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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.BTW, the default font setting that I see most people using, produces light, greyish looking text that is also small. I've reset to Arial 18 point for greater legibility!
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I want my posts uncut and commercial-free.
And I get the heebie-jeebies thinking of my posts panned and scanned.
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Look at it this way: You get to have another party for each of those milestone post numbers you'll hit again!Also, in the transition, I've lost well over a thousand posts.
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Learn to edit. :-)This may make for longer threads, since the whole message seems to go along with the post,
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Within individual threads, is there any way to have the oldest posts appear at the top? I'm not talking about the first page for each of the forums like "General Discussions" where there are "filters", but the pages for each of the individual threads within General Discussions or the other forums.
In English, it's natural to read left-to-right and top-to-bottom, so why have threads where the first post is on the bottom, and then you have to scroll up to find a response, and so on and so on?
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I think most people just leave the default whatever way it is and don't try to change things. I don't understand who the heck actually likes reading that way, though.Most prefer the reverse, I believe.
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It looks like there are two ways to post a quote:
Do quote tags not work? That is, "quote" in square brackets before the text you're quoting, followed by "/quote" in square brackets? (Or, like HTML tags, but with square brackets instead of the greater than and less then signs.)
(Edit: Obviously, quote tags do work, since that's how I quoted you.)
And I see scrolling down that some folks have already decided to force their own oversized font choices on us. Sigh.
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Is there any way to have the oldest posts in a thread to show up first? I find it incredibly irritating to have ot scroll down to the bottom to read the first post, especially if it runs to more than one screen, and then scroll up to find the next post, and do this over and over. Frankly, I don't understand why anybody would want to to this. On the old boards, one of the first settings I changed was to have the oldest posts show up on top. I can't find any way to change that on these boards.
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Is it me, or did the movie kind of ignore the fact that the other man (the Cameron Mitchell character) was in real life married?
(This is also a test to see if the new boards are working for me. I'm wondering how long until people start abusing the font/size dropdown boxes.)
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When was Doris Day's DOB changed from 1922 to 1924? Wikipedia cites records from the 1940 census that list her as 18, and I know I've seen other sources that gave a 1922 DOB.
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NOTES ON A SCHEUDULE
This being the 25th TCM Programming Challenge, I decided to see how many references to the number 25 I could jam into the schedule. So, you'll see that the daytimes are chock-full of groan-inducing homages to 25. 25 years is the silver anniversary, so I spent Sunday morning and afternoon with movies whose titles start with the word "Silver".
Monday morning should be clear; five movies with one-word, five-letter titles to make up 25 letters. As for the afternoon, "25 or 6 to 4" refers to an old song by the group Chicago. Hence *In Old Chicago*, a movie about a big clock, and the middle of the night.
Christmas is December 25, so we'll have a couple of movies that reference Christmas or have scenes set at Christmas, but aren't particularly Christmassy, on November 25. In the Hebrew calendar, 25 Kislev is the date of the contretemps between Cain and Abel, so I figured East of Eden would fit for that. It's also the first full day of Hanukkah, so there are two movies that have Hanukkah scenes.
25 percent is one-quarter, so on Wednesday we'll have a couple of movies that have the word "quarter" in the title. That will be followed by men who deal in quarter-gallons: milkmen. Finally, George Washington is on the US quarter-dollar coin, so a few titles that have him.
William McKinley, the 25th US President, is really only in two movies. In *This is My Affair* he sends Robert Taylor out to find criminals in Minnesota, while in the short he gets assassinated, leading to the Theodore Roosevelt presidency. *The Best Man* is a cheat: the opening credits play out over a montage of the portraits of all the presidents. But I'm not above cheating.
On Thursday, we go back 25 years in time, from 2014 to 1989, then to 1964, to 1939, and 1914. I didn't have any time left to include the Oscar-nominated films of 1889.
Y is the 25th letter of the English alphabet, so on Friday morning and afternoon we have a bunch of movies whose titles begin with the letter Y. At least, in English they do.
Saturday sees movies with people born in 1925, at least according to IMDb: in order, those people are Lee Grant, Dina Merrill, Honor Blackman, Lee Van Cleef, Dickie Moore, Audie Murphy, Arlene Dahl, and Farley Granger.
And now for prime time. Sunday before Silent Sunday Nights begins with a double feature of movies that really deserve to be paired. Finding that there was a short called *Hot Foot* was a serendipitous bonus. Silent Sunday Nights and TCM Imports deal with the importance of film preservation and restoration. *The Exile* is one of Hungarian director Mihaly Kertesz' earliest movies; he would later go to the States and have a successful career. One of the IMDb reviews for *After Midnight* suggested the print was lousy; I haven't seen it but I needed a silent of that length with a lousy print so I included it. *All My Good Countrymen* is undergoing a restoration which is set to premier at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival later this spring. *The Black Book*, every time I've seen it on TCM, has had a woeful print that really needs a restoration.
Monday night sees the first of the *Sunset Blvd.* challenges. I was going to use dopes who get the swimming pools they always wanted, but somebody else took that. So instead, I thought about the scene in which Norma Desmond plays bridge with her former silent stars, whom Joe Gillis calls the "waxworks". Therefore, we have a movie about a waxworks, followed by movies with scenes of contract bridge playing (one of the characters in *Make Way for Tomorrow* gives bridge lessons). As you can see, I got a little carried away with bridge.
For the previous challenge, I limited myself to films released in 1960 or later. One of the people I had considered for Star of the Month was Melvyn Douglas, since he won both his Oscars after 1960 and made enough movies later in his career to have an entire evening devoted to his post-1960 work. But I had wanted to use Rod Taylor in *101 Dalmatians*, so Melvyn Douglas had to wait until this Programming Challenge.
Wednesday night sees another of the *Sunset Blvd.* challenges, the one that Lonseome Polecat listed #3, that being to use one of her exempt premieres from a set list. Hungarian-born playwright Ferenc Molnar wrote one of the segments of *Tales of Manhattan*, so I used that film as a jumping-off point for a night of movies based on his work.
Thursday night sees the last of the *Sunset Blvd.* challenges, looking for a night of movies honoring an off-camera person. I selected Helen Hunt, a hairstylist at Columbia in the 1950s and 1960s.
The Friday Night Spotlight is lighting in the movies. This particular Friday night deals with movies in which a light fixture is a key part of the plot. Our British flyboys have a major insight whne they see two theater spotlights working together in *The Dam Busters*. A crystal chandelier is important at the end of Alfred Hitchcock's *Family Plot*. In *Red Light*, the climax is set on a sign in lights for a trucking company. *Gaslight* deals with the lights going dim leading the female lead to believe something's going on. And in *Wait Until Dark*, there's a refrigerator light that Audrey Hepburn forgets to unscrew.
The TCM Essential is *Bright Eyes*, which I think makes a good essential since it's really the first of the movies with the Shirley Temple formula. However, I decided to use it to kick off a night of Jane Withers movies, since she gets all the fun scenes in the movie.
I don't know if TCM can air *Salo* or if it's too much for them to air. (I really thought about *Caligula*, but that's probably further over the line.) Since I had a free hour left, I'd figure I'd contrast Pasolini's challenging work with the whitewashed glitz of MGM.
I believe I used eight out of a possible 10 premieres:
*Silver Streak*
*One Foot in Hell*
*Don't Play Bridge With Your Wife*
*Gang War*
*Latin Quarter*
*Valmont*
*Yellow Sky*
*Woman's World*
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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2014
25 years is the Silver anniversary
0600 *The Silver Chalice* (1954, WB, 142 min) dir. Victor Saville; stars Paul Newman, Virginia Mayo, Jack Palance
0830 *Silver River* (1948, WB, 110 min) dir. Raoul Walsh, stars Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Thomas Mitchell
1030 *Silver Queen* (1942, UA, 80 min, p/s) dir Lloyd Bacon; stars George Brent, Priscilla Lane, Bruce Cabot
1200 *Silver Dollar* (1932, First National, 83 min) dir Alfred Green; stars Edward G. Robinson, Bebe Daniels, Aline MacMahon
1330 *The Silver Cord* (1933, RKO, 74 min, p/s) dir. John Cromwell; stars Irene Dunne, Joel McCrea, Laura Hope Crews
Short: An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee (1930, WB, 11 min)
1500 *The Silver Horde* (1930, RKO, 75 min) dir. George Archainbaud; stars Evelyn Brent, Louis Wolheim, Joel McCrea
1630 *Silver Streak* (1976, Fox, 114 min) PREMIERE #1 dir. Arthur Hill; stars Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, Richard Pryor
1830 *Silver Lode* (1954, RKO, 81 min) dir. Allan Dwan; stars John Payne, Lizabeth Scott, Dan Duryea
2000 *One Foot in Heaven* (1941, WB, 108 min) dir. Irving Rapper; stars Fredric March, Martha Scott, Beulah Bondi
2200 *One Foot in Hell* (1960, Fox, 90 min) PREMIERE #2 dir. James Clark; stars Alan Ladd, Don Murray, Dan O'Herlihy
Short: Hot Foot (1943, RKO, 17 min)
Silent Sunday Nights, and TCM Imports look at film preservation and restoration
0000 *The Exile* (1914, 68 min) EXEMPT dir. Michael Curtiz
0115 *After Midnight* (1927, MGM, 70 min) dir. Monta Bell; stars Norma Shearer, Lawrence Gray, Gwen Lee
0230 *All My Good Countrymen* (1969, Barrandov, 114 min) EXEMPT dir. Vojtech Jasny; stars Vlastimil Brodsky, Radoslav Brzobohatny, Vladimir Mensik
0430 *The Black Book* (1949, 89 min, p/s) dir. Anthony Mann; stars Robert Cummings, Richard Basehart, Arlene Dahl
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24
25 is 5x5
0600 *Hondo* (1953, WB, 83 min) dir. John Farrow; stars John Wayne, Geraldine Page, Ward Bond
0730 *Janie* (1944, WB, 102 min) dir. Michael Curtiz; stars Joyce Reynolds, Robert Hutton, Edward Arnold
0915 *Julie* (1956, MGM, 99 min, p/s) dir. Andrew L. Stone; stars Doris Day, Louis Jourdan, Barry Sullivan
1100 *Marty* (1955, Columbia, 94 min, p/s) dir. Delbert Mann; stasr Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Jerry Paris
1245 *Laura* (1944, Fox, 88 min, p/s) dir. Otto Preminger; stars Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb
25 or 6 to 4
1415 *In Old Chicago* (1937, Fox, 111 min, p/s) dir. Henry King; stars Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche
1615 *The Big Clock* (1948, Paramount, 95 min, p/s) dir. John Farrow; stars Charles Laughton, Ray Milland, Maureen O'Sullivan
1800 *Middle of the Night* (1959, Columbia, 118 min, p/s) dir. Delbert Mann; stars Kim Novak, Fredric March, Glenda Farrell
Monday night: Bridge night with the waxworks (Sunset Blvd. Challenge #1)
2000 *Mystery of the Wax Museum* (1933, WB, 77 min) dir. Michael Curtiz; stars Lionel Atwill, Glenda Farrell, Fay Wray
2130 *Animal Crackers* (1930, Paramount, 98 min, p/s) dir. Victor Heerman; stars Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx
2315 *Make Way for Tomorrow* (1937, Paramount, 91 min, p/s) dir. Leo McCarey; stars Victor More, Beulah Bondi, Thomas Mitchell
Short: Don't Play Bridge With Your Wife (1933, Mack Sennett, 18 min) PREMIERE #3
0115 *Smarty* (1934, WB, 64 min) dir. Robert Florey; stars Joan Blondell, Warren WIlliam, Edward Everett Horton
0230 A Bridge Too Far (1977, Joseph Levine, 175 min, p/s) dir. Richard Attenborough; stars Sean Connery, Dirk Bogarde, Gene Hackman
Short: A Ship is Born (1942, WB, 22 min)
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25
A Salute to December 25
0600 *Blossoms in the Dust* (1941, MGM, 99 min) dir. Mervyn LeRoy; stars Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Feliz Bressart
0745 *Christmas in July* (1940, Paramount, 67 min, p/s) dir. Preston Sturges; stars Dick Powell, Ellen Drew, William Demarest
0900 *Gang War* (1958, Fox, 75 min) PREMIERE #4 dir. Gene Fowler; stars Charles Bronson, Kent Taylor, Jennifer Holden
Short: Around the World in California (1947, MGM, 10 min)
1030 *The Glenn Miller Story* (1954, Universal, 115 min, p/s) dir. Anthony Mann; stars James Stewart, June Allyson, Harry Morgan
Kislev 25
1230 *East of Eden* (1955, WB, 115 min) dir. Elia Kazan; stars James Dean, Julie Harris, Raymond Massey
1430 *A Majority of One* (1961, 149 min, p/s) dir. Mervyn LeRoy; stars Alec Guinness, Rosalind Russell, Ray Danton
1700 *The Diary of Anne Frank* (1959, Fox, 171 min, p/s) dir. George Stevens; stars Millie Perkins, Shelley Winters, Joseph Schildkraut
Tuesday: Star of the Month Melvyn Douglas
2000 *Hotel* (1967, WB, 124 min) dir. Richard Quine; stars Rod Taylor, Catherine Spaak, Melvyn Douglas
2215 *The Great Sinner* (1949, MGM, 110 min) dir. Robert Siodman; stars Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas
0015 *Theodora Goes Wild* (1936, Columbia, 94 min, p/s) dir. Richard Boleslawski; stars Irene Dunne, Melvyn Douglas, Thomas Mitchell
0200 *Third Finger, Left Hand* (1940, MGM, 96 min) dir. Robert Z. Leonard; stars Myrna Loy, Melvyn Douglas, Raymond Walbourn
0345 *The Sea of Grass* (1947, MGM, 123 min) dir. Elia Kazan; stars Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Melvyn Douglas
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26
25 is one-quarter
0600 *Latin Quarter* (1946, British National, 80 min) PREMIERE #5 dir. Vernon Sewell; stars Derrick de Marney, Joan Greenwood, Frederic Valk
0730 *Night of the Quarter Moon* (1959, Zugsmith/MGM, 96 min) dir. Hugo Haas; stars Julie London, John Drew Barrymore, Dean Jones
0915 *The Milky Way* (1936, Paramount, 89 min, p/s) dir. Leo McCarey; stars Harold Lloyd, Adolphe Menjou, Verree Teasdale
1045 *Maid's Night Out* (1938, RKO, 64 min) dir. Ben Holmes; stars Joan Fontaine, Allan Lane, Cecil Kellaway
1200 *The Clock* (1945, MGM, 90 min) dir. Vincente Minnelli; stars Judy Garland, Robert Walker, James Gleason
Short: The Flag (1927, Technicolor/MGM, 20 min, p/s)
1400 *The Howards of Virginia* (1940, Columbia, 116 min, p/s) dir. Frank Lloyd; stars Cary Grant, Martha Scott, George Houston
William McKinley, 25th President
1600 *The Best Man* (1964, 102 min, p/s) dir. Franklin Schaffner; stars Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Kevin McCarthy
Short: Teddy, the Rough Rider (1940, WB, 19 min)
1815 *This is My Affair* (1937, Fox, 100 min, p/s) dir. William Seiter; stars Robert Taylor, Barbara Stanwyck, Victor McLaglen
Wednesdy night: Based on works by Ferenc Molnar (Sunset Blvd. Challenge #3)
2000 *Tales of Manhattan* (1942, Fox, 127 min, LP PREMIERE) dir. Julien Duvivier; stars Charles Boyer, Charles Laughton, WC Fields
2215 *One, Two, Three* (1961, Mirisch, 115 min, p/s) dir. Billy Wilder; stars James Cagney, Horst Buchholz, Pamela Tiffin
0015 *The Guardsman* (1931, MGM, 82 min) dir. Sidney Franklin; stars Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Roland Young
0145 *The Swan* (1956, MGM, 104 min) dir. Charles Vidor; stars Grace Kelly, Alec Guinness, Louis Jourdan
0345 *Carousel* (1956, Fox, 126 min, p/s) dir. Henry King; stars Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones, Cameron Mitchell
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27
25 years previously
0600 *Valmont* (1989, Renn, 137 min) PREMIERE #6 dir. Milos Forman; stars Colin Firth, Annette Bening, Meg Tilly
0830 *Parenthood* (1989, 124 min, p/s) dir. Ron Howard; stars Steve Martin, Mary Steenburgen, Diane Wiest
1045 *Muscle Beach Party* (1964, 94 min, p/s) dir. William Asher; stars Frankie Avalon, Annette Funnicello, Jody McCrea
1230 *Strait-Jacket* (1964, Columbia, 93 min, p/s) dir. William Castle; stars Joan Crawford, George Kennedy, Diane Baker
1415 *Espionage Agent* (1939, WB, 83 min) dir. Lloyd Bacon; stars Joel McCrea, Brenda Marshall, Jeffrey Lynn
1545 *Dancing Co-Ed* (1939, MGM, 84 min) dir. S. Sylvain Simon; stars Ann Rutherford, Lana Turner, Richard Carlson
1715 *Tilly's Punctured Romance* (1914, Keystone, 82 min, p/d) dir. Mack Sennett; stars Marie Dressler, Charlie Chaplin, Mabel Normand
1845 *The Squaw Man* (1914, Lasky, 74 min, p/d) dir. Cecil B. DeMille; stars Dustin Farnum, Monroe Salisbury, Winifred Kingston
As Good As It Gets: The hairstyles of Helen Hunt (Sunset Blvd. Challenge #2)
2000 *Assignment: Paris* (1952, Columbia, 85 min, p/s) dir. Robert Parrish; stars Dana Andrews, George Sanders, Audrey Totter
2130 *Storm Center* (1956, Julian Blaustein, 85 min, p/s) dir. Daniel Taradash; stars Bette Davis, Brian Keith, Kevin Coughlin
2300 *Jeanne Eagels* (1957, Columbia, 108 min, p/s) dir. George Sidney; stars Kim Novak, Jeff Chandler, Agnes Moorehead
0100 *The Solid Gold Cadillac* (1956, Columbia, 99 min, p/s) dir. Richard Quine; stars Judy Holliday, Paul Douglas, Fred Clark
0245 *Queen Bee* (1955, Columbia, 95 min, p/s) dir. Ranald MacDougall; stars Joan Crawford, Barry Sullivan, Fay Wray
0430 *It Should Happen to You!* (1954, Columbia, 86 min, p/s) dir. George Cukor; stars Judy Holliday, Peter Lawford, Jack Lemmon
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28
A salute to the 25th letter of the alphabet
0600 *Yojimbo* (1961, Kurosawa, 110 min, p/s) dir. Akira Kurosawa, stars Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakudai, Yoko Tsukasa
0800 *Yes, My Darling Daughter* (1939, WB, 86 min) dir. William Keighley; stars Priscilla Lane, Jeffrey Lynn, Roland Young
0930 *Young at Heart* (1954, WB, 117 min) dir. Gordon Douglas; stars Doris Day, Frank Sinatra, Gig Young
Short: You Can't Win (1948, MGM, 8 min)
1145 *You Can't Take It With You* (1938, Columbia, 126 min, p/s) dir. Frank Capra; stars James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore
1400 *Yankee Doodle Dandy* (1942, WB, 126 min) dir. Michael Curtiz; stars James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston
1615 *Yellow Sky* (1948, Fox, 95 min) PREMIERE #7 dir. William Wellman, stars Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark
1800 *Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow* (1963, CCC, 119 min, p/s) dir. Vittorio da Sica; stars Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Giuffre
Lights, Camera, Inaction: A look at lighting in the movies
2000 *The Dambusters* (1955, Associated British Pictures, 124 min p/s) dir. Michael Anderson; stars Michael Redgrave, Ursula Jeans, Charles Carson
2215 *Family Plot* (1976, Universal, 120 min) dir. Alfred Hitchcock; stars Karen Black, Bruce Dern, William Devane
Short: Night Descends on Treasure Island (1940, MGM, 8 min)
0030 *Red Light* (1949, p/s, 83 min) dir. Roy Del Ruth; stars George Raft, Virginia Mayo, Raymond Burr
0200 *Gaslight* (1940, British National, 84 min, p/s) dir. Thorold Dickinson; stars Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell
Short: Star in the Night (1945, WB, 22 min)
0400 *Wait Until Dark* (1967, WB, 108 min) dir. Terence Young; stars Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29
A salute to people born in '25
0600 *Detective Story* (1951, Paramount, 103 min, p/s) dir. William Wyler; stars Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, Lee Grant
0745 *Desk Set* (1957, Fox, 103 min, p/s) dir. Walter Lang; stars Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Dina Merrill
0930 *So Long at the Fair* (1950, Gainsborough, 86 min, p/s) dir. Antony Darnborough; stars Jean Simmons, Dirk Bogard, Honor Blackman
1100 *The Killer That Stalked New York* (1950, Columbia, 79 min, p/s) dir. Earl McEvoy; stars Evelyn Keyes, Charles Korvin, Dorothy Malone
1230 *The Big Combo* (1955, Security, 84 min, p/s) dir. Joseph H. Lewis; stars Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Lee Van Cleef
1400 *Man's Castle* (1933, Columbia, 69 min, p/s) dir. Frank Borzage; stars Spencer Tracy, Loretta Young, Dickie Moore
1515 *No Name on the Bullet* (1959, Universal, 77 min, p/s) dir. Jack Arnold, stars Audie Murphy, Virginia Grey, Warren Stevens
1645 *Woman's World* (1954, Fox, 94 min) PREMIERE #8 dir. Jean Negulesco; stars Clifton Webb, June Allyson, Arlene Dahl
1830 *Behave Yourself!* (1951, Wald/Krasna, 81 min, p/s) dir. George Beck; stars Farley Granger, Shelley Winters, William Demarest
Jane Withers/TCM Underground
2000 *Bright Eyes* (1934, Fox, 85 min, p/s) dir. David Butler; stars Shirley Temple, James Dunn, Jane Withers
2130 *The North Star* (1943, Goldwyn, 108 min, p/s) dir. Lewis Milestons; stars Amme Baxter, Dana Andrews, Jane Withers
2330 *Giant* (1956, WB, 201 min) dir. George Stevens; stars Dennis Hopper, Rodney Taylor, Jane Withers
TCM Underground:
0300 *Salo* (1975, PEA, 116 min) EXEMPT: Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini; stars Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Aldo Valetti
0500 *Some of the Best* (1943, MGM, 49 min)
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The first one sounds like *Chance at Heaven*. (IMDb has a think where you can look for movies that have two particular people in common. That might have helped you.)
The second one is, I think, *Over 21* with Irene Dunne and Alexander Knox.
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I think that's a great idea!
(I have to admit to slowing down when I thought I'd have five extra days.) Right now I think I've got three days fully timed out, and idea for the rest of the daytimes and evenings.
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Get a throwaway account at gmail.com that you use for the purpose of signing up for websites and things where they require an email address.
Make up a DOB. You can be perpetually 39 like Jack Benny.
Make up an address if you're worried about their knowing your zip code. You could always try
1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Washington DC 20500
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> My concern is if they will make all of the TCM Programming Challenges available.
My first concern was that even though LP extended the deadline for entry to the current challenge to April 5, now I have to make certain to finish my entry by the 31st. I presume that three-day outage is really a minimum. Upgrades never ever go anywhere near as smoothly as you think going in.
"Upgrading software is like a stagecoach ride in the old west. When you start, you are hoping for a pleasant trip. By the halfway point, you just hope to survive." :-)
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> Never would have thought of the pool angle. That cracks me up.
Dammit! Now I have to change a night of my schedule! :-(
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> Those interested in the Motown sound should check out the documentary *Standing In The Shadows Of Motown*, which profiles The Funk Brothers, the legendary session band who play on almost all the label's hits.
TCM actually showed this back in April 2010 as part of a night of movies including and/or inspired by the Motown Sound, for the 50th anniversary of the studio (date variable depending upon how you wish to date the founding):
*Thank God It's Friday* at 8:00 PM;
*Standing in the Shadows of Motown* at 10:00 PM
*Lady Sings the Blues* at midnight*;
*The Big Chill* at 2:30 AM;
*Norman... Is that You* at 4:30 AM
It's too bad they apparently couldn't get the rights to *Mahogany* to go in the spot taken by the overrated *Big Chill*.
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Patrice Wymore, who met Errol Flynn while they were working together on the movie *Rocky Mountain* and eventually became the final Mrs. Errol Flynn, [died yesterday at her home in Jamaica aged 87|http://jamaica-gleaner.com/latest/article.php?id=51838].
Other of her films include *Tea for Two* and *Starlift*. If I'm not mistaken, she wound up in Jamaica thanks to Errol, from whom she inherited the land that became her home.
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Don't you mean *Gold Diggers of 1933* ? Are are you talking about something other than the roller-skating baby peeping Tom?
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> I watched once an interview wherein a person stated that no one sets out to make a bad movie.
"Making a film is like a stagecoach ride in the old west. When you start, you are hoping for a pleasant trip. By the halfway point, you just hope to survive." -- Fran?ois Truffaut, *Day for Night*
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The first inkling that something was up should have been in the introduction before the first interview, when Conan mentioned Julie Andrews and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who weren't supposed to be part of the lineup for last night. I figured perhaps somebody keyed up the wrong intro, but the right set of interviews would air, since I figured they all had different numbers to key in. After all, TCM is going to have to split up the interviews at some point in the future to air them individually, as they've been doing on Saturday mornings with some of the interviews from last year.
I read someplace that Canadian postal codes don't use certain letters of the alphabet, such as I, O, and Z, since they can easily be mistaken for digits. I am mildly curious as to what the TCM scheme is for identifying the various files to be played.
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Would it be [*Fun on a Week-End*|http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039405/] starring Eddie Bracken and Priscilla Lane, by any chance?
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It helps that they were cribbing a fairly good story in *A Free Soul* when they made *The Girl Who Had Everything*.
What astonishes me is the use of top-tier talent in the form of Elizabeth Taylor in one of those B movies with a message that MGM was churning out in the early 50s presumably to subsidize the big-budget Technicolor musical spectaculars.
well: how do we feel about forthcoming "new and improved" message boards?
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Of course, I actually made certain I had a valid email address with this account.