Fedya
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I was under the impression that white elephants came from Thailand, where they were given by the king to people he wanted to bankrupt. They couldn't refuse a gift from the King, but couldn't use the white elephant as a beast of burden. The people who kept white elephants as pets in that case wouldn't have been doing so because they wanted to, but because they had to.
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They're honoring Mitchum tomorrow for the same reason they honored Myrna Loy today, I suppose. :-)
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How about *The Maltese Bippy* (although to be fair, it's more a comedy, not a mystery)?
The ending to *Suspicion* is an utter cop-out.
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> I wish I had a transom too.
Kidnap somebody, and demand a transom. ;-)
{ducking}
(Now I find myself wanting to watch *Too Many Crooks* again.)
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Every time I hear the term "consumer advocate", I think "government advocate": somebody advocating for more power for the government regulators regardless of whether that's any good for the consumers.
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The Rat Pack will steal it, but lose all the money in a crematorium. :-)
(I much prefer *Dinner at Eight* to *Grand Hotel*, in part because of the substitutions of Marie Dressler and Jean Harlow for Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford.)
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> Fedya, that comment about Crosby fondling little boys. Is that an attempt an humour? I find the comment bizarre, to say the least, and in questionable taste.
That's because there's a word missing. What I meant was Crosby's character.
I hope that makes it less tastless or offensive.
Edited by: TCMWebAdmin on Dec 9, 2012 9:00 PM
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> Even the great Andrew Lloyd Webber
> Wished the songs were really his
If they really wanted to tick off Andrew Lloyd Webber, they could have done like Lerner and Loewe and rhymed "rather be" with "bother me". :-)
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> I couldn't disagree more about Katherine Hepburn. Slim, gorgeous, lively, interesting, and intelligently opninionated. What more could a man want?
Hepburn to me comes across in a lot of her movies as a spoiled, self-centered blankety-blank; not the sort of person I'd want to have a romantic relationship with.
Her character in *The Philadelphia Story* richly deserves the treatment she gets from Cary Grant in the opening scene.
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> This man was the NUMBER ONE box office star of the 1940's!!!
On the other hand, Bing Crosby did win his Oscar for a role in which his only sex would have been fondling little boys. (Well, maybe his character had sex with the Barry Fitzgerald character.)
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Didn't Lassie have puppies in one of the movies?
And I know in the second *Thin Man* movie (the one with James Stewart and Elissa Landi, the title of which I forget), the opening credits mention Mrs. Asta. So he clearly got some action too.
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If you don't like the topic of this thread, you're welcome to start your own, I suppose. ;-)
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Easy: Francis the Talking Mule.
From Wikipedia:
> While there is no known instance of a male mule siring offspring, female mules have on very rare occasion given birth to viable offspring.
:-)
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> You seem to be taking all of this a little too personally. Relax.
I thought this was General Discussions, not the Projection Room. :-)
I find it funny that when somebody posts something you don't like in this thread you [take it so personally|http://forums.tcm.com/message.jspa?messageID=8706017#8706017] that you tell them to start a new thread. And then when somebody points out that you're factually wrong, you suggest they're taking it too personally.
Why should people let you get away with posting blatant misinformation?
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> "TCM Classic Film News" - First, TCM does promote books on this feature
Hi! This is the TCM Classic Movie News report for {insert month here}. (I always laugh every time I hear that phony "Hi!")
In fact, didn't this month's report mention a book about John Wayne, complete with a whole bunch of photos?
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I doubt much if anything in the movie was historically accurate.
The ancients did have many horrifying ways of executing people. Those who aren't squeamish may enjoy reading about [scaphism|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaphism], which was practiced in ancient Persia.
ObMovies: For a fun if not particularly good movie set in ancient Persia, try *Esther and the King*.
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> (...and if ya can't do THAT, then tell me who's buried in Grant's Tomb?)
Nobody, of course. One is not buried in a tomb, but entombed.
(The serious answer, if you're wondering who's entombed there, is Julia Dent.)
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> Problem is there were numerous missing scenes filled in with still photos.
It wasn't as bad as *Greed*, which has about an hour and a half of that.
(Goldwyn should have commissioned a 140-minute version of *Greed* in the first place. I'm sure von Stroheim could have made a great 140-minute film if that was his intent.)
Edited by: Fedya on Dec 8, 2012 2:14 PM, to correct the studio
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I thought it was only a moratorium on running the restored prints. I wouldn't be surprised to be proved wrong, however.
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OK, then, let's take it to the other logical conclusion: destroy all DVDs so that TCM can show whatever it wants without fear of anybody suggesting TCM is only showing it to sell DVDs.
Besides, people should only be allowed to watch things when the copyright holders say so. DVRing and selling copies of the movies is evil evil evil.
They should get rid of individual copies of books, too, and only stream video of the text, so that people can only read the books when the copyright holders say so.
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Let's take this logic to its conclusion: TCM should release everything on DVD, and then shut the channel down.
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> Actually most Lifetime Movies seem have somewhat generic titles.
May we point and laugh at you for watching Lifetime? :-)
Actually, some of those titles aren't so bad:
> Teenage Bank Heist
Compare to the 1955 movie *Teenage Crime Wave* (which is a low-budget unintentional hoot).
> Holiday Wishes
Didn't Robert Mitchum and Janet Leigh do one called *Holiday Affair* ? If memory serves, Wendell Corey played the drip. (Sorry, I've never seen why anybody would want Corey.)
> A Nanny's Revenge
> The Perfect Nanny
How could you forget Bette Davis in *The Nanny* (another fun movie)?
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> If there's any comfort (for you), its highly unlikely this phenomenon will ever repeat itself.
I agree. I don't see anybody shooting Eleanor Roosevelt in the tuckus with a slingshot again.
(Or George Brent, for that matter.)
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*Schtonk* is a 1992 German film about the forging of the [Hitler diaries|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Diaries].
I suppose there's also *The Maltese Falcon*.
Even The Superstars Were In Some Stinkers
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Cary Grant is in the execrable [*Once Upon a Time*|http://justacineast.blogspot.com/2009/08/worse-than-howards-of-virginia.html].
He's also badly miscast in *The Howards of Virginia*.