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Thrilling contest!
CineMaven 3
Fedya 2
Nicoley13 2
Capuchin 1
Countessdelave 1
Filmlover 1
Helenbaby 1
ILoveRayMilland 1
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And CineMaven pulls into the lead! Every vote counts!
CineMaven 3
Fedya 2
Capuchin 1
Countessdelave 1
Filmlover 1
Helenbaby 1
ILoveRayMilland 1
Nicoley13 1
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With a day and a half to go, this must be the closest Challenge ever!
CineMaven 2
Fedya 2
Capuchin 1
Countessdelave 1
Filmlover 1
Helenbaby 1
ILoveRayMilland 1
Nicoley13 1
(Again alphabetical by rank)
Okay, stragglers...it's up to you to break these ties!
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Won't be a problem relaxing in Bryant Park watching a movie...that's why we love our free picnic-movies!
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I'm obviously not particularly a Raquel Welch fan, unless we want to discuss *Myra Breckinidge* (for all the *Showgirls* reasons), but that photo is INSANELY sexy. No matter which county you reside in!
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Strangely, we don't really have many mosquitoes in Manhattan (except for a famously weirdly infested few blocks on the Upper East Side). Subway rats, yes....mosquitoes: not so much.
So my dear, you are fine to visit without your can of OFF. I hope you, and other TCMers, will visit Our Town this summer...and let me know if you do. When I have the time, I love catching a classic movie on the big screen with fellow TCMers! And how much better would it be if that were a picnic dinner movie on a pier on the river?
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Wow, _amazing_ photo of Raquel Welch, what movie/shoot is it from?
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I was having tremendous problems with the TCM site overall for the past few months, using a Mac that was a few years old. I just got a new MacBook, and all my troubles were over (except, as patful noted, in my own Challenge thread). TCM University month was the worst.
I think TCM has amped up the site to the point that it gets gummy for folks on older computers -- maybe they should give the option to sign on for two versions of the site, one with all the scripts up and running.
I am so inept with computers that I'd be afraid of NoScript. What if I couldn't figure out how to enable?
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(Sticking-tongue-out face), CineMaven!
A tie is my biggest fear, although I have come up with the criteria I will use if that happens. Hopefully for naught.
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One of the neatest aspects of living in New York are the free outdoor movie screenings that take place all summer in parks, on river piers, and on rooftops in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
People take a picnic basket (and often an officially forbidden bottle of wine) and have giant communal movie picnics under the stars. We also are lucky to have a batch of free concert series in Central Park, City Hall Park, Coney Island, and three other locations -- those announce the artists next week, last year everyone from Liza Minnelli to Patti Labelle to Alicia Keys played free shows.
Many of the films they show every year are classics -- this year we get Harlow, Bogie, Judy, Poitier, Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Burt Lancaster, and more.
So for my fellow New Yorkers, and for all of you who I hope will visit this summer, I've compiled the calendar of Free Summer Outdoor Movie Screenings in NYC this summer. The series are listed in the order I think most TCMers would find appealing.
And that July 22 screening of *Dinner at Eight* ? I'll bring the aspic to the picnic if you bring Lord and Lady Ferncliffe!
_HBO Bryant Park Film Festival_
Mondays
Bryant Park
Park Opens at 5 PM, Movies at Dusk
(the most popular and the most crowded, have someone from your party there at 5 to hold your space for good viewing).
6/15: *The Sting*
6/22: *Breaking Away*
6/29: *Gold Diggers of 1933*
7/6: *Dog Day Afternoon*
7/13: *How Green Was My Valley*
7/20: *Harold and Maude*
7/27: *The Defiant Ones*
8/3: *Kramer vs. Kramer*
8/10: *The Magnificent Seven*
8/17: *Close Encounters of the Third Kind*
_Movies with a View from the Brooklyn Bridge_
Thursdays
Brooklyn Bridge Park
Theme: Stolen Summer - all movies about capers, thrillers, and heists
7/9: *Raising Arizona*
7/16: *The Maltese Falcon*
7/23: *Paper Moon*
7/30: *To Catch a Thief*
8/6: *The Return of the Pink Panther*
8/13: *Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid*
8/20: *Catch Me if You Can*
8/27: *Edward Scissorhands*
_Summer on the Hudson_
Wednesdays
Pier 1 (70th Street and the Hudson River)
Movies begin at 8:30 pm
7/9: *The Age of Innocence*
7/15: *Wall Street*
7/22: *Dinner at Eight*
7/29: *The Out-of-Towners*
8/5: *Drums Along the Mohawk*
8/12: *Sweet Smell of Success*
_River Flicks for Kids_
Pier 46 (Charles Street & the Hudson River)
Fridays
7/10: *The Wizard of Oz*
7/17: *Kung Fu Panda*
7/24: *Ghostbusters*
7/31: *Star Wars: The Clone Wars*
8/7: *Muppet Movie*
8/14: *Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa*
8/21: *Curious George*
_Central Park Film Festival_
Five Days in August
In Rumsey Playfield
Doors open at 6, movies start at 8
8/18: *Shaft*
8/19: *Ocean's 11* (2001)
8/20: *Sex and the City*
8/21: *Twilight*
8/22: Viewer's Choice:
either *Men in Black, Goldfinger* , or *Desperately Seeking Susan*
(vote at www.7online.com)
_RiverFlicks for Grown-Ups_
Pier 54 (14th Street and the Hudson River)
Wednesdays
Sadly, the theme is I Know What You Saw Last Summer.
7/8: *Iron Man*
7/15: *Vicky Christina Barcelona*
7/22: *The Dark Knight*
7/29: *Hancock*
8/5: *Tropic Thunder*
8/12: *Sex ad the City*
8/19: *Pineapple Express*
The schedules for Celebrate Brooklyn Movies and Music Series and the Rooftop Films Series (indy films screened on rooftops in Brooklyn & Manhattan) haven't yet been announced.
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In my line of work, I run into a lot of misled invitees.
They're usually trespassers.
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WOW. Absolutely anyone can still win:
CineMaven 2
Fedya 2
Capuchin 1
Filmlover 1
Helenbaby 1
ILoveRayMilland 1
Nicoley13 1
This is a sign of just how great a job everyone did!
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Thanks for your speedy response!
Everyone, you have til midnight Saturday PT to cast your votes! Remember, the winner gets to run the next Challenge, so choose wisely!
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Holly, please be kind enough to remove the emoticon (smiley face) on your post. For some unknown reason emoticons have gummed up this thread repeatedly, making pages inaccessible and finally resulting in my reposting every schedule deformatted of every special text feature, emoticon, etc.
We don't know why it happens in this thread, only that it does, even though they work fine everywhere else.
We're glad you're smiling. but please remove the emoticon -- it might turn on you!
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I have enjoyed most of the "Great Director" groupings I have seen on TCM this month, but this night I am spending with the brilliant Preston Sturges? HEAVEN.
*Sullivan's Travels, The Palm Beach Story, The Lady Eve* --- *Morgan's Creek* --- is there anything better?
I feel so privileged I could be The Weenie King! (No jokes from the peanut gallery).
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And with the vote of Mr. Grimes (I assume that's a _Mister_ Grimes), we have a two way tie for the lead.
CineMaven 2
Fedya 2
Helenbaby 1
ILoveRayMilland 1
Nicoley13 1
(listed alphabetically by rank)
I'm also happy to know FrankGrimes was able to access the thread again. Any of you who have had trouble before, please note that all schedules were reposted in a faster format. They're harder to read (no bold-face, etc.), but easier to access -- and well worth the work, each one is amazing.
Now everyone: VOTE! This race is obviously too close to call -- it's anyone's game!
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AND...three days til the deadline! Get crackin', folks!
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I'm very impressed that they filmed the whole thing in New York (as some of you may know, very often films set in New York are filmed in Vancouver or Toronto on the cheap, very easy to spot if you are a New Yorker, and I would assume anyone else. Look at the dreadful remake of *The Out-of-Towners* for a horrid example of Toronto Starring As New York.
The subway scenes in the new one were largely shot in a closed section of track in the real NY subway that is adjacent to working tracks. So apparently when you see a train passing behind them, it is even generally a real subway car carrying real people to their jobs and around town.
I don't know that I'll see it --- hostage situations on the New York subway aren't necessarily entertaining when you take that subway every day --- but from what I've read in the advance stories in the NYC papers, written by people who have seen the movie, they really went the extra mile to be realistic in terms of the portrayal of New York.
Plus, they had the great good sense to cast the terrific character actor Luis Guzman, one of the most talented -- and most "New York-y" --- character actors working in films today.
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Musical fan that I am (really, my favorite movie is a Judy Garland MGM musical), I am not a huge fan of *The Sound of Music* . Even with terrific performances and gorgeous cinematography, it is just too long, and the structure of the plot doesn't work for me.
That said, PLEASE will TCM program the German Trapp Family movies for TCM International?
Who among us wouldn't want to see them?
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A reminder: you have four days to vote. Why not reread the schedules tonight and get it out of the way!
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Fred, *Temple* did play at Film Forum in New York in the past few years (three years ago, maybe?). As I recall, it wasn't a pristine print, but certainly a far better one than you can see on YouTube.
The screening I attended was one of those "beyond-sold out" things. Somebody at TCM and/or the DVD companies should take note that this is one of those movies that should be aired/on DVD.
And let me attest that the movie is really racy and that Miriam Hopkins is terrific in it!
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Ah, please. If we had the disposable cash available, 90% of the people who are reading this thread would snatch this dress up.
And then, at least in my case, I'd locate Diane Baker and invite her over for cocktails and surprise her when she showed up and I'm dressed as Lucy Harbin. Though I believe Joan Crawford was a bit more petite than I.
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Ollie, when I was 9 I loved *The Philadelphia Story* and *Gaslight* -- didn't see *Notorious* until I was older.
*Gaslight* is a little scary without being upsetting. Other Hitchcock movies can terrify kids -- I had nightmares after watching *The Birds* as a kid. And if nothing else they can see a terrific child star performance from Virginia Weidler in *The Philladelphia Story* . Though the similar *Bringing Up Baby* might be better for youngsters --- it's goofier, and what kid wouldn't want to see Baby run wild, not to mention those dinosaur bones coming apart?
Kids today are exposed to so much that virtually anything up to *Midnight Cowboy* that airs on TCM will seem tame to them. Every movie might not be appropriate for every age group, but none of these choices are bad ones, except maybe *To Have and Have Not* . And *An American in Paris* might have been better replaced by *Funny Face* or the afore-mentioned *The Music Man* or *Annie Get Your Gun* .
Some ideas for next year:
-Any of several Margaret O'Brien movies, including some of the smaller ones. *Tenth Avenue Angel, Our Vines Have Tender Grapes, Bad Bascomb, Music for Millions, Lost Angel* -- even *Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case* -- and of course my fave *Meet Me in St. Louis* . Margaret is a much more natural child actor than most of her era, and the things she does in these movies would resonate with kids.
- *King Kong* and *Them* --- kids can understand that giant ants aren't really going to terrorize them, and that New Yorkers are safe from giant ape attacks. Safely scary.
- *The Mummy* and *The Invisible Man* -- again, not usually super-scary to small kids, unlike *Dracula* and *Frankenstein* . And *Phantom of the Opera* gave me nightmares too!
- *Yours, Mine and Ours* and *Cheaper by the Dozen* , two "big family" comedies that are certainly kid-friendly.
- *The Long, Long Trailer*
- As a kid, I loved all of the Elvis musicals.
I just love the whole idea of The Essentials, Junior. I grew up watching old movies on television with my grandmother in particular, who gave me a deep appreciation of Bette Davis, her all-time favorite, practically from infancy. What a great way to bond with your children.
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Wow, amazing. May have to pop the DVD in now.
Free Outdoor Classic Movies in NYC
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And *Midnight Cowboy* . When they really started cleaning up the parks Bryant Park was the first one they did. NOTHING like the old days now!