;D Astromancer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Uh...Yeah, sure...
"Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Peeples and Lollobrigida of course Astromancer wrote: > > Come on, Keith, this is Martin you're talking to! > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:KeithBJohnson%40comcast.net> wrote: > ha! good one! > Nia Peeples or Nia Long? > Gina Torres or Gina Lollobrigida? > > -------------- Original message -------------- > From: Martin > Easy for me. > > If her name is Gina, Gabrielle or Nia, there's a dead man on the ground... > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:KeithBJohnson%40comcast.net> wrote: > Harry Belafonte was in another movie "The World, The Flesh, and the > Devil". In it, he's a miner trapped in a cave in Pennysylvania, who > escapes after several days underground. No one's left alive. He > travels to NYC to find it a literal ghost town (no bodies, just no > people). Far as he can tell, he's the only survivor. Later he finds a > white lady who survived, and they become friends. There's all sorts of > issues of the white lady falling in love with Belafonte, but he can't > bring himself to cross the color barrier, having been subjected to so > many years of racist society he just can't bring himself to really > trust the lady. and then when you think he *might* kinda sorta think > about it, another survivor-a white guy-- shows up to become a rival. > Belafonte moves aside to let the white folk get together, but the > lady's in love with him, and in time, the white man decides to kill > Belafonte's character. But in the end the Brother realizes violence > isn't the way, and his example > makes th > e white guy also regret his actions. > > The ending sucks: they literally walk away all friendly and stuff, > with no clear understanding of which man won the lady's heart. She > wants the black man, the white guy was ready to kill same for the > lady, but the Brother is better than that. Hence, the "they lived > happily ever after" ending. The idea is that in the end race doesn't > matter, that good and evil, violence, etc., exist in all of us. > > Which, if you think about it--two men, one woman--could conjure up all > sorts of freaky future scenarios! > > -------------- Original message -------------- > From: Astromancer > I have a question: Was Harry Belafonte in the 1964 version? If not, > there's possibly a fifth version of that story floating around... > > Martin wrote: I have, Keith. It was on TCM during Hallowe'en week. Not > bad, really, but I didn't see it from the start, so I came out thrown > by the ending. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:KeithBJohnson%40comcast.net> wrote: > I'll check it out because i'm a sucker for scifi films. Tired of Will > Smith getting so many "blockbuster" roles, but won't keep me from > seeing it. I'm curious as to how it will compare to Charleton Heston's > "The Omega Man", which I enjoyed. I'm *really* curious to see if, > given modern studios' desires to give the people what they want, and > Will Smith's popularity, the movie will end the same way as the book > and the previous two movies? > > Speaking of movies, i've never seen the Vincent Price version, "The > Last Man on Earth". I found a quick synopsis below. Evidently book > author Matheson didn't like this one. Anyone ever seen it? > > *********************** > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Man_on_Earth_%281964_film%29 > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Man_on_Earth_%281964_film%29> > The Last Man on Earth (originally titled L'Ultimo uomo della Terra) is > a 1964 film based upon the Richard Matheson novel I Am Legend. The > film was directed by Ubaldo Ragona and Sidney Salkow, and starred > Vincent Price. The script was written in part by Matheson, but he was > dissatisfied with the result and was therefore credited as "Logan > Swanson". William Leicester, Furio M. Monetti, and Ubaldo Ragona were > the other writers. > It was originally filmed in Italy, and was later released theatrically > in the United States by American International Pictures in. It has > since fallen into the public domain. MGM Home Video, the current > owners of the AIP film catalog released a digitally remastered > widescreen print in September 2005. > > -------------- Original message -------------- > From: "Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" > > > I'm a big fans of the old versions of Omega Man and I am Legend. Anyone > > interested in seeing the Will Smith version? > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > "There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will > get organized along the lines of the Mafia." -Kurt Vonnegut, "A Man > Without A Country" > > --------------------------------- > Be a better pen pal. Text or chat with friends inside Yahoo! Mail. 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