Re: [MOPO] Charlie Chaplin - The Adventurer
Congrats Doug! From: Todd A. Spoor sp...@earthlink.net To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Sat, March 5, 2011 7:48:00 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] Charlie Chaplin - The Adventurer Doug, Although I am not a collector of silent material, I think the poster has a great iconic image and was reasonably priced. Plus on a rarity side of things, if no one in the esteemed group of MOPO has never seen is before, you know it is super rare, which I love! Congrats!!! Todd Spoor Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry® From: Doug Taylor douglasbtay...@hotmail.com Sender: MoPo List mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 22:28:38 -0500 To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU ReplyTo: Doug Taylor douglasbtay...@hotmail.com Subject: Re: [MOPO] Charlie Chaplin - The Adventurer Jeff and MOPO, I purchased the poster…love the image. Any MOPO opinions on whether it was a reasonable price? Am I a sucker? Also, if someone could please send me the re-release background that was posted a few days ago I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you DBT Profile From:MoPo List [mailto:mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU] On Behalf Of Jeff Potokar Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2011 9:53 PM To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: Re: [MOPO] Charlie Chaplin - The Adventurer high bid was $3919 and change jeff On Mar 1, 2011, at 5:02 PM, allen day wrote: A guess-timate: 6-8k For certain: a jump 5k in the last 8 secs ad --- On Tue, 3/1/11, Neil Jaworski neiljawor...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: From: Neil Jaworski neiljawor...@yahoo.co.uk Subject: [MOPO] Charlie Chaplin - The Adventurer To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Date: Tuesday, March 1, 2011, 7:37 PM there's a CC poster on ebay that's (not surprisingly) getting significant heat due to its awesome image. some knowledgeable buyers (no doubt MOPOers) have rightly forced the correction that this is a RR, but it's still a rare and brilliant poster and it will be fascinating to see what it goes forany guesses? neil http://cgi.ebay.com/ORIGINAL-CHARLIE-CHAPLIN-ADVENTURER-POSTER-1917-/180632385331?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0hash=item2a0e877733#ht_1109wt_698 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] 2001 - WE HAVE A F______ HIT! I KID YOU NOT. GOD-D___, IT'S A HIT!
BTW I love 2001. I saw it on TV when I was a kid and was riveted and haunted. When I saw it on the large screen a couple of years ago, I was blown away. Toochis From: David Kusumoto davidmkusum...@hotmail.com To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Sat, March 5, 2011 7:01:33 PM Subject: [MOPO] 2001 - WE HAVE A F__ HIT! I KID YOU NOT. GOD-D___, IT'S A HIT! * Almost one year ago, Freeman Fisher posted a you had to be there essay on MoPo about MGM's apoplectic and suicidal reaction to 2001 after it bombed in previews. I thought his essay was so brilliant in content and appeal that I saved it. * To me, that we're still arguing about 2001's merits more than 40 years later is relevant because it means the film is too controversial and/or compelling to be forgotten. On March 21, 2010, I remarked again that excepting sci-fi and comic book chick-nerds, not a single woman I know loves 2001. And to me, the gender gap issue is relevant to the film's appeal. * Earlier that same day, some incredulous MoPo members griped about a 2001 style B re-issue half-sheet selling at auction for $2,000. Why?, some members asked. Was the winning bidder out of his mind with more dollars than sense? * In response, Freeman posted a back-story to MoPo about MGM's expectations for 2001, closing with a single line referencing the aforementioned poster. The highlight of Freeman's story is a quote from a previously downcast MGM publicist named Ted Hatfield, who, during a later screening before a paying audience, turned suddenly euphoric, screaming into a phone to MGM brass, WE HAVE A FUCKING HIT! I KID YOU NOT. WE HAVE A FUCKING HIT! GODDAMN IT'S A HIT * You can read it below, copy-and-pasted in full. – d. === From: Freeman Fisher To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: [MOPO] 2001: a space odyssey Anecdotal True Stories Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:14:16 -0700 When I was a wee lad, I was utterly blown away by 2001: A Space Odyssey. I first saw it in San Antonio where I was born and raised. I remembered reading about it and even buying a comic book serialization before it ever hit the town learning much later as to why: the Cinerama engagements were first roll out, all other cities had to wait on the engagements in a very slow deliberate roll-out by MGM. Once opened, the film played exclusively at a General Cinema, 1000 seat theatre over a year, and literally keep getting moved to other houses for the better part of another year. We are talking San Antonio guyswhere the search for illegal aliens was nothing special. When I took a job in exhibition in Washington DC, that was when I hit Odyssey nirvana. The theatre chain I worked for owned the 1000 plus seat UPTOWN THEATRE a true Cinerama Theatre beginning in 1962, located walking distance from THE NATIONAL ZOO. But what really blew my mind was knowing the theatre was the host of the World Premiere of 2001: A Space Odyssey. The theatre was shut down several months before the premiere and was completely renovated at a cost just north of $900,000 when $900,000.00 really meant somethingmind blowing given the reason for the renovation – was for the premiere of some space movie as told to me by the same manager still employed at the theatre when I started working for the circuit. (The Washington Post actually did an article on him when he retired in 1986 two years after I moved to DC, since it was estimated that 50% of the population knew who he was. Plus you can see the theatre in newsreel footage on the special DVD extras of 2001, but I digress). Further, since my job had me interacting with all studio publicists, one named Ted Hatfield who worked for MGM out of NYC at the time – (later moved to Columbia) – told me great stories of that horrible/wonderful time. In DC there were scheduled a series of screenings but the first was the WORLD PREMIERE and gala reception with NY and LA to follow. This film was a big, big investment for the studio at the time. Kubrick agreed to attend but he flexed, probably for his own amusement and eccentricity, some unusual demands. Can't remember them all, but he did insist at the ultra deluxe and traditionally Georgian styled, Hilton Hotel, literally walking distance from the theatre, that one elevator be his exclusively..and be painted out completely in purple. But he was a man under pressure, as all of MGM's brass were there along with a battalion of execs from NASA, McDonnell Douglas, TWA, Hilton and anyone else that lent their names, technology and sizeable promotional commitments. Did I mention there was never a test screening? Not surprising he took control of the actual presentation demanding agonizing test runs with the projectionists that went on well into the evening prior. The Premiere proved a huge media event with the typical black-tie glitterati
Re: [MOPO] Do you solely collect certain sizes of movie posters?
I love the artwork on the insert. I love the one sheet because it's not restored. Toochis From: Franc fdav...@verizon.net To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Sat, March 5, 2011 7:00:29 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] Do you solely collect certain sizes of movie posters? Message The insert is clearly the nicer of the two. I tend to collect only lobby cards for myself because I have no more wall space but I'd rather have the insert. FRANC -Original Message- From: MoPo List[mailto:mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU] On Behalf Of Bruce Hershenson Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2011 8:04 PM To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: [MOPO] Do you solely collectcertain sizes of movie posters? I used to know quite a fewpeople who solely collected one-sheets or lobby cards, and just a few whospecialized in other sizes. But does that make sense? Look atthese two posters: http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detailAuction_uid1=2120112 and http://movieposters.ha.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=7035Lot_No=83033 Whichwould YOU rather have in your collection? And do YOU gravitateto some sizes most (or all) of the time? Bruce -- Bruce Hershenson and the other 28 members of the eMoviePoster.com team P.O. Box 874 West Plains, MO 65775 Phone: 417-256-9616 (hours:Mon-Fri 9 to 5 except from 12 to 1 when we take lunch) our site ourauctions Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for itscontent. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Do you solely collect certain sizes of movie posters?
I love the Italian paper for the Bogie movies! I hope to get one when I grow up. Toochis From: Neil Jaworski neiljawor...@yahoo.co.uk To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Sun, March 6, 2011 11:36:21 AM Subject: Re: [MOPO] Do you solely collect certain sizes of movie posters? as someone with very similar collecting interests to my fellow londoner richard evans, i'm amazed that he likes the grande for The Big Sleep! i find that image just awkward and jarring (in a bad way). rich now need to go to the saul bass exhibition in east london as penance ;-) it's funny how some campaigns swing from the sublime to the ridiculous across the sizes. the paper for 12 Angry Men is all just gawd-awful, except for the two half-sheets which are sublime (especially the black/dagger version which is an all-time classic). it's a similar story with The Big Knife, a laughably bad campaign saved by two brilliantly witty and stylish half sheets. Probably the most famous examples of this phenomena are the Longest Day advance 1sh and the On The Beach style B; happy design classics bobbing amidst a sea of dreck. n --- On Sun, 6/3/11, Richard Evans evan...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: From: Richard Evans evan...@blueyonder.co.uk Subject: Re: [MOPO] Do you solely collect certain sizes of movie posters? To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Date: Sunday, 6 March, 2011, 17:36 US paper, I'd go against type and get lobby card 5. Design on the lobbies is good on this title I think. But, best piece for me is the grande, and I've been wanting to get one for years. Heritage have sold that, at $3,800, which I though was a bargain, but bad timing for me then. Prefer that to the Italian paper that's also passed through there. Though another Italian piece that Heritage have sold does offer my personal favourite Bogart/Bacall image- the the 4 Fogli for To Have and Have Not. Can turn a blind eye to Bogart being cross eyed in that one, and the art justifies the big 55x78 chunk of wall space. Considering the restrictions of WB art direction at the time, the insert and 3 are relative masterpieces. But I'd still prefer the insert. There's less of it. The 1 sht though, I think is a leading contender for worst art for a great title. On 6 Mar 2011, at 03:55, Smith, Grey - 1367 wrote: This seems to the most scarce piece that collectors are willing to pay for. I have sold it twice and both times have done well though the unrestored copy did considerably better than the restored copy. http://movieposters.ha.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=640Lot_No=28176 http://movieposters.ha.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=617Lot_No=28676 Almost same image is insert, though the insert which I have sold as many times as the one sheets does not seem to be exceptionally scarce. It is a shame, in my opinion, that the paper for the Warner’s titles of the 40s leave so much to be desired. From: MoPo List [mailto:mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU] On Behalf Of Bruce Hershenson Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2011 7:04 PM To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: [MOPO] Do you solely collect certain sizes of movie posters? I used to know quite a few people who solely collected one-sheets or lobby cards, and just a few who specialized in other sizes. But does that make sense? Look at these two posters: http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detailAuction_uid1=2120112 and http://movieposters.ha.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=7035Lot_No=83033 Which would YOU rather have in your collection? And do YOU gravitate to some sizes most (or all) of the time? Bruce -- Bruce Hershenson and the other 28 members of the eMoviePoster.com team P.O. Box 874 West Plains, MO 65775 Phone: 417-256-9616 (hours: Mon-Fri 9 to 5 except from 12 to 1 when we take lunch) our site our auctions Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com
Re: [MOPO] Fab 70mm house in Houston now serves enchiladas
How sad. My aunt used to go there to see old films. It was like the New Beverly in LA. She took me there to my first classic (actually the first movie I ever saw in a theater). It was Black Narcissus. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 19, 2011, at 10:38 PM, Phillip W. Ayling mro...@earthlink.net wrote: Kirby, On photo 5 which is described as the repurposing of Mahogany Window frames into shadow boxes, those look an awful lot like beautiful one sheet frames; were they? - Original Message - From: Kirby McDaniel ki...@movieart.net To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2011 7:32 PM Subject: [MOPO] Fab 70mm house in Houston now serves enchiladas You can sit there and chow down and watch MY FAIR LADY, which I saw there in 1964, on your iphone. Adios, Tower Theater. How grand you were at one time. http://culturemap.com/newsdetail/03-16-11-buzzed-over-el-real-is-set-to-open-in-the-tower-theater-and-bring-back-your-granpa-tex-mex/ Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] WalterFilm At LA MODERNISM SHOW
Wish I could be there. Toochis Sent from my iPhone On Apr 30, 2011, at 12:29 PM, Freeman Fisher flixs...@aol.com wrote: THIS WEEKEND ONLY For those Mopoers in the LA Area (and the great ones truly are...) Walterfilm has a kick-ass booth in the LA MODERNISM SHOW at the Barker Hanger in Santa Monica again TODAY AND TOMORROW. Once again some great paper on display (Rare Hitchcock, Rare Polish, Sci-Fi, Bad Girl, Noir, Marx Brothers and more) and available as well as virtually the entire stock of vintage photos and superb lobby cards. As for the other exhibitors present, peruse jaw dropping displays of dealers in art, furnishings, and decorative arts skewed heavily toward astonishing 1940's through 1960's modern on display in the enormous hanger under the azure blue skies of Santa Monica complimented by the moderate roar of privately owned jets landing and taking off after visiting our booth. So if not at the TCM Festival, at the Vintage Apparel Show, in line for FAST FIVE, or Disneyland, or boarding, or WORKING YOUR GALLERY ( that would be you Sue Heim and Debi Jacobson) do come by! This shameless message has been brought to you by two guys having to stand on their feet for 10 hours each day explaining that yes movie posters are great sources for decorative arts, that cool people really do collect them and by doing so improves one's sex-life exponentially by the money spent on them. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] [Bulk] Re: [MOPO] The guy from Britain
Who could possibly make fun of my name?! Toochis Sent from my iPhone On Jun 11, 2011, at 1:55 PM, channinglylethomson channinglylethom...@att.net wrote: Bruce -as someone named Channing, I completely agree with you. Thanks for noticing, Channing Thomson On Jun 11, 2011, at 1:24 PM, Bruce Hershenson wrote: I have had a funny name theory for a long time. It developed when I noticed that the vast majority of the 30,000+ movie paper collectors on my mailing list had odd names (either first, last or both), and that very few had common names like Smith or Jones and most of the few that did had unusual first names like Ebinezer or Grey. My funny name theory is that kids with odd names are more likely to be less social and teased about their names when they are young, and that this MIGHT make them more inclined to solitary pursuits like reading comic books or collecting movie posters. I have no clue if this is true, but the new collectors on my list over the past few years continue to bear out this theory. Bruce On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Doug Taylor douglasbtay...@hotmail.com wrote: Not me. I’m completely normal. Completely normal. Completely normal. Regards, DBT From: MoPo List [mailto:mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU] On Behalf Of Smith, Grey - 1367 Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2011 12:54 PM To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: Re: [MOPO] The guy from Britain Alan, My opinion only, but collectors in general are quirky, opinionated, often obtuse, generally speaking. It doesn’t matter whether its posters, comics, stamps or coins. The same bolt of cloth, if you will. I believe that with collectors there is a certain obsessive nature perhaps, to bring some order to their world, in whatever way they can, and that is what collecting is about. A need to own the tools to do so. It can lead us to be viewed as less than logical or clear minded individuals, in many instances. I will say that those qualities can often make for some very fun, witty and interesting exchanges, to say the least. But rarely boring! From: MoPo List [mailto:mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU] On Behalf Of Alan Adler Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2011 11:25 AM To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: Re: [MOPO] The guy from Britain As a side bar to all this - and perhaps to bring it back to posters a tiny bit - Do any of you think movie poster collectors are odd? I know I am - And the ones I've met and known over the years are some of the quirkiest -and often cantankerous - folk on the planet. So what makes us so crazy? Left alone in theaters as children too long? Too many paper monsters under our beddie beds? Over the top accumulated viewings of Vertigo? Swashbuckled brain cells? Cartoon visions of relationships? Gangster mentalities? Noire-mindedness? Alan Adler On Jun 11, 2011, at 9:17 AM, Adrian Cowdry wrote: I did wonder if I was going to get flack, my shoulders are broad. Those in the know will take all the crap below as just that. Thankfully I have too good a relationship with my friends for me to worry about the misguided garbage written below. As most of you will know I had cancer in 2008 and could not attend Cinevent 2009. Cinevent 2010 was for me and my friends a close and very much bonding time. My friends needed to see me well and I needed to see them. I didn't think I'd see them again at one point. convent 2010 was a cathartic experience for me, this all sounds very gay...but those concerned know who they are and what they mean to me. As for Ralph, did he get a Marx brothers card? I was unaware. I think I did bad mouth Ralph one night he didn't by the beers or something, we had to wait till the next night.As for Andrew getting a Goldfinger 3 sheet, well done, if it hand.t have been sold the owner was prepared for me to take it on consignment. The fact the owner at the time sold it couldn't have been better. In fact that owner and I have such a good relationship that I would do anything in power to help him in anyway and I can safely say vice versa. As for the photo outside of Mitchells I needed just me and the guys whom I have bonded with, Andrew was new to me. In fact all the guys who were there said no to Andrew being in the shot...I was lucky to be there and it was an emotional time for me and I needed just those guys...not someone I didn't know and also someone who was proving to be offensive and obnoxious toward my pals at the very least he was impolite. Andrew did prove to be entertainment none the least...however it is plainly obvious that there is something wrong. Certainly I could care less about him and his collecting. At the beginning like most of us I was willing to take him into our group but the more impolite he became the worse it was and he insisted on getting drunk in our company the
Re: [MOPO] 5,658,000.00 !!!!!!
Wish I were there to see this! Toochis Sent from my iPhone On Jun 18, 2011, at 8:11 PM, Freeman Fisher flixs...@aol.com wrote: Yes that is what Marilyn's white SEVEN YEAR ITCH subway grate dress just sold for at Debbie Reynold's Auction. Add another million and a half for the red dress from GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (which personally I thought delivered more wow, with her in or out of the dress) I can't even think of anything snarky to say..these are unbelievable numbers. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] OT: Movie Poster Father's Day card
Fabulous! Sent from my iPhone On Jun 22, 2011, at 7:37 PM, dreamfact...@hollywooddreamfactory.com wrote: I agree with Greg its some very cool art and like the scifi retro stuff that whole 50s Robot spaceship and comic art stuff sizzles tell the daughter great Job Dave ! mopo Kids Rock !!! Tom Original Message From: pickmeis...@cox.net To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: Re: [MOPO] OT: Movie Poster Father's Day card Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 19:30:15 -0700 As a frustrated graphic artiste, I am really impressed by your daughter's work, Dave. Very cool, nice combination of retro ideas and modern comix design.! Greg Douglass On 6/22/2011 7:03 PM, Dave Rosen wrote: It's a few days late but well worth the wait! My daughter, who's currently living in France, sent me this Father's Day card today. It plays off my love of movie posters, sci-fi B-movies and robots. I know I'm probably just being a proud father but I think it's awesome and thought folks here might like to see it: http://www.posteropolis.com/store/images/dad_postersmall.jpg Dave Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content . Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Happy Birthday to Channing
Hope you had a fabulous Channing day! From: Richard Halegua Posters + Comic Art sa...@comic-art.com To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Tue, August 2, 2011 7:27:47 AM Subject: [MOPO] Happy Birthday to Channing Happy Birthday to Channing Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] A lovely young actor passes
Andy Whitfield was SPARTACUS on the Starz TV series SPARTACUS: BLOOD AND SAND. He was brilliant, kind and a loving family man. He left this world too young and I pray for his family. I was lucky to have met him at Comic-con and he was a complete joy to be with. I'm here in NYC during the 9/11 memorials and it has been filled with much sadness. Today with the loss of Andy, it is tougher. Be thankful for having another day to live, breathe and love on this planet. Life is very precious indeed. Toochis Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] A lovely young actor passes
Thank you Phil. The show is wonderful and the new Spartacus is very good but Andy was magical. Such a loss. From: Phil Edwards p...@cinemarts.com To: Toochis Morin fly...@pacbell.net; MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Sun, September 11, 2011 10:49:39 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] A lovely young actor passes Very sad indeed. It's going to be kind of tough to re-watch S:BS for some time, I think. Phil - Original Message - From: Toochis Morin To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 2:16PM Subject: [MOPO] A lovely young actorpasses Andy Whitfield was SPARTACUS on the Starz TV series SPARTACUS: BLOOD AND SAND. He was brilliant, kind and a loving family man. He left this world too young and I pray for his family. I waslucky to have met him at Comic-con and he was a complete joy to be with. I'm here in NYC during the 9/11 memorials and it has been filled withmuch sadness. Today with the loss of Andy, it is tougher. Be thankful for having another day to live, breathe and love on this planet. Life is very precious indeed. Toochis Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for itscontent. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Frames for Posters
Agreed. Sue is the best! From: Richard Halegua Comic Art sa...@comic-art.com To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Wed, October 5, 2011 1:35:35 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] Frames for Posters and she is a genuinely nice person too : - ) At 01:04 PM 10/5/2011, Doug Taylor wrote: Not really following this email chain but saw Susan’s name and the subject and felt compelled to say that her framing, and understanding of the specific needs of poster framing, is simply outstanding. There is no better place to frame, IMHO. Regards, DBT From: MoPo List [mailto:mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU] On Behalf Of Susan Heim Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 3:34 PM To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: Re: [MOPO] Frames for Posters Hey Cory, Thank you for asking. My toll free number is (800) 463-2994. My website is www.hollywoodposterframes.com. Your client is free to call me anytime for information. Thank you. Sue Heim Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 14:37:25 -0400 From: cglaber...@aol.com Subject: [MOPO] Frames for Posters To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Could Sue Heim give me her information . I need to pass it onto a client. Thanks Cory Glaberson cglaber...@aol.com Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Susan Olsen - gifted restorer - passes away
Oh no! I can't believe it. I feel so bad. She was caring for her young grandson. I hope he will be ok. Does anyone know how to get hold of her family? Does she have a memorial? She restored my Italian Barbarella which hangs in our office. She was stellar. So sad. Toochis From: Susan Heim filmfantast...@msn.com To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Tue, October 11, 2011 9:44:28 AM Subject: [MOPO] Susan Olsen - gifted restorer - passes away Hello all, I just had a note from Robert Perry at Spotlight Displays that one of our own has passed away. Susan Olsen was a very gifted restorer that I know many of you had used for your collections as she would send the posters down to me for framing afterwards. Not sure if anyone else had posted something to the group about this, but I did want to make you aware of it. She use to be a very active participant in our conversations here on the MoPo group back in the day. Quite the fireball, she always had very strong opinions and a quick wit. She made me laugh quite a few times, raucously!! Sad news as she was only 52. Sue Heim www.hollywoodposterframes.com Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Happy Birthday Bruce Hershenson
Happy Birthday Bruce! From: Richard Halegua Posters + Comic Art sa...@comic-art.com To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Fri, October 28, 2011 12:03:31 AM Subject: [MOPO] Happy Birthday Bruce Hershenson today is Big Boy's birthday happy birthday Bruce Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Is MoPo membership on a decline?
It's been a busy summer for me so that's why I've not been able to participate on Mopo that often. I think that's the main reason and when we go off-topic for too long.Anyway, I hope all is resolved soon and we can get to talking about posters.ToochisClaude Litton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richie I am only writing one email on this subject and I feel I have a right as I am being flamed and blamed by you for something I did not start nor end. There is no rule on MoPo for emails off of MoPo. There cannot be such a rule because it is not on MoPo. Your theory is so wrong it is laughable. Scott Burns cannot make rules outside of MoPo. Emails that occur between parties outside of MoPo are private and have nothing to do with MoPo. Are you going to tell the group that I cannot discuss a MoPo subject on my telephone, at a poster show, at an auction or anywhere else? Your reasoning reeks of total nonsense andI am being polite with my words. Don't they discuss MoPo on other discussion groups? Can Scott Burns dictate to them about not discussing a MoPo topic? The bottom line ison MoPo, Scott Burns rules because it is his. He cannot dictate rules outside of MoPo regardless of where the situation originated. You are repeating the words of a person who rationalizes everything towards meeting her goals. You began by saying I started it. Are you crazy? Do you read all the emails in sequence or just pick and choose the ones you like? Or do you read at random? Let me refresh or explain the sequence to you. 1. JR and I were discussing rixposterz listings. 2. Phil made a comment refuting JR's and my comments and then ended his email with an insult to me. 3. I answered his insult on MoPo (Up to now all words were on topic except the insult) 4. Jeannie now entered with an insulting remark directed at me 5. Since I did not want to get involved in a war on MoPo and since she has tried to get me to engage in such a situation before, I replied privately. I did not air it publicly and I have every right to do this. If I did anything wrong then it is her right to take action privately. She did not have a right to make a private email public and Scott Burns said so. (Just to let you know, she tried to get me into a debate on another talk group and I told her that I do not have the time like she does. She emailed me back in a very sarcastic manner) 6. In repy to her taking the email public, I again replied privately. she took it public again and stated she would continue to do so in total defiance of Scott Burn's rules. She insulted me publicly and that is the only thing that counts. I did not attack anyone publicly and the fact that she made a private email public is not my fault and not a violation of MoPo rules by me. In fact, I just had a conversation about your email with another MoPo member and the conversation has words about you that cannot be printed by David K in his professional writings. Since both of us uttered words concerning this topic which originated on MoPo, I ask you. Should we be suspended from MoPo for a personal attack on you in a private conversation? What if I wrote about your inane reasoning to Bruce and he published it in his email club? Wouldit be a violation of MoPo rules if (and I say if) I wrote that you were a and Bruce published it? Come on now and get with it. You wrote "without a doubt" that I was wrong. I will not publish a private email. I can only tell you that you are the only one without a doubt. I can very easily print all the private emails I received from MoPo members agreeing with me, applauding what I said privately and dissing "you know who". I also did not receive a single private email telling me I was wrong or agreeing with your "without a doubt" words. There is also another thing you should do. Go to NSFGE and read what is going on there. I was emailed (by a MoPo member) pages and pages of her "discussions" with members there. She attacked our David Lieberman and they call her The Kautix From Hell. She does nothing but fight with others there. You finally end your email with "do unto others as they do unto you". You call me a hypocrite in the same email while quoting a righteous way of living. Please explain to me how I can be insulted publicly and that retorting privately is the same thing. Better yet, explain it to the other members of MoPo. What I find most ludicrous of all your words concerns your statement about when someone wants to write something useful to the group they should not be flamed. I believe I was writing something useful to the group when I wrote about being truthful in ebay listings. I was insulted by a person who has never written a useful thing on MoPo andyou can verify that by checking all her past emails. I reiterated in a private email and you have the nerve to tell me I can't do that. Show me where the rules of MoPo follow anyone beyond the borders of the site. Did
Re: [MOPO] Voodoo woman returns and isnt it Ironic
I hope he recovers soon and can get back to the work he enjoys. That way everyone gets their posters in great shape.ToochisShelly Whitworth-King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What goes around, comes around .. or something along those lines.However, could I just say once more that I hope for a happy ending for Frank Santos and those waiting customers. I am sure this will be resolved shortly.Without our health, what do we have?ShellyOriginal Message FollowsFrom: JR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Reply-To: JR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDUSubject: Re: [MOPO] Voodoo woman returns and isnt it IronicDate: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 01:14:10 -0400Susan,Thanks for making my point. Scott... does this message constitute a clear violation of your guidelines for no personal attacks on MOPO?- Original Message -From: susan olsonTo: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDUSent: Friday, September 15, 2006 22:03Subject: [MOPO] Voodoo woman returns and isnt it IronicAre you referring to me. I am VooDoo Woman, a name my good friend Greg Douglas called me 10 years ago, Dario when you say why she would come on here and lay this "Guilt Trip"on us?I just felt empathy for Frank Santos and really didn't mean to critize anyone, however In empathizing with Frankand his Lax 40 Days, I had to relive my own experienes with my "One Woman Show" and my struggle with a health crises and a 2 year old grandchild who was dropped in my lap while doing chemo.Sometimes it is hard to dissassociate.I also know that when you are in that situation and are feeling weak and scared it is sometimes very hard to communicate or acknowledge the monster that is breathing down your neck!This scenario has played out many times here, as it did with the Lazarsons.JR what ever you says holds no water for me, You have no credilbility with me sir, Mr defender of Eugene Hughes, JoeDeprenda and the Physcopath Amanda who you tried to get me moderated for after she posted my private emailsand our private fight,to Style-B list?You are relentlessly negative and flip flop like a fucking hooked trout, and unfortunately ,I have let you troll me.I would love you to rejoin Style-B, so that I would have the pleasure of kicking you ass out for the second time!SUSANVisit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com___How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing ListSend a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-LThe author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing ListSend a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content._Be the first to hear what's new at MSN - sign up to our free newsletters! http://www.msn.co.uk/newsletters Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-LThe author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] in the cooler
I'm looking forward to those resto tips, Susan. I've got some very lovely but beat up posters.Welcome back,Toochissusan olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After much thought today and a flurry of private supportive emails and requests that I not leave again, and of course if Scott the List owner doesn�t make a ruling to banish meI will take a time out and come back and be a positive contributing member, who will not allow herself to get baited and trolled, Thankyou everyone! if there are any New members who have Resto Questions or would like any do it yourself pointers for minor flaws, I would be happy to answer any questions after my time out! Susan Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] in the cooler
I've had the joy of watching John's work as Susan has helped him through linebacking. It was imformative, fascinating, and lots of fun. John has linenbacked some beauties.I look forward to seeing more from both.ToochisJohn Waldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Members of MOPO, In all my years of collecting movie memorabilia I have never met a more generous, giving person than Susan Olson. In this age of little free time, Susan has given her time, money, and with her limitless knowledge of poster resto to help me. With that said let me comment on Susans short MOPO posting career. (No windy, long posts from me. I like to get to the point.)If Susan says someone is okay then that is good enough for me. I trust her judgment and assessment of human nature. Is she opinionated? Hell yes! Does she tell it like it is? Again, hell yes! Susan is one of those people who tell it like it is with no hidden agenda of her own.Call Susan Voodoo Woman if you like, but Im proud to call her my friend. John Waldman Collector since 1977 Freedom Lover [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:"...who will not allow herself to get baited and trolled, Thankyou everyone!"Susan, you're still doing it. Please just leave. Andrea- Original Message - From: susan olson To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2006 2:34 AM Subject: [MOPO] in the coolerAfter much thought today and a flurry of private supportive emails and requests that I not leave again, and of course if Scott the List owner doesnt make a ruling to banish meI will take a time out and come back and be a positive contributing member, who will not allow herself to get baited and trolled, Thankyou everyone!if there are any New members who have Resto Questions or would like any do it yourself pointers for minor flaws, I would be happy to answer any questions after my time out! SusanVisit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing ListSend a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-LThe author of this message is solely responsible for its content.Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing ListSend a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-LThe author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] For the Record
You're doing a great job, Scott. ToochisScott Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the record:MoPo is an UNMODERATED group.I am a LISTOWNER, not a MODERATOR. There is a very critical difference:Postings are not viewed, nor approved prior to distribution. When you jointhe group, you're on your own but expected to act reasonably civil and takeresponsibility for what you write.Despite claims to the contrary, I HAVE taken action concerning recent poststhat were not acceptable to the group's guidelines--PRIVATELY.Time to move on.ScottMoPo List Owner Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-LThe author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Changed tastes
Great subject. I started with Bogie because I've adored him since I was a child. My grandfather looked and sounded like him. Needless to say, Bogie paper runs high so I can't get as much as I like. I then started buying silent movie posters. I pretty much stay with stone lithos and try not to buy beyond the 30's or it will get out of hand.I have my noir collection in my husband's office along with bad girl and schlocky 50's monsters. The furniture is 50's, etc. So that way I can justify going beyond my boundary. I have the KILLER SHREWS in the office which was beautifully linenbacked and restored by Susan Olson and it was in crappy shape. Of course, occassionallly I'll buy contemporary such as: Taxi Driver, DS advance of UNFORGIVEN and anything on the IRON GIANT.Toochissusan olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thankyou for the reply Philipp, good to hear from you.Yes it is a lot of fun, I recently got a Schlock (the water color Image of an Ape carryin a Blonde girl off, the look on his face is so Lascivous and goofy ) I cant help but crack up! and then up will go Lady Frankenstein. yes I love arty campy stuff as well and have recently gotten into Stone Litho Caberet posters and fruit crate labelsrecently found (fruit crate label) from the 30's titled the Gay Cock (it’s a rooster) but it just slays me, This week hanging on my easel I am back to bette Davis "Payment on Demand" "I made Him Now Ill Break Him" Susan - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; mopo-l@listserv.american.edu Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 3:48 PMSubject: Re: [MOPO] Changed tastesGreat post Susan, my taste also change all the time but then again I always get back to the old after a cycle of change...very interesting...dont know the reason butreally love it this waysometimes I discover a new line or art on posters I love to collect and own in my collection...Philipp-Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDUSent: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 9:06 PMSubject: [MOPO] Changed tastesWhen I first started collecting movie posters, I was pretty much stuck in a Paradigm (as was my movie Viewing)only Film Noir and B/W classics.I wouldn’t even look at anything that didn’t have Bogie or Mitchum, Bette Davis or many of the others,Now I am buying posters for Yog and Schlock, Vampyres,Warhols Blood for Dracula,Frankenstein, Plan 9 from Outer SpaceI have watched movies lately that I had never heard of before, many of the above but also many many Giallos,The Horrors of Spider Island,Brides of Blood etc,and I cant seem to get enough!Horror Hotel sheesh!Movies that are so bad theyre good and posters that maybe only cost me 20 bucksSo my question is do you find that after many years of collecting that your tastes have changed and gone from a rather rigid position to a more affiable and fun loving place?susanVisit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com___How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing ListSend a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-LThe author of this message is solely responsible for its content.Check out the new AOL. Most comprehensive set of free safety and security tools, free access to millions of high-quality videos from across the web, free AOL Mail and more.Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing ListSend a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-LThe author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Best Universal Horror Classic poster?
Wow, Ron. What an adventure. At least you touched it and gazed at it.ToochisRon Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Andrea and Philip!Yes, I wish I still had The Mummy one sheet as well,but, you can't go back and on the bright side, I wasable to put a downpayment on a house and add some moregreat items to my collection.As for other great finds, if you guys would reallylike to hear some, I have lots of them. Some of themare pretty entertaining- but long. I really condensedthe one about the Mummy as there was a lot more to it.When I get a chance next week, maybe I'll type out afew. Some of them I actually acquired and a few gotaway, but they're all great stories!Ron Moore--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ron! Amazing story...any other great story finds? Love these stories. Philipp -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 9:38 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] Best Universal Horror Classic poster? Okay, so in all honesty I have had way more than my share in great poster finds over the years- but I've really hit the roads over the last 30 years to find them. One of the first finds included both style Pinocchio one sheets from 1940 for 50 cents each! Along with 3 Superman serial one sheets- I had to cough up a bit more for those. But for the best find of all... Sue will like this one! Back in 1992 I tracked down a rumor regarding an original Mummy one sheet. Now, I didn't really believe it was real until the guy who knew about it told me that next to Karloff's image the poster said, "It Comes to Life!" Well, you coulda knocked me over when he said that. It took me another 6 months to finally locate it and when I did... well I was expecting to see the regular Mummy one sheet- you know, the one you always see pictures of. The one Borst owns that's in his book Graven Images! But when I went to this guys house, there on his living room wall was the other style Mummy one sheet! The one no one in our hobby had seen before. For once, my usually stoic poker face slipped! The owner would not even discuss selling it. So, I asked where did it come from. I really had to dig into this mystery and it went all the way back to 1959 when the poster was located in a small town outside of Chicago. Apparently there were lots and lots of posters stacked inside of a junk dealers barn. Out of that find- a gentleman had kept 2 She Done Him Wrong one sheets, a Ladies They Talk About one sheet, and (Hey Doug Taylor- here's where it came from ) an original All Quiet On the Western Front one sheet! I was able to acquire them all. What happened to the rest of the stacks of posters, I was never able to find out. oh well After another agonizing 6 months, the owner of the Mummy one sheet finally let me buy it off of him. It was one of the best days in my entire poster collecting life. The happiness was short term though. I was inundated by phone calls from auction houses, people offering me cash in briefcases, calls from people I didn't even know- and they knew where I lived! The calls were coming in 3 to 5 times a day. It got to where I would walk by the poster, hanging magnificently on my wall, and I just couldn't stand to look at it anymore. After 6 months of harrassment, I sold it. So much for what could be one of the greatest, if not the greatest, posters in our hobby! There have been lots of more finds since then. I love the hunt! Ron Moore Cinema Icons --- Susan Heim wrote: The Mummy lobby card was a great find. I had someone offer me the original one sheet for Dracula back in 1982 or 1983 for $3500. Well, at that time, he could have been asking for $35 million and it wouldn't have been different. The guy explained to me that it would probably be worth quite a bit more in the future, and I agreed, but $3500 was almost 3 years rent to me in those days. He offered to go down to $3000. I told him he could go down to $300 and I still couldn't afford it. If I had only known, I would have borrowed from everyone I knew to buy it. I always hoped that guy never sold it and still has it to this day. You could see how much he loved the poster and hated to have to sell it. New question...Graphically, The Mummy and The Invisible Man one sheet are my favorite of the Universal Horror Classic one sheets. How about everyone else?Sue www.hollywoodposterframes.com - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 3:25 PMSubject: [MOPO] Are The Inmates In Charge Of The Nuthouse?Hi,I've been collecting and dealing in movie posters for close to 30 years. Sometimes it amazes not only how much angry diatribe has taken over MoPo, but it seems as if certain members ,who act as if they have all the right answers, are so often wrong. ie: a 40x60 has ALWAYS been a 40x60---never in my years of collecting have I head it
Re: [MOPO] AUTOGRAPHED POSTERS
Sad. Barbara BelGeddes was a wonderful actress and had a great career.I have a 3-sheet of Manchurian Candidate by John Frankenheimer. He was signing laser discs of the film in the mid-90's and I was at film school at the time. I asked him to sign it and he asked me to open it for him. I did and he was surprised to see one. He said he never saw one and that he thinks he should have one being the director. He told me he would pay me $100 and I said "no, thank you. I'm a big fan of the film and worked very hard to get this". He then said, "I'm the director of the movie. You're a film student. Who the hell are you?" I told him, "A film student who's walking away with this poster. Thank you."It bummed me out. I admired him for so long. Anyway I haven't linenbacked it yet so it's still in storage. That encounter didn't pump my incentive at all.On another note, I have a signed THE HAUNTING by the writer, Nelson Gidding and Robert Wise. The inscription from Bob is sweet, but Nelson's, my mentor is a hoot. They signed it when I first started studying with Nelson and the inscription is: "To a fine student...I hope." Needless to say, it's a cherished item and most likely of no value to anyone else.ToochisKirby McDaniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Presuming that an autograph is not bogus:it depends on what poster is signed and by whom.We have a one sheet for VERTIGO signed by James Stewart. It'sa great item in our current inventory. However, a VERTIGO onesheet signed by Barbara BelGeddes, while possibly nice for someonewho likes Barbara BelGeddes, doesn't carry the same weight.A signature by a lesser player in the film is of no help to theposter, in my opinion, and probably not as desirable as an unsignedposter. Kirby McDaniel MovieArt Original Film Posters P.O. Box 4419 Austin TX 78765-4419 512 479 6680 www.movieart.net Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing ListSend a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-LThe author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Scorcese's The Departed
I loved this film. Leo was quite impressive and the rest of the cast. So nice to see Nicholson work with Scorcese. While Taxi Driver is one of my favorites, this film is no disappointment. As an actor, this Scorcese film makes me wish I were a dude.Toochissusan olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:No David I wont, but your review of this film, has sparked some interest, which says a lot for your writing, there havent been many that cause me to want to bust out of my paradigm. I like Scorsese's style and hard edge reality. My introduction to him was the "Last Waltz" ending with my recent viewing of Casino. (all within the last year) (and all of the other good ones in between), I have also come to appreciate Tarrentino who is not veryone's cup of tea and Like with Vincent Gallo's Buffalo 66, the cast was all there to support Gallo and this film which said a lot about both, andit turned out to be an exceptional film,However I learned a valuable lesson in Hero worship and the long awaited arrival of "The Brown Bunny", where the only thing redeemable was the fact that Gallo stated he wished he had never made that dirge. As as an artist andlinen backer I can only empathise, I wish they would all turn out as I envision. susan - Original Message -From: David KusumotoTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2006 5:58PM Subject: RE: [MOPO] Scorcese's "TheDeparted" Hi Susan: ** As I've toldothers who've privately written me since last night -- please, don't take mycomments as a hearty recommendation to see Scorcese's "The Departed." Ifyou go, bring lowered expectations. This is not "Goodfellas" nor is itas beautifully stylized as Scorcese's better films. Because after a jetrocket opening, about 30 minutes in I started to feel cheated, feeling thefilm was overrated. It started to bog down and became confusing. Iwas finally able, around the 60-minute mark, to sort things out and betterunderstand what was going on. ** And by the end ofthe picture, I felt fine. The closing shotisn't subtle and feelscontrived. Such contrivances are missing from most of Scorcese's betterpictures -- and their absence may explain why he's not a household name amongmainstream audiences who don't understand what the fuss about Scorcese is allabout. So if you've followed his career, you may walk out disappointedfrom "The Departed." However, this last shot gives commercial audiencessomething Scorcese has historically been incapable of giving -- and that's"closure." Not happy ending "closure," but Scorcese's "idea" of whatcomes close to it. ** I feel this is a"B+" movie for Scorcese. It's really gory, almost over-the-top violentwith racist and anti-gay and anti-religion comments sprinkledthroughout. This is what I meant by forgetting what a Scorcese picturelike this is like when you see it on a big screen vs. on home video.Many people will be put off by Scorcese's return to his violent roots.But "The Departed" proves he still has the ability to shock and pull nopunches by showing violence for what it is -- dirty,ugly,un-sanitized.I don't care that Scorcese can only dothis kind of picture. He's good at it and should stick to what he doesbest. A good Scorcese film lacks vulnerable emotion, that is, you don'tcry for anyone. A good Scorcese picture runs on three emotions:raw anger, getting ahead and getting even. I don't want Scorcese to domelodramas or historical pictures filled with romance. ** I believe "TheDeparted" has enough going for it that it may become the first out-of-the-boxcommercial hit for Scorcese. He has never, the best I recall, directed afilm that has opened #1 at the box office. He has a shot here. Theintriguing question then might be: Can Scorcese handle commercialsuccess? You get the feeling nearly everyone in this cast was underpaidjust to be directed by him. I just hope "The Departed" puts an end toScorcese's "experiments" of the last decade which nearly buried him. I'mthinking now of "Gangs of New York" and "The Aviator," two films withmega-budgets and overblown praise. "The Departed" looks like it costpennies to make but is better than both of those films combined. ** I think Scorceseowes the extension of his career to Leonardo DiCaprio, who stuck by him andkept mainstream audiences interested. After "Casino," he felt done tome. He got the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award. People then startedrooting for him to get an Oscar for sentimental reasons, instead ofmerit. "The Departed" gives Scorcese his most recognizable mainstreamcast in ages. And I find it incredible that this film marks the firsttime that Jack Nicholson, our man from "Easy Rider" to the present day, hasworked w/the director from New York.** (BTW, the
Re: [MOPO] Heritage November Auction
Wow, Phillip. I'm after the same DANTE'S INFERNO. I just don't have the funds now so I'm out of the running. Great luck with your search.Toochis[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are so correct.I cannot miss it.back to my place I love...Dallas...miss it...but love LA...by the way met Harrison Ford last Friday...toughbut I was able to talk to himand he did like my accent.lets go back...pieces that are so rare that make movie poster collectors faint and dizzy...I am still after my Dante's Inferno one sheet style A...(I am trying to pull a "Bruce" or now "Kirby"..: but for collectors in my message).(need to do this more ofternha ha ha).anyhowthis is life I guessthis will be the auction to beI will book my flight tomorrowI cannot wait to meet you Randymaybe I can meet other MOPOsPhilippVisit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing ListSend a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-LThe author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Fw: [MOPO] Scorcese's The Departed
I'd walk funny to be in a role like that. Toochissusan olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Boy would you ever walk funny! Think you could get used to having a dangling participle? talk about getting into role. susan - Original Message - From: Toochis Morin To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2006 3:42 AM Subject: Re: [MOPO] Scorcese's "The Departed" I loved this film. Leo was quite impressive and the rest of the cast. So nice to see Nicholson work with Scorcese. While Taxi Driver is one of my favorites, this film is no disappointment. As an actor, this Scorcese film makes me wish I were a dude.Toochissusan olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No David I wont, but your review of this film, has sparked some interest,which says a lot for your writing, there havent been many that cause me to want to bust out of my paradigm.I like Scorsese's style and hard edge reality.My introduction to him was the "Last Waltz" ending with my recent viewing of Casino. (all within the last year)(and all of the other good ones in between), I have also come to appreciate Tarrentino who is not veryone's cup of tea andLike with Vincent Gallo's Buffalo 66, the cast was all there to support Gallo and this film which said a lot about both, andit turned out to be an exceptional film,However I learned a valuable lesson in Hero worship andthe long awaited arrival of "The Brown Bunny", where the only thing redeemable was the fact that Gallo stated he wished he had never made that dirge.As as an artist andlinen backer I can only empathise, I wish they would all turn out as I envision.susan - Original Message - From: David Kusumoto To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2006 5:58 PM Subject: RE: [MOPO] Scorcese's "The Departed" Hi Susan: ** As I've told others who've privately written me since last night -- please, don't take my comments as a hearty recommendation to see Scorcese's "The Departed." If you go, bring lowered expectations. This is not "Goodfellas" nor is it as beautifully stylized as Scorcese's better films. Because after a jet rocket opening, about 30 minutes in I started to feel cheated, feeling the film was overrated. It started to bog down and became confusing. I was finally able, around the 60-minute mark, to sort things out and better understand what was going on. ** And by the end of the picture, I felt fine. The closing shotisn't subtle and feels contrived. Such contrivances are missing from most of Scorcese's better pictures -- and their absence may explain why he's not a household name among mainstream audiences who don't understand what the fuss about Scorcese is all about. So if you've followed his career, you may walk out disappointed from "The Departed." However, this last shot gives commercial audiences something Scorcese has historically been incapable of giving -- and that's "closure." Not happy ending "closure," but Scorcese's "idea" of what comes close to it. ** I feel this is a "B+" movie for Scorcese. It's really gory, almost over-the-top violent with racist and anti-gay and anti-religion comments sprinkled throughout. This is what I meant by forgetting what a Scorcese picture like this is like when you see it on a big screen vs. on home video. Many people will be put off by Scorcese's return to his violent roots. But "The Departed" proves he still has the ability to shock and pull no punches by showing violence for what it is -- dirty, ugly,un-sanitized.I don't care that Scorcese can only do this kind of picture. He's good at it and should stick to what he does best. A good Scorcese film lacks vulnerable emotion, that is, you don't cry for anyone. A good Scorcese picture runs on three emotions: raw anger, getting ahead and getting even. I don't want Scorcese to do melodramas or historical pictures filled with romance. ** I believe "The Departed" has enough going for it that it may become the first out-of-the-box commercial hit for Scorcese. He has never, the best I recall, directed a film that has opened #1 at the box office. He has a shot here. The intriguing question then might be: Can Scorcese handle commercial success? You get the feeling nearly everyone in this cast was underpaid just to be directed by him. I just hope "The Departed" puts an end to Scorcese's "experiments" of the last d
Re: [MOPO] a bruce wanna-be
We're lucky to have Marty on this list. He's quite a classy guy and great seller.ToochisRichard Halegua Comic Art [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael.. you are way off base.. Marty Davis is a longtime seller of great stuff who is also one of the partners of the Hollywood Poster Auction...He doesn't need to copy Bruce..Rich===At 08:00 PM 10/25/2006, Michael B wrote:looks like onesheet is drafting his ads/promotions to look like bruce's.quite comical.u aint no bruce!!!michaelps-- glad to read that you're feeling good, bruce!!!--Check out the new AOL. Most comprehensive set of free safety and security tools, free access to millions of high-quality videos from across the web, free AOL Mail and more.Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com___How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing ListSend a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-LThe author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] a bruce wanna-be
How cool, Bruce. Michael, when I praised Marty, I meant nothing against you. I hope you didn't take it this way and support you expressing yourself.Michael, if you have more to say, I'm all ears.ToochisDavid Kusumoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, you 500-pound gorilla impresario of movie paper -- great to see you back in action with your mix of blatant self promotion, self-deprecating humor and not-so-subtle "segues" as to what you're hawking this week. Your job and raising so many great kids finally caught up with you. Well, you needed the rest. And my meager winnings every other month from you continue to be delivered not only on time, but in parcels so iron-clad packed that it takes the "jaws of life" to open 'em. As far as Michael -- since he dishes it out -- I know he can take it. I'mnot worried about him. He seems pretty fearless and not easily intimidated anyway. Take care... -koose.From: Bruce Hershenson [EMAIL PROTECTED]Reply-To: Bruce Hershenson [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDUSubject: Re: a bruce wanna-beDate: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:38:54 -0500 First off, you guys stop beating up on poor Michael! First you run off "Mr. Smith" (who was actually Dr. Smith, but I guess you are all too young to remember that incredibly crappy show, or perhaps you are lucky enough to have forgotten it), and now you are likely to run off Michael too. Sure he is exuberant and passionate and jumps to some wrong conclusions, but aren't HIS e-mails a breath of fresh air compared to the endless flow of "what I have on eBay e-mails"? (Although where else would I have learned that the words "rare style" actually mean "Australian daybill" or that it is OK to put the original year of a poster in the title, even if it is a re-release, as long as you bury that info somewhere in the small text?)Second, Michael was almost correct in what he said. He just got it backwards! Marty Davis is not "a bruce wanna-be", but I very much am a "marty wanna-be". Here is a guy who everyone likes and respects, who does a great job selling on eBay, and "lives large" and has no regular job. Who WOULDN'T want to be just like him.Third, for the record, Marty and I have sold to each other and bought from each other for over 17 years. I am happy that he is one of my friends, and one of the best friends I have made from this hobby. He asked me in passing several times over the past year if it was OK with me to give my books away one week, and each time I said it was fine.My God, will you run Koose off of here next because he makes some little mistake?Can't we all just get along?BruceP.S. I bet you are all amazed that I am not even mentioning the 954 great items in Part I of my 7th Annual Halloween auction, currently on eBay. Only a tireless self-promoter would do that, and my recent heart troubles have left me a very tired self-promoter!Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing ListSend a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-LThe author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Off-Topic - Check out THE LOST ROOM
Thanks so much, Alan. We're very proud of these writers. They worked their butts off. (preposition ending---YIKES!) Toochis Alan Adler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All - I watched the first 2 parts of LOST ROOM and have to say it's one of the sharpest shows I've seen in a while. Don't miss it! Great cast. Exciting. Visually stimulating. And a great script! Can't wait to see the ending tonight! Alan On Dec 11, 2006, at 6:08 PM, Toochis Morin wrote: Hi all, I'm proud to announce our clients show is opening tonight on the Sci-fi channel. http://www.scifi.com/lostroom/ Strange and clever, The Lost Room is full of winding corridors, peculiar twists and wry, oddball humor, set against a mystery that recalls TV's better Stephen King productions -- before, that is, they invariably fell apart in the last act. - Variety Peter Krause heads an impressive cast that includes Julianna Margulies, Kevin Pollak, Roger Bart, Peter Jacobson, Margaret Cho and other solid talents Maybe the best thing about this miniseries is the weird assortment of characters -- practically all of them everyday people with personalities altered by their new powers. - The Hollywood Reporter With Battlestar Galactica, the Sci-Fi Channel presented a well-crafted miniseries that launched an excellent weekly series. With The Lost Room, the network's new six-hour miniseries televised in two-hour installments tonight through Wednesday at 9, that triumphant trick is likely to be duplicated. - The New York Daily News ONE of the most perfectly cast miniseries in recent history, SciFi's The Lost Room, is also one of the most bizarrely complicated and intriguing. - The New York Post Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing ListSend a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-LThe author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Peter Boyle 1935-2006
He was brilliant. How sad. What a loss. Toochis Dave Rosen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, I just heard about it, too. I'll never forget seeing him for the first time in Joe... Dave Posteropolis www.posteropolis.com - Original Message - From: Scott Burns To: Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 1:21 PM Subject: [MOPO] Peter Boyle 1935-2006 Sorry to post another RIP, but here's one that deserves mention. Peter Boyle has died at age 71. Taxi Driver, Young Frankenstein, The Candidate, 10 years on TV's Everybody Loves Raymond...quite a career. My personal faves, the monster in Young Frankenstein, and private investigator Andy Mast in Hardcore. Here's a link to the AP news report: http://apnews.excite.com/article/20061213/D8M03TUG0.html Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Subtitles
The characteristic about both films: Letters from Iwo Jima and Apocalypto is that they are much like silent films and you can follow them easily. There isn't heavy dialogue and yet it has made both films quite compelling. Toochis channinglylethomson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The main problem I have with subtitled movies is that I prefer to watch a movie rather than read a movie. That said, it's definitely an acquired skill that becomes easier -- but never as easy as watching a film produced in your native language. Channing Thomson in San Francisco Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] A holiday message from Dan Rickard...
How fun! Toochis Bob Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Hey Everybody! Just passing on a little note from Dan at MPA. Happy Holidays! Bob I would personally like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas from the bottom of my heart! Especially... http://www.elfyourself.com/?userid=7ce5e8bc45737e733db33b1G06122322 Dan Rickard Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Thank you Scott!
Gracias, Scott. Have a great 2007! Toochis Richard Del Belso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...and I thank you too! Richard Del Belso Richard Del Belso From: Cindy Nemeth-Johannes Reply-To: Cindy Nemeth-Johannes To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: [MOPO] Thank you Scott! Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 16:43:13 -0700 I thank you, my family thanks you and my walls thank you. Best Regards and have an excellent New Year. Cindy Nemeth-Johannes Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Best 2006 Acquistitions
Wow, Doug those are great. I wish I were in your league.
One of my bests was a one-sheet of Madame Sans Jane to go with my 3-sheet and a
3-sheet of Lady of Burlesque (my hubby got it for my birthday!).
Toochis
Doug Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) } This year was great for me
because I picked up a Grand Hotel US OS. Yes, it was expensive, but I now only
need Wings, Cavalcade and Cimarron to complete my AA Best Picture OS
collection. Woohoo!
DBT
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Re: [MOPO] In Memory of Cinevent's John Stingley
How sad. I wish his loved ones comfort through this sad time. What a loss to the collecting world. Toochis susan olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh No, although I have never made it to Cinevent I had the absolute pleasure of talking to John on the phone a few years ago. I have lit a candle Susan - Original Message - From: Scott Burns To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 9:01 PM Subject: [MOPO] In Memory of Cinevent's John Stingley MoPo'ers: Cinevent has been cited many times on MoPo as one of the best, if not the best, poster/classic movie convention in the US. It's with much sadness that I report that one of Cinevent's founders, John A. Stingley, passed away this morning. The last of the 3 surviving Cinevent founders Steve Haynes (a MoPo member) sent out notice this evening about John's loss. Cinevent will go on as planned Memorial Day weekend, but it won't be the same without John. It really is a tremendous loss. John Stingley 1947-2007 Scott MoPo List Owner Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing ListSend a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-LThe author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing ListSend a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-LThe author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Yvonne De Carlo
How sad. May she be singing with the angels in heaven. Toochis Susan Heim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:I use to watch old movies on t.v. as a kid as often as possible. Growing up in the fifties, everything was black and white on our t.v. set, even well into the 60's. I was a huge Munsters fan and remember seeing the movie Band of Angels on t.v. and I couldn't believe that beautiful lady was Lily Munster a.k.a Yvonne De Carlo. My old framing warehouse use to be in North Hollywood and about 15 years ago or so, I was standing in line at a Thrifty drug store and she walked up and got in line behind me. She had put on quite a bit of weight and had a moo-moo on (those of you that grew up in the 50's and 60's know what I mean), but she still had that beautiful face and hair. I remember when I went to put my items on the counter she was setting her items down also and she looked at me and smiled and I said hello. I don't know if she thought I recognized her or not, but that was it. Every time I go into that Thrifty store, I have thought of her. I was sad to hear of her passing, but she had a good long run and will be remembered fondly. Sue Heim - Original Message - From: lobby card invasion To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 3:08PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] Yvonne De Carlo1922-2007 I find it a bit sad that for so many people De Carlo issynanymous to TV's The Munsters. The older among us will surlyremember De Carlo as the sexy, feisty, fiery, queen of the adventuremovies of our youth. Whether its in the Wild West(Tomahawk 1951), abord apirate ship(Buccaneer Girl 1950), in the treacherous dark allies of oldAlgiers(Casbah 1948), decorating a saloon on a gambling riverboat(RiverLady 1948), on a far away island in the South Seas(Hurricane Smith 1952),or in a classic Film Noir(Brute Force 1947), we always knew we can expecta real foxy lady. A lot of her early movies were with UniversalInternational which produced some of the most beautiful posters in thelate 40's to mid 50's. And they are still reasonablypriced. Zeev - Original Message - From:Richard Del Belso [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent:Wednesday, January 10, 2007 4:45 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] Yvonne De Carlo1922-2007 For me, she will be best remembered for being thebad girl' opposite Burt Lancaster in CRISS CROSS...AND, for beingthe first actress to sing Stephen Sondheim's I'M STILL HERE, inFOLLIES on Broadway. She will be missed. RichardDB htmldivFONT face=Lucida Handwriting,CursiveRichard Del Belso/FONT/div/html From:Scott Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To:Scott Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject:[MOPO] Yvonne De Carlo 1922-2007 Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 16:03:08-0500 Yvonne De Carlo, best known for her role as LilyMunster on TV's The Munsters has passed on at age 84 of naturalcauses, AP reports today. In addition to The Munsters she will bebest remembered for her role in The Ten Commandments,playing Charlton Heston's (Moses) wife. Here's a linkto the APstory: http://apnews.excite.com/article/20070110/D8MIL1C80.html Scott MoPoListOwner Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo MailingList Send amessage addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFFMOPO-L The author of thismessage is solely responsible for itscontent. Visitthe MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo MailingList Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFFMOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPoMailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo MailingList Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFFMOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible forits content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type:
Re: [MOPO] Greatest Sports Movies
Field of Dreams (Baseball!) Richard Halegua Comic Art [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the Natural DUH At 12:31 PM 1/14/2007, Roger Kim wrote: Dear Mopo, Watching the NFL football playoffs has inspired me to compile the list of the greatest sports movies of all time. In no particular order, here are the winners: National Velvet (horse racing) Bang the Drum Slowly (baseball) Lilo and Stitch (surfing) The Most Dangerous Game (hunting) Lagaan (cricket) Strangers on a Train (tennis) The Great Santini (basketball) The Rink (roller skating) 2001: A Space Odyssey (shadowboxing, jogging, wrestling) On the Waterfront (boxing) -rk Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] help please....best way to ship a linen backed SIX SHEET overseas to Japan?
Most of the articles I've gotten through DHL have been damaged. They've reimbursed me for it but it such a pain. Toochis - Original Message From: Kirby McDaniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Thursday, February 1, 2007 10:54:56 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] help pleasebest way to ship a linen backed SIX SHEET overseas to Japan? On Feb 2, 2007, at 12:51 AM, Kirby McDaniel wrote: DHL will insure it, but FED EX will not.You know what DHL stand for, don't you. Day and Half Late. Kirby McDaniel www.movieart.net On Feb 2, 2007, at 12:17 AM, susan olson wrote: Dave, Go to your local hardware store and get a 6 inch (width) PVC leach line (not ribbed or with holes), have them cut it to your desired length (usually I go 6 extraa inches, for packing) also be sure to clean the inside of the tube (I stick mine in the shower ) before inserting your rolled wrapped poster pack ends so that poster isnt slamming around,( but not to tightly as to damage ends) and then cap ends (either with appropriate sized caps, from same hardware store or cut cardboard caps) cut to just fit the inside of the tube (you don’t want any lip, jutting out beyond tube) I always use plenty of tape, over end cap running lenth wise with tube and then overlap these straps around the tube! I have had nothing but problems with DHL Fed-X and UPS have size restrictions (cant remember what they are, but will also cost you an arm or a leg, The U.S Postal Service offers a very nice service with tracking and insurance EXPRESS MAIL PRIORITY or EMS that I have found to be Excellent! Best, Susan - Original Message - From: David Lieberman To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 9:33 PM Subject: [MOPO] help pleasebest way to ship a linen backed SIX SHEET overseas to Japan? DHL? FEDEX? UPS? anyone else? I'm sure it will cost a small fortune. thanks in advance. David Lieberman CineMasterpieces.com 602 309 0500 CineMasterpieces.com Please vote YES for each one of our eBay GUIDES. Check out our eBay AUCTIONS. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com___How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing ListSend a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-LThe author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com___How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing ListSend a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-LThe author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Twister in West Plains, MO
I hope so too. toochis - Original Message From: Douglas Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Thursday, March 1, 2007 6:27:55 AM Subject: [MOPO] Twister in West Plains, MO I just heard this morning on MSN that a tornado touched down and was hit pretty hard in West Plains. MO. I hope pray that our friend, Bruce Hershenson, his family, and employees are all save and sound, Best wishes, Doug Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] WEST PLAINS
WHEW! thanks Kirby Toochis - Original Message From: Kirby McDaniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Thursday, March 1, 2007 8:55:44 AM Subject: [MOPO] WEST PLAINS I have it on the best authority that thingsare OK with emovieposter.com's world headquarters. Nobody has dropped a house on them... yet! Kirby McDaniel MovieArt Original Film Posters P.O. Box 4419 Austin TX 78765-4419 512 479 6680 www.movieart.net Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] I Saw 300 Last Night
I LOVE I CLAUDIUS...you mean Jacobi or Laughton or both? I love both. Toochis - Original Message From: Joseph Bonelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2007 3:50:09 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] I Saw 300 Last Night I'll stick to I CLAUDIUS ! Joe Kirby McDaniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds dreadful. Give me HELEN OF TROY. Or at least CLASH OF THE TITANS. Hell, I'd even settle for ALONE AGAINST ROME. I'll just stay home and watch ROME on HBO. In HD. and HIFI. Kirby On Mar 11, 2007, at 1:32 PM, Craig Miller wrote: At 03:45 PM 3/10/07 -0800, channinglylethomson wrote: It was a terrific night at the big Imax theatre. One thing crossed my mind -- celebrating Sparta is a little like toasting Nazi Germany. I hope the film inspires young viewers to learn about the reality of the times and some of the deeper meanings of the history involved. I saw 300 a few weeks ago, albeit not in Imax. It was pretty amazing although, as drama goes, pretty poor. No one speaks. Everything is shouted. There's pretty much no characterization. And it's like a video game, except you don't get to actually play. Half an hour of story set up followed by level after level, oops, I mean wave after wave of different enemies come marching toward our heroes who fight them off. First one kind of soldier than another kind of soldier than this kind of animal than that kind of behemoth then that kind of animal. The only interesting parts -- other than visually -- were the encounters between Leonidas, the leader of the Spartans and Xerxes, leader of the Persians. It's visually stunning, well capturing the Frank Miller imagery from the comic it's based on. The movie will do huge business with the high school and college set. But it is strictly a violent popcorn movie. (A friend said two hours of homo-erotic action, which it surely is.) Craig. ~ Craig Miller Wolfmill Entertainment [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Bored stiff? Loosen up... Download and play hundreds of games for free on Yahoo! Games. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] 300
Okay, Channing. I saw the film at Mann's Chinese tonight with a packed house. Okay, the script is not the greatest and yes, there is minimal character development. But, the guys are HOT in this film. The crowd was totally into it. When the 300 march with their hard pecs, perfect teeth, and awesome gear, you want to cheer or swoon. I asked some straight guys why they liked it. Most of them said it's because they got to see some guys fight a battle worth fighting for. So is this movie going to win an Oscar? No. Will it change filmmaking? Hope not. Was it enjoyable? Yes! Toochis Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Anyone Got a Spare Million Laying Around?
What an amazing collection, Todd. You must drool everyday. For a moment I thought it was your Black Cat poster that is in the Heritage Auction coming up. It's such a lovely poster. Toochis - Original Message From: Scott Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 8:30:46 PM Subject: [MOPO] Anyone Got a Spare Million Laying Around? Anyone Got a Spare Million Laying Around? http://cgi.ebay.com/FRANKENSTEIN-31MINTLobbySetKARLOFFUNIVERSALHORROR_W0QQitemZ120098075626QQcategoryZ60302QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem If the link doesn't work search eBay for item 120098075626. I can't imagine having a collection like Mr. Feiertag (or parting with it!). Wow! Sorry, it's just not every day I see a million-dollar item on eBay. Scott MoPo List Owner Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] LOBBY CARDS IN THE LOBBY............
That is the coolest picture, Vaughan! I have the title card from Les Girls and love it. What a cool way to display them. I've never seen a lobby card displayed. I wonder what they do with them now. I'm sure they are being made in Europe. I bought some German lobby cards from The Iron Giant. Toochis - Original Message From: Susan Heim [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 5:43:28 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] LOBBY CARDS IN THE LOBBY Vaughn, What a treat! That's how I remember the theaters of my youth when I would stand staring at those posters never knowing what lay in store for me years down the road. I would love to own an old theater to display all the wonderful posters and just show old movies all the time. Unfortunately, it's just not cost effective. If I won the lottery and could subsidize it, that would be the life for me. Thanks for the great photo! Sue www.hollywoodposterframes.com - Original Message - From: Vaughn K. Mann To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 4:52 PM Subject: [MOPO] LOBBY CARDS IN THE LOBBY Hi Folks, As I was going through a bunch of old photographs today, I came across the photo that is linked below. I remember someone on MOPO, some time ago, asked if anyone could show how lobby cards were display in the theatre's of old. Well, this is the Outer Lobby of the Colonial Theatre in Keene, New Hampshire, It had marble floors and brass rails. Still up and operating! My Dad took this picture of one of the people that worked for him. The left upper shows how the three sheet might be displayed (Les Girls). The 2 portable displays could be used for one sheets or lobby cards; usually one sheets except in this case. More importantly, the upper right show a beautiful decor gold frame which held four lobby cards on each side of a one sheet all separated by this gold frame. Jet Pilot is Coming Soon The frame has locked doors. Why, I don't know.No one knew what we know; haha Hope some of you younger enthusiasts find this interesting and helpful. Vaughn Outer Lobby; Colonial Theatre, Keene, New Hampshire(1957) http://home.earthlink.net/~vmann1/COLONIALOL.JPG Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Heritage Live: I am at the heriate auction right now.
sounds like fun Toochis - Original Message From: Mark Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 8:59:36 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] Heritage Live: I am at the heriate auction right now. Wish I was there!! Today was the first time I've ever phone bid with an auction house. I bid on two lots and won! Aloha, Mark --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are nine bidders on the floor. Typical dealers for instance Ron moore, hughes, rueben, and sean are in attendance. I see only four collectors including me in the room. Let's get it on.. Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless -Original Message- From: Michael Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:45:57 To:MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: Re: [MOPO] WTB: Killer of Sheep (1977) Hi Simon, That might be a tough one. I don't believe KoS had a general release. You might try Posteratiti (sp?) in New York. They had a collection of independent film posters. Good luck, Michael, Cinecityposters P.S. Anyone ever see posters from the Frederick Wiseman documentaries? /HTML Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. 8:00? 8:25? 8:40? Find a flick in no time with the Yahoo! Search movie showtime shortcut. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#news Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] OFF TOPIC AND UTTERLY FASCINATING PICASSO, BRAQUE AND THE MOVIES
Thank you Freeman. I wish I could get to NYC to see this showing. How wonderful. Toochis - Original Message From: lobby card invasion [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 7:34:05 AM Subject: Re: [MOPO] OFF TOPIC AND UTTERLY FASCINATING PICASSO, BRAQUE AND THE MOVIES Thank you Freeman. What a deliciously fantastic story. Truly amazing stuff!! Zeev - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 4:44 AM Subject: [MOPO] OFF TOPIC AND UTTERLY FASCINATING PICASSO, BRAQUE AND THE MOVIES Art When Picasso and Braque Went to the Movies RANDY KENNEDY Published: April 15, 2007 IT was Picasso doing the noninterview interview, decades before Warhol came along to elevate it to an art form. In 1911 a writer for Paris-Journal was asking Picasso about the radically new kind of painting people were calling Cubism, the lightning bolt that had shot forth from his studio and that of his friend Georges Braque. Picasso claimed never to have heard of such a thing. “Il n’y a pas de Cubisme,” he said blithely, and then excused himself to go feed his pet monkey. In part because its creators said so little about it during their lifetime, guarding it like a kind of state secret, Cubism has generated a library’s worth of scholarship, probably more than any other artistic innovation in the last century. The general picture that has emerged is one of Cubism bubbling up out of a thick Parisian stew of symbolist poetry, Cézanne, cafe society, African masks, absinthe and a fascination with all things mechanical and modern, mostly airplanes and automatons. But while almost every aspect of these two artists’ live has been scrutinized — their friends, lovers, favorite drugs, hangouts, hat sizes and nicknames (Picasso called Braque Wilbourg, after Wilbur Wright) — one mutual fascination has been largely overlooked: Both men were crazy about the movies. They were also coming of age artistically in the city of the Lumière brothers, where the modern moviegoing experience had just been born, starting in cafes and cabarets and then moving into theaters, packed with people still in disbelief as they watched a two-dimensional picture plane leap to life. “The cinema was not simply in its earliest infancy,” wrote the critic André Salmon, one of Picasso’s friends and fellow moviegoers. “It was wailing.” For more than 20 years the New York art dealer Arne Glimcher had carried around a theory, more gut feeling than scholarly conjecture, that Picasso and Braque had been seduced by that siren song of the early cinema, and that Cubism, with its fractured surfaces and multiple perspectives, owed much more to the movies than anyone had noticed. Five years ago Mr. Glimcher finally decided to do something about his hunch. He enlisted Bernice Rose, a longtime curator at the Museum of Modern Art and now director of Mr. Glimcher’s gallery, PaceWildenstein, to undertake the daunting academic work of trying to find traces of the silver screen hiding among the endless histories, archives, criticism and art of the early Cubist years. The result of that work, which opens Friday at the gallery’s East 57th Street location, is “Picasso, Braque and Early Film in Cubism,” an exhibition that Mr. Glimcher calls one of the most ambitious in the gallery’s 47-year history. The gallery has gathered more than 40 paintings, collages and other works — none for sale, Mr. Glimcher said — from private collections and from museums around the world, including the Georges Pompidou Center, the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Moderna Museet in Stockholm. (To get one Picasso he wanted from a museum in Prague, Mr. Glimcher even parted temporarily with a 1951 Jackson Pollock he owns, swapping the paintings for the length of the show.) Besides paintings, the exhibition has rounded up rare examples of early cinema’s deus ex machina, the cinematograph: a whirring hand-cranked camera and projector of the kind that Picasso and Braque would have seen, not yet ensconced in a booth but out among the seats, acting as a powerful mechanized metaphor for the artist, absorbing the world through its eye and beaming it back out again. A part of the exhibition space will also be transformed into a simulacrum of an old Belle Époque movie house, where dozens of short movies from the medium’s first years will flicker again, this time through the magic of digital projection. For Mr. Glimcher the show is about personal obsessions in more ways than one. Beginning in the early 1980s — after he had a small film role in his friend Robert Benton’s “Still of the Night” as an
Re: [MOPO] When ARE lobby cards going to be slabbed anyway?
Susan, I would love to see images of the Freaks program. Wow! Toochis - Original Message From: susan olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 10:46:19 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] When ARE lobby cards going to be slabbed anyway? great read Vaughn! I really wouldn’t want my lobbies looking like Dinner table placemats, I am a paper freak, I love the different colors, smells and textures of the years, and do prefer older paper because of its beautiful quality inks and matte finishes. I have bought newer paper because I love the movies or images but after a few days on my display board I just cant handle the glare. Slabbed comics do not appeal to me because if I cant puruse them occassionally then they bring no joy, its not just about the cover art Art or back, or the piece as an investment. I collect many pulp mags and I love thumbing through them, slabbing would make more pieces unattainable for me as a collector and would be a turn off. I received a wonderful Japenese program from a friend of Todd Brownings Freaks and I just couldn’t imagine not being able to open it up. Linen Backing, I love a deacidified linen backed poster, with the colors just tits up and popping! and if one is done correctly, I don’t hesitate to buy! But you know that really depends on whats available, if there are plenty of them, Ill pass on a backed one, Ha but I am like the Mercedez mechanic who drives a pinto, unless they come that way to me many of mine remain untouched. Susan - Original Message - From: Vaughn K. Mann To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:41 AM Subject: Re: [MOPO] When ARE lobby cards going to be slabbed anyway? Good Morning Folks, When I first started collecting and, of course, starting selling, Linen Backing was done by folks that belonged to the country clubFor those that do not understand that analogy, I'm talking about folks that only had the money to do so and the only people that linen backed were those that had expensive item to linen back and of course linen backing was super expensive. Today everyone belongs to the country club and every one linen backs, even the lesser expensive pieces. The cost has gone down considerably. My experience has been that for the most part, many, perhaps not all, buyers would rather have a good, very fine or whatever piece of motion picture history rather than something that has been fixed and, to them, no longer authentic. That, in a nutshell, expresses my feeling about slabbing. I, personally, would rather hold that gorgeous 11 x 14 Laura lobby card in my hands, frayed border and all, then something that certainly appears to be a card, but I can't get at it..and have no idea what has been done to it to fix it. No offence to those of you on the listserv that do Linen Backing. If I had a mint (unused) 1sht of My Darling Clementine a gorgeous 1946 litho; wanted to Keep it, I would have one of you people linen back for me. However, if I were to sell it or buy one.wouldn't consider a Linen Back! Thus, slab away, but I personally would never buy oneMy personal thoughts, of course! Take care; stay happy all..Vaughn At 09:41 AM 4/15/2007 -0500, Bruce Hershenson wrote: I notice MoPo is mahty slow as of late (mostly FA or FS posts from people like myself) so I thought maybe I could get a conversation going with this question: Considering that slabbing has taking over just about every other collectible other than ours, and considering that the main proponents of slabbing are major sellers of movie paper, then why HAVEN'T they started slabbing lobby cards (obviously, posters would be much more complicated to do, but lobby cards could easily be slabbed in such a way that the front and back can be completely seen, with just a small strip on the side or bottom or top with the slabbing info, and there could easily be frames that show the card but hide the slabbing info, so they could be displayed great)? Of course, only that company can explain why or when they will start pushing slabbing, but in the meantime, I would like top dealers and collectors here to weigh in with their thoughts on slabbing of lobby cards. 1) Would you like to see it happen? 2) If it does, do you anticipate you would have some or all of your collection/inventory slabbed? 3) Would it make you more likely to buy slabbed items over un-slabbed ones? Etc. If this happens, it will be the biggest thing to happen to this hobby since my first Christie's auction. If there are any significant number of follow-ups to this post,
Re: [MOPO] A shift in thinking, linen-backing slabbing?
I have to compliment Susan Olson on her restoration abilities. I know you're retired, Susan. I had a large 2-panel Italian Barbarella that Susan linen-backed and restored. It's gorgeous and the colors pop amazingly. Sue Heim framed it and it hangs in our conference room. I'm partial to linen backing because the large pieces I have would be brittle if they weren't put through the linen backing process. I have other posters in terrific shape that are framed as is. I think if one cannot afford a pristine piece, the linen backing is a great option. I like to be flexible. I used to collect first edition American signed fiction. There are some books in my collection which I would love to have rebound. The books were lovingly read, in some cases over a hundred years ago. To keep them in this condition would not do my collection nor the book any good. Of course, I would love the book in great shape, however some are so rare, I was lucky to get the copy I have. I went to a gallery here in Los Angeles and they have a wonderful drawing of a nude by George Grosz who is one of my favorite artists. It goes for tons of money and the gallery owner said it needed some restoration. It doesn't need it on the image but rather the paper near the image because it's foxing. As with books, foxing is a terrible condition that threatens many paper works. If I had the money for the piece and to restore it, I would. When I have the funds, I'll get some resto on some of my other posters and certainly my books. The problem usually is that I use the funds to buy more paper rather than restore what I have. Toochis - Original Message From: susan olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:02:27 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] A shift in thinking, linen-backing slabbing? Excellent Koose, I can also get a very nice copy of Attack of the 50 foot Woman, King Kong etc for about $15. and have done so in the past as gag gifts for friends who are unable or unwilling to go that expense and I have no doubt what happened to those copies (ingrats) But it just isnt the same, we are not Collectors for the sole purpose of interior decorating we are true conniseurs of epthemera. Susan Disclaimer retired linen backer restoration artist ( I have no monetary motivation) - Original Message - From: David Kusumoto To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:36 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] A shift in thinking, linen-backing slabbing? my DOUBLE INDEMNITY one sheet has no missing pieces anywhere, but does have seam separation. colors are vibrant. it has been framed for 20 years. you can see the imperfections. fair to value it at 3000 plus? i could get a mint repro for ten bucks. get it? Nope, I don't get it. If I owned your poster, maybe I wouldn't linen-back it either. But if I took your line of reasoning a few steps further -- it sounds like you believe your Indemnity poster on linen with its fold separation touched up would plunge its value below $3,000. Moreover, when you drag into your argument: i could get a mint repro for ten bucks -- this sounds like you think backing and restoring would make your poster look too perfect, like a repro, raising questions about its authenticity. When you ask, what's the point? -- it sounds like you believe that backing and rstoring would undercut the rationale to spend a lot of money for -- and to preserve the value of -- an original poster w/defects that you're proud to own. For you, preserving value and authenticity means this -- don't touch anything. But to me, it also means -- let the natural effects of aging run their course on paper more than 60 years old that you have chosen to DISPLAY. Well, I don't think sophisticated collectors with several thousand dollars to spend -- are unable to spot the differences between a folded, conservatively restored, 1944 Double Indemnity 27x41 poster on linen -- with a $10 glossy 26x39 rolled repro with no fold lines. I know you're passionate with your anti-backing and anti-restoration beliefs, but I think you're too optimistic about the life span of old paper decorated with colored inks. I might be wrong, but this is my view. -koose. Original Message Follows From: Michael B [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: Re: A shift in thinking, linen-backing slabbing? THUNDERBIRD Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 20:17:52 -0400 i already gave my thoughts today on restoration. why do people seem that they have to compare other artifacts? posters are unique. but, since people compare other hobbies, think about this.. i have a neighbor who has the brightest white
Re: [MOPO] A shift in thinking, linen-backing slabbing?
Beautiful, Doug. Who did the restoration? Toochis - Original Message From: Doug Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:07:20 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] A shift in thinking, linen-backing slabbing? I'm flattered to be mentioned as a serious collector. Regarding Grand Hotel, it had to be backed. It was probably VG before backing. I list it as F in my collection. I've posted before and after pics here, if anyone is interested: http://s73.photobucket.com/albums/i214/douglasbtaylor/ DBT |-Original Message- |From: MoPo List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David |Kusumoto |Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 10:50 PM |To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU |Subject: Re: [MOPO] A shift in thinking, linen-backing slabbing? | |I am a relatively a new small time collector/dealer, but prefer linen |backing and it seems that high |end collectors do as well. If someone like Doug pipes in and says he wants |all natural then I might think differently. | |I believe you're correct, Brek. If the high-end market shifts away from |backing for one-of-a-kind posters like Grand Hotel, others might follow. |I like that you refer to Doug, as in Doug Taylor, our MoPo guy who |collects Best Picture posters. Yes, he's a good benchmark, like the |Feiertags and Fischlers of our world. We'd all prefer near mint and folded |but otherwise pristine. But for some titles, that's like waiting for |another Hope Diamond to turn up. Your Grand Hotel was made better and |more presentable for display when it was cleaned up and backed. The |carping about its condition and graphics became secondary after we saw its |hammer price display it's value at that snapshot in time. | |Original Message Follows | |From: Brek Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Reply-To: Brek Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] |To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU |Subject: Re: A shift in thinking, linen-backing slabbing? |Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 21:33:45 -0600 | |David, | |I agree as well. | |I think that linen backing is a real plus for rare posters and even not so |rare. Time is not going to help any poster. If you linen back a rare poster |it is some what locked into the condition of the time and if restoration is |needed it will be less than at a future date would require if not linen |backed. When I sold the Grand Hotel through Grey at Heritage, there was no |discussion of what would be best to do as far as linen backing. It was just |assumed it was a must to linen back even though the original wasn't that bad |(a couple of chips and sight damage in one corner). I really don't see what |the problem is when a piece meant to be thrown away after a few weeks on |display is preserved to last as long as possible. I am a relatively a new |small time collector/dealer, but prefer linen backing and it seems that high |end collectors do as well. If someone like Doug pipes in and says he wants |all natural then I might think differently. I will linen back posters as I |can afford and make economic sense and to market them through Bruce, Grey, |MPB or my eBay account. | |Cheers, |Brek | | Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com | |___ | How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List | | Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L | |The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] Restoration Question
Hi all, Does anyone have an image of the 3-sheet of SIN OF NORA MORAN? I have 2/3 of a three-sheet and it needs restoration. Of course, I'll need the image so that I can have a restorer be able to tackle this. Thanks, Toochis Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Fwd: Fw: Did you know ?]
This forum is really not the place for this. I need Mopo as a refuge from all this. Movieposters are a joy. Toochis - Original Message From: Richard Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 4:18:22 PM Subject: [MOPO] Fwd: Fw: Did you know ?] Hi Folks...I am sending this on in an effort at fairnessWhich side is right?Your guess is as good as mineMaybe both.Dick C. See what's free at AOL.com. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Interesting, very interesting. JW - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 8:51 AM Subject: [Fwd: Did you know ?] Subject: Did you know ? Some more very interesting reading, please pass this on so us common folks learn of the good stuff going on over there. Thanks. God bless America and more importantly our troops, wherever they serve. Peace, C. SUBJECT: DID YOU KNOW ? Did you know Did you know that 47 countries have reestablished their embassies in Iraq ? Did you know that the Iraqi government currently employs 1.2 million Iraqi people? Did you know that 3100 schools have been renovated, 364 schools are under rehabilitation, 263 new schools are now under construction and 38 new schools have been completed in Iraq ? Did you know that Iraq 's higher educational structure consists of 20 Universities, 46 Institutes or colleges and 4 research centers, all currently operating? Did you know that 25 Iraq students departed for the United States in January 2005 for the re-established Fulbright program? Did you know that the Iraqi Navy is operational? They have 5 -100 foot patrol craft, 34 smaller vessels and a naval infantry regiment. Did you know that Iraq's Air Force consists of three operational squadrons, which includes 9 reconnaissance and 3 US C-130 transport aircraft (under Iraqi operational control) which operate day and night, and will soon add 16 UH-1 helicopters and 4 Bell Jet Rangers? Did you know that Iraq has a counter-terrorist unit and a Commando Battalion? Did you know that the Iraqi Police Service has over 55,000 fully trained and equipped police officers? Did you know that there are 5 Police Academies in Iraq that produce over 3500 new officers each 8 weeks? Did you know there are more than 1100 building projects going on in Iraq? They include 364 schools, 67 public clinics, 15 hospitals, 83 railroad stations, 22 oil facilities, 93 water facilities and 69 electrical facilities. Did you know that 96% of Iraqi children under the age of 5 have received the first 2 series of polio vaccinations? Did you know that 4.3 million Iraqi children were enrolled in primary school by mid October? D id you know that there are 1,192,000 cell phone subscribers in Iraq and phone use has gone up 158%? Did you know that Iraq has an independent media that consists of 75 radio stations, 180 newspapers and 10 television stations? Did you know that the Baghdad Stock Exchange opened in June of 2004? Did you know that 2 candidates in the Iraqi presidential election had a televised debate recently? OF COURSE WE DIDN'T KNOW! WHY DIDN'T WE KNOW? OUR MEDIA WOULDN'T TELL US! Instead of reflecting our love for our country, we get photos of flag burning incidents at Abu Ghraib and people throwing snowballs at the presidential motorcades. Tragically, the lack of accentuating the positive in Iraq serves two purposes: It is intended to undermine the world's perception of the United States thus minimizing consequent support, and it is intended to discourage American citizens. Above facts are verifiable on the Department of Defense web site. This link is so interesting!! http://www.defenselink.mil/ Pass it on! Give it a Wide Dissemination! SUPPORT OUR TROOPS ! AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing
Re: [MOPO] problem with ebay seller
Sorry to hear this Walter. I agree about buying from reputable dealers. It cuts much misery. There are sellers on this list who I've purchased from and am quite happy. When your poster gets restored, it will be a beauty. I hope that helps a little. Toochis - Original Message From: Walter Reuben [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Thursday, May 3, 2007 11:57:17 AM Subject: [MOPO] problem with ebay seller hello everybody I bought this on ebay for $434.99: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemrd=1item=140103386017ssPageName=STRK:MEWN:ITih=004 After it arrived,it turned out that the poster was in much worse condition than either the picture or the description indicated. And, to add insult to injury, this poster had been simply been shipped in a soft envelope without any protection whatsoever. The poster in fact falling apart and in unbelievably fragile condition. We wrote to him and told him that we were very unhappy with the poster to which he replied: Hi There, I clearly described this poster as unrestored with holes and a detatched prtion. If you're telling me that it was damaged in shipping, I would like you to send photos of the damage. It was packed well and I will start a claim as soon as you send photos of the damage. Darren. We wrote to him a second time and emphasized that we were extremely unhappy with the poster and he wrote back: Hi There, Actually you initially did indicate it was damaged during shipping. What exactly are you suggesting I misrepresented about this poster? I used several pictures during the auction and feel it was described accurately. I am not a business, and it costs me time and money with shipping charges etcso I don't gernally accept returns, for no reason. Darren. It seemed to me futile (and I was on vacation at the time) so I asked my assistants to send the damn poster to Studio C, have it restored, and put this business behind me. Today Studio C writes and says that the cost will be between $1800 and 2200, that is how bad the condtion of this poster is. I feel that I have been flat out cheated and would really appreciate any comments from other Moop members as to how to proceed. Can I go to PayPal and ask for a refund? As of now, my bottom line feeling is this---I HAVE HAD IT WITH BUYING FROM INCOMPETENT EBAY SELLERS. From now on, I will only buy from dealers whom I already know or else only if a money back guarantee is made. I am sick and tired of this stuff happening. The worst part of this is---how many hours do I have in a day to waste in getting my money back when I have been cheated? Walter Reuben Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] A note from Dan...
Ira, You are so right. We're seeing release windows shrinking drastically and the films that are being financed as similar as ever. Now studios only want large 4 quadrant movies. If film theatrical release windows reduce drastically, expect the print advertising to do the same and film posters will become a thing of the past. I know it's hard with the crud out there, but please go see movies. I would hate to only watch them on TV or computer. Toochis - Original Message From: Rubenstein, Ira [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 6:00:28 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] A note from Dan... Next to Russia, CANADA is the single largest source of CAM Copies of our films.I can't get into how they know this, but they do. Maybe Freeman can speak to this, but theatres are really only good at selling tickets and popcorn. There are a lot of young employees at these chains across America. They struggle with just keeping the popcorn going. Years ago they tried to sell Movie Posters and other Film Related product. TOTAL BUST. They can't do it. Don't have the space in the lobby, don't have the expertise to merchandise, etc... Same thing would be true for DVDs. That being said, the time will come when the release windows will collapse and you will see DVD's or On Demand Viewing of a film on the same day. Just expect to pay a huge premium for that benefit. And expect the Theatre Owners to fight it every way they can.(You can ask Mark Cuban or read his blog, he has tried it on his films) Ira From: MoPo List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Brooks Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 11:57 AM To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: [MOPO] A note from Dan... STUDIOS PULLING OUT OF SCREENING FILMS IN CANADA Dear Movie Fans Warner Brothers will no longer be previewing films in Canada. They have cancelled screenings of Ocean's 13 , Harry Potter and the new Nancy Drew film. WB is fed up with the laws of piracy in Canada which (at this time) say that it's not illegal to videotape a movie in a Canadian cinema. In fact all the theatre owner can do is ask the person to leave the theatre. The only way charges can be laid is if it can be proven that the person making the tape plans on marketing the film commercially, which we all know is impossible to prove. They estimate that 25% of all camcorder movies sold around the world were shot in Canadian cinemas (what they don' t tell you is the ethnic groups responsible for that but that would be racist). 20th Century Fox has come on board saying that they are thinking of releasing films in Canada a few weeks after they come out in the U.S. due to this very problem. So I say why not release the DVD's in theatres the same day as the films are released theatrically? Cut out Blockbuster and Rogers and Wall Mart and distribute the films through the exhibitors (theatre chains). This way if you go see a film at the theatre and really like it you can buy it on the way out. You would also be permitted to buy the movie poster which would also be available for sale there (give those people behind the popcorn stand something to do when they are not selling popcorn and Coke's for $15). This way the studios would only have to spend advertising costs once and not twice (once when the film comes out and once when it comes on DVD). You'll always get the people who want to see the film on the big screen and for those of us who want to watch it in our home, we can buy the movie at the theatre for say $15.00 on the Monday after opening weekend. This way the studios can get their big weekend grosses and recoup their budgets. Then a few months later the studios can milk the release of the special edition with bonus features and new endings and sell us the Beatles White album all over again. This would solve the problem of piracy and we can go back to having screenings which I have been fortunate enough to watch for over 30 years until now. Dan Rickard The artist formally known as Dan of MoviePosterAuthentication www.movieposterauthentication.com Authenticating Movie Posters 1970-2000 PS-I'm clearing out my office at home next weekend and if you want any movie material drop me a line at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The
Re: [MOPO] the ugliest movie poster ever
That's pretty damned ugly. Toochis - Original Message From: David Lieberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2007 9:48:40 PM Subject: [MOPO] the ugliest movie poster ever http://cgi.ebay.com/THE-LONGEST-YARD-ORIG-MOVIE-POSTER-INSERT-C9-1974_W0QQitemZ180112684912QQihZ008QQcategoryZ2322QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem David A. Lieberman CineMasterpieces.com 602 309 0500 See what's free at AOL.com. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Framing question
I've had a large Italian 2-panel of Barbarella framed by Sue and it looks great. It also was easy to hang. Toochis - Original Message From: JEFF POTOKAR [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 5:29:31 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] Framing question i was debating having a 47x63 large french panel framed... i think it would weigh almost too much to hang, tho. the other question to consider... what is your BADLANDS poster worth? the frame might be of more value than this particular poster. On May 30, 2007, at 11:45 AM, chris quarles wrote: I have 60 by 40 of Badlands that I'd like to frame. I'd rather not spend the $400 my local guy would want. I noticed that Sue's Hollywood Poster Frames website indicates up to 31x46. Can you go bigger Sue? Anyone else had a 40 X60 framed? Discuss. chris quarles Looking for a deal? Find great prices on flights and hotels with Yahoo! FareChase. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Sopanos Aftermath
I just finished it on the West Coast and cried because it was so brilliant. They played a song that my hubby and I listened to when we started dating because we loved the Journey song when we were children. That ending got me so tense because we got to see how it is to live the life of not knowing what's coming next and that anything could trigger something awful. It was brilliant. David Chase kicks ass! Toochis - Original Message From: Kirby McDaniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 10:04:48 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] Sopanos Aftermath I agree. The ending was, in my opinion, the T.S. Eliot ending: not with a bang but a whimper. We loved it. Kirby McDaniel MovieArt On Jun 10, 2007, at 11:52 PM, David Kusumoto wrote: And let's not forget another reason why the Sopranos was great. It left us with 86 shows since 1999 -- and in my view, only about 20 of 'em could be called duds (and even those have to be qualified because they weren't total stinkers). Its detractors rightly were disgusted by the language and sex and other elements, but David Chase created an alternate universe so convincingly that even when you hated to watch, once you did, you were hooked. Any show that allowed us to see the legendary Lauren Bacall get smacked and then deliver an f-bomb with such smoothness and assurance was worth something. Everyone knows Betty Bacall is closer to what we saw in the Sopranos -- than our idealized version of her in movies. In real life, she swears off camera like a sailor. There were a lot of great episodes and star-turns, but I have to say that that episode, along with College in season 1 and the episodes involving Janice popping her husband after hitting her -- and Ralphie getting killed by Tony in the kitchen, arguing over a HORSE -- stick out in my mind. Oh and before I forget; the singular episode (and probably the only) where Lorraine Bracco got to show her acting chops -- after she's sexually attacked and has to decide whether, when she sees her assailant later, to tell Tony to help her exact revenge. Just a great show... -koose. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Sopanos Aftermath
I also want to add the episode where Joey Pants beats the stripper to death as Tony is having feelings toward her which represent his daughter. Also when Paulie and Christopher get stuck in the middle of the forest in snow. Those were so amazing. I loved Terrence Winter's writing and anything that Tim Van Patten directed on the show. All those who participated were great but their work stuck out in a strong way for me. David Chase directed the finale with precision and left us breathless. Oh, also who could forget Big Pussy. We had rescued an abandoned cat around the same time and gave him the nickname Medium Pussy. Toochis - Original Message From: David Kusumoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 9:52:29 PM Subject: [MOPO] Sopanos Aftermath And let's not forget another reason why the Sopranos was great. It left us with 86 shows since 1999 -- and in my view, only about 20 of 'em could be called duds (and even those have to be qualified because they weren't total stinkers). Its detractors rightly were disgusted by the language and sex and other elements, but David Chase created an alternate universe so convincingly that even when you hated to watch, once you did, you were hooked. Any show that allowed us to see the legendary Lauren Bacall get smacked and then deliver an f-bomb with such smoothness and assurance was worth something. Everyone knows Betty Bacall is closer to what we saw in the Sopranos -- than our idealized version of her in movies. In real life, she swears off camera like a sailor. There were a lot of great episodes and star-turns, but I have to say that that episode, along with College in season 1 and the episodes involving Janice popping her husband after hitting her -- and Ralphie getting killed by Tony in the kitchen, arguing over a HORSE -- stick out in my mind. Oh and before I forget; the singular episode (and probably the only) where Lorraine Bracco got to show her acting chops -- after she's sexually attacked and has to decide whether, when she sees her assailant later, to tell Tony to help her exact revenge. Just a great show... -koose. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] ***1000**************1000******************1000***
Sue, you're the best. Congrats, Rich. What a great site. Toochis - Original Message From: Susan Heim [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 3:15:34 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] ***1000**1000**1000*** Yea, Yea!! I have a stack of MoviePosterBid flyers on my counter and I have to replenish them about every two weeks. People see the flyer and want to know about it. I have had many people come in with a poster they bought on the site to frame and said they loved going to a place that was just about movie posters and easy to work with. We also put a flyer in each box of frames we ship and many of my customers have bought from the site with the same comments. So, congratulations Rich and great going. Sue Heim www.hollywoodposterframes.com - Original Message - From: Shelly Whitworth-King To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 2:47 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] ***1000**1000**1000*** Good going, slugger! Shelly Original Message Follows From: Freedom Lover [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Freedom Lover [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: Re: [MOPO] ***1000**1000**1000*** Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 08:02:49 -0500 Yay Richie - Original Message - From: Richard Halegua Comic Art [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 3:23 AM Subject: [MOPO] ***1000**1000**1000*** WE'VE DONE IT YEAH.. YIPP.. HOOORAY MoviePosterBid.com has just gotten it's 1000th member 1000 people with a like interest in movie posters that want to buy stuff and sell stuff 1000 Movie Poster fans **ONE THOUSAND It took a little longer than I expected. I though we would have them by May 1st, so I missed by 6 weeks. But we have them.. 1000 members. It took 14 months for me to get 600+ signups (the site had a few less than 400 when I took it over) But I think the next 1000 will happen much faster.Only time will tell so everyone, hold your glass up toast because now we only have 299,999,000 more members to catch up to eBay. Ebay.. lookout!!! I'm coming to get ya Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.472 / Virus Database: 269.9.0/853 - Release Date: 6/18/2007 3:02 PM Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. _ Tell Hotmail about an email that changed your life! http://www.emailbritain.co.uk/ Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] a General Question
I started as an actress under Stella Adler and still dabble in it. I've worked Off-Bwy, on films, and tv. I studied writing under mentors Nelson Gidding and Frank Daniel at USC. I'm currently in the business. Toochis - Original Message From: Phil Edwards Cinema Arts [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 9:28:11 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] a General Question Working directly in film distribution (marketing and publicity) cinema exhibition (programming a major circuit and selected arthouses) for a combined 20 plus years, along with acting as consultant on publicity and marketing of various films from arthouse indies to major release promotions, and another 15 years plus years working as a film journalist very closely with both marketing and publicity people, and being on first name terms with many major distributor senior executives and marketing people over many years has added a wealth of background to what I bring to my knowledge of film posters, their production, distribution and real availability. I'm still working in the film industry at a much earlier stage of production than any of the above now, along with running Cinema Arts with my wife. Actively seeking out old hands here in Australia who were involved in marketing throughout the 50s and 60s, and finding a couple of the older guys (now sadly deceased) who were hand litho artists and printers in the 40s and 50s, and being able to pick their brains on such matters as hand litho history, print run numbers, how distributors worked with poster printers, how film prints were booked and worked, how posters were circulated and re-circulated, etc, etc has also added to my storehouse of knowledge. It has also added an aspect to the radar when one works in the film business - from pre-production to all the way to knowing how to strike a carbon arc - and that's an increasing ability to detect the BS factor of many people who deal in movie posters and what they say they know about them in their efforts to sell them. It is never less than entertaining. By the way, anyone genuinely interested in film posters, their art, history and creation as part of the promotion of films and not just in it for the trophy hunting, should get a hold of Sim Branaghan's BRITISH FILM POSTERS. It is probably the single most important book on film posters yet published. Phil E. - Original Message - From: lobby card invasion [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 1:15 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] a General Question Sorry Jeff, but I don't see why one needs to be in the BIZ in order to be knowledgable or have an opinion about movie posters? Also, I bet you Thalberg knew bubkes about Minty Whites. That's all I have to say. Zeev - Original Message - From: JEFF POTOKAR [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 8:47 PM Subject: [MOPO] a General Question hi MOPO'ers, just a general question.siilar to a poll. how many in here are ACTUALLY involved in the film business? and i dont mean you had a relative or friend that has explained things to you..but are actually WORKING in this business. i do. so many throw comments around in here as if they were irving thalberg, stacey snider, or sherry lansing... jeff Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message
Re: [MOPO] RECOMMENDED: SICKO
I went to the second LA premiere of this film and found it quite compelling. The first LA premiere was held on Skid Row and was a fund raiser for the mission. The theater was packed and the tag message at the end is quite strong. I think he did a good job at what he does best. Toochis - Original Message From: Kirby McDaniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2007 10:29:14 PM Subject: [MOPO] RECOMMENDED: SICKO That wicked polemicist Michael Moore is at it again. Thepre-election hysteria of FAHRENHEIT 911 will not juice up audience numbers for SICKO, but I think this may be Michael Moore's most accessible film. Certainly some of the film is over the top, but once proves that his considerable heart is in the right - or should I say LEFT - place as he looks at the U.S. medical care conundrum: the best doctors and hospitals in the world but don't count on seeing them if, as Woody Guthrie once said, you ain't got the dough-re-mi. Kirby Kirby McDaniel MovieArt Original Film Posters P.O. Box 4419 Austin TX 78765-4419 512 479 6680 www.movieart.net Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Character Actor Charles Lane 1905-2007
I loved his work. What a wonderful actor. Toochis - Original Message From: Scott Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 7:55:04 PM Subject: [MOPO] Character Actor Charles Lane 1905-2007 Character Actor Charles Lane 1905-2007 Charles Lane passed away yesterday at age 102. If you don't recall the name, you certainly know his face. With 338 IMDB credits (that must be a record), Lane's career spanned more than 60 years. His first credit was in 1931, his last in 2006. He appeared in many Hollywood classics including It's a Wonderful Life, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Cat and the Canary (1939), Twentieth Century, and Arsenic and Old Lace. He appeared frequently on television, probably best remembered for the role of Homer Bedloe, the mean railroad man, in Petticoat Junction and 8 episodes of Bewitched, usually playing Darrin Stephen's client. He frequently appeared in I Love Lucy in the 1950's. No movie fan could have avoided Charles Lane! What a wonderful life! What a wonderful career! For more here's a link to the AP story: http://apnews.excite.com/article/20070711/D8QA3DIG0.html Scott MoPo List Owner Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Congratulations Glenn!!
Awesome Glenn. Congrats! Toochis - Original Message From: Freedom Lover [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 3:40:25 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] Congratulations Glenn!! Congratulations, Glenn! That's fabulous!!! Andrea - Original Message - From: Susan Heim To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 2:26 PM Subject: [MOPO] Congratulations Glenn!! Hello all, I wanted to let you all know, as he would never tell you himself, that one of our members, Glenn Taranto, sold a script that he has been working on for quite awhile. It is now being developed for film along with all the if, ands, or buts that comes with it, casting it, where to shoot it, etc. He is now involved in rewrites and all the added bonuses of selling a script (that's when the real work begins!). Since Glenn is an actor by trade, he may even have a part in it. I just wanted to publicly congratulate him and let him know he has my admiration and support. It couldn't happen to a nicer guy!! Truly!! Sue www.hollywoodposterframes.com Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.11.0/927 - Release Date: 7/30/2007 5:02 PM Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Eugene Hughes moved to Texas?
Hi David, Did you email the ebay seller? I think this may be Ray Bell who is offering his linenbacking services. He was linenbacking just outside of Houston and did some work for me. He was quite good, but shut operations because he had some back problems. My posters took a long time due to his great prices and the large volume. I think he knows Eugene and has gotten great tips from him. I haven't used Eugene before but maybe he is going through the same sort of health thing. As far as Eugene answering the list, I don't know. I hope this whole situation gets resolved and that Eugene is okay. This community needs to keep our talented linenbackers. My fingers are crossed for you, Toochis --- David Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Take a look at the Item Location for Eugene's most recent listings: Houston, Texas. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=2321item=38310921 54 category=2321item=3831092154 David *** This e-mail and its attachments are for the use of the addressee only. It may contain information that is legally privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure. It is not a contract, and prices, data and other information are not warranted as to completeness or accuracy. Any comments or statements made herein do not necessarily reflect those of pancredit Systems Limited. If you are not the intended recipient you must not copy, distribute or disseminate this e-mail or attachments to anyone other than the addressee. If you receive this communication in error please advise us by telephone at once. Registered Office:- pancredit Systems Limited pancredit House, 12 Moorfield Close Leeds, LS19 7YA Registered Company No. 2215760 Tel: +44 (0)113 250 0260 Fax: +44 (0)113 250 0621 *** Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Eugene Hughes moved to Texas?
Whew. Their feedback looks good. Who knows. Toochis --- Offaleater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: only because I assume the link was from someone browsing on ebay.uk http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=2321item=3831092154 same item, but ebay in the good ol' US of A. - Original Message From: Toochis Morin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [MOPO] Eugene Hughes moved to Texas? Date: 04/08/04 05:47 Wow. I just noticed the UK! That's weird. ebay has to get this kind of stuff under control. Toochis --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: gt; Take a look at the internet address and the amount gt; of your bid. The internet gt; address is U.K. and the price is in English pounds. gt; Yet the item location is gt; given as Houston, Texas. Something smells here. gt; gt; claude gt; Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Message sent using Dodo Internet Webmail Server Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] [Style-b] Check out this cool pic
Congrats! Great picture. I adore that Dead Reckoning piece...WOW! Toochis --- Richard Halegua Comic Art [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - this cool pic is being used for the City Life weekly here coming out on Thursday. http://www.electro-comicsonline.com/temp/citylife.jpg they're giving me a short write up I will be the City's Pick and be placed like on about page 15 or so...and be about 5x6 I am thrilled. There is nothing like an article in the local papers. It's so much better than advertising in the same issue that there isn't any comparison. Most everyone reads this page in particular as I will share similar pics with 3 others, usually Las Vegas shows concerts.. 150K people see that paper.. if 1/10 of 1% comes in that's 150 folks... about as many as I can handle in a week's time.. lol woh Remembering... Fay Wray All this month on Style-b For the full [Style-b] experience log onto the group's web-site at... http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/Style-b-list To subscribe to [Style-b] send an email to... [EMAIL PROTECTED] The views expressed in this communication do not, necessarily reflect those of the author, list owner, or any other person... whether living or dead. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT - Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Style-b-list/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] What is this??????????????????????//
I don't like this seller's feedback but I have seen this poster before and it's a beauty. I think it went for about $600.-800. from a reputable dealer. Toochis --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is tthis a rip off or what? What size is this? _http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3833384153fromMakeTrack=t rue_ (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3833384153fromMakeTrack=true) Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] (MOPO) L'SHANA TOVA
Happy Jewish New Year everyone! Toochis --- Susan Heim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Happy New Year to all who celebrate Rosh Hashana. Be safe to all those in Ivan's path and have a great week everyone! Sue Heim - Original Message - From: lobby card invasionmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 10:54 AM Subject: [MOPO] (MOPO) L'SHANA TOVA Hello MOPO This is the Greeting for a Happy Jewish New Year. According to Jewish tradition, it will be the 5765th anniversary of completion of The Creation ! Jewish New Year begins tonight, and its customary to get the entire family together for a festive meal, and attend service at the synagogue. Rosh Hashana, as it is known, begins the 10 High Holy Days. The belief is that during these 10 days, God writes books about the lives of people on Earth -- who will live, who will die and who will have a good year. The 10 days end with Yom Kippur (Day of Attonement), the traditional day of fasting, repentance and prayer. Rosh Hashana is also a period when individuals get in touch with friends and family to wish them a Happy New Year, and it is also a time to forgive, forget old grievances, and start a new clean slate. On this occasion, I'd like to wish everybody on MOPO a happy, healthy New Year, and all the very best to you and your families. Zeev Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.comhttp://www.filmfan.com/ ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Fom Morrie Everett re HP Auction Shipping Rates
I hate to chime on this because I adore the Everetts, but I couldn't agree more with JR. A while ago I won an Everett auction and paid $35.00 for a half-sheet to be shipped. It was packed barely okay, but they did not insure it. For $35.00 that's the least I could have gotten. I hope they got another service. Most likely I will still bid on their auctions when I can (they have amazing posters!), but with the buyer premium and the really high shipping, it's tough. Toochis --- J R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry -- I'm having a hard time buying the idea that a $40 shipping charge is your shipper's fault and there's nothing you can do about it. If that's his minimum, find another shipper or start doing it yourself -- you're losing a lot of business with this absurd $40 charge. I myself would never bid on any auction that had a stated shipping charge like this and I think a lot of people feel the same way. If you can't find another shipper to charge a reasonable rate, learn to do it yourself or hire someone local to you and train them how to do it part time or something. Everyone else manages to handle their shipping obligations for a lot less, so why not you? Bruce often ships over 1,000 posters per week and charges $8 bucks. Other folks ship 3 a week, or 10 a week, and charge $5.50 to $10.00 -- even from Australia to the U.S. -- no reason you cannot do something similar. Who forced you to live in Ohio and run an auction in California, anyway? Your business, of course, so it's your choice. But it clearly puts you at a competitive disadvantage. -- JR - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2004 20:37 Subject: [MOPO] Fom Morrie Everett re HP Auction Shipping Rates Hi guys, Well I had a feeling we would get flack about shipping charges. When you live in Ohio and run an auction in California, you have to hire someone or some company to do the shipping. As you know, many (not all) auctions do the same. The shipper has to make a profit, or else why would he do it? I have had to pay as much as $75 shipping for only one item from New York City. And I also hate it. Our shipper (and we checked with others who were MORE expensive) said he would not ship any package for less than $40 to cover his time, materials, mailing costs, insurance, labor, gasoline, and storage. So we are stuck. This money does NOT stay with us. It goes to the shipper. So I am sympathetic. But my hands are tied. If anyone knows of a California - Hollywood or LA shipper who is less expensive, I will be glad to use them next year. Our shipper from last year refused to do it again because he said it wasnt worth it for the time and aggravation! This shipper must be willing to hold 400-500 posters up to three months and use the US Postal Service, UPS, and FEDEX. See you in Atlantic City October 16th 17th and NYC at the Pennsylvania Hotel on November 21. Regards, Morrie Everett Jr. LMPC and Hollywood Poster Auction More than two thousand years ago, at a time when the people in the British Isles and in most parts of Western Europe were living the lives of savages, occupied in fighting, hunting, and fishing, dwelling in rude huts, clad in skins, ingnorant of everything that we call civilization, Rome was the centre of a world in many ways as civilized as ours is now... - Page 6, Ancient Rome, The Lives of Great Men, by Mary Agnes Hamilton, Oxford Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. University Press, 1924. (Yes! 1924!) Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] NEED YOUR HELP Stolen posters
I feel horrible, Dominique. I've always been happy with my purchases from you and you don't deserve this. I pray the posters turn up. This topic has certainly been food for thought. Toochis --- Tom Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SEE IF THE SALVAGE AREAS OF THE courior carrie/CARRIER CAN FIND IT/ OFFER A REWARD CALL THE MAIN HEADQUARTERS AND GET INTERNAL INVESTIGATIONS INVIKVER TRACE THE ENTIRE PATH they can trace all the stops as the items are scanned!! they must have it in a lost and FOUND Prayers from TOLEDO best, Tom J R wrote: Dominique, This is heart-breaking! Please send to MOPO a complete condition description of each poster -- that will help in identifying them if they turn up for sale somewhere. I'm sure everyone is saddened by your loss and wishes you all the best in a recovery (fingers crossed). Of course, you must report this to UPS (even if it was not insured -- tell your customer to keep the box and turn it over to UPS. If your customer can produce the box they received, then it means the posters were stolen by a UPS employee and they may be able to trace it if they have the box and all the original shipping information. If your customer cannot produce the box, that is suspicious and reason to think that perhaps the customer actually did receive the posters after all). This sad event serves to remind everyone about the dangers of shipping expensive posters. Even if they are insured, the loss and hassle to get repaid can be immense, and if they are not insured, the loss can be devastating. Here's one approach I've seen used in the past: When shipping several expensive posters, send them in *separate* packages, mailed at least 1 day apart. This breaks up the set and reduces the possibility of all of them being lost or damaged to near-zero. Yes, it means paying a little more postage and spending a little more time executing the shipment. But it's much safer. I hope Dominique can recover something. -- JR - Original Message - From: DOMINIQUE BESSON To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 9:46 Subject: [MOPO] NEED YOUR HELP Stolen posters Hello from France, I need your help to stop some Poster Thieves !! I sent via UPS, 3 weeks ago, 8 Audrey Hepburn posters to a customer in California sent in a strong tube (5 feet long). The customer received a box (about 30x20x10in) EMPTY INSIDE UPS is still looking for my package, but I have little hope. Here is the list of the posters : Monte carlo baby55 x 78 Italian 4.000 euros Sabrina55 x 78 Italian 24.000 euros Breakfast at TiffanyísA20 x 28 Italian 750 euros Breakfast at TiffanyísB20 x 28 Italian 750 euros Breakfast at TiffanyísC20 x 28 Italian 750 euros Breakfast at Tiffanyís13 x 28 Italian 1.500 euros Audrey Hepburn (original artwork)20 x 26 Italian original artwork by Brini 3.800 euros Funny face55 x 78 Italian 4.500 euros You can see all of them on following link : http://www.dominiquebesson.com/photos_gm/hepburnstolen.jpg We can assume that these posters are not lost and some of them will surface very soon. As you know, the Sabrina poster is a very rare and very expensive one. This is the only known copy and its very very valuable. This artwork by Brini is the only copy, it is a one of a kind. If you come across some of these posters, any help will be much appreciated. Sincerely Dominique BESSON DOMINIQUE BESSON AFFICHES Chemin de la Loube 13650 Meyrargues France Phone : 33.442.634.944 Fax : 33.442.634.188 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dominiquebesson.com Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com
Re: [MOPO] STOLEN POSTERS
I would try to contact the Consumers Union who print the Consumer Reports Magazine. They are always on top of these types of things. We should all keep these lists and be on the watch if any of these posters turn up on ebay. I'm so sorry, Dominique. Toochis --- Andy Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been following the story with avid interest. I am a professional photographer (part time collector) who recently undertook a photographic shoot in the US, I am based in the UK. I always use FedEx for delivering, on this occasion I insured the package of original transparencies for £3,000 which was the cost of the shoot. The package arrived at the clients address but had been opened and 99% of the transparencies were missing. What had obviously happened is that an employee of FedEx had seen the high insurance value on the small package and decided to make a quick buck. They had obviously realised once the package was open that it was worthless to them but in order to cover their tracks they sent the package on with only a few images. After 30-40 phone calls and numerous letters and three internal investigations by FedEx, they eventually coughed up the £3,000 admitting their liability. There should be numerous checks that they could carry out to pinpoint where the switch took place, but they should pay out what the item was insured for once their searches fail to produce any results. Andy - Original Message - From: DOMINIQUE BESSON To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 10:10 AM Subject: [MOPO] STOLEN POSTERS Hello from France, Firstly, many many thanks to all of you who called me or sent e-mails with kind words. The true story is worse, my client did not receive an empty box, but a box containing toilet paper rolls ... Of course, he received a box, and not the tube I had sent, and the accompanying customs invoice was not with the airway bill. My client confirmed receipt of the box, and the toilet paper was American and not French, therefore the exchange of toilet paper for posters was made after arrival in the USA. Many of you asked me for a description of the posters : All of them are linenbacked (except the original gouache). Here's more description on each poster : - Sabrina prior to linenbacking poster was folded in near mint condition, no special other info - Monte Carlo baby prior to linenbacking poster was folded in near mint condition, some touch up along fold lines in the head of the blue face of the man - Funny face prior to linenbacking poster was ROLLED in mint condition and came from personnal Brini's archives - Audrey Hepburn's portrait From personnal Brini's archives, original gouache artwork (painting) on strong paper - Breakfast at Tiffany's locandina prior to linenbacking poster was folded in excellent condition - Blues censor stamp with red ink with date (you can check JPEG) - Breakfast at Tiffany's 3 photobusta prior to linenbacking posters wer folded in good condition with some pin holes at each corners Some of you advised me to send e-mails to the press agencies (CNN, Reuters, AFP, etc ...), to other carriers (FEDEX, TNT, DHL, etc ...), to economic forum on the net for trying to put pressure on UPS. What do you think about this ? Any other ideas ? Any good addresses for posting my story ? Sincerely Dominique BESSON DOMINIQUE BESSON AFFICHES Chemin de la Loube 13650 Meyrargues France Phone : 33.442.634.944 Fax : 33.442.634.188 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dominiquebesson.com Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Surprise hometown endorsement
Since we're in Halloween season, any thoughts on favorite horror posters, movie paper? I love the Halloween OS, Dracula (Lugosi), Frankenstein (Karloff), Dead of Night, Devil Doll, Body Snatcher...the list goes on. Toochis --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Diana - I thought this was about movie posters. This is now your second endorsement of Bush on MoPo. I think you should read the New York Times editorial two Sundays ago endorsing Kerry and I believe that newspaper is a little higher up on the prestige ladder than the one you mentioned. The two column editorial was right on target. However, I prefer to stick to movie posters here and will not mention this subject again. I hate discussing politics but it eats me up when I read endorsements in places where they have no place. Just my two cents. Claude Litton Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Political Movie?
Mine are JFK, The Candidate, The Manchurian Candidate, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Thirteen Days, All the Presidents Men and believe it or not, Fritz Lang's M. To me it poses a strong political dilemna. Toochis --- Tom A. Pennock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, we can't talk politics. What is your favorite political movie? Nixon, JFK, All The Presidents Men? Regards, Tom Pennock :) Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Happy Halloween Mopo
We watched THE BLOB, THE EXORCIST, PSYCHO, and now CABIN FEVER. Happy Fright Night Toochis PS - Don't forget to set your clocks! --- Movielegends [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We decided to play HOUSE OF WAX w/Vincet Price tonight and were just wondering about any group comments about the below notation of Director Andre De Toth. I did see this film in full 3-D in the late 1970's early 1980'S Re Release to packed houses.v (It was released twice in 3-D) Happy Halloween Members! Probably his best known film is House of Wax a Vincent Price horror film shot in 3-D. As De Toth only had one eye, that put him in the somewhat odd position of shooting a film in a process in which he would never be able to see the result. That didn't seem to matter, though; the film was a critical and financial success, and is generally considered to be the best 3-D film ever made. Trick-or-Treat! Kevin Cosgrove Movielegends __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Political Movies - How about...
How about Bull Durham and the Iron Giant? Toochis --- Phil Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: .THREE KINGS... TWILIGHT'S LAST GLEAMING DR. STRANGELOVE (of course!)... EXECUTIVE ACTION the sub-plot of LONG KISS GOODNIGHT just about any Costa-Gavras film THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (both versions for different reasons - how right on the money was the original about the growing power of the media?) the political sub-plot of THE DEAD ZONE... choose a favourite subtext from INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (original version)... Phil Edwards Cinema Arts Pty Ltd 26 Vista Avenue Soldiers Point NSW 2317 AUSTRALIA Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone/Fax (International Dial) 0011 61 2 49847233 Phone/Fax (Domestic Dial) 02 4984 7233 Website: www.cinemarts.com - Original Message - From: Helmut Hamm [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 8:58 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] How about... BEING THERE with Peter Sellers. One of my favorite political films is Undercover Brother. -rk From: avplanet [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: avplanet [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 16:12:11 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [MOPO] How about... Hi Everyone, Politico-flix... Animal Farm (1955) Mouse That Roared (1959) One Two Three (1961) Lord Of The Flies (1963) Dr Strangelove (1964) Fail Safe (1964) 1776 (1972) Swept Away (1975) Being There (1979) Brazil (1985) -Donnie Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Greetings Ghouls...
I experienced it too. Wow, what a great magazine! Keep it up, Donnie! Toochis PS - I hope the Eugene Hughes matter is settled soon. I can't imagine what you guys are going through. --- Freedom Lover [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I lucked out. I just now went to the style-b magazine where I was totally floored! Donnie, you are amazing, man! Those posters, the story, and the ending!!! I have no sound (my bad) because I played with my software and screwed up. Without sound, in the light, it was still foreboding. The Rosemary's Baby poster is fantastic. The whole thing was great, but my favorite part was the gravestones. All this spook stuff makes me homesick. You're too much! Andrea - Original Message - From: avplanet [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 12:01 PM Subject: [MOPO] Greetings Ghouls... Happy Halloween to everyone in Postercity! Here's wishing that you are frightened, or disturbed by something today... In an attempt to provoke just that kind of reaction... I humbly draw your attention to the Free online MoviePoster Magazine... Style-b Cinema Magazine http://www.style-b-cinema.com The current issue (Number 2) was designed to give you a chill or two in honor of the season. If you haven't checked it out... Or even if you have... Improved navigation and page-loads should add to your disturbing experience... Well, one can only hope. Be sure to check out the feature which is loaded with stunning MoviePoster images, film-reviews, and even a music-score... Additionally, there is a an added bonus in Issue Number 2 called epitaph This series of photographs, and appropriate environmental sounds showcases some of the oldest, and most interesting grave-stones in the USA... Stay scared! -Donnie http://style-b-cinema.com Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Concerning Eugene Hughes linenback.com
Thanks, Scott for being so understanding of Donnie's situation. You have alot of integrity in handling this fiasco. I hope it is all resolved soon. Toochis --- Scott Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wanted to remind those concerned about the situation with Eugene Hughes and his linenbacking services that Eugene is NOT currently a member of MoPo. He may be reading MoPo posts via the Mail Archive if he so chooses, but he can not reply to the group. Eugene submitted a request to rejoin the group over the weekend, but I have not approved his return, pending a rational explanation of his business practices and an apology for the way he left MoPo in August. Eugene has not replied to my personal e-mail. I just wanted to make it clear that more than likely he is not seeing anything posted about him on MoPo, but I can't verify that. That said, I must confess I totally understand Donnie's anger. I would feel exactly the same way if my name were posted on Hughes' web site and slurred in such an outrageous way. So lets give Donnie a break and allow him to vent. In this case he certainly is justified. If you don't want to be kept up-to-date on the mess, simply delete any posts that are not of interest to you. (which should be SOP on MoPo anyway.) I am very interested in the outcome of this situation and do appreciate being kept in the loop, rants and all. :) Scott MoPo List Owner Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Godzilla has added Scott to his enemies list...
Okay, I'm exhausted still under a writing deadline. It's now 2:31 am and I realize I made a mondo mistake. I wrote a posting as if Donnie made this horrible URL. I'M SO SORRY! I'm now so confused with all of this due to lack of sleep. How the hell can Eugene have all this time on his hands to make such a horrible statement? And he can't finish business?! With all due respect to Eugene and I have little. A line from The Ref comes to mind...No, I can't write it, it's too cruel. I can't be like him. Has anyone written to Tojo or Tristar about Eugene using the Godzilla image with such ugly smut? I don't think they would be too happy. How dare he exploit Godzilla in that manner. BACK TO DONNIE - I've been watching my birthday THING DVD so much that it's about to melt. I play it in the background as I write. DONNIE, YOU ARE THE TOP. CLASSY. KIND. A JOY. AND A TRICKSTER. I think that's why I f'd up so royally. YOU DESERVE SO MUCH BETTER THAN YOU ARE GETTING FROM THIS PERVE. He should be arrested. Your fan, Toochis --- avplanet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings MoPo, Well, I'm betting that this next move on the big G's part will send even his biggest defenders/supporters running for the exits? In a truly demented/unexpected twist Godzilla has updated his URL website. Unfortunately, it has become perhaps the most offensive/vile destination on the web. WARNING: Only a mentally-disturbed sexual-deviant would be... (a) in possesion of these images (b) be able to even conceive of ideas such as these. This new official announcement from a respected member of the linenbacking community has added Scott to the enemies list http://linenback.com/DudeWhereAreMyFuckingPosters.html I have no further comment at this time. -Donnie Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] A Sad, But Disturbing Situation...
Dear Scott, Please don't take this too much to heart. You have shown Eugene such kindness. I don't know his situation, but one thing is blantantly clear. He is a sadistic individual who victimizes others. It is apparent in his taking the questions about valuable posters as being victimized then victimizing the victims (those who questioned him). Unfortunately this is typical for this type of personality. I hope people get their posters back and that he stays away from all of us. I don't wish him bad at all. Just away. ToochisSusan Heim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Scott, I wouldn't take it personally. It would appear at this point that anything for shock value is fair game. It's like a child who gets a rise and accelerates the bad behavior for more attention. What a waste of enery. Sue - Original Message - From: Scott Burns To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 8:52 AM Subject: [MOPO] A Sad, But Disturbing Situation... MoPo'ers:I'm unbelievably disappointed...I met Eugene Hughes once at Cinevent in Columbus and found him a friendly,likeable guy. I've reviewed his past posts to the group (he was a member ofMoPo for 4 years) and found nothing that would lead me to believe himcapable of such a disturbing display of cyber-anger that now appears on hisweb site.I posted yesterday that I hadn't heard from Eugene. When I checked my e-mailat home last night I found a reply from Mr. Hughes. While it didn't offerany explanations concerning his recent personal problems or an apology abouthis nasty exit from MoPo in August, it was a non-threatening e-mail,pointing out that he had been a productive member of MoPo for those 4 years.After reading this e-mail, I considered approving his subscription requestthus restoring his posting privileges.Then today I see that my name has been added to Hughes' "revised" toxic website, simply because I publicly stated I could understand Donnie's anger atbeing attacked. Truth be told, I would offer the same statement of supportfor any all so attacked on a ranting web page.Why Eugene would feel the need to do this is beyond me. This vile action onhis part is simply ridiculous and totally uncalled for. I have never had anycross words with him and have never attacked him in any way, yet he hasdetermined that I am now the enemy for simply wanting to understand what thehell is going on with him. I'm deeply saddened that he would treat me (andall the others mentioned on his site) with such disrespect.Needless to say, his bridges have been burned and I will not welcome himback to MoPo.I am absolutely shocked and disturbed by this whole ridiculous affair. We'vehad problems on MoPo before, but nothing as bizarre as this incident.What did I do to deserve this?ScottMoPo! List Owner Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] [Style-b List] Sergeant York one sheet
Heritage Auctions went up in my book. Sue, I'm glad it worked out! Toochis --- Susan Heim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Hello all, I wanted to let you know the outcome of my situation with yesterday's Heritage auction. I want to publicly thank Tricia Gonzales at Heritage and her supervisors that bought the Sergeant York one sheet back from the high bidder and secured it for me. I had to pay more than the final gavel price, but was willing to do it as I had said in my previous emails, to fulfill an obligation to a customer of mine. Firstly, I wanted to make sure that the highest bidder that had won the sheet was not going to be hurt by giving it up. As it turned out, I was told it was a person who was not a collector but saw it and thought it was attractive but was willing to give it up. I don't know who they are, but want to thank them profusely. I don't do well with something hanging over my head and I have searched for two years to find the replacement poster due to the Joe Hernandez theft of my posters. As I had said, there were two items in the auctions that I was not called on. The first being the Sergeant York one sheet. The second item was for me personally and while I am upset that the situation happened, I do realize that mistakes happen, even though I was told that it was inexcusable and due to check systems they have in place, should have never happened. So it goes.I hope everybody that was bidding got some little tidbit for their collection. Many thanks also to Grey. It was a beautiful auction and I appreciate your behind the scenes help in securing the Sergeant York. Sue Heim - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 5:57 PM Subject: [MOPO] Heritage Very Apologetic I may have to cut this email short for I am expecting a call from Heritage for placing client bids. My experience has been nothing but total professionalism. I just made mention of Sue's misfortune to my friendly Heritage Hostess (think Jan Hooks at the Alamo in Pee Wee's Big Adventure) and she was aware of situation and that people felt badly and trying to minimize such gaffs. Apologies were made. Sue, Gray knows a lot of people, perhaps you could ask him to source you other posters. I am sure he would be most pleased to accomodate. He is just that kind of guy. freeman fisher 8601 west knoll #7 west hollywood, CA 90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Have you participated in Style-b's COMPLETELY ANONYMOUS 5 QUESTION REFERENDUM? Please vote today... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/style-b-list/polls For [Style-b List] discussion community membership/enrollment information... log onto the [Style-b List] web-site at... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/style-b-list The views expressed in this communication do not necessarily reflect those of the author, list owner, or any other person... whether living or dead. . Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT - Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Style-b-list/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] What Did We Do To Deserve This? LONG!!!
Dear Scott, So sorry you're going through this. I think it's growing pains even after you've had a successful list for quite a while. It's been a terrible month. Although I do not agree with Tom's feelings about Eugene, I do think that your list is going quite well. Some people are going to rub others the wrong way. Period. That's human nature. And too bad it's the list who will be attacked. Rest assured most people love MoPo but it has been a very tough month. I feel for you. You're doing a great job, Scott. ToochisTom Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Scott and Mopo. - there isno problem on MOPO. Mopo has been freedom forall.and thats why it will survive to 10 and longer. Since ive been on Mopo Ive seensome nice discussions, some rants about who screwed who... If You all thinkback its easy to discern whois who.. the thing about people that spread false rumors is there storys arebuilt on untruths..which disapate after Time. because they can misalighn and spread rumors . ButActions speak louder than words. How can someone say they wish to help theafflicted when they attack the afflicted? There are many that I feel havemisguided people on Mopo, customers, and fellowbusiness people However I have hoped they would see the wrongs and change orturn around instead of crucifying them. I am not sure what is said on B-list asive been unsubscribed for months.However, as to M! opo what amazes me is that accusations are made before theparty has time to say something.. and in Hughes case. It appeared that thereason for a slowdown was due to personal problems.. and as was stated by manyhe never had acted in any way like that prior so this wassaid to be highly unusual,, Ok has anyone ever been in a divorce, had death,lost anything??well this causes you to act Goofy and somtimes strikeout at others,, whatwierd is the abused can abuse others ..so.. what do we do..? castrate them? ortry to help, comfort, and restore.I am not a social worker, or claim to have any profound answers/ But it seemsthat what society hasin all areas is a breakdown in communication of the spirit. because the thing Isee in all the hurt instigators that cause more Hurt is that they are Hurt andwhere probably hurt by someone they trusted.Now mopo is the same excepttheroot hurt involves Posters.. so we have peoplewhose life is h! eldby poster.. people do this with pets inaniamte objects.. TODAYs sun Blade did aarticle on Hoarding that now has City govermemnts assigning people to deal withunsafe hoarders.because people associate stuff with security..People The stuff does not Help... ITs people..! You have seen how a Donniecan offer solutionshow many unlikly people can if they feel part of a positive force. and yes theones that have little understand as they know how a gesture of care means somuch...Giving isnt about Money its about a sincere care.. thats why 1.00 to someonefreezzing can mean so much.. like a coffee.The other day I refused a man 1.00 standing outside.. why?? because he wasintimadateing . Black, and had a eyey like Forest whitiker!! he said can iborrow a dollar! I said what?? and got closer and i thought hey I wont giveyou a dollar because You are shaking me down!NOyou cant have a Dollar.. Then I got in my Van and i thought You idiot...he asked for a dollar! not 5. 10 100.. but 1,00 and with all my blessings andpeoople that have spent 100s that were like Gifts I wouldnt give a Dollar...well I was embarraced.. and i thought.. well..maybei schoud drive back and givehim 5 well i didnt and as you see I am sorry as what did he think about menand sociaty that night... what did he do?? was he on drugs?? what? well wenever knowwhat prompts people to do things..But what Ive learned is they are spirituallysick... and they dont want to be if you ask them.. and they can be helped andalso help others. so its in my opinionour job as much as giving good service, and describing items well to helpthese peoplethats why all the personalities on Mopo make life interesting and Scott as therest of us has a lifeand issues and he needs a Hug and to know its OK.some name callers and send rumors as a way to create havoc and distrust offellow business peopl! eas a sort of spin doctor approach.. this is wrong and if you think back overlast few years the track record of who started them and the sources are thesame. these busineespeople will also tell others that they have been discussed3rd party. I suggest If anyone every says so and so says..that you question thesource and speack to the person DIRECT on the phone before listening tohearsay.From my experiance most of the rumors are unfounded and when asked for factsthey disapate.stop a moment and retrace the last 3 years.. How many dealers were accused ofsomething.without nameing everyone.. now ask what was the outcome? was there everfacts?threats, namecalling and verbal abuse. thats all.Now what i would like to see are stories How mopo has helped collectors..Itsben a way to compare notes on
Re: [MOPO] [Style-b List] Happy Birthday, Mr. Karloff!
Happy Birthday to the only voice who could do the Grinch! Tocohis --- Yafet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - On this date in 1887, William Henry Pratt, our beloved Boris Karloff, was born. I see that I'm the first today to salute his memory. From the first time I saw him onscreen in The House of Frankenstein, I have been his devoted admirer. This gracious and gentle man ironically spent most of his professional life giving us the stuff that screams are made of, but he could make us laugh and smile and cry, too. Happy Birthday, Mr. Karloff. There has never been anyone like you and never will be again. We love you. Nathalie Have you seen Style-b Cinema Magazine? Number 2 now available at... http://www.style-b-cinema.com For [Style-b List] discussion community membership/enrollment information... log onto the [Style-b List] web-site at... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/style-b-list The views expressed in this communication do not necessarily reflect those of the author, list owner, or any other person... whether living or dead. . Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT - Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Style-b-list/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Movie Theaters
What a wonderful site, Jerry. I've been a supporter of restoring the old movie theatres in Los Angeles. It's a shame that some of these glorious movie palaces are now swap meets. I've also been heartbroken over the drive-in. there was a lovely one, THE FIESTA which we attended up to three years ago. The neon sign and the decor in the stands were amazing. It was torn down for a warehouse. Toochis --- 42nd Street Memories [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great story, Joe. I have often wondered if I would EVER find a poster with a direct connection to my childhood theaters. And I lived in Manhattan! I thought the odds would be in my favor. Off topic but anyone interested in movie theaters should check out www.cinematreasures.com Jerry the K www.42ndstreetmemories.com - Original Message - From: Joseph H. Bonelli To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2004 8:30 AM Subject: Re: [MOPO] MyMoviePosters Weekend Update November 28th 2004 Dear Dan, These posts are very interesting and informative. You wrote: When I think of what an original movie poster is in my mind, it's probably one that you or I (or for that matter any of us who collect movie posters), might have stood staring at - in awe maybe - outside/inside of a cinema as a kid. When I think of what an original movie poster is in my mind, it's probably one that you or I (or for that matter any of us who collect movie posters), might have stood staring at - in awe maybe - outside/inside of a cinema as a kid. One of my prize possessions is a half-sheet from a film called Seven Cities of Gold-- an early Fox CinemaScope release. It's a nice poster, but what makes it special to me is that on the back is written in pencil, Joy Theater- Vicksburg, Mississippi. Which means that this particular poster was displayed there during the original run in 1954 or 1955 and that eleven or twelve-year-old Joe Bonelli stared at it-- the very poster that I own fifty years later. It's not framed but will be one day-- with the back visible. It always reminds me that I've loved the movies since I was five. Thanks and keep it up! Joe PS-- Please excuse the abrupt change in fonts, but computers do what they want! Joe MyMoviePosters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MyMoviePosters Weekend Update November 28th 2004 New this week... I was really impressed by all the responses that were sent in on last week's question.There were some really great points made! Thank you all for your input.I was very pleased! Here are just some of the comments.. For me, original has to be first print run for the first release of the movie. The only difference between a used and an unused original is in the rarity value of the unused poster, although the romance of having something which was actually displayed at the time is also a draw. Actually Sent out to a theatre, overseas, etc., by the Studio for the theatrical presentation of the film. When I think of what an original movie poster is in my mind, it's probably one that you or I (or for that matter any of us who collect movie posters), might have stood staring at - in awe maybe - outside/inside of a cinema as a kid. That's obviously not a technical definition of what is, or is not, original. just a nostalgic definition or something. But I guess original would be any poster that was printed for that first release. Or any subsequent poster printed specifically for a rerelease...?? I think an original movie poster is any poster that was manufactured exclusively for the purpose of promoting a movie release.It doesn't matter if it was sent to movie theaters in my view for example, the studio-issued Empire Style A one sheet is a valid as an NSS one), or used or displayed. In terms of the original release only, I think that does not matter as long as the poster is clearly different or otherwise marked as being from a subsequent re-release. In other words, I consider the Empire R-81 and R-82 to be originial movie posters, if that's what you are getting at. I am of the mind that it has to have been issued by the studio for the films theatrical release. I include re-releases in the original definition, but the poster has to have been printed with the intent to use it to promote the release of the film in theaters (either original release or re-release). it can't be a special edition printed up and sent to club members, or made specifically to be sold over-the-counter through various stores. it has to be the poster specifically printed to be sent to theaters and should be from the print run done for that purpose, not from a subsequent print run that was done to provide additional copies to dealers. that part is the hardest to identify and
Re: [MOPO] This is very sad and not for the easily outraged
He looked happy and healthy. You should see how some of the stars today look when I'm out walking my dogs! The only one who ever looks good and in great clothes is Bob Barker. Toochis --- Edmund R Flood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The little guy looks comfortable. Nothing wrong with that. - Original Message - From: Glenn Taranto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, December 2, 2004 10:10 pm Subject: [MOPO] This is very sad and not for the easily outraged Richard, The poor guy signing autographs in his underwear and wearing a shirt that has more stains than can be counted? It made me very sad to see what seemed to be exploitation. Glenn - Original Message - From: Richard Halegua Comic Art To: Glenn Taranto ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 7:00 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] This is very sad and not for the easily outraged gee Glenn, I looked at the lising... I didnt see anything wrong with it. Rich=== At 06:38 PM 12/2/2004, Glenn Taranto wrote: I saw this auction on eBay. I want your opinion. My attitude is thus... I can't believe that someone would take these picture let alone use them in an auction. I know Joe Cobb is dead but this is really outrageous... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=32988item=3857436756rd=1http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=32988item=3857436756rd=1 Glenn Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] [Style-b List] Vintage Hollywood Auction madness
I do hope that Bruce tries a Vintage Hollywood Auction on Movie Poster Bid someday. I think these folks from ebay would flock to Movie Poster Bid. They could just see the news on Bruce's site. Congrats to Bruce. I think many people bid because of reliability. Also the auction is such a cool set-up that he makes it an event. That's part of the lure. He's worked very hard to get it. I love buying from other sellers as well. Toochis --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - I have been watching tonight's action over at the Bruce Hershenson Annex to the U.S. Mint and I don't know if some of these prices are records, but they are climbing way up there, that's for sure. And not just for the few premier items either. The spending mania seems to have spread to all the lots. Once again, Bruce is to be congratulated on mounting a super auction -- and it will be going on for another 3 days! But also, as usual, it was almost impossible to bid a reasonable amount in this auction and actually win anything. I can understand this high bidding mania when it comes to things like the Universal Horror and other classic, high-end desirable pieces. We've all come to accept that this will happen. But, c'mon folks, take a look at some of these final bids on some of the more average everyday stuff: 3859206939#388 SHOOTIST 1sh'76 classic Amsel John Wayne portrait! sold for $ 192.50 ... A nice poster, but it comes up fairly often. There was one up for auction on MoviePosterBid two weeks ago, very similar in condition, from a long-time, reliable, well-known seller with a starting price of $119.00 and there were no bidders. http://www.movieposterbid.com/itemdetl.asp?id=4470 3859207258#392 SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER 1sh'77 John Travolta classic! sold for $92.82 ...Originals of this one in excellent condition show up almost every week on eBay from reliable sellers. You've all seen them, and they go for $20.00 to $40.00 3859207905#400 GREASE one-sheet '78 John Travolta, Newton-John! sold for $103.50 ...Another one that pops up on eBay all the time. Again, $20 to 40 bucks, almost any week. 3859197180#293 WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE LC#1 '51 full spaceship image! sold for $380.00 ...While not exactly common, I was tracking this card on eBay last week. It sold for $36.50. Again, from a long-time, reliable seller. Yes, there is a condition variance between the two cards, but this much? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=60331item=3858584246rd=1 Now there is no question that Bruce's operation does a great job -- in presentation, promotion, execuction and shipping after the sale. But so do a lot of other long-time, reliable sellers on eBay, MoviePosterBid and elsewhere, including those who send their FA lists to MOPO and Style B every week. Surely this reliability factor alone can't account for these steep variances in prices from the norm? Maybe I'm just out of the loop, but I can't understand why people will go out of their way to bid each other up on this more common material and pay two, three, four times what it normally sells for. Sometimes even more. It don't make no sense to me, and I can only put it down to the kind of bidding madness that sets in. What, do people get so upset that they were outbid on the $1,500 or $3,000 item that they say, Damn it, I'm gonna buy *something* from Bruce's auctions tonight, no matter what it is or how much I have to pay for it! Is this really what happens? Suffering from Shock and Awe, -- JR -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.296 / Virus Database: 265.6.0 - Release Date: 12/17/04 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] A random contribution to the... Sue Brown Fund [Leukemia Society] PayPal account# [EMAIL PROTECTED] wins the original Star Trek TV series! [All 79 episodes on 40 new/sealed DVD's] Have you seen Style-b Cinema Magazine? Number 2 now available at... http://www.style-b-cinema.com For [Style-b List] discussion community membership/enrollment information... log onto the [Style-b List] web-site at... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/style-b-list The views expressed in this communication do not necessarily reflect those of the author, list owner, or any other person... whether living or dead. . Yahoo! Groups SponsorADVERTISEMENT - Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Style-b-list/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF
Re: [MOPO] A holiday thank you to all you Mopo and MPT members...
So well said! I want to also thank Donald Rumsfeld for showing that you don't have to be competent to lead a war. Thank you Mr. President for showing that you don't have to balance anything that has to do with money. That you don't have to listen to anybody because you have capital. Thank you to the Pentagon for sending young men to war unprotected and forcing them to show their ingenuity by welding scrap metal onto their ill-made Hummers. Thank you to the Hummer manufacturers showing that you don't give a crap about the environment or space or gas. You've inspired me so much to pass along my lump of coal to the next person. Ho-Ho-cough, Toochis --- Robert D. Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With the Christmas season fast upon us (and the recent passing of Ramadan and Hanukkah), it's once again time to give thanks for what the past year has brought us: Thanks to the Rochester Connection for once again proving that no matter how evil you are, the authorities won't lift a finger to stop you. Thanks to Tom Martin for showing us that a paragraph need be no longer than two sentences - and, that you don't even need to reach the end of the second sentence to start a new paragraph. Thanks to eBay for their continual 'improvements' that are a Godsend for all of us users. Thank you for fully testing all of them so that they don't ruin all our auctions. And, also, a hearty thank you for policing fraudulent auctions (and fraudulent bidders) with the same determined intensity that you guard your bottom line (and VERO rights holders'). Thanks to Bruce Hershenson for proving that it is not a contradiction in terms to state that you get both the highest prices in the business for your consignors as well as the greatest bargains for your bidders. Thanks to Kirby McDaniel for bringing the term 'advanced prices' into the common lexicon. Thanks to all the major auction houses for accurately describing every poster in their auctions. Thanks to David Lieberman for proving that long elusive posters such as the Caddyshack HS, ET HS, Animal House Ins., Shining HS and others actually exist - and not just in our imaginations. Thanks to Randy Petersen for single-handedly doubling the price of every rare modern poster classic... Thanks a whole hell of a lot!... Thanks to myself for once again making it a whole year without opening my mouth and pissing off even a single other movie poster collector or dealer. Thanks to Dan Rickard for knowing EVERYTHING. And, also a thanks for moving his site off of my server - now I don't have to look forward to a nuisance suit from the Rochester boys. Thanks to David Kusumoto for his re-emergence into poster commentary. And, thank you for keeping all your posts short, concise and directly to the point. Thanks to Dario Casadei for running all his posts through a gramatical and spell checker before sending them on. Thanks to people like Ioan Baicu, Rick Toler, Jack Gold, Sam Sarowitz, Marty Davis, Todd Feiertag and others for using the forums as more than just a marketing tool, passing their vast knowledge down to the public at large. Thanks to Sue Heim for being the only framer who knows what they're talking about. Thanks to the UK dealers, who make me feel like a fool for pricing the same poster for 5% of what they're asking for it But, I guess, it also works the other way: Hey, my $50 eBay purchase is actually worth 500 Pounds! Whoopee!!! Thanks to JR for believing that he could actually compete with eBay. Thanks to Mrs.Miniver (and others) for starting their auctions at a reasonable price and not gouging their customers. Thanks to Eugene Hughes for his quick turn-around and pleasant demeanor. Thanks to every American dealer that realizes that no one outside the US deserves to buy their posters, and refuses to sell to them. Thanks to all the zero feedback Thai poster sellers who have such phenomenal posters to sell me. Thanks again to eBay for respecting their customers and not charging for every single little feature they provide on their auctions. Thanks to PayPal for being so user friendly - and for taking the side of every single zero feedback bidder over the seller with nothing but one thousand plus positives. Thanks to Movie Poster Talk for proving that every idiot on Earth absolutely LOVES the Star Wars series. And, as a side note, thanks to George Lucas for worrying more about his fans than his pocket book. And, while I'm side tracked, thanks to more than half the population of the United States for proving that your country is not just filled with xenophobic bible-bashers - proving yet again, that the general public is too stupid to be allowed to vote (and this is coming from a political conservative, mind you). And, thanks for proving that greed ALWAYS wins out over good and common sense. Thanks to Hollywood for giving us one thought-provoking movie
Re: [MOPO] What Did We Do To Deserve This? LONG!!!
I know that these two lists have some of the same members, but can we dispense with the forwarding of messages from one list to the other? Let's face it, there are times when some of us will be frustrated on the list. It's human nature. I love both lists and appreciate the differences. Don't let this kind of listing get you down, Scott. It was written on Style B so that it wouldn't get to you. They just wanted to vent, I'm sure. I just got a comment privately about something I said on MoPo. I could have mentioned it on Style B and MoPo and gotten people in a huff. But the person and I had a wink over it and it's done. I want the freedom to vent about MoPo on Style b when I want and visa versa. I have not had reason to do either nor do I think I ever will. I understand the differences. I just wonder why people want to forward these types of things to the list leaders. Don't they get punched up enough? Donnie, is a generous and sweet guy who offered another list not to compete but to give an option. Scott is a wonderful man who got an awesome list together to provide a forum for people to talk about posters. Let's let them do what they do best and be supportive. Toochis --- Michael Spampinato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scott - You hit us with a long post and am gonna hit you back. Have been reviewing many missed posts. Since I rwead your in its entirety you must read mine in its entirety1 ;-) I confess to not being active in Mopo for a while now but my poster collecting interests have returned. I never lost interest in posters but was spending more time researching and acquiring pre-code horror comic books. But I knew I would get back into poster collecting. And now, for the first time in my life, I seem to have achieved a balance betyween the two. ANYWAY - Scott - not even sure if you remember me but man - don't turn out the lights because of the classic internet mindset. People forget they are people talking to people and often say and do things they would never do in real life - like Mopo isn't real life! Even when I was deepest in comic books I knew I would return to posters, and why? Because of Mopo. Mopo is the one thing in the poster world that seems a constant. A refuge, as it were, to a world that really just don't get it! I have loved movies since I was a kid. I remmeber in the 50's watching Creature Feature and Creatuire Double Feature and Sherlock Holmes and Charlie Chan on the relatuively new IHF television (we got one of those special antennas that let you tune to UHF on your VHF TV). And I found my self almost addicted to movies - and expecially the black and white ones. I remember when Channel 38 (as I recall) in Boston had a Humphrey Bogart film festival. They showed maybe a dozen of Bogie's best (and some lessers) and I was introduced to folks like James Cagney, Edward G Robinson, Lauren Bacall and a host of others. Suddenly those old movies were just amazing. So I started collecting videotapes when VCRs came out. But that never really felt right. I didn;t feel like I was collecting a part of the movie itself. So one day, I am in The Outer Limits comic book shop in Waltham Massachusetts, and I see a Mothra insert on the wall. I asked what it was and Steve Higgins, the most excellent owner of that shop, told me it was an insert from Mothra. We talked about movie posters for a bit and turned out he had some oither pieces. Suddenly everything clicked. THIS was how to own a movie. The comic book collector (aka paper lover) in me responded immediately. Not too long from then I discovered Rudy Franchi's The Nostalgia Factory in Boston. Man did I have a time. Rudy was just great. He seemed willing to chat with me for some time when he realized I had a genuine love of both movies and movie paper. I bought many pieces from him of lesser things that reflected my horror interests: but all in the $25 - 1oo range. Well, one day, I walk in and Rudy looks at me with a twinkle in his eye. He says You have to see this and he pulls out an original Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man lobby card with the great closeup of the monster carrying the Baroness. Well, we talked a bit but I could NOT take my eyes off that lobby. It was literally the first Universal Horror pice I had ever seen. And the Universal Horror films were and are, hands down, my favorites. I don;t know who was more surprised, myself or Rudy when I pulled out a credit card and bought what was, by far, the most expensive piece I had even bought. Well, I bring it home and am looking at it and it suddenly dawned on me You can DO this!. Meaning, I can actually get pieces form the Universal films I love so much. And by gum, I DID! I started hitting ebay. I hit Deke's Poster Palace (I still have some pieces from him I bought years ago, including a gorgeous Jungle Captive 1-sheet and a stunning Realart title card to Werewolf Of London). I started
Re: [MOPO] What Did We Do To Deserve This? LONG!!!
Hi Mike, Let me be clear. I did not cite your posting. I was responding to Scott being pummeled. Okay. I usually don't get into this type of string. I just think Scott and Donnie do so much hard work and deserve to be supported. Again, I did not use your posting. Hope your have a great holiday and that all is settled and nice in the New Year. We ALL deserve it. Toochis --- Michael Spampinato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Man I have had it. Really had it. WHY is my post being cited for this? I don;t even know what the heck Style B IS, did not MENTION Style B and my only reason for the post was to express my pleasure at having a place like Mopo and assure Scott it is worth it. Earlier, I post what I THINK is a complimentary email about my results on Bruce's auctions and Bruce makes that post the poster boy for expressing disapporval. Earlier still I post very clear examples and questions as to the whole high-end thing and am accused of trying to read between the lines or reading thigs that arfen;t there. Know what? I will just post FOR SALE and WTB messages. Lord forbid I should express myself beyond that. And Merry Christmas and Happy New Year anyway. Pov Toochis Morin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know that these two lists have some of the same members, but can we dispense with the forwarding of messages from one list to the other? Let's face it, there are times when some of us will be frustrated on the list. It's human nature. I love both lists and appreciate the differences. Don't let this kind of listing get you down, Scott. It was written on Style B so that it wouldn't get to you. They just wanted to vent, I'm sure. I just got a comment privately about something I said on MoPo. I could have mentioned it on Style B and MoPo and gotten people in a huff. But the person and I had a wink over it and it's done. I want the freedom to vent about MoPo on Style b when I want and visa versa. I have not had reason to do either nor do I think I ever will. I understand the differences. I just wonder why people want to forward these types of things to the list leaders. Don't they get punched up enough? Donnie, is a generous and sweet guy who offered another list not to compete but to give an option. Scott is a wonderful man who got an awesome list together to provide a forum for people to talk about posters. Let's let them do what they do best and be supportive. Toochis --- Michael Spampinato wrote: Scott - You hit us with a long post and am gonna hit you back. Have been reviewing many missed posts. Since I rwead your in its entirety you must read mine in its entirety1 ;-) I confess to not being active in Mopo for a while now but my poster collecting interests have returned. I never lost interest in posters but was spending more time researching and acquiring pre-code horror comic books. But I knew I would get back into poster collecting. And now, for the first time in my life, I seem to have achieved a balance betyween the two. ANYWAY - Scott - not even sure if you remember me but man - don't turn out the lights because of the classic internet mindset. People forget they are people talking to people and often say and do things they would never do in real life - like Mopo isn't real life! Even when I was deepest in comic books I knew I would return to posters, and why? Because of Mopo. Mopo is the one thing in the poster world that seems a constant. A refuge, as it were, to a world that really just don't get it! I have loved movies since I was a kid. I remmeber in the 50's watching Creature Feature and Creatuire Double Feature and Sherlock Holmes and Charlie Chan on the relatuively new IHF television (we got one of those special antennas that let you tune to UHF on your VHF TV). And I found my self almost addicted to movies - and expecially the black and white ones. I remember when Channel 38 (as I recall) in Boston had a Humphrey Bogart film festival. They showed maybe a dozen of Bogie's best (and some lessers) and I was introduced to folks like James Cagney, Edward G Robinson, Lauren Bacall and a host of others. Suddenly those old movies were just amazing. So I started collecting videotapes when VCRs came out. But that never really felt right. I didn;t feel like I was collecting a part of the movie itself. So one day, I am in The Outer Limits comic book shop in Waltham Massachusetts, and I see a Mothra insert on the wall. I asked what it was and Steve Higgins, the most excellent owner of that shop, told me it was an insert from Mothra. We talked about movie posters for a bit and turned out he had some oither pieces. Suddenly everything clicked. THIS was how to own a movie. The comic book collector (aka paper lover) in me responded immediately. Not too long from then I discovered Rudy Franchi's The Nostalgia
Re: [MOPO] Linenbacker praise
I have to add praises to Jaime Mendez. He restored a HOT CAR GIRL O.S. for me to immaculate shape. The colors are vibrant and wonderful and the price was more than fair. He responds quickly to emails and is just a great guy all round. Toochis --- Craig Goebel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I concur with Saul's recommendation of Dario. Dario's done nearly 50 posters for me - one sheets and Oz d/bs - to excellent effect and prices related to the effort. Several have been reclamation projects, including a couple old, rare items that needed much work - Quebec and Blood and Sand. Knowledgable and oh so courteous. Craig, Vancouver. - Original Message - From: Saul H. Chapman PhD To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 12:57 PM Subject: [MOPO] Linenbacker Malaise Did I say malaise? I meant PRAISE! Rather than linenbacker mashing I just feel like its time to do a bit of linenbacker Splashing! I've had some really nice linenbacking and restoration work done by two of our more outstanding artisans and craftsman, Jaime Mendez and Dario Casadei. These guys are truely exacting and passionate in their work and turn out very good quality product. I highly recommend both of these gentleman and will continue to send posters to them. If you haven't yet sent something to Jaime or Dario perhaps you should give them a try. I don't think you will be disappointed. Examples of their restoration work can be found on each of their websites. You can find Dario at www.vintagemovieart.ca and Jaime at www.restorationbyjm.com Also, I recently purchased an old Italian Foglio from Capitol Posters Restoration. At the time of this purchase I had a chance to talk to Fontaine Ayala, a young and apparently quite talented linenbacker and restoration artist with Capitol. She sent me some photos of her restoration work which appears very impressive and I certainly plan to give her a chance to show her stuff and will have her linenback and do restoration work on the Italian piece. Okay, give 'em a try! Regards, Saul Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.298 / Virus Database: 265.6.7 - Release Date: 30/12/04 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.298 / Virus Database: 265.6.7 - Release Date: 30/12/04 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Just my take ...on movie poster collecting. What's yours?
I collect Humphrey Bogart and started around 1998. I also love art deco graphics. The posters which have eluded me are: Sins of Nora Moran, Dantes Inferno, and several others. The problem I have is that I have not narrowed my focus enough. I end up buying other posters which do not fit my profile but that I love. I love bad girl posters too! I stop as late as Taxi Driver but for the most part stick with Bogey and deco. The Bogey has gotten more and more expensive so I'm afraid I'll never get my collection larger, but oh well... As far as new posters, gosh I do my best to stay away. I'll never have a life!! Toochis --- Michael Spampinato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I collect to own a piece of a movie so to speak. I could collect 35mm film but they would get rather redundant framed and hung on the wall. :-) I actually have a method to my collecting. I am collecting a single piece from each Universal, Monogram and PRC (Monogram and PRC being the main Poverty Row Studios) horror films of the 30's and 40's. Realart and Astor etc. re-releases up to the early 50's as well as foreign (especially Belgian but also have seen some interesting Australian daybills) as long as they are 4-color. If anyone here collects coins - think of my collecting as a type set. Lobby cards are my favorite for ease of framing/matting. But I like to center a wall with a one-sheet or insert surrounded by relevant lobby cards. I'm not overly concerned with the image. The several original Universal lobbies I got from Bruce's latest auction don't show the monsters but they show scenes I know and remember well. And that is the key for me. Any piece that tweaks my memory of the film is fair game, and if I can get 2 or 3 dead cards for the price of a live card I will do so, as I do love them all equally. I AM approaching completion. From the major Universal films I have an example from all of the Mummy pieces except the first Mummy and Mummy's Hand (Dang why didn;t Realart re-release that one? A fine film too!). Do need Frankenstein, Bride Of Frankenstein and Son of Frankenstein to complete the Frankenstein series. Need only Dracula to complete the Dracula series. Need only Invisible Man Returns and Invisible Agent to complete the Invisible Man series. And only The Wolf Man to complete the Wolf Man series (luckily I got from Deke many years ago the title card (Realart) to Werewolf Of London (phew!). Have most of the 2nd tiers completed as well (all the 2nd Black Cat, Jungle Woman series, Old Dark House, Mad Ghoul, She-Wolf of London, Cobra Woman etc.). I will be putting in requests for the missing pieces here on Mopo as my budget grows. As far as the Poverty Row pieces, Devil Bat has proven to be my downfall. Dashed difficult to find and apparantly nothing in 4-color? Does anyone know if any Devil bat material was proiduced in 4-color? But have about 70% of the Monogram and PRC represented. I expect it to take more time to complete this set. After that? I will continue to collect. My side collection is the major detective series - Sherlock Holmes (Rathbone/Bruce). Mister Wong. Mister Moto. Charlie Chan. Have a nice smattering of these but still need a Toler Chan to have every Chan iteration. Such are my collecting proclivities. Each piece I have tickles me and reminds me of the films I love. Pov Yafet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Saul and MoPo, I have always collected stuff, from little on. Movie paper started as an interest, grew to a hobby and is now a passion for more years than I care to reveal. My approach is similar to Saul's. Love the actress/actor. Love the movie. Love the artwork. The movie is awful but is always good for a few laughs or other exclamation points. To me, it's all very personal. I do not collect for investment. My collection spans both ends of the price spectrum and several genres. Movie paper is also a tangible piece of the film. Rather like, You are there! Moviegoers probably (unless the piece is unused) walked past your paper and looked at it. Hard to duplicate that kind of feeling. Nathalie Yafet Saul H. Chapman PhD wrote: Dear MOPO Brothers and Sisters, I guess I've been collecting posters now for close to two and a half years (not including my purchases of Hard Day's Night, Help, Let It Be and Yellow Submarine 3-Sheets in the early 1980's). I virtual newbie compared to many of the listserve members. I used to collect fine art limited edition prints (lithographs, serigraphs, silkscreens, etchings) and signed/autographed Beatles memorabilia, but sold many of these and have moved over to movie posters (and an occasional concert poster). I'd moved over to movie posters, not for investment purposes, but because the images on the posters either better fulfilled some nostalgic need or because the posters artwork stirred me in some very positive way that the fine art
Re: [MOPO] Prices Sci Fi POsters
Helmut, if I had the $$, I'd be all over your stuff You've been a terrific seller and I've enjoyed buying from you. These are great items and a wonderful opportunity. That Wasp Woman rules! Toochis --- Richard Halegua Comic Art [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Look folks, I think that almost all of you are so badly missing the boat on what is going on in Helmut's offerings. as a dealer (and collector as JR said.. we all have a habit) when I see the list of posters that Helmut (who is top class all the way folks) is offering, I say to myself... A) Helmut has a consignment from a collector who wishes to sell.. the collector isn't in cheap, and then Helmut has to make money, and then eBay is making money etc.. okay I understand that.. ! or B) Helmut is selling some of his own stuff, and he knows, like all of us do... that the Sci-fi stuff is one of the most solid selling areas of the market and as he will no longer spend the kind of money a Wasp Woman would command for his own collection - if he sells his own - .. okay I understand that too...!! or C) Helmut just wants alot of money for this collection he just bought because he had to pay a fortune to get it because there isn't any collector (including you MoPo members) who will sell me a collection of this stuff again for a fair price, so I want to maximize on this type of collection that is getting almost impossible to find. okayI definitely understand that as well. well I actually know these are Helmut's posters, so anyone who guessed B wins the prize I actually don't think that all of that stuff is so out-priced as many of you who have commented do. A Wasp Woman at $5000 seems right to me, or if it is high.. by what?? $500 ?? Listen if any of you who have so harshly flamed Helmut will sell me his similar collection for a fair price, I have cash here waiting for you, and if I don't have enough money, I'll beg, borrow or steal it (okay I won't steal it) just to be able to buy the collection for myself so I can ask what you think I should be selling the stuff for so all the gripe-ster collectors can buy cool stuff at the prices that you think is fair... !! any takers.. PLEASE EMAIL ME NOW!!! Rich=== At 06:51 PM 1/25/05, Phil Edwards Cinema Arts wrote: I have to agree with JR on this one, and add that no one is being forced to pay the prices being asked by Helmut, one of the longest-established and most professional dealers around the poster business. I don't see people running out to take other long-time pro dealers like Sam Sarowitz, John Hazelton, John Kisch, Freeman Fisher et al to task for the prices they ask publicly or privately for their rarer items. If some folks find Helmut's prices on the high side then I presume they also find some of the prices that posters end up on auctions absurd as well. I was astonished recently to see a reissue daybill for DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL go over US$200 on one of Bruce's auctions. A poster that has been around in quantity for some time (even if supplies are dwindling compared to a couple of years ago) and can often be found as a BIN for $25 to $50 from numerous sellers. But as the auction game demonstrates, it only takes two or more people who really want something to drive a price through the roof for a particular item. Some people just gotta have something sometimes, and rationality about price and other availability can go out the window. I better start rummaging through my boxes again and find the rest of those DAY daybills, I guess. I know I put 'em somewhere. Damn these senior moments! Maybe Helmut will trade me something for a couple of them. Phil Phil Edwards Cinema Arts Pty Ltd 26 Vista Avenue Soldiers Point NSW 2317 AUSTRALIA Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone/Fax (International Dial) 0011 61 2 49847233 Phone/Fax (Domestic Dial) 02 4984 7233 Website: http://www.cinemarts.comwww.cinemarts.com - Original Message - From: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]J R To: mailto:MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDUMoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 1:04 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] Prices Sci Fi POsters Randy and others, While I am also often floored by the retail asking prices I see from some sellers there is one motivation/rationale that probably accounts for it more than anything else -- and one that is prefectly understandable, honorable and ethical: Many sellers are also collectors. Most of them in fact. Now, you've got a great poster in your collection, you love it. What if someone came into your house and offered to buy one of your favorite posters? Would you sell it? Maybe, maybe not -- but you would certainly ask a high price. The price you would ask you NOT be the low price one *might* be able to get it at auction someday... nor would it necessarily even be an
Re: [MOPO] I like to be helpful, but...
I agree with Michael, Bruce. I think you should stay on because you have been quite informative and helpful. I think it's great you offer links to other sellers. Your frustration is acknowledged and I wish it were different. Although this is a forum of movie paper lovers, there will be a competitive spirit. Please stay on. As far as private bidders, the only reason I mind is that there are certain people who I do not want to bid against. I like them so I can lose the auction at that time or I email them and ask them if they really want it. You've raised the bar in this business and even though there are many dealers who are providing the same quality, there will be others who resent it. I'd hate to see MoPo lose you. Toochis --- Michael Greenwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all I think Bruce should stay because I feel he still offers plenty to the community, including both new and older persons. You've got a thick skin but it needs to be thicker. Your place in the hobby is such that you have an effect on every facet and you are going to be discussed on all fronts and have lots of negative hits. Obviously, anybody who 'cyber-stalks' is bothersome and I don't blame you for leaving MPT. It's too bad that the forum couldn't have had that user removed with greater ease but I assume the person would just re-subscribe. Anyway, that's too bad but I do want you to stay and contribute in the same way I want everybody to stay. I'm sorry that the poster hobby isn't 100% behind you but that's always going to be the story. Your record still stands for itself. All the best, Michael Bruce Hershenson wrote: Ever since I began my weekly Internet auctions, I have tried to be very helpful to all dealers and collectors (except for the outright crooks and creeps). I have maintained a large links page, with links to many smaller dealers who likely greatly benefit from my link, but where I doubt I get much benefit if any from their link. I have many times ran e-mails in my club praising other dealers (my direct competition!) and I don't see that doing so helps me at all. I have also always tried to answer all questions by phone or e-mail, even when I have not had the time, and when the answer does not benefit me in any way. For years I have participated in all three online discussion forums, and have linked to them from my website, and from my e-mail club, no doubt adding lots of members to each. I have also made hundreds of posts to each where I give answers to questions, or share my views on subjects under discussion, usually where I have nothing to gain, except knowing I have helped someone find their answer. Around a month ago I had an unfortunate experience on the Movie Poster Talk site. I picked up a cyberstalker, who posted soon after almost every post I made, often fairly incoherently, and sometimes vaguely threatening (My finger is on my trigger and it is itchy). I asked him to stop, but to no avail. It became very unpleasant to read these posts, and it made me question why I was there. I de-listed myself from the site, and real honestly, I find I don't miss it, and it gives me more time to not post, and time is my most precious commodity right now. Strangely (or not so strangely), my cyberstalker has pretty much quit posting, now that I am gone. Now I am reading posts on MoPo which seem to say that those who buy from me are very foolish, as they pay me far higher prices than they could find elsewhere on eBay, and I am wondering why I am sending my buyers to the MoPo site. I rarely post anymore except to announce my latest offerings, and I have not found what has been posted all that interesting reading (a lot of it covers ground that has been covered many times in the past, which would of course be far more interesting to newer collectors). Why should I send my customers to a site where they will read jealous rants against me, and be told not to buy from me? So I am strongly considering quitting MoPo, and greatly reducing my LINKS page, and I am asking for others' opinions before I make this move. Of course if the response is a bunch of anti-Bruce rants, then you will be making my decision easy! I can't help but think that most of the members of the online forums who buy posters from me are also members of my e-mail club (3,000 members), so I will still be reaching them if I quit both forums. And I imagine there might be some people who quit buying from me if I don't support the online forums, but if so, I can accept that. All I want to do is keep selling posters in a 100% honest way (honestly described, well packed, un-enhanced images, etc) and therefore I would think most collectors would still want to do business with me whether or not I am in the online forums! I looked at Movie Poster Talk to see if I was being
Re: [MOPO] FS: Announcing a new vintage poster website, and my first Mo-Po post
Dave, You couldn't have picked a better icon than Bogey. I adore him and your website. Congratulations, ToochisDave Ressler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Phil Mila, Many thanks for your well-wishes. As a bit of an explanation of the Bogartrant on the home page (for those who might be interested), it is actually all of his spoken lines as Duke Mantee in The Petrified Forest, strung togetheras a continuous dialog. If I have a dozen favorite Bogart lines, at least half of them are here. Perhaps my #1 favorite: "I spent most of my time since I grew up in jail -- it looks like I'll spend the rest of my life dead". Classic stuff.Bogart had his lines honed from doing the play on Broadway, andjust listening toBogart's deliveryis enough to understand why Leslie Howard refused to make the film without him. And of course this was the rolethat putBogie over the top and made him a star. The image on the home page is NOT from The Petrified Forest, but from King Of The Underworld instead.However, it is my favorite Bogart image of all time, and theembodiment of "cool". I couldn't resist using it. Dave Phil Edwards Cinema Arts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave - All good luck with your website and for the future. It has some very nice pieces and the Bogart rant is a riot! Regards, Phil Mila Phil Edwards Cinema Arts Pty Ltd26 Vista AvenueSoldiers PointNSW 2317AUSTRALIAEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Phone/Fax (International Dial) 0011 61 2 49847233Phone/Fax (Domestic Dial) 02 4984 7233Website: www.cinemarts.com - Original Message - From: Dave Ressler To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 7:22 PM Subject: [MOPO] FS: Announcing a new vintage poster website, and my first Mo-Po post Hello All, A late night note from the east coast, but I wanted to get this out before hitting the sack. At the recommendation of a friend and Mo-Po subscriber, as well as gracious Mo-Po emcee Scott Burns, I wanted to introduce my new website to all Mo-Po members. This is also my first Mo-Po post, so I thought a brief introduction would be in order. My name is Dave Ressler, and I'm located in the Cincinnati, Ohio area. I have collected all manner of things, a disease of sorts I suppose,ever since I was a kid growing up in Pennsylvania. I moved to Ohio in 1986 and began working at Procter and Gamble shortly thereafter in research and development. I'll bemarried for 20 years this coming August, and have a 15 year-old daughter. About a year after I moved here I somehowstumbled across an issue of Movie Collector's World, which introduced me to what I consider to be the ultimate collectible in vintage film posters and lobby cards. I've dealt with many dealers and collectors over the years, and remember making my first purchases from guys like Todd Feiertag and Bill Luton (at a time when theystill sent outcatalogs). Scanning over the Mo-Po archives, I notice posts from many that I have known from the past, or have dealt with in recent years on eBay. I have sold a fair number of items on eBay over the past 6 years,but not a great deal. Although it certainly has its merits, I have always found eBay to be a bit impersonal, andhadoften thought about doing my own website as a better _expression_ of myself. However, getting from the concept to the finish line was no simple task, and took longer than I had hoped. But I'm finally "on the air". For those who might consider purchasing from me, I guarantee a pleasant experience. I will never be the biggest dealer (and I'm certainly awed by some sites out there which offer thousands of items), but I do promise excellent service and products. I'll provide accurate descriptions and images (and if there is more that you'd like to know about an item, please ask). I guarantee all items to be exactly as described, or will fully refund your money, no questions asked. I ship promptly and package items extremely well, and can honestly say that- to my knowledge - I have never had an unsatisfied customerin this or any other hobby. I'll bemore thanhappy to supply references to anyone in doubt. But as I interpret my being a member of Mo-Po, I'm opening myself up to a world of hurt if I do you wrong! Ordering and contact informationcan be found on the site. Email contact is the easiest (and cheapest) way to reserve items, but you can also phone me or fax your request. Other collectibles are featured on the site, but the majority of the material will be vintage filmposters from the 1920'son up. I just updated the site tonight, so as I send this out all of the itemsare currently available.I will mark the home page with a new date every time I update the site, so you may want to mark it as a favorite and check it out every now and then -- if the date at the top has changed, new items will have been added. That's about it for the sales pitch. I won't bend everyone's ear to this extent again, although I will probably post short messages when I update the site. Thanks to all for
Re: [MOPO] Something interesting for Eastwood fans
Eastwood is tops in my book! Toochis --- Kirby McDaniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The New York Times February 13, 2005 FRANK RICH How Dirty Harry Turned Commie THE day the left died in Hollywood, surely, was the day that a few too many Queer Eyes had their way with Michael Moore as he set off on his Oscar campaign. The baseball cap and 1970's leisure ensemble gave way to quasi-Libeskind eyeglasses and spiky hair that screamed I am worthy of a cameo on 'Entourage.' But not worthy of an Oscar. Fahrenheit 9/11 got zero nominations, leaving the Best Picture race to five apolitical movies. Since none of those five has yet sold $100 million worth of tickets, let alone the $350-million-plus of a Lord of the Rings-level megahit, the only real drama accruing to this year's Oscar telecast was whether its ratings would plunge as low as the Golden Globes. But two weeks out from the big night, the prospects for a little conflict are looking up. Just when it seemed that Hollywood had turned a post-election page in the culture wars, the commissars of the right cooked up a new, if highly unlikely, grievance against Holly-weird, as they so wittily call it. This was no easy task. They couldn't credibly complain that The Passion of the Christ was snubbed by the movie industry's elite (translation: Jews), since it nailed three nominations, including one for makeup (translation: really big noses). That showing bested not only Fahrenheit 9/11 but Shrek 2, the year's top moneymaker. Nor could they resume hostilities against their perennial bogeymen Ben Affleck, Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, Barbra Streisand and Whoopi Goldberg. All are nonplayers in this year's awards. So what do you do? Imagine SpongeBob tendencies in the carefully sanitized J. M. Barrie of Finding Neverland? Attack a recently deceased American legend, Ray Charles, for demanding that his mistress get an abortion in Ray? No, only a counterintuitive route could work. Hence, the campaign against Clint Eastwood, a former Republican officeholder (Mayor of Carmel, Calif., in the late 1980's), Nixon appointee to the National Council of the Arts and action hero whose breakthrough role in the Vietnam era was as a vigilante cop, Dirty Harry, whom Pauline Kael famously called fascist. There hasn't been a Hollywood subversive this preposterous since the then 10-year-old Shirley Temple's name surfaced at a House Un-American Activities Committee hearing in 1938. No matter. Rush Limbaugh used his radio megaphone to inveigh against the liberal propaganda of Million Dollar Baby, in which Mr. Eastwood plays a crusty old fight trainer who takes on a fledgling girl boxer (Hilary Swank) desperate to be a champ. Mr. Limbaugh charged that the film was a subversively encoded endorsement of euthanasia, and the usual gang of ayotallahs chimed in. Michael Medved, the conservative radio host, has said that hate is not too strong a word to characterize his opinion of Million Dollar Baby. Rabbi Daniel Lapin, a longtime ally of the Christian right, went on MSNBC to accuse Mr. Eastwood of a cultural crime comparable to Bill Clinton having brought the term 'oral sex' to America's dinner tables. What do you have to give these people to make them happy? Mr. Eastwood asked when I phoned to get his reaction to his new status as a radical leftist. He is baffled that those who expound from the right on American values could reject a movie about a heroine who is willing to pull herself up by the bootstraps, to work hard and persevere no matter what to realize her dream. That all sounds like Americana to me, like something out of Wendell Willkie, he says. And the villains in the movie include people who are participating in welfare fraud. What galls the film's adversaries - or so they say - is a turn in the plot that they started giving away on the radio and elsewhere in December, long before it started being mentioned in articles like the one you're reading now. They hoped to spoil the movie and punish it at the box office, though there's no evidence that they have succeeded. As Mr. Eastwood has pointed out, advance knowledge of the story's ending did nothing to deter the audience for The Passion of the Christ. My own experience is that knowing the ultimate direction of Million Dollar Baby - an organic development that in no way resembles a plot trick like that in The Sixth Sense - only deepened my second viewing of it. Here is what so scandalously intrudes in the final third of Mr. Eastwood's movie: real life. A character we love - and we love all three principals, including the narrator, an old boxing hand played by Morgan Freeman - ends up in the hospital with a spinal-cord injury and wants to die. Whether that wish will be granted, and if so, how, is the question that confronts not just the leading characters but also a young and orthodox Roman
Re: [MOPO] Please stop giving away plot twists for newly released films!
David, I couldn't agree with you more. I was also offended when Frank Rich wrote that Passion of the Christ's nomination for make-up was for big noses. How low does he have to go to get attention? Obviously very low. I loved Million Dollar Baby and just tell people to go see it. Whatever one hears about it they cannot help but be moved by this impressive film. I'm glad Clint also got nominated for best actor. Toochis --- David Kusumoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What really makes these critics hate Million Dollar Baby is not its supposedly radical politics - which are nonexistent - but its lack of sentimentality. I don't know what the hell Frank Rich is talking about here. My wife and I cried our eyes out when we watched Million Dollar Baby, and it's my pick (along with Sideways) as the Best Picture of 2004. The Aviator is more old fashioned, has more nominations, is more handsomely produced, but doesn't emotionally connect with most audiences. (And I'm angry Scorcese decided against tacking on a text post-script about the fate of Howard Hughes, as he did with great success in Goodfellas, his last truly great picture which DID deserve the Best Picture Oscar over the p.c. Dances with Wolves.) The Frank Rich column Kirby cites is one of Mr. Rich's better efforts. --- *** But I hate the fact that Rich on the left and others on the right have chosen to spoil the plot twist of one of Eastwood's finest films. Moreover, because he works for the left leaning, hasn't-endorsed-a-Republican-candidate-for-President in more than 50 years New York Times (but still the most historically important paper in the United States) -- Rich has elevated the so-called controversy against Million Dollar Baby -- to a level of legitimacy and attention that I think most movie lovers can do without. He just threw kerosene on a dimly lit fire, since I don't believe most who are paying to see Million Dollar Baby -- either know about the pseudo-controversy -- and if they did, don't give two s***s about it. In my view, Frank Rich, a failure as an op-ed columnist for the New York Times, has been an equal failure ever since he was pushed into that paper's Sunday's Arts and Leisure section. Every week, he incessantly use any arts related subject as a launching pad to write Maureen Dowd-like diatribes against the ultra-right (but without Dowd's fabulous sense of humor, her gift for satire and without her Pulitzer). He's a Maureen Dowd wannabe, which is why everything he writes for Sunday Arts MUST be connected to left and right wing politics. --- The sad thing is Mr. Rich is a genuine arts scholar but has none of the wit and subtlety for language that, let's say, his NY Times colleagues have, such as critics Ben Brantley or A.O. Scott. He only wants to write about politics. So he's stuck at Arts and Leisure, taking every subject about theater and film and connecting-his-dots back to the White House or to right wing wackos. His abandonment of Michael Moore after he cleaned up his wardrobe is as embarrassing as his endorsement of Fahrenheit 9/11, a masterpiece of partisan entertainment, but a documentary it was not. Clint Eastwood was already an an icon and a legend before he became a GREAT director. His politics here in California are truly, as Mr. Rich correctly notes, hard to pin down. He doesn't need Frank Rich's help to raise the impression that he's an underdog, now a Commie, or to prove his theories correct about the heinous ultra-right. I will bet that Mr. Eastwood, the class act he is, didn't understand the big deal about his film until he picked up the phone and took Mr. Rich's kiss-a** questions. If Million Dollar Baby wins Best Picture, I can already see Mr. Rich writing his next column about how Eastwood's victory represents a triumph over the evil right. The fact is, the storm over Baby is nothing compared to what we saw in 2004 with Gibson's Passion and with Moore's Fahrenheit. If Eastwood wins, I wanna believe that even in left-leaning Hollywood, it's because he did a great job directing a fine story, not because of any noise being made by wackos of any stripe, be they red or blue. --- Giving away a plot twist in a film that much of America still hasn't seen -- is the worst thing anyone, whether they're on the radio or in print -- can do. So shame on both sides of this non-issue for ruining movies for the rest of us. -d. Original Message Follows From: Kirby McDaniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Kirby McDaniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: Something interesting for Eastwood fans Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 22:40:05 -0600 The New York Times February 13, 2005 FRANK RICH How Dirty Harry Turned Commie THE day the left died in Hollywood, surely, was the day that a few too many Queer Eyes had their way with
Re: [MOPO] READ ONLY if YOU LOVE CLINT
Thanks, David. Toochis --- David Kusumoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well lookee here: I just found, buried on page three of the BACK section of today's Arts Leisure -- a BETTER story about Clint -- appearing in print, in the same paper, on the same day. If it had been up to me, I would've put David Carr's story below about Clint on the front page and pushed Frank Rich into some corner where nobody would notice. After reading this, you will love Clint more. -d. -- NEW YORK TIMES February 13, 2005 Clint Eastwood, Still Fighting for the Green Light By DAVID CARR BURBANK, Calif. -- FIVE times in a dozen years, Clint Eastwood, director, has given Warner Brothers, a studio otherwise short on Oscar winners, a ticket to the Academy Awards. He directed a best picture, Unforgiven, in 1993 and two years ago delivered a best picture nominee, Mystic River. Meryl Streep received an acting nomination for his Bridges of Madison County, a 1995 Warner film. Even Space Cowboys, the old-guy space romp he made for the studio in 2000, picked up a nomination for its sound effects. But the green light still doesn't come easy for a 74-year-old pro who has called the Warner lot his professional home since 1975, and has now produced, directed and/or starred in some 30 pictures for the company since Dirty Harry in 1971. When Mr. Eastwood proposed his Million Dollar Baby, the studio balked, citing audience aversion to boxing pictures, just as it had first turned down Mystic River, a crime-and-friendship story that was first deemed too dark. Warner executives only budged when an outside financier, Lakeshore Entertainment, agreed to share the cost. In the shadow of a large sign boasting of the picture's seven Academy Award nominations, including best picture and best director, the studio president, Alan F. Horn, is more than happy to eat some crow. If I were sitting here talking about how I let 'Million Dollar Baby' go to another studio, I would be more than chagrined, he said. In retrospect, his instincts were right, stunningly right. At the end of the day, and sometimes these are very long days, we did the pictures. Never simple, often tested, sometimes downright tense, the marriage between Mr. Eastwood and his home studio has ultimately proved to be an astonishingly productive relationship in an industry that defines a three-year contract as a long-term deal. To Warner, the aging Mr. Eastwood - who started in Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns and became embedded in American consciousness as Dirty Harry - has brought unexpected cachet, along with hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue over the years. The actor-turned-filmmaker and Warner have not always been on the same page of the script. But with the kind of bumps and pushback one comes to expect from a lifelong mate, the partnership has somehow wrung the best from a blue-collar auteur who, well into his 70's, makes good to great movies with the constancy of a factory worker. Asked about Warner's reluctance over Million Dollar Baby, Mr. Eastwood sounded crusty but not bitter. I explained to them that it wasn't a boxing movie, it was a love story, he said, but I must say, other studios had the same opinion, although many of them had expressed interest in working with me. I told them, 'Hey, I'm not the kind that looks good in tights or can play a superhero,' and if they don't want to do this, and they don't want to do dramas, why are they even in the movie business? By and large, the Warner-Eastwood relationship operates on a handshake. Mr. Eastwood has no overriding contractual commitment to the studio, but works picture by picture, and will do his next, Flags of Our Fathers, for DreamWorks SKG, with some Warner backing. (DreamWorks owns the rights to the story.) But the comfort of Mr. Eastwood's connection to Warner's sprawling Burbank lot was apparent in a recent visit to Mr. Eastwood's office on the lot, the bungalow once used by Harry Warner and now home to the filmmaker's Malpaso Productions, even amid the slight buzz of Oscar electricity. His wife, Dina Ruiz Eastwood, stopped in and quietly giggled with the staff about what clothing and jewelry she would wear to the Oscars while Mr. Eastwood took press calls in his office. She turned down the $10,000 loaner watch in favor of her own $60 watch that keeps time just fine: understatement is one of the cornerstones of the Eastwood franchise. After a few minutes, Mr. Eastwood emerged from his office in the back of the bungalow and his wife asked him if she should pick up anything at the market. Let me see - Viagra, Levitra and, yeah, some Cialis, he deadpanned to shrieks of laughter from the staff and Ms. Eastwood. He can make that kind of joke, not just because he has seven children, including an 8-year-old daughter, but also because he is not given
Re: [MOPO] Good 'ol Clint...
Hi David, I couldn't agree more about Clint being a great artist. He only gets better and continues to astonish me. My prayer is to work with him someday. I do have to say that when I was in the theatre in my teen years in NY, many people wanted to kill Frank Rich. For some reason, he didn't just slam with his harsh criticism but managed to really slam people in a personal way. I remember attending the opening of a Broadway show of a well-respected playwright. The show was great but afterwards at the party when the reviews were read, Frank Rich's was particularly scathing. The playwright wanted to know who was close enough to Mr. Rich so he could have him poisoned. I was in a show that Mr. Rich destroyed, but he was very kind to me in the review. I have nothing personal against him. He's been great to me, but I know the ire Mr. Rich draws. Toochis --- David Kusumoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Toochis: In fairness, the hatred between Frank Rich and Mel Gibson is mutual, and it started when Rich accused Gibson of anti-semitism and brought Mel's father into the discussion as a Holocaust-denier. It escalated when Gibson made a death threat against Rich in an interview w/the New Yorker. But as far as Clint getting nominated for Best Actor -- I was also happy. Though everyone says Jamie Foxx is a slam dunk in this category, it's nice to see Clint get nominated because in Million Dollar Baby, it's the first time I've seen Clint showing a decent amount of range. Clint reminds me of those great actors who always play themselves and audiences don't care. John Wayne always played John Wayne, Woody Allen always plays Woody Allen and Cary Grant, the best example, always played Cary Grant. Of the three, Cary Grant NEVER won an Oscar except a special statue long after he retired. Clint always plays Clint and we don't care. But in Baby, his acting had my wife in tears. He's tremendous; and in any other year, he might be the favorite to win an acting Oscar. But who knows? Clint already has 2 statues for Unforgiven (and I like Million Dollar Baby a lot more), and John Wayne had to wait until 1970, 8 years before his death, when he won Best Actor for 1969's True Grit. The huge difference is that Clint has proven himself a great artist, perhaps underrated, as an independent producer dating back to the early 1970s with his still running Malpaso company. I love the guy even though he's going up against another maverick I adore, Martin Scorcese. The problem with Scorcese and Oscar is his material is rarely mainstream. And if and when Scorcese wins, I want it to be because of merit, not sentiment. It still pains me that Al Pacino got his Oscar, for example, for Scent of a Woman, and not for his Godfather pictures, Serpico or Dog Day Afternoon. I can't even watch Pacino in that film, anymore than I can watch Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man. (Though Dustin was the best thing in Meet the Fockers; he'll always find work.) Anyway, more than anyone wanted to hear from me; sorry; it's been a while. -d. Original Message Follows From: Toochis Morin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Toochis Morin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: Re: Please stop giving away plot twists for newly released films! Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 01:33:55 -0800 David, I couldn't agree with you more. I was also offended when Frank Rich wrote that Passion of the Christ's nomination for make-up was for big noses. How low does he have to go to get attention? Obviously very low. I loved Million Dollar Baby and just tell people to go see it. Whatever one hears about it they cannot help but be moved by this impressive film. I'm glad Clint also got nominated for best actor. Toochis Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] BUZZ BUNNY
I couldn't agree with you more, Kirby. WB get a f'n clue! Toochis --- Kirby McDaniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tivoed the CBS Evening News today and just watched it. I caught a report about Warner Brothers extreme makeover of Bugs Bunny. Warner's proposes to turn the wascally wabbit into some kind of crimefighting INCREDIBLES-like (only not as good) hipster figure along with all the other immortal Looney Tunes characters. The powers that be at Time-Warner should take the people at Warner's animation who thought this up and summarily fire every one of them. This was reported in this morning's Wall Street Journal as well. If this isn't a mistake on the order of the Coca Cola makeover of several years ago, I don't know what is. I can tell you I was just sickened by it. And this isn't just nostalgia either. Those Warner characters have lots of life left in them, if the idiots at Warner's knew how to use them. No doubt some will be found who will rise to Warner's defense in this dubious enterprise, but yours truly will not be among them. Sometimes you just have to wonder who these people are that make these nutty decisions. In the past, animators brought Bugs and friends into fine-tuned versions of themselves that was, in my opinion, perfected in the 1950s. But this is radical and just destructive of wonderful intellectual property. If it's not broke, don't fix it. Please excuse the rant. Kirby McDaniel MovieArt Original Film Posters P.O. Box 4419 Austin TX 78765-4419 512 479 6680 www.movieart.net Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] [Style-b List] Maltese Falcon
I love The Maltese Falcon and that story. Wish I could be there. Toochis --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - The link did not work, here's the story... Posted on Thu, Feb. 17, 2005 `Maltese Falcon's' leaden star flies in TOWN THAT HATCHED STORY GETS VISIT FROM ARTIFACT By Mary Anne Ostrom Mercury News The most storied bird in cinema history, Dashiell Hammett's ``The Maltese Falcon,'' is winging its way back home to San Francisco to star in the 75th anniversary celebration of a book that helped create the ``hard-boiled'' American mystery genre. Getting the black bird -- or rather, the 50-pound lead prop used in the 1941 screen version -- from Southern California to San Francisco, where Hammett lived and wrote from 1921 to 1929, could very well make a Hammett-style pot boiler all its own. Now valued at $2 million, the statue Sam Spade so doggedly pursued will arrive with armed security. Two San Francisco Police Department officers have been assigned to, uh, bird watching. After a short viewing at a private party at John's Grill, it will spend the night in a bank vault. Depending on whom you ask, Hammett wrote his most popular novel either at John's Grill on Ellis Street, where he would lunch, or at his apartment on Post Street. His office was in the famous Flood Building on Market Street. Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) and the evil Kasper Gutman (Sydney Greenstreet) believed the bird was of ``incalculable value,'' but that isn't the reason for all the security. ``It's a requirement of the insurer,'' said Gary Milan, a retired Beverly Hills dentist who has owned Hollywood's most famous bird for some two decades. He loans it out for special events, and then the falcon returns to its roost in a Warner Bros. studio museum. ``It's very, very valuable,'' Milan added -- somewhere around $2 million. Milan also owns the piano from ``Casablanca'' but believes that the falcon, because it serves as the title of a book and a movie, and has such a pivotal role in both, is ``the most important piece of film memorabilia there is.'' Not Dorothy's ruby slippers? ``There were six pairs of ruby slippers,'' huffed Milan, ``in three different sizes.'' ``The Maltese Falcon'' -- considered Hammett's most influential work of detective fiction that became one of director John Huston's best films -- was first published in serial form in Black Mask magazine in 1929. It appeared as a novel on Valentine's Day, 1930. Last week, Sen. Dianne Feinstein authored a senate resolution declaring that Hammett helped San Francisco become ``the center of hard-boiled crime fiction.'' Today, a short parade is planned near Union Square at 5 p.m. An icon of a later generation, Wavy Gravy, dressed in trench coat and hat, will lead the march of Sam Spade look-alikes to John's Grill. The San Francisco Public Library has a special exhibit on the falcon, co-curated by Hammett's granddaughter, Julie Rivett. Asked why the bird and story still command such attention, Rivett said: ``It's a wild story. It's a juxtaposition of wild fantasy and real-as-a-dime dialogue and personalities.'' She also gives a lot of credit to Huston's film, with its evocative black and white images of San Francisco and Bogart as Spade. And, of course, the mysterious black bird of ``incalculable value.'' Contact Mary Anne Ostrom at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or (415) 477-3794. Style-b remembers... Johnny Carson Have you seen Style-b Cinema Magazine? Number 2 now available at... http://www.style-b-cinema.com For [Style-b List] discussion community membership/enrollment information... log onto the [Style-b List] web-site at... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/style-b-list The views expressed in this communication do not necessarily reflect those of the author, list owner, or any other person... whether living or dead. . - Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Style-b-list/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] 1995-2005: 10 Years of MoPo!
Happy Birthday MoPo. Congratulatons Scott! Toochis --- Scott Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let's congratulate ourselves: The MoPo List is 10 years old today! On February 24, 1995 MoPo was born--with a grand total of 11 subscribers: Mahtab Moayeri, Michael Danese, Rob Ellis, Donna Tschetter, Goh Kai Shen, Evan Zweifel, George Nichol, Cynthia Nemeth-Johannes, Adam Ehrlich, our name-deprived AOL'er, Static555, and me, your humble List Owner. Thanks to everyone, past and present, who has helped MoPo survive for 10 glorious years. What a ride it has been! Sometimes bumpy, often frustrating, occasionally helpful...but ALWAYS fun! What more could you ask? I hope you all hang in there for our next 10! Scott MoPo List Owner Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] MOPO Do the Oscars Hate New Yorkers?
I am not worried about Scorcese. He's represented at the Firm and runs around with a very elite Hollywood crowd. Do we know for sure he doesn't have a place in Bellaire? Perhaps Malibu? Beverly Hills? I don't he doesn't have a place here. By the way, Hilary Swank lives in NYC 98% of the time. I love Scorcese and while I enjoyed The Aviator, I don't think it was one of his best. The timing sucks for him. He's working on a very high-profile project with Leo again and it's being filled with major stars. Scorcese will get his Oscar. He's not over yet by a long shot. Toochis --- Jim Episale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Saturday, March 05, 2005 By Roger Friedman Does Oscar Hate New Yorkers? All week I've been fielding one question about the Oscars: How did Million Dollar Baby triumph over The Aviator? It's a good question. I don't know if there is one answer to it. First of all, there's no debate about the quality of Million Dollar Baby. It's a finely wrought film, particularly the first half, which focuses on boxing. Some may find the second half a bit sappy and Hilary Swank's movie family a little stereotyped. But overall, the performances are of the highest quality. Clint Eastwood continues to surprise and awe us all as an actor and a director. He deserves all the acclaim he's received. But Eastwood already had a best director statue for Unforgiven. What about Martin Scorsese? Why does the Academy hate him? How is it possible that the director of Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, King of Comedy, Raging Bull, After Hours, Goodfellas, The Age of Innocence, Gangs of New York and now The Aviator has no award for his gargantuan achievements? Is it something about him? I think yes and no. You saw on Sunday that the Academy had to give a lifetime achievement award to Sidney Lumet. Somehow they'd managed to ignore him previously for Prince of the City, Serpico, Daniel, Fail-Safe, 12 Angry Men, Network and Dog Day Afternoon. Pretty wild, right? But Robert Altman has no Oscar. Woody Allen has two for Annie Hall and Hannah and Her Sisters, but not for Crimes and Misdemeanors, Zelig, Broadway Danny Rose or Manhattan. Crazy, right? But Scorsese, Allen, Altman and Lumet are all considered outsiders by the Academy -- New York directors who are not part of the purring economy called Hollywood. So far, three of Scorsese's five losses have been to popular actors who dabble in directing: Eastwood, Kevin Costner and Robert Redford. That's not a coincidence. At various times those men have been huge moneymakers for Hollywood, where most Academy members live and thrive. How else also to explain Mel Gibson winning best director for Braveheart in 1996 over Mike Figgis, Michael Radford and Tim Robbins? Nine years later, their work on Leaving Las Vegas, Il Postino and Dead Man Walking holds up as superior in every way to the violent, hackneyed swashbuckling in Braveheart. But those three were all outsiders, and Gibson was the blue-eyed moneymaker of Lethal Weapon. He might as well have been running for class president. Scorsese et al. represent a weird cast of interlopers who have no vested interest in Bel Air mansions, Rolls Royces or Ed Limato's buffet dinner to the Academy voters. You can also throw in a bunch of deceased and important directors like Martin Ritt, John Cassavetes and Hal Ashby, who never got Oscars but will be long remembered when many winners are forgotten. They were also outsiders who didn't care what the Academy thought. In the new generation, add the names of the Coen brothers, Quentin Tarantino, Spike Lee and Wes Anderson to that list as well. Hollywood doesn't like 'em. They'll give them nominations, but the actual award is an uphill battle all the way. How else to explain Forrest Gump beating Pulp Fiction, an influential classic, for best picture in 1995? HBO has the same problems with the Emmys as Miramax and other East Coast producers have with the Oscars. Even though they get rafts of nominations every year, the actual awards are hard to come by. It was only this past fall that The Sopranos finally got best drama. Sex and the City only won once in 2001. Otherwise, the Hollywood TV community likes its hometown heroes: West Wing, Everybody Loves Raymond, etc. It could be argued that HBO wins so many mini-series and movies-for-TV awards because the networks long ago abandoned those genres. HBO also makes really good ones, which helps. So don't cry for Martin Scorsese. There isn't a serious director in the world who wouldn't want to trade places with him in a second. Historically, and for posterity, he is set. If he stopped making films tomorrow, Scorsese would still be considered the king of kings. In the end, he, Altman, Lumet, Francis Ford Coppola (save for The Godfather) and Allen don't need any more Oscars. They are the Supreme Court of
