Fedya
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> I think it interesting that PR was married and fathered four or five children and could paint, write and shave himself, which is better than many men with all their appendages intact!
Q: What do you call a man who has no arms or legs, but can play ten musical instruments?
A: Stump the Band.
{ducking}
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But Broderick on TCM last night didn't look like that wax statue. He had Harold Lloyd-style glasses (at least for the first intro; I didn't watch the others) and a really bad hairdo. I thought he also came across as a bit stiff.
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James A. Fitzpatrick, the "Voice of the World" (or is it "Voice of the Globe"?)
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*Cruel Story of Youth* is quite good, and has similar themes: a boyfriend uses his girlfriend to get in positions that compromise wealthy businessmen, at which point the boyfriend swoops in and blackmails the men for money. The movie also has wonderful color cinematography of Tokyo at night circa 1960.
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Thank you. I would have guessed it was from one of those drawing-room comedies from the early 1930s.
I actually have *Easy Virtue* on one of those el cheapo DVD sets of old Hitchcock movies, but haven't gotten around to watching it.
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Are you sure you've got the right movie? in [*Man in the Middle*|http://justacineast.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-winston-affair.html] (also known as *The Winston Affair* ), Mitchum plays a US military attorney in India defending Keenan Wynn. He doesn't do any escaping, certainly not to Northern Ireland.
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In another forum, somebody used [this photo|http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GLDNP1S45Vo/Uakf-zYOzkI/AAAAAAAAMUY/NsWzC-Mosfw/s640/pearl+clutching.jpg] to illustrate pearl-clutching. I'm going nuts trying to figure out who it is.
Apparently, it's being used fairly commonly to denote pearl-clutching, since the poster used a reverse lookup and got only hits for it being used as an exemplar of pearl-clutching, and not for being from whatever movie.
SO who is it? And do you know what movie it is?
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> For the past year and a half, members who have joined the site have been stripped of their rights
What rights? TCM doesn't even have to provide a "Classic Film Union".
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Not complete without a roller-skating baby peeping Tom. :-)
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My understanding is that there are two or three companies that provide listings data for the box guides and various Internet TV listings sites. I'm not certain whether the blame would normally be on TCM for providing incomplete listings (sometimes in the monthly schedule there' s imcomplete information), or with the listings services.
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> This is a discussion forum. I'm not on here to demand anything from TCM but to discuss choices the programmers made. My emotions or any lack thereof are not the issue. It's so obvious when someone tries to obfuscate the issue. So please cease the patronizing comments.
I agree. If I called somebody who disagreed with me an apologist for TCM, that would be obfuscating the issue, and patronizing to the poster in question.
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I get the heebie-jeebies thinking about "matthew.kleinmann" panned and scanned. ;-)
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Based on the trailer that TCM showed several times, I was hoping for something delightfully awful. Instead, I found it kind of blah, in that I found it kind of hard to care about any of these people.
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> Jane Russell in 3D.
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Speaking of *Burn Witch Burn*, the trailer that TCM has been running for it makes it look like one of those hilariously bad movies that's unintentionally funny. Is that actually the case? Because if it is, that makes me more want to see it. (I haven't seen it before.)
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They're deliberately doing it to p*** off the people who whine and shriek every time a movie made after 1960 is aired.
And if the TCM Programmer is reading this thread, I'd like to thank him for programming these films and getting the whiners' knickers in a twist.
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> Finally, a question. Is Nightmare Alley the first major "A" Hollywood production to address the issue of fake spiritualism? I know there were a few "B" mysteries (ie. Miracles for Sale and Charlie Chan at Treasure Island) but those films all fell into the category of "light" entertainment.
What about Barbara Stanwyck in *The Miracle Woman* (dir. Frank Capra, 1931)?
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Possibly the first since the introduction of the Production Code.
Barbara Stanwyck's gangster boyfriend in the pre-Code *Night Nurse*, for example, gets away with several crimes, including the larceny of dozens of quarts of milk(!).
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I'm disappointed. I thought this thread was going to be about [that film|http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091396/] with [the Rod Stewart song|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCAJqv0nrbA]
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The death has been announced of magician [John Calvert|http://www.wildabouthoudini.com/2013/09/john-calvert-dies-at-102.html], at the age of 102. Calvert was first and foremost a magician, but he played the Falcon in several of the films in the series in the late 1940s/early 1950s, as well as serving as a technical advisor for the illusions performed by Jack Palance in *The Silver Chalice*. (Calvert told the story of how he offered condolences to Paul Newman because *The Silver Chalice* bombed, only for Newman to remind him of this a couple of years later, after *Somebody Up There Likes Me* made Newman a star.)
Calvert continued to perform magic into his late 90s, and was the subject of a documentary produced by his son, called *John Calvert: His Magic and Adventures*. Those adventures included piloting a plane with the crew of his magic show, and surviving a crash of that plane; as well as taking his yacht across the Pacific to perform in Southeast Asia. He escaped pirates there, and met his wife.
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> I think they now limit the number of game show appearances one can make to 3, though not that there's probably any way for the producers of these shows to verify the number of these appearances.
Nowadays they do no such thing. Or, at least, it's up to the individual producers, since there aren't large blocks of network daytime game shows. I believe Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune (both produced by Sony) want contestants not to have been on anything else for the past year. But I've got an acquaintance on a game-show board who was on GSN's The Chase earlier this year and is going to be on the syndie show Let's Ask America in the not too distant future: he posted just the other day that he got a contestant package which includes branded cards to write answers on, among other things.
Of course, the current trend isn't to have contestant coordinators, but casting. Especially the daft prime-time network shows want contestants with obnoxious back stories; normal people need not apply.
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> Not many films where a hit is put on a horse
I'm reminded of Alfred Hitchcock's *Marnie*, in which Tippi Hedren screams hysterically for somebody to shoot her horse after she fails to negotiate a fence. One of the funnier scenes in a great comedy. :-)
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When I saw this movie, I wanted the Ethel Waters character to smack the Juliie Harris character into the next county.
Or, as I posted here some years back, this movie answers the question, "What sort of movie would you get if Woody Allen played the part of a 12-year-old girl?"
Sorry, but I hate hate hate this movie.
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> I will say I think it is untoward to vote any film as the worst ever made without having a true contribution from at least a thousand TCM contributors.
I vote for *Dondi*.
Municipal Mayors in Movies
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Just as movies like *The Wet Parade* show the ultimate futility of the war on alcohol, the war on other drugs is just as futile.