Topic: A FISTFUL OF NOTES (Read 31543 times)

Matt H. · « **Reply #120 on:** April 20, 2005, 01:30:27 PM »

AFTER THE SUNSET would interest me more for the cast alone than THE NOTEBOOK (though Garner and Rowlands would certainly be worth seeing in their supporting roles). But I haven't seen either one.

Matt H. · « **Reply #121 on:** April 20, 2005, 01:34:04 PM »

I watched THE PRIVATE LIVES OF ELIZABETH AND ESSEX today. The color is luscious, of course, showing up most impressively Orry-Kelly's magnificent gowns for Elizabeth in a rainbow of bright colors.

But there is speckling and some print damage present and, worst of all, scenes where the three Technicolor strips are out of alignment and there's color ringing all over the place in addition to being out of focus. I guess it would have been far too costly to go back and fix those scenes where the strips didn't match, but it took me right out of the movie every time it happened (which were long shots mostly).

The close-ups and medium shots of the stars were sharp and gorgeous. Yep, Errol ranks up there with Tyrone Power in terms of male beauty. Breathtaking.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #122 on:** April 20, 2005, 01:35:11 PM »

Just read a couple of reviews of AFTER THE SUNSET.....I quit reading and lost interest when I read the name Salma Hayek.

Matt H. · « **Reply #123 on:** April 20, 2005, 01:35:14 PM »

Also meant to mention how superb Korngold's music score is the ELIZABETH AND ESSEX. It's majestic, lush, and endearing. What a master he was!

Jrand73 · « **Reply #124 on:** April 20, 2005, 01:37:09 PM »

DR MATTH - last night in KIM made in 1950 - Errol Flynn seemed to have some skin problems I never noticed before. Time marches on, and I guess it's true that it does march right across your face.

SUNSET cast members that might compel me would be Woody Harrelson and Pierce Brosnan.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #125 on:** April 20, 2005, 01:37:27 PM »

MR BK will your short story collection have a common thread?

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #126 on:** April 20, 2005, 01:44:53 PM »

Smoked turkey on dark rye with lettuce and tomato...and a bit of cheese.

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #127 on:** April 20, 2005, 01:48:12 PM »

JRand54, I discovered WICKED CITY in a bookshop in London last year. The book was well-represented in most of the bookshops in town in their English history section. My feeling is those that are looking for such material will find it without my help...and, if they can't, well, it ain't going to diminish my enjoyment of the book. I waste enough time on the internet without starting to write book reviews on amazon.com.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #128 on:** April 20, 2005, 01:49:22 PM »

OK - I think that's enough photo editing today. -Yes, I changed the B&W pics again... and again.. So...

Ginny · « **Reply #129 on:** April 20, 2005, 01:50:41 PM »

DR Jose - I love your new(est) avatar!

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #130 on:** April 20, 2005, 01:51:25 PM »

I expect that skin problems Errol Flynn was having in Kim were the usual blotchy blemishes that accompany acute alcoholism. No one ever disintegrated from a paragon of male handsomeness to old man faster than Flynn. The last time he looked really good was Adventures of Don Juan. And even then you could see the beginnings of dissipation. By the time he died at 50, he looked 65.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #131 on:** April 20, 2005, 01:51:58 PM »

In a basket or on a plate, DR RLP?

Jrand73 · « **Reply #132 on:** April 20, 2005, 01:53:28 PM »

Sad sad sad, DRCP. I was thinking that some of the KIM problem might have been the false beard he had to wear....you know what that spirit gum can do to you day after day! It didn't seem to be a real beard, and in any case would have been dyed if it was - MORE PROBLEMS!

Ginny · « **Reply #133 on:** April 20, 2005, 01:53:29 PM »

DR George - Sorry to hear you're feeling sore. Maybe the package I mailed to you today will cheer you up!

Jrand73 · « **Reply #134 on:** April 20, 2005, 01:54:07 PM »

VERY nice changes in the b/w DR ARBUS...I mean DRJOSE. And yes a very introspective avatar!

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #135 on:** April 20, 2005, 01:54:16 PM »

I'M OUTTA CONTROL!!!!

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #136 on:** April 20, 2005, 01:57:09 PM »

Quote from: Ginny on April 20, 2005, 01:50:41 PM

DR Jose - I love your new(est) avatar!

So... Here's the long book scene... Oh! I have my digital camera with me... Let's turn the flash off... Set the self-timer... Put it on the end of the keyboard... 10-9-8... Stay really still... 3-2-1.. OK... Let's see how it turned out.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #137 on:** April 20, 2005, 02:01:05 PM »

OK - I simply must hie myself off of this couch... Most unseemly to be sitting here on this couch for hours in a row when it's such a beautiful day outside..

-There is life outside my apartment....

Laters...

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #138 on:** April 20, 2005, 02:02:37 PM »

Jrand54, I believe it was a real beard and I believe it was dyed.

Matt H. · « **Reply #139 on:** April 20, 2005, 02:04:05 PM »

Same thing happened to Spencer Tracy with his alcoholism. He looked a good 10-15 years older than he was starting from about 1950 onward.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #140 on:** April 20, 2005, 02:04:24 PM »

Quote from: Charles Pogue on April 20, 2005, 02:02:37 PM

Jrand54, I believe it was a real beard and I believe it was dyed.

OUCH!!!! He has that reddish-blonde crew cut as well.....looks sort of like Eminem.

Matt H. · « **Reply #141 on:** April 20, 2005, 02:05:54 PM »

Yes, today is supposedly the last of our early summer days (high 81) for awhile, so I took a walk this morning and felt so great when I got back home. It was wonderful to breathe the fresh air. I enjoy my treadmill, but there's nothing like a mid-morning walk when it's not humid and most people are at work thus making the streets relatively empty.

Matt H. · « **Reply #142 on:** April 20, 2005, 02:07:05 PM »

I believe that LOST recap episode is next week (a week from tonight).

JMK · « **Reply #143 on:** April 20, 2005, 02:07:32 PM »

Larry, why do you think the keyboard key signatures in Pajama Game are so unseemly? I have never seen so many songs in an awkward assortment of 6 and 7 flats in my life (I'm playing from the conductor's score, which makes the double flats about next-to-impossible to read). I mean, I know the concert keys were probably chosen to fit the singers and to make it easy on the brass and wind players (who, after all, need it to be as easy as possible

), but why in heaven's name didn't they just enharmonicize (that's a word, isn't it?) the keyboard charts to something vaguely readable like, say, B major?

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #144 on:** April 20, 2005, 02:08:47 PM »

Of course, Tracy's looks never quite plummeted from the heights that Flynn's did.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #145 on:** April 20, 2005, 02:09:27 PM »

Quote from: JoseSPiano on April 20, 2005, 01:54:16 PM

I'M OUTTA CONTROL!!!!

And this is new?

Jrand73 · « **Reply #146 on:** April 20, 2005, 02:09:43 PM »

DR CP just checked out some KIM photos online....not many available....and I think you are correct...it is a real beard - dyed!

Dean Stockwell was VERY good as the title character.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #147 on:** April 20, 2005, 02:11:36 PM »

LOL DRCP.....yes poor Spencer certainly had quite a distance LESS to fall in the looks department .....Manuel notwithstanding.

Matt H. · « **Reply #148 on:** April 20, 2005, 02:11:37 PM »

Quote from: Charles Pogue on April 20, 2005, 02:08:47 PM

Of course, Tracy's looks never quite plummeted from the heights that Flynn's did.

Well, he didn't have what Flynn had to start with, but he still looked much older than he actually was. In DESK SET, it's hard to believe him and Hepburn as a couple (despite what we know now) because he almost looks like her father. By the time of GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER, he DID look like her father and like Katharine Houghton's grandfather. (Admittedly, he was very ill at the time of its making.)

Matt H. · « **Reply #149 on:** April 20, 2005, 02:13:04 PM »

Dean Stockwell turned in some impressive performances as a child. I'm kind of surprised the Academy didn't bestow one of its miniature Oscars on him.

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