Magazines in Films

[cornershop15]

I've started threads for Books, Record Sleeves and Posters in TV Shows and Films, now it's Magazines!

The controversial cover of Time magazine, 8th April 1966:


As seen in Rosemary's Baby (1968), when pregnant Mia Farrow visits Dr Sapirstein (Ralph Bellamy):


Rosemary ... and Time

Among the pages Mia flicks through is an article on baseball stars Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale:


At least I hope it's them:

Don Drysdale & Sandy Koufax

I'd never heard of them before finding the online version of this issue*. They are featured in an article called 'Sic Transit Tradition' and are legends of the game, certainly with the L.A. Dodgers.

Mr. Drysdale, "one of the dominant starting pitchers of the 1960s" according to his Wikipedia profile, died in 1993, but Mr. Koufax, a Baseball Hall of Fame inductee, is still alive and recently attended a U.S. Open Tennis Championship Semi-Final between Rafael Nadal and Mikhail Youzhny. There are many great photos of these two at Corbis and, of course, Google Images.

COMING SOON: Another famous American magazine, The New Yorker, read by another famous American star: Jack Lemmon.

*TIME Magazine -- U.S. Edition -- April 8, 1966 Vol. 87 No. 14

[Steve Crook]

I'd never heard of them before finding the online version of this issue*. They are featured in an article called 'Sic Transit Tradition' and are legends of the game, certainly with the L.A. Dodgers.

The well known phrase "Sic Transit Gloria Mundi" is usually translated as meaning "Thus passes the glory of the world". So "Sic Transit Tradition" would translate as "Thus passes tradition" or "The end of a tradition".

Foreign languages, even dead ones, really aren't very difficult to understand

Steve

[icetorch]

Foreign languages, even dead ones, really aren't very difficult to understand

Steve

Latin is not dead; it just evolved (into French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Romanian) and is spoken as a first language in almost every continent of the world.

[Steve Crook]

Latin is not dead; it just evolved (into French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Romanian) and is spoken as a first language in almost every continent of the world.

True, and that's why I find it fairly easy to read most southern European languages like French, Italian, Spanish & Portuguese. I recognise the Latin root of words that are also used in English.

I first discovered this when I went to a film festival in Spain, the 2002 Donostia - San Sebastián Film Festival. I went there with a French lady, the lovely Natacha. She speaks French & English, I speak English & some German. Neither of us spoke any Spanish. As it's in NW Spain it's in the Basque area so they speak a heavily accented Spanish there. The people in the hotel & the festival centre spoke English but not many people spoke English in the rest of the town. But we got by with the usual smiling and pointing techniques

But it was when we picked up the festival newspaper, we were both surprised to realise that we could read Spanish - even though neither of us speak it. It helped that it was talking about a subject that we knew a lot about - the festival and the films being shown there.

While we were there, we met one of our Powell & Pressburger group who had written a book about P&P - in Spanish of course. I managed to read that over the next few weeks and when Natacha published her PhD thesis as a book about P&P I managed to read that as well - despite not speaking much French.

I take my lead from my two young nieces. Their parents have taken them to various different countries on holidays and they've learnt a few words of the language of each country they've visited. Nobody has ever told them that learning a foreign language is meant to be difficult

Steve

[will.15]

Here in these parts you know the names Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale even if you aren't sure what position they played in baseball.

[CaptainWaggett]

The magazine that wasn't there - what sort of station bookstall doesn't stock Punch?




Though the greatest cinematic magazine has to be the one Dennis Price runs in The Naked Truth

[Steve Crook]

The magazine that wasn't there - what sort of station bookstall doesn't stock Punch?

Or Picture Post? From The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp


A short while later someone browses through the magazine and we see an article about the Home Guard school with Clive Candy in charge


This was a re-working (before the days of PhotoShop) of a real issue of the magazine. The edition dated 21 September 1940 which included an article titled "The Home Guard Can Fight". The real magazine cover for that edition (I have a copy of course) showed

rather than the picture of Clive (Roger Livesey)

And the article inside showed a similar spread about the men who teach at the Home Guard School - but with Tom Wintringham's picture instead of Clive Candy.


See The Home Guard, Picture Post for more details

Steve

[Gerald Lovell]

Although it was really a comic more than a magazine, I can't resist posting this one from Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965):

It would appear to be this issue, which seems to be dated 20th March 1965 which would tie in with the principal photography for the film (conducted in March and April 1965):

[torinfan]

I remember seeing Don in an episode of "The Brady Bunch." I'm surprised Sandy and Don aren't heard of a lot in the UK

True, and that's why I find it fairly easy to read most southern European languages like French, Italian, Spanish & Portuguese. I recognise the Latin root of words that are also used in English.

I first discovered this when I went to a film festival in Spain, the 2002 Donostia - San Sebastián Film Festival. I went there with a French lady, the lovely Natacha. She speaks French & English, I speak English & some German. Neither of us spoke any Spanish. As it's in NW Spain it's in the Basque area so they speak a heavily accented Spanish there. The people in the hotel & the festival centre spoke English but not many people spoke English in the rest of the town. But we got by with the usual smiling and pointing techniques

But it was when we picked up the festival newspaper, we were both surprised to realise that we could read Spanish - even though neither of us speak it. It helped that it was talking about a subject that we knew a lot about - the festival and the films being shown there.

While we were there, we met one of our Powell & Pressburger group who had written a book about P&P - in Spanish of course. I managed to read that over the next few weeks and when Natacha published her PhD thesis as a book about P&P I managed to read that as well - despite not speaking much French.

I take my lead from my two young nieces. Their parents have taken them to various different countries on holidays and they've learnt a few words of the language of each country they've visited. Nobody has ever told them that learning a foreign language is meant to be difficult

Steve

My company carries Latin (but not the latest version for obvious reasons) also Castilian Spanish and Latin American Spanish (the latter is the dominantly spoken Spanish here in the USA). Having studied both French and Spanish in high school, that actually helped me a bit when I learned Persian (which is an Indo-European language)

[cornershop15]

Some great posts there. Many thanks. I'm out of my depth with all this Latin banter, although it was interesting to learn, while watching the TV adaptation of A Kind of Loving last night, that Illegitimi non carborundum means "Don't let the bastards grind you down". Famously used in another 'Kitchen-Sink' drama, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, of course.

Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis had a frustrating journey from Twin Oaks to New York in The Out-of-Towners (1970), which got much worse when they arrived there. My screencapping of the scene where Ann Prentiss appears as an Airline Stewardess proved eventful as well.

Not only did I find a nice close-up of the tragic actress for her thread but, inevitably I 'spose, also spotted a Book and a Magazine being read!
I posted a capture of Robert Nichols with How to Live to Be 100 at 'Books in Films' a few weeks ago, and, now this thread's got going, have for you Jack Lemmon reading The New Yorker:

I searched the magazine's colourful online archive and soon found what I wanted:


Covers: 1969 : The New Yorker

[mrs_emma_peel]

James Bond (George Lazenby) enjoying Playboy magazine (February 1969) whilst waiting for the automatic safe decoder to find the combination to unlock Gebruder Gumbold's law firm office safe in Berne, Switzerland ... On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)

[captainhaddock]

george lazenby or rather perhaps his stupid advisers robbed us all of what would have been a superb little series of bond if he had done another couple
grrrrrr!
anyway back to the thread although still on a lazenby theme
theres a great scene in pete walkers cool it carol where robin askwith and janet lynn are discussing their next move after running away to london and theyre next to a news vendor in piccadilly circus where the likes of time out and so on are advertising the new bond film OHMSS with lazenby and rigg on the cover .
dating cool it carol as being obviously filmed late 69 then

[Gerald Lovell]

Not a film, but a television programme, so I hope it's OK to post in here:

THE MAN IN ROOM 17 episode "How to Rob a Bank - and Get Away with It", though a Granada production, strangely features a rival's publication:


Brian Wilde leafs through presumably that week's Radio Times

That issue is one I happen to have, covering the week of 18th to 24th December 1965:


And yes, the highlight of Christmas Eve's viewing was THE BRUCE FORSYTH SHOW on BBC2. The man himself, still with his own hair, had as his guest stars Millicent Martin and Edmund Hockridge.

I couldn't help noticing that earlier that evening on BBC2 was Benjamin Britten's THE LITTLE SWEEP and in the cast was a young actor noted by cornershop in another thread, Alan Baulch. This does not appear to be in Alan's IMDb entry.

[HUGHJAMPTON]

I'd like to hear that radio version of Sailor Beware! with Peggy Mount

[theuofc]

I'd like to hear that radio version of Sailor Beware! with Peggy Mount

Hi, HughJ,

You can hear and see her:

Sailor Beware! (Parry, 1956) DVD | Comedy | Films by Movie Mail UK

But not a pith helmet in sight!

[HUGHJAMPTON]

Hi, HughJ,

You can hear and see her:

Sailor Beware! (Parry, 1956) DVD | Comedy | Films by Movie Mail UK

But not a pith helmet in sight!

I've seen the film, Barbara, and the lack of pith helmets was a definite mark against it. A radio vesion though would enable me to conjure up my own pictures of Peggy Mount in such headwear

[theuofc]

... the lack of pith helmets was a definite mark against it. A radio vesion though would enable me to conjure up my own pictures of Peggy Mount in such headwear

[HUGHJAMPTON]

Anyone know if there was there a real magazine called Film Life?

Well, I checked it out at the time of posting, Barbara, and had no luck in finding any reference to a periodical of that name.

[theuofc]

Well, I checked it out at the time of posting, Barbara, and had no luck in finding any reference to a periodical of that name.

I agree. I searched, no mag cover and no magazine either. Phooey! I thought it looked like Debbie Reynolds. :-)

[HUGHJAMPTON]

I agree. I searched, no mag cover and no magazine either. Phooey! I thought it looked like Debbie Reynolds. :-)

I thought it was Ms. Gumm