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I knew what you meant. Nothing to do with movies or soaps. It's about the news media. Whenever there's a "story" about people being hurt by something - crime, accident, natural disaster - seeing microphones pointed at them with the question "how do you feel" always makes me uncomfortable. That's why I have my tv on mute so much of the time. I'm set to news channels a lot of the time because it's the politics of life that interest me - not the personal suffering. And certainly not the pressure (on those who've been traumatized) to come up with some statement for some reporter for the purpose of filling air time and pretending the reporter is doing something important. So all the interviews of those who've suffered are muted in my home. I've been told this may indicate I have no heart.

Great songs. This is the first one I think of at the mention of his name.

Well, being the owner of a couple of Diana's cd's (though not the one that 'Cry Me a River' is on), I was probably pre-disposed to like her version better. And I do. Her voice is huskier. Julie's is breathier. Boy, that Diana photographs well, doesn't she - that golden hair, those green eyes, that perfect skin, those gorgeous legs. Her album covers are sexier than even Carly Simon's were in the 70's. And much classier while being so.

It sure isn't.

I presume a neo-noir is a new (post-50's) noir-ish movie. For that, I'd recommend 'Johnny Handsome' (1989) as a prime example of one.

Thank you, TCM, for giving us a chance to see 'Night Moves'. Now, could you please see about the possibility of showing 'Alex & the Gypsy' (1976)? It stars Jack Lemmon. For a change he plays a character that's cynical, sardonic, tough, street-wise - actually sexy (if you can imagine that) - as opposed to the long-suffering dweeb he'd specialized in for most of his career up to the 70's. 'Alex & the Gypsy" has virtually disappeared from the airwaves. I managed to catch most of it once around 1980 and loved what I saw. It was a flop in its day but I bet it would be more appreciated now. In any case, seeing Lemmon play against type - in a role that is unique for him of all his roles - is something worth seeing.

You better believe I'll have the recorder going tonight at midnight. 'Night Moves' is the jewel of the month for me.

That was the case for 'Gojira' (1954). The change to 'Godzilla' for Americans took some of the nuke references out as it applied to Japan in particular. However, 1950's b-movies began using "atomic radiation is causing lots of giant bugs and stuff" quite frequently - became a staple - and that was the thinking behind the 1957 American version of 'Rodan'. It was no longer an issue - particularly as the destruction in 'Rodan' is much less grim; much less morbid - not nearly so remindful of what 'Gojira' symbolized.

Nice and good? Have you been listening to Jerry Lewis again, Sans?

Such as having the far more fetching Audrey Hepburn in the role. Movies do give us close-ups that stage productions don't - and Audrey is the definite preference for that. Andrews is at her best when she's a long ways away.

It was produced in Japan in 1956 and released that year as well. The Americans, true to form, chopped 14 minutes from its 82 minute running time - added some hydrogen bomb footage to the beginning - dubbed it - changed the name from Radon to Rodan (as there was a detergent selling in the U.S. called 'Radon') and released the bastardized version in the summer of 1957. So, why 1958, TCM?

One of the three Sweeten kids that played the Barone children on 'Everybody Loves Raymond' has died of a gunshot wound. He was just short of 20. He's the twin who played 'Geoffrey Barone'. The Texas-born actor was visiting family in Texas and apparently was killed by a gunshot while he was out on the porch. It's being reported as a suspected suicide.

Don't obtain the film at all. Show the real thing or don't show it at all. When one advertises to show films uncut, that kind of integrity should be a given.

This has been happening too often lately. If TCM can't afford to try harder to make sure the print it's showing is an unedited one, it should at least stop claiming that its movies are shown uncut along with being commercial-free. I'm assuming that what the OP said is true. Having not watched the latest showing of 'House of Wax', I cannot be sure. Nevertheless, I am sure that cut prints do get shown by TCM - even if it isn't TCM that does the cutting.

Michael Caine as "Alfie" did it. Worked pretty well.

I recorded it last night - haven't seen it before. The recording came in 3 minutes short of the supposed running time - according to every source I've looked at, it should've run 132 minutes. The recording runs just under 129 minutes. Anyone have an idea about what might have been removed?

Depends on which version one sees. The movie was pulled from theaters to have some scenes removed - one in particular referenced male prostitution between the troops and a minor. It was an anti-war movie that rubbed many the wrong way back in the early 60's. It has virtually disappeared and is exactly the kind of movie a prestigious body like TCM should be moving mountains for the chance to show.

Pater who?

The narrowness of its "suitability" definition. If it ever gets around to showing movies such as 'Zabriskie Point', 'The Victors', 'Last Tango in Paris' and 'The Devils', then we'll know TCM has grown itself as new layer of integrity.

Sure, if you'd like to see what it feels like to have your throat jumped down.

Jerry Lewis is not a person in whom I would ever have complete faith, in terms of truth or honesty.

Not me. Homosexuality is simply about preferring to engage in intimate activity with a member of one's own gender. If that's the way one is, that's the way one is - "politically correct" people don't seem to have an issue with it.

I didn't think I'd seen her full breasts bared. From what I've read, the American version of the movie cut the 1-second shot - but left it in for Europe. So, maybe the injunction applied only to America. Over at IMDb there's mention of another scene edited - one involving her shoplifting. I don't remember that scene so I can't verify that its been taken out, but one poster claims it's missing from the PG prints - in addition to the scene where she discourses with the guys in the car. Incidentally, someone over there posted a link that led to a couple of photos of the topless Streisand from the movie and I did click on it and have a boo. The scene is no more provocative (and less in duration) than Julie Andrews' scene in S.O.B.

I don't recall seeing her nipples, if that's what your asking. I think I may have seen side boob but it was so long ago I can't be sure.

The reason that the guys in the car start chasing her and George Segal is removed. I'm not sure what else is missing - but that scene has definitely been taken out of the version that TCM showed. I know because I saw the movie in the theater and it was a funny and memorable scene - especially in 1970, the first year of freedom in cinema (movies like MASH, Owl and the Pussycat, Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart and others were finally able to include dialog never before permitted). As a consequence of this edit, the chase makes no sense because a first-time viewer doesn't get to see what made those guys so angry.