YES!!! On the Waterfront is correct.
Raggedy, you'll never guess what just turned up on the book cart in my office (a cart in the lunch room where people leave books they're through with, for other people to take): a video of This Property is Condemned! Naturally, I grabbed it as soon as I saw it, since your description of it intrigued me. Not sure when I'll find the time to watch it, but I'll let you know what I think of it when I do.
Uncanny, Bree. It's that noncausal synchronicity again.
But remember, I didn't recommend it. I just said I liked it even if Maltin said it was trashy.
I want to hear your opinion. I know it will be an honest one.
(I think Fealola forgot about us here. It's her turn.)
Fealola's not quite ready with a scene at present, so here's one to move the game along.
Inbetweener:
During a political rally his speech is interrupted by a loud voice from the crowd denouncing him for being responsible for the illegal abortion of his own daughter.
Sweet Bird of Youth is correct, Bree.
Oldie
They meet when he asks her for change for his "lucky quarter," so he can buy cigarettes from a vending machine.
I'm going to be out for most of the day, so I leave the next scene open just in case anybody is interested.
Here's an oldie that ties in with Bree's scene:
A football player inherits a dress salon and falls in love with the firm's designer.
Did anyone watch the Tonys and, if so, were you pleased with the results? How about that Hugh Jackman?
Oh, maybe I should ask this on the Tony thread.
Your scene is very familiar, but I need to think about it for a bit.
I watched the Tonys, and was very pleased and surprised that Avenue Q won for best musical. I was sure the Tony voters would treat it the same way they treated Urinetown two years ago, by giving it the awards for best score and best book of a musical, but giving the best musical award to a more conventional show (i.e., Wicked). Is it possible the Tony voters are getting hip?
Oh, and how about that Hugh Jackman, indeed? I was sorry I didn't have the VCR running, when he started high-kicking with the Rockettes!
I wasn't home, so I taped the whole thing. I got home just in time to see Ave Q win the last award. That was a surprise. I'll stay off the Tony thread until I've had a chance to watch...
I'm glad you were pleased with the outcome, Bree. I know nothing about the musicals that were nominated, but I enjoyed the show. I was hoping Kristin Chenoweth would win. (I love her voice) I was surprised that Assassins copped an award. (I have it on CD and really like it, but didn't think it would win.) As for Hugh's high-kicking - you can be sure I captured that on my VCR.
I was disappointed that Christopher Plummer didn't win, though.
Have you seen many of the nominated plays/musicals?
Raggedy,
I've seen all of the plays or musicals that won Tonys, except for Wicked and A Raisin in the Sun. I like Kristen Chenoweth, too, but I'm not a big Wizard of Oz fan, so I decided not to spend full price for a ticket to Wicked. As for Raisin, I didn't buy a ticket early on because I was taken in by all the pre-opening buzz about how bad Sean Combs was going to be. When the play opened, the critical consensus was that, while he isn't a terribly compelling actor, he doesn't embarrass himself, and he doesn't get in the way of a great play and good performances by the rest of the cast. But by then, tickets to Raisin had already become hard to get, because his presence means that the show is drawing younger and more racially diverse audiences than most Broadway shows get (which is a good thing, so more power to him for being willing to take a chance on something new). With any luck, maybe the Tony wins for Phylicia Rashad and Audra McDonald will mean that the run will be extended beyond its scheduled closing date of July 6.
By the way, I went to hear Audra McDonald in concert last week (she took a few days off from Raisin to do a series of concerts at Zankel Hall, a new, small concert hall below street level in Carnegie Hall). During the performance, she mentioned how different the audience was from the audiences who have been coming to see Raisin, who tend to participate in the performances. She said that, during one performance, when Phylicia Rashad's character walked offstage, intentionally "forgetting" to take a plant with her, a woman in the audience called out, "Get your plant!"
I was very disappointed in Assassins. I was looking forward to it because I'm a big Sondheim fan, but I found the show just too creepy to be enjoyable. I think the people behind the show thought that there was something profound to be learned about the American psyche from an examination of the nine assassins (and would-be assassins, like Squeaky Fromme) who are depicted in it, but I thought they were all crazy in different ways, so there was no single coherent meaning to what they did. Also, I was made very uneasy by the use of guns onstage, especially when the actors fired into the audience. (I was made even more uneasy when I read later that the guns used in the show are real guns, which are loaded with blanks for each performance.)
Christopher Plummer was very good in King Lear, but somehow he never completely became King Lear for me: there was never a moment when I wasn't aware that I was watching an actor giving a performance. I was pleased that Jefferson Mays won, because he gives an extraordinary performance in I Am My Own Wife, but I wouldn't have been upset if Kevin Kline had won, either (although I think it's debatable whether Falstaff was really the leading actor in that play).
Still thinking about your scene...
Aaah, Bree. Thank you for telling us about the shows you've seen. I wish we could trade places.
From what you tell me about Assassins, I know I wouldn't like it. No weapon waving for me. I bought the Playwrights Horizons original cast recording in 1991 and was mostly impressed at how Sondheim depicted the depravity/insanity of the characters through music, but I fully understand how disturbing it must be to see it performed live.
Audra McDonald and Brian Stokes Mitchell are on my soundtrack CD of "Ragtime". I do hope you enjoyed her concert. The "Don't forget your plant" tidbit is hilarious.
Oldie
A football player inherits a dress salon and falls in love with the firm's designer.
(You know, Yesterday I realized, at least in my Eyes, that the movie scene quiz is going up in Smoke. It is Hard to Handle because of the time involved. Although the movie was remade with a Lovely title 17 years later, it still falls into the "oldie" category.
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Without those clues, I never would have remembered that it's
Roberta
(which I didn't know had been remade as Lovely to Look at)!
Yes to Roberta. I just saw it on TCM, followed by Lovely to Look At, not too long ago. One of the models in the fashion show sequence in the Astaire/Rogers "Roberta", is Lucille Ball. Marge and Gower Champion were the dancers in the remake.
Last night I watched Cary Grant in "Night and Day", the Cole Porter story. Loved the music in that one, too. I just saw an ad that Kevin Kline is going to play Porter. That should be good.
