I saw this in the movie theater so to me she was always a talented actress.

Jane · « **Reply #81 on:** March 31, 2014, 02:40:16 PM »

Quote from: Dan M on March 31, 2014, 02:24:36 PM

I know in my heart that THE GLASS BOTTOM BOAT isn't classic cinema,

It is simply a fun romance story and entertaining because of the leads.

John G. · « **Reply #82 on:** March 31, 2014, 02:40:31 PM »

Quote from: Jane on March 31, 2014, 01:16:35 PM

Quote from: Cillaliz on March 31, 2014, 12:48:51 PM
I said I even live alone and can't sleep when other people are in the house. He said "What about guests" I said "I don't have guests". He's kept his door shut most of the day.

John G. · « **Reply #83 on:** March 31, 2014, 02:42:35 PM »

Quote from: Ron Pulliam on March 31, 2014, 01:31:52 PM

Hmmmmmmmmmmm.....I like Harry Connick Jr. very very much because he is NOT Frank Sinatra whom I loathe.

I agree on Sinatra. Not a taste I've ever acquired, though I do like him in High Society, but much of that was written for him.

Jane · « **Reply #84 on:** March 31, 2014, 02:50:03 PM »

Quote from: Dan M on March 31, 2014, 01:35:52 PM

There seem to me at least many veiled hints in these movies about the real Rock.

Really? I have never noticed them.

As for the triangle I don't think Tony was Rock's cup of tea and it wouldn't have mattered as Tony wouldn't have been interested

I'm curious, Bruce & Jeanne didn't you know early on the Rock was gay? I thought it was pretty common knowledge.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #85 on:** March 31, 2014, 02:54:33 PM »

I could use some insufficient chili right about now.

Jane · « **Reply #86 on:** March 31, 2014, 03:01:41 PM »

Quote from: Jrand63 on March 31, 2014, 01:47:51 PM

I guess I wish there had been a third angle to the triangle rather than Tony Randall....there was never any possibility that Doris' strong characters would end up with Tony's saps.

If - as in THAT TOUCH OF MINK and TEACHER'S PET - the 'other guy' had been Gig Young, then it would have been a contest.

Gig didn't get her in "Young at Heart" which always bothered me. When I saw "Four Daughters", the movie Heart is based on, I thought the story was much better. I still enjoy Heart.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #87 on:** March 31, 2014, 03:08:36 PM »

so true, DR JANE....but Sinatra had it in his contract that his character wouldn't die...in YOUNG AT HEART.

Jane · « **Reply #88 on:** March 31, 2014, 03:09:37 PM »

Quote from: Dan M on March 31, 2014, 02:31:47 PM

I don't really remember "The Doris Day Show" which she kind of did under duress, but for which she was the pro that she always was. Has anyone revisited the series and is it worth watching?

I haven't but have a feeling it would not hold up. I liked the early episodes with Denver Pyle.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #89 on:** March 31, 2014, 03:11:42 PM »

DR DAN M I have all five seasons of The DD Show on DVD....and it's not really much fun. It does have MR BK in the pilot to a series that was going to be a spin off....but didn't happen....

I like the extras where all of the people talk about working on the series and how much they all liked Doris....and it was interesting to learn that many of the shots of "Doris" in the opening montage were of a double....if you don't see the face...it ain't Doris.

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