Fedya
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> Definitely true. I'm willing to spend millions, if only I had them...
Your comment made me go check and see that, sadly, *If I Had a Million* doesn't seem to be available on DVD. :-(
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> A lot of actors start out in Soap Operas.
And some actors from the classic era went on to long careers in soaps, such as Macdonald Carey, Ruth Warrick, and Constance Ford. (Although I suppose you could argue that Ford was doing soaps like *A Summer Place* on the big screen before she was doing soaps on the little screen. ;-) )
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I don't see what makes *Heroes For Sale* that much more subversive than *The Fountainhead*. Both have inventors breaking their inventions for what they see as breach of contract. It's just that the two movies have different political points of view.
Well, not quite; regardless of what you think of Rand's politics, the problem with *The Fountainhead* isn't so much the politics as it is that she didn't seem to know how to write a screenplay, which makes the whole movie problematic. *Heroes For Sale*, on the other hand, is going quite well until the tacked-on ending that comes across as little more than propaganda. (I think that *Wild Boys of the Road* has much the same problem, but isn't as severe as *Heroes For Sale* in that regard.)
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> I'm sorry that you don't agree, but as Gable once said at the end of a movie....
Send a trumpet because the walls of Jericho are crumbling? ;-)
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Everyone lived happily ever after.
Or, at least, the morally virtuous people did. The Gustav von Seyffertitz character didn't. Molly and the other urchins wind up living with the father of the kidnapped girl.
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I'm sorry to say I have to agree with Ascotrudgeracer here.
I couldn't be bothered to care about any of these characters. They were all lying apparently to protect each other, and I just didn't care why. Or why they were all so interested in the cigarette case. The whole thing reminded me of one of those drawing room comedies from the very beginning of the sound era, where a bunch of high-class people get involved in some sort of romantic hijinks, with most of the movie being set in one drawing room and a few places nearby. (One that comes to mind is *Let Us Be Gay*, although I don't know if it's available DVD.) To be honest, that's a genre of film that I've just never been able to get into.
There are movies along the same lines that work well; I'm reminded of *Smarty* which aired a few weeks back for Edward Everett Horton's birthday. But that was just a bizarre little thing.
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> {quote:title=Fedya wrote:}{quote}
> Bump, because we should have gotten an answer to this stuff within two and a half days.
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> The new month is starting tomorrow; it would be nice to have a monthly schedule with the synopses in time for the new month.
Bump again, because it's been four days (I didn't want to bump earlier because people deserve a weekend off).
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It could be worse: you could have wasted your Sunday morning on *Dondi* like I did.
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I'm not singling you out, but this is something I've probably said a dozen times here every time somebody complains about old movies being remade:
Ricardo Cortez is the ultimate Sam Spade.
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I always wonder whether the non-widescreen Ramon Novarro/Francis X. Bushman version of *Ben-Hur* gave Sydney Pollack the heebie jeebies.
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Bump, because we should have gotten an answer to this stuff within two and a half days.
The new month is starting tomorrow; it would be nice to have a monthly schedule with the synopses in time for the new month.
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For those who recorded the first of the "Crime Doctor" movies, was that Broderick Crawford or Paul Douglas playing one of the prisoners? The IMDb credits don't list either Crawford or Douglas in the credits.
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How is Hayley Mills' buttocks any different from Jean Harlow's breast about 15 minutes into *Red-Headed Woman* (there's a scene of her asking her roommate for her pajamas back, and there's a brief cut that shows Harlow topless from the side)?
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April 17 falls on a Sunday this year. For whatever reason, TCM rarely does birthday tributes on the weekend.
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> {quote:title=TCMWebAdmin wrote:}{quote}
> Hi Everyone,
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> Here is a guideline to using the SCHEDULE >> Full Schedule tab:
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> *FULL SCHEDULE:*
> The Full Schedule is set up to view by day or week, and up to two months ahead of time.
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> To access the Schedule with these options, follow these steps:
> 1. Click on Schedule at the top of the page
> 2. Click on Full Schedule from the dropdown choices
> 3. You can choose to look at a DAILY or WEEKLY SCHEDULE with the appropriate tab selected
> 4. Go to DAY/MONTH
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> The Print option allows for you to print the schedule you have chosen using the options above.
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> The TIME ZONE option is in place to select your specific time zone using the dropdown choices. The default will be EST, but you can change it as you need to.
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> If you find a movie that needs a synopsis, simply click on the EXPAND button for a short summary and a Remind Me feature for emailing a reminder.
*There's nothing to expand on the monthly schedule*.
If you go to the monthly schedule for April for example, you'll just get a list of movies, with no one-sentence synopses, and no place to get those synopses so that you can copy the whole month's schedule as a nice neat text file. The old printable monthly schedule looked something like this:
> {quote:title=Old TCM Monthly schedule for March 2011:}{quote}
> 1 Tuesday
> 6:03 AM Short Film: Army Champions (1941)
> BW-11 mins,
> 6:15 AM Johnny Eager (1942)
> A handsome racketeer seduces the DA's daughter for revenge, then falls in love. Cast: Robert Taylor, Lana Turner, Van Heflin. Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. BW-107 mins, TV-G, CC
> 8:15 AM Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (1958)
> A dying plantation owner tries to help his alcoholic son solve his problems. Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives. Dir: Richard Brooks. C-108 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format, DVS
> 10:08 AM Short Film: Torture Money (1937)
> BW-20 mins,
> 10:30 AM Star Is Born, A (1937)
> A fading matinee idol marries the young beginner he's shepherded to stardom. Cast: Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou. Dir: William A. Wellman. C-111 mins, TV-G, CC
There's a link on the April schedule to "print" it, but that link is to the PDF file for March which is 811KB, which happens to be quite a bit more than the text files for the old monthly schedules, which ran to something in the 80-90KB range (The March 2011 schedule is 86KB as a text file, and ~200KB as a Microsoft Word document.) The PDF also only has the prime time lineup, without the actual time being listed.
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For the record, *Jour de F?te* has aired on TCM, as part of a night of movies on Tati's (100th, I think) birthday. (It might have been on his 101st birthday.)
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> Another modern actor who is good (as long as he's sober) is Robert Downey Jr.
I don't know; I thought Downey was a riot in [*Less Than Zero*|http://justacineast.blogspot.com/2008/06/lost-weekend-is-now-screwball-comedy.html]
Edited by: Fedya on Mar 26, 2011 9:33 PM, to point out that apparently you still can't hyperlink text in General discussions.
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> UPDATE: As Fred has noted above
Below, in my case. Not to snark at you; I'm really bringing this up to repeat a problem that I've been having since the changes. I set my user preferences to show threads with the oldest post first, and to show 50 posts per page. This thread, for example, now has about 160 posts, which means it should run to four pages. But when I log in and come to the front page of this particular subforum, the thread is listed as having 11 pages, as though I've got the default 15 posts per page set. (Clicking the first page of the thread does bring up the 50 oldest posts.)
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> BRINGING UP BABY was certainly a role that was outside the range of those she had been playing.
Another self-centered b*tch? It's not that much different from Tracy Lord.
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To add something you didn't put in,
Bring back the one-sentence synopses in the printable monthly schedule!
(And use a text-based format for the printable schedule, not an HTML format with everything in P tags. As it is, I get two blank lines between the title and the names of the stars, and another one between them and the runtime.)
I don't know how many times I've pointed these out, and no word from the management.
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"Poor" Joe Cotten? The guy killed his wife.
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Marlon Brando.
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Why does "not interested in Elizabeth Taylor" equal "not bright"?
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There's nothing new under the sun. 95 years ago, Sessue Hayakawa played a Japanese ivory dealer in *The Cheat*. Japanese-Americans complained about the portrayal, and when the movie was re-released, the character was changed to a Burmese ivory dealer. (With intertitles, of course, it's a lot easier to do.)
Name of a movie played within the last couple of weeks on TCM
in Information, Please!
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Would it by any chance be [*Call of the Flesh*|http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020724/] (1930)?