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On 9/22/2002 at 7:12 PM, Guest finnie12, moira said:
"... there isn't a train I wouldn't take, No matter where it's going." Edna St. Vincent Millay The train is slowly pulling out of the station. The figures on the platform follow along beside the cars, lost in the steam, straining for a last look at the person they love. Your ticket is first class. Your luggage is in the baggage car. The gentle, dignified porter has prepared your berth and points you toward the club car as the cocktail hour nears. What's that you say to the man behind the bar? You'd like a sidecar--or is it a shirley temple? Either way...All Aboard! Just as trains have always had a pull on our imaginations, they have often played a role in several memorable movies...here's your chance to take that trip you've longed for--with traveling companions of your choice from the classic era. Where would you go? Who will go with you?
Speaking of Shirley, she's playing with an O gauge Zephyr in "Captain January" (1936)
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The movie "Public Enemies" (2009) has the Milwaukee Road 261 during the train station scene. It was restored and put into excursions. I give anything it pays my area a visit.
The Nickel Plate Road 765 was the last to come though my area a few years ago. It's in the movie "Matewan" (1987), the locomotive heading dead on towards the viewer right after the Sid Hatfield carrying the murdered teenager scene.
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‘Speedy Gonzales’ Eyed As Animated Feature At Warner Bros.
https://deadline.com/2016/04/speedy-gonzales-animated-movie-eugenio-derbez-warner-bros-1201730245/
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The only one's that seems to be offended are the progressive / trendies.
Speedy Gonzales’s character welcomed by Hispanics
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/03/speedy-gonzales-hispanic_n_4039787.html
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This thread was last replied to in 2002, the posters are no longer here.
About Speedy, yeah a character that out runs, out wits it's pursuers is racist.
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2 hours ago, NipkowDisc said:
Maybe Groncho should had done the dance.
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Here's something interesting since we're on the 12 Angry Men subject....
"6 Angry Women" (2016)
Film Synopsis:
A young, unarmed black teenager is shot by a white neighborhood watchman. It is up to a jury of six to decide whether or not the man is guilty of murder. Inheriting the classic 12 Angry Men and shadowing the incendiary current events of police brutality, racial profiling and civil rights, 6 Angry Women – done with an improvised script – presents the jury deliberation of six women, strangers brought together by their civil duty, each seeking to do the right thing. But the ultimate question looms for each of them to answer: what is justice vs. what is legal?
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I lost count how many different versions there are.
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"Casper A Spirited Beginning" (1997) after getting zapped over telephone by Kabosh.
Snivel.....Good thing I'm dead already or that would had killed me.
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4 hours ago, Vautrin said:That was a nice gift from DirecTV. The only problem was trying to figure out which movie
to watch when you have about twenty or so different channels to choose from. I saw Meet
the Fockers, The Invasion, Charlie Wilson's War, E.T., Alien:Covenant and a few more. Alien:
Covenant was pretty good, even if a lot of it was just a rehash of the original Alien movie.
I got E.T. when it was first released on VHS in 1988. Still remember the fanfare about how it's the best anti-pirate copy ever made at the time. The case is a green / black design. I will never part with it.
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A dedicated movie for Aquaman.
Thinking about the phrase "sleeping with the fishes" can be taken literally.
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Two posters was here on the boards during the late 2000's claiming to be her. Why I have my doubts it was Sybil, there was only one post for each member name that started the separate threads. Didn't make sense.
Only remember one of them...goldenasachild. Can't recall the 2nd member name.
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8 minutes ago, TopBilled said:
I found Sybil Jason to be a strange but interesting kind of movie star. She was on Facebook, and after TCM aired a bunch of her films one evening I sent a message to her, which I think her assistant read and forwarded to her. It was easy to "friend" her on Facebook, and other people (classic film fans) had friended her too.
But I always got the impression that she had a love-hate relationship with the public. She liked the notoriety that came to her as a Warner Brothers contract player and related to this, the way TCM was bringing her new admirers years later. However, she was a private person and also I sensed she didn't like being pigeonholed as a former child star. She had a cabaret act and did live entertaining as long as her health permitted.
She told EVERYTHING in her book including how Humphrey Bogart unzipped his pants, exposing himself to stop the camera. Director..Cut!!!!
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28 minutes ago, Janet0312 said:
I thought she was pretty good in The Singing Kid with Jolson.
I purchased that privately made DVD-R 2 disc set on Ebay thinking Sybil was the singing kid. Didn't know the title was referring to Jolson. The song "I Love To Singa" plus th cartoon satire (Owl Jolson
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The other DVD is "The Singing Fool"
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3 hours ago, TopBilled said:
It's airing as part of Glenda Farrell's tribute. Of course, it was a film designed to showcase young Sybil's talents. The first one she did at Warners in the Shirley Temple mold.
Other entries include: I FOUND STELLA PARISH (1935) with Kay Francis; THE CAPTAIN'S KID (1936) with Guy Kibbee; and THE GREAT O'MALLEY (1937) with Pat O'Brien & Humphrey Bogart.
I like to make comparison between it and "Little Miss Marker" (1934) which Paramount helped make Shirley Temple a 20th Century star (isn't that a riot). Warner did a lot to HURT Sybil Jason by having too much violence in a film that suppose to center on making a 5 year old (yes she was THAT young) a star which was a turn off to people. Also kicking that little dog to death didn't help either.
"Little Miss Marker" was the opposite, a child won over a crime organization that centered on horse race gambling. Even though there was a threat of bodily harm at the end, not a single shot was fired and made Big Steve feel good about himself. What a nice ending....I have good blood.
20th Century Fox hired the best song writers for Shirley, Sybil was given far less quality material. I don't blame Sybil for failing but Warner whom blew it big time.
What's that's again about the phrase first impression?
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TCM is airing this RARE movie tonight at 12:30 AM Tuesday. it is not available on video, so this is an opportunity to record it. I already done so along with 3 others when TCM aired them on her birthday several years ago.
RIP Sybil
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"Mortal Engines", this has to be the dumbest plot ever, all the remaining world cities are put on wheels.
Should I go ahead and list in in the Worst Movies You Ever Seen thread and be done with it?
Watch out, don't let London crash into you. Bet insurance rates are a ****.
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This is one of my top 10 worst..."Battle of Los Angeles" (2011) don't confuse it with the other movie "Battle Los Angeles" which I like.
This should explain everything.
So this is the head alien.
Stupid thing!
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On 11/24/2018 at 8:46 AM, Sepiatone said:
Lotta amusing stuff comes with that gig....
Had one kid hand me his "wish list" of what looked like Egyptian hieroglyphs that he proudly proclaimed " I writed it myself!"
Another kid handed me HIS list, a mile long COMPUTER printout!
Y'know, back when the paper had those green and white stripes on it.
My favorite was one young man who, when asked what HE wanted for Christmas, mentioned instead what he'd like to see his SISTER and BROTHER get instead. I finally at least got him to tell me, "Well, anything you get me is OK with me."
Sepiatone
It's called green bar which is in use today.
It evolved from the teleprinter paper that resembles a roll of paper towels.
Would you believe they STILL sell it!
The first computer terminal
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1 hour ago, bluebirdsfly said:
Speaking of Cabbage Patch Kids there's this museum in Cleveland, Georgia called Babyland General Hospital and it's dedicated to Cabbage Patch Kids. I've never been but I've been watching some videos on YouTube and it looks like some place I'd never visit!
Here's one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLvdP5sfz0E
Strange and weird doesn't even cover this.
Hope that nurse didn't got splinters while delivering.
Question, if someone comes along and picked before they're ready, is that an abortion?
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So far no post from last night, must not have been THAT bad.
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18 minutes ago, TopBilled said:
I have to admit, THAT is cute. Do they still manufacture CPK dolls?
Yes, every type imaginable.
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) made up for it.
Y'know, back when the paper had those green and white stripes on it.
The Romance of Trains
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He's using it for dental floss.