Cynthia Baker


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Hours, The (2002) -- (Movie Clip) Sort Of Like Black Fire Continuing his complex shifts of time and place, director Stephen Daldry gives us Meryl Streep as Clarissa in Manhattan buying flowers (from Eileen Atkins) for a ceremony honoring her AIDS-stricken friend and ex-lover, novelist Richard (Ed Harris), who lives in the famous Triangle Buiiding, with visits to Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf, and Julianne Moore as mom Laura, in 1951 LA, whose son, though we don’t know it yet, is the same Richard, in The Hours, 2002.
Hours, The (2002) -- (Movie Clip) She Would Buy The Flowers Herself Having established settings in Richmond, England, 1923, Los Angeles, 1951, and New York City 2001, director Stephen Daldry working from David Hare’s script based on Michael Cunningham’s novel pivots between Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf with husband Stephen Dillane, Julianne Moore as housewife Laura (John C. Reilly her husband, Jack Rovello her son) and Meryl Streep as New Yorker Clarissa, Allison Janney her partner, the links not yet elaborated, in The Hours, 2002.
Hours, The (2002) -- (Movie Clip) Open, The Best Thing To Do With barely-recognizable Nicole Kidman as writer Virginia Woolf, in her Academy Award-winning performance, directed by Stephen Daldry, from David Hare’s script and Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer Prize-wining novel, the shocking and factual opening of The Hours, 2002, also starring Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore.
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) -- (Movie Clip) Better Than Alice Faye Opening flourish from director Martin Scorsese, young Alice (Mia Bendixsen) with Alice Faye's take on "You'll Never Know," then Mott The Hoople with Ian Hunter's "All The Way From Memphis," grown-up Alice (Ellen Burstyn) with son Tom (Alfred Lutter), in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, 1974.
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) -- (Movie Clip) Where Or When Alice (Ellen Burtsyn) brings Jacobs (Murray Moston) into a Phoenix bar in hopes of getting hired in his competing bar as a singer, her audition medley beginning with Rodgers and Hart's Where Or When, camera by Kent Wakeford, in Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, 1974.
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) -- (Movie Clip) The Bride Screamed Murder First appearance of Jodie Foster (as "Audrey"), after school in Tucson with Tommy (Albert Lutter), who then joins mom Alice (Ellen Burstyn), at the diner where David (Kris Kristofferson) is making his first offer, in Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, 1974.
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) -- (Movie Clip) The Hogs Ate Her! Rough day at the diner, Flo (Diane Ladd) with Mel (Vic Tayback) and Vera (Valerie Curtin), David (Kris Krisotfferson) at the counter, as Alice (Ellen Burstyn) finally warms to her colleagues, in Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, 1974.
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Just Like This Widowed Alice (Ellen Burstyn) with Rita (Lane Bradbury) who's just arrived to tell her that new boyfriend Ben (Harvey Keitel) is her husband, when he shows up, in a bad temper, in Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, 1974.
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) -- (Movie Clip) Sexy For Phoenix At their Phoenix motel, newly-widowed Alice (Ellen Burstyn) arrives in her new job-hunting outfit, her son Tom (Alfred Lutter) acting droll, the first stage on their journey back to her home town, in Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, 1974.
Disco Godfather (1979) -- (Movie Clip) New Drug With Many Names Community do-gooder, ex-cop and LA disco owner Tucker (producer and star Rudy Ray Moore) visits Dr. Mathis (Jerry Jones) at the clinic where his hoop star nephew (Julius Carry) is among the very damaged victims of the new drug PCP, early in Disco Godfather, 1979.
Disco Godfather (1979) -- (Movie Clip) Put Your Weight On It Things not much explained but here Rudy Ray Moore, blue comic, R&B singer and Blaxploitation movie maker appears as ex-cop turned LA disco entrepreneur Tucker Williams, no James Brown but the main act, opening Disco Godfather, 1979.
Disco Godfather (1979) -- (Movie Clip) Watching My Every Move Ex-cop and LA disco owner Tucker (Rudy Ray Moore, also the producer) is rightly worried about the phone repairmen who nobody summoned to his office, before we learn bad things about his new business partner Stinger (Hawthorne James), in Disco Godfather, 1979.

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