Sepiatone
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The only sound I hear when I walk past a redbox is the sound of someone's FIST pounding on it because it took their money, but didn't give them the MOVIE!
TV execs gotta realize that when the popularity of channels that show old TV programs rise in popularity, that they're doing something WRONG lately.
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Well, I'VE never seen any of those. Maybe I'D like to.
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That seems sacreligious to me. You GOTTA have "Tradition" sung at the start, or else the whole movie is as shaky....eh, well...
Years ago I came THIS CLOSE to seeing "Fiddler" at Detroit's Fisher theater with Zero in the lead, but it fell through. I was lucky enough to catch it with HERSCHEL BERNARDI as Tevye some years ealier.
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WHAT??
NO mention of that plastic, toy parrot?
I'm left wondering just WHO would BUY such a thing?
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A cop pulls over an old lady who was driving too slow. "But officer", she exclaims, "I was going the posted 22 miles per hour."
The policeman informs her the 22 was the HYWAY number, NOT the speed limit.
The shaky looking old man sitting next to her then said, "Where were you when we were on Hyway 110?"
Three old men, one 60, one 70 and the third, 80, are sitting on a park bench. The 60 year old says, "Y'know, when I die, I'd like it to be fast. Like in a car crash." The 70 year old says, "Yeah, I know. I'd like it fast, too. Like a PLANE crash!" The 80 year ols says, "You two have it your way. I'D rather be shot by a jealous HUSBAND!"
Three old men are walking on the fairway of a golf course. The first one says, "It sure is WINDY today." The second one says, "It's not WEDNSDAY, it's THURSDAY!" The third says, "Me too. Let's go get a BEER."
A favorite plaque I read in a store: "When I die, I'd like it to be like my Grandfather. Peaceful, in his sleep. Not SCREAMING like the passengers in his CAR!"
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I myself, due largely to Mr. Howard, prefer *Pygmalion* to *My Fair Lady* , *The Scarlet Pimpernel* to *Zorro* and HIS version of *Of Human Bondage* over LAURENCE HARVEY'S.
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That's quite an impressive post-1960 list, sewhite. And I have to agree with MissW, Lavender, and YOU.
But PLEASE, let's not have THIS dicussion again!
I'll try to get back on track and claim my agreement about "WATERFRONT". This film excells on many levels. From great story, cinematography, acting, directing, and I even have a CD of Bernstien's fantastic SCORE!
Long time one of my favorites. NEVER tire of watching it.
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Fear NOT, Lavendar...I WASN'T suggesting Seacrest, just voicing my fear that some nitwit TCM staffer MIGHT!
I don't know how downloading information from my PC to my television WORKS exactly, but since my computer is on the opposite end of my house from the TV, I wonder if there would be logistic problems. Would I need to shell out $$$ for some DEVICE and drill yet another hole in the floor of my RENTAL HOUSE to do this? I'm certainly NOT going to let my 50" widescreen in the living room sit dormant and watch movies on my 15" PC MONITOR!
And whoever reminded me the AMC guy's name was Bob Dorian....THANK YOU.
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I myself have never seen *Heaven's Gate* except in bits and pieces, so I have no real preconcieved notions. Except maybe that it's directed by Cimino, and probably in dire need of deft editing.
I've stated many times to anyone who would listen and even here in these forums that Cimino's "DEER HUNTER" could have 45 minutes of useless and needless footage excized, and still be a good movie. Actually BETTER, since the useless crap wouldn't get in the way. I WOULD like to judge for myself how good or bad "GATE" is, or isn't, but I just don't have that much time to spare!
Regarding *Ishtar* , I, too, kinda liked it. NOT the best movie out there, but NOT as bad as many made it out to be, IMO. What I particularily liked about it was the ROLE/IMAGE reversal of it's leading actors. Warren Beatty usually played the suave, cocky, self confident personage, while Hoffman usually did roles of not too cool, insecure dorky types. In THIS movie, it was the other way around. I thought they pulled it off it pretty well.
I caught a few minutes of GATE last night before turning in. What I saw that appealed to me was that I'm likely to favor ANY movie where ANYONE punches Kristofferson in the face!
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Many times, some folks here in the forum mentioned something they saw on METV. I lamented recently that my cable provider dropped it a year ago.
Well, they BROUGHT IT BACK!
Unfortunately, so far, I haven't been able to catch anything on it that I couldn't find elsewhere, except for *The Rebel* , starring Stephen Stills--er, Peter Tork--um, NICK ADAMS!
I DID set up to record *Car 54, Where Are You?* because it was coming on too late for me to stay up to see it. I'm looking foreward to see what else I can find!
WHOO-HOO!
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Back in the '70's, I used to wish some of them "old timers" would go back to wearing their suits from the '30's and '40's, instead of those goofy looking burgandy double-knit slacks with the white patent leather belts and shoes!
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I really, REALLY don't wish to make this a racial matter, but in this case, it can't be helped.
In the realm of women's hats: We go out for breakfast sometimes on Sundays(but not today!), and the "family" style restraunt chain establishment we go to often has people who go there straight from church. The place is frequented by both black and white patrons, and it is the BLACK church patrons in which the ladies wear hats to church. And I gotta tell ya, some of those hats make the ones seen in the "ANATOLE OF PARIS" segment of Danny kaye's "WALTER MITTY" look tame! But as outlandish as many of those hats appear, one has to admit...hats lend an air of class to the ensemble. Even a good looking MEN'S hat would up the class level of a well dressed man.
Of course, one needn't wear a hat on the level of Aretha's innauguration hat; The third thing on Earth that could be seen from outer space after the Grand Canyon and Great Wall of China.
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But let's think about this. Let's hypothetically imagine RO DOES retire. IS Mank that satifactory as a replacement? In some ways, I say maybe. His delivery certainly differs from Bob's. But in other ways, he doesn't come off as authorative. Now, back when AMC was doing more or less what TCM does now, they had two different guys as movie hosts. NICK CLOONEY( Georges Dad) was one, and he was pretty good. I can't recall the other one's name, but HE was pretty good, too. I think their ages had a lot to do with it. We can, in spite of the obvious and oft mentioned glitches and info goofs RO has made, tend to feel more confident that info is gospel if given by someone who looks old enough to know what they're talking about. Which is why I always thought RO was more suited to intro the older classics, and Mank was better at more contemporary fare. But that may be more just me.
As for me, I hope that when RO DOES retire, they replace him with someone we can all warm up to. I have no idea who that might be, but I'm praying some college punk on staff doesn't try to convince the brass that in order to attract a younger viewership, they should hire RYAN SEACREST to take over hosting duties.
YECHH!
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Oh, and besides, there WASN'T any comma in the second number of the address on MY PC...
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So I clicked on the SECOND link you supplied and got to page 248 of that particular thread. But I was unable to move from there without the same thing happening.
Guess I'll just have to learn to live with it.
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That's not Robert Walden, is it?
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My first exposure to Falk was from his short-lived TV show, *The Trials of O'Brien* . Been a fan ever since.
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OK, hoping this clarifies what I was going through...
You know whenever you send a PM, once you click on "send message" the screen switches to a page with all the TCM letterheads and stuff, and there's a box of sorts that has "Forum home" highlighted and the words, "Your message has been sent"?
Well when I click on back pages of Dabb's thread, I get THAT page, minus the "Message sent".
Make any sense?
hope it helps...
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Hmmm...
Now, THAT sounds odd!
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Sometimes a glimmer of hope shows up in the strangest ways and places. I judge that hope on the seemingly high cognizance of a younger generation. For example:
Last night was my sister-in-law's birthday. As a tradition, we all( or as many as possible) meet for dinner at the birthday honoree's restraunt of choice. While there, one of my nephews told us that HIS son, who will be four years old in a couple of months, recently told his Mother, "Mom, you know, I'd probably do more of the stuff you want me to do if you say PLEASE and THANK YOU!"
HA! The KID reminding the parent to teach by example. Gotta love it! Art Linkletter was RIGHT!
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I used to watch that show, and always thought she was kinda cute. Saw her in some TV movies and she appeared to be a fairly competent actress. Only 69? Too sad. But as my 85 year old Grandfather once said(just weeks before HE passed on);
"You're NEVER too old to die young!"
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In those days, it would seem the word "belly" would be considered more "vulgar" han the word "tummy". Speaking of such stuff...
I always giggle at those old-time alternative words for the butt: BEHIND, KEISTER, HEINE, DUFF, CAN, BUCKET, FANNY, TUSH, BUNS, BOTTOM, CABOOSE. Imagine some street thug threatening to "Pop a cap in your KEISTER!"
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THEN, I imagine, is the decision of just WHAT to restore. If money is that tight, they sure don't want to "waste" it restoring something nobody really cares about. Or maybe TOO FEW really care about.
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Sadly, these days, if I want to "rock out" while driving, I have to rely on my car's CD player.
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How do you know you are old?
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I'd KILL?
Sure. They'd like that.
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