Fedya
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"Wonderful Christmastime" by Paul McCartney. His genius was in coming up with songs that are just fun to sing along with, as opposed to John Lennon's dirges.
Perhaps "Christmas Wrapping" by the Waitresses.
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Yes, I forgot about the talking picture clip in SINGIN' IN THE RAIN. Which makes me wonder if there were some such clips at Warners of their executives demonstrating the new sound technology before they gave the go ahead to make THE JAZZ SINGER.
A year earlier, WB released Don Juan, the first movie with a synchronized soundtrack. In conjunction with that film, they released several shorts which had instrumentalists (such as violinist Efrem Zimbalist Sr.) performing; various singers, and one of Will Hays introducing synchronized sound:
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"Don't miss this if you can!" (Tag line for the new Schnarzan movie in Hollyowod Party)
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I'd like to see Ants in Your Pants of 1938.
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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.)I hope TCM has the guts to air SONG OF THE SOUTH.
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Perhaps the theaters should have offered to sell terrorism insurance to people going to see the movie, William Castle style.
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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.
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At least until the theater burns down when the film catches fire.I'll take the good old days when there was actually a person threading a reel of film into a projector and pushing the "start" button.
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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.
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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.I’d seen Victor Sjöström in Bergman’s Wild Strawberries (1957), and I was aware that he was a big deal in Swedish film before that, but now, having seen this film, I can see why he was such a big deal in Swedish film, and why, I’m sure, he would be a big deal to film historians, and modern day filmmakers and film students as well!
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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.
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Uh, I'd prefer to keep my clothes on, thank you very much.(...and now, if we have anyone here who believes in angels, please bare with me here
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.
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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.
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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.Does TCM still show cartoons?
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As for TCM not willing to show 'other movies'; Is this really the case? That TCM can get access to 'other movies' but has made an actual decision to NOT get access to those movies for PC reasons?
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.
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And just WHY are you certain it ISN'T real Ice Cream?
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.
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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.
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Shouldn't it be "Los An-HAY-lace"?(...once again, THANK GOD Jack Webb started every freakin' Dragnet episode by saying, "This is the city, 'Los AN-gel-less' Califonia", 'cause I STILL say that it was HE who got the REST of America to FINALLY pronounce my old home town's name CORRECTLY!!!!)
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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.
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and all of those technicolor travel shorts.
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." 
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Except for his terrible taste in Mutiny on the Bounty.So true! I am one of those "diehard conservatives", and I absolutely loved Alec Baldwin on The Essentials.
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Better simply to lock threads that go bad, rather than make them go poof.
(The spam threads are of course a different story.)
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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.
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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.
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." 
Worst movies ever made/ So bad they are funny
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I don't think anybody's mentioned Skidoo yet. Grouch Marx on acid. Carol Channing doing a strip tease for Frankie Avalon. Or was she doing it for Cesar Romero? Jackie Gleason trying to kill Mickey Rooney. Channing doing the musical finale dressed like either John Paul Jones or Napoleon, take your pick. Groucho Marx with a girlfriend 50 years his junior in an outfit so backless you can see her butt-crack. Nilsson singing the closing credits. And I haven't mentioned George Raft or Peter Lawford yet.
This was supposed to be serious as far as I know, but it's a hilarious disaster.