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This is sad. An excellent craftsman.
RIP
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2 hours ago, TopBilled said:
According to MovieCollector's database, L'IL ABNER has aired four times on TCM...the last time was back in 2009.
Well then, I'd say it's long overdue for a return.
One of the few musicals I like, but I never knew the guy's name. I guess 90 is a good run on this marbled bowling ball(apologies to Joni Mitchell) and I do hope he Rests In Peace.
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More range than many realized. My ex just hated GIGOT('62). But I feel it's one of his finest performances.
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Keep in mind that the channel is still called "Turner Classic Movies" regardless of the appearance of the logo (and for me at least, the "C" still looks like a "C". But maybe because I might be a bit more literate than some
). And that "classic", as often discussed here, can take on manifold definitions. And with that in mind, there was never the promise that it would be TVM( Turner Vintage Movies). And regardless of how the channel presents the movies they show, or any of the other trappings, take consideration of how a niece of mine treated something else.
When she was little, we were over her house visiting her and her Mother, who fixed the niece some oatmeal. Her mother typically prepared the oatmeal with a mix of walnut pieces and raisins. I noticed the niece was just picking out the nuts and raisins with her spoon and not touching the oatmeal. When I questioned this she explained;
"I don't really like the oatmeal that much, but really like the nuts and raisins, so I only eat those."
So, why not just pick out and absorb what you still like about TCM and not bother with all that "oatmeal"?
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2 minutes ago, Toto said:
I have to agree with you about White Christmas! I think if this movie wasn't about Christmas it would have been forgotten. I don't understand the humor of Danny Kaye. That said, as a kid I did enjoy him playing Hans Christian Anderson.
Even with it being about Christmas doesn't help it in my case. I've always been a Danny Kaye fan, even to this day. But that being said, his being in that movie was a disappointment for me. I never let a Christmas go by without avoiding it.
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19 hours ago, filmnoirguy said:
Then you absolutely don't want to see the 1974 musical version, "Mame" with Lucille Ball. Leonard Maltin rates it as a Bomb. More like an Atom Bomb.
I wouldn't say that. An atom bomb has POWER!
Lucy's MAME just fizzles.
I also don't care much for TOP GUN. But seems a lot of people did.
Same with Redford's THE GREAT GATSBY.
And I agree with the person up there who said they thought E.T. was cute. The little b u g g e r was kinda cute, but definitely NOT as cute as DEE WALLACE in that leopard skin Halloween costume!
And although he seems to be the best at doing multiple roles in movies since Peter Sellers, I thought one viewing of EDDIE MURPHY'S THE NUTTY PROFESSOR to be multiple overkill.
OK, I'll bite.. My favorite Hanks movies are ....the oft berated GUMP, but also PRIVATE RYAN, CASTAWAY, PERDITION, and his directing/writing job on THAT THING YOU DO. But this doesn't mean I don't like many of his others.
THE PAPER CHASE is one that had a huge following that I couldn't stand.
Same with MYSTIC PIZZA.
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12 hours ago, Mr. Gorman said:
I believe Dick York lived in Rockford, Michigan the last several years of his life.
From WIKI it seems he lived in Rockford, MI( 'bout 25-30 miles from where I live) but for some reason he died in a hospital in East Grand Rapids, MI, much further North on the opposite side of the state. And then taken back to Rockford for burial. Why he never moved back to hometown Fort Wayne, Indiana I guess we'll never know.
10 hours ago, Vautrin said:Yes, I believe that's correct. I took a look at the trivia items in Dick York's IMDB page, there are
quite a number of them, but none mentions that he once ran a carpet cleaning company with his
wife. If he did, someone else must have done the actual labor because it's hard to imagine Dick
York with his back problems doing it.
All I remember is the Free Press article stating him and his wife did the carpet cleaning. It's not hard to believe that the reporter misinterpreted the information.
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21 hours ago, ootsy said:
TCM is dead. Long live TCM!
I wouldn't go further than paraphrasing FRANK ZAPPA's line about jazz....
TCM isn't dead, it just smells funny.
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Well, those mentioned so far are fairly recent flicks. But, in the "classic" vein, well....
Everyone here knows I just can't stand BRINGING UP BABY.
Another one is THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH. And for some reason I just couldn't get into MRS. MINIVER. And although I loved the novel, and am too a huge fan of PAUL MUNI, the '57 film adaptation of THE LAST ANGRY MAN was a huge disappointment to me. And let's not even mention THE SILVER CHALICE!
As for those mentioned earlier, I wonder what kind of brother a ****brother is.
Pleas clarify Chaya.
I liked(and still do) FORREST GUMP much better than the book.
And thought the Leonardo/Kate version of TITANIC was OK. Certainly better effects and d storyline than the old Webb/Stanwyck flick, but I still like that one too.
And if THE WAY WE WERE is considered a "classic", I fail to get the why of that also. BOOOOOO-rinnnnng!
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21 hours ago, Vautrin said:
I've always read that Dick York quit because of a bad back which was getting worse. He injured it while
working in a movie a number of years before Bewitched began.
The Free Press(Detroit paper) had a profile on York since by the mid to late '70's he was living somewhere in the Detroit area, had put on a lot of weight, and he and his wife did carpet cleaning to earn money. Me and the ex once had our carpet cleaned by a guy who had an ad for carpet cleaning in our local MELLUS paper want-ads. So, this fat guy with glasses came in and cleaned our carpet with the same machine we could have rented from a local hardware store. I never knew the guy's name. But several years later, when reading that newspaper article, it made me wonder......
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I remember as a kid watching Gleason's variety show, on which he'd usually point out his musical director SAMMY SPEAR, who, as DOC SEVERINSEN years later would, was reputed for his garish suit jackets. And of course, there was his drinking from that cup of "tea"
which would induce a loud "WHA_A_A_A_A_A_A_H! from him . 
"Homminna-homminna-homminna-homminna! "
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17 hours ago, rickdd said:
Do we know what Rita thought??????????? What her father thought? I know for certain today Spaniards do not consider themselves Hispanic. It's more likely Hayworth is a big name being usurped for her star power.
My wife went through something like that. Her being Mexican would resent those "gringos" who would refer to her as a "****". Telling me that it was Puerto Ricans who, by other Latinos, would be referred to with that name. And when growing up, many Mexicans considered Puerto Ricans to be of the same class many whites considered African-Americans to be in. You know...
Unfavorable. Like, the "ni**ers of the Latino culture.
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15 hours ago, sewhite2000 said:
No one has ever called me 2000 before. Dargo would occasionally call me sewhite, which is a variaion on my real name and felt more welcoming than this dehumanization of my self-identity. But you pick a weird online name for yourself, you get what you get, I guess.
Actually, When registering for this forum I attempted to use the same handle I use in several other forums, but was informed that name was already in use. But since being here, I've yet to notice ANYONE in this forum with that particular name. But too, when signing up I noticed several other members using "handles" that had some connection to movies and/or movie making, and since a highly favored by me movie started in sepia tone before changing to color(THE WIZARD OF OZ of course) I used that(Thus, SEPIATONE)
I have no knowledge of your real name, and used the "2000" of your forum username as someone might call a guy named Thomas "Tom". It was in no way any attempt to "dehumanize" you. Let's not get all FaceBook here now.
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12 hours ago, Aritosthenes said:
Hmm. Well, im Not Disagreeing Upon That. Lets Say Hypothetically we briefly press upon the "Freaky Button" for the sake of Polite Arguement. Roles Are Reversed, and Some One Else Posts say, "Sylvester". I Would Immediately Turn it into a Kinda Mystry Password-esque Game Tryin' to Figure Out Who "the Heck" They Are Talking About. (That, And Or Figure Out: OK, So.. its (Hypothetically) Dick Shawn's Birthday. Now What Role, "Had Him" As That Character (?).
Ah, but really? You might know it's Shawn's birthday by just seeing a thread titled "Sylvester"? Off the bat I'd suggest most would think it had something to do with Sylvester Stallone. To further reiterate----
I don't think most(if not practically everyone else) people, in wanting to wish a happy birthday to any still living actor/actress or even to wish posthumous birthday greetings would do so under the guise of titleing the thread with the name of some character they played in some movie, especially since there's the possibility of them having played several characters with the same name in several movies and several OTHER actors/actresses also playing characters with the same name in other movies . Matter of fact.....
Ms. Bisset played a character named Anna in two films in a row....
END OF THE GAME('75) and THE SUNDAY WOMAN('75) And in the 1985 TV movie of ANNA KARENINA.
So you could have just as easily titled this thread "Anna"!
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Just mention whose birthday it is in the title. What's so difficult about that? Then you could have avoided all this brou-ha. But then, if some actress or actor starred as some ICONIC movie character( as CLINT EASTWOOD as DIRTY HARRY) we all might know who you then mean . Or say, if you wish to extend posthumous birthday greetings to a particular actor by titling the thread "Hud", then we all might think the thread is either about the movie, or at least about Paul Newman.
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Sure. A lot of folks have asked that over the years. My guess is we're supposed to assume the nurse heard him gasp that as he died. But then too, like I always try to press.... You gotta remember.
We're discussing MOVIES here, most of which rarely engage in reality and mostly relies on an audiences ability to suspend their disbelief.
Oh, and WELCOME to these boards.
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But why not her character's name in THE DEEP up there?
Or some other character's name from some other movie she was in? In fact, Why not HER name instead of a character from some movie she was in that not everybody liked or even CARED about?
That's just so damned silly.
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I wouldn't also mind living in that row of 1880's residences in LIFE WITH FATHER. Any where in time I can get a new suit for only $15 is alright with me.
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2 hours ago, Aritosthenes said:
Im Sorry to hear You have no apparent regard for Ms Bisset. I See You Like Your Cartoons Though. Its Rather Ironic
So, WHY did you title this thread CATHY?
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20 hours ago, brianNH said:
Not to derail the thread; to me, Gleason always had that mime character he used to do on his shows. A guy always on the losing end of life, and which. -- I think -- reflected Gleason's own inner troubles. When I was growing up I certainly didn't appreciate that dimension of his talent, so now it is something I can look at anew with some fresh -- albeit sextagenarian -- eyes! Thanks for starting this thread.
That character was THE POOR SOUL and I had difficulty locating a clip of Gleason doing the character.
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11 hours ago, Mr. Gorman said:
If BOB NEWHART hadn't quit smoking in 1985 it's not likely he would've have lived into the 1990s. He developed a nosebleed that wouldn't stop and that precipitated him quitting at age 56.
I don't think Newhart smoked on-camera when filming "The Bob Newhart Show" or the early seasons of "Newhart", but he definitely was a heavy smoker off-camera.
And Bob is still around 92 thanks to that decision to quit. (You can read about his medical scare on 'nickiswift.com' with the heading "WHY BOB NEWHART WAS ONCE HOSPITALIZED").
(→ If you wanna scare someone into what can happen if you don't quit the cigarettes, but still live on, check out the YouTube video "REDD FOXX -- LOST INTERVIEW". It's not long; only four minutes and 20 seconds. Redd's in a New Orleans nightclub being interviewed by a gentleman named 'Allen Stewart'. It's from January 1988. Foxx had turned 65 in Dec. 1987 and the years of chain-smoking cigarettes along with marijuana (he called it "gangster" in one of his stand-up acts. As in "I don't smoke gangster on stage") +plus+ breathing in secondhand smoke from all the old-time nightclubs has him gasping for breath. I felt bad for Redd; having quit smoking myself I reckon breathing with bad emphysema is like sucking air through a screen door that's not supposed to have •holes• in it).
Most celebs were good at hiding certain things. Like, if they never allowed it to get out, we might have never known that both Dick Van Dyke AND Mary Tyler Moore were heavily drinking through most of the filming of that show's tenure. Or, if he didn't get terribly sick with emphysema and then someone hadn't done a "whatever happened to" type search we wouldn't have known of DICK YORK's incessant chain smoking and growing lung issues which was why he left the hit show BEWITCHED. And subsequently died from it all.
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Sure. Liked HIGH NOON better than "Rain" or the circus picture. And I'd like the circus flick more if not for BETTY HUTTON's pathetic gushing over "Brad" every other scene(it seemed).
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Nope. McQueen was perfect for it. And really, he wasn't Gleason's "lackey". If that were the case, Slaughter wouldn't have interrupted his crossword night to get Eustis out of jail. But true, there were times Slaughter did take advantage of Eustis' devotion to him, but essentially did know he was the best friend he ever had and would ever have. Even risking his life and health helping Eustis out in that fight with the two MPs. I couldn't picture Holliman as eye catching to the ladies as McQueen was in that flick, or as tough enough to take on the two MPs as well as the character did too.
Although I long thought McQueen's PAPILLON performance was about his best, SOLDIER is an even longer favorite and therefore gets that distinction.
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Yeah, we all loved us some Newhart back in "the day". his stand-up telephone bits were hilarious as was his bit as the driver's ed instructor. And it was delightful seeing him show up in the WWII flick HELL IS FOR HEROES ('62) among that high-powered all star cast. And somehow the screenwriters found a way to have his character do a phone conversation bit!
Here, Bob reprises his classic bit
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). And that "classic", as often discussed here, can take on manifold definitions. And with that in mind, there was never the promise that it would be TVM( Turner Vintage Movies). And regardless of how the channel presents the movies they show, or any of the other trappings, take consideration of how a niece of mine treated something else.
Pleas clarify Chaya.
John Mellencamp Documentary on TCM YT channel and Guest Programmer soon
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Missed him as guest programmer, but will try to catch THE FUGITIVE KIND tomorrow. Also haven't seen it in years. Never much into Mellencamp and his music anyway. Not even back when his name was Cougar.
Only ONE LINE in ONE SONG ever impressed me(and the truth in it) from "Jack and Diane" : "Life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone."
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