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Did he actually get to film his scenes for the new Tarantino film? I wasn't sure if that had started filming yet.
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Don't have hard data to provide right at this moment, but based on recordings I made years ago, I feel TCM showed way more Paramount selections in the '00s than they have since about 2010. I have old VHS tapes just full of Paramount material that aired between 2000-2010. On the other hand, I do agree about Fox, however. I would say TCM has shown a lot more Fox films since 2010 than before it. Sorta one step forward, one step back. I hope a day comes when we see both studios truly well represented on TCM.
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7 hours ago, Hibi said:
Don't you mean herself?
I was making a joke about Dargo's many, many posts expressing his dislike of Ben M.'s nasal inflections. It appears you feel one of TCM's female hosts (and there aren't very many, so ...) has the same problem!
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This is a hilarious movie. Another popover!
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It probably depended on what part of the country you lived in. I think people in New York or most of the large cities in California were already pretty familiar with the Americanized Chinese restaurants by the early '50s. However, if you lived anywhere between, say, the Rocky Mountains and the Mississippi River, it was highly unlikely you'd ever seen or heard of Chinese food.
My dad loves to tell the story of seeing his first pizza in St. Louis circa 1955. He was raised in small town East Texas where the oil boom of the early '30s happened. He was in his early 20s and had never once in his life even heard of pizza. He bit into it, broke the surface, and all that hot cheese and sauce scalded the roof of his mouth. He didn't try another pizza for 10 years! I've never specifically asked him, but if pizza was a completely alien concept to him in 1955, I feel very sure he'd never heard of egg drop soup!
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4 hours ago, scsu1975 said:
Yes, looks like January of that year. There were a few threads about it, if anyone wants to search the forums. I just remember the film as being dull.
I certainly must have watched that airing, because I know I've seen the film, and where else would I have ever seen it? I too found it pretty meh. I guess the main thing to recommend is that it was the final appearance of Robert Walker, who was already dead by the time of its release.
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1 hour ago, hamradio said:
You didn't watch the TV tropes Youtube clip?
I did, but only after making that post.
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September 3 and still no November schedule? I'm not terribly observant. Is this crazy, dramatically late or relatively normal?
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Now, I wanna click the haha emoji but I fear that would make me very un-PC!
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2 hours ago, cigarjoe said:
Some of this is valid and some is a bit overboard, and exactly what over ambitious PC is doing to stifle creativity.
Are you gonna tell me that we aren't going to be able to make a comedy film about say bullying Twump?
This video seems to imply that PG-13 was created solely as an interim category to house violent movies that still have mild or no sexual content. I don't know it that was the original intent of the MPAA, but it certainly seems to be for all practical purposes what it's become. Because violence will never cause a movie to get an R rating, but the tiniest bit of sexual content will, in a country that really doesn't give any crap at all about violence but is very, very uptight still in 2018 about sex.
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I, uh, assume this is from a movie and not a real-life public appearance?
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I've been waiting for someone else to say this thread was tasteless, but nobody is, so I guess I'll jump into the deep end of the pool. Even in 1978, if you reversed the gender of the participants, it would be considered r a p e or assault, but after 40 more years of social progress, Nipkow (who at least had the decency to use the words "mentally challenged"!) makes it seem like female seducing mentally challenged male something worth cheering on ("and it was the girl's idea").
Theoretically, the law shouldn't agree, though there's still a double standard. The previous poster mentioned South Park, so I'll add this whole thread makes me think of the SP episode where Kyle's brother is sleeping with his kindergarten teacher. When the police or any other male adult on the show first hears about a teacher sleeping with a student, their first reaction is "Let's go nail the sick b a s t a r d!", but as soon as they learn it's female teacher and a male student, they all get a dreamy, faraway look in their eyes, nod approvingly and say "Nice!" Some of the same hypocrisy seems to apply here.
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Actually, we can't all agree on that. Springsteen is one of my all-time favorite artists.
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Anna Lucasta and The Learning Tree both aired on TCM in January of this year. I'm betting on MLK Day.
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"Egg drop soup is a soup of wispy beaten eggs in boiled chicken broth. Condiments such as black pepper or white pepper, finely chopped scallions and tofu are optional but are commonly added to the soup" says Wikipedia.
Sounds highly likely that's what this is.
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Would have been nice to really complete a career overview if they could have included at least one of the Cannonball Run movies, in which Dean clowns around with Sammy. These Fox releases were the final two theatrical films he was ever in (one TV movie came after them). Heck, Sinatra and Shirley Maclaine are also in the second one.
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Holy cow, everyone who can, try to check out College Swing from Paramount in 1938, late night on Oct. 4! A TCM premiere. I have no idea; it may be terrible, but listen to this cast - George Burns, Gracie Allen, Martha Raye, Bob Hope, Edward Everett Horton, Betty Grable, Jackie Coogan, John Payne and and Robert Cummings all in a movie together!
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Accidentally hit wrong key and posted something I hadn't really formulated my thoughts on yet. So, I deleted that text. Hopefully get it on here in a day or two.
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4 hours ago, Dargo said:
Personally, and probably not surprising to any of you regulars around here, but I think in honor of the American version and celebration of Labor Day, TCM should present some kind of tribute to that great early-American lexicographer Noah Webster.
YOU know, that guy who helped rid freedom-loving Americans from the oh so needless inclusion of a particular letter in the spelling of the word "labor". Oh, and of course also from the word "honor" and oh so many other words in this crazy hodgepodge of a language known as "English"!
Yep, I mean how fitting would THAT be during this LABOR(once again, please take notice of how this word is spelled here) Day weekend, I ask?!
Now if you could just find a film about a great speech therapist who helped a certain movie network host rid himself of his nasally inflections! It would be something like The King's Speech, but different ...
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Your assumption was correct! I was referring to the TLDR comment. Sorry, should have been clearer.
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Yes, I had to look it up on Urban Dictionary, too! I was unsure if you were trying to be funny or snarky!
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I think I let out a groan when I saw Den Martin was going to be Star of the Month! But looking at the lineup of his films, I must confess I've only seen five out of 22. So, there's plenty of stuff that's new to me, which I always like. Truth is, I don't really have a lot of firsthand knowledge of Dean. I'm too young to have seen his TV show, though I've sat through that half hour-long paid programming of the DVD collection to get some sense of what his show was like. The surprise celebrity knocking at the door each ep seems to have been a clever idea. Honestly, I'm more familiar with Tom Hanks' hilarious Dean impersonation than with Dean himself! So, I'll try to give some of these movies a shot.
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In my first job out of college, I tried to host a "movie watching party". I rented Citizen Kane from Blockbuster, because, you know, this was back in the days when it always won the Sight & Sound poll, so I figured my party should have the greatest movie of all time! I wasn't so ambitious as to print out invites, but I went around to everyone in my office and let them know there would be snacks and beverages at my apartment. And the night of the event ... no one came! I'd like to think my selection of films scared everyone off, and not that they all hated me! I think my intended guests all thought having to sit through an old black-and-white movie was a pretty terrible way to spend an evening. About a year later, one of my co-workers who hadn't shown up that night hosted a very similar party. She rented Deliverance! And I was one of about a half dozen people who showed up. Guess I should have gone with something more modern.
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In the first movie of the final day of SUTS to have a host intro, Ben Mankiewicz declared that in her long career, Joan Crawford had been directed by "everyone from Lewis Milestone to Steven Spielberg", which immediately had me thinking, "What the hell?" Ben chose not to elaborate, so I had to do a little imdb detective work. It appears Crawford starred in a segment of a 1969 episode of Night Gallery entitled "Eyes" that was directed by a 23-year-old Spielberg in his first-ever professional job. Anybody seen this particular segment?
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I saw Suddenly Last Summer for the first time on TCM I think early this year, featuring KathArine and Mercedes. Boy, between the two of them and Elizabeth Taylor for good measure, there was a LOT of scenery chewing in that movie. Montgomery Clift is the only one with any subtlety. I'm pretty unfamiliar with McCambridge's body of work. I just know she was so great in All the King's Men, which made me really excited to see she was in this movie ... until I actually watched it.
Both got a lot less subtle as their careers went on, didn't they? Hoo-wah! Heat is probably the best Pacino performance in the last quarter century, but he does some scenery-chewing in it, too. Compare with DeNiro's even-keel, slow-burning intensity throughout.
In addition to the ones listed above, I would say Burt Lancaster went on a generally increasing-haminess slide in his later career, though he largely reined it in in Atlantic City. At the risk of being controversial, I would say almost every Sidney Poitier performance post-In the Heat of the Night was pretty hammy. I'm trying to think of an actress to add to the list who hasn't been mentioned already. Sally Field and Glenn Close have had their moments.