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Once upon a time, there was a race of men who lived on nothing but cigarettes, meat, and liquor. (6/2-3, 6/6) - Lisa Tozziĭ: Robert Aldrich with Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Jim Brown, Charles Bronson, John Cassavetes, Clint Walker, Donald Sutherland, Telly Savalas. Like Rick's plan to help Ilsa and Laszlo, it always seemed an uncharacteristically romantic gesture. Years later, my father even named his restaurant Richard's Cafe Americain - a nod to the film's famous gin joint. He understood Rick's callous cynicism, his longing for lost love, his need for redemption. Though it seemed an upscale Jersey restaurant was about as far away from World War II Morocco as one could get, my father believed he too was fighting some kind of holy war - his just included a sorbet course. He seemed to feel a kinship with Bogart's exiled freedom-fighter-turned-saloon-keeper, Rick Blaine. My father was drawn to the Humphrey Bogart-Ingrid Bergman classic. As I waited for a fresh pot of coffee to brew one night, I flipped the channels of the little kitchen television, hoping something soothing might catch my father's eye. I was a tad resentful to be wasting my precious summer evening pacing around a nearly empty dining room and struggling to make awkward conversation with my distracted dad. Nothing was good enough for him, though customers never complained. #GLENN SANDERS DEEPFOCUS PROFESSIONAL#My father was not a professional chef, and every meal he prepared included whopping portions of angst and self-loathing. Despite the slower pace, I dreaded those quiet Sundays more than the busiest New Year's Eve. My father often gave the kitchen Sunday night off, opting to cook himself, and made me come in to help serve. Seven-course meals were not in high demand. Most of his customers spent their summers at the shore or lounging by backyard pools. (7/17-18) - Harry Knowlesĭ: Michael Curtiz with Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Dooley Wilson.Īugust weekends at my father's North Jersey restaurant were dead. Guess that makes me the geek that I am!Ī stunning, beautiful musical worth every second of your attention. Though I bet I'm the first person to draw that parallel. Remember that scene of Morgan Freeman and the metronome in Seven? It was kinda done better here. The scene of Gene Kelly in America when contrasted to his scenes in Brigadoon. It's a type of film that just doesn't exist anymore, save for up on a screen like the Paramount's. I suppose I'm one of them sappy guys with a musical soul, 'cause I just love 'em. Frederick Loewe's music is simply fantastic, and Brigadoon is filmed beautifully. For me, it's kinda like Darby O'Gill and the Little People meets Lost Horizon meets An American in Paris. #GLENN SANDERS DEEPFOCUS MOVIE#Why? Well, I think it's the whole mythical twist this movie has. Yes, I prefer this to An American in Paris. This isn't my favorite Vincente Minnelli musical - that'd be Cabin in the Sky (of course there's no way on earth I'll get to see that on the big screen) - but this is my favorite Minnelli/Gene Kelly pairing. ![]() (6/28-29) - Stephen Moserĭ:Vincente Minnelli with Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, Cyd Charisse, Elaine Stewart. So thick and rich you'll be tempted to eat it with a fork - but use a spoon to get every drop. #GLENN SANDERS DEEPFOCUS FULL#Chock full of quotable lines, fabulous New Look costumes, and sheer irony. The supporting cast is equally fine, with George Sanders as "that venomous fishwife" Addison DeWitt, Celeste Holm as Margo's long-suffering best friend Karen Richards, and an ethereally beautiful Marilyn Monroe as Miss Caswell, "a graduate of the Copacabana School of Dramatic Arts." Mankiewicz's script and direction are superb, with dialogue so crisp and poisonous, it makes you wonder where script-driven movies have gone. Anne Baxter as Eve Harrington is deliciously calculating as the up-and-coming actress who moves in on Miss Channing, first ingratiating herself with the diva and eventually replacing her. ![]() A record 14 Oscar nominations for the cast and crew, it is as wicked and sophisticated as they come, with Bette Davis at her eye-popping, cigarette-swinging best as Margo Channing, Broadway's leading diva. Mankiewicz with Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill, Marilyn Monroe, Barbara Bates.Ī Triple-S movie (three suicides in the cast - Marilyn Monroe, Barbara Bates, and George Sanders), All About Eve has enough dirt to satisfy even the heartiest appetite. ![]()
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