slappy3500
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Come on ML, it was meant as a light-hearted kick in the pants to spur a little action.Mr. TCM web took it in the spirit in which it was intended. Offensive? You have NO conception of the primordial depths that I can plumb if given the proper motivation.
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Dear Sue...."Happy Trails to you...until we meet again...Happy TRAAAAAIIILS to you... keep smilin' until then..."
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Bah! Child stars.. WC Fields had it right when he said: "Go way son, ya draw flies."
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"Yours mine and Ours" has a few early appearances by the noteworthy. Tim Matheson, Morgan Brittany under a different name and note the appearance of Tracy Nelson & Tom Bosley together YEARS b 4 the "Father Dowling Mysteries."
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Aha! PARALDEHYDE... and here I thought my family was trying to embalm me pre-maturely...
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It seems to me that in "Blue Hawaii" Elvis kept insisting that Don Ho had a sister named Crack... or was that the night Gramps filled my bong with angel dust..?
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The role of "Tuptim" was originally offered to Dorthy Dandridge,fresh from her oscar-nominated role in "Carmen Jones", by Daryl Zanuck. But, her lover at the time, Otto ( I'm the REAL Uncle Fester!) Preminger, talked her out of playing a slave. Because she had already agreed to play the role,many producers(including Zanuck) considered her to be unreliable. This opened the door for her to play in lots of totally obscure movies that wasted her considerable talents. Thanks Otto.
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I kinda liked him in "I Was a Teen-aged Jesus".... AKA "King of Kings"
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I think what's going on here is that the "staff" refered to by tcmweb1 consists of one graduate of Dullard Community College named Ebeneezer Peanutsqueezer who uses a Commadore 64 to tweak the system. From my understanding the clock on his Betamax has been blinking since 1987.
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Trouble is I couldn't even GET to the board. Thanks anyway
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If you have ever wondered WHY a the rights to a famous best seller have been purchased at great cost only to have the entire story changed, here's one way it happens. In his non-fiction book "Danse Macabre" (about horror in the media)Steven King describes one incident which is meant to shed light on this matter. King talked to award- winning writer Harlan Ellison about his experience trying to write the script for "Star Trek- The Movie". Ellison's script involved the Enterprise running into a race of reptillians who had gone back into time to the dawn of man and changed history so that repitles, not mammals evolved into the Earth's dominant intelligent race. The focus of the screen play was the issue of whether the Enterprise had the right to exterminate an intelligent race of beings when they changed history back. Some empty suit at Paramount had just read "Chariot of the Gods" and wanted Ellison to work some Mayans into the story. Ellison responed that there were no Mayans at the dawn of man and that it was stupid to change the story just to sdomehow include them. The suit got upset and said that he really liked Mayans and didn't Ellison want to write the screen play? Whereupon Ellison told him: "I'm a WRITER. I don't know WHAT the F*** YOU are.!! and walked off the set.
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Uhh hummm Bansi... I know EXACTLY what you mean... something about a leopard and it's spots. If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck: it sure the heck ain't a MONGOOSE!
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Today when trying to get the message board, the connection kept timing out. I have broad band so it's not a problem at MY end. Navigating the rest of the TCM was NOT a problem JUST the MESSAGE BOARD. I am quickly losing patience here. I belong to several message boards hosted by private individuals, not corporations and I NEVER have a problem at ANY of them. With a professional staff running this board,I am baffled about why these problems have not been solved. My time is too valuable (to me anyway) to be wasted by flawed programs and/or incompetant programmers.
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Last night I happened to catch the re-make of "Fail Safe"(2000). I have NO idea what the point of this was. They did it as a period piece (i.e. mid 60's) they used the film as a source not the novel, and they did it in black and white.(While I love that the original is B&W, color would at least make it DIFFERENT!) The point of the original movie was that the US and USSR were on hair triggers and that both sides relied too much on their machines. The novel especially, made the point that humans had to re-establish control over the machines and thus the future of humanity. Since the end of the cold war the US and Russia are have relaxed their levels of response to a lesser degree, and thus the danger of accidental nuclear war is far less. A more original take might have been to emphasize the human over reliance on machines angle of the novel, which would have helped to make the re-make more relevent to 2000. Instead they still focused on the unlikely accidental war theme and ended the film with a list of the present nuclear nations. As if the Indians and Pakistanis have military establishments that are so complex that they can be triggered by the misreading of a radar screen!
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BTW N.J. once again has a Drive-in theatre. It's only fitting that the state that pioneered the drive-in (Camden, 1939) have at least ONE!
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Brack, how can you rate Huntz Hall over Leo Gorcey's "Slip Mahoney"? Leo's finely crafted performances, reflecting the influence of his Shakespearian background and the nuances of Lee Strassborg's training are clearly superior to Hall's pedestrian, low brow, antics. That's as bad as rating Ish Kabibble's films with Kay Kaiser over the sensitive portrayals of urban angst and stress by the incomparable Mr. Shemp Howard!
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What was the accident? Did Paris break a nail?
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Boards STILL not right. I posted this in the "Films that SHOULD be re-made" thread. I never even LOOKED at this thread!
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What was the accident? Did Paris break a nail?
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Don't forget the 3 hr PBS movie starring Louis Jordan. My mother watched this one and she HATES any kind of movie where you suspend disbelief. I think she was hopping that vampires (or at least Jordan) were real!
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jposkitt you must be a victim of the "new math." A film from 1969 (the NEWEST movie year from that decade) is 35 years old! If you are willing to see movies that are 25 years old 1974 would be the newest films you want to see. So you want the NEWEST movie on TCM to be from 1959? That's 45 years Dude!
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LOL bggalaxy! I can just picture you in the 50's telling your friends: "Yeah my Mom's taking me to see a Bible movie tonite, "All About Eve", and next week we're gonna see some crummy nature film: "To Kill a Mockingbird".
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"Say it loud and there's music playin'...say it soft and it's almost like prayin'...I'll never stop sayin'--Mariaaah." Beautifully crafted lyrics. No schmaltz, no cloying maudlin melodrama. Just the heartfelt emotion and excitement of a boy totally infatuated with a young lady that captured his imagination. THAT's romance and a perfect musical portrayal of Shakespear's classic love story. A small anecdote. I was asked to do emergency coverage of an 8th grade music class. In the closet were a lot of tapes. I popped WSS into the VCR and within 2 minutes those antsy, hormone-driven, monsters were rapt with attention, totally engrossed and groaned when the period ended. Folks if you don't think that shows the power of a great musical work of art, you don't know modern 8th graders!
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GWTW you're thinking of Clint Walker who also had his own TV series "Cheyenne". I always thought he looked like Fess Parker's older, bigger, and meaner brother.
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Exactly WHAT is the problem here?
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