Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-05-09 (Thursday)

On 5/10/2024 2:42 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

On 5/10/2024 8:40 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
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Funny Girl (TCM) 1968 musical starring Barbra Stresand as a real life
singer who rises to fame while falling in love with Omar Sharif.

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While Fanny Brice could sing, she's best known as a comedienne, and on
radio variety programs (and eventually her own program) later in her
career as a sketch comic, especially the Baby Snooks character. In the
sequel movie Funny Lady (1975), they have one brief scene with her radio
program, which was ridiculous. She had an enormous nationwide audience
and that's what she was famous for. The sequel was disappointing but has
a few good songs in it. Barbra didn't want to do the sequel but she was
already contracted for it.
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I rented both movies from Netflix in 2008.  I really didn't remember
them, but at the time I rated them 2 stars.
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The "real life singer" is Barbra herself, given that the Broadway
production (developed by Brice's son-in-law) made Barbra a superstar.
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The TCM host mentioned some of this.  Apparently the studio didn't want
Barbara but the director fought for her.

 We have a discussion going on the Facebook 1950s sci-fi movies group about
the idiocy of the current TCM hosts. And they used to be so good.
 On this weeks showing of FORBIDDEN PLANET. The host said that the backdrop
paintings were circular and 2 miles long!
 

Even an actor would question the dialogue of that script.  At some point someone should have said it can't be 2 miles long...

Apparently the factoid they actually gave her was that they were 10,000
ft.² and she doesn’t know the difference between square feet and linear
feet and figured out that must be 2 miles. I don’t know where she got
circular except that they roll up like window shades.
 https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTjTiFycN88k5v-03-cduX4A0Bo9zqTpdTZ6pw9oSk0YQ&s
 https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/tRe-eGtzpUDCkuZ0FAxjjReTbvm48xajZztH6F551s8Gg0OT_LVDg5yGn1TczqqEs9CBEOADWB2Qqf8vOMnHivQ9nVQNn4B9cZyx8MUtcCxIoibcg35bpyTqtM-llLtr_sJD
 https://i.imgur.com/9MRsXvr.jpg
 

Nice!  I had no idea the paintings were so big.