Bill_McCrary
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"Penelope"? She robs her own husband's bank (among other things).
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You are Charles Bukowski.
That's what I started to put, also, last night (I think - I've been awfully Christmas-choir-busy-and-now-woozy); but it all just seemed so weird. I mean, "American's Greatest Poet," (called by at least one person, according to Google/AOL), and I've never even heard/seen the name till now! Robert Frost comes up, expectedly....
But IMDB keywords, etc. - zilch for me; had to go elsewhere for anything. Hope you're right, and wish I had posted when I saw it, but just too strange for my blood (and what they had to say about him - oh, my stars!). Anyway, tired as I am I probably shouldn't even be posting.
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Mine was doing it, too, a week or so ago. I THINK it quit when I got the new IE (#7?). You should be able to "declick" a box on that message box, and that should stop your seeing it. You'll get something at the bottom afterwards that says "... but with errors" and just don't worry about it.
Maybe there's something fancier, but it's working for me.
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all their movies have to be in a digital format to be shown. They cannot be VHS tape or Laserdisc....
Laserdisc is digital, isn't it? Just like a big DVD, except not bit-compressed like DVDs. Digital soundtracks (even AC-3 surround) on the later ones. And there have been times (not many) when a "smidgen" of the LD identifiers have shown up as TCM began a movie. When they showed the 1934 "Man Who Knew Too Much" last year, it certainly appears to be the Image LD version, which the FIRST good copy I've ever found.
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Look under "Genre" forums (farther down the forum home page), find "Shorts"
and open it. Then "Upcoming Shorts." You may have to go back a page (or two) for the 17th. If you're interested in shorts, this thread will become your future "home!"
BTW, it was "What the Daisy Told" or similar (I'm not looking at it now) - Mary Pickford/Griffith from 1910 or so. It's probably in the big Griffith box, and they've shown it a couple of times before.
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I still don't understand why people don't just subscribe to Now Playing?
I have (for two months now) subscribed to "Now Playing," but I still plan to download and copy (for now, anyway). The point is, even though it's trouble, that I have them right there in front of me for at least two months in advance, to read and mark up WAY ahead of time. Pretty soon I will have March (in early January, I guess) and will be able to see just what will be on while I'm out of town for a film show in Williamsburg - and start making plans about how many machines to set up how many ways!
Besides, I like to type and copy/paste (up to a point)!
Anybody want some schedules (Word format) since August of 2003, to go back and check? (I also compulsively save documents and e-mails.)
Bill
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I first have to say, I recorded the movie but haven't watched it yet. Next, many/most of us know about exploitation films like "Marihuana" and "Reefer Madness." I actually remember seeing (in 5th grade?) a movie about alcohol that sticks with (in?) me yet for one particular (and, later I knew, mostly b.s.) scene....
Saying that.... IF you grew up in the South (especially rural-ish) and are around 50 or over, and you don't think the police could and did do everything in their power (and beyond) to scare the be-jeezus out of speeding kids (or, name your crime); if you don't think that small-town cops even today (within a 50-mile radius of my slightly-larger-than-small-town-less-than-a-big-city-but-still-the-county-seat home) don't "target" young people and minorities (maybe I meant to say minority young people) -- then you have experienced an alternate reality to mine.
Taking it to the level in some of these movies from the '30s and '40s (and early '50s) was probably close enough to experiences (and expectations) of much of the audience to keep them nearer the straight-and-narrow path!
I live in one county seat and taught for 31 years in an adjoining county seat more rural than mine. In teaching American Government to mostly 10th graders for years (including the chapters on Civil Rights that some of my colleagues wouldn't touch), in a very-predominantly-minority school, I heard plenty of local tales (in the '80s and early '90s) that could have been from the era/setting of "To Kill a Mockingbird" and other similar movies. Life imitating art.
I suspect that Fred, with his Louisiana and Texas days in mind, had as little trouble as I did with the concept, realizing that situations do get exaggerated, of course. I'm glad if you never got any real threats and never had friends tell you about theirs, but there is (and especially, was) another world out there.
Bill
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Riff-Raff (1933)?
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i print out the TCM schedule 2-3 months ahead of time at the library.on tuesday, dec. 19, TCM was showing the little girl who lives down the lane at 10:15 pm, and the little princess a midnight. come tuesday, they showed out of order. i recorded little princess. and LGWLDTL is one of my wife's favorites. so, now i don't have a copy of that. so what is going on?
I also print out ahead (converted to word and condensed to 10 legal pages!), but have learned to "watch out," especially if a star has died, for changes. What was neat (not!), was that at the end of "Bad Seed," the list for the next three movies still showed "Little Girl" coming up next! But Rob had announced "Princess," so the decision had been made some time in advance. My solution (except when I have to be recording BBC/America series, etc.) is to keep the hard drive running and edit to DVD later. Others on the threads speak of having two-three TiVos running to catch everything.... Or, if you have SuperVHS, run a good tape at 6 hr speed and then dub to DVD later. But - these things happen.
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February is "31 Days of Oscar" (into March for three days), so don't look for anything that didn't win an Oscar for something.
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I only appeared in a few films, but I was the writer of many movies. Giants of literature have called me "America's Greatest Poet." Who am I?
Harold Pinter?
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Kidnapped?
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None of these things are happening in SC with DirecTV, at least. What has been happening, for months, is 2-3 seconds (occasionally longer) of black, then back to normal. But it's not a TCM thing: It's happening with BBC/America and others, so it's a DirecTV thing. Not terrible, but certainly annoying, especially if it happens during a song!
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I think I dated that girl after she grew up.
Reading the thread from newest down (as usual), I thought at first people were already writing about "The Bad Seed!"
Sorry, just had to........ But I really did.
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Sam's Club sells the CD/DVD thin (square-ish) cases 100 for less than $13. I've been using them for years. Of course, you CAN get the taller ones, thin versions of regular DVD cases, paying more. It's hard to beat their price (maybe online, but I go when I need another hundred - like every third week!). If you don't have a card, either go with a friend who does, or get one - you could save enough in a year to justify it, even if you bought nothing else. DVD prices are ok, but watch for sales at Office Depot if you have one; I've been getting blanks for around 24-27 cents apiece the past several months. IF you want to use paper sleeves with plastic windows, Wally World has everybody else beat, hands-down (less than half what OD charges).
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"STRANDED" with Kay Francis and George Brent?
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One pair would be (though maybe not totally fitting your description) Walter Pidgeon and John Raitt. They both were in Judy Garland films. (Raitt was an extra in "Little Nelly Kelly.")
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As we've said on other threads (and maybe it was already somewhere on here, though I've kept up with most of this thread) - what you already know you don't/can't like, don't watch.
I got up every morning earlier than necessary back in the mid-'80s to get the cartoons and shorts (especially Three Stooges) on tape from TBS; also, much of the time they ran another hour or so around 4 in the afternoon. Those were the glory days; there were three (or four?) shorts that apparently TBS never showed. I kept them carefully listed (3 or 4 tapings for most) in my Maltin book of comedians, with those showing conspicuous gaps (and a couple more showed only once). LIVED for the early ones, tolerated Joe Besser ones, didn't mind Shemp as somebody had to replace Curley. (And there's the one with Curley as a non-speaking train passenger, after his stroke.)
Even back then, people (parent-types) talked about the eye-poking and all, but we kids (and grown-up kids) KNEW - of course! - it was all make believe. After all, we grew up in the days when all the kids on the block might spend most of the day away from their homes, somewhere on the block, playing with other kids in lots behind houses, etc., like the (early) Little Rascals. We just showed up at mealtimes, etc., and otherwise minded our own business (and took care of our own problems). The world has changed, and there are "things" out there that are scary these days (but there were some, then, too!); still, too much "protection" is not necessarily good, either.
I cannot deal well with a world in which people feel the need for therapy after someone has used a little sarcasm (or who feel the need to threaten a teacher's job for using same). For 28 years I was known as a teacher who had wonderful rapport with my students; for the last three (new world, "1984" in action), I had to watch every word I said - new world order, indeed! I hadn't changed, nor my methods; but now we dealt with lawsuits because Mommy and Daddy heard that teachers said something babykins didn't like. A thick skin never hurt anyone; but then again, sensitivity to others' feelings is also a marvelous attribute to possess.
In other words, "different strokes...." I guess.
If you like 'em, enjoy without remorse. If you don't, then stay away, but don't disparage their being shown for the others.
Bill
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it's mid 70's, action/suspense...basic theme is an older couple driving a 72ish red chevrolet convertible towing an airstream travel trailer ... then, they are road-raged/tormented by 2 (maybe 3) black custom vans,
Possibly "Stingray" from 1978.
http://www.imdb.com/Plot?0078323
Here are some more to check out:
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12/19 9:16am/6:16a - A Cinderella Named Elizabeth 1965-7m-
MOD - Elizabeth Hartman(n?) - "A Patch of Blue"
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I only remember his saying it once - maybe there have been other times - but RO ("our Robert") stated on air, saying people had been asking, that they show the credits every time the movie/print they are using has them. I am sure that some copies must have had them lopped off and it's all they have now, whereas in other cases they are shown. That's what he said that time, anyway.
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I have to agree with you about that Jeanette MacDonald promo with the howling dogs. It really kind of creeped me out.
That was probably the first one I saw (I posted on another thread at the time), and I was prepared to hate it - I was afraid the dogs were going to howl and drown her out or something. NO.......... It is one of the sweetest tributes I think I've ever seen, with her calming them, and with them whimpering ever so quietly. I LOVE it. And I've got all 5 (so far) on my hard drive. The photographer with the beauties (Lolita?) is a hoot.
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I was one of those actors whose face was familiar, but not necessarily the name. I had a 10-year Broadway career before I made my first film. I was generally cast as the suave other man. My real claim to fame was in who I married. It was a brief marriage, and my famous and outspoken wife wasn't shy about saying she wanted me because of my face . . . and other things -- all of which things reminded her of someone else.
Could it be Mike Todd, to whom Michael Wilding lost Liz?
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And just a reminder, to those who may not have ever really thought about it, or who somehow got it wrong:
The Twelve Days of Christmas are the 12 AFTER Christmas, till the Epiphany, on January 6th - not the 12 days leading up to Christmas! I've got one friend who refers to Epiphany as "Old Christmas," and he arranges his gifts such that he has something to open on each of those days, and not all on Christmas day.
Maybe someone else would like to weigh in on England's "Boxing Days," which have nothing to do with pugilism....
When will TCM go HD?
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LaserDiscs are analog.
Thanks for confirming what I should have remembered if I weren't stretched so thin for the holidays. Like SuperVHS before that existed, plus no tape to wear out (and fairly tolerant of scratches). If only they'd caught on better! When I started scarfing them up as DVD came along, even at half-price and better I paid around $50 for some three-disc sets; and just try to buy a Looney Tunes Volume 5 original set (not DVD clones)! and Happy Harmonies! But, I'll get lucky like I did with my Tex Avery and TomandJerry sets one of these days on eBay (or even a yard/estate sale).
(Just realized that second sentence sounds as if I meant I were stretched like Super VHS - oh, well). Merry Christmas to all, and to all a (very) good night!
Bill