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On 9/13/2018 at 5:12 PM, Dargo said:
AND, it never tasted any better than any of the other mass-produced American beer products. Back then it always seemed to me to just be the case of Coors' lack of national availability giving it some kind of undeserved reputation for "uniqueness".
It's kind'a like today when people from back east come out west here and have heard that In-n-Out Burgers' wares are supposedly extra tasty.
(...they're not)
I'm from Texas, and some of my fellow Texans for years spoke of In-n-Out with mythical reverence as if it was some kind of magical hamburger Nirvana. I personally know a number of people who would make a 60-mile round-trip drive to go to an In-n-Out if they were on a business trip to California and they could find an In-n-Out within a 30-mile radius! Yes, it was worth it they swore to me when I expressed doubt. Can't be better than Whataburger, I always thought to myself. My friends learned the secret language from Californians, all about "animal style" and all the secret, special ways you could get your burger prepared and shared it with one another like some Masonic lodge ritual. They all seemed brainwashed to me.
Well, In-n-Out finally expanded to Texas about two or three years ago, and I'm here to tell you ... it ain't better than Whataburger, as I always suspected.
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I loved all the schedules - definitely! - but I'm voting for Stevomachino, or Stevo as he sometimes refers to himself. Who knew the guy from Jack*ss who once let a baby alligator latch onto his n*pple and who once rolled down a hill inside a completely full Port-a-Potty had such great tastes in movies?
I don't have a super-intellectual reason for casting my vote. I just think after carefully perusing all the entrants, his has the most movies I would actually watch.
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Sorry, haven't been watching TCM much recently. Is Noir Alley always on Saturday night now instead of morning? Or does it vary?
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Apologies. For a few days, I see I didn't even have an "S" on my profile photo spot. I realize now that was because I attempted to load a photo on there and met with failure, as I have every time I have attempted this. But I didn't change my setting back to "No Photo", which I see now must be done if I want the "S" back.
I would love to load a photo like many of my fellow users, but I'm too computer-stupid to figure it out. All efforts result in me getting an "attempt failed" message. And there's no tutorial or anything to follow.
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Gore Vidal always insisted he definitely put in there, and that Charlton Heston wasn't bright enough to pick up on it.
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I didn't catch any of this, but I'm not surprised to hear about Carradine's knowledge and style. I wouldn't mind seeing a revival of The Essentials, a longtime TCM staple, especially if there could be some greater variety to the selections.
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MGM must have some kind of deal with AMC Theaters, where I see 90 per cent of my movies, because I swear to God, every movie I've seen in the last three months, the final trailer, the one that's shown right before the movie, has been for A Star is Born. And since I see about eight movies a month, I've seen the damn trailer a LOT. Cooper can definitely sing, and I'm impressed at what a sweet naivety Gaga is able to generate. Also stunned to see Dave Chappelle of all people has a supporting role. That alone should be worth the price of admission! The trailer appears to be all scenes from the first half of the film. The studio doesn't want the vast majority of ticket buyers who will have zero freaking idea how the story goes to have any advance clues of, well, how the story goes. I will probably see it, but I will go see pretty much anything ...
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Don't leave in a huff! I've started many a thread that my fellow members chose to completely ignore. Always hurts my feelings, but I try to rebound and go on. I haven't watched a lot of X-Files. I saw the first movie in the theater even though I'd never watched more than 15 minutes of any TV episode, so I can't say I truly understood everything going on, but I enjoyed it so much, I went back and saw it again a couple of weeks later. I too will salute the show's influence on what was to follow, and it certainly deserves credit for its longevity and multiple revivals.
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On 9/10/2018 at 7:24 AM, Sepiatone said:
OK, first------
MY favorite line in THE GODFATHER is NOT the one about the gun and canolis. But rather---
"I don't want my brother coming out of that toilet with just his D**K in his hand!"
But for the thread, all I can quickly come up with is from both PYGMALION and MY FAIR LADY----
"Where the devil are my slippers?"
And in true "Sepiaform", I'll be hit with more later on after signing off the forum.
Sepiatone
We had to read Pygmalion in high school long before I'd ever seen either movie version, and I'm almost a hundred per cent version that this line is not in the play, which ended on a darker note. I think it was said in the Leslie Howard documentary that this was among the lines he improvised. Anyway, interesting that the same ending was used again for the musical version.
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On 9/10/2018 at 3:11 AM, jakeem said:
From "Mister Roberts" (1955):
The Captain: Yes, who is it?
Ensign Frank Thurlowe Pulver, U.S.N. (enters): Captain, it is I, Ensign Pulver, and I just threw your stinkin' palm tree overboard! Now what's all this crud about no movie tonight?
I guess I should have mentioned this on the "Famous Movies You've Never Seen" thread. Somehow never seen this movie, though I've seen Jack Lemmon utter this line about 700 times on the tribute thread narrated by Kevin Spacey that TCM has of course removed and will never play again. I had no idea it was the last line in the movie!
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I just watched a few clips for Executive Action. Nipkow, hope you're watching, since you're always pandering for a political movie where the conservatives win. This movie appears to be about a cabal of Republican assassins who plot and successfully kill a liberal president! Hope you're weeping with joy that TCM is airing this movie.
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The primetime theme for Nov. 21 is TCM Backlot. These were films voted on Backlot members? I know they've voted on some SOTM and SUTS representatives, but I hadn't heard about this day before. Anybody know what this is about? Possibly each film is going to be selected and introduced by a Backlot member being interviewed by Ben M. I think they've done that before
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I see Veteran's Day, Nov. 11, left blank for now. Hope that means TCM is trying to procure something (or things) that hasn't been shown a billion times already. But we'll see.
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Fair enough.
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Okay, I can't stop from commenting already. Tales of Manhattan is getting the "TCM Presents" banner usually designated for premieres, but it has aired before in April, 2017. I was watching!
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Hooray! Wasn't sure this was ever going to happen! I am seriously unfamiliar with Glenda Farrell. Gonna have to look at her list of movies to even be sure I know who she is. Okay, gonna play around with some of these lists before I go to bed. I will probably post some comments tomorrow.
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2 hours ago, jakeem said:
Has there ever been any schedule ... ever, in the history of humanity ... you didn't post this?
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Thanks both of you. This certainly explains a lot to me! I'm from Texas, where Coors has always been available. I had no idea it was once such a rare and prized item that people were willing to break the law just to get it! I recall being confused even as a child about what the big deal was about Coors, which appeared readily available in my daily life, but I opted not to think about it too much and just watch the Bandit drive his fast car. But many times over the years I'd momentarily stop and wonder what the big deal was about transporting Coors that got Smokey so upset. Now I know!
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Hey, can someone explain the point of Smokey and the Bandit to me? Burt and Jerry are transporting 400 cases of Coors from Texas to Georgia. And this was ... illegal? You weren't allowed to sell Coors in certain states in the '70s?
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On 9/8/2018 at 2:55 PM, CaveGirl said:
I would have lost though in "Trivial Pursuit: The Silver Screen Edition", TB.
Speaking of movie mistakes, I remember once we were playing Trivial Pursuit, and the movie question was "Who addressed the U.N. while wearing a gun?" and my friend, Ann said "Uh, maybe John Wayne?"I always thought that mistake was funny. I think it was really someone like Yasser Afafat.
Here's the New York Times story the day after the address. No proof of a gun, apparently.
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As a kid, I very often read novelizations of movies that came out at the same time as or after the movie. These were quite common with the Hollywood popcorn fare, especially in the era before VCRs were common in the home and you were dependent on the movie either returning to the theater or airing on TV to see it again. I read adaptations of everything from Alan Dean Foster's Star Wars (credited to George Lucas) and the sequels, The Shaggy D.A., Beyond the Poseidon Adventure, Convoy, Capricorn One, Benji, Star Trek: the Motion Picture, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and many more. Very often, these adaptations would include a scene or two not in the film. I don't know the reasons for sure, of course, but my guess in hindsight is probably that they were not embellishments but rather appeared because the writer of the book had a copy of an earlier version of the screenplay and so included scenes that later got cut or were never filmed usually for running-time purposes. The Star Wars novelization, for example, includes a scene with Han Solo and Jabba the Hut that finally appeared (with a CGI-altered Jabba) in the CGI-enhanced version of the original movie and also a whole subplot about Luke and his best friend Biggs Darklighter, who reveals to Luke he's running off to join the Rebellion, that occur before Luke find the droids. Those scenes were filmed - I even saw stills of them in a Star Wars photostory book that came out about the same time as the novel. But they've never been released, not even as DVD extras.
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Here are some of the movies from 1970-on that have aired on TCM and how many times each has aired. Just the ones whose titles start in number format!
10 (Orion, 1979) 2
10 Rillington Place (Columbia, 1971) 7
1776 (Columbia, 1972) 18
1941 (Universal, 1979) 5
200 Motels (United Artists, 1971) 1
2010: Odyssey II (MGM, 1984) 31
40 Carats (Columbia, 1973) 6
The 5th Musketeer (Columbia, 1979) 3
84 Charing Cross Road (Columbia, 1987) 3-
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Getting a blank screen every time I try to punch it up! My world doesn't make sense anymore ...
Edit: I found it again! A different URL address, possibly?
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A whole generation of high school students were no doubt stunned to receive F's on their book reports of The Scarlet Letter when they chose to watch the 1995 movie version with Demi Moore and Gary Oldman instead of reading the book!
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Actors So Perfect In Their Roles You Cannot Envision Anyone Else
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Stallone, the mythology has it, really had to fight to get himself cast in the role. Every studio in Hollywood wanted to purchase his screenplay, but he held out until he was guaranteed he could play the title role. His career had been going all right up to that point - bit parts in A-list films like Bananas and The Prisoner of Second Avenue and memorable roles in The Lords of Flatbush and Death Race 2000 - but obviously the studios would have preferred a DeNiro. Well, he did all right in his own boxing movie a few years later.