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Every time TCM airs Flying Down to Rio, I wonder if some of those female wing-walkers in that final scene are topless.
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5 minutes ago, TomJH said:
Just the thought of Lucille Ball nude makes my head feel Desi.
I'm unsure if you mean "Desi" with desire or "Desi" with disgust, but I always found pre-TV Lucy extremely hot.
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Not arguing that, but I feel like in general, writers who are not also directors are extremely ignored by the mainstream media. Though I'm not against Goldman getting some spotlight. He certainly deserves it! I just assume Rob Reiner would get a billion times more credit for the movie than Goldman.
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Goldman also wrote the script for the 2015 Broadway adaptation of Misery, apparently the last professional work he ever did? Here, the director of that production, Will Frears, recounts his time of knowing Goldman.
https://www.vulture.com/2018/11/heres-what-it-was-like-to-collaborate-with-william-goldman.html
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No kidding, Lucille Ball? Is this a movie TCM has ever shown?
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Gershwin Fan, is your avatar really Rowdy Roddy Piper from They Live? For the same person to express admiration for Mr. Gerswhin and Mr. Piper in one fell sweep is completely embracing all the aspects of high and low culture film has to offer! I salute you!
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Did it really? I don't really watch TV anymore except for TCM and sports. I just assumed because of his long-time association with Hee-Haw, Clark would get way more coverage than Goldman.
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Boy, she was very long-lived, wasn't she? I feel a little bad that I really had never heard of her before last night.
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Spoiler Alerts!
I was completely unfamiliar with Carlisle, so much so I wasn't always sure which character was her, as you'll read below. Both films I watched had two young, pretty blondes in substantial roles, and it was a bit of a guessing game for me both times to figure out which one was her.
I watched the first two films of the night, College Humor and Kind Lady. I particularly wanted to see College Humor, since it's a Paramount film and not likely to air on TCM as often, but I'd never seen either of them. College Humor is not much of a movie, sadly. The songs are pretty unmemorable, and the shots are unusually static for a musical. Bing Crosby and Jack Oakie were both 30, but Crosby plays a professor, while Oakie really strains credulity as a freshman! Carlisle's character was hard to fathom - she appeared to be really into both Crosby's professor and the lug of a football player played by Richard Arlen. There really aren't any scenes from her perspective, so I'm not sure how we're supposed to feel about her simultaneously pursuing two men. This sort of plot usually got a woman labeled as a "tramp", like in Baby Face, from the same year. But clearly we're not supposed to feel that way about Carlisle. Burns and Allen are funny, but limited to one scene and a very quick cameo in another scene. Wish they'd done more movies. One thing I learned from this movie is the tradition of violent fraternity hazing dates back to at least 1933!
Kind Lady was quite good. With the sentimental Christmas music in the opening scene, and seemingly something of a bond developing between Aline MacMahon and Basil Rathbone early on, I thought it was going to be similar to The Young at Heart, in which grifters initially out to fleece an old lady end up being transformed into productive members of society in spite of themselves. But no, this movie got real dark, real fast. It almost bordered on being a noir, sort of a drawing-room noir. I was pretty unfamiliar with MacMahon, besides One Way Passage and Gold Diggers of 1933, but she was great here, as was Rathbone. MacMahon was probably too young to play the kindly spinster, but let's be honest - she did have a bit of a matronly look about her. The plot was a little creaky - why did MacMahon feel she had to slip notes in the shirt pockets of the various guests to inform them what was going on? Why not just say it out loud? What, were they going to kill her in front of the guests? That would give away that they were bad guys.
I had to look up on imdb just who Carlisle played in Kind Lady, because there were two blondes with roughly equal-sized roles, the doomed maid and the niece. She played the niece, a part so fleeting it almost seemed not to do justice to Carlisle on a night devoted to her, but it was an MGM film, so TCM probably had free access to it.
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47 minutes ago, Sepiatone said:
A documentary about the MAKING of a documentary??
Getting to be a bit MUCH, wouldn't you say?
Sepiatone
Well, I'm sure you know this, but The Other Side of the Wind is a faux documentary (from what I understand, haven't seen it). So, They'll Love Me isn't REALLY a doc about a doc.
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I've actually never watched Filmstruck. If I want to watch a classic film somewhere besides TCM, Amazon Prime is usually my top source. They have a ton. I don't know how radically their menu is going to change once Warner presumably bars its content from showing anywhere else.
Also, you can find a lot of stuff for free on YouTube. Other corporate entities seem not to care as much about their product on there as Warners, which almost always gets their films yanked off very quickly. I've seen a number of films from Fox, Paramount, Columbia and Universal, and when I check back months later, those films are still on there.
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Of course we here on the message boards like those schedules being posted three months in advance. It gives us something to talk about and anticipate. But almost invariably, something promised that gets a little buzz here ends up getting removed from the schedule. Honestly, I'm not sure I would prefer if TCM waited until they absolutely had a schedule set in stone, because that might not be until a few weeks before airtime.
There seems to be something of a happy medium currently in placed. A lot of recent monthly schedules have left blanks spaces for primetime viewings or viewing for an entire day or several days. Presumably, these are days for which the schedule hasn't been locked down, and TCM is holding back rather than making promises that turn out to be untrue. If this means we can still see the schedule about three months in advance, even if it has a few gaps, I'm for it.
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Looks like River's Edge would have been a TCM premiere. I saw it when I was in college. Good acting, but relentlessly nihilistic and downbeat, almost predicting the coming of all those nihilist grunge bands a few years later. It was a career-salvaging year for Dennis Hopper, who'd been persona non grata in Hollywood for a long time because of his addictions and unreliable on-set behavior, but in 1986 alone, he was in this movie, Hoosiers and Blue Velvet, and that trifecta insured he never lacked for work again for the rest of his life.
If you really want to see it, I see it's free this month if you have an Amazon Prime membership.
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EricJ, I was mostly trying to be tongue-in-cheek. If I genuinely offended, I apologize. You just seem to feel so strongly about this, I couldn't help poking a little fun. But I can see how it might have come across as nasty.
Some other posters had predicted something like this was in the works, that this content would reappear on the Warner streaming services. Some have also expressed dismay that said content has to disappear for a full year.
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Did this property owner also appear in Woody Allen's Celebrity?
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Here's a story about a bunch of Hollywood big names fighting to save Filmstruck
https://www.vulture.com/2018/11/basically-every-famous-director-petitions-to-save-filmstruck.html
I will now wait for the inevitable EricJ post about why all these famous Hollywood people are stupid for doing this.
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17 minutes ago, Sgt_Markoff said:
I mean my gosh, a 'laff-track'?? In this day and age we still have sitcoms with 'laff-tracks'??
There is no laugh track on The Simpsons.
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I can't speak for recent seasons, but The Simpsons was incredible greatness for at least the first 10 years, and because of your prejudice, you are missing out.
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Yes, a lot of talk on here about the colorization, but I'm more fascinated by the attempt to add sound as authentically as possible from an era when of course there was no sound on film.
On 11/12/2018 at 10:26 AM, Stephan55 said:What incredible attention to detail and loving care went into this production.
This is far and above the exacting process of "restoring" old and degraded nitrate film.
After painstakingly getting each hand cranked film segment down to a "normal" speed (recreating the missing frames to fill in the gaps) Peter Jackson employed skilled lip readers to "see" what these soldiers were saying at that time.
Then, according to regiment, he employed regional accented voice "actors" to read those lines, which were then synched into the movie, along with authentic sounds garnered from the actual weapons and machines stored in various war museums. The "colourisation" process was likewise rendered as authentic as possible from the appropriate uniforms and equipment of the era.
The end result, as seen in the various displayed snippets, is breathtaking... As Jackson himself said, these people come "alive" off the screen as never before. They have become the "us" of yesteryear and are now as contemporary as yesterdays news.
I am already so incredibly moved by what I have seen, and am so looking forward to one day experiencing the entire presentation.
Hopefully this program will be made available for the masses to "watch" and "hear" on DVD very soon!
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A-ha! So I'm NOT crazy! Although it was MovieCollectorOH, not me, who supplied the answer last time.
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This thread really started yesterday? Because I'm getting extremely strong deja vu of the same request from months ago or a year ago, complete with EricJ giving the exact same answer!
Anyway, looks like Muppets Take Manhattan is the only one TCM has ever aired (which I believe I also posted in that other thread).
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16 hours ago, EricJ said:
'15 Showtime cable "reunion" of Twin Peaks
Are you saying it aired in 2015? It was actually on just last year!
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3 hours ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
Angels with Dirty Faces "turn up no results at all'.
(but I don't know why he picked Angels but since it is a WB film that was part of the Turner library there is a connection to the now-gone Filmstruck).
I started two different threads noting that it's been nine years since Angels with Dirty Faces has aired on TCM, which I find very puzzling. Someone will have to tell me if it was ever available on Filmstruck.
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The first one was confusing as heck. Lot of plot shoved into barely 60 minutes! I gave up following the plot details and just enjoyed the energy and the performances.
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Classic Era Film actresses who did nudity
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There's a new version of the Lizzie Borden story about to come out with Kristen Stewart and Chloe Sevigny. I read an interview with Stewart in Entertainment Weekly, where she expressed happiness about the film's "non-exploitative" nudity. While there are lesbian sex scenes in the movie, the only nudity apparently will be in the murder (or post-murder) scenes. I wonder if Stewart was even aware of this version.