Comments on: TCM Pick O’ The Day: Sunday, January 11th

By: lisa

lisa — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:30:21 +0000

And, that’s the lovely and talented Jane Asher, pictured above with Michael Caine.
Paul McCartney’s one-time love, columnist in 60’s teen mags, sister to Peter Asher (Peter&Gordon, music producer). Played Celia Ryder in the original Brideshead Revisited, among countless other roles.

By: Julia

Julia — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:31:15 +0000

Ronsonic and all: “Love With a Proper Stranger” has been shown on TCM. The boy and girl, as they were called in those days, really grow up in the course of the movie – AND that is shown as a good thing!

I keep reading how “Mad Men” and “Revolution Road” show the phoney, trapped and stifled people of the 1950s and early 1960s – before the wonderful 1960s freed everybody from a repressed culture. These young TV and movie writers should take a look at the movies mentioned in this thread – made contemporaneously with the times depicted. Truth is lots of people were harmed by the ’60s excess.

Another play/movie that fits here is “Hair”. Remember the song “Easy to be Hard”? It’s sung in the play by an ignored young hippy woman in a menage a trois; in the movie it’s sung by a cast-off unwed non-hippy mother whose guy abandons her & their child to help out an unwed hippy mother he barely knows whose child is not his.

How can people be so heartless
How can people be so cruel
Easy to be hard
Easy to be cruel

How can people have no feelings
How can people ignore their friends
Easy to be proud
Easy to say no

Especially people who care about strangers
…care about evil and social injustice
Do you only care about the bleeding crowd
How about a needing friend
I need a friend

Find Jennifer Warnes singing it on YouTube.

I love this blog. thank you, thank you, thank you

By: Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:19:47 +0000

Here’s a double feature for you:
_Alfie_, and _Get Carter_.

Both have had remakes that I’m afraid to see…

(I wonder if there was any temptation to wink back when Caine was cast as Alfred for the Batman movies… Given the cover Bruce Wayne needed to keep as a self-centered callous playboy..)

(ps: any other Mike Hodges fans out there? _Get Carter_, _Croupier_, _Flash Gordon_ probably my favorites of his, _Morons from Outer Space_ not so much…)

By: Gina

Gina — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:51:51 +0000

Caine is one of those men who gets better-looking as he gets older. As a woman, I would just like to point that life is NOT fair.
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By: JEB

JEB — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:13:09 +0000

Another good thing about the movie is the title song sung by Cilla Black. Being 10 years old at the time it was the only thing I knew about the movie until I saw it in college. Bacharach and David wrote some great songs.

By: PerfectTommy

PerfectTommy — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:14:13 +0000

And, of course, Caine backhandedly salutes his earlier screen incarnation in the Austin Power’s sequel, Goldmember.

By: Jack Bauer

Jack Bauer — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:33:35 +0000

CAMPASE
“since like most good-looking, successful actors in London at the time he was swingin’ along with the rest”

Absolutely. Never mix the character the actor is playing with the actor. Except the swinging Alfie was Caine, in that aspect of his behavior.

Here’s another quote from Stamp about the renowned “shagger” Caine of the early 1960s.

Stamp was the son of a tug boat worker on the Thames. Caine’s background was equally working-class, and even poorer.

STAMP: Had the 60s not happened I would never have been able to spend the night with a young countess because I would never have met her. And as the great Michael Caine once said to me, “You can’t shag anyone you don’t meet.” Rather Aristolelian logic.

By: John the Libertarian

John the Libertarian — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:28:22 +0000

Just checked out The Wrestler. Outstanding performances and deeply moving. Yes, there’s a message, too, about the perils of narcissism and hedonism. But be warned: it’s intensely violent in places. Very raw, not for kids. Marisa Tomei is mostly naked throughout, and I must say, she looks great.

By: Ronsonic

Ronsonic — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:22:33 +0000

Obviously, I need to finally see Alfie. I was way young for it when it came out, and should catch up with it.

Another 60s movie I’m very eager to see is the very much disappeared “Love with the Proper Stranger.” Steve McQueen, Natalie Wood, multiple Academy Award nominations, very well reviewed and has it not been released on DVD or shown on cable. The mystery alone tells me I need to see this.

By: Dawn Diulio

Dawn Diulio — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:09:30 +0000

Well put, John. I am looking forward to your review of “San Pedro,” a conservative indie classic directed by Jason Apuzzo and starring Govindini Murty as the positive immigrant maid.