Die Asta:
You’ve traveled a great distance, from Peck to Mick. Even greater than the distance between WOODSTOCK and GIMME SHELTER.
I have no idea what Peck movie you are going for. Do you recall the love interest: maybe the young Hepburn (ROMAN HOLIDAY) or Lauren Bacall (DESIGNING WOMAN)?
I do share your appreciation for GIMME SHELTER, a fine documentary about the end of it all. Always loved listening to the Stones music, but could never bear watching Jagger, who moves like an Englishman.
Over Thanksgiving, visiting in-laws, a teenage niece was constantly running the recent Socrsese documentary on the Stones and … well, maybe you don’t want to watch this, these ancient faces in close-up. A bit frightening. It might mean the end of all illusion for you.
Also on the dark side of the Rolling Stones, did you ever come across the “documentary” called COCK SUCKER BLUES? Used to be you could only find it on bootleg video. But it offers another angle on your man.
Yeah Bobby, I see what you’re getting at. Still kinda cold. They’re bad when it comes to property crimes but that’s about it.
I guess nothing is more taboo and risque to a Brit than a girl brazen enough to steal from her employer.
I think it IS Roman Holiday, MMoore. The “princess” angle makes sense, from my faulty memory of the plot. (Why must I be so foggy on Mondays?)
In On a clear Day you can see Forever While Melinda is at a feast. She runs a Tulip glass along the bust hem of her dress.. that gets me everytime.
Oh gosh, a great satanic moment from Cocksucker Blues is when the Stones are playing onstage with Stevie Wonder, and — this is pure evil — Jagger sneaks up beside him and screams in his ear. And you can see Wonder kinda flinch and jump. So evil.
Justin B:
A project for you: Draw up a list of all those films you HAVEN’T seen. I’m sure it will be short one, should take you only a few seconds.
I was fourteen when I saw Vertigo within days of its first release. I appreciated the motherly sexiness of Barbara Bel Geddes; but when Kim Novak appeared leaving Ernie’s, I immediately fell in love with those strikingly sensuous images. The immediate bad reviews and years of silly interpretations can never dampen my remembrance of those intense feelings.
lol MMoore. okay, okay.
kim novak is nice, but even she doesnt really do it for me as far as hitchcock heroines.
i guess if pressed, my favorite would have to be eva marie saint in “north by northwest”. margaret lockwood in “the lady vanishes” was pretty cute too. nothing amazing though.
@MMOORE/ JUSTIN B – Yey! When Stevie started the song (was it “Uptight”?) all I could think of was “Mick, don’t fuck this one up” – guess what he did!
I actually saw this in a theatre in SF back in ‘02 where everyone’s afraid the cops will barge in, per Stones’ court order.
Harry: I know what you mean about Novak. I actually got there before you as a fourteen year-old, and the movie was PICNIC, Madge in her swing. There was something removed and other-worldly about her … aloof, maybe. And yet all that beauty. In those days we teenage boys were grappling with our madonna vs. whore conundrums, not knowing that what we really wanted was both. And Kim Novak … she may have been both.
She was certainly well cast in VERTIGO, the far more interesting film.
Louis Garrel in the Dreamers
Claudia Cardinale in 8 1/2
and it was all over
Re the recent postings on Hithcock heroines – I second the nod for Kim Novak – what a dish! Although I was asking in the context of another thread, what was it with Hitch and all those cure blonde actresses in film after film? I mean, I’ve got a thing for blondes too, but his was just plain obssesive. I really don’t know if anyone could shed light on it here, but I know Teppi Hedren tells a certain story about this in one of Hitch’s bios.
Note to MM & Justin B. – My short list is shorter than yours (as you can tell by all my posts), I bet (but not as short as David-Davecito). So far, the only films I can think of I haven’t seen are Godfather 3; Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!; and that Mongolian film about the yak herders – forget its name. I think David-D has probably seen these already, so he has me beat. Yep, that’s my short list.
My first one was Ralph Fiennes at about 13; needless to say, my friends were baffled. It was also around this time that I first saw Brando in ‘Streetcar’. What a shock that was!
Now, I am happy to watch practically anything if I’ll be rewarded with a glimpse of Buster Keaton, Alec Guiness (no matter how silly his costume of accent), Marcello Mastroianni, Oskar Werner, or Tim Roth. (And [should I mention this?] Woody Allen. Ok, I said it!)
Bob Stutsman:
On shortlists: You mean you too have seen COCKSUCKER BLUES?
On Hitch: it was not just the blond hair, but what he did with it. Long articles and I imagine books have been devoted to the subject. I’ve not read them. But I did watch MARNIE again not long ago and noticed that the hairdresser got a large, upfront credit for her (or his?) work on Tippi Hedren’s coif. A strange movie that: James Bond taking over from Cary/Jimmie didn’t seem quite right, a kind of VERTIGO in a minor key, everyone a bit twisted, but some of them in very interesting ways.
Shelley: Woody!? Really? Truly? That IS a confession.
We know he was always surrounded by beautiful young women. But we also knew how they came to be there. And some of us were pleased when he finally moved behind the camera to let more likely fellows frolic.
But really, truly? You should put the word out. He may come knocking at your door. Does he still pound the keys at Michael’s Pub on Wednesday nights? We could find out. You could drop in, send over a note.
I still have a thing for Nova (Linda Harrison) from “Planet of the Apes”. Anyone who can look that good wearing so little and can’t speak, well, that’s my kinda girl.
MMoore: It’s true! It’s true! Unfortunately, I think I’m a bit too young, even for HIM.
Shelley: Ah, youth. One forgets. As did Woody! Too bad we can’t erase all of this. But he probably isn’t watching. (I hope not.)
Someone more contemporary: for her part in “The Lookout” and “Wedding Crashers”, Isla Fisher. Rowr!
Take a look at past threads, this topic was started already.
Women: Edwige Fenech’s eye’s, Jeanne Moreu’s lips, Anna Karina’s dance, Louise Brooks’s muted swagger, Harriet Andersson in the rain, Irene Jaboc de-clothed
Men: Denis Lavant’s otherness, Jean-Pierre Leaud’s pomposity
“grace kelly never really impressed me much either. in fact, now that i think about it, i never much cared for any of hitchcock’s classic blondes. he was into that “good girl” thing. nothing wrong with that, its just not my cup of tea. i like bad girls!”
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I think you are confusing the actress with her roles. If you knew anything about Grace Kelly, you wouldn’t call her a ‘good girl.’
Oh, and someone else says that Grace Kelly looks like his mother’s friends. Well, I want to meet these friends and if your mother is better looking then her friends I want to meet her too.
I agree with Shelley: Woody is cute. ‘Especially in the early funny ones’!
It must have been ‘Roman Holiday’ I watched with Granny and fell in love with Gregory Peck (thanks!) – I can stille recall his face quite clearly, but I have no idea which girl sat behind him on his scooter (guess I always imagined myself..)
And thanks for the advice about Stones movies: I’ll get a (bootleg)copy of Cocksocker Blues, and then the new Scorsese-thing as the ‘cold shower’! – Cool to attend illegal screenings – never heard about that on this side of the Atlantics..
Jean-Paul Belmondo is the sexiest man on film. Also i have to say Paul Newman in cat on a hot tin roof gets my blood pumping. Anouk Aimee is a goddess.
Ok, I am going in again (the wife ain’t home and I am enjoying a drink):
Lara Flynn Boyle (before she became the emaciated party machine trying to kill Jack Nicholson) was, in ‘Twin Peaks: the series’ just hot and challenging. Those eyes, those lips….and one cannot leave out Madchen Amick either.
Sigourney Weaver in the original ‘Alien’. Some for her looks in the last scenes (underwear in the emergency shuttle) but as much or more for her intelligence. She’s a joy to listen to in interviews. One smart attractive lady, with a nice voice to match.
For cheesecake (ok, kosher cheesecake): Odette Yustman. I have no desire to watch her act, based on the ghastly reviews I have seen, but her stills certainly aren’t hard to look at.
My Dirty Old Man pleasure right now is not an actress, but Dodi Fayed’s daughter Camilla. Just eye candy. Rich. And she has great taste in clothes……hey, no one ever went to jail for dreaming.
And one more: Persis Khambatta. The Indian actress who was in the first ‘Star Trek’ film (sadly, she died at a too young an age.) One of the only women I have ever seen where bald was beautiful. Just a stunning face and a gazelle-like body.
Monica Vitti
Die Asta: I have to disagree with you there. As much as I love the “early, funny ones”, whole schlemiel schtick is not exactly a turn on. I prefer slightly later Woody (say, late-70s through ‘80s, with Everyone Says I Love You thrown in because he was just too cute singing "I’m Through with Love"), despite the fact that the characters he played were, generally, progressively more egotistical, selfish, cruel, petty, neurotic, hypocritical, vain, intellectually arrogant…I hope this is not a portent for future relationships.
By the way, what does your name mean? I hope it is not a death threat addressed to Nick and Nora’s adorable pooch.
Asta
- I had to have a long conversation with my underconsiousness before ‘she’ would admit it: Gregory Peck in ‘Princess on a Day off’ (What’s the right title?)- I watched it with my grandmother, when I was six years old – and I was stunned. As a tweenie I had a lovestory with Robert Redford, which is absolutely impossibel for me to understand by now!
Still, I have an obsession with well known British business-man, who, after decades in the business finally got to a level, where you cold call his singing voice ‘decent’. He’s a talented entertainer and does James Brown combinations qite well. Yes, I can watch ‘Gimme Shelter’ again and again and still enjoy the notorious Jagger. – Wonderful work with the material, from the Maysles and Zwerin, by the way. The idea of the film must have changed from a marathon concert documetary to a documentation on how a free marathon concert would end up in murder and chaos in just a second.