musicalnovelty
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> {quote:title=clore wrote:}{quote}
> >>I can't count how many times for years I've corrected people who say it wrong. As you said, when it's said the way most people say it, it's actually conveying the opposite of what they obviously mean.
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> That's one of my pet peeves. My ex used to listen to Howard Stern and he used that phrase constantly. When a listener called to correct him, Stern replied "I could care less" and said it repeatedly, much to the delight of that bobbing-headed Robin Quivers who actually said "Who is this guy to criticize you when you have a radio show and make millions?"
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> So Stern told the guy that when he makes as much money, then he can correct him (Stern) on the use of language. I was so fed up that I turned the radio off.
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> I've given up on correcting others when they use the phrase, instead I turn it around and ask them "How much less could you care?" More times than not, I've been told "That's not what I meant" and I get to respond "That's what I thought, but it is what you said."
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Two others that irk me (and they turn up right here on these boards way too often...but I'm not naming any names!) -
Some people seem to have made up their own new word, "allot" (or sometimes "alot") when they really mean the two words "a lot".
And the use of "could of" in place of the correct "could have" (or "would of" or "should of") is also infuriating, especially when used by good folks who we know really should know better.
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> {quote:title=Thunderbolt1953 wrote:}{quote}
> One of my earliest memories I have as a young child in the late 50's is of a movie or program series episode having a scene of a man tied up to an airplane propeller and left to die. This is all I remember about it. Please help with title or name, thanks in advance!
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That is Peter Lorre's fate at the end of the 1941 Columbia movie THE FACE BEHIND THE MASK (or it could have been some other part of the airplane).
Here's a detailed plot summary, if it may help:
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=74419&category=Full%20Synopsis
Cast & info here:
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> {quote:title=Sprocket_Man wrote:}{quote}
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> PS: The expression is "couldn't care less" (though the confusion could probably be minimized if people would learn to avoid the contraction and say "could not care less"), not "could care less," which is diametrically opposite to the meaning you wished to convey.
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Thanks! Finally someone else who gets it!
I can't count how many times for years I've corrected people who say it wrong. As you said, when it's said the way most people say it, it's actually conveying the opposite of what they obviously mean.
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> {quote:title=hamradio wrote:}{quote}
> *Lindsay Lohan lacked something in her life.*
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Funny photo, hamradio!
That's Andy Clyde and Marjorie Beebe from an early thirties Educational short.
It looks familiar, like I've seen it, but can't place it. Do you know which short it's from?
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Kevin McCarthy has passed away at age 96.
Los Angeles Times report here:
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-kevin-mccarthy-20100913,0,7898882.story
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Actress Rebel Randall passed away on July 20, 2010.
Filmography here:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0104609/
More info here:
http://www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com/show/461/Rebel+Randall/index.html
An article about her from 1951:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,859192,00.html
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Good job, Mr. Mayer!
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> {quote:title=MyFavoriteFilms wrote:}{quote}
>As for Spence, I think we can add 20,000 YEARS IN SING SING (1932) to the list of those pre-codes early in his career at Fox.
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"20,000 Years in Sing Sing" was a Warner Bros. movie, not Fox. It turns up on TCM occasionally.
But some of those Fox titles listed by LoveFilmNoir are very rare and have never been on TCM or The Fox Movie Channel. Some of them I've never seen anywhere, and may exist only in archives, as is the case with a lot of early-talkie Fox movies.
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> {quote:title=curlysmile wrote:}{quote}
> I am in search of the name of a movie my dad saw on TCM about a month ago. Here are the things I can tell you about it:
> -It had performances footage of Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, Martha & the Vandals', Bo Diddley, and Little Richard
> -More importantly it showed one of the only performances of Muddy Waters and Chuck Berry or Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry on stage together.
> -The way he explained this movie: It was an actual movie with a cast of actors playing the roles of these performers (listed above), and in between the movie it showed nostalgic footage of actualy performances.
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> I know this is not very good information but hopefully someone can help! He was very excited about this movie. He said it took him back to being a child and seeing them on tv. I really would like to get him this movie as a Christmas gift. Thank you!
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I believe this is it:
"Let the Good Times Roll" (1973)
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Sony has announced their version of The Warner Archives:
http://www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/columbiaclassics/screen-classics-by-request/
I don't think I've seen this mentioned yet anywhere else here, so this can be a thread for comments, reviews, new release announcements, etc.
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> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote}
> That's not off topic at all, it's still about credits.
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This thread is also about closing credits in movies.
http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?threadID=155252&tstart=0
Can you think of any other pre-1960 movies that listed the credits (not just a cast list) at the end?
I've listed some and have a few more in mind to add.
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> {quote:title=epsilon wrote:}{quote}
> Hi i want to locate two short films by the great LAUREL and HARDY.The first has the boys trying to clean a chimney with all the chaos they create.The second short has the boys trying to install a radio antenna on the roof of a house.Any info will be much appreciated.Thanks
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The chimney cleaning episode is DIRTY WORK (1933).
Info here:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023950/combined
The radio antenna episode is HOG WILD (1930).
Info here:
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> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote}
> Folks, take a look at some of the comments under music videos on Youtube. It makes the gang here look like descendants of Emily Post. I cannot believe the rudeness and bad language people will use, just because they may not happen to like a song on youtube.
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There really should be someone monitoring and cleaning up the comments on YouTube. (But that would actually require a large team of people working full-time, I suppose). Some of the comments on there are downright disgraceful and disgusting...and they're on there for kids of all ages to easily click on and read any time.
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> {quote:title=LoveFilmNoir wrote:}{quote}
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> > Since my heads-up got buried, another reminder about *CORNERED tomorrow at 8PM.*
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> Thanks! And from the film noir short that TCM airs between movies, I believe that this film was saved and restored from a 16mm print from Dick Powell's personal collection. They do a comparison to the restored from the original - it's like a PD film getting cleaned up - very significant difference.
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That's actually CRY DANGER (1951) not CORNERED.
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> {quote:title=dabakertwo wrote:}{quote}
> Happen to see this short, United States Navy Band (1943). For the first time I saw my dad playing his clarinet. He was only 20 years old at the time. I was overwhelmed and would like to find a way to get a copy to share with my son and his son's. They have never seen their grandfather. How can I go about getting a copy of this short?
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It's coming up again on TCM on Saturday morning, Sept. 11, 2010, following the Bowery Boys movie.
Here's your chance...fire up that recorder!
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I rarely go to new movies in the theaters but when I do I ALWAYS stay to the very end watching and reading as many of the credits as I can. I've always liked to read movie credits (especially on old movies) so am still interested enough to want to see them all on new movies.
Also, I guess I never thought of it, but misswonderly put it very well that (especially if you enjoyed it) staying to the end of the credits is a way of extending the movie experience.
But I'm almost always the last one there by the end of the credits.
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Thanks for all the info, Professor!
I have the original TV Guide for the week the TV version was shown (Edward R. Murrow is smoking a cigarette on the cover) and was going to post some info from it, so let's see if there's anything you didn't already mention.
"The Women" was on at 8:00 P.M. Eastern time on Monday, February 7, 1955. It was in color. Nothing is mentioned of it being performed live, but maybe they assumed everyone already knew that.
TV Guide devoted almost a full page to a special listing of the show, including pictures of Shelley Winters, Paulette Goddard, Ruth Hussey and Mary Astor. A long and detailed cast listing is given, with major credits and a breakdown of the settings in each of the three acts.
This was their write-up:
Women, nothing but women, are the characters in this biting - and backbiting - comedy written by a very prominent woman. (Mrs. Luce is now American ambassador to Italy.) It's the story of Mary Haines, a young society matron, and her friends, who are envious of her handsome husband and happy home. One day one of them drops the explosive hint that Mr. Haines is very friendly with a pretty salesgirl. A devastating chain-reaction is set off. "The Women" opened on Broadway in 1936.
Competition on the other channels at 8:00 P.M. that night included
"TV Reader's Digest" - "How Chance Made Lincoln President"
The Ray Milland Show
Burns & Allen
Here's the complete cast listing, although in slightly different order than the TV Guide listing:
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> {quote:title=hlywdkjk wrote:}{quote}
> Tuesday, September 7th
>*A Matter Of Life And Death* (1946) Italy
> (Click Through On Image To Access Larger Versions)
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Anyone who doesn't know the original British title will not get why the poster shows a stairway to heaven.
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> {quote:title=clore wrote:}{quote}
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> Even the lack of showing what happened to the truck driver is acceptable, but the missing escape scene does gnaw at me. First because it would make it appear that escaping is relatively easy - so easy that it need not be display. The real letdown is that here would have been an ideal scene for us to be rooting for Howard to overcome an obstacle while also turning normal plot conventions around. Let's face it, we usually don't want jailed persons to escape. Hitchcock understood this dichotomy - he has us rooting for Bruno when he's trying to recover the lighter in STRANGERS ON A TRAIN.
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I thought there was a line, or it may have been heard on a radio report or shown in a shot of a newspaper, that he escaped during a work detail, or something like that. So, no they didn't show it, but at least it was mentioned.
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> {quote:title=markfp2 wrote:}{quote}
> A Terrific film which thanks to Universal's bizarre way of thinking was kept out of TV and home video circulation for three decades...
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I addition to the mentioned AMC broadcasts it was also shown on a local station outside Boston about 1987.
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> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}
>This is the way to make movies about old people:
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moZKmGk0yh0&feature=related
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> The beginning of that segment starts about 2 minutes and 58 seconds into this clip:
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV2mVbIRbmc&feature=related
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Was it a coincidence, but weren't the names of the "old ladies' homes" in both movies ("If I Had a Million" and "Make Way for Tomorrow") the same: Idylwild?
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> {quote:title=lzcutter wrote:}{quote}
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> Another 22 minutes of Ethel screaming on top of that would cause me to hurl my TV out the window.
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I agree!
I realize she's a professional actress playing a role, but her voice has always seriously detracted from my enjoyment of the movie.
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> {quote:title=scsu1975 wrote:}{quote}
> Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water ...
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I think you'd better post a few choice shots of Lola to clear our heads after that one!
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No one has yet mentioned one of the most outrageous:
Arthur Lucan as "Old Mother Riley"
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0524031/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Lucan
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> Douglas Fairbanks escorts Norma Shearer to a party in 1938. I wonder who that is peering in the background on the left?
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Charles Boyer?