tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post4772386838708630356..comments2024-01-24T15:33:58.720-05:00Comments on A<br> Mythical<br> Monkey<br> writes<br> about<br> the<br> movies: Twenty Things I'll Never Write About ...Mythical Monkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330587602682498820noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-62900562340843664282010-03-10T00:00:56.448-05:002010-03-10T00:00:56.448-05:00By the way, has it occurred to anyone else that th...By the way, has it occurred to anyone else that the baby pictured in <i>Jazz On A Summer's Day</i> is around 52 years old now? And I guess the kids in the bit from <i>An American in Paris</i> are pushing 70.<br /><br />Kind of makes you want to treat that old geezer next to you on the bus with a little more respect, eh?Mythical Monkeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11330587602682498820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-29775028901380554602010-03-09T14:46:23.891-05:002010-03-09T14:46:23.891-05:00Anyway, she beyond perfect on that particular summ...<i>Anyway, she beyond perfect on that particular summer's day.</i> [sic]<br /><br />As today I most certainly am <i>not</i>.Mythical Monkeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11330587602682498820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-90540701737793341362010-03-09T14:45:02.024-05:002010-03-09T14:45:02.024-05:00The axiom that one band or another is or was, &quo...<i>The axiom that one band or another is or was, "for that night at least," the Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World is amplified by the O'Day performance.</i><br /><br />I think with Anita, from what I've read, you never knew what you were going to get, but she could catch lightning in a bottle often enough to make the risk worth it. It depends on what you value -- dependably dull or inconsistently great. I mean, sure, you'd really prefer dependably great, but those acts are rare and legendary, and let's face it, even the Beatles gave us "Maxwell's Silver Hammer."<br /><br />Anyway, she beyond perfect on that particular summer's day.Mythical Monkeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11330587602682498820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-11617327690700849242010-03-09T08:18:52.339-05:002010-03-09T08:18:52.339-05:00Anyway, it's one of my favorite live performan...<i>Anyway, it's one of my favorite live performances by anybody anywhere.</i><br /><br />Mine happened in a vesitbule in the restaurant above the Hotel Washington.<br /><br />But I digress. . . .<br /><br />The axiom that one band or another is or was, "for that night at least," the Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World is amplified by the O'Day performance. I would simplify and change the axiom -- there are some performances that everyone in the world should have a chance to see, and -- if they miss it -- should have a chance to regret.<br /><br />I don't care if at that moment she was the greatest performer in the world or not -- I just wish that I'd been there.<br /><br />That wold, of course, have required the intervention of the Gahds of Baseball and Parking, since I had not yet materialized.mister muleboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14367123802128879318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-30576524593883572812010-03-08T22:19:16.001-05:002010-03-08T22:19:16.001-05:00I flipping love that anita o'day performance i...<i>I flipping love that anita o'day performance i have that concert on dvd! great work by Bert stern.<br />watching the audience is almost as entertaining as watching the performers.</i><br /><br />I don't know if it's a product of the editing or an accurate representation of what happened, but it's like when Anita O'Day first came out, the audience was thinking "who's this has-been?" and by the end, she completely owned them. I wonder if they knew they were witnessing a historic performance. Anyway, it's one of my favorite live performances by anybody anywhere.Mythical Monkeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11330587602682498820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-54259648465938833292010-03-08T17:39:06.221-05:002010-03-08T17:39:06.221-05:00Ooh, Deborah Kerr. Love Deborah Kerr. But I have...Ooh, Deborah Kerr. Love Deborah Kerr. But I haven't forgotten to write about <i>The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp</i>, if I live that long. Got notes on it already. Great movie.<br /><br />As for <i>The Horse's Mouth</i>, I'd call it a comedy, but a dark one. You're right that if anybody out there hasn't sampled Guinness in a comedy before -- and boy, have they missed out! -- they should try something like <i>Kind Hearts and Coronets</i> or <i>The Lavender Hill Mob</i> or <i>The Man in the White Suit</i> or -- it seems like he did six or seven at the Ealing Studios. I put the lobby card from <i>The Horse's Mouth</i> in though because the movie resonates for me in a personal way. "Go and do something sensible, like shooting yourself! But don't be an artist!" That's sound advice.Mythical Monkeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11330587602682498820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-8020632139193834792010-03-08T17:27:24.820-05:002010-03-08T17:27:24.820-05:00Do you really think Horse's Mouth is a comedy?...Do you really think Horse's Mouth is a comedy? You couldn't have used a still from Ladykillers or Lavender Hill Mob or The Card or Man in a White Suit or Kind Hearts and Coronets or Captain's Paradise?<br /><br />I'm rambling.<br /><br />It's the picture of Amy Adams and once again thinking of her in that fur and only that fur that does it.<br /><br />And yes, MacLaine's red hair was great in her adorable pixie-ish role in Trouble with Harry.<br /><br />But you forgot Deborah Kerr's red hair (especially in Life and Death of Colonel Blimp).Erik Beckhttp://nighthawknews.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-58861684333407589342010-03-08T16:19:25.073-05:002010-03-08T16:19:25.073-05:00haha i say get crackin :)
I flipping love that an...haha i say get crackin :) <br />I flipping love that anita o'day performance i have that concert on dvd! great work by Bert stern. <br />watching the audience is almost as entertaining as watching the performers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-52829349249685394852010-03-08T14:44:47.289-05:002010-03-08T14:44:47.289-05:00I'm sure that the director's decision to h...<i>I'm sure that the director's decision to have Ms. Adams roll around in a bed and on a couch dressed only in a fur coat didn't influence the Monkey one bit!</i><br /><br />Nor I was I influence by the fact that she's a redhead.<br /><br />As was Myrna Loy and Katharine Hepburn. And maybe Shirley MacLaine and Julie Andrews. And most definitely Katie-Bar-The-Door ...Mythical Monkeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11330587602682498820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-18836497899541245992010-03-08T14:39:50.646-05:002010-03-08T14:39:50.646-05:00Although I agree that the filmmakers really missed...<i>Although I agree that the filmmakers really missed a bet by opting for rigid adherence to period [the movie takes place at the beginning of the Battle of Britain] rather than introducing a quirky 1940-1941 animal rights activist.</i><br /><br />I think the real pity is that the filmmakers didn't invent a time machine and travel back to 1939 to save the animals who wound up in that vintage fur coat. That's just plain lazy ... he said as he ate a chicken sandwich for lunch.Mythical Monkeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11330587602682498820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-60005629799514883202010-03-08T14:01:00.605-05:002010-03-08T14:01:00.605-05:00A very underrated comedy in my opinion.
I'm s...<i>A very underrated comedy in my opinion.</i><br /><br />I'm sure that the director's decision to have Ms. Adams roll around in a bed and on a couch dressed only in a fur coat<br /><br />didn't influence the Monkey <b>one <i>bit</i></b> !<br /><br />I was wholly immune to how she looked.<br /><br />Wholly immune.<br /><br /><br /><br />btw, as someone who lists "persuasion" as a key element of my day job as a trade rep/salesperson/advocate/shill, I think that someone needs to again explain to PETA that humourlessness is <a href="http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story/peta-bosses-upset-over-adams-vintage-fur-scene_1061075" rel="nofollow">singularly unpersuasive.</a><br /><br />Although I agree that the filmmakers really missed a bet by opting for rigid adherence to period [the movie takes place at the beginning of the Battle of Britain] rather than introducing a quirky 1940-1941 animal rights activist.<br /><br />I understand that London socialites during that time were remarkably interested in animal rights, and eschewed the wearing of furs.<br /><br />Silly filmmakers.<br /><br /><br />[this is what happens when a photo search on google leads to an aggravating article]mister muleboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14367123802128879318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-90473043855252089232010-03-08T12:29:33.077-05:002010-03-08T12:29:33.077-05:00What is this with Paula Prentiss? I thought she wa...<i>What is this with Paula Prentiss? I thought she was great.</i><br /><br />That's a publicity still from <i>Man's Favorite Sport?</i>, a 1964 comedy co-starring Rock Hudson. Danny Peary of <i>Alternate Oscars</i> fame picked it as the year's best performance by an actress, which is saying something, but I agree. Very underappreciated comic actress.<br /><br /><i>Amy Adams....Zowie.</i><br /><br />That photo is from <i>Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day</i>, co-starring Frances McDormand. A very underrated comedy in my opinion.Mythical Monkeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11330587602682498820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-64012954796900781792010-03-08T11:48:32.755-05:002010-03-08T11:48:32.755-05:00A terrific list, Myth.
What is this with Paula Pr...A terrific list, Myth.<br /><br />What is this with Paula Prentiss? I thought she was great.<br /><br />I'm not gay, but Amy Adams....Zowie.<br /><br />WV:ovely. Yeah, she is ovely.Maggiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00903678715925613725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-7759251118370540292010-03-08T11:31:08.110-05:002010-03-08T11:31:08.110-05:00it is possible that with a quicker, more streamlin...<i>it is possible that with a quicker, more streamlined approach, I wouldn't have spent so much time watching the films of Douglas Fairbanks.</i><br /><br />You are such a kidder. . . <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I <b>hate</b> kidders.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Yeah, I know, I know -- let Asner/Grant/Brooks/Tinker sue me if they get upset. I'd like to see 'em try!<br /><br /><br />Anyway, let's quit fucking around here -- you're entering the period where I did some of my best work.<br /><br />And no, I don't mean <i>Robinson Crusoe</i> or <i>Don Juan</i>, I mean Edith Hawkes.<br /><br />I nailed that broad to the wall, if y'know what I mean.<br /><br />Put <b><i>that</i></b> in a 10,000-word essay and smoke it!Douglas Fairbankshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07618933609577319699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-45074535130016588122010-03-08T10:38:41.356-05:002010-03-08T10:38:41.356-05:00get back to what matters.
Well, it is possible th...<i>get back to what matters.</i><br /><br />Well, it is possible that with a quicker, more streamlined approach, I wouldn't have spent so much time watching the films of Douglas Fairbanks. So there are arguments to be made on both sides.<br /><br />But if occasionally I throw a thousand word essay out there instead of five thousand, you'll know why ...Mythical Monkeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11330587602682498820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-57178652377030713452010-03-08T10:19:17.770-05:002010-03-08T10:19:17.770-05:00I, for one, am glad that you have occasionally str...I, for one, am glad that you have <a href="http://niccageaseveryone.blogspot.com/2010/03/nic-cage-as-inspector-dirty-harry.html" rel="nofollow">occasionally strayed</a> from your commitment to your art.<br /><br />But goddammit man, you <b>can't</b> have everything. If you could, you, K-T-B-t-D and Amy Admas would be whooping it up at <a href="www.hedonismresorts.com" rel="nofollow">Hedonism II</a> or something. So stick with your vision, try to get to Hepburn and Grant, or Powell and Loy, when and if you can. But don't look back.<br /><br />Looking back is a poor use of your remaining time on this great planet. . . .mister muleboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14367123802128879318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-22266815827501682092010-03-08T10:11:30.404-05:002010-03-08T10:11:30.404-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Douglas Fairbankshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07618933609577319699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-32386013120536775402010-03-08T10:11:09.960-05:002010-03-08T10:11:09.960-05:00Good!
Now cut the shit and get back...Good!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Now cut the shit and get back to <a href="http://douglasfairbanks.org/" rel="nofollow">what matters</a>.<br /><br /><br />Hmmmm. I guess that <i>Amy</i> woman matters a little. . . .Douglas Fairbankshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07618933609577319699noreply@blogger.com