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I don't use any of those things. I just connect my laptop --or iPad -- or iPhone -- to my TV with an HDMI cable. I have WiFi in my small apartment, so whatever I'm connecting is on WiFi, but the router is in my closet. I do adjust my input with the TV remote.
Thanks, didn't know that was possible.
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Oh WELL, primos my dear, I have to say that of ALL people, I'm somewhat shocked to learn here that you don't like reading "The Truth"?!!!!!
LOL
(...and whether or not it be "couched as a joke"!!!)
Sorry, not all your posts to me were 'the truth'. Let's just leave it, shall we?
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AND btw...how come I've gotten no replies about my earlier take on the recently released "The Judge"???
Has EVERYBODY got me on their freakin' ignore function now or somethin'??? LOL
(...OR are you all just extremely tired of all these freakin' parenthetical asides which I overuse at the bottom of all of my posts around here???...'cause THAT I could understand!!!!!) LOL...some more
No, IMPO, but perhaps everyone is a little tired of your attacks couched as jokes. But, since you're one of the good guys, you're not on ignore.
So I just sit and read your posts and shake my head and wonder why. And sometimes I just sit.
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I hope your "whole day isn't spent at TCM" I know mine isn't LOL
It was also good to see Gene Reynolds. He's still alive and is a prolific writer, producer and director. He's won 6 Emmys. Mash, Lou Grant, Room 222 are some of the shows he's produced, written episodes for and directed. He's a recipient of the Yitzak Rabin Peace Award. Another excellent past child actor. He would probably have many interesting and informative stories to tell, not only about working with Virginia but other child actors in the 1930's and 1940's
I hope your "whole day isn't spent at TCM" I know mine isn't
Sometimes mine is, since I won't give FIOS extra money via a DVR.
I thought today would be a good day. But a day with musicals with the very talented actor, when he is acting and not singing, Dick Powell is not a good day. Even my lovely Warren William couldn't help this day. Poor guy that he had to take a schlock role like that in Stage Struck.
Were those the Ritz Brothers as the Mexican Troubadours in Stage Struck? VERY funny and would you believe they sang a very current riff on the U.S. government? I guess the more things change, the more they stay the same.
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I sometimes connect my laptop to my TV with an HDMI cable, to watch stuff from YouTube or various websites. For example, if a program I missed on PBS is still on their website/app, I can watch it on my large TV by making that attachment. I find quality fine in most cases. One time I remember I used my iPhone to hook up instead of my laptop, because for that particular program, the image filled the screen much better when I did the hook-up from my iPhone. Don't really understand the mechanics of all this, but it's very useful way to watch stuff that's not available on TV but that you want to watch on your big TV.
Swithin, do you use Fire TV or ROKU or yet another variety or do you simply connect your laptop via your router to your television via an HDMI cable? I find this all very interesting because it is another nail in the coffin of cable television, but some, e.g., Fire TV, doesn't have the apps that I want, namely, Acorn TV which has tons of vintage UK television shows.
One of these days, I will laugh at the funeral of the liars and crooks of cable television, which has gouged me since 1982.
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30044168
Tiger near Paris: Helicopter search by emergency services13 November 2014 Last updated at 17:56 GMT
Police and fire officials are searching for a tiger on the loose in a town outside Paris, local authorities say.
A woman alerted officials after spotting the big cat in a supermarket car park in Montevrain, east of the French capital, local media reported.
Cedric Tartaud, director of the mayor's office, told the BBC: "We don't believe this tiger is totally dangerous because if it's a young tiger, maybe approximately 70kg… maybe it's afraid... maybe he can come from a circus in the cities around Montevrain. We don't know."
It's not a tiger, it's probably an endangered large cat that was stolen illegally from a third world country that some j-a-c-k-a-s-s was keeping in their home. You remember the j-a-c-k-a-s-s who had a chimp as a pet and then was outraged when it bit off her face?
Here's hoping this mysterious cat doesn't get murdered by the police or some foaming at the mouth vigilante.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/14/paris-tiger-big-cat-france-police-search
People are morons. Google Mauritus the giraffe if you ever need proof of the stupidity of the human race, especially those in Denmark.
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another example of hollywood's now long established disconnection from the rest of us. today's hollywood could not possibly duplicate the best aspects of irwin allen's lost in space. allen's lost in space was a space-going swiss family robinson with occasional dashes of treasure island. hollywood today is anti-traditional family which was one of the bedrock strengths of lost in space.
every premise that hollywood takes on these days has to be interpreted on the screen in an overly sophisticated manner.
they cannot do justice to the john ford way of thinking because that thinking is no longer in current hollywood's DNA.
they have seriously lost touch with america because america has always been more than just SoCal and nyc.
but just try and tell them that.
we're not asking for simplicity,
just a healthy and genuine respect for what has been
and how.
if I can sit through something like "Hell's Angels on Wheels" and thoroughly enjoy it since first seeing it on the CBS Late Movie more than 40 years ago then some of the self-professed geniuses of current hollywood can try to see beyond the forest of smartphone, ipad and iphone-equipped millennials.
we older viewers are certainly entitled, imho, to a smidgen of deference.
we're not dirt!
HAH! Where do I join your protest?
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There is another issue.
When many on this thread were young, there was only 7 channels on the t.v. Very easy to find whatever you are looking for. Now there are over 200 channels.
These same t.v /Hollywood producers you complain about are perfectly aware of the fact that many older people (including my own family ) don't visit theaters anymore. They have brought the dramas you speak of to television making them easier for you to watch. The problem is, you have to hunt through all 200 channels to find them.
I read about some of you watching American Idol. Why do you do that ? Here in Los Angeles we have several digital channels playing lots of old programs totally free. Yet, many don't take advantage of them.
Channels like TBS, Hallmark produce many family oriented programming. But, you have to find that channel and watch them. TVLand has produced nice sitcoms for the last few years.
I could go on. But, the point is many of you want things exactly the way they were in 1975 and that can never be. All the programming you want does exist. And producers are figuring out ways to get it to you.
But, if you are only depending on ABC,NBC and CBS like the old days, you are bound to be very disappointed.
I read about some of you watching American Idol. Why do you do that ? Here in Los Angeles we have several digital channels playing lots of old programs totally free. Yet, many don't take advantage of them.
Brilliant. Why exactly. Old channels, UK television, indie films, quality two year old movie theater releases, there are quality programs to be found. One just has to wait.
Quite right on the networks. They are for drooling troglodytes.
Sort of right on the producers. There are very few producers figuring out ways to get my type of programs to me. I find it in Acorn TV, Amazon Prime Videos, PBS, Indie films, TCM at times, and various other outlets. There are ways. One doesn't have to succumb to the moronic tripe being fed the sheeple.
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The Judge with Robert Duvall and Robert Downey Jr. just left theaters. Did you go see it ? Did anyone ?
It had no CGI, no explosions. Actual actors , actual plot. Did anyone support it ? This determines if more like it will be made.
No. I don't go to theaters. I don't like the crude and the rude who talk during movies or use their cellphones. To keep my blood pressure low, this old f-a-r-t stays home and waits for them to come to cable, two years after their release. If I'm dead, then I'll miss it.
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Thank you, Gladys, and everyone else for the positive feedback.
ps- men of a certain age should just not get earrings in both ears. It makes them look like old lesbians. I stand firm on this.
You're quite right. No question.
Ohhhhhhh, does Anthony the Jerk have earrings in both ears? Didn't get the reference. He's just an opportunistic fool, but not nearly half as bad as the piece of filth who eats animals alive. Again, I'd pay to see an alien eat him alive.
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"Star Wars" in 1977. I was 7. My sister and I had begged our mother to take us, she relented and took us. About five minutes in, I realized that I hated the show. But I dared not say anything. 37 years later, I still hate everything "Star Wars".
Rodan. In 1957. I was 7. I rooted for the monster. I always root for the underdog. I rooted for King Kong.
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Excellent posts here today.
NipkowDisc, I couldn't agree more. As GGGGerald noted, I am one of the old f-a-r-t-s who waits for the movies to get to cable. I won't spend a dime on most of the new garbage. Sometimes I am surprised, most times I am not. Here's something I found, though, with my overpriced FIOS - the indie movies are sometimes downright astonishing. I can't think of any titles right now, due to CRS, but if you are vigilant, you'll find some decent movies being made by those who aren't catering to the 18-49 demographic.
The American viewing audience, young and old, I'm afraid, is dumbed down. Those who are not young but want to convince themselves that they are, watch the likes of Survivor and American Idol and all the ear splitting moronic CGI movies.
PattiTexas, I also wholeheartedly agree. I watch PBS during the week, and overpriced FIOS on top of overpriced pay channels on the weekends. When TCM isn't appealing to the 18-49 year olds, I watch them too. I have categorically signed off network television. Sitcoms and dramas and dramedies are utterly and completely moronic. I did make an exception for WGN America's Manhattan, I don't know if you watched it. FIOS didn't even have the decency to put it On Demand, so I had to watch it live and switch the show off during commercials or mute them, the show was that good. I don't put up with commercials for anybody. Ordinarily, sitcoms are boorish, filthy, stupid, nasty, and moronic. All appealing to a demographic I don't want to know.
Of course, our parents said the same thing when we watched the moronic sitcoms of the 1960s and 1970s, which we swore were good television. Looking at them now, we can see just how stupid they were. On the other hand, most of the dramas and sitcoms from the 1950s were very good televison.
As Newton Minnow said on May 9th, 1961, and BOY was he right, television is a vast wasteland. At the time, the only exception was The Dick Van Dyke Show, which he somehow missed! But overall, he was absolutely, positively right. Too bad TCM doesn't interview him (yes, he's still alive) before he joins Lizabeth Scott in the grave.
"When television is good, nothing — not the theater, not the magazines or newspapers — nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite each of you to sit down in front of your own television set when your station goes on the air and stay there, for a day, without a book, without a magazine, without a newspaper, without a profit and loss sheet or a rating book to distract you. Keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland. You will see a procession of game shows, formula comedies about totally unbelievable families, blood and thunder, mayhem, violence, s-a-d-i-s-m (seriously, s-a-d-i-s-m, you prurient moronic auto censor?), murder, western bad men, western good men, private eyes, gangsters, more violence, and cartoons. And endlessly commercials — many screaming, cajoling, and offending. And most of all, boredom. True, you'll see a few things you will enjoy. But they will be very, very few. And if you think I exaggerate, I only ask you to try it."
1961, folks. Imagine?
Thank you, NipkowDisc, for an excellent topic.
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Andy, I love Kay Francis and I've also probably seen dozens of her films. Agree with your list, but I'd add CONFESSION. She's excellent in this role (although most likely Joan would have also been excellent in the role). As much as I like Glenda, something so special about Kay Francis and that intelligent, beautiful face. Kay's eyes were incredible. Just love watching her, even in those films that are forgettable.
I agree. Like Carole Lombard, she was talented and gorgeous and the designers probably begged her to wear their clothes. I even love listening for her speech quirk, which btw I never noticed until it was pointed out here.
I'll take Kay Fwancis (and Carole) over Joan and Bette and Kate any day of the week. If I want acting chops, I'll take Ann Harding over those scene chewers too.
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Conflicts Between Pay-TV Providers, Networks Could Result in Permanent Blackouts
Dish CEO Ergen said. “On the other hand, it makes that product less interesting for (pay-TV providers) because customers have a choice to get it somewhere else.”
Again, he's only considering CNN & cartoons and NOT a unique channel like TCM, that offers classic movies unedited and (other than their own) commercial-free.
Kind of insulting to fans of TCM
I don't think TCM has the fan base we might think it does. The mouse that roared, that's us.
This sounds serious. I wonder what DISH and Direct TV think their customers will do, just sit quietly, pay up, and find their channels via another medium? Or..........do they KNOW their customers will do that?
Come to think of it, I'm not sure what I would do if FIOS did that. Long think................probably nothing.
Sad, ain't it? Says a lot about us as a people. Forty years ago, there might have actually been some protests on the streets about this.
Now, everyone looks up from their iWhats, mutters a huh or a wah, and goes back to their texting.
Sad.
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He of A Clockwork Orange and Dalziel and Pascoe. Some words on his passing:
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-30023012
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2014/nov/12/warren-clarke-a-life-in-clips
****. He will be missed.
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there it is scheduled again, Gypsy. I hate that film. Rosalind Russell portrays one of the the most obnoxious, narcissistic, selfish harridans in screen history and Karl Malden as "Herbie" is even more indigestible sucking up to her throughout.
A horrible film.
I will watch the our gang short tonite at 9:50 where froggie causes the whole gang to smell like skunks with his wash detergent. incidentally, a lot of us grew up watching the our gang / little rascals shorts presented to us as TV fare.
nice to see tcm holding steadfast to it's principles.
Yes, but, to offset this piece of garbage, there was at 7:30am the 1933 version with Alice Brady. I didn't watch it all because Maureen O'Sullivan makes my teeth itch, but the scene when Alice left her daughter to her mother in law or mother or whatever she was? Perfection. Why? Because you'd think the scene was live or real or both. Alice grabbed the little girl as she was rushing her out of the house, and as she was being dressed (her back to the camera) her undies fell down a little and the young actress grabbed them to hide herself. It was jaw droppingly real.
The old lady talked her into leaving the adorable young girl with her - yeah, right - and the rest is Mame.
I hope you saw this version, Nipkow? The rest of the day was forgettable mother movies.
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How do you post the pic you create on your computer in a post here on these message boards?
I was doing as previously instructed, going to the picture, right clicking on it, getting the 'copy image' url information, then clicking on the icon above, pasting the url, and then it posted.
With these photos, there is no url in Windows Photo Viewer. Whatever I do, I always end up in Windows Photo Viewer. Thanks, but I'm done, I can't take any more. It shouldn't be this much work!
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I'm friends with a guy who is married with two extraordinarily bratty girls, ages 15 and 13
We were all watching this food show on Netflix where this weathered, pretentious old lesbian with a superiority complex travels around the world to specifically seek out and eat the grossest food a country has to offer, I think it's called Anthony Bourdain: No reservations.
Not really my cup of tea, but whatevs, I was a guest.
Anyway, this episode set in Rome comes on and it's in black and white in homage to Fellini and the 13 year old basically does that thing Christopher Lee does as Dracula in the Hammer Horror films whenever someone whips out a cross- you know, the p*ssed off devil/cat hiss?
This kid had an aversion to black and white the way I feel about handheld camera films, you would've thought a viewing would require 100 mgs of something strong.
Anyway, around the elbow to get to the a** here, but it was a total kids these days moment, I don't know what it is about this brightly lit bebop CandyCrush Nintendo wurligig Lawnmower Man world of TECHNOLOGY that they grow up on that gives them this violent, drug-allergy-like aversion to Black and White...
The same kid who can play a videogame in a moving car would feign a migraine at the notion they sit through The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
I'm telling you, those of you with small children you want to turn on to classic movies, do it when they're young. Before that minecraft s*** rots their brain.
Since there is no option, Lorna, I want to tell you that I LOVE your post, not just like it. Mostly for the enthusiasm, emotion, and language, but especially because you tell it like it is.
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Did you get a queasy feeling during the airplane shots over the Rocky Mountains or during the high-speed fire engine ride shots through The City by The Bay, ND?
(...'cause living just 30 miles from Disneyland and thus visiting Uncle Walt's amusement park quite often over the years, I gotta admit I always did a little anyway)
I don't know what 'smileboxing' is, and I don't care to know, but I do know I almost puked years ago during the ride at Disneyworld/Epcot where the platform was stationary (or should I say stationery, since a local FIOS news channel last night scrawled Arlington National Cemetary, yes of course I emailed them) and the images moved? Yes, I have motion sickness, so going into that theater was NOT a good idea. Is there a puke emoticon?
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OK. When you move your mouse over 'save as' in Paint (without clicking), does a window open to the right with the option 'JPEG picture' ?Anything like this..?
- if so..Select JPEG picture - you should then see something like this at the bottom of your screen:
Now.. name it (or leave Untitled as default name), then Save or Return. That will drop it right into your Pictures folder.If you skip the third step (Save or Return), everything will clear out and you will have to begin again.Fred, so far I'm getting a C+. I gave up yesterday.
Kid, I've figured out that the file default was 'Downloads' and I have changed it to 'Pictures'.
I open Paint again. I right click, in Paint, on Paste From. I choose the Pictures folder, where I have three photos. I'm right clicking on one, open it to Paint, one alongside the other, and then saving it as a group photo to Pictures.
I come here, go to the Pictures folder, right click on the group photo, which is in Windows Photo Viewer, and copy it here:
VOILA.
An error occurredYou are not allowed to use that image extension on this community.
Apologize for the exercise in futility, folks, I will now withdraw and give up.
Thanks for all the instruction, KidDabb.
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From what I've read about Jack, he wasn't adverse to a drink or two or three.
Interesting. And I'm sure Jack thought alcohol was so much better than weed.
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The photo has actually been saved in a Folder - you are just viewing it (from that folder) with Windows Photo Viewer.
Windows Photo Viewer pulls a photo from the Folder it is stored (saved) in - default folder name is usually Pictures. Do you have any folders named Pictures, Captures, Screenshots, etc..? What folder are your other photos stored in?
I do have Pictures folders, but get photos/files in there from uploading or scanning. I just tried to take a screenshot of what I am seeing when I click on 'save as' in Paint, and of course didn't. Here are my choices when I click on 'save as' in Paint:
PNG
JPEG
BMP
GIF
Other formats
All of the above are saved in 'downloads'.
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Well TB, you've opened the doors......for me, all of Linda Darnell's TV work is must see, and as a completist, must have. This way, I can view them over and over as the mood strikes me. The main reason is that she is one of the movie stars whose career was affected negatively by studio downsizing, and found viable movie offers more and more scarce. As she had ongoing financial problems, she had to continue to work, moreso after her divorce from her second husband, who had encouraged her to be a a wealthy NYC matron for the duration of their marriage, which she loathed, and which ended.with divorce in late 1955. So she returned to her career from semi retirement. This she did by cutting her asking price, and turning to TV dramas and stage productions. She did half hour and hourlong dramas, such as Schlitz Playhouse of the Stars,.Screen Directors Playhouse, Ford Theater, Climax, The Jane Wyman Playhouse, Pursuit, and Playhouse 90. She also did a few episodes of series dramas,.in Wagon Train, 77 Sunset Strip, Cimarron City, and later, Burke's Law.
Linda Darnell.was the guest of an episode of Wagon Train, "The Dora Gray Story", broadcast in early 1958 during the first.season. She also reprises the character in the season finale, " The Sacramento Story". Linda.plays Dora Gray, a sexy woman accompanying John Carradine westward to San Francisco,.when series regular Robert Horton comes across them. He joins their camp, and realized that Carradine is the man he is looking for, someone who is selling rifles to a Native American band in the area. He arrests them both, and starts to transport them to a nearby fort, but Carradine escapes with Darnell's help. Horton then decides to take Darnell to another fort, where she does not want to go,.and she tries to work her wiles on him, to convince him that she was not mixed up with Carradine,, but was just going along to get to California; he doesn't buy it and delivers her to the army captain there. The captain, played by Michael Connors (another future TV star, Dan Blocker, is also stationed here), turns out to have also been involved with Darnell, as well.as.being the one who provided the rifles to Carradine, and promptly arrests Horton, with the plan of killing him. Needless to say, Linda frees him, and helps him stave off an Indian attack. They part, with Horton's testimony absolving her of involvement with the fun running.
In the season finale, Horton runs into her at the wagon train'a journey's end, in Sacramento. She is now married to a rich and powerful man there. The finale also featured other guest stars that had been in earlier episodes, such as Marjorie Main and Dan Duryea, who like Linda, have cameo appearances. The nominal guest star is Margaret O'Brien.
Linda, who was supposedly not being considered for movie roles.at this time due to her weight gain and deteriorating looks due to heavy drinking, belies that by her appearance on WT. She looks trim and beautiful,.and shows a rather surprising amount of cleavage for 50s TV. The reprise in the finale has her a bit heavier, mostly notable in her face now round and full, as opposed to the longer gaunt look of earlier; she went back and forth between these extremes her whole.career. In short, there is no reason why her movie career could not have been ongoing at this point,.at.least not for the usual reasons postulated.
One of the reasons I have searched Linda Darnell's TV work is due to to the paucity of filmwork during this time (the last half of the 50s overall). I knew little of her work, and appearance, during this period, as most information on her rightly focused on her filmwork. Some shows I have recorded from TV in the last few years; Wagon Train has been on Encore Westerns and MeTV; the latter has also shown Burke's Law. TCM has shown Linda's episode of Screen Directors Playhouse, "White Corridors". Other than that, I have purchased manufactured boxsets of the seasons Linda was in WT, BL, and Cimarron City. Also, I have bought boxsets of other anthology series featuring her, of questionable.legality.and varying quality, from internet sources. These have all had many other interesting episodes of these shows, featuring a plethora of Hollywood names.
Wow, fascinating information. I imagine these backstories can be applied to many of the other great actors of the 1930s and 1940s, who for one reason or another were ignored by those in power. Good for Ms. Darnell to persevere as she did, she was always one who gave a good, solid performance.
Interesting on that Wagon Train summary, Arturo. I was never one to really pay attention to the storylines, I was always too busy crushing on Robert Fuller (post Robert Horton).
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Wow, I'll have to try that KidDabb. Thanks.
And for using my FH as an example!
KidDabb, I assembled the photos in Paint, as you instructed. I got as far as 'saving the group as a single pic' from Paint. However, it saved the photo in Windows Photo Viewer.
Now: I can't get the picture from there..............to here.
I'll have tee shirts made up with: 
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