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Post by charliesgirl7681 on Apr 18, 2010 21:44:20 GMT -5
PBS has Great Romances of the 20th Century: Tracy and Hepburn. Its almost over, I've never seen this before.
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Post by CrazyForKate on Apr 18, 2010 22:19:50 GMT -5
Any chance someone recorded it? And how accurate was it? Did they interview anyone special?
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Post by courtneymarie on Apr 18, 2010 22:31:18 GMT -5
Oh I wish I could have seen it... ...if you could let us know how was it? Court
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Post by Tracy Lord on Apr 19, 2010 17:50:29 GMT -5
Oh no I missed it.
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Post by Judy on Apr 19, 2010 18:10:05 GMT -5
I know nothing about it - or if I did, I've forgotten. Which either means that it was bad...or that I'm getting old.
Anyway, for anyone living local to the NYC area, the web site for WLIW-21 (a PBS station) shows that it will be repeated on 5/25 at 10:30 pm and 5/29 at 3:30 am.
Don't know how accurate the site it, but take it for what it's worth.
Judy
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Post by carol on Apr 20, 2010 14:03:53 GMT -5
I missed it too Since I live in Portugal, we don't get the PBS channel..
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Post by charliesgirl7681 on Apr 20, 2010 19:15:51 GMT -5
I caught the last few mins. I was so mad because there was nothing on and I had been channel surfing for the last 30 mins and then find this right at the end. It always happens that way doesn't it?
I think it was a hour show. It seemed pretty correct, not real in depth just talking about their films and how/when they got together. Tracy was never faithful but Kate stood by him blah blah. They interviewed the director of GWCTD and Joe whatshisface, the guy that was with them when they first met on the MGM lot. Kate was on also I've seen the interview before. She has on a black turtle neck with a red vest (narrows it down right?). She looks older maybe the late 1980's early 90's? She was talking about ST.
The thing that drove me CRAZY was that the narrator kept calling Kate Kit. "It was then that Kit did this Kit did that....etc." Wasn't that what they called her mother?
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Post by CrazyForKate on Apr 20, 2010 19:19:51 GMT -5
Kit? Okay, that is weird. Her mother was Kit as you have noted...Garson Kanin said Kate never went by Kit in her life.
Joe Mankiewicz (hope that was spelled right) was with them when they met, and produced Woman of the Year (and worked with KH on other occasions).
I'm pretty sure that the interviews you mention are from The Spencer Tracy Legacy, the program she did around 1986...the one where she reads the letter.
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Post by charliesgirl7681 on Apr 20, 2010 19:26:31 GMT -5
I was pretty sure Kate never went by Kit but I thought maybe Tracy called her that. They said he had many names for her. The program also said she officially retired in 62' which confused me a little. I always thought she went on hiatus.
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Post by HollywoodHepcat on Apr 21, 2010 0:59:35 GMT -5
I'm perpetually late to the party, it seems, but I come bearing good will and a bundt cake for our hostess. It's cinnamon-swirl, charliesgirl. [AHHH, I forgot your name again! Girl, put yo' name in the banner or put da lime in da coconut and drink 'em bot' up.] I first saw this hackneyed excuse for a documentary during the embryonic stages of what's most commonly referred to as "Katharine Hepburn obsession." Nary a day would go by that I wouldn't blather on about how much I wanted her nose, or why it wasn't that impractical to raise a baby leopard in Buffalo suburbia (I was 10 and an idiot). So, naturally, I was tickled pink when my grandmother had given me a VHS copy of "Great Romances of the Twentieth Century: Tracy and Hepburn & Another Couple It Might Have Been Paul and Joanne?" It's a hilarious thing to own now, but back then this program blew my prepubescent little mind. In the same way that Mary Tyler Moore had taught me the definition of "spooning," I learned all about alcoholism and adultery from Spencer Bonaventure Tracy. Fortunately for me, the library had in-stock a few of the less-slandering KH books, and I immediately had my mother check them out. Ergo, I was able to form my own opinion about their relationship. But aside from teaching me some of the facts of life, this faux docu is pretty much pointless. It translates like something out of Edwards: if Spencer wasn't boozing it up and catching side-tail, then he and Kate were all, "TROLOLOLO TWO HEARTS THAT BEAT AS ONE COME TO ME MAH LUVAH AND WE SHALL MAKE SWEET MUSIC UNDER THE HEMLOCK TREE OF LIFE." What even.
"Kit" was reserved for the first KH, so that's clearly made-up. God, if Freud had heard this sh-information, he would've had a field day. And, yes, Rachael, they used the same footage from the ST Legacy (also a PBS production). Just a copy and paste job, with a stuffy-nosed English guy narrating. Skip it.
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Post by HollywoodHepcat on Apr 21, 2010 6:45:02 GMT -5
HAHAHA OH HELL. Now I'm actually picturing Kate saying that, but in real-life CAPSLOCK. Help, it's cold and lonely here.
My brain, what is it?
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Post by dreamer on Apr 22, 2010 1:47:19 GMT -5
I'm perpetually late to the party, it seems, but I come bearing good will and a bundt cake for our hostess. It's cinnamon-swirl, charliesgirl. [AHHH, I forgot your name again! Girl, put yo' name in the banner or put da lime in da coconut and drink 'em bot' up.] I first saw this hackneyed excuse for a documentary during the embryonic stages of what's most commonly referred to as "Katharine Hepburn obsession." Nary a day would go by that I wouldn't blather on about how much I wanted her nose, or why it wasn't that impractical to raise a baby leopard in Buffalo suburbia (I was 10 and an idiot). So, naturally, I was tickled pink when my grandmother had given me a VHS copy of "Great Romances of the Twentieth Century: Tracy and Hepburn & Another Couple It Might Have Been Paul and Joanne?" It's a hilarious thing to own now, but back then this program blew my prepubescent little mind. In the same way that Mary Tyler Moore had taught me the definition of "spooning," I learned all about alcoholism and adultery from Spencer Bonaventure Tracy. Fortunately for me, the library had in-stock a few of the less-slandering KH books, and I immediately had my mother check them out. Ergo, I was able to form my own opinion about their relationship. But aside from teaching me some of the facts of life, this faux docu is pretty much pointless. It translates like something out of Edwards: if Spencer wasn't boozing it up and catching side-tail, then he and Kate were all, "TROLOLOLO TWO HEARTS THAT BEAT AS ONE COME TO ME MAH LUVAH AND WE SHALL MAKE SWEET MUSIC UNDER THE HEMLOCK TREE OF LIFE." What even.
"Kit" was reserved for the first KH, so that's clearly made-up. God, if Freud had heard this sh-information, he would've had a field day. And, yes, Rachael, they used the same footage from the ST Legacy (also a PBS production). Just a copy and paste job, with a stuffy-nosed English guy narrating. Skip it. You are so right Amber. You know before the Internet - was always envious of all of you in the US for your closer access to all the info. But now with this near neighborhood - well am glad that I didn't have the access. Could as you build my own picture of Kate without all the disturbing images every Katzenjammer Kids wants to draw of her.
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