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I have seen very little of the program but I love very much how inspirational it is:

Do not try my patience. Mom 24:7

Not as sharp as a rowboat. As calm as a turtle. Daddy was a pistol. I am a son-of-a-gun.

The whips! Faster! Faster!

I love this movie very much! I believe that Myrna Loy played a menacing oriental after this only in: The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932). She was perfect in both. I am glad that she stopped playing such roles before she began to parody herself. Ricardo Cortez and C. Henry Gordon are a joy to watch. It did sadden me that the scenes of Betty Furness as one of the women were cut. I had watched her on: I've Got a Secret and What's My Line? and had hoped to see what acting credentials led her to be a regular on such panel shows. It was only after missing her in this movie that I learned that her role and another role were cut. I do not know if those scenes were removed prior to the movie's release or were a part of its later reduction.

I am surprised that no one has mentioned: Camelot (1967). Musicals are not to my taste but this movie is dear to my heart. It may be because the leads are not highly accomplished singers and so there is a bit of realism in their less-than-gosh-wow singing. How can one not love a movie which remains steadfast to its innermost truths: King Arthur: This is the season for gathering flowers. Lancelot Du Lac: Knights? Gathering flowers? King Arthur: Well, someone has to do it! I find the series: Merlin (2008-2012) to be a very interesting and entertaining take on the King Arthur legend. I appreciate irreverence and so to see King Arthur as a bit of a prat is quite refreshing.

I believe that is little different from what you might expect to see in any bar near an engineering college on cheap-pitcher night.

It is my understanding that they are very welcoming and supportive of other immigrés. The government seems to have also a better attitude towards people from Ukraine than the United States does. That is why I stated that it would have been easier for me if I had chosen Canada.

I would not say that I would root for him in any particular manner but I do find that I sympathize with Godzilla. The same is true for the Creature from the Black Lagoon and any number of other innocents who come to be seen as villains through no fault of their own.

I believe that the important factor is that it is possible to identify with a character. I do not mean by this: "I understand fully this character's hopes and dreams because I also am a sex worker who became a nun who is now studying for a master's degree in Sino-Welsh Archaeological Motifs in Shakespearean Sonnets." It can be simply knowing a person of the character's type and having an appreciation for their thoughts and feelings and reactions if placed in such a situation. "Seeing things from another person's point of view" is a natural part of being human and so we can internalize to some degree the pressures the character is facing and the turmoil they cause.

I realize fully that I may be taking a position which will be ridiculed but I will state openly that it would have been far easier for me to establish in Canada but I believe I made the correct move by selecting United States.

WALL-E (2008) WALL-E and Eve

I have watched approx. thirty of those movies. I would guess that I watched about half of that number on TCM Underground. I remember something other than the title of eight of them.

The RCMP in full regalia reminds me first of this:

I put the fun in funeral. I put the laughter in manslaughter. I put the hot in psychotic.

I do hope that you watch: Jewel Robbery (1932) which airs that afternoon. William Powell and Kay Francis are quite wonderful together. To have Alan Mowbray is a great bonus. I am sure that you are aware that: Footsteps In The Dark (1941) which airs that evening stars that tall guy with the funny mustache. I quite love him in the role and wish that he had made more movies of that type.

It is my understanding that some of it may be due to protectionism. An American company wishing to sell rights to air a movie to a Canadian broadcaster might have to pay tariffs or higher taxes than a Canadian company would have to pay to sell the same rights to the same broadcaster. This led to the formation of many Canadian companies whose sole purpose for existing was to supposedly buy permanent licensing rights to a certain package of movies and then sell broadcasters short-term rights to individual movies. I know of a situation in Europe where a company attempting to sell rights to television program had to pay a separate import fee for each and every airing of each and every episode while local distributors could pay one fee when buying rights for an entire season and then resell at will. It is also that some studios established companies to distribute their movies in Canada because it meant having a local sales staff and greatly reducing the amount of paperwork, taxes and import fees normal in international transactions. I believe that most of these created distributors were small and dwindled to being little more than legal fictions within a decade of their being formed. They were bought, sold and traded frequently because their potential income value was very near their cost of bookkeeping. I have been told that there are companies which have been surprised to learn that they own the distribution rights to a movie because they acquired it when they purchased an accounting company or real estate firm which had previously acquired the distribution company as part of some other deal. Most of these distribution companies do not generate sufficient income to justify their current owners having a permanent staff dedicated to selling rights. This leads to deals being placed on back-burners or handed off to the least-competent/least-important of the owners' general staff. Even those distribution companies which are large enough to be considered a separate division with its own staff are overwhelmed by the legal issues raised in the last decade concerning whether they own digital distribution rights such as streaming. The low income potential for distribution of old movies means that it is a very low priority for any company. If that explanation has earned me the right to poke fun at Canada: https://i.imgur.com/W5N2uGX.gifv

The Lounge People (1992) IMDB.com states that this movie was directed and written by: Bradd Saunders but it is very much a Buck Henry movie in all regards. It is his humor and his view of the world and his manner of erasing the line between reality and sanity. He is a genius eccentric living on an island with his wife and household staff where he is creating his own version of Moby Dick while waiting to die. I feel that it is wrong to say that his marriage is dysfunctional as the wife is making it work and BD Wong is the houseboy she is presently working on. This movie is absurd on many levels. That is what makes it so very wonderful!

There is a line of clothing named: TaylorMade. It is clothing for outdoor sports. I was gifted a beanie which carries that name. It is quite nice but I have read many bad reviews for other items in their line. I suspect they choose the name because of the homonym rather than because the company was founded by a person named: Taylor.

Have you watched: Romantic Comedy (1983)? It is Mary Steenburgen and Dudley Moore directed by Arthur Hiller. It is very much like a Neil Simon play but it was written by Bernard Slade. It uses some romantic comedy tropes in skewed ways and pokes fun at others. They begin to fall in love on the day they first meet which is very unfortunate because it is his wedding day. They deny their feelings for many years as they work well together as playwrights which is exact opposite of the bitterness/fighting turning to love trope. There comes a time when they are both single and their first sexual encounter is a complete disaster for both. When discussing the problems with a play they are writing and considering whether there can truly be "love at first sight": Jason Carmichael: It happened to me once. I was at the Tony awards two years ago. I saw this woman from the back. She was wearing a blue taffeta dress, and she had gleaming black hair, cascading over creamy white shoulders. I fell instantly in love. Then she turned around, and it was you. Phoebe Craddock: It was green actually. Jason Carmichael: What was? Phoebe Craddock: The dress. It was from the second act of "Somewhere Every Summer." I borrowed it from wardrobe. Jason Carmichael: I might have known you wouldn't have bought it. There are many flaws with the movie from the uneven pacing to the insipid ending but I find it quite enjoyable and believe that you might not hate it.

I do not enjoy books, plays or movies in which a character is wrongfully accused and is condemned with no chance to defend themselves. Such a situation is more emotionally devastating than any physical assault, accident or illness could ever be. I feel strongly that to consider this type of thing to be entertainment is on a par with watching for amusement people being decapitated.

I am sorry to say that I would never have guessed correctly. I have watched that movie at least once but I would not ever have connected that theme to it.