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You wouldn't really care what a 'young' actor or director had to say about how some classic movies might of influenced his work; e.g. classic actors they looked up too, directors whose work influenced theirs etc...
I can see the point about just not being interested in what a celebrity likes but to me the above is different.
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Chrissie would always play a Kinks song at The Pretender concerts. I went to one in L.A. a few months after they had broken up. When she went to introduce the song she didn't mention Ray or the Kinks but she said 'don't fall in love with your idols'. There was some pain in her voice when saying that.
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Blake was just a kid and the paycheck when to this parents so I don't think it has anything to do with that.
I think the comment has no real meaning. It was just a way to get Blake to calm down and complete the scene.
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I had a great seat right in the middle, about 20 rows back and right next to an aisle so I didn't have any 'heads' blocking my view. Yes, great show. I really felt like I was back in time about 30 or so years since most of the songs were from the early years; all of the hits. Plus he talked about some of his favorites like Waterloo Sunset. A song he said was all about love and for lovers.
Yea, I didn't know where I should of posted this, but 'off topic, favorite music' looked right to me even if I didn't post a link to youtube or any music.
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I have never seen this Jean Arthur movie (Lady Takes a Chance) and since Jean is my fifth favorite actress I hope TCM shows it soon. Not a big fan of Wayne but him playing "somewhat dense but lovable lout" sounds interesting.
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As others have pointed out Robin Hood was released in 1938.
There is no evidence to suggest a massive promotion would induce younger generations to appreciate classic movies. It surely wouldn't get a 'bang for the buck'; i.e. what TCM would have to spend versus the number of new viewers such spending would attract.
Maybe if someone very popular to younger folks like the Kardashians or the Jerry Shore people promoted classic movies on their reality TV shows this would bring in new viewers, but my guess is that these folks don't enjoy classic movies enough to assist TCM without asking to be paid.
I compare this to the eating of healthy foods and the obesity problem. Most people know healthy foods exist, but they continue to choose to eat unhealthy foods.
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How do you know that TCM was paid to show Destination Earth?
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Saw Ray Davies, former leader of the Kinks last night. Great show. The show started with just him playing acoustic guitar with just another guitar play. They played more the softer Kinks hits, and then a full band joined them and they played the harder rock ones. Ray was great and still full of a lot of energy.
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Did she play Ms. Howell on Giligan's Island?
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Yes, you're standard reply when things don't go 100% your way.
Even you know this since you started the phase with 'again'. That might be something to reflect on.
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I have seen the cartoon a few times (once on the big screen at a revival theater when, like in the old days, they showed these adult cartoons between pictures), but I didn't make the connection until you pointed it out.
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I never said my definition was the so called 'correct one' only the way I used the term.
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I think you're on to something here. Take the ending of To Have and Have Not. It is clear Eddie generally doesn't accept the women Harry falls for because Harry feels threatened. But at the end Bacall says the silly 'been stung by a bee' line and Harry says 'oh, you,,, you're alright'. This is his way of saying she is one of the guys and thus he isn't threatened by the relationship.
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Well until we understand his motive I'm not willing to label him a terrorist. Also I only use the term terrorist for someone that is motivated by "a religious and/or political "reason", and not by the body count or number of wounded. Otherwise like I said terrorist is just another term for mass murderer.
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Darkblue: I was going to stay out of this but the use of a term like 'most' is something that really gets me. Often people use the term 'most' when they should use 'majority' as a way to sell their point. This is done in politics all of the time. e.g. saying "most people support XYZ", as a way to imply those the do NOT are some fringe minority. But if 'most' only reflects something < 60% or so, than the person using 'most' is being misleading (and on purpose I believe). e.g. if 45% do NOT support XYZ that isn't a fringe minority.
NOW back to movies: I do agree with you that one cannot say most of the greatest movies were made after censorship was imposed. The statement was made like it was a fact instead of just an opinion. Even if 99% of film scholars believed this it would still be just their opinion and not a fact.
I also find the point that censorship didn't 'harm' the quality of movies to be folly. It clearly did and while I respect the way directors, writers and producers would 'get around the code' often it is clear they are doing so and it adds a clumsy feel to the work.
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Hey, I didn't do too bad here! I have to admit I kind of pulled Roland out of a hat and at least I questioned the Gable choice (I should of guessed Flynn since he was as good looking but without the ears).
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Hey, this isn't easy and it would of helped to know the year this was released.
I think you're right about Powell and McLaglen, but if the guy on the far right is Gable why are the ears so small? Typically when Gable is draw for a laugh, they make his ears bigger (often super big!). But the face does match.
As for the guy you say if Niven; Yea it could be him, but to me it looks like Gilbert Roland. This is why the year would help. If this was done in the 30s it is more likely to be someone other than Niven.
As for the guy you couldn't name, my guess is Spencer Tracy, but that pipe kind of throws me off since a pipe implies an upper crust type of guy and I view Tracy as more down to earth.
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Tom, I can tie The Big Sleep back to Moran and the original point you made.
In the book The Big Sleep, Marlow is having an affair with Eddie Mars wife. She has a lot bigger part in the book. Thus again, Bacall knocks another actress out of the film, in that the plot of The Big Sleep was changed to focus on sexual tension between B & B instead of Marlow and Mrs. Mars. As I'm sure you know the original version of The Big Sleep (shown only to US troops overseas), had less B&B scenes. Warner asked Hawks to add more after they got married. So having Mrs. Mars be the only female that doesn't flirt with Marlow makes sense. It was done to get Mrs. Mars out of the room and thus out of the scene so Bacall could rescues Bogie and thus solidified their romance. (in the book Mrs Mars saves Marlow).
If Bogie and Bacall didn't hit if off in To Have and Have Not, than maybe the actress that played Mrs Mars would of got a bigger part and that would of help propel her career. But instead she ends up in a similar boat like Dolores Moran. Another actress shot down by Bacall!
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Yes, for most of is it was OZ as it will be for generations to come. The first 'old movie' I remember seeing as an adult was The Maltese Falcon. My mom's boyfriend was into Bogie and classic movies and since he control the TV watch this movie with them. From there I became a classic movie fan myself.
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I like Forbidden the best but the others were interesting since I hadn't seen any of them before. Menjou was good but I always find him interesting. Often he plays a shallow man but here he had some depth and feeling. The only thing that was bad was the make up of Bellamy as he was ageing. He looked like Frankenstein! Menjou look the best (because he was older to start I guess), and Babs was OK but Bellamy look horrible with the eyes way too dark.
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The terrorist? I wouldn't use that term to label this guy. But hey Assad uses the term for anyone that disagrees with him. i.e. the over broad use of the term renders it meaningless.
As for this event hurting the box office. It might have a minor impact over the next few days but my guess is it will blow over unless there is another similar event (which is very unlikely but these days who knows).
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I agree with your first paragraph in that there are clear cut reasons why certain movies are favorites. For example, if one likes 30s comedies the odds are great they will love My Man Godfrey. (a movie I believe two guest programmers have shown)
I don't know how the 4 or so movies are picked. One idea would be to ask them to pick 10 movies. Than out of that list of 10 TCM picks the 4 that will be shown. This reduces the odds of showing something that was just shown recently.
As for 6 months. Yea, I just picked that out of a hat. Maybe you're right that 6 months is too long. Also as others have pointed it also depends on when a movie was shown. Since the guess movies are shown in prime time if a 'repeat' was shown at 4:00 AM that shouldn't count as being shown too often.
Edited by: jamesjazzguitar on Jul 21, 2012 2:23 PM
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Not sure what you mean by 'allow sex and gore' since pre-code movies had a good amount of sex and gore. My view is that without the censors the movies in the 40s would of looked like the movies in the 70s. To me the problem with censorship wasn't that nudity or very violent scenes couldn't be shown but the unrealistic changes to the plots. Movie would of been more true to the books they were based on instead of whitewashed like they were after the code was put into place.
For example, compare a pre-code movie TCM just had on, A Free Soul with the remake made under the code.
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Someone cannot be wrong as it relates to a prediction until AFTER the results are in.
So some people are saying this will hurt the movie's box office take and others are saying it will not.
First how will one be able to measure this? Since we will never know what the box office take would of been IF the shooting didn't occur we have NO baseline. I'm sure the studio has an estimate of what they expected to take in but often those estimates are based on wishful thinking.
I guess we could poll people and ask them if the shooting will keep them from seeing the movie, but that is as close as one could get to know who is right or wrong as it relates to predicting if the shooting will impact the box office take.
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I have found that a good way to calm a kid down is too really confuse him with something very cryptic. As Ginnyfan pointed out: I think it's just a concentration device and not to be taken literally.
I have found that method more successful than telling them something like 'this is work, get serious'.
Yea, I would assume Blake was spanked often. It explains why he is so angry all the time!
Edited by: jamesjazzguitar on Jul 23, 2012 7:08 PM