tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567168789336947243.post5414988134825478978..comments2024-02-25T09:45:48.931-05:00Comments on Lally's Alley: BLONDELL, DARNELL AND LOMBARD [ON TCM]Lallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05310472614196384595noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567168789336947243.post-21265344485713556542011-09-02T12:55:08.174-04:002011-09-02T12:55:08.174-04:00K, Twentieth Century is a mystery to me. I've ...K, Twentieth Century is a mystery to me. I've seen it many times and also saw two different Broadway versions of it—the first time was the first time I ever saw Kevin Kline, before he'd made a movie, who knocked me out in it, and the last was with Alec Baldwin, who had me laughing so hard I cried, so obviously it worked. And yet every time I see it I have almost no memory of the story other than a broad outline. It seems to be all about the performances, which are meant to be comic, farcical even, Barrymore's included, who, for my taste, always seemed to be aware of his histrionics being intentionally over the top, as opposed to say Laurence Oilivier, whose hamminess I never got, and he didn't seem to either.Lallyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05310472614196384595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567168789336947243.post-6072731039563388582011-09-02T11:57:21.283-04:002011-09-02T11:57:21.283-04:00It's only been over for two days but I already...It's only been over for two days but I already miss TCM's Summer Under the Stars. Its such a great way to see movies, always intelligently presented.<br /><br />However, I have never understood the appeal of "Twentieth Century". It may be one of the first screwball comedies ever made but the humor just seems too broad and everyone too hammy. And of course John Barrymore is at the top of that particular list.<br /><br />Joan Blondell has always been very high on my list of sexy women of the Thirties. Other women from that era don't seem nearly as modern as she does.-K-https://www.blogger.com/profile/03289562368002376807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567168789336947243.post-76566113506775888992011-08-31T16:01:17.301-04:002011-08-31T16:01:17.301-04:00Phoebe, great to hear from you and congratulations...Phoebe, great to hear from you and congratulations on the great job you and your collaborators are doing with Cahuenga Press. And happy to hear your farflung family survived Irene okay.<br />When my daughter lost everything in one of those Southern California fires (Malibu, I think it was '94) I was amazed afterwards to see one house entirely burned to the ground with washing machines and cars just pools of melted metal, and one next door completely untouched.<br />Seemed similar in Irene's case. Some houses around me have no power still, or a house that got crushed by a falling tree and one next door where the tree missed it by less than an inch!<br />All the more reason to be grateful I think. Mostly for just still being live.Lallyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05310472614196384595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567168789336947243.post-24355974065503251912011-08-31T14:45:43.275-04:002011-08-31T14:45:43.275-04:00Hey Michael,
I got your hellos from Harry and here...Hey Michael,<br />I got your hellos from Harry and here I am. We just retired from teaching and so now I sit in my little studio room behind our house thinking about poetry. I just listened to a video on Silliman's blog of John Weiners reading 8 days before his death - amazing. Also sad - he is reading without teeth and so close to the end.<br />I love to read your blog. Updates: my cousin in Waterbury VT said the whole downtown was flooded, but all in my family are fine. One niece in Branford CT still has no power.My son has a house in Montauk and I think things are OK there. My sister on Nantucket says all OK.<br />xo PhoebePhoebenoreply@blogger.com