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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