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I think it all depends on the content and whether you're going to watch it. Showtime is certainly not going to have any classic film content - I doubt they ever show any movies pre-1990 - but I think they do show a lot of interesting movies of more recent vintage. I know they also have a few acclaimed original shows.
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On 12/16/2018 at 11:14 PM, Vautrin said:
Not to go all anale, but Eno played on the first two RM albums
My bad.
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Took me a few days to get back into this. I've looked over all the films airing between February 13-16. There's a whole am programming schedule devoted to silents, almost none of which I've seen. Roy Rogers' first movie also got nominated for something, I guess, because it's a TCM premiere. And it's from Republic! TopBilled, I know you've been pressing for something from that studio besides The Quiet Man to get a 31 Days slot for some time.
Here are the movies airing during those four days I haven't seen:
The Racket (Paramount, 1928)
Two Arabian Knights (United Artists, 1928)
A Woman of Affairs (United Artists, 1928)
Our Dancing Daughters (MGM, 1928)
Sadie Thompson (United Artists, 1928)
The Crowd (MGM, 1928)
Speedy (Paramount, 1928)
The Divine Lady (Warner Bros., 1929)
Way Out West (MGM, 1937)
Under Western Stars (Republic, 1938)
Strike Up the Band (MGM, 1940)
The Jungle Book (United Artists, 1942)
Lifeboat (20th Century Fox, 1944)
The Green Years (MGM, 1946)
The Window (RKO, 1949)
Broken Arrow (20th Century Fox, 1950)
The Little Fugitive (Jospeh Burstyn, Inc., 1953)
Titanic (20th Century Fox, 1953)
The Naked Spur (MGM, 1953)
The Madness of King George (Goldwyn, 1994)So, in the first 16 days, TCM is airing 51 movies I haven't seen before.
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4 hours ago, speedracer5 said:
I have never heard of Roxy Music
I'm not super-familiar with Roxy Music, but their sound isn't entirely dissimilar from the Cure, so if you're not crazy about them, well ... Roxy Music is maybe not quite as "mopey", but like the Cure, their songs are kind of pretty/aching/Gothic/sweeping. "More Than This" is probably their best-known song. Bryan Ferry is the name of their singer. He's also had a solo career. The genius producer/engineer/multinstrumentalist Brian Eno, who would later work with U2, was a member for one album only.
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56 minutes ago, mr6666 said:
could it have been a vocational/ 'trade school'?
if they had those in NYC?
Well, there was some kind of shop class that was making the walls of Glenn Ford's class rattle all the time, so maybe!
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And there is a chain restaurant that originated in California in the late '70s and now has 200 locations in 15 states.
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This is veering off the topic, but as a Texan, I have to note how thrilled (and a little confused) I was as a kid that Farr was always wearing a Texas Rangers baseball cap in the latter years of M*A*S*H, after he stopped wearing the dresses, a team that didn't even come into existence until almost 20 years after the Korean War ended. It was supposed to be Toledo Mudhens cap, but come on, all of us around here knew what it was. That was the best the prop department could come up with, apparently.
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1 hour ago, Vautrin said:
I'm sure there are a lot of Nicks' lookalikes at concerts, understandably so. But maybe they would
still do pretty well if she was not there for whatever reason.
Nicks actually very briefly left the band in the mid-90s. I think this has mostly been forgotten, even though the band put out a Nicks-free album in 1995, Time. The lineup for that album was Christine McVie, Dave Mason (formerly of Traffic), Bekka Bramlett (daughter of Delaney & Bonnie), Billy Burnette, John McVie and Mick Fleetwood. And they definitely weren't playing their usual arenas for that tour. I think they did a lot of festivals where they appeared fairly early on the bill. From what I've read, most people didn't even know ahead of time Nicks wasn't going to be there. Bramlett would do one or two of her songs. This was all before the big 1997 reunion show when Buckingham returned (and Nicks, although most people never even knew she was gone).
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I guess I can't discuss who sang the Oscar-winning song from Butch Cassidy without getting censored!
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There's a certain demonic look to it! I wondered if it was a character from a monster movie or a Star Trek alien.
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Ha ha well now don't spoil the suspense for me TopBilled! I'm like going through about four days of the schedule every one day of real time. But I've seen both of them dozens of times, so I won't miss them.
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Love the scene where Tracy hints he might spend some of his shore leave with women, and Freddie Bartholomew is like, "Come on, Manuel, you're just kidding about all that girl stuff, right?", and Tracy kind of does a double take like "Are you kidding me?" until it dawns on him that the kid isn't into that yet, and so he claims that yeah, he was just kidding.
That used to be the movie stereotype of boys, anyway, that they thought girls were yucky and gross and had cooties until they got to their teens. I don't know how much that corresponds to actual reality. I was falling in love with girls and totally tongue-tied and shy around them as early as age five or six.
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Hope I don't immediately run your thread into a ditch by not voting for one of the nominees (if you insist on one, I'll go with Burton) but my vote for Best Actor of 1964 would have been for another actor from Dr. Strangelove entirely, George C. Scott! I read that Scott was unhappy with his performance. Stanley Kubrick was infamous for doing zillions of takes of the same scene, and he kept urging Scott to bigger, be broader, and then, Scott claimed, used all the biggest and broadest takes, making his performance appear on screen to be more one-dimensional than he would have liked.
However, when I watch Scott's performance, I still see a lot of intelligence and subtlety in it. At first, he's saddled with a lot of expository dialogue. He's the guy who has to carefully explain to the president why this situation is really dire and why every reason the president can think of to stop it probably isn't going to work. And somehow he makes all this exposition really interesting and engaging. Then, as the film progresses, he becomes the character who most zealously promotes the "well, let's make the best of a bad situation" point of view. Just every moment he's on screen, I find fascinating.
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10 hours ago, Dargo said:
But, yes, I'll bet the reason MGM evidently did back it for Oscar consideration over the superior The Bad... and Singin'... might have been due to Ivanhoe being more conventional, AND perhaps even because the former two in essence don't look completely favorably upon the Hollywood movie business, as in a manner of speaking those two films "air Hollywood's dirty laundry".
I always assumed the Academy, having just given Best Picture to a Gene Kelly musical the previous year, kind of "ho-hummed" Singin' with a "been there, done that" attitude. But you may be on to something with your suggestion that the studio itself already had in mind which of their product they wanted to push on voters that year.
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Two Universal films from the '70s - The Sting and Jaws - are on the 31 Days list more years than they are not, but if they're on there this year, I haven't seen them yet, having only gotten through the first 12 days.
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On 5/15/2015 at 9:23 PM, TomJH said:
This is for those familiar with SAN FRANCISCO, which just aired on TCM. My take on the film:
1. Spencer Tracy may have got an Oscar nomination for his role but this was Clark Gable's movie all the way.
2. Tracy's priest character turns into an irritating busy buddy, particularly in the scene in which he gives Gable that "you can't sell her immortal soul" business because Clark wants Jeannette to show off her legs while singing
3. The earthquake special effects are STILL outstanding, a great sequence
4. The final scene in which the production code demands that a repentant Gable kneel and pray to God is cringing to watch - everyone wants to see Gable as a bad boy, not see him turn into a choir boy
Any comments?
I agree with everything you say! Tracy as a priest is not my favorite Tracy. I just watched Boys Town again the other night. In the opening scene, the condemned prisoner asks the warden for a drink. The warden apparently keeps a flask under his jacket for just such purposes! And he's about to give it to him, when Tracy walks in and silently cluck-clucks the whole thing, and the warden tucks away the flask, and I'm like OH COME ON! The dude is going to THE CHAIR in 45 minutes! Let him have a belt, you sanctimonious blowhard!
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1 minute ago, calvinnme said:
I'm surprised you are disappointed,
The thing is, it's not like TCM never shows Oscar winners and nominees from those studios - there are your Hitchcock films and Billy Wilder and Ernst Lubitsch films. Tonight they're showing a couple of Doris Day Universals very late - but why they couldn't show a few more during the month that's actually devoted to those films, I don't know. I guess they get them when they can get them.
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7 hours ago, CinemaInternational said:
The Artist made it two or three 31 Days of Oscar ago, and although I could be wrong, I think that The King's Speech has aired on TCM too.
Yes, The Artist and The King's Speech both aired in 2015 and The Artist again in 2016.
The Godfather and The Godfather Part II both aired on the same night in 2008 when there was apparently literally like a one-day window when they were free from being under long-term exclusive contracts to other networks. I'm still proud of whoever at TCM had the foresight to jump on that opportunity. They'll probably never air on TCM again.
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10 hours ago, Vautrin said:
I guess it all matters how many FM fans are more Stevie Nicks fans. It would be interesting
to see. For me it's hard to get too excited about a group that's been together (in this
configuration) for over forty years.
I've seen them live five times, and Stevie is definitely the big selling point. There's always a large contingent of the crowd that are groups of females going together, all dressed in similar style to her.
7 hours ago, jakeem said:I find it interesting that every time Buckingham isn't touring with Fleetwood Mac, the group replaces him with two guitarists. In 1987, it was Rick Vito and Billy Burnette. Now it's Neil Finn and Mike Campbell.
Fleetwood Mac is a supergroup, but Buckingham deserves a lot of credit for the band's rejuvenation in the mid-1970s. And he's a master of the fingerpicking guitar style!
His guitar is absolutely amazing, and definitely worth hearing live. When still with the band, he would always get his solo moments where he would perform slowed-down versions of this song and "Never Going Back Again".
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Exactly! In fact, when the kids are vying for the switchblade near the end, a couple of them make clear they don't want to end up in reform school, so this is supposed to be a "normal" school, I think.
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Ran through another four days of programming tonight. This swath of the month is pretty loaded with films I've already seen. My initial impression is disappointment. I would like a year all the major studios are decently represented. That year that they divided programming by studio was pretty good. This year, while there are a pretty good of scattering of Fox and Columbia films, the films from Paramount and Universal, at least in the first 12 days, are EXTREMELY sparse, like maybe one or two films each from those studios in twelve days? Yuck. I will hope for more diversity as I progress.
Anyway, here are the films airing between February 9-12 I haven't seen:
White Shadows in the South Seas (MGM, 1928)
Naughty Marietta (MGM, 1935)
Merrily We Live (MGM, 1938)
Night Train to Munich (20th Century Fox, 1940)
Days of Glory (RKO, 1944)
The Desert Song (Warner Bros., 1944)So in 12 days, in which let's say roughly 144 movies are shown, there are 31 movies airing that I haven't seen. I feel that makes me something of a grizzled TCM veteran, although I know some of you on here have seen even more of these movies than I.
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Was that commonplace in the '50s? I've read about some girls-only schools in modern times to focus on science, technology and math, subjects in which female students are still dramatically underrepresented in going on to get jobs in that field. But I never heard of a male student-only public high school in the '50s. I've seen this movie any number of times, but I guess this was the first time it dawned on me there were no female students.
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I'm sure it means more to me than it does most people. Buckingham's absence won't keep them from selling out arenas. Now, if Stevie Nicks was absent ...
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5 hours ago, GGGGerald said:
I heard Fleetwood was behind the dismissal.
Fleetwood was definitely the public spokesman about the decision. My supposition that it was actually Nicks' decision comes from Buckingham, who said in a recent Rolling Stone interview that he learned he was out of the band when Nicks' manager Jimmy Iovine called him and said Nicks told the rest of the band she would no longer play with them if Buckingham was still in it.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's Class of 2019
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For the hall's purposes "rock & roll" seems to mean any genre of music that's not classical, jazz or country since about the mid-50s. All genres of black music seem eligible, except for jazz.