Yes! Yes! Yes! "The Fountainhead" coming on TCM!

Floogeldy

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Fri Sep-09-05 10:55 PM
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Yes! Yes! Yes! "The Fountainhead" coming on TCM!

At about 11:15, CDST.

Howard Roark and that babe that was in "The Day The Earth Stood Still."

:)

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WCGreen

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Fri Sep-09-05 10:57 PM
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1. Possibly one of the worst movies ever made....

But I have to watch...

I am compelled to watch....

Such a mis cast cast you have never seen....

Gary Cooper about 15 years to old....

Partica Neal, about 10 years too young....

And the rest,,,,,,

And the script........

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NMMNG

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Fri Sep-09-05 10:59 PM
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2. I have the videotape

But I'll still watch it when it comes on. I agree it wasn't very well made, but the same could be said of many movies.

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WCGreen

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Fri Sep-09-05 11:05 PM
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5. I have to watch it.......

I can;t stop myself.....

I can recite lines....

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NMMNG

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Fri Sep-09-05 11:10 PM
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7. It's just like when there was talk of them making "Atlas Shrugged"

I knew they'd mess it up, but I also knew I'd see it anyway.

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WCGreen

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Fri Sep-09-05 11:19 PM
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10. They are going to make Atlas Shrugged.....

Man, that would be somethin'

Maybe Mel Gibson could direct it.....

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NMMNG

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Sat Sep-10-05 12:05 AM
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17. Way back four or five years ago one of the cable networks was going to

make a mini-series out of it but it never came to fruition. Who knows if it will ever happen.

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Floogeldy

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Fri Sep-09-05 11:08 PM
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6. Eggzackly!

Almost.

;)

Art, goddamnit!

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Ladyhawk

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Fri Sep-09-05 11:39 PM
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13. My brother loves that movie. He's an Ayn Rand cultist. :D n/t

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LeftyDarthBrodie

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Fri Sep-09-05 11:45 PM
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15. She hated the movie though

I watched a documentary on her, which ended being a great deal of propaganda, and she was not happy with the outcome of this particular adaptation.

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mitchum

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Fri Sep-09-05 11:01 PM
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3. Trashy high camp and Patricia Neal looks great

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In_The_Wind

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Fri Sep-09-05 11:05 PM
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4. movie time

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Tom Kitten

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Fri Sep-09-05 11:10 PM
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8. it is totally trashy...

but strangely compelling at the same time...btw the babe is Patricia Neal...
Basically a fucked up story with some fine acting by some well known stars about a ridiculous philosophy I don't give a shit about...in a nutshell...

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NMMNG

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Fri Sep-09-05 11:16 PM
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9. Here we go

:popcorn: :beer:

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readermostly

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Fri Sep-09-05 11:29 PM
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11. OK, everyone's descriptions have me intrigued, especially the bad movie

part!! I do like Gary Cooper, though, and since it's Friday night and I can sleep late tomorrow, I decided to check it out!

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WCGreen

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Sat Sep-10-05 12:07 AM
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18. Not Gary Coopers best movie...

My favorite of his is Srgt York.....

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WCGreen

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Fri Sep-09-05 11:37 PM
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12. Oh my god... The dialoge is horendous.....

Just compromise, Mr. Rourk, Go with the middle of the road. The people will like it.

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Floogeldy

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Fri Sep-09-05 11:43 PM
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14. It is very direct.

Spoon-fed, as it were.

But that does not necessarily diminish the value of the story. :)

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WCGreen

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Fri Sep-09-05 11:46 PM
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16. I know.. Mrs. WCGreen kicked me out of the bedroom

and told me if I wanted to watch that shit I had to go into the other room...

It's not the same when no one else is there to enjoy it with you....

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moof

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Sat Sep-10-05 12:19 AM
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19. Spoon-fed there's an understatement, in the courtroom scene

when Gary has to give a long speech on the stand, they thought they would never get it filmed because Cooper could not remember more than two or three lines of dialogue at a time.

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Floogeldy

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Sat Sep-10-05 12:25 AM
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20. Thanks for the education.

I never knew that Gary Cooper was a complete fucking moron, before.

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moof

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Sat Sep-10-05 03:16 AM
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24. no, he was just no good at memorizing very many lines at a time

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Doctor_J

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Sat Sep-10-05 12:39 AM
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22. Yes, there was alot of compression to get that book

to a 115-min film. And I thought Roarke was a GREAT character.

"I do not build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build."

Kent Smith's Peter Keating was really weasley too. A George Bush for his time.

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WCGreen

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Sat Sep-10-05 12:45 AM
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23. He was always weasley.......

In every movie I ever saw him in....

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Doctor_J

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Sat Sep-10-05 12:36 AM
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21. I love that movie

hated the book. Roarke was really toned down in the film. The whole story was, actually. I just love Coop and Patricia Neal, and he did that character so well.

Side note - Coop ran off with Neal after they met making this picture. He spent 5 years with her and then returned to his family.

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