ElCid
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A 1963 Austin-Healey 3000 in THE PLEASURE SEEKERS...
...with Tony Franciosa driving Pamela Tiffin and Ann-Margret around the streets of Madrid Spain.
(...btw, in this case and because I always had a thing for Pamela Tiffin, here would be another case of me having difficulty choosing between "having" one nice lookin' car or the hot lookin' babe riding in it, and as per a question posed to me a few days ago in that Audrey Hepburn thread)
This movie shows up on FX Movie channel about once per month if not more. Well worth watching. Of the three actresses, would be a vey hard choice between them. As for the car, would love to have one.
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Thanks again for your comments, misswonderly. Enjoy them as always. I was a little surprised at the ending too because I didn't really feel like we had seen anything during the film to convince us that Jeff deserved that fate. I was also disappointed with 'the lie' by The Kid to Anne at the end. How could he really know what Jeff's ultimate plan was anyway?
Haven't seen anyone mention yet how great it was for Eddie to host Robert Mitchum's son during the wrappers! Nice behind the scenes perspective on the actor and the movie. Really appreciate Eddie and TCM making it happen.
I sort of understand why Mitchum "ahd to die." It sort of fit the noir mold and he was guilty of a few crimes, to include accessory to murder. It also permitted Anne to go on to a "normal" life.
As for the lie, I think it fit that he knew that Mitchum would not want Anne to "suffer" by thinking he would have come back to her. A cleaner break, for the era, was that he was abandoning her. This permitted her to marry the other guy with no regrets or second thoughts.
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I enjoy Out of the Past each time I watch, but don't watch it all that much. MIssed it today, but have it on DVD. Would have liked to have seen the intro though.
On the other hand I really, really enjoy The Big Steal which also features Mitchum and Greer. However, it is more of a mystery movie with much more humor. Is there any humor in Past? Greer is the opposite of the Kathie Moffat character. And there is no doubt that Mitchum's character is "clean."
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And here lately, I've been having to deal with a lot of "doctors" who really aren't all that good at being one of THOSE.
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When I consider how complex the human body is, I sometimes wonder that "medicine" is able to do as much as it is. I think we sometimes expect too much as well.
Not excusing doctors who don't know what they are doing or even worse doing things for the money. Not just doctors, everyone in medicine is susceptible.
Even had "assistants" (not talking about certified physican assistants, etc.) try to sell me a product or a procedure with more pressure than a used car salesman or financial advisor. Have also had MD's try to sell major surgical procedures.
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How many movies per column, and what detail was included for each movie?
Assume you are asking about the current print version of the Now Playing Guide. The NPG is about 5 x 8 inches. Has about 7 listings per column, but there are pictures on some pages. Probably 12 to 21 or so listings per page.
Detail is about the same as on the internet version of monthly listings. Time, title, release date, description, three actors, director and running time. Description is one long sentence.
I also use the NPG to make reminders about shows I wish to see on other networks.
Very handy to glance at each AM to see if I highlighted anything particularly wanted to watch.
Personally, I am not a big fan of the articles, At A Glance and Movies A to Z sections.
Hopefully the email version will permit excluding printing sections not wanted.
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I, on the other hand jinsinna, always thought the series improved a bit when the dumb and buffoonish Frank Burns character departed and was replaced with the pompous but much more intelligent Charles Emerson Winchester character, as this created the situation where Hawkeye's foil was more of an equal.
(...yep, always thought Frank Burns was just a little too dimwitted to be someone who had actually graduated medical school, and even though, yes, I'm sure there has to be a few doctors out there in the world who are as slow on the ol' uptake as Burns was)
I used to work with a lot of doctors. As with every profession/occupation, being good at one thing does not necessarily mean you know anything about anything else.
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You have to make it double sided in your print window and then hit booklet maker. Depending on your printer, you may have to feed the pages back into the printer after the first side prints.
Thanks, not sure my printer will do any of that - or that I can figure it out.
Hopefully the Now Playing Guide email version will be smaller and simpler. For instance, the current print version has three columns per page instead of one.
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I guess "To Sir, With Love" is a twofer, since Lulu had a No.1 hit with the title theme.
I reached in my drawer of LP's just this week and pulled out the soundtrack for "To Sir, Wtih Love." Still sounds good. I was a junior in college when I saw the movie and purchased the LP.
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Sent an email to TCM requesting format information for the new email version.
Received an automated response telling me how to subscribe to the print version!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I assume this is the print version of the monthly schedule? As of today, it has Audrey Hepburn at the top.
If this is the replacement for Now Playing Guide, I don't like it. I don't want to print the banner.
Even worse, it is 37, 8-1/2 X 11 pages long.
http://www.tcm.com/schedule/monthly.html?ecid=subnavmonthschedule
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thanks to the moderator for merging the other two threads. Judging by the responses I'd venture to say this move is not being received enthusiastically. Also appears that TCM is either not listening to it's subscibers nor providing much information. Thanks for the responses as it seems I am not alone in my disatisfaction regarding TCMs decision.
I sent a real letter to the CEO of TBS a month ago. No response of any kind. This is the first time in contacting an organization that I have not received some kind of response. Of course, they haven't responded to any of my emails either.
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"Flamingo Road" (1949) with Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, and Sydney Greenstreet. There was a short-lived television series by the same name in 1980-82 on NBC (I think). Among the leads were Cristina Raines, Stella Stevens, Mark Harmon, and Howard Duff.
How could you not mention Morgan Fairchild? It's where she got her big start. I remember watching the series when it came out. Mildly interesting if you were interested in political skulduggery.
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A writer in today's Detroit Free Press reported a topic from somewhere that mentions the "gosh-awful" movies made from popular TV shows over the last decade or two. Mentioned were (and forgive the absence of cast and year of release) :
CAR 54 WHERE ARE YOU?
THE HONEYMOONERS
THE FLINTSTONES: "VIVA ROCK VEGAS"
THE DUKES OF HAZZARD
BEWITCHED
LAND OF THE LOST
THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES
INSPECTOR GADGET
CHiPS
STARSKY & HUTCH
And there also have been some awful TV shows adapted from very good successful movies. The only one that worked and was both successful and VERY good was M*A*S*H* .
Which of either am I missing here?
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I saw M*A*S*H movie when it came out. Throughly enjoyed it and being stationed at Ft. Bragg at the time, could identify with some of it.
As for the TV series, enjoyed the first year. After that it became the Alan Alda show and was no longer as good, in my opinion.
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oh, and per wikipedia's entry on Dolores Del Rio:
After her death, actor Vincent Price used to sign his autographs as "Dolores del Río". When asked why, the actor replied: I promised Dolores on her deathbed that I would not let people forget about her.[113]
which, even if it isn't true- I say LIBERTY VALANCE that ****.
When I have to use the screen to sign my name when I use a credit card, I often use some celebrity or maybe a president. Nobody ever notices.
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I think some might to search movies about Vietnam War just to see how many there are. Most have been in 80's or later, but some good ones in the 70's.
One of my favorites is Go Tell the Spartans from 1978 and is set in 1964. Another is The Quiet American from 1958. TCM has showed it sometime during the past month, so it is available.
One of the worst is The Green Berets, but that is another story.
As for how they portray the war, a sign of the changes in America were that movies about war became more realistic rather than a barely disquised part of American propaganda effort during WW II. Movies about Korea are more realistic even.
In the late 70's up until now, the American people are more accepting of "more accurate" war movies.
While Coming Home and Born on the Fourth of July are very good movies with compelling stories, no reason not to show other war movies that might inform and educate while entertaining.
Perhaps TCM can do an expanded broadcast for Veterans Day and show movies about wartime and peacetime service, dramas and comedies, etc.
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And perhaps that's why some might NOT see Viet Nam war movies as an inclusion in Memorial Day presentations.
Those guys WEREN'T fighting for their beliefs. In fact, the bulk of them were DRAFTED and DIDN'T wan to BE there in the first place.
I know I'll get "flamed" for this, but Viet Nam, Desert Storm and the more recent fighting in Iraq were NOT cases of where soldiers were fighting in defense of THEIR country, as the U.S. wasn't in danger or threat from those places.
But personally, my feeling is that since those men died fighting while in the U.S. military is reason enough to include honoring them on Memorial Day.
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One of the first things you learn in the military is that soldiers fight for each other, not in defense of their countries or freedom and so forth. You can also add in a sense of duty or honor.
In actuality, the US has not fought to defend the US since the War of 1812. Even WW I and WW II had little actual threat to the US. Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, the Phillipines, etc. to keep the US out of the war to defend the colonial powers in Pacific. Backfired, but that is another story.
Most soldiers in all US wars up until 1975 were drafted or joined before they got drafted to get a better deal. This includes WW I and WW II. My father and six uncles all could have served in the military in WW II. Only two did and the others found ways to be deferred as being in "war production."
Even today, the military has to offer very substantial incentives to encourage people to join.
No one wanted to be there, drafted or not, in any war. Leastways, not the guys actually getting shot at.
Having been in both and studied both, Vietnam was a mistake but Desert Storm (Persian Gulf War) was not. US and rest of the world came to the defense of an "ally" and to prevent Iraq from controlling all the oil in the Gulf States. That would have led to Saddam controlling oil prices for most of the world. It would have also placed tremendous pressure on Israel if Saddam had control of the Middle East oil wealth outside Iran.
I will agree that Bush/Cheney's Irag War was a mistake. Afghanistan is a little more complicated as it was a haven for Al Qaeda.
"But personally, my feeling is that since those men died fighting while in the U.S. military is reason enough to include honoring them on Memorial Day."
That is absolutely true.
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But on an annual basis what percentage of ALL films shown are from the 70s and 80s?
It looks like by saying 'a lot' you were comparing the 70s and 80s to the 90s. Yea, TCM shows a lot more films from the 70s and 80s than the 90s. TCM also shows more films from the 1990s than they do the 1890s. I'm only being a wise guy because your reply to cigarjoe implied what he stated was incorrect and I just don't see that. I.e. "We don't get many movies out of the 70s".
I interpreted his comment as referring both to TCM not showing movies from the 70's and 80's and also because they had nudity, profanity, etc.
My response implied that these are not adequate reasons for TCM to not show any Vietnam War movies over this 3 or 4 day period. Also, that just in case, movies from the 70's and 80's have been shown often on TCM.
I was not comparing the 70's and 80's to the 90's at all. I was indicating that not only does TCM show movies from the 70's and 80's, but also from the 90's.
Of course I guess we could start parsing out what lots, some, few, etc. means compared to the thousands (?) of movies TCM has shown?
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I can't agree that TCM has 'lots of movies from the 70s and 80s'. Lots??? I assume actual programming data on an annual basis would show that < 8% or so of TCM's programming are films from that era. That to me is not a 'lot' but instead much closer to some.
That's one of the pluses of Now Playing, you get to see the data on a lot of movies. There seem to be a lot of movies showing up from the 70's and 80's and few from the 90's.
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We don't get many movies out of the 70s don't you know, that decade has a lot of controversial (to morally conservative types) movies with drug use, free love, and oh my god, do I even have to type the word, "nudity". I'd be surprised if it doesn't get *****.
TCM has lots of movies from the 70's and 80's as well as ones with nudity, profanity, drug use, etc.
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I revived this thread as we approach Memorial Day and I still don't see any Viet Nam movies on the schedule (please correct me if I'm wrong).
I do especially recommend STEEL HELMET which takes place in Korea.
There's always Veterans Day where we honor all the veterans and a big thank you to all our posters who are veterans. My husband was a Viet Nam vet (1965-66). Maybe then TCM can show a Viet Nam movie or two.
Memorial Day is to honor those who didn't make it out. Enjoy your hot dogs, cookouts and mattress sales, everybody!
To elaborate on this. We should remember that Memorial Day is time to remember and honor those who died in service to our country and their families. Veterans Day is time to honor veterans and their families. Armed Forces Day is the day to honor those currently serving and their families.
Have a good Memorial Day - and spend a moment thinking of those "who didn't make it out" as Christine said.
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Not sure it means anything, but Swamp Thing is the only one set in the South (Louisiana). Since I have not seen it in a long, long time, I'll record it for later viewing. Adrienne Barbeau definitely the best feature of the movie. Still remember her from Maude.
She also did The Fog(1980).
Another semi-classic, Alligator People is also set in Louisiana. It comes up often on Fox Movie Channel and maybe some others.
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Lol...I have it on DVD as well, and I'm planning on watching it again soon as part of a "Bad Movies Through the Ages" festival.
I wonder if the animal trainer on Killer Shrews was the highest paid? He/she should have been.
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I think the movie's hilarious, and definitely recommend it to bad movie fans, but as for being genuinely scary...no. Maybe when it was originally released, and the viewer was 5 or younger, and had never seen a scary movie or TV show before...and still that's a maybe.
Aw, come on. You need to think of sitting in the first five rows with the really big screen in front of you. Or maybe in your car with a really big screen in front of you.
We have both the Shrews and Wasp Woman on DVD and watch them about once per year, but the Shrews is definitely for amusement value.
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I'll sit through The Wasp Woman and then dismiss it. No, who knows,
maybe it ain't that bad. At only an hour it won't really matter anyway.
I've seen it and it is sort of interesting. The "creature" is fairly interesting looking and the plot is believable for a creature feature.
The Killer Shrews is entertaining and amusing, especially the shrews.
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Phillip Marlowe/Raymond Chandler
in General Discussions
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Watched Marlowe with James Garner last night. Apparently it is not reviewed as one of better Phillip Marlowe movies. Not one I would purchase/record, but I found it enjoyable. More of a pre-Rockford type than a Noir Bogart type Raymond Chandler movie.
Interestingly, they always emphasize Rita Moreno in talking about/describing it. But Gayle Hunnicutt is the co-star/female lead. Moreno is OK, but never really been that impressed with her work. Yes, I know she got an Academy Award for West Side Story and many other awards.
There were 11 Chandler based movies between 49 and 59.