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Most singers you get the singer and the song - Billie IS the song.

That orchestral arrangement is pure genius. It strikes me that the orchestra is like the woman Nat is singing to!

For me, Ginger Rogers is the sexiest woman God ever created. She just melts into Astaire's body.

Is not Flynn the handsomest actor ever?

These lyrics are inaccurate whether you take the original or as Chris sings them.

What the hell note is that last one? I love the little trick he does to get to it: "What kind of fool I yam." That "y" helps get him from one note to the next. There's not a singer now or in the past who could sing this song better.

This is terrific - he is the best of the Rat Pack - he could sing FS and DM under the table! Wonderful phrasing.

@combo153 A smartass comment. The urgency is in her voice and the fact that she phoned emergency. She was clearly scared out of her wits.

I am hypercritical - I admit that. But this is so well-made that I can't find a crack in it anywhere.

Aniston is as attractive as one of those statues on Easter Island. To tell the truth I prefer our tea lady who is fat, old, cigaretted all the time, hair dyed and has a voice like a crow - but is REAL.

Beacuase a man recoils from going into a dark wood does not mean there is any danger there.

It's a weird start with the bongos - why doesn't the score start at the entry of the choir and "orchestra"?

This is the best comic dialogue I have ever heard.

This is the America I love - a combination of sophistication, wit, energy and classlessness. It vanishes womewhat after the 50s but here it is again in this supreme televisual feast The Big Bang.Theory.

What I love is that these guys are so not actorish! Yet great actors!

What an extraordinary character! On the face of it a perfect Watson, yet the creator of the ultra-nerd Holmes (that "monstrous growth"). A man of razor-sharp rationality, yet a dealer in the after-life and fairy stories.

Does anyone else think Orbison finds it difficult to stay on the note? Those high notes make my ears ache.

Classical music and pop or jazz are chalk and cheese. The classical singer finds pop or jazz music difficult, as do pop singers classical music. But X Factor singers are undoubtedly second rate. Boyle.s fame is based on the fact that she is plain but has a decent enough voice - the combination se...

There's a little streak of the woman-hater in FG.

Burton is too old. He does not catch the passionate energy and character of the poem. This is a man awaking to the staggering effect of a real, mature, and all encompassing love which he has never felt before.

I used to play the flugel horn - I was as good as this guy - till I blew it!

@PhoenixBird50 You are right - I cannot even remember where I got that from. But it was certainly the apex of her career - and she complained that it overshadowed the rest of her work. She was great in many other things, but in The Graduate she had a vehicle (and the vehicle had her) to make it a...

Music's crap - singing's worse.

This is crap! It has as much creativity in it as a rotting cabbage.

This is crap!

@Okbooboo Absolutely! Anything but a full length shot would be like a photo of the Mona Lisa from the nose up! The reason for the speed (and the loud music) is that modern film makers are desperate for us not to see what crap their productions are.

@hugehelmet Humour has to be accurate. There is a point when the suspension of disbelief becomes impossible. What the hell does ffs mean?

@AreaClouded What is wrong little chap? Did daddy make a comment you did not like. Ah, diddums, back to sleep. Grow up tomorrow, perhaps.

This film scratches the Yank audience's back. The plain girl succeeding in a glamorous profession - Doris Day etc. March in real life would not look twice at Esther Blodgett.

Lemmon is a great actor - that walk at the beginning - the face, the eyes, the voice, the body language tell us exactly what he is feeling.

When Pythagoras discovered his proof, he gave 100 oxen to the Muses in thanks. That's all I know about geometry!.

They are savage fighters, their lives mean nothing to them - Oh yeah? There was incredible heroism on both sides.

@GLITZandGLOOM I feel a woman-hater here - she blows Martin's gross approach out of the water - she has all the aces. Do that job for a day and you will see she is a special person.

"I'm not changing" - that's the theme of the film, where it gets its kicks. In the end they both move nearer each other - they both change into better human beings.

@metacosmos What IS socialist technocracy?

How is it Bancroft crosses herself?

@arising777 The problem with this is that the music degrades the dancing.