SansFin

I congratulate you greatly, LonesomePolecat! It is truly impressive that you were the genius behind a month's theme! I have not heard of any person coming close to such an achievement! A single day or a tribute is all I have heard prior to this. I may have been the prompt behind a single evening of programming. I had a day of movies set in Camelot and *Camelot* (1967) as a premiere. They had that movie as the first in the evening and they used mostly movies I had chosen for that day to fill the evening.. It is sad to say that Capuchin has had a clear example of part of a day. He choose in TCM Programming Challenge # 21: 7:15AM The Last Man On Earth (1964) 8:45AM On the Beach (1959) 11:00AM Five (1951) 12:45PM Panic in Year Zero (1962) 2:30PM The Bed Sitting Room (1969) 4:00PM The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959) It is in the tentative schedule for December: 10:30AM Last Man on Earth (1964) 12:00PM The Bed Sitting Room (1969) 2:00PM Five (1951) 4:00PM Panic in Year Zero (1962) 6:00PM The World, The Flesh, and The Devil (1959) They deleted his second movie and moved the fifth into its place. The major difference is that they will air on December 21 and he had scheduled them for December 22. The probably reason for that change is that December 22 is a Saturday which requires a different style of programming.

> {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote} >> {quote:title=SansFin wrote:}{quote} >> nicotine nearly never causes addiction unless it is in the presence of alkaloids which are not present to a great degree in most strains of tobacco. > I'm rather skeptical of the bolded statement above. Nicotine is an alkaloid, and is often cited as being more addictive than heroin. It became legend that nicotine is addictive because it was considered the most active chemical in tobacco. All testing and studies were done with tobacco and most often with processed tobacco containing additives. All observed effects were attributed to nicotine solely. It is very much like spinach being claimed for decades to be high in a certain mineral because one researcher misplaced a decimal point and all others after that time accepted it and did not test it independently. It is very recently only that any study has used nicotine alone. It is sad to say I can not provide a link because that study is behind a pay wall. The work was by Professor Jean-Pol Tassin. A pre-publication synopsis is: "Paris, 23 January 2009 Smoking cessation: how effective substitutes for nicotine? Nicotine is generally regarded as the main component responsible for the addictive properties of tobacco. Yet, a research team from the CNRS and the College de France directed by Jean Pol Tassin, director of research at Inserm has proven that nicotine alone is not enough to trigger a state of dependency among smokers. Other compounds in tobacco are needed to reveal the addictive power. This discovery also explains why nicotine substitutes used in smoking cessation are ineffective in the long term." Another statement made is: "To try to understand why smoking has, however, a very strong addictive potential, researchers are interested in other compounds. In this new work, scientists demonstrated that the combination of nicotine with other products in tobacco, monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs), which leads to this decoupling. Specifically, they show that MAOIs can be addictive properties of nicotine because they nullify the action of natural protection that serotonergic neurons have vis-?-vis the nicotine: the serotonin receptor 5-HT1A ." An earlier study showed that other chemicals heightened addiction potential. "Role of acetaldehyde in tobacco smoke addiction. Talhout R, Opperhuizen A, van Amsterdam JG. Laboratory for Toxicology, Pathology and Genetics, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment Abstract This review evaluates the presumed contribution of acetaldehyde to tobacco smoke addiction. In rodents, acetaldehyde induces reinforcing effects, and acts in concert with nicotine." "Harman and salsolinol inhibit monoamine oxidase (MAO), and some MAO-inhibitors are known to increase nicotine self-administration and maintain behavioural sensitization to nicotine." "Thus, acetaldehyde may increase the addictive potential of tobacco products via the formation of acetaldehyde-biogenic amine adducts in cigarette smoke" It is reported that up to 80% of people who attempt to quit smoking by the use of a nicotine patch or other administration of nicotine fail. It is clear from this that nicotine alone is not the most important part of the addiction. Part of my training included time in oncology wards. It was always confusing to me that a patient would be blamed by the doctors because their smoking caused their cancer and yet there were patients with identical cancers who were from villages where tobacco was nearly never in evidence and who had never themselves smoked or lived with a smoker.

This is another person who wishes to fly away: This is alternate view of some person leaving: This is a person flying in a different way:

> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote} > Here's The Clash, wondering Should I Stay or Should I Go?: That is a great song. Here is one for when they decide: Here is the "just wash my sheets before you leave" song: http://youtu.be/WK4BsCemA0o

I am not attracted to pretty men. I should be the one in the relationship who is drop-dead gorgeous. When a man is pretty and charming and sweet I must wonder if he has a boyfriend. I like very much that a man's face says: 'I know of life'. It should be also a warning sign which says: 'Little girls who play games can have their fingers burnt and their hearts broken'. Faces which speak to me this way are: Steve McQueen Toshiro Mifune Sean Connery Vyacheslav Dobrynin Here is a less serious look at young Sean Connery:

> {quote:title=Bronxgirl48 wrote:}{quote} > YOUNG JOHNNY MACK BROWN IN JAZZ HEAVEN! You must watch *A Woman of Affairs* (1928) tomorrow morning. It is a fine little drama and I like him very much in it.

> {quote:title=JackFavell wrote:}{quote} > It was the shawl I wanted! > It looked so toasty with that big scarf at the neck and I love yellow. Unfortunately, I could probably only wear it here about 1 day a year, it just never gets that cold here on the shoreline for any length of time. I believe it may be worse than you know. A good shawl is of heavy wool which holds the embroidery and there is a liner of fine wool. This second layer protects the embroidery as it keeps the threads from being rubbed against the body. It forms also a layer of trapped air which insulates well. They are not things to wear on a cool evening. They are wonderful when it is zero degrees. I have weighed mine and it is nearly six pounds.

> {quote:title=casablancalover2 wrote:}{quote} > You would have to know my comedy to laugh along with me about it. I laughed the first time I watched it. I believe its continued appeal is the juxtaposition of mathematics and love which are usually considered opposites. I am reminded of a poem: The Physicist Declares His Love It begins: "Shall I compare thee to a chain reaction". It is sad to say I do not remember all of the rest of it.

> {quote:title=JackFavell wrote:}{quote}Is everyone in Russia a ballet dancer? Those people at the wedding look like they trained for years to do those dances! It comes by nature and they are simple steps and spins. They are very short also. You step out and do what you do best and step back for the next person. It is easy to be good at what you do when you do not do things which you do not do well. > I just want that woman in the first music video's coat. Do you wish the black one with embroidery or the orange fur one which she wears near the end? I have a shawl very much like the one she wears. Mine is black where hers is yellow and the fringe on mine is shorter. It is very pretty and very warm. It was an impulse to buy it but I am very happy I did.

> {quote:title=RMeingast wrote:}{quote} > But I wonder if the ingredients in smokes back in those days were any better or worse than what's in them today? The only area of which I have exact knowledge is that nicotine nearly never causes addiction unless it is in the presence of alkaloids which are not present to a great degree in most strains of tobacco. Modern cigarettes contain such alkaloids. Some of them are mandated now by the government. It has been noted that taxation on cigarettes is forcing many people to use pipe tobacco when they roll their own. Pipe tobacco traditionally contains less additives.

> {quote:title=JackFavell wrote:}{quote} > Those Russian dancers were doing their own version of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers! the competition, the showing off! I just loved it. I believe the scene in *Seven Brides for Seven Brothers* is meant to be a kolomeyka. It is a very old tradition. http://youtu.be/Y3o1Dnxhjyo A much longer video of a kolomeyka is at: I include this only because the three girls who appear at 4:53 remind me greatly of when I first danced at one. My cousins put me in the middle because I was the worse dancer. > My favorite Russian music must always have sleighbells in it. This one has sleighbells at the beginning: I believe this one will get a person hopping:

Fit young men in tight tunics showing they move gracefully and with confidence and they have great athletic ability. What is not to like?

Kalinka is much-beloved. There are many which are uplifting and simple and so they become earworms. I dare any person to listen to this song four times in succession and have it not continue running through their mind for hours after even although they do not speak the language: http://youtu.be/b4DQomIlxd4 This is one of my favorite songs: This is modern for a folk song. It is very popular. I have heard it in many things:

I do not know what to say of this song. I like it but I feel it is in some way wrong that I do: This gentle filk song offers good advice:

Dmitri Hvorostovsky is my favorite baritone: Here is The Volga Boatmen as she is sung: Do you know of Simon's Cat?

> {quote:title=MissGoddess wrote:}{quote} > the "busy trap". but most people don't want to hear that. they want to believe it's all important. Professor John Perry's How to Procrastinate and Still Get Things Done is delightful and provokes thought. It is for people who do not wish to be busy with the things they should be doing. He says of how he found that playing Ping Pong and reading newspapers in a lounge were worthwhile activities. http://chronicle.com/article/How-to-ProcrastinateStill/93959 He has also a new book: The Art of Procrastination: A Guide to Effective Dawdling, Lollygagging and Postponing John Perry, Workman Publishing which is an expansion of that essay.

http://youtu.be/ctJJrBw7e-c

I am wondering what *The Great Library Misery* (1938) concerns. I am wondering also if the cable signal will be restored within the next hour as the cable company promised.

> {quote:title=Bronxgirl48 wrote:}{quote} > There's no one left in our family for Mom to ask about her mother's birthplace, so it's going to be a major task for me to put this puzzle together, if I ever can. I don't want it to remain a mystery forever. There are genealogy sites which have lists of immigrants and their entry data. It is possible you could find the information there if you know approx. when she entered this country and at which port she arrived.

> {quote:title=JackFavell wrote:}{quote} > Right Ho, Jeeves (which that Jeves and Wooster clip is based on) is one of my favorite of the P.G. Wodehouse Jeeves stories, and Gussie Fink-Nottle the newt fancier is my absolute favorite of his characters. I love P. G. Wodehouse dearly. I believe it is that he takes small and reasonable steps to build utter absurdities. There is a saying: "Do you ever feel that Rod Serling is standing around the corner talking about you?". I have had moments I felt as if P. G. Wodehouse was looking at my life and taking notes for his next book. It is only very recent that I watched the BBC series from which that clip is taken. It confused me as I felt I should recognize the actor who played Bertie. Capuchin was very mean to me and teased me often that I did not recognize him. It was to admit defeat that I searched imdb.com for his other work.

> {quote:title=Bronxgirl48 wrote:}{quote} > Excuse me, there's a baby lizard on my wall, I have to tenderly pry it loose and set it outside. I hope it did not wag its tail and shake its chest! That might become an awkward situation. I wonder why this dance fell out of favor:

> {quote:title=sfpcc1 wrote:}{quote} > Has TCM ever shown Faster Pussyct Kill Kill, or Vixen? I know the first movie has been on TCM Underground. I do not know of the second. I believe his greatest works were the cheap-and-cheerful ones.

Director, producer and actor Stanley Long has passed away at the age of 78. I believe he was known more widely in England and on the Continent than he was known in America. His movies were fun things with no pretensions of being ageless classics.

> {quote:title=darkblue wrote:}{quote} >> I believe an aspect of it is that they do not find a discussion as serious as others find it. I must wonder how they would feel if a doctor told them: "Pathology confirmed that your flu is actually late-stage intestinal cancer. We must discuss the balance of chemotherapy and radiation in your treatment but first I am wondering if you heard about the duck who walked into a bar." > Yes, such critical medical issues are very much the same degree of seriousness as what people express on a TCM message board. There's no difference between what one should expect from a TCM poster from how they expect to be handled by their cancer doctor. Both treatments are life-and-death. The scenario I described is not "life-and-death". You are going to die. Such discussions concern quality of life during your time remaining. Discussions on this forum do not involve pain but they are matters of quality of life. The difference is that instead of one person affected extensively it is an extensive number of people affected a tiny amount. It has been shown many times that a movie or tribute will air because a poster cheerfully campaigned for it. Such selections and the knowledge that the big corporation will listen to little people raises the quality of life for all viewers and posters. Injecting humor into serious discussions as was done on this thread is belittling and mean-spirited. It is openly declaring that the opinions of the other posters are not worthy of serious consideration. It is saying the concerns of the other posters serve no purpose but to take up space until a juvenile's need to call attention to himself leads to the injection of lame or half-witted remarks. Such actions are more damaging to the group than the worst foul-mouthed troll as it makes the forum unattractive to reasonable people. It can be noted that the majority of those who abused others in this way are ones who have not contributed greatly to the knowledge base or increased appreciation or awareness of movies. Those who wished this thread to remain serious are mostly those who have helped others in many ways to know, find and open themselves up to movies. They are also ones who have affected programming by their reasonable requests made in respectful ways. Humor has its place. I have participated in the 20th Century Vole and the dreaded rear-end thread and have made statements which I hope people found humourous in many other threads. Whether such things are appropriate are a matter of time and place.