Open Thread Monday

He's smoking one of those evil cigarettes, I feel my lungs filling with second hand smoke through the screen, carcinogens pulsing through my body, chest tightening…. I'll SUE!!!

Loved Clift as Pruitt in From Here to Eternity, and he was quite believable as a tormented soul in A Place in the Sun.

lmao, that vomitting pumpkin is so fitting right now.

Funny video, and yes, creepy too.

Jesse Jackson speaks about Obama's Nobel Prize

Some say with surprise
Obama how’d he
get a Peace Prize?

They say how could he have won?
With all his accomplishments
he aint done

Some say the Nobel committee gave him a present
For voting in the U.S. Senate
130 times present

But just in case you missed it
All his accomplishments
I will now list it

How about that bling,
He got that
from a Saudi King

Often he would scored
In a basketball game
15 point or more

Or how can you discount his dreams?
He had
for our Olympic teams

Or what about all the Community organizing he has done
Teaching inner city kids
being chased by gangs how to run

The Nobel committee Obama they did choose
Look at Bush
all he ever got was a pair of shoes

I think it is George Montgomery, husband of Dinah Shore (Tennessean.)

I never noticed how much Guy Pearce looks like Montgomery Clift until I saw this picture. Wow.

Montgomery Clift. One of my favorite arguments aginst the metro-feminizarion of today's leading men. "Red River"–This scrawny, little homosexual actor playing a character that stands up to a character played by John Wayne. And I buy every minute of it. Why? Because he acts like a man.

At one time Clift was considered, along with Brando, the greatest actor of his generation.

That cant be Montgomery Clift…that looks like a young Clint Eastwood…

we should photo shop a picture of Soro's a$$ on the lips

Hahaha

mmm, mmm, mmm

Open thread Liberty quote of the day:

"After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small, complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd." –French historian Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)

absolutely Monty in Red River- luv it

How about a little love today for the man who got us all here: Admiral of the Ocean Sea Christopher Columbus.

"I never noticed how much Guy Pearce looks like Montgomery Clift until I saw this picture. Wow."

Guy Pearce would be great in a Clift bio pic.

I like Clift in A Place in the Sun, but I've never really been able to think of him the same way after seeing Martin Short's imitation of him on SCTV. Short used to play Clift in a fake 50s sitcom called, "I Married Monty." The sitcom was typical wacky and sunny 50s fare, but Monty as the dad was his neurotic, Method-Acting movie self. Hilarious.

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Montgomery Clift. Some of his movies were really good. My favorite is "The Young Lions". That was after his car accident so he did not look as good. He was a very tormented fellow though.

I only saw him in "Red River," and he wasn't really convincing — there just wasn't that believable a connection between the "young" Matt Garth (played over-the-top by Micky Kuhn [who's still around, by the way, and won an award in 2005 for his Western roles early in his career]) and the adult Matt (played by Clift who is not still around ultimately because there was some truth to Judy Garland's comment that he was the only one in Hollywood more messed up than she was). The movie made him a star, I guess, but he must have hated it: he refused to work with Wayne and Brennan again on "Rio Bravo," and Ricky Nelson got the part — it's interesting to see how Nelson, in "Bravo," mimics Clift's moves in "Red River." Only Nelson could sing, too, which was nice with Dean Martin on board.

Once again booze wrecked this dude literally. Car accident destroyed his face and
he became the longest suicide in hollywood history.