{"id":6487,"date":"2014-10-04T16:40:03","date_gmt":"2014-10-04T20:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tr10023.com\/?p=6487"},"modified":"2025-02-02T15:53:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T20:53:53","slug":"flash-pans-fall-2014-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tr10023.com\/?p=6487","title":{"rendered":"Flash Pans! (Fall, 2014 Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mostly Mean-Spirited One-Liners<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

“Boyhood”<\/strong> (12 years of piffling growing pains in Dullsville, Texas; feels longer): Oh, grow up!<\/p>\n

\"Ellar<\/a>

Ellar Coltrane: Blah, Blah, Blah.<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

“Titanic”<\/strong> (Cute, talentless artist goes down on girl, ship): Kitsch ‘n’ sink drama<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

SHE: You’re too HOT to freeze!\u00a0 \u00a0 HE: Au c-c-c-contraire, me d-d-darlin’\u00a0. . .<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

“The Chosen”<\/strong> (Growing up Hasidic in Brooklyn): Oyhood<\/p>\n

\"Robby<\/a>

Robby Benson, Barry Miller, Rod Steiger: Yutz, Klutz and Putz.<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

“Fiddler on the Roof”<\/strong> (4 Weddings and a Pogrom): The hora! The hora!<\/p>\n

\"Chaim<\/a>

Chaim Topol as Tevye: Less than Zero.<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

“Johnny Guitar”<\/strong> (Saloonstress Joan Crawford vs. gunslinging bulldyke nutjob): Trigger harpy<\/p>\n

\"In<\/a>

In foreground: Frank Ferguson, Mercedes McCambridge, Ward Bond: Lez, miserables.<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

“The Snows of Kiliminjaro”<\/strong> (Author, safari, sex, infection, flashbacks, death): Writer schlock<\/p>\n

\"Firecracker<\/a>

Firecracker Ava, Wet Blanket Greg: Cunt and Peck.<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

“Gentleman’s Agreement”<\/strong> (Fake Semite Greg Peck gives anti-Semites heck): I, the Jewry<\/p>\n

\"Schmeggege-ry<\/a>

Shmeggege-ry Peck: Darf min gehn in kolledj?<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

“Humoresque”<\/strong> (Dipso doyenne foregoes fiddler; drowns sorrows, self): Humorlessque<\/p>\n

\"Joan<\/a>

Joan Crawford prepares to take eternal dip.<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

“Watch on the Rhine”<\/strong> (1943; Hellman wags finger, warns: Nazis BAD!): Quatsch on the Rhine<\/p>\n

\"Donald<\/a>

Middle-brow loftiness: Bette Davis, Paul Lukas and the Three Little Prigs come to town to lay it on thick.<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

“The Women”<\/strong> (Harridans tear each other to shreds — a romp): Hen pals<\/p>\n

\"Bitch,<\/a>

Costumier Adrian gets his freak on. It’s the Merry Widow Cocktail Waitress ensemble <\/em>for Rosalind Russell — it’s not for everyone, but for madcap Roz, c’est la mode juste<\/span>! Mr Brian Aherne’s lovely young bride is a peach\u00a0in that creamy Little Bo Peep of Sutton Place housecoat. But, say, isn’t that the Widow Thalberg there on\u00a0the right? You know<\/span>\u00a0it, brother! No more sombers for this vivacious lady! She’s footloose, fancy-free, out on the town, and making the scene inside her stunning World of Tomorrow Ice Box frock — ain’t she a beaut? It’s functional<\/span>! Keeps a chickie warm and her Popsicles cold. Who’s ready for a Perisphere Freezie?<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n\n\n

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Mostly Mean-Spirited One-Liners “Boyhood” (12 years of piffling growing pains in Dullsville, Texas; feels longer): Oh, grow up! “Titanic” (Cute, talentless artist goes down on girl, ship): Kitsch ‘n’ sink drama “The Chosen” (Growing up Hasidic in Brooklyn): Oyhood “Fiddler on the Roof” (4 Weddings and a Pogrom): The hora! The hora! “Johnny Guitar” (Saloonstress […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p40pmy-1GD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tr10023.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tr10023.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tr10023.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tr10023.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tr10023.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6487"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.tr10023.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8165,"href":"http:\/\/www.tr10023.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6487\/revisions\/8165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tr10023.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tr10023.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tr10023.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}