SansFin
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> {quote:title=MissGoddess wrote:}{quote}My feel-goods (off the top of my head):
> 1. Charade (1963)
> 2. My Man Godrey (1936)
> 3. Penelope (1966)
> 4. Laura (1944)
> 5. Teacher's Pet (1958)
> 6. The Pink Panther (1963)
> 7. Rear Window (1953)
> 8. The Thin Man (1934)
> 9. To Catch a Thief (1955)
> 12. The Grass is Greener (1960)
> 13. From Russia With Love (1963)
> 14. Lover, Come Back! (1961)
> 16. Dr. No (1962)
I like these movies very much. They have a conflict which is so strong it is anathema to my reveling in the moment of the movie and so I skip them when looking for a movie in which I can lose my sense of self and be carried away by the love and joy.
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I do not know how well *5 Fingers* (1952) would fit into such a theme. I wish very much that TCM could air it.
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> {quote:title=MissGoddess wrote:}{quote}
> Unfortunately, my computer at work doesn't let me view that movie...
There are many problems with movies uploaded by MosFilm. I have found that many load and run properly when you select 'Large Player' at the bottom of the viewing window.
> Of your list, the only one I have not seen is *Avanti!*. Is that Billy Wilder?
It is Billy Wilder with Jack Lemmon and Juliet Mills. It is a gentle comedy.
> Am glad to see another fan of *The Divorce of Lady X*. I finally saw this a couple of years ago and found it so charming! I really like Merle Oberon and loved her character.
I love to see him so befuddled! It is also wonderful that he gives the same speech in court with different emphasis depending on the gender of his client.
I am wondering now which movie it is which has a line that every woman wants a good man and the rejoinder is that it is always a bad man who is named as corespondent.
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> {quote:title=AndyM108 wrote:}{quote}
> You know what would truly be "The Thrill That Comes But Once In A Lifetime"? *A whole solid month of nothing but B movies.*
There was a month with many movies series such as The Lone Wolf and The Saint and The Falcon. Many people commented that it was the best month ever.
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It often seems as if there is nothing new scheduled because when we look at a listing our eye falls on the familiar. The titles of movies we do not know well do not jump out at us. I know that besides the many premieres each month that there are many more movies which have not aired in many years. I have the schedules from August, 1995 to the present and each month there are dozens which have not aired in that time.
I believe that TCM has aired nearly all of the best movies and that what it has not aired are ones for which they have difficulty obtaining the rights. This means that the majority of new movies are ones which are virtually unknown to most people because they have not had the 'splash' of other movies.
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> {quote:title=MissGoddess wrote:}{quote}
> you have a marvelous sense of humor and the absurd.
Capuchin has said that he is grateful that I have an appreciation for the absurd. He believes it is the only reason I love him.
> Now where did I put my Volga boatman...
*Volga, Volga* (1938):
I wish to bring this back to the topic. Here are some of my favorite feel-good movies:
*Avanti!* (1972)
*Bell, Book and Candle* (1959)
*Camelot* (1967)
*The Divorce Of Lady X* (1938)
*How to Steal a Million* (1966)
*Indiscreet* (1958)
*Jewel Robbery* (1932)
*Julia Misbehaves* (1948)
*The Lady Eve* (1941)
*Love In The Afternoon* (1957)
They are in alphabetical order as my preference changes slighty depending on my mood at the moment.
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> {quote:title=darkblue wrote:}{quote}
> The larger the family the greater the number of 'skeletons' in closets of the past. Generally speaking, of course.
My mother had three brothers and four sisters. I believe each of them had to work very hard each day to appear sane. I loved them all!
My uncle was at the house of a friend when the police entered. He took an envelope out of his pocket and went to the highest-ranking officer. He slipped the envelope into the officer's pocket while saying: "I have done nothing illegal. I have no foreign currency on my person now."
The embarrassing thing is that the police were there to look for a son of the family and they would not have searched any of them. My uncle's "coolness" cost him a good year's wages in Swiss Francs and prompted them to search the house and all the people in it for contraband.
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> {quote:title=Bronxgirl48 wrote:}{quote}
> Here's a Russian "squirrel" on a lost weekend. (What's he saying?)
It is a drunken rant. It is not an easy thing to translate word-for-word.
The gist of it is:
He visited a friend who told him to close the door because the spiders will escape. So they jumped on the walls to catch the spiders and they did not stop until they caught them all. Then he wants to go shoot some pink elephants so they can eat them. Then the friend's wife arrives and they want to kill her because she is the devil. Then he begins to sing of the Volga River. That is when he falls to the floor and spins around. At the end when he is looking into the camera he is saying that if you are drunk he is coming for you.
I suspect they chose a squirrel for a spokesanimal because 'the little squirrel' is the colloquial phrase to denote delirium tremens.
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> {quote:title=Bronxgirl48 wrote:}{quote}
> Geez, I'm sorry and horrified to hear this. Talk about family skeletons.
My mother's stories on those days were not for the faint-of-heart!
It made us laugh because it was so perfectly the type of thing that he would have happen to him. There was no situation he could not make worse and yet find an excuse people would nearly believe.
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A squirrel who is drunk because he ate a fermented pumpkin:
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I learned that my uncle had used film stock to tie a girl to a bed. He was then careless with a candle and the film stock caught on fire and her wrist was badly burned. He then had to set a fire in his darkroom so that her husband and his wife would believe that it was an accident.
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> {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote}
> But, there might be a market for custom made helical staircases, where each step corresponded to the base pairs in a DNA sequence of the customer.
I believe a kit is impractical for helical stairways. Errors accumulate. A spiral staircase has the center section to keep things in line reasonably. Any play in a helical staircase kit would soon make it kittywhumpas.
I wonder if a DNA staircase could demonstrate more than a gene. I believe human DNA contains more than two hundred million rungs.
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We moved!
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I am very sorry for your loss. I hope she will remain alive in your heart and in your thoughts for many years.
We would always gather and talk of the person who has passed. My mother remembered every embarrassing moment of each person in her family. She would say: "the dead do not blush". It is sad to say that she was the last of her generation in her family and there was no one to speak of her moments.
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The last time I can find that *Boston ****'s Rendezvous* (1945) aired on TCM was 28 Mar 07.
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I thank you for this 'sneak-peek'!
I can add only that *Man of the Moment* (1935) is noted on its page as: "WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 @ 08:30 AM (ET)".
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> {quote:title=wouldbestar wrote:}{quote}
> This is the most beautiful rainbow photo I've ever seen and the mountain views are magnificent. I now know why all those red and black clad Bulldog fans and players fight so passionately for their home state
The image is labeled as being photographed in Khevsureti which is in the nation of Georgia. I was there in the early 1970s. The area is quite beautiful. I have no photographs of the area of my own as photography was greatly discouraged.
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> {quote:title=Dargo2 wrote:}{quote}
> he accidently walked into Margaret Dumont's dress room by mistake and saw her completely nude, it was SUCH a traumatic event in his life, that...well...
I believe that is much more likely to cause blindness.
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You may find which mysteries are being aired on TCM by going to the Weekly Schedule and then selecting 'Suspense' to show only those movies.
*The Mad Miss Manton* (1938) in airing tonight!
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Fran?is Lai
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Psychogenic aphonia
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Perhaps you need a change of scenery!
A few views of Georgia:
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I have read an article relating to the desire of many that HBO offer streaming as a stand-alone service. Executives at HBO have Twitted that the author is correct in his views:
http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/05/hbo-go-without-hbo/#takemymoneyHBO
Part of the article states:
"HBO ... reportedly receives around $7 or $8 per subscriber per month. So HBO could, theoretically, get more per subscriber than it?s currently making. But that doesn?t include the cost of infrastructure needed to support delivery of all those streams, including all the CDN delivery and other costs that would come with rolling out a broader online-only service."
I believe that TCM is at greater risk than HBO in the matter of losing the good will of cable and satellite companies which are the bulk of its income.
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Today has been a wonderful day beginning with *The Smiling Ghost* (1941) and then *Conflict* (1945) which is nearly my favorite Humphrey Bogart movie and *The Innocents* (1961) is soon beginning.
I have not seen: *Up Goes Maisie* (1946) which is airing in the morning. I have seen other Maisie movies and I am hoping this one is like the others.
The majority of the September schedule
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> {quote:title=AndyM108 wrote:}{quote}
> I've yet to see Body and Soul since I started following TCM seriously in September of 2009.
You were late. It aired:
9:00 AM 22 Jan 08
5:00 AM 5 Feb 08
3:00 PM 4 Mar 08
8:00 AM 19 Apr 08
11:30 PM 6 Nov 08