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.
HI STEVE
Other exchanges between you and me on Julie Christie’s page are still flagged up in Forums but have disappeared from the page itself and I can’t locate them. Are spammers at work?
Hi Bob, yes those lovely posts seem to have disappeared from Julie’s page and only exist in limbo, temporarily visible with the naked eye in the forum page before they enter that vast graveyard of posts never to be seen again. [wipes tear]
STEVE: All this reminds me of J M Barrie’s Peter Pan, Neverland and especially Barrie’s ‘The Lost Boys’. Were our posts really a ‘digital stimulation’ when we thought we saw them on WH’s site, are they in Neverland, is that where HE has just been and does the Work Horse have a blue pill that could help us find our lost posts?
“For those not familiar with the film The Matrix, it features a scene in which the hero Neo encounters a boy bending a spoon with his mind. The boy hands the spoon to Neo. The dialogue goes on:
Spoon boy: Do not try and bend the spoon. That’s impossible. Instead … only try to realise the truth.
Neo: What truth?
Spoon boy: There is no spoon.
Neo: There is no spoon?
Spoon boy: Then you’ll see that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.
Neo then appears to bend the spoon with his mind. In the film the spoon isn’t real, but a digital simulation fed to unconscious humans to keep them alive. But what would happen in the real world if you really, really wanted to bend that spoon, and there was another world where you could make it happen? You could get to that world by taking a blue pill offered to you by a kind of anti-Neo”
Bob, I loved that scene in The Matrix, I’m a huge fan of that film. I am surprised you saw it. [Bob shakes his head] Well it’s not exactly Notting Hill is it?
[Bob thumps desk] 😉
Is Bruceo Bruceo still MIA? aaah my Bruceo post is gone with the wind. sad that.
I knew that a quote about the Matrix would interest you!
Hey Steve….I will check to see if I can find your “Bruceo” post….sorry for all the confusion.
I have seen her in just 4 movies – Mulholland Falls, Hulk, Beautiful Mind and Blood Diamond. IMDB credits her with 15 acting awards overall and 25 nominations, and her current net worth is said to be $20 million.
Alongside the around 40 movies that she has appeared in have been 4 television productions from 1982 until 2000. Her current projects are (1) female lead in a 5th TV production, the dystopian thriller series Snowpiercer set to air in Spring next year (2) Top Gun-Maverick which she is now filming with Cruise and she would appear to be his leading lady in that [as Taylor mentioned in his 12 Dec 2018 post on Jen’s Cogerson page].
Best POSTERS in video 1/Career Opportunities 2/Hulk 3/Mulholland Falls 4 Higher Learning 5/Nine 6/2 for Noah 7/Phenomena 8/set for Alita 9/Rocketeer 10/2nd one for Labyrinth 11/foreign language one for Little Children 12/two for Only the Brave 13/Dark City 14/foreign language one for Once upon a Time in Manchester.
Fine STILLS, my pick of which are 1/ Day Earth Stood Still 2/Dark Water 3/1st one for Hulk 4/Noah 5/Phenomena 6/Rocketeer 7/Labyrinth 8/House of Sand and Fog 9/Dark City 10/with Hollywood bad boy in Beautiful Mind 11/Blood Diamond 12/and who could resist precocious 14 year old Jen in her first film? presentation and 98% rated.
A superb presentation and 98% rated. I have already watched it 3 times. You and Bruce agree on just 2 of Jen’s Top 6 for Review, your greatest margin of Top 6 disagreement for some time
NOTE: Bruce’s Jen page is not the normal one and is marked “comments are closed” so I am confining myself to your own video page.
Back on December 18th, 2018, I quickly put together a Jennifer Connelly “post” for her birthday. Our post comment box are closed after 90 days…..so it might look like a “page” it is really a post. So….I undug Bob’s comment…and attached it to this page…along with Steve’s video. In the future I will give her a “page”. Hope that explains why it was so difficult to do a comment on Steve’s video. Once again…sorry for the confusion. But I still had a great time away from UMR….lol.
Appreciated.
Hello Bruce, nice of you to pop in here occasionally, the inmates were about to take over.
Surprised you never did a proper page for lovely Jennifer considering the huge crush you had on her. It’s not too late dude. 🙂
Hi Bob, sorry for the delay in replying but all the page mixups and Bruce’s absence made me wonder if my reply was going to end up in limbo along with all our other posts.
Of course if you had posted your review here in the first place we wouldn’t have had all that malarkey, but at least you gave Bruce some work to do after all his tardiness and neglect. [Bruce growls] 🙂
Thanks for the review, generous rating, info and comparison, much appreciated.
Glad you enjoyed looking at the posters and stills, I did too.
I really first noticed Jenny when she was a teenager in the fantasy Labyrinth, and she got prettier and prettier as the years went by.
According to IMDB she tested for the role of the rape victim in the film The Accused, she was just 17, the role ultimately went to Jodie Foster which won her an Oscar for Best Actress.
Jenny’s best film according to my sources was Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in America, she had a small but important role as ‘young Deborah’, grown up Deb was played by Elizabeth McGovern.
Jenny won an Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA for playing Russell Crowe’s wife in A Beautiful Mind. It’s been a while since I last saw that film.
Crowe was the favorite to win the Oscar for Best Actor that year but ruined his chances after losing his temper and hitting someone a few weeks before the event. Denzel won for Training Day, one of his best roles. But Crowe’s was the more challenging role and it should have gone to him.
One film scored 10 out of 10 – Once Upon a Time in America, and there are three scoring 9 – A Beautiful Mind, House of Sand and Fog and Pollock.
“You don’t want to get rid of your experiences, because they’re your experiences – good or bad – and you need them, but it would be great if they weren’t on the video shelf!”
STEVE Thanks for the usual thoughtful stuff in response to my own comments.
I think you are being a bit hard on me, as you may not have picked up my earlier explanation that (1) when Jen’s Cogerson “birthday” page wouldn’t accept my substantial Connelly post to you, I submitted it to your normal U Tube page on this site whereupon it immediately disappeared (2) I again tried to post it to your U tube page several times but those efforts were unsuccessful as WH’s Big Brother kept rejecting it as a “duplication” even thought it was nowhere to be seen.
(3) I then tried submitting it via yet other pages and finally for some reason Julie’s new Cogerson page accepted it. (4) For ease of reference some follow-up posts from me were also submitted to the new Christie page It’s all a big mystery to me and it seems that this site -like its moderator – “works in mysterious ways its wonders to perform!” Maybe Spoon Boy could explain it to us – see my previous post to you.
Interesting you should dwell on Russell Crowe’s anti-social antics. You may have seen my post to WH in which I told him that a friend of my brother had been set upon by Crowe in a public bar and sustained injuries that enabled that friend to secure out-of-court financial compensation from Russell. I asked my brother to find out why Crowe had attacked his friend and apparently Russell’s lawyers in the compensation settlement said that Crowe thought my brother’s friend was “looking at him aggressively for no apparent reason” and that prompted Russell to pummel him.
Assuming what Crowe said is true in an interview that I saw, that from his death bed The Great Mumbler sent Russell a book called ‘There are men too gentle to live among wolves’ you have to wonder why on earth Mr M would send a being like Crowe a book with such a pacifist-sounding title and [probably] anti-violence content. Was The King of Method taking the p**s out of Russell? that the book had been sent because Crowe was Brando’s favourite actor.
Bob, thanks for the additional info and anecdote. I remember reading Crowe hitting someone with a telephone, I wonder if that was the event that ruined his Oscar chances in 2002?
Sean Penn also has a history of hitting people that he finds disagreeable. Compare those two hooligans with actors like Tom Hanks and George Clooney, nice guys.
Sorry I must have missed the parts in your post yesterday that mentioned being unable to post your review here. That is unusual. Luckily you backed up your review just in case. I do that too now, anything’s possible here in limboland. [Bruce grits his teeth] 😉
HI STEVE
DINO “You haven’t been yourself all week Frankie.”
SINATRA “Why do you think that Dean?”
DINO “You haven’t hit anybody!”
The telephone incident happened but it was a different one from that which ruined Russell’s Oscar chances for A Beautiful Mind. If my recollection is correct the latter spat involved Crowe composing a poem which the organizers undertook would be read out at the Golden Globe ceremony that preceded the 2002 Academy Awards but under time pressures they left out the reading and Crowe physically attacked the main program coordinator.
Last year, I think it was, he was in the news again for a ruckus at a swanky hotel. He had hired a floor of the hotel for a party for selected friends and he also employed a colored female singer to provide entertainment at the event and in due course the pair got into what the press called “a racial spat”. She claimed he was derogatory about her race and he said that she insulted what she called his “rich white friends”. Accordingly they ended up scuffling in the doorway of the room concerned as he apparently tried to manhandle her out into the corridor and I think security [or the police] had to be called. I don’t know how it was ultimately settled.
Anyway great exchanging with you stories about A Nightmare on Russell Street. Take care.
STEVE Thanks for the usual thoughtful stuff in response to my own comments.
I think you are being a bit hard on me, as you may not have picked up my earlier explanation that (1) when Jen’s Cogerson “birthday” page wouldn’t accept my substantial Connelly post to you, I submitted it to your normal U Tube page on this site whereupon it immediately disappeared (2) I again tried to post it to your U tube page several times but those efforts were unsuccessful as WH’s Big Brother kept rejecting it as a “duplication” even thought it was nowhere to be seen.
(3) I then tried submitting it via yet other pages and finally for some reason Julie’s new Cogerson page accepted it. (4) For ease of reference some follow-up posts from me were also submitted to the new Christie page It’s all a big mystery to me and it seems that this site -like its moderator – “works in mysterious ways its wonders to perform!” Maybe Spoon Boy could explain it to us – see my previous post to you.
Interesting you should dwell on Russell Crowe’s anti-social antics. You may have seen my post to WH in which I told him that a friend of my brother had been set upon by Crowe in a public bar and sustained injuries that enabled that friend to secure out-of-court financial compensation from Russell. I asked my brother to find out why Crowe had attacked his friend and apparently Russell’s lawyers in the compensation settlement said that Crowe thought my brother’s friend was “looking at him aggressively for no apparent reason” and that prompted Russell to pummel him.
Assuming what Crowe said is true in an interview that I saw, that from his death bed The Great Mumbler sent Russell a book called ‘There are men too gentle to live among wolves’ you have to wonder why on earth Mr M would send a being like Crowe a book with such a pacifist-sounding title and [probably] anti-violence content. Was The King of Method taking the p**s out of Russell? that the book had been sent because Crowe was Brando’s favourite actor.
Added Steve’s Jennifer Connelly You Tube Video to https://www.ultimatemovierankings.com/2018/12/december-12th-happy-48th-birthday-to-jennifer-connelly/ page. Not sure why that is a “post” versus a “page”.
Voted up and shared. I had such a huge crush on her back when she and I were teenagers. Overall I have seen 34 of her movies. 27 of the ones shown in this video. Favorites would include #7 Only The Brave. #1 Once Upon A Time in America (director’s cut)., #2 Beautiful Mind…she deserved her Oscar. #9 LaBowieth….fun movie…even with the Muppets, and #22 Creation…real life husband and wife playing a real husband and wife. #10 Requiem for a Dream might be the most depressing movie ever made. Fun video on a lovely actress. Voted up.
Hi Bruce, so you’ve seen 27 out of 30 which is very good and 34 from your chart which is even more impressive. You’re definitely a fan. I’ve seen 14 from the 30 and Flora 3. Glad you liked the video, thanks again for the vote, share and comment, always appreciated.
Aloha Bruce, if you’re still around your Jennifer Connelly page needs attention. I’m almost sure I’ve commented on there but the comments section is closed. Bob and I can’t post our comments on there. Cheers. 🙂
STEVE
I have been trying to post through to you without success my comments on your Jennifer Connelly video. I keep getting the message that I am duplicating the comments and yet they appear nowhere on the site.
I wrote to Bruce some days ago to tell him that I was having difficulty in accessing the pages flagged up in the side boxes on each page and I asked for his advice but disappointingly he never replied.
I’ll try once more in a few days to post the Jennifer comments, of which I have retained a copy, but if you don’t hear from me again around then you will know it’s not for the want of trying on my part. Keep safe.
Hey Bob….I will look to see what happened to your comments….we went away for Father’s Day Weekend….and the end of school celebration. Sorry for the delay. UMR was on auto pilot for a few days…but we had a blast.
To Bob.
This is WoC. Cogerson is watching movies… stopped the movie, picked up his THIRD (or fourth?) copy of the Hirschhorn book, then muttered to himself, “She is in there, look at that.”
My issue with this, which I thought you’d appreciate…. Why the heck does Cogerson not have this book memorized by now? He’s owned it since it first came out in print, and has used it so much, he’s worn out multiple copies of said book. Why? Just why?
WoC
I just wanted to be sure she was in the book…..and she is already completely researched in the database. The movie I was watching was #11 The Legacy. This is the rest of her movies.
Movie Year
1st Graduate, The (1967)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Shenandoah (1965)
Singing Nun, The (1966)
Donnie Darko (2001)
6th Stepford Wives, The (1975)
Voyage of the Damned (1976)
Hellfighters (1968)
Final Countdown, The (1980)
10th Mister Buddwing (1966)
Legacy, The (1978)
Hero, The (2017)
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969)
Betsy, The (1978)
15th Red Head Stranger (1986)
They Only Kill Their Masters (1972)
Games (1967)
Get To Know Your Rabbit (1972)
Eye of the Dolphin (2006)
20th Fools (1970)
Chance and Violence (1974)
Wrong Is Right (1982)
23rd Swarm, The (1978)
W o C – Speaking personally, my view is that here is no need for The Work Horse to memorize The Master’s book because WH’s own book is I feel a far better one for a movie buff than Joel’s work because for example
(1) Bruce’s gives a far more comprehensive guide to the relative status and achievements of the stars than Hirsch’s book does, the latter virtually ignoring box office which is one of the great defining tokens of stardom
(2) WH’s excellent book, drawing on a broad spread of critical opinion, gives a more balanced artistic assessment of movies than Hirsch’s personal subjective writings do, and as WH knows I think that Joel’s assessments are a bit like “the curate’s egg – good in parts” with some of them downright silly. WH “Tells it as it is.” and doesn’t let personal opinion or bias interfere.
(3) Hirsch’s diatribe stopped in 1983 “when the world was still young.” whereas Bruce’s book is as up to date as can be and its topicality will be enhanced if he let’s us have the follow-up that he is considering which I gather will emphasize more the modern cinema,
We used to have a radio program over here called Desert Island Discs on which a celeb guest chose, for playing on the program, his/her 10 favourite musical records and was asked to name 8 [only] possessions that he would take with him for comfort if stranded on the island for life. Off the top of my head my own selection would include Jimmy Stewart’s western Bend of the River, John McCormack’s Nearer My God to Thee, a book about Roger Federer and Bruce’s book.
But hey W o C – stop covering up for that rascal of yours! We all know he’s not really watching a movie but is off galavanting again and forgetting about his fans like me. But I suppose as the cliche goes “If it’s not broken don’t fix it.” His Yancey Cravat/Temple Lea Houston habits seem to work with you-
“The gypsy rover came over the hill
And down through the valley so shady,.
He whistled and he sang till the green woods rang,
And he won the heart of a lady.”
APOLOGIES In the penultimate para of my post to you, whilst I initially referred to “his/her” I subsequently mentioned [twice] only “he” which should have been “he/she” as the guests on Desert Island Discs were unisex.
So when Cimarron returns from his wandering perhaps you could ask him to make the slight changes – I wouldn’t want to offend those workmates of yours!