AndyM108
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The last time I recall seeing it on TCM was several years ago when Lee Remick was a SUTS honoree. It is due for a rebroadcast.
Experiment in Terror played on Lee Remick's SUTS day in 2010, then again the next March. There was a big stretch of Glenn Ford films that straddled April and May of 2013, but Experiment in Terror wasn't among them. I'd thought it was, but I was confusing it with the somewhat similar plot in another Ford movie, Ransom, which also involved the taking of hostages.
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And lemme guess here, Andy! THIS is because THAT WAY as the sun rises at YOUR house, THIS scene in a "certain" Musical will ALSO be showing on your TV at the same time, and so YOU can welcome yet ANOTHER beautiful day WITH it, RIGHT?!
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Actually Singing in the Rain is one of the few musicals between Footlight Parade and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg that I can watch without falling asleep or groaning in agony. I like the Garland version of A Star Is Born even more, but maybe that's because I don't really think of it as a musical in the same way.
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And right before that, there's this terrific short featuring Edward Arnold as The Devil. It's a perfect complement to the Hal Roach film:
9:15 AM Inflation (1942) In this wartime short film, the Devil assists Hitler in causing mischief with the U.S. economy. Cast: Edward Arnold, Esther Williams, Vicky Lane. Dir: Cy Endfield. BW-17 min.
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Would have been a good time for TCM to show this movie. Yesterday was 50th anniversary of the murder of the civil rights workers in Mississippi and Mississippi Burning is now 25 years old. Did watch it on a premium channel this morning even though I have the DVD.
I was in SNCC in 1963-64, and there's not a single veteran of the civil rights movement I've ever met who doesn't view Mississippi Burning as a complete travesty of history.
Julian Bond once spoke of the current cartoon view of the civil rights movement as "Rosa sat down, Martin stood up, and the white kids came down and saved the day." Substitute "the FBI" for "the white kids" and you've got the long and short of Mississippi Burning. Technically it was a terrific film, but in every other respect it's a joke. The best way for TCM to commemorate Mississippi Summer would be to forget Hollywood features and try to get the rights to show some of the many first rate documentaries like King: From Montgomery to Memphis; Eyes on the Prize; and the upcoming Freedom Summer documentary which is making its debut this Wednesday night on PBS. Getting those rights would probably be impossible, but even this short documentary (
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Tcm oughta compromise. Put the frenchy stuff on between midnite and six in the morning so most viewers don't have to be burdened with watching it.
That's exactly the time slot I was going to suggest for John Wayne, Gary Cooper, Mickey Rooney, Elvis Presley, and just about every musical made after Footlight Parade and before The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.
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MeTV has a competitor in the NY market GetTV which also shows similar fare, albeit also with commercials
Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?
The only commercials I would ever want to see on a movie channel would be a collection of classic commercials from the 40's through the 70's, as MeTV has on its website. I certainly don't want to see any current commercials interrupting the middle of a movie---not even the multiplexes have sunk that low, though I'm sure they'll get around to it.
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As for TCM viewers not being interested in European films, I think the interest in an "artsy" film from a Italian director (BLOW-UP) on TCM's search database indicates otherwise
But Holden, I think there is a limit to how many art or European films should be scheduled in one evening. And as you said, Peter Sellers is not everyone's cup of tay, sorry to say.
THE MOUSE THAT ROARED would have worked much better as an Essential than ALICE B. What'shername.
I'm not a fan of Peter Sellers, and I'm not a fan of The Mouse That Roared or Alice B. Hoozis, but I'm also not a fan of having TCM's programming determined by who gets the loudest shoutouts on these message boards or the most searches on the Database. There is no way of knowing what the motivation is behind those searches. For me I use it simply whenever I'm not familiar with a movie; if I already know and love a movie, there'd be no reason for me to do a search. But others may only use it to confirm their pre-existing biases.
What I'm very comfortable with is letting TCM's programmers survey the wide variety of WORLDWIDE films that might be available, and using their knowledge and judgment to provide us with the BEST movies out there. Not necessarily the most popular or the most "artsy" (whatever that's supposed to mean), but simply the best.
And as it's worked out, I think they do a terrific job, especially if a viewer takes the time and trouble to study the schedule in order to watch or record movies that don't get repeated over and over. I personally wish we'd get more foreign movies in prime time, but I understand the reasons that we don't, and plan accordingly to record them at midnight or 2:00 AM. That's hardly a cause for complaint.
Some evenings they may show a run of foreign movies, some I'll like and some I won't. I love Gabin and Kurosawa and don't care for Sellers or Jacques Tati. We all have our own tastes that need not be defended.
But many more evenings we'll get a solid bloc or westerns, musicals, screwball comedies, noirs, or Mickey Rooney movies, some of which we'll love and some of which we'll either not love or have seen a hundred times already. That's part of the deal, too. You can't please all of the people all of the time, and IMO it's not the mission of TCM even to attempt to do this.
The mission of TCM is to provide the widest variety of great movies from all eras and all countries, weighted towards the studio era of Hollywood, but not to the point of crowding out first rate foreign movies just so we can see Yankee Doodle Dandy or Stagecoach six times a year instead of three. And as Rey has pointed out time and time again with the numbers to back him up, there is no shortage of 30's through 50's Hollywood films on the TCM schedule, in spite of all the whining to the contrary from a handful of constant bellyachers here.
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It's about being perfect in an otherwise non-perfect world.
And it's about expecting everyone else to share your own definition of perfection. Good luck with that.
Not really. It's what everyone else may think should be perfect, not what I consider to be perfect. Nothing is perfect in this world.
I think you may have misunderstood my comment. It wasn't aimed at you, but at those people who seem to conflate their own idea of perfection with that of the world at large. I certainly don't consider you to be in that category.
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Here's what I notice about our latest threepeat spammer, "timdt".
Member Since Today, 11:16 AM
Offline Last Active Today, 11:30 AMIn those 14 minutes he dropped three spam eggs and then left us forevermore.
I wonder whether TCM might instigate a policy of not allowing new members the privilege of starting new threads until they've participated coherently in at least 10 other threads. By "coherently" I mean engaging in the topic at hand with other people, not just posting random comments that have nothing to do with anything germane to the thread.
Is there any particular reason why such a policy couldn't be put in place? It would be similar in intent to those programs that require you to copy a series of random letters before your comment will be posted.
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It's about being perfect in an otherwise non-perfect world.
And it's about expecting everyone else to share your own definition of perfection. Good luck with that.
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I don't think what is being discussed has anything to do with a definition.
Clearly it must, since there are competing definitions that are subject to context. But don't worry, I'm not trying to Control+x over Maryland and then Control+v over Birmingham. I can read a map.
As as you noted Maryland at the time had a deep south type of mentality as it relates to race. So all the original user of the term had to do is say 'she came from Maryland, which had a deep south mindset at the time,,'.
But when one uses a term literally one should expect that term to be taken literally.
The original reference was here:
LOL, Hey, guess what!? Edna Ferber wrote those lines, not Elizabeth Taylor. Taylor's character was from Maryland
the DEEP SOUTH, and she would have already been instructed by her millionaire husband to NEVER INTERRUPT OUR MEN'S POLITICAL MEETINGS. Remember, money, money, money. Also, that part of the film was in the 1920s or thereabouts, and the husband would have assured the wife that he would never interrupt any of her ladies stuff and private ladies talks, such as he would have promised her to never be drunk around her lady friends or use any bad words around them, and to always be nice to the preacher, etc., etc.That description of time and custom could just have easily have applied to Maryland's Eastern Shore as to the dew line from Georgia through Louisiana.
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As for TCM making it more difficult to personalize (or find) a printable schedule, I hear you. My theory is that corporate wants to discourage downloadable schedules in favor of selling subscriptions to their "Now Playing" guide.
If that's the reason, it's rather ironic, as I've not only subscribed to Now Playing since 2010, I recently bought all the available back issues that I was missing from 1998 on up. Set me back over $300 and it took about 4 or 5 months for them to arrive.
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Though I have seen posts regarding who the SUTS are and the order their films are in each day I haven't seen a link to print an August schedule. Does one exist and, if so, can someone post the link?
This page has links to the full TCM schedules for June, July and August.
But on the subject of monthly schedules, if anyone knows of any better format that exists for any of these months, please let me know. TCM changed the font and format of its monthly schedules radically for the worse back in June of 2011, making them slow and cumbersome to edit into a personalized schedule as a Word document. We never did get any explanation for this change despite several threads devoted to the subject at the time, as it was nothing but one big stonewall. It used to take no more than about half an hour to an hour to personalize a schedule for an entire month, but now it takes so long that I don't even bother to do it more than a week at a time.
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Here's what I don't quite understand: The spam threads always show up as having "0 views" even after we've viewed them in order to report them. This suggests to me that there's some sort of a program that recognizes that these are spam threads.
And yet these "threads" remain on the list, often for quite a bit of time after they've been reported.
My question is, why can't the same program that recognizes these threads as spam also be programmed to delete them automatically, without any need for anyone to report them?
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Five of the seven films TCM aired yesterday in honor of May Whitty are currently among the most-searched titles on the TCM database. DEVOTION ranks first. It tells me that people really responded to her work, and to the fact that she usually appeared in quality films.
By comparison, TCM's much-hyped Star of the Month, Rock Hudson, only charted one title. Who seems more popular with TCM viewers? You tell me...
I can only speak for myself, but I'd be much more likely to want to see a movie with May Whitty in it than anything featuring Rock Hudson.
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How about this suggestion: Dame May Whitty for Star of the Month. Followed in the SOTM lineup by Charles Coburn, Mary Wickes, Thelma Ritter, Una O'Connor, and SZ Sakall.
Well I"m not for changing the SOTM format to features actors that were not 'stars'. Instead I say TCM start a new theme; Supporting player of the month and feature then in the same way as SOTM; 1 day a week for the supporting players, and therefore 4 or 5 days in a month.
Oh, I can't wait to start using SPOTM!
I think that this idea of 4 or 5 different characters actors each getting one 24 hour day, maybe doing this every third or fourth month so as not to run out of credible candidates too quickly, has more legs than displacing the current SOTM format.
Although for "character actors" who also had many leading roles (George Sanders, Edward Arnold) I'd love to see them displace the next SOTM rotation of overused retreads like Katharine Hepburn or John Wayne. Nothing against the fabulous Kate, but let's keep the SOTM spotlights to no more than one every 8 or 10 years per actor or actress. Put some variety in there.
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And let's not forget the good old double standard. The same didn't happen with male stars, well into a third or fourth decade, still costarring with the latest ingenues as their love interests.
Funny, but that didn't seem to be the case until the Coopers and the Stewarts and the Grants began to visibly age in the 50's. Up until that point, other than Bogie and Baby you didn't see that much of an age gap between the leading men and women. The sort of April-October gaps you'd later see in films like Love in the Afternoon and Funny Face were pretty much restricted to depictions of lotharios and their kept women on the side, who almost never wound up together by the end of the movie
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When it comes to attraction, physical beauty of women is definitely much more important to men when they watch movies. If they can't identify with desiring the leading lady, they don't want to see it.
That's inarguable, but I also doubt if most women would flock to films with a plain looking male romantic lead in the same way as they do when the male lead looks like Paul Newman.
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I see that TCM has scheduled all of two (2) Ruby Dee movies on the 28th of this month in acknowledgement of her passing. This has to be one of the shortest tributes in memory, and I sure hope that they supplement it with a longer one later in the year.
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This is the only board I've ever frequented where newest-post-first is not only the default option, but the only option.IMDb, Free Republic, Democratic Underground, FlyerTalk (1.3 million threads), Digital Spy (1.7 million threads), City Data (1.7 million threads), Bodybuilding.com (5.7 million threads) are all oldest-post first.OTOH The New York Times and The Washington Post start with the newest posts first, as does the Baseball Think Factory and most of the other newspaper sites I've been on.I agree that we should be given an option, but the few times I've wanted to start reading with the oldest post in a thread I've never found it more than a minor inconvenience. Just click on the >> tab and take it from there.
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I said nothing about racism or racial segregation (which apparently to you is the same thing as being Southern).
Maryland is not nor has it ever been part of the Deep South.
If all you mean by "Deep South" is location on a map, then fine, by definition Maryland could never be "Deep South".
If you use any other identifying traits, however, then parts of Maryland (i.e. The Eastern Shore) most definitely shared many of the Deep South's social customs (and not just segregation) up through the middle of the 20th century. This is hardly a controversial point, as countless observers have made it over the years. The same point has been noted about Eastern North Carolina and parts of Virginia.
This is but one of about a million cases where it all comes down to definition, and there's no single "correct" answer.
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It is amazing to think that A Nous La Liberte has never aired before.
Actually, I'm pretty sure that it has. It was on the schedule for June 7, 2010. I can't say for sure that it was broadcast on that date, but I have a recording of the movie, and I don't know where I would have gotten it, if not from TCM.
Good memory. The TCM schedule listed it for 2:15 AM on Sunday, June 6, 2010, which means that it really played on June 7th.
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Her character in the film is from Maryland, which is most definitely not the Deep South.
Depends on what part of Maryland you're talking about, and don't confuse 1956 with 2014. Eight years after Giant was released, George Wallace carried 11 of the 12 Eastern Shore counties in that state's Democratic primary, winning as much as 90% of the white vote. Maryland wasn't Deep South in the sense that it had a cotton-based economy, and it never had the overall atmosphere of racial terror that (say) Alabama or Mississippi had, but in 1956 its was every bit as segregated as the Deep South in nearly all other respects.
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No contest, it's his Jett Ritt character in Giant, but none of Dean's movies make my top 500. He seemed to have been a fine actor himself, but the rest of his fellow actors in those films left much to be desired.
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(...of course then again there IS always the possibility that Fred is just tryin' to perfect his Jack Webb persona, YOU know that whole, "Just the facts, Ma'am" thing, and that as soon as he sees my picture of Groucho up there, is just figuring that THAT guy won't have anything to say of importance around here and then just moves to read what the next poster is sayin'..
Well, if that's the case, you could always try fooling him by switching your photo to one of these:
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This was shown on June 15th and is a movie about the French defeat at Dienbenphu in 1954. The movie was made in 1955 and most interesting aspect is that it is a prime example of Franco-American 1950's propoganda masquerading as a movie.
Watched it because I served in an airborne unit in Vietnam.
It's funny because although the setting was Dien Bien Phu, it was made by Warner Brothers, and it seemed like a combination of a 1943 B-movie and Jack Webb's classic 1962 Pentagon propaganda film,
.* I was glad to see it as an artifact of 1950's commercial propaganda movies, but other than that it was packed with more cliches than a political infomercial.*Also made by Warner Brothers.
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These Hammer noirs are pretty good!
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Be that as it may, I still say looks are less important to women than men as far as leading men/women. How else to explain the career of Walter Matthau??? Cant think of single female lead as homely who had such a long career (except maybe Marie Dressler but then she died, so hard to say how long her career would have lasted...)
I think your general point is correct, but there are always exceptions.