We figured it was time to have a place to talk about Steve’s latest video subjects that do not have an UMR page.
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We figured it was time to have a place to talk about Steve’s latest video subjects that do not have an UMR page.
TOP 20 POSTER SETS
1/Lost Continent – back to your old comfort zone for you!
2/FBI Girl
3/Gay Caballero
4/3 absolutely superb ones for Charlie Bill’s Americano – I love them.
5/Latitude Zero
6/The Racers/Such Men are Dangerous
7/That [very sexy!] Lady in Ermine double
8/Tall Dark and Handsome
9/Happy go Lovely
10/The Batman double
11/Coney Island – very leggy!
12/Myrna Misbehaves
13/two terrific FL ones for The Duke’s Donovan’s Reef
14/2for Captain from Castile – very popular but lost money because of enormous budget.
15/Myrna Cruz – two unique ones in my experience
16/We Stevie Winkie
17/Deep Waters
18/Once a Thief
and three Sonja Henie ones
19/Winter Time [both]
20/My Lucky Star
What have you and WH got against that Henie gal? Not page/video of her own. Her ice acrobatics were breath-taking and your posters of her films helped lift my own personal satisfaction with the video into the 98.5% bracket.
Cesar Romero was tall and suave and sophisticated and he actually had two claims to fame in Hollywood. To one generation he was the distinguished “Latin lover” of numerous musicals and romantic comedies and to that generation he was also known as the rogue bandit “The Cisco Kid” in a string of low-budget westerns. To another generation he was of course the camp Joker of the Batman television series 1966-68.
For some reason you felt that it hurt my Joan’s image that she was “a gay icon” [and so was Judy Garland] but Crawford was bisexual and reportedly had a romantic fling with among others The Thin Woman who is officially historically regarded as Crawford’s best friend; but Caesar was the complete real deal within the gay community.
He had a 2nd word war military career rising to Chief Petty Officer and his allegiance is listed as being to America – ie he was “a real American”. His two nicknames were The Latin from Manhattan and Butch.
On top of his massive big screen career Wikipedia credits him with acting in around 80 television productions. My favourite cinematic movies of his are-
Lost Continent
Street of Shadows/aka Shadow Man
Myrna Cruz
The Americano with Charlie Bill
The Racers [aka Such Men are Dangerous]
The Leather Saint
The Strongest Man in the World [1975] –
for which I understand the then eight year old Jason Statham was the inspiration.
9./For example if David Shipman or Dilys Powell had thought Brando mumbled they would most likely have given specific examples/quotes and left it at that: they wouldn’t have made sweeping statements possibly reflecting contemporary prejudices and then tried to authenticate their own observations and potential personal prejudice by dragging in a third party.
10/ especially someone like the biased Sinatra who had an axe to grind because Marlon got the Sinatra coveted parts of Terry Malloy in Waterfront and Sky Masterson the lead in Guys and Dolls; and it was well known that Sinatra foul-mouthed and tried to intimidate even bullied those who displeased him.
11/As Pauline Kael said in her long award winning article in 1966 which itself was not always uncritical of Marlon it became open season in Hollywood for attacking Brando in the 1960s when he was becoming too powerful as a star.
12/Clearly in my view that season returned in the decade following Brando’s refusal of the Oscar and his criticism of the way he perceived Hollywood to have misrepresented the American Indian’s cause on the screen.
13/Accordingly I strongly feel that Joel allowed himself to be become what Kael called a journalistic “outrider” for the Hollywood establishment’s demonisation of Marlon and joined in the duck shoot. Certainly I firmly believe that he wouldn’t have dared say even if he believed them about cosy Hollywood ‘pets’ like Al Leach or Astaire/Rogers the things he said about Brando.
PS I thing the the % system that you and WH use is a more comprehensive way of grading performances/movies than Joel’s blunt 4 star system
5/I think it is too simplistic to come out with the time worn cliché that Joel’s ‘entitled to his own opinion’. Of course he is and he had the right to dislike Brando as much as he thought fit but when putting out a book that presumably is meant to keep his readers as factually informed as possible it can be argued that he also had an obligation to be as bias free as he could when forming and conveying judgements about professional matters.
6/to pump out bile and sarcasm about things such a star’s earnings reduces Joel in my eyes to the level of one of those waspish gossip columnists who persecuted people like Dalton Trumbo.
7/To make sweeping statements that in effect designate as “nobody” millions of citizens who flock to a movie illustrates not just possible contempt for those other than perceived elites but renders suspect generally the authenticity of the information that is being provided across the board
8/The great critics like Roger Ebert and Bosley Crowther it is true could also be damning and I’m sure unfairly so at times in their opinions. However they would stand alone over their verdicts and wouldn’t lean on quoting the opinions of others who agreed with their conclusions.
HI STEVE: Thanks for the further comments in the 1.16pm post yesterday My further points of response.
1/The good news is that we are getting all our money back for our aborted flights/holiday in Lanzarote next month. The bad news is that there are currently no further flights to Lanzarote planned for the foreseeable future.
2/So that we will have to go elsewhere or wait for now until Lanzarote flights are resumed. In the meanwhile I will not be losing any sleep over the postponement of a Bond film that I will never watch anyway though I do sympathize with guys like you and WH.
3/I have indicated before that I think that a star system is a gimmicky and insufficient and even lazy way of reflecting the greatness of performances or movies in relation to each other at least in the way Joel’s star system was organised. HE makes 4 stars his cap so it seems to me that in the mix there are ‘just’ great and excellent performances along with unique and ground breaking ones – ie the once in a lifetime achievements. The likes of England’s great and renowned movie critic Dilys Powell didn’t need Hirsch type star ratings but were able to used their powers of expression to make such distinctions.
4/Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda from 1933-45 Joseph Goebbels is famous for saying that if you tell a lie often enough people will come to accept it as truth so given the hard sell of Hirsch by WH on this site I am concerned that there are many other Cogerson viewers who may be closet Joellites as you turned out to be.