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Those all seem very appropriate, Jakeem, and I think any or all of them are likely. The absence of Brando from SOTM status has been discussed on these boards before. Certainly head-scratching, given TCM shows plenty of his films.
Anyone have any thoughts on special programming TCM might do to celebrate itself? Some sort of retrospective documentary, etc.?
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It just dawned on me that we're less than a year away from TCM's Silver Anniversary. Let the rampant speculation begin on what they'll do to celebrate! Or, alternately, what you would like them to do.
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6 hours ago, Vautrin said:
I "knew" Bourdain in the same way I "knew" Kate Spade, just as another celebrity
that I didn't have much interest in. There are really a surfeit of celebs so it's hard
to take much interest in many of them. I would guess that Bourdain stuck his head
in an oven, but that would be too obvious.
Of course, Nipkow put a laughing emoji to a method of suicide.
I think this is the first time ever I've started a thread on a celebrity death. Usually, the rest of you beat me to these things by hours or even days. So, I feel some sort of "ownership" of the thread. Usually these things are very respectful, but the one I've created is full of blase responses, mockery, indifference and contempt that anyone who was rich should be depressed enough to kill one's self.
I didn't really know much about Bourdain the man, but his show was fantastic and will definitely be missed. I don't know that anyone is ever going to show how a mutual love of all kind of food can bring the world together again the way he did. Those of you that had barely heard of him were absolutely missing out.
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I don't know, since you got bleeped! I was trying to evoke the image of a rabid dog, I guess.
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Those don't grate on me as much because they're actually mentioning movies.
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Nipkow's hero showed a little more sensitivity than he did:
http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-anthony-bourdain-character-966790
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It's a thorny issue, I think. I understand both sides.
I PMed Hibi the method so we don't have to broadcast it on here.
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4 minutes ago, Bethluvsfilms said:
Was this last remark necessary? It's okay not to like the guy, but have some respect for his passing at least.
Also last time I checked, we had freedom of speech and he was more than welcome to express his view on Trump....a view that many share.
CNN may replace him with someone who will make him look like a softie on Trump too.
I wasn't thrilled with the insensitivity of that remark, either.
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I hear what you're saying, Lorna, but I'm not a fan of the idea of the media choosing what the public is and isn't mature or responsible enough to hear. There's also presently a a debate going on about whether the media should name or show any more school shooters, which CNN has stopped doing. I understand the motive for that as well, but as an old-school journalism major, I bristle at the media choosing when to withhold information because they think they know what's good for the public. Certainly not how I was taught.
I don't know that there's any particular relevance to the method of suicide, but there's a morbid curiosity for that sort of thing. I think it's almost natural when one hears about suicide, the very first question one asks is "How?" (If that turns out to be just me, let's pretend I never said it!). If that information is public record, somebody's going to put it out.
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Actually, I would argue his show was "news" in the sense that it gave you an in-depth look at what it was like to live right now in whatever place he was visiting that week. I would say everything he did was vastly more informative than Sean Hannity frothing at the mouth and screaming at the camera.
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Ugh. Wow. I was a latecomer to this guy's career, not really aware of him until his transition to CNN, but boy, I loved his show. The stuff on food and its preparation was great, but it was also just as much about the culture, places and people, always presented in informative and interesting ways.
s://www.cnn.com/2018/06/08/us/anthony-bourdain-obit/index.html
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On 6/6/2018 at 4:10 PM, Feego said:
This is a weird one, but in Jackass: The Movie, Johnny Knoxville appears as his trademark grandpa character, who later got his own spinoff in the ACADEMY AWARD-NOMINATED (!) Bad Grandpa. At one point, he is thrown out of a liquor store and yells out, "I was Lon Chaney's lover!" I seriously doubt more than 1% of that film's target audience had any idea who Chaney was, and as it turns out neither did Knoxville. He happened to see Chaney's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame as they were filming and just ad libbed.
Just so everyone knows, it was nominated for Best Makeup and Hairstyling. Not that shocking.
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Heck, when I saw Blazing Saddles for the first time as a child, I had no idea why everyone wanted to keep calling Headley Lamar "Heddy Lamar". I also had no freaking idea who Randolph Scott was.
Not to mention "Ducka You Head. Lola Brigeda" in that Warner Bros. cartoon.
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24 minutes ago, slaytonf said:
That would be almost impossible to do, as the vast majority of movies are not 58, or 1:58 minutes long.
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What I mean is, okay, they would cue the Now Playing intro at 8:00 pm. Then a spoken intro. Then the movie. Then the spoken outro. Then the list of the next three upcoming movies. And THEN it wold be 10 pm, and they'd just start the next damn Now Playing intro and not do any in-house promos at all. When I say "0:58", I mean "8:58" or "9:58" or whatever time it is. I feel like I'm doing an incredibly poor job of explaining what is actually a really valid point.
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Harry Morgan appeared as a racist general on an episode of M*A*S*H a year before he stepped into the regular cast as Col. Potter. Not that his first appearance predicated any sort of continued racist presence, but he did indicate he could come back and have a continued credible presence as a high-ranking military authority figure, albeit a lower rank, but a much more sympathetic figure.
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"Another attendee does the best he can to coax a GOAT into his room"???!!! Really? That was really in a WB movie? I'm highly dubious.
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The sad, predictable truth of most movie murder mysteries or who's behind this nefarious evil mysteries is that they can almost always easily be solved by looking at the casting. In this film, there's an actor of considerable stature whose appearance in the movie would be shockingly irrelevant if he didn't turn out to be the wannabe murderer. I don't really feel like I'm giving anything anyway since other posters have more or less already done so, but come on. You Know Who only agreed to be in this movie BECAUSE he was gonna get the surprise reveal as the bad guy. Otherwise, what a ho-hum part as the dutiful but slightly suspicious of his wife's grip on reality husband.
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On 6/5/2018 at 7:11 PM, LawrenceA said:
Hot Spell was on earlier today. It was an unannounced replacement. Oh, well...
AH HA HA HAHAHHAAAA!!!! I imagine Nipkow just sprawled flat out on the floor, having fainted after reading your post and realizing he missed it.
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On 6/5/2018 at 7:05 PM, Bethluvsfilms said:
Another poster mentioned awhile back that it's been a LOOOOOONG time since TCM played ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES. I wonder why.
That other poster was me! Standing up and strutting around the room with the pride that someone actually read one of my posts ...
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Hey, everybody, looking forward to seeing you over in the Off-Topic Chit-Chat thread! ?
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I'm too lazy to actually look back at all my old posts, but I know I mentioned in a thread sometime this year that I missed the days that a film would end at 0:58 or 0:59 of an hour, and you would get the outro discussion and then a list of the next three films showing, and then the intro to the next film would begin immediately. I equated that with the Robert Osborne days, not that I necessarily thought Osborne had any control over that or regulated that in any way, but his hosting tenure was a time when there was less TCM self-promoting "advertisements", if I may call them that, between features. I noted that this never happens any more in current times. Now, no matter what time a feature ends, there is going to be one promo for either Wine Club or Backlot played before the next movie starts. If that means pushing the next movie back to 0:15 rather than 0:00 to get that promo included, TCM will do that 100 per cent of the time now.
Possibly I didn't word my intent very clearly, because the only reply I recall getting was someone informing me that TCM always played stuff between movies, be they shorts or whatever, even in Robert Osborne's days. Which was not my point at all, but I've become accustomed to my posts being completely misunderstood and misinterpreted over my decade on these threads. What I intended to say was there was once a time when a movie ended and another one immediately started without any station promos airing between. I don't think that ever happens any more. Certainly not in primetime, when I do 90 per cent of my viewing. A lot of you are more daytime viewers, I think, and can speak more authoritatively about that than me.
It feels like this insistence on always having at least one in-house promo between every movie, and pushing back the next start time by 15 minutes if necessary to ensure this always happens, might reduce the number of movies by one a day or so. But I have no hard evidence.
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3 hours ago, TopBilled said:
Thanks for such a great summary/review. I do think it's a sad comment that a certain generation is "defined" by Viagara jokes. Why did the book they read have to be about sex? If this was a European art film, they would have read a book about death and all faced their own mortality. In fact, when you said the first book was Fear of Flying, I thought you were going to say it ended with them all sky diving and confronting their fears about death.
Maybe in the prequel!
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On 6/1/2018 at 2:11 PM, TopBilled said:
Thanks. Interesting comment.
I wonder if any of our regular posters have seen BOOK CLUB? Where's our pal Spence when you need him? LOL
I saw Book Club today. It won't win any awards, but it's unusually subtle for a mainstream big studio release these days. It reminded me of a Nancy Meyers film. I went into it fearful that the premise that old people are just as oversexed as young people would get tiresome, but it has some nice moments.
Our four AARP-eligible, LA-area leading ladies have been meeting to read and discuss books since they started with Fear of Flying in the '70s. Jane Fonda is a hotelier who's pretty much a senior recreation of Samantha from Sex and the City. Her character at least appears to be constantly having one night stands (the movie doesn't dwell on this - they don't want her to come across as a w h o r e!) but is as frightened of emotional commitment as the one she played in Klute. Candice Bergen is a recently divorced federal judge whose son and ex-husband (Ed Begley, Jr.) are both about to get married, intensifyng her feelings of loneliness. I don't remember if we ever learned what the jobs of the other two leads were. The movie doesn't focus on that. I think maybe Mary Steenburgen was a chef. She's the only married member of the quartet, happily to Craig T. Nelson, but tensions are mounting. They haven't had sex since his retirement six months earlier has sent him spiraling into a two-thirds life crisis. Diane Keaton is recently widowed and is practically being forced to move to Scottsdale to be with her overly protective daughters. One of them has refurbished the basement into a bedroom. She feels completely suffocated by this prospect, but lacks the courage to tell them (one of the daughters is played by Alicia Silverstone; I didnt recognize the other one).
At the beginning of the movie, the book club has just finished Wild, and Fonda brings in Fifty Shades of Grey. The film very gently mocks the writing style (they don't push it - I'm sure they had to get special permission to use the book), but all four women experience a sexual re-awakening from its steamy scenes. Not so coincidentally, men enter the lives of all three unmarried women at the same time - Don Johnson's radio personality, a long-ago flame of Fonda's whose marriage proposal she turned down 40 years ago; Andy Garcia's pilot for Keaton; and Richard Dreyfuss' tax attorney for Bergen, although she also gets what appears was a hilariously bad date with Wallace Shawn - I feel like most of his camera time must have unfortunately been left on the cutting room floor. Meanwhile, desperate Steenburgen resorts to spiking her husband's beer with Viagra, and the fearless Nelson has to endure a couple of scenes where he keeps walking into things from the waist down. This got huge laughs from the mostly senior audience. I thought it was pretty ridiculous, but I smiled a little bit.
Bergen gets the best lines and has the best comic timing. Steenburgen is adorable as always, but she has the least to do of the four. Fonda is fine, but I struggled to get past that Joker-venom smile plastic surgery has tragically left her with. Sorry for being so shallow! Diane Keaton ... what to make of Diane Keaton? She's just so Diane Keaton in this movie, all those man-suits, and she never takes off her glasses, even when having PG-13 pseudo-sex with Garcia. It must be in her contract that she gets her own costumer and hairstylist in every movie. On the other hand, she has a really wonderful monologue about her first kiss and a great scene when she finally gives it straight to her daughters. No doubt she's a very fine actress, but she brings all that Diane Keaton baggage into every movie.
So I'd say about a B-minus. Watchable, but not great.
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To get very modern, I just saw A Quiet Place, which is co-written and directed by and co-stars John Krasinski of the US version of The Office. It's a horror film with a pretty clever premise and was both well-acted and well-directed, I thought. There's no dialogue at all for the first 45 minutes of the movie (and only sparse amounts after that), which forced the audience to be unusually quiet and attentive, which I appreciated in this era where almost every movie I go see is nearly ruined by people who bring crying babies and/or talk the whole movie themselves.
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TCM has actually aired I am Curious (Yellow) a single time in 2013. I think it was during that history of film series that was soundly pummeled by most board members here, the title of which I've forgotten.