CelluloidKid
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I don't think so...but as the film The Crowded Sky" went along it turned into camp!! I laughed at points!
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*_Tombstone_ (1993)*
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*Fairbanks, Douglas, Jr.*
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Richard Attenborough was in: _The Flight of the Phoenix_ (1965) directed by Robert Aldrich!
*NEW DIRECTOR: Robert Aldrich!*
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*_Madame X_ (1977)*
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TCM should have at least shown:
*_Skyjacked_ (1972)*
*_Airport_ (1970)*
*Air Crew (1980 Russia) AKA Ekipazh* - Very interesting film! The first catastrophe movie shot in the Soviet Union. I rented it once.
*_Airport 1975_ (1974)* - Barney: You mean THE STEWARDESS IS FLYING THE PLANE? -
LOL!!! Gotta love it!
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*Good idea!*
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*Trivia for: _The Gorgeous Hussy_ (1936)*
*This was the first film Joan Crawford and Franchot Tone made together after their marriage in 1935.*
*Joan Crawford and Franchot Tone*
Films: Today We Live, Dancing Lady, Sadie McKee, No More Ladies, The Gorgeous Hussy, Love On The Run and The Bride Wore Red
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*All Times Eastern! Check Local Times! Thanks!*
*Sun, Mar 7, 1:30 PM _Pollyanna_ (1960)*
*Tue, Mar 9, 5:45 PM _The Parent Trap_ (1998)*
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Reynolds started a comeback with the movie _Striptease_ in 1996, and the critically acclaimed Boogie Nights, in 1997, put his career back on track.
He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in _Boogie Nights_ and won a Golden Globe Award for the movie. He was considered a front-runner for the Supporting Oscar, but ultimately lost to Robin Williams, who won it for his role in _Good Will Hunting_.
*Celebri-links ..... _Boogie Nights_ director Paul Thomas Anderson!*
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stampede ....... _City Slickers_ (1991)
*NEW WORD: Confetti!*
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*_Rains of Ranchipur, The_ (1955)*
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*Dench, Judi*
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*_Killing of Sister George, The_ (1968)*
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Tuesday Weld appeared with Jackie Gleason and Steve McQueen in the 1963 comedy _Soldier in the Rain_; her performance was well received, but the film was only a minor success.
*NEW STAR: Steve McQueen!*
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The book states, the Catholic Church found _Imitation of Life_ a monolithic theocracy verging on fascism....Hmmm Ok!?.
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*Corn farmers say _Food Inc._ shouldn't win Oscar*
The Associated Press
Mary Clare Jalonick
March 5, 2010
*WASHINGTON ? The corn industry is lashing out at an Oscar-nominated documentary that has grossed out grocery shoppers, saying the film is unfair to many of the nation's farmers and shouldn't win.*
"Food Inc.," which was nominated for best documentary, has captured audiences with its behind-the-scenes look at the food industry, bringing cameras into feedlots, slaughterhouses and chicken farms used by corporate agriculture, describing stomach-turning practices in an effort to encourage consumers to buy locally grown and organic foods that aren't mass produced.
The corn industry, one of several food industries attacked in the film, is fighting back. Though the official voting for Sunday's Academy Awards is over, the National Corn Growers Association, the industry's largest trade group, is encouraging corn farmers to get the word out in the media and on social networking sites like Facebook to rebut the documentary in the final days before the Oscars.
"If we don't shoot down their arguments with credible and truthful information, our reputation as America's farmers will suffer significantly," reads an alert sent to member farmers this week.
The movie taps into a growing social movement critical of the nation's industrial food system. The film features Michael Pollan, author of "The Omnivore's Dilemma," and Eric Schlosser, author of "Fast Food Nation." Both books are credited with galvanizing opposition to industrial agriculture.
Darrin Ihnen, a corn grower from Hurley, S.D., and president of the corn group, says the movie makes him mad because it ignores many of the good things about America's larger farms, including the environmentally friendly practices some use, as well as efforts to feed the world's hungry.
"Because we have an abundant supply, America has the world's most affordable food, and that's due in large part to the practices attacked in this film," he said.
The documentary looks at the chemicals used to fatten up chickens and cattle, criticizes genetically engineered crops and links practices at livestock operations to deaths from E. coli poisoning. The widespread use of corn also is blamed for the country's obesity epidemic and high rates of diabetes.
But the movie isn't all negative, chronicling the increase in production of organic foods and the willingness of companies such as Wal-Mart to sell them.
The film's producer and director, Robert Kenner, says he tried to get the farming industry involved when he was making the film, but most declined to talk. He says he has been surprised at the response to it and the debate it has created ? he says said the food industry at first ignored the film, but companies have protested more loudly as the film has gained attention.
"They are realizing their consumers are concerned," he said. "These are complicated issues and we don't mean to offer the solutions to these problems, totally, but we do mean to create a conversation about them."
James McWilliams, a professor at Texas State University and author of "Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly," says he thinks the film is justified in attacking the corn industry and highlighting the overabundance of corn-based products in the American diet. Nevertheless, he says it may not give farmers a fair shake.
"Millions of conventional farmers who care about the environment and work to lessen their carbon footprint have good reason to feel threatened by the film's aggressive message that all industrial agriculture is inherently evil," he said.
Dan Glickman, former secretary of agriculture under President Bill Clinton and current chairman of the Motion Picture Association of America, says the film is a welcome addition to the debate over so-called production agriculture, but called it "a piece of advocacy work" that is not always objective.
"I think production agriculture, the corn growers, have a good story to tell, and a lot of times I don't think they have engaged in the debate," he said. "The more they protest, the more people will want to go see the movie."
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*Akira Kurosawa on set*
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In the book it does talk about how at the time the film was "NOT" camp, but over-time it became camp!
The book states: that Douglas Sirk filmed his masterpiece in late summer of 1958,less than 3 years after Rosa Parks sat down in a bus in Montgomery and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led the boycott, Only a few years earlier, neither Hollywood nor the American public would have accepted this picture.
The book asks: In the spirit of those times, what might Juanita Moore's line to Lana Turner-"How do you explain to your child, she was born to be hurt?"-have meant to audiences today?
And how might we, in the "progressive" twenty-first century, explain to those audience at the tail end of a similar era, that so much has changed, and so little?
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*Publisher: St. Martin's Press; 1 edition (February 17, 2009)*
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*Gorgeous Hussy, The (1936)* - Sun. Mar. 7, 2010 @ 8:00 AM Arizona Time!
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Sophia Loren was in: _Nine_ (2009) directed by Rob Marshall!
*NEW DIRECTOR: Rob Marshall!*
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Radicalism ...... _Heart of Dixie_ (1989)
*NEW WORD: March is known as: _National Frozen Food_!*
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*& still TCM doesn't show: _The Celluloid Closet_ (1995)*
Airline Disasters theme 3/5
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*Love _Airplane!_ ...8:00PM Arizona Time!*
I just bought a Blu-ray player... I wish this was on Blu-ray!
*The film's creators received the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Comedy, and nominations for a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture (Musical/Comedy) and a BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay.*
*The film was voted the 10th-funniest American comedy in AFI's "100 Years... 100 Laughs" list, and ranked 6th on Bravo's "100 Funniest Movies".*