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Nit-Picking with Ronald Reagan
Herbert Kuhner
I saw films with actor Ronald Reagan in my youth - a handsome charming hero, but he didn’t have the charisma to rise above B-films and supporting roles in A-films.
Asked by a reporter in 1966 what kind of governor he would make, he replied, “I don’t know. I’ve never played a governor.” Well, he […]
Posted: February 28th, 2011 under Polemics, Dossier, Political, Film.
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Putting on Weight
Herbert Kuhner
There’s a Hollywood myth about Lawrence Olivier and Dustin Hoffman, Hofmann is reputed to have gone without sleep for a whole weekend in order to be convincing in a scene in Marathon Man. Olivier is alleged to have suggested to the dishevelled Hofmann: “Why don’t you try acting, dear boy?!”
Robert Di Niro, Silvester […]
Posted: June 12th, 2010 under Polemics, Text, Film.
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Orson
I started at the top and worked my way down.
- Orson Welles
Orson Welles often pulled the chestnuts out of the fire,
but he threw them in just as often.
I saw Citizen Kane in 1955 at the 55th St Playhouse, which is off Seventh Ave. At the time it was still an “art house.” Years later it […]
Posted: December 6th, 2009 under Text, Dossier, Film.
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Larry, Marilyn, Vivien and Noblesse Oblige
Herbert Kuhner
He could speak Shakespeare’s lines as naturally as if he were actually thinking them.
- Charles Bennett, English playwright
Larry was the greatest of them all - and the most handsome. He was the prince and his princess was Vivien. She wasn’t bad at acting, and she was the most beautiful of them all.
Laurence Olivier directed […]
Posted: May 16th, 2009 under Polemics, Materialien, Dossier, Film.
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Homage to the Three Stooges
Manny, Moe and Jack are not the Three Stooges; they’re the Pep Boys. The Pep Boys used their first names after Moe saw a dress shop called Minnie, Maude and Mabel’s, way back in the Twenties. The Pep Boys didn’t have an act. They were the owners of the Pep chain stores for auto parts.
The […]
Posted: May 11th, 2009 under Reviews, Materialien, Film.
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Short Pieces on Film
Herbert Kuhner
De box looks at vun fellow, and de box says
“Yes, dot vun is for me!”
It looks at annoder, and it says, “Nawww!”
- Akim Tamiroff, as related by Orson Wells
Larry, Marilyn, Vivien and Noblesse Oblige
He could speak Shakespeare’s lines as naturally as if he were actually thinking them.
- Charles Bennett, English playwright
Larry was the […]
Posted: April 3rd, 2009 under Materialien, Stories, Film.
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Henry V and The Westerner
Herbert Kuhner
The two love scenes in films that are indelible to me are between Laurence Olivier and Renée Asherson in Henry V and Gary Cooper and Doris Davenport in The Westerner. In Henry, Larry playing Harry proposes to Princess Kate after subjugating her country. He tells her that he is a man of action, not […]
Posted: September 18th, 2008 under Materialien, Stories, Film.
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