Congrats to the ultimate winner of the Hot & Vintage Movie Men Tournament, Mr. Toshiro Mifune! May he live happily and well where the sun always shines, enjoying the glories of a battle hard fought.
A loving farewell to all of our previous contestants, who are now banished to the shadow realm and all its dark joys and whispered horrors—I hear there's a picnic on the village green today. If you want to remember the fallen heroes, you can find them all beneath the cut.
What happens next? I'll be taking a break of two weeks to rest from this and prep for the Hot & Vintage Ladies Tournament. I'll still be around but only minimally, posting a few last odes to the hot men before transitioning into a little early ladies content, just like I did with this last tournament. The submission form for the Hot & Vintage Ladies tournament will remain up for one more week (closing February 21st), so get your submissions in for that asap! Once the form closes, there will be one more week of break. The first round of the Hot & Vintage Ladies Tournament will be posted on February 29th, as Leap Year Day seems like a fitting allusion to leaping into these ladies' arms.
Thanks for being here! Enjoy the two weeks off, and send me some great propaganda.
In order of the last round they survived—
ROUND ONE HOTTIES:
Richard Burton
Tony Curtis
Red Skelton
Keir Dullea
Jack Lemmon
Kirk Douglas
Marcello Mastroianni
Jean-Pierre Cassel
Robert Wagner
James Garner
James Coburn
Rex Harrison
George Chakiris
Dean Martin
Sean Connery
Tab Hunter
Howard Keel
James Mason
Steve McQueen
George Peppard
Elvis Presley
Rudolph Valentino
Joseph Schildkraut
Ray Milland
Claude Rains
John Wayne
William Holden
Douglas Fairbanks Sr.
Harold Lloyd
Charlie Chaplin
John Gilbert
Ramon Novarro
Slim Thompson
John Barrymore
Edward G. Robinson
William Powell
Leslie Howard
Peter Lawford
Mel Ferrer
Joseph Cotten
Keye Luke
Ivan Mosjoukine
Spencer Tracy
Felix Bressart
Ronald Reagan (here to be dunked on)
Peter Lorre
Bob Hope
Paul Muni
Cornel Wilde
John Garfield
Cantinflas
Henry Fonda
Robert Mitchum
Van Johnson
José Ferrer
Robert Preston
Jack Benny
Fredric March
Gene Autry
Alec Guinness
Fayard Nicholas
Ray Bolger
Orson Welles
Mickey Rooney
Glenn Ford
James Cagney
ROUND TWO SWOONERS:
Dick Van Dyke
James Edwards
Sammy Davis Jr.
Alain Delon
Peter O'Toole
Robert Redford
Charlton Heston
Cesar Romero
Noble Johnson
Lex Barker
David Niven
Robert Earl Jones
Turhan Bey
Bela Lugosi
Donald O'Connor
Carman Newsome
Oscar Micheaux
Benson Fong
Clint Eastwood
Sabu Dastagir
Rex Ingram
Burt Lancaster
Paul Newman
Montgomery Clift
Fred Astaire
Boris Karloff
Gilbert Roland
Peter Cushing
Frank Sinatra
Harold Nicholas
Guy Madison
Danny Kaye
John Carradine
Ricardo Montalbán
Bing Crosby
ROUND THREE SMOKESHOWS:
Marlon Brando
Anthony Perkins
Michael Redgrave
Gary Cooper
Conrad Veidt
Ronald Colman
Rock Hudson
Basil Rathbone
Laurence Olivier
Christopher Plummer
Johnny Weismuller
Clark Gable
Fernando Lamas
Errol Flynn
Tyrone Power
Humphrey Bogart
ROUND 4 STUNGUNS:
James Dean
Cary Grant
Gregory Peck
Sessue Hayakawa
Harry Belafonte
James Stewart
Gene Kelly
Peter Falk
QUARTERFINALIST VOLCANIC TOWERS OF LUST:
Jeremy Brett
Vincent Price
James Shigeta
Buster Keaton
SEMIFINALIST SUPERMEN:
Omar Sharif
Paul Robeson
FINALIST FANTASIES:
Sidney Poitier
Toshiro Mifune
and ok, sure, here's the shadow-bracket-style winner's portrait of Toshiro Mifune.
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Masterpost of Hot Old Man Round 1 Polls
Paul Newman v Richard Burton
Omar Sharif v Tony Curtis
Red Skelton v Burt Lancaster
Christopher Plummer v Keir Dullea
Anthony Perkins vJack Lemmon
Kirk Douglas v Alain Delon
James Dean v Marcello Mastroianni
Harry Belafonte v Jean-Pierre Cassel
Marlon Brando v Robert Wagner
Sammy Davis Jr. v James Garner
James Coburn v Rock Hudson
Peter Cushing v Rex Harrison
George Chakiris v Sidney Poitier
Dean Martin v Sean Connery v Jeremy Brett
Tab Hunter v Toshiro Mifune
Howard Keel v Peter O'Toole
Robert Redford v James Mason
Steve McQueen v Charlton Heston
Dick Van Dyke v George Peppard
Elvis Presley v Peter Falk
Oscar Micheaux v Rudolph Valentino
Joseph Schildkraut v Buster Keaton
Jimmy Stewart v Ray Milland
Cary Grant v Claude Rains
John Wayne v Errol Flynn
Clint Eastwood v William Holden
Douglas Fairbanks Sr. v Sessue Hayakawa
Carman Newsome v Harold Lloyd
Noble Johnson v Charlie Chaplin
John Gilbert v Conrad Veidt
Ramon Novarro v Robert Earl Jones
Slim Thompson v Gary Cooper
John Barrymore v Paul Robeson
Edward G. Robinson v Clark Gable
Humphrey Bogart v William Powell
Leslie Howard v Ronald Colman
Peter Lawford v Vincent Price
Harold Nicholas v Mel Ferrer
Joseph Cotten v Danny Kaye
John Carradine v Keye Luke
Ivan Mosjoukine v Gilbert Roland
Benson Fong v Spencer Tracy
Guy Madison v Felix Bressart
James Shigeta v Ronald Reagan
Montgomery Clift v Ricardo Montalbon
Peter Lorre v Frank Sinatra
Bob Hope v Gregory Peck
Fred Astaire v Paul Muni
Bela Lugosi v Cornel Wilde
Cesar Romero v John Garfield
Basil Rathbone v Cantinflas
Henry Fonda v Turhan Bey
Boris Karloff v Robert Mitchum
David Niven v Van Johnson
Gene Kelly v José Ferrer
Robert Preston v Tyrone Power
Jack Benny v Donald O'Connor
Fredric March v Lex Barker
Michael Redgrave v Gene Autry
James Edwards v Alec Guinness
Fayard Nicholas v Fernando Lamas
Ray Bolger v Johnny Weismuller
Orson Welles v Sabu Dastigir
Mickey Rooney v Laurence Olivier
Rex Ingram v Glenn Ford
Bing Crosby v James Cagney
@hotvintagepoll
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The Properties
A Comprehensive* Index of Films, Shows and Franchises whence our Noble and Worthy contenders hail.
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The 13th Warrior (1999) [Film]
Genre: Action, Drama
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Diane Venora, Omar Sharif
A
A Knight’s Tale (2001) [Film]
Genre: Comedy, Action, Romance
Starring: Heath Ledger, Shannyn Sossamon, Rufus Sewell, Alan Tudyk, Laura Fraser, Paul Bettany, James Purefoy
The Accursed Kings (1972-1973) [TV Series]
Genre: Political Drama
Starring: Jean Piat
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) [Film]
Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance
Starring: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Patrick Knowles
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1955-1959) [TV Series]
Genre: Action, Adventure
Starring: Richard Greene, Alan Wheatley
Aladdin (2019) [Film]
Genre: Fantasy, Romance
Starring: Mena Massoud, Naomi Scott, Will Smith, Marwan Kenzari
Army of Darkness (1992) [Film]
Genre: Action, Comedy, Dark Fantasy, Horror
Starring: Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidtz, Marcus Gilbert
Arn: The Knight Templar (2007) [Film Series]
Genre: Action, Drama
Starring: Joakim Nätterqvist, Stellan Skarsgård, Sofia Helin, Milind Soman
Arthur of the Britons (1972-1973) [TV Series]
Genre: Action, Drama
Starring: Oliver Tobias, Michael Gothard, Brian Blessed
Assassin’s Creed (2016) [Film]
Genre: Action
Starring: Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson
B
Baahubali (2015-2017) [Film Franchise]
Genre: Action
Starring: Prabhas, Anushka Shetty
Becket (1964) [Film]
Genre: Drama
Starring: Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole
Beowulf & Grendel (2005) [Film]
Genre: Action, Drama
Starring: Gerard Butler, Ingvar Sigurðson, Stellan Skarsgård, Tony Curran, Rory McCann, Sarah Polley
The Black Adder (1982) [Season 1 of Blackadder TV Series]
Genre: Comedy
Starring: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Tim McInnerny, Brian Blessed, Robert East
Borgia (2011-2014) [TV Series]
Genre: Political, Drama
Starring: John Doman, Mark Ryder, Isolda Dychauk, Diarmuid Noyes
The Borgias (2011-2013) [TV Series]
Genre: Political, Drama
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Francois Arnaud, Holliday Grainger, David Oakes, Lotte Verbeek, Joanne Whalley, Sean Harris, Julian Bleach
Braveheart (1995) [Film]
Genre: Action
Starring: Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGooan
C
Cadfael (1994-1998) [TV Series]
Genre: Mystery
Starring: Derek Jacobi, Sean Pertwee
Camelot (1967) [Film]
Genre: Musical, Drama
Starring: Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, Franco Nero
The Canterbury Tales (1972) [Film]
Genre: Dark Comedy, Drama
Starring: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Josephine Chaplin
Carlos, rey Emperador (2015-2016) [TV Series]
Genre: Political, Drama
Starring: Álvaro Cervantes, Bianca Suárez
The Chronicles of Narnia (2005-2010) [Film Franchise]
Genre: Fantasy, Action
Starring: William Mosely, Anna Popplewell, Skandar Keynes, Georgie Henley, Ben Barnes, Will Poulter, Liam Neeson, Tilda Swinton, James McAvoy, Peter Dinklage, Eddie Izzard, Warwick Davis, Ken Stott, Cornell John
The Court Jester (1955) [Film]
Genre: Musical, Comedy, Romance
Starring: Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone, Angela Lansbury
Covington Cross (1992) [TV Series]
Genre: Drama
Starring: Nigel Terry, Cheri Lunghi, Jonathan Firth
D
Doctor Who: “Battlefield” (1989) [TV Serial]
Genre: Science Fiction, Action, Fantasy
Starring: Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred, Jean Marsh, Christopher Bowen, Marcus Gilbert
Doctor Who: “The Robot of Sherwood (2014) [TV Episode]
Genre: Science Fiction, Action
Starring: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Louise Coleman, Tom Riley, Ben Miller
Double World (2020) [Film]
Genre: Fantasy, Action
Starring: Henry Lau, Peter Ho
Dracula Untold (2014) [Film]
Genre: Fantasy, Action
Starring: Luke Evans, Dominic Cooper, Sarah Gadon, Charles Dance
Dragonheart (1996) [Film]
Genre: Fantasy, Drama, Action
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Sean Connery, David Thewlis
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) [Film]
Genre: Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Starring: Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page, Justice Smith, Sophia Lillis, Hugh Grant
E
Edward II (1991) [Film]
Genre: Drama, Romance
Starring: Steven Waddington, Andrew Tiernan, Tilda Swinton, Nigel Terry, Jerome Flynn
Ella Enchanted (2004) [Film]
Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Comedy
Starring: Anne Hathaway, Hugh Dancy, Cary Elwes, Vivica A. Foxx, Joanna Lumley
Eragon (2006) [Film]
Genre: Fantasy, Action
Starring: Ed Speelers, Jeremy Irons, Garrett Hedlund
Ever After: A Cinderella Story (1998) [Film]
Genre: Romance, Drama
Starring: Drew Barrymore, Dougray Scott
Excalibur (1981) [Film]
Genre: Fantasy, Drama, Action
Starring: Nigel Terry, Cheri Lunghi, Helen Mirren, Nicholas Clay, Nicol Williamson, Gabriel Byrne
F
First Knight (1995) [Film]
Genre: Drama, Romance
Starring: Richard Gere, Julia Ormond, Sean Connery
G
Galavant (2015-2016) [TV Show]
Genre: Musical, Fantasy, Comedy
Starring: Joshua Sasse, Timothy Omundson, Vinnie Jones, Karen David, Luke Youngblood
Game of Thrones (2011-2019) [TV Series]
Genre: Fantasy, Political, Drama, Action
Starring: Sean Bean, Lena Headey, Kit Harrington, Emilia Clarke, Maisie Williams, Sophie Turner, Peter Dinklage, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Jerome Flynn, Aiden Gillen, Rory McCann, Ian McElhinney, Iwan Rheon,
The Great Wall (2016) [Film]
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Starring: Matt Damon, Jing Tian, Pedro Pascal, Willem Dafoe, Andy Lau
The Green Knight (2021) [Film]
Genre: Fantasy, Adventure
Starring: Dev Patel, Alicia Vikander, Joel Edgerton, Sean Harris, Ralph Ineson
H
Hamlet (1948) [Film]
Genre: Drama
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Normal Wooland, Jean Simmons
Hamlet at Elsinore (1964) [TV Movie]
Genre: Drama
Starring: Christopher Plummer, Michael Caine, Robert Shaw, Jo Maxwell-Muller, Donald Sutherland
Henry V (1944) [Film]
Genre: Drama, Political, Action, Romance
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Renee Asherson, Esmond Knight
Henry V (1989) [Film]
Genre: Drama, Political, Action
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Derek Jacobi, Brian Blessed, Ian Holm
Henry VIII (2003) [TV Serial]
Genre: Drama
Starring: Ray Winstone, Helena Bonham Carter, Charles Dance, Mark Strong, Assumpta Serna, David Suchet, Emilia Fox, Sean Bean
Highlander (1986) [Film]
Genre: Fantasy, Action
Starring: Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Clancy Brown
The Hollow Crown (2012-2016) [TV Series]
Genre: Drama, Political
Starring: Ben Whishaw, Rory Kinnear, Jeremy Irons, Tom Hiddleston, Simon Russell Beale, David Dawson, Tom Sturridge, Sophie Okonedo, Benedict Cumberbatch, Sam Troughton, Keely Hawes, Judi Dench, Phoebe Fox
House of the Dragon (2022-) [TV Series]
Genre: Fantasy, Political, Drama, Action
Starring: Matt Smith, Emma D'Arcy, Millie Alcock, Olivia Cooke, Paddy Considine, Rhys Ifans, Steve Toussaint, Wean Mitchell, Graham McTavish, Fabian Frankel
The Hobbit Trilogy (2012-2014) [Film Franchise
Genre: Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Starring: Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage, Aiden Turner, Dean O'Gorman, James Nesbitt, Lee Pace, Evangeline Lilly L Luke Evans, Hugo Weaving, Christopher Lee, Orlando Bloom, Andy Serkis
I
I Am Dragon {On — Drakón} (2015) [Film]
Genre: Fantasy, Romance
Starring: Maria Poezzhaeva, Matvey Lykov
If I Were King (1938) [Film]
Genre: Adventure
Starring: Ronald Colman, Basil Rathbone, Frances Dee
Into the Woods (2014) [Film]
Genre: Musical, Fantasy
Starring: Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, James Corden, Anna Kendrick, Chris Pine, Johnny Depp
Ivanhoe (1982) [TV Movie]
Genre: Drama, Adventure, Romance
Starring: Anthony Andrews, Olivia Hussey, Nam Neill, Lysette Anthony, Julian Glover, John Rhys Davies, Stuart Wilson
Ivanhoe (1997) [Mini Series]
Genre: Drama, Adventure, Romance
Starring: Steven Waddington, Victoria Smurfit, Ciaran Hinds, Susan Lynch, James Cosmo, Christopher Lee
J
JourneyQuest (2010) [TV Series]
Genre: Fantasy, Action, Comedy
Starring: Christian Doyle, Emilie Rommel Shimkus, Jesse Lee Keeter
K
Kaamelott (2004-2009) [TV Series]
Genre: Fantasy, Comedy
Starring: Alexandre Astier, Thomas Cousseau, Alexis Hénon, Anne Girouard, Christian Bujeau
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017) [Film]
Genre: Action
Starring: Charlie Hunnam, Jude Law, Eric Bana, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Freddie Fox, Millie Brady
Kingdom of Heaven (2005) [Film]
Genre: Action, Adventure
Starring: Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, David Thewlis, Brendan Gleeson, Liam Neeson
Knights of the Teutonic Order (1960) [Film]
Genre: Action, Adventure
Starring: Grażyna Staniszewska, Urszula Modrzyńska, Mieczysław Kalenik, Stanisław Jasiukiewicz
L
Labyrinth (1986) [Film]
Genre: Fantasy
Starring: David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly
Lancelot du Lac (1974) [Film]
Genre: Fantasy, Adventure
Starring: Luc Simon, Laura Duke Condominas, Humbert Balsan, Vladimir Antolek-Oresek, Patrick Bernhard
Ladyhawke (1985) [Film]
Genre: Fantasy, Romance
Starring: Rutger Hauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Matthew Broderick
The Last Duel (2021) [Film]
Genre: Drama
Starring: Matt Damon, Jodie Comer, Adam Driver
The Last Kingdom (2015-2022) [TV Series]
Genre: Action, Adventure, Political, Drama
Starring: Alexander Dreymon, David Dawson, Millie Brady, Ian Hart Mark Rowley, Arnas Fedaravicius, Ewan Mitchell
Legend (1985) [Film]
Genre: Fantasy, Romance
Starring: Tom Cruise, Mia Sara, Tim Curry
The Legend of the Seeker (2008-2010) [TV Series]
Genre: Fantasy, Adventure
Starring: Craig Horner, Bridget Regan, Bruce Spence, Tabrett Bethell
The Lion in Winter (1968) [Film]
Genre: Drama
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Athony Hopkins, John Castle, Nigel Terry, Timothy Dalton
The Little Hours (2017) [Film]
Genre: Dark Comedy
Starring: Dave Franco, Alison Brie, Aubrey Plaza, Kate Micucci
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001-2003) [Film Franchise]
Genre: Fantasy, Adventure, Action
Starring: Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Orlando Bloom, John Rhys Davies, Sean Bean, Liv Tyler, Hugo Weaving, Cate Blanchett, Christopher Lee, Bernard Hill, Karl Urban, Miranda Otto, Brad Dourif, Ian Holm, Andy Serkis, Craig Parker
M
Marco Polo (2014) [TV Series]
Genre: Adventure, Political
Starring: Lorenzo Richelmy, Benedict Wong, Joan Chen, Rick Yune, Remy Hii, Mahesh Jadu, Claudia Kim
The Masque of the Red Death (1964) [Film]
Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Drama
Starring: Vincent Price, Jane Asher, Hazel Court, John Westbrook
Marketa Lazarová (1967) [Film]
Genre: Drama, Adventure
Starring: Magda Vášáryová, Josef Kemr, František Velecký
Medici (2016-2019) [TV Series]
Genre: Drama, Political
Starring: Richard Madden, Annabel Scholey, Danial Sharman, Bradley James, Sarah Parish, Matteo Martari, Sean Bean, Jack Roth
Merlin (1998) [Miniseries]
Genre: Fantasy, Drama
Starring: Sam Neill, Miranda Richardson, Helena Bonham Carter, Martin Short, Jason Done, Rutger Hauer
BBC’s Merlin (2008-2012) [TV Series]
Genre: Fantasy, Drama, Adventure
Starring: Colin Morgan, Bradley James, Angel Coulby, Katie McGrath, Anthony Head, Eoin Macken, Tom Hopper, Santiago Cabrera, Rupert Young, Adetomiwa Edun
Miracle Workers: The Dark Ages (2020) [TV Series]
Genre: Comedy
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Karan Soni, Geraldine Viswanathan, Steve Buscemi
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) [Film]
Genre: Comedy
Starring: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michel Palin,
N
Nirvana in Fire {Lángyá Bǎng} (2015) [TV Series]
Genre: Drama, Adventure
Starring: Hu Ge, Liu Tao, Wang Kai
The Northman (2022) [Film]
Genre: Action
Starring: Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, Claes Bang, Anya Taylor-Joy, Gustav Lindh, Ethan Hawke, Björk. Willem Dafoe
Northmen: A Viking Saga (2014) [Film]
Genre: Action
Starring: Tom Hopper, Charlie Murphey, Ed Skrein
O
Outlaw King (2018) [Film]
Genre: Action, Drama
Starring: Chris Pine, Florence Pugh, Aaron Taylor Johnson, Stephen Dillane, Tony Curran
P
Padmavaat (2018) [Film]
Genre: Drama
Starring: Deepika Padukone, Shahid Kapoor, Ranveer Singh
The Physician {Der Medicus} (2013)
Genre: Drama
Starring: Tom Payne, Ben Kingsley, Stellan Skarsgård, Olivier Martinez, Emma Rigby
Pilgramige (2017) [Film]
Genre: Action
Starring: John Bernthal, Tom Holland, Richard Armitage
The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1957) [Film]
Genre:
Starring: Van Johnson, Claude Rains
The Pillars of the Earth (2010) [Miniseries]
Genre: Drama
Starring: Rufus Sewell, Ian McShane, Donald Sutherland, Hayley Atwell, Eddie Redmayne, David Oakes
The Prince and the Pauper (1937) [Film]
Genre: Adventure
Starring: Errol Flynn, Claude Rains
BBC’s Prince Caspian and the Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1989) [TV Serial]
Genre: Fantasy
Starring: Samuel West, Richard Dempsie, Sophie Cook, Jonathan R. Scott, Sophie Wilcox, Jean-Marc Perret, Warwick Davis
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)
Genre: Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton, Ben Kingsley, Alfred Molina
The Princess Bride (1987) [Film]
Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Adventure
Starring: Robin Wright, Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Andre the Giant, Chris Sarandon, Christopher Guest, Peter Falk
R
Ran (1985) [Film]
Genre: Drama, Action
Starring: Nakadai Tatsuya, Terao Akira, Nezu Jinpachi, Ryu Daisuke, Harada Mieko
Rashomon (1950) [Film]
Genre: Drama
Starring: Mifune Toshiro, Mori Masayuki, Kyo Machiko, Shimura Takashi, Chiaki Minoru
Ressurection: Ertğrul {Diriliş: Ertuğrul} (2014-2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Political, Drama
Starring: Engin Altan Düzyatan, Kaan Taşaner, Esra Bilgiç, Cengiz Coşkun
The Rings of Power (2022-) [TV Series]
Genre: Fantasy, Action, Drama
Starring: Morfydd Clarke, Robert Aramayo, Lloyd Owen, Maxim Baldry, Ismael Cruz Cordova, Nazanin Boniadi
Rise of Empires: Ottoman (2020-2024) [TV Series]
Genre: Docu-drama
Starring: Cem Yiğit Üzümoğlu, Daniel Nuță, Tuba Büyüküstün
Robin and Marian (1976) [Film]
Genre: Action, Romance, Drama
Starring: Sean Connery, Audrey Hepburn, Nicol Williamson, Robert Shaw, Richard Harris
Robin Hood (1922) [Film]
Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Enid Bennett, Wallace Beery, Sam de Grasse
Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993) [Film]
Genre: Comedy
Starring: Cary Elwes, Richard Lewis, Roger Rees, Amy Yasbeck, Eric Allan Kramer, Dave Chapelle, Matthew Porretta, Isaac Hayes, Patrick Stewart, Dom Deluise
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) [Film]
Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance
Starring: Kevin Costner, Alan Rickman, Morgan Freeman, Christian Slater, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Wincott
BBC’s Robin Hood (2006-2009) [TV Series]
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Starring: Jonas Armstrong, Lucy Griffiths, Richard Armitage, Sam Troughton, Joe Armstrong, Harry Lloyd, Anjali Jay, Gordon Kennedy, Keith Allen
Robin Hood (2010) [Film]
Genre: Action
Starring: Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchette, Matthew McFayden, Oscar Isaac
Robin of Sherwood (1984) [TV Series]
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Starring: Michael Praed, Jason Connery, Mark Ryan, Judi Trott, Robert Addie, Ray Winstone,
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1990) [Film]
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Starring: Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, Iain Glen, Richard Dreyfuss
S
The Seventh Seal {Det sjunde inseglet}(1957)
Genre: Fantasy, Drama
Starring: Max von Sydow, Bengt Ekerot, Bibi Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand
Shannara Chronicles (2016) [TV Series]
Genre: Fantasy, Drama
Starring: Austin Butler, Poppy Drayton, Ivana Baquero, Manu Bennett
The Shamer's Daughter {Skammerens Datter} (2015) [Film]
Genre: Drama
Starring: Jakob Oftebro, Rebecca Emlile Sattrup
The Story of Minglan (2018) [TV Series]
Genre: Drama, Romance
Starring: Zhang Liying, Feng Shaofeng, Zhu Yilong, Cao Cuifen,
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952) [Film]
Genre: Action, Adventure
Starring: Richard Todd, Joan Rice, Peter Finch
The Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960) [Film]
Genre: Action, Adventure
Starring: Richard Greene, Peter Cushing, Sarah Branch
T
Thierry la Fronde (1963-1966) [TV Series]
Genre: Action, Adventure
Starring: Jean Claude Drouot, Celine Leger
Tristan and Isolde (2006) [Film]
Genre: Romance, Drama, Action
Starring: James Franco, Sophia Myles, Rufus Sewell
V
Valhalla Rising (2009) [Film]
Genre: Surreal, Horror, Adventure
Starring: Mads Mikkelsen
Vikings (2013) [TV Series]
Genre: Action, Adventure, Political
Starring: Travis Fimmel, Kathryn Winnick, George Blagden, Clive Standen, Gustaf Skarsgård, Linus Roache, Alexander Ludwig, Alex Høgh Andersen, Jordan Patrick Smith
Vikings: Valhalla (2022) [TV Series]
Genre: Action, Adventure, Political
Starring: Sam Corlett, Frida Gustavsson, Leo Suter, Bradley James
W
Warcraft (2016) [Film]
Genre: Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Starring: Travis Fimmel, Dominic Cooper, Toby Kebbell,
The White Queen (2013) [Miniseries]
Genre: Drama, Romance, Political
Starring: Rebecca Ferguson, Max Irons, David Oakes, Aneurin Barnard, Amanda Hale, James Frain, Faye Marsay, Elinor Tomlinson, Janet McTeer
The Wheel of Time (2022) [TV Series]
Genre: Fantasy, Action
Starring: Rosamund Pike, Daniel Henney, Josha Stradowski, Marcus Rutherford, Donal Finn, Hammed Animashaun, Sophie Okonedo,
When the Raven Flies {Hrafninn flýgur} (1984) [Film]
Genre: Action, Adventure
Starring: Jakob Þór Einarsson, Edda Björgvinsdóttir, Helgi Skúlason, Egill Ólafsson, Flosi Ólafsson, Gotti Sigurdarson
Willow (1988) [Film]
Genre: Fantasy, Adventure
Starring: Warwick Davis, Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley, Jean Marsh
Willow (2022) [TV Series]
Genre: Fantasy, Adventure
Starring: Warwick Davis, Ellie Bamber, Ruby Cruz, Erin Kellyman, Tony Revolori, Amar Chadha-Patel
The Witcher {Wiedźmin} (2002) [TV Series]
Genre: Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Starring: Michał Żebrowski, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Maciej, Kozłowski, Grażyna Wolszczak
The Witcher (2019-) [TV Series]
Genre: Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Starring: Henry Cavill, Anya Chalotra, Freya Allan, Joey Batey
Wolf Hall (2015-2024) [TV Series]
Genre: Political, Drama
Starring: Mark Rylance, Damien Lewis, Claire Foy, Charity Wakefield, Thomas Brodie Sangster, Mark Gatiss, Jonathan Pryce, Mathieu Amalric, Anton Lesser
Word of Honor {Shānhé lìng} (2021) [TV Series]
Genre: Fantasy, Drama, Romance
Starring: Zhang Zhehan, Gong Jun
World Without End (2012) [Miniseries]
Genre: Drama, Political
Starring: Charlotte Riley, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Rupert Evans, Tom Weston-Jones, Tom Cullen, Tatiana Maslany, Blake Ritson, Miranda Richardson, Indira Varma
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Yeelen (1987) [Film]
Genre: Fantasy, Drama, Adventure
Starring: Issiaka Kane, Aoua Sangare, Niamanto Sanogo
*This is a lengthy list, if I've missed any, just notify me and I will add it.
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Burke’s Law - List of Guest Stars
The Special Guest Stars of “Burke’s Law” read like a Who’s Who list of Hollywood of the era. Many of the appearances, however, were no more than one scene cameos. This is as complete a list ever compiled of all those who even made the briefest of appearances on the series.
Beverly Adams, Nick Adams, Stanley Adams, Eddie Albert, Mabel Albertson, Lola Albright, Elizabeth Allen, June Allyson, Don Ameche, Michael Ansara, Army Archerd, Phil Arnold, Mary Astor, Frankie Avalon, Hy Averback, Jim Backus, Betty Barry, Susan Bay, Ed Begley, William Bendix, Joan Bennett, Edgar Bergen, Shelley Berman, Herschel Bernardi, Ken Berry, Lyle Bettger, Robert Bice, Theodore Bikel, Janet Blair, Madge Blake, Joan Blondell, Ann Blyth, Carl Boehm, Peter Bourne, Rosemarie Bowe, Eddie Bracken, Steve Brodie, Jan Brooks, Dorian Brown, Bobby Buntrock, Edd Byrnes, Corinne Calvet, Rory Calhoun, Pepe Callahan, Rod Cameron, Macdonald Carey, Hoagy Carmichael, Richard Carlson, Jack Carter, Steve Carruthers, Marianna Case, Seymour Cassel, John Cassavetes, Tom Cassidy, Joan Caulfield, Barrie Chase, Eduardo Ciannelli, Dane Clark, Dick Clark, Steve Cochran, Hans Conried, Jackie Coogan, Gladys Cooper, Henry Corden, Wendell Corey, Hazel Court, Wally Cox, Jeanne Crain, Susanne Cramer, Les Crane, Broderick Crawford, Suzanne Cupito, Arlene Dahl, Vic Dana, Jane Darwell, Sammy Davis Jr., Linda Darnell, Dennis Day, Laraine Day, Yvonne DeCarlo, Gloria De Haven, William Demarest, Andy Devine, Richard Devon, Billy De Wolfe, Don Diamond, Diana Dors, Joanne Dru, Paul Dubov, Howard Duff, Dan Duryea, Robert Easton, Barbara Eden, John Ericson, Leif Erickson, Tom Ewell, Nanette Fabray, Felicia Farr, Sharon Farrell, Herbie Faye, Fritz Feld, Susan Flannery, James Flavin, Rhonda Fleming, Nina Foch, Steve Forrest, Linda Foster, Byron Foulger, Eddie Foy Jr., Anne Francis, David Fresco, Annette Funicello, Eva Gabor, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Reginald Gardiner, Nancy Gates, Lisa Gaye, Sandra Giles, Mark Goddard, Thomas Gomez, Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, Sandra Gould, Wilton Graff, Gloria Grahame, Shelby Grant, Jane Greer, Virginia Grey, Tammy Grimes, Richard Hale, Jack Haley, George Hamilton, Ann Harding, Joy Harmon, Phil Harris, Stacy Harris, Dee Hartford, June Havoc, Jill Haworth, Richard Haydn, Louis Hayward, Hugh Hefner, Anne Helm, Percy Helton, Irene Hervey, Joe Higgins, Marianna Hill, Bern Hoffman, Jonathan Hole, Celeste Holm, Charlene Holt, Oscar Homolka, Barbara Horne, Edward Everett Horton, Breena Howard, Rodolfo Hoyos Jr., Arthur Hunnicutt, Tab Hunter, Joan Huntington, Josephine Hutchinson, Betty Hutton, Gunilla Hutton, Martha Hyer, Diana Hyland, Marty Ingels, John Ireland, Mako Iwamatsu, Joyce Jameson, Glynis Johns, I. Stanford Jolley, Carolyn Jones, Dean Jones, Spike Jones, Victor Jory, Jackie Joseph, Stubby Kaye, Monica Keating, Buster Keaton, Cecil Kellaway, Claire Kelly, Patsy Kelly, Kathy Kersh, Eartha Kitt, Nancy Kovack, Fred Krone, Lou Krugman, Frankie Laine, Fernando Lamas, Dorothy Lamour, Elsa Lanchester, Abbe Lane, Charles Lane, Lauren Lane, Harry Lauter, Norman Leavitt, Gypsy Rose Lee, Ruta Lee, Teri Lee, Peter Leeds, Margaret Leighton, Sheldon Leonard, Art Lewis, Buddy Lewis, Dave Loring, Joanne Ludden, Ida Lupino, Tina Louise, Paul Lynde, Diana Lynn, James MacArthur, Gisele MacKenzie, Diane McBain, Kevin McCarthy, Bill McClean, Stephen McNally, Elizabeth MacRae, Jayne Mansfield, Hal March, Shary Marshall, Dewey Martin, Marlyn Mason, Hedley Mattingly, Marilyn Maxwell, Virginia Mayo, Patricia Medina, Troy Melton, Burgess Meredith, Una Merkel, Dina Merrill, Torben Meyer, Barbara Michaels, Robert Middleton, Vera Miles, Sal Mineo, Mary Ann Mobley, Alan Mowbray, Ricardo Montalbán, Elizabeth Montgomery, Ralph Moody, Alvy Moore, Terry Moore, Agnes Moorehead, Anne Morell, Rita Moreno, Byron Morrow, Jan Murray, Ken Murray, George Nader, J. Carrol Naish, Bek Nelson, Gene Nelson, David Niven, Chris Noel, Kathleen Nolan, Sheree North, Louis Nye, Arthur O'Connell, Quinn O'Hara, Susan Oliver, Debra Paget, Janis Paige, Nestor Paiva, Luciana Paluzzi, Julie Parrish, Fess Parker, Suzy Parker, Bert Parks, Harvey Parry, Hank Patterson, Joan Patrick, Nehemiah Persoff, Walter Pidgeon, Zasu Pitts, Edward Platt, Juliet Prowse, Eddie Quillan, Louis Quinn, Basil Rathbone, Aldo Ray, Martha Raye, Gene Raymond, Peggy Rea, Philip Reed, Carl Reiner, Stafford Repp, Paul Rhone, Paul Richards, Don Rickles, Will Rogers Jr., Ruth Roman, Cesar Romero, Mickey Rooney, Gena Rowlands, Charlie Ruggles, Janice Rule, Soupy Sales, Hugh Sanders, Tura Satana, Telly Savalas, John Saxon, Lizabeth Scott, Lisa Seagram, Pilar Seurat, William Shatner, Karen Sharpe, James Shigeta, Nina Shipman, Susan Silo, Johnny Silver, Nancy Sinatra, The Smothers Brothers, Joanie Sommers, Joan Staley, Jan Sterling, Elaine Stewart, Jill St. John, Dean Stockwell, Gale Storm, Susan Strasberg, Inger Stratton, Amzie Strickland, Gil Stuart, Grady Sutton, Kay Sutton, Gloria Swanson, Russ Tamblyn. Don Taylor, Dub Taylor, Vaughn Taylor, Irene Tedrow, Terry-Thomas, Ginny Tiu, Dan Tobin, Forrest Tucker, Tom Tully, Jim Turley, Lurene Tuttle, Ann Tyrrell, Miyoshi Umeki, Mamie van Doren, Deborah Walley, Sandra Warner, David Wayne, Ray Weaver, Lennie Weinrib, Dawn Wells, Delores Wells, Rebecca Welles, Jack Weston, David White, James Whitmore, Michael Wilding, Annazette Williams, Dave Willock, Chill Wills, Marie Wilson, Nancy Wilson, Sandra Wirth, Ed Wynn, Keenan Wynn, Dana Wynter, Celeste Yarnall, Francine York.
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Irving Berlin: Puttin' on the Ritz Jazz Arrangement (sheet music)
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"Puttin' On the Ritz" is a song written by Irving Berlin. He wrote it in May 1927 and first published it on December 2, 1929. It was registered as an unpublished song August 24, 1927 and again on July 27, 1928. It was introduced by Harry Richman and chorus in the musical film Puttin' On the Ritz (1930). According to The Complete Lyrics of Irving Berlin, this was the first song in film to be sung by an interracial ensemble. The title derives from the slang expression "to put on the Ritz", meaning to dress very fashionably. This expression was itself inspired by the opulent Ritz Hotel in London.
Hit phonograph records of the tune in its original period of popularity of 1929–1930 were recorded by Harry Richman and by Fred Astaire, with whom the song is particularly associated. Every other record label had their own version of this popular song (Columbia, Brunswick, Victor, and all the dime store labels). Richman's Brunswick version of the song became the number-one selling record in America.
The song was featured in the 1974 Mel Brooks horror/comedy Young Frankenstein. The song is performed by Frederick Frankenstein (Gene Wilder) and his monster (Peter Boyle).
The song also received renewed popularity in 1982 when Taco, a Dutch musician, recorded and released a new version of the song. Taco's version was accompanied by a music video, which aired on MTV and other music video networks and programs.
Musical structure
The song is in AABA form, with a verse. According to John Mueller, the central device in the A section is the "use of delayed rhythmic resolution: a staggering, off-balance passage, emphasized by the unorthodox stresses in the lyric, suddenly resolves satisfyingly on a held note, followed by the forceful assertion of the title phrase." The marchlike B section, which is only barely syncopated, acts as a contrast to the previous rhythmic complexities. According to Alec Wilder, in his study of American popular song, for him, the rhythmic pattern in "Puttin' On the Ritz" is "the most complex and provocative I have ever come upon."
Lyrics
The original version of Berlin's song included references to the then-popular fad of flashily dressed but poor black Harlemites parading up and down Lenox Avenue, "Spending ev'ry dime / For a wonderful time". In the United Kingdom, the song was popularized through the BBC's radio broadcasts of Joe Kaye's Band performing it at The Ritz Hotel, London restaurant in the 1930s. The song was featured with the original lyrics in the 1939 film Idiot's Delight, where it was performed by Clark Gable and chorus, and this routine was selected for inclusion in That's Entertainment (1974).
Columbia released a 78 recording of Fred Astaire singing the original lyrics in May 1930 (B-side – "Crazy Feet", both recorded on March 26, 1930). For the film Blue Skies (1946), where it was performed by Fred Astaire, Berlin revised the lyrics to apply to affluent whites strutting "up and down Park Avenue". This second version was published after being registered for copyright on August 28, 1946.
Lyrics
If you're blue and you don't know where to go to
Why don't you go where fashion sits
Puttin' on the ritz
Different types who wear a day coat
Pants with stripes
And cutaway coat, perfect fits
Puttin' on the ritz
Dressed up like a million dollar trouper
Trying hard to look like Gary Cooper (super duper)
Come let's mix where Rockefellers walk with sticks
Or "umberellas" in their mitts
Puttin' on the ritz
Have you seen the well-to-do up and down Park Avenue
On that famous thoroughfare with their noses in the air
High hats and Arrow collars white spats and lots of dollars
Spending every dime for a wonderful time
If you're blue and you don't know where to go to
Why don't you go where fashion sits
Puttin' on the ritz
Different types who wear a day coat
Pants with stripes
And cutaway coat, perfect fits
Puttin' on the ritz
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Best known as frontman of the Stranglers one of the most long-lived and internationally popular bands from the original wave of British punk, Hugh Cornwell also enjoyed a moderately successful solo career, beginning with his debut solo album, Nosferatu, in 1979 and continuing long after he left the group in 1990.
Born in 1949 and brought up in Tufnell Park in North London, Cornwell began making music in high school, where he played in a band with Richard Thompson (later of Fairport Convention). After graduating from Bristol University with a B.Sc. in biochemistry, he moved to Stockholm to do postgrad research. There he formed the band Johnny Sox, which would later become the Stranglers. The band, initially grouped with punk rock, was much more ironic and cerebral than most of its contemporaries. They went on to greatly expand their sound, morphing into new wave and later, relatively mainstream pop; they are probably best remembered for their smooth, almost baroque ballad "Golden Brown."
Hugh's follow-up album, Wolf, did not arrive until nine years later. In 1990, feeling the band was artistically spent, Cornwell left the Stranglers. Thereafter, he only grew ever more prolific, issuing two solo albums in the '90s and four in the 2000s. He also wrote five books, including two novels. Mostly recorded in a stripped-back power trio format, Cornwell's solo music is heavily influenced by blues and rock & roll and is characterised by his erudite and sardonic lyrics. In 2016 he collaborated with legendary punk poet John Cooper Clarke. This last disc led to a solo deal with the major label and his ninth album, Monster, came out in 2018.
More recently Hugh has released his latest solo offering, Moments of Madness.
He joins us this week to share his story.
Sandy Kaye
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pilita corrales
(originally posted in my “letters from canberra” blog on 10 june 2006—i was then a ph.d. scholar at the australian national university. photo with ms. pilita corrales taken on 27 november 2019 at grand hyatt manila. “letters from canberra” is also the working title of my unpublished autobiography on my growing up years in sampaloc, manila, during the 1970s-early 1980s)
from maestra isang tapales and jovita fuentes to ryan cayabyab and lea salonga, filipino musical artists have been winning worldwide acclaim as soloists, accompanists, composers, and arrangers. i grew up fascinated with filipino pop artists and their achievements in many international music festivals. but my fascination with these artists began with pilita corrales.
i skipped kindergarten and landed immediately in prep school at u.s.t. elementary school when pilita corrales bagged the best singer award during the 1st tokyo music festival (tmf) organized by tokyo’s popular music promotion association in 1972. pilita performed george canseco’s stirring ballad “my daughter.” she bested well-known musical artists like stig anderson (who later became the manager of abba), julio iglesias, paul williams and olivia newton-john. tmf’s succeeding roster of participants and guest artists has included the likes of paul anka, shirley bassey, kate bush, kim carnes, joe cocker, natalie cole, the commodores, rita coolidge, randy crawford, sammy davis jr., al green, israeli superstar ofra haza, jermaine jackson, jackson five, al jarreau, limahl (lead singer of the 1980s pop band kajagoogoo), barry manilow, gilbert o’ sullivan, the pointer sisters, lionel richie, diana ross, frank sinatra, sister sledge ("we are family"), donna summer, the three degrees ("when will i see you again"), vaya con dios (a top belgian band), dionne warwick, andy williams and stevie wonder. not to be confused with the equally prestigious world popular song festival (http://users.telenet.be/wpsf/Main_Menu.htm)(organized separately by the tokyo-based yamaha music foundation from 1970 to 1989), pilita’s victory at tmf was no mean feat.
immediately upon arrival in manila, pilita landed in newspapers and on television, where the local press began dubbing her as “asia’s queen of songs.” that’s how i got to know more about her. soon, pilita became a permanent fixture on ibc channel 13's "seeing stars with joe quirino." then japan's matsushita corporation, owners of national (now panasonic) electronic appliances, handpicked pilita to endorse quintrix state-of-the-art color t.v. and jetscycle refrigerators. right before going to bed late at night, i patiently waited for rpn channel 9 to air pilita's t.v. ad where she sang the first few bars of "kapantay ay langit" at eduardo's along roxas boulevard. pilita was then at the height of her popularity as the country's leading female vocalist.
these days, pilita is well-known on t.v. audiences as a comedy actress. she is “mamita” on gma channel 7’s comedy “lagot ka, isusumbong kita” opposite joey marquez, richard gomez, raymart santiago, and benjie paras. soon, she will be even more famous as the female judge, a la paula abdul, in abc channel 5’s philippine idol (http://www.philippineidol.com/). younger generations of filipinos are probably oblivious to pilita’s impressive feat as the first filipino winner of an international music festival. nobody seems to remember pilita's distinguished achievements as a recording, live performance, and t.v. artist.
nearly fifty years ago, pilita arrived in australia with a shipwrecked troupe of performers. initially, she was the assistant of magician and actor john calvert. calvert had earlier achieved popularity with his long-running magic show in hollywood with edgar bergen, gary cooper, cary grant, and danny kaye during world war II. calvert also appeared in a movie with clark gable. later, pilita and calvert formed a tandem that proved to be very popular at the legendary tivoli theatre ("the tiv") on bourke street. "the tiv" was the center of melbourne's glamour, magic, and live entertainment long before t.v., cinema, betamax, vhs, vcds, mobile phones, dvds, mp3s, ipods, blogs, and laptops took over. it was also the site of pilita's first international success.
as a leading female vocalist from 1958 to 1962, pilita achieved mainstream acceptance and popularity in australia way ahead of newton-john, pat carroll, helen reddy, patsy anne noble, debbie byrne, renee geyer, the moir sisters, colleen hewitt (who made a hit out of "day by day" from godspell), sister janet mead (who did a popular cover version of "the lord's prayer"), marcia hines, samantha sang (who scored a u.s. #1 hit in 1978 with barry and maurice gibb's "emotion" ), kate ceberano (who is actually filipino-hawaiian-australian), tina arena, kylie minogue and delta goodrem. the australian broadcasting corporation (abc) and melbourne's the age recognized pilita as the first woman ever to land on top of the australian pop charts in 1958 with "come closer to me."
pilita also performed with international artists like the beatles, bob hope, julie andrews, pat boone (“you light up my life” singer debbie boone’s father), and sammy davis jr. (at caesar’s palace in las vegas) while hosting prizewinning musical-varieties like “an evening with pilita,” “pilita and jackie, ” “ang bagong kampeon” and "tanghalan ng kampeon.” she popularized songs by filipino composers (“a million thanks to you,” “kapantay ay langit,” “ang pipit”) way ahead of many local artists. her renditions of tagalog classics by tito arevalo, george canseco, levi celerio, constancio de guzman, dominador santiago, leopoldo silos, restituto umali, and miguel velarde jr. under plaka pilipino and vicor helped pave the way for the mainstream (and not just token or marginal) acceptance of original pilipino music (opm) during the 1970s and the 1980s.
after pilita, filipino artists realized they could also win festival honors for the country. celeste legaspi won major prizes in world music festivals held in manila (1976, for philip monseratt’s “pusong nagmamahal”), tokyo (1976, also for “pusong nagmamahal”), and seoul (1981, for willy cruz’s “never ever say goodbye”). didith reyes bagged the gold prize during the 1977 tokyo music festival. leah navarro and the manila music machine bagged the bronze prize at tokyo in 1979. the philippines had been luckiest at the seoul popular music festival (1978-1983). winners of the annual metro manila popular music festival (1978-1985) were sent to compete at the sejong cultural center. except for lerma de la cruz (who did not win in 1983, despite her exceptional rendition of vehnee saturno's "ako'y ako"), filipinos won a slew of prizes in seoul: ryan cayabyab and hajji alejandro for “kay ganda ng ating musika” (grand prix, 1978); freddie aguilar for snaffu rigor's “bulag, pipi at bingi" (best performer, 1979); dero pedero and leah navarro for “isang mundo, isang awit” (bronze, 1980); ananias montano and something special for “babae ka” (bronze, 1981); and jun latonio, tillie moreno, eugene villaluz and louie reyes for “nothing i want more” (grand prix, 1982). in later years, jose mari chan, eugene villaluz and louie reyes, leo valdez, dulce, ivy violan, smokey mountain, regine velasquez, jaya, ryan cayabyab, gines tan, danny tan, vehnee saturno, and a few other artists would achieve similar honors in festivals held in canada, china, finland, hong kong, japan, malaysia, the philippines, and the united states during the 1980s and the early 1990s.
towards the 21st century, a shortage of interest and sponsors caused the demise of many music festivals. the few surviving ones today are mostly national or regional, as in the case of san remo (italy) and the annual eurovision contest. gma 7 tried to revive metro pop during the 1990s, but antonio barreiro passed away. no one could execute the vision and spirit of music festivals locally as he did.
gerry matias, one of pilita’s musical directors, is the father of my former student, gm matias. when i return to manila, i will probably ask gm to get me pilita's autograph. or i'll drop by pilita’s bar in greenhills and tell her how she fascinated me when i was growing up. one of these days, she ought to be proclaimed a national artist. even the city of melbourne has named a street after her in forest hill. and yet, she opted to sing more for her kababayans back home. i will never understand why pilita corrales should not receive the honor she deserves.
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Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo in A Song Is Born (Howard Hawks, 1948)
Cast: Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Benny Goodman, Hugh Herbert, Steve Cochran, J. Edward Bromberg, Felix Bressart, Ludwig Stössel, O.Z. Whitehead, Esther Dale, Mary Field, Ford Washington Lee, John William Sublett. Screenplay: Harry Tugend, Helen McSweeney, based on a story and screenplay by Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Thomas Monroe. Cinematography: Gregg Toland. Art direction: Perry Ferguson, George Jenkins. Film editing: Daniel Mandell. Music: Hugo Friedhofer, Emil Newman.
If you've seen Howard Hawks's Ball of Fire (1941), there's really only one reason to see Hawks's A Song Is Born, a musical version of the earlier film that retains its rather silly plot and a large part of the dialogue. But that one reason is a good one: the music is provided by the likes of Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Tommy Dorsey, Lionel Hampton, Charlie Barnet, and a host of other stars of the big band swing era. Otherwise, Hawks's direction is mostly a carbon copy of the first film, except that instead of Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck, he's working with Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo, neither of whom Hawks liked. I happen to like Mayo, but I have a low tolerance for Kaye's shtick, his mugging and his patter songs. Fortunately, he's more subdued than usual in A Song Is Born, reportedly because he was going through marital problems and was under heavy psychoanalysis. Still, to hear Kaye repeating some of the dialogue carried over word for word from A Song Is Born makes me appreciate how good Cooper was in screwball comedy. The chief switch in the plot is that the encyclopedia Kaye's Prof. Frisbee is working on with six other professors has become a musical one, so that instead of rushing to compile a volume on slang, as Cooper's Prof. Potts was tasked to do, Prof. Frisbee has to cobble up a volume on jazz -- of which he has somehow remained ignorant. There is less emphasis on the other cute little professors in A Song Is Born than there is in Ball of Fire, which was inspired in part by Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). One of them, however, is played rather amusingly by Benny Goodman, who is invited by the other musicians to join in a jam session and of course distinguishes himself. The gangster plot, featuring Steve Cochran in the role played by Dana Andrews in the earlier film, is also trimmed down. Mayo's singing voice was dubbed by Jeri Sullavan.
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Time After Time (Full TV Series) 1993 - 1995
Kenny is a criminal trying to go straight but with all of his friends and family trying to drag him back to his old life, will he prove the doubters wrong and impress his new probation officer gillian or be stuck in his old life with his girlfriend donna, best friend jake and his criminal family in this great british comedy.
Starring Brian Conley, Samantha Beckinsale, Kate Williams (from Love Thy Neighbor), Richard Graham, Georgia Allen, Neil McCaul, Deddie Davies, David Shane. Writers - Paul Minett and Brian Leveson. Director & Producer - John Kaye Cooper.
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OLD HOLLYWOOD STARS & THEIR ZODIAC SIGNS
Aries: Gregory Peck, Spencer Tracy, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, William Holden, Doris Day, Anthony Perkins, Debbie Reynolds, Ann Miller, Billie Holiday, Karl Malden, Warren Beatty, Marlon Brando, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Lon Chaney, Steve McQueen, Ed Begley, Melvyn Douglas, Alec Guinness, Leslie Howard, Jayne Mansfield
Taurus: Jimmy Stewart, Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Audrey Hepburn, Katharine Hepburn, Don Rickles, Orson Welles, Tyrone Power, Rudolph Valentino, Gary Cooper, Henry Fonda, Shirley MacLaine, Shirley Temple, Anthony Quinn, James Mason, Ella Fitzgerald, Lionel Barrymore, Phil Silvers, Jack Klugman, Harold Lloyd, Mary Astor, Simone Simon, Margaret Sullavan, Eve Arden
Gemini: Judy Garland, Bob Hope, Dean Martin, Errol Flynn, Laurence Olivier, Marilyn Monroe, John Wayne, Tony Curtis, Rosemary Clooney, Douglas Fairbanks, Burl Ives, Al Jolson, Stan Laurel, Vincent Price, Basil Rathbone, Rosalind Russell, Hattie McDaniel, Priscilla Lane, Josephine Baker, Jeanette MacDonald, Peggy Lee
Cancer: Ginger Rogers, Eva Marie Saint, Natalie Wood, Olivia de Havilland, Barbara Stanwyck, Lena Horne, Jimmy Cagney, Milton Berle, Yul Brynner, Peter Lorre, Red Skelton, Jane Russell, Gina Lollobrigida, Leslie Caron, Farley Granger
Leo: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Mae West, Clara Bow, Norma Shearer, Esther Williams, Walter Brennan, Robert Mitchum, Louis Armstrong, Peter O’Toole, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, Alfred Hitchcock, Maureen O’Hara, Lucille Ball, Shelley Winters, Dolores del Rio
Virgo: Lauren Bacall, Gene Kelly, Sophia Loren, Claudette Colbert, Greta Garbo, Donald O’Connor, Ingrid Bergman, Peter Lawford, Fredric March, James Coburn, Fred MacMurray, Peter Sellers, Raquel Welch, George Chakiris, Vera Miles
Libra: Jean Arthur, Carole Lombard, Montgomery Clift, Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, Charlton Heston, Mickey Rooney, Lillian Gish, Groucho Marx, Buster Keaton, Bela Lugosi, George C. Scott, Lenny Bruce, Walter Pidgeon, Greer Garson, Joan Fontaine, Brigitte Bardot, June Allyson, Julie London
Scorpio: Richard Burton, Rock Hudson, Vivien Leigh, Burt Lancaster, Gene Tierney, Grace Kelly, Claude Rains, Joel McCrea, Johnny Carson, Burgess Meredith, Hedy Lamarr, Eleanor Powell, Veronica Lake
Sagittarius: Frank Sinatra, Kirk Douglas, Sammy Davis Jr, Edward G. Robinson, Rita Moreno, Lee Remick, Boris Karloff, Lee J. Cobb, Ricardo Montalban, Irene Dunne, Agnes Moorehead, Gloria Grahame, Betty Grable, Julie Harris
Capricorn: Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner, Marlene Dietrich, Loretta Young, Ethel Merman, Eartha Kitt, Janet Leigh, Lew Ayres, Ray Bolger, Sal Mineo, Danny Kaye, Oliver Hardy, Oscar Levant, Ray Milland, Elvis Presley, Jane Wyman, Kay Francis, Barbara Rush
Aquarius: Kathryn Grayson, James Dean, Paul Newman, Clark Gable, Jimmy Durante, Jack Benny, Lana Turner, Kim Novak, Ronald Colman, Ernest Borgnine, Randolph Scott, Vera-Ellen, Donna Reed, Jack Lemmon, John Barrymore, George Burns, Arthur Kennedy, Cesar Romero, Jean Simmons, Zsa Zsa Gabor
Pisces: Jerry Lewis, Elizabeth Taylor, Jean Harlow, Nat King Cole, Sidney Poitier, Cyd Charisse, Lee Marvin, Jackie Gleason, Edward Everett Horton, David Niven
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Hi! Love your work here. Do you have a tag for old movie recs? I know throughout the hot women tournament I would see lots of recommendations for old comedies in the 40s and 50s, and now that I’m getting around to watching some stuff from that era, I can’t seem to find any of them! Has that been compiled anywhere?
I'm really glad you sent this ask because I've been meaning to write my big rec list for ages and this kicked me into remembering to actually do that. Until I get the full post up, you can find some in #recs. Here's a mini list that could be a good place to start:
The Talk of the Town (Jean Arthur, Cary Grant, Ronald Colman, Rex Ingram)—usually findable on Tubi or YouTube
The Court Jester (Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Angela Lansbury)—on Hoopla (which is free through some libraries) last time I checked!
Singin' in the Rain (Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds)—not sure where you can watch this for free, I think HBO has it sometimes (but there are always...sites. Or your local library!)
Charade (Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant, James Coburn)—Tubi or YouTube
The Duke Is Tops (Lena Horne, Lawrence Criner, Ralph Cooper)—Tubi
Pot O'Gold (Jimmy Stewart, Paulette Goddard)—YouTube
The Philadelphia Story (Katharine Hepburn, Jimmy Stewart, Cary Grant)—usually on Tubi
The Adventures of Robin Hood (Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains)—not technically a comedy but a damn good time, on Tubi
His Girl Friday (Rosalind Russell, Cary Grant)—Tubi
The Big Sleep (Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart)—sometimes on Tubi, not sure if it's up right now though
To Be Or Not To Be (Carole Lombard, Jack Benny)—I'm not sure where you can stream this for free, but it's worth the watch!
I will eventually elaborate this into an actual post that includes summaries, content warnings, and more movies that aren't comedies or musicals. As always with old movies, go forward with caution. I hope you find a movie you love! :)
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TV: The Alienist (primera temporada, 2018)
Pocos temas resultan más desgarradores, así en la vida como en el arte, que aquellos relacionados con la violencia de toda clase hacia niños y adolescentes. Y, entre ellos, sobresale con demoledor impacto lo concerniente a las atrocidades de índole sexual que se cometen contra ellos sin contemplaciones de ningún tipo.
En la Nueva York de 1986 se desencadena una serie de horrorosos crímenes cuyas víctimas son niños y adolescentes pobres que se prostituyen. El comisario Theodore Roosevelt (a quien la historia le tendría reservado un lugar como Presidente de los Estados Unidos) toma la compleja tarea de descubrir y detener a tan infame monstruo y designa como investigador al Dr. Laszlo Kreizler (Daniel Brühl), el alienista (una especie de psicólogo) en cuestión. Kreizler forma equipo con el ilustrador John Moore (Luke Evans), Sara Howard (Dakota Fanning), secretaria de Roosevelt (Brian Geraghty) y primera mujer en el departamento de policía neoyorquino, y el adolescente Stevie Taggert (Matt Lintz).
La intensa y fascinante serie (que se basa en las novelas de Caleb Carr y recibió una segunda temporada en el 2020 debido a la grata impresión que dejó la primera) da a entender, de boca del familiar de una víctima, (Giorgio, alias Gloria) que algunos de esos chicos “eran raros”, insinuando que ya desde esa corta edad eran afeminados, gustaban vestirse de mujer o sentían atracción por alguien del mismo sexo.
A continuación, un breve repaso de las infortunadas víctimas, hayan caído en manos del asesino o no:
Giorgio Santorelli/Gloria (Nicolò Borgatti)
Joseph (Jackson Gann)
Sally (Jamie Kaye)
Ernst Lohmann/Rosie (Oliver Cater)
Ali ibn-Ghazi/Fatima (Tate Pitchie-Cooper)
Maxie (Dominic Boyle)
Peter (Tommy Rodger)
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Romance movies are not that different from horror movies. Both are incredibly hard to pull off, are heavily watched during a cold time of year, and hopefully end with every character covered in blood.
With that in mind we present to you a list of the best romantic movies on Netflix. Because romance deserves it, damn it. Virtually every song ever written is a love song but poor romance can’t get a fair shake at the movies. Whether it be a rom-com or just a straight-up soul-enlightening/crushing romance, our list of the best romantic movies on Netflix will get you back in touch with your cold, dead heart.
Set It Up
Set It Up is Netflix’s most accomplished original romantic comedy yet.
Zoey Deutch and Glen Powell star as overworked assistants Harper and Charlie. Harper is an assistant to Kirsten (Lucy Liu) the woman behind a sports media empire. Charlie works for finance maven Rick (Taye Diggs). Harper and Charlie realize that their respective workloads might lesson if their bosses were more focused on their love life and less focused on work. So they…set them up.
Set It Up is a fun, novel high-concept romance movie positively filled with chemistry on all sides.
Outside In
We embrace every kind of love on our list of the best romance movies. Sometimes that includes some questionable, and some would say “icky” kind of love. So…Outside In is a teacher-student romance. But don’t panic! It’s ok.
Jay Duplas stars as Chris, a man who was wrongly imprisoned at age 18 and who is relased at age 38. When Chris is released, he immediately meets up with his old high school teacher, Carol (Edie Falco), who was his penpal when he was in prison. He wastes little time before he declares his love for her.
Despite its subject matter, Outside In is a mature, well-handled exploration of love and what it means to love someone for themselves as opposed to what they do for us.
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
With a name as long as The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, the movie better be good to justify how many times we poor cultural commenters must type it out. Thankfully Guernsey is quite good!
Based on a book by the same name, Guernsey is a historical love story set in 1946. Lily James stars as British writer Juliet Ashton. Juliet begins exchanging letters with residents of the islands of Guernsey, which was under German occupation in WWII (so like two years before the movie starts). While there she meets the dashing Dawsey Adams (Michael Huisman) and romance begins to blossom.
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is an excellent, watchable classical romance
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
Oh hey! Another Netflix original with a long title based on a book. Like the Potato Peel Pie Society, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before is another effortlessly enjoyable romantic romp – this time of the teen variety.
Lara Jean Song Covey (Laura Condor) experiences every young person’s nightmare when private love letters to five boys she has or has had crushes on suddenly and mysteriously become public. But fear not. This is a romance movie, not a horror movie. So this sudden reveal has to go well for Lara Jean, right? RIGHT?!?
To All the Boys P.S. I Still Love You
The To All the Boys team returns for a sequel that teaches kids the harsh lesson that there’s no such thing as happily ever after! OK, so that’s a bit harsh, but To All the Boys P.S. I Still Love You does bring back its characters for another round of romantic angst.
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Lara Jean (Lana Condor) is now officially Peter’s (Noah Centineo) girlfriend. But before they can relax and enjoy their lives together, an old flame of Lara Jean enters the frame. That’s right, John Ambrose (Jordan Fisher) is here and he wants to steal your girl, Noah Centineo.
The Danish Girl
2015’s The Danish Girl tells the story of a kind of love nearly unprecedented for its early 20th century time. Eddie Redmayne stars as artist Lili Elbe, who was born Einar Wegener and is believed to be one of the first individuals to receive sexual reassignment surgery. The film follows Lili’s journey and her love with wife Gerda Wegener (Alicia Vikander).
When Gerda asks her husband to stand in for a female subject in her painting, Einar does so and quickly comes to terms with the gender identity he’s been suppressing. The newly confirmed Lili and Gerda navigate this new dimension of their relationship and Lili continues her work as a subject for Gerda’s now very much in demand paintings.
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Beauty and the Beast
2017’s live-action version of Beauty and the Beast isn’t the best depiction of the classic fairy tale ever but that’s ok. It doesn’t have to be. All Bill Condon’s Beauty and the Beast really needed to be was a fun little dip into nostalgia with sumptuous visuals and a believable romance. On that front, everything goes according to plan.
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Emma Watson stars as Belle and Dan Stevens is her beast. Belle heads off from her small French town to the Beast’s castle to rescue her father. What follows is Stockholm Syndrome: The Movie. But sexier. Beauty and the Beast really does look good and Watson and Stevens have just enough chemistry to make this a worthwhile romantic experience.
50 First Dates
50 First Dates has a somewhat disappointing Rotten Tomatoes score. Ignore that. It’s probably partially due to many critics’ distaste for at least one of the actors in the above screengrab. Not that they can be blamed. The presence of Adam Sandler or Rob Schneider in any comedy is rarely a good sign. In 50 First Dates‘, however, it’s not an issue at all.
50 First Dates is a legitimately funny and romantic romantic comedy. Drew Barrymore stars as Lucy Whitmore, a woman with short-term memory loss. Due to a car accident, every day she wakes up believing it is October 13, 2002. Sandler’s character Henry Roth meets her in Hawaii and the two must overcome this bizarre condition to establish a lasting relationship.
Carol
Todd Haynes, director of Carol and Far From Heaven knows longing. And if there’s an element that makes for an excellent romantic movie experience its longing. That desperate sense is baked into nearly every frame of Carol. Based on a 1950s romance novel, Carol is the story of a young photographer (Rooney Mara) and an older woman going through a divorce (Cate Blanchette) undertaking a forbidden affair.
Forbidden because, you know, ’50s. And that’s where the longing comes in. Nothing is more romantic or sexier than a forbidden romance. Carol channels that romantic energy into something mature, fascinating and heartbreaking.
Silver Linings Playbook
Silver Linings Playbook is all about how generally terrible it is to be a Philadelphia Eagles fan. OK, fine – it’s only a little bit about that. This star-studded 2012 film from David O. Russell is more about the challenges in finding love when one isn’t sure they even love themselves.
Bradley Cooper stars as Pat Solitano Jr., a young man with bipolar disorder living with his parents after being released from a psychiatric hospital. Pat is determined to win back his ex-wife and to that end enlists the help of young widower Tiffany Maxwell (Jennifer Lawrence). The two become closer as they train for an upcoming dance competition and share their respective damages with one another.
Silver Linings Playbook works because Lawrence and Cooper have a real crackling chemistry. And they both just happen to be devastatingly, almost supernaturally attractive.
Runaway Bride
From stars Richard Gere and Julia Roberts to director Garry Marshall to conspicuous usage of enormous cell phones – Runaway Bride is an intensely ’90s film. And to the rightly organized mind, that just makes it the platonic ideal of a low-stress romantic comedy.
Roberts stars as Maggie Carpenter, an alluring young woman who has made a habit of leaving multiple fiancé’s at the altar. Gere is Ike Graham, a New York columnist seeking to tell the definitive story of this “runaway bride.” Runaway Bride is a charming experience that will make you think long and hard about how you really like your eggs prepared.
Loving
It feels reductive to call Loving a “romance” movie, as its more of a historical exploration of the very real, very tragic legacy of American racism. At its center, however, the film is about love.
Loving tells the story of Richard (Joel Edgerton) and Mildred Loving (Ruth Negga), a mixed-race Virginia couple challenging their state’s law against interracial marriage in the Supreme Court. The details of the Lovings struggle for basic human rights are astonishing. Edgerton and Negga’s empathetic performances make sure the film never loses sight of the humanity at play amid all the legal drama.
Always Be My Maybe
Everyone always talks about “the one who got away”, but what about “the one who was always kind of around”? 2019’s Always Be My Maybe tells of one such story.
Ali Wong (who wrote the film) stars as Sasha Tran and Randall Park stars as Marcus Kim. Marcus and Sasha grew up next door to each other and also embarked on a brief, ill-fated relationship in their teenage years. When Sasha returns to San Francisco to open a restaurant, she discovers that romantic energy remains between her and Marcus. But is that enough to spark love in the busy, chaotic adult world?
Always Be My Maybe has a lot to say about family and growth. It also features a truly winning performance from Keanu Reeves playing…Keanu Reeves.
The Kissing Booth
There’s an interesting dynamic at play in teenage romantic comedies. Oftentimes, the worse they are, the more watchable (and rewatchable) they become. The Kissing Booth is a prime example. Based on a book by the same name from Beth Reekles, The Kissing Booth isn’t exactly celebrated for its realistic portrayal of American teenagers.
Thanks to charming lead performances from Joey King, Jacob Elordi, and Joel Courtney, however, that doesn’t really matter. The Kissing Booth is all about how one girl’s first kiss turns into an emotional minefield of teen angst. That alone is enough to support 105 minutes of pure high school drama…and two sequels!
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