CineSage_jr
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Settle down CineSage! Do you want me to report you to the authorities in D.C.?
DC or AC, I don't care, as long as it's 50,000 volts.
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p.s to Cinesage: did you mean that to be "Bea" or were you cut off on the way to "Beast"? Just checking. I presumed you were cut off but"Bea" put me in mind of Bea Benaderet, and you may have had something else in mind.
My original posting with the title bar "IT WASN'T THE FLAMES THAT GOT 'IM; T'WAS CORPORATE GREED KILLED THE BEAST" was complete, but all the subsequent postings that retain it automatically add a "Re:," that pushes the title past the maximum allowable numbers of charcters in the bar.
I don't think they made those rides thinking about "Hollywood History". They're just attractions, they're there for fun, and I'm sure that Universal Studios feels they have to compete with other theme parks in the area, like Six Flags and Disneyland, to continue attracting visitors.
I've had the distinct displeasure of watching, close-up, as the Universal lot is gobbled up, bit by bit, by thrill rides, and associated rubbish, turning from historic movie studio into a ****-tonk. Whatever Universal wants to build up on "the hill," where the company's popular "City Walk" is located is fine, but their total disinterest in the value of the lot, proper, down below is very distressing.
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That's because it's out of print. If you're not willing to wait until it's (inevitably) reissued, you can find it here
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00005O3V9/ref=sr_1_olp_3?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1212864179&sr=1-3
The price may seem high but remember that the original list price upon its release was around $40.00, so this doesn't represent a very great premium over that.
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There are Plenty of other sites where the current President is lampooned every minute of the day.
There is no current president; I would, however, like to send a 50,000-volt current through the guy who thinks he's president.
I was raised that the problem with Communism is that it is a non free society. An example of that was the Berlin Wall. I saw people trying to break out but few trying to break in. I was told under communism you can't believe in God. That the police state tells you how to dress, what to do, what to say, what to think.
....but don't you see that if our movies and our arts are censored then we in America are not truely free. If we begin to treat Presidents as Dictators and anything you say about the President is treated like an attack on the American Flag, then we are not free. ....We would have then became this police state Dictatorship that you are so afraid of in other nations.
As though the folks who set the fire and fan the flames of hatred of Communism and all things "communistic" ever cared about anyone's personal freedoms, except their own freedoms to make more money.
The hypocritical double-standard of these people is that they never fail to decry the "Totalitarianism" of Communism, or even the mildest forms of Socialism, using the lot of the poor folks who have to live under it, while running a government and corporations that look the other way, or even embrace (for economic reasons -- i.e. profit) authoritarian regimes -- Apartheid South Africa, Mobutu's Zaire, Franco's Spain, Pinochet's Chile, Stroessner's Paraguay, the Shah's Iran, Cristiani's el Salvador Greece under the military junta, and on, and on, and one -- whose human rights record was/is even worse than any Communist state's.
The difference always was that the authoritarian regimes were always happy to allow in U.S. businesses for the purposes of making money for both the companies and the countries' corrupt leaders.
Again, the extraordinary, and extraordinarily destructive hypocrisy of such a double-standard.
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Let's look at this on the bright side: one of the cheesy studio-tour rides ("King Kong") was destroyed. Now, if only a way can be devised to burn down the rest of Universal's crappy idea of "Hollywood history" (the "E.T.," "Back to the Future," "Jurassic Park" rides, etc.) while leaving the historic movie lot intact.
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SPARTACUS was actually shot in Super Technirama 65mm, not Super Panavision (they're actually quite different).
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Well Time/Warner Cable here in Hollywood interrupted Picadilly with an "Amber Alert" for an "abducted" child taken from Catalina Island.
Maybe the kid's name was Jim Hawkins, and there's an APB out for Wallace Beery.
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I wish TCM would run "Green Mansions". I have vague memories of this strange movie- which takes place in the Amazon but seemed to have been shot inside a sound stage.
You're doing the film an injustice; it was actually shot on several soundstages, with a little location work thrown in.
And one would think that Mel merely dusted off the studio's three-year-old script to FORBIDDEN PLANET, changed the location and character names (and added a few head-hunting natives) and decided to call it GREEN MANSIONS.
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It's the 1957 20th Century-Fox film BOY ON A DOLPHIN, with Alan Ladd and Clifton Webb. I have dearly wanted to sail the Greek Islands ever since I first saw the film about thirty years ago, even though I know that the young, dripping-wet Sophia won't be there waiting for me.
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"In the walke of the Great Depression"
"That should be "in the wake of the Great Depression,"[/i]
If you can't walke the walke, don't talke the talke.
When you cut out the bull and cut to the chase, Lefties, Communist and Socialist don't believe in God...
And what, exactly, has this belief in this god of yours got you?
Communist Russia tried to use "The Grapes Of Wrath" to enhance communism. They would show the film for free and everyone would come see it. They told the people that this was life in America. That everyone was like "the Okies", poor and hungry. But most of the people after seeing the film though even higher of America because, "Even the Okies had cars, in which to go to California with."
During the Great Depression there were a lot more people starving to death under Capitalism than under Communism (Stalin's cynical and brutal forced collectivization of the U.S.S.R. and the purging of the Kulaks not included). The incidents portrayed in Steinbeck's book, and 20th Century-Fox's film were true: vast economic dislocation throughout the U.S., with moneyed land-owners and banks taking advantage of farmers' inability to grow crops to seize their property (I'll bet that the same real-estate interests that just tried -- and failed -- to foist Proposition 98 on California voters under the guise of Eminent Domain reform would have been right at the head of the line in seizing others' properties, if the conditions that existed during the Depression were operative now), and xenophobic limitations on the part of state and local governments in limiting Americans' state-to-state migration.
The saddest thing is that the wealthiest nation on Earth is still unwilling to take responsibility for its citizens' welfare (the Republicans' opposition to legislation that would help homeowners through the current mortgage crisis, which they call a "bail-out" for those homeowners, all the while they rush to aid the banks and mortgage-lenders whose deceptive practices fueled the crisis to begin with).
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No, the point is that though Taylor was fairly conservative and agreed with HUAC's basic goals, he really didn't want to get drawn into their witch-hunts; still, once called to appear before the Committee as a "friendly witness," he toed their line and offered up names.
Kazan, on the other hand, couldn't have been farther from HUAC's orbit but, once confronted with the spectre of becoming unemployable, he tucked his tail between his legs and started naming names. At least Kazan had some misgivings about what he did (though they were sometimes hard to see and hear).
The absolute worst, though, was Edward Dmytryk (whom I knew slightly): not only did he renounce his past Communist affiliations but, to the end of his life, he gleefully bragged about all the names he spilled to the Committee. A utter swine.
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Delores Costello is among the most gorgeous woman ever to grace the screen.
And that's certainly one of the reasons why John Barrymore married her.
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We're currently eight years into the 11-year solar-activity cycle, meaning that flares on the sun, and the charged particles that stream outward from it, have been increasing for the last three years. It's very likely that the up-link to, or downlink transmissions from the satellite leased by TCM are being affected by this solar activity (which will peak at "solar max" in 2011).
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Joanne Kaufman, author of the piece, has Osborne at about ten years younger than his real age ("I was interested that there was a building called the Osborne spelled the same way I spell my name," said Mr. Osborne, who is in his mid-60's ('My age and my phone number are both unlisted,' is his standard line), since Osborne was 74 when the article ran two years ago.
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As far as I know, it's due to a rights problem with the Eric Blair (George Orwell) Estate.
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You're right. There probably weren't many, due to the blacklisting....but there was one with Sidney Portieh (sp)....he played the good railroad boss that was murdered by an evil railroad boss. (hmmm, I'm thinking there was no communist theme that one).
Poitier.
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just a sidenote, she was in the unfortunate musical Man of LaMancha w/Peter O'Toole also.
Making a good movie of that was truly an Impossible Dream.
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Dearest CineSage_jr,
LOL. Don't forget to give your straw-man a kick for me, too.
Well, I can see that you don't have any valid argument to make in defense of your position.
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1. We do actually "rent" films from WB. I know it doesn't seem to make sense since we're part of the same parent company, but we are treated as a 3rd party and have to negotiate for the rights to play the films that they control. There are both business and legal reasons for this.
One of the main reasons is that TW doesn't want to put itself in the position of showing favoritism to one of its divisions; all outside companies (Starz, Showtime, etc.) that wish to lease Warner-owned films are offered the same terms as TCM.
GEUniversal booked a lot of its Universal-produced television shows into its subsidiary cable channels like USA and Sci-Fi at sweetheart rates, and now the profit particpants in those shows are suing, contending that the financial base for that participation has been unfairly reduced. The same thing happened when Fox "sold" its inventory of M*A*S*H episodes to its own FXM cable channel without opening it to competitive bidding by other non-Fox networks.
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I'm not familiar with that author but I have a book by Lorraine B. Diehl from American Heritage Press, 1985. The title is "The Late Great Pennsylvania Station". It's a fascinating book. I would love to see someone make a documentary on the history of the building and it's eventual demise. It's worth studying the failures of preservation along with the successful efforts.
I heartily recommend the book "Celluloid Skyline," by James Sanders.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B000OM6X5K/ref=dp_olp_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1212546724&sr=1-5
The large-format book is an in-depth look at the way cities, especially New York, have been and are portrayed in the Hollywood film. An architect by trade, Sanders's text, along with copious, excellent photos, explores the cultural pull urban America has on its mythology -- the movies.
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The worst thing about being a publicist is that they're never around to handle the publicity surrounding their own deaths.
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...WHAT IS IT?
FORMALDEHYDE. I KNOW IT'S FOR MEL TO HIDE, BUT WHAT IS IT?
FORMALDEHYDE!
I KNOW THAT! BUT WHAT IS IT?...
Thank you, Abbott & Costello
Wow, didn't even realize he was that old. Handsome fellow.
Perhaps, but an awful, dreadful actor. One of the worst.
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They're probably going to bury him in an Armani suit.
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Baur is too late: the great Australian character actor "Chips" Rafferty beat him to it.
No War Movies on D-Day!
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It's disrespectful that TCM isn't showing any WWII movies in remembrance of D-Day!
TCM ran a slate of war films for Memorial Day. Two war-film-themed days within a week would be...overkill.