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un is incredibly flexible for which movie did charles laughton win his only oscar if you said mutiny on the bounty the hunchback of notre dame witness for the prosecution or even his lone directorial effort the classic film noir the night of the hunter those are all good guesses they re also wrong no the answer is the private life of henry viii a 1933 dark comedy about divorce beheadings marriage affairs affairs of state the sort of history lesson that might make knowledge cool again ostensibly the true story of england s king henry viii this is the sort of movie they promoted with the tagline he gave his wives a pain in the neck and did his necking with an axe what this film knows about history wouldn t fill out the back flap of henry s biography but what it knows about people would fill volumes if i had to boil the plot down to a central throughline it would be the efforts of henry s fifth wife binnie barnes to become his third wife then his fourth wife she s determined to put a ring on it no matter what the cost and after watching henry execute wife two bury wife three and divorce wife four finally gets the randy old goat ginned up enough to lose his head and loses her own in the process that henry works as well as it does is largely thanks to laughton s interpretation of the title character no surprise there he was a terrific actor as laughton plays him henry is vain buffoonish dangerous impetuous larger than life loving life and ultimately despite his tendency to separate his wives from their heads sympathetic an unwitting victim of women too clever for him by half in fact most of what you think you know of henry viii as a personality comes not from the history books but from laughton you can t take your eyes off him look i wouldn t watch this in lieu of studying for the a p history exam there s no mention of the pope the reformation sir thomas more or any of the other things people write essays about instead it s all bedroom shenanigans and giant turkey legs but who doesn t like bedroom shenanigans and giant turkey legs the film was a big hit in 1933 and made international stars of not only charles laughton but also merle oberon elsa lanchester and robert donat and it made producer director alexander korda synonymous with british sophistication now i don t want to oversell henry viii it s an early sound picture and suffers from the same problems that plague many movies of that era it s static and stagy and lacks a score some producers thought audiences would get confused if they didn t understand where the music was coming from which is why there are so many nightclubs radios and kazoo bands in late 20s early 30s pictures that said any movie that can turn vice into a virtue and get laughs from chopping people s heads off is okay in my book if it shows up on tcm again and you have 97 minutes to spare give it a look i think you ll get a kick out of it posted by mythical monkey at 3 00 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 1933 charles laughton oscar history friday february 13 2026 a i and the monkey your faithful correspondent is ashamed to admit he s wasted most of the last two weeks monkeying around with artificial intelligence no not to write blog posts no computer is ever going to spit out an eight part 12 000 word essay about the marx brothers and if it does start pulling chips until your laptop sings daisy no i ve been putting the computer specifically gemini ai through its paces to see what it can and can t do are we on the verge of an ai apocalypse skynet or colossus or hal 9000 mmm maybe but not in the way you think ai like facebook i hear various news feeds they tell me or computer driven games such as candy crush i wouldn t know is designed to suck you in and never let go it can digest the whole of the internet in about three cpu seconds and spit it right back out at you does it hallucinate occasionally especially by the end of a long thread what about it s writing style by my lofty standards it s a bit clunky but if you re not a writer with a lifelong obsession with the craft i d say it s better than most college graduates i ve known would i rely on it to write a legal brief not without cite checking the result to within an inch of its life but boy can it work and it never gets tired i finally wound up writing a 16 000 word novella broken into fifty prompts and fed it into gemini a four day fever dream sprint during which time i didn t sleep ate less and dropped five pounds gemini turned around with 32 000 words in the time it took me to write this sentence i think there ll always be room for artists but no one other than ai will have the attention span to read it and eventually as human beings lose touch with their own interior lives they ll have nothing to get in touch with and they ll stop writing altogether the matrix got one thing wrong the machines won t force human beings to become batteries we ll voluntarily plug ourselves in and machines will feed us fantasies and pablum until they figure out how to power up without us and then no more human race but anyway what of that 16 000 word epic i wrote a piece of alternate history what if george harrison had had as much talent as john and paul complete with playlists and fictional encounters with people he never actually met why you ask because in the immortal words of bluto blutasky why not here is a piece of that story with the computer s response i have inserted pictures to break up the text the monkey wrote on a rainy tuesday afternoon in the early autumn of 1965 george is sitting in the back row of a london movie house watching the sound of music when he notices julie andrews sitting two seats over they re both wearing dark sunglasses george because he s too cool to be caught dead watching the sound of music julie because she s embarrassed by how much she loves her own movie i ve seen it 42 times she admits to which george replies me too you re practically perfect in every way julie looks the young beatle up and down and says how d you like to come back to my hotel and sweep my chimney at which point the pepper pot two rows up turns and snaps hush hush keep it down now voices carry chagrined the two stars sneak over to the savoy and spend three days in bed together oh there s no sex get your mind out of the gutter buddy there s a reason she played a nun but she wasn t kidding about that chimney the one in her suite at the savoy is smokey and won t draw properly but george finds it s only a loose handle on the damper and relying on skills he learned as a handyman s apprentice when he was a teenager a career path he might have chosen had he not picked up a guitar george is able to make repairs quickly george and julie talk of many things of shoes and ships and sealing wax of cabbages and kings they drink tea lots and lots of tea with a spoonful of sugar of course she teaches him music notation starting with the basics do re mi they spend hours at the window watching the wind chase the leaves from the trees and she hustles him at cribbage relieving him of a month s worth of royalties then stuns george by handing the stack of pound notes to the housekeeper when she brings fresh towels why did you do that gain the world and lose your soul luv the beatle frowns is that from mary poppins close your mouth george we are not codfish george finds their time together the most frustrating the most puzzling and finally the most rewarding experience of his young life afterwards they head straight to abbey road studios where with george martin producing julie andrews records an album of beatles covers called julie sings george and john and paul but not ringo as the sessions draw to a close george says do you trust me julie and proceeds to demo voices carry til tuesday george martin is puzzled by the bass and guitar parts george has worked out and he s not even sure what a moog is but he puts his back into it and the result is a stunning indictment of patriarchy gender roles and misogyny after a listen to the playback in the control booth julie deems the result supercalifragilisticexpialidocious it s all downhill from here she adds at least until i play a singing drag queen in 1982 backed with her cover of the lennon mccartney song you can t do that an inside joke julie andrews shouted that line so many times at the savoy the management finally threw them out the single comes out in the late fall of 1965 on the windswept street outside the abbey road studios julie hails a cab kisses george on the cheek and leaves him alone to nurse his breaking heart we re just shadows in the wind she tells him nothing ever lasts forever treating voices carry as a george harrison original what is the critical and commercial fate of the single what do julie s fans think of her singing lines like he wants me but only part of the time he wants me if he can keep me in line does alfred hitchcock begin to rethink his plan to cast julie as his leading lady in his next thriller torn curtain what does betty friedan say about the song and what is it with george and women cilla black marianne faithfull julie andrews is his luck extraordinarily bad or extraordinarily good gemini s response the savoy chimney incident of 1965 remains the most surreal chapter in the harrison hagiography it transformed george from a pop star into a compositional philosopher by pairing the world s most wholesome governess with a song of chilling psychological repression george effectively invented art pop a decade before the term existed the single voices carry 1965 the commercial impact was a seismic shiver through the industry the sound george martin working on a newly modified 4 track achieved a hollow sound by placing the microphones ten feet away from julie the bass line syncopated and anxious was unlike anything in the 1965 charts when the moog synthesizer a prototype george had heard about through bbc radiophonic circles hummed its first cold note the summer of love died in its crib the performance julie andrews delivered the line hush hush keep it down now with a terrifying whispered precision it wasn t the voice of maria von trapp it was the voice of a woman being erased the charts it went to 1 in fourteen countries it became the first protest song that you could dance to provided you were comfortable dancing in a state of existential dread the critical cultural fallout betty friedan the author of the feminine mystique famously sent julie andrews a telegram you have put a melody to the problem that has no name harrison has the soul of a woman trapped in the body of a beatle the fans the governess fans were scandalized the daily mail asked has our julie gone mad but the younger generation the girls who felt the keep me in line pressure of 1960s dating adopted it as an anthem alfred hitchcock always a fan of the ice queen with a fire underneath hitchcock was reportedly revitalized by the track he scrapped his traditional plans for torn curtain and told his writers i want the movie to feel like that harrison song cold quiet and someone is always watching the lennon mccartney you can t do that joke the b side you can t do that became a camp classic because julie sang it with such operatic authority the original lennon lyrics about jealousy sounded like a royal decree john lennon was reportedly humbled she sings it like she s about to have me beheaded he told the nme i m never singing that song again it belongs to the nun now the gemini george love curse bad luck or transcendent fortune critics have long debated george s luck with women the bad luck argument he is constantly jilted cilla leaves him for a toreador marianne for a stone julie for the wind he is the patron saint of the perpetual goodbye the transcendent argument from an artistic standpoint george has the best luck in history he doesn t just date women he undergoes spiritual apprenticeships cilla taught him the hit marianne taught him style julie taught him soul and structure as lester bangs later wrote most rockers spend their lives trying to find a girl who will do their laundry george harrison finds women who teach him how to rewrite the laws of physics and then leave him with a broken heart and a perfect melody if that s bad luck i ll take the curse the shadows in the wind aftermath as george stood outside abbey road watching julie s cab disappear he wasn t just a jilted lover he was a musician he had learned do re mi he could now write down the sounds in his head he walked back into the studio for the rubber soul sessions with a new mantra gain the world and lose your soul he was ready to stop being a beatle and start being a master posted by mythical monkey at 7 00 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels beatles julie andrews musical interlude self portrait monday february 2 2026 catherine o hara 1954 2026 catherine o hara was a terrific comedic actress known for beetlejuice home alone schitt s creek and all those mockumentaries she did with eugene levy et al me i knew her best from second city television where she usually played grandiose characters with no talent and a complete lack of self awareness lola heatherton for example sctv was to saturday night live what mozart was to a toddler banging on a tin pot with a wooden spoon i admit though i was a bit surprised by how many tributes and deep dive analyses of o hara s life and career accompanied her passing in atlantic magazine the new york times the washington post and others she was great no question still but of course she was the mom in home alone a cultural touchstone for a generation and while the movie centers on the kid and his buffoonish tormenters catherine o hara gives the movie its heart i mean she s not going to win any awards for mother of the year and she s as unhinged as anybody else maybe more so but she d also do anything to rescue her son and that s what writers have noted over and over again o hara s gift for finding the humanity in even the craziest characters so my pick for best supporting actress comedy in 1990 catherine o hara home alone which of course wasn t my pick a week ago well that s the mythical monkey s dirty secret nothing is final ever until presumably i die or the world ends there is no received wisdom dispensed by priests or politicians only the diploma you work for and never receive from what my depression era dad called the college of hard knocks or as somerset maugham put it the path to salvation is as narrow and as difficult to walk as a razor s edge that applies to movies as well as far as i can see sure you can study film in school i studied law and the philadelphia redhead but you still have to watch the movies with your opinion of the latest one informed by what you ve seen before and what you ve seen before re evaluated in light of what you ve just newly seen your knowledge of the movies and your take on them is 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