darkblue
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Really, other than his Saturday Night Live pratfalls was this guy ever really funny?
Yes. His Clark Griswold outings are terrific.
Chevy patented his "smug" schtick early on ("I'm Chevy Chase and you're not"). He used it to great effect in the Fletch movies. However, not everyone likes that schtick as much as anyone else might - to each their own.
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So they'll have to buy some just for the Oscar show.
Maybe they could borrow some.
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The people on TV are supposed to be dressed the same way the people who are watching them are dressed? That's an interesting take. Presenters at the Oscars should then arguably be dressed in their underwear.
I bet some of them don't even wear underwear.
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Sounds to me like a rude post had been removed by our moderator, Sepiaone.
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I'd like to see TCM save a few bucks by dumping the Guest Programmer feature.
They'd just waste it on Christmas swag or something. Better to keep the guest programmers without whom some movies would probably never be shown.
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It's not that Ben is smug. It's that RO is unsmug, and most [people would seem smug by comparison. Even yours truly.
As that cab driver said in agreement with Elaine, "smugness is not a good quality".
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Pearls before swine and all that.
What a lovely way to put it. Categorizes us so nicely.
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A George Harrison song (from 1973's 'Living in the Material World') - done by David Bowie for his album 'Reality' (2003).
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i AGREE. A great movie.... with the funniest one-line joke in movie history, which I dare not quote.
Ya mean like Democrats?
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In CADDYSHACK Rodney played a very "unlike Rodney" character. "Hey Smails, thousand bucks you miss that putt".
That's a great hat. I guess if you buy a hat like that you get a free bowl of soup.
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I remember a "first post" by someone about a year ago that seemed almost exactly the same as this, right down to the grandma and the kids. It's like deja vu all over again.
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Yes, this might be a case where the simple \ obvious answer is the answer. But to censor a movie made in 1946? That is playing it real safe.
Yes, well....they say the dumbing down has been going on for about three and a half decades now.
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What you posted does NOT explain why MOVIES would censor content the FCC does NOT require them to censor.
The answer seems obvious. MOVIES doesn't feel the FCC rules are stringent enough, a notion possibly supported by input from certain viewers. They've probably decided to play it "safe" when it comes to not offending the delicate sensibilities of those viewers.
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Some sites don't even allow you to say "breast" - including, for a time there, this one. Fixed here now, but I'm sure there's someone out there who's prepared to make an issue of it.
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Checking at IMDb, I don't find a single feature film on the Rosenberg case. Can that really be possible?
You might want to check out 'Angels in America' starring Al Pacino and Meryl Streep. One of its most interesting aspects is the haunting of Roy Cohn by Ethel Rosenberg.
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That's why I don't watch movies on any other channel but TCM. And even on TCM I've caught an edit here and there (though it is apparently the provider of prints that is to blame rather than TCM).
TCM and DVD's - and if I'm really desperate, YouTube. That is all, and it's almost enough (many movies I've not been able to locate in any of these sources, unfortunately).
If I were wealthy, it would be different.
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Looking at Claire Bloom in that bed scene causes me to instantly relive the massive crush I had on her back then.
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Patricia Clarkson gives me the heebie jeebies.
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Just a very slight push drives them over the edge.
I'm not really the pushy type. It's more like the force it takes to blow out a lit match.
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Every time there is a Marx brothers marathon, 'The Cocoanuts' is not included. Why?
It's disappointing to see the early ones not scheduled (Animal Crackers, Monkey Business). "Opera" and "Races" are shown so often by comparison. 'Duck Soup' not there either.
But, I'm thankful to be getting 'Horse Feathers' at least.
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You may be the leader in drawing people into getting warning points......A born provocateur.
Only to those who are a little bit nuts to begin with.
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After the dearth that is the December schedule, January is an embarrassment of riches by comparison. Best schedule in over a year!
But I have to forget about it now. There's little doubt that the movies I'm most excited about will not be shown in Canada when the time comes.
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I would like to add that Schmidt is played by Jack Nicholson in one of his most self contained performances.
Works wonderfully, doesn't it. I'd rather watch this several more times than most of his other recent work (like 'The Departed' for example). Schmidt is one of his most "real" characters.
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Yes dark, but I don't think you're taking into account the much higher "attrition rate" of the demographic that would be involved here!!!
(...I mean, not to be maudlin here, but let's face FACTS...there ARE some demographics that are just a LITTLE closer to "Death's Door" than OTHERS, ya know!!!) LOL
Last time I mentioned that there was an older demographic like that I was accused of wanting it dead. One member who no longer posts under the name got so incensed about it that they got themselves put on administrative something or other.
This makes me a little sad
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You just have to update the reference from time to time, Dargs.
Now you can say Dwight like that Dwight K Schrute guy.
But, hopefully, people won't think you're a serial killer wannabe and run away because of it.