darkblue
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I felt he wanted us to be looking down watching our feet instead of looking out for the cars so we would get run over!
Oh! I thought it was a warning about black-op zombies hiding under cars.
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Even though TCM is continuing to show a large number of movies from the 1930's and 40's they are the same movies shown over and over again.
With the current necessity for digitalized media, there may be fewer titles broadcast-able.
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watch your feet while walking between cars.
Good advice.
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I don't think we kids who grew up in the 1950s had any kind of hats or caps.
I know I never wore one. Woulda given me hat head - and for someone with as beautiful a head of golden dirty-blonde hair as I had, that woulda been a crime.
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Well, you may be right. But.once is more than enough of a song I never cared for. Now that I think about it that thread may have been about that scene and song as breaking up the flow of the film, or......
While it played just in the one scene, once was too much. It's the flaw that lowers the appreciation of an otherwise very good movie.
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immature jerkiness and jealousy are a diabolical mixture. no board can survive that. I was going to post a very interesting story but now................
I agree. Unless our jerkiness and jealousy gets more mature, people, these TCM boards are done for. Please try to remember to post the prefix "in my considered opinion" before posting jerky jealousies. Thank you.
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Dumb prick? Where are you, autocensor?
Please - don't be lobbying to get words put back into the filter. We're working our **** off trying to get them out.
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I agree with you that the movies shown as part of "Underground", 'might hold some fascination', but in the case of Maximum Overdrive, if there was any fascination, it alluded me!
It's hard to believe that the same guy who came up with great novels like 'The Stand', 'It!', 'Misery', 'The Shining' and 'Carrie' also came up with that piece of nonsense.
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Oh yeah! Yiddish is just chock full of great little descriptive words, alright!
(...sometimes makes me a little sad I'm not Jewish and didn't hear 'em while growing up...though of course there IS some doubt in some quarters that I ever did ACTUALLY "grow up"...but what say we don't sidetrack poor ol' Big Bopper's thread here anymore by discussin' THAT right now, OKAY???!!!) LOL
Maybe you were slipped a 'never grow up' drug by the black ops military complex, Dargs. You'da probably gotten fluent in Yiddish if it wasn't for that, those bastards.
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As long as one movie per year is considered a classic by the majority of viewers and critics in America, TCM can retain its moniker. And even if there isn't one.
Almost nothing that plays in the Underground timeslot enjoys such a majority reputation, so I guess you're new here.
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they have fostered a perception, right or wrong, that they are the epitome of .......blah blah blah ........TCM is not as brave as we thought they were and the PC POLICE have won.
If your mind invented some kind of "braveness" thesis that you think is supposed to apply to TCM, that's your problem.
I've found no evidence that TCM has ever pledged to be brave. TCM shows what it decides to show because it wants to show it. It has no reason to show anything it doesn't want to.
If you want a station to show everything that might offend someone you need to start a station yourself or find one that has that as its mission. Accusing TCM of not being something that it's never been or claimed to be is just making sh!t up for the sake of making sh!t up.
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I love this thread!
Very cool.
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There was this movie my daughter and I watched once called 'Me and the Kid'. It was a vehicle (lead role) for Danny Aiello, if you can imagine such a thing.
As far as I remember there was one song in the movie called 'Going Down to Mexico' and it played - and it played - and it played - for the last two thirds of the movie until we thought we were gonna upchuk from hearing it anymore.
I'm pretty sure it would be the champion of this topic.
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Talk about odd couple -- Jack Klugman was once roommates with Charles Bronson.
Dustin Hoffman, Gene Hackman, and Robert Duvall also roomed together at various times, as did Wayne Rogers and Peter Falk.
Bronson was notorious as being anti-social. In the commentary for Magnificent Seven it's said that he couldn't tolerate the company of more than one person at a time in a social situation. If he was with Brad Dexter (for example) he was relaxed and conversational. But if a third person should join them, he'd immediately retreat from all conversation.
He was quoted once as saying "I don't have any friends in Hollywood and I don't want any".
Maybe someone p!ssed him off with judgement or something for stealing David McCallum's wife during the making of Great Escape.
Whatever. Who doesn't love Bronson as an actor.
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One of my picks is The Last of Sheila (1973), directed by Herbert Ross. It has elements dear to me: smart, funny script, wonderful cast, a murder mystery or two, twists and turns, exotic locale, and James Coburn. It's very "inside," but not too much so for avid movie watchers, and the others can Google the references.
I would choose it as friends--even those my age-- have never heard of it, and that's a pity because it's vastly entertaining. And you've got to have friends.
I love Richard Benjamin. What I wouldn't give to see a TCM marathon devoted to him which would include such seldom seen items as 'Portnoy's Complaint' (1972), 'The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker' (1971), 'Goodbye Columbus' (1969) and 'The Last of Sheila'.
Such an interesting actor - dry, often hilarious in his persona, and yet capable of intense, no-nonsense seriousness.
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The worst movie I ever sat through, and mostly because she was IN it, was a stupid attempt at comedy/fantasy called DROP DEAD FRED cast as Phoebe Cates' mother. My wife LOVED that dumb flick for some reason.
My daughter liked it too.
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People just got bored with them and they sank farther and farther back out of sight.
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I have removed the word "Pee" from the bad word filter so Paul Reubens's alter ego may be referenced here.
Thankyou kindly!
I've gone back and replaced those asterisks with "Pee". Joyfully!
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IF you're going to start and/or operate a television channel/network that professes to be in the buisiness of broadcasting "classic" movies, and have decided that the term "classic" envelopes almost the ENTIRETY of motion picture history, then movies with "blackface" MUST be shone lest your efforts seem incomplete and/or dishonest.
What a pile of baloney.
TCM has never made the claim to be "complete" in the sense of showing every movie ever made. Nor have they ever given any hard and fast definition of "classic". Neither have they ever claimed that every movie they show IS a classic. TCM is in no way "dishonest" just because you have some stupid "opinion" that the business of broadcasting movies means having to show blackface.
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According to that 'Mommie Dearest' movie, Joan Crawford looked pretty nuts.
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Like Paul Reubens, who became more recognized as Pee Wee Herman than himself - and Bob Einstein, who became more recognized as "Super" Dave Osborne than himself - old Charley Farquharson was played for the past 50 years by Canadian actor Don Harron.
Don has passed, age 90.
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He'd been listening to Little Eva while spinning that day.
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The special effects are great too. But how come the invisible man doesn't wear underwear?
Do you have any idea how hard it is to get invisible stains out of your underwear???
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Liberace would be fabulous.
Is political correctness getting in the way of classic broadcasts?
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It could be simply that the 3 people who want to watch an Al Jolson day just aren't enough of an incentive for TCM to schedule it for them. It's not like all kinds of people are hounding TCM to show those lousy Al Jolson movies.
If TCM wants to show something that's gonna offend lots of people, at least 'Amos and Andy' is something for which there still could be an appreciable audience.