Sepiatone
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23 hours ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
I was around 8 when One Million Years BC came out. Like a lot of young boys I was really interested in dinosaurs so I told my dad this was a must see film.
I also asked that he get me a film poster. He just blew me off and I never got a poster. It wasn't until years later that I understood mom was the one that vetoed the idea.
Dinosaurs weren't the reason my dad and older brother wanted to see this film!
I was 16 by the time it rolled around my local theater. And me and my buddies couldn't have cared less about dinosaurs when we went to see it.
21 hours ago, LsDoorMat said:Gang Busters (1955) - One distinguishing feature is that there are no female cast members, no romance whatsoever. But the movie poster shows the villain, in disguise, grabbing a screaming scantily clad young woman, as though there is some kind of female involvement. That is merely a still from the movie where the villain steals a car from a couple parked on lover's lane and lasts about ten seconds, probably meant to mislead moviegoers into buying a ticket.
Another distinguishing feature for me about this poster is it's revealing that it is....
"The factual story of public enemy no. FOUR"!!
Who I'm sure 
was at the top of EVERYBODY'S mind!! 
I guess public enemy no.1 wasn't as compelling.
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I regret not being able to remember specifics and provide images, but I do recall often when I was a kid, I'd go to see a movie based on what was on the poster and discover none of the monsters in the flick looked as scary(or cool) as the ones the poster had on it.
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Well, I finally noticed this "whiplash"( barely) that's at the heart of this complaint, and The Bard said it best.....
Much ado about nothing.
My first guess would be the intent is to slowly show off all the set design changes while not keeping Ben off the camera, which would result in much whining on Ben's part(probably) as it would had it happened to any of the other self important bloated ego movie hosts on the network. After all, some TCM big shot's niece or nephew didn't go through all that trouble only to have nobody notice it, did they?
and BTW-----
"niece or nephew" is interchangeable with "trophy wife".
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Well, there's no reason to expect anything less.
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1st......
Congratulations to all who celebrated anniversaries over the weekend. I still acknowledge ours as I still consider us being married.
And I believe the best anniversary gift a man can give his wife is to remember the damn thing!
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What I remember most about the "local" segments of the Jerry Lewis telethons is that the contributions acknowledged from the "blue collar/working class" communities were noticeably higher than the contributions from the more affluent suburbs.
That and the ever present Red Garter Band from The Red Garter Saloon, a popular Detroit watering hole in the late '60's-'70's.
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Man, the Jerry Lewis telethons!
I had always planned on some year staying up for all the hours it would be on, but sadly, circumstances prevented it and by the time those circumstances were no longer a factor, Jerry got too old and the telethons faded away.
My Labor Day was OK. Spent it at my sister in law's house and for the first ime in 35 years finally won a game of Mexican bingo and Right, Left, Center.
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I seem to recall that long before Covid, Spence would sometimes complain about his current health "issues". So, if he has left this vale of tears, maybe it was due to something other than covid, or if so, maybe those pre-existing conditions helped it along.
So, IS Spence gone? We can only hope his health is only bad enough to prevent any activity here, but not worse than that.
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4 hours ago, sewhite2000 said:
Ben Mankiewicz is 54. Jacqueline Stewart is 51. Dave Karger is 48. Eddie Mueller and Alicia Malone have successfully kept their ages hidden from the online community, as far as I can tell, but I think it's reaasonable by looking at their education and career records to say Eddie is possibly in his early '60s and Alicia, the "baby" of the group, in her early '40s. So, yes, middle-aged.
Actually, it's difficult for someone who IS middle aged to be able to detect it. Now, I can't speak for the ladies, but one surefire way for MEN to tell if they're middle aged, is....
When you wake up in the morning, and it's your BACK that's stiff!
And ALLHALLOWS..... Don't tell me that all that silliness between SLAYTON and UNWATCHABLE wasn't any kind of "Brou-ha".
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15 hours ago, mr6666 said:
"..........His friends in the anti-imperialist movement and his association with British socialists led him to visit the Soviet Union.[134] Robeson, Essie, and Marie Seton traveled to the Soviet Union on an invitation from Sergei Eisenstein in December 1934.[135] A stopover in Berlin enlightened Robeson to the racism in Nazi Germany[136] and, on his arrival in Moscow, in the Soviet Union, Robeson said, "Here I am not a Negro but a human being for the first time in my life ... I walk in full human dignity."[.........
Robeson's belief that trade unionism was crucial to civil rights became a mainstay of his political beliefs as he became a proponent of the union activist and Communist Party USA member Revels Cayton.[194] Robeson was later called before the Tenney Committee where he responded to questions about his affiliation with the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) by testifying that he was not a member of the CPUSA.........
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Robeson#1933–1937:_Ideological_awakening
My family was long involved in trade(or labor)unionism since before WWI and never once considered themselves "communists" in the Soviet sense.( or any sense). Trade union's racially inclusive doctrines no doubt seemed radical enough to an institutionally racist U.S.A. at the time that making them and anyone associated with them seen as "communist" and therefore against good, solid American "principles" .
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OK, enough!
Take all this "brou-ha" to the PMs.
Back to the thread.....
Actually, and paying more attention to the hosts' appearances between two movies last night(it was Alicia) all I noticed was a slow zoom. And barely any movement from Alicia herself. So I'll have to pay more attention when other hosts are used(and considering TCM shows anything I care to watch that night) to see what this "slo-mo" complaint is all about.
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Man. Didn't seem that long ago(to me at least) when Belmondo was, to American audiences, the hottest thing on toast. I remember my older stepsisters and my buddies' older sisters going noodle brained over the mention of his name.
Finding his work more interesting as I got older, I'd go so far as to say he defined French "new wave".
Hope he does Rest In Peace.
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22 hours ago, Swithin said:
That is the punch line of a very dirty joke! Google the line and dirty joke, and you'll find it.
I've long already knew that joke. But that photo made it hard to resist.
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2 hours ago, Fedya said:
The communist sypmathizers were dupes about how racist the communists were.
I thought it was about how racist the communists weren't.
Which might have been a draw for Robeson.
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STRANGERS WHEN WE MEET('60) With Kirk Douglas, Kim Novak, Barbara Rush and Walter Matthau
BOY'S NIGHT OUT ('62) Mostly ATTEMPTED infidelity, but nonetheless....
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Let's keep the focus on that we're discussing movies here, movies made for entertainment and escapism. Every now and then social issues are dealt with in classic film, but neither as an endorsement or condemnation. And truly, I do believe audiences at the time never felt infidelity was as rampant as the movies unintentionally tried to put across. But it can often serve as a tasty plot driver or story angle. and sometimes not involving the main characters in the movie( like the implied dalliance between the doctor and Jean Harlow in DINNER AT EIGHT) .
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I've long admired Paul Robeson. Not just for his fine voice and insightful acting, but his character and activism too. Sure, we can belabor the sadness of his embrace of communism. But it's concrete proof that America's attempt to eradicate communist sympathizers in our country was gone about all wrong.
Jailing, deporting and otherwise ridding the country of their presence wasn't the way.
But ridding this country of the reason for their gravitation towards communism should have been essential.
Paul Robeson tried his damnedest to get that across with sadly, little success.
He was certainly someone who deserves a special month for ANY damn reason. And a whole month for sure.
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A long gone drug store in Lincoln Park had an extensive fountain counter service. Norton's was the place. two huge semi-circle counters with a seven seat straight counter in between(similar to the Carter's hamburger place) . My buddy's sister worked there for a spell. Cunningham's and Kinsel's were the only two other drug stores with fountain service, though not as big or nice as Norton's.
Sorry for the digression.
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Why?
Could have done without the Letterman footage. Never thought HE was ever all that great.
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Perhaps the wags at TCM are using the same "rationale"?
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14 hours ago, 37kitties said:
The one and probably only time that Teri Garr came across as sexy.
Man, I always thought she was sexy.
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10 hours ago, unwatchable said:
I can no longer watch the intros/outros of films on TCM. I am not exaggerating. Can't watch 'em. Moving the camera for no apparent reason. It's silly and distracting and they need to get over the novelty of it. It draws attention to the camera.
"Let's do something new!"
"What?"
"I don't know. Just...something."
I feel/felt that way about that constantly moving camera technique used a lot(too much) on TV dramas like NYPD BLUE and to a lesser extent on LAW & ORDER. Reminded me of when my overindulged 6 year old nephew was handed the camcorder so he could tape family gatherings.
Promoters of the technique tried to actually endorse it by saying it supposedly provided the same point of view of an on sight observer. Which only made sense to me if that observer was KATHERINE HEPBURN with her essential tremor.
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When I worked at a K-Mart(in '69) "Zorba The Greek" would pour out of their long tape of background music so regularly I was able to eventually figure that upon hearing it I would have only one half hour to go until quitting time.
The only time I ever enjoyed hearing that tune.
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On 9/3/2021 at 9:53 AM, Bethluvsfilms said:
The spinoff LOU GRANT, although ran for a few seasons during its original run, is seldom shown in reruns nowadays.
I never saw it but I heard it was more of a dramatic show. Too bad it's not in syndication these days, I would like to check it out and see how else it differs from THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW.
Lou Grant doesn't work for a television news department anymore, but a Los Angeles newspaper. Asner is again surrounded by an excellent cast consisting of Robert Walden, Linda Kelsey, Mason Adams and Nancy Marchand. By the last season(if memory serves) the show had a recurrent character Lou befriends of an irascible old man played by veteran character actor Charles Lane.
I never, to my recollection, missed an episode.
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Who I'm sure 
was at the top of EVERYBODY'S mind!! 
That and the ever present Red Garter Band from The Red Garter Saloon, a popular Detroit watering hole in the late '60's-'70's.
Memorable Movie Going Experiences
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My more relished movie going experiences are more recent. Like the "anniversary" presentations at Detroit's newly restored FOX THEATER( it was in sad disrepair until the early '80's when restoration efforts began and brought it back to it's original magnificence.) such as BEN HUR ( I can understand MARK's being dazzled as a kid in '59 as it dazzled ME as a pushing 40 adult in '89.) THE WIZARD OF OZ, GONE WITH THE WIND , CASABLANCA, all flicks I've seen several times on the small screen, but seeing them original sized and in that beautifully opulent setting made it all a new and breathtaking experience.
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