Dargo
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Plus, Zhivago was made right in the middle of The 60's- which, again, I was not alive during, but it is my understanding that they were nuts and it shows in the films- I think there was an effort to have Zhivago reflect the (at the time) present-day.
Hmmmm...interesting premise here..."Kid"(wink, wink), however I've never noticed any of these "anachronisms" any time I've watched this film. As I believe MissW or maybe it was Swithin pointed out earlier, adultery is as old as the hills(or maybe the Ural Mountains might be more appropriate here) , and I still think the basic problem with this movie is that the two leads who commit the adultery are just sooooo damn BOR-ing!
(...and have little chemistry, as I said much earlier in this thread)
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Yeah, I too can't say I "hate it", as I've always felt the cinematography is excellently done. However, perhaps primarily because I've felt the thin romance storyline of which I've never picked up on any real "chemistry" going on between the two leads, I've pretty much thought of this film as one of Lean's "lesser efforts".
(...in fact, I've always thought of this story as sort of an "Ashley and a slightly nicer Scarlett had run off together during the political upheaval of their own country", and without a more bolder central character(i.e. Rhett) it pretty much equals "BOR-ing")
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"Well, opinions are like ***holes. Everybody has one." (Clint Eastwood in The Dead Pool)
And if that doesn't work, I'll say
"**** with me, buddy, I'll kick your *** so hard you'll have to unbutton your collar to ****.
(also Clint Eastwood in The Dead Pool)
Ooooh, now Clint has some good ones of course, Rich. My favorite:
"A man's gotta know his limitations." - from MAGNUM FORCE
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Being an avid motorcyclist, I remember watching the TV movie PRAY FOR THE WILDCATS (1974) when it first aired, and a story in which Andy Griffith would make a return to playing an unseemly bad guy(as in his Lonesome Rhodes) and who among William Shatner, Robert Reed and Marjoe Gortner(you remember him...the wacko in "Earthquake") take off on a long motorcycle venture and wherein mayhem ensues.
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Well, if we're gonna talk "Julie Harris" here...
I can't think of anyone else who would have been better than her as "Nell" in THE HAUNTING, and which was my first exposure to her years and years ago.
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Spinning?
Yeah, you know. Like how finance keeps himself in such good shape.
(...that was my reference here...just thought you'd get it)
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LOL. Sadly, we're all getting old. He really doesnt look too bad considering.....
Gotta say, Roger DOES keep himself in pretty good trim.
(...say, ya think he does that there Spinning Class thing TOO???)
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I'm sure it was an error, Dargo. It's not like he isn't known for his humbleness.
LOL
(...yeah...riiiiiiight)
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You have reached your quota of positive votes for the day
And here I thought I was too negative about things.
Wait! YOU "negative", GayD???
(...lady, if YOU'RE "negative" than I'M "the world's biggest cynic"...and I know THAT ain't true even in THIS microcosm of the world around HERE!!!) LOL
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You get five per day (as I understand). Curious, isn't it? With all the sniping that goes on, you'd think they would be happy that we're being nice to each other. They probably worry that, like anything else, it can be abused, or overused for some strange nefarious purpose that someone might dream up. But only five? How about ten, or twelve? Yeah, 12, that's good.
Yeah, well, considering these short rations of "Likes" we're allowed, one must always remember to never waste any of 'em by liking one of their own posts....and which I saw one guy do around here recently! LOL
(...but I'm certainly NOT going to name names here, of course!)
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LOL. Did I really have to see that??? You could have at least posted a younger picture........
Well, that's what Roger looked like that last time I saw him and Pete in concert, anyway!
(...and unfortunately, just like Sir Paul, I THINK it might be time for 'em to hang it up...none of 'em can hit even close to those high notes anymore)
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But didn't I see somewhere that Tallulah Bankhead recorded a cover The Hollies's "Bus Stop"?
Hmmmm...like sounds like Shatner's (in)famous take on "Rocket Man" to me, Holden!
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Btw...
I did! We'll see if anything happens. (LOL)...
Good on ya, Hibi. Hopefully the suits around here will recognize a good idea when they see it.
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There's a song in there somewhere.............
Yep, and so...
"YeeeeAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!"
(...well...you ASKED, Hibi!!!)
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So it's great that in such a repressed, postwar, "get-back-to-the-kitchen-woman" time period (as is my understanding of the 1950's, I wasn't alive at the time)- people weren't turned off by, in fact they flocked to see a woman who was so unapolagetically tough on screen, (and when the careers of a lot of actresses who had played tough so well in the decade before were cooling off.)
Actually a very good point here...Kid !
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Yes, it is a little-known fact that the three Holly ("Hollies"?) members who composed it together were all Truman Capote fans. And one of them had dated Audrey Hepburn once or twice, and later made up the chorus in honour of her.
(I can't stop. I can't let go. Must...log....off.......gack!)
Hey now, MissW. Is you twyin' to fool people here again or somethin'?!
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I understand it is an opinion. It is just a ridculous opinon. One that even TopBilled doesn't agree with. In fact I bet that no one at this forum views that POV just as an opinion but instead a completely over the top POV.
Note that TCM showed Gone With a Wind, a color movie, on the first day of programming. TCM has shown color films made during the years 1937 - 1959, since TCM started. So anyone that wishes TCM to NOT show color films made during that era other than the Wizard of Oz, is the one that is asking that TCM change. If I remember correct who was against change?
Just fess up and admit that it is crazy to expect or even wish TCM to NOT show any color movies other than the Wizzard of Oz. We all make over the top comments from time to time. That clearly is one.
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!!!)
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Oh, this is what I get for being coy (an annoying trait.) I was not referring to our exchange about "the treatment of women in old films", james. My most recent post was about the silly story I'd told about the inspiration for the Hollies' hit song, Bus Stop. I guess I should have added a winky emoticon or something.
A few thought I'd actually read the story somewhere, and was posting it in good faith.In fact, I was indulging in a proclivity I sometimes give in to, which is to totally make something up, but make it sound just plausible enough that it sounds believable.
Full disclosure: I don't even know if any of the guys in The Hollies have ever even seen Bus Stop. The movie.
(Although, it is a little known fact that after the release of the hit song, a fan sent them a copy of the original play by William Inge. It's rumoured that Allan Clarke, one of the original members, was so enamoured of Inge's work that he went on to seek out the films Picnic and Come Back, LIttle Sheba, the latter becoming a title for a song Clarke wrote but never recorded.)
edit: this was written to james before I saw finance's post.
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!)
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I guess what I'm always gettin' at is my belief that tcm has decided to more or less disregard the lifelong couch potato / space cadet crowd like myself. So if we want the 1950s science fiction B classics like the creature films, we gotta look elsewhere.
Am I really so outta line simply because I would like to see them shown here on tcm without commercials?
Classic science fiction films whether they be the George Pal classics or the low-budget saturday matinee variety are a part of american mainstream filmdom and they always have been. Yet tcm has decided to consign them to the weekends and tcm underground. Some of these films deserve to be in the spotlight too. At least as much if not more so than many obscure european and french foreign films.
(...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)
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Dargo, don't know why it didn't show, but let's try it not in a response message:
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...)
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I know, you have a very serious, thoughtful side, Darguru. That's you on the left in the photo:
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!)
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If you have ever tried to search for a particular poster, it will reveal an interesting anomaly.
The list of users includes everyone who has ever signed up to participate in the discussion here (both old boards and new boards).
Many of those listed have not been part of the community for years.
But they are still listed and that may explain why the member tally is such a high number.
Eeh! I liked my answer better, Lynn!
(...yours is MUCH too technical!!!)
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Dargo that's far too serious a response from you! But I agree.
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!!!)
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On looking at the ongoing discussion here, I have to wonder, Topbilled, what was the point of your original post? I have to agree to an extent with Fxyman - it really did seem to shout, "Wow - look at how many views my (everincreasing number of) posts have generated!" Isn't the discussion within the threads the point and not meaningless stats regarding them. I mean, popular or unpopular, threads aren't trophies, although common sense would indicate multiple responses to a thread would suggest it was a successful (can that word apply here?) post.
I believe Topbilled is a real TCM board enthusiast, trying to get some discussions going with all these threads, but he also seems to think starting a thread ABOUT his threads is a good idea. Some things one can think, but sharing them isn't really a great idea. (Hmmm - maybe like THIS post?)
And frankly, the continuing argument on whether response count vs view count is more "meaningful" seems like a long distance from the point of the TCM board - an outlet and forum for our mutual love of classic movies.
Ooooh...NOW you've done it!
(...you "hater", you!!!) LOL
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Wait a minute here, MissW..."him/her/SELF"??? I don't understand THIS at all here!
I mean, isn't THIS sorta thing what makes that old joke about, "Why does a dog..well..YOU know...'cause he CAN!", so ironically funny???
(...man, has THIS thread ever gone off the deep end now, EH?!) LOL