[WARNING: Next TCM Programming Challenge coming soon!!]

yes, fancagney, do join the fun!

[Which Movies should never be remade like ever]

If they ever remade *Singin' in the Rain* I think I'd burn down the Kodak Theater

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Thanks for the clarification, lzcutter--you explain things better than me.

 

I hope everyone participates! But before you think of every movie you've never seen on TCM, there is a limit to your premieres.

 

And thanks, TCM, for keeping us troll free.

[A to Z of Characters]

Unger, Felix - Jack Lemmon in THE ODD COUPLE

[WARNING: Next TCM Programming Challenge coming soon!!]

It started with warning because..... this is a warning and not the actual challenge..... that and the word "warning" has a way of grabbing attention.

[WARNING: Next TCM Programming Challenge coming soon!!]

Start thinking of ideas because the next TCM Programming Challenge is coming up in less than a month. For you newcomers, this is a little contest hosted by us in which everyone must create a week of programming for TCM. Although this isn't a TCM contest, just a friendly competition between all the posters here, the TCM programmers still read these schedules. It's the best way to request a movie or SOTM. Plus it's fun. All posters are welcome to participate-- oldies, newbies, and everyone in between!

 

More details about the competition and my particular challenges coming soon..........

 

 

(P.S. I think we're on #20, but I'm unsure-- could someone verify that?)

[20th Century Vole Presents]

Guess Who's Coming to Gunga Dinner? It is to laugh! Awesome!

[Great movies of the nineties]

I'm sure the people on this forum could create such a list.

[I'll send ya a post card]

Thanks for pointing that website out. It's pretty dang awesome. I have to say how much Monty Clift's makes me laugh. It's as funny as an ad for the Bates Motel. I love Ronald Coleman in front of the Shangri-La resort. It Happened One Night is my favorite movie, so I love that Claudette's bus stopped at the JERICHO Motor Court. I love them all, though I wish Jean Gabin was advertising the drug joint from La Desordre et La Nuit.

 

Seriously, though, can I buy the pack of these? WANT!!

[Quiz: What movie is this line from?]

yes, metz, you are correct-- been away from my comp, sorry

 

metz's thread

[Favorite dresses from movies.]

Thanks for posting the pics, Nora. I love that kind of triangular wrap around the skirt that comes to a V at her knees. I'm bad at describing, but if you've seen it you know what I mean.

 

Another awesome dress is Miss Piggy's lovely patriotic dress at the end of Muppet Treasure Island. But I love all of Piggy's clothes.

[OK, Which Star is the least frequently shown on TCM?]

I saw that Kurosawa tribute (which is why I am a Shimura fan now), but showing the movies one month out of many years' worth of months I call pretty infrequent. Mostly I'm saying it's sad that there aren't more foreign films on, but I guess they're expensive to show.

[WHY I DON'T LIKE PEOPLE WHO DON'T LIKE 30s & 40s MOVIES]

 

to add to that initial list: "Fantasia was good animation for the time."

 

ARG!!!! IT'S GREAT ANIMATION FOR ANY TIME, YOU MORONS!!!!!

 

I feel better now.

 

 

[Quiz: What movie is this line from?]

That's right. It's been too long since I saw that.

 

Well here's a clever quote from one of my favorites:

 

*MAN: There appears to be some slight rosiness in the laryngal region.*

*DAME: Slight rosiness? It's as red as the Daily Worker and twice as sore!*

 

What's it from and who said it? Bonus: who wrote it?

 

[Favorite line from movie.]

 

Being by Billy WIlder, MIDNIGHT has lots of great quotes, like this:

 

{font:Georgia, serif}“When Little Red Riding Hood spots the long grey whiskers—you’ll still insist it’s your grandma.”{font}

 

 

[Favorite dresses from movies.]

Just saw *MIDNIGHT* for the first time. What a cracking great film. That gold (or silver) dress Claudette Colbert wears for the first chunk of the movie is so cool! I'm still trying to figure out how to post pictures, but here's a link:

http://www.doctormacro.com/Images/Colbert,%20Claudette/Colbert,%20Claudette%20(Midnight)_01.jpg

If you've never seen this movie, go watch it. It's awesome.

[Quiz: What movie is this line from?]

Although it sounds like it's referring to Luther Billis I know it's not from that, so it must be someone like him. Is it referring to Tony Curtis in OPERATION PETTICOAT?

[A to Z of Characters]

 

Leslie the Great - Tony Curtis in THE GREAT RACE

 

 

[OK, Which Star is the least frequently shown on TCM?]

As a foreign film fan I must say Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura are the least seen

[First 6 days of November]

I can't say enough how excited I am about* THE INNOCENTS!!!! :^0*

[Favorite dresses from movies.]

Not sure if it's been mentioned but I love te gowns in Thoroughly Modern Millie esp those worn by Julie Andrews, esp that lovely black and white number she wears to be "hopelessly fatal". SO AWESOME!!

 

(p.s. how does one embed pictures?)

[TCM movie idiosyncrasies - just for fun]

Not being seen in your PJs is hilarious to me.

 

One I thoguht of is more on TV than anything, which is that people almost never turn the lights off when they leave the house!

 

THe other one is all those lovely women going to bed with all their makeup on. I know it's because you have to wear makeup to be seen under the lights, esp in technicolor which washes you out like crazy, but it's still hilarious. Only a few times do you see them take it off or wearing cold cream or something, and that's usually for comedy's sake. The one time I thought was great was in The Women when Norma Shearer is going to bed in full makeup as usual, then Virginia whatshername, her daughter, gets in bed with her, kisses her and says, "I taste lipstick!" Then Norma says that she hasn't washed yet. I thought, what a clever way to get around the fact that you can't remove the makeup.

[The most-searched]

I'm glad to see people saw *Lured* and are taking notice. Love that movie.

[TCM movie idiosyncrasies - just for fun]

I was watching the commentary on The Day The Earth Stood Still and even the commentator (Robert Wise perhaps, I don't remember) was saying how funny it was to see two guys eating breakfast in their own house wearing 3-piece suits. What a formal time it used to be, and how informal we are now.

 

But then I've seen movies set in modern LA costumed by East Coast people who dress us up way more formally than we actually dress (i.e. hanging around their own house in shoes, which people don't do unless they're coming or leaving), so who knows if that was even accurate, though it seems like it would be. Still idiosyncrasies even today.

[Why I don't like 30's movies]

Mr Roberts, you completely read my mind.

 

I can't see how Platinum Blonde and My Man Godfrey are cookie cutter, or even 42nd Street though you could say its "sequels" might be, but we could list individual movies all day, so let's not get started.

 

Every era has movies that were cranked out by studios etc that all look similar, so I don't see why the 30s even would be any different. This is just part of studios and the second half of the name "show business" --being a business it's bound to happen. "Oh, the people want westerns, so go make some." For example. For this very reason I've seen a lot of cookie cutter silents as well.