Dargo
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A film that I recently brought up on another thread was Blake Edward's EXPERIMENT IN TERROR. Henry Mancini's music really compliments the film.
OH yeah, Mr.R. Mancini was at the top of his game during the era of this film's production. His theme for TV's "Peter Gunn" still resonates. In fact, a few years back I even downloaded that theme as my cellphone ring for a while.
(...not that I thought I was Craig Stevens or anything, you understand)
Btw, speakin' o' which...listen to the "cool jazz" Mancini-esque score in this Flintstones parody of that TV series here and I think one can see(or I guess listen to) how Mancini would become a driving force in scoring jazz into Noir type films and make it almost synonymous with that genre...
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...and the 50's Japanese sci fi THE MYSTERIANS .
Oh yeah, Mr.R. No..ahem..question(mark) about it. I remember shedding..ahem.."96 Tears" the first time I watched that Japanese flick!
(...sorry)
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Actually Ham, the name 'MeTV" isn't referring to some "first-person obsession syndrome", but is an abbreviation of "Memorable Entertainment Television".
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You left out a couple happenings of the last two days (because ppl went way off topic)
June 24:
2005: Ventriloquist and cartoon voice actor Paul Winchell dies at age 82. Winchell, known for his dummies Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smiff, also voiced characters for Hanna Barbera, and Disney, most notably Tigger from Winnie the Pooh.
June 25:
2009: Actress Farrah Fawcett and singer Michael Jackson die. Fawcett was 62; Jackson 50.
Well, I HOPE I'm not goin' "way off topic here", but regarding Paul Winchell...I just want to say what a shame it is that the producers of his "Winchell-Mahoney Time" children's TV program of the 1960s would end up destroying most the tapes of that show and thus denying many of us Boomers the pleasure of watching in later years this very talented man do his act.
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Arnold?????
Yeah, YOU know, Hibi. That big lug who somehow got enough Californians to vote for him that he ended up in Sacramento for a while!
(...man, it's tough when ya gotta explain 'em!)
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It was called a cloche. It was popular throughout the 20s, but coincidentally went out of style at the very end of the decade. Early 1930s hats were less helmet like, and then what I think is called the Eugenie hat was worn by Garbo in a movie, and most women's hats for the next few years were variations of it. These are the ones worn tilted on the head.
So Arturo. Seein' as how you seem to be up on this whole women's hat thing here, tell me...what's with those things all those British babes are wearin' on their heads over there that they call "Fascinators", HUH?!
(...man, I'm tellin' ya, now THOSE things are REALLY odd, wouldn't ya say?!)
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But yea, romance stories are just easier to write when the man is well off. To me this is similar to how what appears to be 'middle class' families all have maids!
Hey, speakin' o' "maids" and "romances"....anybody know what Arnold's up to lately???
(...sorry...jus' couldn't resist)
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A hat.
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I have seen the ending to Born to Kill; but not the beginning. I liked it a lot. Some of the shortcomings of the story were compensated by how well-done it was; I really liked the shots; the lighting; the images.
I think you can thank director Robert Wise for most of that of course, Lorna. He really did an excellent job with this film, in my opinion.
Although, in that short thirty minutes, I fell madly in love with the enchantress whose photo is above and below: Esther Howard (no Hoffman; not the Streisand one.) Oh this creature; like the long lost, extra-boozy sister of Marjorie Rambeau and Gladys George; just a dash of Sylvia Miles in Farewell my Lovely; maybe even some Ewok in her too.
It was her film. She owned it.
Just retitle it Mrs. Kraft.
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Funny post here...and yeah, I can see what you mean. She was absolutely great in that role and it really added a lot to the film.
In the same vein, let us not forget the wonderful contribution that Walter Slezak as the sleazy but somehow still lovable private Investigator made to this film. I thought the final scene where he's reading the newspaper about the whole thing and with an expression of "well, that's life" and then walking down that San Francisco street was one of the best endings of a movie I've seen in some time.
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Yeah, I'm watchin' it right now, clore. And yeah, MY guess is that it's not that "2009 restored print from UCLA", either! LOL
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Phillip Terry
...and...
Lyle Talbot
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Lawrence Tierney: George Raft with a body weight and height increase of approximately 20%, with approximately 15% better line-reading ability, and with overall approximately 10% better acting ability than Raft.
(...well, at least those are MY 'figures" anyway...though as usual, yours may vary)
Funny thing is that even with those modest increased "figures", I can usually believe Tierney in his roles, but whereas I could NEVER believe Raft in almost anything he was ever in...though once again with the exception of his turn in "Some Like It Hot", and where he was basically just parodying himself.
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Dargo, so now you get to see Stephanie on Hart to Hart! YAY!
Yeah!
Decided to give Suddenlink one more chance.
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On January 28, 2013, Fox Television Stations and Weigel Broadcasting announced the formation of Movies!,
Thanks, James.
(...and there's your answer, Hibi)
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Is MOVIES! A new network? I hadnt heard of it.....dont think I get it (yet). I do get THIS and METV.
I'm not sure, Hibi. All I know is that I switched to cable("Suddenlink" here in AZ) from DirectTV a few months back, and now get MeTV in channel 131 and MOVIES!(and what "Svengoolie" is on) on channel 139.
(...and we were going to switch back to our original internet provider and DirectTV because Suddenlink's internet service kept going off and on, but now it appears they've fixed the problem, and so for the meantime we're stickin' with the present arrangement)
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Well, seein' as how "keeping Stats" seems to be the latest trend around here...
NEWS FLASH:
So far in this baby we have TWO votes for Connie, ONE for Sandra, and ONE vote that they're pretty much the same!
OH, and yeah...one vote who wanted to know if Eddie Fisher found Connie anything like Debbie Reynolds...that was my vote.
(...stay tuned...more "news" to follow as more "stats" come in)
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Once again. MeTV does NOT show old movies. They show old TV shows. The Werewolf movie was actually the old TV show Svengoolie.
this network shows mostly old movies.
The confusion lay in the OP's failure to include the "MOVIES!" network(the sister station to "MeTV") in the title of his "News" flash here, TheCid.
The MOVIES! network primarily shows many of the same studio era films which TCM presents, but with the inclusion of commercials, though THANKFULLY(and as I noted a few pages back) with those commercials inserted far less often into a film than AMC does.
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I gotta admit I got a good laugh out of it too, clore!
(...and I'm glad to see TB took this little joshing well)
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I don't know, but I thought the print quality of these films was rather dreadful. The Robinson film seemed like an old copy made forty or fifty years ago for television syndication, and the Bette Davis film was so washed out in spots and then so dark and hard to see in other spots that I gave up-- and I had a feeling it was an interesting story with good performances. But not worth the aggravation of trying to figure out what was supposed to be on screen.
You DO know why this is, doncha TB?
It's 'cause film should always be stored in a cool space.
And unfortunately word from across the pond is that those "cool spaces" were equipped with air-conditioning supplied by the Lucas Electrical Company of Great Britain. Uh-huh, THAT'S right...the same company that supplied the electrical systems for all those old British cars and motorcycles back in the day.
(...and I THINK we ALL know how "reliable" THOSE systems were...yep, once the "smoke" "escaped" out of the wires, it wasn't good anymore!)
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...Connie Stevens, to me, is sort of a cross between Debbie Reynolds and Joey Heatherton.
Gee, I wonder if Eddie Fisher might've thought the same thing?
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Is she seen topless though? Yes, she takes her top off but as I recall her b-r-e-a-s-t-s are somehow hidden from the view of the camera.
There are other topless women in the movie but (again if I recall) there no big reveal from Vanessa Redgrave.
Oh, she was topless in this film alright, Holden. And, I gotta admit I was a little turned on by it too!
(...well, until she started jerking around to that jazz music in the weirdest way, and then for some reason I lost a little interest in her!)
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...I like the ambiguity. I like the uncertainty. I like the indefiniteness. It provides opportunities for speculation which can add illumination on being, perception, and the things we take for granted that create a predictable world for us.
And which I often prefer in films myself, slayton. However, my opinion is that all those "qualities" come best when done in moderation, because TOO much of those "qualities" CAN result in a "jumbled mess" of a narrative, and the idea that just because many is not most viewer of a "cryptic" film such as this will find it "intriguing" to attempt to make some sense of it, doesn't, in my view anyway, automatically make it a "great" movie.
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Right-- and I have considered that. But I am afraid that if I pose it as a question then it leads to a soft discussion. And I think some of these items are hard topics that require hard discussion. So it almost has to be a sensational claim right out of the gate. I know some people are going to despise the next one, but like I said I feel it has to be addressed.
Ooooh-KAY! But don't say I didn't warn ya here, dude.
(...you little "instigator", you!)
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I already know that my next News thread is going to be very controversial. It involves a point that has been hinted at by others in various threads that people are afraid to come out and openly discuss. But I think we have to discuss it. In a way, it is related to the searches-- but it involves who or what is having an effect on the searches and if that is a good thing or not. I have to write the original post in a way that invites respectful conversation-- but it is a subject that cannot be avoided for long.
Well then TB, here's ya a little "helpful hint"...
The NEXT one o' these you post, you MIGHT consider asking it as an "open question", and little less so as a definitive "News Item".
(...'cause I HOPE you see by now how doin' that latter thing in THIS baby kinda sorta had you needlessly defendin' yourself, and when I actually think you were onto somethin' here)
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Well, sonnava gun! I guess I wasn't as "off-topic" as I THOUGHT I was here then, huh!
(...I'll try harder next time) LOL