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Post by cynthiagreen on Aug 24, 2020 16:49:41 GMT
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Post by bravomailer on Aug 24, 2020 16:57:18 GMT
Heyyouactor, whose avatar was an image of Jason Robards, Jr, said he was Paul LeMat. Wasn't Addison DeWitt an actor? Jimcat was often rather contentious. I once mentioned that I knew three people who'd been extras in major films and he thought it utterly preposterous. Oh I recall Heyou - I sent him a PM because he would have worked with Gloria Grahame (my favourite) on MELVIN AND HOWARD but he never replied. Her biog says they didn't got on so maybe that is why he didn't respond. Or maybe it wasn't the real Paul LeMat 
I thought LeMat's performance in Melvin and Howard was one of the better depictions of a working-class guy. Hollywood rarely gets that right.
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Post by cynthiagreen on Aug 24, 2020 17:30:40 GMT
Oh I recall Heyou - I sent him a PM because he would have worked with Gloria Grahame (my favourite) on MELVIN AND HOWARD but he never replied. Her biog says they didn't got on so maybe that is why he didn't respond. Or maybe it wasn't the real Paul LeMat
I thought LeMat's performance in Melvin and Howard was one of the better depictions of a working-class guy. Hollywood rarely gets that right. I was a bit underwhelmed by the movie 5/10 but he was fine. I liked him best in STRANGE INVADERS, a quirky tongue in cheek sci fi from 83 or so. I guess GRAFFITTI was the big one and was fine but it has been so long I can't remember more than the quiff. CITIZENS BAND and ALOHA BOBBY were both critics pets but I thought they were both a bit meh. He doesn't appear to have filmed since 2009 but there is something in preproduction which means nothing really.
I thought BLUE COLLAR was an excellent USA look at the lumpen. And I gueess GRAPES OF WRATH would count.
We Brits seem to do it easier (IT ALWAYS RAINS ON SUNDAY, DANCE HALL, Sylivia Syms spending a lot of her career escaping slums, POOR COW, THE HUGGETT family movies, CARRY ON, that whole 60s new wave thing, Loach,Schlesinger's A KIND OF LOVING (with Alan Bates as the least angry of angry young men  ), and Bennett & Leigh-although their characters usually more up the social scale)
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Post by marshamae on Aug 24, 2020 18:20:48 GMT
I usually got along with Jefferson Cody and he was always very nice to me. But he sure could rant when he chose.
I only recall one real falling out and it was about politics of the 1930’s and 40’s . Very disturbing . A poster I really enjoyed took a position I simply could not ignore. Made me very sad
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Post by bravomailer on Aug 24, 2020 18:33:08 GMT
I usually got along with Jefferson Cody and he was always very nice to me. But he sure could rant when he chose. I only recall one real falling out and it was about politics of the 1930’s and 40’s . Very disturbing . A poster I really enjoyed took a position I simply could not ignore. Made me very sad He's on the Politics board here.
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Post by cynthiagreen on Aug 24, 2020 18:57:59 GMT
I usually got along with Jefferson Cody and he was always very nice to me. But he sure could rant when he chose. I only recall one real falling out and it was about politics of the 1930’s and 40’s . Very disturbing . A poster I really enjoyed took a position I simply could not ignore. Made me very sad I always liked Jeff - he gave me some good recs and we shared a love of Ethan Hawke - I like plain talkers and the smutty asides never bothered me - in truth I enjoyed seeing the more sheltered or prudish clutch their pearls at his antics. . I think he still pops up round here but haven't engaged with much on IMDB2
There were very few posters I ever had on "ignore" - mainly trolls who carpet bombed us - real life doesn't give you that facility so I'd just rather ignore their posts, as I would a person i hated at a party i attended.
My least favourite poster ever was a female with some hang up about prostitutes - she wasn't around long but she sure annoyed about 90% of the regulars.
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Post by phantomparticle on Aug 24, 2020 20:47:50 GMT
He may have preferred "background," which is the accepted term in SAG.
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Post by cynthiagreen on Aug 25, 2020 1:00:20 GMT
He may have preferred "background," which is the accepted term in SAG. Oh that could well be it - yes if you wanted to wind him up use the other one - not that I ever intentionally did.   And he was big on SAG - gave updates on socials and debates and stuff. Fascinating for "mortals" like me. Didn't he have some longstanding blase academy member chum so totally over the oscars she gave him her votes at gongtime and got him into Academy screenings for donkeys. I think she retired a year or so before Armageddon which put a cramp in his style.
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Post by claudius on Aug 25, 2020 1:37:29 GMT
cynthiagreen
I met Chuck at my closed Amusement Park (save for a dance hall) in Autumn 1994. He had come to the area to promote an election at said hall. My uncle learned of this and got me to the area of his arrival to meet him. I had planned to use an Ex-Library copy of Heston's AN ACTOR'S LIFE for him to sign, but my mom persuaded me its USED condition might not be respective enough. So I used my BEN-HUR: 35TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION VHS Set (which I received that Easter) for him to sign. He came, we met him. He was near 70, far from NRA and later Alzheimers. I asked for his autograph, he accepted. Unfortunately, there was a problem. The finished cardboard cover material made it hard for the pen to make a mark. He asked for another pen (I think he said swirl, referring to his penmanship). Eventually, he decided to use the little paper flier (which gave a short summary of the film and its production) inside the set and autographed it instead. I thanked him, calling myself a fan of his films. He thanked me. We went our separate ways.
Later in 2016-17, TrevorAclea wrote his review for BEN-HUR (2016) in IMDb1 and added his reviews of the 1925 and 1959 versions. When I commented about the incident, he responded that he wrote the flier!
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Post by OldAussie on Aug 25, 2020 1:53:00 GMT
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Aug 26, 2020 14:08:50 GMT
Trevor Acela continued doing film reviews for amazon.co.uk at least a year ago. Now any review are just non film products. I remember when he revealed he wrote the booklet to the BEN HUR 35th Anniversary Set which I managed to get Charlton Heston’s autograph.  Thanks maybe he was a film hack though - he'd mentioned he was working on screenplays - I'd never enquired if if he'd had any actually filmed.(I'm aware that we may have the odd "celeb" amongst our happy band who may wish the pleasures of anonymity and am wary of pushing too hard on persional detail if folk say they are active participants in the flic biz). But he definitely merits an occupation with qull in hand. And so do the rest of us.
I'm so jealous you met Chuck, claudius . How was he - Huge fan. Don't really give a monkeys about his views on guns - not my views but he was entitled to his own. More significant is that he has been described as "an axiom of cinema"  In truth I prefer the 50s ones - I think he got a shade duller and a lot less sexy after the oscar. My favourites (not neccessarily the "best") would be
1 TOUCH OF EVIL ( "Cultural appropriation" ?- Blow me! - I'll totally buy the argument today but we are on a fool's errand applying 2020 sensibilities to 1958 cultural artefacts) 2 THE BIG COUNTRY 3 RUBY GENTRY - the sexiest swamp in cinematic history 4 THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH - the definitive "take charge guy"  5 THE NAKED JUNGLE
I thought GRAY LADY DOWN was neglected - tense, solid, well acted (Ronny Cox esp fine) submarine-being-slowly-flooded suspenser with Chuck trying to seal those hatches!
Here is Ray Charles singing the wonderful title tune although this version came after the film, where we just get an instrumental. Definitely a favourite theme tune tough
and here is the film itself for anyone interested.
I got some of the magazines that Trevor contributed to, excellent stuff.
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Post by jeffersoncody on Aug 26, 2020 15:12:06 GMT
Heyyouactor, whose avatar was an image of Jason Robards, Jr, said he was Paul LeMat. Wasn't Addison DeWitt an actor? "A background actor."
Jimcat was often rather contentious. I once mentioned that I knew three people who'd been extras in major films and he thought it utterly preposterous. Jimcat was quite a character, he used to PM me - LOL, he told me some strange stuff about his life and his wife, that's for sure. But he disappeared before the IMDB boards shut even shut down, and I fear he has passed away.
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Post by jeffersoncody on Aug 26, 2020 15:19:21 GMT
Wasn't Addison DeWitt an actor? Jimcat was often rather contentious. I once mentioned that I knew three people who'd been extras in major films and he thought it utterly preposterous. Oh I recall Heyou - I sent him a PM because he would have worked with Gloria Grahame (my favourite) on MELVIN AND HOWARD but he never replied. Her biog says they didn't got on so maybe that is why he didn't respond. Or maybe it wasn't the real Paul LeMat
Addison certainly was an actor although mostly bits on big screen I gather. He got very snippy if you referred to him as an "extra" but i can't recall the rather high falutin' alternative he preferred. Anyone remember?
Addie is "a professional background actor".
My memory of Jimcat personally is a fond but vague one but I'd concede (as with Strel) he was one of our more - er - confrontational chums  I remember you well. Thank you so much for informing us of Mike's death, that's very sad. I was genuinely fond of him and he was a rare poster on that board I never squabbled with, and who was very forgiving of me.
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Post by cynthiagreen on Aug 26, 2020 16:47:58 GMT
Heyyouactor, whose avatar was an image of Jason Robards, Jr, said he was Paul LeMat. Wasn't Addison DeWitt an actor? "A background actor."
Jimcat was often rather contentious. I once mentioned that I knew three people who'd been extras in major films and he thought it utterly preposterous. Jimcat was quite a character, he used to PM me - LOL, he told me some strange stuff about his life and his wife, that's for sure. But he disappeared before the IMDB boards shut even shut down, and I fear he has passed away. I think that is it Jeff - well done!
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Post by jeffersoncody on Aug 26, 2020 17:04:06 GMT
I think that is it Jeff - well done!
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Post by jeffersoncody on Aug 26, 2020 20:16:33 GMT
I usually got along with Jefferson Cody and he was always very nice to me.  I knew him too marshamae, sometimes his heart got in the way of his head, but the world has changed and I suspect he's older and wiser now. I know he still loves movies with a passion deep and true. Hope you are well and coping in these uncertain times.
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Post by jeffersoncody on Aug 26, 2020 20:26:21 GMT
My least favourite poster ever was a female with some hang up about prostitutes - she wasn't around long but she sure annoyed about 90% of the regulars.
Wasn't she the one who thought Jim Hutton was the sexiest man ever?
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Aug 26, 2020 20:32:54 GMT
Strel was a great poster on the Sports Board also. It took time to get used to him, but he was a good poster.
A legendary thread on the old sports board dealt with The Deer Hunter. One poster said that them film was a snoozefest because of the overlong wedding sequence. That thread went on for over 20 pages and for over six months. The old veterans still remember The Great Deer Hunter War.
I remember Strel quitting everything except the Food and Drink board in the dying days on IMBd. He told me he was working on a movie project (can't remember if it was an actual screenplay or something related). He never made the move. He used to quiz users to see if hey recognized his signature line, what movie it was from.
"You're future is all used up". Always one of my favorite quotes
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Post by Doghouse6 on Aug 26, 2020 21:30:54 GMT
My least favourite poster ever was a female with some hang up about prostitutes - she wasn't around long but she sure annoyed about 90% of the regulars.
Wasn't she the one who thought Jim Hutton was the sexiest man ever? You mean MrsElleryQueen. I don't recall anything about prostitution, but she sure had a burr under her saddle about age, seeming to resent anyone who happened to have been on this earth longer than she had. Or something like that. And never missed an opportunity, germane or otherwise, to bash Citizen Kane.
She often provoked a poster I quite miss, the knowledgeable and opinionated Hobnob53.
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Post by marshamae on Aug 26, 2020 21:59:28 GMT
I usually got along with Jefferson Cody and he was always very nice to me. I knew him too marshamae, sometimes his heart got in the way of his head, but the world has changed and I suspect he's older and wiser now. I know he still loves movies with a passion deep and true. Hope you are well and coping in these uncertain times. Hey Jeff. I always had a soft spot for you because I too have a temper, and do not suffer fools gladly. And as you say, age has left me with little energy for doubtful disputations. Good to hear from you! Keep safe my friend!
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In truth I prefer the 50s ones - I think he got a shade duller and a lot less sexy after the oscar. My favourites (not neccessarily the "best") would be
