| re: The Apartment vs Promises, Promises (longish). | |
| Last Edit: Delvino 08:35 pm EST 12/26/22 | |
| Posted by: Delvino 08:25 pm EST 12/26/22 | |
| In reply to: re: The Apartment vs Promises, Promises (longish). - AlanScott 04:42 pm EST 12/26/22 | |
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| Yeah, I’m now wondering if a cut version was originally licensed for television, common practice for both content and time slot with commercials, and, if the stage rights option(s) impacted subsequent showings. After Promises, I longed to see the film, besotted with that score and the show. And characters. Back in the day, my bigger point, we had no VHS, no video rentals, and for many of us, no cable for decades. So I had no way to rediscover the film at will - something we take for granted now! The Apartment is just a wonderful movie, and TCM’s commitment to it as holiday classic (it opened in June and July of 1960!) is fully earned. Lemmon and MacLaine are just superb. I wasn’t raising a body of work issue with Simon and his female characters, as some farther down in this thread are. I’m focusing on a single adaptation and the decision to explore Fran more in her songs than the script. But as I later note, it’s as much a Hal David issue as a Simon one. She’s curiously devoid of comic moments, which isn’t true of MacLaine via Diamond and Wilder. |
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