Swithin
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Congratulations, Sepiatone! Your thread...
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I thought my bill would go up, but it's going down! I want to keep exactly what I have and am glad I don't have to flirt with FIOS and Time Warner, which I had many years ago and didn't like. I'm happy with RCN and my bill will be less! (It's the people who didn't have a triple play who had to make decisions, I think some of them went to FIOS.)
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There's a cable recruiting session going on tonight in the lobby of my apartment building in NYC. We used to get a "bulk" rate from RCN, but then Time Warner, and more recently Verizon FIOS, came in. So we were recently told that we were losing the RCN special rate. Tonight representatives from the three companies are trying to woo customers. I have RCN for phone, television, and Internet and was told my bill will actually go down. Neighbors who only have RCN for television will see an increase. I assume they will either sign up for RCN's phone and Internet service, or move to FIOS. It's quite a scene, but the message is, competition is good!
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I finally watched *One More River* and found it riveting. What a grand cast and great story, so unusual for its time! It disturbed me, though, that the woman was reluctant to discuss her husband's brutality to her on the witness stand. But it's a fine film, with a great supporting performance by Mrs. Patrick Campbell!
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The lovely and talented Myrna Loy was very liberal. And, Jake old man, the Republican Party has changed over the years. When I was a young boy, the New York/New England Republicans -- Nelson Rockefeller, Jacob Javits, John V. Lindsay, Clifford Case, George Aiken, Margaret Chase Smith -- were as progressive or more so than many Democrats. Yes, as you say, Lincoln was a Republican, which is why the South became Democrat when he freed the slaves. Of course the South switched back to Republican when the Democrats pushed civil rights through.
On a related note, here are the last states to vote for women's suffrage, decades after the ratification of the 19th amendment:
Virginia, Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, Mississippi. And many of those states have the lowest life expectancy rates in the U.S.
Why must y'all always be behind the times?
But this is getting too political; to get back to film, it's all discussed in a wonderful documentary, Not for Ourselves Alone, about two Yankee women, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. -
Ok, don't get into a state about this one. Here's the clue:
*A diminutive **** belonging to me.*
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Interesting topic for a thread -- actors who played Napoleon Bonaparte. Rollo Lloyd in Anthony Adverse is another. But there are probably hundreds. But Albert Dieudonne in the Gance film would have to come at or near the top of the list. That film may be silent, but it sings!
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Can't get enough of this film. Saw it at Radio City with Carmine Coppola leading the orchestra, then in London. I actually prefer Coppola's score to that of Carl Davis, but I want to see every bit of footage extant of this incredible film, so I'll take what I can get. Hope it will come to NYC.
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I actually would be interested in what Plato would watch. I just don't understand what the Isle of Wight has to do with it!
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Surely there must be "classic schlock?" That may be part of the point, there are classics of genre. For me, King of the Zombies is a classic. I've never been a big fan of GWTW, though.
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TopBilled, I think you are a Platonist. You believe there is this form or ideal out there, which represents the "classic," and anything that conforms to that ideal becomes "classic." So, in your sense, something that approximates the "classic" in this finite world may be called "classic." And in that sense, it has nothing to do with age, merely with how closely it approximates the form/ideal.
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But I just realized ordinarysmith must be Gertrude Stein! Love that style!
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I sort of agree with you except I never much liked Harvey, which is about to get a new Broadway production. Does the rabbit quality as invisible or imaginary?
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And what ground, pray, have we not plowed over in the past?
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*The King and I*
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Right you are, Muddy, your turn...
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Do something Terpsichorean with someone you don't know.
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I feel guilty, with your last clue, and the fact that it was just on, I'm sure Lavendar would have gotten it had she been online. Guess it's just a question of timing. I'll come up with one tonight.
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*The Invisible Woman* ?
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*Frederick Treves*, who had a rich career on stage, screen, and television, has died aged 86. I saw him on the stage often, first in David Hare's play Plenty at the National Theatre, London, though he may have first come to the attention of American audiences as Col. John Layton, the father of Sara and Susan Layton in The Jewel in the Crown.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2012/feb/03/frederick-treves
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In *Sideways*, toward the end of the film, they're watching television in their hotel room. Appropriately, they're watching *The Grapes of Wrath* ! You barely have a glimpse of it, but you hear the dialogue.
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I had the pleasure to work with Ben Gazzara on a project in 2002. He was a very sweet man and lived on Madison Avenue in NYC at that time. Many people don't realize that he played Brick in the original Broadway production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, in 1955. Great actor, trained at the Actors Studio with Marilyn Monroe and others.
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And right you are Mr6666! Bo Derek was rated *10*; Robert Peary went to the *North* Pole; and, in Woman in White (1948), John Abbott played *Frederick* Fairlie, one of the great nervous wrecks in movie history. http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/275992/Woman-in-White-The-Movie-Clip-Indescribable-Torture.html
Your thread...
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Derek's rating Peary's direction Abbott's nervous character
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I remember when cable came to NYC, there wasn't much competition. I lived in Long Island City, Queens until about ten years ago. At first, we had no cable service in that neighborhood, even though Manhattan and other parts of Queens and NYC were wired. But we were too sparsly populated to bother about. Finally Time Warner came in, and we got cable. I remember a fabulous, comprehensive Bette Davis series on TCM shortly after I got cable!
I've lived in Manhattan since 2002 and signed up for RCN. Each cable company has its own cables. A couple of years ago, Verizon/FIOS paid our building (since we own our apartments, it was good for our general fund) a large sum for the privilege of wiring up and enticing new customers. It took them a few months to do whatever that had to under the streets; and in our building as well. But the FIOS cables are separate from RCN, and they are both separate from Time Warner.