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When I was a kid in the late '50's, EVERY little girl went to ballet class it seemed. Probably true of many earlier generations. Technically, you then could make the point that almost ALL of them might have had some "rudimentary" ballet training, but as to how many actually SERIOUSLY trained for the ballet? I couldn't say... Sepiatone

Lane has more than 250 roles to his credit. Probably moving up towards 300! But, he had been at it for about 70 or so years! Sepiatone

That would certainly help prove a point about that tendency, but actually I've noticed that problem elsewhere on the television spectrum since the switch to digital broadcasting. But, aren't we lucky to not have to put up with "snow" or that other interferrence from PLANES flying overhead! Sepiatone

It would be sad if someone refused to watch this movie because of the violence. I myself have a dislike of any violence that is simply gratuitous, but it isn't the case here. Violence is the core of the character's existence. It would also be sad if someone refused to watch this because it wasn't made before 1960. There WILL be those who might complain that it's scenes of violence are "too graphic". It's singular that the same who would spend years claiming a desire for movies to become more "realistic" would thurn around and complain when that realism honestly shows that people bleed a lot when they're shot or stabbed. Thanks for the heads up. I'll try to catch it when it's on as it's been years since I've seen it, and BRIDGET FONDA'S remake falls tragically short. Sepiatone

One of my favorites from *Hombre* is when Newman, replying to the woman who claimed no matter how hungry she got, she'd never eat a DOG (Sorry, can't remember verbatim): "Lady, have you ever really been hungry? I don't mean the dinner bell's ringing and supper's ready hungry, but so hungry your stomache's stuck to your backbone? You'd eat it. You'd fight over the BONES!" Sepiatone

I can agree with that sentiment only up to where we come to that shaky, "five-year-old holding the camera" technique used in too many television police dramas. Sepiatone

I knew a guy in high school who was Apache. I asked him once if Apaches were actually getting a "bad rap" in all them old western movies, and he claimed not to really know. He said what he really actually liked about being Native American was the loose, easy lay hippie girls it would attract. Sepiatone

Around here, it's been a looong time since I've seen any kid on a skateboard. I think it's too much like WORK! If there's not a skateboard app on their phones, or if Wii doesn't have a skateboard game, I'm afraid they're all up to something else. Sepiatone

Finance, I HOPE that pun was intended! Sepiatone

I agree. I know TCM has to push some of the stuff THEY sell from time to time, but filling that time with some cartoons or even old Movietone newsreels from the era from which the featured movies are from would make things interesting. Not only would we get to SEE movies from the '30's and '40's, but somewhat get the FEEL of being in a movie house from those periods, too. Sepiatone

I stopped for a few seconds on *The Quiet Man* while moving up towards something else. I noticed it really wasn't a very clean copy TCM was showing. It looked as if they video taped it off of a cheap motel TV set. Lucky for me, I have a much better looking copy of this delightful movie. I never tire of Fitzgerald's reaction when spotting the broken bed in the newlywed's home the morning after the wedding. And that fight between Wayne and McLaglen is legendary in Hollywood history. Sei O'Tone

And maybe four or five TIMES! Sepiatone

"SMARTY"? Isn't that about a New York butcher with a PhD? Sepiatone

I'm not sure this really counts, but speaking of "VALANCE"... In the scene about the steak on the floor...Strother Martin saying, "I'll git it, Liberty" just before Wayne kicks him in the face. From the same movie, When Woody Strode apologizes for forgetting the line "All men are created equal", Stewart replies, "That's OK, a LOT of people forget that one." Sepiatone

Man! Another thread that calls for me to remember things from a too long list and makes my brain stall. But a couple come to mind from earlier mention of some names: From one of the THIN MAN movies: Nick and Nora walking up the stairs of some club as the bouncers throw someone DOWN said stairs. Nick exclaims, "My, but they throw big confetti here!" PETER O'TOOLE from *My Favorite Year* : "I'm NOT an ACTOR. I'm a MOVIE STAR!" Sepiatone

I think it's best to simply appreciate TCM for what it does, and not have a tizzy because it's not what WE would prefer it to be. This sort of thing doen't bother me, or most of us it seems. Sepiatone

I think it was it's thinly veiled anti-Viet Nam theme that helped it win popularity with American audiences, but lose favor with the Motion Picture Academy. And since, in reality, no white soldier survived Little Big Horn, Custer's behavior during the battle is really anyone's guess. For all we know, he might have been the FIRST one to go, instead of near the last, as portrayed in most movies about the incident. We do know the attack on the reservation at the Washita river is not accurate. There WAS a battle at that river, but I don't think there was a treatied reservation there. But we here are all too familiar with movies that take license with facts of historical events, aren't we? Sepiatone

I don't know what the aim was in *Bonnie And Clyde* , but Peckinpah claimed that he was shot once, and at the time, everything for HIM seemed to slow down. Don't know how true that is, but that was HIS story. Sepiatone

With all the too-doo about *Tootsie* in another thread, no mention was made about *Little Big Man* following it. I almost missed it last night! Yeah, well, I KNOW I have it on an old VHS tape( That still looks like new!), and my VCR still works like new. But I never really TIRE of watching this marvelous film. This one, for me, HAS to be at the top of Hoffmann's best work. He's done fantastic work since then( *Marathon Man, Lenny,* etc.), but LBM is a MASTERPIECE! And I realize it's probably been discussed widely on this forum, but not since I was a member. So THERE! Not only a first rate performance for Hoffmann, but Chief Dan George, Faye Dunaway, Martin Balsam, Richard Mulligan and Jeff Corey give unforgettable performances as well. And a true coup for Arthur Penn. And WHO can forget Chief Dan George's referrence to "the BLACK white man"? An astute observation from an objective third party. WAY at the top of my favorite movies. Sepiatone

Re: Your referrence, Tom, to Charles Laughton showing both shame and gratitute on his face in "Hunchback". That Laughton could DO that through all that make up was awe inspiring! And don't apologize for digressing from the topic...there WAS a kind of "courtroom"" scene in that movie as well. Sepiatone

I liked "DOUBTFIRE" ok, although that restraunt scene towards the end was overstretching it a bit. Just loved the part earlier when William's, in full "Doubtfire" regalia was dancing around the house to Aerosmith's "Dude Looks Like A Lady"! Sepiatone

It just didn't seem that compelling to me. No sense of order or proceedure. I don't believe even back then in those regions that courtroom proceedures were that lax or disorganized. Sepiatone

Here's a good one for ya, Fred. My "ethnic" heritage is Polish. I am the son of an only child. My Mother's cousins are also MY cousins. And one of them a long time ago married a Japanese woman he met while working in Japan as a teacher on an American military base. They had two children, whom I've never met. But I'm told they look a lot like their Mother. Move forward several years...My cousin and his Japanese wife divorce, and my cousin meets and eventually marries a Jewish woman. One day( 16 years ago) she gets a letter from the local Jewish community organization that there will be free testing of Jewish residents to screen for the Tay-sacks(sic) enzyme to find out who might be carrying this. He goes to the community center with her. While sitting around waiting for the blood test results, my cousin catches the elbow of a passing doctor to ask him if there's anything he can do to help, as he was never the kind to just sit around. The doctor tells him they have all the help they need, so just wait for his test results. He informs the doc that he's there with his wife, and is not Jewish. So the doc says, "Oh, then you CAN help. We could use a sample of your blood as a comparison study". So my cousin gives him the blood and sits back down. After a time, the doc comes back and informs my cousin's wife she isn't carrying the Tay-saks. But he turns to my cousin and tells him, "But YOU are!" My cousin scoffs and reminds the doctor that he ISN'T Jewish. The doctor replies, "I'll bet that SKELETON in your closet IS!" To verify, the doc takes another blood sample from my cousin and hand carries it through the test. The result is unquestionable. 100 years after my Great Grandfather lands on U.S. soil, we learn we're JEWISH! MY amusement comes in the form of imagining two Japanese looking people going into a doctor's office to be tested for TAY-SACKS! I just knew my anti-semitic Grandfather on the other side of my family was spinning in his grave! Sepiatone Edited by: Sepiatone on Mar 16, 2013 1:56 PM

Lavender, I've noticed that good( or great) actors playing so-so to good out of work actors seems to be a difficult thing for some to do. Especially if that actor character has too huge an ego. Hoffmann in *Tootsie* did a fine job of it. His only "competitor" in this aspect is RICHARD DREYFUS in both *The Goodbye Girl* and *Moon Over Parador* . Sepiatone

Wow! I was a BIT off on the timeline. But THANK you, Calvin! Sepiatone