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I've posted this in the LGBT thread, but I'm thrilled that The Inheritance, which I saw in London a few years ago, won four Tony Awards this evening: Best Play, Director, Actor, and Featured Actress. The Broadway production closed due to Covid before I could see it, but I did see the two-part, seven-hour play in London several years ago, with Vanessa Redgrave in the featured part played by Lois Smith. However, I had the pleasure to work with Lois Smith a couple of times and found her to be a lovely, talented, and very special woman, who made her Broadway debut in 1952. She is now the oldest person ever to win an acting Tony Award. Her film career includes the role of Annie in East of Eden, in 1955. Lois Smith in The Inheritance James Dean, Lois Smith in East of Eden

😄 There's nothing like opening up a can of... uhh... reality check, yeah, that's it. Reality check. 😁 "the Bataan Death March"? Vivid imagery, man. Have you ever considered a career in, say, film writing and selected journalism? 😛 By the way, I could not agree more with every word you posted, Overeasy. TCM preaches to us incessantly and the self-righteousness grows by the day. And yes, it began with the passing of Robert Osborne. You nailed it. If TCM wants this forum to be a PC echo chamber, they can have it by getting rid of those of us who see what's going on and who speak their mind about it. However, ignoring reality doesn't change reality. The author of this thread did himself a disservice by overstating the current conditions at TCM. The channel may not be dying, but there is no doubt whatsoever that the channel's content is now infused with politically correct virtue signalling, and outright loathing for some of the films they air. The hypocrisy is so thick, you could cut it with a knife: "These films have horrible, outdated cultural themes, but we'll continue to air them anyway."

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1973, 1995) -- Claudia and Jamie run away from home and live in the Metropolitan Museum Vertigo (1958) -- the Legion of Honor in San Francisco Blackmail (1929) -- the British Museum House of Wax (1953) -- Vincent Price's creepy wax museum How to Steal a Million (1966) -- in the film it's supposed to be Musée Carnavalet, but the set was modeled after the Musée Jacquemart-André On the Town (1949) -- the American Natural History Museum Museum Hours (2012) -- the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna Manhattan (1979) -- the Guggenheim Museum The Thomas Crown Affair (1999) -- the Metropolitan Museum of Art

In his book Surprised by Joy, C.S. Lewis coined the term "chronological snobbery," which he defined as "the uncritical acceptance of the intellectual climate common to our own age and the assumption that whatever has gone out of date is on that account discredited." Our modern society is rife with this blind foolishness. Hypocrisy abounds. We haven't arrived at some point where everything about the world has become crystal clear. No, we are moving through history, ladies and gentlemen. What's called for is the long view, and it is all but absent in our society. Let's hop into a time machine and see what the world is like in 2121, and by all means, let's not balk when we find they have condemned us in the same way we have condemned those generations who have gone before us. That's only fair, isn't it?

Earthworm Tractors (1936)

L.A. Story --Los Angeles County Museum of Art Mystery of the Wax Museum The Plot Thickens --with Zasu Pitts in the Hildegard Withers role How Sweet It Is !--montage of photos standing in front of the Mona Lisa at the Louvre (as re-created at a studio...)

Indiana Jones - The Last Crusade A Night at The Museum and its sequels

Some movie songs that fit -- "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" by Duke Ellington, heard in many movies including A HATFUL OF RAIN "The Merry-Go-Run-Around" from ROAD TO BALI "The Second Time Around" from HIGH TIME "Round and Round" by Perry Como, heard in many movies including BLAST FROM THE PAST "Round and Round" from THE FANTASTICKS "Turn the World Around," sung by Harry Belafonte on THE MUPPET SHOW "Just Around the Riverbend" from POCAHONTAS "Not While I'm Around" from SWEENEY TODD And multiple movie songs from the Sons of the Pioneers such as "Round-up in the sky" and "Round-up time is over"

Other movies with roulette wheels include MEET ME IN LAS VEGAS, SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL GUNFIGHTER, BLACKBEARD'S GHOST, and VIVA LAS VEGAS where Elvis dances on one

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The Wizard of Oz (1939) -- house spinning The Great Ziegfeld (1936) -- rotating set Royal Wedding (1951) -- dancing on the ceiling (he eventually completes a counter-clockwise, 360-degree journey) Monte Carlo (1930) -- roulette wheel (see also Casablanca, California Split, Croupier) Psycho (1960) -- whirlpool (also many films titled Whirlpool) Batman TV series -- camera spins for scene transitions (see also "Girl Hunt" ballet in The Band Wagon, whenever Fred Astaire is knocked out by bad guys) Seabiscuit (2003) -- horse racing Prefontaine (1997) -- human racing 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) -- infinite jogging Marooned (1969) -- trapped in orbit

I also like ROLLER BOOGIE. And it was TCM that introduced me to this movie. One of my favorite parts is the opening sequence as the characters skate along the Venice Beach Boardwalk (with of some of the guys sporting what I call "Jack Tripper shorts"), underscored by Cher's "Hell On Wheels," a song from her Casablanca Records period that was a track on her PRISONER album. The version of "Hell On Wheels" featured in ROLLER BOOGIE is somewhat different than the one on the album --- the verses are re-arranged and there's an extended instrumental portion. The music video produced for "Hell On Wheels" was one of the first videos in the so-called "MTV style," created before there was an MTV. At one point in the video, Cher arrives on roller skates at the scene of an accident where there are police officers, hairy-faced men (some on motorcycles), drag queens and chickens (!!!) . . . Well, I’m hell on wheels. I’m a roller mama. I can slide down places That you never knew. Try me on for size At the rollerama. If you tie my laces, Then I’ll follow you. Follow you! Follow you! Oh-oh-oh!

The Marriage-Go-Round (1961) To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) Sun Valley Serenade (1941) -- and anything else Sonja Henie was in Bronco Billy (1980) -- she looks nervous auto racing -- Ford v Ferrari (2019), Days of Thunder (1990), Stroker Ace (1983), etc.

The Great Garrick

Some time ago I made a comment that I'm sure most people thought was silly and toss-asideable. However, I'm perfectly serious about it to repeat it here. I thought the new C in TCM could stand for "coprolitic." Now, for those unfamiliar with that adjective, please look it up as it is a pure delight of a word -- the English language is a motherlode of fun. I really do think that the TCM platoon of hosts views the cultural artifacts of the past in a very uncharitable fashion. But, sadly, it is all too in tune to the Zeitgeist that others on these boards are lamenting. It is a very seriously flawed approach to human existence -- especially the thoughts and activities of all those who have gone before us. For us at the present moment to think that we alone are the eternally enlightened ones and possess some kind of authority to scorn and belittle the way in which people foreign to us lived their lives, this is sinful. It belies a very shallow understanding of the world and its history. Human beings are extraordinarily complex creatures -- as individuals and in communities. To think that everything that has happened before our time must be measured according to the fashionable yardstick of today is unhistorical and anti-intellectual. I say all this to get me to this point. As far as TCM is concerned, I think the message boards are revealing an animosity directed toward a specific corporate point of view that will not allow any divergence from that line of exploration. I am perfectly fine with looking into serious topics that are dealt with in movies. Movies are part of our cultural history and certainly fair game for critique. The problem is that when we have our "conversation" about these things, a conversation solely based on your terms is called a lecture. Now, try as they might to tell us that they are not instructing us how to watch "problematic" movies, that is indeed what they are unabashedly doing. Again, these are very complex aspects of human behavior and society; they require serious study and consideration to be discussed intelligently. And when some people look at the facts and record of the past, they can reach legitimate conclusions that are different from the corporate line. This is what's missing from the new push to set up some kind of blind date for "then" and "now" to meet. I simply don't trust the on-air talent to be able to carry out the rigorous husbandry of allowing the art of the past to yield true and fruitful bounty. Oh, boy. I've gone on a bit here. Sorry about that, but I sometimes suffer from an ingrown essay and need it excised once in a while.

Bringing Up Baby

April Showers ("The Jolson Story") Next: Number that involves both singing and dancing

Sorry Officer, just killing time in between films and conversations.

Your memory is good, they did show Marlon with his snakeskin jacket and guitar driving the women in that one horse town crazy.😎

Is my memory that wonky? Or was THE FUGITIVE KIND on Mellencamp's list that night also? THAT'S one that doesn't get shown all that often. And one I've liked for years.(I still covet that snake skin jacket Brando wears.) Sepiatone(that is, if memory serves )

LOL. Yeah, that was a very hard to swallow part of the plot. Like the "substitute nurse" could fake medical training on the job? Yeah, right. I never realized David's wife was a Playboy playmate! Wonder what Oz and Harriet thought of that? LOL! (Bet Ozzie took a few peaks at the centerfold) I enjoyed the film, despite the implausibilities. And it had enough jolts and twists to keep me interested. Loved the ending.

So important with words like passé. Thanks

So I guess you don't appreciate any of my other lists threads either, correct? Maybe that is why you never comment on any of those threads??? Oh, well, can not fault thinking like that. Although I had thought that this thread was just a thread that could show which films people did not like. Apparently I have to do a better job at not only listing the film but also give reasons why I don't like them. I am not sure I can do that. There are many reasons why films appear on MY lists. If I were to list all of the positives and or negatives about why I selected a certain film, that is all I would be doing with my online time. I don't just come online everyday and stay at TCM City. I like many other websites as well. Suffice it to say, I just do not have the time to sit here and explain to people why I like or dislike a film. But maybe I could give a brief explanation in the future...... NOT.

Hmm...Not sure, is it that Quantum of Solace is an homage to Somerset Maugham and the style is similar to his short story His Excellency ? Just a guess. Maybe someone else knows?

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Rip off was a turn of phrase I tossed off not thinking such umbrage would be taken by its use. I can't say I'm much of a Shakespeare fan, either. Perhaps, if the creator of WSS had chosen to update some other famous play, I would have liked it better. One needs ears of cement to get through "I Feel Pretty".

Michael York Next: E. M.

The thread is about popular movies we can't stand. West Side Story is a popular movie I can't stand. If I'm the only one in the world who hates it, so be it. You're entitled to your opinion. I'm entitled to mine.

A bit delayed, but The Inheritance has won four Tony Awards tonight (September 26, 2021): Best Play, Best Director, Best Actor (Andrew Burnap), and Best Featured Actress (Lois Smith). The venerable Ms, Smith is a veteran actor of stage and screen. Her long career included a performance as Anne in East of Eden in 1955. Lois Smith in The Inheritance Lois Smith, James Dean in East of Eden

It's not a "rip-off", it's an overt "updating" of the Shakespeare play. "Rip-off" suggests stealing a story and hoping people won't notice; West Side Story is a completely open, honest, retelling of Romeo and Juliet, there's no attempt to pretend it's an original story, therefore it's not a rip-off. As for the songs, they're fantastic. If you don't like them, you clearly don't appreciate good song-writing. I know this sounds personal and insulting, that's not my intention. But the songs in West Side Story are just fantastic, it's ridiculous to say the songs are one of the things about the film you don't like. On the positive side, I love your description of hating something "with the heat of a thousand suns". Just save it for something that deserves such an effective expression.

Red Headed Woman (1932)

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I knew with every fireplace going in every room in every house every hour of the day sooner or later something would burn down.

Ralston, Vera

I suggested showing Hell Bound on this message board 4 years ago so I'm glad Eddie got around to programming it. (Do TCM personnel even read this board?) As mentioned above, what could go wrong staging a robbery with a junkie going into withdrawal symptoms, an overweight diabetic with a heart issue and a double-crossing moll? Nuthin'! The locations are a historic time capsule that makes this film extra memorable. Little moments sprinkled in the script have an unusual edge, even for a heist film full of kinky characters. I don't think it was as bare bones as described in the Nor Alley intro. When John Russell goes to see Stanley Addams, his clerk announces him as Mr. Natas. [Satan] There's an early line that Russell throws at Frank Fenton about his fake robbery movie: "You can always sell it as a TV series." Then there's the photographic emphasis on good bad-girl June Blair's feet and shoes, repeated numerous times. Russell was great in this and when he goes into a rage, he's very believable whereas when an actor like Jack Palance or Rod Steiger exploded, it was so over the top, it was funny. He makes the same mistake we see in many other movies and TV shows, not checking to see if his victim is actually dead before leaving. Either way, the robbery would have failed because his accomplice hiring skills were poor except for bad good-girl Margo Woode. Dehl Berti (aka Daddy) looked like actor Larry Blyden (Twilight Zone, Thriller). (The concept of a blind heroin dealer attending a strip show is like something out of the Twilight Zone.)

A few random thoughts on Hell Bound. I'll try not to write too voluminously. It held my interest, but probably wouldn't have if it had been much longer. None of the actors were very good, but that's ok, because the kind of acting they did sort of fit with the B movie style. Actually, I'd call it a C movie. But that's ok, sometimes I like C movies. I really liked the way the lead female character started out as a potential femme fatale but then sort of evolved into a nice sweet girl who loves little kids and just wants to marry the decent intern ( I didn't know interns, as in student doctors, drove ambulances, but maybe they did back then.) It was kind of unexpected and refreshing. Also nice that SPOILER she did not die from Jordan's vicious knife attack. Best scene in the movie was the final one at the trolley car graveyard. What Alain Silver calls a "terrain vague". First the trolley cars all piled up on each other, than the huge pile of scrap metal beside them. You'd think Jordan could have found somewhere to effectively hide in all that, rather than running round and jumping into a train car destined for huge jagged chunks of steel. Oh well, he was a nasty piece of work anyway. By the way, I am closely related to someone who's a type 1 diabetic, and even I got confused by the whole thing with the Stanley Adams ( ?) character, the medical officer who was supposed to fake a diabetic "low", then inject himself with an insulin overdose ( which makes your blood sugar plummet and can cause seizures, loss of consciousness, and yes, death ). I couldn't figure out whether he 'd had too much insulin or not enough or was sick from the insulin or from his blood sugar being too high -- although the death from that is actually a lot more gradual. Anyway, if I, the mother of a type 1 diabetic, couldn't figure out what was going on with all that, I doubt most of the viewers could. The foot /slipping off the shoes thing was a bit silly. Became kind of a running joke.

I'd love for the Jays to get that wild card spot and make one of those big spenders gnash their teeth. I thoroughly enjoyed Hell Bound, although it was astonishingly violent for 1957. Sharp direction and cinematography, and I loved the LA location work. Although it may not have been so believable, I loved the opening gambit (deliberate choice of words). John Russell and June Blair provided what their roles demanded. As promised, the film delivered on "foot fetishism and trains." An unusual opening, an unusual ending, and an unusual direction for the femme fatale: that's quite a lot for a B movie.

the Universal opening logo---a plane going around the earth...which s also going around Casino Royale--round bed, going around Strangers on a Train--going around gets out of contro l round and round used to hypnotize...The Woman in Green... the popular whirlygig thing method and the swirling water

Steve Martin played a bogus faith healer in the 1992 comedy/drama "Leap of Faith," which co-starred Debra Winger, Lolita Davidovich, Liam Neeson and Lukas Haas.

I wholeheartedly agree with this quote's sentiment. Threads are started all the time that actually belong in "Your Favorites" or other sub-forums. Threads are fleeting, just like this talented man's life. Who's it hurting? I had never heard of Willie Garson, nor seen any of his roles. I'm very glad someone posted this, giving me & others an opportunity of discovering him, sadly now that he's gone. Apparently he is not only beloved by the public but by his colleagues as well. RIP

As an old arts programmer, I'm familiar with the tactic, which I've used often, to re-package programs that I've already presented, as part of a new thing. That makes it look fresh. In this case, it means that we have the fresh opinions of Mellencamp but without any expensive new rental issues (I am assuming).

Journey to Italy (1954) - National Archaeological Museum, Naples Dressed to Kill (1980) - Philadelphia Museum of Art Match Point (2005) - Tate Modern, London

I've got one - stick around for a few minutes, Peebs, while I type it up...

Did all of these movies feature a number in blackface?

Yeah, many do unfairly get typecast and make several films(and TV shows) that play o that typecast. And I'm always interested in seeing any movie in which an actor or actress is playing against type. THEN form any opinion as to the good or bad of the movie. Sepiatone

The Hollywood Reporter @THR Tonys: 12-Time Nominee ‘Slave Play’ Shut Out in Surprise Tonys: 12-Time Nominee ‘Slave Play’ Shut Out in Surprise Meanwhile, 'The Inheritance's' Andrew Burnap scored an unexpected win over pundit favorites Blair Underwood and Tom Hiddleston. hollywoodreporter.com 12:49 AM · Sep 27, 2021·SocialFlow

Crock, Vergil - Charles Ruggles in Girl Without a Room

I had a similar experience in a thread like this many years ago. I said I didn't like Casablanca. Somebody told me I must be too stupid to understand subtleties or I suck at life or whatever. Oh. And I agree West Side Story blows. From the first cigarette to the last dying frame.

I have Skatetown USA. I haven't watched it yet. I have Roller Boogie on DVD. To complete the roller disco trifecta, I also have Xanadu on DVD. With Skatetown, USA, I was intrigued by the cast: Patrick Swayze, Maureen McCormick, Scott Baio, Flip Wilson, and Ruth Buzzi?! Count me in.