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Posted Oct 13th 2009 at 4:39 am in Open Thread | 24524646 Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fbighollywood.breitbart.com%2Fbighollywood%2F2009%2F10%2F13%2Fopen-thread-tuesday-16%2FOpen+Thread+Tuesday2009-10-13+11%3A39%3A47Big+Hollywoodhttp%3A%2F%2Fbighollywood.breitbart.com%2F%3Fp%3D245246
Conservatives often talk about what they don’t like about Hollywood. That’s okay, but it’s not productive. Maybe it’s time we talked about what we do like? More to the point, let’s point out when Hollywood has gotten it right. And that brings me to the...






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Those are some seriously wild eyelashes on Kate.
a classy broad
I had a major crush on her when I was growing up, but I still laughed the first time I heard the quip by Dorothy Parker on the Divine Kate – "She's showed the gamut of emotions from A to B."
Dotty was a bit of a curmudgeon herself though.
There is no better way to spend a rainy Saturday than with a couple of Kate and Spencer movies. None at all.
I always thought she was just so beautiful and that voice – love her. I live in CT and like a true fan, I found her house in Fenwick once. Beautiful home, not ostentatious by itself but it's view of Long Island Sound was just unparalleled. She was a broad – in the kindest most affectionate possible way.
The Lion in Winter has to be her best film by far – and that's saying alot when you look at films like Alice Adams, The Philadelphia Story and African Queen.
I never knew what she saw in Spencer Tracy, he was a good actor but boy was he rough and tumble. Opposites attracting maybe?
The second part of the You Tube video on Obama's Nobel Fleece Prize.
President Awesome Accepts the Nobel Fleece Prize
President Obama goes to Oslo to accept the award. A surprising group of people show up. President Obama reads from his book Dreams From My Father during his acceptance speech.
What a potty mouth!
Legendary woman, gave great performances, yet she leaves me absolutely cold.
Katherine Hepburn was one of the towering figures of American cinema. She was beautiful, classy and, above all, smart. Yet Dorothy Parker's famous quip about her "running the gamut of emotions from A to B" has some merit. Mark Steyn perfectly described "the familiar double-act" she developed where she never carried a film by herself but always played off of some strong male character who provided the emotional center for the film. This was somone like Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy, Humphrey Bogart, Burt Lancaster, or even John Wayne. The schtick was always the same – Beautiful, brainy, high-spirited but emotionally cold woman is liberated by exposure to a down-to-earth and "regular" guy who shows her the joys of life that her intellect has overlooked. I always found "The Philadelphia Story" just a tad creepy since most of the characters go around telling Tracy Lord (great name in retrospect) how wonderful, goddess-like and transcendent she is while it was Hepburn who commissed the original play. Still "Woman of the Year" is one of my favorite films.
Quite the sultry look on Kate.
I saw Kate Mulgrew's one woman show about Katherine Hepburn and she nailed it.
Mmm… I was named after Katherine Hepburn…. The name came to my mom when she was watching a Katherine Hepburn movie. My name is even spelled the same way.
Who is the most famous person you've ever met in person? I met Ben Stein once. Very nice man.
Always enjoy her in movies, but her private life (particularly with Tracy) was so very sad.
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I met Kirk Alyn (the original Superman). Pleasant enough, but he was something of a dirty old man.
I'll bet she was a handful on or off the screen…
Katherine Hepburn, WOWZERS!!!
She was perfect in BRINGING UP BABY.
(Her laugh was a hoot)
You should into her families politics some time. Not pretty.
Maybe he was hung like a horse.
/snarc
George Pataki, former governor of NY showed up at my work place and I'm standing around wondering what's going on, he sticks his hand out for me to shake.
Bob Backlund, reigning champion of WWF.
Katharine Hepburn was an amazing actress, but personally, I prefer her comedies…especially BRINGING UP BABY. I absolutely loved her chemistry with Cary Grant (even more so than her chemistry with Spencer Tracy). Also, her version of LITTLE WOMEN is still the best.
Definitely not. Her mother co-founded Planned Parenthood.
Robert Wuhl – Was in Boston checking out a comedy club he was performing at the next night. Seemed very nice. Loved him in Bull Durham.
I met Peter Buck from REM once. He was very gracious and friendly.
Tim Pawlenty. Also met Bob Keeshan.
Charlie Daniels, also Pete Rose. Both were very friendly, especially Charlie.
Peter Frampton stepped on my beach towel once, and I brushed shoulders with Colin Powell at the Korean War Memorial dedication ceremony, and I got my picture taken with Margaret Thatcher at a Speakers Bureau event.
The Mainstream Media is portraying the November races for Governor in VA and NJ as an indicator of public opinion regarding Obama – anyone think that'll change if the Republicans win both states? While democrat victories would be portrayed as reflecting approval of "the one", Republican victories will probably, according to the MSM, indicate weariness on the part of voters following "Obama's historic victory", and the "nasty summer of health care debates" – not any sort of disapproval of BHO and his policies. Just something to watch for next month.
Ronald Reagan. During his first campaign for president.
ED! Come on, most women don't choose men because of something like that. Give us a little credit for being deeper then that.
It's why my wife chose me!
Show biz – Tony Perkins – patron of my former business – exceptionally pleasant
Politics – Howard Jarvis – right at the beginning of his Prop 11 campaign standing in a parking lot collecting signatures. Pleasant and focused.
Criminal – Phil Spector – patron of my former business – very retiring, soft spoken man
High profile – Jane Sarkin of Vanity Fair – totally obnoxious
lol, well I did say MOST.
Issac Asimov
Margaret Thatcher in San Angelo, TX in the early 90's!! It was AWESOME!!!!
Love her!
Yes the left will spin it any way but the right way…..just like when all those conservatives went to Washington the only group to cover it was FOX, but when the sodomites went there, that's all the left wing media is talking about…..mmm, mmm, mmm. All the conservatives in this country should support Fox, if for no other reason, than the President is against them. GO FOX!!!!
Definitely keep an eye on actual elections.
Polls are one thing, what people actually do is something else. And no matter what the outcomes, the left and the MSM (I know I'm being redundant) will spin it as a victory, and the right will do the same.
Avoid the spin, keep your eye on what the politicians do. Ignore what comes out of their mouths, watch how they vote. That's the only indicator we really have. At vote time.
Hmmm. Encounters without benefit of introduction: Sat behind Doris Day on the San Diego ferry when I was a kid, sat next to Tiny Tim (sans powder and ukulele, but wearing the original Seinfeld "puffy shirt") at California Jam and got knocked down (not the opposite) at a local Cali free concert by a gorgeous and gentlemanly man who I believe was Paul Stanley from Kiss (also sans makeup. I almost swooned when he gathered me up as if I were weightless). Oh, had an interesting encounter with a bearded, beached out Steve McQueen in the Trancas Grocery checkout line in Malibu – he seemed frightened by my sister recognizing him BTW – (and years later happened to meet his interesting chief motorcycle mechanic by chance at a motorcycle shop in Ventura County). But the most interesting encounters have to be the time I watched a rent a cop bash Charley Watts of the Stones into a wall as he was entering the LA Sports Arena for a gig… & separately, The Who's bare chested Roger Daltry return to the empty stage at Ventura Fairgrounds to retrieve Pete Townsend's smashed guitar after a concert there: he found a guy trying to bolt with it as a souvenir and wordlessly scared him so badly with his glare, manner and raised fists that the absconder metaphorically wet himself and ran away.
That four letter word women hate was invented for this actress. Imagine spending your
whole life pining after some other women's husband. Pathetic comes to mind.
The Dalai Lama.
The thing that irritated me about Hepburn was her egotism. You saw 'her' on the screen, not the character. Of course, some of her characters shone on the screen (like in 'African Queen' or 'The Rainmaker', etc.) but you couldn't credit Hepburn for making those characters come alive – the great script and great direction did that, not her. She just spoke the lines and didn't bump into the furniture. The thing is, she never made a character come alive because of her own artistry; if the script didn't do it, Kate couldn't. And the reason was her ego – she never lost herself in the character, never let it become bigger than herself. And you couldn't blame her stardom for making Hepburn more noticeable than her characters. Vivien Leigh was also a famous star but when you saw her in 'Streetcar…' you saw Blanche, you didn't see Vivien. Same with Scarlet in 'GWTW'. That is what makes a great actress – they disappear into their roles. But not Kate. She wasn't the one who disappeared – her character did. And for that Kate has no one to blame but herself.
That's "Classy Goddess"
Here in Virginia, it's been a trip watching the Dems throw everything into getting Deeds elected governor, but it doesn't seem to be working. McDonnell leads on any given day by +7. So I'm feeling pretty good about that, but the left will say that Virginia is now a purple state and diminish the message that electing a Republican as governor sends even though the state went for Obama for president. Now if Christie manages to be beat Corzine in Jersey, watch them tie themselves in knots to explain that these races are really about local concerns and are not bellweathers for anything at the national level.
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