Topic: HIGHLIGHTS AND LOWLIGHTS (Read 886 times)

Rodzinski · « **Reply #300 on:** July 19, 2025, 11:15:31 PM »

Page 11!

Rodzinski · « **Reply #301 on:** July 19, 2025, 11:17:14 PM »

Leo the Lion is the costumed mascot and he came out in papal gear as “Pope Leo” firing the T-shirt cannon. It might not have played in the U.S., but the crowd loved it.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #302 on:** July 19, 2025, 11:20:05 PM »

Not as much as the “Kiss Cam” moment where they recreated and parodied recent events with a Lions fan and Saskatchewan fan pretending to be caught on camera and hiding in embarrassment and shame. Well done.

bk · « **Reply #303 on:** July 19, 2025, 11:41:28 PM »

New notes are written.

bk · « **Reply #304 on:** July 19, 2025, 11:44:44 PM »

I did see The Birds the day it opened. I loved every second of it and saw it many times thereafter. There was a big reaction on the very disturbing shot where Jessica Tandy sees the guy with the pecked out eyes. Brilliantly edited going in quick succession from long shot to medium shot to close-up. Mr. Hitchcock, still at the height of his powers. For me, the two directors I could always count on despite some missteps along the way, which all directors have, are Hitchcock first and Billy Wilder second. Yes, I love other directors, but I can watch any Hitchcock or Wilder film over and over without ever getting bored.

bk · « **Reply #305 on:** July 19, 2025, 11:47:13 PM »

I also saw Marnie the day it opened, and while everyone was busy saying that Hitchcock had lost it, I was the only one at that time who stood up for it - I thought it was great then and I think it's great now, with a majorly brilliant performance from Louise Latham. It was, I feel, a bold film for him to make in the way he made it. And isn't Diane Baker always great. I got to know her in the last twenty years - she loves Kritzerland CDs - and we've had several nice interactions. Then again, I met Tippi, too, and I almost made her cry.

bk · « **Reply #306 on:** July 19, 2025, 11:50:08 PM »

Why, you ask? Because I was hired to rewrite and direct some comedy thing and in casting it I asked to see several folks that I loved, like Kathleen Freeman, Tippi. Chris Connelly, Jill Schoelen, Marvin Kaplan, and other classic comedy actors. Pre-cast were Ruth Buzzi and Pat Carroll. So, Tippi came in and I began by telling her that I thought he performance in Marnie was perfect and she got very teary-eyed and said no one had, at that point, ever said that to her.

bk · « **Reply #307 on:** July 19, 2025, 11:52:29 PM »

And Chris Connelly - I wanted to tell him how much his befriending me on my first TV guest shot on The Young Lawyers meant to me and that I'd never forgotten his kindness. He wasn't in the show, but he came to have lunch with his friend Gary Lockwood, who was also guest-starring. They invited me to have lunch with them and both were so lovely to this first-time before the camera actor.

bk · « **Reply #308 on:** July 19, 2025, 11:58:02 PM »

So, he came in the room - at that point he was suffering from lung cancer, I believe, but still trying to work. As I did with Tippi, I went to say to him, "I don't know if you remember me..." but before I could even open my mouth he said, "I don't know if you remember meeting me when we had lunch on The Young Lawyers" - I couldn't believe it. I was so moved by that. He had almost no voice left and he said, "You know what I do, if it's okay I just am struggling with my voice and I'd rather not read." I told him it was fine and I reiterated to him how much his kindness meant to me and that I'd never forgotten it. A month later, the day before my birthday, he passed away at forty-seven.

bk · « **Reply #309 on:** July 19, 2025, 11:58:30 PM »

The jerk who was producing it, never had the money in place and so the whole thing fell apart.

bk · « **Reply #310 on:** July 19, 2025, 11:58:58 PM »

It's all in There's Mel, There's Woody, and There's You.

George · « **Reply #311 on:** July 19, 2025, 11:59:19 PM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on July 19, 2025, 04:02:54 AM

My only other news is that the kindle, audio book, and paper edition of Annabelle & Thatch are in their final prep stage. I'm so proud of Jeremy Clayton's work on the book. Here are three of his illustrations.

Larry, these are wonderful!

bk · « **Reply #312 on:** July 19, 2025, 11:59:35 PM »

Memories, like the windmills of my mind.

bk · « **Reply #313 on:** **Today** at 12:00:03 AM »

Misty watercolor memories, of the way I was.

George · « **Reply #314 on:** **Today** at 12:00:36 AM »

Quote from: Freddie on July 19, 2025, 04:40:26 AM

Quote from: elmore3003 on July 19, 2025, 03:47:50 AM
I had a so-so night of sleep with too many bathroom breaks. The cats behaved, which is good, but between the aches n the knee and hip joints and the neuropathy in my feet, I was awake too much of the night.

Two words. No, make that five words.

Pee Bucket, With a Cover.

Ditto.

bk · « **Reply #315 on:** **Today** at 12:00:49 AM »

The Young Lawyers episode directed by Mr. John Newland, who I'd never missed on One Step Beyond. Mr. Newland was VERY fond of me.

George · « **Reply #316 on:** **Today** at 12:01:23 AM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on July 19, 2025, 04:59:09 AM

Quote from: Laura on July 19, 2025, 04:39:37 AM
Did your kitties have shelter names that you changed, Elmore? I seem to remember that Annabelle and Thatch were their shelter names, but Stella wasn't.

Yes, I kept their shelter names. I did change Stella's name; it was Pinot Noir. Oy!

Good idea.

Pinot Noir??

bk · « **Reply #317 on:** **Today** at 12:01:28 AM »

He loved playing trivia about Hollywood, and I was the only one on the set who could keep up with him.

bk · « **Reply #318 on:** **Today** at 12:02:09 AM »

I'd be there trying to study my lines and I'd hear him bellow from across the soundstage - "Where's Bruce? Triva!"

bk · « **Reply #319 on:** **Today** at 12:02:22 AM »

How blessed was I, seriously?

George · « **Reply #320 on:** **Today** at 12:02:36 AM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on July 19, 2025, 05:01:22 AM

Quote from: singdaw on July 19, 2025, 04:50:40 AM
DR elmore3003, is the plan to have a live orchestra play the score for a screening?

Yes. The screening is in Akron, Ohio, I think, and the orchestra will be the same as it was for that theatre in 1925, sixteen players.

Very cool!

bk · « **Reply #321 on:** **Today** at 12:03:03 AM »

And right after that, working with Norman Tokar, director of The Happiest Millionaire?

George · « **Reply #322 on:** **Today** at 12:03:16 AM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on July 19, 2025, 05:04:03 AM

bk · « **Reply #323 on:** **Today** at 12:03:23 AM »

And then working with Patricia Neal?

bk · « **Reply #324 on:** **Today** at 12:04:23 AM »

And lunching with Elsa Lanchester, Christopher Isherwood, and Don Bachardy every Sunday for almost a year?

bk · « **Reply #325 on:** **Today** at 12:04:37 AM »

Don Bachardy was VERY fond of me.

bk · « **Reply #326 on:** **Today** at 12:05:29 AM »

New notes are up.

bk · « **Reply #327 on:** **Today** at 12:05:36 AM »

Up are new notes.

bk · « **Reply #328 on:** **Today** at 12:05:42 AM »

I've seen them.

bk · « **Reply #329 on:** **Today** at 12:05:49 AM »

I've read them.

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