MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES

[Bronxgirl48]

Oh God I never should have mentioned David Muir....mea culpa.

I know we all go off on tangents including moi but please -- (and I am chastising myself) let's get back to Everything Moo-vees!

The originator of this thread has spoken! LOL

[Detective Jim McLeod]

I was pondering about watching a film clip versus watching the scene within the film.

For example, there is the scene in East Of Eden (1955) where James Dean starts crying and embraces his father (Raymond Massey). Many feel watching the clip looks over the top but seeing it within the film it works.

I remember years ago on Entertainment Tonight. Leonard Maltin was speaking about Winchester 73 (1950) . He showed the clip of James Stewart nearly breaking Dan Dureyea's neck while he pins him down on the bar.
Mary Hart then said "Oooh Leonard, I don't like seeing James Stewart like that" Maltin then said "It may seem jarring to view it as a clip but if you see it in the context of the film, it works"

Any thoughts on this?

[Hibi]

Oh God I never should have mentioned David Muir....mea culpa.

I know we all go off on tangents including moi but please -- (and I am chastising myself) let's get back to Everything Moo-vees!

The originator of this thread has spoken! LOL

LOL!. OK. Glad you're back! Did you watch any films on Claudette Day??? I recorded 3 I think.

[jamesjazzguitar]

I was pondering about watching a film clip versus watching the scene within the film.

For example, there is the scene in East Of Eden (1955) where James Dean starts crying and embraces his father (Raymond Massey). Many feel watching the clip looks over the top but seeing it within the film it works.

I remember years ago on Entertainment Tonight. Leonard Maltin was speaking about Winchester 73 (1950) . He showed the clip of James Stewart nearly breaking Dan Dureyea's neck while he pins him down on the bar.
Mary Hart then said "Oooh Leonard, I don't like seeing James Stewart like that" Maltin then said "It may seem jarring to view it as a clip but if you see it in the context of the film, it works"

Any thoughts on this?

I agree that viewing within the context of the scene makes these short on-screen moments "work". E.g. The scene at the bar with Duryea and Stewart: Right before the encounter with Duryea, Stewart and his pal talk to the Shelley Winters character: she greets them with "hey, nice people". They ask her where is that nice guy, Steve, she was traveling with. She tells them Steve is dead and was killed by not-so-nice-guy (to say the least), Duryea.

This propels Stewart to action and from my POV, anything he would have done to Duryea is justified (and thus what he did is what a man like Lin McAdam would do).

[Andree]

It's been a rule for eons now that all 3 networks end with an uplifting human interest story at the end so we can feel the world isn't all that bad, despite what's come before on the program. Sometimes I watch, sometimes not, depending on how it relates to me....with more and more commercials crammed into the show, there's probably time for 15 mins worth of news now. They just skim the surface of what's going on that day (what news they choose to air).

Yes, isn't that sweet? Dave had a pretty corny one Wednesday. A doorbell camera shows Daddy riding off to work
on his motorcycle. His little daughter comes out to see he's already gone. He gets an alert and comes back and
give her a great big Daddy hug. Aww.

Just wait until 2025 when Anchorman III: David's Story, Hair Stand I Alone premieres.

[Hibi]

It's been a rule for eons now that all 3 networks end with an uplifting human interest story at the end so we can feel the world isn't all that bad, despite what's come before on the program. Sometimes I watch, sometimes not, depending on how it relates to me....with more and more commercials crammed into the show, there's probably time for 15 mins worth of news now. They just skim the surface of what's going on that day (what news they choose to air).

Yes, isn't that sweet? Dave had a pretty corny one Wednesday. A doorbell camera shows Daddy riding off to work
on his motorcycle. His little daughter comes out to see he's already gone. He gets an alert and comes back and
give her a great big Daddy hug. Aww.

Just wait until 2025 when Anchorman III: David's Story, Hair Stand I Alone premieres.

LMREO!!!!!!!!!!

[Bronxgirl48]

I agree with you 100%. Morison has much more appeal to me than Grayson. Morison had a lot of experience with the role: 1,077 performances from 48 - 51.

Yeah, and BESIDES the fact that Patricia here was a HELL of a lot HOTTER lookin' than that little pug-nosed Grayson chick was TOO!!!

(...right, James?!!!)

LOL

That goes without saying, but I'm glad you said it! Morison dressed to kill.

Good going, james! Patricia did get, well, "stuck" in a few of those Rathbone Sherlock Holmes programmers.

[Bronxgirl48]

Oh God I never should have mentioned David Muir....mea culpa.

I know we all go off on tangents including moi but please -- (and I am chastising myself) let's get back to Everything Moo-vees!

The originator of this thread has spoken! LOL

LOL!. OK. Glad you're back! Did you watch any films on Claudette Day??? I recorded 3 I think.

Thanks, Hibi! I wasn't in the mood for BOOM TOWN for some reason; tried watching it once years ago but it never took hold, probably too much of the boring MGM gloss and then throwing Hedy into that mix completely negated any joy seeing Clark and Claudette "reunited", anyhow I always confuse this movie with TEST PILOT, lol. THE SECRET HEART isn't exactly spellbinding. It teeter-totters on family-noir and June is a bit creepier than I remember. Of course Walter Pidgeon wears his reliable left-finger pinky ring -- shows up in every movie except FORBIDDEN PLANET where he had the good sense to remove it playing a futuristic scientist sharing space with Robby the Robot.

THREE CAME HOME (with the dreamy Patric Knowles) is still good, and for the time it was made rather balanced and temperate with the sympathetic general played by Sessue Hayakawa. Claudette goes through some harrowing experiences including beatings and a near-rape, yet the most shocking thing I saw was a glimpse of mascara on her eyelashes.

I've always found Jimmy Stewart and Claudette very funny in IT'S A WONDERFUL WORLD. Talk about screwball, lol. Her character is so ridiculously, over-the-top stupid, silly and wacky, I can't help but laugh. And Stewart doesn't even have to open his mouth -- just the sight of him in a Boy Scout outfit and goggly glasses is a scream. "I swear by my eyes!" is Colbert's line to anyone who questions her veracity.

[Bronxgirl48]

Dargo and jamesjazzguitar, I STILL enjoy Grayson in KISS ME KATE, pug nose and all, lol.

[Bronxgirl48]

Andree, you are spot on with Woody and INTERIORS, lol. (he was already making fun of Ingmar, or paying tribute, it's hard to tell, in the hilarious LOVE AND DEATH)

laffite, no arguments here because you do agree that Allen's serious Bergman-esque stuff is pretentious. Woody is, to say the least, a complicated man. In his movies he usually refers to himself as God but also a worm. Figure that out, lol. Self-loathing yet narcissistic. A real piece of work to say the least.

[Bronxgirl48]

ANOTHER WOMAN redux....I know a few of you here like it.

"I happened upon a piece of paper with Rilke's poetry and my mother's tears...."

Oy.

[HoldenIsHere]

It's been a rule for eons now that all 3 networks end with an uplifting human interest story at the end so we can feel the world isn't all that bad, despite what's come before on the program. Sometimes I watch, sometimes not, depending on how it relates to me....with more and more commercials crammed into the show, there's probably time for 15 mins worth of news now. They just skim the surface of what's going on that day (what news they choose to air).

Yes, isn't that sweet? Dave had a pretty corny one Wednesday. A doorbell camera shows Daddy riding off to work
on his motorcycle. His little daughter comes out to see he's already gone. He gets an alert and comes back and
give her a great big Daddy hug. Aww.

Just wait until 2025 when Anchorman III: David's Story, Hair Stand I Alone premieres.

David Muir does have great hair and when shirtless -- HUBBA HUBBA!

[Dargo]

It's been a rule for eons now that all 3 networks end with an uplifting human interest story at the end so we can feel the world isn't all that bad, despite what's come before on the program. Sometimes I watch, sometimes not, depending on how it relates to me....with more and more commercials crammed into the show, there's probably time for 15 mins worth of news now. They just skim the surface of what's going on that day (what news they choose to air).

Yes, isn't that sweet? Dave had a pretty corny one Wednesday. A doorbell camera shows Daddy riding off to work
on his motorcycle. His little daughter comes out to see he's already gone. He gets an alert and comes back and
give her a great big Daddy hug. Aww.

Just wait until 2025 when Anchorman III: David's Story, Hair Stand I Alone premieres.

Well then, I guess this is where I admit to actually looking forward to (and have for years) this sort of thing on the 'CBS Evening News' and their "On The Road" segment presented by correspondent Steve Hartman, and as their final segment each and every Friday evening and usually replayed two days later during their 'CBS Sunday Morning' program.

(...and yes, I guess I'm sappy enough that it DOES quite often give me a glimmer of hope that the world might NOT be goin' to hell in a handbasket nearly as quickly as it seems it's often reported to be)

[Andree]

Andree, you are spot on with Woody and INTERIORS, lol. (he was already making fun of Ingmar, or paying tribute, it's hard to tell, in the hilarious LOVE AND DEATH)

I haven't seen Love and Death in many moons. IIRC, it was more of a sendup of Russian novels, but I might be
misrecollecting that. I'm sure Interiors was meant as a sincere homage to Bergman, it's sort of even more Bergman
than Bergman. Maybe that's why it's so funny. I've often wondered if Bergman would be the same if his movies were set
in a tropical climate than in cold Scandinavia. Gloomy angst on a sandy beach with umbrella and multi-colored drinks?

[Andree]

David Muir does have great hair and when shirtless -- HUBBA HUBBA!

This is David Muir reporting from the Bangkok, the so-called sex capital of Asia. Sorry, I've got
an appointment with an anonymous source in fifteen minutes. Nice pic of David. It's kind
of funny the way his chest hair is arranged. Looks a little like a werewolf with his nipples
as the eyes. I never thought I'd be discussing Dave's nipples.