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08-07-2012, 12:25 PM
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RIP Judith Crist (mother of Steve Crist)
Only we old farts will remember her, but she was a very accomplished lady in her own right (more so than her son, actually).
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/08/mo...ies-at-90.html Condolences to Steve. 
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08-07-2012, 12:37 PM
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Very sorry to hear this. Condolences to Steve and the Crist family.
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08-07-2012, 12:58 PM
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Condolences to Steve and the Crist family. Certainly a critic not shy about giving her honest opinion. Very admirable quality indeed. I love the part where she had said a critic must be an egomaniac, but a larger job requirement is passion, perhaps even love for what movies are, do and can be. That is the same feelings those of us film lovers share, at least I know I do.
RIP Ms. Crist
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08-07-2012, 01:15 PM
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My condolances to the Crist family.
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08-07-2012, 01:27 PM
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I remember watching her as a kid on the Today Show, before that clown Gene Shalit took over. She was way classier. But TV had those kind of people on then--William F. Buckley, Dick Cavett, David Susskind, etc. The entertainment programming was largely dreck in those days, but they were not afraid to appear "elitist" on programs meant to engage your mind.
You can scour MSNBC, Fox News and CNN and not find anybody worthy to be compared to the likes of them.
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08-07-2012, 03:05 PM
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Quote:
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. ~ Joseph Conrad A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right. ~ Thomas Paine Don't let anyone tell you that your dreams can't come true. They are only afraid that theirs won't and yours will. ~ Robert Evans The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. ~ George Orwell, 1984.
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08-07-2012, 03:25 PM
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I remember reading an article MANY years ago in SI (I think) about Steve Crist (this may have been when he was at the NYT) and Beyer. His family was originally mortified at his career focus. I am guessing eventually that resolved itself.
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08-07-2012, 03:50 PM
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Here's the article, in fact (SI's archive is down right now--the article is from 1989), but the Google and Yahoo caches seem to have it all:
http://goo.gl/l1Hrf http://goo.gl/FIlYs http://goo.gl/u3KB3 http://goo.gl/sBwUs http://goo.gl/mRVyA http://goo.gl/TzR67 http://goo.gl/sZEs1 http://goo.gl/psmul
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08-07-2012, 04:12 PM
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One of my longtime favorites. I remember being shocked at finding out Steve "is Judith Crist's SON??" Fondly remembered. Condolences to her family and friends.
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#12
08-07-2012, 04:38 PM
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RIP
RIP my prayers go out to the Crist Family
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#13
08-08-2012, 04:39 AM
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The Atlantic tweeted this Crist blurb of GWTW's 30 year anniversary in-theater re-release. My mother dragged me to see it -- it was her favorite film -- and I remember being awed by what a spectacle it was. It was the first movie I ever saw that had an intermission.
"Glorious Excesses" by Judith Crist MARCH 1973 THE difference is, of course, that thirty years later, as with all things, one squints the eye a little, puts all thoughts of the purity of its kitsch aside, and consciously relaxes before being swept up in all the glorious excesses of Gone With the Wind, undoubtedly still the best and most durable piece of popular entertainment to have come off the Hollywood assembly lines. One is still swept up and one wallows (of course in a nostalgic glow) in the pace, the variety of scenes and personalities, the enriched and particularized stereotypes, and the somehow archetypal clichés which only that moviemaking rarity, a showman with taste and intelligence, could have produced out of Margaret Mitchell's total diminution (intellectual as well as structural) of War and Peace. For my moviegoing generation, the Russians' 1968 433-minute film of the Tolstoy work certainly underlined its Americanization and minimization by Selznik et al -- but until then certainly GWTW stood as our spectacular. And therefore there's generational nostalgia, recall of an adolescent wonder at the opulence of cinematic magic (how the liberal-intellectual critics of that day scorned the $4-million cost and the publicity attendant on the star selection -- while in our critical day we scarce batted an eye at Cleopatra's $40 million and its star shenanigans!), scorn of today's lack of glamour and superstars (and who's around to beat the Gable-Leigh-Howard-de Havilland combo, with a supporting cast that would merit stardom in today's talent-scarce market?), and wonderment at the relative realism of character amid the mush-mouth Southernisms and Civil War Weltschmerzisms. All that glows. But so does the film, because it's the stuff our movie dreams were made on -- and mighty durable stuff it proves to be.
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. ~ Joseph Conrad A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right. ~ Thomas Paine Don't let anyone tell you that your dreams can't come true. They are only afraid that theirs won't and yours will. ~ Robert Evans The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. ~ George Orwell, 1984.
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