I saw The Bad and the Beautiful on Criterion Channel for the first time since the Poppy Bush years. Jeez, is it garish – Sirk without the irony (and of course co-starring Lana Turner). Douglas is a compelling force; every other performance is awful.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 10 February 2020 18:42 (four years ago) link
Oscar winner Gloria Grahame! (v small role)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 February 2020 18:43 (four years ago) link
watched 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea with my son yesterday, that was fun (horrific treatment of sea turtles and african-americans standing in for south asian cannibals notwithstanding)
ppl going on about the Natalie Wood rape allegation seem to be unaware of the extent to which she was explicitly pimped out by her mother...? Like, I imagine she was abused by quite a number of Hollywood men at the time, and there are rumors about a lot of them (Sinatra, etc.)
― Οὖτις, Monday, 10 February 2020 18:45 (four years ago) link
also another vote for Out of the Past, he is great in that, playing against type too
― Οὖτις, Monday, 10 February 2020 18:46 (four years ago) link
The moment in Out of the Past where he realizes how much he’s been played for a fool and the mask slips is incredible.
― JoeStork, Monday, 10 February 2020 18:51 (four years ago) link
is he really THAT much against type in OotP? It's fairly early in his career (second or third film?) for one thing...
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 February 2020 18:55 (four years ago) link
It's not so much type, Shakey, as OTTP's getting made during the embryonic period of his career. He still hadn't found a persona yet.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 10 February 2020 19:00 (four years ago) link
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius),
Among the worst cornpone accents ever heard. No idea why she won when the Academy coulda rewarded her for Crossfire or nominated her for In a Lonely Place, The Big Heat, Sudden Fear, Human Desire, etc.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 10 February 2020 19:02 (four years ago) link
Because Oscar!
I remember the promos for this TV movie -- titled Mousey in the US -- from when I was a kid ('74). I figured no one would ever bring it up if I didn't; imagine Kirk as your biology teacher. With Jean Seberg, Dean Wormer and Bessie Love!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgOkDfwZ1Qc
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 February 2020 19:03 (four years ago) link
he was in an amazing number of good movies and good in a number of not-amazing movies
I like the Douglas/Lancaster battle of giant uniformed egos in Seven Days in May
he's also well suited to amp up the dread and paranoia in The Fury, one of the better big-budget horror films of the 70s
― Brad C., Monday, 10 February 2020 19:07 (four years ago) link
Less commented on but highly watchable: In Harm's Way.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 10 February 2020 19:11 (four years ago) link
in which his character takes a horrifying, unexpected turn...
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 February 2020 19:14 (four years ago) link
looking on twitter today it seems wood’s sister talked about it on a podcast recently and said she would reveal the name of the rapist once he had died.
podcast was from 2018
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 05:35 (four years ago) link
Michael Douglas claims father Kirk used last words to back Mike Bloomberg https://t.co/WyVtsOodio pic.twitter.com/c3FRmgeqml— Page Six (@PageSix) February 11, 2020
― Bougy! Bougie! Bougé! (Eliza D.), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 16:02 (four years ago) link
that's nice
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 16:18 (four years ago) link