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I always considered him to be much more of a tv actor than a movie actor - even though he did appear in several theatrical films as a supporting player.

You is one crazy mixed-up kid.

Not White??? Red alert!! Red Alert!! Another race is in the house!! just kiddin'' - we're all super-cool here.

I like black and white movies. Wish there were more new ones, though. Most of the old ones just don't do it for me - not because they're black and white; because they're not convincing. They just sound so fake and stagey.

In this episode of 'The Larry Sanders Show' (titled 'Artie's Gone'), Paula (played by Janeane Garofalo) slips the group Porno for Pyros into the show. I bought their album because of this appearance.

Robert Redford in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark". He plays an Angel of Death, come to harvest an old woman - and he plays it so Robert Redford-y. His was a consistent style from very early times. Nice piece of work, this episode.

Never gave a fig about Donny. When he first came to prominence as the little one in the Osmond Brothers when they regularly appeared on 'The Andy Williams Show', I felt even then that he was a little too precious for belief. Marie, on the other hand......CUTE, CUTE, CUTE!! What a babe she was as a teen.

Back in 1980, Toronto became the coolest city in the world when a tiny multi-lingual UHF station (CFMT channel 47) created the first 7 days a week all-night show in North America. Chuck the Security Guard would play all kinds of old and strange stuff through the night. Old episodes of The Outer Limits and Hollywood and the Stars and Fibber McGee and Molly (for example), as well as lots of peculiar shorts, very old commercials from the 50's, music videos, full-contact karate matches. Lots of weird stuff - the weirder the better. He would open the show every night by hollering "Hey, You!" ​and pointing out at the audience. He would sometimes repeat that after coming back from a commercial break or between episodes run that night. Anyone who was cool became addicted to this channel at night - losing sleep constantly to watch through the nights as much as possible. The show lasted only one year, in spite of the amazing popularity of the program - due to a conflict with the shows creator and the station management. I remember how broken-hearted an experience it was watchig the very final show. This video, the images all of which had appeared at some time or other on the show, was played that night. The song is "Hey You" by a Toronto group called The Start.

I have only TCM SD and my recording was full of little glitches and twitches and mini-pix's. I've noticed that happening a lot lately with TCM content (and only with TCM!). I suspect Rogers (my cable company) is doing something wrong - probably on purpose to get me to switch over to one of their plans where I have to rent a box from them. With a stupendous October coming up - with more movies I'm interested in recording than at any time ever before - I'm getting worried about the lost opportunity. I've had no fewer than 4 movies ruined by these visual twitches in the past couple of weeks.

We'll find a way to work around that. Once the 50 years is up, original prints would have to be turned over to the Public Domain Administration for cataloguing and maintenance. No more movies going extinct just because studios let them rot. Anyone interested in manufacturing dvd copies of Public Domain motion pictures would be assisted by the Administration at whatever cost is entailed in that. Such manufacturers would be able to recoup and/or profit from the sales of the dvd copies they make.

That's why my rule would be better. If I were in charge of contract law as it applies to these movie matters, we'd be a happier society. The public gets to pay you for a movie for 50 years - then the public owns it. And if you don't want your music to be used in a movie - you don't think it's worth that paycheque to let it be there forever - then don't. But if I'm in charge, it's one way or the other - no exceptions.

All movies that have ever been released for public viewing should automatically become public domain after 50 years - no exceptions. If I were able to create laws, that's one that I would. And, if you agreed to let any song or music of which you hold the rights to be used in any publicly-exhibited movie, you've agreed to a permanent situation - no matter the format in which the movie may be manufactured. Don't you wish I was in charge?

It doesn't help that they play the same ones so much either. The most interesting of the Hammer films (Curse of the Werewolf, Enemy from Space, The Brides of Dracula, Scars of Dracula, etc) would be very welcome if they're gonna stay with that studio's output every Halloween.

Actually, it's been 3 years. June 2012. Time is moving incredibly fast for me! Here's a thread from that time: http://forums.tcm.com/index.php?/topic/40345-i-thank-you-tcm-for-the-night-of-excellent-movies/?hl=gojira

People were confused by it. Martin had become a star - something like Jim Carrey - in outrageous silly comedies for the few years prior. No seriousness. Plus, this musical used old records to which the actors lip-synched - even if they were not the same gender as the singer - which has to be the first and last time that was done in a serious movie. Most, hearing this was a musical starring him and Bernadette Peters - who had a history of fluffy, air-heady roles - thought they were going to going to see something funny. Child murder and the selfish exploitation of vulnerable women during the Depression are not funny topics. So, it's not surprising that it didn't hit with theater-going audiences. On home video in the years that followed, though, a much more appreciative audience began to notice what a fine film it is when expectations of lunacy-style comedy aren't the motivation for watching it, the way they were back then. If anyone here has never seen it, don't miss it. Dark and disturbing, yet containing some great music and choreography. Pretty unique.

It makes lots of "sense", I'm afraid. If the CBC - or CTV - or Global - currently hold the broadcast rights in Canada, then TCM is not permitted to show the film up here. Fortunately, almost every public library in Canada has this one on borrowable DVD.

Certainly are a helluva lot more of them. They did pass away for a reason - audiences grew tired of them.

Don't worry about coming up with responses to that member. Negative Nelly there just comes around this thread to [...] on our conversations and song choices.

I've never heard anyone up here say "a company are". That would be stupid. Can't speak for the Brits, but I'd be surprised if any of them had ever said such a thing either.

And here I was giving you credit for coming up with a wonderfully sneaky double-entendred title. I thought it was deliberate and was quite pleased about the wit and imagination you'd displayed. Now you say it's accidental? That's disappointing.

I LOVE commentaries - especially if they're by the director or a film historian. Naturally, I wouldn't turn them on if I was watching the movie for the first time, but once I'm familiar with the movie I find I pick up on missed or unstated aspects through listening to the commentaries at least once. Very informative (as long as they aren't done by just the actors - those tend to be pretty superficial).

Loved it when I was a kid. My next door neighbor kid was a freak for the circus - couldn't get enough of them - and he and I saw it several times. I remember that Gilbert Roland pretty much steals the whole movie and that David Nelson was surprising.

Which version?

I want TCM to show 'Return of the Fly' (1959). It's a nice creepy movie in black and white, cheaper than 'The Fly' (1958), but actually scarier.

Some people **** about anything and everything.