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I'd rather have a bunch of Ben Franklins in my wallet than a bunch of Ben Mankiewiczes.
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This year has just been exhausting with all the classic and other film stars passing away this year.
Those stars need to stop dropping dead and titing us out.
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It also depends on whether your Jewish or just German. In German, Mensch (capitalized because it's a noun) is just the word for a person, or in compounds like Menschenrechte which means "human rights".It's more than a generic "nice guy". A mensch is a stand-up guy who demonstrates his character and integrity at the most needed times. He's not just someone you'd want to have a beer with.
Alternatively, Mensch is this:
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I found the characters obnoxious and hard to care what happened to them. And it was obvious what was going to happen at the end.
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Dec 12- Torch Song (I just love Torch Songs; I will hope that this film features lots of them)
Torch Song is awful. However, it's delightfully awful, the sort of movie you'll probably be laughing at for how unbelievably screwed-up it is. I don't know if it counts as a torch song, but there's a musical number that has Joan Crawford in blackface and ends with her doffing her wig to reveal her ultra-bright red-orange hair.
I wrote a post about it here, but be warned that there are spoilers.
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Jamesjazzguitar wrote:
I'll admit my line was a bit snarky, but when somebody writes:Well your joke about Gone with the Wind didn't have anything to do with 'old' or not 'old', but that GWTW is color and that TCM has always shown movies that were in color. (as you know GWTW was shown on that first day)
i.e., play classically classic black and white movies all the time,
I figure the line needed some cynical humor in the take-down.
So much of the criticism leveled at TCM seems to be based on the idea that "Horror of horrors, TCM is showing movies that don't fit my definision of 'classic'!" That's why I included the second half of that post, since Robert Osborne's very first introduction says something about playing the films of today's stars. Or something that very clearly implied that the movies weren't all going to be as old as some people want. (Somebody who recorded the interview with Alec Baldwin may want to provide the exact quote; I don't have it.)
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Director and son of Oscar-winning actor Victor McLaglen dies aged 94
Among his movies are the fun Man in the Vault in which William Campbell plays a locksmith who decides to pick a mob safety deposit box; John Wayne's McClintock!, and the James Stewart movies Shenandoah and Fools' Parade.
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Primosprimos wrote:
Where did I write that you don't have a right to your opinion? The "right" that some people wish to arrogate unto themselves is the "right" to have their opininos go unchallenged, something very different from just having an opinion.Poor Fedya, believing that other people don't have a right to their opinion. Tsk, tsk. So sad.
My broader assertion in that post was that from the very first day of TCM, they made clear that "classic" didn't mean "old".
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Primosprimos wrote:
Right from the very beginning in 1994, when they ran the clasically classic black and white Gone With the Wind.No matter. Those of us who are wishing that TCM returns to what they used to do best, i.e., play classically classic black and white movies all the time,
TCM needs to re-run the Private Screenings interview where Robert Osborne was interviewed by Alec Baldwin, which shows Osborne's first intro. It might be a revelation for some people here. (Somehow, though, I doubt it.)
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Slaytonf wrote:
I find a bit more interesting the scene in which Stanwyck tells her boyfriend about the maid who keeps going on about how the kid could benefit from a milk bath -- so the boyfriend goes and knocks over a dairy to get the milk for her! It's completely ludicrous.Night Nurse (Sep. 5) is also one that evades the return to convention. Barbara Stanwyck's squeeze, a rum-runner, has the scheming chauffeur (Clark Gable) killed by his cronies as a favor to her.
The whole movie is one of the more shocking from that era, too. I mean, Gable and his cronies are deliberately starving children to death, and keeping th emother boozed up. And the scene where Stanwyck gets the bottle (I think; it might be an ice bucket) thrown at her. The movie strains credulity, but damn if it isn't entertaining as all get out.
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AndyM108 wrote:
You forgot the half-second of Jean Harlow sideboob about 15 minutes in. Jean, before she gets married, goes home to roommate Una Merkel, who's wearing Harlow's nightgown. So Harlow asks for it back and Una takes it off and gives it to Jean, with a strategic cut in the middle. It's right at that cut to Jean that we see her, briefly, topless and braless.and Red-Headed Woman, which may be the single most "codebreaking" film of that entire era in every imaginable way. Harlow not only gets away with her serial homebreaking in America, and at the end of the film gets rewarded with a French sugar daddy, but in the last scene we can even see that she's still carrying on her affair with her chauffeur, with not even a hint of disapproval!
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Isn't December 2015 the 100th anniversary of Sinatra's birth? Next December would be a good time to honor Sinatra again.Assuming that the December SOTM honoree will be a very well-known performer and repeat honoree, my guess is Frank Sinatra; he has not been SOTM since May 2008, and he is certainly among the most well-known performers in the history of show business.
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I believe the Stooges show up in a dance number with Joan Crawford in Dancing Lady. (I don't think they do any of the actual dancing, although it's been quite some time since I've seen the movie.)Oh, and on Lee Tracy and his 'soitenly' imitation of Curly in Love Is A Racket, there they were, the Three Stooges (all the rich folk had the Stooges at their parties back then) in Turn Back The Clock. I guess even the Stooges were under contract to MGM by then.
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I'm sorry to say I found most of the main characters in Bombshell so obnoxiously annoying that the movie is tough to watch. (It's not the actors' fault; it's the script.) There was one scene where Harlow is standing on the front steps of her house listening to Tracy talk to a bunch of reporters where I wouldn't have minded if she pulled out a gun and shot him and the movie turned into something like Roxie Hart.Unfortunately, Bombshell is on right now, while I'm at work. Fortunately, though, I have it set up on my DVR, I'm looking forward to watching it when I get home. Can't watch it here, too much forklift noise. I recorded it mainly for Jean Harlow. I've been trying to see more of her work, to see if I "get" why Jean Harlow is such an icon and why she's so popular. I don't dislike her, so hopefully she'll grow on me the more I see her. I do own the TCM Greatest Legends Collection: Jean Harlow; but I bought it just for Libeled Lady because I wanted to complete my William Powell/Myrna Loy collection and that movie is also hilarious, so there's that too. I've never heard of Lee Tracy; but I'm sure he's been in some other films I've seen. Just waiting for my stupid truck to get here and then I can head home and enjoy Bombshell.
Dinner at Eight, on the other hand, is great. I particularly enjoy Billie Burke's Stepford wife-like performance.
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Actually, there are multiple "Plump Hostesses" in Hi'ya, Sailor, with the other one played by Grace Hayle, who also often was credited as the overweight character. Here she is opposite George Brent in Front Page Woman:
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Nobody likes a fat man except his grocer and his tailor.
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Israeli director-turned producer dies at 85
You may not recognize the names of Menahem Golan and his cousin Yoram Globus, but you might recognize the names of their movies. In the late 1970s they acquired the Cannon Group and proceeed to put out a string of movies more remembered for their misfiring than anything else, such as Bo Derek in Bolero or Sylvester Stallone's arm-wrestling masterpiece Over the Top; there were also Breakin' and Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo. And then they tried to get serious by doing things like hiring Jean-Luc Godard to do a version of King Lear (I'll admit to not having seen this version before). The free spending eventually led to Cannon's bankruptcy.
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Those of us who watch TCM all the time will probably remember him best from movies like The Crimson Kimono in which he played a police detective, or the excellent Bridge to the Sun, in which he plays a Japanese diplomat who maries American Carroll Baker just before the attack on Pearl Harbor. He also gets murdered in the first of the Die Hard movies when he refuses to open the vault for villain Alan Rickman.
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Note that that LG TV is curved, so now you can have that Cinerama home theater you've always wanted.
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I haven't been posting much since the enforced change to newest posts first, which I find terribly inconvenient. (Actually, there are other reasons too, like my parents' 50th wedding anniversary and the World Cup.) But I think this thread could use a repost of my schedule in Programming Challenge #24 last December.
I'll let you all figure out why I think it's appropriate in this thread.
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One of my favorite movies of his is Harry and Tonto, for which Art Carney won the Best Actor Oscar. It's a wonderful, bittersweet movie about a widower in early 1970s New York (the era just before Ford told the city to drop dead) who winds up going on a cross-country journey with his cat, and along the way, everybody learns that even old people have something to offer. Especially poignant is a scene in which Carney's character looks up his old girlfriend from 50 years earlier, who broke off the relationship to study dancing with Isidora Duncan; more humorous is one when he's hitch-hiking and gets picked up by a hooker.
Mazursky was a TCM Guest Programmer, I think back in November of 2007 when TCM had a month of Guest Programmers with a different one every night. One of Mazursky's selections was King Kong, and when Robert Osborne asked him why he selected it, Mazursky responded that he first saw the movie when he was about 10 years old with a friend of his, and during one of the scenes -- I think the one when Kong kills the dinosaur on Skull Island -- Mazursky's friend threw up all over the place. Mazursky decided then that he wanted to make things like that scene that made his friend throw up.
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The first thing that comes to mind is Michael Powell's A Canterbury Tale. An American soldier en route to Canterbury gets off at the wrong stop, and winds up in a village where a young woman gets accosted by a man who throws glue in her hair -- and she's not the first. The movie is ostensibly about the attempt to find out who's throwing the glue in the womsn's hair, but it really turns out to be a spiritual journey for all of the characters as they make their way to Canterbury.
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Did I miss it, or has nobody mentioned HAL-9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey yet?
And you could argue that the main character of Little Shop of Horrors is the plant.
More humorously, the main character in all the Traveltalks shorts is not James A. FitzPatrick, but the locations.
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