darkblue
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Does anyone know this artist or song? Real good.
Yes to the second part - I have heard the song before; No to the first part - I did not know the name of the artist.
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Pauly Shore.
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Niven was a decent actor - popular and a good supporting player. Was in plenty of movies too, so a star of the month isn't out of line for him.
My only issue is that my most favorite David Niven movie - 'Bedtime Story' (1964) - is never shown, not even in a month honouring him.
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Who doesn't love those goofy Goths?
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Sandy Denny was really something special. Beautiful vocals on the albums on which she took part.
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I don't like it when the vertical of shows created in the 4:3 aspect ratio is cropped to create a faux widescreen.
The stretching of 4:3 shows and movies is even worse.
I understand your preference.
However, my tv does a reasonable job of making the picture acceptable. Leaving it at 4x3 is unbearable as it provides ugly greenish-grey borders at the sides. I can't hack it. Even if the borders were black, though - I'd still go for the widescreen adaption - which on my Akai is known as "Panorama" .
Each to their own.
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Yes, I'm happy when I see the bars used for pre-widescreen TV shows to reserve the 4:3 aspect ratio in which they were created, but the use of them makes no sense for widescreen movies such as SERPICO.
Not me. I'm never happy to see bars at the sides.
I keep my Akai wide screen tv settings so that the screen is always filled up side to side. The only time I don't get that is when a broadcast is done in window-box. In that event I simply watch something else - windowboxing p!sses me off.
As for movies, I stopped watching movies on tv a long time ago. I watch only TCM or DVD's for movies. If TCM ever changes it's onscreen policy to what other channels are doing, I'll go exclusively to DVD's.
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Bummer. I was really looking forward to that one. It's reputed to be one of those ahead of its time entries - unjustly unnoticed, except by anyone who saw it. By those few, apparently, it's well remembered.
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I've never seen a better monthly schedule than this. I'm so hopeful that this will prove to be an example of what we can hope to see on a regular basis going forward - a true mix of movies from all times - from the silent era to the millennium - and a great mix of the regularly shown and seldom shown, including some remarkable rarities.
Only the most narrow-preferenced viewer could complain about a schedule like this.
It's simply awesome.
Congratulations, programmers. You've truly hit a grand slam this time. Keep up the great work!
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It would have to be all of them.
Hmmm. So, when there's a scene wherein a male slaps a female, we can be sure that that character dislikes all women.
Thanks for clarifying.
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This is just for Miss W........ I now have about 500 songs on my ipod, and I always have it on "shuffle", which means the songs come up randomly. Out of all my songs, the one that has played the most in the past month is................"Turn Down Day", by the Cyrkle.
Sounds like your ipod is in need of repair.
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You don't have to treat women badly to be a misogynist, just dislike them.
All of them?
Or just certain ones?
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I am one of those native New Yorkers who eschewed "Seinfeld"
Probably explains much about why many of your posts are so difficult for other members to relate to.
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I'm a sensitive leaf of a thing, don't you know.
Yeah, me too.
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I'm just asking, if one must make an attempt to cast certain roles with actors who are of the same ethnicity as the role, is there a difference between casting Ken Watanabe (a Japanese) in the role of a Thai monarch; and casting Jonathan Pryce (a Welsh actor) as a French-Vietnamese character?
Not to me.
Someone else might care about it, but not me. I only care about whether the performance is good.
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Practically all roles are like that even those played by actors who are sometimes characterized as only capable of "playing themselves." Even their acting skill constitute a bit more than that. But if you want to include "playing all kinds of parts that aren't themselves in real life" to include playing ethnic groups other than your own, then it's your prerogative to do so.
I do, and I agree that it is. I prefer that it be convincing - or at least entertaining - but I'm all for the freedom to act any part that comes your way as an actor.
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How Do You Stand On The Question Of ...... Oriental characters being played by Caucasoid actors?
I have no problem with anybody playing anything.
With or without makeup - whatever works.
It's called acting. There's a long tradition of actors playing all kinds of parts that aren't themselves in real life.
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It's a myth that for some reason seems to be continually touted as truth by some people.
The only thing controlling today's mainstream media is the bottom line.
True journalism is in a lot of trouble now.
Cable "news" has become the "mainstream media" and it's thoroughly, totally owned by the corporate state. I'd prefer (strange to say) that its incompetence was a product of our declining education, but it's even more dire - more nefarious - than that. Systemic corruption has become nearly all-encompassing in this increasingly fascist empire.
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28Silent said:
Hollywood needs to reform and start putting all fans of entertainment first art first and profit second .
Profit has always been the driving force behind "Hollywood."
I don't forsee "Hollywood" ever abandoning the capitalist model in favor of the socialist model that you are proposing.
Yes. And besides, it's not Hollywood that needs to change - it's "fans".
Unfortunately, when it comes to a distressingly large percent of American people, the only way they're ever gonna get any smarter is if they die and come back as turnips.
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Even if she did wear pantyhose with them, which no self respecting Southern girl would have done.
Had to hide all those blue veins and razor stubble, ay.
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I used to see Belly's album in the Columbia House catalogue all the time and wondered what they sounded like. That 'Feed the Tree' song is decent, so I looked them up - they were a rather short-lived group. Only 2 albums, the second of which didn't sell very well and caused their demise.
But, from reading the AMG reviews, their second album actually sounds like it might be better than their first - more rock oriented.
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Yeah, Stevens has long been(and sadly STILL by many) underrated as a singer and songwriter. "Funny Man" also blew me away in that it was SO different from the Ray Stevens we all came to know and love.
He re-recorded it in '68 for his 'Even Stevens' album. This is that updated version.
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Thanks for sharing this song and introducing us to Frazey Ford.
Such a unique voice like the late Amy Winehouse.
The lyrics of "Done" must have been inspired by real experience.
"My joy takes nothing from you" is especially powerful. It's amazing to see relationships where one partner is truly bothered by seeing the other one experiencing happiness.
Or success.
I think Frazey is a unique singer as well. So nice to hear a singer that doesn't go for that tiresome trilling style so many use to convince people they can sing.
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Ridiculous show. Just plain stupid that people would watch more than one episode of something like that. And yet it runs for years. What a world.
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I Just Watched...
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All I know about it is that it's my very favorite thing.
Honest laughter - the kind that can't be supressed or faked - is the most wonderful sensation there is.