Fedya
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> 3. The programming itself is unaffected by the channel's increase in DVD and book or whatever sales. At least it's unaffected as far as I can tell. What we lose out on are some shorts which is unfortunate but, overall, a small price to pay.
I've had the impression that there's been less variety in the shorts aired for some time now, although I've also been thinking that this is probably due to TCM's having lost the rights to show the animated shorts. I believe Cartoon Network/Boomerang, which are part of the same corporate family as TCM, have the rights now. At the risk of offending people, commercial TV fits those animated shorts well, too. When I was a kid back in the 1970s, the local broadcast channels would fit three shorts in a half hour, with commercials between each short.
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> I was under the impression CAPTAIN JANUARY was a major hit in 1924, so hard to believe that it didn't cover it's cost's as the studio claimed?
Can't studio accounting prove anything the studio wants it to?
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I hope you get that June Allyson box set. ;-)
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Powell never retired; he became a [professional football player|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Powell_(American_football)]. :-)
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Absinthe maketh the heart grow fonder.
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> GEORGE BRENT BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE (SO WHY DOES EVERY FILM ALSO STAR BETTE DAVIS????)
Because he's so bland they need somebody else to make the movies palatable? ;-)
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LOL at clore.
(I still stand by [my first message in this thread|http://forums.tcm.com/message.jspa?messageID=8703104#8703104].)
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> And as far as The Iron Peticoat is concerned, TCM may have just had to sign a contract to show it a specific amount of times. They may have had no other choice and then where would fans of the film be? Going to IFC and AMC to watch the film.
The question I haven't seen asked is whether this much promotion is the price being paid to get the rights to other stuff from Bob Hope Enterprises down the road. (If I counted correctly from a quick look at the IMDb page, it looks as though there are 13 feature films made by Hope Enterprises; I have no idea who actually has the rights to the other 12.)
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> By the way, you can always tell where someone stands on certain issues by their choice of words.
From the British sitcom Yes, Minister
It's one of those irregular verbs, isn't it? I have an independent mind, You are eccentric, He is round the twist.
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Donald Duck went bottomless too.
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> I am guessing that opinion would fall into one of three categories:
I'm guessing it will fall into one of two categories:
A) The people who whine and shriek every time something post-1970 is played, who just know that TCM going the way of AMC (and evidence such as a statistical posting of 31 Days of Oscar movies by decade be damned), and who know that there's some sort of secret clique of TCM apologists will say that yes, TCM is getting too commercial.
The people who would presumably fall into that so-called secret clique will roll their eyes, knowing that there's nothing they can say to convince the people in group A. -
There's about a half-second of Jean Harlow sideboob in *Red-Headed Woman* if you look carefully. 15-20 minutes in, there's a scene in which Harlow asks for her nightgown back from her roomate (Una Merkel if memory serves), and it's in the cut from Merkel to Harlow that the sideboob shows up.
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> Say it like it's spelled!
I'm reminded of the scene in *It Should Happen to You* in which Judy Holliday goes to the business selling the ad space on the billboards and asks to see Mr Puh-feiffer.
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> Last night while watching TWO-FACED WOMAN I noticed (again) an instance of something that has always bothered me; namely, different cast members pronouncing the same word differently.
You've just ruined *Shall We Dance*:
:-p
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What do you have against Monty Woolley?
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I vote for *Scott of the Antarctic*. Antarctica gets so little precipitation that it's technically a desert.
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Any idea how or why *Doctor X* and *Mystery of the Wax Museum* survived?
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Unfortunately, I didn't have my camera right at hand yesterday afternoon, when I had 19 wild turkeys in my driveway. (I live next to 1000 acres of state forest.)
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It only took me 15 or 20 minutes into *To Each His Own* before I said to myself, "Dear God, they remade *Madame X* for the 548702458845982439542659th time!"
To make maters worse, it's got John Lund, whom I've always found rather bland and wooden.
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So you're saying they should be thrown off Montgomery Clift?
(Or did you mean Clift Robertson? ;-) )
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I was only teasing you over your love of mentioning the Canadian content in many movies. :-)
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You're not the only one who dislikes it, Misswonderly, although in my case it has nothing to do with the lack of Canadian content. ;-)
The movie begins with what is the book's epilogue (actually, the first epilogue; there's a second epilogue of Zhivago's poetry), thus giving the story away more or less.
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I think I prefer the ending to the Wynne Gibson segment of *If I Had a Million*, even if that one doesn't have a punch line.
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In Loretta Young's *Week-End Marriage*, which should be coming up in January when Loretta is SOTM, the grocery bag has a fairly obvious roll of toilet paper at the top.
The people who would presumably fall into that so-called secret clique will roll their eyes, knowing that there's nothing they can say to convince the people in group A.
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Nine minutes of passion for the Duke; nine months of work for the Duchess. Congratulations.