I Just Watched...

[Allhallowsday]

COMING HOME (1978) was on TCM last night. I hadn't looked at it since it was new (saw it on cable TV over 40 years ago)!
I had forgotten about the stir the lovemaking scene had initiated. It is still impressive and I give JANE FONDA a lot of credit, because it was a bold scene, even now! JON VOIGHT and BRUCE DERN also do a great job!
Also, looking at the film reminded me it was the reason I bought THE ROLLING STONES Flowers album...

I think I read that Jane used a body double in that particular sex scene, and although its been a while since I saw the movie, I recall close ups of her face in that scene seperate from the rest of the body. As for the film itself, it is very well acted by everyone involved, but the much rewritten story is a bit ragged and the final moments of the film seem inconclusive

I believe you are correct and I agree, not a great film for me, but good in many ways. In the lovemaking scene JANE enacts an orgasm, more particularly as a result of oral sex. I think it remains bold.

[Allhallowsday]

I LOVE YOU AGAIN (1940) WILLIAM POWELL MYRNA LOY FRANK McHUGH - Wonderful! On last night, I'd seen it before but I laughed and its sweet and silly.

[CinemaInternational]

I haven't watched it yet, but HBO debutted a documentary tonight about Mary Tyler Moore, and as a big fan of hers, I would love to watch it.

[TikiSoo]

I haven't watched it yet, but HBO debutted a documentary tonight about Mary Tyler Moore, and as a big fan of hers, I would love to watch it.

Yeah I'm looking forward to it too. I just hope it's about HER and not a schlocky love fest of people telling us how she influenced their careers.

[CinemaInternational]

I haven't watched it yet, but HBO debutted a documentary tonight about Mary Tyler Moore, and as a big fan of hers, I would love to watch it.

Yeah I'm looking forward to it too. I just hope it's about HER and not a schlocky love fest of people telling us how she influenced their careers.

I saw most of it last night. There is a bit of the latter that you don't like, but about 95% of it is about Mary herself. I think that it was mostly very well done, and quite touching

[Detective Jim McLeod]

I haven't watched it yet, but HBO debutted a documentary tonight about Mary Tyler Moore, and as a big fan of hers, I would love to watch it.

I just saw it, I thought it was excellent, best documentary I have seen on MTM. I liked the fact it went chronologically and doesn't jump back and forth like many modern docs.

Like Miss Tiki, I don't like to hear current celebrities talking more about themselves than the actual subject. I also liked the fact that we hear the people (mostly ones how actually worked with or knew Mary) are just heard and not seen as talking heads. The only time I groaned was when Rosie O'Donnell's voice is heard.

I was huge fan of the MTM show, one of the best casts ever on a sitcom. One of the funniest things about Mary's character was she was a person who tried to avoid embarrassing situations but due to either circumstance or her looney friends, she would end up in them. Her reactions were often hilarious, especially in the famous "Chuckles Bites The Dust" episode.

[TikiSoo]

One of the funniest things about Mary's character was she was a person who tried to avoid embarrassing situations but due to either circumstance or her looney friends, she would end up in them.

You're right! I never thought about that angle before!
It certainly describes my favorite of Mary's "situations"....the green dress:


Even funnier was Ted's reaction to the dress.

[txfilmfan]

This was always my favorite episode, because for once, Rhoda and Mary had switched places in the karmic universe. We've all had one of those weeks, when everything seems to go wrong, and it even happens to Mary Richards...

[Detective Jim McLeod]

Mr. District Attorney (1941) Youtube -5/10

A recent law graduate (Dennis O'Keefe) teams up with a newspaper reporter (Florence Rice) on a case for the D.A.

This is an innocuous romantic comedy , the two leads are capable but no Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn. The reason I saw it was for Peter Lorre, his role is small but important. He plays a murderous thief (named Mr. Hyde) and he seems to wander in from a different movie, since he plays it straight and very menacing. It ends with a comic chase scene.

[Detective Jim McLeod]

My favorite Mary moment from the MTM show-

[Sepiatone]

Some would choose......



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[BagelOnAPlate]

One of the funniest things about Mary's character was she was a person who tried to avoid embarrassing situations but due to either circumstance or her looney friends, she would end up in them.

You're right! I never thought about that angle before!
It certainly describes my favorite of Mary's "situations"....the green dress:

Even funnier was Ted's reaction to the dress.

Ted Knight was a brilliant comic actor. In an interview, Ed Asner talks about a time when Ted Knight had three different interpretations of one of Ted Baxter's moments, all of which were brilliantly funny.

Ted Knight was not Ted Baxter, but Knight brought Baxter to life so vividly that many viewers had difficulty separating the actor from the character. I've read that Ted Knight was bothered that people thought he was like Ted Baxter in real life.

[Swithin]

Cromwell (1970)

I've been putting off watching this movie for some time. Having read -- and enjoyed -- Antonia Fraser's massive biography, Cromwell, Our Chief of Men, many years ago, I was afraid that the historical inaccuracies of the movie would bother me. In fact, they didn't, much, and I liked the film. The movie offers a good depiction of the emergence of Cromwell as a national figure and of the trial and execution of King Charles I.

As the puritanical and severe Oliver Cromwell, Richard Harris doesn't seem to have a very difficult task. He looks (and is) angry most of the time, and occasionally bursts into irate speeches when anyone offends him. He is principled, and the film makes clear that what he does is not for personal gain.

As King Charles I, Alec Guinness is very good, giving a more textured and sensitive performance. His obstinacy comes through, though we feel a little sorry for him, as he's about to have his head chopped off. In one scene, he is particularly cruel to Prince Rupert (Timothy Dalton), who was only trying to help the Cavalier cause.

The overall arch of the history seems to be generally accurate, even if some details are not. The supporting actors are good. The Battle of Naseby is pretty well depicted, but there is no mention of the Battle of Marston Moor. It was also not made terribly explicit, as to what the "New Model Army" was, exactly.

Cromwell's final speech at the end of the film seems to be talking to contemporary England. A narrator's voice follows, telling us that Cromwell ruled as Lord Protector for many years, and that England was never the same again. The age of divinely inspired monarchs was over.

The film runs 2 hours 20 minutes, cut down from the original 3 hours 15 minutes. I'd like to see the unused footage.