Don’t miss the ending, when a girl gets turned into a spinning top:
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Open thread 5/9/2025 — 14 Comments
At 3:04 there is a tight shot of the ballerina’s head and eye focus repeatedly snapping into the forward position. She’s traveling across the stage then, but at 3:12 we see it again when she’s not traveling.
Hitchcock’s Torn Curtain has a scene where the prima ballerina is doing this and as she spots her gaze, she sees the fugitive Paul Newman.
Overall, it’s one of his worst films. I suffered through the 2+ hours a couple years ago. I haven’t seen the interview, but Julie Andrews gave one in which she said that she and Paul Newman strong armed Hitch on changing a number of scenes. And then said that in retrospect, “We didn’t do Hitch any favors.”
I was unable to quickly find a video clip of the Torn Curtain scene, but did see that the older film, The Red Shoes, features this same thing in one of it’s famous scenes.
Instead of celebrating accomplished young women, like those in the video, the Marxists are celebrating sloppily dressed, fat black women. The one in New York got much publicity, but apparently there are others.
While it is not allowed to have statues of Thomas Jefferson or Teddy Roosevelt, among others, in New York City, a 12 ft bronze statue of a random fat black woman just standing there is certainly permitted.
The new statue in Times Square is named Grounded in the Stars. The puropse of it, according to it’s creator Thomas J Price, is to be a “stark contrast” to two statues in Duffy Square of Father Francis Duffy and George M. Cohan, and a way of “disrupting traditional ideas” of what a “triumphant figure” is.
@TommyJay: Hitchcock’s Torn Curtain … Overall, it’s one of his worst films.
Ain’t that the truth. Paul Newman and Julie Andrews as leads with Hitchcock? Sounded like a natural.
Still even bad Hitchcock is Hitchcock and I do appreciate that earnest 60s Technicolor aesthetic.
he apparently didn’t do a great job adapting leon uris’s topaz, which was largely a true story, about an unnamed agency, clearly the cia, where John Forsyth, was the liason to a french intel figure, who helped uncover the missiles in Cuba,
because golitsyn was the source of the Soviet spy ring around de Gaulle, well one had to dismiss the whole thing, the whole black legend about Angleton, which is who is who forsyths character is based on,
apparently not just the ivies are involved is it the qatari pipeline, probably,
Miguel: have to disagree about Hitchcock’s “Topaz”. Very underrated movie with a great cast. Frederick Stafford would have made a pretty good Bond if he had been able to shed his continental accent (he was born Friedrich Strobel von Stein in Czechoslovakia in 1928). Stafford had a Ph.D. in chemistry and worked in the pharmaceutical industry before getting into acting, mostly in Eurospy movies of the 1960s-1970s.
Good ole’ Jen…Putasockinit….
Pathetic.
(Truth is she used to lie a whole lot better…)
yes he played deveraux he would have made a good agent mathis, if not bond, deveraux was supposed to be phillippe vosjoli, a French intelligence operative,
whenever communism is even tangentially involved a certain cohort of film critics, they seem to disdain the subject, like any time the Black list is brought up, the notion that one communism wasn’t present, and it’s not bad anyways,
thats the TCM contingent, that has that attitude,
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At 3:04 there is a tight shot of the ballerina’s head and eye focus repeatedly snapping into the forward position. She’s traveling across the stage then, but at 3:12 we see it again when she’s not traveling.
Hitchcock’s Torn Curtain has a scene where the prima ballerina is doing this and as she spots her gaze, she sees the fugitive Paul Newman.
Overall, it’s one of his worst films. I suffered through the 2+ hours a couple years ago. I haven’t seen the interview, but Julie Andrews gave one in which she said that she and Paul Newman strong armed Hitch on changing a number of scenes. And then said that in retrospect, “We didn’t do Hitch any favors.”
I was unable to quickly find a video clip of the Torn Curtain scene, but did see that the older film, The Red Shoes, features this same thing in one of it’s famous scenes.
Instead of celebrating accomplished young women, like those in the video, the Marxists are celebrating sloppily dressed, fat black women. The one in New York got much publicity, but apparently there are others.
Statues Of Random Fat Black Women Popping Up Worldwide
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/statues-random-fat-black-women-popping-worldwide
While it is not allowed to have statues of Thomas Jefferson or Teddy Roosevelt, among others, in New York City, a 12 ft bronze statue of a random fat black woman just standing there is certainly permitted.
The new statue in Times Square is named Grounded in the Stars. The puropse of it, according to it’s creator Thomas J Price, is to be a “stark contrast” to two statues in Duffy Square of Father Francis Duffy and George M. Cohan, and a way of “disrupting traditional ideas” of what a “triumphant figure” is.
Adulterous Global Warming strikes again!
“Ice Surprises”—
https://www.aei.org/articles/ice-surprises/
…as the “Biden” administration redefines “expertise”…
“To Rebut Reports of His Senility, Biden Hires Press Flack Who Helped Hide Lloyd Austin’s Hospital Stay”—
https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/worried-by-reports-of-his-senility-biden-hires-press-flack-who-helped-hide-lloyd-austins-hospital-stay-from-white-house/
…and Victor D. Hanson, waxing Socratic, tries to do the impossible: ask ALL the right questions in a single column:
“Would the left finally explain the inexplicable?”—
http://jewishworldreview.com/0525/hanson050925.php
H/T Powerline blog (for all).
you shall not speak heresy against the sky dragon, barry
if only blofeld had started in the lucrative field of philanthropy in publishing,
https://www.malone.news/p/who-is-casey-means-md
@TommyJay: Hitchcock’s Torn Curtain … Overall, it’s one of his worst films.
Ain’t that the truth. Paul Newman and Julie Andrews as leads with Hitchcock? Sounded like a natural.
Still even bad Hitchcock is Hitchcock and I do appreciate that earnest 60s Technicolor aesthetic.
he apparently didn’t do a great job adapting leon uris’s topaz, which was largely a true story, about an unnamed agency, clearly the cia, where John Forsyth, was the liason to a french intel figure, who helped uncover the missiles in Cuba,
because golitsyn was the source of the Soviet spy ring around de Gaulle, well one had to dismiss the whole thing, the whole black legend about Angleton, which is who is who forsyths character is based on,
too easy a target
https://twitchy.com/dougp/2025/05/09/rep-eric-swalwell-trips-all-over-dem-lawfare-while-getting-triggered-about-doj-probe-of-letitia-james-n2412574
https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2025/05/09/psaki-bombjens-new-show-hits-the-skids-as-she-continues-to-lie-to-america-n2188882 smallest audience evarr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb6ucBdI8w4
no the news is not reasuring on one front,
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/pakistani-drones-sighted-in-jammu-samba-pathankot-
sector-what-we-know-sofar/articleshow/121035961.cms
https://www.dawn.com/live/pakistan-india-tensions
the times of course says otherwise,
https://nypost.com/2025/05/05/us-news/corrupt-venezuelan-officials-facilitated-tren-de-aragua-gangs-reign-of-terror-in-us/
more defunding please,
https://x.com/EYakoby/status/1920856774044680487
apparently not just the ivies are involved is it the qatari pipeline, probably,
Miguel: have to disagree about Hitchcock’s “Topaz”. Very underrated movie with a great cast. Frederick Stafford would have made a pretty good Bond if he had been able to shed his continental accent (he was born Friedrich Strobel von Stein in Czechoslovakia in 1928). Stafford had a Ph.D. in chemistry and worked in the pharmaceutical industry before getting into acting, mostly in Eurospy movies of the 1960s-1970s.
Good ole’ Jen…Putasockinit….
Pathetic.
(Truth is she used to lie a whole lot better…)
yes he played deveraux he would have made a good agent mathis, if not bond, deveraux was supposed to be phillippe vosjoli, a French intelligence operative,
whenever communism is even tangentially involved a certain cohort of film critics, they seem to disdain the subject, like any time the Black list is brought up, the notion that one communism wasn’t present, and it’s not bad anyways,
thats the TCM contingent, that has that attitude,