clore
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Just yesterday, I searched for schedule matches for TOO MUCH, TOO SOON and the search came up empty. So, I tried a search by the name of the star, Dorothy Malone. That turned up empty,
http://www.tcm.com/search/index.html?text=dorothy+malone&type=allSite
I knew I saw it airing on the schedule for July or August, so I had to find it on the copy I saved on my hard drive. It's airing July 10th.
Ever since a recent board "upgrade" I've not had much luck with searching for upcoming titles.
So, good luck on your endeavors.
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I have a fondness for that little tidbit about Virginia Christine as I once won a bar bet armed with that info.
I've just always been curious as to why Wasserman wanted the last scene shot first. Was it some good luck charm in his eyes, a superstition...
Good luck on meeting your deadline.
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Don'ty forget to mention the one person who was in both the 1946 and 1964 versions of THE KILLERS.
And what the hell was with Universal's policy at the time about shooting the last scene of a film first? Siegel cited incidents about both this and MADIGAN being shot under that mandate.
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After all, the "iconic stars" couldn't appear in EVERY film
Especially at that point in time when so many had gone off to war, so the ones who were left had better pickings than ever. It could have been worse - it was Universal and just might have been cast with Robert Paige and Diana Barrymore.
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> {quote:title=darkblue wrote:}{quote}>
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> Why? Did Laughton also have halitosis?
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What is the law?
Not to eat $#**
You eat $#**
Law no more
I didn't read the book, it was noted as to Laughton's preference in one of the reviews. I gather he would have loved that movie THE HELP.
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I believe that only PASSAGE TO MARSEILLE ties with THE LOCKET in terms of the labyrinth flashback structure. Both films take you below the sub-basement.
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Cummings is so light -- and so darned jumpy and over eager -- that after a few minutes he makes you want to punch him in the nose. Hitchcock himself was VERY disappointed that he was "stuck with those two."
As much as I like Hitchcock, the man had the bad habit of trying to shift the blame for what were perceived as mistakes.
I've read his knocking of Cummings in SABOTEUR, citing that the actor was forced upon him by Universal and that he was all wrong for the film because it was a dramatic part and that "Cummings had a comedy face."
So why in hell did Hitchcock use him again, a decade later in DIAL M FOR MURDER, made at Warners and Cummings was not a contract player there? He can't say that Cummings grew out of his "comedy face" as the actor was known for his youthful appearance even into the 60s.
Hitchcock liked to blame the initial failure of VERTIGO on James Stewart, claiming that he was too old looking for the part. Did Stewart suddenly age 20 years after he signed the contract?
I thought that Priscilla Lane was more than just tolerable in a role that wasn't particularly strong on character. There were stronger femmes in other hitchcock films.
Cummings was acceptable and while I'd have even preferred Robert Young, I can't knock Cummings as he has his moments. He puts over the scene at the pool quite nicely and I sympathized with his character in the scene at the shack where he's pleading for safe keeping.
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To think that Vivien Leigh complained about Gable's breath. What was it like for her to do SIDEWALKS OF LONDON with Laughton?
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I have a TracFone which costs me 20 bucks every three months for an hour worth of time. It's strictly for emergency purposes, such as getting stuck on the road and requiring assistance or adjusting an appointment.
The thing is that I stoppped driving four years ago and only rent a vehicle for when I actually need one. It's too expensive to keep a car in NYC and the mass transit system gets me where I have to go at much less cost.
As long as I add time before the 90-day expiration date, I keep the time accrued. I have almost 800 minutes stored, so I obviously don't have many emergencies.
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> Hibi wrote:}{quote}LOL! What's even worse is people who talk on their cellphones in the stall. Is it THAT important? Sheesh.......
When I ride the 7 train from Manhattan to Queens, as soon as the train gets out of the tunnel under the East River, most of the passengers reach for their cell phones. There are about six different languages screaming into the phone, but if I can judge by the English being spoken, most are saying "We have a bad connection because I'm on the train."
But they keep going on talking anyway. Were I at at the other end, I'd hang up - which I have been known to do under similar circumstances.
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I agree. We've had feedback in regard to schedule changes and pan-and-scan prints, but nothing on the tech issues raised here.
On my cable system, I can tune to the SD channel of any channel that offers an HD channel also. All I have to do is then hit "select" on the remote to switch to the HD operation and TCM is the only one for which I've ever seen errors when the switch happens.
HBO still won't letterbox it seems. A Fox title shot 2.35 is shown in 1.78.
The Movie Channel does air 2.35 prints.
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> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}To me, Janssen's manner of speaking always made it seem as if he was constipated.
Steven Seagal causes me to have that reaction. Of course, these days he looks as if anything other than a grunt is exhausting for him. But he does prove that even Orson Welles could have been an action hero.
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> {quote:title=Hibi wrote:}{quote}I really dont care for Facebook. Some people have their whole lives documented on there! For me, I just use it to keep in touch with some people and see what they are doing..........
"Guess where I am? I'm in a stall in the men's room at The Palm in NYC typing on my laptop."
In that case, I don't believe that I want to know what they're doing.
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> Up until recently (like the last couple of years), they were promoting the website and the message boards but as technology changes and with the explosion of Facebook, social media and technology (tablets, apps, etc), there are now many different ways to interact with TCM and I think the channel's Facebook page and the apps popularity plays into that.
Ah, but the problem there is that the message boards aren't getting their due. Why not promote the boards in addition to the Facebook page and the aps? Poor TCMWebAdmin, he's the captain of a ship that the brass would apparently prefer to forget.
Yet if Ben Mankiewicz makes a reference to Fox News, suddenly there's a deluge of newbies with objections.
The message boards may be the internet equivalent of black-and-white, Academy-ratio feature films, but for a channel that does rely on the latter, the omission is rather conspicuous.
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They promote the Classic Film Union, the DVD shop and the book store, and a whole bunch of downloadable apps, but I never hear of the message boards getting a mention.
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I assume that if you start talking graphic sex, that will also get the thread closed.
In my case, that's almost ancient history. I'd be working purely on memory and not recent experience.
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I like the "Hands" night, although THE BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS should kick off the night. HANDS OF A STRANGER is an uncredited adaptation of HANDS OF ORLAC, and thus belongs grouped with MAD LOVE and HANDS OF ORLAC.
The 1962 film hasn't played in ages on TV and when I saw it in 1965, it was listed as HANDS OF A STRANGLER in the TV Guide and that was an alternate title for yet another adaptation made a couple of years earlier and starring Mel Ferrer and Christopher Lee. That one I still haven't managed to see but it was the one I wanted to see that night.
September 4 appears to be Edward Dmytryk day, it is the 104th anniversary of his birth. The 5th appears to be psychiatrist day.
There's a big gap on the 14th which is AT SEA day - please TCM, spare us another showing of ICE STATION ZEBRA.
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Least favorite: THE GHOST WRITER. This was on TMC one night and seeing all of the positive reviews for it on Rotten Tomatoes, I had to take a look.
Some compared it to Sir Alfred's thrillers, but for me it was more like Hitch-schlock. A thriller is supposed to be thrilling, isn't it? You're not supposed to have time to think about the the implausibilities while it unravels. There were plot holes big enough to drive a BMW through and there were certainly enough of both. I was writing to hear that my mileage may vary and that I can lease one at my tri-state BMW dealer.
The protagonist here was in the long run as dumb as the one played by Warren Beatty in THE PARALLAX VIEW, but with the latter I'm compelled to keep watching rather than to keep looking at my watch.
My dissatisfaction has nothing to do with personal prejudices against Polanski or the film's politics.
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Yes, Tex was actually entertaining to watch as he sketched clouds and spirals of wind or a big smiling Sun up in the sky. Plus he had "Uncle Wethbee" who was an "assistant" that was just painted faces, probably made from wood:
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I suspect that TCM made some kind of a mistake with their equipment settings, or, when making the file that the film was shown from.
I remember discussing with you a few months ago about how TCM had aired ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN and ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET THE INVISIBLE MAN on the HD channel in wide screen, meaning that someone made the mistake of zooming in through some erroneous setting. There were more heads chopped off than during the French Revolution. The films aired fine on the SD channel.
A week earlier, they did the same thing to JOAN OF ARC on the HD channel while the SD channel ran the film properly.
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Antoine was trying to be amusing - he was on WABC which was the first station in NYC to adopt the "happy news" format. Somehow I doubt that we'll find the remark among the writings of Confucius.
About a dozen years later, a candidate for Governor in Texas - Clayton Williams - made the same remark, but he said that "rape is like bad weather, if it's inevitable, just relax and enjoy it."
Williams lost the election to Ann Richards.
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Believe me, I find "revelations" such as those of Tony Curtis or Robert Wagner just as distasteful. I'm no prude, I've got old Playboy mags buried in a closet, I've seen a few porno films.
Scotty hasn't really busted any bubbles that weren't already busted by others concerning the private lives of movie stars.
To me, that's like those who testified before HUAC and named others and then justified it by saying "I only gave them names they already had." Nah, cough up the truth - you did it because if you didn't, you wouldn't get to sign the contract for your next job. Personal gain, that's all.
I was in the broadcast TV business for 30 years. Met a lot of celebs and have a few stories to tell about the off-hours and the goings on during them. Some involve sex, some involve drugs and a few concern dead people. Even if they may not be big enough names to sell a book, I don't even tell the stories in conversation.
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As Tex Antoine said, don't fight it, just enjoy it.
Actually, what Tex Antoine said was "With rape so predominant in the news lately, it is well to remember the words of Confucius: 'If rape is inevitable, lie back and enjoy it.'"
The switchboard lit up like the tree at Rockefeller Center at Christmas.
It cost him his job because his apology moments later was to say that he didn't know the latest story concerned a very young girl. That only increased the flood of phone calls from women who were rightly outraged.
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For many years, Scotty was hounded by journalists, who wanted and demanded he “pill (sic) the beans” on what he knew.
Couldn't he just call them on the phone?
But, it is also a side to the motion picture business and Hollywood that had some bizarre affects upon the lives of those who many came to admire and this leads to a bit of understanding certain aspects to those lives that otherwise are in affect, simply being human or who they want to really be.
I'm not sure that I buy that. Yes, he's discussing the lives of admired people, but it sure is convenient for him that those lives have expired. Maybe they wanted to be human or who they really wanted to be, without someone else telling tales while he is also reaping a few bucks and some publicity at the same time.
It could all be 100% true, I'm more willing to take his word at face value than that of Bozo Hadleigh or Darwin the bathroom Porter. But while I'm more than willing to discuss how much I loved the women in my life, I'm not about to discuss the more personal ways that I demonstrated it to them. Even as a teen, I wasn't a "kiss and tell" person.
I guess that I'm old-fashioned in that way.
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Some of the elements sound like DAY OF ANGER with Lee Van Cleef who does have to face his protege at the end and he did have some sort of practiced move. However, he's not exactly a sterling character, our sympathies are with the younger man.
But I haven't seen it since December 1970 and at 150 bucks for the DVD at Amazon, I'm not likely to be seeing it again. TCM had a spaghetti western fest about a decade ago, but I don't recall this as one of the titles.