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> {quote:title=kriegerg69 wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=willbefree25 wrote:}{quote}The original Fly *was* awesome, but especially when his wife crushed his head, and when the fly with the guy's head was stepped on at the end. Traumatic in the 1950s, traumatic still. Goldblum's version was pathetic. > You are so wrong about that...Goldblum's is considered one of the few remakes to be as good as (if not better than) the original. It made sense in the remake that the change might be a gradual genetic mutation....and to this day many feel (as do I) that Goldblum should have gotten a Best Actor nomination that year. I agree. Goldblum's performance was stunning. And, Geena Davis never looked better.

Before rebooting, try changing the channel, and changing back. Try swapping tuners, if you have a two-tuner DVR. Then try just turning the box off for 30sec. If that doesn't work, then try a reboot. The new Motorola DCX series of DVRs has some kind of a flaw that pops up every so often - the screen will freeze, or go black. This can also happen with programmed recording. Changing the channel, then changing back, will make it work again.

The accents are inexplicable, I agree. But, the natural desire of two long separated sisters to have a normal family, all together, with both of their real parents, would seem self-evident to me. Most humans would want that, unless they were sociopaths.

> {quote:title=SansFin wrote:}{quote}I can not name one "funniest" scene because there are so many kinds of "funny". > > There is the humor which first blows you away and it is not as funny the second time and it seems banal the tenth time you see it. I find that in much of slapstick and the Marx Brothers. > While I feel that way about slapstick, I can't agree that applies to the Marx Bros. Much of their humor is surreal, using puns, double entendres, and social satire. It makes me laugh, every time I see it, and I sometimes notice little things I hadn't noticed before.

When you use crappy media, they will usually play for a while, then go bad while sitting on a shelf, because the errors accumulate past a correctable amount. Good media very rarely does that. Of course, your DVDR that does the burning may also give good burns, or marginal burns that go bad. There are people on the Audio Video Science Forum who have been checking their discs regularly, for years, to see if the error rate increases. Good media, with a good initial burn, will last a long time.

> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}The big rollover happens every 394 years. We will be rolling over from 12 to 13, in Dec. of this year. It last happened on Sept. 20th, 1618. > > This is from a 1944 book I've had for about 30 years: > > http://i44.tinypic.com/2ppaogn.jpg Yes, I know a Baktun is 394 years, but we are now in Baktun 13, and will "rollover" to Baktun 14 next December. From the wikipedia: >This means that the fourth world will also have reached the end of its 13th b'ak'tun, or Mayan date 13.0.0.0.0, on December 21, 2012

*This Island Earth* is about an alien planet that enlists Earth scientists to help it in a war with another planet. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047577/

The Fleischers' Somewhere in Dreamland, and the Ultimate Superman collection are very good, as are the Popeye boxed sets. Unfortunately, no one with the rights has seen fit to make a complete Betty Boop set. The Betty Boop compilations vary in quality. Her best toons are those with Cab Calloway, Betty Boop's Sno-White, Minnie the Moocher, and Old Man in the Mountain. Try to find one that has all three. If you find a DVD with Red Hot Mama on it, snap it up! The WB Looney Toons boxed sets have lots of excellent classic cartoons. But, IMO, the way they are grouped together is an abomination. If only they had just done them chronologically, like the Popeye boxed sets were done.

TCM showed one a year or two ago, called *The Bells Go Down*, about the British WWII Auxiliary Fire Service, in London, IIRC. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035671/

There's got to be 30 threads on "TCM Remembers" by now. I' wish TCM admin. would reinstitute the policy of locking duplicate threads. She is pretty cute, though...

You know in a 30s or 40s detective movie, someone will jump in a cab, and say "Follow that car!"

> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}Here's a calculator that converts from a modern calendar to a Mayan calendar. See what happens when you change our modern date to Dec. 31, 2012. It's just a Mayan calendar rollover, like a car odometer rollover. No end of the world: > Fred, I've said on more than one thread around here that on Dec. 21st, or 23rd 2012, (depending on which correlation you use,) the 13th Baktun will end, and the 14th Baktun begin, No end of the world, no big deal.

No one has mentioned Ken Russell's ******, which he made in response to *Pretty Woman*, which disgusted him, as he thought it made a fairy tale of the profession, and would entice little girls to go into it.

> {quote:title=Fedya wrote:}{quote}[shirley Shirley bo birley/Banana fana fo firley/Fee fi mo mirley|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MJLi5_dyn0] > > It's a good thing nobody here is named Tucker. Or Chuck.

The first time they aired Claire, it began with sound only, no picture. I'm hoping this reshowing will have picture from the start.

I'm holding out for *George Washington vs the Man from Planet X*.

Birdie num-nums.

Most burned DVD failures are due to crummy media. NEVER use Memowrecks!. The only DVDs to use any more are Verbatim AZO, or Verbatim Datalife, - NOT "Verbatim Life," (which is what they sell at most B&M stores these days.) Better yet, order Taiyo Yuden DVDs from Supermediastore, where they are often on sale in cake boxes of 100, and you get free shipping. I've used thousands of Verb AZO, and Taiyo Yuden, with only two or three coasters.

Damn! I missed it! But, thanks for the info. One I DID manage to catch wasn't listed as an SDP ep in the monthly program, but I spotted it anyway.

I recall that at least one other had a laugh track. Ugh! So dated. I've enjoyed many of them, lots of fine actors and directors. The upcoming re-showing of Claire, which was originally shown with a few minutes of black screen at the start, would seem to be the last of the 35 episodes. But, does anyone know if they actually ran ep15, It's Always Sunday, because I never saw it listed! Cast: Dennis O'Keefe ... Reverend Charles Parker Fay Wray ... Mary Parker Sheldon Leonard ... George Grant Withers ... William Brackett Sr. Chick Chandler ... Eddie Eilene Janssen ... Nancy Parker Robert Easton ... Stanley Moran Terry Rangno ... Danny Parker Diane Jergens ... Sue Stradler Jimmy Hayes IMDb synopsis: >The Rev. Charles Parker a good guy: teaching baseball to boys, tearing his pants but not caring, planting flowers before finishing his sermon for the next day. The hobo telegraph (words on the back side of a billboard near the tracks) says he's the town's softest touch. George, a tramp, gets to Parker's house and thinks the reverend, torn clothes and all, is a fellow hobo. Charles invites George in, fixes him lunch, and, after a discussion about trust, gives George $10, the keys to the car of his daughter's boyfriend, and tells George to pick up roses for the Parkers' anniversary. Hours pass and George hasn't returned. Did the reverend believe his own sermon and trust the wrong man?

> {quote:title=SansFin wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote} > > And how can you say 20 without using a zero in it? A zero is a very important number. The Romans wrote it as: XX. Other civilizations used symbols which are not available on a qwerty keyboard. The lack of a zero did not stop people from being superb mathematicians, engineers or astronomers. Even the Maya, who had zero, (represented by a shell,) didn't use their zero to write 20. They had a vigesimal system, and 20 was a single dot.

> {quote:title=ThelmaTodd wrote:}{quote} > My understanding of the Mayan calendar is that it tells of a convergence of long term time cycles come 2012. Our civilisation only counts one 365 day year at a time; unlike the Mayans, we have no concept whatsoever of time proceeding in 5,000 and 26,000 year cycles. Dec. 21. or 23, 2012, depending on which correlation with our calendar you accept, will be the ending of the 13th Baktun of the Mayan calendar. A Baktun is their largest unit of time equal to 394 years. Neither the ancient Maya, nor the modern Maya, thought the would would end then. But, we will enter the 14th Baktun... All of the rest is just made up for show.

Sic transit gloria Pongidae...

I just saw *Hugo*, in 3D. It'll probably be my favorite of the year. I highly recommend it. It's right up the alley of TCM fans. And, yes, please see it in 3D, even if you don't like 3D.

*Chac, the Rain God*, shot in the rain forest of Chiapas, Mexico. No sets, only one professional actor - a dwarf. And the local Indians who act in the film helped write the script. Directed by Rolando Klein, a protege of Jules Dassin.