Re: Bye Bye, Life/Goodbye, Happiness/Hello Loneliness/I Think I'm Gonna Die

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James Nicoll <jdnicoll@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>In article <fospfl$g5b$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>Michael Alan Chary <mchary@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>In article <for9j4$omd$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>James Nicoll <jdnicoll@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>In article <foqh59$sul$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>Michael Alan Chary <mchary@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>In article <foq773$43e$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>James Nicoll <jdnicoll@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>	I also missed THE FRENCH CONNECTION and I think he was in that
>>>>>as well. Also SORCEROR, whose ads looked interesting when I was a
teen.
>>>>
>>>>It is interesting, but it's a remake of "The Wages of Fear."
>>>>
>>>>>	In the 1970s, we got to see one (1) film per year, so I missed
>>>>>a lot of the great films of that decade and I have not yet caught up.

>>>>
>>>>Well, the top ten since I assume you've seen the famous classics, like

>>>>Star Wars and Monty Python and the Holy Grail and The Rocky Horror
Picture 
>>>>Show and Chinatown and The Godfather
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>>>	CHINATOWN I saw because I saw a lot of movies in the 1980s 
>>>and early 1990s and one of them was the TWO JAKES. That felt to me
>>>like the inferior sequel to a good film, so I tracked down the 
>>>original movies to see if I was right.
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>>And your verdict?
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>	I was right: the original is much better than the sequel.
 
I agree, as it happens. 


I might as well tell my only "The Two Jakes" story, because I can also 
pay tribute to an old friend. 

I remember when "The Phantom Menace" came out. Our movie critic, Jim 
Gordon, God rest his dsoul, was trying to think of a hook for his 
reviewsaid to me "Hey, Mike, name another movie which had a sequel twenty 
years later. "I said "The Two Jakes." He was so happy, I thought he was 
going to dance. He just passed away recently. In fact, Roger Ebert did a 
column on Jim:

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200771002001


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>>>	THE GODFATHER I've never seen because I have an irrational
>>>prejudice against most mob films.
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>>I, myself, have never been able to sit through Gone with the Wind all
the 
>>way through.
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>	Good for you.
>

Well, it did give me some street cred when I was a critic. And it made 
"Moonlight and Magnolias" more fun.
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