misswonderly3
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Phil Ochs will have to wait..today it's Kenny Ellis, with a swinging Hanukkah song:
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I get actors' names wrong all the time, believe me... so please don't be offended if I mention that the fine British actor who stars in the 1951 version of *A Christmas Carol* is Alistair Sim (no "s" at the end.) I've gotten actors' and directors' names more incorrect than that - and I never seem to know how to spell half of them either !
That version of the Charles Dickens Christmas classic is my very favourite, the best of the many that have been made. Although, yeah, Mr. Magoo's is pretty good too.
(Anyone remember that song, the one the rag people sing: "We're rep _re_hensible ! And we'll steal your pen and your pen_ci_ble ! Lah! Lah! Lah lah lah lah lah !"
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Did you folks know, Michael Buble is Canadian. ( I'm just sayin'...)
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I was thinking of that character from Bugs Bunny, you know, the big rooster who's always being pursued by either the dog or that little tiny bird who's looking for a " chicken hawk" and thinks he's found it in the rooster.
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Thanks, kyle, your theory makes sense, and is somewhat reassuring.
The February schedule? Well, this will make me look bad, but it won't be the first time: I have to admit that I rarely look that far ahead. In fact, it's thanks to another poster, ChrisB, that I became aware of the absence of Canadian programming for the month of January - I tend to "stay in the present", not from any philosophical mentality, just from laziness and lack of organization.
Ok, I just checked the Canadian schedule for February -nothing ! But the American one is up ! don't tell me they're having rights issues two months in a row ! Now I'm getting nervous.
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finance, that's what I was trying to do...maybe this will work: .. nah, just some random punctuation.
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kinokima, thanks for that link. I looked it up, and I couldn't believe all the great movies on that list. Some of them I wouldn't have thought of, but they are definitely religious or spiritual in nature, like Woody Allen's *Crimes and Misdemeaneurs* . Many unusual and offbeat titles, lots of "indie" and foreign films, etc. Good link.
Edited by: misswonderly on Dec 1, 2010 3:37 PM
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My cable company is not exactly "user friendly' - you have to go through about a hundred options ("for this, press that; for that, press this" ) before you get to a human being. I just don't want to go through it - makes my blood pressure soar..."Serenity now ! "
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Well, it's a "happy face" George Costanza style. No, actually, it was supposed to indicate a straight face. I guess computers aren't programmed to work with straight faces.
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ChrisB, I hope you don't mind...I started another thread about this in the "Hot Topics" forum. I think it's a really important question, and I wanted a lot of people to see it, in case one of them knows the answer ( more people seem to go on that forum than this one.)
Hey, fellow Canadians, am I the only one who gets frustrated when TCM American version shows a movie you've always wanted to see, but it doesn't get aired in Canada? Something to do with "rights issues".
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Thanks, MFF, I hope you're right. I would be seriously upset if I couldn't get TCM anymore.
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I'll take that as a compliment. George is my role model. :l
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> {quote:title=cujas wrote:}{quote}
> You know me, I'm a Jayhawk and I don't play basketball.
I was wondering, does a "Jayhawk" have any connection to a "Chickenhawk" ? What, Ah say, what , are you talkin' about, son ?
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Sorry to create a whole thread about this, but it's important - to me and I'm sure, to many Canadian classic movie fans. I've just discovered - thanks to a new poster who raised this question it the "Information Please" forum - that there is no schedule as yet posted for the January schedule , Canadian edition. Does this mean TCM is getting out of Canada, or is it just taking them a little time to check Canadian rights issues?
lz, filmlover, kyle - you guys often seem to be in the know about such things - heard anything about this?
Surely they wouldn't ... ( tell me what I want to know, and I'll stop calling you "Shirley".)
(I suppose this is a duplicate thread in a way, but I want to make sure a lot of people see this question, and not everyone checks out the Information forum.)
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What?? Surely not - where'd you get that idea? (Sorry I called you Shirley - a joke from one of our own, deceased just the other day.)
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cinemaven, I probably shouldn't, but I'll bite...There have been several posters on this thread who have been much more critical of the series than I have been, so perhaps your comment was referring to them. Even they did not sound totally negative to me, just some aspects of the show they thought could have been better. But if, when you say, "It's so easy to put something down and some can't see the forest for the tress" you are referring to my comments about the series, I think you 're being unfair. I went out of my way to say that overall I enjoyed the series, and in fact you could make the case that my main complaint about it is that it leaves me wanting more...hardly something one would say if they disliked a production, or thought it was poorly done.
I think the criticisms I made were valid; just because I don't whole-heartedly embrace it doesn't mean I don't "see the forest for the trees". And this is what I said at the end of that post:
"I do enjoy the series and acknowledge all the work and research that must have gone into it. And, critical though I may be, I'm always happy to watch it, and I do learn from it.
a thousand happy faces to you, darling.
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Great food can be akin to a religious experience -like certain other things.
But perhaps you were referring to my description of Joan Crawford, possibly having a Zen moment while preparing chili in the film *Susan and God* ? If so, I must confess that I totally made that up, I've never even seen the film, although I'd like to. Hey, did the average American even eat chili back when that movie was made?
So - lots of comments about chili and chocolate...Any comments about this Joan Crawford vehicle? Is it a typical Joan-o-drama ? Recommended?
Edited by: misswonderly on Dec 1, 2010 11:19 AM
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Constance Towers ! She was in a couple of late noirs, *The Naked Kiss* and *Shock Corridor* ! I had no idea she was still working as a soap star .
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We don't have enough Dylan on this thread. finance, I recall a while ago you mentioned that you liked "Tangled Up in Blue". It is a fine song, haunting melody and lyrics. I could find only one version on youtube that has Bob Dylan himself singing it, and even then it's not the album ( Blood on the Tracks) version. So here it is - I hope you guys in the States can pick it up (rights issues). Let me know if you get the video or a message saying it's not available.
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Tip when making chili: a secret ingredient that makes it delicious is about a teaspoon -no, dammit, let's throw caution to the winds - a tablespoon of cocoa. Real cocoa powder, no sugar added. Add it to the chili around the same time you'd add the chili powder.
And now, back to our regular programming: I'm surprised no one's mentioned the 1940 film, starring Joan Crawford and Frederic March, *Susan and God* . Now I really have no business talking about this movie, because I still haven't seen it myself yet. Seems everytime TCM airs it I'm busy or something. Still, judging by its title and what I know about it, it would qualify as a "religious experience" film. Wouldn't it? (I understand there's a scene where Joan is in the kitchen making chili, and decides to add some cocoa to it.)
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cujas, I love commentaries on dvds. It's fun to watch the movie first, the usual way, and then (obviously not the same night, might be too much of a good thing) - watching the film again, this time with the commentary. It does vary, of course, depending on the film and on who the commentator is. I find I especially enjoy this dvd extra on film noir dvds; often it's a "noir" expert, and their contributions add a lot to the enjoyment and understanding of the film.
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*Wings of Desire* is a wonderful film, and I agree, on a higher level than *Pleasantville*/
I'm sure you know, Valentine, that Wim Wenders made a follow-up to *Wings of Desire* (1987) in 1993, *Faraway So Close*. Although I have seen it, unfortunately it was only once, and so long ago I can't recall if Wenders did the same thing with the black and white/colour idea.
MFF, that's cute about Shirley Temple's pink frock. I really have to be in a certain mood to watch any of the tyke's movies all the way through, though. Her movies are kind of like "comfort food", the macaroni and cheese of old movies - sometimes they are pleasant and comforting, and not wholely without substance, but you don't always fancy macaroni and cheese, you have to be in the mac and cheese zone to appreciate it -same with little Miss Temple.
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"...With reference to Cold Turkey, I think it's obvious what most people would be
wishing for." Whaaat? Gravy? Stuffing? or for Yoko to keep quiet? ( give her a drumstick.)
Beautiful video -I've heard of the Jayhawks, but know little about them. I'll have to click that link again, later, because the song, good though I could tell it was, was continually interrupted by that "stop and buffer" problem that youtube sometimes exhibits. So due to technical problems, I didn't get the full benefit of it. It's very rainy here, maybe that's causing the problem.
Hope that doesn't happen with this one. One last nod to the "Nicks", this time NIck Cave and the Bad Seeds, with "There She Goes, My Beautiful World". A fantastic song, very passionate and urgent-sounding. The original is even better, but I couldn't find a good copy of it on youtube. Any version rocks, though:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1fzqtTV2EE
Edited by: misswonderly on Nov 30, 2010 3:25 PM
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I'm feeling ambivalent about the series. I look forward to it, wouldn't want to miss it, and stay glued to my chair when it's on. At the same time, I feel unsatisfied at the end of each segment, and feel there is so much more they could have done. Yes, there are reasons I suppose for limiting each episode to an hour, but at the end of that hour it always feels as though they've bitten off more than they can chew.
I think that by combining both "moguls" and movie stars, the makers of this documentary have tried to be too diverse and try to cover too much in the time they have alloted for each episode. You could easily spend more than an hour on just one or the other of those two topics. And as far as I can tell, most of the show concentrates on the " moguls", the "movie stars" being given a mention now and then, and not in any consistent way.
There is a very good maker of this kind of documentary series, Ken Burns. He has made, to date, three fantastic documentary series about the Civil War, Baseball, and Jazz. He has said that he feel all three of those subjects have contributed hugely to American's identity. I think we could safely say that Movies could and should be considered an fourth ingredient to that. Burns' episodes were , I think, either an hour and a half each, or even two hours. This enabled him to cover his subjects in a lot of depth. I do wonder what Burns could have done with a series like this.
Having said that, I do enjoy the series and acknowledge all the work and research that must have gone into it. And, critical though I may be, I'm always happy to watch it, and I do learn from it.
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That was the intention. ( insert smiley face here.)
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Sad news...Leslie Nielsen has died
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I believe tracey65 has seen *Airplane*, and even makes a comment on it - it was another poster who mentioned they hadn't seen it yet.
Edited by: misswonderly on Dec 2, 2010 12:52 PM