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― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 12 August 2004 03:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I always liked lee marvin.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 12 August 2004 03:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Best singer ever. MILES better than Chuck Norris.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 August 2004 03:15 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.filmsondisc.com/Features/Noses/great_8.jpg

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 12 August 2004 03:16 (twenty-one years ago)

i saw a three-hour documentary on lee marvin once. but i was on drugs at the time, so i've forgotten all of it. he has a nice jaw.

― |a|m|t|r|s|t| (amateurist), Thursday, 12 August 2004 03:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I wish that really was his middle name.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 12 August 2004 03:21 (twenty-one years ago)

http://home.earthlink.net/~cyclonepub/sonsmarv.html

― |a|m|t|r|s|t| (amateurist), Thursday, 12 August 2004 03:22 (twenty-one years ago)

thank you. Thank you for posting that shot from Cat Ballou. 2 Lee Marvins = 2x as great.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 12 August 2004 03:22 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.sat1.de/imperia/md/images/11_Stars_Stories/berlinale/009/new_hollywood/pointblank_3.jpg

― |a|m|t|r|s|t| (amateurist), Thursday, 12 August 2004 03:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, is this on purpose:

http://www.aowz68.dsl.pipex.com/cartoons/sealab/murphy.jpg

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 12 August 2004 03:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean that is really obviously Lee Fucking Marvin.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 12 August 2004 03:25 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.americanphoto.co.jp/pages/celeb/E/1112/Previews/Plans-35622.jpg

And it was a MUSICAL

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 August 2004 03:26 (twenty-one years ago)

is that alex from ny on the left?

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 12 August 2004 03:29 (twenty-one years ago)

That's actually the T1M3 softball team! They're pointing at Chuck Eddy.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 12 August 2004 03:30 (twenty-one years ago)

On June Carter Cash's last album, the intro to one of the songs is her telling this story about Lee Marvin and how he could never stop talking about World War II (Pfc., USMC)and re-enacting battles, jumping back and forth over the couch playing all the parts at once, the Americans and Japanese and Germans and everyone else. Anyway, it's funny when she tells it, her sitting on the couch kind of alarmed and amazed and Lee jumping back and forth over it making shooting noises and calling for reinforcements.

― spittle (spittle), Thursday, 12 August 2004 03:31 (twenty-one years ago)

He rules in Sam Fuller's "The Big Red One"
http://cosmos.oninetspeed.pt/dak/movies/bigredone06.jpg

― nonthings (nonthings), Thursday, 12 August 2004 03:36 (twenty-one years ago)

new restoration of that film comin' out soon!

― |a|m|t|r|s|t| (amateurist), Thursday, 12 August 2004 03:37 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, Criterion I believe...the director's cut!

― nonthings (nonthings), Thursday, 12 August 2004 03:42 (twenty-one years ago)

i dunno about criterion, but it's coming to theaters! in 35mm!

it's not quite a "director's cut"...there are long articles about how the new version was made in a recent issues of film comment and cahiers du cinema

― |a|m|t|r|s|t| (amateurist), Thursday, 12 August 2004 03:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Lee Fucking Marvin is cool. You know who else is really cool? Steve Goddam McQueen!!

― Queen Electric Butt Prober BZZT!! BZZZZZT!! (Queen Electric Butt Prober BZZ), Thursday, 12 August 2004 05:21 (twenty-one years ago)

How bout Bruce Shittin' Lee?

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 12 August 2004 05:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Charles "The Runs" Bronson

― |a|m|t|r|s|t| (amateurist), Thursday, 12 August 2004 05:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Arthur Cocksuckin' Fonzarelli

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 12 August 2004 05:35 (twenty-one years ago)

But not Arnold 'I Fucked Your Dad in the Ass' Schwarzenegger?

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 12 August 2004 05:48 (twenty-one years ago)

You sure pick odd times to tell people things.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 12 August 2004 05:49 (twenty-one years ago)

You have no idea.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 12 August 2004 05:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Did you at least give him a friggin' reacharound?

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 12 August 2004 05:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I do, actually.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 12 August 2004 05:50 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

LEE retrospective in New York next month! I've never seen Hell in the Pacific or Monte Walsh. I still think I'll skip Paint Your Wagon.

He's amazing in some of his young villain roles, esp Seven Men from Now.

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

oooooooh why don't i live in ny anymore!!!!!!!

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

BAN RJG

― ghost rider, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

wait i thought "liked" said "hated" unban him pls

― ghost rider, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

done

― brownie, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

thanks :D

― ghost rider, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

i'm just on edge today, like LEE FUCKING MARVIN

― ghost rider, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

either that or you should really consider upgrading your prescription if you read "liked" as "hated"

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

i just watched big red one again recently. i gots no problems with a lee marvin.

― strongohulkington, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

i thought i thought i liked lee fucking marvin

then i realised i did

lets watch point blank tonite, little ilx

― 600, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

hey schef have you seen the '60s film of hemingway's 'the killer's'? lee fucking marvin as the heavy, john cassavetes races some cars, and ronald reagan slaps angie dickinson around. we should all watch it some time, though we'll have to wait for a certain muppet to return it to me.

― ghost rider, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

I was going to say watch "Cross of Iron" but that isn't lee fucking marvin it's james goddamn coburn.

― brownie, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

i have seen that film, a very long time ago, and would be up for watching again

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

oh man lee fucking marvin is great, but coburns one up again

― 600, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

in The Killers, Reagan is the heavy! Lee Marvin is an existentially sympathetic hit man.

Coburn!? You mad.

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

I like Lee Marvin but my favorite Lee might by Lee Van Cleef.

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

did Van Cleef ever throw hot coffee in Gloria Grahame's face?!

I'm thinking Gorky Park should be in that Lincoln Ctr retro.

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

Coburn!? You mad.

-- Dr Morbius, Wednesday,

massive irrational love for The Presidents Analyst

― 600, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

^^^ whatwhat

rational

― 600, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

imdb says Marvin and Van Cleef were both in an episode of The Twilight Zone, as well as in "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance", which I never saw because I don't really like John Wayne or Jimmy Stewart, especially not in the same movie together. they should have replaced those guys with the Lees, it would have been more like "Bring Me The Head of Liberty Valance"

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

shit i just remembered, the presidents analyst has barry mcguire in it!

― 600, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

oh eli you really should see the man who shot liberty valance.

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

After at least ten other Ford Westerns though (for context -- it's a valedictory),

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

bad day at black rock!!!

― 600, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

I saw Cat Ballou one dark and stormy night.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

oh you do not need to see very much ford, honestly.

man who shot liberty valance is fucking great tho.

― ghost rider, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.movieactors.com/photos/catball65.jpeg http://www.filmsondisc.com/Features/Noses/great_8.jpg

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

Cat Ballou was kinda shunted into irrelevance by Blazing Saddles. Marvin is much funnier in staright Westerns or crime stuff, like when he buckles up in Point Blank and tells the heavy he's about to take on a bruising ride, "Most accidents happen within three miles of home."

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

i don't even know where to begin to start disagreeing with you on the cat ballou thing so i'm just not going to try.

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, I haven't seen it in forever, but it was funny. I think Stubby Kaye & Nat King Cole as the troubadours mighta been the best part tho.

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

Marvin has a great bit of business in Monte Walsh trying to roll and light a cigarette in bed while Jeanne Moreau is nibbling on him.

I saw John Boorman's appearance at the Hell in the Pacific screening, and he said you didn't want to get too close to Lee when he was doing his drunken Toshiro Mifune impression. With a samurai sword.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 24 May 2007 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

Lee OTM, here:

he explains why he passed on Peckinpahâs The Wild Bunch: âIt had all the action and all the blood and all that shit but it didnât have the ultimate ka-voom, you know? It didnât have the one-eye-slowly-opening aspect it should have had.â

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 24 May 2007 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

Casting Marvin would have upset the equilibrium, almost as much as casting Robert Mitchum; they'd expose the banality of male bonding.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 24 May 2007 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/2m8BXUfrir2jxayimm4fzQmZo1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0RYTHV9YYQ4W5Q3HQMG2&Expires=1250237257&Signature=17hj8IFCEsz2dzaDR96xzIUrAWM%3D

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 13 August 2009 08:08 (sixteen years ago)

two years pass...

“...It’s important not to think too much about what you do. Take Strasberg. [Lee Strasberg, director of the Actors Studio and later founder of his own teaching institute.] I went to his joint once, back when I was first hanging out in New York, doing plays. I did a ten-minute scene in his class: the guy who had gangrene in his leg in The Snows of Kilimanjaro. After I did the scene, he starts in with, ‘Well, you were going for the pain in your leg, but I didn’t see it, so you didn’t put it over and thus the scene failed.’ I told him that he didn’t know anything about gangrene. When it’s in the terminal stage, there isn’t any pain. What I was going for was that the guy was trying to feel pain, because if he had any pain, it meant he wasn’t going to die. But he couldn’t feel a damned thing. I know about that shit from the Pacific. Strasberg was furious when I corrected him. He threw me out, so I said ‘fuck you’ and walked. He’s not my kind of guy at all. I didn’t dig it when he came in using his acting-school reputation to get the creamy acting jobs that some other old actor who’d paid his dues might have really needed. Nah, you can have him. He’s not in my outfit, pal.”

When it came to director John Ford, however, Marvin was glad to have him in his outfit, or to be part of Ford’s. He describes the scene in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance where a white-aproned Stewart is working in the restaurant kitchen and the steaks and skillets alike are giant-sized. Marvin:

“‘Ford,’ he says reverentially. “‘Fucking Ford. You’ll never see skillets and steaks like that in anybody else’s picture. He’s like Dickens. It’s all about bigger than life. That’s the what the old guys understood about movies. If it’s not bigger than life, put it on television.”

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/wolcott/2012/01/When-Lees-Collide

― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 00:55 (fourteen years ago)

"He’s not in my outfit, pal” is a great line

― Hungry4Ass, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 01:56 (fourteen years ago)

marvin's a guy i always loved watching more than just about anyone. if he's in something, i'll sit down and peep it

― Hungry4Ass, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 01:58 (fourteen years ago)

my favorite sighting in arlington nat'l cemetary

― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 01:59 (fourteen years ago)

love his menacing walk the most

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbMjw256CIk

― chillin in the volvo, listenin' to alva-noto (fennel cartwright), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 02:55 (fourteen years ago)

oh man i love this guy.

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 04:19 (fourteen years ago)

well see, we can agree on something.

― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 12:10 (fourteen years ago)

Lee Marvin was never not great, was he? Plus, he was responsible for giving us the word "palimony."

― Josefa, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 00:07 (fourteen years ago)

three years pass...

Amazon using his croak of "Wandrin' Star" in an ad is some kinda new hipsterish nadir

― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 October 2015 02:54 (ten years ago)

i saw his grave last year too! right next to Joe Louis.

― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 October 2015 02:55 (ten years ago)

why nadir? isn't it kind of pleasant to encounter lee marvin warbling that tune in the otherwise barren context of a national TV spot?

maybe this is a glass half empty/full thing.

― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 7 October 2015 06:08 (ten years ago)

i feel the same way about that insurance commercial with the roy orbison deep cut (the one with the peripatetic chicken)

― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 7 October 2015 06:08 (ten years ago)

eight years pass...

His centennial was yesterday!

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 20 February 2024 22:26 (two years ago)

Saw a beautiful 35mm double bill of Point Blank and Hell in the Pacific at a John Boorman retrospective. He’s over 90 now, too

― beamish13, Wednesday, 21 February 2024 03:20 (two years ago)

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