Archive through July 6 2006

[Shelley Dziedzic]

I watched the original Sabrina last night with Audrey Hepburn and Bogart and was surprised to see the French Line's Liberte prominently featured in the plotline, steaming up the Hudson looking snappier than I had remembered her.

 

[Grant Carman]

I was watching a show on WW2 in colour a couple of nights ago, and when they showed an aircraft carrier being towed up the Hudson, after being seriously damaged in the South Pacific, it showed the Normandie lying on her side after she burned. They actually mentioned her, and then showed another shot of her. From the view on the carrier, she didn't look that badly damaged.

 

[bob cook]

Not sure if this is the proper place to post, but while reading a biography of David O. Selznick many years ago (probably 30!), it stated that Alfred Hitchcock originally came to the United States to make a film called Titanic. If I remember correctly, they took some of the description from the script being developed, in which Hitchcock plans a camera shot showing the baker creating a massive cake, paying meticulous attention to decorating it even as the decks began to slope downward.