Fashion Board 11-2-03 - 12-09-03

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by baltassoc
Two for the Road
with Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney. I came across this film, which I had not heard of previously, during some Audrey Hepburn marathon. It's really quite good. Of course, i wasn't alive when it came out, so I have no idea whether it was critically or popularly acclaimed. But is strikes me as a film more likely to engender critical success: one of the main features of the film is that it continuously leaps around between different points in the couple's lives, generally through cuts of driving along roads (i.e. a scene cuts to another 20 years later where the common theme is that the one ends and the next begins with driving down the same road. It works better than it sounds.

And of course, Hepburn is gorgeous.

Tom Jones. One of my all time favorite moves, also starring Albert Finney. Sex, bastard(s), intrigue, mistaken identity, banishment, a hanging, a duel, a masquarade ball, a highway robbery, perhaps some incest, a fox hunt, oysters, and Squire Western. What more could anyone possibly want from a movie? Plus, Albert Finney was quite the hottie in this one.

[Connect_the_Dots]

Originally posted by leagleaze
What do you think lesbians...do, go down on each other and call it a night? I mean I love cunnilingus as much as the next girl, but really.

I don't see where you are going with this. If there is more to it, please describe--slowly.

Excuse me while I close the door, dim the lights and light some mood candles.

Google for my head. I see someone who I KNOW I know but cannot for the life of me place, and I have to figure out the scenario. I just plug his name into my headgoogle and voila! "shroomed with him on Nantucked, summer of 89". Can this be done?

[baltassoc]

Originally posted by baltassoc
Two for the Road
with Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney.

As I went back to read more in the IMDB, I was reminded of Wait Until Dark, another great Hepburn movie. Hepburn plays a blind woman being manipulated by criminals. An intimate movie that is almost like watching a play in a theater (pretty much just a single set).

These two movies were that last of the busiest part of her career; according to IMDB, she only made another half dozen films between 1968 and her death in 1993, and they all sucked.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Keira (Hi Slave) Knightley's boobies.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
Google for my head. I see someone who I KNOW I know but cannot for the life of me place, and I have to figure out the scenario. I just plug his name into my headgoogle and voila! "shroomed with him on Nantucked, summer of 89". Can this be done?

In fact, maybe. Truth be told and this is top secret, so hush hush and all that, PLF and I are jointly collabo'ing on the technology to make this possible and when done we are going to use our time machine to go back to the peak of the Tech Bubble to ensure maximum cash out. Eventually by the time you read this, your question will be moot as you will already have the technology. Thanks to us. And we will be lounging in the sun in the south of France with Alec Baldwin, our concubines and our concubines' concubines.

When all of this comes to pass, please feel free to ask the question anyway. It keeps up the page hits and thus the moderators' residuals.

[Atticus Grinch]

I need you guys to do me a favor. I need you to approach every gay man you know, and tell them you need them to pass along a message to whatever Trilateral Commission of Gay Men makes trend decisions in this country. Doubtless, all of them will look at you like they don't know what you're talking about, but some of them will be faking. These men know who to call.

I need you to tell them to tell the Commission to instruct all 13- to 24-year-old girls to stop plucking their fucking eyebrows. I was served my double tall cap this morning by two women with completely drawn-in eyebrows. They looked like goth clowns or something. This has got to stop. It's like women are now looking at their already-too-thin eyebrows the way an anorexic looks at dangling earlobes --- a fucked-up message that says "keep going, you're on the right track, almost done, just a little left to go."

That is all.

[purse junkie]

Giant scales and sponges-on-a-stick:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/nati...-Products.html

I'm not sure I could stand the ignominiousness of needing a special tool to help me put on my socks just b/c I couldn't reach over my Cheetos gut, absent a real medical cause. If that ain't an incentive to diet, I can't imagine what is.

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
Ahhh, generation gap in progress here.

The thing about nobody under 45, is that a lot of great old movies are never picked up by the next generation. Dr. Zhivago and Casablanca notwithstanding. But, at the same time, a lot of sucky old movies are never picked up by the next generation either.

Like The Apartment or Stalag 17.

Gappers?

Desk Set with Tracy and Hepburn.
Lean's Lawrence of Arabia.
Mame with Rosalind Russell.
Erroll Flynn's Robin Hood (and of course the classic Bugs Bunny version were EF makes a cameo).
Anything with Godzilla.
The Manchurian Candidate.
Duck Dogers in the 24th and 1/2 Century.

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
I need you to tell them to tell the Commission to instruct all 13- to 24-year-old girls to stop plucking their fucking eyebrows. I was served my double tall cap this morning by two women with completely drawn-in eyebrows. They looked like goth clowns or something. This has got to stop. It's like women are now looking at their already-too-thin eyebrows the way an anorexic looks at dangling earlobes --- a fucked-up message that says "keep going, you're on the right track, almost done, just a little left to go."

That is all.

Vogue or something just had an article saying bushy eyebrows are back. If we can get the message down to Seventeen or Cosmo Girl!, or whatever lemming magazine girls are supposed to follow right now, you're all set.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
I need you guys to do me a favor. I need you to approach every gay man you know, and tell them you need them to pass along a message to whatever Trilateral Commission of Gay Men makes trend decisions in this country. ...
I need you to tell them to tell the Commission to instruct all 13- to 24-year-old girls to stop plucking their fucking eyebrows.

Atticus, this is not so much a trend as a rite of passage, like experimenting with Sun-In or lemon juice or peroxide in the shampoo and assorted home hair coloring products that compound the problem rather than fix it. Teenage girls have been overplucking their eyebrows since the dawn of time, or at least since the 80s, notwithstanding their mothers' warnings that overplucked eyebrows don't always grow back fully.

But if it makes you feel better, the Commission has already acted -- the current trend is a thicker brow. This, of course, is a very painful thing to face for those girls who didn't listen to their mothers, who were, of course, correct.

R(listened to my mother on that one)P

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
This guy makes Tony Robbins seem normal.


I'm confused. That's not a tan is it? Is this guy trying to get into Harvard a la Soul Man?

He's hot. He really fills out that banana hammock.

S(I'd fuck him)D

[Not Bob]

Hmmm, I'm sure that I'll come up with a few more, but these are the ones that immediately spring to mind.

For Westerns, I've always liked "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence." Others, like "Shane" and the various John Ford flicks, were good movies and get a lot more attention these days, but Liberty Valence was a great flick -- probably one of the few times John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart actually *acted* instead of simply showing up in a movie as a version of themselves. The last line is a classic: "that's the man who shot Liberty Valence."

The original "Sabrina" -- perhaps not really an underrated classic, although I'd say that it shows that Humphrey Bogart may have been underrated or typecast as an actor. Lovely romantic fluff, and how can you go wrong with a young Audrey Hepburn? Can you blame William Holden for going ga-ga when he first sees her on her return from Paree? Yowza.

More recently, "The Sting." Wonderful comic plot that leaves you guessing, great ragtime and jazz music, superb wardrobe, and Newman and Redford at the top of their game. Needs to be shown more on AMC and Turner Classics.

Finally, "Network." Maybe it's underrated because we've already gone past it in reality.

[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
Well, I've seen her in a few bombs too, but that is another story.

I remember the scene with the servants; great stuff. They made it seem like she was trapped in a prison where the guards could pretend she was the warden. I loved the train station scene towards the end too. Anyway, bottom line for me is it was an unforgettable character.

So, just as a random question (I may take you up on an answer if you have one), what movie would you recommend under the following conditions:

1.) You think its a great movie;
2.) Nobody below the age of (45?) appreciates it, except you;
3.) At some point, either audiences, critics or the academy loved it.

Well, not nobody, but you know... barely anybody.

Anything come to mind?

I originally misunderstood the question to be "any movies that old folks don't know/don't like?" That's because I'm having a senior moment.

So my original answer is below. As phrased, I'd go with

HIS GIRL FRIDAY. The definitive 'reporter-meets-escaped con, reporter-hides-escaped con-in-rolltop desk' story. This movie (and other Howard Hawks comedies) were a major influence on the Coen brothers.

GREAT MOVIES UNKNOWN BY OLDSTERS:

#3: American Movie. This is a documentary that does what documentaries are supposed to do: you feel certain that you know Mark Borschardt, and his friends, and his family, and his crazy dream to make Coven (pronounced COH-ven) and his other nutty horror films. Impossible to pick a favorite character in this movie, but crazy rich miser uncle guy and best-friend Mark are two great ones.

#2: Repo Man. I haven't seen it for ten years, but from what I remember, it's chock-full of brilliant strangeness. Captures on film what I often felt as a young str8 -- that the world is vicious and crooked place, a puzzle to be solved by clues unknowingly residing in the few.

#1: The Killer. John Woo's masterpiece. Love, friendship, loyalty, betrayal, bullets. Chow Yun Fat kicks ass. Danny Lee and Sally Yeh play their parts to perfection (how sad that I didn't even have to look up their names). One of the uber-bad guys looks just like the guy who killed Pacino in Scarface. An ending not to be believed. And a little-known fact; the dubbed version is better than the subtitled one.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by leagleaze
Sebbie, you know I love you, but sometimes you are a moron.

What do you think lesbians and gay men do, go down on each other and call it a night? I mean I love cunnilingus as much as the next girl, but really.

Of course I never bought the whole oral sex isn't sex thing either. That's just a rationalization to knock down the number of people someone has fucked.

No, I'm not clueless... but this gave meanother jumping off point to level my dead horse argument that ablow job isn't sex. I am quite aware that all sex, gay/straight/other, involves penetration of some sort (unless you are having sex with some sort of egg laying animal such as a horseshoe crab, which would only require you to jerk off in a swamp... Why the hell did I just write that...).

I did buy the oral sex ain't sex argument because I don't love oral sex and feel like I'm left out of some great thing. God has cursed me to enjoy fucking instead of hummers, and its giving me tennis elbow... but on the plus side, all those push ups and grinding have given me quite toned pecs and really loose shoulders. Now if I can just keep the gut down, byt the time I'm 50, I'll look like that cat who covered himself in shoe polish...