Tuesday, June 15, 2021

doing one's own part in the world

 


Ned Beatty (left) in The Big Easy


Readers commenting in The Guardian, sparring furiously under a review of the 2014 movie, Gone Girl --


^ Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike the new Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman?  Oh my sainted aunt....

Charles Boyer had one of the three or four most beautiful male voices ever heard in film, up there with Ronald Colman and Richard Basehart.  Ben Affleck's an honours graduate from the Hollywood School of Mumblers.  Ingrid Bergman had a cool sexiness to which Rosamund Pike can only aspire in her dreams.


To paraphrase the poet

Get you gone, you dwarves

...you beads, you acorns. ------------------------------

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("Oh, my sainted aunt!" -- I think Katharine Hepburn uses that expression in The Philadelphia Story.)


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     Show business lost an impressive talent Sunday, when Ned Beatty passed away, at the age of 83.


All The President's Men

Charlie Wilson's War

The Big Easy

Network

Deliverance


     A couple of good scenes available to watch on You Tube:


Charlie Wilson's War 2007  1080p Blu Ray x264  Cinefile 02

uploader:  José Angel Alén Amil

(has Spanish subtitles)


"The World is a Corporation" (Network, 1976)

uploader:  Pedro Palatnik

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