http://fromculttoclassic.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

RSS Feed URL: http://fromculttoclassic.blogspot.com/
Category: Fun & Entertainment | Total Views: 28

Latest entries from this feed

Richard Herd Redux

Posted on 27 June 2009 | 10:53 pm by Jim Rutherford


In this audio clip from the IOM archives, Islander guest Richard Herd (Episodes 14 & 15) explains how he finds the time for all the different passions in his life. While of course best know for his acting (in film, TV and on the stage), he is also an accomplished poet and painter. Other topics under discussion: soap operas; Richard's one man Cecil B. Demille show (as pictured, left); and his favorite Shakespeare plays.


MP3 File

Buried Treasure: The Gay Deception (1935)

Posted on 3 May 2009 | 3:31 am by Nancy the Fan

There's a lot of movies out there, campers. Many of them are forgotten, and many of those deserve to be forgotten. But a few don't. They're treasures that, for whatever reason, have been buried. Call me the Great Resurrector. I'm here to bring them to light once more.

I'm going to start this series with a film I serendipitously discovered a few years ago. It's called The Gay Deception (1935). Now, of course, we're all very enlightened, and we know that the term "gay" had a different primary meaning many years ago. Right? OK. Moving on.

So, the plot. Noting terribly new. It's your basic Cinderella story. A small-town girl, Mirabel Miller (Frances Dee), wins $5,000 in a sweepstakes and chooses to blow it all on an all-out, month-long trip to New York. She poses as a big shot, and everyone is fooled except one of the hotel employees, a bellhop named Sandro (Frances Lederer) who isn't actually a bellhop, of course, but a European prince in disguise. Naturally. Complications ensue, but the happy ending occurs as expected.

To begin with, this film is so top-loaded with Art Deco imagery that it makes my brain nearly implode with happiness. It's positively scrumptious in that regard. As for the "gay" part....gay means gay....gay means happy. Take your pick. Welcome to the Walsdorf Plaza:


I want you to smile for me. SMILE!

Recognize the bell captain? That's Paul Hurst. You may remember him as the Yankee deserter whose face Scarlett blows off in Gone with the Wind ("Got anything besides these ear bobs?"). Hurst appeared in over 300 films between 1912 and 1953, directed 51 movies, and wrote six.

Bellhops. Bellhops and taxi drivers. They were such a reliable stable in films from the 1930s. I miss them.

The Gay Deception is chock-o-block with wonderful character actors. That was Ferdinand Gottschalk (you cannot make up such a name) playing the fussy hotel employee, Mr. Squires, in the above clip. He appears in a few charming scenes with another fine character actor, Richard Carle:



See, it's just a bit of a throw-away, that last line. Just in there for a mild chuckle. Were the same scene shot in a film today, you have to know it would be played for Big Laughs, with the director ham-fistedly announcing that This Is a Joke!

The ingenue, Frances Dee, was a lovely and charming actress in the 1930s and 40s. She was also Mrs. Joel McCrea for over fifty years, the lucky woman. Dee was adept at both light fare and darker roles (check her out sometime in Blood Money, a little pre-code gem where she plays a perverse and masochistic society girl). She is enchanting in The Gay Deception as she brings an honest sincerity to her role that, in lesser hands, might have been little more than a second-rate screwball characterization.

And then there's Frances Lederer. I risk sounding like a swooning fangirl here, but Lederer is completely dishy! This Prague-born actor, who appeared as the ill-fated son of Louise Brooks's lover in Pandora's Box, remains virtually unknown to most people today, and more's the pity, since he was absolutely charming in his performances from the 1930s. Apparently, Irving Thalberg had plans to make him a big star, but then Thalberg up and died, and it has been suggested that Lederer's continental charm just didn't strike the right note with an American public that was growing more xenophobic as the the decade of the 1930s was coming to a close.

I knew nothing about Lederer when I first saw The Gay Deception, and, within minutes, I was figuratively knocked for a loop. He's terribly good looking, of course, and his delivery and accent only add to his charm. It's clear that he has complete command of the English language, and yet he still makes it his own in a unique and stylish way. Here, masquerading as a bellhop (because, don't forget, he's really a prince), he meets Maribel Miller for the first time:



(Did you all see that adorable little white radio?  I would kill to own that adorable little white radio!)

Then, later that evening:



Did you see that little bit of business with the olive in the martini? Was that Frances Dee or was it the always capable director William Wyler? There's likely no way to know, but Wyler's direction here is so deft and the Academy Award-nominated screenplay by Stephen Morehouse Avery and Don Hatman so winning, that it really doesn't matter. What does matter is that The Gay Deception is a lovely cocktail of its own, worthy of being rediscovered.

One more scene between Dee and Lederer, if only to demonstrate how adorable they both are:



Listen up, gents. If you're trying to win a girl's heart, you can take some lessons from this clip. Trust me, it's not about you changing because, deep in our hearts, most of us know you won't. It's about you accepting your lady love for who she is. That, my friends, is more romantic than any box of chocolates or bushel of roses.

When you hit your fiftieth wedding anniversary, you can thank me.

Do I NEED To Know that?

Posted on 3 May 2009 | 3:30 am by J

I never knew much about the split-back formation play in football or how many Triple Crowns a particular baseball player had won, and despite being an avid NBA fan, I remain relatively untutored in the concept of running the picket fence.

Recently, a fellow IOM reviewer, whom shall remain nameless (are you reading this, Steve?), chided me for daring to watch The Express, a film bio of Ernie Davis, the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy, without knowing anything about football.

How could I enjoy a sports film without knowing anything about the sport?

At the time, I hadn’t realized I needed to review the greatest college football games, know all the plays, and research every Heisman Trophy winner before even sitting down to watch the film--let alone enjoy it.

I felt enlightened. Yet, I wondered...How could I have liked this the movie without knowing anything about football? Where had I gone wrong?

(Although this is a canard; as a kid I played football with said IOM reviewer, and I know plenty about the Heisman Trophy. It just happens that I'm more into basketball than football.)

I examined my shallow knowledge. Truly, I had been deprived.

The first time I watched The Pride of the Yankees, the Lou Gehrig story, I hadn’t known how many RBI’s he had in a season (that’s runs batted in. There, now that you know that, you’ll enjoy this commentary more).

Yes, I knew basketball. But I’d never followed high school basketball, or heard of the 1954 Hickory Huskers, or what the damn “Picket Fence” that Dennis Hopper kept shouting about in Hoosiers was. But they better run it, or lose!

Ernie Davis was fast. I was sure of that because the movie The Express showed hooligans chasing Ernie as a boy as he raced away. But I had no idea of the running back’s many accomplishments on the field.

Yet, I was shocked at the ending of The Express; I erupted for joy in Hoosiers; I wept for Lou Gehrig in Pride of the Yankees.

Perhaps these movies aren’t really about the sport. They're about the people, their desires, the problems they face, and how we root for them to the end. The sport is just a stage to act on.

So don’t let ignorance prevent you from viewing a sports movie (unless it’s the remake of The Longest Yard. UGH! What were they thinking?).

The characters just might sweep you up their story. Hell, afterward, you might be inspired enough to go out and rent some DVD games of the sport.

Right this minute, though, I’m on my way to the library to read up on windshield wipers before I rent Flash of Genius. I know it’ll make the movie a whole lot better.

Go Lakers!

Pass in Peace: Beatrice Arthur

Posted on 30 April 2009 | 2:28 am by Nancy the Fan

Much has been said over the past few days about the passing of Bea Arthur, so I thought I'd chime in for a moment.  I know this forum is intended as a  movie blog, and Bea wasn't actually a movie star...


I mean there was Mame...

Oh, Lord..Mame.  I watched the trailer a few minutes ago...at least, I tried to watch it.  I couldn't get through it!  What a dismal adaptation of a perfectly glorious Broadway musical.  Interestingly enough, I heard a 2005 interview with Arthur today on The Bob Edwards Show, and even she hated that film. She knew what a gobbler it was.

Oh, well.  No matter.  

On Episode 13 of our podcast, the IOM staff talk about our "Encounters with the Famous."  That reminded me of my own encounter with Ms. Arthur.

It was Christmas time...probably sometime in the mid seventies.  My gang of choir geeks went out to do a little Christmas caroling.  This was in Santa Monica, and we always aimed to cover the swanky part of the town on San Vicente Boulevard.  Sometimes, we got cookies!  Kathryn Grayson lived there at the time, but she had a big electric fence and a lot of nasty guard dogs, so we never bothered her.  However, there was this one house that, a few years prior, had been rented by The Cowsills.  At Hallowe'en, they were known for giving out 45's of their stuff.  So we figured we'd hit that place.

We did.  We rang the doorbell, and then started in on a short carol..."Oh, Little Town of Bethlehem" or some such ditty.  The door opens, and there, framed in the backlight of her hallway, was this tall, distinguished woman.

"It's Maude!" my best friend Lisa whispered to me.

In 2.5 seconds, we all knew it was Maude.  Beatrice Arthur!  Maude!  And she was listening to us!

When we finished the first carol, our usual practice was to wish the occupants a happy holiday and then move on.  But, heck!  This was Maude!  So, as the leader of our traveling band of holiday mirth-makers, I asked if she'd like to hear another carol.  She was extremely gracious, and yielded to our offer.  And I called it.  We made her stand there in her doorway as we sang the entire "Twelve Days of Christmas."  I mean, c'mon!  It was Maude.  We wanted to bask in that limelight as long as we could.

She stood at the door for the entire recital.  To be fair, we weren't terrible.  But it was an awfully long carol.  Still, Ms. Arthur held her ground most graciously, and let us prattle on about the maids a' milking and the lords a' leaping.  When we were (finally) finished, she wished us a blessed holiday and we toddled off, happy with our conquest.  We had sung for Maude...for Vera Charles...for Yente the Matchmaker!  It was a swell Christmas!  Joy to the World, indeed!

Thankfully, I cannot find a video of Bea and Lucy doing their "Bosom Buddies" stint together.  But there's this...Bea and Angela Lansbury...as it should always be:



Kiddie Korner: The Shiloh Series: Shiloh, Shiloh Season, & Saving Shiloh

Posted on 28 April 2009 | 7:01 pm by J

Based on the Newberry Award-winning novel by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Shiloh is the name of a beagle that eleven-year-old Marty (played in the first film by Blake Heron) rescues from an abusive owner.

What makes this story stand out from the rest? The action is based on moral dilemmas that all the characters must struggle with. There aren’t any chases, big battles, or any hero coming in at the last second to rescue the day.

The parents are real, not Hollywood clueless idiots; the kids act like kids and aren’t allowed to sass back. Marty respects his parents, but must make up his own mind to do the right thing. His dad (Michael Moriarty for the first two films) stands on principle: Another man, Judd (Scott Wilson), owns the dog and Marty must give him back. In addition, the family is poor and struggling, and a dog costs precious money.

Judd, the brutal owner and local hunter, has his own demons. His father beat him when he was a child, and he can't remember a time when he didn’t have welts on his body. He treats his animals the same way he was treated, and he laughs when he hears Marty has named his animal. Judd, after all, just whistles when he wants his dogs and kicks them if they don’t do what he says.

Shiloh is the catalyst here. In the first story, Judd cracks a bit when he lets the dog out of his truck and allows Shiloh to run back to Marty. Judd has left the door open for change. The next two films are about his redemption. Marty figures that if love and friendship can turn mistreated dogs into loving pets, why can’t the same happen for Judd? Marty never gives up on him. The climatic ending to the final story will make you cry (or sniffle a lot).

Rod Steiger plays Doc in the first two films of the series, (the last film is dedicated to his memory), a man who runs a general store in the rural area, Doc can fix up animals as well as people, and he becomes a wise mentor to the young boy.

As a side note: I met Rod Steiger a few years ago at a play my acting teacher, Bob Monroe, took me to see. Afterward, Rod and Bob got together for a chat, giving each other jazz like two old cronies. They knew each other from New York when they were both struggling actors.

Steiger talked honestly about his life: “I’m too old and fat to have a baby and be a dad.”

He said this with melancholy and regret in his voice. A year later he passed away, and I thought how sad it was that his son would grow up without a father.

There’s a moral dilemma here, too: What is the right thing to do, and for whom?

See the Shiloh series with your children, or better yet, have them read the books and talk about them afterward.


Kiddie Korner: Underdog vs. The Cat from Outer Space

Posted on 20 April 2009 | 7:04 pm by J







No, this isn't a new movie, but instead, two movie reviews for the price of one! Ideal for thrifty blog readers in these tough economic times!

Disney’s live-action version of the 1960’s cartoon favorite Underdog (2007) strays from the original, but it doesn’t disappoint. It’s funny and hip (although I hate rap versions of original songs, the one in this film was tolerable) and moves faster than a speeding frog (see cartoon/movie reference).

Our beagle hero is a disgraced bomb-sniffing dog, and gets snatched by Dr. Sinister (Peter Dinklage) and his sidekick, Cad (Patrick Warburton), where an experiment gone wrong gives the beagle his super powers. After the beagle escapes, he’s rescued by an ex-cop (James Belushi), depressed since his wife died, and takes the stray home for his motherless son. When the boy discovers the beagle’s amazing abilities, he convinces the bumbling canine to become Underdog.

Jason Lee’s voiceover as Underdog is perfect. The plot is thin, (it's never explained how the Dr. and Cad knew James Belushi’s beagle was Underdog) and the way Underdog and his boy stumble into the villain’s lair near the end is downright stupid, but this is a kid’s film, and my son doesn’t let a couple of trivial plot holes keep him from enjoying a movie.

Although critics hated this film, and some adults will think I’m barking up the wrong tree here, my son raved about how funny Underdog was afterward, so I give this howler a big I’M IN!

The Cat from Outer Space (1978) is slower than a speeding frog, has that old, cheesy Disney formula feel, but contains enough good humor and eccentric characters to make it a fun diversion.

An intelligent extraterrestrial cat (voiced by Ronnie Schell) crashes and needs the help of an oddball scientist (Ken Berry) to repair his ship and get back home (basic stuff). The special effects are classic: Primitive rear-view screen projection, clunky levitation, and yes, we can see the wires that make Ken fly.

The movie is carried-off artfully by a cornucopia of fine supporting actors: Sandy Duncan, Roddy McDowall, Jesse White, Hans Conried, Alan Young, and Harry Morgan and McLean Stevenson (playing the same characters they portrayed on TV’s M*A*S*H).

The cat named Jake is the star here, however, and without him kids might be left bored by the slower pace.

This old-fashion clunker may not be the cat’s meow, but it gets a creaky, I'M IN! for family night.


(Ed. note: *sniff* I love a happy ending!)

Episode 14: "The Islander" with Actor Richard Herd, More Santo, and Second Time Around

Posted on 19 April 2009 | 11:55 pm by Nancy the Fan



This week's podcast lineup:


REVIEWS

THE POWER AND THE PRIZE (From the vault) 1956
Director: Henry Koster, Writers: Robret Ardrey (screenplay) and Howard Swigett (book), Staring: Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Müeller, Burl Ives, Charles Coburn, Cedric Hardwicke, Mary Astor. Reviewed by Lou Aguilar

DESU NÔTO (DEATH NOTE), and DESU NÔTO: THE LAST NAME (Japanese Sci Fi) 2006
Director: Shusuko Kaneko, Writers: Tetsuja Oishi (screenplay), Tsugumi Ôba & Takeshi Obata (comics), Staring: Tatsuya Fugiwara. Reviewed by J Messina

6 'n 90
Lightning-fast reviews by Da Man.

THE ISLANDER


Part One of Nancy's interview with veteran stage, screen, and television actor Richard Herd (T. J. Hooker,
Star Trek: Voyager) who will share with us the ten DVDs he'd take with him on a deserted island.

SANTO EN EL MUSEO DE CERA (SANTO IN THE WAX MUSEUM) (1963)


Santomania continues at the IOM HQ with another three man tag-team review of a favorite
Santo film

SECOND TIME AROUND

Members of the IOM staff talk about films they loved when they first saw them, but about which they felt quite differently after a second, later viewing.

GEM OF THE WEEK








IT'S A GREAT FEELING
(1949) Reviewed by Nancy the Fan

A RAVE BY DA MAN: ALEC BALDWIN



"I love you, man!"

A RANT BY JIM
Third acts in American films.

Kiddie Korner

Posted on 17 April 2009 | 6:48 pm by J

Bedtime Stories (2008). This film has enough laughs for adults as well as kids, although the bug-eyed guinea pig got the biggest laugh from my son, who is my barometer for all things kid-related. He didn’t care much for the “mushy” stuff, but then again, he’s eight.

Adam Sandler plays the overlooked handyman of a hotel. Things get off to a slow start, as the backstory about Sandler's character as a little boy isn't all that interesting and goes on too long, but the middle part of the film and the ending make up for it.

Another unnecessary plot device has Sandler trying to work his way back into his sister's life and good graces (after a long absence) by reluctantly reading bedtime stories to her two kids.

The eventual pay off to this needlessly complicated set-up is that the parts of the bedtime stories that the two kids make-up and contribute actually come true for Sandler. He strives to manipulate the stories in his favor, but instead ends up dealing with the weird twists that the twins come up with.

This is a good family film and worth renting. Surprisingly, the usual Adam Sandler vulgar humor is toned way down, with only a sprinkle of harmless crassness tossed in (shot of cleavage, Mr. Buttkiss, etc.).

If a children’s film is decent, parents will usually flock to it. But this film wasn’t big box office. Here are my reasons why:

First, Adam Sandler is known for his vulgarity, making him a risky choice if you're looking for a film to take your kid to.

Second, the movie isn’t about the kids. Sure, their dad left them, but this takes a back seat to Sandler’s petty problem of being a disinherited hotel owner.

Finally,wouldn't it have been more interesting if the bedtime stories had affected the kids, forcing them to deal with the repercussions of their own actions? Most children’s films and books have the child as the the center of the action. Why? Because a child can relate better to the story that way!

Bedtime Stories had the potential to be another “Night at the Museum” but it falls a little short. At least in that film, Ben Stiller’s character did what he did for his son.

Despite these shortcomings, I’m in!

Episode 13: Encounters with The Famous, Santo & The Islander part 2

Posted on 4 April 2009 | 11:28 pm by Jim Rutherford



This week's podcast lineup.

REVIEWS

I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE (aka: DAY OF THE WOMAN) (Cult review)
Writer/Director: Meir Zarchi. Starring: Camille Keaton, Eron Talor, Richard Pace. Reviewed by J Messina.

HOLIDAY (Classic review) 1938
Director: George Cukor. Writers: Donald Ogden Stewart & Sidney Buchman. Starring: Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Lew Ayres, Edward Everett Horton. Reviewed by Nancy The Fan.

KNOWING (new in theaters) 2009
Director: Alex Proyas. Writers: Ryne Douglas Pearson, Juliet Snowden & Stiles White. Starring: Nicolas Cage, Chandler Canterbury, Rose Byrne. Reviewed by Lou Aguilar.

6 'n 90

Reviewed by Da Man

WHAT JUST HAPPENED (on DVD) 2008
Director: Barry Levinson. Writer: Art Linson. Starring: Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener, Bruce Willis, John Turturro.

THE GRAND (on DVD) 2007
Director: Zak Penn. Writers: Zak Penn & Matt Bierman. Starring: Julie Claire, David Cross, Woody Harrelson.

HE'S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU (on DVD) 2009
Director: Ken Kwaapis. Writers: Abby Kohn & Marc Silverstein. Starring: Morgan Lily, Michelle Carmichael, Trenton Rogers.

THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON (on DVD) 2008
Director: David Fincher. Writer: Eric Roth. Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Julia Ormond.

CHOKE (on DVD) 2008
Writer/Director: Clark Gregg. Starring: Kathryn Alexander, Teodorina Bello, Kate Blumberg.

WATCHMEN (in theaters) 2009
Director: Zack Snyder. David Hayter & Alex Tse. Starring:Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Jackie Earle Haley.

BOND BIT

"He moves like a panther."

THE ISLANDER

In part 2, Tom Stempel, who teaches both film history and screenwriting, shares his remaining movie picks with Nancy.



SANTO VS FRANKENSTEIN'S DAUGHTER (SANTO VS LA HIJA DE FRANKENSTEIN) (1971)
Director: Miguel M. Delgado. Writer: Fernando Oses. Starring: Santo, Gina Romand, Anel.

A hero so legendary, a character so large it took 3 reviews to take on one of his movies.

ENCOUNTERS WITH THE FAMOUS



Spend enough time in Hollywood, and sooner or later you're going to bump into someone famous. The IOM staff share a few of their experiences.

Kiddie Korner

Posted on 30 March 2009 | 10:22 pm by J


THUNDERPANTS: A boy born with two stomachs creates monster farts (which might even make global warming real). All he wants to do is be a spaceman, but he'll need the help of his genius scientist friend (Rupert Grint, Harry Potter's pal).

Come on! If you're a dad, and have a son, this film is for you. Silly, funny, and lots of fart jokes! One of IOM's reviewers couldn't stand this film (but give him a good fart joke and some crude humor and he'll laugh his ass off). But this film is for the 5-year-old kid in all of us. Send mom out to the mall if she's not into it. Thunderpants is a blast!

Who cut the cheese?

Tom Stempel: Islander Guest and More

Posted on 28 March 2009 | 8:52 pm by Jim Rutherford


I attended LACC (Los Angeles City College) in 1975 and took as many film classes as I could. Tom Stempel taught three of them: film history, documentaries and screenwriting. The film history class would meet and watch films in the science lecture hall, a large echoy room with seats set at a steep rake which made it a good place to watch films.

I remember watching Seven Chances there. It was my first introduction to Buster Keaton, who would, in time, become my favorite comedian -- in either silent or sound films. That semester, we also watched Storm Over Asia (Potomok Chingis-Khana), a film by V.I. Pudovkin, and definitely in the Eisenstein mold of early Soviet films. With its bold, direct images; its at times heavy handed visual metaphors; and didactic, unapologetic, manipulative editing; this film, in an odd way, spoke to me. I'd never seen anything like it, and it was a surprise and a thrill to watch. Other great films that I saw for the first time in that lecture hall were Jesse James and My Darling Clementine.

It was no different in Tom's documentary class. It was there that I was first introduced to the documentaries of Frederic Wiseman and the Maysles brothers. Their films have been favorites of mine ever since. In the screenwriting course, I learned about the nuts and bolts and whys and why nots of putting a story together in a visual way -- but with words and on paper.

In his lectures and discussions, Tom was always intelligent and interesting, never bullying or dogmatic. He also brought a welcome sense of humor and perspective to all of his exchanges, whether it was with the entire class or one-on-one with an individual student.

If you're lucky, you can look back, and there are a handful of teachers who made a real difference in your life, who opened doors, surprised, and took some daunting subject and made it exciting and accessible. An even smaller handful of teachers are terrific, decent people, who are able to maintain their own excitement for a particular subject (in this case, film) and continue to excite others about it.

Tom is definitely one of these all too rare individuals. I will always be in his debt.

Posted on 26 March 2009 | 4:39 am by Jim Rutherford

My Podcast Alley feed! {pca-84069772a3710f8a2e449a8b694b95d4}

Islander News

Posted on 26 March 2009 | 1:18 am by Nancy the Fan



Coming soon to "The Islander"...


Blogger extraordinaire MARK LISANTI ("Defamer")

and...
Los Angeles television legend TOM HATTEN
(AKA: Skipper Tom from "The Popeye Show"
and the host of KTLA's "Family
 Film Festival")

We're always looking for interesting people who want to be
marooned on our enchanted deserted island. Know anyone?
Point them our way.

Episode 12 - Movie Moments, The Islander and Rants Revisited

Posted on 25 March 2009 | 4:40 pm by Jim Rutherford

This week's podcast lineup.



REVIEWS

RACHEL GETTING MARRIED (new on DVD) Directed by Jonathan Demme. Starring Anne Hathaway. Reviewed by Steve "Da Man" Demchak.
THE THREE MUSKETEERS (classic on DVD) Directed by Richard Lester. Starring: Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Michael York, Christopher Lee. Reviewed by Jim Rutherford.
ROLE MODELS (new on DVD) Directed by David Wain. Starring: Seann William Scott, Paul Rudd. Reviewed by J Messina.
WATCHMEN (new in theaters) Directed by Zack Snyder. Starring: Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Jackie Earle Haley. Reviewed by Lou Aguilar.

6 'n 90

Reviewed by Da Man.
YOUNG @ HEART Directed by Stephen Walker.
LEATHERHEADS Directed by George Clooney. Starring George Clooney, Renee Zellweger.
MY SASSY GIRL Directed by Yann Samuell. Starring: Elisha Cuthbert, Jesse Bradford.
A GOOD YEAR Directed by Ridley Scott. Starring: Russell Crowe, Marion Cotillard, Albert Finney.
MOTHER OF TEARS (LA TERZA MADRE) Directed by Dario Argento. Starring: Asia Argento, Christian Solimeno.
FINDING AMANDA Directed by Peter Tolan. Starring: Mathew Broderick, Brittany Snow.

BOND BIT

Lou reveals how Roger Moore was taken out by a paint gun.

THE ISLANDER

This week our guest on The Islander is Tom Stempel who teaches both film history and screenwriting. He is also the author of six books, all of them on film. Tom shares with Nancy five of the seven films he would take with him to a deserted island. Next week in Part 2, Tom will discuss his remaining choices.

MOVIE MOMENTS

The IOM staff share moments that not only happened in the movies, but in their lives.

DUD OF THE WEEK

Mister Buddwing Directed by Delbert Mann. Starring James Garner, Jean Simmons, Suzanne Pleshette, Katherine Ross, Angela Lansbury. Reviewed by Lou Aguilar.

SPEAKER'S CORNER



A rant from Steve on a subject that should be familiar by now to any of our regular listeners.



Related products

GORGEOUS MUSIC WEBSITE BUSINESS FOR SALE - $0.01

US $0.12 (4 Bids)
End Date: Saturday Sep-04-2010 16:34:00 PDT
Bid now | Add to watch list

Established GPS Device Store Adsense WEBSITE For Sale!

US $0.99 (2 Bids)
End Date: Monday Sep-06-2010 21:05:00 PDT
Bid now | Add to watch list

Link to a random website! Plus 100% Positive Feedback

US $0.11 (3 Bids)
End Date: Thursday Sep-02-2010 20:26:35 PDT
Bid now | Add to watch list

50,000 Real quality visitors to your web site with us.

US $0.25 (3 Bids)
End Date: Thursday Sep-02-2010 18:50:35 PDT
Bid now | Add to watch list

25,000 Real quality visitors to your web site with us.

US $0.25 (3 Bids)
End Date: Thursday Sep-02-2010 18:50:33 PDT
Bid now | Add to watch list

10,000 Real quality visitors to your web site with us.

US $0.35 (3 Bids)
End Date: Thursday Sep-02-2010 18:50:30 PDT
Bid now | Add to watch list

Established 'VIDEO GAMING' Website For Sale

US $5.51 (2 Bids)
End Date: Wednesday Sep-08-2010 18:02:25 PDT
Bid now | Add to watch list

Established 'WORK FROM HOME' Website For Sale

US $1.64 (3 Bids)
End Date: Wednesday Sep-08-2010 17:32:18 PDT
Bid now | Add to watch list

STUNNING CAMERA NICHE WEBSITE FOR SALE - $0.01

US $0.11 (3 Bids)
End Date: Saturday Sep-04-2010 16:34:45 PDT
Bid now | Add to watch list

500,000 Real quality visitors to your web site with us.

US $0.21 (3 Bids)
End Date: Saturday Sep-04-2010 11:58:52 PDT
Bid now | Add to watch list

CORVETTE C5 1997-2004 GLASS TOP ROOF PANEL

US $78.00 (7 Bids)
End Date: Wednesday Sep-08-2010 11:13:46 PDT
Bid now | Add to watch list

225,000+ WebSite Templates, Graphics, Flash, Scripts, i

US $0.06 (2 Bids)
End Date: Saturday Sep-04-2010 10:14:59 PDT
Bid now | Add to watch list

US$ Website Selling SEGWAY Scooters - Incredibe!

US $59.08 (14 Bids)
End Date: Saturday Sep-04-2010 6:01:28 PDT
Bid now | Add to watch list

US$ Money Making TENTS/CAMPING GEAR Website

US $1.75 (2 Bids)
End Date: Saturday Sep-04-2010 1:19:42 PDT
Bid now | Add to watch list

Established 'BEAUTY CARE' Website For Sale

US $6.80 (4 Bids)
End Date: Tuesday Sep-07-2010 19:33:14 PDT
Bid now | Add to watch list