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15 hours ago, rosebette said:
I have a big-screened TV at home and watch mostly TCM but we have a couple of subscription services, so often catch movies we would have seen in the theaters after they go to Netflix or premium cable. I have to admit, I love watching my 50" HD flatscreen from my living room couch, accompanied by my cat, blankie, and a glass of wine and maybe a few squares of dark chocolate. Often, we'll watch something we missed seeing in the theaters and say, "I'm so glad I didn't pay $10 for that." The resolution on my TV is beautiful and I can control the sound, which in theaters is often overly loud and distorted, with more emphasis on sounds of explosion than comprehensible dialogue. The thing I regret is that when we go to vacation spots, usually beach towns, our favorite thing to do on rainy days was go to the movies, which we won't do now in the time of COVID. So, we have to live with whatever is available on the sub-par TV at our vacation condo.
How did you manage to get Blankie into the theater? Must have been during the Winter when you could hide him/her inside your coat.
So, does the cat like popcorn? or prefer Sno-caps over Milk duds....?
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21 hours ago, TopBilled said:
How can you leave Claude Rains off the list?!
Heh. I've never considered Claude to be a "classic" horror star. He's only to my knowledge done two or three "horror" flicks, and one of them(THE INVISABLE MAN ) is one never thought of as a "horror" story. More "Sci-Fi" to me.
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Same year my Mother was born.
Happy birthday indeed.
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You know, this is difficult since they've all done many great works. Hard to pare them all down to one pick each.
Chaney Sr.--- I'll go along with THE UNKNOWN
Lugosi-- DRACULA is still up there for me.
KARLOFF-- His against type role in DEVIL'S ISLAND ('39)
Lorre--- Toss up between his role in M and as Dr. Gogol in MAD LOVE('35)
Chaney Jr.--- Sure. Hard to top THE WOLF MAN('41)
Price--- DRAGONWYCK('46)
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23 hours ago, fxreyman said:
Thanks. Yes those were discarded years ago for much thinner frames. Of course in addition to adding thinner frames I have added additional weight to my overall frame. Stuff like that happens when you sit a lot in front of the TV and the computer writing stuff like this and watching movies.
I've observed it this way....
The thinner my hair gets, the thicker my middle becomes.
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On 9/10/2021 at 1:30 PM, fxreyman said:
Well, I wished she really could. Unfortunately she passed away in 2004 from Ovarian Cancer. Nancy was my girlfriend in 8th grade and then we sort of stopped being boyfriend/girlfriend after I moved away from North Carolina in 1975. We kept in touch through high school and during my first college spring break I drove from Chicago to her home in NC to visit. The next year (1980) I visited once again and that is when we went to see Xanadu. She eventually married and had two wonderful children, but was diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer in 2002 and sadly passed away in 2004. I still miss her. The photo below is of me and Nancy in 1980. Wow, did I have a lot of hair then... She of course was beautiful!!!
Geeze, 41 years ago......
Sorry you lost your long time friend. Personally, I hate when that happens. And at my age it happens too often to accept.
And I at least would have hoped you'd have lost those dweebie Buddy Holly spec frames before your friend. (I finally lost my Buddy Holly frames in the early '70's)
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Must've been a "thing" with Hale Jr. Saw an old ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW episode in which Hale Jr. played a farmer who came into Mayberry to find a wife, and often referred to Barney Fife as "little buddy". And not too long ago (but long enough to forget the show) as a guest on another old TV show where Hale Jr. too, called somebody "little buddy".
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Yeah, I noticed that with JAMES and a couple other member's names. It wasn't that long ago that JAMESJAZZGUITAR all fit on one line.
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13 hours ago, brianNH said:
LuckyDan: My knowledge of Svengoolie is really only over the last couple of years. I have seen lots of comments here and there about how things were better on the show back in the old days. I assume that's true, but as a vestige of the late night horror show genre, I still find him dopily enjoyable.
To tell you the truth, the most off-the-wall bonkers, absolutely insane horror movie show guy was Ron Sweed, known as "The Ghoul." He was out of Cleveland, Ohio; and when I lived in Port Huron, Michigan in the mid-1970's the Ghoul was on our cable line-up. I can't even begin to do justice to this freakshow; you'll just have to look it up and see what you can find out. Simply insane stuff. (Hint: there was a rumor that he was kicked off the air for blowing up a live frog with a firecracker!). Holy Cow! I miss the guy!
In the meantime, times being what they are, Svengoolie will do.
Oh, YEAH! The GHOUL overdey!
Used to catch him every Saturday night in the early '70's in the Detroit area. No cable there in those days though. That furry hat and sunglasses with one lens missing is forever etched in my brain! Sadly(and somehow oddly fitting) Sweed died April 1st(April Fool's Day) 2019 at age 70. Yeah. I miss the guy too. 
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18 hours ago, Eucalpytus P. Millstone said:
Actually, according to some relationship "experts," going to the movies is a No-No for a first date.
"DO NOT: Go to the cinema!
Cinema dates are great for the third, fourth or fifth date in, but if this your very first time meeting this person, the last thing you want to do is be sitting in a dark room
with a couple of hundred other people, not talking to each other, not even looking at each other for two hours. This is the getting-to-know-you part, and you’re not going
to get to do that in a cinema . . . " -- 5 Dos And Don'ts On A First DateWatching a movie is an experience that actually does not require a partner or group participation. One can do it all by oneself.
Well, the first "real" date my second wife and I had shortly after we met was dinner and a movie. In our case, as we both worked at the same plant and in different parts of the same division, we went through the "getting to know you" part while at work.
After the movie we went to a local Western bar she liked back in her "Urban Cowgirl" phase, had a few drinks and dances, and found a motel down the road a spell.
So much for the "experts". 
So I guess that advice is good depending on what the relationship was of the two before a first date is agreed on.
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13 hours ago, SansFin said:
The Internet was supposed to be the end of newspapers, radio and television.
Well, two of the three are still doing OK.
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I'll pardon myself for chiming in too, but....
I sincerely doubt there'd be much positive response to this thread as I feel most of the make up of the people here, while having a great love of "classic" movies, really don't have anything in the way of "memorabilia" of Hollywood or classic Hollywood movies. Not saying their desire for such things isn't there. Just the lack of resources and availability aren't.
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14 hours ago, LuckyDan said:
Makes sense. And we say, "What's on TV tonight?"
Yeah, but my Dad hated it when he'd ask, "What's on TV ?" And smart-azz me would answer, "A bowl of fake fruit and the rabbit ears."
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18 hours ago, Vautrin said:
The C reminds me a little of the logo for the Continental Can Company, though with one less C.
I remember them. A few friends of mine worked there after high school. Then in the '80's piston "great" Bill Laimbeer bought it and ran it for a spell. That location was in neighboring Melvindale, MI. And yes... That "C" does resemble tat logo!
23 hours ago, brianNH said:Sorry, Sepiatone; I keep wondering that myself. When the new logo started poking up on my tv screen, I stared at it and asked my wife, "What does that middle letter look like to you?" "An O," she said. Well, that's what it looked like to me, too -- a carelessly incomplete 'O.' So I figure if the channel wants to rebrand itself in this odd way, I'll oblige them.
Or, maybe the Outer Limits have finally taken control of my TV set, and they're gaslighting me as only they know how.
Heh.... Just looks like a "C" to me.
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I've heard all these arguments before.
I do fear the possibility of less to no movie theaters. For one, I never could, nor do I care to know ANY idiot that would watch a first run movie on a phone, tablet or laptop. Maybe streaming to a good sized "smart" TV monitor might be a bit more acceptable. But to think there may be generations that totally miss out on the big silver screen movie going experience saddens me a bit. It also might mean the end of cute exchanges like----
When a grandnephew of ours was about four years old, he was going on about some movie he saw. His description didn't sound like any of the movies my sister in law would let him watch from her collection of children's movies, so she asked him, "When did you see that movie?" And his answer?
"When Mommy and Daddy took me to the BIG TV!"
Never before or since heard a movie theater described that way.
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You can tell it's a good "horror" flick by the image of a scantily clad woman with long legs in the poster.
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16 hours ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
That was funny; Well at least TCM is showing multiple Eleanor Parker films. In color with that red hair she is a knockout.
And to prove your point, you post a BLACK AND WHITE photo?
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12 hours ago, brianNH said:
Does anyone else remember that filler piece that TOM would run every once in a while --
Tom who?
One of those "c"s up there bring to my mind an old telephone dial. And another the image of a floor drain.
IMHO, they really didn't need to change anything about the look. And some of the spots touting the "new look" make it seem to me that they're not clear whether they're trying to convince US that the change is good, or THEMSELVES.
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17 hours ago, CinemaInternational said:
Xanadu would have been a much better pick than Roller Boogie.
Either way, If for some reason(like gun to my head?) I ever wound up watching one or the other, it would definitely have to be with the sound muted!
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10 hours ago, LuckyDan said:
I remember him most from Room 222, and as one of Mary's dates (the most mismatched) on the MTM Show, and a very brief stint as the lead on Sirota's Court.
(Isn't it interesting how we say someone is IN a movie but ON a tv show?)
Yep. And too, how an actor "played a part" in one movie, but "had a role" in another.
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Sorry we all had to deal with this, but nothing personal, I'm just glad it wasn't just me.
But everything is copacetic today.
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My cable service claims it's not them. But this morning, I hit the "guide" button on my cable's remote and got YESTERDAY'S line-up! And what's playing today(thanks to the channel's "what's next" feature between movies) is listed in the guide for tomorrow!
Anybody else dealing with this issue? My cable service tells me they use info they get from each channel they carry as to the day's programming. And all the other channel listings are spot on.
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Yeah, a likeable and oft seen character actor, even his slight appearances in THE HUSTLER were good.
He will be missed. And maybe he did more for WINDEX than talking crows.
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I didn't know there WAS a "good" Rollerball.
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So I guess that advice is good depending on what the relationship was of the two before a first date is agreed on.
The Hustler Again?
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And speaking of Movies!, THE HUSTLER was also broadcast by them a couple of nights ago.
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