Fedya

Ooh, I think I can beat everybody else to the punch for once! The synopsis you give sounds very much like the plot of [*Theodora Goes Wild*|http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028355/], with Irene Dunne as Theodora, an author who writes a salacious book under a pseudonym, and Melvyn Douglas playing the book's cover art illustrator and disgusing himself as a gardener when he goes to visit Theodora.

TCM ran the Torchy movies one a week every Saturday at noon early this year. Did everybody in *Snowed Under* have to be so %&^@% loud?

> After all, none other than the great Wilson Pickett (and shirely no one would accuse him of bubblegumtry) covered The Archies' Sugar Sugar . [This|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wns58pGwhfU] is my favorite cover of "Sugar Sugar". :-)

> I see it's black and white. I guess the color really was washed out then. :-)

To be fair, James, some of us think *The Godfather* is overrated. (I'm not a Marlon Brando fan.)

> Now this comment came out of left field: Of course, some people think it's nostalgic, like Chet Baker's singing, so that must make it superior I've seen a couple of people say how much they liked the old "Sunny Side of Life" opening. To me it never felt appropriate for "difficult" movies like, say, *The Lost Weekend* or *The Days of Wine and Roses*. It also didn't really have anything to do with movies. (I'd also argue that all those old openings had to be discontinued because they were in a 4:3 ratio, and TV is transitioning to 16:9 and high-def.) There have also been posters who mentioned several times in the past that they'd like to see old AMC faces like Bob Dorian or Nick Clooney brought back. I'm also a member of a game show discussion board, and there are people who get comically irritated when The Price Is Right changes set pieces in its games, to the point that other posters have the standard sarcastic reply, "Change is hard."

> They are not his words to manipulate. I didn't manipulate them at all. Manipulating would have been moving them around. That would be like one of those movie ads that quote a bunch of critics, where they'll quote a critic like "This is {...} a great movie!" where the word removied in the ellipsis is "not". The original poster made a bunch of unrelated points, and I decided to answer them one by one. I figured it would make more sense to do it that way than to leave the wall of text there and answer the points with a wall of text of my own. Edited by: Fedya on Aug 5, 2013 9:08 PM, because the screwed-up posting system makes it impossible to use square brackets, even when they're syntactically the correct thing to use.

> I'll never forgive you TCM for not showing Frankenstein and Dracula this October. There are also people who would complain if TCM were only showing the well-known horror films in October. > Those two films are the movies that started it all for horror. If FW Murnau and Tod Browning could hear that comment, they'd be spinning in their graves. > How can they show hammer's frankenstein / dracula and not Universal's ? This is a crime. Could you cite relevant case law on this? > What TCM trying to do ? become another Cinemoi with all of these british and french films they've shown the past couple months ? Cinemoi is no longer available anywhere as far as I know. And Fran?ois Truffaut made some of the best movies out there. > I hate the new background grapics. De gustibus non est disptandum. > I liked the old jazzy theme from back in the 90s/early 2000s. If you're talking about the bandbox, I've never understood why that has more to do with film than other openings. Of course, some people think it's nostalgic, like Chet Baker's singing, so that must make it superior > The new grapics look and ugly and boring. It makes the channel look generic and boring. They're easier to read > I hate those dvd ads. They're annoying. How can you people go on watching this channel without talking about these annoying ads ? They're paying for the acquisition of certain movies. Every time you see that Universal Westerns of the 50s ad, dollars to doughnuts it's helping to pay to acquire things like *Magnificent Obsession* or *Ruggles of Red Gap* (since Universal owns the 1930s and 1940s Paramounts). Ditto the stuff that's mentioned in the "Hi, this is the TCM Classic Movie News for {insert month here}" feature > and everytime some one goes against TCM's programming/graphics , you all flame the heck out of that poster. I agree. The people who think TCM is changing beyond recognition and are impervious to evidence that this is not the case flame those who try to present such evidence. > I'm a person just like you. I'm not here to start trouble. I just want to be heard. Everytime I come on here to start a topic, posters either ignore my post or it goes off topic by another poster. why is that ? Just a guess: your writing style makes you sound like you're raniting? > that's what drivesme and new people away from the TCM board. I thought it was the clunky interface myself > We can't have a decent thread without it being taken over by someone else. Have you tried starting indecent threads?

John Ford. A ford is a place where you cross a river, and a john is a toilet. That's probably not what you had in mind, is it? :-) It could be worse. I could have suggested Van Johnson. {ducking}

> Well, it wasnt I who singled out Tootsie for the original complaint. There are a LOT of films in constant rotation throughout the year (I think Ice Station Zebra currently may be in the lead) Why pick a fight with me? To be fair, Hibi, I think Lavender was likely responding to the most recent comment, which might have at the time of his/her post been yours. Due to this forum's unfortunate default design of putting the newest post on top and unthreaded comments, there seems to be a lot of simply clicking on the top-most reply link even when making a generic reply. (One can set in one's preferences to have the oldest posts on top, which makes more sense, since in English we read from top to bottom.)

> By contrast, on the Fox Movie Channel, you get no music and only a few seconds between the beginning of the intro and the start of the movie, which doesn't give me enough time to finish up a rack before I start running up the stairs. Are you sure of that? Don't they have the end of the Fox fanfare, followed by several seconds of "whooshing" with the "Next feature in..." and the thing going around like those old countdowns at the beginning of reels of film?

> Some of us still yearn for the Chet Baker "Look For The Silver Lining" morning intro. Some of us don't I always found it incongruous before movies such as *Mildred Pierce*.

What I learned from the remake last night: On a scale of 1 to 10, Dr. Phillips was a 37; Rock Hudson's character was about a -53. And if you didn't get thsi from the dialog, you certainly got it from the musical cues. I have a headache from the movie pouding its main points into my head with a sledgehammer.

I always thought it was Damn... Good... Actors.

Perhaps you should have linked to [this xkcd comic|http://xkcd.com/386/] instead, SansFin. ;-)

I wonder if Fred hates [*The Narrow Margin*|http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044954/] because the handheld camers make the cinematography so cheap.

> This does not apply to naked girls' brains, however, as that part of their body is unimportant. It is a little known fact that young women in 1930s movies wore a special kind of hat to protect their brains from becoming too furrowed. I would have thought they wore something like the spaghetti colander Robert Hutton (who had a steel plate in his head) designed for his assistant in *They Came From Beyond Space*.

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Hollywood_cinema So none of those Ealing comedies are classics, since they're not Hollywood. Ditto all those Weimar-era Ufa movies; Rossellini's "War Trilogy"; Jean Renoir's work, or the first 15 years of Alfred Hitchcock's career. At least, that's what your saying if you're suggesting "Classic" only refers to classic *Hollywood* cinema.

Couldn't most of your criticisms hold for much of the rest of the New Vague? (That is what "la nouvelle vague" translates to, right? ) I can think of several movies that are considered classics of various European countries' "new waves" that I find to be incredibly pretentious bores. *Jules et Jim*. The last half-hour of Godard's *Breathless*. *Closely Watched Trains*. I'm reminded of a line delivered by Marlon Brando, who is also lionized for breaking the mold. In *The Wile One*, Peggy Maley asks him, "What are you rebelling against?" and he of course responds, "What have you got?" This is somehow considered brilliant, when it's really nothing more than breaking crap simply for the sake of breaking crap. And too much of the time I get the impression that the "new wave" directors are simply rebelling for the sake of rebellion. And there are a lot of people who seem to think this automatically makes such films better. For the record, I happen to like Godard's *Alphaville*, and Milos Forman's Czech movies, and several of Truffaut's movies. But not everything all of these (and other filmmakers I haven't mentioned) is good just because it may be the antithesis of the Hollywood studio system.

I was going to ask if it was Dutch. But of course, we all know Dutch is just German with a bad accent. :-p As for the OP, I'd like to see him/her try to pronounce names of actors or movie titles in, say, Russian (Ilya would be a good one) or Czech (Jiř?), or maybe Finnish, if there are any Yrj?s out there who acted. :-)

Excerpts of Judy Tyler singing in *Bop Girl Goes Calypso* This is one of those movies that's so unbelievably awful it's an unintentional riot, and has to be seen to be believed. The basic plot is that a college professor uses a device that looks like a glorified applause meter to determine scientifically that rock and roll music is on the way out, and will be replaced by calypso. Seriously. There's also a character who's a professor of Eugenics, and George Jetson in the cast.

Did you actually have anything to say, or did you screw up the quoting so badly that whatever comments you had are trapped in a wall of text? I can't speak for anybody else, but I know that when I see such a long wall of quoted text anywhere, I can't be bothered to read what the poster is actually saying.

> Maybe us Canadians should spend more time at the liberry. You need to get oot more often. Get up off your chesterfield!

Jack Palance's character in *The Silver Chalice* is a sort of magician. Palance's illusions in the movie were advised by [John Calvert|http://justacineast.blogspot.com/2012/04/john-calvert.html], who had played the Falcon in a couple of films in that series and brought magic to the Falcon's persona. There's a very interesting documentary about Calvert called *John Calvert: His Magic and Adventures*, about his career which lasted well into his 90s. (He's still alive, and will turn 102 next month.)

> But why didn't Charlotte Vale go off with Jerry Durrance and his daughter at the end? I thought he was in a marriage where the wife wouldn't give him a divorce. But, it's been a long time since I've watched the movie in full, since I usually stop just after the wonderfully hilarious nervous breakdown. Go on, make fun of me! You think it's fun making fun of me!