en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/1161456 Comments by CharleyBlake http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/12/07/daily-call-sheet-grown-ups-sequel-best-tv-shows-on-netflix-and-khaaaaaaaaaaannnnnn/#IDComment234257327 John, I'm one of your biggest fans, but for crying out loud, you're a professional writer! If you don't know what "prurience" means (or any other common English word), don't go online and brag about it! Just quietly look it up and then pretend you learned the word in high school like the rest of us. Wed, 7 Dec 2011 17:47:51 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/12/07/daily-call-sheet-grown-ups-sequel-best-tv-shows-on-netflix-and-khaaaaaaaaaaannnnnn/#IDComment234257327 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/09/20/trailer-talk-leonardo-dicaprio-is-j-edgar/#IDComment195856811 I can accept Leonardo as J. Edgar, though it appears the film may be trying to cover too much ground. (No amount of makeup could transform this kid into the elderly Hoover of the Kennedy era.) I'm more disturbed by the news that he's signed on to play Travis McGee in Oliver Stone's version of 'The Deep Blue Goodbye." If that ever happens, I will fill the theater with my absence. Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:57:11 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/09/20/trailer-talk-leonardo-dicaprio-is-j-edgar/#IDComment195856811 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/kschlichter/2011/08/29/the-top-10-apocalypse-movies/#IDComment187754546 Yeah...check the bargain bins to find it on a two-fer with "Panic in the Year Zero." Prob'ly cost you five bucks. Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:49:38 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/kschlichter/2011/08/29/the-top-10-apocalypse-movies/#IDComment187754546 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/08/04/morning-call-sheet-lost-breaking-bad-tony-bennett-jet-li-and-the-billion-dollar-club/#IDComment180144872 Hey, John, we need our own "Scenes That Make You Cry" thread here on BH. The only one one on that EW list I could get behind was "Old Yeller." Thu, 4 Aug 2011 18:37:28 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/08/04/morning-call-sheet-lost-breaking-bad-tony-bennett-jet-li-and-the-billion-dollar-club/#IDComment180144872 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mmoriarty/2011/07/03/the-woodstock-reincarnation/#IDComment169421345 This video demonstrates one of the things wrong with modern culture: they're all lip-synching to someone else's singing. And, Michael, God love you, I can tell you're on our side politically and philosphically, but, Jee-Crawling-Hovah, can't you learn to write coherently? Sun, 3 Jul 2011 21:03:27 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mmoriarty/2011/07/03/the-woodstock-reincarnation/#IDComment169421345 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2011/06/21/todays-open-thread-13-frasier/#IDComment165072255 I agree. My own unrequited yearning for Daphne dwarfed Niles's. They should have let me get together with her and Niles go on pining. Show might still be on. Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:38:08 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2011/06/21/todays-open-thread-13-frasier/#IDComment165072255 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mpatterson/2011/06/20/a-marvelous-summer-at-the-movies/#IDComment164731996 I agree Ron could have been the definitive Doc, with a better script. Trouble is, I was already a reader of the novels and, formulaic and comical as they were, they were so much more serious and exciting than that Batmanesque travesty that I was disgusted. (When I say "Batmanesque," I'm comparing the Savage movie to the Adam West TV series.) Various producers keep making noises about a new Doc film (I suppose we should call it a reboot), but Doc's shtick has been co-opted by so many other characters since, from serious Batman to Indiana Jones, that I doubt it could go over. Today, it would seem like a stale rip-off. Hope I'm wrong. Mon, 20 Jun 2011 19:23:15 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mpatterson/2011/06/20/a-marvelous-summer-at-the-movies/#IDComment164731996 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mpatterson/2011/06/20/a-marvelous-summer-at-the-movies/#IDComment164703849 Anyone remember "Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze"? Great opening sequence, then it all went to camp city. Mon, 20 Jun 2011 17:45:51 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mpatterson/2011/06/20/a-marvelous-summer-at-the-movies/#IDComment164703849 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mpatterson/2011/06/20/a-marvelous-summer-at-the-movies/#IDComment164665240 "The Spirit" was so rotten I couldn't sit through more than the first half hour. "Batman and Robin" did smelleth to high heaven but at least I could watch it all the way through. Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:51:40 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mpatterson/2011/06/20/a-marvelous-summer-at-the-movies/#IDComment164665240 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2011/06/17/todays-open-thread-17-barney-miller/#IDComment163479197 Fish: (sourly) We're a regular bunch of Mounties! God, I miss these guys. Fri, 17 Jun 2011 11:18:40 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2011/06/17/todays-open-thread-17-barney-miller/#IDComment163479197 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2011/06/16/todays-open-thread-18-the-dick-van-dyke-show/#IDComment163166153 Dang, even the bloopers were funnier back then. Watch any of the dismal blooper compilations of the last 20 years and all these punks know to do when they fluff is swear or break up laughing. But old pros like these folks and their contemporaries (and predecessors) had more on the ball, mentally. Thu, 16 Jun 2011 13:20:39 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2011/06/16/todays-open-thread-18-the-dick-van-dyke-show/#IDComment163166153 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2011/06/07/todays-open-thread-2-2/#IDComment160361544 Still can't believe Kate Hepburn ranked so low. She's in my Top 5, and would be if she'd never made anything but "The Philadelphia Story" and "The African Queen." And where the hell is Claire Bloom? As Olivier said, " She could not be any more beautiful without upsetting the balance of nature." Tue, 7 Jun 2011 15:59:10 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2011/06/07/todays-open-thread-2-2/#IDComment160361544 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2011/06/07/todays-open-thread-2-2/#IDComment160358419 Cass Daley! Tue, 7 Jun 2011 15:49:12 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2011/06/07/todays-open-thread-2-2/#IDComment160358419 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2011/06/07/todays-open-thread-2-2/#IDComment160357470 Some people scoffed at her preference for bland leading men like George Brent, but, to her credit, she adored Claude Rains and loved working with him, even though the man stole every scene he ever appeared in, from her and anyone else. Tue, 7 Jun 2011 15:45:43 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2011/06/07/todays-open-thread-2-2/#IDComment160357470 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2011/06/07/todays-open-thread-2-2/#IDComment160356455 And let's not forget her memorable turn as Mrs. Hemoglobin in "Never Give a Sucker an Even Break," opposite the greatest American comic genius of them all. (Winner. by a nose, over the magnificent Buster Keaton.) Tue, 7 Jun 2011 15:41:53 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2011/06/07/todays-open-thread-2-2/#IDComment160356455 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2011/06/06/todays-open-thread-3-judy-garland/#IDComment160048867 As a boy, I would have fallen hard for her if my heart hadn't already been pledged to Hayley Mills. (Of course, in those days the only one of her old movies you could see on TV was "The Wizard of Oz." As cable exploded in later years and those grand old let'sputonashow flicks with Mickey became available, I saw her as the quintessential girl-next-door we all carry in our hearts.) Mon, 6 Jun 2011 16:41:56 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2011/06/06/todays-open-thread-3-judy-garland/#IDComment160048867 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2011/06/06/todays-open-thread-3-judy-garland/#IDComment160029400 I, too, prefer Ella, but it's really almost an apples-and-oranges thing to compare her to Garland, their approaches and styles were so different. Judy was an emotive belter while Ella was pure jazz musicality. Mon, 6 Jun 2011 15:18:34 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2011/06/06/todays-open-thread-3-judy-garland/#IDComment160029400 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2011/06/05/todays-open-thread-4-joan-crawford/#IDComment159611439 I love her as Flammchen in "Grand Hotel," but that's about it. As noted above, her looks turned grim in middle age and her type of film just doesn't appeal to me. (I also like her in the silent melodrama "The Unknown," but that's a Lon Chaney picture, not a Crawford picture.) Sun, 5 Jun 2011 16:34:01 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2011/06/05/todays-open-thread-4-joan-crawford/#IDComment159611439 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2011/05/25/todays-open-thread-15-lauren-bacall/#IDComment155998507 Hollywood never seemed to know what to do with this magnificent creature. She made maybe half a dozen memorable films and appeared in a lot of routine potboilers soon forgotten. (No, I haven't seen them all; maybe there are some unappreciated gems in there, like "Young Man With a Horn.") If only "Atlas Shrugged" had been made in the Fifties, what a Dagny Taggart she would have been! Wed, 25 May 2011 14:02:44 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2011/05/25/todays-open-thread-15-lauren-bacall/#IDComment155998507 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2011/05/05/todays-open-thread-30-greta-garbo/#IDComment149152432 I never stay at a classy hotel that I don't catch myself searching for her (or, rather, for the dancer Grusenskaya) among the guests. Thu, 5 May 2011 13:59:03 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2011/05/05/todays-open-thread-30-greta-garbo/#IDComment149152432