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To: SuziQ
LOL! That is actually one of my favorite parts of his. He was just hilarious!

True, he was funny. And he was scary in that cross-dressing serial killer role.

But neither one was exactly Casablanca, was it? That's my point. Caine himself took some roles that degraded the epic quality of Sacred Film. It's like some media whore decrying the decline of pristine American journalism from some mythical Golden Age.

It's a little like B. J. Clinton decrying the low moral standards of the twenty-first century as though he had absolutely no involvement himself. And Bogart made some trashy turkeys too for that matter.
29 posted on 09/03/2006 11:24:03 PM PDT by George W. Bush
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To: George W. Bush
I disagree. Many scripts look "low-budget" or "B-movie" but turn out to be classics. Many classics, with rotten actors, become B-movies. You never know.

In "Magnificent Seven," which I just watched again, the commentary of Walter Mirisch, the producer, said that ALL the brass thought Horst Bucholz would steal the movie, when in fact it was James Coburn (aside from the obvious stars, Brenner and McQueen) who only had seven lines, who stole the movie.

Caine is a great actor because he WORKS, and not every piece of work is a masterpiece. Bogart did crap, too.

47 posted on 09/04/2006 6:08:15 AM PDT by LS
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Yeah, I'm always amused at the folks who say, they don't make them like they used to. True, there were some classics, but most were banal, just like today's films. There are some good movies being made nowadays, you just have to be choosy.


53 posted on 09/04/2006 7:53:22 AM PDT by SuziQ
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