Fedya
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Zsa Zsa Gabor also played the woman trying to take Louis Calhern for all he's worth in one of the stories in *We're Not Married*.
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I think it would be a riot if it turned out to be Molly Haskell with her voice run through a computer. :-)
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Jarmusch also did *Night on Earth*, five stories set in taxicabs at night in five different cities.
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> The subject matter is certainly trashy, but Faulkner's writing isn't. There was a lot of pervy subject matter in his novels, but the writing is often superb.
Vardaman: My mother is a fish.
Real superb writing, that.
(Sorry, I'm not a big fan of Faulkner's writing ever since I had to read As I Lay Dying for a high school English class.)
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> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}
> Con you honestly say that there is a single film between the Mexican incident and THE BEST MAN that you've ever heard of? (THE LEMON DROP KID was NOT the Bob Hope version). I will sleep well tonight knowing that I've said that he p*ssed away his film career.
Yes; I've seen *Millionaires in Prison* when it aired on TCM several years ago.
It's a lousy RKO B picture.
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Note that *Susan Slade* is on the schedule for Tuesday, June 14 (check the time; I think it's immediately after *A Summer Place).
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> And then later the stalker's father goes inside her house and confronts her like a stalker. And she just continued to live there.
Didn't the stalker's father die the night he hid in her house (to use the typewriter to type incriminating letters)? Considering that Dad was dead and the kid sent off to military school, what's the point in moving house?
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> It's been almost 50 years since I've seen it, but it's explained in the second of the series, the film released as GIGANTIS THE FIRE MONSTER here in the U.S. In that film he was referred to as another beast of the same species.
The way the original Gojira was explained as a belief of the island culture, I figured it was just one of the Monsters from the Id. It makes sense those would come back.
Having Perry Mason do the framing story strained credulity, as I wondered how he kept getting invited along by the military. Also, some of his scenes looked as badly edited in as Robert Walker on the telephone in *My Son, John*.
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*Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?*
This sounds like something the announcer would say at the end of a radio serial, exhorting listeners to tune in next week.
*Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad*
The title sounds like a cheap candidate for TCM Underground, but the filmmakers actually got Rosalind Russell to star.
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Jennifer Jones played a teacher, not a nanny, in *Good Morning, Miss Dove* which has a similar plot. (Miss Dove falls ill and all of her students, now grown up, recall how she's affected their lives.)
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> In the meantime, you can use this link to see the printable schedule for June -
http://www.tcm.com/schedule/monthly.html?tz=pst&sdate=2011-06-01
Note the date format at the end. You can change that to get later months if the schedule has already been done:
http://www.tcm.com/schedule/monthly.html?tz=est&sdate=2011-08-01
brings up the August (Summer Under the Stars) schedule
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I've noticed for some time that when there's no descriptive video on a TCM showing, the second audio track plays the same thing as the primary (ie the movie's dialogue and soundtrack), but at a higher volume.
I haven't noticed any change in this in recent weeks. (That is, there's always been some difference, but it's not as if the difference between the two audio channels is increasing.)
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By Wally Fay.
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Nobody's mentioned Andy Devine, either.
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IMDb lists it as a 1.85:1 aspect ratio.
I thought it looked like it was a 1.66:1 movie based on where the TCM bug showed up. (When I watch a letterboxed movie on the widescreen TV set to cinema mode, I know almost exactly where the bottom of the TCM bug gets cut off, and the letterboxing appeared to stop a bit below that point rather than a bit above.)
In fact, my first thought on seeing the print was that the movie was originally in 2.35:1 and panned and scanned to fit a 16:9 screen. The colors looked somewhat washed out, and it wasn't the best print.
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No one likes a fat man except his grocer and his tailor.
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July 16 is a Saturday. TCM rarely does birthday salutes on the weekend.
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I think I prefer Perry Mason as a wife-murderer in *Rear Window*.
I also liked Perry Mason last week trying to kill Robert Mitchum for his face in *His Kind of Woman*, although that film is really about the Vincent Price character. ;-)
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> {quote:title=C.Bogle wrote:}{quote}
> Yes, it wasn't FMC that messed up, but TMS. I checked the FMC net schedule
> and they did have the correct movies and times. I should have been suspicious
> when DTV had POSS listed to be shown back to back in prime time. That's just
> not something FMC would do.
Monday nights on FMC are a relatively new feature called "Unvaulted" where they're taking some older movies out of their vaults and running them back-to-back (presumably the second time is for the folks on the west coast). Earlier movies that have gotten this treatment include *Niagara*, *Decision Before Dawn*, and *The Dark Corner*. Oh, and *Laura*, which you mentioned in your post.
Fox's Friday night "Fox Legacy" series has an episode on Tyrone Power where they've shown some of his non-swashbuckling stuff. I know I watched *Johnny Apollo* a couple of weeks back.
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I am sorry to inform you, Kinokima, that this complaint is not original:
In fact, the OP has made this same complaint himself:
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> {quote:title=C.Bogle wrote:}{quote}
> Well if it's any consolation, FMC was really screwed up last night. The guide on my TV (DirecTV) had Pickup on South Street on for two showings in a row starting at 8 p.m. Instead Zardoz came on. FMC seems to be showing a few more studio era films in prime time recently. Zardoz was scheduled for later in the evening, but they showed Eyewitness with William Hurt and Sigourney Weaver instead. Not a bad little mystery movie. Have to see what will happen tonight.
I think you can blame Tribune Media Services (I think they're the folks who provide the listings to DirecTV). FMC's website had *Zardoz* listed as the "Unvaulted" movie for last night, and they even ran a promo for it on Saturday, just before *The Incident* aired at 6:00 PM ET.
Zap2It, which uses Tribune, also had *Pickup on South Street* listed, while TitanTV had *Zardoz* listed. (I don't know how the three or four companies that provide listings to the set-top boxes, web sites, and newspapers get their listings.)
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My understanding is that Frank Capra was originally assigned *The Whole Town's Talking*, but it wound up being directed by John Ford.
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> I guess that EGR's "little man" from DOUBLE INDEMNITY must have been one of the "little men".
I thought the "little man" was little Rico.
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> Well you know, Hungarian men in general seem to have a sexy Magyar air about them, even if they're not so good-looking like Victor Varconi or the young Bela Lugosi.
I'm imagining you cuddling up to "Cuddles" Sakall.
It's probably easier than cuddling up to Michael Curtiz....
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