SansFin
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> {quote:title=solarblast wrote:}{quote}
> Regarding my ability to convert recorded movies via DirecTV, there is a wrinkle with short features. They take a good bit of work to say put 10 30 min movies onto a DVD. There's not ability to say put all 10 separatedly onto a DVD. Sort of like chapters. All I could get is a continuous unbroken stream onto ad DVD.
I can suggest only that you look in your owner's manual or the on-screen menu for a "divide title" feature. On four of our five DVD recorders that allows us to record several movies as a continuous operation and then split them apart so that each appears as a separate title in the disk menu.
It is also possible to do that on the recorder which does not have a dedicated "divide title" feature but it involves removing all chapter marks and then putting in a chapter mark where we wish a division and then putting that chapter mark into the menu under its own name.
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There is currently discussion in the thread for Loretta Young being Star of the Month concerning what kind of person she was in real life.
I have seen similar discussions concerning other actors. Some people feel very strongly that a star's personal life should be a factor in judging their performances.
I admit that I have a disconnect. A good performance means that I am not seeing the star as themself and I am instead seeing them as the character. I believe this is crucial indeed to calling it a good performance.
I would likely not like Robin Hood if I associated him with underage sex but Robin Hood is not that person: that person disappeared from the world as soon as Robin Hood swung onto that tree limb and that person reappeared only when the movie ended and he was out of sight to us.
It is much the same with Marianne in *Massacre Harbor* (1968). I believe she is brave to help the Allies and even more brave to sing in front of an audience when some of them are armed. She is not the same person as had an affair with the married attorney who defended her for causing the death of a handsome hot-bod skier.
A star's personality and behavior in real life are of no matter to me also because of a thing when I was a child:
Most of my classmates and I used cords or belts to tie our books together to make them easy to carry between home and school. Those who had special cloth bags for their books were envied. My uncle knew a man who knew a man and so was able to get for me a leather bag. Every bit of it was tooled and dyed with pictures of berries and flowers and scenes of a farm. My name was dyed on the straps and the letters were outlined with gilt. The stitching was three lines in differing colors which wove back and forth to look as if they were braided. It was soft and strong and beautiful and it looked gloriously expensive. I was very proud of it and I loved it dearly.
There was a fad when I became a teenager to have leather coats which looked like tunics. I asked my uncle if he could have the same man make for me such a coat. It is sad to say it could not be done because to make it properly the man would need to fit it to me but he was never allowed to have children visit him because he had raped and beaten his grand-daughters. It had been against strict prison rules that he had been told my name when he was making the bag for me.
I believe that was my first cogent realization that you can not assume what a person is like by looking at their work nor judge their work by what kind of person they are. That he was a most horrible savage did not make the delicate flowers or elegant stitching on the bag any less beautiful.
The fact that a star was so socially acceptable that they were not put in prison or an institution and that other people desired to work with them means they could not have been as evil as some people seem to want us to believe.
Many stars were ostracized by the Hollywood machine because their behavior was unacceptable. Some stars lost their careers because of having to go to prison. A few stars may have died because it was thought that murdering them was better than letting them drag all of Hollywood into scandal.
Those who worked steadily and were nearly always in demand could therefore be no worse than people in any other profession.
Does any person care if their coffee-maker was assembled by an adulterer?
Does any person care if their favorite work of art was painted by a transvestite?
Does any person care if their web browser was designed by an egomaniacal thief?
I see no difference in those from caring if a character in a movie is named in the credits as being portrayed by a person I would not welcome into my home because of their moral, political or sexual values.
Your Mileage May Vary
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It is sad to say there are far greater horrors in the cupcake world. Emma Thomas aka Miss Cakehead created anatomically correct icing to depict venereal diseases. They have been nicknamed: "clapcakes". I will not post an image because they are disturbing but here is a link to an article with images:
[ http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/4604750/std-cupcakes.html]
Here are some cute cupcakes:
http://www.toxel.com/inspiration/2009/03/31/21-unusual-and-creative-cupcake-designs/
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> {quote:title=MissGoddess wrote:}{quote}
> There must be a recipe for making Twinkies without the chemicals.
I posted in the Favorite Recipes thread three links to online recipes for ersatz replacements for those who need to wean themself off of their Twinkies habit.
> But aren't the chemicals what gave those snacks their flavor?
I am sorry to say that I found them to have little flavor of any kind.
> Those cup-cake places are dotted all over anorexic Manhattan. Who is eating them, I'm not sure. I see lots of skinny people in them and I can only imagine what they do to "make up" for the sin of eating a cupcake.
Perhaps they need to discover bublyky. They must be healthy because I have never heard of a good Cossack dying from a thing he ate!
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> {quote:title=Bronxgirl48 wrote:}{quote}
> Not sure I'd use the bouillon cubes, though. Wouldn't homemade beef stock be better?
I keep some solyanka from a meal if I am making them soon after. Borsch is also good to use. My aunt was known for her chunky soups because she would make often much more than was needed and then remove half of the liquid and simmer it down to nearly a syrup for her to use in other foods. This meant there was twice as much meat and vegetables in what she served as soup.
It is the large can of tomato puree which causes me discomfort. It is not possible for me to use so much in a year or more.
> I only hope that when I'm on the French/Italian slopes (looking chic in my retro Capucine/Claudia Cardinale ski attire), I don't run into Sno-Balls.
It is possible they will be found there long after they are gone from the shelves here. I do not remember seeing a: "Use by" date before I came here. Such foods do not deteriorate quickly and so a package which is not sold might stay on the shelf at a grocery store for many years.
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I find it difficult to separate story from storytelling in that a wonderful story will seem to me to be mediocre if presented poorly and a nothing story can seem to me to be wonderful if presented grandly. An example of this is: *The Prisoner of Zenda.* The Ronald Colman version fills me with awe and lifts my spirits while I find the Stewart Granger version to be banal and contrived.
These are some of the movies which go beyond being funny or heartwarming and which I feel my soul is lighter and brighter for a long time after I have watched them:
Camelot (1967)
Cluny Brown (1946)
Death Takes a Holiday (1934)
The Hidden Fortress (1958)
Hide-Out (1934)
How to Steal a Million (1966)
If I Were King (1938)
Indiscreet (1958)
Jewel Robbery (1932)
The Lady Eve (1941)
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1929)
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937)
Love In The Afternoon (1957)
A Man and a Woman (1966)
Moscow Laughs (1934)
My Life With Caroline (1941)
Petticoat Fever (1936)
The Prisoner Of Zenda (1937)
Raffles (1930)
Sabrina (1954)
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1935)
Sweet November (1968)
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
Tovarich (1937)
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> {quote:title=MissGoddess wrote:}{quote}
> i'm hot and cold on *the thomas crown affair*. i just wasn't convinced he was this smooth, posh guy.
I feel this increased greatly his wolf-among-the-lambs character. He appears smooth because he is so very cool that what others say and do does not affect him and so he has no knee-jerk reactions and is free to play games with their minds.
He lives in a perfect house and dresses in perfect suits and drives a perfect automobile because he likes the best because it is the best and not because he is fitting into a mold made by the opinions of others which is what posh people do. His dune buggy and floor-only beach house shows he likes what he likes with no regard to what others consider acceptable.
I would not expect a typical smooth and posh person to desire, conceive and execute such a robbery because they lack substance.
I love the way it is his instinct to smile when confronted by a problem. It shows he is detached from any difficulty because he is so very cool that no thing truly touches him and he is smiling to himself because he sees an opportunity to act so very audaciously that it will confound those who oppose him.
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The one which comes to me mind first is the dissolve at the end of: *Formula of Love* (1984). Caliostro has been aloof, he has been running from authorities and he has been shunning a local painter. The ending is that he is posing while surrounded by people who have become close to him and this includes soldiers who have been sent to arrest him and then the live dissolves into the painting.
I find it great when the protagonist walks away down an empty street. I know it is a trite and stock ending for many movies but it does touch me. It is the ending for at least one The Saint movie.
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I would have to include *Du rififi chez les hommes* (1955) because it is to me the ultimate of the genre..
I can not enter as I have read many articles on security and privacy issues with Facebook and so will never have an account but I it makes me happy to see that they are seeking viewer opinions.
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> {quote:title=Bronxgirl48 wrote:}{quote}
> I used to eat a lot of pierogies in Chicago. So delish, especially with a dollop of sour cream on top
I believe nearly all foods taste better with sour cream!
> I never ate but would like to try halushski
I wish you could try holubtsi. I can give no recipe as what goes in depends on what you have and what you like. The basic method may be seen at:
I believe it does not need to be in English as what she is doing is plain and there are no measurements.
The leaves, rice and onions are standard. I prefer mine to have mushrooms and lamb and I use dill sauce.
I like HoHos but I am old-fashioned and I would not trade bublyky for any packaged snack.
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> {quote:title=casablancalover2 wrote:}{quote}
> Have you tried Brownie Brittle yet? Absolutely wonderful..
I visited their website and it states they are available in stores local to me. I will look for them when I am next shopping.
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There is a list at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lost_films
I am sure it is very incomplete as sources are required for entries and I am sure that no documentation or records exist for the majority of films which disappeared.
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I believe many here may be suffering from the loss of the iconic snack food. I have no recipes of my own for making Twinkies at home but I have found these:
http://www.ehow.com/how_5109722_make-twinkie.html
http://www.chow.com/recipes/10467-twinks
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/07/dining/homemade-twinkies-recipe.html?_r=0
Perhaps some person here can say which is the best and most true to the original.
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> {quote:title=Bronxgirl48 wrote:}{quote}
> It's a sad day, lol. Haven't eaten a Twinkie in about 40 years, and did always classify them as American junk food, but darned if I wiped away a tear or two today, even though I'd much rather be eating pastries in France.
I have had them as part of an All-American meal. I liked them but I have not thought to have any since. I have purchased HoHos several times.
I am nearly tempted to buy the poster which says: "You know it's the end of the world when the company that makes the only food that can survive the apocalypse stops production."
I will likely make pyrohy later today. It is a snack and food which many take as very seriously as Twinkies:
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No more Twinkies or HoHos?
The Mayans were right: it is the end of the world!
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Tim Rickard has been having fun with the concept of Disney owning Star Wars in his comic strip: Brewster Rocket.
It begins on November 12:
http://www.gocomics.com/brewsterrockit/2012/11/12
There is an arrow above the last panel to advance to the next day.
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It is perhaps for the best that neither Capuchin nor I received e-mails for the survey. We both would like there to be streaming available because it might introduce new people to the world of classic movies but we are not the type to wish to view movies on any platform other than the largest screen available and we want the signal as pristine as possible. Our answers regarding other devices might have skewed the survey results in a negative way.
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> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote}
> Maybe we can invent a whole new genre, "ache rock".
My vision is so poor that I first saw that as: "acne rock" and I imagined teenager garage bands.
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> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}
> What the h**l is a GIF?
Most pictures on the Internet are jpegs and use the .jpg file format.
This is a jpeg:
It is a static image.
Some pictures on the Internet are gifs and use the .gif file format.
This is a gif:
A gif is often used to show several images in succession but it can also be a static image.
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We have the fastest download speed available in this area which is 6Meg.
I would not wish to watch streaming movies as there are pauses in watching even YouTube videos in full-screen mode at this speed.
It is beyond my comprehension how one could believe they could receive the full effect of *2001* or *Lawrence of Arabia* on a phone screen.
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I like this version despite its obvious flaws but I prefer *Desyat negrityat* (1987).
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> {quote:title=willbefree25 wrote:}{quote}
> Double Wedding. I guess someone thought the 'screwball' comedy theme would make it palatable. It wasn't.
I am sorry you did not like it. I liked it for what it was. It was not their best movie but I found it pleasant and it included all of their usual mannerisms and double-takes.
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I believe it would depend on desired clarity and rely on a certain "fudginess" in handwriting but I would accept:
D becomes B
E becomes B
I becomes X
L becomes U or Z
N becomes W
P become A
I do not know if it will help but a list of some ten-letter movie titles can be found at:
http://bestforpuzzles.com/lists/search.pl?cat2=films&length=10
I believe the list could be narrowed down quickly because I do not see how any of the letters could be made into "S" or "K" and I am sure other letters could be quickly discredited.
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> {quote:title=willbefree25 wrote:}{quote}
> Isn't it incredible, how a bad script can make William Powell and Myrna Loy unwatchable?
I am sorry to say I have no idea of which movie might fit that description. There are William Powell movies that I do not like and there are Myrna Loy movies that I do not like. I can think of no movie with both that I do not like.
Greatest Film Ending of All Film-dom
in General Discussions
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The ending of *The Thomas Crown Affair* (1968) is perfect because it is so very poignant in showing how much is lost in winning.