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Will y'all have a butterscotch schnapps for him to drink?

Hopefully, this excerpt from the History Channel's This Day in History for Jan. 8, 1941 will add clarity. After catching a preview screening of the unfinished Citizen Kane on January 3, 1941, the influential gossip columnist Hedda Hopper wasted no time in passing along the news to Hearst and his associates. Her rival and Hearst’s chief movie columnist, Louella Parsons, was incensed about the film and its portrait of Charles Foster Kane, the Hearst-like character embodied in typically grandiose style by Welles himself. Even more loathsome to Hearst and his allies was the portrayal of Kane’s second wife, a young alcoholic singer with strong parallels to Hearst’s mistress, the showgirl-turned-actress Marion Davies. Hearst was said to have reacted to this aspect of the film more strongly than any other, and Welles himself later called the Davies-based character a “dirty trick” that he expected would provoke the mogul’s anger. Only a few days after the screening, Hearst sent the word out to all his publications not to run advertisements for the film. Far from stopping there, he also threatened to make war against the Hollywood studio system in general, publicly condemning the number of “immigrants” and “refugees” working in the film industry instead of Americans, a none-too-subtle reference to the many Jewish members of the Hollywood establishment. Hearst’s newspapers also went after Welles, accusing him of Communist sympathies and questioning his patriotism. Hollywood’s heavyweights, who were already resentful of Welles for his youth and his open contempt for Hollywood, soon rallied around Hearst. Louis B. Mayer of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer even offered to pay RKO $842,000 in cash if the studio’s president, George Schaefer, would destroy the negative and all prints of Citizen Kane. Schaefer refused and in retaliation threatened to sue the Fox, Paramount and Loews theater chains for conspiracy after they refused to distribute the film. After Time and other publications protested, the theater chains relented slightly and permitted a few showings; in the end, the film barely broke even. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/william-randolph-hearst-stops-citizen-kane-ads

I never said Mayer would destroy art to make a profit. Where does that come from? I said he wasn't a patron of the arts like a De Medici, he only saw it as commerce and his burning the Citizen Kane negative was an example of him not valuing film as art like a true patron of the arts would. That's a far cry from concluding that he would burn this negative for a monetary gain. I never implied that.

TCM does not exist in a vacuum but in a modern age where they would love to be able to do more but, they are like other businesses........... *Therein lies the rub, TCM are a business and when people wise up to that reality then their expectations will be more grounded. Gone are those days when TCM was like Mister Rogers Neighbourhood, eh?*

Formatting issues.

I spend most of time listening to music. TV rarely ever goes on anymore for TCM et al. Chill dude, it was just an observation. Nothing to get hung about.

*Maybe I am their target audience, but how many times can one watch the catheter ads, the prostate guy and Alex Trebeck's life insurance before they want to scream? And don't get me started on Connie and Jack, that couple who ride around in a gas guzzling RV and do nothing but talk about having saved ten bucks on their cell phone that month.* *Dude, you watch waaaaay too much TV. Good golly *

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*‘Catfishing,’ a slang term for creating fake profiles on social media to create false identities.* *Not a fan of R.E.M?*

Louis B. Mayer offered RKO one million dollars for the negative of Citizen Kane for the express purpose of burning it. A real dyed in the wool de Medici, this Louis B. Mayer, eh? Louis B. Mayer, a man with a love for the art of cinema or Louis B. Mayer, Hollywood bag man? I know what time it is and so do you, RFE. But do others?

> Unfortunately, I don't know what FLIX is. I'm in Canada, > > > > Flix is the name of my neighbor's cocker spaniel.

Were those board members featured on a TCM broadcast for the 15th anniversary and do we have B roll?

> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote}I just love the way you and Fred disregard every thing I say, whenever I'm on a thread with the two of you. I suppose I should enjoy it, since this is the only way I can be invisible. You're like a couple of cliquey kids at a party -"oh look, it's her...never mind, we'll just pretend she's not there." Oy the drama. Does it ever end?

Love these nonsense threads myself. Keep 'em comin' for laughs.

> {quote:title=DrBub wrote:}{quote}Just saw tcm tribute to DD. This is what I love about TCM. If TCM were as great as people claim, they would broadcast some Deanna Durbin films for this so called tribute.

Creating threads where you're the only one responding insures much traffic, eh.

TCM is lucky to have so many people who can afford cable.

> {quote:title=joyrider wrote:}{quote}Put a fork in it. My TCM via Comcast is blurry & soft & out of focus. Funny Encore is perfectly clear & sharp. TCM here is worse than VHS quality. I only buy it because I'm stuck here. Got no cherce. This is so because TCM refuses to broadcast in true HD. Instead they use an upconverted signal pawned off as HD. Cheapskates.

It's not R.I.P. TCM but Rip TCM because it's terminal five waiting Mr. and Misdemeanor parked beside the ocean, landscape's alive agoshin'. Who put all of this in motion?

> {quote:title=Hibi wrote:}{quote}I remember Bettye from Ben Casey. As a child I couldnt believe she was married IRL to that ugly, old Dr. Zorba! (was that his name?) LOL Refreshing to know that people have become less superficial in these modern times.

I have noticed that any questioning of TCM is often met with a heavy firestorm by some loyalists.

Yes, I realize I can never achieve her measure of knowledge. Thanks for reminding me of that. I don't even merit a response.

How do you know if a thread started on Joel McCrea even had any impact on TCM's decision to have a SOTM for him? Was there some official announcement citing a particular thread being the springboard for the decision to have a Joel McCrea SOTM?

Sounds positively grotty, mate!

But the resolution on TCM HD pales in comparison to MGM HD, for instance.