Fedya
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Under 40, for a few more months at least. I share a birthday with Oscar-winner Burl Ives and Poodles Hanneford (mentioned in *All About Eve* ), so you can figure out when I'm turning 40.
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Here's the [iMDb list of movies/TV shows with Beethoven as a character|http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0019922/]
There's an episode of You Are There about Beethoven listed which aired in January 1955.
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> Back to the topic of classic movies. Can anybody think of some good hunting movies?
*The Last Hunt*
*The Most Dangerous Game* :-)
Almost any short with Elmer Fudd (I doubt this last one is what you had in mind)
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> Among her better known films were Clarence Brown's "Flesh and the Devil" and Harold Lloyd's first talkie, "Welcome Danger."
Frederica Sagor Maas, who wrote the screenplay to *Flesh and the Devil*, is still alive at the age of 111.
> Is Carla Laemmle now the last surviving actress (excluding juveniles) who acted in a US silent?
Today happens to be Carla Laemmle's 102d birthday.
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> Calling him an actor is like calling Jeffrey Dahmer a gourmand.
I always thought gourmand had the connotation of being a glutton.
As for OJ Simpson, was he really any worse than the rest of the cast of *The Cassandra Crossing* ? :-)
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*Shane*. *Some Like it Hot*. One of the Hitchcock's that's not too violent or sex-obsessed, but has a lot of action. I like *Saboteur*.
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How could you omit *Now Voyager*
Granted, I laugh during the scene....
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I love Polly Bergen's nervous breakdown at the beginning of *The Caretakers*, although it's way over the top. And it's got late-career Joan Crawford in it as well, which is always a plus:
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> Only in Duck! Rabbit! Duck! was reference made to him.
Don't forget *Duck Amuck*.
(IMDb's advanced search doesn't seem to allow you to search on characters. :-( )
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How could you all overlook Cotten's pivotal role that drives the action in *Soylent Green* ? :-)
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*If I Had a Million*. I could use a million bucks.
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Must not have had much of a day if that was your best laugh....
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> I don't understand (mostly puzzling) why did Trey Parker and Matt Stone decided to pick on the Canadians and went as far to turn it into a racism topic?
Canada deserves it after inflicting Celine Dion on the rest of the world. :-p
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> Adding their first names in the title also saves the studio the awkwardness of putting - " *Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein* starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello" on the poster or Lobby Cards. That comes across as silly and rather redundant. (And just who else would be starring in the film?)
George Abbott and Dolores Costello?
ducking
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When I copy and paste my text from a Word document, I have to reformat all: ' and " or they won't show up.
Use a plain text editor. If all you're doing is writing comments for message boards, there are any number of good free text editors out there.
Alternatively, I'd use the "notes" feature in Opera and save the note there if I have problems with any site's comment feature.
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> As for Pepsi, since I never drink it
Joan Crawford is going to rise from the grave and beat the crap out of you for saying that.
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> Can we argue over how to correctly spell arguments?
God, talk to me! Go on, make fun of me! You think it's fun making fun of me!
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Don't forget [Theodore Case|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Case] and his Movietone process, which Case would argue DeForest stole from.
And no mention of early sound on film would be complete without [*Gus Visser and His Singing Duck*|http://justacineast.blogspot.com/2009/01/gus-visser-1894-1967.html].
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> Since I got Directv, I've lost FMC, G4 (Tech Tv) and NASA. Tech Tv is no longer around I was told.
You must not have the right package for FMC (I think it's the Total Choice package). I still have FMC.
As for G4, I think they only bought Tech TV so they could get its spot on DirecTV. They rapidly proceeded to eviscerate the channel, and I found it poetic justice that Comcast/NBC/Universal's attempts to drive up the price to run G4 only got it pulled from DirecTV.
When it comes to my TV viewing, I watch a lot of TCM (of course!), but also sports. I also have certain of the music channels up in the 800s on quite a bit.
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> He woke up in a futuristic agnostic society that says Oh my Science!
For some reason I thought it was "Science damn!"
Getting back on topic, this reminds me of a scene from the 1933 movie *Girl Missing* that nearly made me fall out of my chair as I was watching it at breakfast one morning when it aired on TCM. Glenda Farrell played one of a pair of gold diggers trying to take Guy Kibbee for all he's worth at a Palm Beach hotel. He jilts them (leaving them with a roughly $700 bill to boot!) and writes them a "Dear Jane" letter, which Glenda reads:
"Yup, it's addressed to us all right. 'To the G.D. sisters.' I wonder if he means 'gold-digger' ... or that other well-known word."
I couldn't believe they could get away even with a not-very-thinly-veiled reference like that (she doesn't use the actual word), even in a pre-Code. Later in the movie, Farrell also uses the word "jailbait", which shocked me as well.
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> It is very much worse for the other night. The requirement to show movies that tell about ourselves may be impossible for me because there is no aspect of my life or existence that is interesting enough that someone made a movie about it.
Problem: poster's life is boring and nothing ever happens
Solution: Find all of Fred Dobbs' "25 minutes into {insert title here} and nothing has happened" threads, and play the first 25 minutes of each of those movies. They all fit into 30-minute time slots, leaving enough time for Robert Osborne's introductions.
Problem solved. ;-)
> I do not know of any movie about a family that lives simply and tries very hard to not attract attention to themselves
*The Diary of Anne Frank*, for one.
*Our Mother's House* for another.
Heck, even the Jarretts are trying not to draw attention to themselves in *White Heat*.
Of course, those families have good reasons for not wanting to draw attention to themselves and probably don't resemble SansFin's family in any way....
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> The first yellow film I remember seeing was "Buffalo Bill and the Indians" (1976), with Paul Newman.
*Reflections in a Golden Eye* beat it by about ten years. But I can't blame anybody who wouldn't admit to seeing it, since it's a typically lousy Marlon Brando film.
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> or perhaps one of those Bible epics about the origins of Yom Kippur or Rosh Hashanna. Nope; nothin' .
Doesn't [*Esther and the King*|http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053800/] tell the Purim story?
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Kyle:
I would suggest this IMDb search page, where you can narrow down the search criteria:
http://www.imdb.com/search/title
That having been said, I've always found keyword searching hit or miss.
BTW: Does *Summer Holiday* have a 4th of July scene? I know the original, *Ah Wilderness!*, does.
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I seem to recall a lakeside cabin and an affair with a soldier in Joan Crawford's 1947 *Possessed*, but don't remember anything about a jigsaw puzzle.