HoldenIsHere
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SUSAN SLADE and CLAUDELLE INGLISH.
SUSAN SLADE is that movie where the baby catches on fire and you can tell it's a doll burning, right?
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I didn't nominate Ozzie and Harriet for 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' because of blandness. It's more about having the savage George and Martha played by gentle lambs.
If O & H really committed to the roles it would actually be a fascinating production.
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But one thing RCN does have, which FIOS doesn't, is TCM in HD, which looks brilliant on my TV. (I have the separate TCM SD channel, so it's easy for me to compare).
The TCM HD channel does look really good now.
Once upon a time I don't think it was truly in HD, but, yes, it now looks very good.
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But the F word wasn't allowed yet - not til 1970 for that - so there's a scene where Dennis Hopper repeatedly shouts "Flake Off".
What was the first mainstream movie to drop the F bomb?
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TCM has shown 'The Trip' in the past. Maybe they ran into a problem getting the right to show it this time.
Yes, I do think I remember seeing it on the schedule before.
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Veni Vidi Vici
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I was glad to see THE SOCERERS is on the July schedule.
I missed it the last time it aired.
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Little known fact:
"This Thread Is Closed" was the original, working title of Tennessee Williams's one-act play THIS PROPERTY IS CONDEMNED, which was later adapted intio a movie starring Natalie Wood and Robert Redford.
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"...something suddenly came up!..." (Greg's sage advice to Marcia on how to break the date with Charlie after making a date for the same night with Doug "Big Man on Campus" Simpson).
I love that episode too.
Oh, yes!
One of my former co-workers and I would ofen use that "Something suddenly came up" line.
We both grew up on Nick At Nite.
We talked about visting the Grand Canyon so we could yell "Bobby!!! Cindy!!!"
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Rebel Without A Cause I didn't go for - primarily because I thought James Dean was too old for the role (24, playing a part of a 17 or 18 year old). Furthermore, I can't believe for a second that a student that looked that good would be an outcast at the school.
Yes, that part of the movie does require some suspension of disbelief
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George Brent didn't portray Gluteus Maximus. George Brent WAS Gluteus Maximus.
Yes, I think George Brent was his stage name.
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You damn punk kids with your bebop music and two tone shoes.
Back when I was a youngster we took the nose we were born with
and liked it. But not you. Roman nose? You want a toga too? Get
out of here, but bring me another beer first.
The Subject Was Noses
Timmy returns from the war to the home of his parents.
The celebratory mood ends when he announces that
he is using his G.I. Bill benefits not to attend the Acme
Locksmith School but to get a nose job. His mom is
sympathetic, but dad blows a gasket. After a two day
shouting match, he decides to move out and follow his
bliss to a rhinoplastologist.
"The Subject Was Noses" was the title of one of my favorite episodes of THE BRADY BUNCH.
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just a reminder for TCM Import's airing @4:45am ET tonight....
"The Ascent, director Larisa Shepitko’s final film and said to be one of the finest war films ever made, is a bleak and harrowing masterpiece of genuine gut-wrenching power. It is a story of survival, sacrifice and betrayal that captures the fragility, ugliness and greatness of man. It is rare for a film to genuinely match its vertiginous reputation yet The Ascent not only meets but transcends expectation delivering a searing study of humanity during a period of unimaginable darkness."
Argh!
I missed THE ASCENT.
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When in Rome I do as the Romans do . . .
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When did ROPE last air on TCM?
I missed it when it aired during the Sunday with Hitch tribute.
Has it aired on TCM since then?
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I missed THE ROMANCE OF ROSY RIDGE when it aired as part of Janet Leigh's Star of the Month tribute.
I'm glad to see it's on the July schedule.
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Maybe the August schedule will be available online this week.
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Well, I suppose that's a good thing. There hasn't been a good 'Star Wars' movie since 1980.
If this one sucks, I'm done.
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK was definitely the best Star Wars movie.
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But what if Drew is your favorite Barrymore?
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I wish Marilyn Monroe had done.the TV movie version of RAIN she was supposed to do in the early 60s. I don't remember if her death is why it didn't get done,.or it was scrapped for some other reason. I can't see it being very faithful to the original material, what with the heavy censorship on the small screen at that time.
Marilyn Monroe would have been an interesting choice as Sadie Thompson, but I think on early 1960s TV the material would have been very sanitized.
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"I'm a pretty girl, Mama . . . "
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Don't forget the original wicked stepmother!
I couldn't resist . . .
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GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933 MEETS THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE
Lots of fun when a bevy of wise-crackin' chorus girls on holiday in the mountains encounter a trio of weary miners.
"See, gals, I can dance too!"
I hope he dances to a tune with a Pig Latin verse
"Ear way in hay ee thay uney may.".
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And then there are those wicked film mothers who expressed themselves in more socially acceptable ways:
Gladys Cooper as Mrs. Vale in Now, Voyager
Yes, she was truly a wicked mother in that movie.
I know it's a work of fiction but that character really makes me angry.
A TCM Must See This A.M.
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In some ways the Hollywood version (with Matt Damon as Ripley) is truer to the book. than PLEIN SOLEIL (PURPLE NOON). However, that movie depicted Ripley (Matt Damon) in a relationship with a man. in none of the Ripley books did he ever act on any of his homosexual impulses.