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I found it very interesting that Mr. Osborne advised using a DVR when he introduced the 1934 version. I believe it makes perfect sense as I doubt I could watch a movie of that length with no risk of being interrupted. I wish to thank the TCM Programmers for scheduling that version. It is the type of movie which no other channel can provide. It was also a brave scheduling as there are often many complaints when they schedule foreign movies and when they air long movies and so a very long foreign movie carries great risk of rebuke.

The comic strip: Pluggers by Gary Brookins concerns characters who are very down-to-Earth but it shows also many signs of aging. A typical one is: http://www.gocomics.com/pluggers/2004/10/03 It is a very funny comic strip but it is sad to say that I see myself in it often.

> {quote:title=Dargo2 wrote:}{quote} > Thinking that the term "mug" must have been a shortened devirative of the term "mug shot", I found the following in Wiki under that term: > The term derives from "mug", an English slang term for "face", dating from the 18th century. It is obvious to all that I am not an expert in English but I believe the term first meant face and then came to mean to assume an unnatural facial expression when being photographed and then was applied to police photographs because criminals often scowl or try to look tough and then it became common to use it to describe the type of person who had been photographed by the police. I do not know the meaning behind many things that are said in movies. What I fear is that I do not recognize instances where there is a reference which enriches the dialogue but I take it at face value.

Peter Ustinov seems to me to be like one of those professors who is always so deeply engaged in the complexities of arcane philosophies that he never notices that his socks do not match and it is impossible for him to comprehend why it makes a difference. It is as if he once made an effort to learn certain elements of polite behavior but he does not always recognize when to use them and he has no idea what to do in situations deviating even slightly from the scenarios he learned to handle. I would trust my life to his accuracy of details of events of two thousand years ago but I would never expect him to remember to keep a date for lunch.

> {quote:title=JackFavell wrote:}{quote} > My favorite part is when the convicts can't figure out how to sneak Adolphe into mean old Basil Rathbone's room or maybe it's that they think better of killing him, but he comes out and actually grabs Adolphe himself, thinking it was stolen goods! I love how they were very quick to decide to do the right thing and warn him of the danger. It was clearly not their fault that reaching a decision on who should do it took such a long time.

I believe it is an effort to make them environmentally friendly. The spiral with arrows is the recycle symbol. It may seem a small amount of plastic is missing but when multiplied by the millions of cases which are made it becomes a significant reduction in oil-derived plastic. I believe the feeling is that the ideal area for such reduction is behind the DVD because the outer cover and insert prevent the entry of foreign objects and it is an area which people wish to keep clear of foreign objects because they could damage the DVD when it is replaced into the case.

I believe Santa Claus is a combination of St. Nicholas and Father Frost. Father Frost dresses in red with white trim. We took a gift when we went to see St. Nicholas and his helpers would pass it on to poor children. It was most common for us to receive one gift from St. Nicholas, many gifts from Father Frost and one gift from the angels on Christmas Day. The one from St. Nicholas was the most important and the one from the angels was the most personal. This is Father Frost and his granddaughter who helps him deliver gifts.

I have found it in SD at: http://youtu.be/3D_xbU5re-o It is a very beautiful work. It is very sad to say that I did not know some of my favorite people are no longer with us.

> {quote:title=EugeniaH wrote:}{quote} > I don't get their cultural references, and the times I've referred to something from my own childhood, I get the initial look of confusion, followed by the polite smiles... It has been very affirming for me to come here because I can blame now blank stares on the difference of location rather than that the people around me are the same age as my cousins' grandchildren.

> {quote:title=Bildwasser wrote:}{quote} > Nostradamus got away with a lot based on ambiguity and close but a cigar. I believe the standard for a prophecy to be taken seriously is that it must state a name, a place and a date. I have read that only one of the nearly thousand quatrains which are attributed to him contain all three. It was wrong.

> {quote:title=Sepiatone wrote:}{quote} > That these goofballs would put their faith in the same people who used human sacrifice to appease the gods in hopes it would bring good fortune Capuchin has a little cartoon framed. It shows two young girls and in the background is a girl only a little older who is being led to a Mayan altar. One of the young girls says: "Well, that takes the incentive out of staying a virgin!"

> {quote:title=Calamity wrote:}{quote} > I remember reading a magazine review of several of them which speculated on why humans seem so fascinated by end-of-the-world stories. I believe it stems from people having a deep abiding belief that any thing is better than having to face one more Monday morning.

> {quote:title=CineMaven wrote:}{quote}Sharing the bittersweet TCM REMEMBERS 2012 montage if you haven't seen it yet: It is sad to say the video has been removed. There is a copy of it in the TCM Media Room but most of those videos do not play for me. I will have to wait to see it air.

The Beatles were the band which Paul McCartney had before Wings but no one now remembers Wings. I should feel old because I have underwear which is older than many people on this forum.

*We're No Angels* (1955) is one of my favorite movies and one which I have not seen in many years. Adolphe is my all-time-favorite character even although he is never shown on camera because he is so helpful and compassionate. It does not hurt that he is also very pretty as they describe him. I posted a thread in General Discussions in hopes that some would not miss the movie. Capuchin laughed that I wrote the line: "That Michael Curtiz directed it means that it became much more than an average and so often ho-hum: "prison escape becomes con game becomes heartwarming comedy with a couple of murders thrown in for good measure" genre." but I feel it is very true. I found I was laughing as many scenes began because I remember them so well. It is a rare movie which stays with me in that way for so very long. I had forgotten about Adolphe's little halo at the end! It was to my mind the perfect top to the end of the movie.

> {quote:title=TikiSoo wrote:}{quote} > I was with one of those for 6 years. That is a sad thing. It would have been very easy for that to be my history also. My first marriage was a result of lust and practicality. He was very handsome and daring. His mother deemed me acceptable and so told him to marry me. I believe it was not a true marriage because we shared little. I was a proper wife in society and I was his mistress in private and there was no other true interaction and we saw each other little. He was not abusive but he was also not attentive except during bed. It helped my career substantially because it was important that his wife have important responsibilities. I was first thinking of leaving him when he passed away and I have always wondered if I would have done so. I have often wondered if stars at time married other stars because it was convenient because they shared a lifestyle and it was more socially acceptable than having a long affair.

I believe all are harried at this time of year: Father Frost and his grand-daughter the Snow Maiden:

> {quote:title=TomJH wrote:}{quote} > I have never had a problem recording films off any channel, though I do not have the Disney channel. In the past, I successfully recorded a few dozen films off the Fox Movie Channel but that was up until about three years ago. We have had a range of results because we have several DVD recorders and some are more sensitive than others to copy-protection signals. There are certain movies on FMC which none of our recorders can record even although other movies and all the commercials can be recorded. We have recorded many episodes of Phineas and Ferb from Disney Channel but each time we have tried to record a movie it will not. It is even that some can not be put onto the DVR even although that type of recording is supposed to always be allowed.

> {quote:title=TopBilled wrote:}{quote} > Is that true? I did not think FMC copy-protected its broadcasts. I have recorded a few things from FMC but I have also had the recorders cut out and display a copy-protection notice during movies for which DVDs are available. That it was recording the commercials and other material before the movie began and it stopped at the moment the movie began indicates that it was the movie which was copy-protected and not the channel in general or a spurious signal as will at times fool some DVD recorders.

> {quote:title=darkblue wrote:}{quote} > Im curious - do you know if their copy protection would stop an old VCR as well as the newer digital recorders? It is my understanding that there are several types of copy-protection and the ones for VCRs do not affect DVD recorders and the other way around. I do not know what types of protections each channel uses. I can only suggest that it does not hurt to try it.

> {quote:title=SueSueApplegate wrote:}{quote}You can always be naughty and save Santa the trip! I must wonder if the cost of heating fuel will cause some to be naughty in the hopes that Santa will fill their stockings with coal.

> {quote:title=TopBilled wrote:}{quote} > I always thought TCM's number one priority was not to sell, but to screen the movies... I believe that if selling DVDs was TCM's Number One Priority then they would use copy-protection on their broadcasts so that any person who wished to watch the movie again at their leisure would have to buy the DVD. FMC and Disney have always copy-protected their broadcasts so as to promote their DVD sales.

> {quote:title=TomJH wrote:}{quote} > For me, one of the positives about the DVD promotions between the films is that it informs me of a lot of the stuff that is available. That is with me also. It is not practical for me to keep informed on all of what is being released when. I feel it is a service that TCM brings to light that a DVD is available for a movie in which I have so great an interest that I have watched it. I must admit that I have never purchased any movie through the TCM site and it is unlikely that I ever will. I am very much a have-it-in-hand-when-paying person and so I order things on-line only when I really want them and they are not available at all in any city near. I have never also purchased only DVDs on-line. They have always been added to orders for books.

> {quote:title=Sepiatone wrote:}{quote} > When TCM offers Robert Osborne and Ben Mankewicz(sic) "action figures", complete with a replica movie intro set, THEN they've gone too far! I think that would be very cute! I doubt that I would buy one but I am sure there are many who would. I know several people who have entertainment centers which were designed for older televisions and so have an enormous deep shelf which is now mostly unused. I think it would be very cute to have your own mini-TCM there.

I am sure I have posted this before but it is so very precious for this time of year that I hope some will enjoy it: The first thirty seconds is horrible animation so you may skip over that.