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I have it on DVD. Only ONE disc. I'll be tuning in elsewhere. Sepiatone

At this writing, I've yet to look at the list. I might eventually get around to it, but lists like these, like "lists" made from "polls" that center around , "Best Chocolate Maker" or "Best Guitar Solo" are as useful as those same lists here in these forums. MY "best" might be YOUR "Stinkeroo". And vice-versa. They really serve no inherent purpose whatsoever. Sepiatone

No love scene in GOLDEN? I'd say both the scene where Fonda finally gets back to the comfort of Hepburn's presence after losing his way in the woods, and the exchange between Fonda and Hepburn at the end when he collapses while carrying the box of dishes were TRUE "love" scenes. Or were you referring to something more "base"? Sepiatone

I wasn't on the edge of my seat, but it WAS a grabber. A gritty, updated version of the old children's story "The Boy Who Cried Wolf". I just HAD to see how the kid would get redeemed. And one of the few film roles I liked Arthur Kennedy in. And, no. In those times it wasn't unusual to leave kids alone at home. Most parents in those days didn't treat their kids as morons and urged them to be somewhat self reliant. Raised by a single mother in the mid 1950's, there were many times my brother and I were in situations where we had to look after ourselves. She even taught us some basic cooking skills, and let us know the punishment for screwing it up was NOT worth the effort to be lax. To use a keyword not known by too increasingly a number of parents of late: *Discipline* . Sepiatone

Have a happy, Kim. Glad you're still topside of the dirt. Sepiatone

No, it doesn't. But it DOES describe, in a sense, the way the guest programmers "pick" the movies they do. At least according to previous posts. I also "don't get" what prime rib in a curry house has to do with those who hold the "rights" to certain movies have against allowing some movie channel to SHOW the damned movie. Sepiatone

I guess I'm old fashioned in the sense that to me, movies are stories, and stories usually have some kind of point to them. Not neccessarily MORALS. And in reality, many circumstances, while not having a point, at least have some type of PURPOSE. One could make the arguement that *The Grapes of Wrath* was "neo-realism" in that IT had no "point", but had a purpose; ie. the Joad family looking to start a new life. The movie came to no actual conclusion, offered no "moral". But the viewer had SOME idea of what and why. Many of the foreign "neo-realism" films didn't even offer THAT. Sepiatone Edited by: Sepiatone on Feb 13, 2013 3:53 PM

So you mean that if someone dies at the "last minute", they might NOT get mention? So why not tack them on to NEXT years tribute? Sepiatone

No disrespect towards your Dad, but BOO-HOO-HOO! So "The Great One" used profanity. Probably NOT the first time in his life. Probably the first time on FILM, though. Gleason probably felt LIBERATED by the proccess. Like CARL REINER claimed to feel while doing one of those "roasts" on Comedy Central. It took TOO long for movies to realize that people DO cuss, and movie goers who might actually cuss in THEIR daily lives have no room to complain. It's always tickled me that television would take strident measures to make sure children didn't hear people use "swear words" on TV, while in fact, once that TV goes on the fritz, Dad wil put his foot through the screen using every cuss word in the book! The OIL OF OLAY folks need to come up with a "Skin Thickening" cream. Sepiatone

If that WERE the case, TCM should get some clever elecronics geek to make them a "juke box" type of device that plays DVDs instead of CDs, put it on that set that Osborne uses, fill it with DVDs of everything they have to show, give their "guest programmers" a roll of quarters and let them make the choices THAT way. Sorry, but I just don't understand all this crap about "rights" to show certain movies. If TCM offers a flat fee to obtain the rights to show a movie, then isn't it in the best interest of the "rights" holder to just go ahead and do it? All TCM needs to agree to is state, after the movie is shown, that it's available on DVD(if it is). Thereby, the "rights" holder is actually getting PAID to advertise, and is helping to generate sales. If sales of the movie is the name of the game. I just don't GET it. Sepiatone

I have nothing to add here. I'm just replying because it's about time somebody posted something in this thread besides YOU, TopBilled. Sepiatone

That kind of stuff can be fun on another medium, like radio. Back in the '70's, I liked to "surf" radio stations to find what was playing elsewhere. One late Saturday night, I worked the dial onto a station where all you could hear was that sound you'd find when the stylus of your turntable arm hits the end of a record..."bumph-click, bumph-click, bumph-click". We listened to that for FIVE MINUTES before moving on, guessing the DJ wasn't waking up none too soon. About 15 minutes later, we happened back on that same station, and STILL "bumph-click, bumph-click, bumph-click"! Of course it WAS about 2:30am, and we might have been the only stoners(besides the DJ, that is)listening. On local television in that era, their "Late, Late Movies" on weekends would be interrupted by "News Updates" which featured a guy reading copy over a teletype machine noise background. Often, this guy would sound three sheets to the wind with much longer than needed pauses between news stories. But I can't think of any acceptable reason for something like what's described here to happen unless it too, happened about the same time of night. Sepiatone

Just about a week ago or so, I saw an old film from 1930(DANG! Forgot the title) with Arthur Lake in it, and he played his part NO DIFFERENT than he did DAGWOOD in the "Blondie" movies. Not a whole lot of range. But both my wife and I noticed there was a strong resemblance(lookswise) between Lake and more contemporary actor D.B. SWEENY. Kinda made us wonder.... Sepiatone

Yeah........ok, if you say so.... Sepiatone

*The Cooler* was William H. Macy's movie all the way. Baldwin to me was an annoying distraction. "Smokey" had the country going on the CB craze, which even led the Cadillac division of GM offer CB radios as an option. Built into the DASH! In a variant way, it still survives. Like HERE, where we all use "handles" (Sepiatone, Fred C. Dobbs, etc.), and use specific lingo( lol, rotfl, IMO, etc.). Back in those days, I had more "good buddies" who never traveled further south than Toledo Ohio "drawlin'" into their mics than you'd EVER hear in Alabama! Sepiatone( 10-4, good buddy)

I've always considered "neo-realism" as attached to a movie to be a kind of warning: "This movie might never get to the point, if indeed there IS a point to get to." Sepiatone

It's strange that in spite of these actresse's popularity that many girls weren't given the same names at birth. Only, it seems, in more recent times is it that folks give their kids the "popular" names. Witness how many "Heathers", "Britney's" "Ashley's", and such there are. Many of them rising to favor due to some famous singer or actress having the same name. Why, in my family alone there's been a host of "Taylor's"(Swift) and "Justin's"(Timberlake and Bieber) born of late. Sepiatone

I too was a bit frustrated by the glossing over of the Sufferagette movement in *Wilson* . But as the issue didn't fully rise until the last days of his presidency, obviously time was running out for the film makers. Even at that point in history, the office of president dealt with a lot of issues on a daily basis, and when doing this sort of movie, some sacrifices have to be made. There have been other "bio pics" in the past which brushed briefly by, or failed entirely to mention aspects of the subjects life that held MY interest, but in the big picture were really not all that important. Not that I'm saying women's sufferagette wasn't important, but I think in this movie's case, the struggle over the League of Nations was more central to Wilson's legacy. Sepiatone

I asked my wife the same question, about how Rathbone might have felt as an expert fencer, about losing all those movie duels. Her answer? "He probably CRIED all the way to the bank." Sepiatone

That's true to an extent, but speeches are a lot like jokes. In that I mean that two different people can tell the same joke, but one will be funnier than the other. This comes from them being able to convey the content more effectively. This is also why many comedy writers don't do stand-up. I read an interview long ago with CARL REINER, who claimed therein that he always preferred to do the writing, play the straight man, or just act a part. He could deliver funny lines in a movie comedy OK, but not in a stand-up situation. THAT calls for an entirely different ability. George Burns used to make a lot of fun of his dear friend Jack Benny, but even HE said he was envious of Benny's ability to do it alone. Burns only knew success as straight man to Gracie. When she died, Burns turned to Benny for advice on how to go it alone. Wilson probably sustained the ability to lecture students well enough for them to successfully learn their classroom lessons and used it in giving speeches. That would account for his success at speech giving. Unfortunately, good speechifying doesn't always translate into being a good public administrator. But skill at good public speaking goes a long way in getting your point across to John Q. Public. Ironically enough, handling yourself well in conversation and interviews carries the same caveat. Sepiatone

My "thing" about Greer Garson is the NAME. She comes from that period in moviemaking where women stars had those odd names. GREER Garson MYRNA Loy CYD Charisse HEDY Lamar WHO GIVES their kids names like these in THIS day and age? Or ANY? The closest we can come in these times is MERYL Streep! I think it's safe to say that probably MOST of the people who tune in to TCM aren't on these message boards, so our complaints about frequency of movie's on the schedule might NOT be shared by many. And, as stated, they might be NEW to many others. TCM could certainly do WORSE than show Greer Garson movies a lot. And one could do worse than wind up with amnesia and married to Greer Garson. Won't hear ME complaining... Sepiatone

Wouldn't doubt it, Dargo. After all these years, they're capable of anything. One of my favorite "SOUTH PARK" episodes is the one where Butters tries to think of ways to destroy the planet, and every idea is met with "The Simpson's did it!" Sepiatone

That HAS to be "Granny" IRENE RYAN. Sepiatone

Yes, it WOULD be nice if they gave us fair warning---er---timely announcement of it's appearance on the schedule. Sepiatone

Well, like I stated, I only could take two and a half minutes of the "Mockingbird" sequence, so I guess I missed the "point". Maybe you can elaborate? Sepiatone