ValentineXavier
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The 2008 film *Walt & El Grupo* is well worth checking out. It shows on Flix or is it Encore? - every so often.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1223150/
>Wonderfully entertaining documentary from writer-director Theodore Thomas, working alongside the Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures distribution arm, chronicles a turbulent time in Mr. Disney's life: the years 1940 and 1941, when an animators strike and the looming threat of a dominant union threatened to tear the Disney Company apart. With the war in Europe putting a financial damper on Disney's output overseas, "Pinocchio" and "Fantasia" fell into the red, causing Walt to owe the bank four million dollars. An invitation, then, from President Roosevelt for Disney and his hand-picked team to make a good will tour of South America came as a godsend, although Disney was initially reluctant to travel through Latin America "just shaking hands". He turned the trip to his advantage, however, and released two pictures dedicated to the culture of our neighbors and their people, "Saludos Amigos" in 1942 and "The Three Caballeros" in 1944. Looking back, the movies, though certainly entertaining, were just a stop-gap while Disney came up with bigger ideas, but the underlying notion here--that Walt felt utterly betrayed by his employees--lends this documentary a tough emotional core. Walt also lost his father during the trip, and one senses the emotional weight on him as he is photographed on boats and emerging from planes, waving at the crowds. This is a beautifully-produced sentimental journey, wherein still shots come to life and (now-aged) witnesses and relatives recount this fascinating chapter in Disney history.
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> and Val, the truncated/chaotic (edited) version apparently is the thing that captivated the filmmakers and writers of the French New Wave.
Oddly, the article contradicts itself on that point. It says:
>About this time I found a translation of Francois Truffaut's original 1955 review of Kiss Me Deadly in Cahiers du Cinema. It stated, "As the hero and his mistress take refuge in the sea, THE END appears on the screen." That sounded hopeful. Perhaps the film had been released in two versions.
That would indicate that Truffaut saw the original ending. Later, it says this:
> And film students reading the old literature about an anarchic, deconstructed conclusion that inspired Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard will soon be wondering what the writers were talking about.
Given what Truffaut wrote about it in 1955, and their guess as to the reason for the editing, I think that Truffaut saw the original.
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There is an on-going thread on *The Misfits*, in the Films and Filmmakers forum.
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Lots of DVD players, especially cheap ones, can play PAL DVDs, and convert them to NTSC, so long as the DVD is Region 0, aka Region Free.
You can go to:
look in the left hand column, click "DVD Hacks," and see if your DVD player is listed. They will tell you how to make it Region Free, usually just by using your remote. If your player can be made region free, then it can also convert PAL to NTSC. It may be able to convert even if it can't be made region free.
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Well, Rick isn't a native Chicagoan, but an adopted one. I feel a certain kinship to him, as we are both Oklahomans, both attended the Univ. of Michigan, both spent time in Mexico, and enjoy it's food. Unfortunately for me, I have not had the considerable success he has had. I much enjoyed his show on PBS. If and when I make it to Chicago, I do hope to eat at the Frontera Grill. He also owns Topolobampo, much too upscale for my budget, and a taqueria, which I could afford, but I hear it's always packed. Obama considered asking him to be the White House chef, but I doubt he could have accepted, as he just has too much to do.
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It seems that our two dictionaries are of different opinions...
It is my opinion that any opinion worth having is based on a logical consideration of what facts and observations there are about a subject. Of course, two people can consider the same facts and observations, and reasonably come to different conclusions.
My real point wasn't to "correct" you, but to assert the opinion, that opinions can have a factual basis. The definition you cited seemed to imply otherwise, though not definitively. Since you cited a recognized authority, I wasn't even "correcting" you at all, but taking exception to that authority, in just this one case.
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I enjoyed watching it when I was a teen. As an adult, not so much. But, there are plenty of well-thought-of films that I find to be much worse. I wouldn't advocate wiping out any of them.
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Ah, well, he was working from a script.
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Fred, reading your post gave me such a bad case of Vertigo that I stumbled, and fell through the Rear Window. I grabbed a Torn Curtain to break my fall, but my injuries are so bad, I'm afraid I'm headed for The Family Plot.
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Sorry, but that definition of opinion literally would not hold up in court. Opinions certainly can be based on "positive knowledge."
From Merriam-Webster:
>Definition of OPINION
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>a : a view, judgment, or appraisal formed in the mind about a particular matter
>b : approval, esteem
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>a : belief stronger than impression and less strong than positive knowledge
>b : a generally held view
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>a : a formal expression of judgment or advice by an expert
>b : the formal expression (as by a judge, court, or referee) of the legal reasons and principles upon which a legal decision is based
Edited by: ValentineXavier on Nov 19, 2011 11:57 PM
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Fred, you seem to have overlooked the single Spanish word, used in English, that is of the greatest import to Fred C. Dobbs. That word is Gila, as in Gila Monster. Note that we use the Spanish pronunciation, he-lah, not gee-luh, as it would be in English. I'll admit that I've often wondered why we pronounce some Spanish names more or less correctly, and totally anglicize others.
Here in SE Michigan, where I live, we have a number of towns and places that we don't pronounce at all like their namesakes.
Lake Orion - we say orey-on
Delhi - we say del-high
Milan - we say my-lun
Macon - we say may-con
Saline - we say suh-leen
My favorite pronunciation pet peeve is that Floridians are trying to brainwash everyone about how conch is pronounced. They say "conk." The word conch comes from the Spanish word for shell, concha, pronounced cone-chaw, so the second c is soft, not hard. I have a theory why they mispronounce it in Florida. At one time, a lot of them, especially in the Keys, made their livings by luring ships onto rocks, "conking" the survivors on the head as they came ashore, and robbing them. So, they could talk about "conking," and expect people to think they meant fishing for conch.
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*Shadow in the Sky* and *Glory Alley* are also not to be missed on Ralph's day.
*Kiss Me Deadly* is one of my favorites. I must have seen the edited version, in the past, but the ending I remember is the restored version. Odd that the edited version is even darker than the original version. Usually, it's the other way around.
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My mom always said that Pinky looked like he was about to wet his pants. I guess that was his method. Pee Wee looked like he'd already wet his.
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I don't think Id ever seen *TLWSH* before! Ida, Rita, and a surrealist costume party! Outta sight!
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> And yes, I attended a Roman Catholic school for 8 years and one of the nuns was mean.
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I attended Catholic school for one year, and one of the nuns wasn't mean.
Seriously, I'm stunned that someone here hasn't seen *NbNW*. I won't give you any spoilers, but a great blooper alert - in the huge dining hall scene at Mt. Rushmore, watch for a little boy, who sticks his fingers in his ears, prematurely.
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> {quote:title=sfpcc1 wrote:}{quote}"Wagner has a lot of comercial gigs he could lose."
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> A Reverse Mortgage sounds a bit iffy to me.
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He may need a reverse mortgage, to pay his lawyers. I heard on the news that Walken has hired a lawyer. I have no opinion to push on this, but I thought it all sounded very suspicious at the time, and still do. There is no statute of limitations on murder.
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It's an amazing site. There is so much to explore. I'd bet that most any TCM fan would find lots to like. There is lots of film stuff, and lots of stuff from from the eras we love. Hope you like it.
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> {quote:title=FloydDBarber wrote:}{quote}I will be 62 next April.
> I was first called an old fuddy duddy in 1994 by a woman who is 7 years older than me.
When I was in my 30s, I decided to skip middle age, and go directly to my second childhood. I haven't regretted it.
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I'm a *Candy* fan too. One of my favorite bits is that poet/professor Richard Burton's hair is always 'blowing in the wind,' even when he is giving a lecture indoors. Unfortunately, the DVD is out-of-print, and rather expensive. So, I dubbed a friend's copy...
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My grandma bought me a full Davy Crockett outfit, complete with "Old Betsy" rifle, and a faux coonskin cap. I had the Davy Crockett song on a 45, too.
Walt may have been the first, but lots of movies were made by recutting TV shows. There were some good The Man From U.N.C.L.E. movies shown on TCM years back, made by putting together two-parters.
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*Margie* is no more than a misdemeanor.
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Ah! Legal wardrobe malfunctions...
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Frank Zappa's *200 Motels*, made on video tape, had the best reds I've ever seen.
Los "Angle"...es?
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> Dang. Now I've got a hankering to hit a panaderia (bakery) and get some molletes, campachanas, pan de polvo and marranitos.
I'll have some empanadas de carne, and a liquado de guanabana, sandia, y fresa. That's a good breakfast, or lunch. For dinner tonight, I had tamales de puerco rojo, from Detroit's Tamaleria Nuevo Leon.