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More, actually.

City on Fire (1979) I don't care about any of the others - I just wanna see that deliciously eerie disaster movie one more time.

An open dialogue with a closed mind? That'd be quite the trick. An open dialogue with a mind that sees TCM as dead and may it rest in peace? Sure. That's definitely a mind that looks at everything with openness.

What? No Charlton Heston?? What a great opportunity it'd have been to see him grab the back of his neck and growl "you damn dirty bees!"

Thanks, fxreyman. I appreciate the brevity. Didn't lose me this time.

Seen 'em. About 25 times. Only seen 'The Swarm' once. I can do once more.

Paul (Pee Wee Herman) Reubens is still hilarious! And quite an extraordinary actor. I enjoy his work immensely every time he pops up in something. And I'll always be very fond of his Pee Wee character. I honestly believe he'll maintain a cult following forever - bigger maybe than Andy Kaufman's.

Okay. Sounds about right.

TCM is better than ever. More than 70 percent of its offerings are still studio-era movies - probably closer to 80 percent. Not very different than ever before, but when a newer classic shows up now and again, there are always those who simply can't abide it. Some people are just too selfish to please. I've never demanded or requested of any broadcaster that it show only what I want to see and nothing else, and it's beyond my understanding that someone who is getting their needs met by a station nearly 80 percent of the time would be unhappy about it.

Yesterday, I made the following comment to fxreyman: I did so because I wanted to comment on receiving 1500-word responses to my single-sentence comments. I should have been more careful, though - because I accidentally addressed the above to the wrong person (jamesjazzguitar). I'm very sorry and embarrassed about this. It was a bone-headed error. When one decides to be that critical toward another member, one had damn well better get it right that one is speaking to the intended recipient. To james, I apologize sincerely. I think I best give myself a time out.

Yay! Movies without content cuts and commercial interruptions that lots of people actually want to see! More movies from the 70's - the greatest decade ever for filmmakers. Things are improving all the time with TCM's programming.

I read the novel by Arthur Herzog before the movie came out. The novel is great! A real page turner - couldn't put it down. So, when the movie disappointed, I wasn't surprised at all. Always happens when I read the book first - and in this case, the movie was way inferior to the novel. Where the novel had been really interesting - with a lot of information about bees and their culture - and really scary as well, the movie just came across as ridiculous. Something had gotten seriously lost in the translation. Nevertheless, I'm gonna be recording it today. Michael Caine is one of my favorite actors of all time - even if he did do a whole bunch of paycheck movies along the way. I can imagine maybe liking it more now. Interestingly, the dvd version of the movie runs nearly 40 minutes longer than the theatrical version. Comments I've read are conflicting about which version is better - some say the longer cut is more dramatic and like it better; some say Allen's theatrical cut at 116 minutes is better because it's tighter. But, as the dvd has an awfully big price attached to it, I probably won't be able to decide for myself.

How about heavyweight champion of the world? Does that have any meaning for you? How about Miss Kalamazoo 2007 - any meaning?

Yes - if by "light hearted" you mean unbelievably moronic.

Just think of me as mister grinch. I'm a mean one. I actually say what I think, but don't say it too quickly - I take my time and make sure of it to myself. I'm always cool, but I don't think life is short at all. I feel like I've been around a pretty long time.

Well, if it's meaning you're looking for, I'd suggest the study of Buddhism and Jesus of Nazareth. Movies can be instructive sometimes - even some comedies - but mostly they're just entertainment o pass our down hours.

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By reading TCM's forums, of course. Every time TCM runs an edited print, and in the case of this thread's title, a defective print (sound drop-outs are a defect, whether deliberately administered or not), I see posts about it that express displeasure at it. Are you really as thick as you're pretending to be?

Yeah, that was the children's version that A&E ran. For prudes, the delicate, and the chronically un-mature.

And right off the bat, you're wrong. I have no idea why you would think I assume that. I speak for myself. I give my opinions. I ask my questions. What others feel or think is theirs, not mine.

Considering how much incompetence we experience as a matter of course in today's world, sure it's possible. I find it hard to believe that a broadcaster (especially of TCM's stature) wouldn't verify what it's going to run before they put it on the air, but there ya go.

Thanks for getting my point, which was to bolster yours.

It's a good one alright. I'm not surprised you haven't seen it - hasn't been on the tube (that I've been able to find) since 1964. Considering the quality of the transformation scenes - excellent, dark, slobber-dripping human to animal, much scarier than Lon Chaney Jr.'s - how this one has been allowed to disappear is a mystery to me. And it's an intelligent werewolf movie to boot!

I think that one's a shot from 'The Werewolf' (1956). Excellent - and seemingly lost, considering how rarely seen or even mentioned it is - movie with a terrific werewolf.

Yeah, it's a competition. You're the enemy now.