wikkidpissah
Footballguy
ya - fine film. great heart & sense. just goes to show you, though - if a man dont get his couscous @ home, he'll look for it elsewhere....
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FFA Movie Poll - 1974 Countdown Monday is here. (1 Viewer)
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Eephus
Footballguy
It's an interesting coincidence (to me) that Slatkin and Tilson Thomas were both born in LA within a month or so of each other. Slatkin also conducted the SF Symphony's last concert at the War Memorial before they moved to their current building across the street.
The literal passing of the baton when a new musical director comes in is an exciting time but you're right that these are perilous times for classical music. The costs to run a professional orchestra are astronomical. SF is pretty well endowed and they draw well but the audience demographics are an obvious issue. We're old but we feel like whipper snappers when we go to the symphony. The people in our cheap seats section we've befriended over the years are in their 70s and 80s. I think the visual arts have done a better job of outreach to younger people by opening museums up for night programs like First Fridays. I don't know how much art appreciation happens during events (we usually go to see the bands) but at least kids are inside the door.
Eephus
Footballguy
Falk and Cassavetes were drinking buddies. Their joint appearance (with Ben Gazzara) on the #### Cavett Show to promote Cassavetes movie "Husbands" is a notorious episode in talk show history.
It's worth a look just to see Gazzara's tie.
El Floppo
Footballguy
otb_lifer
Footballguy
Falk and Cassavetes were drinking buddies. Their joint appearance (with Ben Gazzara) on the #### Cavett Show to promote Cassavetes movie "Husbands" is a notorious episode in talk show history.
It's worth a look just to see Gazzara's tie.
BTW - Gazarra was never better than in my '98 top choice Buffalo '66 - brief screen time, but he gave one mutha ####### epic performamce - Vinnie Gallo used to hang with us Tisch mofos at Boo Radley's onWaverly.
top 5 of the decade.
Eephus
Footballguy
He's excellent in Saint Jack as well
BTW - Gazarra was never better than in my '98 top choice Buffalo '66 - brief screen time, but he gave one mutha ####### epic performamce - Vinnie Gallo used to hang with us Tisch mofos at Boo Radley's onWaverly.
top 5 of the decade.
ProstheticRGK
Footballguy
ProstheticRGK
Footballguy
It’s not cool to say, and I love them both. Like top 1 & 2 movies all time. But 2 is better. The only one who could’ve played Vito Corleone better than Brando is DeNiro.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
otb_lifer
Footballguy
will contest here that his turn as Billy's father in "Buffalo 66" was as remarkable a ##### nozzle as was ever filmed - i dunno who won the fancy Hollywood statue, but it belonged to Gazzarra that year.
that being said - "Capone" sucked infinite bags of Richards.
ProstheticRGK
Footballguy
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, featuring a yound Richard Dreyfus as a young wikkidpissah. Link above.I haven't checked to see if this is indeed the whole movie, but it appears to be.
Starting up Texas Chainsaw Massacre right now (with NCAA bball in the background) - I want to finish before it starts to get dark.
it’s a thoroughly excellent film.
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
This is a lot closer to the truth than i care to admit. li'l pissah was a pischer & a pusherProstheticRGK said:
simey
Footballguy
That one really pulls people in.If you really want to be cool and provocative, go with Godfather Part III as the best of the bunch.
krista4
Footballguy
When Godfather III came out, a couple of friends and I who had somehow not yet seen the first two (I know) rented those and watched them the night before, making us totally jazzed with our plan to go see III the next day.If you really want to be cool and provocative, go with Godfather Part III as the best of the bunch.
Imagine our surprise.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I still haven't seen The Godfather III. Is it really THAT bad, or does it look bad b/c of what it had to follow?
krista4
Footballguy
More the latter IMO. It’s not a terrible movie. Sofia Coppola was the biggest issue.
Eephus
Footballguy
I ranked both.
The Yakuza has grown on me over the years. I didn't fully appreciate the homage aspect the first time I saw it. Mitchum's performance has gained emotional resonance as I've gotten older. There don't seem to be as many detective movies with middle age leads nowadays as there were in 1974.
Female Trouble is my favorite John Waters movie by far.
Eephus
Footballguy
It has its moments.
I try to give Sofia a pass because she didn't cast herself. The biggest problem IMO is a script that never decides where it's going.
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KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I have entered in the 18 lists that I have gotten. So far a pretty clear top 5, but maybe not the movies/order I was expecting.
Gr00vus
Footballguy
That was great. Duddy makes my list, probably double digit points. Great ending.I’m watching it now. The Bar Mitzvah movie...
ProstheticRGK
Footballguy
Loved that. The look on everyone’s faces, until the one guy started clapping. It’s how I felt watching Magnolia in the theater.I’m watching it now. The Bar Mitzvah movie...
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Mine will come when Jesus does. I'm trying to cram in a bunch of movies this upcoming week and weekend.
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
The Cheers folks did a loving ripoff of it for Un Film de Diane Chambers. FinI’m watching it now. The Bar Mitzvah movie...
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wikkidpissah
Footballguy
Eephus
Footballguy
Binky The Doormat
Footballguy
Binky The Doormat
Footballguy
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Yeah I have. So the answer is just drugs? Lots of drugs explains all things 70s?
Binky The Doormat
Footballguy
simey
Footballguy
Did he just what and why Kris?
What is Kris? He is a singer-songwriter, musician, and actor. He is also a Rhodes Scholar and has nice hair. I almost picked him in the Oscar music draft for my Cecil B Demille award. Why is Kris? 
Since this is Sunday, I will chose this beautiful gospel song written and sung by Kris to cleanse Ilov's soul for whating and whying him, and to answer his Why Kris.
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Ilov80s
Footballguy
He does have nice hair.Did he just what and why Kris?
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
this, this, 1000x times this. to this day the only 2word phrase that scares me as much as "atomic bomb" or "erectile dysfunction" is "qiana separates"
qiana is the silky, clingy synthetic disco material. tell you how creepy this was with a Winnie Beasley story.
Winnie was sum'n - Blue Book Register, Cafe Society in NYC in the 30s, she & her hubby did the Georgia OKeefe thang in the 50s and bought half of a beautiful town called Tesuque, just N of Santa Fe. The old man died & that just set Winnie free - long past her dotage, she could regularly be seen tooling around town on her '27 Indian motorcycle and the ultimate birthday gift was to get Winnie to take someone up in her Cessna Cherokee, highlighted by her full-out dive-bombing the SF plaza til you wet yourself. The first time i met her, i was playing b-ball with her sons and she came out da house asking if "one of you would walk Butchie - he's not feeling right". When her son agreed, she walked up to us til i could see that the pet she wanted walked was a bull snake (oddly, they have enough of a neck to put a leash on). Always sumn like that at the Beasley Ranch. She hosted two ginormous parties each year - a grand New Year's gala that she wore a gold lame miniskirt to well into her 70s and a Halloween party that people really put themselves out to costume themselves for. Everybody loveloveloved Winnie.
I had won a prize for my Ayatollah outfit the Halloween before (a week before the hostages were taken), but i had no ideas for a followup. My best pal was a photographer and he said, "Make your scariest face" (Kiss tongue pose) and he took a picture of it front, back, each side & top view and we put each picture on a mask-size box so i could go as kind of a Bizzaro wikkid. But what to wear? Had to be spectacular. An army of friends scoured every thrift shop in central NM and came up with the perfect 70s horrorshow - white patent leather loafers with so many cracks they looked like alligator, a bold maroon & white zigzag qiana disco shirt (got some righteous pawn shop medallions & the same girl who'd made my sheepkskin Ayatollah beard the year before fashioned me a bounteous chest merkin), a fuzzy angora-ish pink & blue jacket so heavily worn that the fuzz was hanging like leather fringes and the greatest pair of trousers i ever seen. So thick with polyester they almost said "boing" when they stretched, brightest kelly green in creation, with a pattern of tiny white squash/tennis rackets & balls throughout and so perfectly too short & flared that i was able to flash a generous portion of my Indian/Irish hairless white leg between the bellbottom and the saggyass black socks & white shoes. I was the living embodiment of 70s Bizarro.
Had to get mega-loaded just to keep the courage of my self-convictions long enough to enter the party, but i was a hit right away & won 2nd place, only behind a couple who'd built the Brooklyn Bridge between them. I didn't appreciate folks screaming again when i took my "mask" off, but you take the bad with the good. The Seventies!!!!!!!
Gr00vus
Footballguy
Dr. No playing Duddy's uncle was a serious trip also, it took me a bit to buy him in the role, not because he wasn't acting well, I just couldn't see anything but Dr. No.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Monday bump.
Binky The Doormat
Footballguy
KP ...too long between years.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Sorry, I don't think the pace is going to increase on my end. I want to watch some new ones for each year, and will be even busier as I will probably have to go back to work and with the weather getting warmer.
It does take hours to do the lists + countdown, and I don't think 1/week would be much fun for me.
It does take hours to do the lists + countdown, and I don't think 1/week would be much fun for me.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
I was reading that he didn't want to do Jaws- even turned it down- but he thought his performance in Duddy was so bad that it would end his career so he called Spielberg back and accepted the role. He just wanted 1 last job before Duddy was released and ended his acting career.
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
His performance was very courageous. Film actors are unanimously reluctant to be that neurotic and unattractive and exposed in a protagonist role, but it's what makes the flick.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Yeah I thought he was good. The whole cast was nice. I enjoyed it a lot more than that Cassavetes flick about people yelling.
ProstheticRGK
Footballguy
I agree, and he carried the film with his manic charm. Jack Warden had another great supporting role- that guy was good in everything I’ve seen. Also, her acting was a little wooden, but I really liked the quiet strength of the Yvette character. She was a good foil for Duddy.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
If it did not have "The Godfather" in it's title it wouldn't be as panned. It's not terrible, just not great.
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