One of these days I should track down the 1970s miniseries version of #PenniesFromHeaven starring Bob Hoskins
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I forgot that that the script for #Chicago is by the guy who also wrote #GodsAndMonsters and directed the last two #Twilight movies, Bill Condon
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OH COME ON! First #BullDurham, now #Chicago! Why does my cable box keep rebooting IN THE LAST FIVE GODDAMN MINUTES?!?
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"A tap dance."
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"You swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?"
"And then some."
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This is as close to a #NoirAlley and #MusicalMatinee crossover as weβre going to get. #Chicago #TCMParty
The closed captions for #Chicago are so funny. They say "can" instead of "ass" but "sh-t" is okay?
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I was not familiar with John C. Reilly before seeing him in #Chicago. "Mister Cellophane" is when I said, "Who *is* this guy?!? He's amazing!"
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Lucy Liu as Kitty the killer heiress!
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Christine Baranski as Miss Sunshine!
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"And then he ran into my knife. He ran into my knife ten times."
Iconic
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Comparing #Cabaret to #Chicago, the former feels a lot grimier than the latter
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As great as the leads are, I would argue that the MVP in #Chicago is John C. Reilly
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And at the end, #Tommy makes his way to the ancestral spawning grounds, like a salmon...?
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My dad says he was once passed by Ann-Margret and Elvis in a convertible, and they were the best looking couple he'd ever seen in real life
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For the record, Ann-Margret is like three years older than Roger Daltrey
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The Specialist's Nurse is played by Imogen Claire, who also shows up in the Ken Russell films #Listzomania, #TheMusicLovers, #TheBoyFriend, #TheDevils, and #TheLairOfTheWhiteWorm, plus #TheRockyHorrorPictureShow and its sequel #ShockTreatment
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Gosh, what a beautiful all-white set! I sure hope nothing happens to it...
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I just realized that Tommy's costume in the "Pinball Wizard" sequence is supposed to have been made from one of the summer camp uniforms
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Ladies and gentlemen, Elton John!
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Have you heard my new band, Lecherous Groaning?
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*A young John Seward Johnson II frantically taking notes*
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Robert Powell was the lead in #Mahler, one of Ken Russell's wildly idiosyncratic Great Composer bio flicks
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If you're a fan of literary horror, Robert Powell, the actor who plays Captain Walker, hosted a BBC series of "partially dramatized readings" of works by M.R. James titled #ClassicGhostStories, which you can watch on YouTube
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This is a lot better than I expected. I was never a Bing Crosby fan, or Marion Davies. But they are really pulling this together, and Ned Sparks and the rest of the cast filling in well. Its all frothy mess but fun. Blackface still an insult tho.
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I know it's not the fault of TCM's programmers but running a bummer like #Camelot as the #MusicalMatinee today may not have been the best choice for the #TCMParty crowd.
Yeah, I'm with those who don't get why Camelot has to be such a BROWN movie. I'm reminded of Roger Ebert's complaint about how in Hook, Neverland "appears to be in the middle of a drought." #TCMParty #MusicalMatinee
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She's *not* a hair hopper #Hairspray #MusicalMatinee
It's Madison time y'all! ππΎ #Hairspray #MusicalMatinee #TCMParty