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George Slv 5th Jan 2016		Cinema Dracula: Prince Of Darkness (1966)	Rated 7/10 I've never considered this an excellent movie. 1965 was a different time from 1958. The mood in this film lacks the concentrated intensity. Andrew Keir is much too broad a personality to create a sinister atmosphere. I didn't think the storyline holds together as well. But there are strong scenes which will create new fans though. That would involve the castle encounters with Klove and Dracula. Barbara Shelley has some chilling sequences. There have been several video releases, of varying quality. The Eastmancolor positives went reddish as usual within ten years of distribution. Recent releases had to be remade from the negatives. Some processing was done. The Optimum DVD turned out a little overly bright, overcompensated. The TCM (Turner Classic Movies) release is well regarded. 5 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
George Slv 5th Jan 2016		78 RPM Teresa Brewer - Copenhagen / Music! Music! Music!	The actual 78 recording at ~3:16 length. [YouTube Video] Mind you this is likely from a CD.
George Slv 5th Jan 2016		Cinema Promises..... Promises! (1963)	Review After the 1950s the day of the Blond Bombshell was over, and Jayne wasn't being used. So she got her husband to produce this showcase for her, with several nude scenes of her. Fat chance that would be shown in US theaters, it was all cut up and didn't amount to much. 3 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
George Slv 4th Jan 2016		TV Great Movies (1957 - 1970)	How many times did I see Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen, and the like, as a CBC movie in those days! The theme music from ~1960 was the instrumental Carnival (Manha de Carnaval) from the album by The Medallion Strings, from the 1959 film Black Orpheus. Hear the archive sample.
George Slv 1st Jan 2016		Book Adam Nedeff - The Matchless Gene Rayburn	The story that brought me here is that Rayburn as a New York morning radio host in 1949 tried a gimmick to get a raise. He said he could make a hit of any song by featuring it on his program. He then looked for the worst song he could find, and thought that would be "Music, Music, Music". There were many cover recordings of it made after he played it. Then he got Teresa Brewer to record it. Sure enough. Teresa's London label only put it as the B side to Copenhagen, an oldie jazz-pop hit, which was not going to get Teresa far. Released in December 1949. See sample pages at Amazon.com.
George Slv 31st Dec 2015		Book Joel Whitburn - Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories	This is not an anthology of anything. If anything it is a compilation of data, but that is not a classification. It's a reference.
George Slv 28th Dec 2015		Book Paul Hemphill - The Nashville Sound	Who knows who the arrangers were for the Nashville Sound recordings in the early 60s, like the strings for Jim Reeves and Patsy Cline? [YouTube Video] [YouTube Video] RCA's Nashville studio was even called the Nashville Sound Studio. They were probably the best example.
George Slv 27th Dec 2015		Cinema The Cassandra Crossing (1976)	Rated 3/10 A passenger train running across Europe is carrying a deadly plague, and the passengers will not be let off. A plan is developed that may sacrifice their lives, while another group works to save the situation. A European production like The Andromeda Strain. I can only conclude that continental Europeans aren't very good at making movies. These do not turn out exciting or involving or interesting. 3 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
George Slv 27th Dec 2015		Cinema Arthur The King (Merlin And The Sword) (1985)	Review The film is controversial because there are fairy tale type story elements, which some people become ashamed of. The TV network hesitated 3 years before giving it a national showing. I say never fear, that's what fantasy movies are for. It was shown on random stations including Canadian before that. For example there's a story of a girl with a curse on her in the form of a pig's nose. One of our knights agrees to marry her in return for release from captivity. This theme was developed in Penelope (2006). This was to be Candice Bergen's US TV premiere in 1982, but by 1985 not a premiere. As the witch Morgan Le Fay she was given a 1970s afro wig. She has been mocked for this and her non-Oscar acting. I say it's not often you can get a quality filming of the Arthur legend, so I enjoyed this find. It's a colorful and intriguing tale. From a local Winnipeg TV showing at night, I seem to recall an ending after Arthur's funeral where Lancelot continues the quest, and finds Morgana still alive living in a cave. This was cut from the US and VHS editions. Take a look at a sample TV showing in this TV magazine. 3 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
George Slv 27th Dec 2015		Cinema The Last Temptation Of Christ (1988)	I noticed a still picture from the film which looked like a butcher shop, and one of the skinned corpses hanging there had the definite shape of a human female. Explanation about the filmmakers?
George Slv 25th Dec 2015		Vinyl Album Patsy Cline - The Patsy Cline Story	Originally issued in 1963. Walking After Midnight was rerecorded with a better Nashville Sound style.
George Slv 25th Dec 2015		Book Joel Whitburn - Joel Whitburn's Hot Country Songs	7th ed had the B sides. Some other editions substituted that with the A songwriter.
George Slv 24th Dec 2015		Book Paul Hemphill - The Nashville Sound	Review The author was familiar with the late 1960s scene but not the original early 1960s genuine "Nashville Sound" period. Coverage of that first period is minimal, which was what the Nashville Sound is really supposed to be about. He talks about the winds of change, people like Glen Campbell, and how country music was turning to Countrypolitan. 2 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
George Slv 24th Dec 2015		Cinema Casino Royale (2006)	The kind of gambling they used for LeChiffre here was "shorting" a stock. Something that was controversial with those who knew the stock market. However how many people actually understood what that meant? Another theme was sabotaging this largest plane of its kind. I saw this as a reference to the Ukrainian Antonov transport, which project I suspect was sabotaged when a plane carrying all its engineers to a meeting in Georgia or thereabouts crashed mysteriously in real life.
George Slv 22nd Dec 2015		Cinema Drop Zone (1994)	Rated 10/10 I'm sorry, I tried hard, but I can't think of anything wrong with this movie. It revolves around skydiving and parachuting. A gang led by Gary Busey, who is super in the role, will parachute onto a building roof and from there rob it. Another group of skydivers try to stop them by parachuting after them. Colorful photography, good stunts, great pacing and action. 3 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
George Slv 22nd Dec 2015		Cinema Deep Blue Sea (1999)	You lock all the doors in your station, but the sharks know how to open them. Be very afraid.
George Slv 22nd Dec 2015		Cinema The Abyss (1989)	Rated 9/10 The final reward for watching flop underwater pix in previous years, this Cameron film delivers. Cameron developed a reputation for stuffing two movies into one. Studios gave him enuf money, and I guess he didn't know when to stop writing. The first story here is the peril of a submerged submarine crew, a hurricane above water, and rescue attempts. The second is the discovery of underwater aliens in the area. Maybe the Bermuda Triangle? I was a little dissatisfied that the first story took up so much attention, when you got this potential with the aliens, which seems secondary. Photography and special effects are superb. James Cameron writes his own screenplays. He seems to have establishment liberal tendencies. For his characters' situations here he wrote in a bunch of scorn for "conspiracy theories" or "paranoia". When someone calls others "paranoid" I immediately write them off as a fool. He wrote Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio as a bitchy feminist a***ole. Those were the times. Cameron was told by a female TV interviewer later that it annoyed everyone, male and female. (Are females annoyed by that? I thought they gloated.) He pointed out as we know now that most scripts are written by males, and it's hard for them to see the female approach. (which I guess would be to throw down their arms and offer themselves to the enemy. or, there are no enemies. Vote for Hillary to be sure.) So anywayzes, this was a milestone theatrical event. The theatrical release had to be cut in length to 2:25, and Cameron made the decisions on cutting. Then the full length of 2:51 was released on video as the Special Edition. 4 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
George Slv 22nd Dec 2015		Cinema The Deep (1977)	Rated 2/10 This was one of the flop underwater movies that led to the very successful The Abyss. I saw this on a VHS rental. Nudity was cut out, which they say raised the rating on it. As I recall it seemed like a movie about nothing. A non-purpose non-event. Boring, with nothing interesting happening underwater either. The supposed menace of a moray eel turned out as nothing too. Next I recall Leviathan of 1989, which did not satisfy. So when The Abyss came everyone was saying "finally" a good undersea movie. 5 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
George Slv 22nd Dec 2015		Cinema Saturn 3 (1980)	Rated 2/10 A valiant attempt at a large-scale outer-space film. For me it did not work. It just did not make an impression in the end. Points of note: 1) Farrah Fawcett is sexy for heterosexuals. One shot shows her right breast for a couple seconds. In another she is naked just out of bed and Douglas throws a sheet over to her. That was one skillful shot. We don't see her body, the sheet is covering her flying thru the air til she catches it. In another scene they wanted her to drop her top below her breasts. She decided not to and just showed her shoulders. Take what you can get. 2) Kirk Douglas naked is what the producers were obviously more interested in. Another tremendously skilful shot that must have taken several takes. No sheet, he is just naked and runs toward the camera to pick something up, and his right knee covers his crotch. So this movie is not bashful. 3) [spoiler] The robot. We are told that it cannot be destroyed once activated. Not by water and not by cold. So at the end they destroy it by ... having it fall into cold water. That about wraps it up folks. Thump. Flop. 4 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
George Slv 21st Dec 2015		Cinema The Ice Pirates (1984)	Review In the future water is scarce in the solar system, ice is transported between planets, and this group of pirates steals from the transport spaceships. It is considered a turkey because it is. It is not exciting, it is not interesting, and the humour is not funny. It's a garbage production with what they call "toilet humor", crass attempts by low-class producers. There is a metal mechanical claw that castrates men so they can serve the princess. In one scene the princess is sleeping on her back with a sheet covering, and one of our boys goes to lift the top of the sheet to take a little peek. There is no nudity. They say it killed Mary Crosby's career, and almost the other stars. MGM studio never actually recovered from the loss of Louis Mayer in the 1950s, and this illustrates why. Bankruptcy ahead. You thought from the promotion that you will see something interesting in the Star Wars era. 3 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
George Slv 18th Dec 2015		Cinema Vampire Circus (1972)	Rated 10/10 This was the common situation of an outside producer making the film for Hammer Films. It turns out to be one of their best. It's the 1970s so there is nudity. A fascinating tale of a travelling circus that consists mainly of vampires, who can change into animals at will. They come to this town to avenge the killing years ago of the head local vampire, the typical local baron who takes local children as blood sacrifices. The usual crowd scene at the start of angry villagers with pitchforks and shovels marching on the castle and burning it down. At night with torches. What to do with these evil nobles ... that's feudalism for you. There was a problem with time and finances in filming, and some scenes were incomplete, leaving questions about the story. It may be those have been restored now, it seems fine. I don't know. The full UK edition was 1:27, the US censored edition was 1:24. Really colorful and appealing sensually and visually. 4 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
George Slv 17th Dec 2015		Cinema Winter A-Go-Go (1965)	Twistin, is your copy at CG (secret place)? I'm not sure what spherical means. It ends up on a 35mm film, which is AR 1.50. The lens is spherical anyway. Not that I care too much about it. The US VOD could not be sent outside US. The famous Reflections perform a half-baked song in it.
George Slv 14th Dec 2015		Cinema Winter A-Go-Go (1965)	You can see the movie on Youtube at the moment, a pale old VHS copy. Is there a good quality around? Looking at the title above I see the widescreen was made by cutting the top and bottom of the picture. The width is about the same on the 4:3 TV copy.
George Slv 13th Dec 2015		CD Album The Reflections - (Just Like) Romeo & Juliet	Review Complete including early and later songs by individual members and different group formations. Quality is fine, altho I'll never know what someone means by "digitally remastered" as it says. "Special Fanclub Release" from Germany. The notable hits and attempts are 1, 3, 5, 11, 13, 14, 18, 19, 23. The hits were arranged by Callelo and Sonny Sanders of Detroit. Song 30 was a solo release by lead singer Tony Michaels ((Tony Micale). Track 32 is just the instrumental backing track for it. The group also made an appearance in the 1965 film "Winter A-Go-Go" singing "I'm Sweet On You" (written by Boyce, Hart, Venet). The CD makes the usual assertions about reserving all copy rights, but it's not clear what company or nation. 2 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
George Slv 11th Dec 2015		TV Second Chances (1993 - 1994)	Review A primetime soap I suppose, but more a mystery. One storyline would last a few weeks. Set in a sunny California town with extensive sets constructed. Such an impressive and attractive cast, what a disappointment it was to many people when it had to be cancelled. I thought the complex mystery plots were on the contrived side however. Megan was married for a time then. 4 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
George Slv 6th Dec 2015		Classical Item Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy - Magic Fire Music	On his "The Wagner Album" double LP, this is record 1. MG30300.
George Slv 6th Dec 2015		Vinyl Album The Searchers - The Searchers No. 4	B4 - "Be My Baby (I Don't Mean Maybe)" is described wrong on the record itself. It's really the Ronettes' song "Be My Baby" written by Spector, Barry, Greenwich. And B5 Four Strong Winds is only arranged by Curtis, Pender. It's the Canadian composition of Ian Tyson. Some of these sound very much like the Everly Brothers. like A3, B2, B3. This US LP is closest to the UK Take Me For What I'm Worth, but their releases were not the same.
George Slv 5th Dec 2015		Vinyl Album The Wailers [Tacoma] - Tall Cool One	Tall Cool One here was a rerecording, while the Etiquette single that year was the original reissued.
George Slv 5th Dec 2015		Vinyl Album Teresa Brewer - Terrific Teresa Brewer	Youtube full album from Rarity Music [YouTube Video] With advertisements. First song has some digital faults so bear with it. And for me in Canada the second song is all silence. Can they be that sophisticated with licencing? It seems that tone has been adjusted to avoid high pitch. If the video is removed in future just delete this comment.
George Slv 5th Dec 2015		Cinema These Are The Damned (1963)	Review A fascinating science-fiction film that turned out far different from what Hammer studio first envisaged. The basic original story involves English characters like Oliver Reed, who explore this island off England, where they discover that a group of young children are being raised in a radioactive underground environment. They are not harmed by it, and it is planned that after a nuclear war they would emerge and continue the human race. These intruders create dangerous consequences. Joseph Losey, on the run from the US for being a communist, was hired to finish it. Well he does it in his style. Adds a character and brings his Jewish American friend Macdonald Carey to play the major role. More story elements are added involving him, which could be viewed as distracting and extraneous. In the US it was renamed The Damned and shortened. I've never seen that edit available, and would like to. 3 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?

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