Swithin
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Have to confess this, though I'm sure I'm in the minority. One thing I find boring on this board is the use of photos. When people get going, it takes up so much space and pushes conversations to the next page. Shocking though this sounds, I would not mind if TCM removed our ability to post photos.
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It's mon ami, Miss W.
Perhaps it would help if you gave a very specific example of what you mean.
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Miss W., baby, what do you mean by velocity? I think the boards are actually more focused on the love of film, which isn't really a high-voltage subject, despite our passion. I think we are sometimes brainwashed by the media into thinking all conversations have to be debates. I don't agree with that. I also think the diversity of TCM's programming has become richer during the past year -- films I've mentioned on these boards have suddenly shown up!
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There are really trashy (but fun) horror film called Voodoo Woman (1957), about a group of American in the African jungle, looking for treasure. One of them, an extremely ruthless character played by Marla English, is asked why she's looking for gold. "I'm from PITTSBURGH," she says.
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Well, I'm from NYC, so I'll skip the usual NYC references. Here are a few others:
Two songs: from 42nd Street: "Shuffle off to Buffalo;" from Guys and Dolls: "Adelaide's Lament" mentions Saratoga: "Then they get off at Saratoga, for the fourteenth time!..."
And three Bronx, NYC lines:
Al Jolson, The Jazz Singer: "Mama, I'm rich, we're moving to the Bronx!"
Mae West, Every Day's a Holiday: "He can juggle the votes for us up in the Bronx."
To Each His Own: "The more I hear about places like that, the better I like the Bronx!"
Also lots of lines from Drums along the Mohawk, the Mohawk of course being a river in New York state.
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I agree with you about TCM UK. I've watched it over there, I stay with a friend who gets two TCM channels (I think one may just be part-day). But it is like AMC here -- not a good selection of films; plus commercials. Occasionally there might be a UK rarity screened, but not often, as I recall.
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*Auntie Mame* includes a good line: When Patrick, referring to a drunk Vera Charles ( played by Coral Browne), says "Is the English lady sick, Auntie Mame?" Mame replies, "She's not English she's from Pittsburgh." Patrick says "She sounds English," Mame replies, "When you're from Pittsburgh, you have to do something."
Also, I believe *The Valley of Decision* with Greer Garson is set near Pittsburgh and makes reference to it.
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In a different way. I think Jamaica Inn is also inferior, but NBNW I think is Hitchock's joke-- a slick Hollywood movie with all the production values and Hitchcockian themes but with no soul.
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Is that what the film An American in Paris is about?
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I think that I have been the top "Not NBNW" complainer around here the last few years. Not just because it's shown so much, but because I honestly think it's a lousy film. But though I still think the film is among the great man's weakest, I've stopped complaining because there has been so much new on TCM lately, and so much more to come.
So I've stopped dissing NBNW, but I still think that if you really look at it, and read about it, you can see that it's really weak.
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I guess I agree with you. Us Yankee aggressors have a nasty way of invading third world countries, we just can't resist! I'm actually beginning to think that an amicable separation would have been a good thing.
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> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:
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> }{quote}... with late-night drinking, divorces, deaths in the family, etc.
That sounds more exciting than the Civil War!
Actually, The Deer Hunter did three acts pretty well: the wedding; the war; back home.
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Actually, Dargo, apart from the comparison with Little Women, and despite my love for classic (and particularly big 30s) films, I've never liked GWTW much. I didn't realize why until many years ago, when I learned it had had several directors. That may be it. GWTW doesn't work as a "whole" to me, it lacks a unity. It has some scenes that I like, and some performances, but I've always felt that there is something missing.
Another 1939 "historic" film that I like better than GWTW but where I also feel the parts are greater than the whole is Juarez, an underrated film that has segments which are as beautiful, moving, and dramatic as any film. But it lacks a unity, which in this case has been attributed to Paul Muni's wife getting the great Mr. Muni to demand more screen time, thus screwing with the flow of the film. Bette Davis has some of her greatest scenes in Juarez; and Brian Aherne gives his best performance.
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I guess the South was more colorful. Also I guess there weren't that many actual battles on Northern territory, so you couldn't have the dramatic counterpoint of families going about their business and battles raging outside their door.
Many years ago, I visited the State House in Oklahoma City, which includes a museum. There are two rooms commemorating the Civil War. One, sponsored by the North, was all muted colors; the one sponsored by the South was all red and gold. As a Yankee, I thought to myself (smugly), "how refined we are," and "what good taste we have." I see that in the difference between Little Women and GWTW. Edna May Oliver as Aunt March may be exasperating, but I'd take her anyday over Aunt Pittypat!
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Yes, Miles, it is! Your thread.
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I've just watched *Orders to Kill*. Lillian Gish has a small part, in which she excels, but Miss Gish's friend, and mine, *Irene Worth*, has the largest woman's role in this amazing film, which I had never seen until tonight. I wish Irene were still with us, so I could tell her how wonderful she was, and how she should have made more films. But she spent her career on the stage, enthralling audiences in the UK and the US. She was a good friend, and I miss her.
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You should see him as Mae West's love interest in Klondike Annie. I think she should have chosen Phillip Reed.
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Sorry, no. The Kiss is a much later sculpture by Rodin. The sculpture which is part of the title is by one of the greatest sculptors of the Renaissance, who is also known for a famous ceiling.
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Good guess, but no. Think silent film and famous sculpture by one of the Renaissance's major artists.
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I LOVE Ann Harding and second the motion! I particularly want to see Peter Ibbetson, haven't seen it in a very long time.
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The "bigger stars" have been done to death. I'm really looking forward to *Kidnapped* tonight, the best version of that film, based on Stevenson's great book (which I always liked better than his Treasure Island ). Bartholomew makes a great David Balfour, and C. Aubrey Smith has one of his best roles. I haven't seen this film in years!
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I agree with you Fred. I particularly think the 1933 version is wonderful, the later versions ok. I see Little Women as a sort of Yankee Gone with the Wind, but a much better movie than GWTW.
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Merely ok statue in Florence.
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