At 06:45 AM 8/4/03 -0800, you wrote:
>-------Original Message-------
> >From:
funkmasterj@runbox.com
> >Sent: 08/04/03 04:09 AM
> >To:
rara-avis@icomm.ca
>Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Starr, Movies, Current
Reads
> >
> > Doug wrote:
> >
> > > Hey, I'd vote for Steve Martin in _Dead
Men don't Wear Plaid_.
> >
> >I tried watching this recently, I found it far
too silly and not believable.
> >
> >Eggs in coffee?
> >
> >Jordan
>
>--
>
>Yeah, the same team's "Man With Two Brains" was
*much* more believable ...
>
>(Actually I do love "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid," for
-- among other things
>-- its take on the Hawks/Furthman "You know how to
whistle, don't you?"
>line and for that gorgeous footage it includes from
"The Bribe.")
>
>
>Chris
>
>
>P.S. As far as seeking out "My Favorite Spy" or "They
Got Me Covered" is
>concerned ... they ain't exactly the first Bob Hope
pictures I'd
>choose. Give me "Road to Morocco" or "Ghost Breakers"
any day. But "Spy"
>and "Covered" *do* contain songs cowritten by the
great Johnny Mercer --
>the one in "Covered" cowritten with (ah!) Harold
Arlen and the "Spy" one
>with too-little-known Robert Emmett Dolan.
"Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" is hilarious. It's farce, it's
not supposed to be believable (as opposed half of the noir
films out there that ARE supposed to be believable, yet
become unintentional parodies of 'real life' and the genre.
Think of the David Caruso/Nicholas Cage remake of the Richard
Widmark/Victor Mature noir classic from the 40s. The name
escapes me at the moment. Widmark and Cage played the vicious
brutal thug).
And as for Hope: I've seen "Spy" and the road films, as well
as Ghost Breakers (terrific!) and the ones he did with
Lucille Ball (like
"Fancypants"), and the Paleface films... All great
stuff!
All the Best,
Brian
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