mrroberts
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I think some people assume that if a commentator comes across as awkward in their presentation they aren't interested in or knowledgable about the subject. That's a bad assumption. A lot of slick, polished salesman don't really know or care much about the product they're selling. So what do you want?
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If Lorraine needs any consoling after this thread bashing, she can count on me.
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I listened to WFIL in the late 60's, actually had the alarm set early to listen to Dr Donald D Rose before going to school. ---Saturday , what a mess. The heavy wet snow brought everything down, since the trees still have most of their leaves it weighed very heavy on branches, even strong large limbs cracked and came down. I have a big healthy (or it was healthy) oak tree in my yard, it lost a number of main branches. I hope the tree can recover over time. I lost my telephone line just due to the weight of snow, no tree limbs or high winds brought it down , just the wet snow. I lost my community internet service for much of the weekend, it just got restored. Fortunately the cable service held up. On Sunday around 6pm TCM had a one reel wonder clip of Civil Defense in the 1950's starring my home area of Reading and Berks County, Pa. That was a real trip down memory lane for this kid. *Beach Blanket Bingo* got a replay on Sunday night/Monday morning at 2 am. I was getting some much needed sleep.
Edited by: mrroberts on Oct 31, 2011 11:37 AM
Edited by: mrroberts on Oct 31, 2011 3:16 PM
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I understand that in the "Olden Days" tv sets had a hand crank on the side. You had to call the operator and ask for the channel you wanted to watch. Many people were on "party lines" so if one of your neighbors got on first you had to watch what he was watching. And if you had a "Big Screen" tv that meant a 15" screen. Ah yes, the good old days.
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I can see Errol and Basil riding the wild surf, trying to compete for Olivia's attention. Isn't that Olivia in the bikini?
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Here I am studying the photo below, and I look out my window and its snowing like a ***.
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I agree, Lorraine is definitely looks out of her element here. I just can't see why the need to "beat up" on her for this. I watch many actors and actresses do talk show appearances, as talented as they may be playing a character on the screen they are not comfortable being themselves and being interviewed in front of an audience. She probably did all of the weeks' taping over one day. The producer of these intros should have worked more with her, got her a little more at ease before doing the final tapings. It doesn't make her or TCM look good here. So I say cut the gal a little slack, its only one week and do the intros make or break the film being presented? ---- It shows that doing this job well isn't so easy. Should make you appreciate the work of RO and Ben that much more.
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Reading Anne Baxter's film bio, she was a very busy gal early on, starting in 1940. So she was making movies at 16/17 years old. She was one of those many pretty young brunettes that Fox seemed to corner the market on, like Gene Tierney, Jeanne Crain, Jean Peters, etc. Fox certainly had a nice selection of young stars to pick from. Anne also did a lot of tv in the sixties and seventies. She did SEVEN episodes of Batman, never realized that. I know *All About Eve* is her most famous film but the first Anne Baxter role that I think of is the wild tomboy in *Yellow Sky*, with Gregory Peck and Richard Widmark. Wiki says that Paulette Goodard was originally going to play that part, I thought I read that Jean Peters was supposed to. But Anne got the part when Jean Peters refused it and got suspended for a time. --- Anne Baxter was only 62 when she passed away, sad.
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Interesting stuff. But Anne not only is 16 but she looks 16 too. Maybe they weren't really serious about her for this part but just wanted to test her for future considerations. -- *Rebecca* is one of my favorite Hitchcock films and Joan Fontaine's work is a big part of why I like the film so much. She just plays the part so well, just like she does in *Suspicion* and *Jane Eyre* . She's almost the same character in all 3 films. I'm not too big on her other films however.
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Victor went to America because he wanted to do all of the talk shows .
-- Seriously, about all of this recent talk about *Casablanca* . I always have had the impression that the "story" was constantly being improvised and rewritten while they were filming. Ingrid said she didn't know who she should love more because she didn't know who she was getting on the plane with. Wasn't that the last scene filmed and the ending wasn't determined until they got to the filming time? If Bogart had known in advance that he would end up walking off with Claude Rains instead of Ingrid Bergman, Bogart might have walked off the picture (laugh, laugh). -- Little did the people involved in making this film realize how closely the film would be disected and analyzed. -
Finance, earlier you said Esther Williams. It ain't cheap taking care of a swimming pool you know.
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A favorite memory of my childhood. Halloween night (early evening) in my town, a parade for the kids and then going into the school basement for some cartoons and then, *Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein* . As an adult, *Arsenic and Old Lace* (for laughs) and *Bell Book and Candle* (for Kim Novak). -- by the way, *Bell Book and Candle* can also be considered a Christmas movie.
Edited by: mrroberts on Oct 27, 2011 4:29 PM
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I believe that the only non-cartoon shows currently on Boomerang are the original shows of The Munsters and The Addams Family. They have also been showing the very earliest episodes of The Flintstones which include the original opening and closing segments to the show. I hadn't seen those bits in many, many years.
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I can only say that I purchased the Frankenstein Legacy DVD set awhile back, well over a year ago. It plays fine for me.
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What was the last thing that Fauja Singh did to prepare for running the marathon? Answer: he shaved
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Eden, Barbara
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*Crossroads* 1942
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Murchison, Dr. -- played by Leo G Carroll in *Spellbound*
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Back in 1980, I should have traveled to Cincinnati (what an exotic place?) and married Bailey Quarters (Jan Smithers) from WKRP In Cincinnati. From the movies, Lee Remick in Wild River (not the Lee in Anatomy Of A Murder).
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On the first regular episode of Rowan & Martin's Laugh In, which replaced The Man From UNCLE at midseason in NBC's line up, Leo G Carroll made a guest appearance. During "the party" sketch Leo was behind the bar as a bartender (in disguise). His line (talking into his UNCLE pen communicator) was something like "Mr Kuryakin, I think I 've just found THRUSH headquarters."
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According to Robert Vaughn and David McCallum (on interviews in The Man From UNCLE series dvd set) "Uncle Alexander Waverly", aka Leo G Carroll , was one of the nicest gentleman you could ever meet. A lot of veteran film actors/actresses did UNCLE episodes, most had worked with Leo G. in the past on movies. He was very admired and loved by all.
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Its been a very, very long time since I saw any episodes of John Forsythe in his "Bachelor Father" tv series. But didn't he play his character somewhat in the same way as his "Trouble With Harry" character? I say this because the first time I saw "Harry" in the theatre (early 80's) to me he seemed to play the part like his tv Bachelor Father character. (Of course he did the movie years before the tv show)
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Just got through reading the entries on Wiki and IMDb about W. S. (One Take Woody) Van Dyke. He gets the credit for bringing together the team of William Powell and Myrna Loy. The three were all working on *Manhattan Melodrama* when director "Woody" got inspired to cast Powell with Loy for Woody's next project, *The Thin Man* . Apparently studio brass weren't keen on the idea but Woody insisted. And the rest as they say, is history. "One Take Woody" was known for being a very efficient (inexpensive) film director, but also getting great performances from his actors. He lead a very interesting life and there are many well known films he directed; I know several of them very well but was unaware HE did them. Sadly he was only 53 at the time of his death. He was very ill with cancer and took his own life. -- The next time you watch William Powell and Myrna Loy in one of their great films, remember and thank Woody Van Dyke.
Edited by: mrroberts on Oct 24, 2011 1:09 PM
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Windie (only 4 posts in 11 months?) , welcome to the TCM boards. -- Refer to -themave.com- for an excellent site on William Powell. There are a couple of books out , see the Wiki entry on William Powell. I have The Thin Man DVD set which has all six films and a nice little dvd bio on Mr Powell and Myrna Loy. Best of all, if you haven't heard or read, this December is William Powell month on TCM. There are a ton of Powell films on the December schedule , including the Philo Vance films (4 films I believe, all talkies). I hope that TCM has good prints of them. Christmas is the whole month of December for this little boy.
Edited by: mrroberts on Oct 24, 2011 1:52 AM
Under the circumstances I think she did a decent job. Maybe needs a little more time on the practice squad though.
-- Seriously, about all of this recent talk about *Casablanca* . I always have had the impression that the "story" was constantly being improvised and rewritten while they were filming. Ingrid said she didn't know who she should love more because she didn't know who she was getting on the plane with. Wasn't that the last scene filmed and the ending wasn't determined until they got to the filming time? If Bogart had known in advance that he would end up walking off with Claude Rains instead of Ingrid Bergman, Bogart might have walked off the picture (laugh, laugh). -- Little did the people involved in making this film realize how closely the film would be disected and analyzed.
Anne Baxter, age 16, "Rebecca" screen test
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