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A large bird's-eye view of Los Angeles is shown with beams of light moving to a conga beat. The action takes place in the famed Ciro's nightclub, where the Hollywood stars are having dinner - at $50 ($801.7 today) a plate and "easy terms". The first stars seen are Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche and, at a table behind them, Adolphe Menjou and Norma Shearer, followed by Cary Grant, seated alone. Grant talks to himself: “What a place! What a place! It’s as pretty as a picture. But if I ever told my favorite wife the awful truth I'd land right on the front page. Yessireee Bobby.” (All these jokes are references to some of his films, except The Front Page which does not star Grant, but was remade as His Girl Friday in 1940, a film that does star him). Then Greta Garbo comes along selling "cigars, cigarettes, butts." Grant buys some, tossing a quarter ($4.01 today) into her tray and asks her for a light. Garbo lifts her enormous foot on the table and strikes a match on the shoe, then lights Grant’s cigarette. Garbo is considered even today to have been an extremely beautiful woman, but she did have very large feet, and this was caricatured repeatedly in Warner Brothers cartoons of the era. In the next scene Edward G. Robinson asks Ann Sheridan: "How’s the Oomph girl tonight?" Sheridan responds by uttering the word "Oomph" several times. Her final "Oomph" surprises Robinson. (Sheridan was a sex symbol known as the "Oomph" girl in those years.) The camera then tracks past some tables: the first one has Henry Binder and Leon Schlesinger sitting there as an in-joke, while the soundtrack quotes "Merrily We Roll Along" - the theme to the Merrie Melodies series. (Schlesinger was producer for the Looney Tunes cartoons and Binder was his assistant.) The camera shows some other tables which are reserved for people: Bette Davis, a large sofa for Kate Smith (a well known singer at the time, noted for her ample girth), and the last table isn't reserved for movie actors at all, but for comic strip (and movie and radio) characters: Blondie, Dagwood, and Baby Dumpling, with a fire hydrant for Daisy the dog. Meanwhile, in the cloakroom Johnny Weissmuller has arrived. He leaves his overcoat behind to reveal his Tarzan outfit - with the single addition of tuxedo collar and black tie. Sally Rand (famous for her striptease acts and fan dance), leaves her trademark feather "fans" behind and leaves presumably naked, as only her hands are seen and not her entire self-figure. The hatcheck girl is Paulette Goddard.

The big reveal . . .

speedracer, I also love the caricatures of the "old" movie stars in the Looney Tunes/Merry Melodies cartoons. Of course, they were current movie stars when the cartoons were made. Can anyone identify all of the stars being caricatured?

"Mother" from PSYCHO Mrs. Iselin from THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE Margaret White from CARRIE Momma Lift from THROW MOMMA FROM THE TRAIN Stifler's Mom from AMERICAN PIE

Yes, kind of an anti-Mother's Day theme.

The thread was created in December 2014 in General Discussions and was not moved to Off-Topic Chit Chat until May 2015. Almost every thread on these boards includes comments not on the subject of the thread topic or not even about movies. Those threads do not get moved to Off-Topic Chit Chat if the conversation goes off-topic.

The vast majority of the polls in the original poll thread were movie-related and, more specifically, were related to discussions about movies in the TCM General Discussions forum: What's Your Favorite Pizza Movie? What Is Your Reaction To All These Elvis Movies? Who Made Better Films, Jerry Lewis Or Lew Ayres? Does TCM Have A Film Library? Why Does TCM Keep Showing Repeats? How Should We React To Sony Yanking "The Interview"? What Is Your Biggest Complaint With TCM's Programming? The thread was created in December 2014 and remained in General Discussions until very recently. There was a thread titled "The 'like' feature needs to go" in General Discussions that was never moved to Off-Topic Chit Chat. That topic was clearly more about the message boards themselves and not about movies. The "Made-Up TCM Message Board Polls" were primarily about movies and the discussion of movies by the TCM message board community. Therefore, that thread belongs in General Discussions . . . and it should be unlocked.

But why was the orginial thread locked and why was it moved to Off Topic Chit Chat? Please remove any offending posts if you must (none of these were made by the creator of the thread), unlock the thread and restore it to General Discussions where it belongs. The polls were definitely on topic and humorously commented on discussions happening in multiple threads in the forum.

Rumor has it that a remake of HOT SPELL is in the works and that the new movie is loaded with lots of exciting CGI.

The new films are sequels to the first trilogy, not prequels. The First Order want to restore the Galactic Empire defeated in Episode VI.

Here's some footage from the Vanity Fair photo shoot by Annie Leibovitz from the set of STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWKENS. Adam Driver's character in the movie is officially revealed as "bad guy" Kylo Ren. We see him in a Vader-inspired all-black caped ensemble commanding a couple of snowtroopers "loyal to the evil First Order." So he was the character swinging the three-pronged light saber in the first teaser. Was the earlier leaked photo of him in an X-Wing pilot costume intentionally misleading or will part of the character's story (or backstory) be a turn to the Dark Side? Next-generation bad guy Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) commands snowtroopers loyal to the evil First Order on the frozen plains of their secret base. Photograph by Annie Leibovitz.

If you don't enjoy "put-down" humor how did you like SEINFELD (you stated you did), which was much, much more mean-spirited than THE BIG BANG THEORY?

Both ROMAN HOLIDAY and LAURA were missing in action from the schedule for years. TCM is making up for the lack of air time for both of these movies while they have the license to do so. I like that they showing these movies multiple times.

Oh, what have I done? I've killed the wabbit Poor wittle bunny Poor wittle wabbit.

May 7 has come and gone and still no August schedule available online.

I liked Gloria Swanson's Sadie very much. I think she's the most beautiful Sadie Thompson on film. RAIN with Joan Crawford is still my favorite version of the story but Gloria Swanson captures Sadie's torment so well in the conversion scene.

So I guess you didn't end up watching AGATHA since there's no live commentary in this thread about it. I enjoyed it. I'm a big fan of Vanessa Redgrave and I had never seen AGATHA so I am very glad that TCM aired it.

I am now going to consciously look for pizza in old movies. I also have never had pizza and spaghetti together.

Of course, if it's delicious pizza it will not be Little Caear's pizza.

I'm bumping this thread since MISS SADIE THOMPSON aired recently on TCM. When I started this thread I'd not yet seen the silent SADIE THOMPSON with Gloria Swanson. I saw it for the first time when it aired on TCM during a spotlight on silent screen stars. The missing final reel was reconstructed using stills.

RAIN with Joan Crawford and the silent SADIE THOMPSON with Gloria Swanson are so much better than MISS SADIE THOMPSON. Joan Crawford supposedly hated RAIN, but she is so good in that movie. I think maybe the bad experiences she had making the movie probably created her negative feelings about it.

When will TCM air THE LEGEND OF LYLAH CLARE again? Cue musical stinger "Oo-ee-oo-ee-oo WAH!"

I've only had Little Caesar's Pizza once and, yes, it was not good.