sewhite2000
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Lily Collins is, I believe, Phil Collins' daughter. I guess I could have figured how the title of that I'd one if I'd thought about it long enough. Bye Bye Braverman was on TCM not too long ago, but I missed it. I don't guess I've seen any of these others, so I have indeed only seen two, tied for my all-time low.
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1191 is Boeing Boeing. Yes.
1194 is New York, New York. Yes.
1195 is Author, Author? No.
1196 is Come Back to the Five and Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean? No.
1197 is Europa Europa. No.
1198 is Liar Liar. No.
I am aware of most of these other films, but I am just not thinking of the titles. I don't think I've seen any of them. So, looks like maybe I've seen only two.
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These are probably all really famous movies, but you have successfully described them so boringly, I can't identify any of them! Well, the one about the train schedules must be one of those Holocaust docs like Shoah, maybe.
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Wow. Well, all you have to do is check out all those credits. I'm sorry to say while I've been aware of Mr. Morricone for a long time - he may have been the second film composer I ever knew by name after John Williams - I probably never gave him more than 10 seconds of thought in a row during his lifetime other than when I would realize, "Oh, he wrote that too, huh?". He was certainly more worthy of my sustained attention. RIP.
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3 hours ago, Dargo said:
And where there's a dead skunk right in the middle of it.
Yep, I know what song you're talking about. He didn't see the highway car, the skunk got squished, and there you are.
Of course, the Beatles did make some scandalous suggestions about "doing it" in the road.
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Ha ha, I think I saw part of it back when I had this elaborate cable package with all the HBOs, Cinemaxes, Showtimes, etc. That was 20 years ago. A young Jennifer Love Hewitt was in one of them, but that may have been the sequel. A young Lauryn Hill too, I think.
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I'm into '60s rock as much as I assume James Jazz Guitar is into ... jazz guitar, so I'm pretty pumped. It looks like quite a treasure trove. I generally don't watch too many of the documentaries, but I might dive into quite a few of these
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Okay, my guess was correct. I have seen Some Came Running, so I've seen four of these.
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20 minutes ago, chaya bat woof woof said:
Wasn't there an earlier Fright Night?
Yes, with Roddy MacDowell, who's fantastic in it! I would call it a guilty pleasure of mine.
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1182 is Union Pacific. I saw a chunk of it when TCM aired it last year or so, but I haven't seen the whole thing.
1184 is The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Yes
1186 might be Some Came Running. I've seen it if it is.
1187 must be The Happiest Millionaire, which finally aired on TCM not too long ago, but I missed it, so no.
1188 is The Excorcist. Yes.
1189 is On Golden Pond. Yes.
1190 is Sister Act. No.
I don't know the others.
Only three I'm sure I've seen, maybe four.
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I have seen Jules and Jim but couldn't identify it. Ditto Prizzi's Honor. So, I've seen six of these.
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1172 is Four Daughters. Yes.
1175 is I Confess. Yes.
1177 is The Subject Was Roses. Yes.
1178 is Comes a Horseman? Yes, if that's it.
I can't identify the others. I was aware there was a John Wayne-Claudette Colbert pairing, but I don't remember the title, and I haven't seen it.
So, only three I'm absolutely sure I've seen, maybe four.
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I've actually thought about doing this for many movies but haven't been motivated enough to actually execute. In some ways, for all its dramatic and expansive action, Stagecoach feels like a stage play and is, in fact, adapted from a stage play. I read somewhere once that George Bancroft agreed to do the movie on the understanding he would be the lead character, and if you go by lines delivered and camera time, he actually probably is, but John Ford was actually lying to Bancroft because he intended all along for John Wayne to have the most important role. Anyway, noting Stagecoach was airing on TCM tonight, I caught its proper airing, then watched it again on AmazonPrime, where it's available for free with my membership this month, where I had the ability to pause, and made notations of the lines of dialogue delivered by each of the 10 principals noted in the opening credits. You might find the results somewhat surprising:
George Bancroft 112
Andy Devine 93
Thomas Mitchell 73
John Wayne 70
Claire Trevor 54
Berton Churchill 45
Donald Meek 32
Louise Platt 31
John Carradine 27
Tim Holt 9
There were some incidents of overlapping dialogue I chose to ignore, but I think those numbers are fairly accurate. I find it especially interesting Claire Trevor got top billing despite only having the fifth-most dialogue. I'm not sure what else she'd been in at that point besides Dead End. Also, Tim Holt, I don't know who owed him a favor, but any number of noncredited cast members had more dialogue than him.
Edit: Ooh, I also wanted to say John Carradine has tremendous presence in this movie despite delivering only 27 lines of dialogue.
Anyway, that was great fun, and I'd like to do it with another movie some day.
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My understanding is that this version was recorded first, but John claimed he was under pressure to produce a more uptempo tune for the single so he went back and really rocked it out. There was evidently some confusion about how the final version was going to sound. When the Beatles sorta performed it live (mostly lip synching and air-playing their instruments to prerecorded tracks) on the David Frost show, it sounds mostly like the single version, but Paul and George are still doing the "bop shooby doo wops".
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I was about to dismiss her as a friend of the morally (and just generally) repugnant Sean Hannity but decided I better check out a few Internet articles before I shot my mouth off about someone I really don't know anything about and found this article:
Sounds like she's kind of the equivalent of Chrissie Hynde just rolling with Rush Limbaugh using her music so she can collect the royalties give them to causes Rush would never approve of.
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3 hours ago, speedracer5 said:
Oops I meant the regular “Revolution”song. I couldn’t remember which one was the “normal” one and which was the one with all the talking. I don’t care for that one.
You probably don't care, but there were actually three: "Revolution", the hard rocker everybody knows, released as Double-A-sided single with "Hey Jude"; "Revolution One", the slower version on The White Album with Paul and George singing "bop shooby doo wops" and a horn section; and "Revolution Nine", which is the uber-artsy-fartsy sound collage that you don't care for.
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1 hour ago, Wayne said:
I love The Jerk (1979). It's my favorite Reiner film. My family quotes it all the time.
"You mean I'm gonna stay this color?!?"
"The Lord loves a working man. Don't trust whitey. See a doctor and get rid of it."
"The new phone book's here!! The new phone book's here!!"
My favorite line is when he picks up some white bread bland-o pop station and can keep the beat for the first time in his life and informs his black family, "This is the music that tells me to go out there and BE somebody!"
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Yeah, sorta stunned OP didn't mention Ben-Hur, which has to be his most played movie on TCM by a factor of about a billion. I am sadly unfamiliar with the vast majority of his work but would like to see more.
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As my ridiculously long isolation from both humanity in general and most of the people I know continues, I decided I would completely disconnect from the Internet for 48 hours and see what life was like. It was not completely unbearable, but even an old fogey like me found himself jonesing for the Internet.
Anyway, I'm back, and see I missed two lists. First list first: I think I would have only been able to identify 1156 and 1158-1160. And I've only seen 1158 and 1159. Which would mean I've only seen two, tied for my lowest score of all-time.
Second list, I could have only identified 1161, 1163 and 1167-1170. But I've only seen 1161 and 1167-1169, which is four. 1163 is airing Sunday night, and I intend to watch it. I watched like 15 minutes of it one night when I stayed in a motel room somewhere (remember when we stayed in motels?), but I definitely haven't seen the whole thing.
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I actually have seen some of these, though I couldn't identify them. I've seen Make Way for Tomorrow (I couldn't recognize Moore with a mustache). I've seen T-Men. And I've seen the '54 version of The Student Prince. So I've seen six.
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2 hours ago, TopBilled said:
I guess people have been busy doing other things.
Would you mind sharing where the schedule is? All my efforts have been fruitless.
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Thank you! A number of years ago, I read a biography of Mickey Mantle, and the opening sentence of the book talks about the New York Yankees making a visit to the 20th Century Fox studios while making a spring training jaunt to California where they got to watch Debbie Reynolds rehearsing a number. I blinked a few times and thought to myself, "When did Debbie Reynolds ever make a movie at Fox?" I asked on here, and I don't recall ever getting an answer. This would have been square in the middle of the Mick's career, so this might have been it.
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I'm stunned there's no thread from anyone on here announcing the September schedule yet. I hope someone posts a link soon, since I may not remember how to access it otherwise.
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Wow, I'm straining my brain, but just have no idea for the first five. These lists feel a lot harder than the old ones!
1146 is Libel, which has been discussed on the Olivia DeHavilland thread. Yes.
1147 is Zorba the Greek. I like the color photo! Yes.
1148 is How to Steal a Million. Yes.
1150 Looks like Depardieu and Deneuve, but I haven't seen a ton of French films. I don't know what this is.
Only three that I'm sure I've seen.
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Didn't They Just Have a Sam Fuller Night?
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I know I've seen Pickup on South Street and House of Bamboo pretty recently, and it feels like they were on the same night. Does anybody remember? They're showing them back-to-back tomorrow night.