Capuchin
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Yeah, sigh!, Brunette was on.
I just now thought of something to check -- when TCM posted the January schedule last October, it had *RtHK* instead of *MFB*
I guess this was one of those "we wanted it but there was a last minute rights problem" things, so they changed it somewhen between the time they thought they had the schedule finished and when they had RO do the intros.
It irks me a bit because there was something else I wanted to do this evening instead of recording the 'Road' movies, but a chance to get six of the seven was too good to pass up. Having only five of them doesn't quite cut it.
Oh, well.
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The TCM page about tonight's theme, the Primetime Grid, and the Monthly Schedule all show only five 'Road' movies.
But both my DirecTV onscreen guide and IMDB's page for *Road to Hong Kong* show it being scheduled for 4:15am tonight.
I'm wondering if this was a schedule change, and which (the original or the new one) has *RtHK*
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According to the TCM site, there are five (5) 'Road' movies tonight:
Road to Singapore (1940)
Road to Zanzibar (1941)
Road to Morocco (1942)
Road to Utopia (1946)
Road to Bali (1952),
followed by My Favorite Brunette (1947).
But my DirecTV onscreen guide shows *Road to Hong Kong* instead of *My Favorite Brunette*
Was this a last-minute schedule change?
Anyone know anything about this?
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Some years ago, when I was forced to temporarily subscribe to cable, I asked a customer service rep which tier I'd have to buy in order to get TCM. She didn't know offhand, so she pulled out a brochure which broke down their channels by category. She looked at one page, shook her head, and said they didn't have it. "But we have all these other ones," she said as she handed me the brochure.
She had it open to the page of home shopping channels!
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> {quote:title=hamradio wrote:}{quote}
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> Or this can be a case of deja vu.
Personally, I'm suffering from deja moo -- I think I've heard BS before.
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Instead of more threads about repeats, I think we need more rants about new movies. I don't think I've see one of those for at least two days.
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> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}
> My problem usually happens when I click on a Google search link.
The problem may be one of so many things that a list of them would strangle the bandwidth.
I have few problems with IMDB (at least computer-wise) running IE7 under WXP2.
You might try right-clicking and 'open in new window' for Google links. If that works, you probably have a corrupted cookie somewhere. When was the last time you ran a clean-up program?
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I have good news and bad news . . .
Good news -- For 2005 and onward, I have a database I can search to find the year(s) a movie was shown on TCM, then I can search that year's database to find the month(s), then that month's database to find the day.
Bad news -- you can't have it. I estimate I've spent over 100 hours (30-45 minutes at a time) compiling those databases. I don't feel I can share them for two reasons --
1) The information was copied from published sources. While I believe I have the right to do this for my own use as an archive, it's probably a copyright violation if I distribute it.
2) I have my own arcane way of doing things (it might take hours to teach someone how to find anything in my databases), and I only included the information I want (which is why I'd have to go through the heirarchy of databases to find the day -- that info isn't in the multi-year or year databases).
But not to fear! I didn't bring this up just to tickle your nose. If you use Windows, you can make a searchable 'database-of-sorts' fairly easily (you can probably also do it under Linux or Mac, but I can't give instructions for those).
Find a site that lists old TCM schedules. Save the pages as text files. For Internet Explorer (IE7) you use: "File -> Save As..." and then when it asks for page and location, you use the "Save as Type:" to select "Text File (.txt)"
Once you have each month's schedule as a single text file, you can then use the Windows 'Search' feature. "Start -> Search -> All files and folders" then "*.txt" in "All or part of the file name" the name of the movie in "A word or phrase in the file" and the folder where you saved the webpages in "Look in"
When you open that file, you can use the "Edit -> Find" function to locate the movie.
It's a little clumsy, but it'll take a lot less time than assembling a true database, and if it's your only option . . .
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Sony built 3 special ambulances for the movie *Ghostbusters* (three were needed to assure that at least one would always be ready for a shot).
One of them, with all the documentation and autographed by the stars, just crossed the Barrett-Jackson auction block, selling for $80,000 (plus 10% buyers commish).
While that's a lot less than some of the BatMobiles have sold for in the past, and I do really like the movie, I just can't see myself ever buying such a thing.
You?
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LonesomePolecat -- Great Schedule!
I particularly like **** -- you've got some of my favorite guilty pleasures.
And you can never go wrong with the Muppets!
Wonderful all the way around.
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> {quote:title=lzcutter wrote:}{quote}
> *May I do a second one?*
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> Sans,
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> I appreciate your enthusiasm but only schedule per poster is allowed.
Aw, why? Since I finished mine, I've been kicking around a few "maybe I should have . . ." ideas. What if SF and I teamed up to do one? Two halves making up a different whole? Huh, huh, huh?
(smiley)
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I am so very happy that the ones I want to see are on during the day since, obviously, the J-B auction will be taking up my time in the evening (I've watched every year since it began being televised).
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> {quote:title=AmandaHallay wrote:}{quote}
> My fave bit was when they predicted that cats would live in skyscrapers (by then, filled with plants and birds) and eventually learn how to FLY to glide from building to building! Ha ha. Don't know how accurate that is...but it's a lovely image!
I once saw a cat fall into a bathtub that had four inches of water in it, and he came out with only about an inch of his legs wet. If they can reverse direction without hitting bottom, them levitating/flying is not out of the question.
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I think they were smart to leave the "where'd everybody go" question in limbo. Any scenario they came up with would have people saying, "I'm an expert in the field and know that wouldn't kill/remove/dissipate more than X% of the population . . . ." This way they can concentrate on post-armageddon effects without criticism over their selected method of armageddon.
It plays to the subconscious fear/desire/myth/plotline of "what if I was the last man on Earth?" (Which is second only to the subsconscious thought of being the last man on Earth after all the women suddenly became nymphomaic.)
I just wish they'd have episodes which concentrate on one specific area and focus on the first fifty years. If you're the last person in, say, Rapid City, SD, how long before the electricity goes out, the faucets run dry, the jackalopes overrun the east side of town, etc.
A follow-up series I'd like to see is "10 Years Later" -- what the effects of sitting unused for a decade are on common objects such as car batteries, antibiotics, gasoline, etc. and what, if anything, can be done to restore them for use.
Has anyone figured out how long a DVD sitting in a sealed package would last?
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> {quote:title=Bronxgirl48 wrote:}{quote}
> You'll excuse me, I'm also recovering from my first experience with SWEET NOVEMBER.
It isn't shown often. The last time I saw it was when it came out.
Unfortunately I didn't remember enough about it to start a thread to suggest people watch it. I certainly didn't remember the ending, but it isn't the sort of thing a person would normally forget, is it?
I only hope it's scheduled again soon. I'm not a big fan of Dennis or Newley, but it is a powerful film.
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I ave a code in my nothe, tho I have two quiltth and hot apple thider to keep me warm.
They thay it ith code outthide, but I do not have to go out until Fridar or Thaturday, tho I am fine.
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SansFin --
Great schedule!
I admit I was a little lost on your Sunday daytime schedule before I read your programming notes and saw the progression.
I laughed at *Speaking of Ex-Wives* leading off with *The Devil's Daughter.* Your other themes ranged from cute to inspired. I'd love that Saturday!
The way you worked in so many shorts is nice. I try to put some in mine, but they're so problematic.
You'll probably take some heat for scheduling *Chocolat* because it's so very new. I agree it's a great movie and rightly deserves to be called a classic, but some people in this forum are very touchy about dates.
I'm tempted to say it's a great first effort, but I don't think it needs that qualification -- it's a great schedule by any measure!
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> {quote:title=LonesomePolecat wrote:}{quote}
> Capuchin----awesome schedule!! I love you for programming "Babette's Feast"---one of the best foreign films ever. And Toshiro Mifune?! What a clever and worthy choice! Awesome!
Thanks!
One of the reasons I pushed myself to finish quickly was that I wanted to use *Babette's Feast* and *Nine 1/2 Weeks* and *A Feast at Midnight* but I was afraid they are so obvious for a Food theme that everyone would schedule them, and my entry would look like I was copying.
As regards Toshiro Mifune -- while TCM deserves kudos for their SOTMs, they're always rather mainstream choices. I'd like to see something other than the standard Hollywood type.
Hope your schedule is coming along well!
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Rather than just the big names, I'd like to see a Summer Under the Stars honoring character actors.
Wilfrid Hyde-White
Alan Hale
Judith Anderson
Eugene Pallette
Alan Mowbray
S. Z. Sakall
Harry Morgan
Oscar Levant
Edward Everett Horton
Rudy Vallee
Lee Patrick
James Gleason
Binnie Barnes
Wilhelm Bendow
Masayuki Mori.
Eric Blore
Ward Bond
Charles Victor
Thelma Ritter
Harry Davenport
Felix Bressart
Cecil Parker
Charles Coburn
Barry Fitzgerald
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> {quote:title=filmlover wrote:}{quote}
> Well, I take it with grace and as you know the sincerest form of flattery...
I hoped you'd take it with good humor. I was just playing around a bit.
> But my lawyer will be in touch with your lawyer.
I'm afraid my attorney is in jail, and his attorney is under indictment, so it'll have to be my lawyer's lawyer's lawyer.
> (Of course, you do realize by doing that cover, I'll have to relegate the one I do for yours to The Bride of the Gorilla.)
Squinch your eyes a bit, and it already could be . . .
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> {quote:title=lzcutter wrote:}{quote}
> Capuchin,
> Congratulations on being the first to post. Impressive schedule! You've got some very good films in there!
Thanks!
> As for the Now Playing Guide cover, I'll let you and Filmlover work that one out.
I just did it to relax a bit. It'll be interesting to see what he comes up with!
> The Challenge is tough enough without asking participants to have a high level of Photoshop skills to boot.
Oh, and I use Gimp, not Photoshop. (smiley)
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> {quote:title=SansFin wrote:}{quote}
> Do we have to make a poster?
No -- it's just that when I begin to get a little burnt out using a CAD program, I switch to an image processor to relax.
As lzcutter said, usually Filmlover does them at the end of the challenge, and I'm curious how his might be different.
Hope you're having fun with your schedule!
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Not wanting to steal Filmlover's thunder, but I did this during breaks . . .
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One reason I finished quickly is that I've been spending a lot of time lately combining some older databases to make a single decent database to use for future challenges, so I've gone through the complete list of movies in each library several times looking for duplicates. While I probably couldn't name more than a few dozen off the top of my head, they are apparently in my subconscious and surfaced when I needed them.
Another factor is that I use a CAD program for arranging and rearranging movies according to length, which speeds things up a lot compared to pencil and paper and many, many erasers. If anyone wants to check for overlaps or wrong starting times, you can look at:
http://user29344qw.jymes.com/TCM/C15Sched.htm
Also, because of my insomnia, I was able to pull some long hours.
In addition, I was quite motivated to be the first to post a schedule because my food themes seem quite obvious to me, and I didn't want to have to start over on them from scratch because someone beat me to it.
According to rough time-keeping, this schedule me took about 46 hours.
[b]Voting Thread for the 15th Program Challenge[/b]
in TCM Program Challenges Archive
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The most important thing first: lzcutter set and ran a great challenge! Congratulations!
Thanks to tcmprogrammr for the comment in the original thread. I know they weren't talking about me, but any sign of encouragement is very heartening.
All the schedules are really amazing. The highlights (for me):
Filmlover -- England to France, especially *Those Magnificent Men . . .* and *Umbrellas of Cherbourg,* and Bardot as SOTM.
audreyforever -- Food for Thought and Ann Sothern's Maisie movies.
Fedya -- your various takes on the overall drug theme. Very funny!
countessdelave -- Graham Kerr as guest (I'm a great fan), Ghost Writers, and WWWWednesday!
LonesomePolecat -- Mickey's **** is loaded with great movies. The Henson and Miyazaki movies are wonderful.
kingrat -- The way you twisted the mother's theme around was fantastic. Jennifer Jones as SOTM would always be good. Right now, it is especially touching.
movieman1957 -- Stan and Ollie as SOTM! Gamblers Synonymous is great. The tribute to Yakima Canutt is long overdue.
Capuchin -- It's not just Nutrition and The Other Other White Meat are mean turns of the challenge theme.
Fredmill38 -- I May Be Poor and Let's Hear It for the Free-Thinkers are wonderful themes. Celeste Holm and Tyrone Power blocks are great.
As I suspected when I first saw it, I have to vote for SansFin's.
What I particularly liked --
Telling a Relationship Through Titles. I don't remember seeing that kind of theme before.
The Classic Clothes day, especially the trio of invisible movies.
*The Great Race* has the best ever pie fight, and *Blazing Saddles* set a new standard in culinary combat.
The Dining Out and Dining In sections -- *When Harry Met Sally* and *The Gold Rush,* still make me laugh.
Blessed are the Sweetmakers and Seems Fishy topped off a great day.
What really made it for me were the movies I've long wished TCM would show --
*The List of Adrian Messenger*
*The Play House*
*We're No Angels*
*A Tale of Five Cities*
*Blood Alley*
*Laura*
*If I Were King*
and many, many others.
I'm not sure you understood the concept behind the Underground, but *Mole / Tkhunela* is a great movie, and it's all good if it led to your showing *The Taming of the Shrew.*
So -- everyone had a great schedule, and it was terribly hard to pick just one, but I had to go with the one that made me really, really, really wish it were a real week's programming.
(Now I have to wait in fear about Filmlover is going to do for a cover for mine.)