[The Post an Interesting Pic thread]

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[Another Memorial Day and NO movies about Vietnam War]

29 minutes ago, LawrenceA said:

The Boys in Company C, Full Metal Jacket, and We Were Soldiers come to mind.

Here's a whole page of other choices:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War_in_film

If a recruit can survive R. Lee Ermey, the war is a cake walk. 

[72 hour Memorial day marathon neutered to 1 day?]

13 minutes ago, slaytonf said:

I think they should all be French and Indian War movies.  Oh, wait, there wasn't a United States then.  Dang.

Save those in case someone creates an Indian Memorial Day but that will be likely as a memorial.

 

[Another Memorial Day and NO movies about Vietnam War]

6 hours ago, LawrenceA said:

It seems she may have gotten a rep for being "difficult" after being replaced on Woody Allen's Husbands and Wives, and then quitting/being fired from Tank Girl (1994), which was a big production, even if it's largely forgotten now.

I also read this, which may explain things a bit:

Stated in 2009 interview that she had also been diagnosed with mild schizophrenia, attention deficit disorder, Tourette's syndrome and chronic insomnia.

[Another Memorial Day and NO movies about Vietnam War]

17 hours ago, Hibi said:

Geez, no wonder! Sad. Yes I'd heard about the Woody Allen film, but couldn't remember which one. I hadn't heard about Tanks.

A stupid life after a comet strike movie.

 

On second thought stupid is too kind of a word. 

[Gasparilla Film Festival]

Pirates on parade. 

Gasparilla, sounds like something one gets after eating this Argentina gastronomic delight. 

 

[Lincoln’s Doctor’s Dog]

 

Now anything about John Wilkes Booth's Doctor's Dog?

 

Can't believe I found that photo 

 

[72 hour Memorial day marathon neutered to 1 day?]

6 hours ago, Michael Rennie said:

I remember Heathkit. I built one and it didn't work. Not handy with a soldering iron.

We built the following in high school electronics.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_American_Five#Miniature_tubes

Some joker decided to sabotage it, and we smoked a little pot.

Pot: Potentiometer. Variable resistor. Volume control.

My takeaway from HS electronics was the naughty little rhyme for resistor color codes.

Uh Oh! I am so off-topic.

Smoked a pot a few years ago. 

(so that's what you meant - not weed)

Built a common 5 National Technical Schools radio back in the '70's - best ever designed.

[Another Memorial Day and NO movies about Vietnam War]

This discussion on another forum may shed some light about the lack of Vietnam programming interest.

https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/71823/why-are-there-so-few-movies-about-the-vietnam-war-itself

 

Newsmax has aired "The Ghosts of My Lai," several times. 

https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/vietnam-war-army-my-lai-us/2015/05/27/id/647016/

 

In short, the TCM programmers knows there will be less viewers watching anything about that most hated war.

[72 hour Memorial day marathon neutered to 1 day?]

7 hours ago, Michael Rennie said:

I recently had surgery and am housebound. Doing all my computing with my tablet. Supposed to keep my leg elevated above my heart. Typing with just one finger. Love predictive text. It sometimes has a mind of its own.

So hamradio, don't be smoking a little pot, eh? Only someone who knows, in this case, "breadboard" is not a kitchen item, will get it.

Watching plenty of TV.

Actually it was a kitchen breadboard that were used in the early days, the terminology stuck. Some simply use a piece of wood with nails.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breadboard

[The Post an Interesting Pic thread]

2 hours ago, Arsan404 said:

Alec Guinness and Yvonne de Carlo rehearsing for The Captain's Paradise

May the Force be with them. 

[72 hour Memorial day marathon neutered to 1 day?]

I have 3 straight days off from work during the Memorial Day weekend.   Not going to spend it watching TCM.  Will rest, grill and "breadboard" a 1947 Heathkit K2 radio. (decide later if I'll clone it)

 

[Judith Barsi]

On 5/20/2019 at 3:55 AM, Susan Hopkins said:

Judith was supposed to be auditioning for a Hanna-Barbera cartoon series the day she was murdered but never did. I wonder what the series was?

Had she lived, she could have been as big in voice overs as Tara Strong or Grey Griffin.

Since she died in 1988  the only TV series Hanna Barbera had in the works and released in 1989 were "Paddington Bear" and "Dink The Little Dinosaur".  I favor the latter considering  her earlier voicing in "The Land Before Time",

[Gosh! And here I was havin' SO much fun with that "Ben Must Go" thread!]

Guess the mods love Ben. 

Others have known to go ape. 

[The Female Gaze]

I Googled your thread title and...

 

[Judith Barsi]

Well the Anne Marie character was a waif (homeless child).  Guess Don Bluth got the same impression TCM did.

 

Judith Barsi?  Sure not bad as Archibald Leach, 

 

Hi, i'm Archibald.

[Why does it take so long for memorial tributes to air?]

10 hours ago, araner1973 said:

 

Hi.  TCM exec here.  Well, not quite exec, but senior-level.  Happy to bring some light to the speculation.

There seems to be two different issues being discussed here.
1. the change in programming to pay tribute to a star.
2. the memorial montage (that's about 90 seconds long) that we produce for the dearly departed.

When a star passes away, especially a big star, it is not easy or quick to change the programming in order to properly eulogize them.  It's akin to turning around an aircraft carrier.  The changes have to be communicated to affiliates. 

 

Nah, it's much easier and faster to turn an aircraft carrier. 

 

[Movies-n-Marijuana?]

 

[Will political correctness kill classic movies?]

Re:

 

Ow that's going to hurt. 

 

[Actor-comedian Tim Conway (1933-2019)]

Will miss him. RIP   Got his movie with Don Knotts.

 

Love his "old man" character in "The Carol Burnett Show".

Love his "old man" character in "The Carol Burnett Show".

[The Doris Day Appreciation Thread]

1 hours ago, noah80 said:

 

Be nice if she starred in "Calendar Girls" 

[Why does it take so long for memorial tributes to air?]

We need a Dead Stars Channel...showing only movies of people just deceased.

[Will political correctness kill classic movies?]

When was the last time TCM showed "Dimples" (1936)?

 

 

To some both are a horror.

 

[The Eyes of Orson Welles]

Re:

THE EYES OF ORSON WELLES

[The Doris Day Appreciation Thread]

There was a thread about her last year regarding her medical condition and age.  was hoping she reached a 100.  97 is still a blessed age so no surprise since I was expecting this.  RIP.