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15 hours ago, TopBilled said:
Sad to read this.
Markie Post died yesterday as well.
Two lovely ladies who entertained us.
Markie too?
Cripes, she was just barely a year older than me(8 mos.) And IMO just too young to go.
And not only did Jane make me laugh as a kid watching those Shirley Temple flicks, but Markie too, was a bright spot on NIGHT COURT.
Bummer.
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20 hours ago, txfilmfan said:
Around the World in 80 Days had a lengthy (for the time) list of closing credits, as did West Side Story (panning from one piece of graffiti to another). I think this was typical for the big road show films of the 50s and 60s, and smaller films still had the shorter list of credits. By the late 60s and early 70s, though, credit bloat started creeping in.
YouTube has the opening credits for 101 Dalmatians...
Sure. Not so bad now, but in 1961 three minutes WAS a long time. Especially for a 10 year old with a typical ten year old's level of patience.
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20 hours ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
Great Bette Davis quotes go all the back to the start of her career; Here she is in 1932 with the "like to kiss you" line:
That is a good line, but tell me JAMES......
I'm dying to know when you've ever had opportunity to use that line in everyday conversations? You know, the question ASKED by this thread?
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I usually FALL ASLEEP halfway through a good movie, but manage to wake up just as it ends. Which really only annoys me if it's a movie I haven't seen before, but I find fascinating. But sadly, not fascinating enough to keep my tired old a$$ awake all the way through it.
It's all those nocturnal visits to the loo all night that does it. 
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I find silent comedies (Loyd, Keaton, Chaplin) are more favored by teens and other youngsters more than silent dramas, which many also see as comical, but would rather pass on.
CHAYA, let's not try to "whitewash"(pun intended) things by asserting the Yiddish term is the ONLY one in "Blazing Saddles" that's NOT racist.
And sure.
EVERYBODY at first gets drawn in somehow of calling the MONSTER Frankenstein.
And I have friends who STILL think THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME ('39) is a "horror" flick. 
4 hours ago, TikiSoo said:I agree with the BLAZING SADDLES & add YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
PSYCHO (it will get them "over" B&W film-trust me)
Start a great Wilder triple feature with the pow of Marilyn:
SOME LIKE IT HOT/STALAG 13/SUNSET BLVD
Our teen loved them.
I would think "Young Frankenstein" would get them to clear that hurdle a bit easier.
My "kids" are now well into their 40's, and as I stated, have seen and liked a certain amount of "classic" movies before their teen years. And the dead horse I'll beat is insisting comedies work better than heavy dramas(at first) and some classic horror and stuff like KING KONG('33) are good too. But this sort of thing was easier for those of us who were in our 20's when our kids were born rather than those here who list movies THEY loved as teen-agers that came out when I was in my mid 20's or late 30's. And really, if my kids had their own children, THEY'D be the teens (or older) that the OP aimed at here.
As more time passes, those teens we're referring to won't be our kids, but our GRANDCHILDREN! 
And all those '80's JOHN HUGHES flicks will be considered "classic" films. 
(if they ain't already)
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Ha! Well, I've been known to use THIS line a time or two.
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15 hours ago, NostalgicNautilus said:
If closing credits were as short as they used to be...it wouldn't be so bad holding it while waiting for the end credits scene.
Heh! When was the last time(besides on TCM) when you saw a movie that ended with just "THE END" in big letters on the screen then have the screen go black?
Now, I can't remember what was involved in the opening credits of Disney's 101 DALMATIANS ('61) but that was the first movie I remember seeing at a theater with what seemed to me to be long opening credits.
The next longest for me was SUPERMAN ('78) . And those "multi-credit" openings really ramped up in the '80's. Then there was the trend where we had to sit through indeterminate lengths of "outtake bloopers" before the oh, so long closing credits began. But sometimes they were so entertaining that we felt cheated if a movie didn't have them!
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I see Segal and Shatner, but nah, not Plummer.
But Darg's shot choice of Plummer makes me think some of MICHAEL CALLAN. But then too, there's some shots of Callan that remind me some of Shatner.
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I don't get it. Who's the "Scrooge" in IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE? And don't say Mr. Potter, because as Scrooge-like he is, HE'S not visited by any ghost or experiences any redemption of his ways. And George is never shown or reminded of any past indiscretions or present behavior that would jeopardize his future(or afterlife, if you will).
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I'm supposing it's "outsourcing". You know, it's maybe cheaper or at least a more profitable write-off than doing all of that stuff "in house" where they might need to put WAY more people on the payroll( meaning extra assistants and equipment or dressing trailers and catering, etc.)
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Now, I know that YOU very well know it's Mrs. Dilber's line from A CHRISTMAS CAROL('51).
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Usually something light or comedic works for getting teens these days into black and white. Laurel and Hardy maybe...
Or the bevy of "screwball" comedies of the '30's and '40's. Or maybe a few of those '50's "juvenile delinquent" flicks that weren't really meant to be comedies but might strike the kids as comical.
And while Nip's suggestion is good, my kid's intro to the "Golden Age" was another Bogie classic, DEAD END. They thought The Dead End Kids jargon was a hoot. ----
"EAHhhhhhh! Yeh MUDDUH wears army boots!" ........ "Eahhhh, I'll WHALLOP ya!"
But it turns out(as one daughter informed me) that as the years passed and whenever they knew it was on the tube somewhere, they'd tune in to relive the laughs and it occurred to them that there was actually a compelling story there! And the older they got the more they understood some of the references in it (Like what AL JENKINS meant when he told Bogie the girl he asked Al to look up was "busy"
). So, they're not aficionados, but don't refuse to look into a classic movie now and then(at my suggestion).
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Y'know, if I was a drinking man, and wasted time and money in bars, I'd use that too.
One small bit of line I use in reference to me or others is(and name that flick) "I" or "You"..."Should nip along smartly......."
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29 minutes ago, Dargo said:
The commonality of watching a hoard of people madly dashing into a large building.
(...that's all)
I still don't get the significance of Jan. 6 unless you're referring to the hoards of people pushing into a Russian Orthodox church for it's New Year's mas.
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What "agendas" would excessive intro nonsense promote?
I know what you mean KID.... I've griped about that for years. I at first thought your complaint was about all the TCM promos in between movies. But You're really annoyed with (ie);
"Paramount presents".........
"A Schlock production inc. presentation"
"Of a Joe Schmoe film"
"Distributed by Foist On 'Em"
"In association with....."
"Plot Hole Productions"
"Of A.."
"Basement Studios production of...."
Yeah. By the time you're let in on the title and who's in it, your popcorn is soggy from the now cold butter and your soft drink is warm and flat.
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21 minutes ago, 37kitties said:
Yeah, you get to go to h double e hockey sticks.
HEEL??
Actually(and I've mentioned this before) I hold with STANLEY ADAMS' "Lilies Of The Field" character's reliance on "Insurance".
So I try to be nice and fair with everyone and even donate to some "faith based" charities. So, as JUAN said,.
"If what they say is true, when my time comes, I have paid my insurance!"
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21 hours ago, Dargo said:
Yeah well, Wednesdays can sometimes be kind'a like this TOO ya know, Sepia.
(...the joke here being that January 6th of this year fell on a Wednesday, ya see)
So, what does Jan. 6 have to do with anything about Black Friday( as we've come to know it as these days)?
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BLACK FRIDAY is truly horrifying!
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20 hours ago, Dargo said:
And, I have to say that the aforementioned Peter Stomare here...
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I too, can see a bit of ROBERT DUVALL there as well.
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20 hours ago, Vautrin said:
Over time careful study of the Zapruder film has shown that Oswald had more time than was thought he
had earlier. He was ranked above average in marksmanship while in the Marines and highly above average
when compared to the average American male, so he would have had little trouble firing off three shots
in the time he had, with the first shot missing completely. Plus that day just might have been his lucky day.
On another day he might have muffed it. All the evidence points to LHO as the lone assassin of JFK.
Plus a number of reliable witnesses have place Elmer Fudd at a wascally wabbit hunt in New England on
that day.
See.... That's not what was revealed at the period of time just after he was caught in that Dallas movie house. As I posted earlier, several marines he served with, when interviewed said Lee wasn't that great a shot and was often berated by his sergeant for his poor marksmanship. A few even stated he was close to being washed out of the corps. I still feel the only man he killed was that Dallas police officer.
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19 hours ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
What I recommend one does is not group people into such a wide group, especially grouping people who have died years, if not centuries, ago, with those alive today.
I.e. these are artificial group classifications designed to create strawman debates.
The problem is the generalization of the people in those groups. To whit;
Not all black people are lazy, shiftless and prone to committing crimes. Nor are all black men obsessed with wanting to rape white women, or black women predisposed to being prostitutes. nor are black people inherently less intelligent than white people and resistant to learning and being educated.
And too, not all white people are bigoted towards black people. Not all white people feel they are somehow superior to blacks(or any other ethnicity of color) regardless of how poor, ignorant they actually are.
Black people aren't better than whites because they're black, anymore than white people are better than blacks because they're white. Or too....
The black man down the street shouldn't be hated because some black kid years ago beat up my father and stole his car. That man down the street had nothing to do with it, and I'm not interested in any apology that man offers for that black kid's actions. Unless of course, that man is a relative of that black kid.
Which is why, as despicable I feel the enslavement of black people more than two hundred years ago was, and who were released from that enslavement years before any of my family set foot in this country is why I don't feel an obligation to apologize for the actions of white people Me or my ancestors had no part in, just because I'm white. All that water went under the bridge more than a century ago. Let it run and let's not burn that bridge behind us.
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16 hours ago, SansFin said:
Footsteps in the Dark (1941)
Maybe those footsteps were the sound of people DANCING IN THE DARK('49)!
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Oswald being a "skilled" marksman was only recently touted with magically revealed "documentation" that somehow wasn't available 30 years ago or so at the time of the assassination. And at that time(I was 12 years old when it happened) there were several interviews with many marines who were in Oswald's company that made the claim that Lee couldn't hit the dirt in front of the broadside of a barn. And it's not the entire "lone gunman" theory that's in question. It's just WHOM that "lone gunman" was that's challenged.
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"maw" and "mean" "mein" come to mind too. Don't know what ****was supposed to be.
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It's all those nocturnal visits to the loo all night that does it. 
And I have friends who STILL think THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME ('39) is a "horror" flick. 
And all those '80's JOHN HUGHES flicks will be considered "classic" films. 
(if they ain't already)
Alicia Malone
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So, does she ever call for a boycott of classic Western genre movies in which Native Americans("Injuns" to some of you) AREN'T played by actual Native Americans? But by white actors also wearing darker body make-up?
Or maybe a boycott of WEST SIDE STORY, in which non-Latino Natalie Wood affects a slight accent and portrays a girl of Puerto Rican heritage?
Or the Greek GEORGE CHAKIRIS also plays a Puerto Rican? (THERE'S a twist. A Greek playing a Latino while elsewhere, an actual Latino [ Anthony Quinn] portrays a GREEK in other movies!
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Given that sort of thing done in Hollywood history, she's going to be one busy gal.
I guess we won't also be seeing her preset any CHARLIE CHAN movies anytime soon.
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