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This is still so hard to believe and if I have trouble getting over it I don't see how Meryl Streep did. Maybe she didn't as they never worked together again, right?
Heston ABSOLUTELY DID NOT know. Decades later Gore Vidal repeated this story in a well-known magazine, (either TIME, Newsweek, or TV Guide). I remember him relating on TV as well, how Wyler said, "Gore, this is Ben-Hur! The subtitle is 'A Tale of the Christ,'" then allowing as how it was fine to reveal the idea to Boyd but not to breathe it to Heston as "Chuck would have a fit" at any such suggestion, so here was Heston thinking he was Ramon Novarro from the original (who was, in fact, gay), utterly missing Boyd making goo-goo glances at him. They showed this part with clips from the scene of them talking about their friendship. When the article appeared, Heston responded saying Vidal was on set about half a day and was exaggerating his influence, and that no such thing was EVER connected with the film. So anyone who may have said at the time that "Chuck would have a fit" was 100% correct.
Not only that but every other racer had a metal helmet, removed his cape or cloak, but left his helmet on. Judah showed up with a leather helmet and took it off before starting the race.
Black people of at least two genders partied following the race and seemed to be having a good time.
I was wondering if teachers were allowed to play along with the bands in some cases.
From what I gathered (not paying full attention)--Sam didn't deny it--in fact seemed to confirm it--so presumably although he later turned out to be neither the killer nor the girl's baby's father, it was still statutory rape in Mississippi so presumably he was still out of a job over the entire affair. (Her boyfriend may have even conned her into seducing Sam so he couldn't deny it.)
Incidentally, the property damage and financial loss in the episode "Family Reunion" was much more substantial but in that case they really had just provocation for what they did. (I sometimes wonder how they had money to finance all the things they filmed, such as the steamroller episode and other scenes which would cost a fair amount.)
PBS stations blurred out the naked butt.
Considering he was a lifelong Republican, he'd be ashamed of the halfwits, criminals, and psychos running things now!
Admittedly I didn't see the whole movie, but my mom has more than once, and we were both confused. Why would the note to Deborah be in Addie's writing? How would Addie know Brad was not coming home that night if she did NOT run off with him? Unless she was his secretary or had some other special reason to deliver a message from him other than to further torment Deborah, and even if that was her game, how would she even know that Brad would be either extremely late, or not coming home that night? (Assuming he didn't meet with foul play.) From seeing just the beginning and end of the movie and not all of the middle, I deduce the following.
George was only a friend and never a serious contender for Addie to run off with. Not only was he happy with his wife, but a homewrecker like Addie would never consider running off with a poor and altruistic schoolteacher. This leaves only Porter and Brad.
The theory that Porter really did try to run off with Addie, then thought better of it and confessed to his wife, is very valid. He would have had no reason to go on with a detailed confession after Deborah left the table had he been only lying to give Deborah a better night's sleep. This leaves at least four possibilities concerning Brad.
1. Like George and Porter, Brad had no idea about the letter Addie wrote to the wives. He innocently asked Addie to send Deborah a note saying he would not be home that night, she did, but Brad was home the next day.
2. Brad himself wrote a note to Deborah saying he would not be home, which Addie intercepted with a note of her own just to mess with Deborah, but Brad was home the next day.
3. Having failed in her attempt to run off with Porter, Addie ran off with Brad and Brad was not home the next day. (This is the theory that Ben Mankiewicz is 63% sure happened and I also believed at first but it would depend on Brad being sincerely interested and Addie stringing him along until the last instant when Porter bailed.)
4. Brad wouldn't run off with Addie who was so mad she bumped him off and hid the body to make it look as if he had run off with her and Brad was obviously not home ever.
It is absolutely maddening for the screenwriter NOT to let the audience know WHICH of these things happened. The thing to do is track down a copy of the book, and then book endings often differ from film endings.
More likely Royal Dano was in [i]Something Wicked This Way Comes[/i] due to also being in [i]Moby-Dick[/i].
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That was harsh.
Clone or ripoff. The library scene is practically word-for-word except for the music, and, of course, the dancing. I have seen "The Music Man" numerous times and participated in putting on the stage version twice, but even a person having seen it only once could not fail to notice the resemblances. I only saw 30 or 40 minutes of this, but the town and many of the characters are clones, impersonations, or ripoff versions. Mike is Winthrop, the circus is the Wells Fargo Wagon, and so on.
I haven't read the original book, but Tony Randall was undoubtedly right, his part is based on the book, the rest is all filler, and his part is the only good part of the movie. Some parts were funny, though.
Looks like Lansbury won the BAFTA Lifetime Achievement among many other awards, but strange to say apparently not the SAG.
[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Angela_Lansbury[/url]
Thanks, I didn't feel too bad about this but you guys made me feel better. I had a mug of coffee before the film, because I would rather risk having to go to the bathroom than being tired. I ran out the instant Streep started to sing and back in just as the song finished, time, two minutes, a record for me, as the rest of the film was great and I didn't want to miss any.
The father wouldn't have dared sent the children grocery shopping alone just for starters.
Jack said he was off traveling the world. Is everyone calling Jack a liar?
Saw today, is great, would see again.
As good as any sequel, book or movie, has a right to be.
Agreed. Don't listen to the haters. This is a rare treat. Fun just watching the visual and musical references to Disney and other classic films.