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...starring our beloved Grayson Hall is airing EST on Turner Classic Movies at 12:30 A.M. Thursday night/Friday morning
EST time. I urge you all to watch. It's one hell of a movie.
Watch the mail, Magnus...
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I've got my DVR set to record it. [ghost_smiley]
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I just recently started to get into Old Hollywood movies and I love that channel. Unfotunately, they took it off my cable. :( I haven't seen this one yet!! I am bummed.
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Old Man Karlen doesn't have TCM either. I have been taping movies for him for years. You know what are his faves? The Thin Man series. He doesn't like war movies or horror movies. He likes murder mysteries. Charlie Chan, Sherlock Holmes. His absolute favorites, above all, are Laurel and Hardy. Ha! Bet you didn't know that, did you?
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The movie was also on a few months ago, and I missed it then due to an urgent need to be somewhere... where that somewhere was, I don't remember, though. Sadly, we dropped our TV service a month or two ago (TCM is one of the few channels I miss, as well), so this is one I'll be Netflixing, if they have it.
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It's great to know that there are youngsters such as yourself Goober who appreciate old Hollywood movies. Maybe the world isn't doomed after all. I am 30 and just recently began to get an interested in them thanks to the lovely Rose McGowan. I wish I had years ago as I have A LOT of catching up to do.
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Thanks, Janet! I'm sure that's one scary iguana! Radioactive I'm guessing, and Grayson has to irradiate herself to hundreds of feet tall to battle it? No wonder she was nominated for an Oscar! I guess plots before seeing the movie, it's a gift...
The movie was also on a few months ago, and I missed it then due to an urgent need to be somewhere... this is one I'll be Netflixing, if they have it.
Last time I was in limbo, I felt an urgent need to be someplace. Last time I Netflixed I broke my pelvis in three places. I found I was able to play the violin though, which I'd never been able to do before.
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Old Man Karlen doesn't have TCM either.
old man karlen meaning john karlen? are you a relation?
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That would have made an excellent DS storyline, Magnus. [ghost_happy] And yes, Netflixing can be quite hard on the body sometimes. I still have a concussion from the last time I Netflixed a movie. [ghost_wacko]
In all seriousness, though, I'm popping it into my Queue.
And thanks, Taeylor.
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so this is one I'll be Netflixing, if they have it.
They do have it! That's how I saw it originally, about a year ago.
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old man karlen meaning john karlen? are you a relation?
No, I'm not related to JK. Just fell into a friendship with him, although he reminds me of my papa very much in some ways.
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Well that is cool. I have often dreamed of becoming friends with a DS star. Good for you and your wickedness Janet! [devil]
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No, I'm not related to JK. Just fell into a friendship with him, although he reminds me of my papa very much in some ways.
that's cool. please relay to him that he was my first "hero", from watching Dark Shadows. ( guess you could tell from my handle and pic, eh?) (and he should have been put together with MAGGIE, fergodssakes!) and i also enjoyed him in cagney and lacey, trilogy of terror and daughters of darkness! always wanted to meet him to tell him that, but haven't so far!
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I hope you're getting a copy of the Laurel & Hardy festival of shorts on TCM today. If not let me know. I am.
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I just saw Night of the Iguana this past Wednesday after a tiring day of teaching junior high students. Grayson is beautiful. She played the part well and had her bravado about her as usual. Netflix works great for me. I am currently watchiing The Devil's Daughter with my beloved Jonathan and I am sad he does not seem to have a speaking part. The movie is not over yet but he sure looks good!!! His facial expressions though are WONDERFUL!! I hope he speaks..i have never seen this and i had to wait forver to get it on Netflix. My queue said it had a very long wait. I'll see how it ends.
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I am currently watchiing The Devil's Daughter with my beloved Jonathan and I am sad he does not seem to have a speaking part. The movie is not over yet but he sure looks good!!!
I like the movie but I do wish the DVD used a better print source. I hope you enjoy it.
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Okay the movie ended. The ending well.. it was .. it sucked!! My beautiful boy Jonathan did not speak once!! I don't even know who the leading part went too.. who was or is that actress? Oh well at least i got to see JF in something other than DS. I have already seen Seizure too. I actually liked that movie better than this one. Oh and yes Richard Burton was absolutely terrified of Grayson's Ms. Fellowes. I guess she did not realize she was gay in the movie. He was gentle in not wanting to let her know he knew. Ava Gardner's character though was not so sympathetic and let her know how butch she actually was. That sent Ms. Fellowes off the wall. I guess she had not realized it herself. In any case her Oscar nomination for best supporting actress was well deserved. Imagine playing a gay woman in the sixties. Pretty impressive but than Shirley MacLaine had a similar role with Audrey Hepburn in 1961 or '62 in the movie The Children's Hour. I believe Audrey did this one right after Breakfast at Tiffany's.
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Well, you know I've read that MS Hall was up for an Oscar for this picture. She damn well should have won. She was wonderful.
I thought it was one of the weirdest pictures I'd ever seen, but it was a good movie.
Magus - your video is in the mail. I hope you enjoy it. Give it a chance. It took me about to the end to enjoy it fully.
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Well, you know I've read that MS Hall was up for an Oscar for this picture. She damn well should have won. She was wonderful.
I thought it was one of the weirdest pictures I'd ever seen, but it was a good movie.
All things Tennessee Williams are . .well.. .weird. . I submit this as a partial list of his plays. . I know 80% of them . .dark, gothic, haunted, troubling. .weird all of 'em that I know..
The Glass Menagerie (1944) • A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) • Summer and Smoke (1948) • The Rose Tattoo (1951) • Camino Real (1953) • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) • Orpheus Descending (1957) • Suddenly, Last Summer (1958) • Sweet Bird of Youth (1959) • Period of Adjustment (1960) • The Night of the Iguana (1961)
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Weird, maybe - but unmistakably brilliant, simply amazing, sometimes depraved, and always sensitive examinations of human frailty. Not being all that familiar with his work, some of the most enjoyable moments from my high school English classes was reading and discussing a couple of his plays. And then seeing the movies or TV adaptations of those and more of his plays, including Night of the Iguana, only made me enjoy and appreciate his work more. The description gets used so often that sometimes it loses its meaning, but Williams really was a genius - and he created the type of characters that actors kill to play. And when they're in the hands of skilled actors who can understand each and every nuance of their characters in the ways that Grayson understood and embodied Judith Fellows (and other actors have), the effect is electrifying.
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It's actually interesting that the play and screenplay for NOTI are so different. Judith is a minor minor character in the stageplay. Her time taken up by German Nazis or something.
Huston wanted Judith's part beefed up and in many letters I reviewed from his papers--he gave specific directions at to what was his vision. The many different writers plus Huston and Williams himself (who joined the crew in Mexico) went back and forth about how Judith would realize her situation . .would it be a violent realization or subtle. . .?? I liked Grayson's very subtle take on it--that moment and perhaps the bedroom apology rather than the histrionic beach scene is what I think clinched her nomination.
I agree with MB the plays are brilliant-, characters meaty for actors -but like August:Osage County--these are people I'd watch on stage or screen but didn't want to live with--
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How fascinating it must have all been and incredibly challenging JULIA99. All of us GH WORHIPERS will always be grateful.
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I thought it was one of the weirdest pictures I'd ever seen, but it was a good movie.
Magus - your video is in the mail. I hope you enjoy it. Give it a chance. It took me about to the end to enjoy it fully.
Janet, thanks again, very much, and don't worry about my giving it a chance, all you had to do to sell it to me was the word "weirdest". Tennessee Williams clinches it. "Weird" is not a pejorative for me.