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Oh, how can anyone say something intelligent and useful about this complex man in a single comment?

Laurence Olivier was a tremendous actor. I've seen his "Henry V" and also enjoyed his performance as a very young man in "Fire Over England" (recognize the theme song, anyone?), where his trained voice seems at times to overwhelm the rather primitive sound equipment of the day.

And he was quite magnificently irascible in "The Battle of Britain," too and probably did his own operation of the plane (on the ground); although he was never allowed to be in the original battle, he did get some 200 hours of flight time and while in the service during WWII did become a pilot in the Fleet Air Arm (per Wikipedia).

I would have liked to see his staging, in one night, of "Oedipus" and "The Critic." That's quite a transition!

Vivien Leigh put him through hell, for sure; but he probably wasn't too easy to love and live with, either. What a couple they made, though!

Surprise!
Guess who visited White House?
The national chairman of the radical New Black Panther Party!
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pag...

Michelle Obama Tops French Elle's Best-Dressed List Beating Out Carla Bruni

Elle Magazine, the french style bible, has proclaimed that Michelle Obama is more chic than Carla Bruni.

I took the comments from my source, the UK Times, which were overwhelmingly negative. IMAO, this has more to do about race than style.

How come nobody's commenting on the Bush administration letting the big one get away?
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=359...

Michelle Obama has a pretty face, is the right color, and from the head to the waist is very attractive. But she's got a butt like a city bus and whoever picks out her clothes must have it in for her most of the time. Did you see her in that yellow dress in Asia with her panty line showing? The picture only showed once, so I guess the propaganda media ditched it pronto. Did you see her in the aqua outfit when everyone else was wearing black? Or in short shorts descending from Air Force One? She's a joke, but just as everything with this presidency, there is a concerted effort by propagandists to make them into more than they are.

I think the lesson here is to give the guys on the ground the tools to reach the objective. I wish I could say that this is a lesson learned.

"Michelle Obama has a pretty face, is the right color, and from the head to the waist is very attractive…"

Pretty??? Head to waist very attractive??? She isn't pretty and she has boobs like off brand potatoes. She's a grotesque clownette from head to toe. No real man could sleep with that and not be blind or wake up blind the next day.

I've already Facebooked this terrific video. Very well written and well done:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Hftsk4gWqI&NR...

“It is almost impossible to distinguish a politician from a gangster.” (Will Durant, 1931)

I predicted tea parties would return. Now I'm predicting dueling will return.

Obama, the most honest campaigner? I seem to remember promises and pledges of tax cuts, limited government, almost shades of Ronald Reagan.

Of course once the curtain was drawn, and the klieg lights dimmed, he went off and did pretty much everything you mentioned, plus a whole lot more. To which we were scolded by the lame stream media, was of no importance.

Pay no attention to the nefarious men and women behind the curtain.

So I was at facebook answering a poll on "do you think fox news is ruining America" and guess how many koolaid drinkers voted yes. 32% I'm thinking that they're the same ones who voted for obama.

Growltiger
Some one is voting you down. Guess you hit a sore spot.

There's something very familiar with the way Serena shook that BALL in the judge's face, then theatened to "shove it down her fu**ing throat!" [her words- not mine.]

Kinda reminds me of what Barack's doin': Shakin' that BILL in our faces and threatening to shove it down our throats!

obamashuga_nuts
With twenty three (23) people on her personal payroll you would think one of them would have good fashion taste, and the nerve to tell her when she looks like a troll.

And how many times did slick bill clinton let him slip through his fingers? Hindsight is golden – look forward, not backwards. Oh, but that's the only way to keep pushing the Obama agenda – blame anybody but him for his own failures.

It may be my middle class tastes in film. but LO does not appear in my films that I have a liking for.

Shockingly (or not), my favorite Olivier film is THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL, particularly the scene in which he and Gregory Peck as the infamous Dr. Josef Mengele are rolling around on the floor in a fight to the death wrestling match trying to kill each other.

Second choice – the evil dentist torturing Dustin Hoffman in MARATHON MAN. "Is it safe?"

I also found it near incredible that Jack Larsen who played Jimmy Olsen on the 1950s TV series SUPERMAN mentioned in an interview that LO had told him that he brought a high degree of energy to the role, which was true. I was surprised to hear LO taking notice of Jimmy Olsen until I read that they had been intimately involved at one time and then it all made sense. Hard to envision LO watching episodes of SUPERMAN.

Lord Larry to you…

we couldn't agree more…

Olivier was a terrific stage actor and his Shakepeare was nonpareil.

But his film work- much like Burton's- was hammy, and his films, other than 'Wuthering Heights' were pretty forgettable. Frankly we can't recall a film he strred in we liked. Marathon Man was potbolier stuff to be sure.

Knew about his affair with Danny Kaye. Jack Larsen? Guess it MUST be Monday…

Didn't know about this really crappy treatment of his wife, prior to Ms. Leigh. Do you suppose the Karma Wheel spun a little faster, and that Larry incurred some payback wih Vivien's behavior later on in their marriage? Payback can be a bi**h, can't it .

Thanks for mentioning Olivier's turns in 'Boys' and 'Marathon'..two of my faves. The thing with Jack Larsen is a little hard to process, though.

This is a good one!

http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/012757.h...

Should I start taking fencing lessons?

On a slightly related note, I can't read about a duel without thinking of this scene from Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon, one of my top two Kubrick films (and I'm not even a big fan of historical costume dramas).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDupoFh5Op0

The Pravda media aided, abetted and explained away most of the information you posted. If it wasn't for conservative talk radio and the internet, who knows how the 0beyme narrative would have been portrayed. But you make a good point, he did all those things you mentioned.

That's the 0beyme administration mantra, "It's Bushs fault!!"

What Serena did, does seem to be what 0beyme's doing to us on an everyday basis.

Regarding Jack Larsen – He has had an interesting career. He seems very personable and he has been a loyal friend to Noel Neill and to the memory of George Reeves. He still does interviews and looks great for his age. He was a good looking guy when he was young. No Adonis, but if LO dug Danny Kaye, JL was a step up.

Hahaha – my fave Jimmy Olson moment in the old SUPERMAN series – he is in an out of control car with no brakes going down a hill at a fast speed. He's been jamming the brake with his foot to no avail and then he reaches down and starts grabbing and pushing the brake pedal with his hands! Now, that's bringing energy to the part!

Whoa, that´s a harsher judgement than I am prepared to give. Frankly if she ever said anything nice or intelligent I wouldn´t care about her looks or clothes. I´m saintly like that. But like her husband she sounds like she has a chip on her shoulder. Like someone stole their lunch box in second grade and now we all are having to pay it.

I haven't seen "Fighter Squadron." I'm sure, like George Reeves and many other TV stars, he was typecast. Thanks for the links.

You're saying MSNBC is partisan and Fox News isn't? Okaaaay….
CNN is the only one that's non-partisan.

And who cares if they were Jewish? What does that have to do with it?

Or should I say black is the new black?

Where can I pay Breitbart so I don't have to see these horrible ads with fat bikini blondes drawn with photosplat and some hoaxers trying to get me to order something over the internet? I'm never gonna click on em and I'd much rather 10 bucks a month or so of my money directly to Andrew Breitbart to fund his private helicopter dream fund..

Maybe so. That's what I've always said. Everyone blames Clinton for not getting him but then neither Gore nor Bush talked about it at all during their campaign.
And you can make fun of Kerry's war record all you want but the fact remains, he went to Vietnam and Bush didn't.

What a lousy thing to do…but guaranteed to get him the divorce. Very cruelly manipulative. He and Leigh certainly deserved each other.

"A great actor? Yes. A decent man? Are you kidding !"

There was a reason why actors used to be looked down upon in "polite society." That was unfair — there are some decent people in the profession (the fellow highlighted in this video, for instance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swHHoC1XYk8 )– but it reflected a truth that we've ignored over the 20th Century and so find ourselves at a point some 180 degrees from that "polite society" today, where Hollywood is invited to dinner at the White House and anyone with good sense wonders where all the trash came from.

What you reward, you get more of. Olivier's private life was overlooked by the public and the PR machine, and so he kept on at it. He's an interesting link between acceptable behavior for actors in the past (his military service) and present (his narcissism, self-indulgence, and other habits that enabled the trash that followed him, in which we are still awash).

owned!

More and more, I am finding Big Hollywood posts that will not let me comment unless I use a WordPress ID. I don't have a WordPress ID. I only have one through Open ID.

So, today I can post a comment to this post:
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/abaldwin/2009/1...

But not this post:
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/1...

What gives?

CNN non-partisan, give me a break! Now that Dobbs is gone Bill Bennet is the only conservative left
on the Clinton News Network. At least Fox has apposing views. See Geraldos show, O 'Reilly, Hannitys great American panel. Shep Smith for your info,is a liberal.

Well Bin Laden getting away certainly seems to be.

How are you commenting? You don't appear to be logging in.

No it doesn't. Uhggg…..I am so achey off today.

Oh, but Gingrich will preach Family Values all day long to anyone who will listen. And to those who don't want to.

actually George Bush volunteered for Operation Palace Guard, but was not qualified in the F-4's they were using and didn't have enough active duty time left to train. Kerry faked most of his so-called 'adventures'; he lied about being in Cambodia and volunteered to write the after action reports for his Boat Squadron so he could advance his career through his exaggerations.

This is all true. He is hated by most of the' Swifties' who knew him, and his Silver Star and Purple Heart are seriously disputed. He only served for a few months as a Riverine and was regarded as a shameless self promoter.

'W' never made much of his service unlike Kerry. So if you're going to go down this route know whay you are taliking about- and it helps to have served…

And guess what, Rudy didn't go to Vietnam either yet he stood there and mocked someone who did. I thought it was all about thanking people for their service with you guys.

Nuthin' to say?

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