Sepiatone
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I can add an example of sort of the same thing.
Years ago, on the late show( pre-cable, and therefore pre-TCM) I saw a movie called *The Big Carnival* . Starred Kirk Douglas and Jan Sterling. Even the movie's INTRODUCTION had it titled so.
Most of you might know it as *Ace In The Hole* .
Still, the title sequence said otherwise. So, WHO did the doctoring? The local TV station? Did a good job of it if they did! It didn't affect, however, how good of a movie it is.
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By the way, Miles, Anderson DID play Lincoln a few times.
Oddly enough, so did ROYAL DANO!
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Look a little deeper, Fly.
Filmlover listed Goldsmith.
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I saw what I THOUGHT might have been doctored movies. I'm still struggling to reconcile whether or not they WERE doctored, or my MEMORY was wonky.
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Lest we forget:
Leonard Bernstein
Elmer Bernstein
Randy Newman
David Raskin
Henry Mancini
Neil Hefti
David Amram
As I stated earlier, Herrmann had a distinctive style that was oft repeated in many scores. The novice might walk away thinking Herrmann was a "one trick pony". His earlier( pre-'50's) work was much better, in my opinion.
As to who was the "best" does remain a personal opinion. As for me, the jury is still out.
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As TCM stands for "Turner Classic Movies", I imagine it would be inclusive to most of the 100 or so years spectrum of movie making. And that includes silents as well. There ARE many people, in this forum as well, that like silent films. I'm limited in my appreciation, and can only enjoy certain ones. As far as Chaplin goes, I much prefer BUSTER KEATON and HAROLD LLOYD. But it's hard NOT to take kindly to Chaplin's *The Kid* . I STILL find it hard to believe that adorable little tyke grew up to be Uncle Fester!
Like all OTHER television channels, we all have to endure the showing of fare we don't particularily like, and just be patient and wait for what we DO.
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Doing a small bit of research, I could only find 29 movies in Lynn's filmography. James is right about pushing it. It would be pushing it HARD.
If he's done more "secondary" work, it would hardly make him a "star", so therefore a SOTM nod wouldn't be fitting.
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His name's John Anderson, isn't it? Seems I recall him in several *Twighlight Zone* episodes.
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Not a Chaplin liker, I take it?
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While Robinson's signing to the AMERICAN major league was followed by a mere 11 weeks after by Doby, doby was indeed the first black player in the American league( Robinson was in the National league).
And even though doby's career was longer, Robinson's final tally stats are a bit better.
And to quote someone on the subject, "Giving attention to the SECOND negro to sign with the majors is like giving attention to the SECOND man who invented the telephone".
At any rate, Doby never resented the attention Robinson got, even though the crap they went through was at the same level.
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Regardless, Fred, I don't think women in Mexico dressed the same in 1925 as they might have in 1885!
But there's an interesting aspect mentioned. I too, have come across situations of where there's SUPPOSED to be some actor in some movie, but I fail to see it. I also see people who resemble OTHER actors or actresses but wind up not being them, or not even related. For example, there's some guy that appears in one of the THIN MAN movies that looks so much like BRUCE DERN, you might wonder if he was Dern's father. THEN you research and discover that Dern's dad wasn't even in the business!
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Well, don't look at ME. I'd be too busy asking RO how he likes having the Tigers stomp all over the "beloved" Yankees, or why New Yorkers can't simply suggest getting some pizza, rather than saying "let's go GET A SLICE". Or why too many New York pizzarias have a dislike for putting CHEESE on them? ( Or maybe it was only the place I got pizza from when in NYC. They put on three measly rectangular slices of mozzarella on the whole thing, and IF you were lucky, you might wind up with the piece with SOME cheese on it! And razor thin, the crust was)
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You're right, Dargo. I apologize. I realized it after it was posted, but didn't feel like going back to edit. But I have to admire your TASTE!
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Because it's in this FORUM, Hibi.
If you want to look at the "big picture", NONE of whatever gets discussed here is really all that "important". It's merely stuff that's interesting to this particular group of people.
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Edited by: Sepiatone on Apr 15, 2013 12:28 PM
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Herrmann USED to sound repetative to me, since many of his scores after *The Day The Earth Stood Still* sounded like small reworkings of that score. I was more impressed by his score of *Citizen Kane* than any others.
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Just from the photo provided, Sheridan looks to be in costume from a far different time period than when the movie takes place. She might have been hanging around the set a the time, or came by to discuss something with Huston. By the time TREASURE was made, she was certainly too big a name to do an insignificant walk-on. But then, who knows. I really wouldn't have noticed, given the make-up job she had in the photo. After all, it was only recently I discovered the little Mexican boy that sold Dobbs the lottery ticket was Robert Blake!
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I didn't know the show was on for that long, either! By '65, I thought the show was long gone since I only recalled it as a fond memory. That was about the time *Lost In Space* started up, and I remember thinking that ANGELA CARTWRITE, whom I used to have a crush on, must have been glad to finally get back on TV after having been off of it for so long.
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I don't know just how much "spark" Lynn would have added to Wilkes, since the character hadn't much spark to begin with. But he would have been a more believable southern gentleman than the British Howard. I'm in the group whose thoughts are that Howard, a marvelous actor nonetheless, was terribly miscast in this movie, too.
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If it were MY shower, I probably wouldn't complain! ]
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My money's on the "Gorton Fisherman"!
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I'll take out the "Twilight" franchise if you destroy all the PAULY SHORE movies!
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Been meaning to see it. At first, I thought you were asking if we have ACTUALLY seen Hitchcock, and thought his apparition had been spotted around. THEN I thought it might be a thread about spotting him in various movies, in which he always manages to show up, whether in actuality, or merely a newspaper photo or the like. I have a book about Hitch which in the back has a list of just when, in each movie, he can be spotted and how.
I too, liked Vera Miles, and it's dissapointing her career didn't get going better than it did. There's a scene in the movie *The Morning After* where Jane Fonda explains to Jeff Bridges that when a young actress, she was groomed to be "the next Vera Miles". Jeff innocently asks, "Who?" and Fonda's character laughs derisively and says, "That's right! I was to replace an actress that nobody knew was GONE!"
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Damn, wouldbe, I just WATCHED that episode last night!
Sad to hear of his passing. He's responsible for my pronouncing it "Gar-BAHGE" to this very day! And I sorely miss Maude Fricker!
Yes, ahead of his time, and in a class all his own.
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Fred, you were 13 years old in 1955?
That makes you younger than even YOU make yourself sound! And younger than my WIFE.
But the passing of Annette Funicello is a sad topic likely due to what she might have meant to people her age and even younger. A large part of our childhood memories is now gone, reminding us of how much closer WE are getting to the last lap of our mortality.
But at least we here ARE remembering Ms. Funicello for something other than her misfortunate illness. Whether it's her big chest, big hair, big eyes or big smile makes no difference. That we're remembering her FONDLY is the point. Annette always seemed to be the kind of person anybody would like to KNOW, regardless if that knowledge be biblical or otherwise.
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Bernard Herrmann
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My two favorite film scores are for:
1. *Amadeus* , music by Wolfgang Mozart
2. *Immortal Beloved* , music by Ludwig Von Beethoven
Herrmann was good, but c'MON!
Seriously, mm123 could have done worse in his choice, but it IS correct to point out it's basically personal opinion. A fitting tribute, however, was that when MARTIN SCORCESE did his remake of *Cape Fear* , he chose to use Herrmann's original score.
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