From Roger More Michael Powell film discoveries? Hopefully, we will be able to see on Screenonline some of Michael Powell's 1960s UK television commercials...
In article <cok0o1+pnrv@eGroups.com>, britmusical <julian_craster@...> writes ... The Independent's geography is a bit lopsided - Berkhamsted is in ...
... A few of them did things like that. Anton Walbrook donated half of his £2,000 fee for 49th Parallel to the Red Cross. The play that John Sweet was in when...
... release of ... article about ... technicolor ... toned ... find it ... in "The ... stained ... release in ... I for one will be seeing it at the NFT where...
... The usual convention (on the IMDb and elsewhere) is to give the date when a film was first released. When it's released in a different country under a...
... About GBP 60,000 according to http://eh.net/hmit/ppowerbp/. Not a huge amount by the salaries of today's film stars but not exactly paltry either. Nicky...
Didn't somebody write a book about "almost disasters" in star casting with a title like "What Were They THINKING Of?" I mean, the very idea of Claudette...
Randolph Man
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Dec 1, 2004 4:33 pm
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Dear Randy, ... Actually, that could have been good fun: he had the athleticism. Flynn has always grated on me. While I like swashbucklers, his I genrally...
... He was very good as Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) with Mickey Rooney as Puck and P&P's Ian Hunter as Theseus, Duke of Athens. ... Larry did...
I saw the film on vhs in the past few months and really enjoyed it. It's interesting how cautiously the problem of concentration camps is approached. Robert...
... That looks like it'd be a useful service - but when I tried it, it said "1941" is not a year between 1264 and 2002. How did you get it to work? Steve ...
Off topic I know but apparently William Goldman had Jack Lemmon and Walter Mathau (sp?) in mind when he was writing "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"....
I think that would have been more entertaining. (Especially Matthau.) Especially if the Katherine Ross role was cast differently or dropped. /Adriana ... ...
There's a sort of mini-trailer for "Escape" in the MGM short "A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound" that's included with the Warner DVD of "The...
Randolph Man
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Dec 1, 2004 7:58 pm
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ScopophiliaA bit late in the day, but here's the Oxford English Dictionary's definition Terry Scopophilia Sexual stimulation or satisfaction derived...
Terry Hanstock
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Dec 1, 2004 8:34 pm
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Thanks Terry, I told Columba what Tom said before. He said that next time he'll ask us or look it up himself rather than listen to the friend who told him it ...
... He got £5,000 for playing Theo in Blimp. Micky once said that there are no large or small parts, just some that are on screen for longer than others....
... Ah, I'd entered 2004 as the Desired Year - that seems to break it. I used it to check what the budget for TRS was in today's (or 2002) terms. £551,927...
... Shearer's Countess and Connie's General coy at best. It has nothing like the kinky zip of "A Woman's Face" made the following year under George Cukor's...
Dear Steve: I can't tell you how much I enjoy these messages and the exchanges among all of us in the PnP group. Unfortunately, I have to withdraw from this...
... If you can't remember your password, email me directly & I can change your status so that you only get one summary email per day with all that day's...
Good points all. Also, Taylor carried a lot of blandness with him irrespective of the script. He certainly brings little magnetism to "Waterloo Bridge" (Too...
Randolph Man
rman@...
Dec 2, 2004 6:21 pm
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The Guardian today has an article and lengthy obit on Alicia Markova, who has died at the age of 94. Some good bits and pieces re: her early career with...
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