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Today was my parents' 50th wedding anniversary. (Seriously, they were married on June 6, 1964.) TCM was obviously marking that momentous occasion by showing all these wedding-themed movies.

Favorite Movie Titles blogathon Part 1 of my entry; not all of them are great selections but in some cases I didn't want to pick the same thing everybody else did. Click the link in the sidebar for N-Z.

Austrian actor turned humanitarian dies aged 86 The Deutsche Welle obituary claims he's best remembered for playing Austrian Emperor Franz Josef opposite Romy Schneider's Sissi in the 1950s, but I think people here would probably better remember him for playing the cameraman with a dark secret in Michael Powell's Peeping Tom: In the 1980s, Böhm founded the charity Menschen für Menschen (there's a drop-down box at the bottom for English), helping the poor in Ethiopia.

My Name is Julia Ross has a woman locked in an old house, although it's not Victorian and she's not in Victorian clothes.

I presume you would have gotten all five of the clues in the Documentaries category in the Jeopardy! round too, right? And how many of the clues in the other 11 categories would you have known? To see the responses hover over the dollar amounts.

But you are, Blanche, you are! (just kidding, but I thought the quote would be humorous here)

Let's Make It Legal is a dud if you ask me.

On May 6 at 6:00 AM, TCM is giving Canadian viewers the Canadian print of The Scarlet Letter, in which Hester Prynne (Lillian Gish) is forced to wear a big red "Eh?" on her chest.

Tatiana Samoilova, whom you may remember best for her starring role in the 1950s Soviet movie The Cranes Are Flying (pictured above), has died one day after her 80th birthday. (I'm sorry I don't have a larger version of that picture.)

Would it be the original version of Million Dollar Baby with May Robson, Ronald Reagan, and Priscilla Lane?

This would have given rise to many more interesting movies, since Robin Hood would have died at about the age of 275. The Errol Flynn version of Robin Hood is set in the 1190s.

I'm sorry to say this isn't accurate. My first Challenge was #5, and I missed at least on in between, so I've participated in no more than 20 of them. Apologies for not voting, either, but the past few weeks have been busy for me and I never really got around to reading everybody else's schedules.

Considering that they've shown the ~140-minute version before, there's no problem. Personally, I prefer that than to the longer version. **** Erich von Stroheim for not making a 140-minute movie in the first place and forcing MGM to edit the movie.

Well-configured forums have a feature that allows you to go to the first unread post. (Of course, you'd need to be logged in and have cookies enabled to do this.) If this were a well-configured forum, you'd be able to click on the circle or star next to the title of the thread, and go to the first unread post.

I wonder what they think of the English football team Scunthorpe United.

There's a pill for that.

All good people hate Comic Sans.

Opera, before they threw in their lot with the Chrome rendering engine, had a wonderful feature where you could select a CSS file to use for viewing websites, either a default file or site-specific. I didn't like the black-on-yellow text of the old boards here, so I selected a "high-contrast" stylesheet that made everything white text on a black background. (Personlly, I really prefer battleship gray backgrounds on the web.) I thought Microsoft (yes, I know you're using Safari) expressly designed Trebuchet to be easier to read on the web, as opposed to printed documents. I personally find Times New Roman more difficult to read on screen than a lot of sans-serif fonts.

This is what your browser settings are for. Don't inflict it on the rest of us. As soon as I saw the setting for selecting font and size, I wondered how long it was going to be until people started to abuse it with multiple oversized fonts and make their posts a pain to read. I probably shouldn't say this, but wait until people discover there's a setting to select font color, too.

Most boards (including this one) have an option to go to the first unread post. Click on the circle or star next to the title of the thread.

And what is the board doing automatically putting smilies on their own line?

Sorry, SansFin, but those are only for the lists of threads in each forum. What we're looking for is a way to have the oldest posts in each individual thread show up at the top. English is normally read from left to right, and top to bottom (diagonal billing aside ), so it makes logical sense to have the oldest posts at the top.

I didn't have any problem signing back in, either. Well, having to go through two steps that each sent a confirmation email was mildly annoying, but far less so than those cosmetic changes I've complained about multiple times already. (And, I suppose, the auto-censor. I haven't checked yet if it will censor part of Alfred Hitchcock's name. I remember a board that actually did.) Of course, I actually made certain I had a valid email address with this account.

And I find 18-point Arial ridiculously oversized. Is there any chance you can set the font in your own browser so that the default for this forum shows up as something legible on your end, and not inflict a monstrosity on the rest of us? After all, that was the whole point of HTML in the first place.

I want my posts uncut and commercial-free. And I get the heebie-jeebies thinking of my posts panned and scanned.