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Fuck.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/teri-garr-dead-tootsie-young-frankenstein-1236047759/

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-ktmN0wvHQs

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That girl I will always wish lived next door. 

Fond memory of her randomly pushing buttons and helping Gary Seven in Assignment: Earth

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House guest and I watched 1917.  Struck again, on second view, by the masterful cinematography.  A working title could have been, Tracking Shots Gone Wild. 

And there at the end is Jon Snow Robb Stark Richard Madden! 

Pure and powerful cinematic art, with the heartache and madness and horror of war (and let's not forget the fog) printed indelibly on the brain.

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Agreed. I should note that while watching the movie, I kept saying, Hey! That's Benedict Cumberbatch! Right up until it actually WAS Benedict Cumberbatch.

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Pretty sure that was Kevin Bacon.

Anyway, saw Take Shelter again, and what stellar performances from Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain, as they navigate what is either his descent into schizophrenia or his terrifying prophetic visions of climatic catastrophe.  Shannon's enormous leonine head seems like the perfect anatomical asset for filling a room with his turbulent emotions and scaring the bejesus out of people.  Chastain is a gorgeous rock of sanity, courage, and stern but tender love.  You may be tempted to make a canned goods run to the supermarket by the time the credits roll. 

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Wicked moves from stage to screen with pretty good results.  Actress playing Elphaba does masterful job of making a sympathetic Wicked Witch.  Unwrap a Ding Dong and enjoy.  Period sets faithful to Baum's books are splendorous.

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Silence is not golden...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9V6TROO8tI

We need to bring the AADA back to the West Coast, it is sad the Hollywood location closed, but meanwhile the actors will have to go to New York City to train.

And we still have USC film school in Hollywood, and Chapman film school in Orange County.

Salute,

Tony V.

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I always thought that if we could connect the Acting students from the AADA up with the Film students from USC film school and from Chapman film school, then people can make movies, etc.

I enjoyed making a student film at USC. And we crave to work and to develop our chops, etc.

Now that the AADA is closed on the West Coast, then the actors can make films at NYU film school on the East Coast.

And now with social media, people can write their own ticket. If you create good stuff that goes viral then you are on your way to success. The secret is to have fun and make good art. And to make money, Soap Operas were created to sell soap to housewives, so even if you sell soap then you are making money from your art. And now we have Netflix to sell movies to, etc.

The Acting students can work together as a team with the Film students, etc, and they can make art together. Then, they can bring in the Business students to turn their art into money.

Salute,

Tony V.

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I will quote Rotten Tomatos regarding Carry-on

Taron Egerton and an against-type Jason Bateman make for great adversaries in Carry-On, a throwback thriller that clears all checkpoints of plot logic with its confident execution.

Egertons performance I found notable, projecting a young man who is battling demons of self-doubt, somewhat frozen on the ladder.  He is Welsh, and has that emotional intensity that seems it could topple in any direction between catatonia and explosion.   Not bad for what could have been a tedious airport actioner. 

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https://apnews.com/article/blake-lively-justin-baldoni-harassment-complaint-10a90da60d7a325f33f3fa6bbf263e29

I believe her. 

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Finally saw Haunting in Venice and it was just what I feared would be. Except for character names no real connection with the novel. Leaned hard into the occult, with practically random reveals of facts both random and germane. And for a second time the unnecessary murder of Poirot's assistant. Though literal in DotN, this time by the character assassination of Ariane Oliver. Next up is supposedly Roger Aykroyd. I shudder. Probably will kill off another investigative assistant.

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Aykroyd is likely the one Id bother to see, given its eminence in the Christie oeuvre.  I saw the David Suchet version that PBS showed in the US, at least twenty years ago.  Maybe thats enough.

Anyway, I take it no one died from unduly coerced apple bobbing in H in V.  Just doesnt sound like a Venetian custom to me. 

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Aykroyd is likely the one Id bother to see, given its eminence in the Christie oeuvre.  I saw the David Suchet version that PBS showed in the US, at least twenty years ago.  Maybe thats enough.

Anyway, I take it no one died from unduly coerced apple bobbing in H in V.  Just doesnt sound like a Venetian custom to me.

The Suchet version was awful. The book is most worthwhile for the twist ending, the narrator, who is equal measures engaging and condescending, and the narrator's sister who is sort of a dry run Miss Marple. The Suchet version screwed up all three by making Dr. Sheppard just another character.

If I was doing it I would focus on the Sheppards. Keep Dr Sheppard as Poirot's assistant. Have his sister adeptly sift information from home. The gaps in the narrative have to be handled right or it will seem dishonest. There are multiple moments in the narrative where you should realize Sheppard is not being entirely forthcoming but you just don't because Sheppard and her sister are so well conceived and written.

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Anyway, I take it no one died from unduly coerced apple bobbing in H in V.  Just doesnt sound like a Venetian custom to me.

Well, it WAS a close call, apple bobbing homicide-wise.

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Peered in at Third Eye Film today, after many months (the site had mostly gone silent this year), and saw new posts from Syd and Lorne informing that Marc Campbell had died, Dec. 21, age 73. 

 A shock, as deaths are when they come for people still active and connected. Though I am now myself slouching into the age demographic where it is easier to see there are no guarantees, no matter what the actuarial tables say. 73 always seems premature, but not at odds with his rock/punk sensibilities. (nor is his absence from wikipedia, where the only Marc Campbell is a baseball player) I thank him for the third eye website which he kept going for so long, and for introducing me to El Topo and other surreal fantasies.