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Left to right, it's Ronald Colman, Vilma B?nky and Gary Cooper in THE WINNING OF BARBARA WORTH.
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Hi CineSage, How interesting that Mr. Everson was your professor in college. Mr. Everson won this award that is named after him in 1994, Past recipients have included Peter Bogdanovich, Jeanine Basinger, Martine Scorsese, and Richard Schickel. Cine, is Cipriani a restaurant on 42nd St? The awards will be given out at this location.
Cipriani has four locations in Manhattan, Cashette (there are other restaurants that use the Cipriani name, but are not affiliated with the International Cipriani chain). The one to which you refer is at 110 E. 42nd Street, right by Grand Central Station.
Broadening the discussion beyond Prof. Everson. word arrived a few days ago that David Oppenheim, Dean of New York University's School of the Arts (now Tisch School of the Arts) from 1969-1991, died on November 14. Dean Oppenheim, who'd been first clarinettist of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, and run Columbia Records' Masterworks division, turned NYU's film school, which had been founded four years before his arrival, into one of the world's premiere institutions of academic training and education in film and cinema. I remember him well, as he always seemed to be in and around activities at school, and was accessible for anyone who wanted to learn, commisserate or gripe.
Film fans might also know him as the husband of Oscar-winning comic actress Judy Holliday from 1948-1957.
For those who might care to learn more about Dean David Oppenheim's life, here is the New York Times obituary:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/03/arts/03oppenheim.html?pagewanted=all
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Guilty.
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Yes, his preference for STORY OF GI JOE vs BATTLEGROUND was interesting, but at least he gave some reasons - not that I could evaluate or appreciate them! I have always loved the whistling ending to BATTLEGROUND when the bloodied troops wanted to show off to the green replacements, as if to say, "no big deal for real soldiers to take". I never thought it was an acquiescence to Hollywood.
BATTLEGROUND has no "whistling ending"; Sgt. Kinney's exhausted, bloody survivors launch into their cadence count, "You hadda good home but you left...YOU'RE RIGHT!...Jody was home whenya left...YOU'RE RIGHT!...Your baby was there when you left...YOU'RE RIGHT! Sound off! ONE,TWO! Sound off! THREE, FOUR! Cadence count! ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, ONE, TWO...THREE, FOUR!" as the platoon marches away from the front, past their fresh, untried replacements.
But Wellman knew what really happened on-set, so his comments seem better founded than my viewer's perceptions.
William Holden, patting his feathered alpine hat before he disappears down the hole in the floor - now THAT seems a bit of Hollywood flair. Just a bit, eh?
You're confusing Wellman with Billy Wilder, who directed, and co-wrote STALAG 17.
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I'll take a stab at the topic. I don't have any blood and gore and violence (and certainly not nudity) credentials, but here goes...
Taking a stab at violence...well, so much for objectivity.
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The studios offer you a choice, and it's up to you whether you buy it or not.
If you read a review of the new repackaged DVD and you decide it's worth upgrading, you can always sell the older version and apply what you get towards the purchase of the new version. But if you decide that it isn't worth it, then you get to keep the older version.
I don't know about you, to me it looks like capitalism working as intended.
That sounds like an ad for the notorious "Club for Growth" (full name: Club for Growth of the Bank Accounts of the Very Wealthy, at the Expense of Everyone Else).
Just because one end of the equation, Big Business, benefits from the take-it-or-leave-it policy you endorsed so glowingly, doesn't mean that "capitalism is working as intended." Right now the welfare of the American people, the U.S. economy, and the lives and health of tens of thousands of American service personnel are being held in the pincers of the Bush Administration's same take-it-or-leave-it philosophy, the same sort of dog-eat-dog "capitalism" that ordained the miseries of Britain in Charles Dickens's day.
Intended by whom, exactly?
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Whoa! You DO have a heart. Even while watching mopvies. Good to know, you ol' softie.
Nothing so touching; we had to pay for the privilege of watching movies at his home by mopping the floor.
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I think it'd have been more appropriate if you'd given it to Fox Movie Channel, since it features DVD art from nothing but
20th Century-Fox films. TCM has a contract to show a few of them, but as a promotional tool, it does nothing for TimeWarner's
bottom line.
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It's obviously a still from the long-lost late-silent-era version of BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN.
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I dont know about you, but I hate it when a studio re-re-re-releases the same movie over and over and over and over and over and over again
"with new commentary" "with new features"
I say just do it the way you want the first time....
It's bad enough when it's the way you describe; when a studio re-releases a film and the only thing "new" is the physical packaging in which it comes (such as Paramount's most recent incarnation of THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, whose previous transfer, contemporaneous "documentaries" and inaccurate audio commentary were pretty atrocious to begin with), it's an insult to their customer's intelligence, and a betrayal of their trust.
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a book that covers farming, planting and irrigation
Considering how lush and bountiful the landscape in which the Eloi live, that'd be the last thing Wells would need to bring.
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"Farwell?"
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I have cherished memories of sitting in the living room of William K. Everson, one of my film teachers at New York University, watching the movies in his personal collection (I always looked forward to his formal lectures, too).
A wonderful character, full of tales, trivia and wisdom. I miss him still.
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Sorry about the vowel confusion. A few months ago, I did the same thing with a large number of "Edna Mae Olivers"...or, is it Edna May Olivers?
One can only imagine a thousand of whatever Edna May Oliver's face might've launched.
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The three-panel effect is called a triptych[/i].
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is the american sweetheart you are refering too; Sally Fields or Merril Streep ?
Sorry, my oversight: it's Meryl Streep.
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As far as I know, Bob Burns still owns the original Time Machine.
I've always loved Alan Young asking the housekeeper (but really the audience) "Which three would YOU have taken?"
The housekeeper is called Mrs Watchett.
When asked this question, most people reflexively list the Bible and Shakespeare, usually in that order (after that, they tend to fall silent).
There's no point to bringing the Complete Works of Shakespeare, or any other literature: a society needs to write its own.
The Bible? Surely the most corrupting and pernicious influence the world has ever known. Nothing provides such justification for sanctimony, self-righteousness and outright homicidal tendencies as the Good Book. Good riddance is more like it.
H.G. Wells (and George Wells, his namesake in the book and film) was nothing if not a practical man, and an atheist. If limited to three books, they would be these (in general terms):
A book on mechanical engineering.
A volume of basic and intermediate chemistry.
The best available medical reference of his (Victorian) day.
I leave it to the Eloi to write "1001 Uses for a Dead Morlock" (if they were to develop a sense of humor, though I doubt that "A Treaury of Borscht Belt Humor" would be of much use).
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Well, if you really want to know where Der Bingle is, it's:
Holy Cross Cemetary, Culver City, CA
Grotto plot, #L-119, space 1.
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I have no memoirs to post; in any event, Walter is my second cousin, on my father's side. I know him, and he's a very nice man, but we've never been close.
As Will Rogers said famously, "I only know what I read in the newspapers."
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I am leaving the forums for a while because most of the people on these forums are mean, selfish, poopy, and conservative (Not Politically).
Poopy? I'll have you known I own a pooper-scooper, and clean up after myself regularly.
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No charge for the first but 5 bucs a month for addition ones. I don't want one at all, they overheat, make you use another remote and tak away all TV and VCR and remote features. The cable compny claims TCM forced the change so I'd quess the rest of the country will be forced to make the change too.
This largely due to a little phenomenon called cable piracy. Signals that do not go through a cable box -- whether digital or analog, that scrambles the signal -- open them up to being stolen by unauthorized persons, either by physically cutting or tapping the cable company's lines, or using devices that suck leaking signals out of the air at fairly close range. Cable companies are usually loath to expose channels other than local over-the-air signals that they retransmit, plus a few low-value services foisted on them by federal regulations, to this kind of piracy. It's for the very reason that your cable company knows TCM is highly regarded by viewers that it, and other services for which they pay the telecasters (like TCM) substantial per-viewer fees, that they placed it and others on digital tiers. They're not about to let the substantial investment in fees they pay to service providers be squandered due to their failure to police their system via the most time-tested method avaoiable: scrambled or encrypted signals that require cable boxes to view it.
Frankly, if your neighbors have trouble with their reception of digitial signals, their overall cable signal, including the lower analog tiers, is also compromised; it probably suffers from the various forms of degradation, ghosting, static, amplifier interference, line-temperature variations and artifacts inherent in the older analog processes.
In short, you're just going to have to get used to the idea of going digital and using a cable box to gain access to programming you want.
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It's amazing how much time and effort some people put into resisting logical agruments -- especially since their own lack of a cogent response indicates an inability to mount logical arguments of their own. Instead, they resort to whining about little things like the below:
First of all I will appreciate if you stop changing the title to my post with your replies.
Sorry, but that's the poster's prerogative. You're just going to have to learn to live with it.
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Walter Mirisch is the only one of my cousins (out of three) who's still living, and he's apt to dismiss his and his brothers' early efforts (which he's done even with, say, 1958's MAN OF THE WEST, despite critics considering it a very important Western, starring Gary Cooper and directed by the great Anthony Mann).
I guess that going on to win three Best Picture Oscars in only eight years can do that to you.
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It's Sally Field, not "Fields."
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Oops. 'Tis a far, far better thing I do now than I have ever done:
Left to right, it's Vilma B?nky, Ronald Colman and Gary Cooper in THE WINNING OF BARBARA WORTH.