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Btw... Good on ya, Hibi. Hopefully the suits around here will recognize a good idea when they see it.

Yep, and so... "YeeeeAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!" (...well...you ASKED, Hibi!!!)

Actually a very good point here...Kid !

Hey now, MissW. Is you twyin' to fool people here again or somethin'?!

Now now, James...you must remember..."bad boys" always look SO much hotter in Black and White!!! I mean, just take a gander at THIS "bad boy" HERE and then tell me how much less "hot" he'd look with a little color in his cheeks, EH?!... (...yep, it would take that whole "devil-may-care" look CLEAN away from this dude, now wouldn't ya say?!...yep, somethin' like THAT might make him look a little WIMPY even!!!) LOL

So, does this perhaps ALSO mean that the Hollies' "Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress" was written about THIS woman HERE???... (...sorry, just had to ask!)

(...oh what the heck...every OTHER freakin' thread around here lately eventually goes in the direction I'm about to take this one, and so why NOT?!...) Geee ND, but here you said(and which I took the liberty to highlight) you even want to see TCM show those "low-budget Saturday matinee" sci-fi flicks TOO. And so, I might ask here: Seein' as how so many folks around this place think the "C" in TCM stands for "Classic", as in "really well-made movies recognized by many if not most people as 'classics' and made during the studio era", now tell me here...are THOSE kind of flicks REALLY "classics"??? (...he pointedly asked...and I HOPE you realize here that my point ISN'T that TCM shouldn't show these particular films you'd like to see, BUT to EMPHASIZE the idea that the people who keep sayin' TCM should ONLY show "classics" made during the studio era are..well..I guess "incongruous in their reasoning" might be the best AND most polite manner in which I could state this)

Well, I guess maybe the yogi there MIGHT have caught a little of my "essence", but the older I get the more I think another old bearded gentleman, Walter here, might TRULY catch more of it... (...and now without further ado, back to The Great War...)

Hey, even my "serious thoughtful side"(I think it's my left side, btw) can't see the pic you tried to post. Swithin! Wanna try again? 'Cause I'm dyin' to see it. I DO hope it catches my "essence", though. (...and if you've ever had YOUR "essence" caught in anything, then you know JUST how much THAT hurts!)

Eeh! I liked my answer better, Lynn! (...yours is MUCH too technical!!!)

Hey! I'll have YOU know that I've CONSCIOUSLY(as compared to my usual unconscious state) been cuttin' down(well, for the MOST part anyway) my ratio of glib one-liners around here, MISTER Swithin!!! Evidently you haven't read THAT bit of "News", EH?! (...and so I think I know who I'll go to to get that bit of "news" out there...oh wait, that's right...that guy has me on his ignore function now...DRATS!!!) LOL

Ooooh...NOW you've done it! (...you "hater", you!!!) LOL

Why, haven't you HEARD, Ham??? (..."we're scarin' 'em away"!!!) LOL

How about W. Somerset Maugham's THE RAZOR'S EDGE ? I've always thought of that as perhaps the quintessential Lost Generation story, and with its outcome having the WWI veteran protagonist for the most part rejecting the western culture of war and material gain.

Yeah, I got one, Andy! Seein' as how there's a particular lady around here who thinks "bad boys" are really hot AND sometimes no matter their looks...well...do you think she might find Mr. Floyd there kinda hot TOO??? (...or maybe I should just ask her, huh!) LOL

Thanks, James. Ya know, after I entered that, the thought that TCM had done this somewhere along the line and possibly during their Oscar month series crossed my mind.

That's actually a very intriguing idea there Christine, but what say we take this idea to the next logical step: Perhaps a new TCM series where it would present a block of films which feature the actors and actresses who where nominated for their performances in the same category and in the same year? Possibly including the Supporting Role categories, also? And then as you said, the viewer could decide for themselves who they thought the Oscar should have gone to. Does anyone know if TCM has ever done this in the past?

NO WAY! (...says comedian Steven Wright)

You didn't finish the quote, Rich! (...I think it ends with somethin' about "a trip to the moon")

Nah, Rich. That was just me entering over and over again that I want TCM to show "I Married Wyatt Earp" as soon as possible. (...I mean, ya gotta admit, she IS pretty darn cute!)

WHOA now, mr6666! Excuse me here, but when people post somethin' like THIS, isn't it now the "correct protocol" to FIRST state that it's "News"??? (...man...I'm tellin' ya...you people are REALLY confusin' me around here lately, YA KNOW!!!)

To be honest with ya, I'm with Mr.R here James, and think it was more the idea that he lost Hallie to Rance because of his selfless act. And so, getting back to Rick Blaine and how he handled himself after doing pretty much the same thing, I'll bring up the idea that at least Rick had "a cause"(a major world conflict) to then fight for, and as compared to Tom who pretty much was only left to stew over his actions on a lonely western ranch, and with the "cause" of statehood not being that major an issue in comparison.

Yep. In fact, one of the scenes early on in THE BIG PARADE shows John Gilbert's American girlfriend saying to him after hearing the U.S. had declared war on Germany, "Isn't this exciting?! You'll look so handsome in an officer's uniform!" And then of course you have Virginia Mayo saying to Dana Andrews after the next war and when she sees him in civilian clothes for the first time saying something to the effect of him "not looking like himself".

Yep, and THEN there was the "master" of this: Michael Cimino, and his "masterpiece" of this "syndrome", HEAVEN'S GATE, an otherwise fascinating tale of late-19th Century America bogged down in too many places by scenes which should and could have probably have been shortened by a minute or so, and once the point being made within the shot had been expressed! I also always felt this way about Jack Nicholson's CHINATOWN sequel THE TWO JAKES. A possibly much better film IF he just would have edited it better.

Here's ya some little known Hollywood trivia: The wig RJ is sportin' there is the same one his wife would later use in "Gypsy"! (...betcha didn't know THAT, now did ya?!)