sewhite2000
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I thought this thread was actually going to be about The Good, the Bad and the Ugly! For which I just read in his obit that Bernardo Bertolucci was a co-writer or maybe a script doctor.
I am actually trying not to stare at your post too hard, as I fear you may give away all the plot twists of a movie I've contemplated watching.
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Clearly, someone entered this info incorrectly, though I assume we all realize that the shorts will air sometime between the end of one feature and before the start of another. It's not shaking up my life to any great extent - I wasn't planning to record any of this stuff - but it is indeed a glaring error.
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Your experience sounds mostly good. I am a Spectrum cable subscriber and am not thrilled with it. I feel bound to it because it feels to me that it's difficult or impossible to watch local sports franchises without it (this doesn't seem to be anything that concerns you!). Streaming services pretty much universally only offer you access to "out-of-market" games. To view the team in your area that you actually want to watch, as far as I can tell, you pretty much have to have cable. You may also be able to stream them on that cable channel's streaming service, but having their cable channel is usually a prerequisite. Now, I have heard some extremely self-confident millennials say there are ways around this, but 1) I'm reasonably sure those ways aren't legal; and 2) I wouldn't understand how to do it even if it was spelled out for me; I'd have to pay some 19-year-old to come to my home and set it up. So, I feel like I'm still stuck with cable.
Some of the issues that you do have still make me leery. I'm still pretty much a "wired" guy, although I do have an Amazon Prime membership. Not entirely sure it's worth it. I have binges where I watch quite a bit of stuff on it, occasionally mixing in the free stuff, but I easily go, say, eight weeks without using it at all, and have paid $30 during that time to watch zero movies.
My 80-something parents recently got a new TV with a Netflix option, so they got a membership to that, and I've played around with it while visiting them. I watched every existing episode of a pretty great German show called Babylon Berlin (Season 3, I read, is filming right now) and I checked out the first two episodes of Stranger Things, which has intrigued me enough that I plan to watch at least two more eps while I'm there at Christmas. I also watched a couple of Dave Chappelle stand-ups, a few theatrical movies and an episode here or there of some other shows (my mom has watched every episode of The Crown, and I watched one with her). Their selection is pretty amazing, although classical movies is certainly not their strong point. However, there are some glitchy things about it that have so far prevented me from wanting to get it for myself. I have to hit mute when figuring out what I want to watch because they're constantly playing ads for things. I can't concentrate! Sometimes, things won't load. Sometimes, shows just freeze. And sometimes, the whole damn TV just freezes. One time it froze, and I just went to bed, and eight hours later, it was still frozen - no button on any remote would do anything. I finally just unplugged the TV and plugged it in again. And I've had to do that multiple times on my visits. These really horrendous problems never happen when my parents use it - only me. And I would like to think I understand it way better than they do, but maybe not.
Anyway, issues like this make me really not want to dive into the deep end of streaming TV. I feel like we're just not there yet in 2018, based on my personal experiences, and it feels like at least once a week on here, somebody posts about some horrific issue they're having with a streaming service. Maybe another 10 years and this will be improved enough I might consider it. But I don't need a lot of extra technological heartache in my life. For now, I'm content to just watch what's on TCM on a given night and occasionally supplement my viewing with a DVD or Amazon Prime.
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I think I still like Pulp Fiction, although it's been a long time since I've seen it - well before my re-watching of Shawshank five years ago. I know it was considered the hipper option in what was essentially a two-picture race between it and the more conservative Forrest Gump. Shawshank was also nominated but considered an extreme long shot at the time. It gained more acclaim over its many years of home viewing.
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Boy, I don't know where the years go. I saw a Sony-sponsored 20th anniversary release of The Shawshank Redemption in 2014 that had nothing to do with TCM. I swear to me that doesn't feel like more than a year or two ago, but now it's time for the 25th anniversary release.
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That's the official 25th anniversary, for which I'm sure they'll do something special. Not entirely sure when they're going to start showing these tribute videos from fans. I imagine the whole year in general will have special moments here and there.
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There's a biopic coming out with Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly that I would guess might have helped inspire this programming.
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Dargo, hope you caught a reunited Cars (sadly minus Ben Orr, of course) performing when they were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame last year! I think you can find it all on YouTube.
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On 11/24/2018 at 10:32 AM, LawrenceA said:
Out of the top 20 rated movies on the site, only two are pre-1960, 12 Angry Men (1957, #5, with 8.9 rating) and Seven Samurai (1954, #19, with 8.6 rating).
The top rated movie on IMDb continues to be The Shawshank Redemption (1994) with a 9.2 rating.
Ha ha ha, remember all the people who used to come on here and say, "TCM showed a movie made after 1960 last night! How dare they betray Robert Osborne's original vision? I hate them and will never watch TCM again!" I guess those people aren't rating movies on imdb.
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Well, that pretty much exhausts my knowledge of Jennifer Lopez songs, so I can't one up you!
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28 minutes ago, Im4movies2 said:
Why Jennifer Lopez in the first place?
Hey! Don't hate her for the rocks that she's got! She's just she's just Jenny from the block!
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I can only hope that means they're working to get some out-of-the-ordinary acquisitions!
Edit: Oh, yes, finally found January schedule with Kathryn Grayson SOTM. I think I actually commented on that thread. My memory ain't what it used to be.
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I feel like by December 2 this schedule should have been posted. Had to do a search just to find this thread, since I spend 99 per cent of my time in General Discussions. Has even the January 2019 schedule been posted? I feel like surely it must have, though all my searches for it to this point have ended in dismal frustration.
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I saw Free Solo today in a theater that focuses on art-house and special-interest films in my city, and there was a display for Stan & Ollie in the lobby. So, I assume they're anticipating that it will play there.
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I took an introduction to film class my freshman year of college in the late '80s which, honestly, was probably the most life-changing of all the college classes I ever took. Didn't do a whit for me job-wise, but introduced to the world of classic film and started a life-long love affair. And we definitely had to learn about Edison v the rest of the film industry. I don't know where my teachers (the class was taught by two TAs, too unimportant for a full professor, I guess, but it was still probably my favorite class I ever took) even learned about all that stuff a good five or seven years before the idea of having Internet in your home even existed for the vast majority of Americans. So, I'd heard most of this information before but certainly hadn't reviewed it in a long time.
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Okay, well, when you don't make your selections until deep into Page Two, it's no longer really trying to pick the "greatest" performances, but just trying not to repeat the ones that have been selected already (and I didn't even completely do that)! I do think this would make a great entire day of programming on TCM, one movie from each of these actors (Also, not a bad idea for those of you who participate in the schedule challenges). Some of the choices are pretty limited! Joseph Sweeney, for example, I have discovered on imdb, only made seven feature films in his entire career, doing 90 per cent of his work on television. But, anyway, here are my picks. Besides trying to avoid films already listed above, I also tried to mostly pick movies from outside the TCM library (you never know when you might encourage TCM to show one of these films!).
1 Martin Balsam Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? (Paramount, 1963)
2 John Fiedler The Odd Couple (Paramount, 1968)
3 Lee J. Cobb The Song of Bernadette (20th Century Fox, 1943)
4 E.G. Marshall The Mountain (Paramount, 1956)
5 Jack Klugman Goodbye, Columbus (Paramount, 1969)
6 Edward Binns Curse of the Undead (Universal, 1959)
7 Jack Warden That Kind of Woman (Paramount, 1959)
8 Henry Fonda Blockade (United Artists, 1938)
9 Joseph Sweeney The Fastest Gun Alive (MGM, 1956)
10 Ed Begley Dark City (MGM, 1950)
11 George Voskovec Uncle Vanya (Continental, 1957)
12 Robert Webber Don't Make Waves (MGM, 1967)
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On 11/30/2018 at 12:38 PM, Dargo said:
As I'm sure you know here jakeem, Warden is also great(and was also Oscar nominated) in another of Beatty's films, Shampoo.
Warren definitely liked working with Jack Warden. He's also in Bulworth.
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Of course, a number of these films you mention end up with the female giving up all this work "nonsense" for her man. So, I would say at the time it was generally considered not "okay".
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I watched Charade on cable, and it looked the same as any other time I'd seen it on TCM.
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Good point. I remember there being a little uncomfortable buzz about Call Me By Your Name's subject matter, but it still got made and released.
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3 hours ago, TopBilled said:
Teenage kids drink coffee with their parents these days more than before. It's no longer considered a rite of passage. It's just something people do like it's no big deal.
Substitute teaching is one of the several part-time jobs I juggle, and I see kids as young as 14 bringing frappacinos and lattes and so forth with them into first period that they've picked up at Starbucks on their way to school. I don't know how many or if any of them drink straight coffee, but if you dump a lot of sugar and flavors into it ...
I had my first cup of coffee when I was a freshman in college. It just seemed too mature a drink to me when I was growing up. I quickly became a three or four or five cups a day guy. These days, I just have one a day, maybe two a handful of times a year.
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7 hours ago, Dargo said:
I've always wondered why it is Scandinavians have become some of the biggest consumers of coffee in the world.
(...anybody know?)
Because it's cold? (either over there or all those places like Minnesota or Wisconsin that they seemed to move to)
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Nobody did tortured soul like Kirk Douglas!
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Not you, perhaps, but there was some stereotype-perpetuating just a few posts above.
Smart Blonde - Judy Holliday Biopic
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I read a bio about Zanuck. Apparently, the guy had the stereotypical "casting couch", an actual bedroom accessed through a door in the back of his office where many of the Fox ingenues were expected to offer themselves up to him at his beck and call. This went on for many years, decades. He would not have made it in the hastag MeToo era. Although he no doubt is a hero to Nipkow!