― James Redd and the Blecchs, Saturday, 24 March 2007 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― nabisco, Saturday, 24 March 2007 22:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― rrrobyn, Saturday, 24 March 2007 23:07 (seventeen years ago) link
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
Love this--via Sullivan, art from people (by Craig Alan, who I take it is not unknown, though he is to me):
http://dellioandwoods.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/audrey2-e1335031249119.jpg http://dellioandwoods.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/audrey1-e1335031225836.jpg
― clemenza, Saturday, 21 April 2012 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b4/British_Airways_Face_(1989).png(from his kindergarten years)
― Cheggers Plays Populous (snoball), Saturday, 21 April 2012 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
If you think that's big, then you should see the size of his parent's refrigerator.
― Cheggers Plays Populous (snoball), Saturday, 21 April 2012 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
watched cat clip, maaaaan I'd heard about Golightly as the ur-MPDG but damn
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Saturday, 21 April 2012 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
I had to look up MPDG, but here's a list with Tiffany's at #11:
http://www.avclub.com/articles/wild-things-16-films-featuring-manic-pixie-dream-g,2407/
Never really had any interest in I Love You, Alice B. Toklas, now I do.
― clemenza, Saturday, 21 April 2012 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
Hepburn's got the MPDG thing goin' on as far back as Sabrina.
― Raymond Dubious Davies (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 21 April 2012 22:37 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FBNss2PMj60
― kinder, Sunday, 22 April 2012 00:25 (twelve years ago) link
'Moon River' is a depressing song.
― Cheggers Plays Populous (snoball), Sunday, 22 April 2012 18:01 (twelve years ago) link
Do not agree
― FP Sorrow (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 22 April 2012 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
Well I can just about stand it when Audrey Hepburn sings it, as it's an insight into Holly's always running attitude. But the string and choir heavy version that plays over the final scene is terrible.
― Cheggers Plays Populous (snoball), Sunday, 22 April 2012 21:52 (twelve years ago) link
Some other versions I've heard are cool
― FP Sorrow (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 22 April 2012 23:40 (twelve years ago) link
"Moon River" is easily the best thing abt the BTF film
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 April 2012 02:29 (twelve years ago) link
youtube clip of Nelson from the Simpsons, teary-eyed, watching Andy Williams' do an encore of Moon River in Branson, MO while en route to Tennessee with Bart and Milhouse in a rental car to thread!
― Aimless, Monday, 23 April 2012 02:40 (twelve years ago) link
Richard Brody vs Glenn Kenny on the casting of Hepburn.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 14:44 (eleven years ago) link
Interesting comment in there by, surprise, David E:
Carol Matthau (a woman who REALLY knew where all the bodies were buried) said Holly was a mash-up betwen her and truman himself. She was right.
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 14:51 (eleven years ago) link
i love that line from (i think) wilson's onegin review, but it's how i feel about literally all of my friends. doesn't everyone?
― a hauntingly unemployed american (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 14:55 (eleven years ago) link
Nabokov is always called the "winner" in their spat – why, because he was a better "stylist" and dickhead than Bunny?
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 14:56 (eleven years ago) link
well at least he spoke russian.
― a hauntingly unemployed american (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 14:57 (eleven years ago) link
is there a word for "courtesy" in Russian
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 14:58 (eleven years ago) link
Never really did get into this movie much. Even the cat edit is sort of ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― old people are made of poop (Eric H.), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 14:59 (eleven years ago) link
"poshlust" xp
― a hauntingly unemployed american (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 14:59 (eleven years ago) link
i hated this movie when i saw it but i was like 15.
Kenny's right inasmuch as Hepburn makes the transformation from po' white trash to Manhattan socialite credible but I've a problem generally with how Hepburn looks encouraged by Edwards to act more sophisticated and daaahling than she is. It's a cloying performance.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 15:03 (eleven years ago) link
Don't think Hepburn ever needed any extra coaxing to act sophisticated and daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahling.
― old people are made of poop (Eric H.), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 15:05 (eleven years ago) link
(That's what undoes her otherwise good Wait Until Dark performance.)
Holly is 19 in the book, which is why Capote said circa 1980 that Jodie Foster would be great.
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 15:05 (eleven years ago) link