clore
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Thank you for sharing that, hlywdkjk. Nice to know.
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As quick as they can be to shut down threads in other forums, it would be a simple matter to close it or just remove it altogether.
That is sad.
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I guess it would help if they either renamed the thread or put up a "sticky" saying that the thread is inactive. The label alone IS misleading.
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>>No, lol, Karl wasn't in THE GREAT RACE, but his Frenchy reminded me a bit of Jack Lemmon there, ha! I love Karl, and agree with you completely about him. He never phones it in.
He reminds me of Dishonest John on the old BEANY AND CECIL cartoon show.
Nyah-ah-ah!
THE HANGING TREE is the best Anthony Mann western made by someone else.
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>>According to reports, TCM is currently seen in 85 million homes.
Is that currently seen or currently available? There is a difference - for example, the Game Show Channel is available in my household, but it is never seen.
I'm not trying to be picky, I am genuinely curious as I spent a career massaging Nielsen and Arbitron numbers.
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>>Their managers in New York try to show films of the kind the audience will like. They pay for Nielsen Surveys to find out what the public likes and wants. They even put special boxes on the TV sets of some viewers to see what they view the most.
I worked with the results of those numbers, and other forms of quantitative and qualitative data for 30 years. All that research and the failure rate for new shows never changes. Maybe because they are less concerned with what the public wants than what they can sell to the advertisers.
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But how many of those were nominated for an Oscar?
I mean, besides Huntz Hall for THE BOWERY BOYS MEET THE MONSTERS.
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>>After a couple of hundred of these intro/outro pieces I am sure he is going to get some facts incorrect.
But the thing is they hype his credentials, they tout him as the expert. Flubbing on the Hammer film fest is one thing, that is not exactly his area of expertise and I don't expect him to get all the details correct and I said so at the time.
I realize he doesn't write his intros, but did they hire a parrot or did they hire an authority? What does it take his staff to look at a list of Best Picture winners from 1931 to date and isolate a western. Is the person on the staff so inexperienced that he/she thought that DANCES WITH WOLVES was a musical?
Face it, the number of flubs is increasing and while I will blame staff for most of the errors, there comes a point where Osborne should step in and say "Guys, you have me looking foolish." Even if he's just providing lip service and no brain power, someone should be taking better care of his image. But they won't know unless the faults are mentioned.
I'll bet that there are people here willing to proof the intros and a group of them could minimize the number of errors. I'll even bet that they would be willing to do this for no charge, but a crawl every once in a while to thank the "TCM family" for their on-going efforts would be nice.
If I were given all of the intros, I admit that I won't catch all of the errors. But I have my own areas of specialization and familiarity. I presume that applies to many others. I'm not even lobbying for the gig, but I do propose that looking for solutions is preferable to tolerating them or excusing them for whatever reason.
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It's not a matter of "winning." It's a matter of being accurate. Is there some special margin for errors that he should be allowed? As long as 65% of his claims are correct, then he's passable?
This is one of their big events, there should be a greater than ever drive to be correct - especially when they could look up the facts in Osborne's own text.
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I take solace in that RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY took the top prize at Cannes in its year. It's a lifelong love of westerns and horror films that cause my relative disinterest in the Oscars as what I liked when younger was never nominated.
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That is my error, caused by thinking of the year the first one won the award and the year of release of the other.
Still, I own up to it as I'm not the one who has the official Oscar book on my resume. That was the kind of error that Osborne should have caught given his credentials. To be honest, it's only the long gap between the two westerns winning that give me reason to recall DANCES as the next one after CIMARRON.
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Doesn't Osborne know that DANCES WITH WOLVES won a best picture award the year before UNFORGIVEN? Thus it was the next one after CIMARRON, and not as he described in his intro to the latter tonight.
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>>My complaint is, there aren't enough close-ups of Tim Holt, the best-looking of the three miners.
Maybe not enough, but there are a lot of close-ups of each of them. I was thinking last night of how Huston is a masterful story teller, but for all of the trouble of shooting this and THE AFRICAN QUEEN on real locations, the films still look as if they were mostly shot on the lot.
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>>Alias Nick Beal is scheduled to run this April when Ray Milland is SOTM....
Is it really? I looked for it, but took solace in finding another long unseen one SO EVIL MY LOVE. My copy of the schedule doesn't list BEAL, but perhaps it has been revised.
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Well, it's better to pass it up than to pass it down.
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>>What this film is missing is some heat and sweat, some magnolia blossoms, a dozen or so AAs in the cotton fields, Paul Newman, and someone named: Bubba, Papa, or Big Daddy.
Just be glad it doesn't have a P. Diddy or Puff Daddy.
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Ever see A MAN CALLED SLEDGE, a spaghetti western that Morrow directed? James Garner told "Playboy" that it was his worst film, calling it "Sludge" instead. It's neither, rather it's an enjoyable if typically nihilistic SW that is well worth catching.
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>>One of my recent Merrie Melodies acquisition was "I Love to Sing-a" an animated take on the Al Jolson song in "The Singing Kid" which by the way came with that DVD. I never seen that cartoon before and neither the Al Jolson movie. That song stayed with me for over a month.
That song and cartoon stayed with me for over 50 years. I only saw it again recently and immediately flashed back to my childhood when my family would equate me to the little owl in that cartoon as I went around the house not only singing that song, but just about any catchy tune that I heard on the radio.
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I think she realized that she has as much charisma as my toaster.
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Cox made a commercial for a laundry product called "Salvo." At the end of the spot, there was a reference to the detergent pill as being stronger than one would suspect at which point as a point of comparison, Cox flexed his arm muscle. He did appear to be in quite good shape.
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Cooper was the producer of the film through Baroda Productions. He tapped Malden to direct when Daves took ill. Malden once said that Cooper could have taken over himself, saying "he knew more about the camera than anyone I had ever met."
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Sometimes studios don't even know what they have, and Columbia is a good example. I worked there and when putting together various packages in the mid-80s, I asked about the status of a color print of DESPERADOES since the computer print-out only listed it as black-and-white.
I was told that it's not listed as being in color as it was made in black-and-white. To make a long story short, I won a nice sized bet as they did find out that this film, Columbia's first in color, was forgotten as the film was re-released in B&W in the 50s.
Supposedly WB is in the process of restoring THE HANGING TREE, we'll just have to wait for that.
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But the short can't help bout also raise the expectation levels of those who view it. I tend to think that is intentional on the station that claims to show films the way they were meant to be seen.
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The TCM "letterbox" featurette ran right after THE HANGING TREE which was not shown in its original 1.85:1 ratio.
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Overall, I would find the idea of a tribute to films that should have been nominated or won a lot more interesting that a tribute to those that have. I honestly get more excited over seeing some long hidden B film than I do the Oscar-related stuff.