Bill_McCrary
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"*********@alltel.net"
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Clue # 8. A visit to the zoo.
The Cat People?
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The comedy series were all theatrical presentations. No television was involved.
Mary Kornman..... She was in the early "Little Rascals" (silent era) with Mickey Daniels (freckled and outrageous laugh), and then returned (as a young adult) in the "Boy Friends" series and also in a couple of sound "Little Rascals" ones - she and Mickey took the kids to the amusement park in one.
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The childhood incident in question affected his eyes. As his popularity slowly grew, he went from being reprehensible baddie to lovable baddie.
Jack Elam!
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I was a pretty blonde and made my name as the leading lady in a popular comedy series. I spent 5 years with that series and was the love interest of mainly the same guy throughout those five years. Four years after leaving that series, I starred in another comedy series alongside that same cinematic love interest.
Well, now, if we want to kinda turn that one on its head -
Vivian Vance, who played Ethel Mertz in FOUR series, at least the way IMDB counts them..... But I kinda think that's not who you had in mind.
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I hold the distinction of being one of the very first, if not the first, female practitioners of a profession in my home state.
Hitchcock's first American film was what clinched it. You could have dragged this out, without that.
Florence Bates!
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Your turn, Bill. Make us sweat, this time.
Go ahead and sweat - it just turned cold over on this coast, after a long warm spell. I swear I'll come up with that "doozie" one of these days. Somebody else, batter up!
Bill
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buy more tapes - we won't get into my need for a DVD Recorder.
Plus, I don't know if you realized, or read in another thread - DVDr's are routinely available on sale for under 30 cents apiece, including tax, these days. Tapes are closer to $1 (and sometimes more, depending), WHEN you can find them now.
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Nitpick: This of course excludes the tributes to recently deceased famous people.
Right, I forgot about that when I was typing. Last January a whole bunch of Robert Montgomery got kicked off - but they did finally play most (all?) of those a few months later. But even when I was really hoping for something, it's still nice that they do the tributes; like the way we pull off the road for funeral processions, police uncover, etc. (That's the way we still do it here, at least!)
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"Please, Sir, I want some more...." Waiting for the newest batch (my "fix"). I hope everything's ok there with you, MGMWBRKO!
Bill
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This was my post in the "tearjerker" thread recently:
The most recent one to work on me was this afternoon's "Goodbye, Mr Chips," the Peter O'Toole/Petula Clark musical. I remember hearing nothing but terrible things about it when it was new. I've got the LP but don't think I've ever played it. Never watched it before. HAVE watched the Donat classic.
Hey - I was impressed. PC sings, for sure; PO is at least as good as Lee Marvin (!) in that regard, or close to Rex Harrison (more to the point). By the final scenes I was really into it, and prepared for the same ending as the Donat - and just as happy for what I was watching, instead. I like this ending, too ( - - and some of you thought I was going to give a spoiler, I'll bet). Cried as much because of the change (in a good way) as for him in general. Long movie, but then I'm used to opera! And it looks gorgeous.
Bill
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Why are these movies announced beforehand then yanked. Is there last minute trouble in actually clearing them for broadcast? Will they eventually be shown over the next few months?
I've been printing out the schedules, either two or even three months in advance, for over three years, and this is the first time I ever recall more than one or two being changed. I know it must have something to do with the addition of the Columbia and Paramount things to what's being shown. Just what that would be - certainly not privy to that. A couple of the films have been moved to other nights, or a theme has replaced whatever (non-)theme was originally up for that night. And there are several in which the movie was changed even after Now Playing went to press. Also, there is the occasional (changed) film where a previous description has been left with a new film's title.
Thought - wonder if some of the items got tied up in the recent (near?)blizzards and an adjustment had to be made? That makes as much sense as anything.....
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I believe that's from Only the Growing Nose and was spoken by Jimmy Durante.
Jack, BeHAVE yourself!!!!
Bill
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Has anyone here watched her in Mexicali Rose (1929)?
Got a fairly decent copy (DVD-R) from a fellow at the most recent film festival I went to. I checked to make sure it plays ok, but not really watched it yet. I guess you're saying you have it, too?
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I still don't have a way of making copies of my dvd-r's, my computer has no dvd drive. That is how you make copies, right?
I haven't finished reading the thread, so maybe someone has already responded, but yes.......
Wal-Mart (for one) has HP and Sony DVD drives for computers at $70 or less. These newest ones will do double-layer (which I haven't tried yet), RAM, everything (+ and -). If your machine already has a DVD-ROM that's even better, since you can read and record at the same time, but the newest ones are so fast (up to 16X) that it's no real problem to use one drive to read and then copy from the hard drive back to a DVD. All that's if you have a home-made DVD (not a commercial one - most won't copy without doing stuff we shouldn't) and want a copy.
And definitely have separate players (cheap as $30 now) and recorders (under $100, not with hard-disc, though; but you get what you pay for, mostly) -- if one breaks, the other's still useful. And, at $30, disposable!
And, another good thing about the hard-drive recorders - if you MUST get something from AMC (or other commercial-playing channels, like BBC/America), then at least you can edit out the commercials before they get to disc!
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When I was a kid, my family was so poor we had to live in our van. I worked as a janitor for a while.
Bingo - Jim Carrey!
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Leo Carrillo
Hume Cronyn
Lorne Greene
N.B.: Please note, the connection that these three gentlemen share is NOT unique.
Is it that they all did "live" TV dramas? (Or appeared in a particular live drama series?)
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His sidekick was a Mexican named "Chito", a snappy dresser with a running gag about skirt-chasing.
Richard Martin, who played "Chito": Chito Jose Gonzalez Bustamante Rafferty
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Just got through reading that article. WOW!
I remember (and have kept handy) the article from High Fidelity magazine, but never knew anything like all the stories (and details) in the Classic Images article.
Thanks so much.
If you've said, I didn't see it - your husband, with a jazz program, is he somebody those of us not from your area would know (of)?
Bill
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The most recent one to work on me was this afternoon's "Goodbye, Mr Chips," the Peter O'Toole/Petula Clark musical. I remember hearing nothing but terrible things about it when it was new. I've got the LP but don't think I've ever played it. Never watched it before. HAVE watched the Donat classic.
Hey - I was impressed. PC sings, for sure; PO is at least as good as Lee Marvin (!) in that regard, or close to Rex Harrison (more to the point). By the final scenes I was really into it, and prepared for the same ending as the Donat - and just as happy for what I was watching, instead. I like this ending, too ( - - and some of you thought I was going to give a spoiler, I'll bet). Cried as much because of the change (in a good way) as for him in general. Long movie, but then I'm used to opera! And it looks gorgeous.
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Anything up to 1976 (well, '77) is over 30 years old now. For those of us over 50, who grew up with the first real burst of television, that would have meant seeing silent movies on tv....
When we were watching movies on tv in the early '60s, they were mainly from the '30s and '40s; that would translate now into the '70s, '80s, and early '90s - hmmm???
Of course, that doesn't address whether (many of) those are classic or not - and neither were lots of the movies we watched back then. And we watched them chopped up, cut down, and often on snowy screens.
(None of which is any endorsement to play more and more of the '80s and '90s movies that are being shown on other channels routinely.)
Bill
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Been in Rome and Florence, where I've not no internet access in my hotels,
I'm suprised Georgia (Rome) and South Carolina/Alabama (Florence) couldn't provide you with that!!
Buon ritorno!
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it is a fairly notable characteristic, not shared by many. In fact, I daresay it is NOT shared by ANYONE who is acting today.
They all fought in World War II?
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....i remember seeing as a child and never thought twice about it....
There's your answer. I think most of us are like that as children. We watch, it's a story, we accept. We know the difference between stories and real life. And, as I posted a little while ago on another thread, we (most of us) like/liked being scared, since we knew/know we can come back from that to the real world. I mean, Cruella DeVille (the original one)... eeek!!!!!!!!!!!! And the villains always met their match.
Of course, that doesn't keep "stories" from meaning lots of different things for the adults reading/watching. Like the '40s cartoons - kids liked them, but they were really for the adults! (Some of them, in particular)
Remembering the Title of an Old Western
in Westerns
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Scotty {*********@alltel.net}
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PLEASE don't show your e-mail address in the open on the forums. There are many good reasons not to; trust us on this. You can PM people and give them your address when you decide it's the right thing to do; or they can PM you, without you having to use your e-mail, until you decide you trust them.
Bill