HoldenIsHere
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Not me. I'm never happy to see bars at the sides.
I keep my Akai wide screen tv settings so that the screen is always filled up side to side. The only time I don't get that is when a broadcast is done in window-box. In that event I simply watch something else - windowboxing p!sses me off.
As for movies, I stopped watching movies on tv a long time ago. I watch only TCM or DVD's for movies. If TCM ever changes it's onscreen policy to what other channels are doing, I'll go exclusively to DVD's.
I don't like it when the vertical of shows created in the 4:3 aspect ratio is cropped to create a faux widescreen.
The stretching of 4:3 shows and movies is even worse.
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I don't think it was a suicide pact. The dialogue leading up to the shooting of Martha by Walter goes against that theory. It's a great scene, though. Btw, weren't there many on-screen suicides in classic-era films? I can think of a few.
*****SPOILER ALERT*****
RE: the possible suicide pact-----Walter holds the gun against Martha and they pull the trigger together.
Walter then shoots himself.
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Well she is technically responsible for a death early in the film. According to the code, crime cannot pay. So she had to die at the end.
What exactly was Muller's reasoning ?
*****SPOILER ALERT*****
Suicide was shown on screen.
This went expressly against the Code.
As Muller noted, it appeared to be a suicide pact.
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I agree with Eddie Muller: How did the ending of THE STRANGE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS get past the Production Code in 1946?
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"I agree Gig Young is whatever. He's so boring."
But you do know about him in real life, yes?
To me, that is something that is always there when you watch him.
Did you know Elizabeth Montgomery was once married to Gig Young?
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The side bars are normal for older television shows, because they were not widescreen. It would not be normal for most films made after 1953, like SERPICO, since they ARE widescreen.
Yes, I'm happy when I see the bars used for pre-widescreen TV shows to preserve the 4:3 aspect ratio in which they were created, but the use of them makes no sense for widescreen movies such as SERPICO.
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Do you guys remember when Kurt Russell used to wear eyeliner and tried to act like he didn't?
I'm going to search for photos .. .
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Have you seen it before?
It's the only case I can think of where a pretty mediocre/bad movie rally pulls the **** together at the end and just blows your mind. The ending is just great. Like, if JAWS THE REVENGE had ended with the shark eating everyone except Michael Caine.
Again, the seventies, aren't you pretty much glad you missed them too?
ps- poor Karen Black. her passing was quite sad.
pss- I love Oliver Reed officially since seeing THE DEVILS.
I have not seen BURNT OFFERINGS but I'm definitely looking forward to it.
I have a fondness for 1970s movies and TV shows but I guess I am glad that I didn't live in that time.
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Or Funny TORy--where he just had a cameo.
I think that the one's with the famous line about toothbrushes.
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There's a tribute to Natalie Wood on July 20.
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Both that.and another overplayed.David Lean/Tor Johnson film, TORRENCE.OF TORABIA, bubbled under the top ten.
What about FUNNY TOR?
I know some contend that Tor was miscast as a Jewish-American gambler but my grandmother was okay with it.
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"What's Up Doc?"(WUD)--(1972)--I saw it on first-run while a kid in CO--the audience was chattering & eating before the film began--& then Barbra Streisand started to sing Cole Porters'
"You're the Top " before the opening credits--& everybody in the theatre shut up--no talking, eating--he**, I wondered if anyone was Breathing--& the subsequent times in the film she sang (3, I think)--same reaction from the audience. I credit WUD with instilling a love of film music & musicals.
Streisand's interpretation of "You're The Top" at the opening of WHAT'S UP DOC? is mindblowingly brilliant and seems so effortless.
When she sings "You are sublime." Wow!
That part always amazes me----they way she subverts the melody yet somehow stays true to it.
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Did Hayley Mills and Juliet Mills ever make a movie together?
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bad news. I can't make it. hope the absence of my onboard ideas doesn't ruin it for everyone.
just can't make it. hope you all understand.
Awww, NipkowDisc.
Rumor has it that a restored print of a certain seldom seen Anthony Quinn movie is scheduled to be unveiled during the cruise.
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It is The Last Flight of Dixie and features Martin Milner, noir icon Jane Greer (who looked great BTW), and Michael Ansara.
I wish Jane Greer would get a Summer Under The Stars day.
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Have you ever seen Ewan McGregor as the androgynous bisexual 70s British glam-rock star in VELVET GOLDMINE? The guyliner and makeup was totally appropriate, and looked much better on him than on Christian Bale, as the teen in love with his idol.
Yes, I have seen VELVET GOLDMINE.
It's sort of a glam rock CITIZEN KANE.
Ewan McGregor's character Curt Wild is a composite of Iggy Pop and Lou Reed.
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Rex Reed is also the worst.
Yes.
I think he misquoted Omar Sharif on the "beast" comment.
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No it has been on once, if not twice before. But I missed it so was glad to be able to record it last night.
Barbara Loden is wonderful.
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Mark your calendars for Monday, September 21 -- that is the night TCM has set aside to pay tribute to Omar Sharif. This replaces a Carole Landis marathon previously scheduled.
The new schedule for that night is:
DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (1965) at 8:00
FUNNY GIRL (1968) at 11:30
FUNNY LADY (1975) at 2:30
"And all these years I've been in love with a set of g*d*** toothbrushes."
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I have seen that too. IIRC, I think I have seen it come up for the PNG file extension, and possibly also for "JPEG" - a variation on the legalized "JPG" extension.
It also does that for me if I forget and drag and drop a file on my hard drive directly into the message, instead of "hotlinking" a pic from another website (the preferred method here).
Thanks for the information.
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Was WANDA a premiere?
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come on: the ending is awesome though! and a total mindf....well you know.
I'm definitely looking forward to BURNT OFFERINGS.
I love Karen Black.
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BURNT OFFERINGS with the great Karen Black is scheduled for October 2.
I really hope this one does not get bumped.
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scsu said: Actually, these days ... not so much
Apparently, we're back to kindergarten again.
Yup.
THE STRANGE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS
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Yes, I think clout definitely allowed the code to be skirted in a few cases.
It was the clout of Edward Albee's play that allowed the code-imposed language barrier to be broken in such a blatant way in WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? --- and of course in so doing led to the end of the code itself.