ValentineXavier
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With DVDs, a pause button is a decent substitute. But, VCRs usually went out of pause after 5 minutes, and even that could damage a tape. Also, completists would want to have the intermission score.
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> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}They have Beignets out here in the Southwest, but they call them Sopapillas.
Similar, yes, but not the same. For one thing, sopaipillas usually are part masa, not all wheat flour. NOLA beignets are sort of doughnut like, and sopaipillas are usually crispy, or close to it. I like them both. My favorite way to eat sopaipillas, learned when I was a kid in Texas, is to break a hole in one, pour honey inside, and rotate it around, so the honey coats the inside. You couldn't do that with a beignet, at least not the ones I've had.
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> {quote:title=photoz wrote:}{quote}
>Some moron decided to butcher French and LEAVE IT THERE ALL THESE YEARS. And then TCM did NADA about it and LEFT IT THERE. My utter contempt and disgust will plague you forever, you guilty morons.
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> CHANGE IT. TCM. JUST DO IT. Like Nike.
Don't be absurd. TCM shows what the distributors send them. They can't change the film. Your argument is with the people who supplied them with the film.
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I saw two or three other identical OPs, in threads in other forums. I don't think any of them had responses.
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> Anyway , 30 minutes throught the picture , my dvr suddenly stops and asks if i would like to delete it. I lost 1 hour of the movie.
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I'm guessing that you have Comcast, like I do. This is a common problem with their Motorola DCX DVRs, this and related problems, like black screen recordings. I'm on the *AVS* (Audio Video Science) forum, and no one can figure out if there is a specific trigger, so I can't help you avoid the problem. It seems to be a firmware glitch.
All I can suggest is what I do to avoid the disappointment of not seeing the whole film. If you have Comcast, the ^ up button skips 5 minutes ahead, and the arrow down button skips 5 minutes back. I use the ^up button to jump, 5 min. at a time, through the whole film, to see if it is all there. I do that shortly after recording it. If there is a problem with it, I delete it, and start checking the schedule to see when it will be on again. And, I never get frustrated by seeing an incomplete film part way through.
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I realize I'm in a tiny minority, but I don't like*The Godfather* in the least. So, I don't miss it.
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From the third EP of Perils of Pauline
>*Professor Hargrave:* Water Buffalo - they seem to have a distinct aversion to white people.
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YOW!
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> I wish I would have watched *Three Kings* last year when it was on TCM so I could judge the work of Mr. Russell.
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> Kyle In Hollywood
*Three Kings* is a great film, sort of a modern *Treasure of the Sierra Madre*. Borrow the DVD!
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Yeah. I've heard he carries a cap gun.
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That plot sounds quite like a soft-core porn film I saw on Cinemax, a dozen or so years ago, but I don't remember the title.
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> {quote:title=SansFin wrote:}{quote}My favorite Bette Davis movie is *Another Man's Poison* (1951) which is on tonight!
If I'd ever seen it, it's been so long I couldn't remember it. I liked it a lot. It's my new favorite Bette film! Also, I think she looked hotter than she had in years, and that was a very flattering hair style.
Edited by: ValentineXavier on Apr 28, 2012 7:14 PM
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I realize that a lot of people here enjoy this sort of thread, and there's no reason they shouldn't. But, I too, find them silly. If a genetic clone of Garbo were born today, raised by genetically identical parents, in the same place, given the same upbringing, everything as close as possible to the original Greta Garbo, this Greta.2 would still be a totally different person, having grown up in this era. They might, or might not, want/make a career in film. It's a totally imponderable question.
If a pre-Hollywood Greta could be transported through time, to the Hollywood of today, could they become a film star? Doubtful. Any such time traveler would be in shock, on many levels, and have a lot of work to do, just fitting in to today's society.
But, I really don't want to rain on anyone's fantasies, so speculate away...
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> {quote:title=willbefree25 wrote:}{quote}*"Lawrence of Arabia". "2001", " Toosie" to name three.*
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> garbage - okay - garbage.
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> Well said, overeasy.
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> *In The Heat of the Night* isn't a classic! Or *The Godfather* . *Bonnie and Clyde, Chinatown, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, The French Connection, Little Big Man, Pappillon, Close Encounters, ET, Christmas Story, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner, The Graduate, The Pianist, Blazing Saddles,* and *Amadeus*
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> garbage, overused classic not suited to TCM, garbage, see Godfather, okay, okay, meh, meh, meh, meh, see Godfather, boring crap, meh, major garbage, see Godfather, crap.
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wbf25, I'm afraid that if you want a channel that shows only films YOU like, you'll have to start your own channel. If you do, I'll give it a look, but suspect I'll still prefer TCM.
I've been watching TCM almost since its inception. I think it has grown and improved, considerably, while showing every bit as many old films as it ever has.
I really don't know why I continue to read the umpteenth iterations of chicken little threads. But this one seems more viscous than vicious.
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> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}To me, this is the only film in which Jane Greer is absolutely gorgeous and beautiful. In her other films, she just seems average.
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Why, Fred, I think it's because you like bad girls.
I'll agree she never looked better than in *Out of the Past*, but I think she looked great in most of her films. She looked pretty hot in 1951's *The Company She Keeps*. And, although I didn't recognize her at first, she also looked good as Vivian, in three eps of Twin Peaks, and that was in 1990!
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> {quote:title=MovieMadness wrote:}{quote}I just got a tweet that Santa is tearing down his old house and workshop to rebuild too. With global warming he says he wants to add a Mediterranean touch with more glass and palm trees at the North Pole. The elves are also expecting to get new housing and condos.
Unless they can put down pilings that deep, they better look into the technology used for offshore oil platforms, or maybe huge houseboats.
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> {quote:title=hamradio wrote:}{quote}The difference between a civilized and a savage race is very blurred. Thinking back to ancient Rome who claims they were civilized and tribes whom they call the barbarians or savages which included the area that formed todays Germany. Does a civilize society nail people to a cross or scourge?
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> Wonder how will America be looked upon centuries from now? (regarding how we treat our fellow man) Ironically, Hitler admired the way we treated the Native Americans
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Indeed. I am reminded of Gandhi's response when asked what he thought of western civilization - "I think it would be a good idea."
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I exist in a parallel universe, where "above" and "below" have no meaning. I've thought about moving to a skew universe, but I don't know what that would be like.
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We are living in The Garb Age.
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> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}
> "At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races."
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Too bad it happened the other way round.
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> {quote:title=casablancalover wrote:}{quote}I am so with you on MST3K...
> I just hope TCM has gotten this itch of bad beach movies out of its system.
Hmmm... I believe your much more likely to pick up an itch at the beach, than lose one.
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They probably put Dick in those films because he is really good, and probably didn't demand the high dollar of more popular bands. Possibly, as a more serious musician, the people making the films felt a bit more comfortable with him than with the teen sensations. Perhaps there was even a bit of altruism, trying to give him exposure, because he deserved it.
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I, too, have certain regrets about the surf movies. First, I missed those with Dick Dale in them. Second, I recorded *Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs*, because Mario Bava directed it, but it stank anyway. Because I did that, I didn't record *Dr. Gooldfoot and the Bikini Machine*, which is actually pretty decent. Third, my greatest regret is that TCM didn't show *Surf Nazis Must Die*, my favorite surf film.
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> I always found it interesting that, of all the performers who appeared in these films, The Hondells and Dick Dale were in so many of them. Because even with all that exposure they apparently really didn't have many hit records at all (45's that is) (according to the Billboard national Top 100 singles charts). "Little Honda" by The Hondells made the top ten but that was the only one that did well on the charts.
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> But the producers of these movies sure seemed to like them.
Dick Dale was an innovator, who practically created "surf music" by himself, because he wanted to express what surfing was to him. He may not have had many top 40 hits, but to anyone who really knows the music, he was a god, and still is, I guess.
The Hondells? Well, just a mediocre pop group. They must have been cheap, or had a good agent, if they were in lots of films.
Classic Character Actors
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Two of my favorites not yet mentioned - Joseph Calleia, and J. Carrol Naish.