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Post by artraveler on Dec 30, 2019 10:24:16 GMT -8
My second ex wife forced me to see the stage play back in the 80s. There is one good song and the rest is cat make up. I can not imagine why someone with the talent of Andrew Lloyd Weber would produce such slop. It really is the worst thing he has ever done. Evita, or the story of Hillary, is a much better musical with better music.For that matter so is Jesus Christ Superstar, even though it has some anti-Semitic elements. I don't think Weber is a anti-Semite.
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Post by timothylane on Dec 30, 2019 11:44:28 GMT -8
So which is the one good song? "Memory" is probably the best known, and of course most of the rest are based on actual T. S. Eliot poems. (We had "Macavity" in 6th grade, and I later read the actual collection of cat poems.)
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Post by Brad Nelson on Dec 30, 2019 15:28:57 GMT -8
And just when I was trying to forget that. Bad Cats:  Good Cats:  |
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Post by timothylane on Dec 30, 2019 15:58:54 GMT -8
Well, what about Julie Newmar as Catwoman from the 1960s Batman?
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Post by Brad Nelson on Dec 30, 2019 15:59:16 GMT -8
I haven't thought about Top Cat in years, maybe decades. I used to watch that all the time. And I love the theme song.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Dec 30, 2019 16:01:22 GMT -8
Purrfect
Here's a site with a nice Julie Newmar fixation. All pretty much PG. |
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Post by timothylane on Dec 30, 2019 17:16:29 GMT -8
Julie Newmar was also Rhoda the robot in My Living Doll as well as Miss Devlin (complete with horn where her other character had fake cat ears) in the episode "Of Late I Live in Cliffordville" on Twilight Zone. And she was well worth viewing in all of them.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Mar 22, 2020 9:31:28 GMT -8
There’s a reason I watch old movies. Today’s movies are full of junk scripts and junk acting whose mediocrity is the more noticable because of the generally very well done special effects.
It’s not a revelation to anyone here that today’s actors and actresses are generally pretty rotten and shallow people. It’s arguable that Hollywood in the 30s and 40s wasn’t all that much different. And yet there is a substantial difference between Carole Lombard and Alyssa Milano. One died in the service of her nation. The other is a cunt.
We know there are a few good-guys or gooder-guys out there. The short list includes Gary Sinise, Kelsey Grammar, Scott Baio, Dean Cain, Tom Selleck, Kevin Sorbo, Bruce Willis (I think), Clint Eastwood (kinda-sorta), Tim Allen, Jon Voight, Dennis Miller, James Woods and perhaps Kurt Russell.
It’s not right to call the rest of them “liberal.” So many of the them are just bat-crazy nuts. And, indeed, they serve very little useful purpose and are certainly not needed.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Mar 22, 2020 10:35:38 GMT -8
That does get to the heart of things.
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Post by artraveler on Mar 23, 2020 6:31:57 GMT -8
Peter O'toole in My Favorite Year
Damn it I'm not a movie star, I'm an actor
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Post by artraveler on Sept 20, 2023 19:00:07 GMT -8
Stylistically, you are right about American Graffiti. However, like real estate this is a movie about location, location, location, and even in 1973 Nostolgia. Modesto CA in the late 50s and early 60s was one of the last places in CA to get into modernization, of the CA sort anyway. Drugs, sex and rock n roll were still problems of other places and times. Lucas grew up in Modesto and the film is a tribute to those simpler times when who had the fastest car was more important than what boy is becoming a girl.
That is not to say your critique is unjustified, it isn't. When I was in high school here in Fayetteville our high school hang out was the Vic-Mon drive-in on college. Friday and Saturday nights was just like the drive-in restaurant in the movie. And cars would drag race on Gregg St just a few blocks away. The 71 drive-in theater was just down the road and groups would gather there to watch an Elvis movie, drink 3-2 beer, occasionally some wine and just shoot the shit. All of that is gone now. The only thing left of the 71 drive-in is a post the gate used to be attached to. The Vic-Mon is now Felter Bros burger place. The memories of 60 years ago are becoming dimmer as my generation silently goes away.
The hangouts of the current generation are varied and in many ways more grim. If there are hangouts at all. Malls across the country are closing. Sonic is about the only drive-in with car service, and they don't cotton to massive groups of teenagers hanging around for hours on Friday and Saturday nights. Our whole culture has changed, and not for the better. The last patina of youthful innocence has been stripped away and replace with a leftist/Marxist agenda of perceived injustices. So, don't blame George Lucus, American Graffiti, savor a little bit of what it used to be, and never can be again.
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Post by artraveler on Nov 23, 2023 7:34:13 GMT -8
Cast a Giant Shadow Like Exodus it is based on historical events, and like Exodus the characters are, mostly fiction. The film made in 1966 is the result of Douglas attempts over the previous decade to make the story. He ended up using his own money to produce the movie and all of the stars contributed their time at the lowest scale SAG (screen actors guild) would allow. It is a story not well known in the US or Europe. Talk of the new world rescuing the old world. The first Jewish general in 2000 years is an American logistics colonel. The film, did moderately well at the box office but did not make anyone, including Douglas rich. There is a statue of Marcus on Mount Herzel, and his story is taught in Israeli schools. |
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