SansFin

Did you know also that the word "gullible" is not in the dictionary?

> {quote:title=EugeniaH wrote:}{quote} > I like how you think! If you ask for a coin then you might be given a coin. If you ask for a million coins then you might be given two coins. There are a few movies which do not feel right when there is not an audience with whom to share the viewing. It would satisfy also my list for power. I could show three movies in a row and have the middle one be a movie I wish people to see but which they would never watch if it were not that they deeply wish to see the first and last but it is an all-three-or-nothing situation.

> {quote:title=JackFavell wrote:}{quote} > How'd you like those Nick Carter movies? I just loved them Have you seen: *Calling Bulldog Drummond* (1951) starring Walter Pidgeon? It is much the same character set in England. John Howard starred in six movies in the 1930s.

> {quote:title=dpompper wrote:}{quote} > Does that mean we're quite a boring lot? I prefer to think it means that we are selective. There is a constant stream of new things. A gadfly will flit from one to the next and be happy with them solely because they are new things. We wait until the passage of time has shown that certain ones are worthy of our time and consideration.

I wish for a home movie theater room with a fifty-foot screen and seating for at least two hundred people and an adjacent climate-controlled vault containing nearly every movie ever made.

I have heard of two of them.

> {quote:title=darkblue wrote:}{quote} > This movie is brutal. The bathtub scene is the kind of thing that actually frightens us. There are horror movies that go to extremes of gore that have absolutely no effect on our fear centers. And then there is stuff like this. I believe it is brutal politically because her behavior is socially unacceptable to the point that she is given the death penalty but the same behavior is nurtured and capitalized when it could benefit the state. I believe it is brutal psychologically because Anne Parillaud so excellently portrays a waif trapped in a world she does not understand and the only possible exit is to a world even more strange and terrifying. The most brutal moment for me is when she is in the cell and told where is her new official address and then she is told as a cold matter of fact that if she does no co-operate fully then her official address with become her actual one. I believe the bathtub scene clearly shows the artistry of the movie. It is appalling and disgusting and of more importance is that the characters are greatly appalled and disgusted. It is worse for them that they know it was their mistake which caused such a thing. It is a wonderful dichotomy in that it creates motivation in them to work harder and to work smarter so as to not hurt people when their profession is assassination It would have been very easy to make such a movie all blood-and-gore. It needed a brilliant script and wonderful performances to raise it to a thrilling movie which is also an intense personal drama and significant social commentary. It is a movie also which creates in me a conflict. I love the movie very much and I greatly appreciate that TCM is airing it but I would find it hard to defend its airing on the channel because it is so very new.

> {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote} >> {quote:title=SansFin wrote:}{quote} >> Basic story: drug addict is transformed into a useful member of society. > Well, if you consider slaughtering people useful. I do not see it as slaughter. It is selective culling after due deliberation by a panel of experts. It is in this a form of social quality control and it was done as neatly and cleanly as possible.

I have found that posting in a public forum to be an excellent nudge to the memory. It has often been that I have not been able for days to remember a thing and it always happens that it will come into my mind within minutes after posting for it. I do hope you enjoy that movie. I like it. It seems to me a 1950s sci-fi movie with an attitude.

> {quote:title=Sepiatone wrote:}{quote} > One major act of stupidity were the "air raid" sirens. Capuchin has said that the air raid sirens erected in his town also gave weather alerts as a public address system. He has said the most common and most necessary announcement for the town was: "It is raining. Come inside. Come in out of the rain."

*La Femme Nikita* (1990)! Tchéky Karyo! Anne Parillaud! Jean-Hugues Anglade! Story and direction by Luc Besson! Basic story: drug addict is transformed into a useful member of society. Funniest scene ever: she follows a person in a grocery store. I am super-astoundingly-pleased this is scheduled!

I would like to see: *Olive, the other Reindeer* (1999). I have looked with care and I can not find it scheduled on any channel which we receive.

I like very much also: *Bernard and the Genie* (1991) which is a BBC television movie.

> {quote:title=sfpcc1 wrote:}{quote} > Rod Serling was kind of close. There's a series of toilet paper commercials featuring a family of three bears, (Charmin.) If you can overlook the **** fixation it's actually sort of cute. The quote was recorded in 1997. I do not know what commercials were airing at the time but I would not be surprised if he had been referring to an actual commercial of the era. I like the Charmin bears! The first time I saw one gasted my flabber but I soon found them charming.

> {quote:title=MissGoddess wrote:}{quote} > Yul is soooooo...Rrrrrrrrrrrussian in Brothers. Yum! He did hide his one-quarter Swiss heritage well. He was born in Vladivostok of a Russian mother and a Russian-Swiss father.

A change in providers has brought us AntennaTV. It is mostly all old television shows such as: "Adam-12" and "The Monkees" and "Alfred Hitchcock Presents". They show also classic movies during early mornings but they have commercials within them.

> {quote:title=don96 wrote:}{quote} > Looks like the programmers are becoming a bit sexist. I like that in a man!

> {quote:title=jamesjazzguitar wrote:}{quote} > Well I do see the point that TCM has increase the marketing of 'stuff' in the last few years. I believe this is a positive thing as what little I see of the commercials does alert me that certain movies are now available on DVD. It has been tiresome to search for classic movies because I knew of no one dealer who specialized in them and I did not know if a movie I wished to buy was not available at all or if it was not available from the dealers I knew. It was unlikely also that I would see on dealers' sites movies which I might want if I knew they were readily available. I believe I would be very upset if TCM were to air a one-hour infomercial for their site because it would be one less hour of movies. I am happy that they put commercials between movies rather than airing the umpteenth mini-tribute to a star or movie that I do not like.

> {quote:title=Sepiatone wrote:}{quote} > Is it TSAR, or CZAR? Or are both acceptable? And why the two different spellings? It is and always will be Царь. To translate Cyrillic to Latin letters is not an exact science because many phonetic sounds do not have exact analogs and so approximations must be made. This is true also of even languages which use the same alphabet but I find it more pronounced and more common in translations between Cyrillic and Latin. I believe you will appreciate the difficulty in translating into Latin letters by listening to this: You must understand also that her accent affects the pronunciation slightly. I use "Tsar" because that is how I saw it written first in Latin letters. I am very bad at reading in Latin letters languages which normally use Cyrillic and I must often sound out the words as a small child does. > Like I have recordings of music composed by TCHAIKOWSKY and TSAIKOVSKY. Either PETER and PETIOR. It is Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский. My eye prefers it to be Pyotr when put into Latin letters.

> {quote:title=Baker wrote:}{quote} > My youngest son (now an adult) when he was young used to ask us what it was like "in the black and white days". http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/09/19

> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote} > It's hard to take seriously George Bailey's potential suicide when they break for a suppository commercial. :"How can you put out a meaningful drama when every fifteen minutes proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper?" - Rod Serling

> {quote:title=calvinnme wrote:}{quote} > calvinnme -> Calvin AND Me. So I am not using a guy's name. Calvin is a deceased and beloved Birman cat (1991-2005). I do sincerely hope that you can forgive me that I now have a mental image of you being a tiger. The association comes from Calvin and Hobbes being one of my all-time favorite comic strips. Hobbes is intelligent, helpful, erudite, sophisticated, fun-loving and has retractable claws. I see most of those traits in your posts.

I believe some here have overlooked a major facet of *Iron Petticoat* being promoted heavily on the channel and site: It is the most absolutely perfect Christmas gift for relatives and acquaintances who: 1) Worship Katherine Hepburn and believe she could do no wrong. 2) Contend that Bob Hope was the greatest comic genius who ever lived and who say that he could make any movie hilarious. 3) Are snobs for some arcane fetish and who continually bore you with inane details of it. You can make the movie's sole pairing of two iconic stars and its reappearance after so many years sound as if it is socially and culturally significant. The joy of this splits to two wonderful results: Either they will watch it Or they will regift it. Their doing the former will expose them to the worst torture allowed by law and their doing the latter will make them appear to the giftee as a total moron lacking taste. TCM is doing us a great favor by making this available at this time of year! Such genius deserves great rewards and I hope they make millions from it.

I like Bertie Wooster's alias: Ephraim Gadsby, The Nasturtiums, Jubilee Road, Streatham Common. It sounds very much like a thing which would roll off his tongue before he had time to think when confronted by a policeman who demands his name and address. I have a visual disconnect that causes me to see Lady Constance Keeble's name as: "Kibble". Oofy Prosser?