George Segal Movies Reviewed

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   BOB
   June 26, 2018 at 5:49 am
   COPIED FROM STEVE’S OWN COGERSON PAGE
   Steve Lensman
   June 2, 2018 at 7:37 am
   Hi Bob, enjoyed your post. Thanks for reviewing and rating my video, always appreciated. Glad you enjoyed the pictorial content.

   I thought that foreign poster for A Touch of Class was a bit naughtier than usual and wonder if that scene was in the movie or the artist just using his imagination.

   I should do a video on Streisand one of these days, I’m not a fan but I know you and some of the regulars here are.

   I want to update a few more old videos, maybe some director videos too. Eventually I’ll get to more modern actors.

   Looking at my files I have rated 7432 movies in the past couple of years.

   I’ve rated 11 films from the 1910s
   88 from the 1920s
   969 from the 1930s
   1262 from the 1940s
   1499 from the 1950s
   1188 from the 1960s
   788 from the 1970s
   501 from the 1980s
   407 from the 1990s
   442 from the 2000s
   277 from the 2010s

   Sitting comfortably at the top of my score board is a little gangster movie starring Mr. Mumbles. In second place – a three way tie – Casablanca, Citizen Kane and Godfather II.

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   1. STEVE

      Thanks for he Heads Up about the wrong page and you will see that I have now transferred our exchanges to Bruce’s Segal Reviewed page as I was in fact “reviewing” your video though I never like to use that precise term as I am not a professional reviewer

      My notes on your Segal video suggest you and the Wise One agree on only 2 of George’s top 6 best reviewed films and I can’t remember when you two were so far apart though “Mikey” is always bound to do well in any chart that The Work Horse produces.

      STEVE
      1/Virginia Woolf
      2/King Rat
      3/Ship of Fools
      4/Quiller Memorandum
      5/No Way to Treat a Lady
      6/ California Split
      WORK HORSE
      1/Virginia Woolf
      2/Longest day
      3/Owl & Pussycar
      4/Touch of Class
      5/Ship of Fools
      6/Look Who’s Talking

      I detested the “Mikey” film but then again I didn’t like King Rat so “A plague on both your houses!”

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      1. Hey Bob….I thought King Rat was a good movie….but compared to classic movies like The Great Escape and Stalog 17…….it is not as impressive. Segal is outstanding in the movie…..which when looking at the % rankings….it comes in 9th place.

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      2. Hey Bob….you might not be a professional reviewer……but your vast movie knowledge is a treasure for others to learn from. This is a compliment….no sarcasm intended!

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   2. Ah…..Steve cracking open his movie stats…..very very interesting. Sounds like you need a database for these 7,432 movies….lol

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2. BOB
   June 26, 2018 at 5:44 am
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   B ROY
   June 2, 2018 at 4:15 am
   George Segal’s heyday in movies was in the 1960s and 1970s in films like Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Quiller Memorandum, A Touch of Class and Rollercoaster [with my Widmark]. George is historically credited as being one of the first stars to rise to leading man status though leaving unchanged his Jewish surname, thus allegedly paving the way for mega stars such as Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand to use their own names on screen.

   Of course Hollywood has always chopped and changed the names of performers where they were not considered “trendy” enough and I feel it is nice that a star can keep his or her own name if proud of it and of the community in which it is fashionable. Indeed I like George Segal’s name and Babs Streisand is one of my fave actresses and whilst I was attracted to marquees that proclaimed “Marlon Brando is here in CINEMASCOPE!” [Desiree 1954] I would equally have queued outside cinemas where the marquee blazoned out “Maurice Micklewhite IS Alfie!” Of course nobody was EVER going to let us see a tagline/marquee that urged “Give em hell Marion!” [though HE would still have been MY hero!]

   BEST POSTERS in your Segal video are in my view The Black Bird, Born to Win, 2012, Loving, Rollercoaster, Terminal Man, The Lost Command, a magnificent one for the Quiller memorandum and 3 very raunchy ones for Owl and the Pussycat, Too Many Chefs and Touch of Class.

   MY FAVOURITE STILLS are George with my Denzel in Carbon Copy, Segal with Jane Fonda, The Quiller Memorandum, King Rat and an exceptional one with the Burtons. There are also classy lobby cards for The Bridge of Ramegen [also featuring our yesterday-discussed Ben Gazzara] and California Split as well as one with Babs Streisand. Excellent stuff and 97% rated.
   Although George’s movie career declined after the 1970s he continued to make films and I recently enjoyed watching him in a supporting role in 2014’s Elsa and Fred with Shirley MacLaine and Christopher Plummer. George has also had a prolific TV career and is currently enjoying further success as Pops Solomon in the series The Goldbergs which began in 2013 and is still running.

   I understand that in that one his character acts far younger than his age, so maybe on the cards for George is big-screen revival with a part in the up and coming Indiana Jones movie and as the real-life George has musical talents too [for example playing the banjo on late-night TV] maybe for light relief in the Indie film he and Harrison could join hands and sing as a duet the classic “Younger than springtime am I.” !!!
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