Posted on 03/17/2023 5:46:07 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Michael Caine turned 90 this week. I can hardly believe it.
Caine was born in 1933, and like his irreplaceable contemporaries — Robert Duvall (Born 1931) and Clint Eastwood (born 1930) — he keeps on keeping on. How fortunate we are for that.
If you read Caine’s superb 1992 autobiography, What’s It All About?, you’ll discover that his true contemporaries were legends like Peter O’Toole and Terence Stamp and that he grew frustrated watching their careers explode while he scraped along…
But he hung in there, and stardom finally arrived at the ripe old age of 31 with Zulu (1964), a supporting role he basically lucked into. Zulu ended up being a box office hit (and is now rightly regarded as a classic), and in it, Caine proved he was something special: a true actor who was also a movie star, a leading man capable of character roles. But, most of all, there is his depth, a bottomless reservoir of Something’s-Going-On-Down-There-And-Something’s-Going-To-Happen. Without opening his mouth, Caine’s mere presence gives his every character a history and emotional life.
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I was never able to look at Demi Moore the same way after seeing the movie “Disclosure”. It had the same effect that “Fatal Attraction” has on many people regarding Glenn Close (though I never found her that attractive myself)
Get Carter.
Michael Douglas can’t catch a break with all these crazy women.
Here is what the left-wing Guardian mentions about his politics.
“He traditionally (but not exclusively) votes Conservative. He adored Margaret Thatcher, respected David Cameron and voted leave in the 2016 referendum. One day, I suggest, he’s going to reconsider that position, but he’s having none of it. He still fully supports Brexit, despite the current supply-chain chaos, despite the burgeoning winter-fuel crisis.
“Oh, that’s teething trouble,” he assures me. “It’s obviously not going to go well immediately.” Then he slightly shifts position. “I mean, I don’t know what’s going to happen. I’ve got to wait for Boris to come back off holiday. I mean, to do that, to go on holiday right now, it’s unbelievable. Empty shelves. People queueing for petrol. And you think: ‘Wait a minute. He’s gone to Marbella?’”
So wait – he thinks Brexit is good, but he’s unimpressed with Johnson personally? “Oh, I supported him. I thought he was great. But now I’m very disappointed in him. He made a big mistake there, going to Marbella. Let’s see if when he comes back he can settle it all. Otherwise we might have a socialist government.”
Of course, I am biased, but 1933 was an outstandingly successful year for important births...😎
Although, 1930-1935 were all excellent years for future vintage American actors and actresses... Several are still alive...
I still like to remember Demi as she was in “About Last Night”.
In her day, she could make me write bad checks.
Secondhand Lions
A man needs a good map that’s for sure
https://youtu.be/g92XRsTJt18?t=57
We’ll see what the man is selling then we shoot him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S80S4AM6Ukc
Second Hand Lions Bar FIGHT Scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkccqolaVGg
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“Zulu” 1964 Movie - Final Battle Including “Men of Harlech” Song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQrE8vOM0ss
Zulu (1964) - The Zulu Are Gone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaMAWGTGFj0
LOL!
Hahahahaha...bad checks!
Bad Checks! Bad Checks!
I would have to look again. I read something about him the other day that made me blanch, as a Conservative. I was very disappointed.
I don’t want to tar him unfairly on his birthday!
Here is a very recent thread on him.
That is the Biggest Load of Bull****’ — Michael Caine Gives Strong Rebuke of Government Claim That Classic Film ‘Incites the Far-Right’
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4137448/posts?page=26#26
Thanks for posting. Great acting in great movies!
I think that artificial public / private divide you speak of is exactly what I am talking about. Regardless of where or how a person applies their trade, why do people around them not still praise those people in places that reach lots of other people, such as websites? Or more importantly, do it more often?
I say the answer is propaganda. These tools through history whether it is the town cryer, the bully pulpit, radio, television or the internet, cause people to focus more of their attention elsewhere and it allows small groups of humans to seed the societal discussion. It is this socialogical phenomenon that has existed throughout human history and is something I wonder about.
Again...that is why we hear more about Michael Caine than about people’s aunts and I find that reality unfortunate.
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