SansFin
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> {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.
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> {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.
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> {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.
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> {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.
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> {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.
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:
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Fit young men in tight tunics showing they move gracefully and with confidence and they have great athletic ability.
What is not to like?
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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:
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:
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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:
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> {quote:title=TikiSoo wrote:}{quote}
> I can think of two perfect candidates off hand, Leonard Maltin or the president of my film group. Both have great knowledge of film and know exactly what a seasoned cinefile would be interested to hear.
I am sorry to say I believe this would not be a good solution.
The synopses in Leonard Maltin's reviews often contain errors. I have heard the excuse for this is that he does not write all of them by himself. Others work for him and their work is published under his name.
I see little benefit to changing the source of the introductory scripts from TCM's lackeys to Leonard Maltin's lackeys.
I believe it would be prohibitively expensive to create scripts free of errors. The first requirement is that the copywriter knows the movie well. The number of movies aired on TCM is so large that no one person could know all of them. The copywriter would often have to watch the movie before beginning their writing. This is needed simply to provide an accurate synopsis and knowing the proper stars. To add any other information would require research which can take considerable amount of time. The script would then have to be fact-checked by another person using independent sources of information. A conference between copywriter, fact-checker and a manager would be needed to resolve any issues which arise.
I can foresee that it may take up to ten man-hours to create a two-minute script for the introduction to a movie. There are often four introductions per night. This workload would require the equivalent of hiring a full-time staff person for each day. Adding the workload of creating scripts for week-ends would bring the new staff requirement up to a dozen.
The salaries, office space, management and other associated expenses could mean a corporate outlay of nearly a million dollars a year. This money would have to be taken from the budget for licensing movies.
I believe a better solution would be if TCM would have a copywriter check these boards each week to see what errors were made. They could then note these so that new copy does not include them. I have faith in the posters here that no error goes unreported so in time the only danger of errors would be in movies which are premiering.
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Dmitri Hvorostovsky is my favorite baritone:
Here is The Volga Boatmen as she is sung:
Do you know of Simon's Cat?
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> {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.
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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.
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> {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.
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> {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.
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> {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:
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> {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.
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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.
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> {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.
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> {quote:title=JackFavell wrote:}{quote}
> Frank Sinatra tells such a melancholy story here, it's so much more than a song about giving a past love the cold shoulder. He turns it into a love song.
I believe he could sing the telephone book and make it romantic!
> and as long as we're on the Muppets, here's my favorite song they ever did.
I love the episode where he sings a cute little song and then he tries to sneak in They Call the Wind Mariah
The Muppets have so very many great songs that I can not name a favorite.
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I love very much his hangover in *The Case of the Lucky Legs* (1935)!
I am happy they are showing *The Wheeler-Dealers* (1963) again.
My favorites of Sunday are *The Last of Mrs. Cheyney* (1937) and *The Lady Eve* (1941).
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> {quote:title=Bronxgirl48 wrote:}{quote}
> He wants to be able to entertain friends and family. Are these homeowners delusional? Who is he going to invite over, reindeer?
I believe they would be bad neighbors as they work only one day of each year.
They might be good friends as they surely have frequent flier miles to share!
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> {quote:title=Sepiatone wrote:}{quote}
> But what I'M not missing is the fact that women seemed to get "in trouble" in more movies "POST- code" than "PRE-code". Someone should take a count.
I believe the difference is that in pre-code movies people could have fun with no consequences.
During the code they had to show dire complications from even a moment of unprotected fun.
BRONXGIRL'S MOTHER, HENRY FONDA'S HIRSUTENESS, ETC.
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> {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.