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"Don't miss this if you can!" (Tag line for the new Schnarzan movie in Hollyowod Party)

I'd like to see Ants in Your Pants of 1938.

The bigger question is what Disney will say if TCM requests this. (I wouldn't be surprised if Disney says no to any of the animated features running on TCM. They want to save those to re-release on whatever becomes the new technologically-advanced medium that supersedes Blu-Ray.)

Perhaps the theaters should have offered to sell terrorism insurance to people going to see the movie, William Castle style.

To TCM viewers, Virna Lisi might be best remembered for playing Jack Lemmon's wife in How to Murder Your Wife, or one of the other half-dozen or so Hollywood movies she made in the 1960s. She apparently had a fairly long career in her native Italy. There's an obituary in Italian for those who can read Italian; or one in German; I couldn't find an English-language obituary yet.

At least until the theater burns down when the film catches fire.

A bunch of stars including Bogart show up in Hollywood Steps Out. There's alco a lot of stars in The CooCooNut Grove, but that's from 1936, before Bogart was a star so he isn't parodied.

I'm sure you're aware that Sjöström went to Hollywood and, using an anglicized form of his surname, Seastrom, directed a few silents such as Lillian Gish's The Wind.

According to the synopses I've read, it's a female Scrooge, and Christmas Future has her as a cheap hooker in Times Square, the movie having been made in the era when Gerald Ford figuratively told the city to drop dead. I suppose Christmas Future could have put her in the Port Authority bus terminal. Some of this probably belongs in the Little Murders thread.

Uh, I'd prefer to keep my clothes on, thank you very much. A bit more seriously, regarding nudity and Christmas movies, there was actually a porn version of Dicken's Christmas Carol made in the mid-1970s called The Passions of Carol. Google it to find more information.

Nobody's mentioned Meet Me In St. Louis yet? The singing of Judy Garland, and the acting of Margaret O'Brien. Two huge strikes. Add in the MGM musical styling without the intelligence of a Gene Kelly, and you've got a recipe for disaster. Tenth Avenue Angel is irritating, too.

I think Cartoon Network/Boomerang got the rights to run the MGM/WB cartoons several years back. They haven't been on TCM in quite some time. It's a shame, but there you are.

I don't know about PC reasons, but I think there have been a couple of movies that were on the first releases of TCM schedules and eventually got pulled for reasons that might have had to do with the content being too far on a limb for TCM. Fritz the Cat had been scheduled for TCM Underground but never aired; I think Zabriskie Point is another.

I can't speak for the previous poster, but I'd bet it's because ice cream would melt under the hot lights needed for the motion picture camera, as they do take after take after take. It's much like in Mystery of the Wax Museum where the wax statues look so realistic... because they are real people: the wax statues they intended to use melted under the lights necessary for the humongous two-strip Technicolor cameras.

I'd think the caterers in the credits are the people who provide the food the cast and crew eats for lunch/dinner on shooting days, or especially if the film is shooting on locatoin and they can't eat anyplace else. As for whether they're eating actual food, I distinctly recall Anthony Bourdain saying back in March when he did the Friday Night Spotlight something about one of the films (I think it was Babette's Feast) that they were eating the foods mentioned for the foods that Babette mentioned, with one exception -- it might have been the quails in sarcophagus, but I don't remember.

Shouldn't it be "Los An-HAY-lace"? [ducking]

I was thinking of the lynch mob in Fury too. Isn't there also one in They Won't Forget? There are also a lot of prison riots, as in Caged or The Big House. Or the food riots in SOylent Green that the authorities deal with by bulldozing the rioters. There's also a riot over a beauty contest in Milos Forman's The Firemen's Ball, which is a really fun little movie.

I like the Traveltalks shorts. Watch for Mighty Manhattan, New York's Wonder City tonight at about 6:00 PM, which shows a shocking lack of traffic in New York. Around the Workd in California is another one that has an astonishing lack of traffic in LA, as well as the classic line, "Los Angeles has a population of several thousand Mexicans."

Except for his terrible taste in Mutiny on the Bounty.

Better simply to lock threads that go bad, rather than make them go poof. (The spam threads are of course a different story.)

I'm always amused by the amount of times I read Pauline Kael's opinion after the fact and find that I disagree with it.

I was wondering why the trailer for Show Boat was letterboxed on the standard feed (I don't have TCM HD). And the thing for the upcoming movies was also letterboxed. The "TCM Extras" open, however, is 4:3.

I don't know if any of you have seen this wonderfully creepy movie before, but it's showing on TCM today at 6:00 PM ET for the first time in a good five years or so. The quick synopsis: Seven siblings are living in a London house together with the sickly single mother, no dad around. Naturally, the mother eventually dies. The kids don't want to be broken up as a family, so they bury Mom in the garden and keep u pthe fiction that all is normal, forging Mom's signature on the benefit checks and spending time with Mother every evening. And then Dad (Dirk Bogarde) shows up. Let's just say Dad isn't a very good father (if he even is their father and not just a con man), but knows a few things about Mom. As I said, it's a rather creepy or disturbing premise, but one that certainly entertains.

I'd suspect it's one of the comedies, since those have the iconic images. Think Charlie Chaplin eating his shoe in The Gold Rush or Harold Lloyd hanging from the clock hands in Safety Last.

I've only been here eight years, but I'd agree that there's been a lot of intolerance. Look at the massive intolerance from those who call anyone who disagrees with them "apologists" and quickly reports posts to the moderators.