#Fred Jackman

[personinthepalace]

The Princess Bride Home Movie (Mobile Version)

this has turned into an annual rewatch for me haha - featuring 88 actors recreating the full Princess Bride movie from their homes! I highly recommend watching it if you haven’t seen it yet :)

[fionnemrys]

Home Movie: The Princess Bride. Made during quarantine at the height of the Covid pandemic, a who's who of film and television stars recreate The Princess Bride at home, one scene at a time. Check out the IMDB page for the full cast list, including Rob and Carl Reiner, Cary Elwes, Fred Savage, Elijah Wood, Taika Waititi, Diego Luna, Neil Patrick Harris, Pedro Pascal, Jack Black, Giancarlo Esposito, Mackenzie Davis, John Malkovich, Patton Oswalt, Jenna Ortega, Charlize Theron, Hugh Jackman, and so many more.

[creativedifferencespodcast]

Much to our delight, Deadpool & Wolverine has finally arrived in record-breaking fashion, as expected. On the TV side of things, much to Dallas’ delight, Hit-Monkey season two is out! Unfortunately, Dallas might be the only person watching it. (Hulu please don’t cancel Hit-Monkey). Is Deadpool & Wolverine everything we hoped for? Is anyone else out there watching Hit-Monkey? And how many euphemisms does Deadpool know for doin’ coke? Suit up and join us as we dive into all that and more! You can also find us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts!

[jojoblessed365]

I miss a couple like Nick and Nora Charles in today's media; can anyone make a movie starring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster as the Charles'???

They're perfect as the new age Nick and Nora Charles!!!

Or even a Fred and Ginger movie!!!

[sesiondemadrugada]

Creature with the Atom Brain (Edward L. Cahn, 1955).

[chlodoll]

another interview highlights... part 3? this one was a gem!

tom teasing zendaya when she was stumbling over her words to answer a question 🤭

tom and zendaya having their chairs pushed together to make their own little loveseat (who do you think fixed the seating?)

zendaya talking about her “spidey-sense” and tom wanting to test that

they allegedly watched(lol?) xmen origin ... together... recently 🤨

and it was excellent (i don’t think they are remembering the movie...)

-

then at the end they talk about spidey and wolverine and tom says “i need tap lessons from hugh jackman, i’m going to play fred astaire”

can this actually happen? i just want to see it... 

[heavenboy09]

15 Years Ago Today

On May 1st, 2009

From 20th Century Fox

& Marvel Studios Presents

THE ORIGINS OF 1 OF THE MOST DANGEROUS & MOST ICONIC X-MEN OF ALL TIMES

In 1845, James Howlett, a boy living in the Northwest Territories, witnesses his father being killed by groundskeeper Thomas Logan.

Anxiety activates the boy's mutation: bone claws protrude from his knuckles, and he impales Thomas, who reveals that he is James' biological father before dying. James flees with Thomas' other son, Victor Creed, James' half-brother, who has sharp claw nails and a healing factor mutation like James.

They spend the next century as soldiers, fighting in the American Civil War, both World Wars and the Vietnam War. In Vietnam, the increasingly violent Victor attempts to rape a Vietnamese woman and kills a senior officer who tries to stop him.

James returns to Victor and, ignorant of his brother's intent, rushes to defend him. The pair are sentenced to execution by firing squad, which they survive. Major William Stryker offers them membership in Team X, a group of mutants including marksman Agent Zero, katana-wielding mercenary Wade Wilson, teleporter John Wraith, super-strong and invulnerable Fred Dukes, and technopath Chris Bradley. 

They join the team for a few missions, with James using the alias Logan, but Victor and the group's lack of self-control and empathy causes Logan to leave.

Seeking solace from his dark past, Logan seems to have found love and contentment with Kayla Silverfox.

Logan's peaceful existence is shattered when Victor Creed, his vicious brother, brutally murders Kayla.

Logan's thirst for revenge propels him into

A SECRET GOVERNMENT PROGRAM ONLY MADE FOR PEOPLE OF HIS KIND

MUTANTS

THE WEAPON X PROGRAM, WHERE HE UNDERGOES A PAINFUL PROCEDURE TO BOND HIS BONES WITH

THE MOAT INDESTRUCTIBLE METAL ON EARTH 🌎

ADAMANTIUM....

MAKING HIM VIRTUALLY INDESTRUCTIBLE AND MORE THAN A MATCH FOR VICTOR.

IN ORDER FOR HIM TO STOP HIA HALF BROTHER

HE MUST EVOLVE INTO A MORE EFFICIENT WEAPON OF DESTRUCTION & MAYHEM

HE MUST CUT ALL TIES TO HIS OLD LIFE & FORGE A NEW ONE

HE MUST WITNESS THE DEATH OF LOVED ONES IN ORDER TO BE REBORN SOMETHING VENGEFUL

THE RAGE WILL MAKE HIM STRONGER

HE MUST BECOME

THE ANIMAL FROM WITHIN

20 CENTURY FOX & MARVEL STUDIOS PRESENTS

HUGH JACKMAN

AS THE INFAMOUS & INDESTRUCTIBLE MUTANT OF RAGE MAKES HIS ORIGINS COME TO LIFE

HE WILL BECOME

WOLVERINE 🐺

X-MEN ORIGINS : WOLVERINE 🐺

HAPPY 15TH ANNIVERSARY TO 20TH CENTURY FOX & MARVEL STUDIOS

X-MEN ORIGINS : WOLVERINE 🐺

#XmenOriginsWolverine #Wolverine #Sabertooth #SilverFox #DeadPool #WeaponX #Mutant #Xmen #MarvelStudios #MarvelComics

[lol-jackles]

I love your musings on the movie industry and actresses. I am interested in your opinion about Tom Holland, if you know anything about him as an actor. I think he's going through a rough patch. A couple years ago he was the most successful and promising young actor. At this point, his career path is very questionable. Several failed projects, including his latest TV series, which he produced himself. Critics trashed him. And on the whole, they don't like him much. I attribute this to an inappropriate remark about Martin Scorsese. He wasn't rude or disrespectful, but still his words were taken by many in a bad light. Now he has returned to the theater. But judging by the record-breaking two hours of ticket sales, I think he's still loved by his fans. But I still don't understand why he's doing so badly with his projects. At the moment he has plans for another spider sequel, possibly uncharted 2 and a Fred Astaire biographical movie. And none of these projects have any definite shooting dates or even a nominally finished plot.

I've only seen a few of Tom Holland's non-Spiderman films and he seemed miscast in those, however, he still gave very good performances.  The great Christopher Lee once said, "Every actor has to make terrible films from time to time, but the trick is never to be terrible in them."

The great Kenneth Branagh directed and starred in the stinker Frankenstein featuring the great Robert Di Niro as the monster. Kennth was also the best thing about the Harry Potter movies as Professor Lovelock. Meryl Streep's performance was praised in Mama Mia for her energy and commitment, despite the overall critical reception of the movie. Denzel Washington pretty much made a career out of elevating projects from the depths of mediocrity into something approaching watchability, and sometimes, even quality.

Tom's current career trajectory reminds me of Michael J. Fox's dark, experimental phase as a traumatized solider and a drug addict mourning the death of his mother and marriage before returning to what he does best: funny everyman. If I was his manager, I would advise him to hire Channing Tatum's agent and take inspiration from Hugh Jackman and embrace his singing and dancing skills and natural comedic timing, so his Fred Astaire project is a good idea. Tom can still do drama and action that is silly and fun. Point Break is silly and also one of the greatest action movies of the 20th century, and it was one of the first clues that Keanu Reeve’s career trajectory is going to be less “Tiger Beat”, and more “walking away from explosions, looking directly at the camera”.

[dylanwayneburk]

Big Neutron Hero Team

A Jimmy Neutron and Big Hero Crossover by Dylan Burk.

In this version, instead of Reteroville Jimmy Neutron and his friends Goddard, Carl, Sheen, Cindy and Libby live in San Fransokyo with Hiro Hamada, His Aunt Cass, Jimmy's dad Hugh Neutron, Baymax except Gogo, Honey Lemon, Wasabi and Fred at the Foster home cafeteria. So together they became a high tech superheroes to save the world, fighting criminals, evil robots classic super villains, space aliens and freaky mutants, encounter allies of new and old super heroes, and do the honor legacy to help a lot of people.

Jimmy Neutron from O Entertainment, DNA Productions and Nickelodeon.

Big Hero 6 from and Disney.

[sabspoetic]

𐬺.*[𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐌𝐄] 𐬺.*

๋࣭ ⭑⚝ fandoms: harry potter / marvel / little women / eminem

˗ˏˋ ♡ ˎˊ˗ hobbies: singing, writing, playing guitar & piano

𐙚˙⋆.˚ fav celebs: Sebastian Stan, Tom Hiddleston, Hugh Jackman

⋆.˚ ᡣ𐭩 .𖥔˚ fav singers: Sabrina Carpenter, Tyla, Bruno Mars, Eminem

𓋼𖤣𖥧𓋼𓍊 fav songs: Please Please Please, Espresso, Nonsense / Uptown Funk, Grenade, The Lazy Song / I Knew You Were Trouble / Back To Black / Lose Yourself, My Name Is, Without Me

✎ᝰ. fav albums: 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐧' 𝐒𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐭 (Sabrina Carpenter) / 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 (Taylor Swift) / 𝐃𝐨𝐨-𝐖𝐨𝐩𝐬 & 𝐇𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐬 (Bruno Mars)

⊹₊ ⋆ fav characters: marvel: bucky barnes, loki laufeyson, thor odinson, tony stark, wanda maximoff ୭ৎ harry potter: draco malfoy, harry potter, narcissa malfoy, ron weasley, fred weasley, bill weasley, oliver wood, sirius black ୭ৎ little women: jo march, theodore ‘laurie’ laurence, john brooke.

𐙚˙⋆.˚ fav tv shows: Friends, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

⋆｡𖦹°‧ fav movies: Ocean’s 8, Roman Holiday, Fun with Dick and Jane, Avengers (𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐞), Captain America: Civil War

𓆝 𓆟 random things about me: I can’t stand butterflies, partying is my passion

[twittercomfrnklin2001-blog]

Julie

“So, how did you spend your evening, Frank?”

“I watched Doris Day smoke and land a plane.”

“At the same time?”

“No, but maybe a nice cigarette would have helped.”

If you’re a connoisseur of whacky movies, you’ll know I just watched Andrew L. Stone’s JULIE (1956, TCM), a film that opens crazy and closes crazier. I have no problems with films or plays that start “in medias res.” Getting thrown into the middle of something can be a fun challenge with the right story. But this picture starts so abruptly you may think you missed the first few chapters of a serial. It would, in fact, make a great serial, as newlywed Day discovers her second husband (Louis Jourdan) killed her first husband and is so insanely jealous he’ll take her out if she looks at another man. As the film starts, they’re arguing about his jealousy while driving along the Pacific shore. We don’t see what set him off. We don’t really learn who they are. We just see her driving as he loses it and puts his foot over hers on the accelerator. Then he apologizes, and she takes him back, and no, it’s not a film about masochism. It just seems that way. Eventually she gets away and he stalks her onto a flight (halfway through we learn she used to be a flight attendant), where he takes out the pilot and co-pilot leaving her to land the plane. This is all done very seriously, and to her credit, Day jacks up the tension quite convincingly. Also on the plus side, Fred Jackman, Jr.’s photography of the Carmel area is quite good, Stone and his wife, Virginia Stone, are great editors, and Jourdan gives an impressively understated performance as Day’s deranged husband. You also get Barry Sullivan as a sympathetic friend, Frank Lovejoy as a sympathetic homicide detective. a very pretty young Jack Kelly as the co-pilot, Ann Robinson as Day’s fellow stewardess and Mae Marsh as an hysterical passenger. Special credit also goes to Barney Phillips as the doctor tending Kelly in the cockpit (we should all be so lucky). Day may be the star, but his performance adds believably to the tension of the final scene. If you’re into drinking games, you could take a swig every time one of the men calls Day “honey” as she’s manning the controls at the end, though you might need medical attention afterwards. BTW, this is the last time Day smoked on screen (she did in a few of her films). She had a cancer scare during the shoot that led her to quit smoking.

[leanstooneside]

TV SERIES EPISODES (TEMPORA)

SKRILLEX'S BREAST (STRUCTURED)

VICTORIA JUSTICE'S BREAST (FOOD FRIENDLY)

GEORGE LOPEZ'S BREAST

KELLY ROWLAND'S BREAST

JOHN LEGEND'S BREAST

JIMMY FALLON'S BREAST

LUDACRIS'S BREAST (ELEGANT)

KHLOE KARDASHIAN'S BREAST (ACIDIC)

KERI RUSSELL'S BREAST (OXIDIZED)

REBECCA GAYHEART'S BREAST

KATE UPTON'S BREAST (BRIGHT)

ZOOEY DESCHANEL'S BREAST (CHARCOAL)

KAT DELUNA'S BREAST

CHORD OVERSTREET'S BREAST

MICHAEL C. HALL'S BREAST

VANESSA MINNILLO'S BREAST

JASON MRAZ'S BREAST

LEONA LEWIS'S BREAST

CALVIN HARRIS'S BREAST

GILLES MARINI'S BREAST

ADRIAN GRENIER'S BREAST (SWEET)

LISA BONET'S BREAST

CELINE DION'S BREAST

JOHN STAMOS'S BREAST

FRED DURST'S BREAST

HUGH JACKMAN'S BREAST

GIULIANA RANCIC'S BREAST (RETICENT)

RYAN KWANTEN'S BREAST

LANA DEL REY'S BREAST

PINK'S BREAST

LEANN RIMES'S BREAST

PATRICK SWAYZE'S BREAST

NENE LEAKES'S BREAST

CHRIS MELONI'S BREAST

ADAM LAMBERT'S BREAST (TIGHT)

MATT LANTER'S BREAST

AMY ADAMS'S BREAST (ROUGH)

DAX SHEPARD'S BREAST

BROOKLYN DECKER'S BREAST (DIRTY)

AMITABH BACHCHAN'S BREAST

KEVIN DURANT'S BREAST

ELTON JOHN'S BREAST

JUDI DENCH'S BREAST

SALMAN KHAN'S BREAST (LEATHERY)

ALICIA KEYS'S BREAST

AMANDA BYNES'S BREAST

PADMA LAKSHMI'S BREAST

KRIS HUMPHRIES'S BREAST

CORY MONTEITH'S BREAST (CHEWY)

JERRY FERRARA'S BREAST

[coll2mitts]

#32 Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

Happy Independence Day!  Sit back and watch The Man Who Owned Broadway hold FDR hostage for two hours while he divulges his entire life story because Mr. Roosevelt has nothing else important to focus his time on in the 1940s.

The good 'ol US of A has a very complicated history, and continues to make baffling policy decisions (to put it lightly).  There is no lack of amount of dissenting opinions or criticisms proudly proclaimed against our country, and waving an American flag is a great indicator someone may be a bigoted right-wing nut job.  But back in 1942, when this film was released, we were at the height of pro-American propaganda.  There was no lack of Government made pieces of media, but Hollywood chipped in with Casablanca, This is the Army, The Great Dictator, Buck Private... Shit, the fucking Looney Tunes were making fun of Hitler.  We continue to make films about America's Great War, because even though we killed over 100k Japanese civilians by bombing the shit out of them, entering the war is probably the last time anyone would admit America was "morally justified" in involving themselves in foreign conflicts.

When we entered Vietnam, and with our country's atrocities now being filmed and broadcast across the world, positive public opinion started to plummet, never recovering to those WW2 levels.  Even attempts at a pro-Vietnam war propaganda, like John Wayne's The Green Berets, didn't produce the patriotic fervor the United States government wanted.  Right after 9/11 it came closer than it ever had, because there's nothing like a terrorist attack on domestic soil to persuade citizens of a country to give up their basic rights to privacy and wear mass produced t-shirts made in overseas sweat shops proclaiming "Our Colors Don't Run".  With the now 24-hour news media cycle and the amplification of all kinds of varying opinions, even during the Bush administration we could hear vocal outcry to their several war crimes.  Sure, we'll still have American Sniper, but nothing will ever come off as sincere and rousing as a bunch of mannequins waving an American flag back and forth on a Broadway stage.

Because boy howdy, this is excellently made propaganda.  Yankee Doodle Dandy is a fictionalized retelling of real-life actor/dancer/singer/composer/producer George M. Cohan, an Irish-American who grew up on the stage with his family by his side. The film is a squishy-timeline'd recounting of his rise to fame and wealth based on his talent and drive to succeed. And the in the most American origin story of all, its genesis may have been a result of its lead actor's desire to prove he wasn't a commie.

George M. Cohan is played by James Cagney, typically known for his roles in gangster movies even though he loved to sing and dance (I am convinced Hugh Jackman is trying to mimic his career).  The real life Mr. Cohan was annoyed by Cagney's initial casting because he thought he was too pretty, leaning more toward someone like Fred Astaire, who is as goofy as he is good looking.  Mr. Cohan was overruled, however, and by the time he viewed the film shortly before his death, he confessed he was a fool for his protests.  James Cagney is lovely in this - he's charismatic and funny, improvising many of the bits that had me laughing out loud. He also worked with Mr. Cohan on this movie, and the script went through a lot of rewrites based on his feedback.

We open the movie on an older George M. Cohan performing on stage as FDR in a musical titled "I'd Rather Be Right".  On opening night, after making out with his wife backstage in front of everybody, he receives a telegram from the White House from what George assumes is an annoyed Mr. Roosevelt.  Only then does Mr. Cohan question whether or not its appropriate to impersonate a sitting president during an active war as he tucks his tail between his legs and takes the train to Washington.

Upon being greeted by a valet that remembers George's first visit to the grounds 30 years ago, we're treated to the mental image of that racist fucking asshole Teddy Roosevelt getting so jazzed up by Mr. Cohan's rendition of "You're a Grand Old Flag" that he would gleefully sing it in the bathtub.  George is brought up to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's office where a very well-meaning actor gives a faceless performance that will later be dubbed over in post.  The president praises Mr. Cohan's patriotism, declaring, "That's one thing I've always admired about you Irish-Americans.  You carry your love of country like a flag, right out in the open."

George informs the president that he inherited his nationalism from his father, who ran away to proudly fight in the civil war.  Not to shit on my entire people, but I find it hard to believe that Irish-Americans were passionate about abolishing slavery for all people back in the 1860s.  Mr. Cohan then takes this opportunity to kick-off the framing device by relaying his entire life story to a sitting president who clearly has nothing else to do.

Picture it: Providence, Rhode Island, 1878.  It's the Forth of July, and Jerry Cohan, dressed like a leprechaun and sporting the worst Irish accent that I've heard since I've tried to do one myself, is rushing off the stage and back to the house to meet his newborn son George Washington Michael Cohan.  With a baby sister, Josie (played by Cagney's real-life sister Jeanne), born several years later, the kids join the family business and the entire troop begin touring the vaudeville circuit as the aptly named 4 Cohans. 

They're making this poor kid play a violin on his head while tap dancing.  Lindsey Sterling could never.

Also, 13 minutes in and we've already got our first blackface performance. Add it to the list.

After snagging his first lead role at thirteen chucking eggs and flour at adults on stage, little Georgie lets the fame immediately go to his head.  He can't help himself from mouthing off to Ed Albee, a theater owner who makes the mistake of offering The 4 Cohan's third billing in his new show (even though it'll double their salary) losing them the opportunity.  His reformation comes shortly after he gets the shit kicked out of him by his father and a roaming gang of theater-going children because sometimes scrubs gotta get hit.  The family then spends the next 10 years floundering around from city to city until George meets Mary, an "18-year-old" girl who visits him backstage to get advice on how to start in showbusiness.  After fucking with her to test the waters on a potential grandfather fetish, he claims he can get her a gig with the show.

George rides his ego right into the next town, having his ingénue change her act last minute to a George M. Cohan original without informing the manager ahead of time.  The manager is so incensed Mary replaced the (mysteriously now drunk) dog act with untested nonsense that he fires her, George, and George's family.

"Drunk or sober, the dog act goes on in the next show," might be my favorite line in all the 71 reviews I've written.

Black-balled and suddenly unemployed, Georgie teams up with Mary and starts shopping his material around to whatever producers will take a meeting.  After several months of no dough (and with the goodwill of their landlord running thin), George pretends to sell one of his shows so his family will drop his toxic butt and tour without him to earn a bit of cash while "the show is in rehearsal".  After they leave, George continues to pedal hoping he will Secret a career into existence.

"Who's strong and brave, here to save the American way..."

While working the circuit, George teams up with Sam H. Harris, a playwright that is having about as much luck with selling his content as Mr. Cohan is.  They con an old man with his wife's money burning a hole in his pocket to buy a show about some jockey named "Little Johnny Jones" that George wrote because he was short and he wanted to star in it.

The only reason I know this song is because of Steel Magnolias.  I also had no idea those weird bottlecap costumes were a real thing; I thought it was something Mary Poppins made up.

TIL Mr. Jelly Legs here wrote "Give My Regards to Broadway" for this musical in 1904.

With the success of George's Broadway show, he telegrams his family to join him back in New York so they can reestablish the act on a bigger stage.  Gaining notoriety has also afforded him the opportunity to recruit big name stars like Fay Templeton, although she doesn't seem very keen on the idea since Mr. Cohan is mostly known for showy displays of patriotism, which she hates for some reason.  It isn't until she hears him sing a repackaged "Give My Regards to Broadway" as a love song about living 45 minutes outside the city that piques her interest.  The deal is well and truly sold after she hears "Mary", a song he wrote for his sweetheart.  When George comes home to his song's namesake, he proposes marriage to take the edge off of some famous lady stealing her gig, and she accepts because her only role in this movie is to be as supportive of George as possible.

The proposal is genuinely adorable, though, as she tells him she loves looking after him, and he says he could cast her for that part for the rest of their lives.  When she coyly asks to see some of the script they kiss, and then Cagney improvises the line, "Not bad for a first reading."

Mary is an amalgamation of the real-life George Cohan's two wives, and her song was originally written for one of Mr. Cohan's daughters, of which none are mentioned in this movie.  Mary's inclusion was against the advisement of Mr. Cohan, who would have preferred neither of his wives were mentioned at all.  The actress who plays her, Joan Leslie, turned 17-years-old on set.  Like, I want to reiterate, she was a literal child, and they had to shut down filming early when she was involved because she legally couldn't work at night.

Anyway, George M. Cohan goes peak Americana with his latest show "George Washington Jr.", which features cameos from the boy scouts, veterans, African Americans singing in front of the Lincoln memorial, that fucking racist Teddy Roosevelt, and a seemingly infinite amount of American flags.

After his parents retire to run a farm and his sister gets married, he tries to go "legit" by writing a 3 act play with no songs that bombs.  He doesn't have enough time to process his failure before a torpedo sinks the Lusitania.  George tries to tap dance his way into the army but they reject him for being too advanced in age at an ancient thirty-nine years old.  Instead, they argue he is much more valuable writing catchy propaganda for the troops.

After the war ends, George continues to make bangers (like more than 40 of them, dude's a workhorse).  At that pace, it was common for him to have multiple shows running on Broadway at the same time. Sometime off-camera his mother and sister die, with his father following soon afterward.  With his entire family gone, George processes his grief by quitting showbusiness and touring the world with Mary.  He then takes an attempt at retirement on the farm until his old partner Sam calls asking him to come back for one. last. show.  And take a guess who he wants George to play.

Now back at present day, we discover that FDR didn't call up Mr. Cohan for some late-night pillow talk.  He wanted to award George M. Cohan with the Congressional Medal of Congress "for his Contribution to the America Spirit".  Mr. Cohan is so touched by the gesture that he dances his way down the stairs, which is something Cagney improvised because he's in the top 10 most charming men who have ever been born.

Here's where I have the privilege of telling you that this is clearly not how the real George M. Cohan was awarded The Congressional Gold Medal of Honor for songwriting.  While Cohan was a democrat and initially supportive of FDR, he did not approve of the president's view on unions.  Cohan was a staunch union buster (sad trombone), so he refused to pick up his award for 4 years in order to avoid meeting with the president with the hope that his term would run out.  FDR eventually was like, 'dude, come and get this thing it's taking up space', and Cohan begrudgingly accepted it in 1940 out of duty for his country. Apparently all was forgiven once Roosevelt hugged him, although I'm not sure it changed either of their opinions on labor laws.

It's a shame I'm not a blind flag-waving patriot, because this film is delightful. It's hard not to fall in love with the characters, and I genuinely laughed out loud in several parts at their dialogue. James Cagney can easily take credit for the majority of this - his improvised bits brought Mr. Cohan to life. I let out a surprised yelp when he took off his old man toupee, threw it on the ground and stomped on it - who thinks of that?? He even reprised this role several years later in The Seven Little Foys (Eddy Foy Jr. made a brief cameo in Yankee Doodle Dandy depicting his father). Like with Barbra Streisand and Fanny Brice, I'm sure going to have a hard time separating Cagney's depiction of George M. Cohan from his real-life counterpart.

If you can stomach a film that whole heartedly celebrates this quagmire of a nation (and full transparency, I failed last year because I just had my reproductive rights snatched away from me and was exhausted from googling which doctors in my state would give a single woman with no kids a tubal ligation), it's a pretty entertaining watch.

My mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I assure you, I thank you for reading!  If you’ve enjoyed this post, please consider helping me fund this project by donating to my ko-fi :)

[alexlacquemanne]

Février MMXXIII

Films

Danger : Diabolik ! (Diabolik) (1968) de Mario Bava avec John Phillip Law, Marisa Mell, Michel Piccoli, Claudio Gora, Terry-Thomas et Adolfo Celi

L'Horloger de Saint-Paul (1974) de Bertrand Tavernier avec Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Jacques Denis, Yves Afonso, Julien Bertheau et Jacques Hilling

Les Grandes Familles (1958) de Denys de La Patellière avec Jean Gabin, Jean Desailly, Pierre Brasseur, Bernard Blier, Françoise Christophe, Annie Ducaux et Louis Seigner

Les Ambitieux (The Carpetbaggers) (1964) de Edward Dmytryk avec George Peppard, Carroll Baker, Alan Ladd, Bob Cummings, Martha Hyer et Elizabeth Ashley

Bathing Beauty (1944) de George Sidney avec Red Skelton, Esther Williams, Basil Rathbone, Bill Goodwin, Jean Porter, Nana Bryant, Carlos Ramírez et Ethel Smith

Que les gros salaires lèvent le doigt ! (1982) de Denys Granier-Deferre avec Jean Poiret, Michel Piccoli, Daniel Auteuil, François Perrot, Tchéky Karyo, Nadia Barentin, François Lalande, Florence Pernel, Jeanne Lallemand et Marie Laforet

Pain, Amour et Fantaisie (Pane, amore e fantasia) (1953) de Luigi Comencini avec Vittorio De Sica, Gina Lollobrigida, Marisa Merlini, Virgilio Riento, Tina Pica et Maria-Pia Casilio

Les Ripoux (1984) de Claude Zidi avec Philippe Noiret, Thierry Lhermitte, Régine, Grace de Capitani, Julien Guiomar, Albert Simono et Claude Brosset

Scoop (2006) de Woody Allen avec Scarlett Johansson, Hugh Jackman, Woody Allen, Ian McShane, Romola Garai et Julian Glover

Sous le signe de Monte-Cristo (1968) d'André Hunebelle avec Paul Barge, Claude Jade, Anny Duperey, Pierre Brasseur, Michel Auclair, Raymond Pellegrin et Paul Le Person

Une femme sous influence (A Woman Under the Influence) (1974) de John Cassavetes avec Gena Rowlands, Peter falk, Fred Draper, Lady Rowlands, Katherine Cassavetes, Matthew Laborteaux et Matthew Cassel

L'Enquête corse (2004) d'Alain Berberian avec Christian Clavier, Jean Reno, Caterina Murino, Didier Flamand, Juliette Poissonnier, Pierre Salasca, Éric Fraticelli et Alain Maratrat

Didier (1997) d'Alain Chabat avec Jean-Pierre Bacri, Alain Chabat, Isabelle Gélinas, Lionel Abelanski, Michel Bompoil, Jean-Marie Frin, Zinedine Soualem et Elliot

Les Aventuriers de l'arche perdue (Raiders of the Lost Ark) (1981) de Steven Spielberg avec Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, Ronald Lacey, John Rhys-Davies, Denholm Elliott, Alfred Molina et Wolf Kahler

M. Hobbs prend des vacances (Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation) (1962) de Henry Koster avec James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, Fabian, John Saxon, Marie Wilson et Reginald Gardiner

Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941) d'Alfred Hitchcock avec Carole Lombard, Robert Montgomery, Gene Raymond, Jack Carson, Philip Merivale et Lucile Watson

Ulysse (Ulisse) (1954) de Mario Camerinia avec Kirk Douglas, Silvana Mangano, Anthony Quinn, Rossana Podestà, Jacques Dumesnil, Sylvie et Daniel Ivernel

Séries

Inspecteur Barnaby Saison 4, 5

Le Jardin de la mort - L'ange destructeur - Vendetta - Qui a tué Cock Robin ? - Sombre automne - Le Fruit du péché - Un village très coté - Le Ver dans le fruit - Les Sonneries de la mort - Meurtre dans un collège anglais

L'agence tous risques Saison 1, 2

Détournement - Le candidat - Un si jolie petite ville - Immigration clandestine - Poussière de diamants - Otages à l'orphelinat - Les mustangs : première partie - Les mustangs : deuxième partie - Histoire d'eau - Pression amicale - Le pain quotidien - La pêche miraculeuse - Agitateurs - Acier - La guerre des taxis - Le Scorpion du désert - Tirez sur le Cheik - Eclipse - Les marchands de poison - Dites-le avec du plomb - La vache maltaise - Pas si facile que ça

Affaires sensibles

10 mai 1981 : l’arrivée de la gauche au pouvoir - Ali contre Foreman : choc des titans à Kinshasa - Le 6 février 1973. L'incendie du collège Pailleron - Sharon Tate : l’Ange et le Démon - Voici l’histoire de Hurricane - Harlem, 21 février 1965 : Malcolm X est mort

Friends Saison 5, 6

Celui qui embrassait - Celui qui a des triplés - Celui qui accepte l'inacceptable - Celui qui rate son week-end - Celui qui a du mal à se taire - Celui qui emménage - Celui qui avait des souvenirs difficiles à avaler - Celui qui s'était fait piquer son sandwich - Celui qui avait une sœur un peu spéciale - Celui qui prenait de bonnes résolutions - Celui qui riait différemment - Celui qui avait un sac - Celui qui découvre tout - Celui qui prenait des coups - Celui qui enviait ses amis - Celui qui ne savait pas se repérer - Celui qui se sacrifiait - Celui qui ne savait pas flirter - Celui qui sauvait des vies - Celui qui jouait à la balle - Celui qui devait casser la baraque - Celui qui était à Las Vegas : 1re partie - Celui qui était à Las Vegas : 2e partie - Ceux qui revenaient de Las Vegas - Celui qui console Rachel - Celui qui était de mauvaise foi - Celui qui perdait sa belle assurance - Celui qui avait une belle bagnole - Ceux qui passaient leur dernière nuit

Coffre à Catch

#101 : Une belle petite pause dans un torrent de merde ! - #102 : Hornswoggle, Evan Bourne : le renouveau à la ECW ! - #103 : WWE Draft : la fin du Mercato d'été à la ECW ! - #104 : CM Punk et Mark Henry champions du monde !

Top Gear Saison 18, 17, 19

Spécial Journée Circuit - Made in China - Une course comme sur un green - La Vallée de la Mort - Une Lamborghini à la mer - Les pires voitures de l'histoire - Spécial Afrique : Première partie - Spécial Afrique : Deuxième partie - 1500 km à fond de 5ème

Spectacles

Un Chalet à Gstaad (2021) de Josiane Balasko avec Josiane Balasko, Armelle, Philippe Uchan, Stéphan Wojtowicz, Justine Le Pottier et George Aguilar

Livres

Friends, mes amours et cette chose terrible de Matthew Perry

Undertaker : Rise Of The Deadman de Rodrigo Lorenzo, Edu Menna, Serg Acuna et Chad Dundas

La renaissance des héros Marvel, Tome 7 : Phénix de Greg Pak, Greg Land et Kirkham

Catch : L'âge d'or, 1920-1975, l'épopée du catch français et les "Michel-Ange" du ring de Christian-Louis Eclimont

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Rex the Wonder Horse as The Devil Horse (1926). Rex had 20 film credits from 1924 to 1938. Humans in the film include Yakima Canutt as Dave Carson and Fred Jackman Jr as Dave.

The Devil Horse was directed by Fred Jackman, who had 11 director credits from 1919 to 1927. He had 89 cinematography credits from two 1916 shorts to a 1925 short, with nothing notable. He also had 23 credits for special effects from 1930 to 1941, notably for The Dawn Patrol (1930), The Crowd Roars, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Captain Blood, Ceiling Zero, The Petrified Forest, and The Charge of the Light Brigade.

Former rodeo cowboy Yakima Canutt had 281 credits as a stunt man, including for Clark Gable and John Wayne. As an actor he had 183 credits from 1919 to Rio Bravo (1959), with a final appearance in a 1985 short, Yak's Best Ride, at the age of 90.

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Home Movie: The Princess Bride (HQ and Complete Version)

Someone posted the whole thing in full!!