Fedya
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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.What is the most famous silent film of all time? If it isn't Birth of a Nation, then I suspect it could be Chaney's serial-like Phantom of the Opera.
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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.This is an interesting comment, because in a reverse way it suggests that there has been an intolerance for eleven years.
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Ack! Today is the last day to vote!
I'm casting my vote for SansFin and her "through the decades" theme.
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How about Won Ton Ton, the Dog That Saved Hollywood? Maybe it can save TCM too!
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It amazes me that they will continue to use this ill-conceived message until it has been used so much
And I think that's the point of slaytonf's original post. They've been going at it since at least 2003 (probably longer, but I wasn't here until the end of 2006), with the same nonsense. They're impervious to facts, too; in one of the other threads somebody posted an analysis of eight months worth of TCM schedule and the response was basically that the numbers didn't matter because there were more recent movies in prime time. Ditto regarding whoever posts the statistics from 31 Days of Oscar. No, such facts don't matter; they feel TCM is rurning into AMC and nothing can change that feeling. It's as if they're sticking their fingers in their ears and screaming "La la la I can't hear you apologists!"
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Skimpole:
Hence the smiley. I believe there's a short fragment of The Way of All Flesh known to exist, which showed up in the "Fragments" TCM showed a few years back.
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SansFin:
I think I mentioned in my notes there were a few cheats, in that I've seen most of the movie, except that I turned on TCM 10 minutes in or something. That's the case with Spirit of the Beehive. Somehow I've seen the first third and last third of The Devil's Disciple but not the middle. I keep turning on TCM when the movie is an hour through already.
As for Andy Devine, he did a lot of westerns in the second half of his career, and played several notable supporting roles: the cowardly sheriff in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance comes to mind (although I have seen that one all the way through so I couldn't use it). He was also Janet Gaynor's assistant director friend in A Star Is Born. And he has one of the more disturbing scenes you'll ever see in John Wayne's Island in the Sky, when he does a cannonball into a swimming pool.
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Doesn't the new board software preserve the formatting if you use the Quote button at the bottom of a post? I'd think it would be easy to hit the quote button, copy the quoted material, and paste it into the compose box of the new thread. Well, you'd have to get rid of the quote tags, but that's not much work. It's a heck of lot easier than the old board, since the new one uses more standard formatting.I understand fully the problems with the new forum software. I had a considerable number in a previous Challenge. I believe an important point in dealing with this new forum software is to make a number of moderate-sized posts rather rather than a few large ones. I had many less errors and time-outs when separating the Programming Notes from the Schedules.
(Other than the fact that no sane person reads from bottom to top.)
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His parents didn't name him Acker, either. He took it as a nickname from local slang.
And if you haven't seen It's Trad, Dad, try to get a copy of it. It's a hoot.
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BBC Obituary for jazz clarinetist Acker Bilk
Bilk will be most remembered for his signature tune "Stranger on the Shore", which hit #1 on both sides of the Atlantic as part of the popularity of trad jazz in the early 1960s. As such, it shouldn't be a surprise that he showed up in the 1962 film It's Trad, Dad, although he doesn't play "Stranger on the Shore" in that one:
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If you looked carefully, you would have seen that Wait Until Dark followed The MGM Story at 4:00 AM. Everything from 8:00 PM on fit just fine into an 11-hour time slot.
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Somebody got a good lesson in"...only loyal to themselves and their perfectly fragile 'me-me-me & TCM' relationship."
-could also define 'anti-apologists' as well
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What's the difference between the "apologists" and the "loyal viewers" anyway?It's completely insulting to regular TCM viewers who like TCM's broad programming to be repeatedly called "apologists".
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I don't think they've shown Emil Jannings' win for The Way of All Flesh before.What academy award nominees from the Oscars' first three decades has TCM not shown?
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I'd be careful about copying and pasting. You don't want to get accused of misquoting.One is that you made the implication that once DarkBlue stops harassing you, I pop up. Now to me and it would seem to James that this is a direct implication against me made by YOU.
Funny that when I demolished that baseless accusation about misquoting, the response was along the lines of let's just drop it (NB: that's not an exact quote!).
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Unless you edited your post in the meantime, tell me where I copied and pasted incorrectly. It's funny how you go around making all sorts of accusations of other posters, but when others turn the finger back at you (cue Thomas More's quote to Roper about the whirlwind turning round on him), you get ticked.I think you were mis-quoting me.
I didn't mis-quote you at all.
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All I was doing was parsing your post the same way you posted mine.I think you're being silly.
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Yes-- but do you represent all loyal viewers? Of course not.
Let's go back and review the tape, shall we:
As a result, some of the channel's programming is all over the map, and not in a good way. So I can see why loyal viewers would be a little unhappy.
Note the lack of use of a qualifier like "some" on "loyal viewers". One would think the poster is trying to represent all "loyal" viewers.
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I'm a loyal viewer, and I've been quite happy with the programming.
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I'd guess It's Trad, Dad (aka Ring-a-Ding Rhythm), in which the two young people are trying to get somebody from the BBC to keep their town fathers from banning "good" music. I put "good" in scare quotes because this is between early rock and roll and the Beatles, and some of the music has a definite "people liked that?" vibe to it.
Directed by Richard Lester before he did A Hard Day's Night, the movie doesn't take itself seriously at all and that's what makes it so much fun.
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2+2=5.
This post is going to bring out the sycophants and apologists who insist that 2+2=4.
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To be fair, Tabesh is listed as "Vice President of Programming". It wouldn't be a surprise if the "affiliate agreements" really were somebody else's job and Tabesh didn't know.Instead he looks like he doesn't know or isn't sure. To me that is unprofessional.
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Serves me right for not watching the movies I'm programming. LOL.Actually, Spencer Tracy plays the title role in Cass Timberlane.
This might actually be worse than the mistakes Robert and Ben make.
Our Mother's House
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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.