misswonderly3
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> {quote:title=lily54 wrote:}{quote}
> speaking of low tech... don't you just love in the classic films the telephone booths, telegraph machines and old time technology. My favorite scenes are when they show the old newspaper and police station scenes from the 30's. "Hold the presses" - instead of computers the reporters use manual typewriters and pencils. The police stations with the old switchboards and pin's on a map for intricate and exact GPS locations. You gotta love it! We've come a long way, baby!
I do love it - that's one of the things I always notice and enjoy about old films, especially film noir, is things like tele-type -they show it so proudly ! - and newspapers being printed with roaring headlines about some crook or other. Love the telephone booths - half the plotlines in these old movies wouldn';t work today, because of cell phones. Pins of the map, switchboards, - so much fun to see.
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Wow, you live in Atlanta? Isn't that the home base for TCM? I spent some time in Georgia last fall, but it was in Savannah (which I loved.) I wanted to see more of this state, including Atlanta, but we didn't have time, just drove through it. Maybe next time.
That's amazing that you have all that vintage stuff -a rotary phone, a typewriter. I love it. "Tea from a teapot"? Does that mean you drink hot tea? When I was in Savannah, everyone assumed you wanted iced tea if you ordered tea. They'd say, "Sweet ?" At first I thought they were referring to my cherubic appearance, but then I realized they meant how did I want my iced tea, sweet or not sweet.
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Good thing we both have a sense of humour, fred, baby. (Sometimes I think we should call you
"*Freud* C. Dobbs". )
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Seems there are a lot of "low techies" out there.
Speaking of tech, has anyone heard about this robot, "Watson", who was on Jeopardy? I hear he/it was doing pretty well.
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Dammit, fred, I don't want to argue. I wasn't "arguing" , I was "splaining".
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> {quote:title=C.Bogle wrote:}{quote}
> Somewhere out in the garage I have a 30 year old VCR about the size
> of an aircraft carrier that no longer works, but I think it could be fixed and
> maybe someday it will.
Work as a VCR player or an aircraft carrier?
Edited by: misswonderly on Feb 16, 2011 4:34 PM
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jonnyg, I think you're mixing all the TCM "apologists" into one bag. We're all separate and different people, just as the TCM "critics" are all individuals. I don't even consider myself an "apologist", since the word means "a person who argues in defense or justification of something" . I personally don't know enough about how Turner Classic Movies works to defend or justify it.
All I ever wanted to say, and I should have known better than to say it, was, Don't we all have more interesting things to talk about on these boards than what's wrong with TCM? That's all. And I do think that instead of several threads, each one a specific grievance about the station, it might be more productive if all the complaints were concentrated onto one main "Concerns" thread. Maybe the powers that be would sit up and take notice, more than with a dozen small but similar threads.
Anyway, I am not an "Apologist" for anything, nor do I write 8 paragraph long posts defending TCM, if only because I don't know enough about all that stuff, plus I'm too lazy to look up all those facts and paste them here.
I didn't begin the Marie Osmund joke, but I did think it was mildly funny, and thought maybe it could lighten things up a little around here. People don't always have to get so mad about everything.
It seems to me that your most valid concern is what you said here:
*"we DO NOT GET ANY FEEDBACK FROM TCM ITSELF AS TO WHY"*. I can see that; with all the recent threads critiquing TCM, it does seem incumbent upon them to offer a response; it would show courtesy and that they're listening to their fans. I also think, though, even if they did do that, it would soon get forgotten about and the complaining would start again. Maybe a personal email to all those who have concerns? A statement on the home website? Maybe a TCM "ad", with one of the top TCM decision makers addressing some of the viewers' concerns'? I don't know. Never claimed I did.
ps -Guess I won't be competing with you in my "Date with Ben Mankiewicz" campaign.
Edited by: misswonderly on Feb 16, 2011 2:31 PM
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So, Ty had two sides to him...sort of a "Two Face".
I'll never see a "Three Stooges" movie the same way again.
Edited by: misswonderly on Feb 16, 2011 2:12 PM
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skimpole, I hear you. Happens to us Canadians all the time. It's very frustrating, especially when the American TCM schedule is showing something interesting and unusual, and we Canadians get *Mutiny on the Bounty*, which is available at every corner movie rental place.
I have two things to say about this. 1 - When you check the TCM schedule, if you're in Canada, make sure you check the "Canadian schedule" option on the upper right of the screen. Mostly the schedules are the same, but there are often differences, so if there's something on the American schedule that you particularly want to see, click the Canadian button to make sure it's also on in Canada.
2 - If I do have a "complaint" about TCM's schedule, it is this (replacing a rare long awaited film in Canada with a dime a dozen one). But I know it's not TCM's fault, it's all about "rights" issues. I don't know why these issues can't be sorted out, apparently a lot of the time no one knows exactly who has the "rights" to the film in Canada. A silly situation, especially when you consider that most of the films in question are decades old. So that is something I'm not happy about, I can't tell you how many times I've been disappointed to see that something fabulous in the States is not being aired in Canada. But I don't blame TCM for it.
(By the way, what are you doing in Canada? I always thought you were American. Don't answer that, none of my business. It's just that it can't be for the weather ha ha.)
Edited by: misswonderly on Feb 16, 2011 2:14 PM
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Cid, I'm really sorry you feel that way. I actually have never disagreed with anyone vehemently enough to use that "ignore" button. Besides, I'd just drive myself crazy wondering what the "ignored" ones were saying.
I think you may have taken my post on this way more personally than I meant it to be. And my feeling about those who post complaints about TCM on these boards is not so much "anger", it's more just exasperation that people who probably have a lot of knowledge and interesting things to say about old movies (probably yourself being one of them) prefer to post criticisms of the station, instead of the interesting things they probably have to say about film. No "insult" was ever intended.
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So, how did everyone who watched it like *Cimarron* ?
I'd seen it before, so skipped it last night. Don't like it all that much, except for the famous scene near the beginning, all those hopeful settlers literally racing to stake out some land on a gunshot. Very myth-making scene.
But it's sooo long, I hate really long movies, and also movies that cover decades, a lifetime, in a few hours. Irene Dunne, whom I often like, depresses me in this. And so does the marriage separation.
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Can't resist pointing out that *Felicia's Journey* is a Canadian film by Canadian film director Atom Egoyan.
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I can't help but think that one reason Grace Kelly may have received her Oscar that year was due to her willingness to look "frumpy" and tired for most of the movie. Whenever an exceptionally beautiful and glamourous woman shows the nerve to "un-pretty" for a role, she is praised for her courage. People seem to think it's an acting miracle in itself for a beautiful woman to agree to make herself look unattractive on film. I'm not taking away from actresses who do that, usually their acting is good in these kinds of films. But the "de-glamourizing" definitely helps.
Other examples: Nicole Kidman in *The Hours* , Charlize Theron in *Monster* .
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cujas, this one's for you. The Hollies playing (er, synching) my favourite song by them, I Can't Let Go :
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Prince, read the post immediately before the "shouting".
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WHY CAN'T WE HAVE A GARBO FILM IN A RUSSIAN SILENT ABOUT THE RISE OF NAZI PROPAGANDA ???
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hamradio, baby, I don't really know why, maybe it's because I just watched *My Man Godfrey*, but I had a big smile on my face as I read your post.
I think it was also because you're not so much "low tech" as "old school tech", and your affection for such things came through in your post. I had no idea what you were talking about half the time, but I still enjoyed reading it. I like it that you like your beloved "old tech" stuff so much.
Well, since I'm still in a confessional mode, I'll admit that I don't own a cell phone either. And I don't even care ! So it was refreshing to see that a few others don't have such a thing either. (By the way, you must have heard about the technology that allows people to watch a movie on their cellphone. Whaa??
As if a true film lover would want to.)
Kinokima, I suspect that if and when my VCR finally breaks down, that will be the day I get a DVD recorder. Except of course by then DVD recorders will also be out-of-date. In fact, aren't they already? And what's the difference between a DVD player/recorder and a DVR? (I told you I was a low -tech dunce.)
tracey, since I'm baring all here, I don't know what "R1" and "R2" mean.
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I can't stand this lying anymore. All this time I've been posting that I plan to "record" a movie, I watched a "recording" of this or that film from TCM . That was a deliberate obfuscation (good word, eh? )
Yeah, I knew that using the word "record" would throw dirt in everybody's eyes. That's the kind of dame I am, see? I wasn't never gonna tell the truth. "Let them mugs think I know what I'm talkin' about", I says to myself. But now, I can't take it anymore. The heat's gettin' too much for me, I gotta breathe...
Sorry, a brief lapse into filmnoirese. Ok, what am I blathering about here? I used the word "record" to suggest that I have a DVR, like everyone else around here. Well, I don't. Never have. I have a DVD player, but an old one, not equipped to record.
I admit it, I use ancient technology to record movies -make that "tape" movies. That's right, I still have a VCR and when I want to "keep" a film TCM is airing, I videotape it. I have hundreds of videotapes, not one recording from DVR. (I have DVDs, but they're store-bought.)
All right, I feel so much better now. Cleaner. I've confessed the truth, and nothing can hurt me now. Oh, right, I'm not confessing in a film noir.
Anyone else out there who still uses this technology from another age? Come clean, tell the truth, confession is good for the soul.
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Well, it's all worked out in the end. This has turned into a duel-purpose thread: 1- park all your complaints here, including complaints about complaining about complaints etc. etc.
2 - complaints about *The Treasure of Sierra Madre*. My complaint is, there aren't enough close-ups of Tim Holt, the best-looking of the three miners.
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Truly entertaining. Old Nick is absolutely shameless in his video bag of tricks. So catchy, so completely lacking in artifice or ego of any kind. (Unless you count the sunglass -wearing flowers as "artifice". )
Edited by: misswonderly on Feb 15, 2011 1:43 PM
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"Oh, if it's "Abuse" you want, that's three doors down"
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"WHAT DO YOU WANT !!??" "Well, I was looking for an Argument..."
"Shut your festering gob, you t*t. Your type really makes me puke." "Well, really, I don't deserve this. I came here for a good argument !"
"Oh, it's "Arguments" you want? Sorry - this is "Abuse" "Oh, I'm terribly sorry"
"Not at all. "Arguments" is two doors down on the left." "Thanks awfully" "Not at all." door closes.
"Stupid git !"
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Fred - sometimes I don't "get"what your point is, but I'll say this : it's impossible to stay "mad" at you. Lovable crank of TCM City !
Edited by: misswonderly on Feb 15, 2011 11:54 AM
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ChorusGirl wrote:
"You are looking at The Godfather with an eye one usually reserves for watching the local news. You seem to be looking for accuracy, logic, facts, and utter believability in a work of fiction. With that criteria, most works of art would be failures."
Exactly !
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lzcutter wrote:
"In the meantime, I'll send out for more strawberries for you. Maybe that will help. "
Make sure you know where the duplicate key is.
"Yes we can can!" said Little Nicola.
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I pay little attention to the Grammys, but I did hear that they recognized the very original "indie" band from Montreal, Arcade Fire. I think it was in "best rock album of the year" category. That would be their newish album, "The Suburbs".
Anyway, these guys are great, they make really interesting music. Technically they are a Canadian band, but their lead singer and song-writer, Win Butler, is from Texas. So it's a hybrid.
Here is a song from their second album, "Neon Bible" - Keep the Car Running :
And, I'm going to "cheat" again by throwing in the studio version, because you can't hear all the unusual instruments and the well-executed arrangements as well on the live show -