One of the highlights of "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" is Kate Capshaw's energetic and flashy opening musical number. It's a rousing rendition of Cole Porter's "Anything Goes" sung in Mandarin against an ever-increasing backdrop of complicated musical numbers harkening back to the heyday of famous choreographer and director Busby Berkeley. The song is a classic, and even appeared during the recent musical episode of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds." In "Temple of Doom," it's a stunningly photographed sequence by Steven Spielberg's cinematographer, the late, great Douglas Slocombe with head-spinning camera moves and eye-popping color.
If you watch that sequence, everything seems to be designed to draw your eye to Willie Scott, just as if you were in the club watching her. While there are many reasons for this the main reason you can't take your eyes off of her is very simple: she's got on a super shiny dress.
If you watch that sequence, everything seems to be designed to draw your eye to Willie Scott, just as if you were in the club watching her. While there are many reasons for this the main reason you can't take your eyes off of her is very simple: she's got on a super shiny dress.
- 8/19/2023
- by Eric Vespe
- Slash Film
The young woman who was surreptitiously photographed by Alfred Wertheimer making out with Elvis Presley in 1956 has been identified. She is Barbara Gray and she is finally telling her story about her fleeting, one-day romance with the future king of rock 'n roll. Click here for story and video. For Cinema Retro's original story about Wertheimer's book of unpublished Elvis photos, click here...
- 8/12/2011
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
The Today show featured a fascinating segment that revealed the identity of that lucky woman who was tongue-kissed by Elvis Presley, caught in an iconic photo by Alfred Wetheimer. On Monday morning, Barbara Gray, 75, and photographer Alfred Wertheimer were the interview for Matt Lauer. Ms. Gray was caught in a special once in a lifetime moment with Presley. The photo was taken in June 1956 before Elvis took the stage at the Mosque Theatre in Richmond, Virginia. Ms. Gray told Lauer: "Maybe he had sparks, but I didn't even know who he was," Gray said. "He's a very funny kid, he was very silly and we were running around chasing each other, just being young. He narrowed...
- 8/8/2011
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
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