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CrankyOldBroad
05/15/09

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Nine is one of my favorite Broadway soundtracks. It looks like they did the production proud, and I cannot wait to see it.
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nessalicious
05/14/09

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Is there a plot to go with this perfume advert?
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prettycool
05/14/09

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Who is the man with the balls large enough to remake 8 1/2?

Is nothing sacred?!
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InCahoots
05/14/09

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Wait, can Daniel Day-Lewis sing?? Stick a fork in me...

I do really like Nine. Some of the songs are beautiful.

Also, random DDL question: there's some random movie I caught on TV once that has him and Joan Cusack, and he's sent out to some "hick" home to assess a piece of art (?) and it's awesomely-bad-FANTASTIC! Anyone know what I'm talking about? I don't know the name...
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FashionShowAtLunch
05/14/09

@InCahoots:

Stars and Bars.

High-larious.
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emilyanne
05/14/09

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What about Marion Cottillard, she's in it too...

Also this is a remake of the Fellini film isn't it?
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MyNameIsChris
05/14/09

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I'll stick with 8 1/2 thanks.
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prettycool
05/14/09

@MyNameIsChris: and I stick with you in that sticking... er, yeah.
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The HZA.
05/14/09

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Cannot. Wait.
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shady pines, ma
05/14/09

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i will watch anything sophia loren is in. and, yes, that includes grumpier old men.
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Penny
05/14/09

@lucicoo: Hee, me too.
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FashionShowAtLunch
05/14/09

@lucicoo: I have no shame about that. Ann-Margret and Ms. Loren are serious bombshells.

Plus, Burgess Meredith is hilarious in those movies.
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HuggaWugga
05/14/09

@FashionShowAtLunch: He really did get all of the best lines in those movies.
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FashionShowAtLunch
05/14/09

@HuggaWugga: It's like throwing a hot dog down a hallway!
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FrancisElla
05/14/09

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I may be the only one, but it bothers me when people make movie musicals with famous people in them. I want to see broadway caliber singers and dancers not kate hudson. Perhaps the general public would not go see a movie without the famous names but I certainly would. Obviously these people are still talented but it seems that they are often compromising the quality of the performances by including famous people who do not professionally sing and dance. Also I'm biased because I really want to see my broadway heroes on the big screen since I don't have the money to see them on stage.
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mharker
05/14/09

@FrancisElla: A lot of times famouse actors really do have professional experience but that isn't well known. And it's always a great surprise to see someone like Catherine Zeta-Jones or Queen Latifah belt out a song when you weren't expecting it. I wouldn't write off Kate Hudson right away because she may have an awesome voice or be a great dancer but no one really knows yet.

I do agree with you that in the case of Sweeney Todd, I wish Johnny Depp hadn't been cast. But that was part of the excitement around the movie--can he sing?!
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FrancisElla
05/14/09

@mharker: Oh yes I know about Catherine Zeta-Jones and Queen Latifah. I'm willing to give people the benefit of the doubt but when the entire cast is people that I have to give the benefit of the doubt it makes me less excited to see the movie. I guess I just wish they would not rely so much on just casting big names instead of the most talented person for the role. In the old movie musicals that I love they seemed to cast more "musical actors" not "actors who can sing." Maybe that is why I have a preference for that type of casting.
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CollegeBookworm
05/14/09

@FrancisElla: ...You do know that most classic movie musicals had some serious dubbing? In the film version of 'West Side Story', both Tony and Maria are dubbed. And in the movie version of 'Guys and Dolls', they destroy some of my favorite songs because Marlon Brando didn't have the singing voice to play Sky Masterson. Just listen to the Brando version if 'Luck be a Lady' against any of the Broadway versions! He practically speaks the song because he can't sing it.

Lately, it seems that movie musicals are popping out with actors who we didn't know could sing, but actually have serious musical theater experience- not surprising since so many actors start in high school musical theater!
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Rare Affinity
05/14/09

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Kate Hudson?!Fergie? I say "Nein, nein, nein!"
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counterclockwise's using her promoting-power for good
05/14/09

@Rare Affinity: Sophia Loren, Judi Dench and Daniel Day-Lewis can't turn it into a "Ja, Ja, Ja!" ?
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Rare Affinity
05/14/09

@counterclockwise has Heimweh:
They could but then I wouldn't be able to make a pun.
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counterclockwise's using her promoting-power for good
05/14/09

@Rare Affinity: Aw, dammit. Sorry for the pun-ruining, it won't happen again. Promise!

As punishment I will listen to the Fergie album and watch "How To Lose Him In Ten Days".
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Cher_Horowitz
05/14/09

@counterclockwise has Heimweh: I just hearted you for not actually knowing the name of that wretched movie. Fantastic!
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counterclockwise's using her promoting-power for good
05/14/09

@Cher_Horowitz: Well I knew it was about losing a male human being in a definite period of time. Which is everything I know about that movie. I hope it stays that way!

I hearted you back, out of a deeply felt compassion for you actually knowing the movie. It's the least I can do.
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Penny
05/14/09

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I don't understand.

But, it's theater! And dancing!

I'll be there. With bells on.
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CollegeBookworm
05/14/09

@Penny: Exactly. Movie musical? I'm always in.
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PilgrimSoul
05/14/09

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Ugh, I hate these "hey look at us do the can-can" Hollywood extravaganzas. Inevitably, they involve corsets and hot women falling all over some individual man. The man is always pulling the strings; the women are all sex kittens. NEXT!
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Kiran59
05/14/09

@PilgrimSoul: Nine is actually quite different. Yeah hes a womanizer and an ass. But the women run him.
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PilgrimSoul
05/14/09

@Kiran59: that does not sound different to me.
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angelheadedhipster
05/14/09

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This looks like the campiest camp ever to camp. Which means I'm totally in, obviously.
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tomatoheart
05/14/09

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So this is italian Moulin rouge?
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Trulymadlyme
05/14/09

@tomatoheart: Mixed in with a bit of Chicago, it seems.
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AtomiClash: humanitarian misanthrope
05/14/09

@tomatoheart: @Trulymadlyme: but with less of a discernable plot.
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nora charles
05/14/09

@Trulymadlyme: More Chicago than Moulin Rouge. It was a Broadway musical first, and originally intended to evoke the same themes as Fellini's 8 1/2 (thus the title).
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tomatoheart
05/14/09

@nora charles: hmmm...as much as I love 8 1/2 I feel very let down by the trailer.
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checkyaself
05/14/09

@tomatoheart:

It's 8 1/2 if 8 1/2 were terrible.

Okay, I have not seen the movie but the trailer is not doing it any favors.
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Ipomoea
05/14/09

@checkyaself: As soon as I finish lunch, I'm going to go rent 8 1/2. I want to see Nine, I'm hoping the overwhelming awesomeness of Judi Dench and Sophia fucking Lauren makes up for, you know, Fergie.
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katie.scarlett.o'hara
05/14/09

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Aaah, I'm excited. And this trailer was like costume porn. :)
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