Nikki Blonski is the daughter of one of my high school friends (my brush with celebrity)
I’m sorry for letting Friday become Tuesday - Guys and Dolls
Speaking of con men, next film up is The Music Man (the Robert Preston original, of course, not a misguided effort with Matthew Broderick, should any such version exist, which it doesn’t, because we live in a fundamentally just universe). LurkMeister will be writing an OP sometime around the 15th, give or take.
It will be interesting to contrast the Sky/Sarah relationship, currently being discussed (in terms of casting) in the Guys and Dolls thread, with that of Marian and the good professor.
I was going to mention the rumors that there had been plans for a made-for-TV version with Matthew Broderick which were fortunately scrapped when it was realized that he couldn’t possibly pull off the part.
I have the Special Edition, which has a documentary on the making of the movie that I will watch. Assuming I get my tax paperwork completed on time, I should be able to start the discussion sometime on the April 15th.
Just a little late; I ended up fighting a cold the last week and completely forgot that I was supposed to do this - The Music Man.
Next up is Cabaret – Sampiro will be writing an OP on or about May 1st.
The Cabaret thread is here.
Just a quick head’s up-- I’m scheduled to write an OP for Shall We Dance (original Japanese version) in a month.
I’m scheduled to work seventy hours across two jobs this week, and anticipate/hope to continue the pattern until some time in earlyish June.
This pretty much guarentees that my OP will be short and sweet, because I will have no time or inclination to track down the movie in question, and no time to review it if I did track it down.
So I’m still willing to start the thread, but if you want interesting talking points brought up, you’d better be prepared to do it yourself.
Yikes, sounds like your life is about to get seriously nuts – let’s go ahead and cross this off your to-do list. I’ll be happy to tackle the OP, unless someone else out there would like to do it. In either case, consider yourself off the hook.
Thanks for letting us know in plenty of time to find someone!
My life has already gone nuts-- before Easter I had no jobs. Then I got 3 job offers. None are great, and one is temporary, but this week I worked 25 hours at one job, and about 20 at the other, and next week both ramp up their demands. At least the one I work in the evenings may require more out of my feet, but doesn’t require the brain power the day job does.
Next up: more Fosse, All That Jazz. Lissener will be writing an OP on or about the 15th.
My day went entirely to sh!t, so the OP I was working on is not even hardly begun. But while I’m catching up on work sh!t tonight, I’m watching All That Jazz with commentary by the editor, so I promise to post a real OP tomorrow.
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I gather your life continues to be complicated?
I just watched ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER on Netflix. If anyone’s interested I’ll be glad to start an “anytime” thread on that since it has historical flashbacks when Babs is being regressed into her past life. It could be a “how could you fix this?” discussion as it’s got some great songs and great talent but ultimately doesn’t work.
A clip if you’re unfamiliar; includes my favorite scene/song if only because it’s filmed at G4’s Brighton Pavilion (song begins around 2:25).
I’ve never seen it – worth renting the DVD of? (I can’t do Netflix on-demand because it requires IE, which I don’t run on my machine because, for reasons that aren’t at all clear to me, last fall it caused things to go so completely kerflooey that I didn’t have internet access at home for a week and only got back online after several very, very long conversations with a nice young man with a pronounced Indian accent, three of them before he gave up and told me to install Firefox and a final one – which lasted almost two hours – after I had done so.)
twickster, Netflix now has on-demand viewability with Firefox 2.0 and up. I haven’t tried it yet because I only found out about it a few days ago, but I did check out the system requirements. It told me that I had to install a Microsoft Silverlight plug-in, which I’m not familiar with.
Good to know – I’d been mildly peeved that I couldn’t do on-demand, not that I was a huge on-demand consumer anyway. (I’ve got DSL, so the quality is suboptimal, though good enough for documentaries, '40s films – and Streisand musicals.)
Finally cobbled something together.
Next up is Shall We Dance?, the original 1995 film, not the JLo/Richard Gere remake (though if someone would like to take one for the team, watch that, and report back, that would be much appreciated).
I’ll be writing the OP in about a week. (Just finished Season 4 of “Gilmore Girls,” which had the double cliffhanger of Luke finally putting the moves on Lorelai and Rory losing her virginity, so I need to watch the first disc of Season 5 of “GG” before I can get to this movie, which I’ve seen, but about 10 years ago.)
ETA: On a completely unrelated note, I finally saw WALLE* this weekend – what a lovely film! And what a great use of my favorite song from Hello, Dolly! And how my heart melted when WALL*E used the hubcap hat to dance along.
Thought I’d moved Shall We Dance to the top of my Netflix queue, but apparently I didn’t, so I won’t get it before Friday (I’m a one-at-a-timer). OP will be next weekend sometime.