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    The Swinger on TCM Underground 1/23 full or edited version?

    in General Discussions

    Posted

    > {quote:title=tcmprogrammr wrote:}{quote}

    > Hi, just seeing this thread. We requested - and I'm pretty sure we received - the unedited theatrical version. However, as noted below, it's possible there is a different European version that exists and, if so, we will try to obtain that one if we play the film again.

     

    Thank you, tcmprogrammr, for your response.

     

    If you happen to read this thread again today, would it be too much to ask that you address the legal difficulties that prevent TCM (or any channel for that matter) from showing Howard Hawks' *Ceiling Zero* ? The issue came up again today in the Howard Hawks thread in *Films and Filmmakers*.

     

    I think it has to do with Abend, but I could be wrong about that.

     

    Thanks!!

    The films of the amazing Howard Hawks

    in Films and Filmmakers

    Posted

    > {quote:title=DAVIDMERCIEZ wrote:}{quote}

    > I brought this up in another forum: Does anyone remember TCM playing CEILING ZERO? Why is this Cagney/O'Brien movie never shown?

     

    I started a thread about this some months ago:

    http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?messageID=7980914

     

    There does seem to be some kind of legal trouble that prevents TCM from licensing it for broadcasting.

     

    Your best bet might be to try to find the old VHS copy that was released in the 90s.

    Off Topic: Favorite Music?

    in Your Favorites

    Posted

    Well, if Chris won't say anything in regards to Hershey/Nestle, please allow me to offer an opinion.

     

    Asking which one's better is like asking whether Coke is better than Pepsi or chocolate is better than vanilla. Nobody's taste is going to be the same. Heck, even the same person might enjoy either one depending on the circumstances. So it's always best that people have as many options to choose from, so they pick whatever they prefer at any particular time.

     

    With Coke/Pepsi, it's usually a given that Pepsi is going to be rather sweeter, and that Coke has a slightly more "cinammony" taste, compared to Pepsi's "lemony" taste. Some folks will always be Coke drinkers, some will always be Pepsi drinkers, and some will switch back and forth.

     

    Curiously enough, I'm tending to agree very much with Kathy here. I do like Hershey's for standard chocolate bars, or even "Kisses". Yet I am also partial to Nestle's Crunch bar. Above and beyond those choices, I also like to try other brands of chocolate: Ghirardelli, Toblerone, Ferrero Rocher, etc.

     

    And to quote Forrest Gump: "Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get."

     

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    Oscar nominations

    in General Discussions

    Posted

    A Variety reviewer came up with some interesting Oscar oddities:

     

    http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=awardcentral&jump=news&id=oscars&articleid=VR1117998938

     

    *This year's Oscar oddities*

    *Unusual facts about this year's nominations*

     

    By TIMOTHY M. GRAY

    Among the notable and unusual achievements in this year's crop:

     

    * Each of the five best-pic contenders saw its director nominated -- which, incredibly, is only the fifth time that's ever happened.

    * "Button's" Kathleen Kennedy earned her sixth producing bid, tying her with Stanley Kramer and Steven Spielberg for the record for individual producers.

    * Stephen Daldry makes Oscar history by going three for three: With this year's "The Reader," he has scored a directing bid for the trio of films he's helmed ("The Hours," "Billy Elliot").

    * With a 15th bid for "Doubt," Meryl Streep maintains her easy lead in most acting noms. Runners-up are Katharine Hepburn and Jack Nicholson, with 12 apiece.

    * "Doubt" scored four acting noms, the first time that's happened since the 2002 "Chicago," another Miramax film.

    * A.R. Rahman ("Slumdog") is a triple nominee, for his music score and two songs: "Jai Ho" and "O Saya," which rep the third and fourth bids for songs not in the English language.

    * Andrew Stanton ("Wall-E") is only the fourth person to score a second bid in the animated feature category, which began in 2001. He also earned a citation in original screenplay as one of the scribes on the film.

    * Two best-pic contenders center around real-life TV shows: "Frost/Nixon" (the 1977 interviews) and "Slumdog Millionaire" (the India version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire").

    * France maintains its lead in the foreign-language race, with its 35th bid for "The Class."

    * There are nine first-timers among the 20 acting contenders. Seven of the 10 lead actors are aged 45 or older.

    * Kate Winslet was nommed as leading actress in "Reader," though she won a Golden Globe as supporting actress for the same film.

    * Heath Ledger scored a supporting actor nom for "The Dark Knight" on the first anniversary of his death. This marks the seventh posthumous acting nomination, including the sole winner so far, Peter Finch ("Network").

    * Robert Downey Jr.'s nom ("Tropic Thunder") marks the first time since Laurence Olivier's 1965 "Othello" that an actor has been nommed for playing a role in blackface.

    * "Waltz With Bashir" is the first animated feature nominated for a foreign-language Oscar (though it's the 13th toon to be submitted in that race; last year's "Persepolis" didn't even make the short list).

    * Viola Davis and Michael Shannon are supporting contenders (for "Doubt" and "Revolutionary Road," respectively) though each has only about 10 minutes of screen time.

    * Michael Semanick was cited twice in the sound mixing race, for his work on "Benjamin Button" and "Wall-E." Ben Burtt is up for "Wall-E," in both sound editing and mixing.

    * Lora Hirschberg ("Dark Knight") becomes the third woman nominated in the sound mixing category.

    Randolph Scott Westerns on TCM 1/2/09

    in Westerns

    Posted

    For folks who get the Encore Western channel, they are dedicating most of the day today to Randolph Scott, showing *Ten Wanted Men, Badman's Territory, The Nevadan, Colt .45, Fort Worth, Carson City, Riding Shotgun, Rage at Dawn, Westbound*, and *Thunder Over the Plains*.

    "Panama Hattie" & "Nancy Goes to Rio" - Sothern Centennial 1/22

    in Musicals

    Posted

    > {quote:title=patful wrote:}{quote}

    > Both great movies, looking forward to watching them again, especially *Hattie* . I'll watch anything with Sothern, Ragland, and Virginia O'Brien. Nice to see *Rio* , too, one of the few Carmen Miranda films TCM is able to show.

     

    Now *there* is someone I would really like to see get a day of "Summer Under the Stars". Carmen Miranda, I mean. Obviously it couldn't happen without Fox being willing to lease some of their films to TCM. She's never been honoured in SUTS, has she?

    What's an Old Movie You'd Like to See Remade Today?

    in General Discussions

    Posted

    > {quote:title=ChipHeartsMovies wrote:}{quote}

    > I'm fine with remakes as long as we still have the originals.

    >

    > Sensibly, though, why not remake movies that had potential but were rotten in their original making --- I'm thinking Elizabeth Taylor's *Boom!* , or in fact most of what Elizabeth Taylor did in the late 60's and early 70's. Or cheesy things like *Flowers in the Attic* .

     

    You actually sat through *Boom!* ? You have my sympathies. ;)

     

    Seriously, your idea is very good. Ideally, they should be remade by directors with a unique vision and a sensibility that is right for the project, not simply as a result of a corporate decision, to be handed to any hack director who'll do it just for the paycheck.

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