SansFin
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> {quote:title=casablancalover2 wrote:}{quote}
> It's interesting to me how often God isn't shown but through the effects of a burning bush or the He speaks through others
I will surely go to Hell for this:
God walked with Adam in the Garden.
He spoke in His own voice to the Patriarchs.
He sent His Son as a messenger.
He gave Joseph Smith a book.
Will His next communication be by e-mail or Twitter?
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> {quote:title=SonOfUniversalHorror wrote:}{quote}
> Strangely enough, an IMDB character search for God only turns up George Burns and one other person. Odd there aren't more results on IMDB for a God character search.
I had to do an IMDB.com search as I did not remember how to spell Aldo Giuffr?'s name or know the acceptable English translation of the name of the movie in which he played God.
It was easy for me to find this page:
http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0026790/
It lists three-hundred-and-fifty roles. It includes many television shows but many of the listings are for movies.
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I believe great power has always included some measure of bloodshed.
The Pirate King in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance sings: "Oh, better far to live and die" which includes the lines:
"I sink a few more ships, it's true,
Than a well-bred monarch ought to do;
But many a king on a first-class throne,
If he wants to call his crown his own,
Must manage somehow to get through
More dirty work than ever +I+ do"
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Rex Ingram played: "De Lawd" in *The Green Pastures* (1936).
Aldo Giuffr? played: "Gott" in *When Men Carried Clubs and Women Played Ding-Dong* (1971).
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I believe most of her important movies were produced at 20th Century Fox. It is beyond TCM's power to influence what Fox issues or what they are allowed to carry of Fox's movies.
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I should warn all of a game called: Same Game. It is included with many forms of Linux.
It is the most evil of games because it is so simple and it seems so easy but it eats time like a wolf among lambs and it always leaves you one "I should have done ... instead of ..." away from a perfect game.
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Our power was off for a while. It was not the storm. It was an idiot with a chain saw dropping a tree onto a power line. The workers were on it quickly and worked very well as a trained team with each doing their assigned part at the proper moment. It still took time and I missed most of two movies. I asked when they were finished what they thought of the Frankenstorm and they said that nearly half their staff was preparing to go to areas with storm damage if they are asked.
The weather bureau is saying we have winds of fifteen miles an hour and gusts of forty miles an hour now and it is actually less than ten miles an hour with no gusts at all reporting stations within sixty miles.
I hope all of you button up your homes as best you may and sit back and relax until the end of the storm leaves you well and happy.
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> {quote:title=willbefree25 wrote:}{quote}
> Plus, didn't their experiments fry their brains and make them evil? Neither The Invisible Man nor Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde could be held accountable, could they? And if they were, F. Lee Bailey would get them off.
All medicines can have unpredictable side-effects. I do not believe they could be held accountable for things which they had no reason to expect to happen.
The "safe" way for them to discover any side-effects of their serums would have been unspeakably evil animal testing!
They may have killed a few people but at least they did not hurt any bunnies.
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I lean towards Fredric March, Toshir? Mifune and Steve McQueen. I like a man's face to show strength and character.
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> {quote:title=laurelnhardy wrote:}{quote}
> I am set up to receive an email if they schedule any of the three movies but I have never received an email.
You may wish to check to see if that is active. *Penguin Pool Murder* (1932) aired on Wednesday, October 3rd.
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I believe none of the classic monsters were evil-hearted. Those such as Godzilla, Mothra and mutated insects did what is natural for animals who are in a strange place and are hungry and are then attacked. Dracula and The Wolfman did not ask to become the way they were and they did only what they had to do to survive.
I believe The Invisible Man is the only one which was self-inflicted in any sense and even that was done in the name of scientific research for the greater good.
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> {quote:title=molo14 wrote:}{quote}
> That is good advice. I am a natural worrier but I will try to heed what you say.
I had a special job when there was to be a storm. My father would shut the shutters over all the windows and doors and I was to look with great care to see if there was even a tiny gap between the bottom of the shutters and the sills. The house was not pronounced safe until I had assured them there was no way the storm could come in and get us.
My pay for that job was that my grandmother's best quilt was laid in the nook between the oven and a brick wall and was to be my bed for the night. It was the most cozy and warm place in the world. I could hear the wind howl in the chimney. It was a comforting sound as the wind is a wolf and it is silent when it is stalking its prey and it howls when it sees it has no way to get to you. The rain pouring down is God dumping tubs of water to wash the world clean.
The least disturbance of my world or the health of my friends will make me fret through a night but the sounds of a storm comfort me and I sleep well within my little eggshell.
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> {quote:title=SonOfUniversalHorror wrote:}{quote}
> I'm simply a light sleeper...it doesn't take much to awaken me or keep me from being able to get to sleep.
A soft noise will waken me if it is a thing which I anticipate or fear.
The sound of a storm comforts me. The howl of wind and the thrashing of the rain are the sounds of the world in a washing machine while I am safe in my little eggshell and I know the sun will be brighter and the world less gritty the next morning.
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> {quote:title=markbeckuaf wrote:}{quote}
> Lots of twists and turns, but am I alone in wondering if there was gonna be just ONE more twist along the way before it ended?
I anticipated the deaths because of having watched *Deathtrap* (1982) soon before watching this movie the first time. I saw the possibility of one more death but there was no other character so strong as to be worthy of being last-man-standing.
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I do very much hope that all are well, safe and happy. I hope also that you take comfort in your preparations and sleep well with no anxiety or worry of what is to come. It is never good to fret about things you can not control.
I believe it is better to button up the house as best you may and then rest quietly. You will be happier and healthier and better able to confront any problems caused by the storm if you do what you can in advance and then be busy being happy until there is reason for action.
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I hope all who can and should prepare have done so and will be safe.
The worst we have been told here to expect is winds gusting to forty miles per hour.
I sleep well during storms. I do not understand being anxious through the night and dreading the worst from every noise. It would leave me tired when I must deal with aftermath of the storm. I believe this trait comes from having a nook beside the oven where I slept on storming nights as a child. It was the most warm and cozy place in my world and the smell of breakfast would waken me.
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I very much sincerely hope that all are well, safe and happy.
It has been my fortunate experience that the more preparations for such disaster are made the less they are needed. It is as if storms see that people are ready and they say: "It won't be much fun whipping through there now. I will just glide by and perhaps my cousin can catch them unawares and really do a number on them later."
I must wonder if the extreme preparations mandated in some areas are a result of seismologists in Italy being sentenced to jail for manslaughter for not warning strongly of a potential earthquake.
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This evening's science fiction will surely get all groovin' ! I love this type of movie which does not ask anything of the viewer but to sit back and take it all in.
I like George Sanders very much and so Monday will be a treat. The only bad thing is that I see they have not corrected the blurb for: *The Saint in London* (1939). I do not understand why they put his first movie as the Falcon as the last of the three Falcon movies they are airing.
I am shamed to say that there are some movies on Wednesday which I have never seen. I will surely correct that!
On Thursday is: *7 Faces of Dr. Lao* (1964) which is one of my guilty pleasures. It is a joy to see Tony Randall being so eccentric.
I may watch *Wuthering Heights* (1939) as I have recently read Lakshmi Krishnan's essay: Vampiric Selves and Gothic Doubleness in Wuthering Heights and it has given me an insight which had eluded me.
I surely do hope you do watch *The Divorce Of Lady X* (1938) on Saturday evening! It is a joy to see a confident and suave serious actor as befuddled and naive in a light comedy. I hope you are truly prepared to get your groove on!
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> {quote:title=BunnyR wrote:}{quote}
> Vera Clouzot, the actress who played the wife, she died of a heart attack 5 years later
Has any person said they have seen her since then?
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It was marked in Now Playing guide as a Premiere.
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I can not speak to Star of the Month or themes but I have seen press releases which name Guest Programmers many months in advance.
Perhaps regularly searching for TCM's Press Releases will give some tidbits of information which one can use as a basis for searching for other information?
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> {quote:title=hamradio wrote:}{quote}
> All these movies, Colossus, Wargames and Terminator shares one thing in common its artificial intelligence that becomes self aware.
Capuchin wrote a story in 1982 about a computer which wondered if it was self-aware.
> But does one asked the question, do computers control our life? In a sense yes but not in the way Hollywood predicted.
I believe it is the nature of movies that they must depict the overt rather than the covert and that results must be from actions rather than accumulations.
Computer programs are controlling what people buy. More advertisements will appear for Product X than for Product Y on your visits to sites if ratings and reviews demonstrate that people with a browsing history similar to yours often buy Product X. This is a trend which began with advertisers putting signs in areas where their type of customers would see it: Tiffany's did not paint their signs on the sides of Feed & Seed stores and Mort's Lice Powder did not put their signs on Broadway.
Computers have made the practice more personal as they accumulate personal data and so tailor advertising for maximum benefit.
It is an insidious and covert control as it limits an individual's choices by reducing their exposure to other choices. A person whom the computer deems has a high likelihood of buying Item X will see only advertisements and reviews for Product X1 and Product X2 and they will not be made aware that Product Y exists.
This pervades elections and voter choice also. A person whose browsing and search histories indicate their interest in frogs, ufos and sex toys will be exposed to advertisements and news items relating to a choice between Candidate A and Candidate B and they will not be made aware of Candidate C's potential value because Candidate C never went public with their story of receiving **** probes from green aliens while the other candidates had made their tales part of their public platform.
Such covert control will steadily grow until it becomes common for a baby's selection of a pink bunny rather than a blue kitty in a computer game to set-in-stone for their entire lives what items they will buy and for whom they will vote.
I do not believe movies can depict that insidious power as forcibly as they can a robot run amok.
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I believe the problem was a misprint of the starting time.
The previous movie was *Diabolique* (1955) which is an one-hundred-and-fourteen minute movie in an one-hundred-and-twenty minute slot. That would normally fit but as an Essential it had a long introduction and epilogue added to it so that it did not finish until slightly after the hour. Its interstitials then ran to the quarter-hour mark.
The night ran fine and you would have noticed nothing if the starting time for *Games* (1967) had been listed as: 10:15 PM (ET) because that is when its introduction began.
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I have only now thought to ask a person with expertise in recording. He questions if the recording is being done by VCR. He states that the audio and video are placed on the tape by different heads and one can fail and not affect the operation of the other. This would allow the video to pass through the recorder while in operation so that it appears as if all is normal and well..
The Marilyn Seven Year Itch White Halter Dress
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The forensic scientist Abby on NCIS wore one in an episode of that show. I did not think a person of that body type could pull it off but she was perfect in all ways!