TERMS OF ENDEARMENT- Page 2

[Lamc16]

Posted: 1/11/06 at 11:15pm

this is without a doubt one of my all-time favorite movies. i cry EVERY SINGLE TIME i watch it! great film!

[Glebb]

Posted: 1/11/06 at 11:16pm

Total tears.

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 1/11/06 at 11:17pm

*hides* Me Too!

[Kringas]

Posted: 1/11/06 at 11:18pm

Moment of silence for its disappointing sequel The Evening Star.

[Glebb]

Posted: 1/11/06 at 11:19pm

LOL! Never saw that. The previews were so terrible I couldn't bring myself to see it.

[Kringas]

Posted: 1/11/06 at 11:20pm

It's atrocious, though Miranda Richardson is terrific in it.

[Glebb]

Posted: 1/11/06 at 11:27pm

She's Queen Mary in The Lost Prince.
Superb.

[Kringas]

Posted: 1/11/06 at 11:32pm

She's great in pretty much everything she's in.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 1/12/06 at 9:19am

Love this movie, every weepie chick flick since has been but a pale imitation. Such a shame about Debra Winger's career, tho, I always loved her. Anyone leaf through Shirl's book, MY LUCKY STARS to the TERMS parts? Not a fun shoot at all, apparently.

[Glebb]

Posted: 1/12/06 at 9:33am

I would love to know the 'on the set' stories.
Shirley MacLaine called her "The turbulent Debra Winger" in her Oscar acceptance speech.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 1/12/06 at 9:50am

Check out MY LUCKY STARS...I had a friend who worked with Winger on THE SHELTERING SKY and everything you heard is true--she's an attention-seeking drama queen pain in the ass.
I still think she's a great actress, tho.

[Kringas]

Posted: 1/12/06 at 1:43pm

Oh yeah, according to Shirley Debra Winger and James L Brooks made her life hell. I used to have to her book. If I can find it, I'll come back and post highlights. I do remember Debra farting at Shirley and Shirley being forbidden to watch the rushes with the rest of the cast.

[Glebb]

Posted: 1/12/06 at 7:57pm

Shirley forbidden to watch the rushes with the rest of the cast? Why?
Deb farting? Farting at Shirley?
Hope you find the book Kringas!

[Elphaba]

Posted: 1/12/06 at 10:40pm

Terms of Endearment, and An Officer and a Gentlemen ALWAYS.....always make me cry.

I am such a sap for those kind of movies........my God you should see what Love Actually does to me.

[Britt0913]

Posted: 1/13/06 at 1:12am

I love that movie! I found out recently that one of my cousins was actually in it, he played the oldest son when he was young (does that make sense?)

[Kringas]

Posted: 1/13/06 at 1:18am

I can't find the book and my Google searching yielded little. This is how I remember it, but I can't be trusted I've still got my facts straight.

For whatever reason, James L Brooks encouraged tension between Winger and MacLaine. One would imagine it was to help that dynamic show on screen.

I don't remember the farting story, except that at the end of some conversation she and Shirley had, Derba Winger turned around, lifted her skirt and farted at her (I think Shirley used the term "broke wind").

Brooks also threw Shirley for a loop by telling her to scrap the Texas accent she'd been working on at the last minute.

I don't remember why she was forbidden from seeing the rushes, but first she couldn't view them at all, then she wasn't allowed to view them with the rest of the cast.

That's all I got. It's all in the book, though.

[Glebb]

Posted: 1/13/06 at 8:13am

Thanks Kringas. :)