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Why Citizen Kane flopped in Canada
Nice one, Colonna, but it's true the movie lost a million dollars that year and it expects to lose a million dollars next year, but at that rate It'll go broke (* cracks smile*) in sixty years.— July 2, 2013 1:04 a.m.
Chuck Heston explains the MPAA rating system
This was the very first thing shown on the "42nd Street forever: Alamo Draft House Edition" DVD. The way he shamefully throttles that racket during the x-rating part can best be described as Harvey Korman in "Blazing Saddles" looking up the word land grab in the dictionary and taking his excitement out on a nearby statue. Also included is the "Chatter Box" Trailer that set my new personal record for reaching to consume booze during a exploitation movie trailer. (6.4 seconds!)— June 25, 2013 1:32 a.m.
DVD Rentals: Frank Sinatra, from Tony Rome with love
I thought I'd add some historical context to why Frank Sinatra was cast as a cop provided courtesy of Lee Server's biography, Ava Gardner: Love Is nothing. *"... ,Ava opening the bottle of booze and drinking it straight, passing it back and forth to Frank behind the wheel. They reached the small outpost of Indio, surrounded by nothing but dirt and black sky, and Sinatra careened up over a street corner and squealed to a stop. He pulled Ava toward him, and for a while they kissed and squirmed and groped. As Ava pulled back to take another drink, Sinatra opened his glove compartment and took out two .38 Smith and Wessons, extended one pistol in a vaguely vertical direction, and fired it three times until a sharp plink sounded and one of the streetlights went out and glass tinkled to the dusty ground below. He fired for another and got it on the first shot. Ava said "let me shoot something!" And she took the other gun and fired it at random into the sky, at the ground, into a hardware store window. Frank put the car in gear, screeched around back onto the street and roared the car forward, steering with one hand, shooting streetlamps with the other. Ava turned around in the front seat and as the car accelerated she fired across the back of the car and let forth an ear-splitting rebel yell. They shot the .38s empty and then turned up a side street in a squeal of rubber, heading back for the main road. They heard the siren and saw the flashing light of a police car. The car cut them off, and two officers approached with their own guns drawn. "'Christ" Sinatra mumbled, "What do these clowns want now?""* Sinatra's publicist bribes the policemen with a suitcase full of money and the lovely couple return to Palm Springs. No lead bar hotel for them. Sorry for the length, but I wanted to give further credence to Sinatra's generation being the greatest we've ever known. Tom Brokaw should write a book about them!— June 20, 2013 1:26 a.m.
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You're forgetting the commemorative 32 once Eric Rohmer Red Bull, and the Tarkovsky-themed M-80s. I'd buy that for a dollar!— June 18, 2013 3:19 p.m.
Someone spank crybabies Lucas & Spielberg and send them to bed without their suppers
From now on I'll just pass out on the floor when someone mentions hour-long cable dramas in my immediate 3-foot radius. For instance last week, Co-worker" "Did you see what Don Draper/Walt White/Sprano did last night?" Me: "NARCOLEPSY!!! 3,2,1!!!zzzzzzz"— June 13, 2013 5:43 p.m.
Latin America will soon have access to Sundance Channel
" ...will finally have an opportunity to pay for commercially interrupted indie classics like Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, the Academy Award-winning Rain Man, Stephen King's Misery, and my all-time favorite movie, Freaks and Geeks." I need more of this kind of sarcasm.— June 11, 2013 9:21 p.m.