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I don't have HD. I subscribe only to basic cable plus. That's a digital but SD service. Thankfully TCM is included in that package. 99 percent of the movies carried on TCM fills my widescreen from left to right. I get full screen for old stuff and mostly letterbox/widescreen for post-50's stuff. This windowboxing is just beginning to rear its unwanted head - I've noticed it on some stations that run re-runs of series episodes. When I see it, I change the channel. Naturally, changing the channel from TCM hurts more, though.

Some people can only give criticism. They tend to say they were joking as a really cheap comeback to having received any. Such people might be happier if they blocked all but their sycophants.

When I was very young I saw Lon filming a scene at Mimico Creek. That's in Toronto's extreme west end, where I grew up. I was with my grandmother (my dad's mother) and she kept saying in a kind of awe "That's Long Chaney, Ricky". Yes, she always thought his name was "Long".

Laughing feels better than crying.

Wish they had shown a full screen version. Woulda been a hell of a lot better than windowboxing it. They don't windowbox any of their other movies, so why this one. Anyway, it's not a question of giving TCM "passes". It's a question of whether I'll watch something that's windowboxed. TCM can do whatever it pleases - it can run a sports crawl if it wants to - but all I'm saying is I don't like windowboxing, was disappointed to see it, and won't watch TCM when they do that. Which is my loss, I guess - but what the hey.

Didn't you bother to read any of the other posts here? My screen is not square. It's widescreen. It can be filled side to side, and usually is. This time TCM ran a movie window-boxed. I hate windowboxing. It's like having a small tv all over again. So, I didn't watch the movie - just like I don't watch anything that's windowboxed, whether its a station showing 'The Simpsons' in windowbox format or TCM showing a movie in windowbox format. If it ever becomes the norm, I'll switch over to an all-DVD diet.

Bingo. I wouldn't call one person trying to get something going without any takers a controversy, though. Makes me wonder why we bother to control ourselves like that.

I'm sick to death of it as a movie. I'll only watch it to see Claire Bloom - what a woman! I love her.

I don't know what that is. Window-boxing shrinks the picture down to the central part of the screen with black borders all around - all 4 sides. Great way to turn a 40" tv back into a 20" tv. It's stupid.

As far as I'm concerned, when something is put down in the subs it might as well not exist at all. Out of sight, out of mind.

Dull? There's all kinds of movies that are being shown this month that have hardly ever - if ever - been shown before. Whatever. To each their own.

Boog er was played by Curtis Armstrong in 'Revenge of the Nerds'.

How often does TCM have a monthly schedule that isn't 95 percent cheese? This month (October) is just about the best I've ever seen - I'll be filling my Hard Drives to the max this month and that'll come in handy for the very light December. Sure wish 'Burnt Offerings' had stayed on the schedule this month, though. I feel that loss.

I don't mind letterboxing. In fact, now that I have a decent sized widescreen tv, I prefer it. But I truly hate window-boxing.

Shown window-boxed. Arghh. I hate window-boxing so much.

Yeah, really - why does she expect us to do her work for her? I think that's pretty similar to what she asked, right? She should read a book!

But we still get to complain about it - that's some comfort, I suppose.

No volunteers, huh?

Or just stockpile enough VCR's and blank tapes to last the rest of your life. The machine's can be bought on e-bay used for about 25 bucks - and you could take up collecting old VHS movies for a hobby (although that could get costly and require a lot of room. But it could be a lot of "collectable" fun - like collecting old baseball cards or comic books).

I didn't laugh because it creeped me out. Lon Chaney Jr's version of the Frankenstein monster creeps me out too. Over at IMDb there's a post from someone who says that of all the Frankensteins portrayed in that Universal series, Lon's version is the one he'd least like to meet in an alley. I agree. The 'Ghost of Frankenstein' monster is the weirdest looking - and scariest - of them all. And, it's the most miserable. This Frankenstein's got attitude - a "get the hell outta my face" belligerence. Forever after this 4th chapter, the monster would become more and more a mere prop - without any thoughts, basically a zombie rather than a character. Anyway, I didn't laugh when the monster talked with Ygor's voice. And I didn't think of it as stupid either. It weirded me out, man.

The 'Categorizing Threads' thread has been disappeared. It's uncanny. Except for one member who didn't like the topic and tried to get some acrimony going so that it would be shut down - without getting any takers (nobody bit) - it was a perfectly reasonable, intelligently discussed thread that asked a valid question. And still we've lost it. The one member got what that member wanted, even though people avoided conflict when it was baited. I don't understand. I really don't.

Yeah - and after that movie he got younger. Makes perfect sense.

Somehow, I don't feel like I've got a problem with not knowing who, DGF. At least, I didn't until you told me I did.....

Not only don't I know who they are, I don't know what they are. What is it that J.D. Power and Associates is "ranking" exactly?

Sorry, no. Don't want to "meet her" anymore. Truth is, I was just kiddin' around - I never fantasized about her. I just like the alliteration and the way her last name rhymes with stuff.