Fedya
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Siskel was the thin one. I don't think he would have stretched it.
On the other hand, it never ceases to amaze me that the screenwriter for *Beyond the Valley of the Dolls* went on to become one of America's most popular movie critics.
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I vote for Edna May Oliver and Andy Devine. Heaven knows they were a riot delivering their lines in *Romeo and Juliet*.
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> Really, I can't think of any time in the last several months where anyone mentioned that they were looking forward to it.
I'm looking forward to *Hold Back the Dawn*.
Last year, I was looking forward to what I think was the TCM premiere of *The Firemen's Ball*.
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"I'll take 'Swords' for $400, Alex."
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Kent Smith pushes his car over a *cliff* to fake his death in *Nora Prentiss*. Does that count?
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I believe *Cavalcade* both opens and closes with New Year's Eve celebrations.
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There's also *Hallelujah* from 1929.
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> I have often wondered was the standard for greatness was before the invention of the bread-slicing machine.
Obviously, it was [the banana slicer|http://www.amazon.com/Hutzler-5717-571-Banana-Slicer/product-reviews/B0047E0EII/ref=cm_cr_pr_top_link_1?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=0&tag=reasonmagazineA]
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> I didn't mean to imply that you made up the photo to look like that. Some of us discussed this same topic a few months ago. i think maybe TCM showed it like that, maybe late at night. Or maybe that was a dream I had.
I think the smileboxing is done because nobody has a TV set or home theater setup with a 146-degree curvature, like Cinerama requires, with the center of the screen being farther away from central portion of the theater seats than the edges. The smileboxing is an attempt to recreate that curvature.
Or does your TV have a 146-degree curvature and hundred of strips? :-)
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> but nice to see so many good-looking men!
You don't want to see them without makeup.
(Ditto the women.)
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> She recently had a nervous breakdown.
I thought the nervous breakdown came sometime after *The Left Hand of God*, which was a year after *Black Widow*. Wasn't Tierney out of movies for quite a few years before returning for *Advise and Consent* in the early 60s?
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I'd like to have seen her as a panelist on *Match Game*, to see how quick witted she was.
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> I find it to be a nasty, overly aggressive message about people coming to New York from other parts of the country to express their egomania.
So in other words, you don't like it beause the outsiders are holding up a mirror to the native New Yorkers. ;-)
(As somebody who grew up in the Catskills, my experience with NYC people is that there's a severe tendency to arrogance and a provincialness that anything New York is the center of the world, while if the same thing happened somewhere else, it would be worthy of derision.)
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> I have done several paintings this way and it's perfectly legal.
Woiuld these paintings be of Miss Glory, or girls from Jones Beach? ;-)
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Robert Osborne may not use such language, but [Tony Randall|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iih5LjRHqdE] sure does! :-)
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Bruce Springsteen might be the single most overrated singer/songwriter of this generation.
And the movie *Philadelphia* is so awful it makes *Guess Who's Coming to Dinner* look subtle.
As for bad songs, how about "I'll Plant My Own Tree" from *Valley of the Dolls* ? I may have the title wrong; it's the song Susan Hayward is singing in front of that awful mobile.
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> or 1998's Meet Joe Black with Brad Pitt and Claire Forlani
Isn't *Meet Joe Black* more or less a remake of *Death Takes a Holiday* starring Fredric March as Death?
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I could swear several years back TCM did a month-long spotlight on advertising (in the tie-in sense, not in the sense of Mr. Blandings trying to come up with a slogan for Wham) in the movies, with some of the tie-ins going back at least to the early 1930s. If memory serves, one of the tie-ins was a particular type of radio being used.
Also, don't forget the [Clue Club mysteries|http://www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?t=6007] from the mid-1930s.
One of the Lumi?res' early films had a prominently-placed crate with the name of a particular brand of laundry soap, but I can't recall the name of the short right now.
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I'm sorrry, misswonderly, but that song makes me retch. ( *Imagine* does, too.) Lennon was a philosophical na?f, and the children's choir reached Margaret O'Brien levels of cloying irritant.
(I'll probably get in trouble for having said I don't care much for Margaret O'Brien's movies, either.)
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> In the immortal words of Nick Lowe: "What's so funny 'bout Peace Love and Understanding?"
And here I thought you had to be cruel to be kind in the right measure.
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> I've never had it and won't because I don't eat meat
Dr. Melik: This morning for breakfast he requested something called "wheat germ, organic honey and tiger's milk."
Dr. Aragon: {chuckling} Oh, yes. Those are the charmed substances that some years ago were thought to contain life-preserving properties.
Dr. Melik: You mean there was no deep fat? No steak or cream pies or... hot fudge?
Dr. Aragon: Those were thought to be unhealthy... precisely the opposite of what we now know to be true.
Dr. Melik: Incredible.
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> when it comes to remakes, it's about on the level of Pat Boone's cover of Little Richard's "Long Tall Sally". Fans of early rock 'n' roll will know that you can't get any lower than that.
Oh, I think it can get lower than that:
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> It's not that Cagney was particularly bad in *The Strawberry Blonde*, it's just that for me the whole genre of commercial films set in the distant past (and 50 years qualifies as "distant") almost never transcends the level of Trying Too Hard to Charm.
On the bright side, anybody who dislikes *Meet Me In St. Louis* can't be all bad.
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Enjoy your Kraft dinner, poutine, and Timbits this Tuesday! :-)
TCM scheduling genius still at work!
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It must be nice to be perfect and never make any mistakes.
You should enter the next TCM Programming Challenge.