tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2917776121387891817.post3031366574437657130..comments2024-03-27T03:13:30.353-04:00Comments on Stirred, Straight Up, with a Twist: Wood WiggeryTJBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09180041865489453236noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2917776121387891817.post-25340604917540027232012-09-21T02:15:03.449-04:002012-09-21T02:15:03.449-04:00Thanks for this lovely, well-written piece and the...Thanks for this lovely, well-written piece and these glorious pictures. Natalie certainly made a few stinkers, as well as truly wonderful, timeless films, but I must admit I love All The Fine Young Cannibals. Yes, it is soapy and melodramatic, but in a compelling way, and (almost) all the leads being rather despicable makes it quite interesting. I find it irresistible to watch every time it plays on TCM, and to my mind, it's campy, but not a <i>bad</i> film as such.<br /><br />I'm curious as to why you find Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice 'dated'. Sure it's very much of its time, but it's a wry satire of its time. It offers canny insight into a particular time and a particular attitude. To me, that can never be 'dated'. The film holds up very well and is still considered a classic. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2917776121387891817.post-26517561272974874802010-12-28T22:37:32.265-05:002010-12-28T22:37:32.265-05:00It is still incomprehensible that the mystery surr...It is still incomprehensible that the mystery surrounding her death has yet to be cleared up... A spectacularly beautiful lady, with a spectacularly fucked-up domestic life, apparently. JxJonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15501010362663971583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2917776121387891817.post-53459041266448275772010-12-26T15:45:53.477-05:002010-12-26T15:45:53.477-05:00This film All The Fine Young Cannibals is supposed...This film All The Fine Young Cannibals is supposed to be inspired by the life of Chet Baker.bitter69ukhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10182913922421674178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2917776121387891817.post-62220934237908518822010-12-26T15:45:08.815-05:002010-12-26T15:45:08.815-05:00The mystery is: why would Natalie Wood be wearing ...The mystery is: why would Natalie Wood be wearing a wig in that film in the first place? She'd be wearing a long dark brown wig over her own long dark brown hair?!bitter69ukhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10182913922421674178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2917776121387891817.post-15448199387224987502010-12-23T20:41:22.339-05:002010-12-23T20:41:22.339-05:00In Natalie's biography it says that her mother...In Natalie's biography it says that her mother had the strange hobby of apartment hunting when they lived in San Francisco, they moved many times.Lawrencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11803291124585411656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2917776121387891817.post-52872858162670638602010-12-23T09:51:10.336-05:002010-12-23T09:51:10.336-05:00I love Natalie, and I remember driving back to col...I love Natalie, and I remember driving back to college that Sunday after by Delaware Resevoir south of my hometown of Marion Ohio when I heard the news that she had died and I was dumbstruck. How oculd she have died? She was too young to die! <br /><br />And think her death hit people much harder than we realize because following her drowning there were a rash of Natalie Wood dark humored jokes ("Why didn't Natalie Wood take a shower on the boat? She preferred to wash up on shore.") and you only get that type of humor when there is no other way to make sense of the senseless, or cope with the reality that someone in your life has died.The Cool Cookiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04162345087029159056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2917776121387891817.post-73245415045082520212010-12-23T03:25:39.716-05:002010-12-23T03:25:39.716-05:00what a wonderful tribute ! when i was a kid, west ...what a wonderful tribute ! when i was a kid, west side story was the first movie from Hollywood's Golden Age Area that i managed to see... and i coulnd't help but admire this great actress...<br />to this day, west side story, and "this property is condemned", "inside daisy clover" are my favorite films of her !Mister Supergliderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12881654681241116088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2917776121387891817.post-30312074218242806842010-12-22T15:19:28.028-05:002010-12-22T15:19:28.028-05:00I just love this girl! I'm so glad you did th...I just love this girl! I'm so glad you did this piece on her.Philip Mershonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05641146738422887485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2917776121387891817.post-27836353912168637552010-12-22T09:31:28.617-05:002010-12-22T09:31:28.617-05:00What a great beauty. Interesting how Kohner is wi...What a great beauty. Interesting how Kohner is with her in Cannibals, I always thought she resembled Wood. Splendor in the Grass is one of my all time favorite films.Ptolemy1https://www.blogger.com/profile/04334386659240438250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2917776121387891817.post-34005805022619256002010-12-22T08:33:53.229-05:002010-12-22T08:33:53.229-05:00Speaking of wigs, that last one looks like she bor...Speaking of wigs, that last one looks like she borrowed it from Joan in "Strait-Jacket!" Natalie had such a complicated life. Very sad. At least she seemed to have found some degree of happiness at points. Great article and stumper!Poseidon3https://www.blogger.com/profile/10465785002285422594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2917776121387891817.post-21294564206027380632010-12-22T01:37:43.274-05:002010-12-22T01:37:43.274-05:00The beautiful Miss Wood! She was one of the few w...The beautiful Miss Wood! She was one of the few who transitioned very successfully from child star to bona-fide movie star, and that she certainly was. My favorite film of hers is probably "Gypsy," with the also-fabulous Roz Russell.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2917776121387891817.post-28683489088545292722010-12-22T00:25:20.921-05:002010-12-22T00:25:20.921-05:00Natalie was fabulous being both a star and mother ...Natalie was fabulous being both a star and mother and keeping it real as well as living the superstar life. Her mother was a complete nightmare according to the books, ditto her sister Lana. <br /><br />I loved her as Daisy Clover, if only the movie had followed the book continuing her story as Daisy became a nightclub star in New York. Natalie seems to have liked the gays - Clover's author Gavin Lambert became a friend and he wrote that good biograpohy on her, and of course then there was her secretary Mart Crowley.... and all those rumours surrounding RJ! <br /><br />Cannibals is deliciously trashy - has anyone ever seen a companion piece from the same time also by MGM - 'The Subterraneans' ? its one that has totally eluded me - by Jack Keruac, Leslie Caron and George Peppard as beatniks????Michael O'Sullivanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17820802843771524920noreply@blogger.com