Correct and correct. Great movie.
K.
On Jan 30, 2006, at 1:59 AM, David Kusumoto wrote:
"I could lay under you, eat fried chicken and do a crossword
puzzle at the
same time"
I don't if this was ever answered (but it's a great line so I couldn't
resist) --
This comes from the most "conventional" film Martin Scorcese ever
directed
-- 1974's "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore." It was uttered by
actress
Diane Ladd (mother of actress Laura Dern), who garnered an Oscar
nomination
for her role as "Flo," the wise-cracking, loose-lipped waitress who
befriends "Alice," the suddenly widowed-former-singer-turned-
waitress played
by Ellen Burstyn (who won the Oscar for Best Actress, the same year
she also
won a Tony in NY).
Two ironies -- 1) like M*A*S*H and "The Odd Couple" before it, the
film
version of "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" was overshadowed by the
television series which followed, and also by the leads, who were
played by
Linda Lavin (Alice) and Polly Holliday (Flo). 2) Also, the film
marked only
time Scorcese helmed a picture explicitly designed to please a
crowd. (And
it does.) The sepia-toned opening sequence in "Monterey" with its
dubbed
Alice Faye song, followed by rocket ship launch sound effects,
accompanied
by a zoom out and dolly-pan to a bright suburb in Arizona where
Alice lives
w/her smart-ass son, w/a booming song on the soundtrack by 70s
rockers Mott
the Hoople -- is spectacular to watch, a portend of Scorcese's
moving camera
"signature." After 1974, Scorcese would never again make this type
of film.
Yet if you watch it on DVD -- it's still fun, undated and
wonderful --
even though in the film, "Alice" sells out for a happy ending. I
remember
when the film was released, everyone was jolted by Ellen Burstyn,
who was
mesmerizing and funny. Her scenes with her son, played by Alfred
Lutter are
drop-dead funny. And the one-sheet is remarkably minimalist and
affordable.
One of the better movies of the 1970s. Ellen Burstyn is still an
attractive woman today and has gotta be in her 70s. Check out the
DVD if
you can.
-koose.
----Original Message Follows----
From: Kirby McDaniel
Sent: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 22:34:24 -0800
To: [email protected]
Subject: [MOPO] Burning question
What actress was it - and in what film - who spoke the line "I
could lay
under you, eat fried chicken and do a crossword puzzle at the same
time?"
Just curious if any of you know.
Kirby McDaniel
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