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on October 24, 2006
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Filmed for 3-D glasses, as one can easily observe; however, the technique had just gone out of fashion when the movie hit the theatres.
Divorced Howard Keel and Kathryn Grayson have a Taming of the Shrew like interaction. The story, a play-within-a-play, is actually based on Continue reading…
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on September 21, 2006
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This is a biography of Cole Porter, the great popular song writer of the first half of the 20th century.
The story is framed by a theater scene which sets up the rest of the movie as a flash-back, and the framing idea is rather clever.
This is not enough to rescue the story, however. The life of this debauched epicurean Continue reading…
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