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From: Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-05-09 (Thursday)
Date: Fri, 10 May 2024 15:58:19 -0700
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On 5/10/2024 2:42 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
>> On 5/10/2024 8:40 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>>> Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> 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.