Sunday, August 2, 2009
More movies today
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It's James Mason Day on TCM today for a whole 24 hours. They're showing many of the famous films like A Star Is Born and North By Northwest, of course, as well as Lord Jim and the wonderful, touching Heaven Can Wait. James Mason Day also includes many smaller, unexpected and surprising (to me, anyway) films.
It bears mentioning that Dorothy Parker was one of the writers on Star Is Born, along with Moss Hart and some others, which explains why it's not just drivel, I suppose. And Ernest Lehman, the writer of NxN, also wrote the screenplays for The King and I, Sweet Smell of Success, Westside Story, Hello Dolly, Family Plot, The Sound of Music and others. Whew.
Judy Garland is not one of my favorite performers, partly because I always hear that omnipresent echo of her sad life when I see her, but holy cow she sings magnificently in Star. And she looks fantastic in that huge-skirted, light-and-dark violet dress with its big-shouldered shrug as she sings Melancholy Baby in a nightclub during the visualization of her rise to fame.
I don't know why my first reaction to James Mason is always that he's a little creepy and doesn't interest me and then, after five minutes, I can't turn away.
It bears mentioning that Dorothy Parker was one of the writers on Star Is Born, along with Moss Hart and some others, which explains why it's not just drivel, I suppose. And Ernest Lehman, the writer of NxN, also wrote the screenplays for The King and I, Sweet Smell of Success, Westside Story, Hello Dolly, Family Plot, The Sound of Music and others. Whew.
Judy Garland is not one of my favorite performers, partly because I always hear that omnipresent echo of her sad life when I see her, but holy cow she sings magnificently in Star. And she looks fantastic in that huge-skirted, light-and-dark violet dress with its big-shouldered shrug as she sings Melancholy Baby in a nightclub during the visualization of her rise to fame.
I don't know why my first reaction to James Mason is always that he's a little creepy and doesn't interest me and then, after five minutes, I can't turn away.
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