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Interesting Time magazine composite. Is this how everyone in the United States will look in a thousand years from now. Will time make the word race irrelevant after everyone is merged the "The Melting Pot"? If that happens, people will be clamoring to identify themselves with ANY race. I find it humorous almost everyone when asked about their heritage will say, "plus a little Native American". Even my family says that and I see zero evidence of it. It's as if everyone wants to be something they consider exotic. I wonder what happened to names like Lisa, Susan and Pamela?

Hard to read the OP with all the disregard to grammar, but I get the idea from the title he's underwhelmed by Kevin Costner. Back when Costner was popular, I had been talked into watching a few of his films- Dances With Wolves, JFK, Field Of Dreams. I couldn't BELIEVE this guy was an actor, he didn't seem to have one iota of talent. It was if the subject matter of these films were riveting enough for him to just breeze through, without even acting. His lack of performance ruined everything I had seen him in (in all fairness, JFK was silly, even if an alternative viewpoint) When people would say what a great actor he was, I'd reply with a very puzzled look. I figured eventually others would see the "Emperor's No Clothes" like I did. And I had thought that somewhat happened. I've also had the exact same feeling about Tom Hanks-terrible actor. As for Johnny Depp....he has his LOOKS going for him first. But I sense underneath, (like MM before him) he is very serious about his craft of acting. I think his lack of range stems from lack of available good roles.

It's one way to get noticed ... I'm surprised no one else has tried it. Uh oh.

A bum trying to get arrested so as to spend wintertime in the warm "comfort" of jail. That is actually a common practice. By the way did anyone spot the wonderful Kathleen Freeman in the Ransom Of Red Chief? I always recognise her by her "round tones".....love her!

Haha I misread the title and thought it said "Dumb report of the day" and it was referring to posts made here.

1994 Forrest Gump/The Lion King Tom Hanks + Disney = dismal double whammy

I read Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland by Gerald Clarke. I've read numerous books about Judy & found that one to be the very best of the bunch. Clarke's other books are consistently well written and entertaining.

You're gonna love Molly Brown, racer. The songs are great (Meredeth Willson!) and Debbie carries the entire film, seemingly effortlessly. I was lucky enough to meet Debbie backstage after a show-she was fabulous! I thanked her for buying & preserving all those old MGM costumes and she was genuinely delighted. She is so packed full of talent, we should be so grateful it's frozen in time on film. And doubly grateful she never gave up her career through all the trials & tribulations of her life. She definitely deserves recognition for her contribution to our culture. (I am also grateful to her for doubling our pleasure by having Carrie Fisher!)

I definitely liked the movie THE PERILS OF PAULINE better than the original serial. As batty as Betty was in real life, she most definitely was an incredible performer. Thank goodness her talents are on film for the ages...

Why are all the premieres lately Grade Z programmers/imports? Probably cost 10 bucks to rent...... Realize there are several Underground/Imports that are NOT readily available to rent or borrow from the library; Nothing Lasts Forever, The Reluctant Dragon & The Manitou to just name a few recent titles. When I looked at Feb's Now Playing, the few Premieres listed were recent movies like the excellent THE FISHER KING and el stinkerino LORD OF THE RING trilogy....both found easily for sale or rent.

Reading about Betty Hutton in the other thread on here reminded me that the first time I saw her Private Screenings that I was very touched by how vulnerable she was, but watched it again a couple of years later and thought she came across as someone who couldn't or wouldn't take responsibility for their own contributions to her misfortunes. Man, read HER autobiography...BACKSTAGE YOU CAN HAVE, confirms she's a loony. I love her as a performer, but her recounting of her childhood are so far fetched, she has to be confusing reality with fantasies. And I agree, many star autobiographies come across as "full of themselves" but I bet you kind of have to be that way to succeed in that business. The autobiography I found most exasperating was Debbie Reynolds' because being a product of her time period & culture, she just gave up everything for her "man". She was victimized time & time again by men in her life. Thank buddha she eventually broke the cycle and it didn't carry over to Carrie's life. And read ANYTHING by Carrie Fisher....she's a gifted writer and wonderful entertaining personality that shines through the pages.

Indeed, I think that is a perfect description of UNDERGROUND. (and well done too)

midnight08, sorry if I offended you-believe you me, it was not intentional. My point was, that as classic movie film fans, many of us have exhausted TCMs broadcast "library". There is a finite number of classic movies available for broadcast, and then only certain packages available for broadcast at any given time! After you've seen these films a few times, you want more....different movies, correct? It may not be possible for TCM to buy different packages or even think the distributers will offer different packages. This is why I just hung up my cable....it just wasn't fulfilling my viewing needs anymore. I find a lot of Fox, foreign and pre-code titles at my library. And as for true rarities, GEH, LOC & UCLA all make their restored titles available at film festivals & libraries. Not all film festivals are expensive, either. So all I meant by my suggestion was for the satiated film buff to be pro-active and seek out alternatives themselves.

I had responded in the "reading lately" thread that I'm currently reading Shelly Winters' autobiography. I barely know her acting roles, but I never would have thought that I could become completely smitten with anyone from the ACTORS STUDIO. While she is as pompous as I expected, she's also sincere, funny, sensitive & lusty. Her accounts of life with Marilyn, making movies, dealing with re-writes, crazy directors and fellow pompous actors is amazingly entertaining. Her recounts of Ava Gardner were scathing, but hilarious! She definitely tells things as she sees them. While I knew she was a respected actress and a saucy personality, I never would have predicted how incredibly intelligent & lovable she was. It makes me want to see every performance she's ever done.

midnight08 said: I'm glad we have TCM as there's nothing else out there equivalent to it. I'm just disillusioned with the repetitiveness of the movies. It's still the best channel out there; classic movies, NO COMMERCIALS. That alone makes it worthwhile. And you have to realize, you've now "seen it all" because you're interested in it. Take your interest and seek out more if that's what you desire. I often find it amusing listening to people gripe about a cable TV station! It's a shame that TCM can't get curators from the LOC, George Eastman House and UCLA Film Archives on an occasional basis to bring a few of their restored films to TCM and discuss them with either Robert O. Or Ben. You can't expect a cable station to be film festival for serious film buffs. There are fantastic film festivals that do exactly that (minus RO & BM) This year, CINEFEST in Syracuse is holding it's very last rare classic film festival. Some of you need to get out more. I just wish they'd go back to the old TCM on-screen logo that gets shown every 20 minutes through the movie. The new one - which reads TCM.COM Darkblue- I had a bf who HATED those and affixed a perfectly sized piece of duct tape over the spot on my TV screen. Can't do THAT with flat screens!

If anyone is disappointed missing them, I have: great movie- NATIONAL VELVET (1944) so so movie: IT HAPPENED TOMORROW (1944) replace THE LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY (2001/2002/2003) Consider yourselves lucky. THE KING’S SPEECH (2010) This is definitely worth seeing. Try your library for a copy.

I really like how she's wearing her necklace backwards, highlighting the closure chain's bead. Great idea. I larn a lot of great fashion tricks from classic movies.

OK, not exactly a "lookalike", but I just saw a movie with Josh Brolin: And he totally reminded me of my favorite big dope Joe Don Baker: Of course that Shirley Temple in the bikini is P-shopped....her facial age does not correspond with the bathing suit style time period. Also: Crispin Glover had a horrific poster for his dreadful movie "What Is It?" It featured Shirley Temple P-shopped in S&M garb wielding a whip. I would not loan my best friend, a Shirley Temple collector, $10 to buy it. I thought it was in very bad taste, but I bet it's worth a lot of money to collectors.

Do yourself a favor and WATCH THIS MOVIE. This is exactly the kind of straight-to-the-point suggestion I need, thank you. It's written on my film list for April.

If any Canuck is missing a movie....PM me. An effort can be made to get it to you.

I just perused the 31 Days of Oscar schedule in Now Playing. I've only chosen 3 movies to see for the entire month. I always check premieres first - often Underground films- because I have an already huge DVD library or, if it's a really great movie have seen it enough times to recite the dialogue. My nose wrinkled when the "premieres" I did see turned out to be that Lord of The Ring Hobbit thingie. Ew. Really cheaply made styrofoam sets, bad acting, convoluted story....what's classic about that?

it was not a perfect movie but it was an entertaining movie and an interesting movie and a fascinating time capsule and the sort of movie that might just rook in a new classic film fan. Yeah, but that would be something other than "essential". Essentials, as far the category goes, is for newbies....what are the best films that will get a non film fan interested in classic film? I agree there's a plethora of lesser known movies for the already initiated film fan. Maybe it's time to retire the idea of Essentials and start a different hosted discussion show. Hidden Treasures, maybe? I'd certainly like to see longer discussions.

I noticed the other night while watching THE GOODBYE GIRL, snippets of the theme song is used throughout the story- whenever the Elliot charactor is playing his guitar-he strums it. Thankfully, the insipid radio version is only played at the end & you can turn the sound off while reading the credits. THE THIRD MAN and DR ZHIVAGO have to be the two most irritating soundtracks ever.

A Night at the Opera How could I have forgotten my beloved Marx Bros? That film rates an ESSENTIAL because all ages and cultures will enjoy it. I was amazed showing the kid her first Marx Bros. She laughed at Harpo while we laughed at Groucho. We ALL laughed at Chico. Brilliant nonsense.

How about Peter Finch in Network? Um no. The charactor has snapped yes, but in reaction to a grave injustice he sees going on....and beyond his control. This is a perfectly normal reaction for any reasonable person. He's apoplectic...but still a direct reaction. Mental illness happens when the stimuli comes from within and creating an unproductive reaction.