JamesJazGuitar
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Are you joking here? I only ask because 3 of the 4 movies are on the movies TCM plays most often thread. Hey, great list of movies but I had just read that and then I see this.
My list would be:
The Petrified Forest
It's Love I'm After
Holiday
The Strawberry Blond
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Doesn't Northwest mean the Airline? One goes north on Northwest airline? That was my understanding.
Yes, the movies listed here are shown very often. At least most of them are movies I really like. (I'm not so HOT about on one of them).
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Based on what I read Bogart really went out of his way to help her and try to make the marriage work. He meet her while making the movie Marked Women, which they were both in along with Bette Davis (the Davis return from exile in England movie). He did do some of his best work while married to her. Maybe it was because his home life just wasn't that fun.
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Of course the lost of someone with so much potential is part of her story, but part of her story is also how she messed it up. I'm sure there will be a film about her life but my guess is that her devoted fans will not like this film since it will focus as much on the negative as the positive.
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When someone famous dies the amount of media coverage is based on many things, but the key ones are: how famous or important that person was, how they lived their life and how they died.
Using a scale from 1 - 10, for these 3 items I would rate Houston a 6, 9, and 9.
Ok the first one, how famous or important is very subjective. So I can see fans of Houston saying she should be a 9 or 10 here (some in the media have called her the greatest female singer of the 20th century), but I say 6 because the number of people that like her musical genre was limited.
The other two items are less subjective. I gave her a 9 on the 'how they lived their life' category because of her prolonged history of drug use and her relationship with Bobby Brown (I mostly know about this because of jokes I have heard Kathy Griffith make in her live act, but this is an example of how NON musical items keep Houston in the pop culture).
She also gets a 9 for how she died since there is mystery in how she died and the timing of the death.
Based on these rankings I can see why the media would spend so much time on her. What I find silly is how some fans appear to NOT understand how the 2 and 3 categories apply to the amount of media coverage. For example, if Sir Paul Mccartney was to die a natural death, I would hope we could agree that he would be a 10 on the famous scale, but a 1 and 1 (or very low score) on the other two. He might get less coverage than Houston by the media. To me this is understandable if one accepts what I'm saying about media coverage.
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My friend, who lives in Lone Pine (right off of Whitney Portal road), used to work at the museum and he said it was the original car. It is one of the key items the museum has according to him. He has taken me to many of the places films where shot. e.g. Gunga Din, etc...
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If one goes to Lone Pine California in the eastern Sierra there is a museum with the car Bogie was driving up Whitney Portal road.
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This is a Warner Bro character actor. His best know role was as a waiter in Casablanca. He is the guy with the big cheeks. He is in many scenes in the movie (Rick ask him to take Ilsa home after the secret meeting is broken up).
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I believe the Academy has to grant permission for someone to use the term 'Oscar' since it is a trademark and yea, I don't think they would grant permission for a NO Oscar event. (I believe the People's Award was first called The People's Oscar before the Academy shut that down).
Again, I like the idea but I understand why TCM would have to reject it and also why they have their 31 days of Oscar promotion.
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Very nice balanced statement. Being the friend or the family member of someone that is abusing themselves isn't easy.
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I would add Ronald Colman and George Sanders to your list.
Edited by: jamesjazzguitar on Feb 20, 2012 1:58 PM
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I also have no trouble so I assume the issue is either user system problems or operator error.
The people who run this site (one users don't pay for), are doing a fine job.
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I like the idea of a NOscar event but my guess would be TCM management isn't hot on the idea.
How about 2 weeks in February for Oscar films and the other 2 weeks of NOscar.
Many great movies in the list you provided.
Edited by: jamesjazzguitar on Feb 20, 2012 1:53 PM
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I don't feel Bill O was WAY off base. For example, one could interpret your post (especially the initial paragraph) here as blaming Houston too much for her death and thus being off base. People making money off of celebrities (be they musicians, actors, sports figures), often are willing to ignore self abusive behavior as long as the behavior doesn't impact the bottom line. For example, owners of baseball teams knew the players were juiced but juiced players generated higher revenues.
I do admit to being somewhat surprised that Bill's focus was mostly on external factors instead of internal ones (i.e. Houston herself), but that could just be Bill trying to show compassion for Houston. I.e. he didn't wish to appear too harsh toward Houston so he lashed out at those around her and the industry in general.
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Since Hey BullDog was released on Yellow Submarine (which had a lot of non Beatles tunes from the movie on it), that album is a favorite and this great song got loss. But any true Beatles fan is aware of this song.
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According to today's L.A. Times Ghost Riders II is the leading box office draw this week.
As long as films like this sell Hollywood will keep releasing them.
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Hey placing the same post in 2 forums isn't so bad. I sometimes do that because I forget which one I'm in! One can find this post in at least 6 (and here on the west coast the day is still young!), including Silent films and Cult films.
Also you were posting about Destry Rides Again, so I can see 2 post, but not again, and again, and again, and,,,,,,
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The same post was placed in at least 6 forums. So why not the silent films one!
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The entire basis of Rope is that Steward's calculated and cold way of viewing life is what motivates the boys to treat killing as just an action. Hey, it is only the death of one person AND a person that wasn't going to make an impact to society anyhow. The kids really believe Steward will admire them for understanding this POV and acting on it.
Someone like Mason would of been a better fit for the role. Of course Steward does a fine job (i.e. the guy can act!), but an actor that comes off as a more troubled soul might of fit the part better.
Edited by: jamesjazzguitar on Feb 19, 2012 12:47 PM
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Do you also post the same thread in multiple forums? Pleeze!!! Don't start doing that.
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Some Like It Hot was played in February as part of 31 Days of Oscar, right? It does feel like this movie is played at least once every 6 to 8 weeks but maybe that is just my impression.
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The movie *Courage Under Fire* has a women (Meg Ryan), in a combat situation.
We should expect more women as war heros since women as superheros, crime fighters, spys, etc... is big now. The marketing reasons are easy to understand; Women like movies with strong women characters and since these women are typically 'hot', men like these women characters as well.
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I assume you were responding to someone other than me.
I would agree that when an Oscar is given out it is worth looking into. Of course that doesn't mean the winner of said Oscar was the 'best' in that category but in the vast majority of cases clearly it is worth discovering what all the fuss was about.
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Hey, you cannot name child actors!
Don't you know the old saying; Never do a movie with a kid or dog if you want the spotlight! If one can name Margaret than one can also include Lassie!
Please Suggest film with glamorous leading female
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I don't know if Harlow can be classified as glamorous expect in a few of her movies where she played a rich gal. In most of her best films she is a gal from the other side of the tracks (even if she ends up being rich).