heuriger
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Happy Fourth !
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Yep, alot of people say Loss Angeles like Jack Webb did. I prefer to say Los with the o as a long 'o' as in the Spanish pronunciation. Here is a nice article on this whole L.A. kerfuffle.
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jun/26/local/la-me-0626-then-20110626
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Dargo,
Here is a pic of Sheb Wooley shortly after his aforementioned song hit #1 on the U.S. Charts in 1958. He is dressed incognito in order to avoid the mass of people that came out to greet him when he landed at Vandenberg Air Force Base. Kinda reminds you of another performer who was also partial to purple and who avoided passengers on planes, trains and automobiles.
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> {quote:title=Hibi wrote:}{quote}That's awful about the cake. I never pass up free food when offered.......
In 1789, Marie Antoinette had the same thought in mind when she suggested that the starving Parisian peasants be given "cake" because there was a shortage of bread in Paris.
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Nice picture of Orson dressed in character for the 1957 film he made for Universal International Pictures, Man in the Shadow.
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> {quote:title=ibcsk wrote:}{quote}Congratulations TCM. You are now showing tripe
Are you sure you weren't watching PBS' Create channel showing a demonstration of how to prepare menudo? Tripe is an ingredient in menudo.
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Did we ever confirm that Robert Warwick was the correct answer to the last pic posted by Miles?
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> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:
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> Who appointed all these people to police the nation?
I think Gordon Sumner aka "Sting" appointed himself to "police" the nation, Fred.
As a sage once said, "I know, they can't all be gems." LOL
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That's Robert Warwick. He was in Sullivan's Travels, which recently aired on TCM.
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FredCDobbs wrote;
Generally, the "producer" of a film is the money man. He raises the money or begs the studio heads for the money, and the studio heads mainly only care about making money. But some times a good director will concentrate very much on art in making a film and I wonder how he can talk a producer into letting him get artsy. Or maybe he just does it without asking.
*In the case of "Citizen Kane", Orson wa**s in charge of production and George Schaefer was the executive producer who was uncredited. So bascially, Orson was his own boss and he had final cut of the film. That's why it turned out the way it did.*
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> {quote:title=jamesjazzguitar wrote:}{quote}
> Does anyone really need to be reminded that the movie making business is, well a business, where the goal is making money for stockholders. It is NOT about 'art'.
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That's why 'mavericks' like Orson Welles and Erich Von Stroheim (as a director) were anathema to the Hollywood establishement. And also it's why 'their art' has stood the test of time because it was created without the commerical concerns of Hollywood. $$$
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Cry Havoc from 1943 was about combat nurses in the Phillipines after Pearl Harbor. It has virtually no scenes with male actors sans(
) a brief Robert Mitchum scene. It starred Margaret Sullavan and Fay Bainter et al.
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> {quote:title=darkblue wrote:}{quote} I can be obtuse at times.
I've often been told that I'm a-cute one.
To borrow one of Dargo's lines, "Hey, they all can't be gems." B-)
LOL
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Anthony Eisley. He was one of the detectives on Hawaiian Eye which aired 1959-1963, The show also starred Robert Conrad and Connie Stevens.
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> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}What is "Canadian-ness"?
In Scotland, they call in Loch-ness !!
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Thanks for the feedback, Miles. Yes, I was the first one to comment that Anne Shirley started out as Dawn O'Day.
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Anne Shirley who was born Dawn Paris but began as child actress Dawn O'Day.
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Winslow Corbett.
Answer posted at 9:48 PM, June 17 without edit.
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misswonderly wrote:
With the former, we have no choice. With the latter, we do. We can turn the movie off, or choose not to watch it in the first place.
As I stated previously, I can turn off a movie if I wish but the issue goes deeper. TCM has an obligation to not offend its viewership so I take it they approved of this edit or did it themselves. It's a nice debate but the reality is TCM is removing offensive words whether we like it or not.
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If the word was so innocuous why was it removed? But we all have to accept it was removed. We're powerless to do anything about it. I never said just because it has been removed from the film that prejudice is being white washed from the past. It's folly to think that.
That's why we commemorate Dec. 7, 1941. Honoring that day means we will never forget what happened, regardless of what a station does to edit a single word in a film.
I don't think because a word is edited out means people are unwilling to accept the truth of how people felt back then. Like I said, if we need to look for the truth we have Dec. 7, 1941. Removing a hate word from a film doesn't change or make people forget Dec. 7, but it's a way of moving forward.
No one is concerned when a film isn't accurate with historical events .People say, "It's just a Hollywood film." Accuracy isn't expected, but who is to say that some young viewer might not think that fictionalized movie is in fact reality. TCM movies are not the only source for history.
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> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}That would be an economic "trend" in films, but not a Rule of the Code. Rules of the Code would be something someone can't do or say in a film because it is offensive to the people who control the Code.
Exactly, just as the slang word J_ _ was edited out of "They All Kissed The Bride." it seems today that code even reaches back to films from the past. Good point, Fred.
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The FCC has broadcast rules that TCM has to abide. Someone has deemed that word offensive, otherwise why was it edited out? Some entity has determined that it's more harmful to leave it in than to edit it out. So we are talking about the airwaves because TCM doesn't broadcast in a vacuum. Maybe TCM did it themselves so as not to alienate their Japanese-American viewers.
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Yep Dargo, she was quite the lady cab driver which reminds me of the time I worked in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY back in.....................
Carson on TCM: disappointing :(
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I wish TCM would show Orson Welles on Carson. I don't believe he is scheduled. What a shame. Orson and Johnny were magic.