Tikisoo
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7 hours ago, laffite said:
I haven't read any of this thread, (snipped)I don't see the benefit so far, just new problems. Maybe they'll just put it back the way it was.
Of course they won't....if you hadn't read the thread then you aren't aware these changes are all part of the evil plan-
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1 hour ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
I’m getting too lazy to Google in my old age.
Try Vitamin E
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Still watching Julie Christie, I started watching PETULIA '68. It's always intrigued me for it's cast of George C Scott, Shirley Knight, William Holden. I did not make it much past the crucial 20 minute mark. I didn't care for any of the people nor their situations, so since I had a back up of things to watch, abandoned it.
I went to 1979's JUST YOU & ME KID a George Burns & Brooke Shields movie I thought I had already seen (but hadn't)
Man, George Burns certainly hit comic gold in the 70's with SUNSHINE BOYS, OH GOD & GOING IN STYLE and this movie. This one had the simplest, classic plot: Brooke Shields is a runaway & Burns hides her. In the few days she's hidden in his house, they become friends. Happy ending.
But oh, the telling of the tale is the delicious experience! Burns plays himself, a retired performer who is well set in his golden years. All his friends are old performers too including Ray Bolger, Leon Ames, Carl Ballentine, Keye Luke....& Burl Ives his magician friend living in a nursing home. All the guys come to the rescue when police want to search the house for the teen girl purported to be held captive by Burns.
Brooke Shields is wonderful, so believable, smart & yeah, gorgeous. The dynamic between the two of them is what makes this movie great-she's determined & dramatic, he's laid back & wise. Although "dirty old man" is brought up by others who spot the mystery girl in his home, Burns' charactor is genuine, charming & classy, just like you'd hope & expect. His home is peppered with delightful eccentricities reflecting his show business life.
This movie is an utter delight from beginning to end (although the capturing of the "bad guy" is downright silly) and I was actually pleasantly surprised by the neat bow of an ending.
This goes to show classic movies could still being made in the 70's-there's no sex, violence or swearing and this movie can be enjoyed by kids/adults of any age. This is one I'll watch again & loan out the disk for others to discover! Fabulous!
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On 8/31/2020 at 8:53 PM, Judex said:
Wow I always think of Roz being so tall! Although Roz's in flats & Lucy has on heels, they are close to the same height. Lucy was kind of tall too. Poor Theresa Wright looks like such a timid gal, certainly not a movie star!
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Quanset Huts.
I used to own one of those charming 1948 enamel on steel pre-fab houses. Bought it for $1 since the property owners were replacing it with a new quadruple size PVC constructed house to hold all their STUFF.
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13 hours ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
I don't really see the connection of these films to the end of summer.
Agreed. Maybe in their mind the end of summer signals the end of festival/concerts?
Uh, St Patrick's Day 2020 was the end of festivals/concerts.
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Good thing that dope has a sign on the shelf that tells him what building he's in ^^^
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19 hours ago, LsDoorMat said:
Answer - Yes, canned everything was a thing.
Don't forget the grocery store signs in DOUBLE INDEMNITY: "CAND BEANS, CAND CHICKEN" apparently, ebonics was around in the 30's-40's.
And I loved your grandmother's stories LS, I did the same thing with my Nana-that's how I learned about "rolling your stockings below your knees & putting rouge on your knee caps." And the house I live in, Nana rented these rooms out in tough times.
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47 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
"YOO-HOO, GIRLFRIEND!!!!!"
Heh I attended a test preview of a not-yet-released rom-com and when the lying bf knocked at the door someone in the audience blurted, "DON'T ANSWER IT!!" the entire room erupted in laughter!
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18 hours ago, looney4tcm said:
That's enough to make me watch Amazon Prime.
If that's the case, you should have been more discerning about the screen name you chose.
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14 hours ago, Hibi said:
Why does this keep happening?
I don't know, but it's screwing up my DVR recordings.
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Aw now you'll have to return to bumping post count with one line non answers. (like this)
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11 hours ago, Swithin said:
In any case, not alien.
Haha forgot it was a carbuncle!
Sorry, it was my poor choice of words. I did not use the term "alien" to reference from another planet, but I used the term to mean "foreign" as in not natural. Like Rosemary's baby. Wow I never realized carrying a child from an unknown/foreign father was such a common horror theme!
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10 minutes ago, slaytonf said:
I admit to being dense, how do you do that?
Still don't see a search box.
The magnifying glass for searching is now a lighter gray visible in the upper black "cityscape" masthead picture at the top of your window.
All I have to do to get rid of the stoopid statistics is to resize my window. I'm on a Mac laptop, though, I'm sure different devices process the spacing differently.
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OK last night I watched a doozy! There was talk on this board about Julie Christie, an actress I found wooden and bland. She had her defenders so I took a couple of her movies from the library to check her out.
1977's DEMON SEED was first, based on a Dean Koontz sci-fi horror novel. Wow, it was pretty much a laugh fest combining the HAL elements of 2001 with the alien baby elements of THE MANITOU. And I gotta say, Julie Christie showed lots of acting talent for such a stinker movie.
The story is her husband is a software developer who has created an artificial intelligence (AI) and is out of town marketing it to corporate sponsors. He has completely wired his home with this system Proteus- using visual monitors to operate the front door, locks, lighting, temperature control, etc. Sound familiar?
Of course, Alexa/Proteus gets a mind of it's own and kidnaps wife/Julie Christie and defends the domain by killing any intruders. It's kidnapped her to impregnate her to create a "real life" a la Pinocchio, oy.
I have to say, the effect of the metal machine made of triangles (a physical manifestation of AI) was an excellent visual. I'm not sure how it was done, it's obviously a real physical "puppet" of some sort, not CGI. The effect was completely ruined by the sound effects-one being the completely recognizable swoosh sound of Star Trek's Enterprise door opening! (should have had rusty creaky metal sound Ray Harryhousen used for his metal Colossus)
The thing that makes the entire movie laughable is the words/phrases the AI says-this was SO OBVIOUSLY written by a man! Imagine your Alexa doorbell saying, "I want to have a child with you, you're so beautiful." OY!
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All I can say is THANK YOU! They lightened the gray menu links for us to actually SEE! And especially happy we can now easily bypass the "thread statistics" column that tells us what posters made comments in the thread. There's only one member here I can think of who actually cares about post numbers over content. 🙄
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4 hours ago, cmovieviewer said:
It's currently missing in the on-line schedule, but Merrily We Go To Hell (1932) has its TCM premiere on Tuesday evening at 9:15 pm ET.
Yeah, too bad these aren't listed on the schedule:
(Premieres)
Sep 1 - Merrily We Go to Hell (1932)?
Sep 9 - Mother Is a Freshman (1949)?
Sep 25 - C.C. and Company (1970)?
Sep 25 - J.C. (1972)?
Sep 27 - Island in the Sun (1957)?
I had to make my list for recordings and since the start times/duration aren't on the schedule, I had to skip recording them. I'm guessing all of these are part of the Women In Film.
Very Bad Schedule Listing!
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18 hours ago, midwestan said:
Also, if anyone is a subscriber to YouTube TV, do you experience the same restrictions or blackouts of certain movies? Thanks for responses to my conundrum.
I feel for ya, bro. It's awful trying to do things the right way (paying for subscription) and they deny you access. I stream many channels & subscribe to YT-TV and movies are either uploaded or not.
Don't be scared when it says, "Full movie, 15 videos" because each chapter will play concurrently in order without you having to do anything. But typically, the quality is less than perfect.
NEVER use Alexa/siri/whomever to search for a movie for you, they will always default to "pay-per-view" options. Even YouTube isn't always free but has their own "YouTubeMovies" as a pay-per-view option as in my holy grail WC FIELDS & ME '76.
I have found tons of older classic movies on free subscription streaming channels such as Tubi and Pluto which has several Paramount/Universal titles. It's almost going back to theater distribution, you better know what studio made the movie! (and there's always your local library)
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On 7/16/2020 at 12:30 AM, Allhallowsday said:
Everybody who met Jo loved her. I am lucky; I'm proud of my mom.
So nice! Moms wait a LONG TIME to be appreciated.
My grandmother rented out rooms in the house I live in now. She rented the "warmest" bedroom to a Josephine who went by Jo. It's now my clean workroom where I restore paper/posters/fabric but it will always be "Jo's Room" She was never married, a WAC and like a member of our family.
My office is in Mrs Coyle's Room which as a child saw this:
On 8/27/2020 at 5:02 PM, sewhite2000 said:I very frequently follow it up by saying, "Yes, Captain Butler. I remember you."
Haha same movie: when I'm high & spot an unexpected guest pulling up outside my house, "Great Balls of Fire (burp) It's Rhett!"
On 8/27/2020 at 11:34 PM, Allhallowsday said:"What's wrong with 'er? She gotta HANGOVER?"
Haha same movie: several references from drinking to odor "Countess your cowboy is STINKO" The first time I saw pretty Paulette Goddard say that with a big smile on her face, I laughed out loud!
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Well we're subscribed to AntoniaCarlotta's videos & watched this shortly after it became live. I was very familiar with this story and thought the video was excellent-AND- learned something new: how Oswald's name was chosen!
MrTiki had zero knowledge about early Disney animation & the Alice series, I'm amazed you can get those early clips to illustrate your story! Thanks for making these!
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48 minutes ago, sagebrush said:
Why should different browsers make such a difference?
It's another ploy to make us buy, buy, buy or get left behind. The last "upgrade" many people dropped out because they simply could not afford to buy new equipment.
I gotta say as a designer, the gray icons on a black field are ridiculous! No WONDER none of us see them-even after we change the window size.
No one gets the Flash gray bubble on the goofy reaction icons? Geez, if they really wanted to enhance this site, they could have:
- made the reaction emojis GIFs
- added an "agree" and "disagree" icon
- added to the "reply" formatting menu for all sub forums
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13 hours ago, misswonderly3 said:
What do we care what the most "popular" post is, or how many days the thread is on page 1? There's something a bit childish and/or egotistical about paying attention to what's "the most popular". What is this, high school ?
Obviously there's one poster who is thrilled about these changes!
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16 hours ago, MovieCollectorOH said:
It's still there, just incorporated into a newfangled social media fad thing. Look for the three dots in the upper right area of your post, and click on that.
It's all part of the "training"
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Omigot THANK YOU! I was just about to make my list of what to record for September (super late this month!) My list always begins with Premieres.
Thanks, too for separating the genres like you did, sometimes I just want ALL of something, like the Sat Matinees. (although not the Popeyes this time)
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MERRILY WE GO TO HELL
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Kwanzaa Hut you say?
In this upgrade, they should have added an emoji just for Dargo puns!