Sepiatone
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But MIRANDA did make good cameras.
Jimmy Stewart is sporting one in *Rear Window* . Of course, for some reason, they blacked out the name.
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Pretty much standard here too, Dark.
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The guy can't help it!
I gotta wish you a happy birthday, Jayne, wherever you are.
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You reminded me of something funny, Duck.
The same mixed up buddy of mine, the one who thought DESI ARNAZ was JAMES AENESS' brother, also once thought MAX ROACH did the music for those "Our Gang" and LAUREL & HARDY flicks!
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Sally Field!
You LIKE her?
You REALLY like her?
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Gotta be MARIE DRESSLER!
Haven't we been though this before? Haven't we decided that indeed, tastes vary too much to arrive at a concensus?
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I don't know the name of that bespectacled man in the last photo, but wasn't he in several Clint Eastwood movies?
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SOUNDER
JERAMIAH JOHNSON
THE CULPEPPER CATTLE COMPANY
PAPER MOON
THE LAST WALTZ
JUDGE ROY BEAN
CABARET
ANIMAL HOUSE
HIGH ANXIETY
THE PAPER CHASE
3 DAYS OF THE CONDOR
FRONT PAGE
THE FRONT
OMEGA MAN
SOYLENT GREEN
PRISONER OF SECOND AVENUE
MARATHON MAN
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Yes, I'D like to see a restored print myself. All this nonsense of playing the surviving soundtrack over a montage of movie stills is annoying. They did the same thing with the Garland/Mason *A Star Is Born* . If THAT'S the best they can do, I'll take the edited version, thank you.
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Being forewarned is being forearmed. Maybe, by reading this, some might think twice before buying tickets. Maybe this will result in lower ticket sales, and lower attendance. Maybe THAT will cause TCM to investigate WHY ticket sales are sluggish, and take steps to avoid this problem in the future.
Or maybe TopBilled is right, and STEAK will go back to 10 cents a pound!
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Didn't finance ask, "Who would want to screw around with Frankie and Annette up on screen"?
I'm sure the answer would be...ANY RED BLOODED AMERICAN 16-17 YEAR OLD BOY!!!
Anyway, MY understanding was that "Diana" was penned by Anka in tribute to a BABYSITTER he had when he was a kid. I always crack up when I think of the line, "You're so OLD". Cripes, the old bat must have been around 14-15 years of age!
It all brings up a memory of a MAD MAGAZINE drawing of Anka sitting on a piano stool banging on a CASH REGISTER instead of a piano!
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One factor to consider, slayton, is that many musicians and composers usually avoid weighing in on such distinctions. Most do what they do to the best of their abilities, and let the chips fall where they may. Three examples I can cite:
1. When once asked, at the age of 80, celebrated classical guitarist ANDRE SEGOVIA answered the question, "How does it feel to be the world's greatest guitarist?" with, "You should ask HIM. I'm still LEARNING!"
2. JOHANESS BRAHMS was the guest of honor at a dinner party hosted by a wealthy Baron who at best could be described as a "Brahms freak". At one point, he poured the maestro a glass of wine while telling him, "This is the BEST wine in my cellar. I like to think of it as my "Brahms" of wines!" Brahms took a sip, made a sour face and said, "Perhaps you'd better bring up your BEETHOVEN!"
3. While a guest on "The Late, Late Show" with Craig Ferguson, Craig made referrence to MORGAN FREEMAN that Freeman was perhaps the "Greatest Actor in America". Freeman motioned to Ferguson to come closer and said, "Let me tell you a secret....there's NO SUCH THING"
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There's a few ways to look at the ending of *Shane* . One is that he feels who he is and what he's been will keep following him anywhere he goes, and it's best for all if he leaves.
Or, the love/lust tension between him and the sodbuster's wife is too keen and he likes the farmer too much to risk staying and disturbing that.
Or, he feels the kid, who grew to idolize him, needed a better influence to grow up with than a migratory gunfighter.
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Why NOT complain here as well? This helps the REST of us avoid getting hoodwinked. Too bad you went through that, marxphan. They could have at least offered a second showing that would honor those tickets.
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So the Georgina Spelvin movie WASN'T a remake?
Dang!
All kidding aside, it IS a good movie, and I'll try to catch it.
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Romance? Speaking of which...
To emphasize what James was going on about concerning differing "public" releases, the movie TCM showed a few nights ago, "A LITTLE Romance", had the opening scenes of the French kid watching old American movies in some theater. Some of the movies were dubbed, and this movie had the movies being shown subtitled. You may have noticed that some of the dialogue was changed from what we knew to be familiar.
That is, if you can make ANY sense of what I just wrote!
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I don't know if that's his name, but he WAS a familiar face around the '50's and '60's in movies and television. He was one of the "traveling salesmen" in the quirky opening of *The Music Man* . He also played BETTY WHITE'S husband in her early '50's sitcom, and was WARD CLEAVER in the pilot of *Leave It To Beaver* before replaced by HUGH BEUMONT.
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What I find to be cute, mm, is that you keep making referrence to RECORD SALES. I've never SEEN any Bernard Herrmann recordings. I've seen recordings of his MUSIC recorded and conducted by other people, though. I have no info on their level of sales, however.
Record sales DON'T, however, reflect the QUALITY of the music, anymore that ticket sales reflect the quality of any movie. *The Fantastic Four* led the box office returns on one particular weekend, but does this mean, to you, that this movie was BETTER than, say, *Argo* or *Lincoln* ? No, it doesn't.
Look, we all here agree that Herrmann was a fantastic composer. What we're in disagreement on is that he was the GREATEST. Herrmann himself would take you to task on that. If you're basing things on proficiency, then HARRY WARREN would top the list as that he composed music for far more movies than Herrmann and Goldsnith combined, many of the songs from those movies became HITS over the years( At Last, I Only Have Eyes For You, to name only a couple), and the record sales for just THOSE TWO SONGS leave any Herrmann record sales stats in the dust!
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I just sent you my e-mail address again, Dothery. Try it once more.
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"Perfect" ending IS subjective. The only thing we'll accomplish here is a list of favorites. So far, a couple of my favorites have already been mentioned. To that I'd like to add:
*Miracle on 34th Street* . Not only was the house in little Natale's picture found, but when they spot the all too familiar looking cane leaning in the corner, well, it DOES give everyone pause, doesn't it?
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Hey! If SPENCER TRACY, JOHN GARFIELD, MARLON BRANDO, HEDY LAMARR, ELI WALLACH and WALLACE BEERY can play Mexicans, why NOT ANN SHERIDAN??
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You MEANT to say you were showing the "real" version, didn't you?
Like those college kids, I, too, first saw *Reefer Madness* while in the grips of said madness. But have seen it several times since. Even still have the old VHS around here. Cracks me up everytime I see it. Funniest unintentional comedy? You BETCHA!
But the message was spot on. Smoking that evil stuff can lead to tragedy. Look what happened to that one poor guy in the film...reduced to "starring" in all those "Pete Smith" shorts!
Awful. Just AWFUL. :_|
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OK, to be more specific.
How many here were concieved in backseats at drive-in theaters that were showing a "Frankie and Annette" beach movie?
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I hope you realize, James, that I was in full agreement with you when I brought up that example. In fact, I brought it up in an attempt to augment your point!
It's generally a figure of speech when someone calls them the "real" versions. The original public release CAN differ from what was originally intended by the director. But, if the director wasn't also the WRITER of the story, he has little to say about such things. Even said writer doesn't, as the movies being made were the property of the studio. You also have to assume the editor figures in somewhere.
But in the case of Chaplin's movie, since it WAS Chaplin's movie, and HE did the reworking for the '42 version, all anyone can complain about is that they prefer the ORIGINAL release. After all, it was likely the one they fell in love with, and even the one who concieved the whole thing making subtle changes is seen as messing with sacrelidge.
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Oh, that face, that fabulous face II - Post 1950's. Whose is it?
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HAH! I KNEW that was him!
Whoever he is...
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