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I agree, dark. Her adeptness at this sort of thing is once again on display, and I also think she would make a great permanent fixture at TCM.
(...btw, and speaking of her being "easy on the eyes"...doncha think she looks as if she could be Marie Windsor's daughter?)
They do have remarkably similar features - more so in some photos than others - but definitely mentionable.
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Just wanted to say how much I like it whenever she's done something with TCM. Her guest host spots are always interesting, as are the movies that get "unearthed" for a showing.
And she's easy on the eyes.
I wouldn't be averse to seeing her become the permanent main host of TCM when Robert inevitably retires. I like her that much.
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Oh, Fast Times at Ridgemont High has been shown at least once before. When they had a month of films featuring teenagers.
Maybe we'll get to see it again if they give Ray Walston an honorary day somewhere down the line.
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Jeff Lynne once said that when the Beatles broke up his group took its inspiration from imagining what the Beatles sound might have been evolving to. Lynne always did sound like he was trying to do his best McCartney - never more noticeable than on the 1975 'Face the Music' album.
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I have the DVD which includes both, timings as you've noted for Curse of the Demon (US title) and Night of the Demon.
A movie that should never be shown in it's US version (although TCM did) is Witchfinder General (US: The Conquerer Worm). I don't mind Vincent Price reading Poe's poem over the credits in the US version, but in addition to a few edits, the crucial -- and beautiful -- music of the original was not used -- a new score was commissioned. The original score by Paul Ferris is so important to this most tragic of films.
Is a dvd version (in region 1) with the original score even available? Have you ever seen one for sale?
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A good alternate title for this flick, THE FILM THAT KILLED MY CAREER! (Virginia Leith).
But it's the greatest role of her life. It's a cult classic seen by hundreds of millions of people - and appreciated by them. Nobody really remembers or gives a crap about any of her other work.
Getting married and retiring from acting killed her "career" - not this movie. Then again, it woulda been killed anyway just by getting a couple of years older. She wasn't exactly special, ay. Not an A-list-er by any stretch of the definition.
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I'm tempted to come up with posts just for the sake of coming up with posts, but I won't.
And here I thought that's exactly what you've been doing the past 8 years.
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Another time? Here on TCM? Would they dare?
It is a classic.
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No business airing?
What a snobby thing to say.
Quite alright for all those half-a-star singing cowboy movies and lame batman serials and 'Clambake'-type crapfests to be run on TCM but not a reasonably amusing Amy Heckerling hit.
Wish they had chosen 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High' - probably my favorite Heckerling movie ever - but we can get that another time.
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Funny, I thought Judy Garland died from much the same cause as Marilyn, only a few years later and a few years older.
Judy was murdered?
I guess you're just referring to the chemical types that were used to achieve the mortification.
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If you watch TRIUMPH OF THE WILL and turn off the sound entirely, and read all the English subtitles that translate each of Hitler’s speeches. You will read typical political speeches, just like the kind we hear in the US every day..... “We’ll make Germany great again! We’ll put everyone to work. We’ll build a lot of good stuff (highways, cars, etc). Nobody will go hungry. Every German family will be happy. We’ll all work together to achieve this goal, and we’ll make the New Germany last a thousand years!!”
Seen in the context of the time, it's easy to understand that speeches like this would have meant much more to German citizens than to the common US citizenry of today.
Germany had been punished and belittled quite extensively after World War 1 and there was no modern nation on earth more affected by hardship as a result. The National Socialist rhetoric represented hope and a return of pride to many Germans under those circumstances.
We all are well acquainted now with the extent of evil-doing that would come to transpire in such enormous scope after 1935 and I think that may compel us to see these speeches differently than the world saw them then, which may also mean that we ourselves, "benefitting" from hindsight, can tend to be a little more sure about what we see than we actually deserve to be.
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One of these days I'm gonna have to watch that 'Triumph of the Will' thing. I keep hearing that it's the most monstrously great propaganda film of all time. Sounds like something I should see before I die.
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I recall an anecdote that I heard about a couple of friends, Dave and Jeff, who had just gone to the show together to see a violent film (I think it may have been Straw Dogs).
As they walked home together from the show Jeff walked in the street beside the curb while Dave was on the sidewalk. A car came wheeling around the corner and Dave, spotting it, reached over a pulled Jeff up onto the sidewalk.
Jeff, normally an extremely easy going sort, responded to being pulled by immediately kicking Dave in the shins. Dave pointed to the car rushing past them and Jeff continued walking without saying a word, including, apparently, an apology.
It was completely out of character for Jeff to behave in that manner, Dave feeling that Straw Dogs (or whatever the film was) having a lot to do with his impulsive violent reaction.
Good thing he wasn't carrying a bear trap, huh. Movie coulda been a real inspiration to him if he had.
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One poster objected to all others who criticized bumping up old threads and changing their titles just to keep them alive. This poster was at odds with several people and the mod pulled the plug.
That again?
Boy, that's been happening a lot lately. Maybe the moderator will get wise at some point and kill those threads that keep getting renamed and offending people because of it.
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I just started driving around the time that the Burt Reynolds film WHITE LIGHTING came out (73/74). The car that Burt raced around in was a big Ford sedan, dark brown in color. Our family car was a same year Ford, same color, but the more deluxe LTD model . My dad (bless his soul) trusted me to use the car on occasion but said "Don't get any crazy ideas". I respected (feared?) dad enough not to do any stunts to try to impress my friends.
Sure. Those were the days when he could throw you out on the street.
Now, he'd be arrested for that. Kids get to be kids a lot longer now and parents are far less powerful.
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the OP's viewpoint got at least 3 pages of contradicting views
Bad-mouthing Ben has been an old and often repeated activity in these forums. Just his name alone sets off the haters.
So, shutting it down is pretty much the standard policy when that stuff starts. It gets to be too much of an aggravation to pick out the poison, so an entire delete ends up being the final action.
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I expected The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions to be considerably better than they actually were, based on what I saw from the original The Matrix.
I rated The Matrix a 9.5
I rated The Matrix Reloaded a 5.0
I rated The Matrix Revolutions a 3.0
Huge drop-offs in imaginativeness and story quality.
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I still refer to it as 'The Mouth That Wouldn't Stop'.
Anyone who's never seen it will see what I mean when they watch it tonight. This is one chick who will not accept her situation with quietude.
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Swithin--just checked Online schedule--had running time at 82 minutes. Is that the unedited versions' running time??
It is.
TCM used to run a 70 minute print but have now switched to the full movie.
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I had a friend over for dinner recently, and we watched it. I hadn't seen it for some time. My DVD says 85 minutes; TCM schedule says 71, so don't get your hopes up.
I recorded it from TCM the last time it played and created a DVD. It runs 81 minutes 35 seconds. IMDb lists the "uncut" time as 82 minutes, so I'm pretty sure TCM is running the uncut version these days.
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I remember the first time I saw it in the theatre at the age of 12. It was so sleazy! I actually felt Catholic guilt, sure that watching it was a sin.
8 years of Catholic school in the 50's will do a number on ya that way.
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I dont think I ever watched it. Dont remember why. I wasnt much into tv watching back in those days.....
I didn't bother with it because every time I tried to watch it I became bored. Really, really bored.
I loved vampire movies, but not this soap.
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The Shangri-Las were known to be one of the tougher girl groups.
Traveling with other acts on the road, some of the males from the other groups found that out. Messing with those girls could get you cut.
They were awesome.
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Another site I go to freezes threads that have no new posts added to them for the past 15 days.
The thread is not deleted, it just becomes archived. But the conversation within that thread is considered to have ended if 2 weeks have gone by and nobody has had anything more to say.
This prevents the kind of abuses we see here. It prevents very old threads from being brought forward - if one wishes to discuss something that was discussed in the past (it happens all the time - it's very common), one starts a new conversation.
It's always possible to provide a link to view any previous conversations on the topic if it's considered pertinent or helpful, but I've found it's rarely necessary to do so. After all, forums are mostly about conversation, not study.
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Twlight Zone Episodes
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'Twilight Zone' was an "anthology of strange stories" series.
Sci-Fi, religious, philosophical, supernatural, ironical, human-conditional, and horror were all used at times in the service of those stories.
I always loved the Lee Marvin episode 'Steel'. Robots are the prize fighters we watch after humans have been banned from taking part, but Lee's robot breaks down so he makes himself up to take its place in the ring. Great episode.