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It's really not very good.― Hurting 2, Friday, March 16, 2007 11:44 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― #yolo contendere (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 1 April 2012 13:49 (twelve years ago) link
she's much more tolerable in Charade, where her airheadedness is used as a comic device ("What does all this have to do with the CIO?")
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 1 April 2012 14:11 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, "Charade" is the best
― #yolo contendere (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 1 April 2012 14:24 (twelve years ago) link
I kept wondering if they made Breakfast at Tiffany's today, would Holly be like some Cobrasnake Kreayshawn MySpace scene kid?
― #yolo contendere (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 1 April 2012 14:25 (twelve years ago) link
Mandy Moore as Holly, Peter Saaaaarsgaaard as the Not Gay One, Meryl Streep as the Jap.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 1 April 2012 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
No.
― Cuba Pudding, Jr. (jaymc), Sunday, 1 April 2012 15:39 (twelve years ago) link
ok then?
― #yolo contendere (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 1 April 2012 16:09 (twelve years ago) link
its settled
― dayo, Sunday, 1 April 2012 16:11 (twelve years ago) link
i kind of wish i knew some people old enough to see this in 1961, because I'm curious what the general opinion of Mr. Yunioshi was back THEN, unfiltered through 50 years of discussion and deconstruction
― #yolo contendere (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 1 April 2012 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
Anglo actors did broad racial shtick quite frequently then. Then you add in Rooney's subtle instincts.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 1 April 2012 16:19 (twelve years ago) link
it's not like it's gone away xp
http://www.hotflick.net/flicks/2007_I_Now_Pronounce_You_Chuck_And_Larry/big/fhd007ICL_Rob_Schneider_007.jpg
― dayo, Sunday, 1 April 2012 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
right, but I think everyone (at least with a brain) agrees that's fucked up in 2012?
― #yolo contendere (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 1 April 2012 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
oh. my. god. xp.
― Waxahachie Swap (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Sunday, 1 April 2012 16:24 (twelve years ago) link
sure, I don't think you'll find someone on ilx defending the 'performance'. can't say the same for the rest of the country. xp
― dayo, Sunday, 1 April 2012 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
well, frogbs still posts here iirc
― #yolo contendere (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 1 April 2012 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
Did a quick check of some books, and Sarris, Simon, and Farber turned up nothing in the way of on-the-spot reviews. One sentence from Dwight Macdonald, calling the film "botched." Kael liked Rooney a lot; you can weigh that against her penchant for provocation, especially when it came to political incorrectness, before it had a name. You can get the original Times review online, though: "Mickey Rooney's bucktoothed, myopic Japanese is broadly exotic."
http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9A05EED9173AE13ABC4E53DFB667838A679EDE
― clemenza, Sunday, 1 April 2012 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
the cat is pretty much the focal point of the movie for me.
The cat is the only non-annoying character. As such, I applaud whoever made this edit, featuring only scenes with the cat in:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai8oArl7qGo
The cat has his own imdb page, by the way: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1248838/bio
― instant coffee happening between us (a passing spacecadet), Sunday, 1 April 2012 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
― #yolo contendere (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, April 1, 2012 10:25 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark
she totes would
― these pretzels are makeing me horney (Hungry4Ass), Sunday, 1 April 2012 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
she'd be a m4rie call0way type right?
― balls, Sunday, 1 April 2012 23:09 (twelve years ago) link
I went to Tiffany's (NY)
Was in the lift. Was gonna ask lift dude if they get many people asking for the cafe/restaurant.
(bottled)
― Mark G, Monday, 2 April 2012 06:04 (twelve years ago) link
i am reminded of robert crumb's angry letter to ivan brunetti in schizo: 'i HATE audrey hepburn and all her ilk!!!'
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 19:08 (eleven years ago) link
I think it's mentioned that Holly or "Lula" was 14 when she got married - that implies that she might have been running away from a genuinely awful situation and not just some kindly old dolt who she doesn't love.― Hurting 2, Saturday, March 17, 2007 12:24 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
In the book, Doc says that Holly and her brother were orphaned and fending for themselves when he took them in, and Holly claims her sexual history before she married Doc (at age 14) "doesn't count," so yes, Holly was coming from a very rough background.
Officially I don't believe in the concept of the "guilty pleasure." But the BoT film is such a glossy-gorgeous shell around such a grotty story, that I hate to see it held up as a fashion or lifestyle icon.
― i like slash and i vote (j.lu), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 21:03 (eleven years ago) link
nah -- I wish more women used cigarette holders and named their cats Cat.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 21:08 (eleven years ago) link
Don't forget about her earplug/rings!
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 21:10 (eleven years ago) link
It's a heartwarming story of manipulative urban whores with some touching old-style racism for leavening. Cat was hot tho, despite being left out in the rain.
― Love Max Ophüls of us all (Michael White), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 21:17 (eleven years ago) link
did y'all know that this film was originally john frankenheimer and george axelrod's baby? then the studio hired audrey hepburn and she wanted frankenheimer off the project.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 22:22 (eleven years ago) link
i think f. maybe wanted kim stanley to star.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 22:23 (eleven years ago) link
kinda wish we'd all stop talking about the "racism"
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 22:35 (eleven years ago) link
The Mickey Rooney character is egregious!
― Love Max Ophüls of us all (Michael White), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 22:42 (eleven years ago) link
Patricia Neal is kind of lovely in this, though.
― Love Max Ophüls of us all (Michael White), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 22:43 (eleven years ago) link
misread that as Patrice O'Neal at first and lol
― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 22:44 (eleven years ago) link
I dunno. The film is fraught in more interesting ways than Mickey Rooney's textbook caricature..
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 22:47 (eleven years ago) link
Holly is definitely more louche in the novella - it kind of reminds me of whom Cole Porter wished to play him in a film bio ('Night and Day'); Cary Grant.
― Love Max Ophüls of us all (Michael White), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 22:53 (eleven years ago) link
but Cary Grant COULD have played him a better film! I mean, Cary Grant is the distillation of every Cole Porter song character.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 22:54 (eleven years ago) link
It was a hit too
― Love Max Ophüls of us all (Michael White), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 22:55 (eleven years ago) link
I like my demi-mondaines a little real and cruffy around the edges or I like them like Zola's Nana, entirely too OTT.
― Love Max Ophüls of us all (Michael White), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 22:56 (eleven years ago) link
i reread the novella a couple years ago and was amazed how dislikeable holly was! which of course is the point -- in real life, ppl like holly are impossible to be friends with.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 23:53 (eleven years ago) link
the film kind of gets that across a little maybe?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 13:22 (eleven years ago) link
It does if you look past Hepburn's natural charm. I like her so much better in 'Roman Holiday'.
― Love Max Ophüls of us all (Michael White), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 13:43 (eleven years ago) link
It just occurred to me that José Luis de Vilallonga is in both "Breakfast at Tiffany's' and 'Darling' - interesting comparing the two.
― Love Max Ophüls of us all (Michael White), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 13:46 (eleven years ago) link
Having been to Rome a few times over the past 2 years, we watched RHol recently.
The scene where they're driving crazy through town on scooters, I keep expecting them to crash into all the market barrows selling Audrey Hepburn souvenirs!
― Mark G, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 13:48 (eleven years ago) link
so there's a stage adap opening on Broadway in March; faithful to Capote, ie, set during WW2 and presumably FRED IS GAY.
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/173395-Broadways-Breakfast-at-Tiffanys-Goes-on-Sale-to-General-Public-Dec-24
gonna disappoint a lotta Audrey-lovin' tourists
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 20:48 (eleven years ago) link