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| Posted by: champagnesalesman 09:58 pm EDT 08/01/20 | |
| In reply to: re: my movie theater experience - Michael_Portantiere 09:42 pm EDT 08/01/20 | |
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| I saw MAKING LOVE in Westchester and when Hamlin and Ontkean kissed there was alot of "EWWW!!" as well as "Gross!" Which is surprising given that anyone going to see this film should have known what it was about | |
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| Posted by: Delvino 09:35 pm EDT 08/02/20 | |
| In reply to: re: my movie theater experience - champagnesalesman 09:58 pm EDT 08/01/20 | |
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| I saw that happen with "Making Love" on the East Side of Manhattan. Still remember it. It's a pretty dreadful movie (and edited so that little of the screenplay makes sense -- a subplot about their pal Wendy Hiller is somewhere on a cutting room floor); part of me wants to believe it was because it was such a clunky piece of storytelling and Ontkean was such a stiff, handsome but robotic. I can't recall if it was late at night, and maybe filled with an audience that was more upset about the quality. But that's probably too kind. | |
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| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 11:43 pm EDT 08/01/20 | |
| In reply to: re: my movie theater experience - champagnesalesman 09:58 pm EDT 08/01/20 | |
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| ****I saw MAKING LOVE in Westchester and when Hamlin and Ontkean kissed there was alot of "EWWW!!" as well as "Gross!" Which is surprising given that anyone going to see this film should have known what it was about.****** Exactly, and the same goes for anyone who bought a ticket to see IN AND OUT, whereas admittedly the audience had no reason to expect the gay kiss in DEATHRAP. In fact, the whole point of the kiss is that it should come as a surprise, but of course it was disturbing that the audience reacted with such revulsion. |
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| re: my movie theater experience | |
| Posted by: BHandshy 11:42 pm EDT 08/01/20 | |
| In reply to: re: my movie theater experience - champagnesalesman 09:58 pm EDT 08/01/20 | |
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| Yes, I also saw 1982's MAKING LOVE in the theater (San Jose, CA), and "Ewwwww!" was definitely the reaction to the kiss. Unrelated, except for the general time period: When I went to see the film COME BACK TO THE FIVE AND DIME, JIMMY DEAN in the theater in 1983, in the opening credits when Cher's name appeared on the screen (it was her film debut), there were lots of laughs and giggles (as if, "hahaha, she couldn't possibly be a serious actress"). Well, she was marvelous in the film, and so normal looking! This was before all of her cosmetic surgeries and dental work. | |
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| Posted by: PlazaBoy 06:26 pm EDT 08/04/20 | |
| In reply to: re: my movie theater experience - BHandshy 11:42 pm EDT 08/01/20 | |
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| I really enjoy the Jimmy Dean movie, but I can't help but remember the awkward scene in The Cher Show that began with "I'm Robert Altman." Dreadful. | |
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| Posted by: StageLover 09:01 am EDT 08/02/20 | |
| In reply to: re: my movie theater experience - BHandshy 11:42 pm EDT 08/01/20 | |
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| Mike Nichols had felt the same way about Cher. He refused to meet with her for a film he was casting. The worm had turned by the time he was casting SILKWOOD. Cher was now hot in movies, thanks to her Oscar turn in MOONSTRUCK. And Nichols had considerably cooled as a director. The financiers wanted Cher, and according to her, she made him apologize to her. My own story: in the early 90s I lived in Malibu for a year. One Saturday afternoon I took in a matinee of the BORN YESTERDAY remake and the theater was practically empty, except for me and a couple of women who wouldn't shut up. They were a few rows in back of me and were constantly dogging poor Melanie Griffith through the whole movie. When the movie ended and the lights came on, I turned around to see who the chatterboxes were and sitting there were Cher and Whoopi Goldberg. |
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| Posted by: Billhaven 09:37 am EDT 08/02/20 | |
| In reply to: re: my movie theater experience - StageLover 09:01 am EDT 08/02/20 | |
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| Your chronology is off. SILKWOOD (1983) was the very next film Cher made after JIMMY DEAN. MOONSTRUCK was not until1987. | |
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| Posted by: StageLover 09:47 am EDT 08/02/20 | |
| In reply to: re: my movie theater experience - Billhaven 09:37 am EDT 08/02/20 | |
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| Not my chronology, hers. That's why I wrote, "according to her". |
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| re: my movie theater experience | |
| Posted by: Billhaven 10:23 am EDT 08/02/20 | |
| In reply to: re: my movie theater experience - StageLover 09:47 am EDT 08/02/20 | |
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| My point is that this scenario makes no sense no matter who it’s according to. Cher was not hot in movies prior to Silkwood. Her Oscar turn was 4 years in the future. After the success of Silkwood she starred in Mask (her first lead since Chastity in 1969), then Witches of Eastwick and Suspect. | |
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| Last Edit: davei2000 10:42 am EDT 08/02/20 | |
| Posted by: davei2000 10:39 am EDT 08/02/20 | |
| In reply to: re: my movie theater experience - Billhaven 10:23 am EDT 08/02/20 | |
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| In a recent telling by Cher, it sounds like it was Mike Nichols' idea to cast her in Silkwood and to apologize. | |
| Link | https://www.peoplemagazine.co.za/celebrity-news/international-celebrities/sickness-forced-cher-to-give-up-hollywood-dream/ |
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