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NBC's Friday night series “Grimm” is a fantasy show, but for reasons I cannot fathom the program's writers chose to mine that most heinous relic of Mittel-Europa: the story of the seemingly good and kind Jew who is really a demonic creature underneath for last week's...






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Before we get to some film chat, please look at the following-
Unbelievable!!
Check out this fifth columnist. She wants to have a Moslem prayer said before the start of her city's council meetings.
*NOTE – earlier reports stated that the city council did not start with any prayer at all. This report contradicts that statement. Maybe it is a typo.
http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local-beat/Cit...
Here is the 'genius' behind it all. Note that she prefers to be called "rJo", not Jo Winch. What a fruit.
She is the mother of Shaquasia Marie Goldsby, notes her web site. And she has a public access TV 'show' – “Get Hip & Get a Grip” on channel 21.
What's her religion, btw? Tell me she is not a Moslem. http://www.hartford.gov/government/council/rjowin...
This film is GREAT! A"Party Girl" and a FBI agent take on a Nazi Momma's Boy and his cohorts. I have watched this film several times and I always feel the hurt that Bergman has at the horse race. I feel the anger that Rains feels in the wine cellar.
This is why America films were the best. It has it all!
I love this movie. I always thought that Claude Rains was The Best Actor Never To Win An Oscar and this movie is proof positive. I'd add Cary Grant to that list too, but not for this movie. I always liked him better as a comedian.
Wonderful film. In case you haven't seen it, Cary Grant plays a young Brooklyn street hustler who becomes a rap superstar. Claude Rains does a remarkable job as "Puff Daddy", his close friend and record producer. And Ingrid Bergman… she plays a ho.
See what I did there?
Wonderful film, superb cast. Never tire of watching it.
Neat musical score.
The performances are an example of cream always rising to the top.
No underachievers in this film, in front of , or behind the camera !
Of course she's not. This country hasn't been undermined by Moslems per se, rather by those who have been willing to knuckle under and accommodate their every wish.
Three great leads, a sterling Ben Hecht screenplay, and Alfred Hitchcock. What's not to love? This is the Master's finest achievement (arguably), and, like pendit1, I never tire of watching it.
"Of course she's not."
How do you know?
The Moslems and the kow-towers are on a bicycle built for two as they sell out the country.
Aside from invoking the professions of low lifes and injecting a litany of scumbags into the thread, no, I don't see what you did there.
Glad I'm not alone. Couldn't see what he was trying to accomplish.
Definitely one of my most favorite spy stories ever! And Cary Grant makes me swoon every time… even though this movie was made 40 years before I was born! It just goes to show good films are timeless.
She hopes the croc eats her last.
Claude Rains was phenomenal. Even though he played a Nazi in "Notorious", you still felt sorry for the guy.
Rains is arguably The Best Actor Never To Win An Oscar, but I think Richard Burton and Peter O' Toole (who received a lifetime award) would give him a run for his money in that particular race.
This is easily my favorite Hitchcock film. It's also one of the few films on my BluRay wish list.
It's also interesting to note that every shot from the Star Wars Clone Wars episode "Senate Spy" was inspired by Notorious.
The biopic of rapper Notorious B.I.G was called "Notorious" too.
Tough room.
Great flick, great actors, great director!
Another Obama accusation from a comment on a thread on the web today. Never heard this one before.
"…..launch an investigation as to why President Barry is using a bogus, Connecticut-issued Social Security number, when the guy never lived in Connecticut, has no addresses associated with him in Connecticut, and had no relatives living in Connecticut. Besides the fact that using a bogus Social Security number implies that Obama is covering something up in his past, his mere us of a fake Social Security number is a felony."
YAY! Football season starts tonight!!
And you're apparently too hip for it. ;-D I got it, though.
Open thread mia cupla.
To every one I've debated over the last several months on what I perceived as short comings in Mel Gibson's The Patriot when detailing the conditions of slavery, my bad, I was wrong.
Watched it this past weekend (well, as much as I could to the cable went out) and I caught a line I missed every other time I've watched it. When the red coats are confiscating Gibson's farm, animals, slaves, and burning his house and barn, one of the African Americans says "we're not slaves, we work this farm as free men."
You guys were right, I was wrong. Apologies.
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I posted this late yesterday to the Open Thread, but am pretty sure that few saw it. I found it yesterday at my doctor's office. How about a Charlie Chan Open Thread?
Chang Apana was the Hawaiin cop on whom Charlie Chan was based. This is part of a description of him from the August 9, 2010 New Yorker titled: Chan, the Man by Jill Lepore: http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2010/...
In the nineteen-tens, he was part of a crime-busting squad. His escapades were the stuff of legend. He was said to be as agile as a cat. Thrown from a second-floor window by a gang of dope fiends, he landed on his feet. He leaped from one rooftop to the next, like a “human fly.” When he reached for his whip, thugs scattered and miscreants wept. He once arrested forty gamblers in their lair, single-handed. He was a master of disguises.
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Once, patrolling a pier at dawn, disguised as a poor merchant—wearing a straw hat and stained clothes and carrying baskets of coconuts, tied to a bamboo shoulder pole—he raised the alarm on a shipment of contraband even while he was being run over by a horse and buggy, and breaking his legs. He once solved a robbery by noticing a strange thread of silk on a bedroom floor. He discovered a murderer by observing that one of the suspects, a Filipino man, had changed his muddy shoes, asking him, “Why you wear new shoes this morning?”
There's a new book on Chan: "CHARLIE CHAN–The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous With American History." By Yunte Huang. Seems to be getting good notices. I've seen some of the films over the years. Can't say he was ever one of my faves, but he retains his following.
And before I forget: Shana Tova everybody! Here's to a prosperous 5771!
Well, I think you're missing out. Some of the best films have been about the struggles of gangster rappers. For example Ice-T's biopic "New Jack City" was a great film. But if that's not your speed you should check out the film they made about Tupac Shakur; it's called "New Jack City". Also worth seeing is the story of Lil Wayne: "New Jack City".
Hope that gets you on your way! I'd list a couple more titles but I'm in the middle of screening a Jay-Z biopic. It's called "Children of a Lesser God".
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Lepore references Huang and tells part of his story which to some extent parallel's Apana's. Huang missed possibly being killed in Tiannemen Square because his family called him saying that his mother had died and that he had to come home immediately. It turns out that his mother was very much alive. He ended up getting out of China and moving to Alabama, I believe, where he started falling in love with Charlie Chan.
Lepore also writes: Charlie Chan is also one of the most hated characters in American popular culture. In the nineteen-eighties and nineties, distinguished American writers, including Frank Chin and Gish Jen, argued for laying Chan to rest, a yellow Uncle Tom, best buried. In trenchant essays, Chin condemned the Warner Oland movies as “parables of racial order”; Jen called Chan “the original Asian whiz kid.”
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In 1993, the literary scholar Elaine Kim bid Chan good riddance—“Gone for good his yellowface asexual bulk, his fortune-cookie English”—in an anthology of contemporary Asian-American fiction titled “Charlie Chan Is Dead,” which is not to be confused with the beautiful and fantastically clever 1982 Wayne Wang film, “Chan Is Missing,” and in which traces of a man named Chan are all over the place, it’s just that no one can find him anymore.
To which Lepore quotes No 1 Son: Keye Luke, a dashing Canton-born American artist and actor who played Lee Chan, Charlie’s No. 1 Son, in seven Oland-Chan films, loved them, too. Luke, who died in 1991, was exasperated with the argument that Oland, as Chan, “demeans the race.” “Demeans! My God!” Luke said. As he saw it, “we were making the best damn murder mysteries in Hollywood.”
I remember them from when I was less than 10 years old. Now that I live on the edge of SF's Chinatown, I would like to see them again.
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See, that is the type of s/hit info I don't know or retain once I do know it.
Weak jest at best, in any event.
Please give some thought to deleting your post. It demeans the thread.
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