If you like 'It's A Gift'...
"we recommend 3 Ninjas"? Are they serious?
shareSometimes I think those recommendations are randomly generated. Other times, I think it's a lame-o marketing effort to sell us on bad movies.
shareThat's nothing compared to the recommendation I saw just now.
Apparently, if I liked this movie, I'd also like "The Rocky Horror Picture Show".
Could there possibly be two more dissimilar movies?
And now it's "House of Sand and Fog," one of the most depressing movies ever made.
But then again, I liked both movies, so it's accurate!
I got 3 ok ones in sense they are a group travel theme.
Little Miss Sunshine (nah)
Rat Race (so-so)
Sullivan's Travels (the Best)
and then these two - what were they smoking choices
Clerks (what's to say)
Duel (well at least it's in motion)
Water Closet is terrific in anything! The Bank Dick and The Big Broadcast
of 1938 stand out but are all are great.
Didn't know all that iMDb has in the info part about him. Had heard the stories
of his rough family environ and early struggles but much more in there.
Doesn't seem his oldies are shown all that much lately. Used to be on a lot.
Tonight's TCM showing is sketchy to me but probably come back after it starts. Must have been many moons ago seeing it on The Late Show I guess.
Need some laughs in current times just as much as in 30s.
And now the recommendations include recent films like "The Road" with Viggo Mortensen and "Away We Go" with John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph. I guess the software or whatever generates those recommendations sees a title that sounds like a travel film and add it. But I can't imagine why (horror of horrors) "Rosemary's Baby" is included.
Why not other W.C. Fields movies, or early comedies with Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd, or Peter Bogdanovich's and Woody Allen's screwball comedies of the '60s and '70s, or Neil Simon films?
And yes, there are some interesting tidbits in the bio and the trivia section, but considering the accuracy of those recommendations, who's to say whether they are true? I know that W.C. Fields had a very difficult childhood. My boss read a recent biography on him, and he said it's a very depressing book.
Thanks. I'm guessing the scan s/w must be like resume reading kind. Has a
fixed set of keywords. So with both a character name and actor name in Gift
listing Baby the s/w algorithm kicked out Rosemary's Baby. The shame....
Yes for sure your selections make eminently better sense.
I'm going to have to ignore those recos once again. Unless in need of a touch of dumb wetware relief.
The biography 'The Man On The Flying Trapeze' debunks a lot of the 'tough childhood' stories -- WC loved to tell tall tales!
shareHmmmm ... so how tall were those tales? Did W.C. Fields actually have a normal childhood with loving parents, according to Simon Louvish?
shareHmmmm ... so how tall were those tales? Did W.C. Fields actually have a normal childhood with loving parents, according to Simon Louvish?
Fields' father was reportedly rather stern, rather formal, as fathers were often expected to be in the 1800's, and father and son may not always have been on good terms. However, the stories of the father having been physically abusive seem to have been made up by Fields in order to give reporters something exciting to write about. Also, whereas Fields claimed that he ran away from home at eleven, his sister insisted that he did not move out from home until his late teens, with the whole family wishing him goodbye at the train station. As for Fields' mother, he is reported to have loved her deeply, and never (to my knowledge) said anything unflatteringly about her even to reporters. share
Thanks for the details on W.C. Field's seemingly routine upbringing. Sometimes the truth is rather boring, but in this case, boring is good!
shareSimon Louvish said Fields continued his education while on the vaudeville circuit by reading Charles Dickens novels and that he was extremely proud to have been cast in "David Copperfield". The stories he told reporters about his childhood might have been flavored by his love of Dickens.
shareThanks for the details on W.C. Fields' upbringing, as described by Simon Louvish. I suspect Fields was prone to slipping into a character when he spoke to reporters.
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