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A Movie Scene Quiz

 
 
Raggedyaggie
 
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Reply Thu 8 Dec, 2005 01:02 pm
Happy Birthday to:

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http://www.eifel-literaturfestival.de/userimg/schell.jpg

If you take two words from a Paul Newman movie title and one word from a Bob Hoskins movie title, you'll get a book made into a movie that Max appeared in.

Paul Newman (2) + Bob Hoskins (1)
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bree
 
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Reply Thu 8 Dec, 2005 06:46 pm
Maximilian Schell was in:

The Young Philadelphians (Newman) + Den of Lions (Hoskins)
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Raggedyaggie
 
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Reply Thu 8 Dec, 2005 06:59 pm
Yes indeed, Bree and small part that he had, he was very impressive.
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mac11
 
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Reply Thu 8 Dec, 2005 10:52 pm
Thanks for the Maximilian photos, Raggedy. He's a favorite of mine.

I hope you're both staying warm tonite. It's supposed to get down to freezing here in the deep South, so it must be miserable up there!
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Raggedyaggie
 
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Reply Thu 8 Dec, 2005 11:04 pm
Hi Mac. It's so strange to hear you complaining about the cold. Smile

I just looked out the front door. Yikes. Everything is blanketed in white. I can't complain because I don't have to leave the house, but I feel so sorry for my daughter who has to bus it to work - if she can shovel her way out.
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mac11
 
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Reply Thu 8 Dec, 2005 11:08 pm
Yeah, we're pretty thin-blooded down here, but the wind chill was in the 20's this evening. I decided against attending my (outdoor) water aerobics class!
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Raggedyaggie
 
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Reply Thu 8 Dec, 2005 11:12 pm
I think that was a sound decision. Laughing You're taking water aerobics - outdoors?
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mac11
 
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Reply Thu 8 Dec, 2005 11:18 pm
Yep, three times a week - usually. The pool is heated. Tuesday evening it was 55 and it was do-able. But no way tonight. I wonder if they even had class! There are a few diehards who say it's never too cold.
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Raggedyaggie
 
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Reply Thu 8 Dec, 2005 11:27 pm
I think it's great you're taking the classes, --- but indoors, Mac - indoors. the water may be heated, but how long can you stay totally immersed. You do have to come up for air some time. As for those diehards, they may be spending the rest of the winter recuperating from colds. Laughing

I'm off to bed now. I've decided not to look out the window before morning.
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Raggedyaggie
 
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Reply Thu 8 Dec, 2005 11:29 pm
I wish you a cuddly blanket or two, and pleasant dreams.
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mac11
 
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Reply Thu 8 Dec, 2005 11:33 pm
You too, my friend.
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bree
 
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Reply Fri 9 Dec, 2005 09:24 am
Wow, mac, that's pretty cold for Houston! You probably don't even own mittens, a warm scarf, or earmuffs -- all of which I intend to wear when I venture out today.

We got several inches of snow overnight, but it looks like it's stopped now, so I can go see a movie this afternoon (it's one of my end-of-year Friday vacation days).
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mac11
 
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Reply Fri 9 Dec, 2005 09:55 am
Yay! I'm glad to hear you're off today. What will you see?

I do so own warm gloves and a scarf! And I wore them this morning along with my leather coat. No earmuffs, but they're not really needed while driving. Very Happy

Stay warm...
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bree
 
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Reply Fri 9 Dec, 2005 10:24 am
I'm debating between Syriana and Mrs. Henderson Presents (a new Judi Dench movie that just opened today). I'll report back and let you know which I choose.
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mac11
 
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Reply Fri 9 Dec, 2005 02:07 pm
The Dying Gaul (finally) opened here. I've been wanting to see it. Mrs. Henderson Presents looks really good - I just looked it up.
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bree
 
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Reply Fri 9 Dec, 2005 07:19 pm
I saw Syriana this afternoon. (I decided to wait until next week for Mrs. Henderson Presents, since that will give me another week to look forward to it.) I thought Syriana was enjoyable to watch - except for the scene where the George Clooney character is tortured, which is almost unbearable to watch - but extremely difficult to follow. I couldn't explain what happens in the movie to you if my life depended on it. mac (or anyone else), if you see it, please let me know, so we can discuss it offline.

When I got home, I looked up some of the reviews of Syriana to see if they answered any of my questions. I thought it was funny that David Denby (in his review in The New Yorker) thought of the movie's convoluted nature as a flaw (although he also had lots of good things to say about it), while Roger Ebert (in his review in the Chicago Sun-Times) didn't seem to mind.

Denby said the movie is

a rare case of a filmmaker respecting an audience's intelligence too much. As you watch the movie, with its twenty or so characters, you have to keep reminding yourself of who each one is and who he works for. It's as if you were constantly prepping for a quiz. (I swear, I never figured out who the Jeffrey Wright character worked for.)

While Ebert said:

The movie's plot is so complex we're not really supposed to follow it, we're supposed to be surrounded by it. Since none of the characters understand the whole picture, why should we?

I think I come down more on Denby's side.

Also, mac, if you see The Dying Gaul, please let us know what you think. I've been on the fence about it because the reviews were so mixed. I saw the stage production off-Broadway several years ago, but don't remember much about it.
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Raggedyaggie
 
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Reply Fri 9 Dec, 2005 07:54 pm
Thanks for your comments on Syriana, Bree. I think I'll pass on that one when it comes to cable. I try to avoid all movies with "torture scenes".

Please let us know what you think of Mrs. Henderson Presents.

And Mac, please tell us about "The Dying Gaul".

I haven't been getting out to the theater and really appreciating hearing about the new movies.
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Raggedyaggie
 
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Reply Tue 13 Dec, 2005 06:49 am
Although I've already done so at WA2K, I'd like to wish Happy Birthday to:

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Christopher Plummer CC,(born Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer on December 13, 1929) is a Canadian theatrical, film and television actor. He is one of his country's most prominent and respected actors and viewed by many as one of the world's finest stage performers.

Plummer was born in Toronto, Ontario. The great-grandson of former Canadian Prime Minister Sir John Abbott, following his parents' divorce he moved with his mother to live in Senneville, Quebec, near Montreal. He studied to be a concert pianist but developed a love of the theater at an early age and began acting in High School. He went on to train for the theater with the Canadian Repertory Company in Ottawa.

From his marriage to Tony Award winning actress Tammy Grimes he has a daughter, Amanda Plummer, who is an actress in her own right.

Christopher Plummer, whose latest Broadway appearance was as King Lear in Sir Jonathan Miller's much lauded production, at Lincoln Center, for which he won his 7th Tony Nomination, has enjoyed 50 years as one of the English speaking theatre's most distinguished actors and as a veteran of international renown in over 100 motion pictures.

It was in his hometown of Montreal that Plummer began his professional career on stage and radio in both French and English. After Ms. Eva Le Gallienne gave him his New York debut (1954) he performed in two plays with Katharine Cornell, "The Constant Wife", and "The Dark Is Light Enough" by Christopher Fry for which he won a Theatre World Award. Cornell's husband Guthrie McClintic took him to Paris (1955) to play Jason opposite Dame Judith Anderson in "Medea." Then came "The Lark," opposite his friend Julie Harris, which enjoyed a huge New York Success. Plummer went on to star in many celebrated, prize-winning productions on Broadway and London's West End including Elia Kazan's production of Archibald MacLeish's Pulitzer winning play "J.B." and the title role in Anthony Burgess' musical "Cyrano" for which Plummer won his first Tony. Apart from "King Lear," his most recent Broadway success was as "Barrymore" for which he won the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Award--The Edwin Booth Award, the Boston Critic's Award, Chicago's Jefferson Award, and Los Angeles' Ovation Award as best actor 1997-1998. He was also a leading member of Britain's National Theatre under Sir Laurence Olivier, the Royal Shakespeare Company under Sir Peter Hall where he won London's best actor Evening Standard Theatre Award, and in its formative years, Canada's Stratford Festival under Sir Tyrone Guthrie and Michael Langham. He has played most of the great roles in the classic repertoire.

Plummer's eclectic career on screen began in 1957 when Sidney Lumet gave him his movie debut in "Stage Struck." Since then he has appeared in a vast number of notable films which include the Academy Award winning "The Sound of Music (which he dismisses as "Sound of mucus" [1])," "The Man Who Would Be King," "The Battle of Britain," "Waterloo," "The Silent Partner," "Dragnet," "Daisy Clover," "Star Trek VI," "Malcolm X," "Dolores Claiborne," "Wolf," "Twelve Monkeys," "Murder by Decree," "Somewhere in Time," and a host of others. Plummer's latest successes are Michael Mann's Oscar Nominated "The Insider" playing television journalist Mike Wallace, for which he won the Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago, Las Vegas and the National Critic's Awards, and Ron Howard's Academy Award winning "A Beautiful Mind" as well as Etom Egoyan's "Ararat." His latest films are Douglas McGrath's "Nicholas Nickleby," Oliver Stone's "Alexander," Terrence Malick's "The New World," Spike Lee's "Inside Man," "Must Love Dogs" with Diane Lane, "Syriana," "The Lake House," and Michael Schroeder's "The Man in The Chair."

Among his television appearances, which number almost a hundred, are the Emmy winning BBC "Hamlet at Elsinore," the five time Emmy winning "The Thornbirds," the Emmy winning "Nuremberg," the Emmy winning "Little Moon of Alban" and the Emmy winning "Moneychangers." More recently, "On Golden Pond" co-starring with Julie Andrews, "American Tragedy" as F. Lee Bailey (Golden Globe Nomination), "Our Fathers" (Emmy Nomination), "Four Minute Mile," and Rick Burns' documentary film on Eugene O'Neil.

Plummer has also written for the stage, television and the concert-hall. Sir Neville Mariner and he rearranged Shakespeare's "Henry V" with Sir William Walton's music as a concert piece. They recorded this for Cadam Records with Sir Neville's own orchestra Saint Martin in the Fields. He performed it and other works with the New York Philharmonic and the symphony orchestras of London, Washington, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Toronto, Vancouver and Halifax. With Mariner he made his Carnegie hall debut in his own arrangements of Mendelssohn's "Midsummer Night's Dream."

Aside from many honors in the UK, USA, Austria and Canada, Plummer has won two Tony Awards (seven nominations), two Emmy Awards (six nominations), Great Britain's Evening Standard Award, and Canada's Genie Award. In 1968 sanctioned by Elizabeth II, he was invested as Companion of the Order of Canada, an honorary Knighthood. In 2001 he received the Governor General's lifetime achievement award. He was made an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts at New York's Julliard School and has received honorary doctorate's from the universities of Toronto, Ryerson and Western Ontario. In 2002 he was the first performer to be presented with the Jason Robard's Award for Excellence in memory of his great friend. Plummer was inducted into the American Theatre's Hall of Fame in 1986 and into Canada's Walk of Fame in 1997.
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wandeljw
 
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Reply Tue 13 Dec, 2005 09:35 am
As Raggedy already mentioned, Plummer will be in two movies yet to be released: Terrence Malick's "The New World" and "The Lake House".

Terrence Malick is notorious for his editing. Plummer said in an interview that he and his co-stars joked about whether they are actually in the final version of "The New World".

(My daughter worked as an extra in "The Lake House" but has no idea whether she will be in the final version. She says she does not care because she has already been paid.)
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bree
 
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Reply Tue 13 Dec, 2005 10:06 am
wandeljw, your daughter sounds like a true professional.

I looked up The Lake House on imdb, and was interested to see that the screenplay is by David Auburn, who wrote the play Proof. You'll have to let us know if your daughter appears in the final version.

I thought Christopher Plummer was very good in Syriana. I like him when he's evil.
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