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DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects
Robert Vaughn! http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/robert-vaughn-dead-man-uncle-859991 To my generation, he will always be Napoleon Solo of U.N.C.L.E.!- Doctor Strange
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.
Inherit the Wind has been one my favorite films since I was a kid. Aside from the stellar acting, it's loaded with ideas that seem truer than ever, like Tracy/Drummoxnd's speech about what's lost against progress: "Yes, you can have an airplane... but the skies will smell of gasoline, and the...- Doctor Strange
- Post #4,564
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects
I didn't much care for Leonard Cohen as a performer, but he was a staggeringly brilliant songwriter. I mean "Hallelujah" and "Suzanne" alone, but there are so many others! Here's a personal favorite, movingly performed by Emmylou Harris:- Doctor Strange
- Post #3,463
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
The Company, a very late Robert Altman film. A near-documentary about the Joffrey Ballet that's about half performance and rehearsal sequences, with a weak romance between Neve Campbell and James Franco threaded through. Only really notable for a scenery-chomping performance by Malcolm McDowell...- Doctor Strange
- Post #22,282
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
The Kid is wonderful, and Coogan is fantastic. I defy anyone to not tear up at the scene when the child protection guys try to take Jackie away from Charlie!- Doctor Strange
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Doctor Strange. Very, very, VERY good, with a few minor caveats and one more substantial complaint. (No spoilers below, I'll stay generic.) Cumberbatch, Swinton, McAdams, and the rest of the cast are all excellent - once again, having outstanding actors elevates the material. The production...- Doctor Strange
- Post #22,246
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Fall of the Moustache
I wasn't trying to "be" anybody, just fooling around in my parents' photo studio, experimenting with dramatic portrait lighting. And it was just a plain white seamless paper background: the sunburst comes from a "special effect screen" - a transparent piece of film with just the sunburst...- Doctor Strange
- Post #18
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The Fall of the Moustache
You know, I wish they'd gone with Doctor Strange's original look for the new film (which I'm seeing today!!!) He had your standard Gable/Colman/Fairbanks Jr. pencil moustache for many years, and was only switched to the freaky goatee fairly recently. More proof that moustaches are out! Me...- Doctor Strange
- Post #14
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
It was a play by Robert E. Sherwood (*) on Broadway first - the mostly single setting kinda gives it away. My dad, who was then an aspiring theater geek in his teens, saw it and said it was transfixing, even better than the film. And of course, Duke Mantee was Bogart's star-making role. (*...- Doctor Strange
- Post #22,237
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Akubra Fedora Grey 59
No, the Fedora is a standard model, smaller in all dimensions than the Fed: http://everythingaustralian.com.au/fedora.html- Doctor Strange
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- Forum: Classifieds
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What was the last TV show you watched?
Ooh, "First Contact" is one of my personal top-five TNG episodes. It's the series' most nuanced approach to the first contact dilemma - it's a great script - and has several unique aspects: It's the first time that the show (or any Trek) begins with a sequence set entirely among characters on...- Doctor Strange
- Post #13,415
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
The recent adaptation of Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury directed by (and co-starring) James Franco. Not bad - better than the 1959 film version - considering that it tackles the textbook definition of an "unfilmable novel." The cast is good - Tim Blake Nelson is outstanding as the father of...- Doctor Strange
- Post #22,234
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Folks you love to hate! Tell us your Favorite Film Villains!
Right. Screwy Squirrel was Avery's experiment to see how far he could push the hot, new Daffy/Bugs smart-aleck-animal character. He was just too obnoxious for forties audiences and was (literally) killed. But those Screwy cartoons remain fascinating gems from the glory days of Avery's M-G-M stint.- Doctor Strange
- Post #96
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What did the film stars of the 1920s-1930s make of the 1950s-1960s?
There's a very worthwhile HBO special from a couple of years ago called "Talking Funny" where Jerry Seinfeld, Louis C.K., Chris Rock, and Ricky Gervais sit around discussing the art of standup comedy. One of the things that's striking about it is how Seinfeld comes off as such a traditionalist...- Doctor Strange
- Post #44
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Folks you love to hate! Tell us your Favorite Film Villains!
He's probably in limbo, until Warners decides it time for yet another doomed-to-fail reboot of their great cartoon stars in CGI/3D/IMAX/high frame rate/<insert next gimmick here>.- Doctor Strange
- Post #92
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Folks you love to hate! Tell us your Favorite Film Villains!
Of course, in his later days Chuck Jones often had Daffy act as antagonist to Bugs or Porky (etc.) But it was always motivated by Daffy's greed or pride, not overt maliciousness. He's always his own worst enemy. (Jones once said, "Bugs is who I wish to be, but Daffy's who I am!") "Ah...- Doctor Strange
- Post #90
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Dreck, unsatisfying as both an Austen adaptation (though it did try) and the usual zombie-killing spree. I gave it a chance because (to my surprise) I had kind of liked Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, but it wasn't nearly as much fun.- Doctor Strange
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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how many leather jacket should you have?
Maybe one black and one brown to go with different clothes? Or, if you're like many of us here, you'll want a representative variety of styles. I've been at this for 15 years now, and while I've sold/given away a couple of jackets in that time, I have settled on five that I'm quite happy with...- Doctor Strange
- Post #11
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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Northwest Hats, Eugene, Ore.
Better pictures of the "early thirties" fedora that Mike recently made for me. I love it! Silver Mist beaver felt, just a center dent, 2" black ribbon, 2-5/8" bound brim, white liner and brown sweatband.- Doctor Strange
- Post #929
- Forum: Hats
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Post New Hats Here!
My very cool new "early thirties" custom fedora from Northwest Hatters. Mike did an outstanding job! Silver Mist beaver felt, just a center dent, 2" black ribbon, 2-5/8" bound brim... and inside, a white liner and brown sweatband. (The color's accurate, that's a black A-2 jacket.) I've...- Doctor Strange
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- Forum: Hats
