Bob Fosse's 'Cabaret' Restored to Original Glory

LOS ANGELES (AP) — It took a stray bit of dirt to scratch the perfection of "Cabaret," and painstaking effort to return the 1972 film to cinematic glory.

The restored "Cabaret" is opening the TCM Classic Film Festival that runs Thursday to Sunday in Los Angeles. Liza Minnelli and Joel Grey, the movie's stars, were scheduled to attend the ceremony marking the movie's 40th anniversary.

Minnelli's turn as cabaret singer Sally Bowles captured a best actress Academy Award and cemented her young stardom. She said making "Cabaret" was a joyful "secret," filmed in Munich and far away from meddling Los Angeles studio bosses.

Other TCM film festival events include a tribute to "Vertigo" star Kim Novak.
TCM said it expects to air the restored "Cabaret" later this year.

most all of the musical numbers existed within the cabaret in the oscar winning film version. the horrific and chilling 'tomorrow belongs to me' was sung in a german beer garden by a member of hitler youth. it absolutely is the most frightening song ever written for and sung in a musical.

The sun on the meadow is summery warm
The stag in the forest runs free
But gathered together to greet the storm
Tomorrow belongs to me

The branch on the linden is leafy and green
The Rhine gives its gold to the sea (Gold to the sea)
But somewhere a glory awaits unseen
Tomorrow belongs to me

The babe in his cradle is closing his eyes
The blossom embraces the bee
But soon says the whisper, arise, arise
Tomorrow belongs to me
Tomorrow belongs to me

Now Fatherland, Fatherland, show us the sign
Your children have waited to see
The morning will come
When the world is mine
Tomorrow belongs to me
Tomorrow belongs to me
Tomorrow belongs to me
Tomorrow belongs to me

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Goodbye, Good Riddance Mr. 13th Century

little ricky dropped out of the republican clown show. that leaves the big bag of wind gingrich and willard. oy.

'Dream House' Gets a D

i just caught this on dvd. what a waste. rachel weitz what were you thinking. well at least you got a new husband out of it (daniel craig). don't bother. it's a  predictable mess. go out and enjoy the beginning of spring.

'Glee' Preview: "Somebody That I Used To Know''

darren criss and matt homer tonight on 'glee'

'Today' Show Stunt Lost Me Permanently

i will not watch nbc's the 'today show' again. not that i was a 'regular' viewer. why? sarah palin of course. her extended guest spot, far from co-host was an insult. her babble babble babble is more than i want to handle. in all honesty i did not watch a single second of it. did i need to watch to critique. no way! she has been on the tube enough, too much, since 2008 for anyone to make a good call on either side. all i can say 'today' is you betcha i'm out of here for good.

Time Mag Futuristic Fashion Piece with Michelle Dockery

i'll do just about anything nowadays to post michele dockery. this pics and this video showed up on my ipad time mag app.it was from a special fashion issue. it featured ms dockery. so now i feature it. it's all so simple really.

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wow! this is amazing. must be sending some of the latter days upside down. these young adults are so brave. this is difficult for most kids. for mormons? damn i admire them. hey willard aka mitt what do you think?

'The Client List' Tonight on Lifetime

i mean really...how trashy does this seem to be. now i am not adverse to good trash. 'valley of the dolls' anyone? but that became 'camp' trash. so it became fun. 

'the client list' however, costars the devine loretta devine so i have to give the first episode a shot. then again it may turn out to be good trash or guilty pleasure trash. we'll see. lifting 'hey big spender' from ''sweet charity'' is clever. and it proves hewitt sings as well as shirley macclaine did in that film. not well at all.

sunday at 10 is becoming a real crowded field. this week we have 'the good wife', 'gcb', 'game of thrones', 'the borgias', 'the killing', 'csi:miami' and now this. thank the tv gods that the cable series offer alternative viewing and there are dvr's and on-demand.

Go Israel!!!

my mid-east trip was real good. exhausting but worth the time and effort. still weakened from my cancer treatments there were difficult moments. but to arrive in israel and spend time there was worth any effort i may have needed to muster up. it was this year in jerusalem. always israel!

starting soon...real soon...this site will have 'may be only suitable for adults' disclaimer which you will need to accept to enter. the times they are a changing' here. i do this so as not to offend anyone. i do not know what offends anyone. i only know what offends me. like republicans. they offend me. i would like to be warned when entering a republican site. prepare myself for their pornography of thoughts and words. i'd say ideas but i have no time for time traveling back centuries. 

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'Scandal' Premiers Tonight on ABC

i've always liked kerry washington so i'm giving this new shondra rhimes series a go....

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Ali MacGraw Turns 73: WTF!

hey i know we are all getting older but...ali turned 73 this past sunday. i thought it was an april fool thing. it wasn't. so happy belated birthday ali.

Kate Winslet says luck helped land 'Titanic' role

Kate Winslet would like to use the occasion of Titanic's re-release Wednesday — an event she welcomes even though she says it's "profoundly weird" — to clarify some of the lore about the 1997 blockbuster that has trailed her like a wayward dinghy.

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  By Alastair Grant, AP

  Kate Winslet says she and Leonardo DiCaprio became close during the filming of 'Titanic,' and remain close friends.

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By Alastair Grant, AP

Kate Winslet says she and Leonardo DiCaprio became close during the filming of 'Titanic,' and remain close friends.

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She did not stalk director James Cameron to win the part of Rose, the defiant teen bride-to-be who found true love aboard the doomed ship with Leonardo DiCaprio's scruffy artist, Jack.

Articles that appeared when the epic romance originally opened described the British actress as having waged an aggressive campaign, flooding the filmmaker with phone calls and letters until he relented.

• INTERACTIVE: Four actors return to 'Titanic'

Not so, she says from London, where the 3-D version had its premiere last week.

"I wouldn't do that," Winslet, 36, insists. "It's not my style."

She does, however, own up to sending Cameron a bouquet of roses with a note signed "From Your Rose" three days after her audition in Los Angeles. "Jim took a risk in casting me," she says. "A lot of my contemporaries —Uma Thurman, Gwyneth Paltrow,Winona Ryder— were much more likely candidates. I got lucky."

Meanwhile, Cameron feels he was the lucky one to have found the perfect Rose.

"Kate had a powerful intelligence and strength of personality," he says. "And a vulnerability. People have a glossy memory about the film, but her character is at the brink of suicide at one point. I knew whoever I cast would have to carry the movie on her shoulders, although Kate did feel a bit lost and overwhelmed by the magnitude."

Winslet also brushes aside any disparaging remarks she made about Cameron's temperament during the grueling shoot.

"A lot of it was blown out of proportion," she says. "Jim Cameron is a feisty man and a perfectionist but also absolutely brilliant. I'm not going to pretend it was easy for any of us. The reality is, nothing has been harder since then. It was an extreme version of moviemaking."

Still, she is delighted to relive the experience again on the big screen, seeing it for only the third time: "I saw it twice 15 years ago. I don't own copies of my own movies." Fans will be glad to hear that she and DiCaprio, 37, have stayed close, even though his work on Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained kept him from joining her in London.

"That is the only reason for him not being here — and not being here for me," Winslet says. "We really do talk a lot on the phone about life, love and work. I can't imagine not having that."

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Kate Winslet considers her role in “Titanic” a bit of a shipwreck.

As the 1997 Oscar-winning Best Picture embarks on a 3D voyage to theaters, Winslet remains critical of her performance in the epic romance that set sail her career in Hollywood.

“My American accent could’ve been much better. My acting could’ve been a lot better,” she said to MTV News.

Nevertheless, Winslet, who co-starred with Leonardo DiCaprio, was nominated for an Oscar for her performance as Rose.

And the film grossed more than $600 million, making it America’s second highest-grossing box-office hit.

The 36-year-old actress has received countless award nominations since her 15-year voyage through Hollywood after the epic romance’s debut on the big screen. She was the youngest person to earn six Academy Award nominations and she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for the 2008 film “The Reader.”

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