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Tag Archives: Some Like it Hot
Christmas Cracker #5 | Today: A Bad Joke
Marilyn has a blonde moment in Some Like It Hot. Sugar: I come from this musical family. My mother is a piano teacher and my father was a conductor. Joe: Where did he conduct? Sugar: On the Baltimore and Ohio. … Continue reading
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Tagged Marily Monroe, Some Like it Hot
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Name That Chest: The Loin King
The film turned this British stage actor into a screen superstar. In his latest role, he plays a toyshop owner who turns out to be a cinematic pioneer. Last week’s chest featured a screen legend who’s the subject of a … Continue reading
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Tagged Marilyn Monroe, My Week with Marilyn, Some Like it Hot
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Some Like It Hot – Tony Curtis tribute on ITV1 tonight
ITV has been quickest off the mark to pay tribute to Tony Curtis – they’re showing Some Like It Hot on ITV1 tonight. Billy Wilder’s classic 1959 comedy sees Curtis and Jack Lemmon play a pair of 1920s musicians who … Continue reading
Tony Curtis: a true Hollywood legend
In tribute to Hollywood legend Tony Curtis we’ve selected a scene from probably his greatest film, Billy Wilder’s classic 1959 comedy Some Like It Hot. It’s the one where he first puts on his pose as an oil-rich playboy to … Continue reading
Couch Potato Pickings | My 10 movie-themed cocktails
The last time I ‘wrote about’ Cocktail, I used it as an excuse to list my favourite classic cocktails along with the films in which they star. Actually I didn’t say much about the Tom Cruise film at all. Check … Continue reading
Posted in Couch Potato, Films on TV
Tagged Anthony Hopkins, Any Old Port, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, Audrey Hepburn, avatar, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Cocktail, Daniel Radcliffe, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harvey Milk, Henry Fonda, Laurel and Hardy, Marilyn Monroe, Milk, Sean Penn, Some Like it Hot, The Grapes of Wrath, The Silence of the Lambs, Titanic, Tom Cruise
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Couch Potato’s Bafta night discovery
Earlier today, my Movie Talk colleague Jason described last night’s Baftas as a night of surprises. I couldn’t agree more, but for very different reasons. You see, while the industry darlings gathered in all their finery in Central London for … Continue reading
Couch Potato Pickings: Cocktail, and my top 10 film cocktails
I purchased a cocktail-making masterclass for my partner’s birthday present this year. What a treat! Unfortunately, however, said class ended up being hogged by a giggling hen party with little interest in the chemistry of cocktail-making, but much interest in … Continue reading
Posted in Couch Potato, Films on TV
Tagged 7 and 7, All About Eve, Bette Davis, Bloody Mary, Casablanca, Champagne Cocktail, Chevy Chase, Cinzano, Cocktail, cocktail making masterclass, Fletch, Gibson, Gone With the Wind, hen party, James Bond, Jeff Bridges, John Travolta, Julia Roberts, Manhattan, Margarita, Marilyn Monroe, Martini, Mint Julep, Mojito, My Best Friend's Wedding, Now Voyager, Old Fashioned, Saturday Night Fever, shaken not stirred, Some Like it Hot, The Big Lebowski, The Seven Year Itch, Tom Cruise, White Russian
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Couch Potato Pickings | 10 things I like about Some Like It Hot
1. It marked the peak of Marilyn Monroe’s career and truly shows her off as a great comic actress. 2. It was ahead of its time. The racy story line, men in drag and Marilyn’s revealing costumes were all very … Continue reading
Couch Potato Pickings | The Shining and hotels in the movies
On Sky Modern Greats tonight at 8pm Tonight’s movie about a hotel that exerts an evil influence over its caretaker enjoys cult status as one of the best horror films in film history. Read more about it here. The Overlook … Continue reading
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Tagged A Room with a View, And Then There Were None, Beverly Wilshire, Burgh Island, coming to america, Degli Orafi, Ellangowan Hotel, Hart's War, Hotel del Coronado, Lost in Translation, Maid in Manhattan, Notting Hill, Octopussy, Overlook Hotel, Park Hyatt Tokyo, Pretty Woman, Scent of a Woman, Serendipity, Some Like it Hot, Staney Kubrick, Stanley Hotel, Stephen King, The Out-Of-Towners, The Pink Panther, The Ritz, The Shining, The Tai Lake Palace, The Waldorf-Astoria, The Wicker Man, Vertigo, Vertigo Hotel
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Couch Potato Pickings – Mrs Doubtfire
You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Personally, I think this is Robin Williams’s best film. It’s certainly his most memorable role. To be an actor surely it’s essential to drag up at least once? … Continue reading
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Tagged A Woman, Amanda Bynes, Big Momma's House 2, Boy's Don't Cry, Charlie Chaplin, drag, Dustin Hoffman, Eddie Murphy, Felicity Huffman, Hairspray, Hilary Swank, Jack Lemmon, James Garner, John Travolta, Julie Andrews, Le Jazz Hot, Linda Hunt, Martin Lawrence, Mrs Doubtfire, Norbit, Patrick Swayze, Robin Williams, Shakespeare, She's the Man, Some Like it Hot, Terence Stamp, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar, The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, The Associate, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Year of Living Dangerously, Tim Curry, To Wong Fu, Tootsie, Transamerica, Twelfth Night, Victor/Victoria, Whoopi Goldberg
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