A Movie Scene Quiz

I will not miss that movie when it is shown on TV. It will be on TCM in March and I will copy it to DVD.

I seriously wanted bree to win. It should be her turn to ask the next question.

We're waiting for you Bree.

In the meantime, do you have an interim question, Wandeljw? Are you familiar with the "oldies", movies before 1960?

Ahhh, Robin Hood is one of those movies that I will watch any version of. I mean, I even sat through the eeek-Costner version which was only remotely interesting because of Morgan Freeman.

But this version-Flynn, Rathbone, DeHavilland--now this is perfection!! Is there anything remotely wrong with this movie? Great romance, great fights, great escapes, yer basic derring-do, great villain, great "buddies" and amazing costumes!

This is one of a handful of movies that are so perfect that even though they don't have the pretension or the high art quality of a "film," they attain it because they are a perfect movie!

oh, I'm sorry, I just went buck wild seeing that picture! err, guess bree will get home and get us a question!

Loislane. I stopped counting how many times I saw Robin Hood during my lifetime. Maybe 8 times, maybe more. The Technicolor, the costumes, the fencing between Rathbone and Flynn, the archery contest, the balcony scene with Olivia --- and Errol Flynn. Who's Kevin Costner?

rofl!!

Yea, it was so sad too. The script had an interesting angle and if they had gotten a super English actor for it, it might have been really fun.

I sorta (but not really) feel bad for Costner. I heard he wouldn't do it without an agreement for a vocal coach and things like that--they only wanted him because his presence could get it made and he did it as a favor to his friend, the director--and they dropped all those things because of pricing and schedule conflicts.

Oh well, they would have probably gone to someone like Hugh Grant and I'd have hated even more!

Oh, and how about the escape from the gallows, the first meeting between Robin and Prince John where he brings the deer, the scene where Marion is awaiting execution in that impossibly white satin gown in that perfect shaft of light!

I have a friend who wrote a superb paper at Northwestern for a film class that made the teacher so impressed he held a showing of it at the school.
One of the things she mentioned is the scene where Prince John, the Sheriff and the buffoon lord are discussing the need for increasing the taxes and the buffoon is worried that the people can't pay anymore. Prince John says something like, "They'll pay allright, or else..." and his gesture knocks over the goblet of wine. The red wine drips off the table like blood and they all smile. brrrr.

Oh yes. And didn't Olivia wear a powder blue outfit?
And the tagline: Only the rainbow can duplicate its brilliance.
Do you remember the song: Two by Two, they go smiling through, the Sweethearts on Parade. I had a recording of it with Nat Cole and I dubbed the music to a VHS tape with my favorite movie couples taking a stroll. My favorite scene was Robin and Marion strolling through Sherwood forest.

my biggest worry is that bree had an accident on the way home when the answer finally dawned on her.

here's another quote:
Dean Martin remarked "It doesn't bother me that she believes in reincarnation. The real problem is that she keeps coming back as herself!"

Who was he talking about?

Shirley MacLaine?

raggedy,

i knew you would like that one.

That's hilarious! That quote is awesome!

It's like poor besmirched mr. costner is Bull Durham when he says to Susan Sarandon that it seems odd that everyone who says they were reincarnated was royalty or famous; no one says he was like an 18th century garbage man!

LOL Why did you think I would like that one, Wandeljw? Have you read my story about my seeing understudy Shirley MacLaine in Pajama Game?

Wow! I haven't read that story! While we wait for bree to have dinner, tell me all!

raggedy,

either you or bree were making fun of shirley when you were watching warren beatty receive the kennedy center honor.

Oh, that might have been Mac or Bree, Wandeljw.

I've probably mentioned, too many times, the time I saw Shirley MacLaine. Carol Haney (original B'Way cast) was scheduled to appear in Pittsburgh in Pajama Game, but it wasn't announced at the theatre until the show was about to begin that Carol was suddenly taken ill. The audience began grumbling and then there were some boos, and it took a few awkward moments for the audience to settle down. But after Shirley MacLaine, Carol's understudy, performed "Steam Heat", you could have heard a pin drop and then there was thunderous applause and a standing ovation. It was very exciting. I have yet to see her equal that performance.

Reminds me of the time friends of mine saw an understudy go on as Desdemona in Otello at the Met. The understudy was Kiri Te Kanawa, and the rest is history.

No, I didn't have an accident on the way home when "Robin Hood" occurred to me (but thanks for your concern, wandeljw), because -- well, because the answer never occurred to me until I read wandeljw's message pointing it out! (Duh.)

I just finished dinner and piano practice, so I'll work on a new question now. I'll be back as soon as I have it.

I really do believe Shirley MacLaine is talented. (I take it for granted that most women favor her brother.)

I met her once in Chicago when she was campaigning for George McGovern.

Wow. That's great that you met Shirley, Wandeljw. I just taped an interview she gave for TCM, but I haven't seen all of it yet. However, in the parts that I did see, she told it all. She spoke out about an affair she had with Robert Mitchum when they were both married while filming Two for the Seesaw which I don't think the interviewer Robert Osborne was aware of. I got the impression that he was slightly embarrassed.

I had a really great seat to see Shirley's one-woman show when she toured. That would have been 1983 in Dallas. She completely blew me away! She sang and danced with a bunch of chorus boys who were half her age, and she was amazing. She would have been about 50 then.