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Great film! Mank is underrated by auteur critics. Less than meets t/eye? Vinema is more than tracking shots, parallel ed. Odd Hitch never tried to film this differently; with a focus on the M-W rs a la Grant (or Rains)/Bergman; with parallel cutting on the cleaning woman/Mason. This was perfect H...

Thx. Not sure how literal these "true cases" had to be as teleplays. The first 7 mts dragged & was not even realisitc. Usu. police r in control asking brief questions for brief replies unless of substantive value; here the woman gave a complete biography of the family clan. That material should h...

A nice reworking of this song immortalized by Tony Williams & The Platters in what to me is the definitive Rock vocal; but this is a great version. I dislike covers that simply mimic the originals: what's the point?

There was an RCA Camden album, mainly blues, that I once owned. "By the Light of the Silvery Moon" and "Baby Face" was two Tin Pan Alley standards Richard recorded.

It's a novelty song, not among his best obviously, but I'm glad it's here! Anything by LR is worth listening to.

@SPAZZOBOXER I'm curious why you wrote that this song was nominated for an Oscar. It wasn't, so far as I know. I checked both 1986 and 1987 nominees and it's not listed.

Both fighters looked liked journeymen fighters. From the video Stewart's punches looked like they had no snap even when he landed. He was throwing from the shoulder; and like one of the commentators kept saying he mainly waited for Foreman. That's no way to fight. Obviously his punches must have ...

@TheBurmanUnicorn I bet, young man, you haven't had your bottom smacked in a while: am I right?

Oops! I meant to type "Bo's 'Say, Man'"!

Chuck Berry territory; arrangement similar to CHEYENNE (same album), but not as cute as that arrangement (no criticism intended to this song, just different).

I don't know what the comment means that Bo had "no connection" to "16 Tons," which he recorded, even though Ford (& others) had the hit. As I commented elsewhere in the Bo Diddley section, Ed was in the right (whether he was right or not). I wonder if Bo would have liked it if, say Jerome or ano...

Sad, I just realized I lost my hearing.

He quotes the lyrics to "Love Is Strange," which sometimes is credited to him as co-writer.

The vocal here sounds heavier, darker than another upload, which sounds more like the Denver I recall. Compare this other version posted by ken198325.

It's curious there is no recording of this operetta or of other operettas by this composer. Of course his "Im Chambre separee" from this operetta is famous as salon music and in excerpted aria format, but that's about it. I'm glad to hear this Overture by him.

Glad to c this, thx. One forgets how prolific Williams was; he was virtually a one-man industry on Bway & in Hollywd w/high marquee value from 50s-60s: CAT, STREETCAR, S&S, ROMAN SPRING, BDOLL, NIGHT, PERIOD, TATOO & all major productions. FUGITIVE KIND had 3 Oscar winners, & others usu. had one....

@favden Does it seem remotely plausible people are unlikely to read comments BEFORE they view the ep or probably even AFTER they view it? But you may have a point. Keep in mind though that I don't expect my comment to be isolated like this just beneath the ep (!) but assume there will be diverse ...

Great collection of photos. What a voice; and not just power, but artistry. I've always loved that melisma on "through," etc. (reminds me of a similar tag in Mariah's vocal for "All I Want for Christmas." RIP

@vinegarthomas >is real; cuisine is NOT. It's a consensual fiction. All reality is a fiction. Why is Wordsworth considered a great poet but a Rock star whose lyrics are even more sophisticated is not? (Ever read the Lucy poems? Only scholarship gives those poems more cultural "cred" than, say, ly...

Quite honestly, I don't think there's any such person as an "expert," except in an accreditation sense (i.e. M.A. in this, Ph.D. in that, etc.). Proof is each side of the forensic debate has its own "expert." Usually when an "expert" is quoted by the media they rehearse platitudes or banalities u...

All the circumstantial evidence points to him. He lied about the gun. He lied about his money. He lied about a job. He had a secret life. He surfed sex sites the day of the murders. He let for England. He did not return for the funerals. The bizarre phone call. Remember, the legal phrase is "beyo...

To me police work in this case seems flawed. Why did it take so long to to connect the dots? If even Paul's friends suggested he might be the perp why wasn't he prioritized, esp. with his youthful sexual voyeurism? Why make a deal with Karla when the evidence was already enough to search the resi...

This was far less professional than 48 Hours. So many repetitions, for one (was this originally a single broadcast, or weekly eps that would justify repetitions?). Also unanswered questions: how did they know about "Ken's" youthful sex offenses, when, and why no criminal action was taken? What ac...

@Nigelxman Son, this is my last post. "Tough guy"? I don't go around using words like a-hole hiding behind Netonymity. I would NEVER smack the bottom of a child. But there are some adults whose bottoms need to be smacked. You got the message; you just don't like the message. You're desperate, son...

Remarkable the leap between the first and final 2 dramas. The first is mainly manneristic; the second especially looks like a dry run for RBEL, even with similar situations (adolescent conscience, etc.). Nat Wood looks very different in the 3rd drama, not as attractive as she looks in the feature...

Strange choice to have Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto (2nd mvt) on the car radio!

The playwright Arthur Miller appears in the lineup at 26:32.

@arthurkitchen You may be right--from your point of view. How to prove aesthetics? Impossible. How can one "prove" Chuck Berry is a musical genius comparable to a classical musician. I recognize that some will not accept that. BUT one can ARGUE aesthetics; and THERE'S the difference. I have, with...

I'm a I LOVE LUCY fan but this ep was flat throughout, mainly tedious predictable jokes about habits & Rock was wasted. His entry should have been dramatic instead he walked on like he was the next-door neighbor & the routine he got stuck with was pedestrian. One feels that the producers had the ...

This ref knew what he was doing; he didn't need to have a cornerman throw in the towel, he didn't need an 8 count or look into his eyes. That's the difference between boxing as brutal spectacle and boxing as brutal sport. Usually on that difference is life and death.

@lukafafrenz >degree, I mean aesthetics is subjective but not criticism, which is objective in the sense that one argues one's point by appealing to images, context, mise-en-scene, etc. It's subjective whether that convinces or not, but the argument is objective. One thing that annoys me about st...

I have to disagree with comments here. If nothing else, gender-neutral as we hope to be, a text like this calls out for a strong male voice; so far as I know, Lincoln was male. Apart even from the gender issue, Hepburn's voice is not strong enough, quavery, even croaking, most of the time. But ea...

Fonda definitely steals film in this pedestrian example of Southern Gothic in the vein of Inge and Williams. Standout is Bass's credit design and Bernstein's main theme, though some of his underscore is rather trite (the fight scene in the Doll House). Kitty's father should have taught her the vi...

>>stylized forms (music cues, dialogues, lighting, plot twists, costumes, etc.). It's good to know that one writer on IMDB, however dismssive he was of this film thought it superior to Sirk's IMITATION OF LIFE; because anyone who doesn't c Sirk's film as one of the masterpieces of the Hollywood c...

@brody5000 One can almost judge the decline in H's work by the decline in the humor of his later films (as with Hawks' MAN'S FAVORITE SPORT, a pathetic exercise in humor if ever). Compare the brilliantly orchestrated humor in ROPE, SHADOW OF A DOUBT, NORTH, PSYCHO with the strained & flat humor...