Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Arthur Lipscomb Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-05-09 (Thursday) Date: Fri, 10 May 2024 15:58:19 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 52 Message-ID: References: <1741523423.737069699.627795.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 11 May 2024 00:58:19 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="be4c137d67f4f3750363d1f63b192143"; logging-data="1707482"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18l8Mos+QjvZtiKJ8YsTwDL45s6BRahhUg=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:McXTK0bLjO9sSmMeLvgMeGwNxAw= In-Reply-To: <1741523423.737069699.627795.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 3690 On 5/10/2024 2:42 PM, anim8rfsk wrote: > Arthur Lipscomb wrote: >> On 5/10/2024 8:40 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote: >>> Arthur Lipscomb wrote: >>> >>>> Funny Girl (TCM) 1968 musical starring Barbra Stresand as a real life >>>> singer who rises to fame while falling in love with Omar Sharif. >>> >>> While Fanny Brice could sing, she's best known as a comedienne, and on >>> radio variety programs (and eventually her own program) later in her >>> career as a sketch comic, especially the Baby Snooks character. In the >>> sequel movie Funny Lady (1975), they have one brief scene with her radio >>> program, which was ridiculous. She had an enormous nationwide audience >>> and that's what she was famous for. The sequel was disappointing but has >>> a few good songs in it. Barbra didn't want to do the sequel but she was >>> already contracted for it. >>> >> >> I rented both movies from Netflix in 2008. I really didn't remember >> them, but at the time I rated them 2 stars. >> >>> The "real life singer" is Barbra herself, given that the Broadway >>> production (developed by Brice's son-in-law) made Barbra a superstar. >>> >> >> The TCM host mentioned some of this. Apparently the studio didn't want >> Barbara but the director fought for her. > > We have a discussion going on the Facebook 1950s sci-fi movies group about > the idiocy of the current TCM hosts. And they used to be so good. > > On this weeks showing of FORBIDDEN PLANET. The host said that the backdrop > paintings were circular and 2 miles long! > Even an actor would question the dialogue of that script. At some point someone should have said it can't be 2 miles long... > Apparently the factoid they actually gave her was that they were 10,000 > ft.² and she doesn’t know the difference between square feet and linear > feet and figured out that must be 2 miles. I don’t know where she got > circular except that they roll up like window shades. > > https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTjTiFycN88k5v-03-cduX4A0Bo9zqTpdTZ6pw9oSk0YQ&s > > https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/tRe-eGtzpUDCkuZ0FAxjjReTbvm48xajZztH6F551s8Gg0OT_LVDg5yGn1TczqqEs9CBEOADWB2Qqf8vOMnHivQ9nVQNn4B9cZyx8MUtcCxIoibcg35bpyTqtM-llLtr_sJD > > https://i.imgur.com/9MRsXvr.jpg > Nice! I had no idea the paintings were so big.