29 Nov 2014, 7:07 pm
Does anybody else like ~ Or , have you ever even seen - the 1974 movie version of " MAME " with Lucille Ball ?
I have a nostalgia/affection for this movie though it is endlessly put down especially due to the fact that Lucille Ball , in the 1970s , SANG , with ~ um ~ I suppose I do have to say he vocal limitations by then were - uh , let's be " a critic " now - " painfully apparent " . I guess I ~ HAD TO ?~ say that .
Nonetheless , it touches ~ um , is this theright word ? ~ nostalgia buttons in me , I was watching/hearing touches of it on YT now , before I have to go back to the shelter in the cold - 
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29 Nov 2014, 8:18 pm
I have a nostalgia/affection for this movie though it is endlessly put down especially due to the fact that Lucille Ball , in the 1970s , SANG , with ~ um ~ I suppose I do have to say he vocal limitations by then were - uh , let's be " a critic " now - " painfully apparent " . I guess I ~ HAD TO ?~ say that .
Nonetheless , it touches ~ um , is this theright word ? ~ nostalgia buttons in me , I was watching/hearing touches of it on YT now , before I have to go back to the shelter in the cold -
.I've seen it, and was even more laughable than the motion picture version of Hello, Dolly with Barbara Streisand and Walter Mattheau (and the only thing that saved Hello Dolly from going completely down the crapper was the appearance of Satchmo toward the end of the film. Then again, anytime Louis Armstrong shows up, even in a cameo appearance, you'll get more than your money's worth). The only musical venue where Lucy had any sort of a chance was the Broadway Musical Wildcat. Personally, I really can't besting either Ethel Merman, Bea Arthur, or Angela Lansbury as Auntie Mame, although Rosiland Russell originated the role in the non-musical film Auntie Mame.
30 Nov 2014, 6:46 pm
...Well , I really like the Hello , Dolly ! movie too 
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I love the story ~ Not particularlyly Barbra ~ She was too young then , but that seems to matter less now...........It was filmed not far from where I grew up , with a whole " 19th Century musical comedy village " put up for it , which may still be there now to this day??
I'm rather fascinated with this whole late-60s/earlish 70s wave of bomb movie musicals which came out a few years after The Sound Of Music/My Fair Lady/Mary Poppins were hits , later in the 60s , and at least according to legend were all humongous bombs , practically bringing the American mainstream movie business down ~ Mame must've been among the last of them bar maybe that Bacharach/David-songs , screenplay by future AIDS chronicler Larry Kramer , redo of Lost Horizon with Liv Ullmann and Sally Kellerman , which I've never seen but have seen some bits of on YT ~ We lived in the northern NYC suburbs and got the Sunday NY Times every week and I'd leaf through their movies/entertainment section (2) and these movies'd have massive ads there for their initial , hard-ticket , NYC premieres ~ I'm remembering the ad for Song Of Norway .
I saw that Rex Harrison version of Doctor Dolittle on a trip to NYC and had the soundttrack LP for it.........
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30 Nov 2014, 10:26 pm
! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !I love the story ~ Not particularlyly Barbra ~ She was too young then , but that seems to matter less now...........It was filmed not far from where I grew up , with a whole " 19th Century musical comedy village " put up for it , which may still be there now to this day??
I'm rather fascinated with this whole late-60s/earlish 70s wave of bomb movie musicals which came out a few years after The Sound Of Music/My Fair Lady/Mary Poppins were hits , later in the 60s , and at least according to legend were all humongous bombs , practically bringing the American mainstream movie business down ~ Mame must've been among the last of them bar maybe that Bacharach/David-songs , screenplay by future AIDS chronicler Larry Kramer , redo of Lost Horizon with Liv Ullmann and Sally Kellerman , which I've never seen but have seen some bits of on YT ~ We lived in the northern NYC suburbs and got the Sunday NY Times every week and I'd leaf through their movies/entertainment section (2) and these movies'd have massive ads there for their initial , hard-ticket , NYC premieres ~ I'm remembering the ad for Song Of Norway .
I saw that Rex Harrison version of Doctor Dolittle on a trip to NYC and had the soundttrack LP for it.........
I think part of the reason the movie musical went belly up in the late 1960's is because of the coming age of what is known as the American Countercultre in that era. Instead of musicals like No Strings and Funny Girl, you get shows like Hair and Tommy.
Incidentally, I find it ironic that the same counterculture generation are now the movers and shakers in both business and government.
30 Nov 2014, 10:56 pm
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