Film_Fatale
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I generally like most of the intros. Like Chris, I also preferred the old prime time intro to the one they just started using. Likewise, the "TCM Remembers" promos seem very appropriate to what is essentially a sad occasion.
The worst promo, for my taste, was the one they had for the contest to pick a TCM Guest Programmer, where they asked people to submit a video clip. That promo seemed totally geared to an MTV audience. It was out of tone, imho, with the general mood of TCM.
This one is one of my favourite intros! B-)
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Dear Robert Osborne,
First of all, thank you so much for taking questions from TCM viewers ahead of this year's Oscar ceremony! You're a wonderful TCM host and we love you. :x
Here is my question - it is something that can't be answered by looking up information online or in any book: In all of your years covering the Academy Awards ceremonies, what has been the most surprising or amazing moment for you?
Hope it doesn't seem like a silly question.
Thanks! Keep up the wonderful work!
Film Fatale
Network Creator, *TCM Fans Social Network*
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*Arsenic and Old Lace*
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Frears' *The Hit* is a pretty good movie. I'm glad it is receiving the Criterion treatment.
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Sounds awesome! Thanks for the links B-)
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Was just going to add a link B-)
http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?threadID=136291&tstart=0
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> {quote:title=molo14 wrote:}{quote}
> Is everyone too cold to ramble?
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> Here in Richmond it is a balmy 21 degrees. We'll get down to about 7 degrees tonight. It's tough on us southern folk.
We've got hot biscuits in the oven though. >
> I did finally watch *The Blue Dahlia* last night. I had wanted to catch this for years. Ladd and Lake just seem to belong together in film. The story was engaging enough. Lots of interesting characters. I have a few thoughts on this one I will get too later. Just checking in for now. I'm recording *Wagon Master* at the moment Miss G.
I'm never too cold to ramble, molo.
Hope you've a nice warm fireplace
Glad you enjoyed *The Blue Dahlia* - there's a long thread in the Film Noir forum, if you are interested.
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Thanks. I'm definitely going to buy this one. B-)
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Thanks. I'm definitely going to buy this one. B-)
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> {quote:title=movieman1957 wrote:}{quote}
> "Easy Living." 1937. Jean Arthur and Ray Milland. In fact most of Jean's post "Mr. Deeds Goes To Town" catalog ,might work.
That's a great movie, Chris - with a great Preston Sturges screenplay. B-)
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*HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO....*
*Harry Carey*
(Jan. 16, 1878 - Sept. 21, 1947)
*Ethel Merman*
(Jan. 16, 1908 - Feb. 15, 1984)
*Buddy Lester*
(Jan. 16, 1917 - Oct. 4, 2002)
*Katy Jurado*
(Jan. 16, 1924 - July 5, 2002)
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/16/arts/16aguilar.html
*Pedro Aguilar, Inventive Mambo Dancer, Dies at 81*
By WILLIAM GRIMES
Published: January 16, 2009
Pedro Aguilar, whose innovative style of mambo dancing made him a legend at the Palladium ballroom in Manhattan and a one-man encyclopedia of Latin dance, died Tuesday in Miami. He was 81 and lived in Hallandale, Fla.
The cause was heart failure, said Barbara Craddock, his dance partner for the past 11 years.
Mr. Aguilar, known as Cuban Pete, translated his footwork as a boxer and his childhood tap-dance training into a rhythmically complex, visually arresting dancing style that electrified audiences at the Palladium, the premier showcase for Latin music in the 1940s and 1950s. By his own count he invented 100 signature foot, torso and hand movements with names like the Porpoise, the Shimmy Shimmy and the Prayer.
?He had an impeccable sense of timing that allowed him to dance inside the music,? said Ms. Craddock, who first saw Mr. Aguilar dance in the 1950s. ?He painted a picture of the music with his feet.?
Mr. Aguilar was born in Puerto Rico and moved to the United States with his mother at 3. While staying with an uncle in Washington, he was taught tap dancing by a maid who reasoned that if she could hear him tapping out steps on a box, he was not getting into mischief. His mother later taught him the danz?n and the bolero.
His parents? turbulent marriage made his childhood difficult. After he rejoined them in Manhattan, he and his siblings were placed in an orphanage and later put into foster care, from which he emerged, as he put it, ?an angry young man? who worked out his rage in the boxing ring.
Encouraged by the former Cuban boxer and singer Miguelito Valdez, he entered a dance contest at the Palladium in 1950 and won the top prize, $1,000. After the bandleaders Tito Puente and Machito helped him master the mambo?s tricky clave rhythm, he went on to win dozens of contests and lasting fame as the mambo craze swept the country. His partner was Millie Donay, who would later become his first wife.
One night the bandleader Noro Morales introduced Mr. Aguilar from the stage of the Conga Room as ?Cuban Pete, King of the Latin Beat,? a reference to a hit record by Desi Arnaz, who was in the audience. The name stuck.
Mr. Aguilar made a career as a dancer, teacher and choreographer, working for Warner Brothers for many years. As a consultant on the 1992 film ?The Mambo Kings,? he taught Antonio Banderas to mambo. He collaborated with Edward Villella on the ballet ?Mambo No. 2 a.m.,? which had its premiere with the Miami City Ballet in 2000.
He is survived by his sisters, Socorra Blackman, Chickie Masdeu and Yvette Masdeu; his brother, David Masdeu; his daughters, Denise Gerard and Petrina Aguilar; his son, Sean Peter Aguilar; and two grandchildren.
In 2003, asked by the Puerto Rico Herald to explain his mambo style, Mr. Aguilar said: ?I feel it. Whatever is inside me, I let it go. Sometimes I am hypnotized by what I am doing.?
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Dudley Manlove was in *The Runaway*
with _C?sar Romero_
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But it is entertaining, isn't it? Sorry you don't like the "Raindrops" number.
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Tarleton, Brent - George Reeves in *Gone with the Wind*
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> {quote:title=Bargar wrote:}{quote}
> Definitely, "Casablanca"
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> And:
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> The Lady Eve
> Ball of Fire
> The Thin Man Series - My man loves Myrna Loy & Nick & Nora are very romantic
> Remember the Night
> Bogie & Bacall "combos"
> Notorious
Those are all great choices for Valentine's!
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Oh I just love those Hitch films! :x
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Well it's a bit of an over-generalization, don't you think? I mean, I doubt the Polanski doc made a lot of money. And what about *The Thin Blue Line* ?
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Don't forget, Ford's *Wagon Master* is on TCM's schedule at 1pm ET, and this movie is *not* available on DVD!
*Wagon Master* (1950)
Two wandering cowhands sign on to help a wagon train headed for Utah.
Cast: Ben Johnson, Joanne Dru, Harry Carey Jr., Ward Bond Dir: John Ford BW-86 mins, TV-PG
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George Raft was in *Some Like It Hot*
with _Joe E. Brown_
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> {quote:title=CineSage_jr wrote:}{quote}
> > {quote:title=Film_Fatale wrote:}> All three stars are excellent in the movie, WhyaDuck, but maybe we should also give a little bit of credit to director Billy Wilder. B-) {quote}
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> And maybe a little bit of credit to co-screenwriter Raymond Chandler, novelist James M. Cain and the great composer Mikl?s R?zsa.
Why, yes, of course!
We've got hot biscuits in the oven though. 
TCM needs a dose of Prozac - Dump the morose intros!
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> And I dearly miss the Chet Baker "Look for the Silver Lining" morning intro. The bright flickering lights threatens a migraine every time I see it.
I also loved the "Sunny Side of Life" promo - and don't really like the new morning promo, which is just too darn loud.
Here's the "Sunny Side of Life" promo: