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> {quote:title=jamesjazzguitar wrote:}{quote}
> Hey Fred do you know why it says '146 guest(s), 14 user(s)?
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> Of course those numbers are subject to change but I always wondered why there were so many more guess than users. I assume I'm a user since I 'log in' (gave my e-mail address, have a password and nick). Also it is my understanding one must sign-in to reply to a post.
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> So I would think MOST people here are users but they are called guess.
James,
Here is an explanation I posted earlier below. People need to keep in mind that they will be logged out after a period of inactivity, and since they can continue to read messages without being logged in, they may not be aware they have been logged out and are now considered a "guest" until they do something that forces an automatic re-login (such as posting a new message).
Robbie
>Many of the online users listed as guests may actually be registered users who are reading the forums, or have left a browser open on a page in the forums, but have gotten automatically logged out. I get logged out so frequently that every time I come back to the computer, even though I have left the browser window open on a thread, it has logged me out (even though I can still see and read the thread I was on), and I am now listed as a guest while I am reading posts, until I actually try to reply or post a new thread. At which point it logs me in automatically, but annoyingly, it also kicks me back to the main forums list, and I have to go back two screens to get back to the message or thread to which I was trying to respond or post and initiate the action again. If I don't take any actions in the forums for about 10 minutes or so, it logs me out again, and I have to start the process all over again.
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>The automatic log out happens behind the scenes, so there may be no visual indication on the screen you are reading until you refresh the page or load another thread or forum page, at which point the "Welcome, " in the upper right corner will change to "Welcome, guest" until you log back in again.
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> {quote:title=sewannie wrote:}{quote}
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> > > Wow, we've got just over 290 guests on right now.
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> > > I hope some of them sign up and start posting messages!
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> > Like I said, I think many of these "guests" may really be registered users who have just been automatically logged out.
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> I'm a "guest" until I log in. Since I mainly lurk, I'm usually one of the (446 at the moment) guests on the board.
Right, that's what I was trying to get across! And even if I log in, after a period of inactivity, such as if I step away from the computer for about 20 minutes, the system will automatically log me out. This happens behind the scenes, so that when I come back to the computer, I can continue to read threads and posts, but I will be doing so as "guest," possibly, as may be the case with some if you out there, without realizing I am now a "guest." It is not until I try to reply or post a new thread that the system logs me back in.
Robbie
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> {quote:title=TheCid wrote:}{quote}
> This is a great channel and is a second offering for either the local NBC or CBS outlet on Charter here. The other one has RTV (Retro TV). Both show TV series from the 50's and early 60's as well. Actually my wife and I watch This or RTV far more than we do TCM now.
> If your carrier does not carry it, call them and request it. Somebody is probably showing it.
> Number of commercials (lots of PSA's) seem to be increasing unfortunately.
> I think they mainly came up as alternatives for the DTS channels that were being created a couple of years ago. I can receive the channels on my TV's that are connected to antennas.
> Think there is also a My Family network out there also that features old series.
We have THIS and we used to have RTV, but the digital subchannel carrying RTV just replaced it with MeTV in April. Actually, I like MeTV even better than RTV, as it shows a wider variety of old TV shows. Like THIS and RTV, it can be received with an antenna as long as you have a digital tuner. MeTV is slowly rolling out nationally. The schedule for MeTV can be found here:
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> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}
> Not so bad, because some of these were comedies, and others focused on the homefront during war. I finally got to see THE WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER all the way through, watching it long enough to see young Roddy M., Liz, and Lawford.
I really liked getting to see McDowall, Taylor, and Lawford in early roles in this movie, too. It seems most of the movies Monday night were about the homefront.
I also like From Here to Eternity, which is more about the the personal lives of stationed personnel before the attack.
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> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}
> Wow, we've got just over 290 guests on right now.
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> I hope some of them sign up and start posting messages!
Like I said, I think many of these "guests" may really be registered users who have just been automatically logged out.
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> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote}
> Hey, people, FredCDobbs is right ! There appear to be lots of you out there, judging by the "online users" info - currently, for instance, 100 guests.
Many of the online users listed as guests may actually be registered users who are reading the forums, or have left a browser open on a page in the forums, but have gotten automatically logged out. I get logged out so frequently that every time I come back to the computer, even though I have left the browser window open on a thread, it has logged me out (even though I can still see and read the thread I was on), and I am now listed as a guest while I am reading posts, until I actually try to reply or post a new thread. At which point it logs me in automatically, but annoyingly, it also kicks me back to the main forums list, and I have to go back two screens to get back to the message or thread to which I was trying to respond or post and initiate the action again. If I don't take any actions in the forums for about 10 minutes or so, it logs me out again, and I have to start the process all over again.
The automatic log out happens behind the scenes, so there may be no visual indication on the screen you are reading until you refresh the page or load another thread or forum page, at which point the "Welcome, " in the upper right corner will change to "Welcome, guest" until you log back in again.
I wish they would fix this. Or is there some "Keep me logged in" option somewhere (that actually works) that I have missed?
Robbie
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I just noticed Sherry Alberoni plays Glumdalclitch in The Three Worlds of Gulliver which is airing on TCM right now. She was the voice of Wendy in Hanna-Barbera's Super Friends and Alexandra in Josie and the Pussycats, as well as doing voice work in several other Hanna-Barbera cartoons.
Robbie
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> {quote:title=hamradio wrote:}{quote}
> traceyk65 wrote:
> << What about Christopher Lee? He's still alive and (presumably) well. >>
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> For what I've seen of him, he is doing quite well. He appeared in the last 2 episodes of "Star Wars" as the evil Count Dooku. He lost his head in the last one.
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> Portrayed a Sith lord as just as great just as he did a vampire.
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I love it when Count Dooku/Darth Tyranus is battling Anakin in Episode II and as they lock lightsabers, he clenches those famous teeth and says, "Surely you can do better!" I almost expected his fangs to appear.
This was a nice bookend to the Star Wars movies because the first movie (Episode IV) featured Lee's old nemesis from the Hammer films, Peter Cushing, as Governor Tarkin.
And he also played Saruman in Lord of the Rings.
His deep voice gives him a great edge in playing villains.
Robbie
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> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}
> > {quote:title=voranis wrote:}{quote}
> > Yes, I have seen the German film. I agree, the visuals are good, but the barking Germans is a little hard to take, making it seem like a WWII flick.
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> Hey, I've got an idea!
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> It is a shame to waste the good photography, editing, costumes, set designs, and wide variety of characters in the 1943 German Titanic film.
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> But as you said, the German cast is "barking" their lines at each other, and the sound track sounds ridiculous.
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> So, here's my idea:
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> Let's take the German film, as-is, but let's get rid of the original German sound track. Let's write a totally new script and use British actors for the new sound track. We can add a few Americans, and maybe a couple of French and Italian accents too.
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> That way, we can take out all the Nazi propaganda, all the harsh dialogue, and turn it into an enjoyable film, with a more Anglo-friendly sound track. By Anglo, I mean English-speaking.
Sounds great! This reminds me of the time in college when we were using a custom bulletin board system on the computers (this was before the World Wide Web, although we did have Internet access) to create a running story called "The Brady Bunch Massacre." Some of the stuff people wrote was really hilarious. I remember Diana from the original series +V+ was in the storyline, trying to steal Mike away from Carol, and suddenly she rips off her face and tells the Bradys she's an alien. One of the Bradys--I think it was Carol, trying to compete with Diana for Mike--then rips off her face and says, "I'm an alien too." Only...it turns out she isn't. Oops. All that's left of her face is a bloody pulp. And Alice suddenly realizes she doesn't have any food to cook for dinner. Then Bobby and Cindy come into the kitchen, and Alice suddenly realizes...she DOES have food for dinner. She turns to Bobby and Cindy, and suddenly she's upon them...her electric eggbeater thrashing furiously.... I don't remember it all too well, but it was hilarious.
OK, which actors should we get for the new version of Titanic?
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> {quote:title=MovieProfessor wrote:}{quote}
> It is technically correct to say that Travolta was on an upswing with his career, after appearing in "Pulp Fiction" and "Get Shorty" that were released one year a part from each other. "Face Off," came later and was probably the last rather reliable box-office response in the case of Travolta's career standing. The success he enjoyed from the late 1990's, led right up to his ill-fated production of "Battlefield Earth." The Sci-Fi epic was most likely doomed, long before the cameras began rolling, due to all the adverse publicity surrounding the Scientology issue. It's sort of tough to say that Travolta was using "Battlefield Earth" to really promote the Scientology philosophy, he so strongly believes in. What likely ruined any chance for the film, other than the quality of the script or cinematic values was the way the marketing was handled that in some regards came back to haunt the production in the guise of the whole L. Ron Hubbard aura.
Yeah, it was easy to see the movie was being over-hyped way ahead of time, which is usually a bad sign. It often means expectations are raised so high the movie cannot meet them. Although in the case of this movie, it would not have been able to meet even relatively low expectations. :-) Also, having read the book, I could not see Travolta in the role of Terl--I did not believe he would do justice to the role. What I saw of him in the previews confirmed my suspicions. It seemed to me that as producer, Travolta was using his position of power to make a lot of bad decisions, including casting himself in a role that did not fit him. So I did not bother to go see the movie. I might have gone to see it later if the overwhelming negative response had not confirmed my suspicions.
Robbie
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> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}
> The 1953 "Titanic" is coming up again tonight on the THIS TV HD broadcast channel.
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> 11 PM East Coast time
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> Check your local station for your local time. (Not all towns can receive THIS TV yet.)
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> If you want to say "I've seen all the Titanic films, including the German one and the one with Barbara Stanwyck", then you need to see this one too. It is rare and somewhat famous for being the most boring of the Titanic. It spends most of the time on the marriage break-up of Stanwyck and Webb, which the audience doesn't care anything about, and very little time on the Titanic or the sinking.
The 1953 Titanic is airing again on THIS this afternoon at 5 p.m., EDT.
Robbie
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> {quote:title=MovieProfessor wrote:}{quote}
>Kotter," to become a big popular motion picture star of the 1980's have now eluded him. He is to some extent, these days something of an afterthought or a star connected to the era of his youth. Oh well, who knows or who can say? After all, a comeback is always in the works for somebody. The big question now is whether or not Travolta, who is about to play "The Dapper Don" gangster can get that all important big, second chance?
Didn't Travolta's career upswing with the success of Pulp Fiction? I thought that was his second chance. This led to a brief resurgence in his career with followups like Get Shorty and Face/Off. Unfortunately, he blew his second chance with Battlefield Earth.
I never saw the movie Battlefield Earth, because I knew it was going to be bad, but I did read the novel, and I thought the novel, or rather, the first part of the novel, was one of the best pieces of science fiction I ever read. After the primary victory in the novel, it bogged down into something silly, but up until the initial victory, the story was excellent. If I were going to make a movie based on the novel, I would focus only on the first part, to keep the story tighter.
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> {quote:title=johnbabe wrote:}{quote}
> TCM has really been having a bad track record with birthday tributes lately, it is not only Barbara they are forgetting but also a great many others, TCM should really "get with the program" on this topic anyway.
Yeah, they had a great one in 2007 for her, all day and all night--I guess that was supposed to last for three years until 2010? And she won't get another one until 2013? While many of the other stars get one every year. For a network and viewership that professes to like Stanwyck so much, she certainly doesn't seem to get as frequent a birthday tribute as many of the other stars do.
Robbie
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> {quote:title=mrroberts wrote:}{quote}
> Barbara Stanwyck is right at the top of my favorites list too. Just keep checking the schedule, TCM plays a lot of Barbara including some of those great early films. I assume they can readily access most of her films, hasn't RO referred to Barbara as his favorite, or certainly one of his favorites?
Kyle has also said Stanwyck was one of RO's favorites. But apparently not one of the TCM programmers' favorites, given how few birthday tributes they have had for her in recent years.
They did have a good one for her in 2007, which I have listed below. Not only all day, but all night! I did manage to catch that one. But if she's so popular with viewers and RO, I would think TCM would have birthday tributes for her more often.
Robbie
TCM July 16, 2007
6:00 AM Night Nurse (1931) A nurse discovers that the children she's caring for are murder targets. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Lyon, Clark Gable. Dir: William A. Wellman. BW-72 mins, TV-G
7:15 AM Lost Lady, A (1934) A bitter woman who thinks she'll never love again marries, only to fall for a brash young man. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Frank Morgan, Ricardo Cortez. Dir: Alfred E. Green, Phil Rosen. BW-61 mins, TV-G
8:30 AM Ladies They Talk About (1933) A lady bank robber becomes the cell block boss after she's sent to prison. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Lyle Talbot, Preston Foster. Dir: Howard Bretherton, William Keighley. BW-69 mins, TV-G
9:45 AM Breakfast For Two (1937) A Texas heiress competes with a gold digger for the love of a playboy. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Herbert Marshall, Glenda Farrell. Dir: Alfred Santell. BW-68 mins, TV-G
11:00 AM Meet John Doe (1941) A reporter's fraudulent story turns a tramp into a national hero and makes him a pawn of big business. Cast: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold. Dir: Frank Capra. BW-122 mins, TV-G, CC, DVS
1:15 PM Christmas In Connecticut (1945) A homemaking specialist who can't boil water is forced to provide a family holiday for a war hero. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet. Dir: Peter Godfrey. BW-101 mins, TV-G, CC
3:15 PM Two Mrs. Carrolls, The (1947) A woman slowly discovers that her artist husband is a deranged killer. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith. Dir: Peter Godfrey. BW-94 mins, TV-G, CC
5:00 PM Jeopardy (1953) A woman desperately seeks help to prevent her trapped husband from drowning. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Ralph Meeker. Dir: John Sturges. BW-69 mins, TV-G, CC
6:15 PM These Wilder Years (1956) A wealthy businessman sets out to find his long-lost illegitimate son. Cast: James Cagney, Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Pidgeon. Dir: Roy Rowland. BW-91 mins, TV-PG, CC
8:00 PM Baby Face (1933) A beautiful schemer sleeps her way to the top of a banking empire. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, John Wayne. Dir: Alfred E. Green. BW-76 mins, TV-PG, CC
9:30 PM Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire (1991) Barbara Stanwyck's multi-faceted career reveals uncanny reflections of her off-screen life. Cast: Sally Field, Barbara Stanwyck, Gary Cooper. Dir: Richard Schickel. C-46 mins, TV-G
10:30 PM Annie Oakley (1935) The famed female sharpshooter learns that you can't get a man with a gun when she falls for a rival marksman. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Melvyn Douglas. Dir: George Stevens. BW-90 mins, TV-G, CC
12:15 AM Clash By Night (1952) An embittered woman seeks escape in marriage, only to fall for her husband's best friend. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, Marilyn Monroe. Dir: Fritz Lang. BW-105 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS
2:15 AM Executive Suite (1954) When a business magnate dies, his board of directors fights over who should run the company. Cast: William Holden, June Allyson, Barbara Stanwyck. Dir: Robert Wise. BW-105 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS
4:15 AM Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) A neurotic invalid accidentally overhears a phone conversation plotting her own murder. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Wendell Corey. Dir: Anatole Litvak. BW-89 mins, TV-PG, CC
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> {quote:title=Fedya wrote:}{quote}
> July 16 is a Saturday. TCM rarely does birthday salutes on the weekend.
So what? July 16 wasn't on a Saturday in 2008 or 2009 and they still didn't have an all-day birthday tribute for her. And even when the birthday falls on the weekend, they often have the tribute on some other day--but it doesn't look like they are doing to do that this year.
Robbie
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> {quote:title=sfpcc1 wrote:}{quote}
> This has to do with THIS but not film noir. I just watched *Silence Like Glass*which is about two young women dealing with cancer. After the movie they aired a Mr Jaws cartoon from the Depatie Freeling Studio. Nomally I like watching cartoons after movies, but showing one after a film so dark and grim is kind of inapropiate.
I notice they use various Depatie-Freeling cartoons like Mr. Jaws, The Inspector, and The Pink Panther as filler at the end of movies to fill up the time slot.
Robbie
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> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}
> Thanks for the information about "hard to starboard".
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> Have you seen the 1943 German verison of the film? TCM airs it every couple of years. It's a well-made film, with lots of authentic looking scenes of the ship, and a lot of stuff about the dangers of high speed sailing through iceberg waters. Very good special effects. And several romances and some husbands and wives fighting, all taking up only a few minutes each, and with plenty of ship-related scenes all throughout the movie.
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> It would be a great film, except that everyone is speaking German and sounds like an angry Nazi, often shouting orders at each other.
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> I read somewhere that the 1953 film used two or three scenes from the German film, but I've just reviewed the German film and I don't think that's correct. A few of the lifeboat scenes look similar, but they are not the same scenes.
Fred,
Sorry I didn't respond to this sooner. Either I missed it because the thread had scrolled way down, or I may not have been on the boards for a while after you posted it due to low energy issues, or, probably, both.
Yes, I have seen the German film. I agree, the visuals are good, but the barking Germans is a little hard to take, making it seem like a WWII flick.
I managed to catch the second showing of the Stanwyck Titanic on THIS the following Sunday night. I said previously that I thought TCM might have aired it once or twice in the past, even though TCM normally airs A Night to Remember, but I remember now that where I used to see it was on FMC. This would make sense, since it's a Fox film. I haven't seen it on FMC in a few years now, though. I may have missed it, especially if it was on FMC while I was in the hospital last year, but FMC doesn't seem to air it much now compared to a few years back when I used to see it on FMC.
It is interesting where the writers and directors decide to take the focus on a film. Some films on Titanic focus on the ship and the actual crisis, while some films like the 1953 film and the James Cameron film, tend to focus more on the romance. It just shows how many different perspectives are available for films to be remade.
Robbie
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Since she is my favorite actress, in recent years I have been disappointed that there was no Barbara Stanwyck all-day birthday tribute on TCM. I don't believe there was one in 2008 or 2009. In reading some of the older threads in these forums, I learned TCM did have one in 2010, but I was in the hospital at the time so I missed that one.
And as far as I can tell, there won't be one this year? :-(
Robbie
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> {quote:title=lzcutter wrote:}{quote}
> Robbie,
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> I'm with you on the Drive-In Double Features!
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> And kudos to the On-Air Promo department for another great promo that captures the spirit of these films!
Lynn,
Yes, I really love the promo on TV and the article in the June issue of Now Playing.
According to Now Playing, no less than 15 of them are TCM premieres!
Robbie
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> {quote:title=kingrat wrote:}{quote}
> Loved *Four's a Crowd*. Too bad Errol Flynn wasn't in more screwball comedies. Roz, Olivia, snappy direction by Michael Curtiz, lots of good character actors, a cute doggie, lots of doggies in fact. Delightful. *It's Love I'm After* is another little-known but very funny film.
Yeah, I actually think Errol Flynn was more interesting in the comedies than in the adventure films. I like Bonita Granville and Spring Byington a lot, so It's Love I'm After is another film I enjoy a lot.
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> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote}
> Damn ! I just realized I missed *Doorway to Hell* !
I saw it. It's a great film.
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> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote}
> Well, I'm no expert lyric analyst myself, but this is what I get out of the song: it's about a woman who shuns convention, and doesn't care what other people think, she's true to herself; and the man singing about her admires her for that, is celebrating it.
> All the various aspects of this lady's habits listed in the song are contrary to what is (or was) in style at the time the lyrics were written. Such as: being fashionably late for the theatre, eating dinner at eight. The lady is too honest , too "authentic", to go with the crowd in doing these things. She likes the theatre, why should she miss the beginning of the play just because some diva types liked to make an appearance arriving fashionably late? She likes to eat, why pretend she doesn't?
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> The best line is "She never bothers with people she hates", in other words, she won't be a hypocrite and pretend to like people she doesn't.
> As for why she's a tramp, I think the singer is being ironic- he's saying, society, especially the b*tchy gossipy rich women who like to criticize people who don't follow their rules and aren't like them, says she's a tramp because she's unconventional , a free spirit. The catty socialites are jealous and annoyed to see a woman who does as she pleases, so they label her a tramp, in the way catty and jealous people have always insulted and rejected those who are not like them.
That's the way I always interpreted it. Eating late and arriving late were considered hallmarks of New York's high society. She's such a free spirit that not only does she not care if she's called a tramp, she actually calls herself a tramp--at least, when the song is sung by a woman like Shirley Bassey, which is the way I prefer it.
My favorite line is, "I was never at a party where they honored Noel Coward."
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Thursdays in June! I am looking forward to Drive-In Double Features on TCM. Finally, TCM delves back into the classic sci-fi vaults! Although I would prefer more alien films instead of monster films, there are still plenty of great movies to choose from. And lots of TCM premieres!
I have been waiting years for It! The Terror from Beyond Space to be shown again, so I finally broke down and bought the DVD a few weeks ago, only to find out TCM will show it on June 30. It seems like this always happens to me--after years of not being shown, a movie that I finally buy on DVD suddenly turns up all over the airwaves. >:-(
Oh well, I'm also looking forward to campy fun with The Wasp Woman, as well as two Tommy Kirk films, Village of the Giants and Mars Needs Women. But my favorite night will be June 30 with classics such as The Blob, The Magnetic Monster, X: The Unknown, The Thing from Another World, and It! The Terror from Beyond Space. June 30 is definitely a popcorn night!
Robbie
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> {quote:title=mrroberts wrote:}{quote}
> You mention the music composers. After watching many classic movies I find myself being able to identify some of them by their style, ie: Max Steiner, Bernard Herrmann, etc. For those who had long careers it is interesting to hear how they refined or revised some of their earlier works, just like a director.
I like Max Steiner and Bernard Herrmann too. Another composer I like a lot is George Duning.
A composer I like a lot in modern movies is James Newton Howard.
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> {quote:title=markbeckuaf wrote:}{quote}
> We're getting MeTV starting up later this month and will replace Retro-TV, unfortunately. Not that I'm not looking forward to MeTV, it does have a very diverse lineup of TV shows and also has a horror movie feature I'm looking forward to, hosted by Svengoolie! They seem to show more established horror films such as the Universal classics, rather than the PD stuff that shows up on Retro TV and THIS (by that I mean the weekly Elvira feature, not their everyday movie lineup, which can sometimes be quite good). But it would be nice to keep Retro-TV also, as they have a few shows MeTV doesn't seem to, such as Leave It To Beaver, Alfred Hitchcock (both the half hour and hour episodes), Peter Gunn, Mike Hammer, and a few others. It's too bad there can't be all three!
Fortunately I recorded most of the Kraft Suspense Theater episodes from RTV, which were quite good--there was even one with Broderick Crawford! I also recorded all the Peter Gunn and Mike Hammer episodes on RTV, and I purchased the Leave It to Beaver complete DVD series set last year, so I'm good to go as far as all those are concerned. Now I'm enjoying Perry Mason and The Untouchables on MeTV, as well as a lot of great classic sitcoms, of which RTV had very few.
The Svengoolie movies are better than than the weekend horror movies on THIS and RTV. Last week they showed Abbott & Costello Meet the Invisible Man.
Robbie