RIP Maureen Stapleton

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― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 02:35 (twenty years ago)

This will hit me later. In the meantime I want to ask, are those other two Joan Rivers and James Coco?

― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 02:39 (twenty years ago)

According to this it's Betsy von Furstenberg and Michael Lombard.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 02:45 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

She got what, far as I know, were her two best film parts almost back-to-back: Interiors and Reds. Otherwise she spent her movie career making swill like Airport better.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 14:15 (twenty years ago)

Betsy von Furstenberg? Coulda sworn it was Cheryl Hines.

― dr lulu (dr lulu), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 15:03 (twenty years ago)

When will Reds be released on DVD?

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 15:26 (twenty years ago)

when American Communism comes back?

Maureen S thanked her idol, Joel McCrea, when she won her Oscar. The telecast cut to the Reds contingent in the audience, and Nicholson saying "Ooooh, Joel McCrea!"

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 15:31 (twenty years ago)

I haven't seen Reds in more than 10 years, but I remember she gave the best performance. I couldnt understand why a man as purportedly intelligent as Warren Beatty thought scenes in which he fucks Diane Keaton while their dog scratches at their bedroom floor were more compelling.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 15:34 (twenty years ago)

cuz it was a movie romance as well as a Bolshevik epic.

Unsurprisingly, a large number of the Witnesses in that film (in their 80s and 90s) died soon after. And BESSIE LOVE was in it!

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 16:16 (twenty years ago)

Wasn't the tagline "EVEN COMMIES CAN LOVE"?

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 16:17 (twenty years ago)

Is there a names-to-faces index of the Witnesses anywhere? I could only spot a few.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 16:23 (twenty years ago)

i think reds is actually coming out on dvd soon

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 16:26 (twenty years ago)

November, some say (eg Jeffrey Wells).

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 16:35 (twenty years ago)

did anyone ever see *The Electric Grandmother* from the 80's? It was based on the fab Bradbury story *I Sing The Body Electric*. Anyway, she played robot granny. I would like to see it. I love that story.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 16:41 (twenty years ago)

I saw that -- loved it, and thought it a fine capturing of Bradbury's touch.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 16:53 (twenty years ago)

Holy shit, SHE was the Electric Grandmother? That flick was a standard babysitter for us in elementary school for years.

― kingfish ubermensch dishwasher sundae (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 16:59 (twenty years ago)

I must have watched The Electric Grandmother on HBO 100x in the '80s. Loved it. Wanted one!

― shookout (shookout), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 22:50 (twenty years ago)

It wasn't so much that she was good in Interiors. She played a loud vulger Jewess in a red dress crashing a WASP party! Bea Arthur could have played the part too.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 23:12 (twenty years ago)

Oh you and yer camp instincts, honey! In context, a loud vulgar Jewess was a huge relief in that film. (Also, she was being typecast in the late '70s? a hard-drinking Irish-American actress who won an Oscar for playing loud anarchist Jewess Emma Goldman... and weirdly she plays a broad Jewish mom caricature as Dick Van Dyke's mom in Bye Bye Birdie.)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:27 (twenty years ago)

Also, Stapleton is a Life Force in Interiors ... I don't think Woody would see Bea Arthur that way -- in fact, he didn't, cuz I saw her play a smothering mom in THIS:

http://www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=4112

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 19:09 (twenty years ago)

I dunno. I liked Stapleton in the part, especially in that scene in which she tries to keep her dignity opposite Mary Beth Hurt's harridan-with-the-John-Lennon-'do; but, Morb, it was no stretch to waltz into that mauseleum of a movie, utter lines that are supposed to underline what a tacky-but-lovable Life Force you are, and get a Supporting Actress nod.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:00 (twenty years ago)

I don't disagree. Tho it's better than Autumn Sonata.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:02 (twenty years ago)

OH GOD.

I should have mentioned it in the Bergman thread I revived yesterday. His worst movie?

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:03 (twenty years ago)

I've never seen the one with Elliott Gould...

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:11 (twenty years ago)

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