Fanny
DVDVerdict (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Reviewed by Ben Saylor Quote: "For those who enjoy old-fashioned movie romances, Fanny is likely to satisfy."
Maurice Chevalier
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Harry's DVD Picks & Peeks - 3rd week of June DVDs: Popeye, Pot, Bananas, Nude Bombs and a Fanny!
Ain't it Cool News (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
Hey folks, Harry here - Not much coming out this week that I can really recommend. That said what is here is fun and cool - at least by my estimation. As always the box art and titles are clickable to Amazon where you can learn more on the title - as well as purchase it, where a small portion will go to support this column. Here ya go...Tuesday, June 17th, 2008POPEYE THE SAILOR: 1938-1940, Vol. 2The...
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The Active Blogger Meetup RIP
mere cat (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Ah, yes, I remember eet well: my first blogger meetup—in fact, my first meetup of any kind. I had been blogging in isolation since early 2002 and, amazing as it seems to me now, only reading a handful of other blogs by the onerous process of visiting each web site one at a time. In March, 2005, I was reading Drunkenbatman’s interview with Brent and Sheila Simmons , who together comprised Ranchero...
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SCREENING THE PAST: “THE SORROW AND THE PITY” BY MARCEL OPHULS
Cambridge Forecast Group Blog (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
The Sorrow and the Pity (1972) Starring: Georges Bidault, Maurice Chevalier Product Details: Actors: Georges Bidault, Maurice Chevalier, R. Du Jonchay, Anthony Eden, Marcel Fouche-Degliame Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC Language: English, French, German Subtitles: English, German Region: Region 1 (U.S. [...]
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Love in the Afternoon
nichtszusagen (Free subscription) | 05/26/2008
***½ Love in the Afternoon . Romantic comedy. Directed by: Billy Wilder. Starring: Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier We got this from Netflix, part of my quest to watch classics I'd never seen before. Ariane (Audrey Hepburn) is the daughter of a private detective (Maurice Chevalier) in Paris. The detective has just provided evidence of a woman's infidelity with notorious womanizer Frank...
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Welcome to Hollywooden
James Wolcott's Blog (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008
Self-Styled Siren has set off a cascade of commentary with her rollcall of stiffs--I mean, stars--from Hollywood's Golden Age that she finds uncaptivating, if not downright offputting, from clompy Ruby Keeler to hickory-smoked Bing Crosby to shmoopy June Allyson, dimming...
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Light Lunch of Fear
Joe Pastry (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
No pastry poses a more fundamental threat to American masculinity than the quiche. This thanks to one Mr. Bruce Feirstein whose 1982 book on the subject made every quiche-loving man the object of cheap cracks and jibes, the culinary equivalent of the guy who showers in his shorts after basketball practice. But then it's unfair to blame a single humor writer for the fall of one of the great Anglo-French...
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Sunday Late Nite: Happy Mothers Day from Norman Bates
Firedoglake (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
The creepiest part of this video from the McCain campaign -- and there are many creepy parts -- is that they felt it necessary to identify the (Son) and (Mother). Just in case you thought these two old folks were sitting around the rest home chatting about "the child" they had spawned, um, together.
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If the Nightingale Could Sing Like You
Planet of the Blind (Free subscription) | 04/04/2008
--for David Weiss Watching the Marx Brothers in Ashtabula is, of course, the title of a poem yet to be written. I expect you will write it? I love an earlier scene in the film where Harpo and Chico, disguised...
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AAA Goes After the Geritol Generation
The Truth About Cars (Free subscription) | 03/25/2008
As Maurice Chevalier so adroitly pointed out, "old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives." However, as the bolus of baby boomers continues to boogie toward the end of the demographic charts, there are more drivers over the age of 50 on the roads than ever before. That creates problems; many senior drivers weren't that hot behind the wheel even before they became members of the bifocal...
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When Life Was Good
frogsmoke.com (Free subscription) | 03/21/2008
Maurice Chevalier meets Marilyn Monroe, 1958. Four years later, the world lost Monroe. Ten years after that, France lost Chevalier. Via Vintage Photo.
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Hibbs: Ode to Cruella
National Review Online (Free subscription) | 03/21/2008
With the DVD release of two Disney classics, the grande dame of cartoon villains is back.
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Getting Older and Older
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 03/16/2008
By Kreyche, Gerald F GETTING OLD IS A ONE-TIME experience, so make the most of it-and remember, getting old is not for sissies.
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Lifestyle: 1. In what year was the monument Cleopatra's Needle presented to Britain?
Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 03/14/2008
2. Maurice Chevalier sang Thank Heaven For Little Girls in which movie?
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Julie Klausner: Vanity Fair Celebrates Women in Comedy: But, There's a Hitch
anonymous (Free subscription) | 03/05/2008
A little over a year ago, Vanity Fair ran an editorial diatribe by everybody's favorite Mother Theresa-hating British atheist, Christopher Hitchens, called "Why Women Aren't Funny ." This month, in what seems like a belatedly fawning gesture of PR, the magazine put a glamorous Annie Leibowitz photo of comediennes Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and Sarah Silverman on the cover of their new issue, along with...
