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panzer the great & terrible	May 6 2009, 12:37 PM
Mouth Breather Posts: 10,340 Group: Members Member #13 Joined: September 3, 2005	Perhaps, but they were also bullies, and bullies pick on gay people. As for having an affair with Dietrich proving that you're hetero, I venture to guess that any affair with Madame D. was very much like a gay affair no matter what sex you were. Strange lady. Say you're a producer interested in money: whose movies would you cut: Antonioni's, which go on forever and mean very little, or Visconti's which tell tight, nuanced stories? Don't know what you mean when you say Cukor had "other issues as a director, " Frank, but IMO the guy who directed Girls About Town, Camille, Holiday, The Philadelphia Story, Born Yesterday, Adam's Rib, The Marrying Kind, A Star Is Born and Heller In Pink Tights was far ahead of the pack. The Indian attack in Heller is one of my favorite sequences ever. You could say Cukor's films are mostly adaptations, but Cukor's graceful style and unique skill with actors lift them above other adaptations. I directed Holiday in college because I had seen the movie and thought it would be easy to do. Turned out, Cukor made it LOOK easy, but it was diabolically hard. Biggest disaster I ever had, well, until my first marriage anyway. Cukor laid a few eggs: Les Girls is one of the worst musicals ever, a tremendous amount of talent wasted; the only comparable flop is Minnelli's Kismet. Still, I rate him among the top 20 American directors. As I said to Jazzguyy when we met yesterday, I value people who can do what I can't do, and Cukor's near the top of the list. You can imitate Griffith, you can imitate Hitchcock, but you can't imitate Cukor.
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