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Snarfing down organic orange juice...
May. 12th, 2002 10:40 am...and loving every sip.
Well, Lee and Dwayne didn't get back until well after midnight (musta been some extra-innings game!). Myself, I returned the Hogan and Bride films and rented a trio of new ones: The Big Sleep, with Bogie and Bacall, M, with Peter Lorre, and The Mummy Returns, just as a change of pace.
Talking about Peter Lorre, he played the role of a "Mr. O'Hara" in Beat the Devil, one of a group known to the viewer as "The Committee," who had engaged Bogart to help them buy mineral-rich land in Africa. Lorre had put on quite a bit of weight at the time of the film, and though he is a minor character, the script gives him a couple of nice moments.
One of them is an observation he makes about time, saying something along the lines of "the Swiss manfacture it, the Italians squander it, the Americans say it is money, Buddhists say it does not exist. Me, I say time is a crook." (Actually, my memory is not all that bad. According to IMDB, the actual quote is: "Time. Time. What is time? Swiss manufacture it. French hoard it. Italians squander it. Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist. Do you know what I say? I say time is a crook.")
* * * I decided to continue with the Bogart films and watched The Big Sleep last night. The movie is based on one of Raymond Chandler's best known detective stories, featuring Philip Marlowe, though it wasn't the first Marlowe story to hit the silver screen (Dick Powell played the role in the film version of Farewell, My Lovely two years earlier, in 1944).
Of course, the big draw for the film at that time was the pairing of Bogart and Bacall. Everyone was hoping for a repeat performance (in terms of box office success) of To Have and Have Not. Indeed, the film's release was delayed so that some scenes could be re-shot to give Bacall more positive exposure (she'd apparently bombed in her second film, and Warner didn't want to take chances with this one).
Anyway, seeing the movie on Lee's TV (which has a bigger screen than I am used to) certainly enhanced the experience. I recall seeing the film before, but there are some parts that seemed new to me (the bit near the beginning, where Marlowe befriends the owner of a bookstore - played by Dorothy Malone - across the street from a place he's shadowing), or maybe they were just edited out in the version I watched.
* * * Anyway, the OJ's almost finished, and the day awaits.
Later.
Cheers...
Well, Lee and Dwayne didn't get back until well after midnight (musta been some extra-innings game!). Myself, I returned the Hogan and Bride films and rented a trio of new ones: The Big Sleep, with Bogie and Bacall, M, with Peter Lorre, and The Mummy Returns, just as a change of pace.
Talking about Peter Lorre, he played the role of a "Mr. O'Hara" in Beat the Devil, one of a group known to the viewer as "The Committee," who had engaged Bogart to help them buy mineral-rich land in Africa. Lorre had put on quite a bit of weight at the time of the film, and though he is a minor character, the script gives him a couple of nice moments.
One of them is an observation he makes about time, saying something along the lines of "the Swiss manfacture it, the Italians squander it, the Americans say it is money, Buddhists say it does not exist. Me, I say time is a crook." (Actually, my memory is not all that bad. According to IMDB, the actual quote is: "Time. Time. What is time? Swiss manufacture it. French hoard it. Italians squander it. Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist. Do you know what I say? I say time is a crook.")
Of course, the big draw for the film at that time was the pairing of Bogart and Bacall. Everyone was hoping for a repeat performance (in terms of box office success) of To Have and Have Not. Indeed, the film's release was delayed so that some scenes could be re-shot to give Bacall more positive exposure (she'd apparently bombed in her second film, and Warner didn't want to take chances with this one).
Anyway, seeing the movie on Lee's TV (which has a bigger screen than I am used to) certainly enhanced the experience. I recall seeing the film before, but there are some parts that seemed new to me (the bit near the beginning, where Marlowe befriends the owner of a bookstore - played by Dorothy Malone - across the street from a place he's shadowing), or maybe they were just edited out in the version I watched.
Later.
Cheers...
