Woman, She is a Goddess to me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxgC-uBw1K0 ^ | 30 April, 2007 | J. Wright

[RunningWolf]

Good Dodge

Can I answer your questions?

Yes or No

[RunningWolf]

I have had a difficult week, but I am getting with my Pastor and a good friend from my newfound family in my Church.

I hope that I will spend more and more time there.

[RunningWolf]

This thread was a good example of why not to post soused, and that is a problem for me at times. It is something I hope to work on thru faith based methods, rather than ‘the spiritual’ but rather bereft of holiness 12 step groups, which never did anything for me including during my 8 years of abstinence and other significant but smaller periods (2 years etc.)

Sorry for such a performance freeper friends.

[Fester Chugabrew]

This thread was a good example of why not to post soused . . .

Most folks around here have a thick enough skin to understand and let it go. Besides, I much enjoyed the post and subsequent responses. Terrific entertainment. Don't flog yourself too much over this. It's not as if God had no reason to give us a Savior, and He's given His very best for us all. Best to ya!

[Bender2]

Re: I just don’t GET the Scarlet Johanson thing. There are some really beautiful women out there...and she’s just not one of ‘em. Her face is put together all wrong.

I agree... She was a strange looking young girl in The Horse Whisperer, The Man Who Wasn't There & Ghost World.

Then when I saw her in Lost in Translation (Terrible film and the screenplay must have been not more than 8 pages long!) she started off with her near nakked fat hinney... Then she looked great in the metal colored wig, then strangely not attractive in other scenes... Especiallly in both The Black Dahlia & The Prestige. Both pretty good flick even with her Jekyll and Hyde looks!

Nowadays, she is a babe in one photo, film or tv ad, then just a cute/not cute girl in the next. And it goes like that, off and on. She looked great in one scene of a film, then not in the next...

Never a dull moment, eh?

Of course, when you have classy, smoking hot, classic good looks... like me, it is hard to be humble!

[Bender2]

RE: Kim Novak

Here's some Hollywood history:

BTW, blackie, I'm on my 4th Keystone, so excuse the typos...

Harry Cohn once asked David Niven in the early 1950s, "Could God make a tree?"

He continued before David could reply, "My g*ddamned prop department can make the best f^*king trees known to man or God, but not even God can make a movie star! God knows I've tried to make Kim Novak a movie star and it sure the f^*k ain't working!"

Anyway, I agree she was really easy one the eyes, but she became the classic movie star that couldn't act her way out of a paper bag...

Until her part in 1980's The Mirror Crack'd did she show any acting chops. Alas, that was just about her last film acting job...

[word_warrior_bob]

RunningWolf posted another thread which is his opus, he has asked for his account to be deleted permanently.

This thread and subsequent taunting ;)) caused his exit.

Actually he said he talked to his pastor and FreeRepublic is one of the things he has to give up, along with the drinking I guess. I didn’t know pastors thought FR was unhealthy, maybe he can get the pastor FR ban amended.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Hmm, well, maybe that’s part of a classic movie star/goddess. Acting ability desired but not required.

I have seen actors that can somehow have a special “presence” on the screen & yet at the same time have very little apparent acting ability. Kind of a strange dichotomy.

[blackie]

I watched “Lost in Translation” last night on HBO (we subscribe during the “Sopranos” season) it really sucked and those jerks at HBO gave it 3 1/2 stars???
It seemed like everyone was stoned and in another world.

Scarlet didn’t look too bad when she smiled, but that wasn’t very often.

What a waste of time!!

[blackie]

Kim lives here in Oregon with her veterinarian Bob Malloy.
They got married in 1976.

she raises horses and llamas.

In 1981, Kim played, of all people, Kit Marlowe in the TV series “Falcon Crest” (1981). Her last film, on the silver screen, was Liebestraum (1991), in which she played a terminally ill woman with a past.

[Bender2]

Re: I watched “Lost in Translation” last night... What a waste of time!!

No argument here, Blackie!

Most of my adult life was geared at being a screenwriter and even though I did not achieve the success I aimed for, I did learn a thing or two. Enough to even teach a few screen writing courses on the college level...

When Lost in Translation came out in 2003, the reviews were fabulous, nonstop 'kissy-hinney-to-the-max!' I figured they were all this way because Lost was written and directed by Sofia Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola's littler girl!

A few of my still Hollywood based chums said the script was originally written for Tom Cruise, but he turned it down. Then it came out of turnaround when Bill Murray came on board.

When I finally did see it, I was flabbergasted! I could not believe people who actually wrote about and review films could give any credence to that 102 minutes of unadorned shinola! There was no plot and what story there was, was as thin as Sofa's looks or acting ability when she played Mary Corleone in Godfather III.

My old Left Coast pal Sal said at the time, "Sofia's character Mary was not killed by a stray shot by the hitman, it was willed to hit her by all the reviewers who could not bring themselves to tell the truth about her total lack of any acting ability!"

After I saw Lost I called Sal and told him, "Looks like Francis Ford Coppola made the reviewers offers they could not refuse!"

Scarlett does have a lovely smile but I feel bannie hit the nail right on the head in her post 96 where she said, "I just don’t GET the Scarlet Johanson thing. There are some really beautiful women out there...and she’s just not one of ‘em. Her face is put together all wrong."

And the same could be said about her bod as it looks great in one still shot, not so hot in another. Like her sweater & knee socks goddess one posted previously on this thread, but that scene in The Black Dahlia where Josh Hartnett's character looks up the stairs at Scarlett's character Kay Lake in the bathroom. She was semi-disrobed and she did not looked goddess-like at all! She looked frumpy and overweight

Oh well, face it, I don't expect Scarlett to beat a path to my door begging me to allow her to eat crackers in my bed, but on the trillion-to-one shot she'd be knocking on my door later tonight...

I do hereby promise and affirm... that I would not throw her out!

That's awful kind of you... But there are already cracker crumbs in you bed, plus loose nuts, bolts, springs, screws, empty beer cans, full beer cans...

Well, hell! Time to make those full beer cans... empty!

[ValerieTexas]

You are truly amusing.

And I also admit that I just did not “get” Lost In Translation. It was so pointless.

However a comparable movie in many ways, Shopgirl, did appeal to me. I enjoyed it immensely.

Go figure.

[ValerieTexas]

You are a sensible Fester!

[Bender2]

Re: ...I also admit that I just did not “get” Lost In Translation. It was so pointless. However a comparable movie in many ways, Shopgirl, did appeal to me. I enjoyed it immensely. Go figure.

Well, you have to admit that when comparing Lost to Shopgirl, Steve Martin does have talent and even Steve in drag (a'la Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid) is a passable ugly woman while dear old Sofia... has... is still just ugly.

I have only one regret from Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid...

And that is... I didn't use more tongue with Fred MacMurray!

[blackie]

Excellent observations and insight!

I’ll put it more succinctly: it looked like a few days and nights of bad improv theatre. >:-}

But, I’m just a dumb retired truck driver ~ what do I know. :):)

[Artemis Webb]

“Who here would want people to talk about their daughter (mother/sister/wife) the way you’re talking about this woman?”

We’re all having fun here Dave. You need to lighten up. In fact the last time I was with your wife she told me you need to lighten up too.

[reg45]

A self portrait perhaps?

[ValerieTexas]

close enough :)