June 28, 2007
Dean Stockwell montage
Because I MUST!
I can't stop NOW, are you crazy?
I have a lot of work to do tonight - but I also have Paris, Texas to watch. I've seen it before (I agree with Ebert - it is, indeed, worthy of the name "great") - but I've never sat down to watch it just to hone in on one person - my new BFF, Dean Stockwell. That will be my task tonight.
Dean Srtockwell and Ernest Hemingway, 1950s
That's Stockwell in "Compulsion" - the Leopold and Loeb story - from 1959. Orson Welles stars.
Dean Stockwell in the classic "Secret Garden" - in 1949 - I saw that movie a million times when I was a kid.
Dean Stockwell in "Psych-Out" - another movie I remember seeing a bazillion years ago - this was pre-cable years - I saw a helluva lot of good movies on network television and public television. I don't even remember if this was good - but I do remember it - so I imagine there was something there. Susan Strasberg (who died a couple of years ago) was the star - she was the daughter of Lee Strasberg, famous acting teacher. I should try to track this movie down again.
That's him in "Married to the Mob", of course
That's Stockwell in "Kim" - the movie adaptation of the Rudyard Kipling tale
In "Blue Velvet". If I let myself think too much about that guy, I would have nightmares
I love that huge swwooop in his hair when he was younger. It seems to be in all the pictures of him, like some untameable force of nature.
Posted by: tracey at June 28, 2007 8:27 PMbtw, you may actually be obsessed now. I mean, I'll wait quietly for the official announcement ... I'm just sayin' is all. ;-)
Posted by: tracey at June 28, 2007 8:30 PMhahahaha
I'm thinking next week, around Wed. or Thurs. I'll be ready to go public.
For now, I'm just sneaking up on my prey.
Posted by: red at June 28, 2007 9:33 PMI have Gentleman's Agreement from Netflix for this weekend.
Posted by: Tainted Bill at June 29, 2007 11:18 AMHe's the best thing in that movie!
Posted by: red at June 29, 2007 11:20 AMEven Rocky had a montage.
Posted by: Mr. Bingley at June 29, 2007 6:10 PMYou're right, he was the best part about that movie.
Posted by: Tainted Bill at June 30, 2007 3:57 PMWasn't he? It's such a ponderous self-important movie - boring, really - and Gregory Peck is the worst part of it. I love Gregory Peck, but blah, bad performance. Dean Stockwell seems to come from real life - not a Very Important Movie about a Very Important Issue.
Don't even try, CHiPs!!
Posted by: red at June 30, 2007 3:59 PMPeck is usually good at being self-righteous, but I got tired of the "I am performing the most important, selfless and noble task in the history of humanity" vibe his character was throwing off.
Considering this was two years after the Holocaust, a film about being unable to get a job or a nice hotel room rang a little hollow.
Posted by: Tainted Bill at July 2, 2007 8:21 AMYeah - very self-righteous.
But I think it's because of the Holocaust having happened that anti-semitism could even be acknowledged, dealt with - it never had before. That movie was a big deal at the time - it completely pulled back a veil on this unseen part of American life (that still, obviously, exists). And going to save Jews in concentration camps is a very different thing from marrying a Jew, or living next door to one, or whatever - It's a very TV Movie of the Week kind of thing. It just had "Important Movie" written all over it. I think it could have been better, most definitely. And Peck was a big fat bore.
Posted by: red at July 2, 2007 8:27 AM