JamesJazGuitar
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I assume all of these competitors end up using the same physical cable lines that run into your building and into each house. Is that how it is in 'big' apartment buildings in NYC? i.e. tenants have the option of picking from multiple cable operators?
Here in Orange Country CA, in the burbs (track homes), we have only one cable company for a given 'service area'. Thus there is on competition. We have other options like Direct TV of course but only one cable company, that lease the cables that run under city property.
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Ok, years later when MGM added the sound did they use the original lion?
(see there is such a thing as a silly question!).
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I also enjoy the 33 verson over the 45 one, but like you I wouldn't say either was inferior, just different. It is sad that Fox flims are not in the best condition but I would rather be able to watch a film that is of limited quality than to not see it at all.
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Good summary of this movie. Yea, I also end up liking the Kennedy character more than anyone else in the film. He was a cad but one can kind of understand how he got this way. The actions of the rest of the main character I don't understand (or if I do, I clearly don't care to).
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I like Hawks' women in many of his films and as noted they had character to admire (not just window dressing). I would add to your list Jean Arthur in Only Angels Have Wings (and even the minor part a young Rita Hayworth played).
But I also feel some of these actresses were only 'OK' as actresses in that their performance is somewhat forced. I see that with Dru and Bacall. Both were young and inexperienced and in some ways it shows (verses Arthur who, playing a non screwball comic role, showed she was a very experienced and fine actress).
Edited by: jamesjazzguitar on Feb 11, 2012 12:36 PM
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Bette looks very nice in this picture. I admit it bugs me when people knock better for her looks. Hey, she wasn't a Rita, Ava or Lana but she had style and was attractive to me.
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I'm a big fan of Garfield but I don't think he left the legacy of films that Bogie or Cagney left. I have seen most of Garfield films and there are many, many good ones and maybe even a few great ones, but in many of his most well known performances the lead actress is the bigger star; e.g. Turner or Crawford.
Hey, I would love for there to be a box set but I don't think that would increase his exposer that much. People not aware of him are not going to run out and purchase his box set. The goal of releasing a box set is to sell product. So from a marketing standpoint it might NOT make sense to release a box set (if demand is indeed low as you imply), and of course no marketing decision is 'wrong' (as in that it was done to disrespect someone), it is just that; a marketing decision.
As for star recognition; yes, who gets that honor and who doesn't is mostly just a popularity contest. For example, to me the film legacy of Monroe or Dean doesn't support their iconic stat status, and they were not near the actor Garfield was, but like you I'm just one voice.
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I wouldn't fault Irena in Cat People because she was cursed. i.e. she wasn't fully responsible for her actions.
Hillary Brooke in The Women In Green is a good one. Just saw that (again), a few weeks ago and she is someone I wouldn't want as an enemy. Of course Greer in Out of the Past ranks near the top of any list.
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Well the tourist trade might increase if the Brits had a Hunting The Royals event. And yes, I didn't mean to say hunting with the royals!
I could watch Meryl channelling anyone since she is so great at it. I think it is great that she has found so many great roles in her later years. More so than most of the actresses of the studio era.
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Yes, a very good discussion that I have enjoyed. As for salad days; well maybe it has to do with salad being the first course of a meal? But hey, I married an Italian and now we have our salad as the next to last course (and of course we have to have at least 5 courses!).
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Yes, it was November 2005. I saved that list on my local drive as a WORD doc, so I don't have to search for it here. It is proved very useful in these 'why has X been SOTM' type of discussions.
I also used it when someone said that they could name 50 actors that should of been SOTM before Karl Malden. To me one would have to have a list before they could make such a claim.
As for Joan, I get the feeling we have seen a lot of her this year (e.g. Born to be Bad has been on at least twice in the last few months as well as many of her other films). No complaint from me there. I love Joan (but I admit not as much as I do Olivia, who I'm nuts about!).
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As always you help inject some sound reasoning into a discussion. I just don't understand why people wish to assume some type of 'evil' motive (or often political one), for something TCM does or doesn't do.
I can understand that someone might not have access to the type of information you do, but again, why then assume the worst (or something very silly) instead of just asking what those reasons might be.
As to ther performance; I will admit to being tainted by Bette's own comments about this movie. I have never seen it but if TCM ever does show it I'll be there. It may be like watching a train crash, but what a train crash!
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Well yes, but if we get tried of the Bushes, we replace them with the Clintons!
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Wow, I see you really know your stuff and it isn't confined to only Durbin. You make a solid case that during those Durbin salad days her 'output' exceeded that of any other star at the time.
So since she quit the biz at the tender age of 28, it is difficult to 'rank' her since, as you so clearly point out, most other 'greats' have a lot longer careers that transcend many different phases.
As for Frank, my favorite period of his was those capital years and especially the albums he made with Nelson Riddle and Johnny Mandle.
I always respect those with fine taste (especially when their taste is similar to mine
), so I'll be sure to keep a watch out for more Durbin films. This is what is so great about a station like TCM. One can still stumble across something great, that while it has been there for decades, is something we haven't been exposed too enough.Hey, on a silly note, in the first paragraph at first I used the term 'golden years' but I changed it to 'salad days' since that is what you used. Where did salad days come from??? I mean why salad instead of, say steak?!
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I would pick Bogie as both Phil Marlowe and Sam Spade.
Second would be Powell as Nick Charles. I rate Rathbone's Holmes lower because a really great detective wouldn't of had a dunce like Watson (as played by Bruce, not as written in the original books), be his side kick.
Edited by: jamesjazzguitar on Feb 8, 2012 11:47 AM
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Spend more time getting better at something I really love. For me that would be playing jazz guitar. I didn't really get serious until I was in my late 30s.
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It does appear that Oscar month is more of a 'repeat' month (as in movies that are often shown on TCM during the year are shown again during Oscar month). So in that regard I understand the initial complaint here. But as you noted since these are Oscar films many of these 'repeats' are high quality movies.
I wouldn't mind if Oscar month was reduced to only 2 weeks for Oscar movies and then the other 2 weeks for another theme (say Black history).
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I wondered the same thing. Yea, that nice little boy, once known for selling Bogie a winning lottery ticket, forgets his gun at an Italian restaurant. Yes, he was found not guilty.
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I love your post and the berry, berry comments. When I first saw this movie I said to myself; OK, his little brother looks up to him and has a pet name for him so I can expect to hear 'berry, berry' maybe twice, as a way of making this point (the affection between younger and older bro which is key to the entire theme of the movie), and that will be the end of it...
Instead the makers of this movie keep this up over, and over and over again. It really is in poor taste. You would think that after the movie was showed to studio heads someone would of said 'ax out that berry, berry crap!'.
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As you can see from a post I made below I also selected The Letter. I just love how the scene is set up, with the moon shinning, the normal everyday things people are doing, and a calm and still night. AND THEN,,,,
Yes, a great effect indeed.
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Hey, based on prior conversations we have had on related topics I believe you would understand where I was coming from. But during the various NFL and NBA lock outs the vast majority of 'working class' people I knew would ALWAYS mention the outrageous pay of the players and NEVER mention the outrageous gains by the owners. I found this funny and interesting. I would try to turn this around by asking them a question related to The Beatles; Who should get more of the pie; The 4 guys making the music or the 'suits' at the record company. The confused looks were priceless!
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Garland was about 8 years older than, say, Wood, when she got bigger parts by MGM, but I don't see how that makes much difference. Are you saying you don't consider Garland to be a child star? Ok, maybe not a 'child' but clearly she was a teen star and was still as teen (non adult), when she made Oz.
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A lot of people have been pushing for Joel and I have been pushing for Howard since I joined. Good to see they will be SOTM. But what will I complain about now???? Oh, I'm sure I find something.
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What about Judy Garland? (but I guess you could say her career did fall down in those drugged out later years but she had very productive adult years before the crash). Than there would be Jodie Foster as an example of a more recent star (Jodie was a big child star and got to kill off Alexis Smith in one of her first movies!).
Note that many actors that make it as adults also have a career span that is about equal to that of a child star. The difference being the adult actors are 'washed up' (or getting only guess spots on TV shows if lucky), in their 40s while for the child star it is in their 20s. But the career span in years isn't that different.
), so I'll be sure to keep a watch out for more Durbin films. This is what is so great about a station like TCM. One can still stumble across something great, that while it has been there for decades, is something we haven't been exposed too enough.
Howard Hawks' women
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TB is often like the Angie Dickinson character in Rio Bravo
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Yea, Hawks made a lot of movies and I clearly cannot classify all of them, but based on the dozen or so Hawks movies I can recall off the top of my head, many are strong willed. There is a delicate balance between being strong and negative terms that place there women in a bad light. I think Hawks have these women do this balancing act, especially in the begining of the films, as a way to create sexual tension. The lead man at first reacts negatively to them but once the women show they have vulnerable side, the guy is hooked, and the tension eases.
Edited by: jamesjazzguitar on Feb 11, 2012 1:40 PM