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I'm not certain but I think the "C" was the wit of Jack Warner. Jackie Gleason was performing regularly in nightclubs, and was "discovered" while performing at Club 18 in New York by Jack Warner himself. Mr Warner signed him to a contract that had him leave New York for Hollywood.
The "C" is probually for "Club 18". Sounds like an inside joke between Jackie and Jack Warner..
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So far I have heard no complaints about Suddenlink. They must be pretty good.
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My very last movie I saw in the theatre was "Lock up". It was a re-release at the time. My downtown theatre closed its doors for good afterwards.
The last DVD I bought was "The Alien Factor"
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Would you rather have this
Spike Strips
or this?
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I know its a little early but I can't wait to see the January 2013 Schedule *or will there be one?*
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Here's a nice site about the Biograph Studios, the oldest film company in America. I like the article about Billy Bitzer, one of the earliest cameraman. 1896 wow.
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BREAKING NEWS: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/indonesian-earthquake-they-were-sucked-deep-into-the-earth-1797309.html
I asked one of the Indonesians there how he feels about Roamn Polanski, he said *< censored >*.
Oh well, we all thought Roman was more important.
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"Night of the Living Dead" (the original) is the king of zombie movies. "The Serpent and the Rainbow" is a nice trying to tell us what a zombie is (loosely). I like it as well.
About "I Walked with a Zombie", Mrs Gore once said.... oh never mind.
If anyone wants to place their hard earned money in a paper shredder, you can watch "Zombieland" at your local cinema instead - no difference.
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A real unique classic TV series. One of the earliest sitcoms I remembered.
Whats funny is that I am now a little over 50 and I feel like at times I'm living in "The Twilight Zone". What a world.
"The Twilight Zone" and the "Outer Limits" were to me a match pair that went well together.
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I only know Sonny Coghlan from the "Frolics of Youth" shorts made between 1933 - 1934. He was a scene stealer. I have a few of them like "Pardon My Pups". I wish they did more with that charactor on those "Frolic of Youth" shorts - too few were made.
Shirley Temple played his bratty kid sister Mary Lou, the only few times you see her playing a *normal* child role. Its a myth that she all the sudden was discovered in "Stand Up and Cheer". The only reason people took notice was that they fell asleep watching that boring turkey and she simply woke them up!.
RIP Sonny
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That applies to today's rich kids.
This thread could use a time out.
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We need to sit back and listen to the Barbara Streisand's CD "Love is the Answer" and settle our nerves!
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The horse "Whiskey" in the comedy "The Villian" with Kirk Douglas.
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Kyle that post is a little less graphic than the stuff you hear on "Law and Order SVU" and "CSI"
As Al Jolson once said "You haven't heard nothing yet"
http://globalgrind.com/content/976399/1-Year-Old-Pregnant-With-Baby/
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Thank goodness whoever designed my local theatre back in the early 1920's had forsight. It had a *large* Cinemascope screen.
Use ! before and after the Tinypic web address link.
Edited by: hamradio on Sep 30, 2009 1:46 PM
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About "The Big Trail" (1930), it was shot in a process using 70mm film (beleive it or not) called "Fox Grandeur" which was first used in Fox Movietone Follies of 1929. Cost must have been very prohibited or they would have continued it. Just imagine if they *continued using* that format. What "Gone with Wind" could have been. Just thinking about it blows my mind that they had something so good but let it slip through their fingers.
"The Big Trail"
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Its a Korean version I bought NIB on Ebay. This is the only version I want. Its long enough the way it is, 222 mins
Edited by: hamradio on Sep 30, 2009 1:00 PM
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HollywoodGolightly wrote:
<< Abel Gance's Napoleon (1927) is in the "normal" format for most of its running time, but features a memorable ending with a "triptych" screen (3 screens lined up horizontally, a little like Cinerama would do years later). >>
Its actually called Polyvision which has an aspect ratio of 4.00 to 1 I'm so glad I own that movie. I placed it in my DVD drive and took a snapshot of the Polyvision screen. If you look closely, you can see the 3 individual projected screens. So neat. By the way it is used in 1 video game called "Burnout Paradise" was released with the same aspect ratio when three 4:3 monitors are used.
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Horse movies? Tons of them. I think TCM should scan down this list. They might have *missed* something.
http://horseracing.about.com/od/booksandvideos/a/aamovies.htm
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This is from http://thewizardofoz.info/faq13.html
<< 13.11. Where can I see a widescreen version of The Movie?
You can't. Like most movies of it's time (including Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Gone with the Wind, Casablanca, Citizen Kane, and numerous others), The Wizard of Oz was made with a 4:3 screen ratio ? nearly square, and very similar in shape to an older television screen. It wasn't until the 1950s that widescreen movie formats were introduced. So if you should ever see any sort of widescreen presentation of The Wizard of Oz, odds are the top and bottom of the picture are being cut off! For more information about screen ratios and how they relate to The Movie, take a look at http://hollywoodgothique.bravejournal.com/entry/7296.'>http://hollywoodgothique.bravejournal.com/entry/7296.'>http://hollywoodgothique.bravejournal.com/entry/7296.'>http://hollywoodgothique.bravejournal.com/entry/7296. >>
Also check http://hollywoodgothique.bravejournal.com/entry/7296
In other words the so called widescreen version is a mutilated version. Blame HD.
Fake widescreen is reminiscent the fake color (colorization). Its a miricle that some moron didn't colorized the first 15 min of "The Wizard of Oz".
Edited by: hamradio on Sep 29, 2009 11:38 PM
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Update: Jay Leno is having a ball. Lol Roman got suspicous when the award he got was handed to him by Chris Hansen on Dateline Predator.
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Taxi Drivers - can't live without them.
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Maybe this article might wake us up that something is really wrong with the legal system. When reading consider that BOTH of these teenagers (at the time the offense occured) were only 2 lousy years apart. Fortunately the judges decision was VOIDED. See article below the main one. There should not have been an arrest to begin with. Read the comments!
http://digg.com/odd_stuff/Teen_Given_10_Years_For_Having_Sex_With_Girl_Two_Years_Younger
If you don't see the 10 year sentence VOIDED link goto
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19171577/
Edited by: hamradio on Sep 29, 2009 9:21 PM
Movie murders that don't work
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Sounds like the normal logic in conspiracies. Maybe shes an alien.