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[Holly Martins]

....But, it turns out, the maps dont actually correspond to the alleged data. In one case, a map supposedly showing Atlanta was actually a stock photo of Moscow...   

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/03/1133686674/how-documentary-style-films-turn-conspiracy-theories-into-a-call-to-action

You can fool some of the people some of the time and this is one way to do that.

[Oilcandide]

Fun to see The Big Sleep again with the spouse (who had read the book but not viewed the movie).  Not sure if any actor has more perfectly embodied a character than Bogie as Marlowe. 

[Oilcandide]

Inspiration for Tom Hanks role dies.

https://apnews.com/article/mehran-karimi-nasseri-the-terminal-dies-in-paris-airport-d13124fc1f2f1c3d3c3609904373573b

I hadn't realized the area where Nasseri had to stay was windowless.  That makes it my definition of Hell.

  A man of existential courage.

[Oilcandide]

Anyone like Where the Crawdads Sing?  The end twist had logic problems but can't deny the actress made Marsh Girl a memorable role. 

[FlyingVProd]

I watched the movie "Elvis" with my Mother during the Thanksgiving holiday, and Austin Butler who played Elvis is from here in Anaheim. Maybe Austin Butler can help to bring the Entertainment Industry to Anaheim, and we have the Chapman film school which is the number 4 rated film school in the world. Anaheim needs to have a film and television studio and there needs to be Entertainment Industry jobs here. Maybe Austin Butler can use his fame to help to bring the Entertainment Industry to Anaheim. Austin did a great job in the movie "Elvis" and he is a huge star now, maybe he can use his fame to help to bring Entertainment Industry jobs to Anaheim.

We also watched "W." which was made by Oliver Stone, it is a great movie with great casting and great acting. I would love to work with Oliver Stone someday.

Salute,

Tony V.

[FlyingVProd]

Maybe Austin Butler will star in my movie that I helped to write, I wrote it with the help of a college professor in Texas who I met on the web, I think he died a while back. My movie is "Echo, A Rock and Roll Tragedy" and the lead is a woman with the male as being the supporting star. The woman is the number one porn star in the world, but she has a lot of problems, and her boyfriend from childhood who is a Rock and Roll Disc Jockey like a young Jim Ladd comes back into her life, and he tries to save her, but this movie is a tragedy and there are no happy endings with this movie. If Austin Butler stars in my movie then he needs to grow his hair long, the movie takes place on March 30, 1981, in Hollywood, and so he needs to look like a Rock and Roll Disc Jockey in Hollywood in 1981.

I had the money to make my movie a long time ago, Hugh Hefner liked my script, and he was going to put up the money if someone he knew and trusted would direct it, so I picked Oliver Stone based on his work on "The Doors" starring Val Kilmer, but sadly Oliver turned me down, and then Hef backed out. I almost succeeded, it was a miracle that I made it as far as I did. But, I did not make it, and that was 22 years ago.

But, I still have my script, and Austin Butler is from here in Anaheim, maybe Austin will want to star in it, and maybe he can help to get it made.

In the old days I simply faxed my script to Hef, and to Oliver Stone, it was easy back then. Now I need to have a $3,000 computer that I do not even know how to use and which needs new programs to be the industry standard programs. I need helpers on the issue of this computer. I wish I could just use a simple old fax machine like in the old days.

I had beginner's luck when I first started, Hef was the first person who I went to in order to get the money to make my movie, and Hef liked my script and he was going to put up the money. I did not make it, but I almost made it. And I did it all without an agent, and without any help. My only helper was a college professor on the web in Texas who helped me to write the script.

And one thing that I have learned is never to let ones enemies define a person, and do not listen to all of the people who tell one that one cannot achieve goals in life.

I still have my script, and it is still a great script. Eventually I will get my movie made, and it will be a huge hit.

Salute,

Tony V.

[Hairy Lime]

My movie is "Echo, A Rock and Roll Tragedy" and the lead is a woman with the male as being the supporting star. The woman is the number one porn star in the world, but she has a lot of problems....

"But?"

[Oilcandide]

Anaheim needs to have a film and television studio and there needs to be Entertainment Industry jobs here...

Salute,

Tony V.

There is a glaring shortage of film and tv studios in greater Los Angeles.  I guess the nearest metro with an entertainment industry would be, what, Vancouver? 

[FlyingVProd]

Anaheim needs to have a film and television studio and there needs to be Entertainment Industry jobs here...

Salute,

Tony V.

There is a glaring shortage of film and tv studios in greater Los Angeles.  I guess the nearest metro with an entertainment industry would be, what, Vancouver?

My favorite existing studio here is Universal, in Universal City, I worked there when Lew Wasserman was the boss, and we had Ron Howard and Steven Spielberg on our team, the only bad thing at that time was that the studio was owned by the Japanese and the Japanese wanted for everyone to work for minimum wage. The Japanese did not understand that Los Angeles is an expensive place to live and when they pay everyone minimum wage then that means that all of the workers starve, people cannot afford rent, and food, etc. Now Universal is owned by Americans, and I bet Universal pays the workers more money now that Americans own the studio again. And we have a subway now that goes right to Universal, I simply ride the Metrolink train from Fullerton to Los Angeles ( I live in Anaheim, but I am right on the border with Fullerton ) and then I can ride the subway from Los Angeles to Universal City, it is easy, but after I get my movie made I will take a limousine.

Disney has a studio in Burbank, plus they use Occidental Studios in East Hollywood, etc.

The Japanese still own Sony Studios in Culver City, it used to be owned by Lucy, Lucy was the one who built that studio up. I would like to see Americans buy the studio back. Or if the Japanese can buy a studio, then why not the Italians? I would rather work for the Italians. I can tell Berlusconi to bring his buddies to Hollywood to open a new Italian owned studio in Hollywood. Or the French, the French need a studio in Hollywood.

Paramount does not do anything to help their community, the area around Paramount is a poor dump and the studio just has a barbed wire fence around the studio, it sucks, Paramount should become a good part of their community and they need to hire the people from the neighborhood around the studio to work at the studio for good high wages. The people from that neighborhood can all go to film school and they can go to work at Paramount. Paramount needs to improve relations with the neighborhood around the studio.

The Chapman film school has their own studio I guess, I need to go there and see the film school and get help, and I can also volunteer to act in student films, etc.

And people film in the desert on location, and in Santa Clarita, and in Agua Dulce.

Meanwhile, it would be great to have a studio in Anaheim, and we have a lot of people who live here who work in the Entertainment Industry. And I saw Hugh Laurie at the market, etc. We have some cool stars who live here. And Austin Butler is from Anaheim. Gwen Stefani is also from Anaheim.

We have some studios, but we need more, and we need to have a great studio here in Anaheim. And we are blessed to have good schools, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.

[Hairy Lime]

Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles is officially the greatest movie ever.

https://www.indiewire.com/2022/12/sight-and-sound-best-films-of-all-time-poll-2022-results-1234786615/

[Oilcandide]

Sounds like a double feature with Cleo 5-7.  A really long double feature.

Have you seen JD23QdC?

[Oilcandide]

https://www.cnn.com/videos/media/2022/12/02/cocaine-bear-trailer-moos-cprog-orig-bdk.cnn

Pablo Esco-bear?

[Hairy Lime]

I had forgotten how dark the musical version of A Christmas Carol got. I suspect they edit our Scrooge in Hell when they too rarely broadcast it.

I had also forgotten Alec Guinness played Marley s Ghost.

[Oilcandide]

Do you mean the musical adaptation called Scrooge with Albert Finney?  They should run that more often.   For nonmusical, I find the Alistair Sim Scrooge hard to beat. 

Oliver! and Scrooge were made a couple years apart...why didn't they keep going and turn all of Dickens oeuvre into musicals? 

Bleak House!  The unforgettable song Your mother, Esther, is your disgrace, and you were hers"   

(BTW the Alan Menken musical is the ACC that retains the Dickens title, IIRC. )

[Oilcandide]

The recent Norwegian film "Troll" is one of those cheesy but fun romps in fantasy-meets-modern-world that barely needs subtitles.  WYSIWYG, as they say.  Oslo's take on Godzilla, with the usual ecological message.  We also get to visit the Hall of the Mountain King, which the end crawl soundtrack scores in the obvious way.  But they do resist a blitz-grieg of Grieg.