HoldenIsHere
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Be sure to schedule this Caesar-a-thon on March 15, aka "The Ides of March."
I believe there's also a Caesar and Cleopatra movie. Make sure to schedule that one!
Too bad Little Caesar's Pizza is so bad. I guess for only $5, you get what you pay for.
I've only had Little Caesar's Pizza once and, yes, it was not good.
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And yet another reason why I think Chuck Lorre's sitcom is so damn funny and well written.
You recall that Simon Helberg (who plays Howard Wolowitz on THE BIG BANG THEORY) was a guest programmer on TCM a couple of years ago.
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As is Christine Baranski whenever she guests as Leonard's cold-as-a-fish psychiatrist mother.
(...the two goin' at it when they finally met on last week's episode was hilarious, wasn't it!)
Yes!!!!
NOTE: This photo is of actors that I love, not ones that I "can't get into.".
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Hmmmm...well...seein' as how my wife and I have been hooked on the antics of those "numbskulls" since this sitcom first premiered years ago and have always found those "numbskulls"(btw, wouldn't the term "numbskull" be ill-applied to highly intelligent individuals who lack the ability to gracefully interact socially with others???...ah, but I digress here) very entertaining, I COULD give a few reasons as to why this sitcom has and continues to be such a hit IF you have a few minutes here, bub?!
Now, I'd first mention that the dialogue delivered by the perfectly cast and talented actors in it is usually very funny and often references a wide variety of American cultural touchstones, from the highbrow to the lowbrow, and THEN go on from there.
Correct, Dargo.
"Numbskulls" is not an accurate term at all for the characters on THE BIG BANG THEORY.
And, yes, the dialogue on the show and the actor's delivery of it are brilliant.
I especially love Jim Parsons as Sheldon.
Laurie Metcalf was great as Sheldon's mother.
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It is on the list of previously shown movies.
Maybe . . . wishful thinking here . . . Dean Stockwell is being given a much deserved day during this year's Summer Under The Stars and BLUE VELVET is being moved from July to August for that reason.
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Every once in a while we are teased that something from TCM's forbidden list is finally gonna be shown - only to have it mysteriously withdrawn (probably when someone who has a lot of influence over the forbidden list becomes aware and blows a tube about it).
There's a TCM article for BLUE VELVET which seems to indicate that it aired at least once on TCM in the past.
It is disappointing that it was yanked from the July schedule.
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I wouldn't say [ROLLER BOOGIE] was the best movie, but I watched the whole thing because I got hooked at the beginning with the mention of a roller boogie contest. After Linda Blair started training for said contest, I wanted to see the end result. The movie was amusing, although, the lead actor was terrible and it's just as well that this is pretty much his only film. I was disappointed though, because I fell asleep and missed the boogie contest, which was the reason I watched the whole thing in the first place. I'm happy to see it repeated, so that I can see the contest.
I've DVRed ROLLER BOOGIE to watch later.
I watched some of it this morning.
The opening skating scene on the Venice Beach boardwalk was fantastic and was underscored by "Hell On Wheels" by Cher from her Casablanca years.
Apparently the male lead, Jim Bray, was cast for his skating skills rather than for his acting ability.
I did some research and learned that he was a competitive artistic roller skater from southern California who won several titles as a child and teenager in both singles and pairs.
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PLACES IN THE HEART (for which Sally Field won her second Oscar and gave her now famous "You like me!" acceptance speech) is also scheduled to air in May on TCM.
It appears that PLACE IN THE HEART has now been replaced on the May 19 schedule by NADINE, another Robert Benton movie.
The entire May 19 prime time and overnight schedule is devoted to Robert Benton movies.
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I'm pretty sure I saw BLUE VELVET on the July Schedule before, but now it's gone.
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Holden's graphic is very informative. As for accent or dialect, far too many influences. I grew up in a small town near Charleston SC and went to college in Charleston. However, my parents were from northeast Louisiana, which is socioeconomically far more similar to Arkansas than south Louisiana. In college, I was exposed to professors and lots of students from outside the South. 50% of the students were from out of state and many from the North or Midwest.
How much did all that influence my accent or dialect? Lived in northwest corner of SC for last 40+ years. Did that influence my dialect/accent?
TheCid, the influences you mention on your own speech pattern are examples of different variables that infuence a person's idiolect, an individual's unique and distinctive speech pattern. Many factors shape a person's idiolect both consciously and unconsciously.
I went to college with someone from a small town in a a so-called "Deep South" state who insisted that she didn't have a Southern accent.
While it's true that she did not speak with a Southern melody pattern or pronounce "time" as "Tom," she pronounced the words "pen" and "pin" identically (she rhymed both words with "skin") and her pronunciation of the word "on" usually rhymed with "phone."
The pronunciation of the small word "on" is often a strong regional indicator in American English.
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OLD YELLER (1957)
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Guys from Alabama sound different than the Mississippi guys, as do the Carolina guys( North OR South )
The boundaries of linguistic (or dialect) geography do not follow state lines so it is inaccurate to generalize that people from Alabama "sound different" from those from Mississippi. Some people from both states speak with identical speech patterns.
Of course an individual has his or her own unique speech characteristics (or idiolect).
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In the days of downloading, Netflix "streaming" and other forms of piracy
Netflix streaming is not a form of piracy.
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Good to know. But are you sure they didn't crop the original film then stretch it to make it seem like widescreen?
No, because it was letterboxed on the SD channel.
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I don't know Finch's history. Maybe he went to a good school. I had a friend from Louisiana who was on the debating team at his (Southern) college. The coach instructed the team to lose their Southern accents, because "Nobody believes anything anyone says with a Southern accent."
That strategy would likely work against an attorney arguing cases before a Southern jury during the timeframe of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD.
According to the novel, Atticus did study law in the South, specifically Montgomery, Alabama.
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This also reminded me of what bothers me about Gregory Peck's non-accent in To Kill a Mockingbird. I mean even if Atticus left the South to get a law degree, would his accent really be as non-Southern as it is back in his small Southern town? I would think his fellow Southerners would think he was putting on airs in that courtroom.
Gregory Peck did make an attempt to sound a bit Southern.
The two actors playing his children, however, speak in very authentic Southern accents so Peck sounds even more inauthentic in comparison.
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Absolutely----Terrific song, and I wish they'd shown Across 110th Street instead of the overrated and way overplayed Zorba the Greek. And I'm not saying that just because I was born on 110th Street myself.
The clip you've posted is from the Quentin Tarantino movie JACKIE BROWN.
To be honest I didn't know there was a movie called ACROSS 110TH STREET.
I first heard the song "Across 110th Street" (I agree it's a great one) in JACKIE BROWN.
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Last year the Summer Under The Stars honorees were known by May 7.
I wonder if TCM will make the August schedule available around the same time this year.
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Unfortunately, TCM is not showing NIGHT MOVES in widescreen. So it will probably be a pan-and-scan version.
I didn't watch the entire movie (it didn't interest me), but I was happy to see that TCM did show it in widescreen format.
I guess they erred on the side of caution when they posted the information on the schedule.
Apparently they didn't know if the print was widescreen or not.
They did the same thing with SILKWOOD.
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Funny how these SOTM spotlights can change a long-held opinion about certain actors and actresses, isn't it laffite?!
In my case it was last year (I think) when this series featured Eleanor Parker. I always thought she specialized in the "whinny" roles, and then I caught her in "Scaramouche".
(...and no, she didn't do the "fandango" in it...she didn't need to)
You know, Dargo, I had a similar Eleanor Parker appreciation moment via TCM, but for me the movie was A MILLIONAIRE FOR CHRISTY.
I'm not sure I'd ever heard of Eleanor Parker before watching TCM.
She really blew me away in A MILLIONAIRE FOR CHRISTY. And that kissing scene in the moonlight with her and Fred McMurray was smoking hot especially for the early 1950s and it seemed so real.
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LASSIE COME HOME (1943)
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Speaking of DARK SHADOWS, I recently purchased the complete collection of the reboot of the series from 1991. It lasted for only 13 episodes, It started off with high ratings but since it premiered during the first Gulf War it was constantly pre-empted for news updates so it could not maintain its audience.
I finally found a DVD set in the correct aspect ratio of 4:3. It had been released at one point in "faux widescreen" with the vertical cropped.
The series, however, was shot in 4:3 so I held out for that.
Anyway . . . . in the 1991 series Jean Simmons played Elizabeth Collins Stoddard, the role played by Joan Bennett on the 1960s soap opera.
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Yep! Little known fact here Holden, but a very young Brando actually did the voice for an 8th Dwarf in Disney's very first feature length film.
(...but the character "Sleezy" and all its footage and dialogue was ultimately left on the ol' cutting room floor)
That's indeed a shame, Dargo.
Today such cut footage would end up as "deleted scenes" on the bonus features of the DVD release of the movie.
Unfortunately during the time that Disney made its first full length feature footage cut from films was typically not preserved so young Brando's turn as Sleezy is most likely lost forever.
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THE LEGEND OF LYLAH CLARE
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When will TCM air THE LEGEND OF LYLAH CLARE again?
Cue musical stinger "Oo-ee-oo-ee-oo WAH!"