It would have been lovely to see a Karloff and a Lugosi and a Chaney up there. Sorry, I think the Twilight series is pablum junk.
I had heard about the theater and Tarantino and thought it was great. Best, Nathalie On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:46 AM, Toochis Morin <fly...@pacbell.net> wrote: > Hi Nathalie, > > I couldn't agree more but I've heard so much backlash against this young > man and it's really the old farts at the Academy who are trying to appeal to > the "young". Whatever. They should be ashamed. I'm encouraged that > Quentin Tarantino has bought the New Beverly revival theater in LA. Its > audience is young and he educates them with classic movies. > > Cheers, > Toochis > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Steven Yafet <sya...@gmail.com> > *To:* MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU > *Sent:* Wed, March 10, 2010 1:17:25 AM > > *Subject:* Re: [MOPO] Where is everybody? > > Toochis, > > I can appreciate your point of view, but did they even consider asking Sara > Karloff, Bela George Lugosi and Ron Chaney? And what about Gloria Stuart or > Carla Laemmle** or even Tim Burton? In looking over Taylor Lautner's IMDB > bio, it seems that he has very little background in horror films. I'll give > the young man credit for working hard, but it would have been far more > respectful to a genre that gets no respect to have this segment introduced > by people with more gravitas. And who was responsible for compiling this > montage? Where was Val Lewton in all this? Why all the slasher film > stuff? Badly done from start to finish. > > Nathalie > > > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:48 AM, Toochis Morin <fly...@pacbell.net> wrote: > >> I think it's more of an attempt to get genre films recognized by the >> Academy. Of those 2 young people who introduced the films, Taylor Lautner >> is a rising star. He has taken his work seriously by training hard in his >> voice, acting and his body. He is professional and grateful for every >> opportunity he is getting. Also he is easy on the eyes. Go team Jacob! >> >> Toochis >> >> ------------------------------ >> *From:* Steven Yafet <sya...@gmail.com> >> >> *To:* MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU >> *Sent:* Wed, March 10, 2010 12:30:12 AM >> >> *Subject:* Re: [MOPO] Where is everybody? >> >> Still reeling from the horror movie homage so charmlessly introduced by >> those two twilight duds. Obviously more appropriate people were not >> available ;) If you blinked, you missed the one or two seconds of classic >> horror. What was this supposed to accomplish? >> >> Nathalie >> >> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Doug Taylor >> <douglasbtay...@hotmail.com>wrote: >> >>> Am I missing something? There seems to have been virtually no MOPO >>> traffic the last few days…not even the normal running dialogue trashing the >>> Oscar presentation. >>> >>> >>> >>> Whatup? >>> >>> >>> >>> DBT >>> >>> Profile <http://www.linkedin.com/in/douglasbtaylor> >>> >>> >>> 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.
