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Ive no way to prove it, i guess, but it is minor enough that it sounds true, right. It happened. I will add that we didnt have to pay to go in. So Tom didnt have to pay either!
Is this the last one of 2023?
RIP
Is this the last one of 2023?
RIP
Great, if somewhat sad, discussion here but amazingly without mention of his famous turn as Doc Holliday in Tombstone in 1993.
No Oscar nom but it made Kilmer hot enough for Batman Forever and a shot at a franchise with The Saint.
But Doc Holliday proved a one off driven by a great script, a great character, and great lines. Kilmer alone didnt have full star charisma and was evidently very hard to work with.
Kilmer himself in his autobio wrote that on his early movie Real Genius, where he was quite funny in a good role, the producer had to meet with him to warn him, "the other actors are scared of you," and asked him to tone it down.
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Yep. Just about everything.
I mentioned how Andrews took 2 roles dropped or turned down by Walter Matthau.
Well you can see Matthau and Andrews paired as a TEAM in a 1962 episode of Route 66 where they are sent to Reno to win enough by gambling to save their small town. Their distinctive faces side by side, their distinctive voices. 2 tall men, too. Its on YouTube.
Even only once a year...Ed has the goods!
He was great on Thriller.
Before he won two Oscars, one in the 80s and one in the 90s, Michael Caine was on a talk show in the 70s. He said "I wont be able to win an Oscar until I make a film where the poster shows me looking up in awe."
Hilariously, he then got up from the guest couch and struck that pose ...looking up in awe.
Brad and Carey are going for a two-fer. Actually only Carey...
Ps. I dont think Caine looked up in the posters for Hannah and her Sisters or The Cider House Rules.
Is this the last one of 2023?
RIP
Also certain development costs go away if they adapt material they own. Back in the 90s, Paramount showed Tom Cruise a list of old movies and TV shows to which they owned the rights and said "any of these interest you for a new movie?" Cruise picked MI even though it was about a team. We know what happened next.
So The Fall Guy is an owned property and that skips one step in paying writers.
Yes...their attitude helps lock in Jett's decision.
Great minds think alike.
Yeah that's right.
Cont. By the way, Pauline Kael was fired for writing a bad review of The Sound Of Music in 1965. But this was Redbook Magazine and they felt her mean POV didnt fit a "Ladies Magazine."
Cont. Meanwhile director Robert Altman so hated critic John Simon for insulting the faces and features of actresses and actors that he walked away from Simon at an event, saying "Sorry I cannot speak to a man with yellow teeth."
I hear that about Maggie G, and beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder , but it is my opinion, rather than fact, that Maggies looks did not fit the part and the point here is that whether professional critic or paying customer we are entitled to that opinion. Surely after young Kim Basinger, young Michelle Pffeifer, and especially young Nicole Kidman, Maggie was not in their facial league..."indiefilm" casting. A critic should not get fired for such an assessment or fear firing.
Hey GolfnGuitars...Merry Christmas and let 2024 engage us yet again with discussions of movies past and present.
And nope...none of us have to like the same movies as others ..and can still compare notes on them.
One more thing on Love Actually. There are actually some very sad and painful stories here. A mans wife has a sexual affair with the mans brother. Another mans wife dies and leaves him with her young son from a previous marriage. A young womans budding romance is ruined by her enslavement to her violent mentally ill brother. One woman experiences the infidelity of her husband but the other woman loses the husband back to the wife. And one man will forever want, but never have, his best friends wife. Unhappy stories balance out happy ones here. This is not a silly film.
Very interesting! Ive never watched an edited TV broadcast of Love Actually but I always assumed that the movie was indeed constructed so that story could be removed entirely without affecting the rest of the movie. The article proves me right.
A critic nearly lost his job for...being a critic? On the other hand there was a really vicious critic of the 1970s named John Simon who attacked what he felt were the ugly faces of stars like Liza Minnelli. Carey Mulligan wouldnt have survived that guy...he gave no quarter. Which reminds me...Maggie Gyllenhaals face was too unattractive to fit her character in The Dark Knight...over whom two handsome, powerful and in one case superrich men compete...but miscasting didnt hurt the gross at all...
Possibly because Cooper has director billing, too. Clint Eastwood directed A Perfect World and gave Kevin Costner top billing. Kevin Costner directed Open Range and gave Robert Duvall top billing.