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"A League of Their Own" probably airs on some channel every single day.
No, it doesn't.
And it certainly doesn't run uncut and commercial-free.
Only TCM runs movies respectfully like that. I hope that TCM eventually runs every good movie ever made because of that policy.
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One thing that hasn't been (specifically) mentioned--I am especially grateful that TCM doesn't inflict three hours worth of "infomercials" on us--daily. After looking at a different channels' schedule, thought that specific fact should be mentioned. Compared with That, I can take an introductory four Minute course about wine several times a day between movies with NO complaints!
Can you imagine anyone actually sitting every night from 1am till 5am watching those things?
Like the Shopping Network isn't enough for them?
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Don't know about "most", but I never watch any movie on AMC. Never.
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There are hundreds, easily.
'Deliverance' (1972) is a bona-fide classic.
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'Trapped in Paradise' (1994) would be wonderful to see on TCM around Christmas time.
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Sunday, November 15
8 p.m. The Strange One (1957). Never seen this one. As the blurb points out it features the film debuts of Ben Gazzara and George Peppard.
Good movie! There's a very peculiar atmosphere to it - for 1957 it seems to have a great deal of h0mo-erotic undercurrent.
Ben Gazzara is outstanding is this, his first movie.
Peppard does pretty well also, establishing the fundamental persona we would see of him pretty much forever.
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High seemed to best capture what it was like to be a teenager at that time
Jennifer was never cuter.
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PARADISE ALLEY (4/10)
Sylvester Stallone involved in the world of wrestling, circa 1946. Written and directed by the star, it was his follow up to ROCKY. It tries desperately to be poignant and earthy, but it just comes across as phony and irritating.
I remember liking it quite a bit more than that. The scene I remember liking best was Canalito carrying that block of ice up the stairs and then having the ice come crashing all the way down toward the camera.
Of course, I was pretty high at the time so that scene was probably that much more entertaining to me for it. Nevertheless, I did enjoy the movie and really enjoyed the Canalito character especially.
When the Dereks (John and Bo) were casting for 'Tarzan, the Ape Man' (1981), Lee Canalito was their first choice to play Tarzan and they actually hired him for it. But on the 2nd day of production they said he suddenly didn't look right to them - not sleek enough or something. So they let him go and re-cast Miles O'Keefe in the role.
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True, Char. However, the only problem with Al is that he seems to have a little problem with his alcohol consumption.
Hey - as long as he's buying.....
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Gorgeous song. George's voice, though more delicate, less powerful - a little frail really - is nevertheless thoroughly distinctive, instantly recognizable, and eternally endearing.
There was a movie about The Beatles I saw once where at the end Brian Epstein was quietly speaking to John, who had some doubts about things, and said something like "each of you is a specific part of the whole - separately you cannot ever be what you will be together".
He went on to say that Paul was the heart, John was the mind, and George was the soul.
John then asked "And Ringo?"
Epstein said that Ringo was the flesh and blood.
Gave me a shiver. Never forgot that end scene. And George was the soul of The Beatles.
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Another showing of 'You Better Watch Out' (1980) would be great.
TCM showed it a couple of years ago around Christmas - I think they should show it every year.
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As for your concerns about where TCM is going . . . . that's for another thread.
Exactly.
It's stupefying that someone would be willing to state that they don't understand what a thread titled "What's Great About TCM" is about.
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GLORIA (original 1980) I think I've watched Gloria many many times and after each viewing I have grown to love the film even more than before. Gena Rowlands gritty, gutsy, glorious performance leaves me breathless. I love John Cassavettes direction of NYC, during a time when the City was very dirty, gritty, graffiti ridden, but it really made a great location site. I love Gena Rowland's reactions to John Adames and how they bond. I just adore this character. Am a big fan of John Cassavettes and his wonderful wife Gena Rowlands. I really love this movie. And I love Emanuel Ungaro's wardrobe for Miss Rowlands. Fabulous.
Yep. That's a good one. Unusual role for her - not to mention Buck Henry!
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in honour of tonight's showing of Shirley Clarke's 'The Connection'
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Anthony "Man" Stoner.
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SPOILERS FROM MULTIPLE EPISODES
I love the Twilight Zone episodes where the character "disappears" into his scenarios/imagination. At the end of "Shrine", Ida disappears into the film. In "A Stop at Willoughby", the main character disappears into the old town. In "Miniature", the character disappears into the dollhouse. I love the idea that if you wish for something hard enough, you can defy reality and make it come true...
(Although it was a little sad for the James Daly character in "Willoughby".)
Not as sad as it was for the Richard Kiley character in an episode of Serling's 'Night Gallery' (a reboot of TZ, just with a different series name). He finds he can wish himself into a peaceful painting - but in the dark he doesn't realize that the painting has been replaced by another of a far less pastoral theme.
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rewatched IT'S ALIVE 2: IT LIVES AGAIN (6/10)
I recently borrowed the set from the library. It contains the first 'It's Alive', the 2nd which you mentioned, and the 3rd, 'Island of the Alive'.
Haven't gotten around to watching them yet.
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Though I love TCM I hope it is not mandated that one cannot have the enjoyment of taking "swipes at a performer's personal life".
I mean, that would cause me to lose the will to live.
Of course not. Just post it where it belongs - which is not in a nice thread about TCM like this one is intended to be.
There are others here who, like yourself, live to say nasty stuff about performers and there's never a shortage of threads from them that encourage such trash talk.
So don't worry, be happy - nobody's gonna mandate a stoppage of personal life dumpster-diving.
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Looks like the spam is beginning to grow on some of you.
Spam grows on people, huh? Hopefully there's a cream for that.
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But my earlier little swipe at all those damn stupid political ads we're about to be inundated with on almost every other channel on our TV sets AND the fact that TCM at least doesn't show 'em, was okay to mention here, right Arturo???
Sure sounded complimentary of TCM to me.
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Definitely my favorite Bond Theme. Very pretty.
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Thank you, TikiSoo, for trying to create a thread of positive, complimentary posts towards TCM.
It would be nice if people could let such intention be.
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Of that I have no doubt.
That's why you get the big bucks - you're so insightful.
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Neither does a mean spirited crack at someone's age when you are having a disagreement.
If one is inconsistent, one may see a crack now and then. Making it about age rather than intelligence or integrity is not as mean as my spirit is clearly capable of being.
BOO!!
Why are there no "Movie Stars" today??
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One reason perhaps is because we have real actors now rather than studio-created and rigidly controlled "images".
Also, their are far more venues for entertainment - thanks to tv, cable, satellites, computer streams, vcr's and dvd players. There's no reason to rush out to theaters twice a week to get your one chance to see the latest work of the "stars" while you still can. That's a huge change from the pre-1955 era.
And one more very good reason is because we are far more sophisticated than audiences of the "golden age". They were far easier to please (and to fool).