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Wednesday, September 08, 2010
I think I’d rather see Hilly Kristal introduce Jon Tiven & The Yankees at some filmy festival.
On October 1, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum will celebrate Billy Crystal’s 2001 classic film 61* to open the fifth annual Baseball Film Festival in Cooperstown, with an evening reception and discussion, moderated by Bob Costas, followed by a showing of the film, in an exclusive Hall of Fame event, presented in conjunction with HBO® Sports.
Crystal’s appearance leads off the Hall of Fame’s Baseball Film Festival, Oct. 1-3, as the Museum honors the tradition of baseball at the movies. As part of the three-day event, Crystal – the legendary actor who directed and executive produced 61* – will be on hand as the Hall of Fame celebrates his 2001 production that told the story of the 1961 New York Yankees and chronicled the efforts of Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle to break Babe Ruth’s single-season home run record. As part of the celebration, Crystal will donate to the Museum the bound shooting script from June 2000 of 61*, and the Museum will feature a special exhibit opening of artifacts from the film.
A discussion of the film will follow in the Grandstand Theater with Crystal, Costas and Ross Greenburg, President of HBO Sports participating from 7-8:30 p.m. The Museum will screen the film beginning at 8:30 p.m. on October 1.
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1. Pasta-diving Jeter (jmac66) Posted: September 08, 2010 at 10:15 PM (#3636426)sorry--but something has to be a lot more than 10 years old to have "artifacts"
I'm still ticked that he used his spring training AB vs. the Pirates to promote an appearance at a casino. And I won't forgive him for "Analyze That!"
Followed by the magnum opus "The Slugger's Wife," the flawless "Mr. 3000" and the immaculate "Little Big League."
"The umpire?"
"No. Billy Crystal."
His 10 best movies in order (based on Rotten Tomatoes critics ratings):
1. This Is Spinal Tap
2. Monsters, Inc.
3. The Princess Bride
4. Hamlet
5. When Harry Met Sally
6. City Slickers
7. Tell Them Who You Are
8. Hauru no ugoku shiro (Howl's Moving Castle)
9. Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
10. 61*
His worst five:
5. Analyze That
4. Father's Day
3. My Giant
2. City Slickers 2
1. The Tooth Fairy
this is really stretching it--he was on for about 30 seconds
Wasn't there also opposition in the 1980s when he moved to SNL after being established when many thought it should be a launching pad for unknowns? It's kind of forgotten but those "Fernando-you look mahvelous" was everywhere for about six months.
Here is a video of the real Fernando Lamas in his heyday on What's My Line. If you watch it, skip ahead to minute 3:30, the part after he is revealed to the panel. He doesn't say, "You look mah-velous." But you can imagine him saying that.
No. There was an openly gay couple on a TV sitcom called "Hot l Baltimore" that came out a few years earlier than Soap. It wasn't as popular as Soap and it didn't last long before it got the ax. There may have been others before that. Does Bewitched count? I doubt his sexuality ever came up but Paul Lynde had a recurring role in the series and he set off the nation's gaydar the moment he hit the screen.
That was 1984-85, where SNL producer Dick Ebersol (Lorne Michaels returned the following season) brought in a number of established names for that one year -- Crystal, Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer and Martin Short. Actually a very good season by recent SNL standards. It should be noted that Shearer quit at midseason; he didn't get along with Ebersol and, in particular, Crystal. Shearer went on to The Simpsons, but about 30 years later he still won't shut up about how SNL treated him.
WHA???? I thought he was just flamboyant!
Yeah, and I'm a size 2.
edited for accuracy
Or maybe Billy Crystals from Tim and Eric?
1. This Is Spinal Tap
2. Monsters, Inc.
3. The Princess Bride
4. Hamlet
5. When Harry Met Sally
6. City Slickers
7. Tell Them Who You Are
8. Hauru no ugoku shiro (Howl's Moving Castle)
9. Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
10. 61*
As mentioned, Crystal doesn't have a cameo in "This is Spinal Tap," he has a glimpse. He's higher profile in "Princess Bride," but doesn't have much more than 5 minutes of screen time. He plays the central role of "First Gravedigger" in "Hamlet." He voices a humorous secondary character in "Howl's Moving Castle" which is more than a cameo but less than a protagonist-- something like the level of Doug the dog in "Up" or Edna Mode in "The Incredibles." He's himself amid dozens of talking heads in both "Tell Them Who You Are" and "Mr. Warmth"-- as crucial to those documentaries as he was to Ken Burns' "Baseball."
The worst thing about that movie was the famous non-Shakespeareans playing bit parts -- Crystal's grave digger, Jack Lemmon as one of the guards in the beginning, Robin Williams as Osric. Well, Charlton Heston as the Player King was inspired casting even if he isn't great, but the other ones were just a wreck. The movie went for a classic stage Shakespearean tone, but then filled itself with actors incapable working in that register. You don't need to make Hamlet that way -- the Mel Gibson and Ethan Hawke versions didn't, and were, IMHO, superior variants -- but if you are going to go stage Shakespearean you can't have Billy Crystal as the First Gravedigger, not when there are so many veteran British stage actors (like the Second Gravedigger, Simon Russell Beale) who are far more capable of it.
I think the only movie I've seen that's been mentioned in this thread is City Slickers, which was OK.
Charles Nelson Reilly on "Match Game"? :)
Edit: What? It's not like I used the "C" word. We can't even the use five-letter equivalent for kitty that begins with P?
IMHO, that's probably his best movie as the lead. I'm not so much a fan of the movies he's the lead in, though. Mr. Staurday Night makes me think he should have taken more supporting roles as the a-hole character, though. I don't mean that in a snarky way, I really think he would have been great playing characters who were congenial on the surface but could bring the knives out at any time. Roles like that aren't good for the Q rating, I guess.
Edit: What? It's not like I used the "C" word. We can't even the use five-letter equivalent for kitty that begins with P?
So much for the Cleveland Spiders threads.
Charles Nelson Reilly on "Match Game"? :)
Obviously, the key word is "openly." That did not come until the 1970s. However, Lee Liberace was playing a flamboyant homosexual--that is, himself--on TV back in the 1950s. Here is a short video of Muhammed Ali and Liberace performing in the '60s.
I suspect, but am not enough of a film buff to know any names, that even back in the 1920s and early 30s (prior to the rise of movie censorship) that there were gayish characters in the movies long before Liberace gayed it up on TV.
By the way, Liberace could well be the weirdest big star ever. I don't know of any other who had his lover undergo plastic surgery so the lover could look just like the star. But Liberace did just that. His goal, apparently, was to have sex with himself. Now that is literally serious narcissism.
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