clore
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>The press were on a public street doing a job. If Baldwin can't hack it he should move to a mansion in LA.
He should be able to live where he wants to live. Besides, there is a working press in Los Angeles. Wherever he lives, he'd be better off if he stayed indoors, and away from the phone and his computer. He's long been a favorite of the paparazzi because he is so volatile and can be counted on to lose his temper. But that's where there's two sides at fault here in my opinion.
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>You seemed to be focusing on me as opposed to the issue at hand, Mainly it was the sarcastic remark, "I got your number."
That was merely because you thought it appropriate to point out that I missed your point when I actually had addressed it. Yet when I pointed out that you missed mine, I'm told by you that I'm nitpicking. There's an imbalance there and I'm sorry that you can't see it - really, it does hamper future discussion.
My comment to you was no worse than you telling someone earlier "you tipped your hand."
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>Ok, because A&E caved in we can justify TCM's turning a blind eye to Baldwin's behavior.
Did I say or imply that? I was merely updating your outdated information.
>I'm curious, do you condone what Baldwin said to the paparazzo?
Certainly not, someone such as Baldwin has demonstrated that he can be appropriately eloquent at times and he was stupid in not finding some better way to insult the man. Even if it was to just call him a forking leech.
But then I also don't condone stalking, whether it's of a celebrity or a non-celebrity.
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>Is that the best you can do? Nitpick.
No, I was just revisiting a point that you obviously missed. I guess it's OK when you say that I missed your point, but for me to say that about you is to "nitpick". There's a word for people like that. OK, I got your number now.
>Wow, I sure am making some peeps uncomfortable for just speaking my mind on this topic.
I would say that you're overestimating your impact here. And in the light of your later comment about keeping to topic, please keep your own comments on topic and not about the other people attempting to discuss it with you.
Edited by: clore on Dec 27, 2013 7:00 PM
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>Why do you think Phil Robertson was fired from his acting job at A&E.?
Just to update you:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/27/phil-robertson-back-duck-dynasty_n_4509697.html
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>Once again, you miss the point. My only interest here is Baldwin's connection to TCM. That is relevant and it is interesting if they continue to trot him out for further work in light of his assinie behavior and incendiary epithets directed against a significant demographic of TCM viewers.
Speaking of missing the point, I did address "further work..." when I posted this in my last response to you:
*Baldwin has already been hired and executed his task for this particular show. I don't expect TCM to pull it anymore than I expect stations to stop airing Seinfeld for remarks that Michael Richards said. But those remarks do seem to have affected his being hired for any new gigs on a show. We've yet to see if it will happen similarly with Baldwin.*
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>My point here is not a critique of his tenure as host of The Essentials.
>However, the apology he issued for this remark tells everyone he is guilty of bashing LGBT people.
I haven't even read of an apology, but then I don't follow such things. I can't get too excited about what every celebrity **** says, they have the right to be as stupid as every non-celebrity. Baldwin just seems to take advantage of that right.
Baldwin has already been hired and executed his task for this particular show. I don't expect TCM to pull it anymore than I expect stations to stop airing Seinfeld for remarks that Michael Richards said. But those remarks do seem to have affected his being hired for any new gigs on a show. We've yet to see if it will happen similarly with Baldwin.
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>Criticism on these boards doesn't necessarily translate to criticism by the suits of TCM.
No, it doesn't. Then again, who knows if his remarks may have an effect on a return to a recurring engagement on The Essentials. The one-on-one with Robert Osborne is in the can already, I can't see them wasting that chance to promote Mr. O. even if it does invite some comments from the outside that Baldwin is also involved.
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I see that you registered only three weeks ago. Believe me, Baldwin received plenty of criticism here during his tenure as host of The Essentials. I don't believe it's a case of him getting a pass because of his connection to TCM.
It was a rather stupid comment if it was quoted accurately. I haven't been interested enough to check if there was video on it.
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>In 2013, the person behind you on the bus is apt to be having a loud cell phone conversation for most of the trip. You're also apt to be hearing the person at the other end of the line. Is that rude?
That takes me to another bus story.
I was the first one to board a bus on its starting point. A man came in right after me, he was already on his cell phone. He sat right next to me and with the phone in his right hand, he was screaming into into it, and being that my left ear was no more than two feet away from his mouth, he was also yelling into my ear.
Yes, I found that rude and told him so. He said he was raising his voice because it was a bad connection. I suggested that he wait to have his conversation when he could manage a better connection, or else sit somewhere else in a bus that had only six or seven passengers at this point.
Fortunately, now the bus line forbids the use of cell phones except for texting.
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>Yeah, to be honest here, I'd like to see the tables turned like this too!
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>Yep, if there IS one thing that I think kinda bugs me about Bob, it's >this habit he has of doing that just a little too much.
Right, right, right.
I had a friend who would do that and it would get really annoying. One day I just had to set him straight and he responded "You know, my wife told me the same thing the other night."
I was on a fairly long bus ride and there were two women behind me. One was trying to tell the other a story and her friend kept saying in a loud tone"Oh tell me about it" followed by a slap on her knee. This would cause the speaker to pause, then she'd try to continue and the friend would say "Oh, tell me about it."
It got to the point where I turned around and said "Maybe if you stopped saying 'Tell me about it' your friend would have already finished telling you about it."
The friend must have enjoyed that as she was smiling but my target didn't. She said I was rude but I responded that it was rude of her to keep interrupting her friend.
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*I've already laid out my case for Angi Vera back on the first page of this thread, but if I'd want to see any movie called Law and Order, it'd be this:*
That was the third time that Universal filmed the Burnett novel "Saint Jackson." That one I've seen, I found it mediocre.
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The 1932 western LAW AND ORDER.
It stars Walter Huston, one of the greatest character stars of the first half-century of film. The adaptation of the source novel by W.R. Burnett would be by John Huston. These two would be associated again for HIGH SIERRA and THE ASPHALT JUNGLE giving us reason alone to want to view their first collaboration.
The Burnett novel "Saint Johnson" is the basis for this retelling of the OK Corral story using fictional names instead of the familiar Earps and Clantons. I shouldn't say "retelling" because as far as I know, this was the first of many takes on the OK Corral event.
The legendary cowboy star Harry Carey gets the role of the Doc Holliday counterpart and unbilled is Walter Brennan who would later be seen in Ford's MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (perhaps the most celebrated version of the Earps vs. the Clantons) as Ike Clanton.
The film was directed by Edward L. Cahn, who like Edgar G. Ulmer (with THE BLACK CAT), made a highly acclaimed film for Universal and then faded into relative obscurity making "B" movies for the next 30 years. One of them is one of the most influential sci-fi films of the 50s - IT - THE TERROR FROM OUTER SPACE.
Hailed by the likes of William K. Everson and by Phil Hardy in his Encyclopedia of Western Films, LAW AND ORDER is rarely screened. It deserves the opportunity to be seen by those who only know of it by reputation. I'm one of them.
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What I'd like to see is Baldwin ask Osborne a question, and then while getting the answer, to have Baldwin nodding his head and just saying "Right, right, right" while Osborne is talking.
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There was a German TV mini-series that was released as a feature film in a dubbed edition:
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I like it very much and even recorded it. I had just enough time left on the disc on which I recorded MIDNIGHT the previous evening.
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If you missed THE GOLDEN MASK, then you can consider Friday the 13th your lucky day. What a snoozer.
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So, there was a Turner adding color to movies over a hundred years ago.
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*I am reminded of all of the parallels between the Lincoln and JFK assassinations, including the fact that John Wilkes Booth left a theater after shooting the 16th president, while Oswald went to one after killing Kennedy.*
One more oddity in the Lincoln/Kennedy parallels, but one only of importance to film fans, is that in THE TALL TARGET, an agent uncovers a plot to kill Lincoln. The agent's name? John Kennedy:
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*Ummm... I thought we're not supposed to get into politics on here? Has that rule gone away?*
I'm not discussing politics, I'm discussing a web site designer. Besides, even Obama himself has admitted that the web site needs some improvement.
I made no comment about Obamacare itself.
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*My first thought was that it's getting more like yahoo mail, which now sends pop-ups about every 30 seconds when you're composing a letter, demanding to know whether you still want to stay on the page or not.*
Is that what is going on? I use AdBlockPlus, so I don't see any pop-ups, but the page does shift at regular intervals while I'm composing. It's quite annoying.
I really don't care for their upgrade - it loses parts of the exchanges that I'm having with someone. It will indicate that I've gotten an additional response, but it won't display no matter how many times I click. They've adopted G-Mail's format but it's not executed as well.
Plus there has been a ten-fold increase in my spam folder since they changed the format.
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I think they must have hired the same firm that designed the Obamacare website to do the upgrade.
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I'm seeing double on the listings of "Popular Forums" and "Popular Discussions." Maybe I'm supposed to wear 3D glasses.
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*Highly doubtful they would show it again in daytime hours given all the nudity.*
**Has Cousins taking off more layers of clothes yet? I keep expecting him to show up in a jock strap**
Private Screenings with Robert Osborne will be ruined by Alec Baldwin!
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>Your sarcasm is an impediment to taking you seriously.
You're continuing to making this about me and not about the subject at hand. Can we please drop it and adopt some form of guidelines that apply to both of us before the admins have to do it?