Comments on: A story of Hollywood... as you always knew it would be.

A story of Hollywood... as you always knew it would be.

Joe Beese — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:55:20 -0800

This is the story of Lylah Clare. Overnight, she became a star. Over many nights, she became a legend.

Pt. 1, Pt. 2, Pt. 3, Pt. 4, Pt. 5, Pt. 6, Pt. 7, Pt. 8, Pt. 9, Pt. 10, Pt. 11, Pt. 12, Pt. 13

By: Chocolate Pickle

Chocolate Pickle — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:10:26 -0800

OHNOES! You killed Geocities!

By: fuzzypantalones

fuzzypantalones — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:28:18 -0800

wow. that went down fast. oh yeah, geocities.

By: Joe Beese

Joe Beese — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:31:30 -0800

You killed Geocities! HA HA HA HA HA! Well, it was a lengthy recap of the movie - emphasizing its extraordinary WTF? quotient.

By: Joe Beese

Joe Beese — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:33:11 -0800

Google cache

By: tommasz

tommasz — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:50:32 -0800

The first rule of Linking to Geocities is don't link to Geocities.

By: terranova

terranova — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:07:23 -0800

Terrific high camp. But I can no longer watch movies without desperately wishing a penanggalan would fly into the frame and eat all the cast members.

By: stbalbach

stbalbach — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:10:50 -0800

The last days of the studio system were not pretty. Funny how self-referential it is. The studio system was bad. The movie about the bad studio system is also bad. So much badness must make for goodness. 1967 was the year it all blew open with Bonnie and Clyde and The Graduate with the arrival of taboo-shattering sex and violence on screen. Old style films after that were self mockeries.

By: flipyourwig

flipyourwig — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:19:14 -0800

Kim Novak. Mmmmmmm.

By: chococat

chococat — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:40:09 -0800

I love Kim Novak. Tangentially, Vertigo is one of my all time faves. Particularly for how awesome she is and how creepy Jimmy Stewart is as he's forcing her to change her hair and laboriously selecting her outfits so she looks exactly like the dead woman he loves. She's going through the motions but when she tries to protest his re-making her into his perfect woman, he responds with the awesome argument, "Judy, please! It can't matter to you!" Ha! She's awesome.

By: chococat

chococat — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:40:35 -0800

Also, awesome.

By: jettloe

jettloe — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:41:01 -0800

Wow - what a find! Thank you thank you thank you! :) (though agree with Hitchcock that that Kim Novak just about ruined Vertigo = film called for an actress that could project intelligence = not Novak's strong suit - looking forward to seeing what she does in this pic).

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:10:51 -0800

My favorite moment in Vertigo is when Kim Novak grabs her hair, shakes her head and yells: No! No! No! No! Me and a friend would sometime stop whatever we were doing, look at each other, grab our hair, shake our heads and yell: No! No! No! No! Sometimes in public places. No one ever stared... funny creatures, humans.

By: brujita

brujita — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:38:48 -0800

This was one of Movieline's Bad Movies We Love sixteen years ago.

By: From Bklyn

From Bklyn — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:25:02 -0800

Metafilter: squat and wait.

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:49:52 -0800

I'm glad I and my friend aren't the only ones who think Vertigo's awesomely terrible. We felt kinda bad for ruining the movie for a lot of people by laughing at it at a midnight showing a few years ago, but really... it's hysterical. Like the court scene. What the hell, Hitchcock, what the hell?

By: Bageena

Bageena — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:41:28 -0800

You guys have been feeding me so many bad, awesome movies lately. When the surely-upcoming divorce rolls down the line for me after having made my wife watch first Troll 2 and then The Room, I'll have you guys to blame. As long as you keep feeding me stuff like this though, I'll be happy.