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Well your post proved one thing, Hollywood has hit rock bottom. Its enough to make an Indian turn over in his grave. I think the next thread you start should be called "The Psychology of MGM" Personaly I think they are 2 cards short of a full deck. I like the South Park play on the theme better when the boys ask the guy what did you do to make the Indians buried on their sacred ground want to haunt us, he replied " oh I just dug them up, p__ed on them and reburied them upside down".

jarhfive wrote: << Patty McCormack as "Rhoda Penmark" in The Bad Seed (1956). >> Yes she is frightening and your reply got me to thinking in what I thought would have been a modern update of "The Bad Seed", the movie "Orphan". *** SPOILER ALERT *** Well I've been reading some of the internet blogs and Esther in "Orphan" is not what the commercials lead me to beleive - another bad seed but something else totally different. Well I'm glad I got the heads up and I am not going to watch such a letdown. http://www.knoxroad.com/2009/07/09/knowing-the-orphan-spoiler-is-more-fun-than-seeing-the-actual-movie/ Whats more frightening is that someone passed off the script for the movie. My feeling is that the person who approved the script should be stoned!

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HollywoodGolightly wrote: << Last time she was over, we watched 17 Again >> Lol, well thats a movie most all of us could relate to, especially us "older" folks. I mean who wouldn't want to be 17 again. Time is flying much too fast for me, I could have sworn I just got out of high school (early 1970's) sigh

aka the *Generation Gap.*

Like to see 2 commercials that shows a stark contrast in one actors smoking. John Wayne Here's before (I'm tough) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBhPQRmWDf0 Here's after (I'm dying)

I think also the problem is that the newer generation - people under 30 years of age may simply not be interested in movies between the 1920's - 1940's. There are some that likes the golden age of classic movies but they are in the minority. This probually explains the decline in older classic movie sales. People in the 50 - 80 year old age group still think that the same number of people are still around that likes the golden age of classics when they were younger. It will be soon be 2010 and look at the world through the eyes of someone under 30. Seen the commercials for the latest movies, a comedy about selling cars (that movie will lead to brain rot), to "Gamer" and to alien segregation in "District 9". Do you think that people who likes these types of movies would like "The Big Parade"?

Well then the studios better not be surprised that the overseas film pirates would be glad to fill the void the industry will be making. Thank goodness for TCM and Ebay! (and my old reliable recorder)

I like the classical music that Nicolas Cage played in "Knowing". It was also played at the near end during the New York "its every man for himself" scene. Question: does anyone knows what its called? That is my first time ever hearing it.

For me the key to comedy is the element of surprise. I have no one single best actor but my top 10 actors (not in any type of order) who have made me laugh the most in my life are Jerry Lewis WC Feilds Robin Williams Red Fox Carol Burnett Cary Grant Richard Pryor Eddie Murphy Jackie Gleason Billy Bob Thorton

Does this mean we will see Robert Osborne's "fine lines" much better?

Your original post didn't specify if the Disney remake will be a real life movie or a *cartoon*, I'm hoping its not a animated version. If they (Hollywood) wants to do a remake, then it should be done seriously. If a cartoon version is done then it diminishes what happened in real life. Small children who will view this cartoon will mostly have the animated charactors engraved in memory instead of a real live girl who had real HUMAN feelings. A serious remake can also make up for the mini series "Anne Frank, The Whole Story". The movie according to the Anne Frank Foundation has scenes that can not be validated and they even withdrew all support for it. That alone tells me not to take that movie as truth. Its a good bet that the Anne Frank Foundation will be scrutinizing this Disney version up close and personal. Disney should keep it to the original writings of her diary. Include NOTHING that can not be verified by history or witness testimony.

If you collect 78's you might find this site of value. This is where I got my record sleeves. http://www.bagsunlimited.com/CART/browse.asp?subcat=40

I am getting a couple of tapes and am planning to record those movies. I have "The Singing Kid" (not listed). We are getting something extra out of the deal, the movie "The Great O'Malley" (1937) is also one of Humphrey Bogarts rarest films. She is a registered member on Youtube if you read the comments. The video "I'm the Captain's Kid" is perfect for stripping the audio to make an MP3 out of it. There is a Decca 78 of it along with. "Changing of the Guard" (on the flip side) but has a different sound mix. Optical recording is much *better* than 1930's record tech regardless - thank you Lee DeForest!!! Here is a lobby still of "The Great O'Malley" Footnote: About Lee Deforest he invented sound on film aka PhonoFilm. Here is a piece. Technically speaking the mode is called variable density. I learn about him back in the 1970's during my electronic training. He also invented the vacuum tube.

About 3 months ago, TCM presented the 1936 Technicolor short "The Changing of the Guard". Its now on Youtube and is in two parts. The color is great. This might give people a chance to watch it if they missed it. Also check out the musical number "I'm the Captains Kid" sung by Sybil Jason. Very nice.. Youtube has the other links, this link is for Part 1 of "The Changing of the Guard". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfzRxjyReHs&feature=related

Having no Vitaphone has left me speechless.

Since we are on the subject of bloopers and goofs, there is one that really stood out and its NOT a movie but a "technical public marketing" film called *The Voice from the Screen* presented before the New York Electrical Society on October 27, 1926. by Edward B. Craft who was the Executive Vice President of Bell Telepnone Labratories at the time. The film was marketing the Vitaphone system for the film industry and after going through all the motions, how its set up, operated, etc. it was at the end of the presentation that really had the goof. During a sample Vitaphone demonstration, 2 premiere entertainers "Witt & Berg" was doing a little musical tune and the film showed the entire filming sequence and after production the results were finally presented to show the Vitaphone final product. LOL they played the WRONG song!! Someone must have sent Mr Craft the *wrong* Vitaphone record disk. I think I just found out why the film studios outside Warner Brothers rejected it!

Well movie villians don't "scare", just intrigue me. I might say when I was much younger, The Tall Man in "Phantasm" was a scary villian. I'm afraid that *real life* has cornered the market this time. For me the real frightening villian is the President of North Korea. ( Hollywood has its work cut out for them. ) *Kim Jong-il*

Is this the type of person you're looking for? *Edna May Oliver* < img src=http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_myX5Q4qMDhY/R3aoLuUQn5I/AAAAAAAAAL8/T4aDkIiotwk/s320/EdnaMayOliver.jpg>

Stephen444 wrote << I wonder if he was considered for Director of the 'Lolita' remake? >> A *good* director would have cast Amy Fisher in it.

TikiSoo wrote << What the heck IS that under his ear? An attacking pair of hairy pants? >> Its either that or a maned Joey Buttafuoco

There is one rare Mexican horror classic in which the Frito Bandito passed on and came back as a Tequila sucking vampire. Ayiee, yie-yie-yieeee!

*LOL!!!*. I've looked through some of the "Mexican Horror" movies and I can't stop from laughing. The real *Horror* will be if TCM ever aired them. They belong on the Comedy Channel. Here's one example

It looks like TCM just came across this reel. Lucky are the ones who recorded it because its not available anywhere. Here's all the info TCM has on it. *Not much though.* http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=400440

I think what you saw is called a Warner Brothers "Breakdown Reel". There are several of them. Here is the complete list that can be downloaded. Was the short you saw "Breakdowns of 1936"? http://www.archive.org/details/Breakdowns_Blowups_1936-1947