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Now I am aware that there are no drink limits here, and the joint is open 24 hours daily, but are there posting limits?
It has been brought to my attention, that perhaps there are. If so, I would certainly not want to be recalcitrant in not abiding by them. But first I would need to know, how many daily posts are allowed for "Create a New Topic", for answering replies to said "New Topic", replying to others' topics and then of course just general snarky remarks, that might be said to relieve tedium and add some so called humor to the milieu.
I'd appreciate if someone could spell out just what constitutes a surfeit of posts per diem, and then I and others I'm sure will be happy to stay under the radar. Being that unlike hogging a lane on the highway, any post here just dies on the vine and goes to the bottom if everyone hates it, I had not seen a need for limiting posters the space, but perhaps I have been led astray and the TCM ship is being run a bit tighter than I had realized.
No official from the TCM police contacted me, so no bailbondsman is needed, just got the feeling from some messages I've read today regarding the actual number of posts made daily. Thanks for any information on this burning topic and I shall curtail my intermittent brain extrapolations regarding films if I've gone over the limit and annoyed all here.
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Okay, but surely that is not supposed to be Lloyd in that still...right?
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18 hours ago, TomJH said:
Basil Rathbone in his array of costume villains during the mid to late '30s.
One of his most hateful portrayals was as the cold, sadistic Mr. Murdstone in David Copperfield. The scene in which he whips David is a particular highlight (or low light) of screen cruelty. There is a closeup of Rathbone as he delights in making the boy tremble with fear before beating him.
"Do you know what I do when I have an obstinate horse, David? I beat him! I make him smart and whimper."
There is a memorable closeup of Rathbone as he delivers this line of dialogue, with a tight, barely suppressed smile coming to his thin, cold lips.
Of course, there would also be Rathbone's unforgettable swashbuckling heavies, as well, with Guy of Gisbourne in Robin Hood and Esteban Pasquale, a macho, strutting soldier of fortune, in The Mark of Zorro magnificent roles for an actor who dominated the screen every much as did the romantic heroes of those films.
Basil was a real pain as Murdstone, which is why seeing him get told off by Edna May Oliver is so fabulous!
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On 6/9/2018 at 4:42 PM, Dargo said:
This guy...
...George Macready, and especially in his role in this film, Paths of Glory.
With his precise diction delivered in that "smoky" voice of his, and most often suggesting a cool insidiousness in his demeanor with ulterior intents, Macready was probably as good as anybody ever was in playing the villain.
(...did the guy ever play the likable sort in a movie?...I think I remember one instance, but I can't remember in which film that might've been)
Oh, Georgie-poo is so wonderful and maybe the inspiration for my attraction to men with facial scars. I have it on good authority [an old movie magazine I bought at a flea market!] that Macready was a very nice man in his other off stage life and well liked, and quite the intellectual and art collector. Thanks for mentioning him, Dargo!
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9 hours ago, Gershwin fan said:
IMDB and Wikipedia give the release for this short as 1926 but Harold Lloyd's Speedy was mentioned in it and it was released in 1928. Is the release date on both websites wrong?
Is that supposed to be Lloyd in the photo, cuz it looks like Charley Chase?
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On 6/9/2018 at 5:39 PM, Dargo said:
Just wanna say here that I've always thought those IQ tests were greatly overrated in their importance in determining one's supposed "intelligence".
Of course then again, I must admit that I'm probably predisposed to feeling this way.
(...and ever since after taking one of those tests in high school, my guidance counselor handed me that pamphlet with the title: "How To Earn A Living As a Ditch Digger")
I would have hired you immediately for the James Whale, "Frankenstein" flick, what with your grave digging skills, Dargo.
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Immediately catching a cab in any city!
Another one but this is from tv, that always irked me is that on "Friends" those lousy friends, no matter what day or time of day, always...ALWAYS, got the best seats in the coffee joint, and were hogging that front couch. They would walk in, the place would look crowded yet amazingly, the couch was always available for them to lounge on, and even the adjacent chairs were always available. Now how is that possible? Sheesh, what a joke!-
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On 6/9/2018 at 10:35 PM, Vautrin said:
I prefer high class porn as the movie theater floors are less sticky.
I notice when I scroll down to just below the eyes on the I Am Curious
(Yeller) it looks like Joni Mitchell.
Vautrin, I must have missed this sequel to "Old Yeller" called "I Am Curious Yeller".
I'll bet Alan Abel, the man who wrote blogs before they were called blogs, and wanted all animals to wear clothes and cover their nudity, would have protested this violation of that old yeller hound, as Travis [Tommy Kirk] used to call the poor thing before he got the hydrophobia or rabies and was put down. -
8 minutes ago, jakeem said:
Roberts is almost 80 -- too old to play Bourdain, who was 61. Danson might be a better choice.
A little Botox, and who knows! Actually Bourdain looked older than he was in my opinion. Okay, okay...I can't say more as I might exceed my posting word limit for the day.
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17 hours ago, EricJ said:
I take it we were trying a little hard this week, CG...
But it always starts with the theater you first started seeing them in--If you're comparatively new around here, should probably check out some of the blog essays I'd done on the great theaters of my Wonder-Years:
http://movieactivist.blogspot.com/2016/07/july-25-2016-theater-roots-pt.html
What do kids have to remember today?: "Oh, man, I remember when I first saw Infinity War at the Bayview Shopping Mall AMC 12!"?
Yes, I am very new here and just a neophyte about films and theatres too, Eric. I apologize if I have exceeded the limit of how many posts I am allowed to make. I'd be happy if you would just tell me the number so I don't violate it again.
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3 hours ago, MotherofZeus said:
My granny, born in the Great Depression and my classic cinema mentor, used to pause, turn to me and say, "Let's be shallow and superficial, shall we?" it was notice that we would discuss all things glitzy, glamorous, and the details that go into ultimate glamor and Hollywood spectacle. The proclamation lives both is day, and your comment that you are "very shallow" indicates to me that you would be at ease in our discussion of all things that most would say are in poor taste to note in a dramatic scene but must be discussed from a technical or academic level. Thanks for your comment.
I would be so at "ease", and would share some of my copycat Hollywood jewelry with you to wear. One always looks great wearing Joseff of Hollywood items while being "shallow" and don't you find that people who declare themselves to be shallow are always the most intrinsically deep folks in the room as they discuss the sturm und drang of Tinseltown glamour and spectacle. By the way, I see you spelled "glamor" without the extra "u" as in "glamour" and if you don't want erstwhile poster, Dargo to report you to the TCM authorities, I think you should remedy that both in "glamor" and any other words ending in the "or" motif, like "humor" or "Ecuador" or "picador". Just don't want you to be banned for improper spelling here!
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7 hours ago, Dargo said:
Me!
Yep, every once in a while I'd have people telling me, and when they weren't telling me that I reminded them of either James Coburn or Ron Perlman, that I reminded them of Tony Bourdain.
And so yeah, ME!!!
(...okay sure, while I have no formal training as an actor, I've always thought that sort'a thing can't be all THAT hard to do, and so yeah, ME...and besides, I HAVE always possessed one terrific voice ya know, and yet ANOTHER thing people constantly comment about and compliment Yours Truly on here...I mean HELL, why do you people think you keep seeing me complain about all the lousy damn voices which totally lack resonance coming from the TCM hosts I hear intro-ing these movies when I watch this channel, HUH?!...and so YEAH, ME...playing Bourdain, that is...yep, I'm pretty sure I could somehow work this sort'a thing into my "busy schedule" now days)
LOL
Get outta here, Dargo! Though you might be quite the thespian and James Coburn's double, I think we both know that only Tony Roberts of "Annie Hall" fame should play this part. Being the fair-minded person you are, I know you will now find a nice current photo of Tony with his greying locks to post in this thread, to prove my point, being that I can't do it being technologically challenged. Thanks in advance!
P.S. If Elliott Gould could go back in time a few decades I might have chosen him also for the part.
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On 6/9/2018 at 11:26 PM, Vautrin said:
Yeah, Dostoyevsky couldn't help but put his own personal beliefs into his novels.
The atheistic liberal Westernizers had to come out on the bottom and the believers,
though flawed, came out on top. I don't have a problem with that because most
readers likely know about his religious beliefs and so they know what they're going
to find in the books. One of my favorite characters was old man Karamazov, always
playing the buffoon and outraging everyone around him. Too bad he is knocked off.
The human misery in many of Dostoevsky works never depressed me. While there are
many realistic elements in the books, there are also many melodramatic ones, so
I take them with a grain of salt while admiring his talent.
And, Vautrin look at all the new words you learn while reading good old Fyodor, with things like "samovars" and such. As a seventeen year old, this tremendously improved my vocabulary. I went on from reading a mass of Dostoevsky novels to reading Thomas Mann next. His appreciation for women's elbows in "The Magic Mountain" was impressive!
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On 6/9/2018 at 5:55 PM, MotherofZeus said:
I sense a sci-fi musical farce in the making. Paging Tim Burton and Baz Luhrmann...A collaborative masterpiece for the ages. If I'm producing, I'd push for Will Ferrel as the Lead. Martin Short, Christopher Guest, and Joseph Gordon Levitt could be supporting cast. The opening number might be, "Can't Help Loving that Emollient of Mine." Then we move to "Scary, What's the Fringe on Top?" "I'm Gonna Wash Putin Right Out of My Hair," "I'll Build a Wall to Stop You Guys", " I'm Orange, Too, Under My Skin," "Anything You Can Do I Can Do Huger,""Frack Every Mountain," "Some Obstructed Evening," "If Ever I Could Shiv You," "I've Grown Accustomed to Disgrace," and the final number would be "Thank Heaven for Little Gir.......," never mind. Maybe, "How to Handle a Woma....," no not that one either.
What's the closer? The show stopper?
MOZ, that was hilarious! Love your casting and lyrical skills and the numbers sound amazingly touching. My favorite of course would have to be "If Ever I Could Shiv You" [which would be great in a revival of "West Side Story" and too bad Robert Goulet ain't around to sing it, or Elvis who hated him and shot out his tv's whenever he saw the Gou emoting in lyrics. For the "closer" or the "show stopper" I'm thinking perhaps, taking a serious subject like women who are frigid and having the performer facing the audience directly to listen to the lyrics of "I Cain't Say Yes" sung with poignancy and potency. Imagine how wonderful it would be to hear something like the following:
I'm jist a girl who cain't say yes,
I'm in a turrible fix.
I always say "I gotta say no"
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For many years, I had read in about eight million [okay, maybe really about three] movie books of mine that Fidel Castro was an extra, as a dancer, in a few Hollywood films of the 1940's, namely "Two Girls and a Sailor", "Holiday in Mexico" and "Easy to Wed".
Now due to this tantalizing bit of mythinformation, I have watched those films too many times, when once would have been enough, trying to spot good old Fidel dancing around merrily. I watch, and I watch yet never see anyone who looks like him and I wonder why.
Well, that burning question was answered a few years ago when I read a book discounting this rumor, saying that Fidel was not in any of the films as he was a student in Havana at the time and that this gossip got started way back when Xavier Cugat, made references in an interview, to hiring a certain famous personage, who was maybe something like a "South American general" to be a dancer, for music segments in films. Cugie's air of mystery about exactly who this was, stirred up interest and soon people began stating that it probably was Fidel Castro.
So now it seems this was just movie mythinformation, at its highest level. Of course, due to correction sometimes being then recorrected, perhaps someone has info that says Castro left his Havana school to visit the US and really was in Hollywood and the latest correction is incorrect, and if so I am happy to be given this for the dossier. Whatever the final result, I think this type of mythinformation goes round and round and no one ever knows where it will end up. So I am asking you, if you can rebut any famous or infamous movie mythinformation, please do so here and share with your fellow film buffs, so they will be saved, in similar circumstances, the time I wasted looking for Fidel for eons.
The mythinformation you choose does not have to just be about the movies per se, but can rebut gossip like the old rumor that John Kerr was really the illegitimate son of Franchot Tone. Now with the IMDB online, a person can easily look Kerr up to find his true parentage, but things like the Castro rumor are still being reported on the IMDB to this day surprisingly.
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1 minute ago, TopBilled said:
I know you're teasing but I think you may be missing the point of what I was saying. It's not about whether someone was gay or lesbian. It's about whether they remain closeted after death. And if they don't remain closeted, how they are outed.
Ooooooohhhhhh!
Wouldn't that be termed, uncasketed more appropriately, and just who would want to undertake this role?
Get it...undertake? I could go on but you might defriend me.
I do know you can't be sued for defamation I think after someone dies. Or at least their medical records are not private anymore. I think a man I know who plays a neurosurgeon out west told me that once over drinks.
So who do you know of, that was not revealed to be gay or lesbian until after death? I'm blanking...-
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1 hour ago, Dargo said:
Yeah, the only way I'll go see a film with THIS title would be if it was a story about Contract Bridge!
(...or for that matter, even a story about what's sort of a simplified version of Contract Bridge called "Euchre", and that used to be quite popular in the Midwest especially)
As long as it doesn't star Bob Uecker, I'm okay with that, Dargo.
Call it "Contract Bridge for Dummies".
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5 hours ago, darrylfxanax said:
Oh, Cave Girl, if only! Since it is Xanax, I can't remember where I put it!
You shoulda named yourself after the movie "Xanadu" since that is one film no one can ever forget.
DarrylXanadu? I like it!-
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1 minute ago, laffite said:
The first movie to come to mind was Swept Away, (Wertmuller), which has an element of eroticism. I would not call it pornographic though, so it may not fit here.
Oh, what a great movie! Who cares if it is pornographic or not...thanks, Laffite.
Even if nothing is shown visually, it might make one think of pornographic things and it certainly is a high class film by Wertmuller.
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On 5/20/2018 at 4:53 PM, TopBilled said:
I'm surprised people never speculated on whether Patricia Morison was a lesbian. She was never married, and in some of her films she has more chemistry with the female costars.
Now now, TopBilled, Linda Ronstadt never married and had chemistry with Emmy Lou Harris and Dolly Parton but I don't think she is a lesbian...NOT THAT THERE'S ANYTHING WRONG WITH THAT [as Jerry Seinfeld would say].
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35 minutes ago, cigarjoe said:
Here is the scoop.
Actually, when I lived in Missoula, Montana, there was a this place called the Oxford, a combo cigar store, bar and grill that had poker poker tables and a keno game, it later added a strip show the kind of place that had the classy sign "Liquor in front Poker in rear." on the wall. We affectionately called it "The Ox" Anyway, this was the only bar downtown that had it's clocks set to real time. All the other bars and taverns had their clocks set 15 minutes ahead.
The big thing to do was try and make it to the Ox, no matter how sheet-faced you were, for a last schooner of Oly or Rainier Beer and order "Brains 'n Eggs." The dish was a breakfast concotion of scrambled eggs with calves brains, a came with hashbrowns and toast. The brains sort of looked like sliced mushrooms.
It was good but of course I was sheet-faced also.
Why am I getting the feeling that you should contact CNN about perhaps respectfully taking over the Anthony Bourdain spot for the rest of series, that now is without a star?
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Best choice ever, Arpirose and thanks!
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8 minutes ago, darrylfxanax said:
Perhaps Caligula (1979) would fit the bill. It was produced by the magazine Penthouse.
Jiminey Cricket, I saw that and well, it is not so high class...haha!
You'd think so from the cast and money spent, but it kind of doesn't hit the mark. But I do love seeing it entered into the fray, Darryl. I will say though it has Helen Mirren in it and she brings class to anything. Speaking of her, why doesn't some company release the incredible Masterpiece Theatre production of "Cousin Bette" with her that played in the US on PBS, but I digress as usual.
I do thank you though for this entry since if it doesn't make the grade, I'm sure Guccione thought he could with the money spent. Little Boots predilections though were hard to film in any way considered highbrow! -
On 6/8/2018 at 9:25 AM, LornaHansonForbes said:
IN RE: JOHNNY EAGER (1942)
This is probably no help, but on a personal level, I don't consider it a noir- it's a slick, relentlessly glib, ostensible crime PIC-CHUH- an excuse to package two of MGM's most glamorous cardboard cutouts (TAY-LUH AND TUR-NAH TOGETHAH!) that could just as easily be a cafe society romp or a story about a longshoreman's union...and while I really like VAN HEFLIN and am glad that he did what everyone thought John Garfield would do (win supporting then build a long lasting, durable leading man career of it), his work in JOHNNY EAGER is AWFUL!!!! Like, he almost deserved the Oscar for just being able to recite that dreadful, dreadful dialogue that was written by someone who is clearly deeply and madly in love with their own style.
so, it's in a class of its own (as maybe the most glib studio film of the forties), but that class isn't (for me at least) noir- you have to kinda make a statement to be a noir in my eyes, and while JOHNNY EAGER is sure as Hell a verbose film, in the end, it doesn't really have much to say worth listening to.
Agreed, Lorna! It's not noir probably to most film buffs, but then the current noir "experts" aren't film buffs anyway.
But then, those making a profit off all these old films by repackaging them as noir masterpieces, would not be able to make a buck off them, so expect that soon even things like Edna May Oliver in the lovely black and white "Murder on the Blackboard" will show up in some compilation of noir classics, titled "Dastardly Schoolmarm Dames" and be heralded on Muller's noir time slot in exegesis form.
Posting Limits at the TCM Lounge
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When you post a lot, do you get chastized for it?
Maybe there is a separate amount allowed for women at TCM than there is for men?
Some still might believe women should be seen yet not heard...