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

robustpuppy · 11-10-2003, 06:00 PM

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Originally posted by str8outavannuys
This photo deserves more than a link. I now see what all the fuss is about, and hereby retract my previous stupid comparison to methol-face.

Yeah, I thought you were way off on that one. Helena Bonham Carter is wretched. I don't understand why she always gets work, and why Kenneth Branagh would leave Emma Thompson for her.

Why "methol face"? Because she always looks like she just caught a whiff of fish?

dtb · 11-10-2003, 06:01 PM

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Originally posted by Connect_the_Dots
The Man who Shot Liberty Valance represents the nadir of the western because it has BOTH John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart (some day we may be able to digittally re-master it and Clint to it as well).

I do not think this means what you think it means...

(On the bright side, I read somewhere that it is a common phenomenon that right before you truly understand what a word means, you think it means exactly the opposite.)

So, there you go.

ltl/fb · 11-10-2003, 06:02 PM

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Originally posted by str8outavannuys
This photo deserves more than a link. I now see what all the fuss is about, and hereby retract my previous stupid comparison to methol-face.

Added bonus -- you could use this in anatomy class to study internal organs.

dtb · 11-10-2003, 06:09 PM

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Originally posted by robustpuppy
Yeah, I thought you were way off on that one. Helena Bonham Carter is wretched. I don't understand why she always gets work, and why Kenneth Branagh would leave Emma Thompson for her.

Is that what happened? Huh. Well, Emma didn't do too badly -- the dude she ended up with is way hunkier than Kenneth Brannagh (the libertine Mr. Willoughby from S&S -- handsome dude!) And a propos of particularly favorite characters, Alan Rickman was positively dreamy in that movie. Even when Alan Rickman plays a villain, I cannot possibly think badly of him, as his dreaminess as Colonel Brandon overshadows and oozes into the character of even the worst of scoundrels he might otherwise portray in another film (like, say, Professor Snape... but the jury is still out on whether Snape is or is not a scoundrel.)

[Keep moving -- nothing to see here but some random musings...]

str8outavannuys · 11-10-2003, 06:10 PM

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Originally posted by robustpuppy
Yeah, I thought you were way off on that one. Helena Bonham Carter is wretched. I don't understand why she always gets work, and why Kenneth Branagh would leave Emma Thompson for her.

Why "methol face"? Because she always looks like she just caught a whiff of fish?

Whoops. It was supposed to be "menthol face," because her fallback "look at me, I'm acting" face was remniscent of somebody getting sprayed with menthol. Written out like that, it doesn't make sense to me either, but there you have it.

evenodds · 11-10-2003, 06:12 PM

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Originally posted by taxwonk
I love this movie. It isn't a great movie, which is why I left it off my list. It is, however, a great example of the broad sweeping epic so popular in that era. For pageantry and scope, it belongs in the same class as films like "Ben Hur" and The Ten Commandments."

I love old movies like "It Happened One Night," "The Philadelphia Story," "North by Northwest," etc. but they are not underrated.

For great underrated movies, I have to go with the entire Sonja Henie oeuvre. No one appreciates them but me and my mother -- we watched them faithfully every Saturday. Sonja Henie was an olympic ice skater, so she appeared opposite every leading man of the day in ridiculous stories set up so that she could skate.

Her costars included the impossibly handsome Tyrone Power, Ray Milland, Adolphe Menjou, Don Ameche, Caesar Romero, Buddy Ebsen, Rudy Vallee, Glen Miller, Milton Berle, with special apperances by Gypsy Rose Lee, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Kaye, and the Ritz Brothers.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0377012/

notcasesensitive · 11-10-2003, 06:12 PM

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Originally posted by dtb
Is that what happened? Huh. Well, Emma didn't do too badly -- the dude she ended up with is way hunkier than Kenneth Brannagh (the libertine Mr. Willoughby from S&S -- handsome dude!) And a propos of particularly favorite characters, Alan Rickman was positively dreamy in that movie. Even when Alan Rickman plays a villain, I cannot possibly think badly of him, as his dreaminess as Colonel Brandon overshadows and oozes into the character of even the worst of scoundrels he might otherwise portray in another film (like, say, Professor Snape... but the jury is still out on whether Snape is or is not a scoundrel.)

[Keep moving -- nothing to see here but some random musings...]

Rickman is a great actor. He has been utterly believable in every part I have ever seen him play. I didn't know that Branaugh had left her. I alsways thought she was too good for him. I have that affliction though. Something to do with having been born female, I believe...

As an aside, the board could use a little pep today. Y'all have practically driven me to doing billable work. Penske? paigow? Shape Shifter? Someone fix this.

Shape Shifter · 11-10-2003, 06:14 PM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
Added bonus -- you could use this in anatomy class to study internal organs.

Is she fully inflated?

Connect_the_Dots · 11-10-2003, 06:15 PM

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Originally posted by dtb
I do not think this means what you think it means...

(On the bright side, I read somewhere that it is a common phenomenon that right before you truly understand what a word means, you think it means exactly the opposite.)

So, there you go.

Yes, clearly I meant apex or zenith. I sometimes get those two confused with nadir, which is understandable since they are spelled and pronounced completely differently.

Luckily you understand my brainial workings well enough that words are a salmon.

robustpuppy · 11-10-2003, 06:15 PM

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Originally posted by str8outavannuys
Whoops. It was supposed to be "menthol face," because her fallback "look at me, I'm acting" face was remniscent of somebody getting sprayed with menthol. Written out like that, it doesn't make sense to me either, but there you have it.

Aha. I like your description.

And dtb, I agree with everything you've said relating to movies (with one exception*), Emma's new husband, and Alan Rickman (who played Brandon to perfection, notwithstanding the ineptitude of old whatsername from Titanic).

The exception being Butterfield 8. Liz got a pity Oscar for it and I think the whole movie benefited from the Liz-pity party.

Hank Chinaski · 11-10-2003, 06:18 PM

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Originally posted by evenodds
I love old movies like "It Happened One Night," "The Philadelphia Story," "North by Northwest," etc. but they are not underrated.

You could rent almost any Alfred Hitchcock movie made after about 1933 and before 1970. In particular Rope, the Trouble With Harry, Strangers on A Train are all great. Rear Window and Vertigo have been re-released and get more press but you really can't go wrong with any of his movies.

Also, The Young Philadelphians is good with Paul Newman as a ethically compromised lawyer.

Other old nuggets; The Man With the Golden Arm, Double Indemnity; that's enough.

ltl/fb · 11-10-2003, 06:19 PM

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Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Is she fully inflated?

why don't we throw her in your pool and see if she floats?

I do think she's quite attractive in a very very lanky way; it's a bit skeletal for me but it looks fairly natural (no lollipop-head issue).

evenodds · 11-10-2003, 06:19 PM

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Originally posted by dtb
as his dreaminess as Colonel Brandon overshadows and oozes into the character of even the worst of scoundrels he might otherwise portray in another film

I love that movie. It's firmly on the list of films I will watch whenever they are on.

Because I love the movie so much, I read S&S for the first time recently. The movie stuck close to the language (Emma Thompson did an amazing job adapting it), and I was fascinated by some of the backstory and character development she had to leave out.

robustpuppy · 11-10-2003, 06:20 PM

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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
As an aside, the board could use a little pep today. Y'all have practically driven me to doing billable work. Penske? paigow? Shape Shifter? Someone fix this.

:idea: Maybe you could carry on (i.e., flirt) with Penske! :love: That would liven things up, indeed!!!

Not Bob · 11-10-2003, 06:22 PM

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Originally posted by str8outavannuys
This photo deserves more than a link. I now see what all the fuss is about, and hereby retract my previous stupid comparison to methol-face. [photo deleted]

Are we looking at the same picture? Because the one I see that Slave posted the link to makes her look like she is about 20 pounds underweight. Heroin chic-like. Ugh. And the gothic black hair dye-job? Please. I am into Not Blondes as much as the next guy (Rena Sofer, Ashley Judd, et al.), but that hair style is Not Good.

She looks much better in Pirates of the Carribean. In this picture, I just want to give her a cheeseburger. And a milkshake.