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After 66 years, who cares?
I'm certain there are plenty of "should have won" in the past but what can you do about it.....fuss?
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2 hours ago, Sgt_Markoff said:
I don't quite fathom the obsession with TCM schedules or TCM programming. The way I look at it is this: you have a television set. You walk over and turn it on. The screen either comes on or it doesn't. If images appear, you change the channel to TCM. TCM either appears or it doesn't. If it doesn't appear, you turn the set off and go find something else to do. Right?
Well there could be something scheduled someone might want to record otherwise you're correct. Channel selector seems to be an outdated function.
Directv shows on it's Program Guide what TCM will present during the next 36 hours. Last night all it showed was "Movie". A few other channels has done that before.
What's with that Vietnam documentary, there's Newsmax, NGC, Military Channel for that.
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My goodness, what short memories people have! Anyone remembered when TCM presented the restored version of "My Fair Lady" along with the 1994 documentary back in 2014? I still have it on VHS.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3nhio6
Super Panavision 70 before it was dropped for digital was a very expensive format. Learned from a theft at a theatre that was showing "Star Wars Episode I", a SINGLE 20 min reel was valued at $30,000!
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"Bad Santa" (2003) the scene where Marcus and Willy, trying painfully to teach the kid to defend himself in the boxing ring. Paid off at the end.
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Ruth Gordon - 2:00 into trailer.
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If someone told me 10 years ago, a film would be made about Dick Chaney and it be consider one of the best pictures of the year I asked what are they're high on.
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"Thunderball" (1965)
James Bond....Mind if my friend sits this one out, she's just dead.
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On 11/29/2018 at 3:25 AM, Bogie56 said:
Mary Queen of Scots (2018) by acclaimed theatre director Josie Rourke is no improvement over the 1971 Charles Jarrott version with Vanessa Redgrave and Glenda Jackson. I imagine its budget wasn't as great for starters but my real problem with it is in its last quarter where I just didn't buy into the script and its probable inventions. Saoirse Ronan in the title role proves once again what a good young actress she is. But Margot Robbie as Queen Elizabeth I was an absolute disaster which I chalked up to the direction of her character.
Mary proves you don't need a bump stock (later to be invented)
I think if she lived today could fire a semi automatic with one hand tied behind her back.
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Hell has many synonyms...underworld, inferno, place of departed spirits, the lower world, the grave, infernal regions, Sheol, Hades, Tartarus, Gehenna, abyss, realm of Pluto, Tophet, Styx, Acheron, Dis, Cocytus, Avernus, Abaddon, Satan's Kingdom, abode of the damned, abode of the dead, everlasting fire, perdition, purgatory, limbo, Erebus.
and not a single one vulgar.
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5 minutes ago, Dargo said:
OR, as those Canadians would say it:
"A Boat with a Trout"
(...sorry, not sure if they're also inclined up there to pronounce the word "Trout" as "Troat", and so I left that one alone...doesn't rhyme quite as well if they don't, huh)
Troat..well that's a new one for me.
https://channeling-winslow-homer.com/jumping-troat-jpeg/
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HBO during the 1990's rebooted "Little Lulu", they put some meat on her bones. She no longer looks like Olive Oyls daughter.
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4 hours ago, Sepiatone said:
Easy to see why "boomers" later in life took to the "hallucinogenics"
seeing as we grew up( speaking of "surreal") watching cartoons like this---
But Disney too, never fully strayed off the "surreal" path, considering the following.....(PS---
should see this while the mescaline is in "full bloom" ...... I HAVE.... ) ----
Whatta way to GROW!
Sepiatone
The Little Lulu song segment is from "A Bout with a Trout" have it along with 8 others on a DVD titled "Cartoon Craze" which are released in several volumes. It's a nice collection of classic cartoons....
.....including those LONG FORGOT about.
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On 12/8/2018 at 8:27 AM, Fedya said:
And what's with one poster resurrecting dozens of 16-year-old posts?
It's like we're replying to the ghost of ancient past.
Guest K, Sandy
By the way, what happened to all those OLDER threads that were archived - going back to the very beginning?
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"Gods of Egypt" (2016) on El Rey.
If the ancient Egyptians had television they would ate this thing up.
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7 hours ago, Dargo said:
"Gee, you just hit me with everything but the kitchen sink!"
-"Well, don't wannna disappoint ya chum!"
BAM!
The preceding was was brought to you by the comic genius of Tex Avery, and courtesy one his now seemingly little remembered created characters Screwball "Screwy" Squirrel...
(...always thought this little guy's antics were pretty funny, although I understand many never cared much for him...perhaps this led to his rather limited filmography)
Wonder if he offended those in...
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"Bill Monroe - Father of Bluegrass Music" (1993) documentary has him just shortly before his passing and other artist i.e. Ricky Scaggs, Marty Stuart reflects on his life and career from the beginning. Bill even influence Elvis and the Beatles.
My mom loved his music.
RIP 1911-1996
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George Brent now has competition.
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51 minutes ago, TomJH said:
No offense but a little of Speedy Gonzales goes a long way with me - like the Road Runner. Boring.
Bugs and Daffy, on the other hand, can't get enough of them - before the quality of even their cartoons started to slide downhill by the mid '50s (with a couple of exceptions).
Yeah he only goes beep beep, nothing else. Wile E. on the other hand.
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37 minutes ago, Sgt_Markoff said:
p.s. great trivia question. Elmer Fudd's voice was one of the few which did not come from Mel Blanc. Who's was it?
Billy West?
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9 minutes ago, Sgt_Markoff said:
I would vote for the train crash in 'Greatest Show on Earth' as being the most entertaining and satisfying ever filmed. Even though John Frankenheimer filmed a real crash in Burt Lancaster's incredibly well-done thriller, ('The Train') ...the de Mille variation is just a heck more fun.
That convertible goes flying like a kid's toy. And the man we love to hate (Lyle Bettger) right along with it. Yet another instance of a blond villain getting his--and how! I hope I'm recalling all this correctly.
Unless I'm very much mistaken, wasn't he also the villain in "No Man of Her Own"?
More fun if the locomotive is right behind you.
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7 hours ago, JeanneCrain said:
Speaking of train romances...I have numerous friends that are very passionate about trains but no one I know has more romance and passion for trains than my relative Dan who has dedicated thousands of hours into building a steam locomotive from scratch…really quite impressive.
Check it out for yourself…
Wow what a lucky guy.
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Best train wrecks.
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I like the movie "The Polar Express" (2004) but hated that silly "roller coaster" scene that almost ruined the movie.
Begone era of the Scrapbook
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A bygone era?
https://www.scrapbook.com/articles/history-of-scrapbooking