Oh…that item that mentioned a scene in Mission: Impossible III in which Tom Cruise “gets beaten up pretty badly” and an alleged “Paramount insider” saying that a “test audience clapped” when they saw it, and that “it was kind of weird…you’d think Tom√¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢√É‚Äû√ɬ¥s people wouldn’t have allowed it to stay in the film”? It came from Roger Friedman‘s column from last Tuesday (4.11), which I obviously should have zeroed in on earlier.
Roughly two months ago a very early draft of Eric Roth‘s screenplay for Killers of the Flower Moon (dated 2.20.17,...
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Frances McDormand‘s Fern was strong but mule-stubborn and at the end of the day self-destructive, and this stunted psychology led...
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Can’t decide which performance is better, although I’ve always leaned toward Tina Vitale, her cynical New Jersey moll behind the...
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Two days ago (1.19) a Facebook tribute congratulated Tippi Hedren for having reached her 94th year (blow out the candles!)...
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A friend suggested a list of the Ten Best American Crime Flicks of the ‘70s. By which he meant films...
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I’ve never been able to give myself over to Sam Peckinpah’s Major Dundee, a 1965 Civil War–era western, and I’ve...
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