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| Joe Vitus |
 Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 7:47 am |
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Thanks. You're right about the fact that the movie made a splash and therefore might have lauched Andrews quite successfully anyway. And who among us not given the chance to see it on stage wouldn't want the opportunity to see her Eliza for ourselves? Not to mention it might have given her a career as a full-bodied woman in movies, rather than a sexless nanny.
But the movie is among the walking dead. To watch that grizzly staging of "Just You Wait," and to imagine her stuck in the middle of it...no (shudder). I'd climb every mountain to avoid it. |
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| Trish |
| Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 7:48 am |
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ehle64 wrote: I know that most of the people that post here didn't like Home For The Holidays, but after we watched The Family Stone, we both thought they'd make a great Holiday Season Double Feature.
Just the power of the Matriarchy alone with Anne Bancroft and Diane Keaton seals it for me. Then afterwards if we want a third film, we could pop in Autumn Sonata for a little Mommie Dearest, Bergman style.
I love Home for the Holidays
But Blech on Family Stone |
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| Trish |
| Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 7:51 am |
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billyweeds wrote: It is the movie that nails Downey's cred as no other does.
Chilly--Interesting that you praise Jami Gertz. You may have read my hate-filled rant against the current so-called comedy, Keeping Up with the Steins. I was unfair to the movie in only one respect. Gertz--and only Gertz--actually rose above the carnage with a controlled and convincing performance of the nice-guy wife to Jeremy Piven. Piven is uncharacteristically dull, but Gertz manages to invest her woefully written character with a good amount of humanity.
(an Older) Gertz reminds me of Madeline Kahn - not in talent for comedy - just physically , or facial expressions |
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| Jynx |
| Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 2:33 pm |
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I love Home for the Holidays
We are sooooooooooo N'SYNC with our movies. I thought HFTH was a hootnahalf. Robert Downey Jr., Hunter, Bancroft (sorely missed), During and Guttenberg ... whodathunk he could be so damn funny.
We Grifters & HFTH gals must stick together.
I really liked Gertz in Less Than Zero playing the poor man's Vanna White. I really, really like her, but I don't care for her acting. Maybe she just seems so real when I've seen her on talk shows as opposed to the mega wattage of a Julia Roberts or Nicole Kidman. I think she chose wisely when she picked her husband and children over setting out to be a 'star'.
Ohhhhhh ... Star ... the kid in The Lost Boys and I just called her a non-Star ... coinky dink or weird planet alignment thingy? |
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| chillywilly |
| Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 2:46 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: Chilly--Interesting that you praise Jami Gertz. You may have read my hate-filled rant against the current so-called comedy, Keeping Up with the Steins. I was unfair to the movie in only one respect. Gertz--and only Gertz--actually rose above the carnage with a controlled and convincing performance of the nice-guy wife to Jeremy Piven. Piven is uncharacteristically dull, but Gertz manages to invest her woefully written character with a good amount of humanity.
Wow. I've not seen that movie, but it sounds like Gertz is top notch.
Her TV role on ER was very good... going back 9 years for that one, but it helped keep my interest in a few episodes of that show.
Normally I like Piven... especially so in Serendipity. Of course, John Cusack was heads better (biased on my part) |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 2:53 pm |
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| Please don't mention Serendipity. Gimme another week or two. |
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| Mr. Brownstone |
| Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 4:30 pm |
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Their sundaes and stuff are kind of over-rated if you ask me.
There's this massive wait list to getin there, and once I did it was like, um... okay, it's still just vanilla ice cream and root beer. What the fuck? |
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| chillywilly |
| Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 4:32 pm |
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ehle64 wrote: Please don't mention Serendipity. Gimme another week or two.
I take it you didn't like it. I'll wait a week or two for a reply. Or are you referring to the actual shop in NY? |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 4:34 pm |
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| It's fun every once in a while. Not fun to wait an hour to get in, though. |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 4:39 pm |
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| It was a sign. |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 4:41 pm |
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Yeah, it probably was. And the alternative was quite fine.
I have four quarts of strawberries, you know. And I had to pick them in 90-degree weather, with a very pregnant woman the only other person out there.
Okay, I'm stopping now. |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 4:53 pm |
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lady wakasa wrote: I have four quarts of strawberries, you know.
Mmmmmmm, organic, red, Red, StrawBerries. . .
When we drive down, can we have a fresh berry salad? |
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| Jynx |
| Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 8:15 pm |
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| AND, Michele Pfifer "didn't even pay her bill at Serendipity" ... it's a dine a dash establishment, huh? |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 8:28 pm |
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| Satyajit Ray's The Chess Players (1977) is quite an achievement. It is in Urdu (almost all his other films were in Bengali), it is about the clash of a dying Muslim empire in India and advent of the British (Satyajit Ray himself was Hindu). The decadent Moghul empire is no match in 1856 for the wily and determined British Governor-General Dalhousie and his Resident (played by Richard Attenborough) in Lucknow. The Moghul king spends his time in writing poetry and enjoying songs and dances and his huge colection of dancing girls. The aristocrats while away their time playing chess and being oblivious of everything around them. They are both funny and pathetic. The British dethrone the king and take over the kingdom of Oudh. The sets are realistic, and the manners and the customs of the time are very well recreated. I enjoyed the movie. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 9:21 pm |
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Where'd ya see that Ghulam?
Is Ray's The Chess Players out on Dvd? |
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