sewhite2000
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I may be dreaming, but I think there was a post on a thread this week by someone who said they really loved Bonfire, and I almost replied to it. I was assigned the novel in a college history class of all things, because the professor believed it perfectly encapsulated what was then America's current moment, even though it was fiction. So, I had some curiosity about the movie, which leaves out a ton and invents other stuff out of whole cloth, including a much-derided moralizing speech from Morgan Freeman. I can't recall a more recent movie taking such a collective butt-kicking from the critics and, well, pretty much everyone. And I do recall The Devil's Candy, also, though I don't think I ever read it.
On to the movies! I'm struggling with most of these.
2031 Looks like Mae West. It could be She Done Him Wrong, which I've seen, but I think that's the only movie of hers I've ever seen.
2033 Well, this is obviously a Francis the Talking Mule movie. TCM finally did show a couple of these within the last year or two, and I think I watched maybe half of the first one. But there probably aren't any I've seen all the way through.
2034 It's the Spencer Tracy-Gene Tierney Mayflower movie, I think, the title of which I'm not 100 per cent sure. I have started it on TCM on multiple occasions but just can't make it to the end.
2038 is indeed Bonfire of the Vanities. Yes.
2039 Rob Roy? I'm not sure if those are modern clothes or not from the tight view. I haven't seen it.
2040 is Miss Congeniality. I think I watched part of it in the days when I had multiple movie channels, but I probably haven't seen the whole thing.
So, only one I'm absolutely sure I've seen all of.
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Reasonably sure I've never seen any Audie Murphy movies, so I'm all for TCM showing some of them.
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It just happened for a second time as my extended stay out-of-town continues. I just finished Meet Me in St. Louis, which I've seen 100 times, and was getting ready to watch The Cheaters, which I've never seen, only to get the "This is program is unavailable for streaming over the Internet" message again.
I mean, I've been here five days, and this has happened to me twice already. Is this something all you cord-cutters have to experience every two or three days all the time?
Although, I probably I shouldn't get out my cable pom-poms, because I just got an email from my cable company saying there was a service outage in my area and it was not likely to be restored until morning. So, if I was home, I STILL wouldn't be able to watch The Cheaters! Destiny is working against me both ways on this one.
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1 hour ago, TopBilled said:
Interesting. I wonder if others do that too.
Don't know. Haven't met anybody who's so determined to be "random" as I am. I think for most people, going to the movies is a reasonably well thought-out process. I just like seeing movies in theaters so much, I never particularly cared WHAT the actual movie was. Hope my many-years-long hobby isn't going to disappear forever, but with Warner Bros. starting its theaters-and-streaming on the same day process and AMC maybe on the verge of shuttering, I'm not sure.
As for the movies, Bright Lights, Big City is a title I remember, but I haven't seen it. I never knew Keifer Sutherland was in it.
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This sounds like a fun game. I'm out of town and away from all my reference materials. But I would like to participate when I'm back after the New Year.
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Oh, I guess I was thinking of the one with the tongue stuck out, which I kind of interpreted as meaning the same thing.
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Ha ha, I guess I should use that emoticon more often.
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It was you, you sly dog!
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Part One of your post I get and agree with everything you say. I was just trying to condense it into a pithy phrase, unsuccessfully, apparently.
Part Two: So YOU'RE the guy! Seriously, I'm pretty sure I lack the ability to do anything skilled enough that computers won't ultimately replace all my job options. I think some of the jobs I used to do don't really exist anymore. So, bring on that basic living wage already!
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Primetime February 17 Noteworthy African-American Performances Night Three
In This Our Life (Bette Davis, Olivia DeHavilland) (Warner Bros., 1942)
Stars in My Crown (Joel McCrea, Ellen Drew) (MGM, 1950)
The Pawnbroker (Rod Steiger, Geraldine Fitzgerald) (Allied Artists, 1965)
Super Fly (Ron O'Neal, Carl Lee) (Warner Bros., 1972)
Brothers (Bernie Casey, Vonetta McGee) (Warner Bros., 1977)-
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It's got to be one of if not the first example of a movie addressing the fear of computers taking all our jobs. It tries to reassure the humans of 1957 that no computer is as good as Katharine Hepburn and her memory and her reference library. But this is a much more prevalent fear today
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2 hours ago, lavenderblue19 said:
I've always thought he looks so much like Hugh Marlowe.
They definitely belong in the Lookalikes thread if they're not there already.
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I think we all got the joke about the bucks. One poster was trying to play innocent, and I was just playing along.
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I know the song. I was just trying for a little humor!
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Hope I'm not jumping on these too soon, but I may be occupied this morning, and I don't want to forget.
2021 must be the silent Ben-Hur. I've started it a couple of times on TCM but have never sat through the whole thing.
2024 is the '59 version of Ben-Hur. I'm torn how to answer this. I've probably caught pretty much the entire movie from repeated viewings over the years, but no, I have never sat down and watched all of it from beginning to end in one session. So, I'm going to say no.
2026 Last Tango in Paris. I rented it on VHS when I was a college student. The one and only time I've ever seen it. Yes.
2027 Boy, with these actors, you would think I would know what movie this is. This has got to be a movie from my adolescence or early adulthood. But I'm drawing a blank. Maybe it will hit me later in the day the way The Parallax View did yesterday.
2028 Fargo. Yes.
2029 The Hurt Locker. Yes.
2030 The new Ben-Hur adaptation from a few years ago. Strange to think of the three different versions, THIS is the only one I've seen from beginning to end! But pre-pandemic, I would just show up at movie theaters on the weekends, and whichever movie was starting next, I would usually go see. And this was one of those.
So, I know I've seen four of these.
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I maybe like her best interacting with James Stewart and Arthur O'Connell in Anatomy of a Murder, but she had a lot of great roles.
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I looked in the trivia comments for the movie on imdb but didn't find any info. Sorry I'm so forgetful!
Edit: Oops, I missed this comment somehow. Thanks, Jim!
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Daytime February 17 Royal Romances
The Smiling Lieutenant (Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert) (Paramount, 1931)
Princess O'Rourke (Olivia DeHavilland, Robert Cummings) (Warner Bros., 1943)
Her Highness and the Bellboy (Hedy Lamarr, Robert Walker) (MGM, 1945)
The Student Prince (Ann Blyth, Edmund Purdom) (MGM, 1954)
The Swan (Grace Kelly, Alec Guiness) (MGM, 1956) -
I mean 50 doesn't seem like that much ...
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Ha ha ha Rupert Friend! In the bad light of my temporary bedroom, I thought that was Mariel Hemmingway!
Well, while I was accurate in some of my guesses, the only film on here I'm absolutely sure I've seen is The Parallax View. Probably I've seen the Marx Brothers movie, too, but I have zero memory of it if I have, so I'll call it a no. Just one for me.
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Wasn't that an Aretha Franklin song?
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Pretty sure that wasn't it, but as I say, I'm drawing a blank.
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2 hours ago, midwestan said:
Steve Hayes reviewed this film 3 days ago on 'Tired Old Queen At The Movies'. He said Daryl Zanuck didn't think much about this film and only approved shooting it to keep Loretta Young happy.
Dave Karger told a different story introducing the film last night. He said Zanuck originally thought the film was too religious but decided to greenlight after the success of the Bing Crosby Father O'Malley movies. He also said a famous actress lobbied for the role - boy, I'm already drawing a blank less than 24 hours later who that actress was - but that in Zanuck's mind, Young was perfect for the part, plus she was hot coming off her Oscar win for The Farmer's Daughter.
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Primetime February 16 Star of the Month John Garfield Night Three
Four Daughters (John Garfield, Priscilla Lane) (Warner Bros., 1938)
Four Wives (Priscilla Lane, Rosemary Lane) (Warner Bros., 1939)
Daughters Courageous (John Garfield, Priscilla Lane) (Warner Bros., 1939)
Dust Be My Destiny (John Garfield, Priscilla Lane) (Warner Bros., 1939)
Saturday's Children (John Garfield, Claude Rains) (Warner Bros., 1940)
Castle on the Hudson (John Garfield, Ann Sheridan) (Warner Bros., 1940)
Tortilla Flat (Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr) (MGM, 1942)
Humoresque (Joan Crawford, John Garfield) (Warner Bros., 1946)-
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Have you seen these 10 classic films..?
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Your "over the hill' reference sent me scurrying to imdb to see just how old Griffith was at the time. There's been a long history of ageism against actresses. I mean, she was only 32 or 33, depending when it was filmed. And she'd just been Oscar-nominated for Working Girl, so she was probably seen as being on a career upswing. Uma would have been about 19 or 20 at the time, though. It's a tough business for actresses. I'm not trying to preach. As a consumer, I tend to prefer the younger actresses as long as they're not so terrible at acting I can't stand to watch them. So I'm part of the problem.