tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14639740.post4492810852197518946..comments2024-01-08T03:37:14.878-05:00Comments on sententiae et clamores: two picturesLiamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17265036866243982434noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14639740.post-81842129104987289422008-12-15T15:41:00.000-05:002008-12-15T15:41:00.000-05:00Yeah, I know. I might have to post a link to somet...Yeah, I know. I might have to post a link to something just so people know I'm alive.<BR/><BR/>It's been a tough month -- absolutely no free time.Liamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17265036866243982434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14639740.post-947108805744953622008-12-15T15:40:00.000-05:002008-12-15T15:40:00.000-05:00Your blog's getting dusty. There were cobwebs whe...Your blog's getting dusty. There were cobwebs when I came to visit today.cowboyangelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13452987299073540171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14639740.post-25486693528134262292008-12-11T18:26:00.000-05:002008-12-11T18:26:00.000-05:00delete, delete :)delete, delete :)crystalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05681674503952991492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14639740.post-79255346520855121212008-12-11T16:12:00.000-05:002008-12-11T16:12:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.crystalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05681674503952991492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14639740.post-14547115642690932112008-12-11T03:57:00.000-05:002008-12-11T03:57:00.000-05:00Wow. My libido just took a plunge. Last thing I ...Wow. My libido just took a plunge. Last thing I want to think about is Kissinger anywhere in the same sentence as the word "sex."Garpuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09460312942820868366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14639740.post-23515817945942395362008-12-10T14:50:00.000-05:002008-12-10T14:50:00.000-05:00Jeff -- it worked for Kissinger.Jeff -- it worked for Kissinger.Liamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17265036866243982434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14639740.post-42895625816749704082008-12-10T14:43:00.000-05:002008-12-10T14:43:00.000-05:00What do you mean? It'd probably be a very useful ...What do you mean? It'd probably be a very useful skill for a Secretary of State to have too.<BR/><BR/>Interesting, about that Charlton Heston role. That'd be a good topic for a post. Which actors have been the most horribly miscast?Jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10754406706300818849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14639740.post-47701086872088536232008-12-10T09:58:00.000-05:002008-12-10T09:58:00.000-05:00Jeff, Jeff, Jeff... This is a family blog. I can'...Jeff, Jeff, Jeff... This is a <I>family</I> blog. I can't believe you're talking about our Secretary of State like that. ;-)cowboyangelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13452987299073540171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14639740.post-5452893322043067582008-12-10T09:57:00.000-05:002008-12-10T09:57:00.000-05:00See, we should write a screenplay about Queen Urra...See, we should write a screenplay about Queen Urraca. It's just aching to be done - and YOU are the man to do it. Get that damn dissertation finished so we can finally hit the big time!<BR/><BR/><I>Charleton Heston as an eleventh-century Castilian nobleman is a bit hard to take. </I><BR/><BR/>It's hard to imagine anything worse than Heston as a Mexican narcotics official in <I>Touch of Evil</I>. I don't care if it is supposed to be a classic film noir, I've never been able to get beyond Chuck's mind-boggling hair, make-up and acting.<BR/><BR/>Some highlights from IMDB, where it's actually ranked #95 All Time:<BR/><BR/>Charlton Heston is supposed to be a Mexican. They give him a Cisco Kid mustache but his accent is from Iowa. <BR/><BR/>Charlton Heston, as a Mexican, turns in one of the cinema's all-time worst-ever performances<BR/><BR/>Heston plays a Mexican (no, I'm not kidding) DEA guy with no discernible ethnicity beyond some facepaint and a greased mustache.<BR/><BR/>Charlton Heston playing a confused Mexican who lapses in and out of bad English and ignorance of all things American one minute and being a savvy lawyer the next<BR/><BR/>Charlton Heston's shoe polish makeup is downright horrible--it beats Alec Guinness' makeup in 'Lawrence of Arabia.' <BR/><BR/>the casting of Charlton Heston as a Mexican was totally ludicrous (and almost at the level of slapstick). <BR/><BR/>Heston looks 100% silly as a Mexican since they use some sort of makeup to make him darker(one suspects in color he'd be orange) and his makeup looks so bad becuase none of the other "Mexicans" gets the same makeup treatment so his contrast is all the more striking. <BR/><BR/>Blackening Heston's hair and giving him a pencil mustache and a few lines in Spanish did not transform him into a believable Mexican official. <BR/><BR/>First, whose stupid idea was it to paint Charlton Heston's hair and have him play a Mexican?! While it's not as silly as John Wayne playing Genghis Khan, it is approaching that--especially since Heston has not a trace of an accent. <BR/><BR/>Heston as a Mexican is just laughable...most people know that he is melodrama at its WORST. Talk about over-acting! <BR/><BR/>First of all, Heston as a Mexican. You can paint him brown all you want - and then send him to 25 solariums - he does not look like one. Worse of all, he doesn't even talk like one. <BR/><BR/>Charlten Heston managed to score probably the worst acting job I've seen. <BR/><BR/>Seemingly every race but an actual Mexican will do here in portraying the Mexican roles, no matter how absurd the casting; uber-Caucasian Charlton Heston, or German Marlene Dietrich. <BR/><BR/>And then there's Heston . . . the fact that he's smothered in brown make-up and given a pencil-thin mustache in order to play a Mexican doesn't add him any points in my book. <BR/><BR/>I would not subject any of my closest friends and loved ones to sit through any of this unless they want to see Charlton Heston doing a very poor job of convincing the audience that he is Mexican with his fake brown make up tan and bad anglocized Mexican accent. As soon as Heston opens his mouth, the whole thing goes downhill fast! <BR/><BR/>Charlton Heston is pretty much a joke of a man in the first place, but it was hilarious seeing this guy trying to portray a Mexican.cowboyangelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13452987299073540171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14639740.post-64142758153176915722008-12-05T09:36:00.000-05:002008-12-05T09:36:00.000-05:00Put it this way... I think he means that if Hillar...Put it this way... I think he means that if Hillary had just been willing and able to do what Monica was was willing and able to do, we ALL would have been spared a whole lot of trouble.<BR/><BR/>El Cid was slow and ponderous and way too long, but I love the scene at the end when they trotted him out on his horse before the big battle with the Moors on the beach.<BR/><BR/><I>Pssst... Hey, does he look all right to you>?</I>Jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10754406706300818849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14639740.post-57496278602698306842008-12-03T21:46:00.000-05:002008-12-03T21:46:00.000-05:00Talents? What do you mean? :)Wikipedia says ...A...Talents? What do you mean? :)<BR/><BR/>Wikipedia says ...<BR/><BR/><I>According to Plutarch, what ultimately made Cleopatra attractive was her wit, charm and "sweetness in the tones of her voice"</I>crystalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05681674503952991492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14639740.post-28971622715161768652008-12-03T18:05:00.000-05:002008-12-03T18:05:00.000-05:00I started to watch El Cid, but Charleton Heston as...I started to watch El Cid, but Charleton Heston as an eleventh-century Castilian nobleman is a bit hard to take. I would like to try again, though. Apparently the great Spanish medievalist Ramon Mendendez Pidal was a historical consultant on the set. Besides, I could just turn the sound off while Heston was speaking and just look at Sophia Loren.<BR/><BR/>I think that Urraca is Alfonso's sister, not his daughter (Queen Urraca).Liamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17265036866243982434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14639740.post-43601594656998188532008-12-03T17:52:00.000-05:002008-12-03T17:52:00.000-05:00Hey, have you ever seen El Cid (1961), with Charlt...Hey, have you ever seen <A HREF="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054847/" REL="nofollow">El Cid</A> (1961), with Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren - and Geneviève Page as Urraca?cowboyangelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13452987299073540171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14639740.post-79023860226855381462008-12-03T17:46:00.000-05:002008-12-03T17:46:00.000-05:00Ah, several flicks, including:Bride of Vengeance (...Ah, several flicks, including:<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041209/" REL="nofollow">Bride of Vengeance</A> (1949) [4.8 rating] - With Paulette Goddard as Lucrezia. Ooh. She was hot. Married to Charlie Chaplin, Erich Maria Remarque, and Burgess Meredith - and had an affair with Gershwin.<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044857/" REL="nofollow">Lucrèce Borgia</A> (1953) - French-Italian job, with Pedro Armendáriz as César Borgia.<BR/><A HREF="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0013342/" REL="nofollow">Lucrezia Borgia</A> (1922) [no rating] - With Conrad Veidt as César Borgia Borgia.<BR/><BR/>And some weird thing called <A HREF="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0143998/" REL="nofollow">We Do It Because - </A> (1942), with Ava Gardner as Lucrezia.cowboyangelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13452987299073540171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14639740.post-18216101864959448312008-12-03T17:28:00.000-05:002008-12-03T17:28:00.000-05:00They're making a Joan Jett movie!?!?! But they ha...They're making a Joan Jett movie!?!?! But they haven't even made a Jimmy Page movie yet. What the hell kind of rock and roll heritage is that?<BR/><BR/>I don't really know Kristen Stewart, though I just looked her up online. She looks bony enough to play Lucrezia, but could she pull off the intense will of Miss Borgia?<BR/><BR/>I was thinking Scarlett Johansson, though I don't know why. Not an actress I like, per se.<BR/><BR/>Has there ever been a movie about the Borgias?cowboyangelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13452987299073540171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14639740.post-81326664771634169452008-12-03T15:52:00.000-05:002008-12-03T15:52:00.000-05:00I heard the actress from "Twilight" is going to pl...I heard the actress from "Twilight" <A HREF="http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0619695/" REL="nofollow">is going to play Joan Jett in a movie.</A> She should play Joan Jett playing Lucrezia Borgia.Liamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17265036866243982434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14639740.post-51486799332998961062008-12-03T15:20:00.000-05:002008-12-03T15:20:00.000-05:00So, who plays her in the movie version?So, who plays her in the movie version?cowboyangelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13452987299073540171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14639740.post-24781108635126317572008-12-01T14:39:00.000-05:002008-12-01T14:39:00.000-05:00Crystal,I once heard that Cleopatra had certain......Crystal,<BR/><BR/>I once heard that Cleopatra had certain... ahem... talents...<BR/><BR/>As Jeff says, behind closed doors.<BR/><BR/>I like William's skate-punk comparison. Though I have to say for me...<BR/><BR/>hot.Liamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17265036866243982434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14639740.post-17712474624416454392008-11-30T21:50:00.000-05:002008-11-30T21:50:00.000-05:00The Pannini painting is really cool, especially wh...The Pannini painting is really cool, especially when I studied a larger image of it.<BR/><BR/>So was the Piero della Francesca, which totally reminded me of De Chiricho. Must have been one of his influences, no?<BR/><BR/>Lucrezia looks like a sullen skate punk in that painting. Little too bony and masculine for me. Kind of a Patti Smith thing going. Though she looks like she could've been cool to hang out with. As a friend, who happens to be a girl. :-)cowboyangelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13452987299073540171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14639740.post-48789041744040691592008-11-30T11:17:00.000-05:002008-11-30T11:17:00.000-05:00hot, no question about it.hot, no question about it.lullabyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13668671204230545712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14639740.post-46593802740097482482008-11-29T14:49:00.000-05:002008-11-29T14:49:00.000-05:00Nice commentary on the artwork. I've painted a few...Nice commentary on the artwork. I've painted a few theatrical sets in the past, and felt that way a bit. <BR/><BR/>Lucrezia? She doesn't do much for me, but maybe she had other things going for her. <BR/><BR/>I don't think Wallace Simpson would have inspired me to give up the throne, but behind closed doors, who knows?Jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10754406706300818849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14639740.post-34330116628406504242008-11-29T14:48:00.000-05:002008-11-29T14:48:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10754406706300818849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14639740.post-16874445323802945852008-11-29T14:38:00.000-05:002008-11-29T14:38:00.000-05:00It's strange to see the portraits of women of the ...It's strange to see the portraits of women of the past who had so much power over others, in part because of their beauty. Cleopatra's face on coins is not pretty at all from modern standards but she had Julius and Anthony in knots. But I read Lucrezia was a blond in Italy, so maybe that explains it :)crystalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05681674503952991492noreply@blogger.com