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I know I'm 7 years too late, but if your wife died in the horrific way Angie Dickinson's character died, I would hope you'd care regardless if you found out she was being unfaithful.
The Senator would have married her because she is gorgeous and having her for a wife would only enhance his political aspirations. (I would have voted for Stratton for president in 1980or '84 if I could have Lauren Hutton as First Lady.)
There's no open-and-shut case of divorce in California. She committed adultery. So what? California is famously a community property state. She'd probably end up with half his fortune. I am not sure about this, but was divorce in CA (as well as the rest of the country) no-fault at that time, 1979-80? If so, the adultery would be even less important. I just don't see her walking away with nothing especially if they had been married a while, 7, 10 years. And if she was married to him before he became senator, no way is she getting 0. She could have banged every player on the L.A. Raiders. She's still getting 50%.
So because a 19th Century Russian playwright came up with that theme it has to be a law that is obeyed across all media for time immemorial? Peele was attempting to avoid being formulaic. He borrowed heavily from past films/novels (i.e., Seconds (1966), The Stepford Wives (1975)). Does he have to pay homage to every previous artist for the past two centuries?
I think she also played Conrad Bain (Mr. Drummond's) sister on Diff'rent Strokes.
My mom, who would have been in her early-mid 20's when that episode aired still references that chicken soup drowning scene!
Malcom MacDowell as 'Alex' in A Clockwork Orange (1971) was stilted and robotic?
I wonder why they did not include that scene. Must've been that they did not want to discard the theory that it was all in Jack's head, a victim of cabin fever. But I always thought the Ullman role was a waste of veteran actor Barry Nelson's talents. Perhaps he took the part because of that final scene and was disappointed when it was edited from the final cut?
Yes, I think they were from Poland or an Eastern European country.
I suppose he was good insofar as he played an insufferable character who treated human beings as means to an end, but experienced no consequences for his actions. The character who played his wife was identical. Awful characters, and a shame to see Broderick reduced to playing that role when he can do so much more. I have a feeling he did it because he didn't have to leave his house. (I think the house where all of his scenes were shot was his and Sara Jessica Parker's actual house on Long Island.)
Speak for yourself, Avi. I had a lot of fun with shiksas, but I also married one, had three kids with her, and have remained happily married to her for over 15 years.
Of course they're jealous. The girls are jealous they don't look like her. They guys are jealous they can't have her. So the only thing they can attack her about is the fact that she's older than them. Nobody would think she's 14 years older than them, but even if she's 22-23, they can make themselves feel better by saying, "What's a college student or recent grad doing at a high school seniors' party?"
Yes, Packer, the man in the jeans and the striped, collared shirt was the killer, in terms of the serial killing strangler. However, Sandy Marshall's husband, Derek, attempted to kill her twice. He cut the brake lines of her new car, and then he tried to strangle her on the back stairs in an effort to pin it on the strangler (Packer). The ironic thing was Packer had no interest in killing Marshall because her infirmity reminded him of his later mother. But he killed or wanted to kill nearly every other young, attractive woman in the episode. Marshall's husband only wanted her dead because he stood to inherit her fortune. It really was quite sad when you think about how that character would have to come to grips with the double trauma she experienced.
I seem to recall that from the original Austin Powers movie (1997). "Testicles, Spectacles, Wallet, Watch, and Keys." But maybe it was in Nuns on the Run. I don't think I ever saw the complete movie.
Yes, it is because it is so poorly delivered that it is so funny. I thought this thread was about unintentionally funny lines. Clearly this 'actor' is trying to sell the importance of everything being put in writing so that they don't go out of the frying pan with Gekko and into the fire with Wildman. But it is rendered meaningless and hilarious because of how the actor assigned to deliver the line enunciates it.
Hey, sorry I'm a decade late in replying, but it fits his character perfectly. He's an old-school union rep. who has worked hard for little monetary reward. But he doesn't cut corners. He "don't lay down with whites and he don't wake up next to them." He's brusque and he tells it like it is. He couldn't get through to his son before he broke the law and got caught. Hopefully, going to jail (for a short time) will be the wake-up call he needs without detaining him so long that he can't build a solid career once he gets out.
They weren't really driving the car.
He said that because he was behaving like a petulant little boy who wasn't getting his way. There was little if any truth to that statement. He was sore because his father wasn't giving him what he wanted when he wanted it. Carl had very good reason to withhold his support as was proven shortly after that scene.
No, beancrisp is not kidding. Jurors let these defendants off the hook all the time because they invent their own elements of the crime regardless of the (lesser) requirements comprised within the insider trading statute(s).
What about when that same actor in the scene with Sir Lawrence (Terrence Stamp) says, "Your contract has got to be iron-clad." I have a buddy who is also a huge fan of this movie and we go out of our way to use the word "iron-clad" in a sentence just so we can say it like that guy.
I think you're dead-on, holly61. Sorry it took me three yers to come to your defense! It would have been a great foil to the Alex P. Keaton character he fashioned on Family Ties. Kind like this is what would happen to Alex if all of his dreams came true. But I also think that Michael J. Fox had the chops to take on this role. He didn't only excel at 'nice guy' comedy roles like Marty McFly or Teen Wolf. Remember Platoon? And he did a nice job pretending to be a finance whiz in Secret of My Success a year later. So, yes, I think you're right, Holly.