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Yes, they knew blood types in WWII. Besides whole blood transfusions, they also used plasma transfusions, so that type didn't matter.

J. Arthur Rank, poverty row? Now there's a laugh!

> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote} > ( fill in Klingon word for sword) Batleth

> {quote:title=Fedya wrote:}{quote} > Do you really think they'll listen? Listen? Well, they did reply to my e-mail, saying that the commercials were necessary, so that they could afford to make new programming 'in the independent spirit.' So, I guess they "listened." Will they change their new ways? Almost certainly NOT, unless they start losing money. Bravo and AMC went this way, and they're still around, so I guess what the IFC was is gone for good. Unless The Z Channel comes to cable...

> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote} > Ok, now that it's all over, I cannot resist: the narrator, whom everyone seems to think did an excellent job, as everyone knows was Christopher Plummer. > *What you may not know is...yes! Christopher Plummer is Canadian.* Oh, come on now! Everyone knows that most Klingons are Canadian... or is that most Canadians are Klingons? I forget...

If anyone would like to e-mail their sediments to the IFC, their address is: IFCFEEDBACK@IFC.com I unloaded on them a bit, more politely than they deserve.

There are three different threads, long ones with lots of posters, in the Favorites forum. Better you should look yourself, rather than us try to guess your taste. Some are stunning. I often use them for desk top backgrounds.

> {quote:title=HarryLong wrote:}{quote} > If there really is a liberal agenda behind this show, they're doing a ****-poor job of promoting it. It figures. We liberals are ****-poor at everything we do.

I'd like to see those Lina Wertmueller films, too. I'll add *The Seduction of Mimi*. Also, she has done many films, and I've seen only a few. It would be nice to see some others as well. She was a protege of Fellini, which brings to mind some rarely seen Fellini films I'd love to see - *City of Women*, *Ginger and Fred*, and his last film, *The Voice of the Moon*.

When they edit down programs, they are just throwing away content that they paid good money for. I think it would make more sense to bundle shows. Show three old half-hour shows in a two hour timeslot, unedited. Show two hour programs in a 2.5 hour timeslot. I'm a fan of the old Perry Mason series, but that was made unwatchable by editing. There are even a couple where you never see the character who did it, until Perry reveals them in court. All of their previous screen time had been cut out. How the heck are you supposed to figure out who did it that way?

> {quote:title=scsu1975 wrote:}{quote} > > > Reed on weed. > > Looks almost as much like Lou Reed, as Oliver Reed.

> {quote:title=MyFavoriteFilms wrote:}{quote} > Recently, I looked at which OUR GANG short films TCM has scheduled in January. Some of them have had scenes removed. I don't think TCM will air them in their original versions. How could you possibly know that?

> {quote:title=fredbaetz wrote:}{quote} > He said the films showed that children could play together regardless of race and we should learn from them. Exactly! I felt that way, while watching them in the early 60s. They were really ahead of their time, in demonstrating the equalit of, and unequal treatment of, black kids.

I feel like my dog got hit by a truck. I have loved the IFC for years. They have shown art-house films, and independent animation and shorts. They started adding comedy series', and other episodic made-for-TV stuff. That meant less films, but they still had a few good ones. Now, they are interrupting their movies repeatedly, with 4-5 minute blocks of the same old loud and obnoxious commercials shown on most cable channels. I won't even watch that stuff from a DVR. I'm sure I don't have to explain to anyone here how such interruptions ruin a film. They have gone the way of AMC, which isn't surprising, since they are owned by the same Rainbow Media that owns AMC. They also own The Sundance Channel, so I guess the last place for such films on cable will also go, before too long. It makes me appreciate TCM all the more. Gee, I wish TCM would start an art-house film channel, with the same respect for the work that they show to TCM films! So, IFC is currently showing John Huston's *The Dead*, but don't bother to watch it there.

Amazon lists it as available only on VHS, 8 used, from $22.95. It has 3 new, starting at $249.95! You might check Movies Unlimited.

TikiSoo, I agree with you about *Red Shoes*, and *Black Narcissus*. Have you seen *Peeping Tom* ? If so, what did you think of it? And, I also liked *A Matter of Life and Death*.

You folks is McCreazy!

> {quote:title=hamradio wrote:}{quote} > These movie are better suited for the October schedule. They have only made one movie that can be shown for both Halloween and Christmas, "The Nightmare Before Christmas" (1993) but its a Touchstone/Disney movie. > > They have made 2 horror movies with a Christmas theme, "Silent Night, Deadly Night" (1984) and "Jack Frost" (1996) > Well, there is *Black Christmas*, which TCM is showing.

> {quote:title=Kinokima wrote:}{quote} > And if you like it I also recommend watching *Umberto D.* I'll second that!

> {quote:title=MyFavoriteFilms wrote:}{quote} > No, I do not consider myself a Star Trek fan. I always felt science fiction catered to a type of non-athletic audience. It just wasn't my thing. > A "non-athletic audience?" I don't know what you mean by that. > I assume you think I am like that character. I will leave it up to other readers to decide if you've been pleasant with that comment, and if you haven't, then that is probably on you, right? > Well, it was meant to be kidding humor, not "pleasant," nor unpleasant. Whether others appreciate it would depend on their sense of humor, and perspective. But, I would say that your off-hand dismissal of a whole genre of film and literature certainly plays to my point.

> {quote:title=hamradio wrote:}{quote} > The Germans used the mirror image of the *peace* symbol or better words hijacked it. In addition, they gave it a 45 degree twist which was also important to them > True, but on Nazi flags, or any two-sided Nazi swastika, such as a stone carving, metal emblem, the swastika could be seen in reverse, so depicting them that way isn't always incorrect.

> {quote:title=Kinokima wrote:}{quote} > Most of today's Women's pictures (aka Chick Flicks are abysmal). Pedro Almodovar makes great chick flicks >Then again most of today's men's pictures (aka Action Flicks) are just as awful. True.

> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote} > From now on, I only go out with brunettes and redheads. Have you ever noticed that women with black hair rarely get mentioned? I guess that's because 'blackheads' means something else entirely. I like *Quicksand* a lot, in part because the film and the title are so perfectly matched. It is an inescapable spiral downward, which starts so simply. I don't even mind the ending, since in noirs, it is a novelty.

You're obviously not a fan of the original Star Trek. NOMAD was an errant space probe that thought only it was correct.

That's your loss. I did.