It Came From The Internet.!!!

hello this is a litttle segment that i will now be adding to give you loyal followers of my blog that give you something of a mix of both today and yesterday. below you will see an image of Yves Montand smileing and winking at you. now for you boys and girls out there who are as crazy as i am for this hunk of heart throb you will be more thant willing to post him on your myspace.




heres the link

http://media.photobucket.com/image/yves%20montand/ladron500/00.gif?o=8

RollerBall

Ok now its time for somthing a little different. today I'm gonna review 1975s RollerBall. the movie stars James Caan who you might remember as Ed Delin from the TNT series Las Vegas. Caan Plays RollerBall Champion Johnathan E. who has become a threat to the few corperat giants who run america since there isnt any more government or wars. and americas new favorit Past time is a game called roller ball witch is a bloodsport thats a combination of football and cage fighting on rollerscates and motercycles. I wont get into the detials but apparently they want Johnathan (Caan) to retire because they fear hes becoming greater than the game or some such nonsense. so since he wont they alter the rules to such a degree that they try to have Johnathan killed.

personally I found this movie to have a good storyline, but so poorly written it was hard to fallow. James Cann is at his best in this movie dispite his jew fro, but then again it was the seventies and he manages to pull it off witch is more than i can say for people now a days. as with any action of scifi movies made in the seventies it mostly revoles around sex, drugs and fighting the man. add what was thought of as violance and gore back then and you got yourselves a guy movie.


I give it a 3 out of 5. I personally only liked this movie becuase I though James Caan brought this coarse charm to his character and I got to see him walk around half naked. also im tottaly loving the retro mod look his Jersey has that hes wearing in the film. I managed to find a link to a site that has it.

http://www.zazzle.com/jonathan_e_t_shirt-235994355262817031

Rachel and the Stranger

guess what peeps its time for another movie review. I chose this movie for two reason first becuase it stars two of my favorite Hollywood dream boats Robert Mitchum and William Holden. and second...becuase it was on TCM the other day.

the movie is set In colonial America, and opens when David Harvey (William Holden), a recent widower living in the wilderness, decides that his young boy Davey needs a woman around to help raise him. He goes to the nearest settlement and buys an indentured servant named Rachel, played by the beautiful (Loretta young). so after he Marries Rachel he take her back to his cabin we find out there marriage is in name alone and Rachel serves more as a servant than a wife. I persoanlly dont see how Willam holden could treat her so badly, I mean look at this picture of her that I found and try not to use the word statuesque.


So Rachel does as shes told and works for Mr, Harvey and helps raise his son proper...that is, Until Jim Fairways (Robert Mitchum), who looks like a Davey Crockett wannabe, visits the cabin and falls in love with Rachel. now Rachel finds herself choosing between the man who married her for connivance and a man who wants to marry here for love. since I'm never one for spoilers you'll just have to watch it and see how it ends for yourself

and i have a special treat for you who really want to see the movie. I was looking for the trailer on youtube and found the whole movie. so here is part one and if you wanna see the rest just type in the title and go and watch the whole things. i give it a 3 out of 5.

Star Of The Month

Cary Grant was and still is among many movie buffs like myself the ideal leading man. with his distinctive yet not quite placeable mid Atlantic accent he was handsome, virile, charismatic, charming and above all else debonair. it is for these reasons and the fact that he was born in the month of January I'm making him my star of the month to start off this new year and new decade.

Grant was born Archibald Alexander Leach to a family in the untied kingdom. originally he went under the stage name Cary Lockwood they said Cary was ok but they wanted the Lockwood gone. so he deiced on the last name Grant as the letters C and G had already worked good for Clark Gable and Gary Cooper. after that he went to go on and star in famous films such as Bringing up Baby, Arsenic and Old lace, and His Girl Friday.

he was also a favorite of Alfred Hitchcock who was notorious for disliking actors. he said, "Grant was the only actor I ever liked in North by northwest." he was also offered the role of James Bond In Dr. No becuase Ian Fleming stated that he partially had Cary Grant in mind when writing out the personality for his suave super-spy, James Bond.


I first fell in love with him "despite the fact that he has a George Hamilton tan" while watching one of my many now favorite Audrey Hepburn movies, Charade. he was everything a gay little boy dreamed about. he was that that tall dark handsome stranger that our mothers always told us about. perhaps thats why I like him in that movie so much. he played the part so well becuase thats what he was like in real life. charming and heroic. the type who would ride up on a white horse and take us off into the sunset. Cary was truly one of a kind. there was no one like him back then nor do I think there ever will be. In 2001 a statue of Grant was erected in Millennium Square, a regenerated area next to the Harbor in his city of birth, Bristol, England. I hope someday to go there and see it for myslef. I guess its the closest i might ever get to turly seeing him in person.

Holiday Inn

I first heard of this movie a few years ago when we were decussing rasium in high school. and how it differed today. heck of a first impression huh? well basically my teacher said that in the movie they did a musical number in Black Face! so now knowing that I just had to see it. it would be just so perfect for my blog.

so the movie starts of with Bing Crosbys fiancce leaving him for fread Astairs Character, which makes no sense, becuase not only is the reason compleatly ilogical but Fred astaire looks like hes sixty! also when it comes to danceing hes a poor mans Gene Kelly. the story basically revols around a love traiangel between Bing Fread and Marjorie Reynolds which left even me guessing untill the end.

on a side note this movie is so racest it isnt even funny. not only dose Bing have a black house keeper named mammi but also the whole black face number is so racest I can help but laugh. I know its bad but I'm laughing becuase its racest and there so unaware of it. saw it on TV the other day and they tottaly edited it out.

White Christmas

The story is about two World War II U.S. Army buddies, one a former Broadway entertainer, Bob Wallace (Crosby), and a would-be entertainer, Phil Davis (Kaye). It begins on Christmas Eve, 1944, somewhere in Europe. In a forward area, Captain Wallace is giving a show to the men with the help of Private Davis, During an enemy artillery barrage, Davis saves Wallace's life from a toppling wall, wounding his arm slightly in the process. Using his "wounded" arm and telling Bob he doesn't expect any "special obligation," Phil convinces Bob to join forces when the war is over. Phil using his arm wound as a way to get Bob to do what he wants becomes a running gag throughout the movie.

After the war, they make it big in nightclubs, radio, and then on Broadway. They become the hottest act around and eventually become producers they then receive a letter from "Freckle-Faced Haynes, the dog-faced boy", a mess sergeant they knew in the war, asking them to audition his two sisters. Betty and Judy When they go to the club to audition their act the two fall for the sister and accompany them to Vermont to have a proper white Christmas.

I personally loved this movie, the lavish musical numbers toward the end make it all worth while but also the story though hear warming leaves much to be desired. however Bing makes up for it with those blue eyes charm and soft crooning voice of his. still between this and holiday Inn its the more PC version but not as well written.

Star Of The Month

Humphrey Bogart

welcome to a new feature I deiced to add to my blog and I thought of Bogie for the month of December. not only was he born in December but he is also one of the most well known Hollywood gods of the 40s and 50s. now there was a man, hes what my aunt would call rough aroud the edges.

Bogart like most actors in those days came from money he was born on Christmas Day 1899. in retrospect I don't think the world could have asked for a better Christmas present. even as a infant he gained some fame threw his mother who was an artist and used a drawing of baby Humphrey in a well-known ad campaign, for Mellins Baby-Food.

after he left the navy he found a love for acting. after a string of small parts he landed his first big starring role in the petrified forest. which then type cast him as the bad guy or the gangster. leading to his reputation as a tough guy. In real life his widow Lauren Bacall says that Bogie was a gentilmen "a last centurey boy" as he called it. it wasent until his most infamous role as Sam Spade In the maltise falcon did they finnaly start casting Bogie as the love intrest. leading him to gain his most infamous role as Rick in Casablanca.



what is it about Bogart that draws us to him. maybe its the need for a dominate male figure in our lives that we lacked as children. or perhaps its the danger that we crave in our humdrum everyday lives. for me the answer is simple. its all about how we see people. I see Bogart as the way Lauren saw him. as the tall dark hansom stranger we always hear of but never see. the last of a generation of gentlemen and shivery. the kind of man my generation has forgotten.

also I found this video from youtube that pretty much goes alone with what I'm saying. a special thanks to TheDudar for uploading this video