Film_Fatale
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Who owns the Animal Planet channel? I don't usually watch it. I'm not surprised when there are TCM ads in other Turner Broadcasting channels. Not sure about Animal Planet, though.
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CK, once again you post information which nobody really asked for as a substitute for an actual response. Can't say I'm surprised.
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I think it depends, Thelma. Sometimes too many graphics/links and no substance can also be "too much of a good thing".
But just for the record, I've always enjoyed looking at the photos and stills that you have posted.
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Just because a movie might top the box-office on a given weekend, it doesn't mean that it's the only movie in everyone's mind, you know? It's not going to be a surprise if *Mamma Mia!* were to be as effective as counter-programming as *Sex and the City* was in late May. So, again, you can't speak for everyone saying this weekend is going to be all about such-and-such movie for everyone. I'm sure for young boys and guys, that movie will be a must-see. There's still an audience for other movies.
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You're supposed to be ignoring me, remember?
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> {quote:title=ThelmaTodd wrote:}{quote}
> Here is the color list sorted to reflect films that now survive only as black & white. These too are valuable as programming choices for TCM:
That's an excellent list, Thelma! I hope TCM is listening.
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Don't suppose you also have a link to a video of Mickey Rooney's impersonation of Carmen? I think it's hilarious... pretty sure it's also in one of the *That's Entertainment!* movies, but not sure which one.
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Someone asking a polite question is too much stress for you to handle?
Unlike you, I never engaged in any name-calling or veiled insults... but whatever.
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Nice photo. Now, CK, will you answer my question please?
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> {quote:title=CelluloidKid wrote:}{quote}
> Have you yourself ever read anything he wrote? If Not here.
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> If Not Here:
> Reviews: Elvis Mitchell
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> http://movies.nytimes.com/ref/movies/reviews/author/rev_auth_mitchell/index.html
First of all, you haven't answered my question. Please elaborate on your reason(s) for quoting *The Women*, if you would please.
Secondly -- there you go again! You automatically assume you know more than others, or that others simply don't know much about something. I don't need a link to Mitchell's NYT reviews, because I read them already as they were being published years ago.
As much as you want to see this in rather childish terms, the fact remains that I asked you something several posts ago and you never bothered to answer. Why are you pasting so much outdated info about Elvis Mitchell, when the tcm.com info is quite thorough and up-to-date? _Just answer that, and no canned responses this time, or links that nobody has asked for._
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> {quote:title=CelluloidKid wrote:}{quote}
> There is a name for you, ladies, but it isn't used in high society... outside of a kennel.
> "The Women"
OK, I took this quote from the Elvis Mitchell thread... this is exactly what I'm talking about.
I'm trying to engage in an intelligent conversation with you, and you reply with a quote from *The Women* that has nothing to do with the topic at hand.
Are you trying to imply something? If so, would you please just say it directly?
That's not too much to ask for, is it?
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> {quote:title=CelluloidKid wrote:}{quote}
> There is a name for you, ladies, but it isn't used in high society... outside of a kennel.
> "The Women"
Care to elaborate?
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> {quote:title=CelluloidKid wrote:}{quote}
> I met Elvis Mitchell 1x when he came to the Denver Film Festival in 2001. He wa nice guy. What more can I say...I shook his had and thanked him for the lecture he gave on a film he was there to introduce....if I remember he was there W./Pam Grier & director Isaac Julien to talk about the documentary "Baadasssss Cinema". He was very knowledgeable, took time to shake everyone's hand and answer questions.
Almost anyone could tell a story of seeing someone at a film festival and maybe even getting to shake their hands... that doesn't add a lot of insight, imho. Do you think he's a good writer? Why or why not? What special insights might people find in his writings that they wouldn't find elsewhere?
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CK, I'm going to ask this in a separate thread, since it no longer has anything to do with the original topic of the thread in which you started pasting mostly useless info about Elvis Mitchell.
Do you have any interesting opinions of your own?
I'm not trying to be sarcastic here - I am genuinely curious. You claim to be more knowledgeable about film than just about everyone on the boards, and yet something like 90% of everything you post seems to be nothing more than stuff you cut-and-paste from other websites, stuff you find presumably through search engines or e-mail alerts.
There's no denying almost everyone here will occasionally start a thread based mostly on stuff found on the web. I do it quite a few times myself. The only difference I can detect at this point is that you seem to be on auto-pilot a lot of the time, automatically responding to other people's posts with cut-and-paste answers rather than with any original thoughts that come for you.
Do you care to answer this question? I hope you won't just reply with some canned answer...
Peace,
Film_Fatale
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> {quote:title=scsu1975 wrote:}{quote}
> Hot off the presses ...
LOL. Well, what can I say... CK wants to impress everybody with his cut-and-paste skills, even after the question has presumably been sufficiently answered.
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Too bad you don't seem to have any opinions of your own you'd like to share on this subject.
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Nope. But that may be because I haven't even had a chance to stream anything from amazon just yet.
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> {quote:title=CelluloidKid wrote:}{quote}
> Elvis Mitchell is a film critic for The New York Times. Previously, he was a film critic for the Fort-Worth Star Telegram, the Los Angeles Herald Examiner and The Detroit Free Press.
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> For the past 15 years Mr. Mitchell has become well known to a national audience as the entertainment critic of NPRs "Weekend Edition with Scott Simon." He has also been the host of "Independent Focus," a program on the Independent Film Channel, and has appeared regularly on other TV and radio programs. In addition, he has written on film for Rolling Stone, GQ and Interview magazines.
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> Mr. Mitchell received a degree in English from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan
CK, why are you posting outdated information, when the information taken from tcm.com is up-to-date?
Your source identifies Elvis as still working for the NYT, even though he's not there anymore.
Next time, don't just post for the sake of posting something.
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*Turner Classic Movies pick for July 18, 2008: Red Skelton Triple Feature*
?Whistling in the Dark,? TCM, Friday, July 18, 6:15 a.m. (EST)
?Whistling in Dixie,? 8 a.m.
?Whistling in Brooklyn,? 9:15 a.m.
A month ago, TCM showed two of the ?Whistling? pictures starring the great Red Skelton. Friday, all three of the series are being shown back-to-back.
Skelton had the best role of his movie career as actor Wally Benton who plays a detective known as ?The Fox? on a popular radio show. The joke is that everybody assumes that Wally is every bit as clever a sleuth as the fictional character he plays.
In the 1941 comedy/mystery ?Whistling in the Dark,? Wally is taken prisoner at a spooky old mansion out in the boonies of New York by the head of a fake religious cult who wants him to plan the perfect murder.
The outstanding supporting cast includes veteran heavy Conrad Veidt (?Casablanca?) as the villain, underrated comic actress Ann Rutherford as Wally?s long-suffering fianc?e Carol and ex-burlesque clown Rags Ragland as dumb strong-arm goon, Sylvester.
Made to cash in on the success of the two hit comic horror films ?The Cat and the Canary? and ?The Ghost Breakers,? both starring Bob Hope, ?Whistling in the Dark? did so well that MGM cast Skelton in two sequels, ?Whistling in Dixie? and ?Whistling in Brooklyn.? (Expert comedy director S. Sylvan Simon helmed all three pictures.)
?Whistling in Dixie? (1942) is the second and funniest of the series. Wally is asked by Carol to help a friend of hers in Georgia by solving a murder involving a treasure hidden in a haunted Confederate fort. Ragland returns as Sylvester and also plays his twin brother, Chester.
The best thing about ?Whistling in Brooklyn,? third and last of the series, are the sight gag routines contributed by an uncredited Buster Keaton. In this entry, Wally is framed for the murders committed by a serial killer who goes by the alias of ?Constant Reader.? The highlight is the baseball game where Wally, impersonating a pitcher, accidentally puts three men on base and then, also by accident, gets all three out.
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CK, some people might not want to see critics' opinions before watching the movie... and for some people, this weekend might be more or less all about Mamma Mia!. You don't speak for everybody, you know?
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I hadn't thought of it in that context. Interesting. And I'm also a big fan of *The Enchanted Cottage*.
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Once again, just posting for the sake of upping the post count? The wiki entry adds absolutely nothing to what is already on the info provided by tcm.com.
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Well I'm gonna check it out. If interested, you can sign up for a Beta trial and get a $5 credit towards downloads.
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Whadya know, whadya say?
Today's the birthday of James Cagney!!!
(July 17, 1899 - March 30, 1986)
*My salute to: Carmen Miranda!!*
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Please don't post in response to me if you meant to thank Thelma.