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I apologize if I didn't make it clear that I'm not at all interested in censorship or heavy oversight of the suggestion page. I, too, enjoy some of the nonsense there or find it easy enough to ignore. And, realistically, I expect that directing people to the database and reminding them that old movies can be fun will be as effective as TCM's spelling instructions are now. Doesn't mean it shouldn't be done--for form's sake, if nothing else.
As I tried to explain before, I'm more concerned about updates to the TCM movie database. Until I learned to do research first on IMDb, I was constantly voting on this site for the DVD release of movies already on DVD. And how often do we discuss in these forums why certain movies aren't broadcast on TCM? I'd like to be able to click on the database and see the broadcast rights history of a movie. Any database that isn't constantly updated is of limited use.
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This isn't exactly what you're asking for, just an aside. I've never had a request granted, alas; but I figure if TCM has the movies I want, the station will eventually show them. I'm more interested in suggestions for the suggestion page, how to make it more useful and efficient. I've noticed that people often ask for movies that were just shown. (The suggestion for Bedknobs And Broomsticks probably went up before the movie was over.) And people request too many recent movies (from the '60s to last year). Or they ask for movies and stars already in the schedule, or for movies that TCM can't show. And, of course, the jokesters out there are always requesting movies that don't exist, making provoking political statements or squabbling with other posters. All of this clogs up the site, which has to make it difficult for TCM to see the legitimate requests. I'm not interested in any censorship disguised as oversight. That's distasteful, and, besides, it doesn't work. You can't stop people from being foolish or mischievous, but there are some things TCM could do that might make the suggestion page better.
Respectfully submitted suggestions for TCM:
1. Update the TCM movie database. We need the latest information. Tell us if a movie actually is available on DVD, if that DVD is being offered for sale by TCM, and, most importantly, if TCM has the broadcast rights to this movie. Continue to tell us when in the upcoming weeks a movie is scheduled. This is a great feature of the database right now (if only people would take advantage of it). In addition, you might tell people when (in the past year? six months?) a movie was last shown on TCM.
2. Direct people from the suggestion page to the updated database. Include something like this in the instructions: Before posting your suggestion, please look it up in the database. The movie you want may already be scheduled or may not be available to TCM.
3. Remind people that TCM is about OLDER classic movies.
4. Anticipate that when a remake of a classic like *3:10 To Yuma* is released, people will be interested in the original. Put it in your schedule before you get those multiple requests.
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You're welcome. Happy Fay Wray Day!
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TCM showed this splendid movie September 3rd--12 days ago.
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There's a lovely website devoted to her: The Fay Wray Pages
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Hi. That's really nice to know. I think Ben Mankiewicz has been fun to have around on TCM weekends.....And I hope you felt as glamorous as Lana Turner while you were having lunch.
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Thank you for continuing to try, Bartlett. A very merry un-birthday to you!
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I'm sorry. I have no idea why the name of George S. Kauffman is crossed out in my post. Or why the asterisks only work occasionally. Hope to get the hang of this formatting someday.
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Challengers---Thank you all so much. I really enjoyed reading your schedules. To mention some of my favorite things---
ChipHeartsMovies: Anna May Wong--*Kurotokage*--a Dorothy Arzner documentary! How soon can you get started on that?--so many pink collar movies from the '30s!--the emphasis on caregivers--the drag theme--Tennessee Williams--"Forever Young: Child Stars"--"Not An Overnight Sensation"--appreciate the neat frequency listing at end of notes--war and anti-war movies
Fedya: deliciously sly schedule, from the pre-codes in the morning to the menacing ants to weird causes of death--then wholesome Joel McCrea and Frances Dee as SOTM--Welcome, tourists, to New Mexico! *Ace In the Hole* and *Them!*--Michael Curtiz--Una O'Connor, Charles Boyer, Pepe--*Echenme al gato*--"Movies About Photography"--"Saturday Morning Bio-pics"
movieman1957: "Sunday Morning Musicals"--*Seven Days In May*--Thelma Ritter!--Michael Curtiz--Basil Rathbone, Gregory Peck, Alan Hale--"A Gentleman's Gentleman"---George S. Kauffman--"Vox Humana"! Would love to see/hear this feature every month. Oh, the possibilities! James Mason to Walter Brennan, Joan Greenwood to Ruth Gordon!
filmlover: Ellis Island!--showcasing screenwriters! Rod Serling! *Seven Days In May*--the funnies--missing films--Norma Shearer--Toshiro Mifune--Buddy Ebsen--"A Film Career In A Day"--the 100th birthday of Bette Davis combined with the disability theme! I can hear Miss Davis laughing now.
benwhowell: cats!--C.T.Dreyer's *Michael*--John Huston and Shirley Clarke--Patsy Kelly and Franklin Pangborn--Kieslowski--*Repulsion*--"Everyday People"--"Let's Misbehave" (And on Fridays, too! TCM often seems to slow down on that day for some reason.)--love the song titles and colors and cool scenario
hlywdkjk: "Men of Few Words"--married co-stars--Ernst Lubitsch--Ned Sparks--"Memoirs of a Movie" (*Ed Wood*!)--"Film At Eleven" (But, please, not Nancy Grace. How about Samantha Bee from "The Daily Show"?)--"Not On Home Video" (*Green Mansions* is not a very true adaptation of the novel, but does show Audrey Hepburn in an offbeat role for her.)--"Portraits Of A Lady"--Happy to see *Myra Breckinridge* in the schedule. This silly movie does no harm to Vidal's great novel and is so much fun for people who love old movies.--P.S. Thank you for taking the time and trouble to respond to my earlier post.
sugarpuss: Thank you for a most educational and entertaining thread.
My choice is ChipHeartsMovies. Excellent job! Lets see that Arzner documentary.
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Hi. Many people seem to be having this problem, and it is discussed on other threads. You probably need to adjust your Control Panel settings. Clear instructions on how to do this are given by FrankGrimes about three messages down in this thread:
http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?threadID=113611&tstart=45
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That's a beautiful movie. *Random Harvest* (1942) with Ronald Colman, Greer Garson.
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Hi. I'm sorry. I don't understand. How can you post on this forum, if you're not using a computer, logged on, and able to see your control panel? I want to help. Have you tried contacting TCM? "Contact Us" is at the bottom of whatever computer screen you're using.
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I would love to see this movie. I thought it was controversial because Joan Crawford's character gets away with murder. Can you tell us any more about it?
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Hi. First click on your CONTROL PANEL, then YOUR WATCHES. Mark NO on the thread watches, and that should stop the emails. Hope this helps, and I hope you enjoy your stay here.
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Toss-up between Burt Lancaster and Johnny Weissmuller. Most people's legs are merely serviceable, so kudos to stars (like Mae West) who realize this and always keep those pins covered.
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CineMaven---Thank you. I always enjoy your posts. They're very positive and generous--and wacky! I don't get FMC, but I'd love to see most of those listed movies on TCM. I'm only a bit tempted to stray, not planning to be unfaithful. TCM and I are in good, productive couples' counseling, fending off a truly undesired separation.
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Exception should be made for the one-and-only Fred Astaire. He was all about lovely romance, as suggested through elegant dancing. He didn't make us watch him in heavy, naturalistic sex scenes. I'm sure all the women wanted to dance with him. If he was paired with younger and younger partners, one reason might have been that the best older female dancers wanted to stop dancing and do straight acting.
Cary Grant had the grace to bow out when he knew he could no longer play his Cary Grant role as comfortably as before.
If we want to get annoyed about something, maybe it should be that good actors like Nancy Marchand and Ethel Merman were cheated out of roles they were born to play simply because the studio wanted younger, more conventionally attractive women. But I think that was another thread......
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Thank you,TCM, for restoring the edit function.
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TCM----The recent posting and editing problems seemed to have caused great forum confusion. When I registered on this board I was flustered and overwhelmed, but, after reading threads here and there, I was reasonably sure that, indeed, information about movies was being provided at the Information, Please! forum. The forums seemed fairly unmuddled then. If I were any newer, I'd have to assume that anything goes and that the forum titles mean little. Perhaps a gentle reminder of what's supposed to go where? My apologies if my message is in the wrong spot. Thank you.
Also: Being bumped from personal to guest settings is very alarming. It feels like a security problem.
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FrankGrimes---Thank you for your kind words. You might actually prefer the more adult *Love With The Proper Stranger*. It's just that the quirky *Inside Daisy Clover* is dear to me. (BTW, I don't know if I meant "disorganized mess---as opposed to organized mess, whatever that would be." Sorry. I keep forgetting that edit option is gone.)
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Thank you, moderator sugarpuss! Thank you, entrants #1 ChipHeartsMovies, #2 Fedya, #3 movieman1957, #4 filmlover, #5 benwhowell, #6 hlywdkjk!
I've enjoyed reading your schedules and notes so much. What astonishingly varied and creative work. All your schedules should be adopted by TCM immediately.
As a newcomer here, I'm trying to understand the need for this to be a contest with one winner. I gather that the voter turnout is usually low. Maybe this is the reason? Why do we have to choose? It doesn't seem a matter of taste so much as mood. And there's something for every mood in all the schedules. When I vote in most elections it's after weighing pros and cons, checking to see if any candidate's about to be indicted for something or other, holding my nose, etc. There's nothing unpleasant or discouraging like that here. It's a fabulous 6-course dinner party--and you've asked us to pick one course and then move along?! If you'd all produced movies or books, I'd see them, read them, buy them all as soon as I could afford to. You're saying we can only have one? No, I won't choose. I admire everyone's work. Congratulations to all entrants! And thank you, sugarpuss, for the best thread on the board.
Informal Poll - Requested Films
in General Discussions
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Fedya---Thank you for reminding me about the Nancy Drew movies and that *3:10 To Yuma* is a Columbia Pictures movie. I ought to have remembered that. I was just thinking of how often people have requested that movie lately.
FrankGrimes--Thank you. I appreciate that. It's so easy to be misread here.