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Yes they will if they want the revenues. It is amazing what companies can do when forced with competition.
Well, yes.......and no. I thought that things were going to be better when there were two cable companies in Westchester. I'm not counting DISH or Direct TV, I was never interested in them. Cablevision had the monopoly for YEARS! How do you think their owner bought the Knicks? Finally, both the politicians and Cablevision allowed FIOS to come in - the joke was on us, the consumer.
Things were better ---- for awhile. Then FIOS and Cablevision, obviously as a result of the directives in their kickbacks to the local politicians, began price fixing. You can't negotiate anymore, prices are outrageous, everything is bundled, and customer service - well you know. I repeat again the bon mot of our resident sage: they're all liars and crooks.
Words to live by, actually.
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The "common good" here is all the stations, this is really quite simple. What we have is kind of a health care for cable channels.
Major cracks are appearing in this model, as subscribers are lost it will force the eventually changes to a more cost friendly system. Does anyone here believe that the current system is sustainable? If you don't then you agree with me. This is not a competitive system yet, and will slowly collapse until it becomes one.
Well, the cable system in Westchester since 1982 has been a dictatorship.
I'd love to see the end of the stranglehold FIOS and Cablevision have on Westchester. That will be me, dancing in the streets.
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Interesting day, the kind TCM used to have in the past.
So Long Letty - wife swapping and a helluva female character actor, new to me, and the film is from................1929! Just imagine if the wankers who instituted the puerile movie code instead fell off a cliff.
Was Charlotte Greenwood the woman in W.C. Fields' dentist chair, anyone know?
What fun that Broadway play must have been, with Greenwood in the lead.
The next two look good, as well. Thanks, TCM.
Thanks, roverrocks. Usually, I'm talking to myself on this thread. NOT that I have a problem with that!
I forgot another eyeopening moment in So Long Letty - one of the characters let drop the word 'pregnant'! Imagine that the audience of 1929 was adult enough to hear this, but Hays and his fellow puerile small minded w-a-n-k-e-r idiots decided the audience of 1934 was too innocent to hear this word? Even I Love Lucy couldn't use the word.
Amazing.
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I agree with all of you who pay no attention to critics. They are paid to do a job, and if they can stand out from other critics, they're going to say black is white.
My favorite critic is Jay Sherman, whose final opinion usually was: IT STINKS!
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Oh well, the movie with Olsen and Johnson is idiotic. Hope the next one with Richard Barthelmess is better. Shame it's always hit or miss with TCM.
Sad. All clunkers after So Long Letty.
Interesting reuse of the Kirby's gorgeous car from Topper in today's not very good Jack Oakie movie, Super Sleuth.
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I think that you are wrong and too dismissive, jamesjazzguitar. I think that hollywood has indeed fallen into the hands of a clique of non-adults who cannot see beyond the forest. the only thing that is occurring to them is to endlessly cater to millennial freeloaders living off their parents.
You're right, Nipkow, of course. Don't be dissuaded from stating your opinion. Remember where you are.
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I'm sure you've already figured out that I have just about every movie that she has ever made on DVD.
Actually, I included her in my entry into the programming challenge for 2006 as a new theme I called, "Star of the Week" and won! Partly because of her and partly because it was my third attempt and I got tired of loosing.
Hah...I wasn't sure because of the 'h', didn't know if there was another A. Harding! I can't remember the movie where she played the mother, or to whom she played a mother - as if she were old enough - but she was illuminating. Is she highly regarded by those in the know? I liken her to Carole Lombard, but (sorry Carole) find her even more incredible.
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Interesting day, the kind TCM used to have in the past.
So Long Letty - wife swapping and a helluva female character actor, new to me, and the film is from................1929! Just imagine if the wankers who instituted the puerile movie code instead fell off a cliff.
Was Charlotte Greenwood the woman in W.C. Fields' dentist chair, anyone know?
What fun that Broadway play must have been, with Greenwood in the lead.
The next two look good, as well. Thanks, TCM.
Oh well, the movie with Olsen and Johnson is idiotic. Hope the next one with Richard Barthelmess is better. Shame it's always hit or miss with TCM.
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Interesting day, the kind TCM used to have in the past.
So Long Letty - wife swapping and a helluva female character actor, new to me, and the film is from................1929! Just imagine if the wankers who instituted the puerile movie code instead fell off a cliff.
Was Charlotte Greenwood the woman in W.C. Fields' dentist chair, anyone know?
What fun that Broadway play must have been, with Greenwood in the lead.
The next two look good, as well. Thanks, TCM.
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You can find all of the how too videos on connections for any device on YouTube but basically the HDMI on your lap top is output and the HDMi connections on your TV are inputs. My TV has 3 HDMI inputs available so my DVR uses HDMI 1/DVI, my lap top uses HDMI 2 and my DVD player uses HDMI3. HDMI stands for High Definition Multimedia Interface.
ahharding, and I hope I'm not as dense at this as I was at attaching multiple horizontal pictures in my signature - I have a plethora of cables back there, all colors and hues (well, not really), but they are all being used right now.
There wouldn't happen to be a standard color for HDMI 2, now would there? And if one of those is HDMI 2, what happens to its current connection? There are three connected to the DVD player, and a gaggle of others connected to the cable box.
Thanks. I won't belabor this issue, I promise you.
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Also, 72 network shows have been canceled from Fox, FX, A&E, ABC,CBS, NBC,TBS,TNT,USA and CW. What's happening is that they are all going after the same audience and all of these shows look so much alike that no one show stands out from another. They all look the same.There is just not enough millennial s and X-Gens to go around.
Two million viewers is a flop in this market. And all other viewers have abandoned these channels and moved on to Netflix, TCM, YouTube, Amazon Prime and MeTV so that they can get the kind of programming that interests them. You would think that these networks would figure this out but but they can'.t. Their executives, program buyers and producers are too young and too blind sighted to even realize how ubiquitous and dull their programming is.
Also, 72 network shows have been canceled from Fox, FX, A&E, ABC,CBS, NBC,TBS,TNT,USA and CW.
Wow, I don't keep count, thank you for this info. That's a LOT of shows.
I feel badly for the actors, some good, some awful and in need of more training, who are out of work when this happens. The producers and directors move on, the crew moves on, no doubt part of a union, but the actors, poor slobs, are left to have to sell themselves all over again. I feel for them. Meanwhile, tripe like American Idol and Survivor get renewed over and over and over again. I remember noting at the time of the writers' strike that it was the end of television as the writers and actors knew it. Sometimes I hate it when I'm right.
all other viewers have abandoned these channels and moved on to Netflix, TCM, YouTube, Amazon Prime and MeTV so that they can get the kind of programming that interests them.
Yup, quite correct. I resisted the likes of Amazon Prime and Acorn TV, since I don't like watching television on my laptop and I have yet to try the HDMI cable or the ROKU type setup. I want to see the cable companies go bankrupt for their insolence and disregard of their customer base, but at the same time..............I don't. I would like it if they got on their knees and crawled to me for forgiveness.
Good post, excellent post. Do you like Ann Harding, by the way? GORGEOUS actor, and at the same time one of the most talented of her time.
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Apparently a car had gotten through whatever controls they were using and was turning as Hoffman and Voight were supposed to cross the street.
Hah...thanks for the info.
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As a young guy, this movie made a huge impact on me. I'm not sure I even "got" a lot of
it at the time, but it seemed so REAL. I still say, "I'm fallin' apart here" occasionally, but
no one gets the reference... The scene with John McGiver creeped me out completely...
I haven't seen it in a long time now, but I want to revisit it. Oh, as a radio geek at the time,
I loved when Joe Buck tuned in WABC when approaching NYC. Love those PAMS jingles....
I can't re-watch it. Not sure why, but I remember it to be too intense. I even remember being horrified at how filthy his suede jacket got - I used to love fringed suede jackets, back in the day.
Why was it given an X rating? Did it deserve it?
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It's my anniversary, so I am sure they are.
I hope you like Walt.
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"Hey, I'm walking here!" Great movie line and totally adlibbed by Dustin Hoffman.
Ad-libbed? Seriously? How cool.
One of the best movies in the history of moviedom. Who doesn't quote that line when given the opportunity. And in New Yawk, one usually gets the opportunity.
That, and 'is it safe'? I ask that of my dentist all the time.
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Just saw "The King of Queens" episode "Buggie Nights' where the Heffernans have to spend the night out while their house gets fumigated. They walk the streets while "Everybody's Talking" plays in the background.
I grew up on the Upper West Side in the 1960s. It was a dangerous area then as NYC's heroin addicts used to congregate in "Needle Park" on 71st Street and Broadway (see Al Pacino in "The Panic In Needle Park"). The abandoned building in "Midnight Cowboy" is on 73rd Street just east of Broadway. The Twin Donuts that Joe Buck finds Ratso in was on Broadway between 74th and 73rd, downstairs from the Beacon Theater. The hotels around that area were notorious as "shooting galleries" for heroin addicts. Life magazine did an article on heroin addicts in February 1965. This was the impetus for the movie "TPINP' in 197i, shot in the same neighborhood.
My parents, notorious for their frugal ways, had bought tickets at TKTS for a matinee on a Saturday in the 1980s.
I have no idea where their theater was in relation, but they decided to buy sandwiches and eat them in................Needle Park. They did comment on all the people in the park.
Ah, Twin Donuts. They used to make one of the best whole wheat donuts I've ever had.
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Who was Terry?
I am sure that before you opened this thread you thought I had made a mistake and had forgotten the last name of the star I am featuring in our column today. Terry who? Terry a man? No, it's not Terry Gilliam. Terry a woman? No, it's not Terry Moore. It's Terry the dog, that's who. Also known as Toto the dog.
.....edited for space.........
So what is your favorite performance by Terry...?
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Take it from one who was there, it had the most realistic depiction of what the 60s in NYC was like on film. A lot of Hollywood films invariably always depicted 60s parties with studio type generic music. I believe the footage of the party was actually shot at Warhol's Factory.
Cool.....that you were there I mean.
I loved this film. I loved everything about it. I even loved Seinfeld's riff on the ending:
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That's beautiful Jake. True movie magic. Thanks for sharing-- though now I will have Somewhere Over the Rainbow in my head all day!
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Manhattan is wonderful, Andy, but if one checks around, it is possible their suburb has a film club.
Westchester has an excellent one (for a fee, of course) held at an old movie theater. They show outstanding obscure indie films and great foreign films. At times, there are panels with guests in the biz.
I was talking about new releases only, and if you look at any Friday's Times, you'll see that a big percentage of their reviews say "Opening today in Manhattan" or "Opening today in Manhattan and Los Angeles". Some say "Opening today in New York", or "Opening today in New York and Los Angeles", but relatively few say "Opening today nationwide". The truth is that unless you live in New York or Los Angeles, you'll never even hear of most new releases unless you make tracking them down into a part-time career.
Okay. Whatever.
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Anyone who really wants to be exposed to more first rate new movies than he or she could ever watch has one very easy solution: Get a job that pays a WHOLE lot of money for about 20 hours a week, and move to Manhattan. Then check the Times every Friday and plot out your week.
I realize that this might not be possible for everyone to do. I'd do it myself, except my monthly mortgage in Maryland is about the same as the price of one night at the St. Regis. So I guess my backup plan is going to have to be reincarnation.
Manhattan is wonderful, Andy, but if one checks around, it is possible their suburb has a film club.
Westchester has an excellent one (for a fee, of course) held at an old movie theater. They show outstanding obscure indie films and great foreign films. At times, there are panels with guests in the biz.
In addition, usually any college has a film course, which can be attended for less money as a continuing ed student.
Yes, there are still good movies being made, those I will see in two years attest to that. However, the garbage gets the press, and the money paid by those in the theater seats proves that there is still a plethora of people without a full cranium who, well, pay to sit in the seats. If there was no money paid for the garbage, the garbage would not be made. In any medium.
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After reading quite a few of these "Millennials are ruining Hollywood" threads over the past year or so, I feel inclined to reply.
...edited for space...In short, it's not the millennials' fault that there is supposedly nothing being released to appeal to older generations. It is the fault of those who go to these films and make them successful. As long as people keep paying money to see the vampire films, the more vampire films that will be made. 'Power Rangers,' Captain Planet (hardly the defining cartoon of the millennial generation, btw), computers, video games, etc. are not to blame for the lack of "Pre-Millennial friendly films." The theater-going public is.
Good post, speedracer.
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My sister stayed awake until halfway through Barnacle Bill, a good feat for a disabled lady in Massachusetts.
They weren't the Ritzes, they were THE YACHT CLUB BOYS. I think I've seen them in another film.
Wow, thanks ginnyfan, now there's a group new to me.
What was the first film you saw in the theater?
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I won't watch Bambi, Old Yeller, The Yearling or any of that ilk.
On Tom Dooley, I think I've already shared that it was one of the 'safe' movies we were shown in our RC grade school. Meanwhile, the nuns never knew we were crushing on Richard Rust (rats, he died in 1994). I can't remember if the Stooges were on the same bill, but if Curly wasn't in it, I wasn't interested.