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> {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote} > You've documented the points I was trying to make so well, I don't need to cite anything else. > > Most of what we get from Canada is tar, not oil as we normally think of it, and most of their reserves are those sands - once called tar, now called oil. Venezuela was once our greatest foreign supplier, and it has the largest reserves of "real" oil, that is the thick liquid most of us think of, when we think of oil. So...Venezuela has the largest supply of "real" oil in the entire world? Wikipedia says it only has the largest supply of "conventional" oil in the Western Hemisphere. >All of this is pretty esoteric, and doesn't make any real difference, except for the ecological concerns Miss W. has pointed out. If there were no additional ecological concerns, I'd be 100% happy that we get most of our oil, and oil-like imports from our good buddies in Canada. I'm concerned about the ecological issues as well. But I just wanted to get the facts straight about where most of our oil is coming from. > > Also, once Chavez got in office, Venezuelan oil production dropped a lot. That's probably one of the reasons we supported the (failed) coup against him. The only good thing I can say about Chavez is that he actually has elections, and wins them. So, he isn't really a dictator - yet. Early on, he looked good, to me, and to many Venezolanos, because of his support for the poor. But, his increasing control over the government, business, the press, all VERY bad. I guess I just like tweeking those who think he is a devil a little bit, by pointing out that they supply us with a substantial amount of oil, even if not the most. I think my unctuous arguments have gone on long enough, so I'll retire from this debate. I'm not a big fan of Chavez, but I don't hate his guts either, so you would not be able to annoy me by pointing out we get a lot of oil from him. Also, I don't see an equivalence between the two--one is politics, the other is business. I just wanted to confirm whether the statistics I've heard on so many different news programs on so many different channels, and on so many different web sites, are accurate. So far, it seems like they are. I have big problems with the insurance industry--the "insurance game", as I like to call it. A coworker once thought he could get me to withdraw my criticisms by pointing out that a large portion of our 401K was funded by investments in insurance companies. (I had to wonder if his family was in the insurance business, just as I had begun wondering if your family was in the Venezuelan oil business at one time. :-) ) I told him there is no equivalence...if something is wrong in the insurance game, it is wrong regardless of how our 401Ks are funded. It is not an all-or-nothing situation in which I must renounce everything to do with insurance just because I have criticisms of it. I still have insurance policies but that doesn't mean I can't criticize the nature of the industry. It is the same with oil--we can do business with countries with which we might not agree politically, although we might prefer not to, and would not if a viable alternative becomes available. Robbie

> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote} > You can use Google to find THISTV schedule in your own time zone. > > This is the Pacific Daylight Time schedule: > > http://ktla.thistv.com/schedule/sched/2011-04-05 I've had the THIS schedule for my area bookmarked for over a year now. Robbie

> {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote} > Well, back when every source I saw said Vene. was our main oil supplier, we were even more at odds with Hugo than we are now, so maybe it was all propaganda. I'm not a Hugo fan, but I lived there for a couple of years when I was a kid, long before Hugo. I had a feeling there was some non-political bias toward Venezuela playing a role here. I actually believe you when you say at one time Venezuela was our main oil supplier--I found many references to that when googling Venezuela and U.S. oil imports. What I don't accept is your statement that it's too hard to pin down who is our #1 oil supplier. If that were true you would not be able to claim that at one time Venezuela was "indisputably" our #1 oil supplier. There are too many sources that say Canada is the #1 oil supplier to the U.S. for me to accept your statement that it's "too hard to pin down." You cannot say that at one time Venezuela was the #1 supplier of oil to the U.S. and then say "it's too hard to pin down" when faced with a statement that Canada is now the #1 supplier and be considered consistent in your logic. I get the feeling maybe you are unwilling to face the fact that information you once were quite knowledgeable about may now be outdated. >If you check out the wikipedia, you will find several lists, with links to others, and none of them agree exactly. I might accept the USGS as being the best authority for the US, but not for the world. If most of your sources are Canadian, I would think that if it were possible to read the stats one way, or another, they would read them to favor their own country, as would ANY country. As for Wikipedia, here is what Wikipedia has to say about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada The immense Athabasca Oil Sands give Canada the world's second-largest oil reserves, behind Saudi Arabia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Canada Canada is the United States' largest oil supplier and the fifth-largest energy producing country in the world. Canada provides about 16% of U.S. oil imports and 14% of total U.S. consumption of natural gas. Now Wikipedia does say Venezuela has the largest reserve of conventional oil in the Western Hemisphere, but that is qualified by conventional, which you already explained in an earlier post when you said Venezuela has the "sweet crude," or whatever. But the fact remains that Wikipedia also says Canada has the second-largest oil reserves in the world behind Saudi Arabia. I expect they have accounted for the difference in oil quality in making these statements--even though the Athabasca Oil Sands have the tar or "sludge" oil, the quantity is so large that it still makes Canada the second-largest source of oil in the world. In other words, if Wikipedia has been careful enough to document that Venezuela has a larger reserve of conventional oil than Canada, but is still stating that Canada has the second-largest oil reserve in the world behind Saudi Arabia, then in all likelihood they have taken into account the differences in oil quality when making this statement, and Canada still comes out ahead of Venezuela in total oil. But if you have other lists in Wikipedia that contradict this, or if you have other web sites that say this is incorrect--what are they? I would be interested in seeing them even though I may not accept them as credible, given the large number of web sites and sources that say Canada is #2 in world oil and the #1 supplier to the U.S. However, I will keep an open mind--since you have some connections inside the industry, maybe you will point me to some sites from industry insiders with more technical knowledge who explain how the differences in the oil quality are not being taken into consideration by the U.S. Energy Department and news organizations which, as lay people when it comes to understanding oil, have not been informed of the differences. >Again, I'm not saying you are wrong, I'm just saying that its complicated, and some organizations read it differently. Actually, you did say I was wrong when you said: >Of 'real' oil, we import most from Venezuela. This was a straightforward, declarative sentence. You didn't qualify it by saying "what some consider real" or anything like that--you stated it as if it were an absolute fact. When I asked you who gets to decide what oil is "real," you then backed off this statement some. As I said, I expect the difference in oil quality has been taken into account by sources that cite Canada as #2 in world oil and #1 supplier to the U.S., but again, as I also said, maybe you can point me to some industry sites with more in-depth knowledge on this subject that say the differences have not been taken into account. Most lists have Mexico and Saudi Arabia ahead of Venezuela in supplying oil to the U.S. as well as Canada--I assume you are claiming that Mexico and Saudi Arabia's oil is not "real" either? Are there any other countries other than Venezuela that you believe do have "real" oil? Robbie

> {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=ziggyelman wrote:}{quote} > > As for Oil...sometimes google is your friend... > > Check some more google hits, and you'll get some different answers... OK, here are some more Google hits, including the one already listed by ziggyelman. There are many more besides the ones I listed below, all saying Canada is the #1 source of oil for America. I haven't found any hits yet that say America's largest source of oil is currently Venezuela. I have found many hits saying America is Venezuela's biggest oil export, but that is not the same thing as saying Venezuela is America's biggest oil import. At this point it looks like any "other lists" with "different answers" fall more into the "conspiracy theory" category than into the "credible" category. Robbie (1) http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/company_level_imports/current/import.html Canada remained the largest exporter of total petroleum in January, exporting 2,826 thousand barrels per day to the United States, which is an increase from last month (2,713 thousand barrels per day). The second largest exporter of total petroleum was Mexico with 1,366 thousand barrels per day. (2) http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2089.htm Canada is the single largest foreign supplier of energy to the United States--providing 20% of U.S. oil imports and 18% of U.S. natural gas imports. Recognition of the commercial viability of Canada's oil sands in Alberta has raised Canada's proven petroleum reserves to 170 billion barrels, making it the world's second-largest holder of reserves after Saudi Arabia. (3) http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/obama-signals-new-reliance-on-oil-sands/article1963575/ ?He set the goal of cutting oil imports from all foreign sources by a third ? that includes Canada,? said Elizabeth Shope, an advocate at Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental action group. ?Canada is our leading source of oil imports and while that?s not likely to change any time soon, this speech shouldn?t be misconstrued as an endorsement of any specific project or product.? (4) http://climateofourfuture.org/us-now-imports-more-oil-from-canada-than-the-persian-gulf/ By Chris Jent, Urownbusiness.com, December 30, 2007. ?United States oil imports from Canada are now greater than imports from the entire Persian Gulf. In 2001, 23.3% of US oil came from the Persian Gulf, 15.4% came from Canada, 12.1% was imported from Mexico, 14.0% from Saudi Arabia, and 13.1% from Venezuela. In 2006, US oil imports from the Persian Gulf was at 16.2% and the imports from Canada were at 16.9%, 12.4% from Mexico, 10.7% from Saudi Arabia, and 10.3% from Venezuela. The source of US imports for both petroleum and related products has shifted during the years 2001 and 2006? Oil imports from Canada now exceed imports from the entire Persian Gulf, and oil imports from Mexico now exceed imports from Saudi Arabia. (5) http://www.globaltvedmonton.com/ObamavowsimportssaysCanadaremainsimportant+source/4529037/story.html "I set this goal knowing that imported oil will remain an important part of our energy portfolio for quite some time," Obama said. He said the U.S. must continue to look to Canada, Mexico and Brazil because they are "stable and steady and reliable sources" of oil for the American market. Canada is currently the biggest single source of U.S. oil imports, providing about 20 per cent of the nation's foreign supply, followed by Mexico. Obama touted the potential for Brazilian oil imports during a trip to South America earlier this month. (6) http://www.tennessean.com/article/20110329/OPINION02/103290340/Most-U-S-oil-imports-from-Canada-Mexico There seems to be a lot of uproar about oil prices and, with it, the mentality to drill here, drill now and pay less. Along with it come a lot of falsehoods; notably, on where we get most of our imported oil. No, it's not the Persian Gulf, but countries in the Western Hemisphere. Canada and Mexico are our two biggest sources. (7) http://understory.ran.org/2010/05/25/canadas-tar-sands-top-us-oil-imports/ Ask anyone where most of US oil comes from and you?re likely to hear ?somewhere in the Middle East.? Ten years ago, that would have been true. Today though, Canada is the undisputed top supplier of oil to the US. A new report from a prominent oil industry group shows the tar sands are responsible for more than half of what we import from Canada. This year, oil companies will ship more than 1 million barrels of oil per day from the tar sands across the border into the US. If you live in the Midwest, you almost certainly fill your tank with tar sands oil. And wherever you live, it?s likely that industry has designs on your tank too. This image from a recent industry report paints a clear picture of tar sands expansion into the US. Analysts expect investors to pour more than $100 billion dollars into pipelines and refineries needed distribute and refine tar sands oil over the next decade. (8) http://www.energyrefuge.com/archives/where_oil_comes_from.htm I am here to set the record straight on where the U.S. gets its oil from. I jumped over to the Department of Energy's website to take a look at what they have to say about this matter, and it turns out that they have some great information about the matter. I guess that I should have thought of this before, but I guess I have been too preoccupied figuring out which gas station I should boycott. They thinking that "most" of our oil comes from the middle east is wrong. Sorry people...keep boycotting Citgo if you must, but I am here to tell you that THESE are the top ten countries that the U.S. imports from: 1. Canada 2. Mexico 3. Saudi Arabia 4. Venezuela 5. Nigeria 6. Angola 7. Iraq 8. Algeria 9. United Kingdom 10. Brazil (9) http://www.quoteoil.com/oil-imports.html Most people are surprised to learn that the country from which the United States imports the greatest amount of oil is Canada. In recent years, the United States has imported approximately 200 million barrels of crude oil annually from Canada. Oil imports into the United States from Saudi Arabia come in at second place with about 160 million barrels of crude oil annually from the Kingdom. The United States imports about the same amount of oil from Mexico as it does from Saudi Arabia on an annual basis. Other countries from which the United States imports oil are: Venezuela, Nigeria, Iraq, the United Kingdom, Norway, Angola, Algeria and Colombia. (10) http://perotcharts.com/2008/07/united-states-oil-imports-by-country-march-2008/ This chart shows the most recent monthly oil import data for selected countries. The largest, supplier, Canada, supplies approximately 21% of oil imported by the United States. Note that since 2006 Saudi Arabia has displaced Mexico as the second leading exporter to the United States behind Canada primarily because Mexican oil production has declined in recent years. (11) http://en.mercopress.com/2011/01/22/oil-price-in-venezuela-at-two-year-high Historically, Venezuela has been one of the most important suppliers of foreign oil to the United States, but that importance has been diminishing, especially under Venezuela President Hugo Chavez. In 1960, Venezuela?s share of U.S. oil imports stood at 50%, but Venezuela now bounces between being the fourth and fifth largest supplier to the US, supplying only 9% of total US oil imports in 2008.

> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote} > Well, now, this is most unfortunate. What started out as a thread deploring the wretched mindless excess of our wretched and mindless culture, and then somehow morphed into a (for me, anyway) fun thread about Canada (hey! that makes it sound like there's a connection between the first and the second subject under debate ! ) has now apparently morphed again into an arguement about who supplies the U.S. with the most oil. > > I will say this: The supply of oil being extracted in Alberta used to be called the tar sands, because the oil from the source has to be extracted from tarry sludge, and it's a complicated and many believe very environmentally damaging process. But the companies that own these sands somehow got the media to change the name to "oil"sands, because, obviously, it sounds better and is free of kind of connotations the word "tar" has. > > It's a hugely controversial issue in Canada, and many ecologically-minded Canadians object to the tar/oil sands industry altogether and feel it showed be stopped or at least paused until further environmental studies are completed. > > But I still say that, warmer weather notwithstanding, Canada is much more like the States than most Americans realize, except we have a more stable banking and financial system (it's considered one of the best and most stable in the world, according to the world monetary fund.) > Also, speaking of beer, Canadian beer is much better than most American beer, which is watery and flavourless by comparison (oops, fighting words! ) Yeah, thread content can change rapidly depending on what is posted. If someone challenges me on something and I don't agree with it, I am going to respond even if it does change the tenor of the thread, especially if their statements seem inconsistent or have weak sources, or if there seems to be an agenda at work. I expect the USGS has taken the quality of the oil into account when they cite Canada as having the second largest supply of oil in the world. There was an episode of King of the Hill in which a Canadian family moved into the neighborhood for the summer and began criticizing American beer as being watery and flavorless (or, should I say, flavourless :-) ) and American football as being slow and boring, which roused the ire of the native Texan residents. I actually like cooler weather, so I would definitely prefer its climate over that of Mexico. When I was in Ottawa on a business trip, it was in December and very cold, and the Canadian employees were surprised that I was comfortable in a light jacket while they and my fellow coworkers from America were bundled up in heavy coats. There's definitely a lot to admire about Canada. Robbie

> {quote:title=MovieMadness wrote:}{quote} > Opps, I see they are on THIS, sorry. Yes, I know THIS is not as great as the uncut, commercial free TCM. I just know there are some film noir fans in the forums who are willing to watch movies on THIS, and I wanted to give them a heads-up about the upcoming films. Robbie

> {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=voranis wrote:}{quote} > > I'm just going by what I hear on the news on TV. I've heard multiple times on different news programs on different channels that Canada is our #1 source of oil. You say "one list" has Venezuela as #1. How do you know this list is more accurate than the others? *And who gets to decide what is "real" oil--you?* > > Certainly not I. I was just pointing out that the situation is not as cut and dried as you portrayed it. And, it changes. Back at the start of the last Gulf War, Iraq was believed to have at least as much oil as Saudi, but there had been no exploration for years, so it wasn't certain. Not so long ago, Vene. was indisputably the source of most US imports. As soon as exports from Libya dropped, Saudi Arabia increased production to make up for it, but speculators drove up the prices anyway. Oil is a fungible commodity, and very political. Thus, it is as hard to pin down figuratively, as literally. As for what is cut and dried, I am just saying I keep hearing Canada is the #1 source for the U.S. over and over again, on multiple news programs, on multiple news channels. I've never heard one of them say Venezuela is #1. I've heard it on so many different news programs that I find them to be the most credible source of information in this matter. Also, the source for Canada having the second largest oil reserves in the world behind Saudi Arabia is the United States Geological Survey, which should be a very credible source. If it's so "hard to pin down," how can you say that in the past Venezuela was "indisputably" the source of most U.S. imports? That sounds fairly "cut and dried." If it's so fungible and hard to pin down, how can you make any definitive statements about it? It's OK to be "cut and dried" when it's Venezuela that's #1, but if a source says it's a country other than Venezuela, then it's "not so cut and dried" and "hard to pin down"? There is an inconsistency among your own statements that suggests some sort of bias toward Venezuela, though not necessarily a political one. Robbie

A couple of noir films are airing on THIS this Tuesday, April 5: Killer's Kiss (1955) at 4:30 pm The House on Telegraph Hill (1951) at 6 pm Robbie

> {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=voranis wrote:}{quote} > > > > I know Canada has the second largest oil reserve in the world and the U.S.'s #1 oil importer is Canada, with the second being Mexico. > > > > Depends on whose figures you believe, and what you call oil. One list of estimated reserves by country has 1. Venezuela, 2. Saudi Arabia, and 3. Canada. Most of what we get from Canada isn't exactly oil, it's a degenerated, very thick sludge, made from oil sands, not the "light, sweet crude" (oxymoron if I ever heard one) from Venezuela, or Texas. Of 'real' oil, we import most from Venezuela. However, it's nice to know that unlike Hugo, Canada won't go wacky, and cut off the tap. I'm just going by what I hear on the news on TV. I've heard multiple times on different news programs on different channels that Canada is our #1 source of oil. You say "one list" has Venezuela as #1. How do you know this list is more accurate than the others? And who gets to decide what is "real" oil--you?

> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote} > Mr. Sheen has been quoted as saying that the first things he plans to do are fire Ben Mankiewicz and make Alec Baldwin his research assistant. And with Alec Baldwin no longer co-hosting The Essentials, Mr. Sheen has selected Lindsay Lohan as the new co-host for The Essentials. Robbie

> {quote:title=markbeckuaf wrote:}{quote} > Robbie, > > Glad to hear you are grooving! I happened to catch part of A MILLIONAIRE FOR CHRISTY before work and nearly stayed home to watch it all (I was feeling sick this morning--still under the weather), but I did trudge in. I've seen it before, nearly by accident and thought it was pretty cool. markbeckuaf, Thanks! Now if I can just get into the Crime Doctor series this time around. I love film noir and mysteries. I really enjoyed the I Love a Mystery series which I saw before it ever aired on TCM. I recorded the Crime Doctor marathon on TCM a few years ago. I started watching the first movie but it seemed to be dragging at the beginning and I just couldn't get into it. Is it just me, or do you think it actually does drag at the beginning and I just needed to hold on a little longer for it to pick up? Or do you think it doesn't drag at the beginning, which might mean we have different tastes and this series is not for me? I hope you are feeling better! Robbie

> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote} > A+, Robbie. > > A lot of American movies are filmed in Canada. Vancouver and other parts of British Columbia, as you said; also Alberta, lots of Westerns were and still are made there; and of course Toronto, Ontario (my home town, btw) has been the location for many films, American and Canadian. > Toronto is also the home of the Toronto Film Festival, one of the most celebrated and popular film festivals in the world. It's held every September. I'm a big fan of Canada, so maybe my knowledge about it is a little higher than the average American's, although I'm by no means even close to being an expert on the country. I've seen some specials on PBS and the Travel Channel about the country, and it's breathtakingly beautiful. Robbie

> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote} >It's because I have a theory - unscientifically based on personal observation - that Americans know very little about Canada and Canadians, and I always enjoy enlightening them. I'm an American but I think I know quite a bit about Canada. My favorite singer is from Nova Scotia. Many of my other favorite singers are from Canada, especially some folk singers. Many of my favorite actors are from Canada. William Shatner is from Canada--not the greatest of actors, but I do like some of the characters he's played, and his acting was much better in early Star Trek episodes from the first season and before Star Trek, like his Shakespearan Company work in Stratford, Ontario, and the TV series For the People. I did already know tht Ryan Reynolds was Canadian, as I like some of the superhero roles he's played in recent years, and is going to be playing soon, like Green Lantern. I know Peter Jennings was from Canada. I believe Mike Myers is too, isn't he? I know Canada has the second largest oil reserve in the world and the U.S.'s #1 oil importer is Canada, with the second being Mexico. Several songs about Canada that I fell in love with I first heard at theme parks: "Canada" from the Canada exhibit at Disney's Epcot Center in Florida, "Ojibway Country" at an exhibit at Cedar Point in Ohio. Plus the Canadian Railroad Trilogy by Gordon Lightfoot. Another song I like about Canada is "Song for the Mira," about the Mira River and the Marion Bridge. I had the good fortune to visit Ottawa once on a business trip and got to see the Parliament Buildings, which were quite beautiful. I know a lot of film and TV shows are filmed now in Vancouver, such as the Battlestar Galactica remake, a show which I really liked. I saw a special on TV with a tour of the studio in Vancouver where a lot of the filming was done. Robbie

I've been thinking of him a lot lately since I just saw him on TCM last week in They Live by Night and two weeks ago in Strangers on a Train. Plus, I think I saw him in one other movie last week--can't remember if it was on FMC or THIS. And I saw Stewart Granger in Sodom and Gomorrah last week on FMC and was wondering if he was related to Farley Granger--it appears he wasn't, from what research I've been able to do, but it did keep me thinking about Farley Granger. Robbie

> {quote:title=lzcutter wrote:}{quote} > *You say the air "dates" (plural) are listed on the database film pages.* > > Robbie, > > For one brief shining moment, multiple air dates were displayed on the database. > > But, then, like Camelot (and in a fraction of the time it took Camelot to implode), they were gone. > > Multiple air dates for the film pages in the database should be a top priority as that is how the majority of people discover a title is on the schedule sometime in the next three months. Lynn, Wow! They supported multiple air dates in the new interface for a very short period, then did away with them? That's weird. I wonder why they would do that. I guess it was a bug or an inadvertent dropping of a feature when they made some change, rather than something intentional. Still, if multiple air dates were supported in the new interface, even for one brief shining moment, they shouldn't be that hard to restore. > If the people responsible for the Site Upgrade would like to talk to people who not only love the Channel but get their info from the old fashioned computer method and the functionality that needs to be restored for those posters (who appear to quite large in number), I am sure they could find plenty to talk to via PM. I wish we had a way to vote for old features we would like restored so that they would be prioritized by popularity and would give the web developers an idea of which features they need to work on restoring first. Robbie

> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=JackFavell wrote:}{quote} > > Or why not let people access previous schedules, at least for that month? > > This website has schedules going back to early 2007: > > http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=254&page=20 Another site that has old TCM schedules going back to May 2005 is: http://www.classicmovies.org/turner/ Robbie

> {quote:title=moviesrgr8 wrote:}{quote} > Geraldine Page was the leading lady in this film, not Geraldine Fitzgerald. Miss Fitzgerald would have been a bit long in the tooth by 1964 to play against Glenn Ford. Not being too familiar with either, except knowing they both have done some great work, I keep getting these two actresses mixed up myself. Robbie

> {quote:title=Swithin wrote:}{quote} > Alice Pearce did alot of work on Broadway. She was in the original production of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, the great show that was butchered by Hollywood to make the 1953 film. A lot of film versions do not live up to the Broadway originals. The film adaptation of Jerry Herman's Broadway musical Mame with Lucille Ball cannot hold a candle to the original Broadway version with Angela Lansbury, although at least the film has originals Bea Arthur and Jane Connell (who, in keeping with the Bewitched theme we have going here, played a number of interesting characters on Bewitched, including Martha Washington, Queen Victoria, Mother Goose, and Witch Queen Hepzibah). I also would have preferred Broadway original Ethel Merman in the film version of Gypsy, despite liking Rosalind Russell a lot (who was in an earlier version of Mame called Auntie Mame). Robbie

> {quote:title=lzcutter wrote:}{quote} > *You'd key in the title in the database "search" field (currently at top right of the screen, same place as before, I think). Your movie would pop up. You'd click the title, and details about the film including the date and time it would be airing on TCM would appear.* > > > MsW, > > There are air dates listed on the database film pages. > > The air dates are listed directly below the film title. > > ie: The Phenix Story > > Friday, April 29th at 10:00 am Only on TCM. > > http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/414187/The-Phenix-City-Story/ > > Now, granted, it should indicate what time zone that air time is for as we all don't live in the EST time zone. Lynn, You say the air "dates" (plural) are listed on the database film pages. I only ever see one date. Are you sure it lists all the dates? When I looked up All About Eve it only says it is playing on March 31, yet it is also playing on May 1. I had assumed based on your post that all dates were shown, yet I am finding movies playing again that I thought weren't playing again because they only showed one air date on the database page. This is really bad. I often catch part of a movie and look it up to see when it is playing again, but the database page only shows the current air date. Robbie

TCM is showing some great movies on Monday, kicking off with A Millionaire for Christy with Fred MacMurray and Eleanor Parker at 6:15 am. Later in the day is a very understated British gem with the great Hayley Mills and her father John Mills in The Family Way at 4 pm. I love the understated tone of this film. Then starting at 1:30 am overnight, three classic Ray Harryhausen special effects fantasy films from Columbia: Jason and the Argonauts, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, and Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger. Looking forward to some great movies on TCM on Monday! Robbie

Is this the first time Dear Heart has been shown on TCM? Robbie

> {quote:title=talkietime wrote:}{quote} > Before 2000 AMC used to air Fox Movietone and Paramount Eyes and Ears promotional "Newsreels." FMC used to show the more of the Fox Movietone newsreels too, didn't it? After all, it is Fox. I must have seen some of them on AMC when I used to watch AMC--before it went commercial.

> {quote:title=annelovestcm wrote:}{quote} > it was fun to see both the actresses who played Alice Kravitz in Bewitched Alice Pearce was my favorite Gladys Kravitz. She had a way of twisting her mouth that was funny all by itself, before she even said anything. She had excellent facial expressions that could be very comic, reminding me a little of Carol Burnett. Almost all the original actors on Bewitched were my favorites--Alice Pearce, Dick York, Robert F. Simon. Dick York could get these wild-eyed looks that Dick Sargent could never top. The only replacement actor I actually liked better than the original was Kasey Rogers.

> {quote:title=markbeckuaf wrote:}{quote} > The cool thing is that you can possibly get it even without cable. It has ads and all that, but still it reminds me of the vintage days of cable when you never knew what you'd see! A nice mix of modern and classic stuff, like those early days of cable. I can't believe they are going to air Charlie Chan, but they did already show one of them, CC IN HONOLULU. And they are going to show an entire day of Abbott and Costello flix on April 1st!!!! Just on Friday night, I checked out KING OF THE ZOMBIES in the wee hours. And I never miss an episode of the noir-influenced HIGHWAY PATROL with my man, Broderick Crawford, leading the charge! > > It's a cool channel. I just saw an episode of Highway Patrol recently in which Broderick Crawford cleverly gets a hostage out of a house, leaving the bad guy inside. The bad guy calls out, "You'll have to come get me!" and Crawford laughs while saying, "You better believe I'm coming to get you!" (the quotes are approximate). I had to laugh out loud, which I rarely do watching TV, because I was thinking the same thing before Crawford even said it--absolutely he was coming after that guy! Nothing stops Dan Mathews. I saw the last Chan film THIS showed. FMC used to show the Charlie Chan movies before it became politically incorrect to do so. In fact, they used to show marathons and eventually they began airing a show during the marathons with a panel including George Takei in which the panel talked about the stereotypes and how to deal with them. I assume they developed this panel show in response to complaints they were getting about the Chan films. But I guess it became too politically incorrect for FMC to keep showing them, even with the panel show. Personally I don't get why these movies are so offensive to Asian Americans but since I am not an Asian American maybe I don't have their perspective. I think my favorite Chan was Sidney Toler because I saw his movies first as a kid. I also used to watch the Hanna-Barbera cartoon The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan as a kid on Saturday mornings. It is currently airing on Boomerang weekdays at 5pm. An interesting fact is that Keye Luke, who played the son in a number of the films, was the voice of Chan in the cartoon and thus (according to Wikipedia) was the only actor of Chinese descent to ever play the title character. It took a 1970's Hanna-Barbera cartoon for this to happen... I like watching the campy Elvira's Movie Macabre on THIS for nostalgic reasons since I used to watch it as a kid. Robbie

For Elizabeth Taylor fans... Fox Movie Channel is running the Fox Legacy Edition of Cleopatra all day today (March 27). It just began again at 8pm and will air again at 1am overnight. I notice they are also airing the trailer and the newsreel of the stars arriving at the premiere. FMC used to show more of these newsreels, and didn't TCM used to show them too? I rarely see these newsreels anymore.