Splendor In The Grass

#1

Splendor In The Grass

Posted: 6/26/08 at 9:34pm

Has Warren Beatty ever been hotter?
Natalie Wood is just sublime.
Pat Hingle is ferocious and terrifying.

The rest of the cast is exemplary as well.

And it has a totally homoerotic shower scene as well as being Phyllis Diller's film debut!

A true classic!

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#2

re: Splendor In The Grass

Posted: 6/26/08 at 9:35pm

I love that movie. And what a timeless message: A hot boy can drive you crazy.

#3

re: Splendor In The Grass

Posted: 6/26/08 at 9:36pm

Beatty was his hottest in BONNIE AND CLYDE.

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Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia

#4

re: Splendor In The Grass

Posted: 6/26/08 at 9:36pm

Also:
Always be loose or you'll end up in a sanitarium.

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#5

re: Splendor In The Grass

Posted: 6/26/08 at 9:38pm

I'd take sanitarium time for a shot at Warren B.

#6

re: Splendor In The Grass

Posted: 6/26/08 at 9:43pm

you haven't seen him in Splendor stagey.
I'm talking smoking.

Joe, do you not love that scene when he he forces her to her knees and tells her to worship him?

DAYUM!

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Updated On: 6/26/08 at 09:43 PM

#7

re: Splendor In The Grass

Posted: 6/26/08 at 9:46pm

To be completely honest, I saw that movie at a too-young age and found it to be hypnotic and somewhat disturbing. I felt queer all afternoon.

#8

re: Splendor In The Grass

Posted: 6/26/08 at 9:47pm

LOVE THIS MOVIE! He IS so hot, wait HAWT!

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#9

re: Splendor In The Grass

Posted: 6/26/08 at 11:29pm

"Did he ... spoil you?"

#10

re: Splendor In The Grass

Posted: 6/27/08 at 12:03am

that was the BEST scene in the movie Phyl. Natalie pretty much secured her Oscar nom with that bathtub tirade I think.

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#11

re: Splendor In The Grass

Posted: 6/27/08 at 12:13am

Who did Diller play? Was she the sister of Beatty?

#12

re: Splendor In The Grass

Posted: 6/27/08 at 12:16am

She was the night club emcee in the scene where Hingle takes Beatty to NY from Yale during the wall street crash.

She has like 2 lines.

"On my way to work here tonight I had to dodge all the bodies on the sidewalk"

*rimshot*

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#13

re: Splendor In The Grass

Posted: 6/27/08 at 12:23am

Love Diller.
Deeny's mom and Bud's sister are good too.

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" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."

#14

re: Splendor In The Grass

Posted: 6/27/08 at 12:26am

Deeny's mom is great, but I had never heard of the actress who played her.

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#15

re: Splendor In The Grass

Posted: 6/27/08 at 12:29am

Do you like "This Property is Condemned"?

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" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."

#16

re: Splendor In The Grass

Posted: 6/27/08 at 12:32am

I just watched "Sex and the Single Girl" the other night, which I'd never seen. It's sexist to the point that it offends even me and she's not at the top of her game, but it was kind of cute.

#17

re: Splendor In The Grass

Posted: 6/27/08 at 12:34am

Audrey Christie, Taz. She's fabulous, and you've probably seen her in other movies without realizing it. She's also in CAROUSEL as Mrs. Mullin, the owner of the carousel, THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN as the snooty socialite neighbor, and MAME as Mrs. Upson, as well as lots of T.V. guest appearances. She had a fabulous career on Broadway, too.





Audrey Christie

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Updated On: 6/27/08 at 12:34 AM

#18

re: Splendor In The Grass

Posted: 6/27/08 at 12:38am

Good lord, I just watched Mame this past Sunday.

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#19

re: Splendor In The Grass

Posted: 6/27/08 at 12:39am

Good Lord, why?

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Cheyenne Jackson tickled me. AFTER ordering SoMMS a drink but NOT tickling him, and hanging out with Girly in his dressing room (where he DIDN'T tickle her) but BEFORE we got married. To others. And then he tweeted Boobs. He also tweeted he's good friends with some chick on "The Voice" who just happens to be good friends with Tink's ex. And I'm still married. Oh, and this just in: "Pettiness, spite, malice ....Such ugly emotions... So sad." - After Eight, talking about MEEEEEEEE!!! I'm so honored! :-)

#20

re: Splendor In The Grass

Posted: 6/27/08 at 12:40am

It turned me on when the sister slapped him in the face.

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Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia

#21

re: Splendor In The Grass

Posted: 6/27/08 at 12:42am

you know what, it wasn't all that bad.
It started out a little wobbbly, but Jane Connel and Bea Arthur saved it.

I was watching it thinking "I know that face (of the guy playing older Patrick).
It was Bruce Davison. So young.

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#22

re: Splendor In The Grass

Posted: 6/27/08 at 12:45am

Yeah, I guffawed when that old lady slapped Vera back in the dressing room.

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Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia

Updated On: 6/27/08 at 12:45 AM

#23

re: Splendor In The Grass

Posted: 6/27/08 at 12:46am

It's just so slowly paced, and Lucy just so out of her league that despite the brilliance of Bea I find it almost unwatchable.

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Cheyenne Jackson tickled me. AFTER ordering SoMMS a drink but NOT tickling him, and hanging out with Girly in his dressing room (where he DIDN'T tickle her) but BEFORE we got married. To others. And then he tweeted Boobs. He also tweeted he's good friends with some chick on "The Voice" who just happens to be good friends with Tink's ex. And I'm still married. Oh, and this just in: "Pettiness, spite, malice ....Such ugly emotions... So sad." - After Eight, talking about MEEEEEEEE!!! I'm so honored! :-)

#24

re: Splendor In The Grass

Posted: 6/27/08 at 2:41am

Taz, I love Mame!!! I know I'm in the minority on this one, but I can't help it. Splendor in The Grass is my mother's favorite Natalie Wood film, next to Love With A Proper Stranger. We watch these two movies everytime they air.

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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.- Bette Davis

#25

re: Splendor In The Grass

Posted: 6/27/08 at 2:43am

yay! I liked Mame too. Whenever it started to get slow, another great Herman tune came on and things picked back up.

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