SansFin

Your schedule is perfectly wonderful, Lonesome Polecat! "If the shoe fits" is a kicky theme and the movies you choose are all excellent. "I feel like I know you" is a wonderful concept. I recently watched *Rebecca* and I thought about how a character can be so powerful and yet never appear. "Jobs that don't exist" is a nice look back. I saw on television an old game show which had as guest the last man to run the skirt-blowing machine at Coney Island. I do hope TCM does honor Burt Lancaster on his 100th Birthday. The very most wonderful part is the Carol Burnett parodies! I love it very much! I have seen only a few of them but my imagination of what the other might be makes me laugh. I wonder if TCM could license them as a package. I believe it would be as appropriate as other television programming they have shown. I am happy now that I can not do a schedule because I would hate to have such competition!

My father, grandfathers and many of my uncles and granduncles stayed to fight when our city was captured. They lived mostly in the catacombs for more than two years. My grandfather won medals because of what he did and he would take me down and show me where they lived and where they hid their weapons and food. He taught me also their tricks for not becoming lost. He showed me also where he and his men blew up three trucks which carried ammunition. The street had been repaired but there remained slivers of brass and steel between the bricks. It was the street on the east side of our house. My grandmother's house was much more than one hundred years old and shells damaged it so badly it could not be repaired. I believe I was four years of age when it was torn down at last. In every street of the city could be seen where the Germans and Romanians had destroyed things of no use to them. The stone wall on each side of the doorway to our house had gouges made by bullets. The steps of our school had patches to fill holes made to anchor artillery pieces. I was honored in school to be chosen to stand guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Sailor which honors what so many sacrificed to defend our city.

> {quote:title=countessdelave wrote:}{quote} > I plan on participating. I am very happy that you will be entering! Your schedules are always wonderful. Capuchin compiled a list of people who had entered in the past as he hopes to PM all to make them aware and to provide information. He checked the names to see if there was recent activity and he was dismayed that you had not posted recently. We were afraid that you had left the boards. It is now less than a week before the Challenge begins! I hope all are wearing their thinking caps and I hope also that some are having mischievous thoughts of outrageous themes.

> {quote:title=Dargo2 wrote:}{quote} > And I'm only guessin' here, but I'll bet your first car, the 407, was probably considered somewhat luxurious back in the day there, right?! Having a vehicle of my very own was a luxury. I was the only person in my classes at school who had one. There were automobiles which were more attractive or were more comfortable or had better performance but the 407 was solid and dependable and it was easy to fix when there was a problem. I very much wished for a 965 because they were more fun to drive but was much smaller. The 407 could carry six passengers. Six people could have also a picnic in it when it is raining and eight people can sleep in it.

I would not call a ZAZ-965: sexy but I know that many families were begun in the back seats and they are beloved to the point that many people now restore them: http://youtu.be/3s28bVibyI8 My first car was a 407. It was very similar to this one: It is fair that I say that the "140" on the speedometer is kph and not mph.

> {quote:title=jamesjazzguitar wrote:}{quote} > Why would TCM have to invest the money? Don't they own the rights to those WB, MGM, or RKO movies already or do those movies need to be restored before they could be shown? TCM owns the rights to only the few movies which they were instrumental in restoring a few years ago. The original Turner library of WB, MGM and RKO movies was separated from the channel when Time Warner purchased TCM and other Turner holdings. TCM must now rent movies from that library as it rents from others. The relationship between divisions of a major corporation are often more complicated than relationships between separate companies.

> {quote:title=Dargo2 wrote:}{quote} > that Apollo is VERY nice, though I have to admit I was also previously unaware of these beautiful Italo-Amercan hybrids, of which of course the names of DeTomaso and Iso Grifo and Bizzarrini usually come to mind. They showcased a 1973 Iso Fidia a few days ago. They have an eclectic mix. There are three to five new articles each day so there is at all times one to make me drool.

> {quote:title=dpompper wrote:}{quote} > My guess is that it was Tommy Chong It is from a Cheech and Chong comedy routine. A man is stopped by the police. Policeman: Your papers, please. Stoner: I only use a pipe, man. I do not know which person of the duo was playing which part.

> {quote:title=Dargo2 wrote:}{quote} > Was that a Tommy Chong line, Sans? It is sad to say that I do not know one from the other so I can not say which said it. I listened to many of their records and that is one of the lines which I will never forget. I am happy that some person recognized the reference so not all will be looking at me as if I am loony.

Are you familiar with this website: http://bringatrailer.com/ It showcases collectible and desirable automobiles which are available from a wide variety of sources. They range from newly-restored for showing and competition to literal "bring a trailer" examples which might be restored if a buyer has great love and a great bank account. There is a 1963 Intermeccanica Apollo GT-5000 shown which I would like very much to have.

> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote} > After the early' 60s, the only males who regularly wore anything on their heads were Orthodox Jews, and hip-hoppers wearing baseball caps backwards. Capuchin lived in Detroit in the early 1970s. He has a fedora from then. It has been "blocked" in a style with an offensive name. He would use bluing on his temples to make some white hairs. I have seen photographs of him at that time and it is easy to believe that he was perceived as being more than twice his age and a member of a family.

> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote} > Good. Now if they stop you in the street while you're going about minding your own business, and ask for your "papers", you can produce them, and they'll let you carry on. "I only use a pipe, man."

> {quote:title=slaytonf wrote:}{quote} > As for handling, I couldn't say, except that the way the one in How to Steal a Million tears around a traffic circle, it seem the rear end is light. Yes? I can not speak of the handling. I dated an owner. He would not let any other person drive it. I thought it odd until we spent a whole Sunday doing a minor repair made complicated by how much had to be done to do so little. I saw then also the stack of receipts for parts, towing and mechanics. It cost him so much in time, money and skinned knuckles to keep it running that no person could begrudge him every moment behind the wheel. I have since known other people with E-types who do not seem to have so much trouble with theirs but I did not know them so well as to borrow the automobile.

> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote} > Could we, as message boards members ( which is all I am) participate in those other TCM website functions, or would we have to sign up, "register" for them separately? There was a day some time ago when there were problems with the board navigation and when I tried to log in to my account here by giving my username and password I found I was signed into the Classic Film Union and immediately received multiple friend requests from people I did not know and who could not have known me.

I am very disappointed when there are such events. It is nearly always true that I can find a program which is worth watching when the movie on TCM does not interest me. That is not true when there is a special event because the other channels program the worst things available just to fulfill their lease commitments with no danger of scaring away viewers because they believe that no people will be watching no matter what they air. It is perhaps time to look through our DVDs to find things which we have not viewed recently. I can assure all that the movies will not be related to sports.

> {quote:title=Dargo2 wrote:}{quote} > Then Dothery, your friend must also have one of the few E-Type Jags which don't have a cooling problem, as those beauties are known to quite often have. I saw very recently a 1969 XKE 2+2 which was offered for $10,000. The description said if had overheated and the engine was seized.

Real hats are fur:

> {quote:title=Fedya wrote:}{quote} > I believe that today's airing of *The Corpse Came COD* was the first in over five and a half years. (I have the monthly schedules going back to July 2007 and a search through them yesterday didn't yield any matches.) The most recent schedule listing I have found was 12:00PM, Tuesday, January 23, 2007. Each month we go through the schedule to add movies to our database of what has been scheduled. Each month there are between thirty and forty movies which are either Premieres or which have not aired since August, 2005. I fear that those movies become lost in the abundance of movies scheduled in total.

> {quote:title=Dargo2 wrote:}{quote} > Loved your essay on Joe "The Prince of Darkness" Lucas Lucas denies having invented darkness but they still claim "sudden, unexpected darkness". It is sad to say that I did not create any of those sayings but I have had a little exposure to Lucas wiring and so I know how true they are.

> {quote:title=slaytonf wrote:}{quote} > Is there a Lucas light bulb joke? It is said that he invented the self-dimming headlight. The Lucas motto: "Get home before dark". Jokes of Lucas electrics are legion because any person who has had to work on them finds it to be a laugh-or-cry situation. Recommended procedure before taking on a repair of Lucas equipment: check the position of the stars, kill a chicken and walk three times sunwise around your car chanting: "Oh mighty Prince of Darkness protect your unworthy servant." There are available jars of smoke with labels which say: "Lucas Service Part: Replacement Wiring Harness Smoke". It is believed that smoke is a necessary part of Lucas wiring because they do not work at all once the smoke escapes. Mechanics told the Lucas engineering guy that they had trouble with his design shorting out so he made the wires longer. Lucas tried to get Parliament to repeal Ohm's Law. They withdrew their efforts when they met too much resistance. Lucas diversified its product line by manufacturing vacuum cleaners. It was the only product they offered which didn't suck.

> {quote:title=slaytonf wrote:}{quote} > The question was: Can you think of any other modern heist films that don't have the usual violence, explosions, etc.? That is what I was responding to. I am very sorry that I did not understand the connection. My only excuse is that I was blinded by the opportunity to speak of *The Thomas Crown Affair* which is one of my most favorite movies. I felt the scene wherein the camera followed the smoke flare down the corridor was wonderful. It is as if the director was saying that explosions and chases are required in heist movies and so he was presenting a tasteful and artistic form of them. I thought it was wonderful also when a detective said that it would be difficult to remove the stain from the floor because that is so perfectly real-world with real-problems. > unless you have the firepower of McQueen and Dunaway, the movie would not succeed. It surely did require people of their nature. I can think of no other pairing which might have worked. I believe the two sets of stars could not have switched movies even although most people will categorize them as being the same as they are both 1960s heist movies. I was greatly disappointed in the remake of: *The Thomas Crown Affair* because he might have been able to make it believable but they cast a tramp opposite him and wrote her character as such. It had also a gutless ending. It is a good example of a mostly great script ruined by casting and editing mistakes and tacking on a Hollywood ending.

> {quote:title=slaytonf wrote:}{quote} > There is also The Thomas Crown Affair, which drips with sophistication and elegance. I believe *The Thomas Crown Affair* (1968) is a very different type of movie. The plot is much more complex and there is far greater personality conflict. Their elegance spoke of their character but it was not their predominant feature and it did not carry the story forward. A major part of *How to Steal a Million* (1966) is that the characters were so sophisticated that they were out of their element when planning and carrying out the caper. They were very much babes in the woods. I believe Steve McQueen capable of committing any crime and I believe Faye Dunaway capable of conceiving and implementing any dirty trick.

> {quote:title=slaytonf wrote:}{quote} > I don't know how reliable it was It had a Lucas electrical system. The three position Lucas switch: Dim, Flicker and Off. This may change with no warning to: Smoke, Smolder, and Ignite. Alexander Graham Bell invented the Telephone. Thomas Edison invented the Light Bulb. Joseph Lucas invented the Short Circuit. Lucas is an acronym for: Loose Unsoldered Connections and Splices. Q: Why do the British drink warm beer? A: Because Lucas makes their refrigerators.

223 "The secret to these funny little cigarettes is that you have to inhale deeply and then hold it in as long as you can."

> {quote:title=RMeingast wrote:}{quote} > Can you think of any other modern heist films that don't have the usual violence, explosions, etc.? It has been many years since I have watched it and I remember little of it but I do not remember serious violence in: *Breaking In* (1989). It is an "old master teaches young hothead" type of caper movie. I would recommend it only as a curiosity.