tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006108502645191096.post1864980320191246732..comments2024-03-28T18:32:38.243-04:00Comments on Poseidon's Underworld: "Yours"... Truly!Poseidon3http://www.blogger.com/profile/10465785002285422594noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006108502645191096.post-82190800331682445562020-07-03T14:54:40.160-04:002020-07-03T14:54:40.160-04:00I was 5 in 1955, and my Mom and Dad were watching ...I was 5 in 1955, and my Mom and Dad were watching this guy named Liberace play the piano on TV. My mother said she wanted me to play the piano just like him. I told her after 15 to 20 minute that there was something weird about that guy. My mom kept asking me what it was that I didn't like about him, and all I could tell her was 'that there was something I didn't like about him '.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04700462722126915255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006108502645191096.post-17826672189992330282013-08-17T13:56:31.199-04:002013-08-17T13:56:31.199-04:00I Love Lurene Tuttle
She was the owner of Mr Chic...I Love Lurene Tuttle <br />She was the owner of Mr Chicken's boarding house in the Don Knotts film... And we all loved the color she picked out for Norma Bates funeral dress: periwinkle bluePantheon Zeushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11990697055019976633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006108502645191096.post-35241693211322312802013-08-16T20:17:32.391-04:002013-08-16T20:17:32.391-04:00I'll just ditto the comments here...I can'...I'll just ditto the comments here...I can't bear to look at Liberace -- pasty, soft, nasal, doughy...chills up my spine of the wrong kind. However, I adore the supporting cast, from Dru and Malone down to Platt and Demarest. And it's a pretty film to look at. Other than that, I'll grab the clicker and fast forward OUT of the Liberace scenes. The first gay joke I ever heard was about Liberace, my grandfather told me: "What do you call Liberace in a men's room? 'Stranger in Paradise'." Oh Lord, I hope that wasn't offensive to anybody, but I'll take the rap for it. <br />Narcisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05145756558278365203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006108502645191096.post-64800519056490315252013-08-16T15:41:06.299-04:002013-08-16T15:41:06.299-04:00Thank you my three faithful friends for sharing yo...Thank you my three faithful friends for sharing your own thoughts and recollections about this film!<br /><br />Sometimes I come upon pics of youngish Liberace, poolside and bare-chested (some of these are located elsewhere on my site) and he was in remarkable shape with a hairy chest, but I can just never get past that hideously nasal drone of a speaking voice he had and the creepy smile... all of which got worse as he aged (and I won't even mention the "hair.")Poseidon3https://www.blogger.com/profile/10465785002285422594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006108502645191096.post-56965135463772337402013-08-15T11:05:55.390-04:002013-08-15T11:05:55.390-04:00I remember sitting in slack jawed horror as this o...I remember sitting in slack jawed horror as this opus ran one day on TCM and wondering how the film makers could have possibly viewed the rushes of this stinkeroo and not realized from day one what a hopeless task they had set for themselves to try and turn Liberace into a movie star.<br /><br />The movie does have a few pluses. The marvelous Malone, who as you do Poseidon I adore, the lush production design, slick cinematography, the beautiful costumes and one of my favorite character actresses Lurene Tuttle who always gave lovely performances. But it's all for naught when Liberace stripped of all his flash is on screen, a black sink hole from which the picture can't recover.joel65913https://www.blogger.com/profile/14526657073681774683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006108502645191096.post-60100153413848101182013-08-14T19:41:03.287-04:002013-08-14T19:41:03.287-04:00Thank you for the Cliff Notes version! It is much ...Thank you for the Cliff Notes version! It is much more fun and enjoyable to read this post than to sit through the movie. To be frank, I would rather have my urethra catheterized with spikes thank see "Lee" as the "romantic lead" in any film offering much less sit through this again! Also, Michael and Matt ruined him for me two months ago!<br /><br />However, I'm now hot after Nichol and "The Man from Laramie!" I can't wait to see that.<br /><br />XXOO<br /><br />NotFelixUngerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04812102754911699275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006108502645191096.post-55445817271535886352013-08-14T15:46:33.093-04:002013-08-14T15:46:33.093-04:00Like you, I only saw this film recently (TCM playe...Like you, I only saw this film recently (TCM played it a month or two ago)and wonder how anyone who knows me hadn't clued me in on what a terrible/terrific delight this film is.<br />All I kept thinking about is how much I would have loved seeing it in a theater when I had a chance when it screened at a camp film festival many years ago.<br />But better late than never, right? <br />Your post captures my exact thought on everything that's so cringe-inducing about the film, yet makes it so compelling. I just kept watching it wondering how anybody with a brain cell in their heads ever thought Liberace could be straight. Even in fiction you can't buy it! Thanks for letting me relive this awful(ly good) film with all your factoids, backstory, and pics I've never seen! Excellent job!Ken Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04940648971296673233noreply@blogger.com