Sepiatone
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That's a good choice. It does seem the "modest" movie is falling by the wayside. Or if not, they find very limited distribution. *That Thing You Do* was a movie like that. Oh, it had good distribution, probably due to being directed by TOM HANKS, but it wasn't in the "blockbuster" category, and simply told a good story and was well done. You can also find a list of largely unheard of films on your "free movie" channels of your cable provider that, if watched, might also qualify as "modest" movies.
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Putting my mind to it, I could think of several others. But for now, I would add *Harold and Maude* to that list.
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DANG, Hibi! you beat me and finance to the punch!
I suppose this means you prefer eating "sherbert", too?
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Edited by: Sepiatone on Apr 12, 2013 1:13 PM
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Jeffrey Lynn? Yeah!
LOVED the stuff he did with the ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA!
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My favorite response about religion in a movie was the bit STANLEY ADAMS gave in *Lilies Of The Field* about helping to build the chapel being his "insurance".
This is also an opportunity to sound off about the selfishness some people display in times like this.
To wit, how many people here, whenever we DO get around to mentioning Annette, recall all the GOOD stuff about her? Nobody went on and on about the terrible illness she suffered.
Isn't that the way it usually goes no matter WHO it is? Whether it's a passing "star", or some uncle of ours?
I have little, if any, use for those who refuse to attend the funeral of some "loved one" with the oh-so-lame excuse of, "I want to remember the way he/she WAS."
Well, that half-azzed malarkey would work if it was all about THEM. But it's NOT. And in spite of my caring for my dying Mother for half a year before she died, and seeing her on a daily basis looking the worst she could EVER look, any memory I have of her IS of the way she was!
It's not a word I like to use often, or lightly, but I HATE those kind of bastards!
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Dothery, I sent you a PM about a matter that was brought up earlier. I thought it best rather than discuss it here.
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A lot has happened in this thread since yesterday!
OK, first; Although I knew they're not related, and I never confused the two, I always thought ANN JACKSON and GLENDA looked enough alike to be sisters.
Diefying presidents? Some just can't help it. I know right-wingers who still diefy Dubya, and hard core right wingers who were absolutely disgusted with him. Hard to figure sometimes.
Never having followed British politics much( our OWN political theater having more effect on my life), I had no idea that Thatcher was as disliked as she apparently seemed to be.
As far as our economy goes, I'm afraid my grades in Economy class in school will betray my knowledge( or lack thereof) about how it all works. MY belief was, that the higher the DOW AVERAGE was, the BETTER the economy is doing. And as the Dow was sinking down to below 8,000 when Bush left office, and it's now around, what did Dargo say...15,000, it seems to be doing a bit better. But in MY situation ( retiree ), it makes no matter. My pension saw an increase of a whopping THREE DOLLARS a month in the last year and a half!
But I STILL feel Glenda's speech would have been better suited BEFORE Ms. Thatcher died, rather than immediately AFTER.
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The ONLY Ryan role I didn't think was good was his portrayal of JOHN THE BAPTIST in *King Of Kings* . In that, he seemed to have just shown up and recited.
Everything ELSE he did was done very well. No one else could have done a better "Ty-Ty".
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Just got done watching the link to Jackson's Parliment speech. Surely, not the time for such vitriol, but a the "chair" pointed out, not unparlimentary.
Kinda reminds me of the opposite when Reagan died. Although not the WORST president this country endured, he was far from the BEST. But the conservative element in this country reacted as if the man had accomplished feats so great just stopping short of curing cancer, that it was pathetic to watch. Fortunately, however, those of opposing opinions had the class to just let them have their fun, and NOT publicly, through media or in the chambers, denigrate the man.
But I just gotta admire the way things are done in British Parliment. Much more lively than our stuffy, pretentious procedure in the congressional chamber. Just tune into CSPAN, if you can stay awake that long, to see what I mean.
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I dunno, dpompper, my sister-in-law is diabetic, and makes the best pastries you ever ate!
SHE never eats them, however...
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Burstyn's reaction looked to me as if she felt that even if SHE didn't win, Jackson's getting it was a surprise. I didn't see the movie Jackson got the Oscar for. In fact, the ONLY movie she made I saw all the way through was *Mary Queen of Scotts* .
Truth is, I never liked the way she portrayed her characters. Usually on the snobby side.
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Don't they ALL, Karloffan?
And Dargo, better to look like JAMES Coburn than CHARLES.
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That's PARLEY BAER, the OTHER mayor of Mayberry!
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This sort of thing has happened before. Trouble is, news editors sometimes misread the interests of the American public, or try to cater to what THEY think would interest them more.
One similar incident I recall...
On the same weekend Princess Diana died in a car crash, the deaths of both Mother Teresa and Sir George Solti happened. Guess who got almost all of the coverage? Cripes, most people didn't realize for two or more YEARS that Mother Teresa had passed!
Anyway, I liked Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan as much as the British seem to love (NOT) Margaret Thatcher. However, when either of THEM died, my first thoughts were of their loved ones and friends and an appreciation of their grief.
It seems I had mistakenly thought the British had CLASS.
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If you drew Drew's dew as Drew would do, would you goo as Drew would goo after you drew Drew's dew?
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If you're still talking about *Cover Girl* , the movie IS in color!
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Dargo, wasn't the alternate title actually *Twelve O'Clock Highball* ?
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If you correctly recall, Skip Young was first David Nelson's college buddy, THEN Ricky's. For all we know, Wally's still attending classes!
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Not being Catholic, I was always under the impression that it was the divorce that was cause for excommunication. But you claim it to be the remarriage. Interesting. In any case, my wife couldn't have cared less. Her first husband turned out to be a mental and physical abusive child molester, and it didn't matter to her what the Church thought, she got out of there!
And nobody ever came forward to answer GEORGE CARLIN'S famous question: Since the Catholic church officially dismissed the rule about not eating meat on Friday, did they make it RETROACTIVE? Or are there still guys doing time in hell on a meat rap?
dpompper, KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN, back in the early '70's, did an LP called *Hymnen* , which dissected and reconstructed various national anthems from around the world with electronic devices and "sampled" bits of pre-recorded material. It's very unique and "avant-garde" listening.
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Sorry. WHO?
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OK, not exactly "classic" or "golden age" actors...
But a few people have told me I sort of resemble CHEVY CHASE. With a beard. I really don't see it, and neither does my wife.
But what I thought was funny, was when I was doing wedding photography, a wedding guest walked up and told me the same thing.
What the funny part was, that when I turned to look at him, HE looked just like BILL MURRAY did during his SNL-moustache phase!
Will never forget it!
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"Boomers" around MY age when in Junior High( what we all used to call Middle School back then, kiddies) used to get into those silly choice discussions. You know, like the "Ginger or Mary Ann?" arguements. THIS one was, "Annette or Darlene?"
More were on the ANNETTE side.
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You'd have thought some of that drier humor might have been injected into *Get Smart* through the efforts of BUCK HENRY, but it didn't seem to work out that way. Was that part of their( Brooks and Henry's) rift?
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Anybody Drink Drew's During "The Essentials"?
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The closest TCM came to YOUR idea, Dargo, was when a couple of years ago they had TCM staffers be "guest programmers" on some nights. And they made some good choices.
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