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We still did not answer the OP's question-- why does it seem like great classic films (defined by the OP) are not airing? Not believing the OP's claims is not the same as answering the OP or trying to understand why she feels the way she does...
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I can do this all day.
Of course some people at this forum really feel that way. I am some of those people who feel that TCM has fallen down on the job for YEARS now, and some people telling me that some people at this forum really feel that way is not the same as me believing that I, as some people, should not feel that way. Is that clear? Good.
But PattiTexas is QUITE within her rights to believe as she believes, and that's all there is to that.
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Which explained the huge attendance at his funeral.
Rick, I've apparently reached my arbitrary LIKE quotient for the day, so LIKE, LIKE, and LIKE.
Can you believe it, a QUOTIENT ON LIKES? HAH, where would Zukerberg be if he had a mandatory quotient on LIKES?
Stupidest thing I've ever seen. Well...................almost.
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I love IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE also, but ,here comes the heresy, I think George's story is quite sad. Instead of traveling the world and living a richly creative, and different life, he ends up where he started - no dreams realized. (I did issue a warning that my view is iconoclastic.) Anyone can stay home, and most of us probably do, but a few fortunate ones have the courage to leave home and engage the wider world. Guess I'd better stop while I'm behind.
Interesting viewpoint. Behind, why would you think you're behind. You make a very valid point.
And of course, the message of the movie was skewed because it was post WWII and home and hearth was all and one did not stray or think outside the box.
Oh, and notice how the ENtire town was projected as going to hades - UH OH - because George wasn't around, yeah right, or that Mary was destined to be a spinster because George wasn't around? What happened to whatshisname the rich guy who was sweet on Mary, was he not born because George wasn't around? Yeah right. And Violet, oh the horror, owed her entire morality to George. And George's brother absolutely positively wouldn't have been saved by another kid. Yeah right. The only thing that rang true was the poor sap of a druggist, because George was the only one to see him mix poison or whatever into the pills.
I call baloney. Baloney is okay here, right?
Obviously, this film would not make it were it released today. It was grand in its time, a naive, rah rah, we're so glad to be home amongst our families that the moguls are telling us we should believe are the best thing in the world, so you all better love this wonderful patriotic family values movie...........or else.
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Yes, but then if someone came along and agreed with that or disagreed with that, and an argument ensued, the mod would be needed to come in and police again. And it would all go back to that word and that it is really not being allowed here any longer in discussions. I kindly urge you to abandon its use, as it will cause less problems. Thanks.
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To some, it is still insipid advertising. I am okay with commercials on TCM between films, I have never been against that. I just want to make sure that whatever they are advertising-- whether it's a cruise or a tour of Ben M's home-- we are still able to comment on it and not get swept up into these bizarre bouts of brand loyalty. It's a for-profit channel and it is not above constructive criticism and consumer advocacy. My stance on that will not change.
I definitely intend to keep writing about the kind of lifestyle-isms that TCM promotes. I think it's good that we understand the ways they are reaching into viewers' homes AND pocketbooks.
Holy moley! I attempted to LIKE this post and you know what? I was told there is a quota of LIKES for the day! Can you IMAGINE? A LIMIT ON THE AMOUNT OF LIKES FOR THE DAY, Top Billed?
So I, me, would have to be very patient and wait until TOMORROW TO LIKE THIS POST!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CAN YOU IMAGINE?
What is this world, okay this site, coming to?????????????????????
Okay, Hays narrow minded auto censoring LIKE dictator, I'm LIKING TB's post - LIKING, LIKING, LIKING, LIKING, LIKING, LIKING, LIKING it.
Better, Hays narrow minded auto censoring LIKE dictator? Good.
Amazing.
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To some, it is still insipid advertising. I am okay with commercials on TCM between films, I have never been against that. I just want to make sure that whatever they are advertising-- whether it's a cruise or a tour of Ben M's home-- we are still able to comment on it and not get swept up into these bizarre bouts of brand loyalty. It's a for-profit channel and it is not above constructive criticism and consumer advocacy. My stance on that will not change.
I definitely intend to keep writing about the kind of lifestyle-isms that TCM promotes. I think it's good that we understand the ways they are reaching into viewers' homes AND pocketbooks.
I just want to make sure that whatever they are advertising-- whether it's a cruise or a tour of Ben M's home-- we are still able to comment on it and not get swept up into these bizarre bouts of brand loyalty.
Quite right! Drat (who knew the auto censor knew British slang? An international narrow minded Hays auto censor, imagine that?), I missed a tour of Ben's home! Now that I would have liked to see. I've seen quite enough of RO's windswept forehead, thank you very much.
My stance on that will not change.
Nor will - hands up if you are surprised - mine.
Keep at it, TB. If all else fails, you have a fan in the stands waving a great big giant flag.
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There is nothing wrong with TCM viewers not buying into the channel's marketing schemes. In fact, they are perfectly within rights to come to TCM for films and nothing else. Not cruises, not festivals, not souvenirs. Just films that can be watched at home, provided they are not overplayed titles that everyone has seen countless times already.
P.S. I am glad that we have reached a point now when posters on the message board are about to display their brand loyalty, that they are providing disclaimers about that. It shows the dragon has been slayed. We are being honest about the points of view we present in our posts and thus it is easier to differentiate claims and counter-claims. Thumbs up.
We are being honest about the points of view we present in our posts and thus it is easier to differentiate claims and counter-claims.
Absolutely. As long as equal time is given to those who don't have brand loyalty, never have, and never will.
Point. Counterpoint. Thumbs up to that, quite right.
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And sued for creating/condoning a hostile work environment!
Bingo.
And put upon by PETA and the AHA and the animal lovers on Twitter and Facebook who would be decrying the animals thrown off cliffs and killed by trip wires and worked to death and made to endure inhumane suffering and those are just the mammals and reptiles. Then there are the thousands of birds killed just to make costumes with zillions of feathers on them.
Gee, I bet the studio moguls are glad they're dead.
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Well, as the OP of this thread, I can say how fantastic I feel that TCM is back on DISH!!!! I was so very close to signing with DIRECTV.
Did they raise your fees?
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What do you think Harry Cohn, Jack Warner, L. B. Mayer, Darryl F. Zanuck would say about their old studios having become independent production outlets as well as television sitcom/drama facilities - if they were alive today?
They wouldn't be saying anything - they'd all be in jail for sexual harassment.
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Manderstoke, it makes me happy that you listed KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS because that's one of mine too! Also gotta second IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT--that one might be my favorite movie of all time, but ask me again tomorrow. And who doesn't love BRINGING UP BABY?
Many of my unabashed favorites are ones I watch on different holidays every year, like:
White Christmas
It's a Wonderful Life
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Arsenic and Old Lace
1776
Best Years of Our Lives
Remember the Night
Others I melt into a puddle of joy whenever I think about them:
Meet Me in St Louis
The Apartment
Stalag 17
Twelve Angry Men
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Some Like It Hot
Adam's Rib
Singin' in the Rain
American in Paris
......and many others
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
That's what I love about this place.
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The Wizard of Oz.
No other.
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Yes, I thought about how many responses Terry's spotlight elicited. It does say something-- though not sure what exactly!
Ish Kabibble is fun (and with that stage name how could he not be)-- but I'd probably cover Kay Kyser first.
I made a list of several hundred artists I wanted to cover with this thread, but I'm not sure if I will get around to all of them. It becomes a chore if I say on Monday I have to do so-and-so and then on Tuesday celebrity-x. It's better if it comes logically from what I am watching or thinking about-- when the mood really strikes, then it's best and I am writing with a little more passion...
Blech.
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Who was
Errol Flynn was an actor. Hey, if you can delete (I know, I know, you're a moderator), I can delete.
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TCM HD Channel 9523 is back along with 132 on Dish. Thanks CBS for coming to the rescue.
Let us know if your prices go up.
If not, congratulations on having TCM back.
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Yes the cable companies would have to push some new cost onto consumers, but they would use the same ways they have done it before by leasing the equipment.
Look you guys all want the system to stay how it is, and that is fine but you have to account for the loss of subscribers.
According to your theory the loss of subscribers means the companies should raise prices to make up the lost revenues too. No matter what happens the company should always raise prices. It will end someday.
Look if I was going to design a cable industry to make the fattest profits possible I would make it so all the channels have to be purchased even if they only want a couple. Surprise, that is what we have, lol.
Now someone said this is a capitalistic system, but it is not because they have a duopoly on the service. It is more of a take it or leave it service, you either pay the big money or don't get the channels you want period and sit home unhappy. This is like the pager industry was, it is only a matter of time before people shift to the first real competition to come along that is a better service.
i think that will happen soon.
i think that will happen soon.
I hope it happens soon. I would love to see Cablevision and FIOS go bankrupt. Or, at the very least, treat their customers as if they were important and not like so much offal.
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What are the last two movies pre-empting?
I've never heard any Nicholas and May sketches, or if I did they were more than a quarter century ago. Quite frankly, after seeing Nichols adapt Joseph Heller and Jules Feiffer in the early seventies I seriously wondered if he had any sense of humour at all. As for Working Girl, 1988 was a particular poor year for best picture nominees. Clearly it was a year where December releases swamped critical judgement. I can understand, if not accept, why the Academy didn't nominate Dead Ringers, but nominating this over A Fish Called Wanda is absurd.
As for Working Girl, 1988 was a particular poor year for best picture nominees.
Yes, but Let The River Run by Carly Simon was the anthem for feminists everywhere. Here's a secret, don't tell anyone, my boss asked me to get him coffee only once.
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And I do think current hollywood fare is a bad joke compared to say 50 years ago. maybe my tastes are just too old-fashioned. notice how recent science fiction films all have to have some deep underlying premise like prometheus. nothing is done just for action and adventure and when there is something action-adventure oriented, it appeals only to teenagers. today's filmmakers approach astronauts as if they are gung-ho college-age people rather than mature adults.
Meanwhile, Nipkow, you know the irony of it all? The Hollywood corporations - ever see all the lead-in corporate names before a movie starts? Gone are the days of a single backer - will rake in the money, overpay the stars (most are not actors), satisfy the shareholders who call the shots, and time will march on.
Posters will be sitting here in 50 years, lamenting the commercials in TCM, complaining about the movies that appeal to the kids in the audience, and wondering who Warren William is.
The more things change.............well, you know the rest.
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I doan like any of Mike Nichols' films except for The Graduate but that's mainly because of some shots of Anne Bancroft.
Did you see any or all of these?
Filmography
1966 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1967 The Graduate 1968 Teach Me! 1970 Catch-22 1971 Carnal Knowledge 1973 The Day of the Dolphin 1975 The Fortune 1980 Gilda Live 1983 Silkwood 1986 Heartburn 1988 Biloxi Blues Working Girl 1 1990 Postcards from the Edge 1991 Regarding Henry 1994 Wolf 1996 The Birdcage 1998 Primary Colors 2000 What Planet Are You From? 2001 Wit 2003 Angels in America 2004 Closer 2007 Charlie Wilson's War
I have to admit my favorite was Angels in America. Wright and Kirk and Pacino and especially Streep were phenomenal, as was the indictment of narrow minded ugly little hypocrites.
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I've been continuing to watch my Wiseguy discs. Yesterday I finished the four-part arc from season 3 with Norman Lloyd. He plays a diabolical military general involved in a counterfeiting scheme. He's brilliant. Not long before this, he had finished a long-running role on NBC's St. Elsewhere.
And just celebrated his 100th birthday!
I guess Dark Shadows qualified as a soap? I remember all the girls rushing home from high school to watch Jonathan Frid sink his teeth into the lovely Lara Parker.
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Can you think of a better time than Easter to air HARVEY? I can't. Why not a whole evening of rabbit-themed films-- and since more recent films are becoming the norm, include SPACE JAM with Bugs Bunny.
How 'bout we throw in The Egg and I?
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Condolences to his family and friends. It's probably too late for TCM to work him into the end-of-the-year In Memoriam segments (unless something gets bumped). Maybe they will be able to do a primetime tribute for him in March...?
Think Warren Clarke will be included?
He died too.
movies you totally, absolutely, utterly love with no reservations
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Nice. I like that. You're a glass half full person.
I'm not.
I didn't say he was a loser, I said the film was skewed. All those wonderful things that George did were a fact, but it wasn't a fact that NONE of them would have been done had George not been there. There's no way of knowing any of it, and the moguls wanted their happy ending, so they manufactured one and didn't give the audience a chance to say: yeah, but, what if............
And MOST of all, Mary NEVER ever EVER would have been a spinster.