Fedya
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*Two Weeks in Another Town* is set in Rome.
I don't know if *The Games* is available on DVD, but the second half is set at the Rome Olympics, specifically the marathon..
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Funny, but when I watch *To Each His Own*, I wonder why they didn't just call it *Madame X*.
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If TCM really wanted to be evil, they should have shown you Canadians [*Karla*|http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424938/] instead. It even fits the "true crime" theme.
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Sounds like an interesting movie.
As somebody who's the son of a woman with some Southern Irish heritage who bought into the NINA propaganda (Mom, that is, not me), it's always nice to see a film that doesn't have Hollywood's typically doe-eyed view of Southern Ireland. *The Quiet Man* makes me retch; I found it a great revelation the first time I saw *I See a Dark Stranger*.
The Nazis also use an Irishman (Stephen Boyd) to investigate whether the dead Briton whose body they have is a hoax in *The Man Who Never Was*. Gloria Grahame does an excellent job convincing Boyd the man was actually her boyfriend.
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It's a remake of the much-superior *One Man's Journey*, which is airing in early May as part of the Joel McCrea Star of the Month salute. (The original doesn't feel the need to be so obnoxiously blatant about its politics the way Dalton Trumbo did.)
*One Man's Journey* and *A Man to Remember* were two of six films that Merian Cooper got the rights to as part of his severance package when he left RKO, and weren't seen for decades as a result. TCM finally got the broadcast rights four or five years back. Two of the others, *Stingaree* and *Living on Love*, also aired on Monday.
*Living on Love* is a remake of the better *Rafter Romance*, which has Ginger Rogers playing the female lead -- and she even has one scene wearing a backless, sidelss outfit! (Or, at least, it looks that way on screen.) Oh, and it's got Robert Benchley in the telemarketer role, creepily lusting after Ginger.
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> The fact remains, that these treasured archive movies, such as the Kay Kyser films, need explaining in a respectable way, interesting information that the general public will learn from,
How many people in the general public are ever going to sit down and watch a Kay Kyser film?
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I thought it was Robert Stack who was sleazy in *The Mortal Storm*, but it turns out that both Stack and Marcus Welby are in it.
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> I wonder why so little is being made of the pervasive horror that was the HUAC. If it were around today, would everyone be so passive in the face of its brutality,
Look at how many people were braying for Roger Clemens to be prosecuted for what basically amounted to giving the middle finger to Congress.
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That otter looks like it's doing something else.
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Why would anybody want to watch Nancy Grace?
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*Dondi* is not worth checking out, unless you're a sadomasochist.
It's the sort of kids' film you would show to your kids if you want to punish them.
There are movies out there like *The Oscar* or *Skidoo* that are so bad, they're good: you'll laugh at them, even though that wasn't the intention of the filmmakers. *Dondi* is so bad it's not even "so bad it's good".
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> looks like *One Way Passage* is being aired instead of *King's Row* on Sun. @6am ET
This is because of Daylight Savings Time beginning. The five Clifton Webb films on tonight (plus a short or two) fit into a ten-hour block. Normally, that would run from 8:00 PM ET to 6:00 AM ET the next morning. However, since we move the clocks ahead by an hour tonight (except for you wackos in Arizona
), that runs from 8:00 PM ET tonight to 7:00 AM ET tomorrow.So they had to replace a movie that fits in a 135-minute time slot with one that fits in a 75-minute time slot.
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> Just get it, Allday. Like with just about ANY Bogart film, you won't be disappointed.
Have fun with [*The Return of Doctor X*|http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031851/]. :-)
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I find YOUR ideas interesting, AND I wish to SUBSCRIBE to your NEWSLETTER.
One of the THINGS that I like about weekend AFTERNOON host Ben Mankiewicz is the perception THAT he drives a lot of PEOPLE up a WALL.
As for jaymuss-eato's POST, one of the things I LIKED about it was his habit of ARBITRARILY capitalizing WORDS, without RHYME or reason. I also got a KICK out of his tendency to MISPELL words.
*And* I haven't *EVEN* gotten to the poster's INVENTIVE *use* of the BOLD *tag*.
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[More than just a foreign Ed Wood|http://www.radio.cz/en/section/czech-history/hugo-haas-more-than-just-a-foreign-ed-wood]
I'm an avid listener of international broadcasters from back in the days when they were all on short-wave, and only on short-wave because there wasn't an internet yet for streaming broadcasting or MP3 downloads. Yesterday, Radio Prague from the Czech Republic re-ran a piece in their "Czechs in History" series they first aired back in 2006 on Czechoslovak born actor and director Hugo Haas, who acted in Prague in the years between the two World Wars, and made low budget movies in Hollywood after fleeing the Nazis.
From the intro to the transcript, at the link above:
> Hugo Haas was one of the stars of Czechoslovak cinema's golden age of the 1930s. This versatile actor and director was hugely popular in the First Republic and he appeared in a number of classic films from that era. Despite his success, however, Haas's life and career - like that of so many other Czechs who lived during this period - was blighted by the tide of history that swept through Czechoslovakia in the 20th century.
Radio Prague also has a [2MB MP3 download|http://old.radio.cz/mp3/podcast/en/czech-history/hugo-haas-more-than-just-a-foreign-ed-wood.mp3] available. I'm not certain how long the MP3 files are available for download.
Frankly, I don't think I'd ever heard of Hugo Haas before this.
As an aside, you can see Haas in *King Solomon's Mines*, which is airing tomorrow morning at 7:15 AM ET.
Edited by: Fedya on Feb 15, 2012 8:20 PM, because this forum's broken software doesn't allow for punctuation marks in the text substitute for hyperlinks
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If I were you, I'd be careful about having anything on your front door even an eighth of an inch out of place. The co-op committee will be looking for any reason to ride your a** hard. :-)
(Give people low-level positions of power, and they can really be petty bastards.)
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Find the bottom of your vocal range. That's the third note of "The Star-Spangled Banner".
Alternatively, we could either get rid of the dumb idea of singing the national anthem before sporting events; if we must play the song, have a pre-recorded instrumental version like FIFA does at the World Cup.
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> Last evening she gave a mini-concert of Gershwin songs in the social room, and she made the statement that Gershwin had composed with a number of lyricicsts other than Ira.
Zero is a number
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> But then, for all his troubles, Charlie never stabbed anyone in the back.
[Joan Barry begs to differ with you|http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/70/70verdoux_vanneman.php]
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I think it's supposed to be ambiguous. If I'm not mistaken, isn't the whole story in the movie a sort of explanation of what may or may not have happened to inspire Eben to paint the portrait., told more or less as a flashback?
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> Kazan was a rat, with no sense of scruples whatsoever.
Elia Kazan should have raped girls like Roman Polanski did instead of naming Communists. Then Hollywood would have loved him.
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> God knows Hollywood has cannibalized its own material enough for us not to be so outraged at the occurence.
Ricardo Cortez was the ultimate Sam Spade. :-)
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> Also, I am suprised no one has pointed out that the subplot is exactly like a star is born. Frankly I don't see the purpose of making a silent film today and if they are trying to do a tribute to silents, why are they making it a musical?
*A Star Is Born* wasn't a musical. At least, not until somebody got the idiotic idea of remaking it.
(Sorry, I don't like the singing of Judy Garland or Barbra Streisand.)
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> I have one of those rear-projecting wide screen TV's, and it's supposed to be HDTV as well. I don't know how WELL the HD on it is because I'm too cheap as of yet to dole out for the HD service my cable provider has.
Can you receive over-the-air channels? If you, you could test the quality of HD images on it by watching an over-the-air channel. Of course:
> So, if I feel the broadcast is zoomed in, there's a couple or more things I can do to change how it looks on my set. Don't shoot tech terms to me unless they're in Urdu, because I can understand either equally well.
The ways different TVs allow you to select between cable/broadcast/DVD/etc. input can be quite different, and on some TVs trying to do so is like trying to read Urdu. One of my TVs has several buttons at the bottom of the remote marked TV, Cable, PC, and so on, and to switch you just press one of those buttons. (Assuming, of course, you've wired everything to the proper input on the back of the TV!) Another has the buttons marked Input 1, Input 2, and so on, while the other TV makes you go through the menu. Pain in the you know what.
), that runs from 8:00 PM ET tonight to 7:00 AM ET tomorrow.
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I'll pick a name I don't think anybody's mentioned yet: Frank De Vol. He wrote the them music for The Brady Bunch which was used in *The Brady Bunch Movie* and *A Very Brady Sequel*, although for classic movie fans I think the score to *The Dirty Dozen* might be more memorable.
(Humming "The Happening" even as I type this....)