Re: I Just Watched...
Posted: April 8th, 2024, 10:09 am
I've never seen an episode of MSW and I do like Angela. ![😆](//twemoji.maxcdn.com/2/svg/1f606.svg)
It was 1988's Purple People Eater. Also starred Ned Beatty and Peggy Lipton. Never seen it (or heard of it, for that matter), but it looks about as good as you might imagine...Hibi wrote: ↑April 8th, 2024, 9:59 amWhat film of Shelly's was Neil Patrick Harris in? I've seen that film where Shelly plays a Lezzie mob boss. One of those Cleopatra Jones films. Awful!Lorna wrote: ↑April 7th, 2024, 8:46 amI see you and I hear you.
Shelley Winters achieved a lot in her life, and throughout it she had to endure a lot of really tacky and obnoxious jokes about her appearance that were completely uncalled for. In fact, I’ll even say that when she first hit the scene in the late 40s and 50s, she was especially attractive and it was really nice to see a woman who wasn’t a size 4.
When I make fun of Shelley Winters it’s for her being a deranged egomaniac who considered herself quite a serious method actor in spite of the fact that she said “HELL YEAH” to pretty much everything that was offered to her, including an Italian killer octopus movie, a role as a lesbian pimp named “BIG MAMA” the same year that she was nominated for “the Poseidon adventure” and a film called “the visitor” that just has to be seem to be believed. Also, it’s worth it to read the accounts of Neil Patrick Harris and Debbie Reynolds, who both had to work with her- (Harris actually had a particularly disturbing account in that he was a child when they work together on a movie, and she apparently went on a huge tirade and told him the film was going to flop and It was going to be entirely his fault.)
Edit- I like Shelley Winters a lot better than I like Rod Steiger, but they are cut from similar cloth as far as actors, whose performances have not always aged well, even though they were in their day considered to be the definition of “the CRAFT. “
I've never heard of it either, but that's par for the course for many of Shelley's later films.txfilmfan wrote: ↑April 8th, 2024, 10:27 amIt was 1988's Purple People Eater. Also starred Ned Beatty and Peggy Lipton. Never seen it (or heard of it, for that matter), but it looks about as good as you might imagine...Hibi wrote: ↑April 8th, 2024, 9:59 amWhat film of Shelly's was Neil Patrick Harris in? I've seen that film where Shelly plays a Lezzie mob boss. One of those Cleopatra Jones films. Awful!Lorna wrote: ↑April 7th, 2024, 8:46 am
I see you and I hear you.
Shelley Winters achieved a lot in her life, and throughout it she had to endure a lot of really tacky and obnoxious jokes about her appearance that were completely uncalled for. In fact, I’ll even say that when she first hit the scene in the late 40s and 50s, she was especially attractive and it was really nice to see a woman who wasn’t a size 4.
When I make fun of Shelley Winters it’s for her being a deranged egomaniac who considered herself quite a serious method actor in spite of the fact that she said “HELL YEAH” to pretty much everything that was offered to her, including an Italian killer octopus movie, a role as a lesbian pimp named “BIG MAMA” the same year that she was nominated for “the Poseidon adventure” and a film called “the visitor” that just has to be seem to be believed. Also, it’s worth it to read the accounts of Neil Patrick Harris and Debbie Reynolds, who both had to work with her- (Harris actually had a particularly disturbing account in that he was a child when they work together on a movie, and she apparently went on a huge tirade and told him the film was going to flop and It was going to be entirely his fault.)
Edit- I like Shelley Winters a lot better than I like Rod Steiger, but they are cut from similar cloth as far as actors, whose performances have not always aged well, even though they were in their day considered to be the definition of “the CRAFT. “
I also have never seen a complete episode of MURDER, SHE WROTE.dianedebuda wrote: ↑April 8th, 2024, 10:09 am I've never seen an episode of MSW and I do like Angela.![]()
I'm pretty sure the "stoop so low" remark about Sal Mineo was a reference to his short stature.Lorna wrote: ↑April 8th, 2024, 9:31 am THE ADRIENNE BARBEAU INTERPRETATION was a really good version of LOOK AT ME, I'M SANDRA DEE...and yet the line "AS FOR YEW, TROY DONAHUE, I KNOW WHAT YEW WANNA DO!" will FOREVER be OWNED by STOCKARD CHANNING.
EDIT- "STOOP SO LOW FOR SAL MINEO"????? I THINK NOT, GIRL. YOU SHOULD BE SO ****ING LUCKY (on multiple fronts)
It's been years since I saw it but never forgot it. You want to look away but somehow cannot. It reminded me of 1970s movies with it's grainy photography and low life characters.
HoldenIsHere wrote: ↑April 8th, 2024, 1:26 pmI'm pretty sure the "stoop so low" remark about Sal Mineo was a reference to his short stature.Lorna wrote: ↑April 8th, 2024, 9:31 am THE ADRIENNE BARBEAU INTERPRETATION was a really good version of LOOK AT ME, I'M SANDRA DEE...and yet the line "AS FOR YEW, TROY DONAHUE, I KNOW WHAT YEW WANNA DO!" will FOREVER be OWNED by STOCKARD CHANNING.
EDIT- "STOOP SO LOW FOR SAL MINEO"????? I THINK NOT, GIRL. YOU SHOULD BE SO ****ING LUCKY (on multiple fronts)
(But yeah, he was hot!)
Overall, it's loathsome, but as you couldn't help but notice, it is well made. Something like I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE is vile to me. Comparably appealing, I have seen HENRY more than once. Truly vile, I won't look at the other again.Lorna wrote: ↑April 9th, 2024, 8:42 am so, I seem to be ping-ponging between DARKNESS AND LIGHT when it comes to my viewing habits...
WARNING: This is ANOTHER review that is about a film whose subject matter is not for everyone, although it is AMERICAN, not ITALIAN and there are NO NAZIS.
I saw HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER (1986) on TUBI- ...
In watching it, I made up my mind 2/3 in that I wasn't going to post a review, because it is a VILE MOVIE...
We'll take in under consideration...HoldenIsHere wrote: ↑April 8th, 2024, 1:22 pmI also have never seen a complete episode of MURDER, SHE WROTE.dianedebuda wrote: ↑April 8th, 2024, 10:09 am I've never seen an episode of MSW and I do like Angela.![]()
I hope LHF and Hibi don't stone me . . .