clore
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But his hairline gets closer to his eyebrows.
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The only thing that would have made less sense would be to run the films in reverse.
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It should have been done with either Carolyn Jones or Carol Kane (Davis' choice there) at the proper age. At 60, Streep isn't able to play the young Davis.
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>>Why this 1960 MGM film was shown cropped is a mystery to me.
I'm sure that we'll get the usual lame excuses. You know that TCM opening that has a young man running with a film can, trying to get some particular place by a deadline? I swear that's how this channel operates. It seems that no one checks the prints before they air, and while it may have been a valid excuse the first few times, it happens often enough now that you would think that they would initiate some form of checks and balances.
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>>But a few years ago when they would run two or three shows back to back, at a half-hour each, they clipped off some of the scenes to shorten each episode.
I've seen a few of those but got annoyed with the edits.
For a while in the late 80s and early 90s, a popular technique was to speed up the playback of certain shows, but it had the actors sounding like munchkins.
Ever see CHEERS on the Hallmark Channel? They seem to cut out the empty spaces between lines of dialogue which results in some very weird jump cuts.
Between things such as the above, and all of the logos and crawling announcements, I've pretty much abandoned all sponsored television.
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The last time I watched a *Twilight Zone* marathon on the SyFy Channel, the episodes were running 35 minutes and listed that way on the schedule.
In its original run, the shows ran 26 1/2 minutes minus commercials.
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Nothing can be as bad as The Ovation Channel. Normally I don't watch sponsored TV, but over the weekend I tried to watch the 2000 version of "The Great Gatsby" on Ovation. It seemed as if there was almost as much time spent on commercials as on the movie. Then I realized that what I saw a decade ago on A&E in a two-hour slot was being spread across three hours. It's only 100 minutes long.
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>>*Why does ?The Thing? go from 35mm to 16mm ??*
It's by way of the process that George Costanza refers to as "shrinkage."
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>>Based on this review, I am not getting it:
Yes, I just saw that one. It's a shame that MEET JOHN DOE has to be seen in less than pristine condition. I realize that it is a PD film, but so was HIS GIRL FRIDAY and Sony did went the distance to clean it up.
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>>I saw on the news that Cher flashed her nipples at a red carpet event!
I could swear that someone in the crowd yelled out "Hey mister, put your shirt back on."
Cher is one of those who must really drive the cameramen crazy. Even when she was young, to me, the wrong angle has her looking like Tiny Tim.
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Yes, it's fallen into public domain and hasn't been seen in its proper glory for years. The reviews on the new disc seem to vary in enthusiasm, but most seem to agree that it does look better than what has been out there up until now.
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This film was recently released on DVD, supposedly having undergone extensive restoration. It sure would be nice to see a clean copy of this treasure on December 18th.
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>>John Wayne and Clint Eastwood(Note Clint asked The Duke to do High Plains Drifter.John Wayne turned it down)
As I read it, it was because he so disliked HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER that John Wayne turned down a chance to do a film with Eastwood. Clint sent him a script, but supposedly Wayne's response was a criticism of the earlier film. None of the sources mentioned which script he passed along, but it was around the time of OUTLAW JOSEY WALES.
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How could you forget the great Glenn Langan?
Probably the same way that Zanuck did. In a bio of him, someone told of casting sessions in the late 40s and whenever someone brought up Langan's name, DFZ would ask "Glenn who?" The guy had good roles in MARGIE and DRAGONWYCK, handsome guy with a nice voice, but today he's only remembered for being THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN.
Sort of the Rex Reason of the 40s.
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Pichel also provides the narration for SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON. In addition, he directed the film that put George Pal on the sci-fi map, DESTINATION MOON.
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I can't comment on the length, but i did see it airing on FMC in widescreen circa 2002-03.
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I usually know enough about a film going in so I don't worry about it. Besides, even knowing the outcome doesn't spoil a film for me. Otherwise I wouldn't watch a good mystery more than once.
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I've seen it used a few times as a definition of the Academy ratio. It is confusing though since there are flatscreen TVs, but they can be widescreen or standard.
i probably shouldn't use that reference any longer though. Someone may think that I was expecting a 3D airing.
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TABLE ROCK didn't bowl me over. One of those 50s westerns that are so overly lighted in the interiors that it proves distracting. Were life really like that, Spencer Tracy would not have needed to invent the light bulb.
That aside, Richard Egan's horse had more charisma. Good looking guy, nice rugged appearance, but with about as much star power as James Craig. Both men were heralded as the next Gable but i doubt that Clark was worried.
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MARTY didn't even get much respect from its Hecht-Lancaster producers. I once saw Ernest Borgnine on The Tonight Show and he said that the producers were looking for something that might earn a few nods from critics, but which they hoped would fail at the boxoffice. It seems that the company needed a tax write-off as they were quite successful with a couple of previous releases (likely VERA CRUZ and APACHE) and were facing a hefty tax bill.
The company's plan backfired, but Burt's THE KENTUCKIAN did bomb as did SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS, so eventually he got his wish.
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>>Oh heck I wish I could take the credit but clore was the one who pointed out Hart's more authentic garb.
And thank you MissGoddess for being so courteous.
i wish I could find it on the web, but there is a shot of Hart in full western garb, showing Johnny Mack Brown the pistols that he owned and were supposedly those of the real-life Billy the Kid. This was when Brown was making the King Vidor-directed tale of William Bonney.
It must have been a ritual as here is Hart in contemporary garb doing the same with Robert Taylor who was making his version of BILLY THE KID:
Hart's looking pretty good for a man in his mid-70s.
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>>It would've been a good one to air, especially since it is seen so infrequently.
I would love to see it again, not only for Malone and Flynn, but there's also Ray Danton playing a rotten SOB in that way that probably limited his career because he did it so well.
There's a shot in the early part of the film that has Malone as Barrymore reading a fan magazine and as it's somewhere in the late 30s, the magazine has Errol Flynn on the cover. It's almost as if they went out of the way to parallel Flynn's decline with that of the great profile. Neither man would be very recognizable compared to the self of two decades earlier.
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>>How many hundred times has FMC played Patton this year? Its a great film, but really? If TCM did this this board would go wild.
True, but you're talking about a channel that habitually airs PORKY'S three times in a row.
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I don't know why it doesn't air, but it is only fair that Dorothy Malone gets top-billing. First, because she plays the primary character of Diana Barrymore, she does get the bulk of the footage. She had also just won an Oscar, so her on-the-rise status did have her ahead of the sadly declining Flynn.
I have not seen this one in 39 years, almost to the day. It was close to Christmas in 1971 and this popped up on The Late, Late Show. I'm glad that I caught it when I did because I've not seen it show up again since. I believe that I saw it among the Warner Archive releases but this savvy shopper is not going to pay their price for it, nor their discount price. One has to buy in bulk to get it down to ten dollars during their sale periods, but even that is too much for a barebones DVD.
Poor Flynn, the story goes that when Jack Warner saw him, he referred to Flynn as "the walking dead." It was the perfect marriage of actor and role and Flynn accomplished something that Barrymore didn't - he burned out in ten fewer years, probably because he had even more vices than did Barrymore.
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Can't anyone tell by this person's user name that this is clearly a troll?
Or else Lennie Small has a gotten a computer for Christmas and a TV stuck in zoom mode.