ValentineXavier

> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote}Come on, somebody tell me they're impressed that this Wall Street protest thing was started by Canadians. Well, last week, Keith Olbermann reran a "special comment" he did on his show last August, calling for this very thing, kinda hinting he gets some credit. Many of the OWS people say they were inspired by the "Arab Spring." So, I don't think there is any single source that gets the credit. But, as part of the 99%, I certainly agree with what seems to be their main complaint, that corporations have much too much control of our government, so it is run for the benefit of the 1%, with little concern for the 99%, who see a vanishing "American Dream." I did recently watch a PBS doc about the War of 1812. I was impressed with how the Canadians out-fought us, with the help of the English. It's amazing what cowards we were, not all that long, after the Revolution.

Sounds to me like the 1974 film *Sugar Hill*, but with the roles reversed. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072225/

*Bride of Frankenstein* 1935 *Christmas Holiday* 1944 directed by Robert Siodmak, with Gene Kelly *Johnny Nobody* 1961 British film starring Aldo Ray and William Bendix *Confessions of an Opium Eater* 1962 starring Vincent Price and, for TCM Underground, *Surf Nazis Must Die* 1987 *I Spit on Your Grave* 1978

Fred, you're on the right track, you just need a bigger UPS (uninterruptable power supply.) I got a Tripp Lite TRIN750U from www.bhphotovideo.com. It will power my cable boxes, my component>S-Video converter, and my DVDR for about an hour and a half. I don't plug anything else into the backup portion of it. Only put what is absolutely necessary on the backup outlets. Don't expect to run the TV on the backup. There are larger ones available, for more equipment, and/or longer durations. It's not uncommon for my electricity to blink off for a few seconds. When that happens, it takes the cable DVR about a day to reload the program guide. It's nice to not worry about that any more, or interrupting recordings if I lose electricity in a storm.

I liked the Johnny Cash-like singer all the way through it, too. I made a dub to give to a friend of mine, who is a professional mechanic. I'll bet he gets a few chuckles out of it.

> {quote:title=MontyC wrote:}{quote}No. Take away the special effects & it's just a mediocre love story ridden with melodramtic cliches. And I sooooo saw the ending coming. That's my opinion as well. I call it the second most over-rated movie of all time.

Back to great fight films - on Nov. 11th, I will see Takashi Miike's *13 Assassins* on the big screen! I haven't seen it yet, but I hear it's one of the greatest. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1436045/

Sorry, I forgot...

> {quote:title=mr6666 wrote:}{quote}Below is a working proposed list of demands by Occupy Wall Street (OWS): > "DEMANDS FOR CONGRESS": > > http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2011/oct/3/picket-occupy-wall-street-protesters-post-manifest/ > > (sounds ok to me) Sounds GREAT to me, and not exactly radical. Kudos to Washington Times for publishing this. I'm quite surprised, given that they are the propaganda arm of the right wing psychotic The Reverend Sun Myung Moon, who literally believes he is Christ.

From the Occupy Wall Street website, about the list you link to: >Proposed List Of Demands For Occupy Wall St Movement! (User >Submitted) > >Posted Sept. 25, 2011, 3:46 p.m. EST (20 days ago) by anonymous > >Admin note: This is not an official list of demands. This is a forum post submitted by a single user and hyped by irresponsible news/commentary agencies like Fox News and Mises.org. This content was not published by the OccupyWallSt.org collective, nor was it ever proposed or agreed to on a consensus basis with the NYC General Assembly. There is NO official list of demands. So, I could go there, and post that OWS wants Robbie the Robot to be dictator of the planet, and then, Fox News could quote that, without "making it up?" Technically, yes.

It's been on before. It's actually pretty decent, showing the same bike safety things we preach today, well, mostly... But, it is very odd! My favorite PSA to date was Shake Hands With Danger, about all the ways a Caterpillar mechanic can screw up, and get themselves maimed, dismembered, or killed.

As I've said before, Valentine Xavier is Brando's role in my favorite Brando film. I did try to register as ValXavier, but couldn't, presumably because someone beat me to it. But, I've never seen a post from ValXavier, so I'm callin' him out - show yourself, Val! About Spencer Tracy - he had to exist, Just so James Whitmore could be the B grade Tracy...

*If*, Directed by Lindsay Anderson, starring Malcolm McDowell. An intense film, as pertinent today as when it was made, or even more so. And, I don't think it's ever been on TV.

Catherine Denueve in *Repulsion* is the best one to me, but I'll admit she's psychotic, not neurotic. Bette Davis in *What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?* is great. I think Ty Power gets an honorable mention for *Nightmare Alley*. That wasn't psychotic, just a breakdown.

I don't recall seeing the '48 version before. I liked it a lot. I haven't read the book, but there was more plot than in other versions. But, I like Richard Lester's version a lot. Good spotting Marie Windsor there, Fred. I noticed her too, and checked the IMDb to confirm. I was really lucky to get all of the '48 version. I have a Comcast Motorola DCX DVR, (the newest version, I believe.) They have an occasional quirk - sometimes they record a black screen, no sound, no picture. I just happened to check the recording, 2 minutes in, and it was black. I managed to stop, and restart, seconds before the film began. WHEW!

This is something different from Playhouse 90, which was 90m long. This is Screen Director's Playhouse. The eps are 30m, less time for commercials. Well worth checking out - lots of great directors, great stars.

> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}Baldwin and other celebrities certainly have the right to voice their political opinions. However, because of their celebrity status and the forum they have which was given to them for other reasons, their political opinions are heard by more people, and will probably influence more people, than yours or mine. *And that just doesn't seem fair.* That seems a lot fairer than the Koch brothers' stated intention to spend over $200m to defeat Barack Obama. What meaning has your and my "free speech" in the light of that? It seems fairer than the Supreme Court declaring that money is speech, and corporations are people. Corporations are actually legal entities, whose sole goal is to make as much profit as possible, in any way possible, bending or skirting the law whenever necessary, with little or no consideration for their employees. Fortunately, most individual humans aren't like that. MovieMadness, could you provide us with a link to that numbered list of demands you have cited? It certainly sounds like an invention of Fox News to me. The one "manifesto" I have read was a list of grievances, not demands, and seemed well-taken. Edited by: ValentineXavier on Oct 15, 2011 11:05 PM

I don't take the guide, but - is it delivered first class? If it is sent third class, as are lots of publications, then the Post Office can wait up to three weeks from the time they receive it, until they deliver it. Could that be the reason for some people's delivery problems?

> {quote:title=TomJH wrote:}{quote} > Even though I think it's a memerable one (if only because Walter Huston's laughter is quite infectious) it just never made much sense to be that two men who have slaved the way they did for a fortune in gold would then burst into laughter because they see the irony of the dust all being blown back to where it originally came from by the wind. > > This is especially the case since Howard and then Curtain both start laughing within about a miute, or so, of discovering that they have lost their entire fortune. I can understand a person laughing about it after a period of time has passed and they have perhaps found a way to find a positive take on an otherwise negative experience. But to laugh they way they do AS SOON AS THEY DO seems to me, well, not very credible. > I also disagree with your premise. I can't add a lot to what Miss W, and some others have said, but, perhaps a bit. When faced with such a situation, one has basically three choices - laugh, cry, or curse. I think I would most likely react as Howard did. I have reacted similarly in other situations. If I thought crying or cursing would help, I'd do that, but they wouldn't help. I would do it almost immediately. If I thought about it very long, I'd be more likely to cry. I wouldn't be laughing about the irony, but that would strike me as I laughed. Obviously, your personality is such that this seems unthinkable. For Howard, it was natural. It might not have been Curtain's first reaction, if he were on his own. But, he admired Howard immensely, so he he got it, and followed suit. I doubt the Mexicans knew the details of the situation, and were therefore not laughing at the gringos' predicament, but laughing because seeing gringos laugh that way was rare, and the situation looked rather comical, if one didn't know the circumstances. What IS unrealistic about all this, is that the bandits would almost certainly recognize gold dust. Even if they hadn't, it wouldn't blow very far, so it would only take a few days of panning the sand in the area to recover most of the gold. But, that doesn't bother me. *The Treasure of the Sierra Madre* is one of my favorites.

I just saw a young Marie Windsor in the 1948 version of *The Three Musketeers*, and it struck me how much she looked like Ileana Douglas.

Don't fret - without spellchecker, I'd have been off a letter myself. I just like making jokes about typos.

> {quote:title=Dargo wrote:}{quote}nightwalker wrote: > And, if the plural of "louse" is "lice" and the plural of "mouse " is "mice," how come the plural of "spouse" isn't "spice?" > > V{quote:title=alentineXavier wrote:}{quote} > Oh, but it is! > > > > I assume you have this from a very reliable scource, VX. > > (...from someone such as Warren Jeffs, perhaps?!) > I'm not really a polygamist, I just play one on the TCM Forums...

I've never cared for it, but with a little tweaking, it would have made a decent comedy. However, I can't agree that it's a steaming pile of equine excrement. It's actually a volcano of vomitus.

Is "Dixlixia" some southern disease? Or, do you mean dyslexia?

Fedya wrote: >How could you all overlook Cotten's pivotal role that drives the action in Soylent Green ? :-) What? They ate him? Edited by: ValentineXavier on Oct 11, 2011 11:02 PM