ValentineXavier

> {quote:title=PrinceSaliano wrote:}{quote} > I never miss an opportunity to watch Lionel Atwill. So, one might say that you watch Lionel Atwill at will.

*Zardoz*

> {quote:title=infinite1 wrote:}{quote} > Where are the Janiters or the Cafeteria workers? It is a practice of companies to hire professional models/actors to represent employees in annual reports, videos, etc. Real employees don't look or speak that good. By those criteria, I guess you qualify as a "real employee."

> {quote:title=ILoveGinger wrote:}{quote} > Do you ever think that maybe TCM has a death-wish and WANTS to go the way of AMC? > I hope TCM doesn't show *Death Wish*. I'm not a Charles Bronson fan.

> {quote:title=movieman1957 wrote:}{quote} > There is usually a time out to kiss the leading lady. Or the horse.

That's your cue, Fred. Go to the "Lists" thread, and see if you can make a longer list than he can!

I think that the forums look a bit better now. I do wish that there was an option to go to the first unread post in a thread. I don't begrudge TCM hawking DVDs on the daily and weekly schedules. I'm quite familiar with Maltin, as his movie guides were my bibles, before I had access to the web, the IMDb, and allmovie.com. He's popular, so if TCM is going to post reviews, his are as suitable as any. That said, I often disagree greatly with him, and his reviewers. As many have posted here, I dearly hope that the complete, printable monthly schedules, with synopses, directors, and cast, will return. I relied on them constantly. They were very easy and quick to use. Having to click for a synopsis, and not being able to print them as a list, is a great loss in functionality. TCM, please fix this! I assume that TCM will fix the problem with the letterboxed labeling. I hope they will add links to the complete, individual schedules for the upcoming months. I hope they will add the name of the month to the tops of these schedules! These fixes seem like no-brainers.

Thanks, Fred. I already bookmarked it from your earlier post.

> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote} > My neighbor has her C.P.A. certificate on her wall, and it says" Certified Public Accountrix". You'd think that a CPA wouldn't have to turn trix.

> {quote:title=MissWatusi wrote:}{quote} > Dioblique (spelling????????) *Diabolique*, by Henri Cluzot. An excellent film.

> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote} > A much wider butte is called a mesa, and a much wider mesa is called a plateau. (plaa-toe). Mesa is the Spanish word for table, and a mesa looks flat on top like a table top. > You should go to Venezuela, where you could visit some tepuis.

PhygLeGuy, where did you find those links? Are they somewhere on the TCM home page? can you post a link to the page where you found them? Thanks for posting them!

I think that it is wonderful that TCM is having its employees as "guest programmers," even if some of them have no great knowledge of films. Just the fact that a company gives such involvement to their employees, and gives us a chance to meet them is great. As to racism in *The Searchers*, that dead horse has been beat in many another thread. I'll just point out that Scar is the bad guy. As such, it isn't "PC" not to harp on his bad points. As the villain, they are a given.

I can get the schedule two months ahead by using the weekly schedule, but see no way to display the whole month of April, or beyond. So, I hope the three month ahead full month schedules will come back. Also, add me to the list of those who would very much like to see the cast and synopsis *without* having to click anything, especially on the monthly schedules. To read through a monthly schedule, having to click a couple of times on each film for the synopsis takes forever! You don't have to be old, or disabled, to find this tremendously time consuming and inefficient.

> {quote:title=mongo wrote:}{quote} > VX, it's nice to know that you read the thread with interest. > If only she could have lived so long. That's really why I posted, to let you know your thread is followed. That, and I can't resist a good straight line...

> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote} > If you want to see a feel-good film in which some black guys kick some white butt, for justifiable reasons, you might like Brotherhood of Death (1976). I saw it on some channel a few years ago. Its a great film! > I have seen the film, and saved it to DVD. It is a decent blaxplotation film of the era, and deserves to be better known. But, "seeing some black guys kick some white butt" is not what I look for in *DtRT*. It is a realistic view of race relations at that place and time, and tries to view the situation from all sides, showing how the people involved feel, looking at them as individual human beings.

> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote} > If the movie had continued on, maybe they would have burned down some Korean grocery stores and wound up with no grocery stores in their neighborhood. > Not at all. The point, which you seem to have missed, is that they realized they had gone too far, and regretted it. Both sides had good reasons for their emotions, and both sides let things get out of hand. And, both sides regretted it.

Spot-on, Kyle. You remember it well. Fred, of course it wasn't right to burn Sal's restaurant. Things got out of hand. After it was done, even the people who did it realized that they had gone too far.

Even though I'm a big fan of Mitchum, I'll have to agree.

> {quote:title=mongo wrote:}{quote} > HAPPY BIRTHDAY > > LYNN REDGRAVE (1943 - 2910) She's gonna live another 899 years? That's pretty close to immortality!

> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote} > You are just trying to be so PC, its sickening. Untrue, and uncalled for. I'm just looking at things as they are.

> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote} > > > > What do/did white people in all white neighborhoods call a black family, when they move in? > > > I moved into a mixed black and white neighborhood. Lived there for 10 years. I called them neighbors. > > Im in a mixed white, Mexican, and Indian neighborhood now. I call them neighbors. Okay, I'm ready to quit playing. You're being deliberately obtuse. You know what I mean, know how prevalent it once was, and know that it continues today, just to a lesser degree.

So, I can't play back?

> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote} > Monday March 14 at 8:00 pm: *Inn of the Sixth Happiness*, clocking in at an epic 158 minutes. For some reason missionary stories set in China (or anywhere, for that matter) depress me. I generally find them condescending, patronizing, and colonial. Not to mention the slanty-eyed white folk tryin' to pass as real Asians. They depress me too.

> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote} > > Because they were viewed as intruders in the black neighborhood, > > Intruders?? This is America. What do/did white people in all white neighborhoods call a black family, when they move in? > > > {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote} > > and as exploiters, selling things at too high a price. > > They didnt have to buy the things. Why didnt they go to the black stores? That's the point. There ARE no black stores, and they have NO OTHER OPTIONS, unless you consider starvation an option. This kind of thing still plagues inner cities - they have no supermarkets, only Liquor/Lottos, aka party stores.