Well, guess we were wrong there.
Baby Face Nelson > Inception
― the gay bloggers are onto the faggot tweets (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
Meant more in terms of commercial profile, which I realize is anathema to you and all.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 24 May 2011 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
I git that
― the gay bloggers are onto the faggot tweets (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
anyhoo I read that Mick behaved badly at the recent TCM filmfest, so that Serling TV play sounds close to the bone.
― the gay bloggers are onto the faggot tweets (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
RIP
http://variety.com/2014/film/news/mickey-rooney-golden-age-box-office-giant-dies-at-93-1201153308/
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Monday, 7 April 2014 03:22 (ten years ago) link
Interestingly, Mickey Rooney's first film was just rediscovered in the Netherlands:http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/lost-mickey-rooney-film-found-692160
― business nerves (doo dah), Monday, 7 April 2014 11:31 (ten years ago) link
i feel like i need to watch a few of his movies, if only to try and obscure the memory of Dana Carvey going "back zoom THE WORLD"
― some dude, Monday, 7 April 2014 12:09 (ten years ago) link
er, bang zoom
Isn't that Jackie Gleason catchphrase?
― Tompall Tudor (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 April 2014 13:21 (ten years ago) link
Carvey was on a sitcom w/ MR.
who has seen Baby Face Nelson?
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Monday, 7 April 2014 14:15 (ten years ago) link
RIP Mickey
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Monday, 7 April 2014 14:16 (ten years ago) link
Only saw the Bugs Bunny parody, Morbs.
― You Never Even POLL Me By My Screenname (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 April 2014 14:19 (ten years ago) link
YT link here, along with praise for his role opp Caine in Pulp:
http://www.movingpictureblog.com/2014/04/rip-mickey-rooney-1920-2014.html
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Monday, 7 April 2014 14:47 (ten years ago) link
the real stuff
“What was my appeal?” The question wasn’t entirely rhetorical, as he went on to explain: “I was a gnomish prodigy – half-human, half-goblin, man-child, child-man.”
Those qualities were as nothing compared to his flirting technique, which he characterised as “a combination of early Neanderthal and late Freud”. It was this, perhaps, that led his lover and co-star Lana Turner to dub him, in reference to his best-known role as Andy Hardy, “Andy Hard-on”.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/10750247/Mickey-Rooneys-amazing-sex-life.html
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Monday, 7 April 2014 17:52 (ten years ago) link
jimminy jillickers
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Monday, 7 April 2014 19:05 (ten years ago) link
All I've seen, I think, is his scandalous Tiffany's role and (ages ago) The Black Stallion. I don't think I've ever seen any of his films with Garland, or Boys Town, or anything. What I most associate him with is one of the Academy Awards broadcasts, maybe 10 years ago, where he was stuck sitting way in the back. Forget who the host was, but he/she said something to the effect of, "Apologies to Mickey Rooney for the lousy seat--as you know, we had to make room up front for the Rock."
― clemenza, Monday, 7 April 2014 20:35 (ten years ago) link
I was a big fan of National Velvet as a kid - him and Liz were great together in that, imo
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 7 April 2014 23:04 (ten years ago) link
ace wrapup by Farran Nehme
Rooney made his first indelible mark as Puck in Max Reinhardt’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, both on stage and on screen. In the movie he was about 15 years old, and so good as to be almost freakish. This is not a normal kid. That laugh is positively sinister. It originates somewhere under the loincloth, rolls up past the collarbone and sprays out like a firehose. It’s not his eyes that sparkle, it’s those teeth. Any minute you feel this Puck may attach himself to someone’s ankle, terrier-style. Rooney is all the amoral mischief of childhood rolled up into one half-naked package.
http://selfstyledsiren.blogspot.de/2014/04/in-memoriam-mickey-rooney-1920-2014.html
I was sure that Babes in Arms was the one Mickey-Judy film I'd seen, but reading her summary, no, I'd have remembered that...
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 14:45 (ten years ago) link
Isn't Kenneth Anger in that?
― clemenza, Tuesday, 8 April 2014 14:46 (ten years ago) link
legend I think
Cagney is v good in it
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 14:52 (ten years ago) link
y'know, I've never seen anything that confirms Anger's claims about his childhood onscreen exploits
― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 15:19 (ten years ago) link
Olivia remembers
http://time.com/57843/mickey-rooney-olivia-de-havilland/
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 11 April 2014 16:43 (ten years ago) link
Serling/Frankenheimer's "The Comedian," complete. Mel Torme!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9vdpFeiS2A
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 12 April 2014 15:00 (ten years ago) link
Heard on the radio this morning he's being buried in the same cemetery as Cecil B. DeMille. He's ready for his close-up.
― clemenza, Saturday, 12 April 2014 15:22 (ten years ago) link
Wow I really didn't realize Olivia's still with us!
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 12 April 2014 17:13 (ten years ago) link
Had trouble parsing her story for a bit. Looking forward to The Comedian.
― tl;dr5-49 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 12 April 2014 18:09 (ten years ago) link
wow, The Comedian was good. Depressing, but good.
― brownie, Saturday, 12 April 2014 19:06 (ten years ago) link
Only got to watch the first few minutes so far, but it looked promising. Plus anything involving Rod Serling and an ulcer-ridden alpha male yelling at his staff is probably worth a look.
― tl;dr5-49 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 12 April 2014 20:30 (ten years ago) link
Olivia is the last '30s movie star standing. People really don't know Luise Rainer (age 104) anymore.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 13 April 2014 06:28 (ten years ago) link
Luise Rainer is still with us? Didn't know
― tl;dr5-49 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 13 April 2014 11:30 (ten years ago) link
I watched a Mickey-Judy musical all the way through for the first time yesterday -- the first one, Babes in Arms (a Rodgers & Hart Broadway hit from which MGM, in their wisdom, jettisoned all but two of the R&H songs). Rooney's amphetaminism is tres annoying mostly, Judy sings like a dream, and they share a lengthy minstrel number in blackface. Also the title song climaxes with an uncomfortable bonfire. WTF.
(oh the stars sing "Good Mornin'", which was written for this movie, but which you know from Singin' in the Rain)
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Monday, 1 June 2015 15:42 (eight years ago) link
haha I've never watched one of these all the way through either
― Οὖτις, Monday, 1 June 2015 15:44 (eight years ago) link
just clips/musical numbers (altho not the blackface one ugh lol)
― Οὖτις, Monday, 1 June 2015 15:45 (eight years ago) link
oh Rooney also does impressions of FDR, Gable, and Lionel Barrymore, and
The original release of the film included a segment during the finale in which Rooney and Garland lampoon Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt; this was edited from the film after FDR's death. It was thought to be lost, but was discovered on a 16 millimeter reel and restored in the 1990s.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Monday, 1 June 2015 20:17 (eight years ago) link
Busby Berkeley directed that film; grownup casts and innuendo suited his talents better.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Monday, 1 June 2015 20:22 (eight years ago) link
babes in arms has some pretty good stuff IIRC, predictably good camerawork in the musical numbers.
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Monday, 1 June 2015 23:03 (eight years ago) link
Always makes me a little sad to think about Judy and Johnny Mercer.
RIP, Luise Rainer.
― Monstrous Moonshine Matinee (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 1 June 2015 23:48 (eight years ago) link
Mickey is indeed just about the best thing in Mike Hodges' Pulp, as an Italian-American (!) Mob-connected former movie star who hires Michael caine to write his memoirs, or does he? Only 15 minutes, maybe, of screentime but he makes em count.
Pretty crap winking would-be pastiche of a movie overall.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 16:01 (six years ago) link
Mick really underplays a meek auto mechanic/daydreaming racer in Richard Quine's semi-noir Drive a Crooked Road -- it's a character role as the lead. Mid '50s Hollywood and Palm Springs shown in workaday fashion. Written by Blake Edwards! (who worked on a Rooney TV show w/ Quine soon after)
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 28 June 2020 01:27 (three years ago) link
Born too early to explore the stars and too late for Mickey Rooneys Potato Fantasy pic.twitter.com/dr31OHmRWx— Taylor (@MurkaDurkah) September 4, 2022
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 4 September 2022 20:23 (one year ago) link
Judging by the cars this was late '58 at the earliest.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 4 September 2022 20:26 (one year ago) link
It's a gag, by this guy.
https://www.facebook.com/cris.shapan
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 4 September 2022 21:11 (one year ago) link
Dr. Morbius mentions that Mick "really underplays a meek" etc. in Run A Crooked Mile, but that's mostly in contrast to his expected hyper qualities, and is still very intense, very effective: going over the top would break the tension of this noir-ish low-grade fever soap opera of sicky grifters, playing on the useful mechanic Rooney despite disagreements and even some conscience and nausea (on the part of moll-stooge making nice to him, ick).If ye be wanting old LOUD wrinklepuppy Roon, you got him as defiantly doom-rattling convict lifer in THE LAST MILE, fro '59, I think.Also, mention of a Serling-scripted venture (one I hadn't hoid of) upthread, made me think of this one:
Requiem for a Heavyweight is a 1962 American film directed by Ralph Nelson based on the television play of the same name with Anthony Quinn in the role originated by Jack Palance, Jackie Gleason and Mickey Rooney in the parts portrayed on television by Keenan Wynn and his father Ed Wynn, and social worker Grace Miller was portrayed by Julie Harris.Cassius Clay, later known as Muhammad Ali, appears as Quinn's opponent in a boxing match at the beginning of the movie, a memorable sequence filmed with the camera providing Quinn's point of view as the unstoppable Clay rapidly punches directly at the movie audience with breath-taking speed. Afterward, Maish (Gleason) is confronted by bookies who threaten his life. If he fails to repay them for their losses, based upon the sure thing bet (he urged them to wager upon) that his fighter, Mountain, would go down in a certain round of the match. Maish's deal with them had been that they should deduct from their winnings (due to their betting against Mountain, as Maish had advised them to). The vast sums of losses that Maish's betting (and losing) had run up with them.The film version is somewhat darker in its plotline than the original teleplay
Cassius Clay, later known as Muhammad Ali, appears as Quinn's opponent in a boxing match at the beginning of the movie, a memorable sequence filmed with the camera providing Quinn's point of view as the unstoppable Clay rapidly punches directly at the movie audience with breath-taking speed. Afterward, Maish (Gleason) is confronted by bookies who threaten his life. If he fails to repay them for their losses, based upon the sure thing bet (he urged them to wager upon) that his fighter, Mountain, would go down in a certain round of the match. Maish's deal with them had been that they should deduct from their winnings (due to their betting against Mountain, as Maish had advised them to). The vast sums of losses that Maish's betting (and losing) had run up with them.
The film version is somewhat darker in its plotline than the original teleplay
― dow, Sunday, 4 September 2022 21:18 (one year ago) link
XP So Potato Fantasies do end...
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 4 September 2022 21:28 (one year ago) link
fucking love Chris Shapan
https://i.redd.it/bvu8ttil12f91.jpg
― bookmarkflaglink (Darin), Sunday, 4 September 2022 21:52 (one year ago) link
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/86oxvqjgAIM/sddefault.jpg
That's Rooney on the right, with a lit cigar.
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Monday, 5 September 2022 00:22 (one year ago) link