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IIRC that short story was inspired by real life incidents, so it wasn't exactly "prescient".
Anyway, a 1970s Ellery Queen episode concerned a conceited movie star (Tab Hunter) who is killed on the set when a prop gun turns out to be loaded with live cartridges. In the '90s Brandon Lee (Bruce's son) would be killed in the same manner on the set of a film called The Crow.
Yes, after seeing that episode I got the story it was based on and read it. Just didn't want to put too much info on the post, since more people have probably seen the AHP episode than read the tale.
Your entry is very eerie, since other than the "conceited" bit it does seem to be quite prescient.
I forgot to mention the irony that in the AH episode, the point of the story is that the widow of the climber waited years and never married the man who was with her when the climb went wrong, but in real life the climber found on Everest's widow married his best friend, another climber and did not wait years for his body to be found. Can't blame her though.
Thanks, Sam...oops, I mean Richard!
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It's kinda' strange & the complete opposite of not only Robert 0sborne, but most film critics and buffs
there's really no listing of TCM's Ben Mankiewicz' & his own personal favs in cinema history?
All I ever found was>
*"West Side Story"
*"Ben-Hur" (l959 version)
*"All About Eve"
& 1998's "0ut of Sight"
& have heard him mention Steve McQueen as his favorite actor a few times & somewhat *Oscar winner Lee Marvin
I have kept files on everything cinematic long before the internet & wanted to add his to that list
Thanks
I heard he likes the movie "Ben" but without any songs by Michael Jackson.
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I heard the news today that the body of a climber was found after sixteen years on Mount Everest and his wife says that he seemed frozen in time. He was preserved by the ice and that and his clothing were the keys to identifying him.
This reminded me of a famous "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" episode called "The Crystal Trench" wherein a man is trapped in ice in an avalanche and his wife tries for years to find his body, which finally is discovered in the same state as the climber written about below.
AFP synopsis:
When Stella Ballister's husband dies in a mountain-climbing accident, he falls into a crevasse and is frozen within a glacier. Stella waits for the glacier to move so that she can see the frozen and perfectly preserved body of her husband. When it finally does so, she is shocked to discover that her husband's corpse is wearing a locket that contains a picture of another woman.
Can you name a movie or tv episode which seemed prescient in this way?
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Directors have discussed this topic and 'they' know the current hair styles for the time period. It isn't a lack of knowledge but that sometimes the producers just don't care to be period genuine. Instead they wish to appeal to current audiences (mostly women), and they believe a more modern look will be more appealing. The films were made to be released and seen for a few weeks \ months and that was it. They weren't designed to be viewed repeatedly and studied for historical accuracy.
I'm sure you are right, James but I will say when the styles are actually copied exactly, like Faye Dunaway's make-up and hair styles in "Chinatown" I think it adds to the not only veracity but the appeal of the film. Thanks!
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Just found 'em & thanx again. But, surprised they are apparently FREE!!!
Just how many pages are there?
Yes, like the other poster said, my guess is that those who paid for the Now Playing guide were the first to get them, since their addresses were already in the system. I've been getting them monthly, and also getting the Movies Unlimited catalog also. I have bought from both groups. The giant Movies Unlimited catalog, which as the poster said, is as big as a phone book, I've paid like $9.95 in the past, even though it is basically the same as their online catalog. The TCM catalog [and I just got a new one this past week] is around [just guessing] maybe 40 pages and yes, has some good bargains plus it spotlights a lot of things that are playing during the month, with the dates the films are showing on TCM. Hope this helps!
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Today(or tonight I think) TCM is showing a late '60's British sci-fi thriller FIVE MILLION YEARS TO EARTH which I now understand to be a film that's actually a sequel to a couple of earlier Hammer releases, based on some sort of television serial. I'm not really all that sure...
But, one day back in late 1971, while after arriving home from the afternoon shift at the Cadilac plant, and when normally nothing was on the "Late, Late Show" but old CHARLIE CHAN flicks, or BLONDIE movies, THIS one was on, and I caught it halfway through.
I thought it a bizarre concept and really dug it. (no pun intended)
Saw it from beginning to end a few times since then, and always enjoyed seeing it. Not sure if it's because of my thinking it's really all that good of a movie, or it invokes memories of a pleasant time of my life, or which.
The same thing surrounds my first viewing of ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST, a few months earlier! You know, surfing through the only four channels available, and catching it 'bout midway through.
Sepiatone
Yes, I saw that years ago not knowing it was connected to the Quartermass stuff. It is a great movie, Sepia!
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Given the fact that her biggest film never seems to fade from view, it's a good bet an adorable Cairn terrier named Terry will still be remembered when other classic canines are forgotten. Interestingly, Terry wasn’t always credited in the films where she appeared. Sometimes she was billed under the name Rex, probably because she was playing a boy. But she was a hard worker and made 17 pictures from 1934 to 1945, the year of her death. She earned $125 per week at the height of her popularity and costarred with Shirley Temple, Virginia Weidler and Judy Garland. In between movie assignments she wrote an autobiography called I Toto: The Autobiography of Terry. (It was republished in 2013.) Ultimately, Terry became so well known from THE WIZARD OF OZ that in her last few years, her owner started to officially call her Toto.
TerryToto present and accounted for..!Great write-up, TB! Speaking of Terry playing a boy, I think I read once that the model for Tramp in the Disney classic was a girl!
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Saaaaaay, whaddaya MEAN "unfortunately" here, CG?!!!
(...c'mon now, when Ross says, "Yeah...IN PRISON!!!", you can't tell me you didn't AT LEAST chuckle a little bit, now can YOU?!!!!)
I was just joshing you, Dargo.
Of course I laughed and then I wondered if you had ever been in the Big House?
Do you know what the term LURD means in a women's prison, by the way?
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Sometimes the movie itself is the side effect. At least for me. I might meet someone and decide it could be a good thing to look at some of their films or television shows. This happened when I lived in West Hollywood. I would meet people at the dog park while walking my Pomeranian. So I'd make a point of checking out a film or TV series they did so I had something to talk to them about the next time our dogs ran into each other.
I started doing this when I met some lady who said she played Cary Grant's daughter. I figured, okay, next time I see her, I better know what movie she is talking about.
Interesting topic reversal, TB!
Thanks for your input.
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Reminds me of that "Friends" episode where Chandler goes to Joey's tailor to have his pants fitted, CG.
Remember that one?
Unfortunately, yes I do remember that one, Dargo!
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I will post 1958 tomorrow..check back!
So that leaves me living in 1957 for another 24 hours?
Okay, time to watch the fights on my Philco I guess.
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OH yeah, Janet, I think I know EXACTLY what ya mean here. Sounds like the same kind'a "side effect" I get whenever I see Ava Gardner on the screen.
BUT, I betcha MY "side effect" gets "bigger" than YOURS does, lady...if ya know what I mean!
(...'specially when I was younger)
Uh, just how did "it" get pushed to the side?
Was there an auto accident or did some mad scientist work you over in his laboratory, Dargo?
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I have a nice side effect. It happens most times after watching a John Barrymore picture... ::heavy sigh::
You have very good taste, Janet. I'm sure the Great Profile would have found you equally delightful!
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I wouldn't say I was traumatized by The Exorcist, but I saw it once & that was enough for me. I hate films like that. In fact, I hate horror films and films with super natural themes in general, although I can watch the older ones. I don't care for suspense films either. For example, the movie Wait Until Dark where most of the action takes place in a darkened room and Audrey Hepburn is blind. For those who have seen it, you know what transpires. It's another film I saw once & never care if I ever see it again.
It's interesting how different we movie fans can be. I could watch "The Exorcist" weekly and never get tired of it and was thrilled when they came out with the new edition that had Regan walking backwards down the stairs like a spider, which I thought was extra creepy. I loved all horror and sci-fi films and have yet to find one that actually scares me at all, since let's face it they are just movies and one needs to keep repeating, "It is only a movie, it is only a movie". I also love the music from the Friedkin flick and have the album "Tubular Bells" with the theme from it. Now though I can see some finding TE a bit scary, I think "Wait Until Dark" would only frighten folks if seen in a darkened theatre, but to each his own I guess and thanks for your thoughts, Helen.
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Sometimes in one's efforts to just go enjoy a film, there are deleterious side effects.
Consider the case of John Dillinger, who just wanted to enjoy seeing "Manhattan Melodrama" with Gable at the Biograph theater in Chicago and upon exiting was shot dead and then to add ignominy to insult supposedly his lingam was disengaged and left at the Smithsonian.Well, not so sure about the last part, but still, a pretty bad side effect from just wanting to see a flick.
Now others may have side effects that are more happy, like a friend of my mother's who went to see "Liquid Sky" with a date, and on the way out met a friend of his who she then started dating and ended up marrying.
Or think about seeing a film and being traumatized for life, like some wimpy kids who saw "Bambi" and then couldn't sleep for nights afterward. I personally was only affected by "Salo" and was afraid to watch it twice.
Some people still have bad dreams after watching Takashi Miike's "Audition". How about you? Have you or anyone you know ever had any side effects from just wanting to watch a film?
Now you may submit ones that were happy accidents, but being a bit of a Debbie Downer I would most enjoy side effects that are more disastrous or psychologically disturbing.
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CG, what you describe is a happy phenomenon. To be confronted with something not anticipated. And then to allow yourself to whisked along. That happened with My Dream is Yours just the other day. I had seen it before but I deem it possible that I would have never thought to view it again. Even those first few minutes I was ever so near giving it up but the young fresh-faced image of Doris Day singing those "boring" zippy, ever so over-the-top corny songs held me, temporarily I thought. Don't know exactly when I got hooked but I ended up watching the whole thing. It's nice being caught unawares like that. I didn't have to grapple with whether or not I really wanted to watch, I was ambushed and the decision was made for me. And I can spend entirely too much time scanning page after page of Netflix without being able to make a firm decision on anything. TCM should have time slots where the movie is not announced. Just tune in and take a chance. Decide to watch the first 20 minutes, no matter what. If you don't like it. then go back to the dreaded Netflix page. Argh.
Yes, I know just what you mean, Laffite.
You don't mean to watch something but then serendipitously it often becomes quite interesting.
An unknown quantity can be more fulfilling often than what one wanted originally.
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• In honor of tonight's klunky message boards may I recommend the song "99 KLUNK" by Tony St. Thomas on Mercury Records? It makes very little sense, but that's ok as Mr. St. Thomas is not a particularly good singer so it's far more likely any listener would be more focused on understanding the words as opposed to actually caring what they are. My dad had a 45' rpm record of this song when I was growing up and I played it. There was no date on the record of when this song was released. Maybe late '50s or early '60s? The other side contains a Christian song (sort of) titled 'LITTLE DAVID'. It's not everyone cup of religious tea, I'm sure. And it's as badly sung as '99 KLUNK', but it's hard to forget. (Next week I'll drag out my Mercury 'Message' record 45' -- probably from the late '60s -- featuring vocalist 'Murray McKay' singing (A-side) "Don't Let the Pusher Push You" and (B-side) "Blacks Trying to Make It").
Is this song better than "Rocket 88"?
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Someone once told me in response to a similar question I once asked that the squirrels that power TCM's Website occasionally escape from their wheels, and it takes a while for the tech crew to corner them and put them back.
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Yeah, it looks like she has a pretty prominent role, and maybe even a girlfriend too.
Remember the one with the dream sequence where Saffy was played by Helena Bonham Carter?
My favorite episode is when Edina decides to buy art since she is rich and she tells the snooty girl working in the gallery [who asks her "Just what kind of art do you want"] "You're just a clerk. I have a lot of money, go get me the manager."
I paraphrased that if it is a bit off!
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Friday April 29, 2016
Richard Carlson's 104th birthday on Amazon Prime
TRY AND GET ME with Frank Lovejoy
THE MAZE with Veronica Hurst
TORMENTED with Susan Gordon
KID RODELO with Don Murray
He's actually so great at being a heel that I love seeing him in anything where he is dastardly and nasty!
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If you're camera shy, I'll go on and present your films.
I'm very very shy, Down but I will fork over 87 bucks for an all day festival of Grant Williams' films.
Could you host that for me? I'll give you 20 samolians [sp?]?
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I agree with you, Sepia. Some hairdos are so wrong for the time period.
Even in big budget films like "The Great Gatsby" you'd think they would know how to marcel hair correctly for the time period.
Of course when it's in a low budget film, it really makes no big difference.
One film that did a good job of depicting the era, was "Peggy Sue Got Married" for my money!
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I woulda thought it would have been on January 11th, which is Rod Taylor's birthday.
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it's here.
OMG!
My favorite show of all time. Is Saffron going to be in it?
Thanks, Lorna!
Golden age: Roll call
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It was so much fun to see the rather uptight Leslie from movies, come out of his shell and show his comedic sensibilities later in his career.
Great post, TB!