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Yeah, not happening for me still, an hour later. All attempts time out.

I thought maybe it was my Internet connection, but nope, everything else on this website is working fine, and I also checked out a couple of other websites, too. But good luck trying to load any schedules right now, because it ain't happenin'.

I haven't been on Amazon Prime in a while (I had no internet at home for a third of a year, as I detailed in another thread and have yet to visit it since getting it back), but as I last recall, virtually everything one could expect to see routinely on TCM (PD films aside) had late last year pretty much vanished from AP. I assumed that was because AT&T was sealing off everything in what is sometimes called around here "the TCM library" from other outlets as they prepared to launch their own post-Filmstruck streaming service which would rely heavily on that content. Similar to Disney taking all its stuff off Netflix. Is that still the case? Can you watch Casablanca or North by Northwest or Gone With the Wind or Yankee Doodle Dandy or any TCM warhorse on AP anymore?

There was a thread once upon a time titled "Character You'd Most Like to Pitchfork". I'm not remembering who started it. Perhaps Midwestan is making a tip of the cap to it.

Yeah, that's maybe the best scene in the whole movie, showing how children can't help but earnestly letting their parents know how they're failing them (in the perception of the child, anyway). First, Billy hates his mother for sending him off to Australia ("I'm going to miss the whole war, and it's YOUR fault!"). Then, she gets hysterical, and the uncle retrieves the children, and now Billy hates her for embarrassing him with her emotional clinging. Wounded, she tells him icily, "Do as you please", but now the scolding woman is fed up with all this disruption of procedure and tells the mother she's going to have to start the whole process over. Great scene.

Wow, I thought it was a lot better than "crap". It is maybe too overloaded with bits and is a bit episodic, but there were many elements I liked: the unspoken love between the mother and the uncle, the near-hostility of the teacher toward her students as she lets them know what the war is all about, the casual thoughtlesness of the neighborhood children toward the girl whose mother has just been killed, etc.

Wow, Union Pacific! Never seen that. And we all know DeMille films don't exactly air on TCM every day. I checked out MCOH's database, and it's been seven years since it last aired. Dead End, I see aired once each in 2017 and 2016, but I bet it's been 10 years since I last saw it. I'm gonna try to check both of those out. As for Ruth Hussey, well, they've got Paramount's The Uninvited mixed in among all the MGM stuff. one of my favorites, though more for Gail Russell's half-step-out-of-time performance. I'd like to see her get an SUTS day (if she hasn't already; I certainly don't remember one).

I hadn't been on this thread in a couple of days and didn't now the Backlot choices had been announced. Do we know the films scheduled for those days yet? I would have been happy with either male "nominee". Robert Ryan was a really great actor, but I also like young McCrea (most Westerns don't really float my boat, so I'm not to up on most of the films from the long latter phase of his career). I didn't know who Ruth Roman was by name, but looking at her imdb resume, I see that I've seen her in Good Sam, Dallas and Strangers on a Train. She also had bit parts in a lot of famous movies early in her career, though I don't suppose those would have been included. So, here's a question I don't suppose any of us will really know a definitive answer to, but I will ask, anyway: does TCM have the rights squared away for all four performers in advance? I'm thinking a Joel McCrea day has gotta have at least a couple of Paramounts: a Sullivan's Travels or The Palm Beach Story. If they obtain some "out of library" films in advance in anticipation that he MIGHT get a SUTS day, and he doesn't, what do they do with those movies? Presumably, they just work them into the schedule at other times? I've always figured they limit the choices for these Backlot votes to performers whose catalogs TCM mostly already has the rights to.

It was a strong year for cinema, for sure. Looking at some other lists on here, I would say if I expanded my own list to 20 or 30 films, many of the selections made by all of you would be on it.

My own Top 10 from 1987: 1. Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick, USA) 2. Broadcast News (James L. Brooks, USA) 3. Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders, West Germany) 4. Project A, Part II (Jackie Chan, Hong Kong) 5. Au Revoirs, Les Enfants (Louis Malle, France) 6. The Untouchables (Brian DePalma, USA) 7. Babette's Feast (Gabriel Axel, Denmark) 8. Withnail & I (Bruce Robinson, UK) 9. Good Morning, Vietnam (Barry Levinson, USA) 10. Moonstruck (Norman Jewison, USA)

Here it is: Watching Hope and Glory last night for the first time since it was released 30+ years ago brought to mind a couple of other movies. There's a scene in which a downed German pilot parachutes right into the middle of the neighborhood, which of course echoes a scene in Mrs. Miniver. I guess that was a common enough occurrence in real life that it was depicted in those two movies and probably more. In Mrs. Miniver, it turns into almost a superheroine action scene, but in this movie, the pilot calmly smokes a cigarette and waits to be taken prisoner. Also, there's a scene in which the family sits around the radio listening to the king's speech that, well, is the entire subject of the movie The King's Speech. While the speech in question is presented as a glorious triumph in the newer movie, here it seems to meet a collective "meh" from the family listening to it! The father says "I thought it was better than last year's", and the teenage daughter rolls her eyes and says "Oh, Dad, you say that every year!".

It's been brought to my attention that I started my own H&G thread without realizing another one existed. So, I'm just gonna copy and paste what I had to say on here. '

Oops. Unaware such a thread existed. Just turned on my computer and created a thread without looking at any others. Perhaps a mod can merge?

Watching Hope and Glory last night for the first time since it was released 30+ years ago brought to mind a couple of other movies. There's a scene in which a downed German pilot parachutes right into the middle of the neighborhood, which of course echoes a scene in Mrs. Miniver. I guess that was a common enough occurrence in real life that it was depicted in those two movies and probably more. In Mrs. Miniver, it turns into almost a superheroine action scene, but in this movie, the pilot calmly smokes a cigarette and waits to be taken prisoner. Also, there's a scene in which the family sits around the radio listening to the king's speech that, well, is the entire subject of the movie The King's Speech. While the speech in question is presented as a glorious triumph in the newer movie, here it seems to meet a collective "meh" from the family listening to it! The father says "I thought it was better than last year's", and the teenage daughter rolls her eyes and says "Oh, Dad, you say that every year!".

I would really like to watch Foul Play again, which was about the third or fourth PG movie I was ever allowed to see at the theater. Chevy Chase trying to do Cary Grant, I guess, although I didn't understand that at the time. All the scenes with Dudley Moore and Billy Barty made my fourth grade self laugh so hard, I was literally weeping.

I was right! I saw him in The Last Hurrah not too long before I was cut off from TCM and this Website by failing to pay my cable/Internet bill, and I was like, "Holy crap, that's MCOH's avatar!". Funny how this message board has warped my mind that this is what I'm thinking about while watching movies.

Cid, there are links to every day's programming in the OP. All the Glenn Ford movies are on Mondays. I went through them last night. I believe there are 27 films, of which I've seen either 13 or 14. I honestly can't remember if I've seen Affair in Trinidad. I think I started it once maybe on a night it was on a double bill with Gilda. I don't know the specifics, but Ford clearly had some sort of semi-exclusive contract in which he was shared by two studios, Columbia and MGM, a fairly rare arrangement, as far as I know. Almost all the films being shown are from that era. There's a very heavy focus on 1955-1964. I would have liked a little more of a career retrospective showcase, maybe one or two more pre-Gilda movies and one or two from 1968 or later (what about Superman: the Movie to have a memorable later Ford appearance? Not really a Ford movie, per se, he's in it for less than 10 minutes, but it's probably the first thing I ever saw him in). I've seen very early Ford performances Heaven is a Barbed Wire Fence and Go West, Young Lady on YouTube. Sorry neither of them is included. I've also seen The Lady in Question on YouTube, which TCM is showing. This is a fun little movie, the first Ford-Rita Hayworth pairing, in which we're unsure if she's a total innocent or a femme fatale until late in the film. Brian Aherne is a hoot. I counted 14 MGMs, 10 Columbias and one each from Warner Bros., RKO and 20th Century Fox. Rage, I believe, is the only TCM premiere.

I was mostly trying to be tongue-in-cheek. I promise I wasn't sitting around weeping no one had posted a single comment or sent me a PM about my absence, but I had noticed the long absence of other posters had generated some activity previously, and I probably did fantasize at least one person might post, "Hey, do you guys remember ...?" 'Sokay, though. I shall persevere! And am back to annoy everyone again.

I kept wanting to correct everybody, because I was sure it was AlEcia Malone, but I did a Google search, and you folks are spelling it correctly. I'm trying to scan my memory banks if I know someone else who spells it that way and am just getting confused.

Ha ha ha, well thanks for ruining him for everyone just prior to his being SOTM! (For me, it's Cary Grant and that chin dimple ...)

I think this is correct. Also, it explains why the threads about Tiffany Vasquez are usually pulled. Hmm. I wrote that they were NOT pulled, but I don't guess I actually know that. I haven't looked to see if any of those threads still exist. They certainly used to hang around a lot longer than the thread Dargo is referencing did, anyway.

Been out of town for a couple of days, and my thread turned from being all about me to being all about the Raspberries, which was kind of like the Doris Day thread turning into being some advanced mathematical way to calculate the oldest films which have still have living stars. I don't guess I mind. In my days as a newbie, there was about a thousand page thread about movies available to watch on YouTube that had been started by one Fred C. Dobbs. It ultimately, after existing for years, got deleted by mods, I guess because any number of those movies were available on YouTube in violation of copyright laws. But while it was still around, I got the idea hey, I'm gonna go back to the very first post on this thread, start watching these movies that are available on YouTube and post one paragraph reviews of each movie I see. I did somewhere between five or ten when my activities drew Fred's attention. He posted that this was a thread strictly for posting movies that were available on YouTube. It was NOT a thread for reviewing movies available on YouTube. And because he'd created the thread, he had the right to dictate to me what I could or could not post on his thread. I found his imperiousness insufferable, an my response to him was unkind, which I feel a little bad about now, since he's apparently no longer with us. But I like to imagine now what his reaction would have been if he'd started a thread about something that was important to him that other people turned into a thread about the Raspberries. Sagebrush, I too live in an apartment, and I fear that I didn't really find my time any more productive whilst I had neither Internet nor cable to distract me. I found other ways to waste it, but that may just be indicative of my own shortcomings.

Personally, I don't object to commentary on whomever the present moderators may be. There were endless threads on here not so long ago bashing Tiffany Vazquez (I think her name was? Not making the effort to look it up) as a teenybopper who had really terrible fashion sense, and I don't recall the mods seeing fit to ever delete those. And her departure from hosting duties was celebrated as one of the greatest moments in the history of humankind on these boards, and those didn't get deleted, either. And also a lot of attacks on Ben having some marginal, occasional presence on some liberal podcasts. But possibly there's a new, more aggressive mod assigned to tcm.com message board duty recently, which I assume is extremely low-importance, garbage duty, as we are probably some dusty relic of the past, and talking about TCM on Facebook or Twitter is what's important to TCM. Certainly Eddie Mueller is never in his entire life going to say thanks to the people who support Noir Alley on the tcm.com message boards, because nobody gives a crap about us other than to censor us. I do vehemently dislike the idea of a thread being deleted because someone said "I don't like this host". That, to my knowledge has never previously been the case in the history of these message boards, and even though I thought the OP was an idiot and/or a troll, I would defend his/her right to be able to express that opinion. I was gonna go into a lengthy harangue about the OP's assertion that classic movies promoted a wholesome, conservative viewpoint, which he/she believed was what drew most viewers into TCM. I was gonna say, okay, sure, maybe the Andy Hardy movies and most John Wayne Westerns, but the movies have always had some thankfully screwed-up, off-kilter presentations of life, from all those steamy pre-Codes to noirs, in which, because of the Code, crime had to pay, but all those criminals sure looked glamorous and like life was pretty fun while they were getting away with it. Also, plenty of classic movies tackled any number of social issues from what I would say was usually a liberal viewpoint. I thought the OP had an extremely limited concept of what defined a classic film and was anxious to tell him/her so, although as has been pointed out, he/she may well have been a Russian bot trying to make sure Trump gets re-elected.

(Got up in the middle of the night and saw a post of some naked demon-woman moving to hide behind a tree. Either I dreamed all that or a mod swooped in and removed it by daylight) OKAY, so here's my story: I got behind on my cable/internet payments and decided in January that of all the bills I have to pay, it was the least essential. And after so many days of my payment being past due, they of course shut it off. That was Jan. 20, I think. I completely missed 31 Days of Oscar for the first time in almost 20 years (yeah, yeah, let's have the posts: "You didn't miss anything!") and whatever else TCM aired between Jan. 20 and yesterday. I read a lot of books, bought any number of DVDs from Half Price Books and listened to baseball on the radio. While I did have some limited Internet connection through my smartphone, I learned that using it when it's not connected to Wifi is an extremely dicey proposition. Certainly I couldn't stream anything on it. A lot of times I couldn't load websites that had any graphics at all. I kept in touch with the message boards, but I never posted because I don't have my password stored on my phone, and I have no idea what my password is: it's just saved on my laptop. My experience is you're almost never allowed to retrieve your old password on any web site; you just have to create a new one. And I didn't want to create a new one on my phone and lose the one I have stored on my computer. Oh yeah, and I never took my laptop to somewhere that I could connect it to Wifi because I've been having weird issues with it where the battery seems to lose its ability to charge if I take my laptop outdoors and drive it somewhere in weather that's above 70 degrees. So far, a reboot has fixed that issue every time, but it makes me nervous enough that I'm just keeping my laptop at home unless it's an emergency. So, my only Internet use for four months was on my phone. Anyway, I'm back. I did not end up having to pay what I thought was going to be a thousand dollars for all those extra months of delinquent payments. They closed down my account and considered me a brand new customer. I only had to make back payments up to the time they shut down my account, about $150. If I'd known that, I would have done this much sooner. Being a new customer, I had to get new equipment (everything I was using was considered obsolete and not being issued to new customers): a new modem/router and a new cable box, and I discovered only after bringing all that home, I needed a new remote as well, and had to go back the next day and get one of those. I have essentially the same package as before, with the addition of HBO, which I haven't had in about 12 years. I could watch the final episode of Game of Thrones tomorrow night, which would be my first episode ever! (Will I be confused?) As a new customer, my bill will be about $50 less/month for the first year. Oh, yeah, the cable companies also force you to take on a landline now as part of their bundle. If there's a new customer, there's no way you can not get it. I'm pretty old school. I already have a landline from another provider. I don't really want to be paying for that twice, so I guess I need to get that set up and drop my other provider. I will try to stay atop of my payments this time and avoid all that again.

Perception vs. reality is a funny thing sometimes. I think we're all just used to seeing a lot of Henry Fonda movies in general on the network. But I just did a quick scan, and I can only find Fonda featured in SUTS five times. And the last time was 2013.