Sgt_Markoff
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Me thankum you heap much! I had a subscription to some kind of concert vault website for a while, but could never find it. I totally overlooked the obvious. Gonna check these out...!
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If nothing really leaps to mind so far as I have laid out the question, I will also accept choice land-borne candidates like Robert Mulligan's Custer ('Little Big Man'), Otto Preminger's leather-jackboot-loving commandant ('Stalag 17') or Henry Fonda's Lt. Colonel Thursday ('Fort Apache').
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Thanks--may I ask, how would your describe his personality in that one? I don't know it. Is he status-conscious? Insecure? Grasping? A martinette?
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Hallo, I need to make a list of a few of the most memorable cinematic submarine commanders; or (in a pinch) their opposing surface-ship counterparts. American Navy, ideally; but any captain with an eccentric, erratic, or bombastic personality will suit.
Comedies, or straightforward war movies, or even any kind of maritime drama, all acceptable. I'm somewhat inclining my search towards intense, driven, over-the-edge characters; but even hapless, harried, and hangdog types are also of interest.
'Yes' to Richard Widmark in 'Bedford Incident', Jimmy Cagney in 'Mister Roberts', Clark Gable in 'Run Silent Run Deep', Jurgens/Mitchum in 'The Enemy Below', Cary Grant in 'Destination Tokyo' (although rather bland, better Cary Grant in 'Operation Petticoat', yes to Tom Tully (rather than Humphrey Bogart) in 'Caine Mutiny'...nix on John Wayne in 'Operation Pacific' or whatever that was called....catch my drift?
Thanks in advance for any contributions!
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I'm unfamiliar with SOTM airing patterns. In the Newman list above, I see 24 titles. What I meant was, if during the course of any random one month (out of twelve per year), new viewers tune in any night during that month of their first introduction to the station, and they find B-titles frequently playing in prime-time slots, then the station could lose them. They'd see the most scurrilous popular accusations against classic flicks, justified. And what I mean by 'mission' is that 'surviving' is always the #1 goal. AMC is an example of how a slide can occur.
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Indeed I too, share the sentiment of honoring all the talents who worked in cinema, highest to lowest---not just the most notable. Sending these forgotten legions our appreciation and highlighting the credit they deserve, is a noble thing.
On the other hoof, I can't imagine how B films could feasibly be used in a 'Star of the Month' scheduling choice. Might even jeopardize the station's ratings and viability at the root of its mission.
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this is only about "half" of the classic studio output from the production code era.
Not to mention the untold numbers lost to nitrate stock combustion (and other vault fires unrelated to nitrate, such as losses in private collections).
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But are those the only choices?
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Thanks for fielding that one JJG. I don't have enough familiarity with Gable / Lombard || on-screen pairings, I just assumed they did a good job.
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'A New Kind of Love' does indeed have a quiet but loyal reputation among devotees. Glad to see it mentioned here. The first Paul Newman film I might have ever saw--or at least, the first film of his I ever saw when he was still 'on the rise', not-a-big-name-yet, when he was still being occasionally mis-cast and making occasional duds or sleepers--was ...The Helen Morgan Story? Do I recall the title correct? Co-starring someone like Anne Blythe? Was that the flick where he plays her agent and he is an utter churl? He was great in that role, playing a real ****!
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I happened to catch Tommy in an errant little TV movie once; (I think I was probably staying at a friend's house and this flick was what they wanted to watch that evening). Anyway, while I didn't think very much of the production values or direction; nonetheless I did appreciate Jones, he's a fairly talented actor with plenty of screen presence. Similar in verve to James Caan, in a way. Unusual to see him in this small-screen role; and I wondered why he chose it. Oh well. Its a thriller set in NYC and Jones plays a disgruntled malcontent who has somehow rigged Central Park with explosives; and he's holding everyone in it, hostage. "This Park is Mine". The plot is decently clever. For much of the film, Jones wears tactical gear and lugs an M-16 around; who wouldnt look good doing that?
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I wouldnt be adverse to an 'all musicals' station even though I am mostly not a fan of musicals. In this case though, I think it would provide a reliable stream of fantasy and otherworldliness.
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Were it not for Lombard (which certainly settles the matter definitively against this next opinion I'm about to utter...) I would've said Gable and Harlowe must have had the most sizzling on screen chemistry and maybe even in real life. They struck sparks off each other in things like 'China Seas' (my fave pairing). That flick is a riot.
"You big lug!"
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Yowza. Wild stuff. Y'know I read a biography of him once but I sure didnt recall that part. Maybe I only skimmed it or flipped through the juicy parts. Or, was this bit-of-business only recently unearthed?
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Hughes was such a fascinating sod. What a life. All the things he saw and did. Wonder what exactly was, his psychological state in the end. I can well understand Scorcese's fascination with him, (but I scoffed at that self-indulgent flick he made). Instead, I like Jason Robards in 'Howard and Melvin'.
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Very fine writing for sure. I like the tone and all the formatting and of course the rich plethora of detail. Good job!
p.s. Irving Thalberg was adopted as the basis for the protagonist in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, "The Last Tycoon". Unfinished, but pretty slick take on studio rivalries. The theme of the book is that of a talented man taken down by less-accomplished underlings.
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That is certainly part of the Hughes legend. I first learned about it reading one of Hunter S. Thompson's compendiums. I think Hughes also owned a drive-in movie theater near his penthouse and he did the same thing; so that when he looked out the window he could see it in the distance there, as well.
Anyway its a great anecdote, Beetle.
LawrenceA has the right idea --thinking of others and being conscientious--but if it were me (and if this wasn't a factor) I would run flicks that are extremely visual and which can be absorbed without dialog. Such as:
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- The Duellists
- The Way Things Work
- Last Year at Marienbad
- Eraserhead
- Koyaanisqati
- experimental and avante-garde cinema from the 1920s
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Heard the name (seen it on ads, commercials, etc) but wouldn't have ever known what he ever appeared in or what he was famous for.
Seems like a pretty common name among 'celebs' these days. Steve Perry, Tyler Perry, Matthew Perry, Katie Perry, Luke Perry...
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- 'Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts'. (Latour specializes in the theme of modernity. This title is said to be even better than the iconic work of Thomas Kuhn goes, as far as studying 'the sociology of scientists'.)
- 'The Antonio Gramsci Reader' (Selected Writings 1916 - 1935). Excited to finally get around to this one...
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Its really Amazon who owns several big sites like that, these days
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Consider too, the rise in automation (especially factories) and the decline of US steel and other big American industries. The increase in products made overseas, which flood all our stores these days. At one time we made our own products and the world came to our door and bought them from us. I admit my original remark sounded glib and cheap, but this is what underpins the sentiment. Muscle cars were not just an affectation or a style, when they first emerged. That's all I'm saying...
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Just speaking generally and broadly, I know I'm right, right, right. The country in general, was harder-working then, more so than it is now. Thanks to the explosion of the information age, and the rise of the service sector, if nothing else. The increase in 'sedentary' professions. No need to single out individual family to support your viewpoint; individual exceptions don't really signify when discussing macro trends on this scale...I mean, I could cite all scores of hard-working men in my town who drove these cars when I was growing up..it wouldn't matter in the end, because its all purely anecdotal. We're talkin' 'helicopter-view' terms here...
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I think you'd be a NATURAL for it, dude!
--Fargo
Its a hot-button topic with me, I admit. The hypocrisy of these 'good neighbors' who make showy demonstrations of holiday 'enthusiasm' for three weeks out the year ...but at all other times, lazily spurn any real meaning or spirit of this very holiday they profess to admire so much. Blatantly 'saying' one thing but then 'doing' another...bah! Its difficult to swallow back down on the gorge and spleen which rise to the back of my throat, in this case.
Barrels of hot tar and cockerel feathers on every corner might teach 'em a lesson maybe...or just (in my wildest fantasies) simply hang every such householder from the nearest lamppost with a stout length of hemp...
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You're exactly right in assuming I don't own a camera. I don't!
...I know my duty, Marshal...have you ever faced grapeshot...I was at Bull Run...!
...I know my duty, Marshal...have you ever faced grapeshot...I was at Bull Run...!
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"The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones" -- Julius Caesar, Act III part ii
(I'm never all that brushed up on my W.S., but this is one of my go-to's)