SansFin
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Pathetically superficial.
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I lost my mother
I am very sorry for your loss. I understand quite well the turmoil of this time for you. I hope you can take heart in the fact that she is now at rest beyond pain and suffering.
You are in our thoughts and prayers.
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Before Baker, the Doctor was William Hartnell's crusty-wily grandpa, Patrick Troughton's mad scientist, and Jon Pertwee's dashing swashbuckler of science, but after Tom Baker, they just couldn't get the Douglas Adams out of the series.
I considered Jon Pertwee's The Doctor to be a transitional incarnation between the clever one and the insane one. I have known older people develop a sense of humor in their later years which would have caused their younger self to have conniptions. I assumed that was what was being depicted. He was less authoritative and more free-wheeling than those before him. He had more expansive style. This eased the way for Tom Baker's portrayal. I believe there would have been a serious mutiny of fans if they had gone directly from Patrick Troughton's scheming nature to Tom Baker's occasional buffoonery.
I must wonder if the hiring of Douglas Adams was intended to further the transition.
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Capaldi was the Doctor for three seasons and almost 50 episodes.
It is my earnest belief that he was: The Doctor in: Doctor Who only for Series Ten. He was: Carla's Companion in: The Carla Show for many episodes which were mistakenly labeled as: Doctor Who.
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I've seen an episode here and there and I don't care for it. I find it boring.
I am very sorry to say that I can not point to any easy source online or streaming for this and so all that I can do is to wish greatly that you keep in mind to watch episode: The Eleventh Hour if you ever see it in your television listings. It may be that your local library has the DVDs. This is the first episode of season five.
I doubt that you could find it boring. It is quite madcap and twisty. It is a wonderful episode also in that you need not know any of the Doctor Who canon as it introduces a new Doctor and a new companion and so you come to know the characters from Day One.
It is a quite touching episode also.
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I have watched Doctor Who since the beginning. I am quite happy to see their choice. This is not because the choice is a woman but because I feel that she has demonstrated in other roles the quixotic personality necessary to properly portray The Doctor.
The sole sore point for me is that I wish Peter Capaldi had been given more than one season as The Doctor. I feel strongly that they wasted his talents and desecrated the series by having him be: Carla's Companion rather than: The Doctor for so very long.
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I have revolutionary idea. Don't allow messages that have more upper ASCII characters than the usual lower ASCII characters or foreign character sets to post. This isn't exactly ever visited or used by them.
Знать один язык никогда недостаточно
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1. Limiting the number of message threads that a user can create in a specified time period.
Modern software for generating spam detects rejected posts and automatically creates a new account so as to continue posting.
It is by this that limiting the number of posts simply makes more work for moderators because they must then delete twenty-five users with four posts each rather than one user with one-hundred posts.
2. Insure that the process for adding new users is such that it cannot be automated.
(The CAPTCHA method is a common example of one way to do this.) The goal is to allow real people that want to contribute to be able to make a new account without too much trouble, but to block or slow down robo-accounts.Any protection performed by an automated process can be defeated by an automated process. The newest software for spamming is capable of defeating the picture-captcha in which you are to select which are images of flowers or houses or etc.. It is fortunate that this software is still closely guarded and quite expensive. It is my understanding that it remains at the level that people use it to create accounts at a variety of sites and then sells lists of those accounts to those wishing to post spam.
I doubt that limiting spam on this site has a high priority as I am quite sure than plans have been made to change it over to the exclusive playground of the: backside or whatever it is they call their: "we only listen to people willing to pay us" subscription cadre which they formed recently.
There is no greater deterrent to spam than to charge people to have a username.
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I am sure that both names are trademarks of their respective estates. A company would have to receive approval and pay a royalty to use them.
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"Scaramouche" (1923) André-Louis Moreau was handed a typewritten letter. I thought the typewriter was invented in 1868 not during the 18th century.
"In 1575, Italian printmaker Francesco Rampazetto invented his instrument to impress letters in paper. He called this the “scrittura tattile.” It would take almost another 150 years for a typewriter of sorts to appear.
"In 1714, Queen Anne of England granted a patent to Henry Mill, a British subject and engineer, for an “artificial machine for impressing of letters singly or progressively whereby all writings whatsoever may be engrossed in paper.” Despite its strong beginning, the Mill machine proved to be lacking."
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On the other hand, FXM Retro is showing a Shirley Temple movie that's totally new to me: Baby, Take a Bow. (I have no idea if she takes an arrow too.)
Is that the movie in which she uses slightly-immoral means to acquire a cello for her boyfriend?
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I am sorry to say that the humour in: If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969) escapes me. It may be that I am not so familiar with the actors' other works as to have an established expectation of the comedy.
I am sorry to say that I can call to mind very few 1960s ensemble comedy movies. The one which I would most recommend is: The Devil and the Ten Commandments (1962). It is solidly in the category of: "if you do not like this greatly then you need wait only a few minutes for it to change greatly."
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You should check all forms of communication from all potential responders.
It is therefore critical that you contact me at once if you do not see this post!
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I have not as of this time watched it but it is my understanding that: Into the Woods (2014) has a giantess. It was made in England. The date may belie your 'classic' definition but it is all of fairy tales and so is timeless.
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I am surprised that no person has yet to mention: The Apartment (1960).
I have the distinct impression that: The Fortune Cookie (1966) presents a typical NYC apartment.
The apartment in: Laura (1944) seems quite comfortable.
I am sorry to say that I do not understand the arrangement of rooms of the apartment in: Dial M for Murder (1954). Is the bedroom truly next to the street?
The Anderson Tapes (1971) shows several very beautiful apartments.
The Irony of Fate, or, Enjoy Your Bath! (1975) is a very wonderful little comedy with the premise that all apartments look alike.
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Is this the film with the doomed Peg Enwhistle? Or do I have this film confused with another of a similar name?
I believe that you are confusing it with: Thirteen Women (1932). That movie was a commercial flop.
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The Thirteenth Guest (1932)
This is the most perfect and wonderful comedy murder mystery! It embodies all of the best elements of its genre in its age.
The suave detective is Lyle Talbot. This was early in his career because he is unmistakable but not yet quite himself. It is as when you look at a photograph of a good friend but the photograph was taken years before you met them - they are not as 'finished' as you know them. That is the only way that I have to describe him here. I find his charm here great but possibly resistible which it is not in his later movies.
The damsel in distress is a very young Ginger Rogers. She is lovely and is perfectly at ease in her character. I found it quite confusing that she died so early in the movie but that is part of the mystery!
The bumbling cop role is divided between J. Farrell MacDonald and Paul Hurst. J. Farrell MacDonald is the beset and befuddled part and Paul Hurst is the slapstick-stupidity part. Both are so at home in their roles that it is difficult to imagine them playing other types of parts.
A caped villain skulks in a secret room in the house as part of their nefarious plot to deprive someone of their rightful inheritance. Their chosen method of murder is much more insidious than simple shooting or poison and discovering the method is part of the mystery.
The only element common to the genre at the time which is missing from this movie is the presence of a ghost. There is a hideous and surreal disembodied laugh which is an adequate substitute.
The plot of the movie is simple: a man died during a dinner party thirteen years previous. The house was left as it was at that moment. This included the setting of the dinner table.
Ginger Rogers is his daughter. She returns to the house on the evening of her twenty-first birthday with a letter left to her by her father. It contains only a paper with three numbers on it with no explanation of their meaning or purpose.
She then hears movement in the outer room and she goes to investigate. There is a scream and a gunshot. The taxi driver who is waiting for her outside goes to the police.
I can say no more of the plot because they would be spoilers even although this is only a few minutes into the movie!
I love comedy murder mysteries of that era and this is perhaps the epitome. It is a classic in every sense of the word! It is truly a treasure and a joy to watch.
The only possible way to find fault with it is that I would have preferred a little more witty banter between the detective and the police captain. The humor in their dialogue is more of a broad nature rather than truly cutting little quips. But that is a very minor observation which does not truly rise to the level of being a complaint.
It was remade with a much lesser cast but an arguably better director in 1943.
I watched this on: Free Mystery Movies channel on Roku. The print is very good but a little dark in some scenes.
I hope that all will seek out this wonderful little movie and will enjoy watching it!
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Too cheap to buy a camera crane?
I believe that it may be on a crane. One knuckle of it may be seen above the ladder on the left. It may be that they did not trust it for that height or that they wished it to remain steady while the man pranced on it or that Kubrick did not allow changes of equipment and so they had to use a light-duty crane in situation which required a heavy-duty one.
I have read that Kubrick was hired to create fake footage of the moon landing and that the project had many delays and great cost overruns because he was such a perfectionist that he demanded that it be shot on location.
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The first mention of surfing in Hour of Glory (aka, The Small Back Room, 1949)?
I have not watched this movie but imdb.com lists: 'surfing' as keyword for: Feet of Clay (1924) and the plot summary mentions a surfboard.
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For any posters in a mood to see the bizarre (and carnival freak shows are no longer legal, I understand), there are prints of this film available on You Tube.
I had considered providing a source for streaming the movie but it did occur to me that curiosity might lead some innocent person to begin to watch it. I would not want that on my conscience.
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"Well, other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how'd ya like the play?"
Your observation was quite oddly appropriate as I spent much time considering the joys of widowhood.
My insignificant duhther remains alive solely due to my recalling one of my favorite lines by Robert A. Heinlein: "Cutting his throat is only a momentary pleasure and is bound to get you talked about.”
I will have my revenge for having to watch this movie. It is unfortunate to say that it may require considerable time for me to formulate an appropriate retaliation as I am a sweet, kindly, pure and innocent girl and my charitable mind simply does not have the pathways of malicious cruelty or pathological malevolence necessary to easily concoct a retribution equivalent to an atrocity of this level. It is true however that I love to rise to a challenge.
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The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go (1970)
I love James Mason very much and I find Burgess Meredith to be quite delightful in small doses.
I am very sad to say that my fondness for them will be forever more tainted by the existence of this movie.
I was required to watch it in its entirety because I lost a bet. I did not consider it an onerous consequence because of the aforementioned actors and Jeff Bridges, Broderick Crawford and Jack MacGowran. I believed I would find it interesting also because movies written by their directors is one of my weaknesses.
I fulfilled my obligation by facing the screen with my eyes open for the entire one-hundred minutes. I believe that it can not be reasonable to blame me for not knowing now the plot, character development or any other critical aspect of the movie. My brain is simply incapable of processing befuddled dreck.
There is a thing about a talking statue of Buddha interfering in world politics and a thing about people running madly in an attempt to escape bubblegum pop and a thing about James Mason shooting a person with a speargun. That is all of the movie which entered my consciousness.
I have read now a synopsis of the movie. I believe it may have been a correct synopsis but I simply do not know because I was incapable of discerning the plot while watching it.
There are many movies which are so very bad that they are good. This is not one of them.
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It is still rather surreal for me. Things haven't really sunk in yet, even though I'm coordinating and attending to all the arrangements with a clear head and a deceptively calm exterior.
It requires time to accept. It was of recent the fifth anniversary of my mother passing. I feel that it may be that I will never truly recover.
This will be a time of great distinction between the public you and the private you. Do not try to carry the brave public face into your private time. It does not help. My grandmother would say that a lady would at all times appear to be a graceful swan gliding elegantly across a lake and that she would never let any person see that below the surface she was paddling like crazy. Be a strong and brave lady with all those you meet and allow the tears to flow freely as they wish when you are alone.
We are here for what you need.
You have our sympathy and our prayers.
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I believe that it may be that you conceive the process backwards in that the movies may come first: