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11 minutes ago, spence said:
No offense & all, but where did hanbdle of (Cavegirl) come from?
My eponymous hanbdle came from that I'm a female and I dwell in a cave full of old films.
Thanks for asking and no offense taken.-
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Prolia might be necessary to take as a poster, cuz one has to have a strong backbone to question authority in any instance and rock the boat.
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8 minutes ago, spence said:
Thanks CaveGirl, but don't know exactly what you mean in regrd to your gettijg toentiremeaj about 1950's "ADAM'SCRIB?"
Sorry, Spence but I'm not fluent in Swedish to understand the following words:
"regrd gettijg toentiremeaj"?-
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15 minutes ago, laffite said:
1. Prolix
2. OT
3. A Can of Worms.
Hmmm, I'm more familiar with Prolia, which my aunt takes, OP from the Andy Griffith Show, and The Diet of Worms, which decided the fate of Martin Luther and the nuns made us read about, but I still thank you, Lafitte for your interjections!
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44 minutes ago, HelenBaby2 said:
Someone wasn’t too complimentary to Dave Karger and that post is still there. And every time Natalie Wood’s name is mentioned, all the gossip pertaining to her or her husband is duly noted and it’s not removed.
If posters start attacking each other, that is not allowed, along with colorful language. If someone reports a post, those are removed no matter the tone or subject.
It doesn’t bother me because I know the terms of conduct and when I joined, I agreed to abide. I haven’t always been successful but I also don’t bother with folks who upset me anymore.
Thanks, Helen!
It is an interesting experiment to see which posts about which persons, get ditched. I agree, ones about the stars, never seem to be removed, like one about Natalie. The seemingly more controversial ones seem to be about those in guest host roles or as commentators. So even though you mention that the Dave Karger post never got deleted, I was told that my post about Alan K. Rode, "Film Historian" was removed but if anyone can find it, I shall be pleased to admit that it was actually not deleted by management.
Posters attacking others, should be removed as you say. I always abide by terms of conduct for places I join too, but sometimes the rules seem a bit arbitrary in certain instances that seem confusing. A good test will be to see just how long this post stays up. I know some here who say they have taken to copying verbatim their own posts, just in case they get deleted by the site monitors, so I now follow suit and have this one of mine in my own little file! -
"The Palm Beach Story" directed by Preston Sturges, is always worth rewatching, especially for the Weinie King and the Ale and Quail Club!
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From your experience, what are the topics in General Discussions here that are considered so inflammatory that they need to be immediately deleted by guardians of the site? I'd really like to know, since one would think most are things that are divisive, threatening, obscene, or otherwise obviously of a very odious nature.
It would seem sometimes that any questioning of things related to on air personages and their ability to be valid as experts in a film field, is verboten. I can see deleting foul mouthed and erroneous allegations in any form, as being something to control, but is it not acceptable in most worlds that encourage freedom of thought, to allow civil discourse to prevail and be ascertained by others. Or must anything not positive and complimentary, that which is to be the only banned discourse?
Since to watch a cable network usually entails paying dearly for the services, with cable prices continuing to rise substantially each month it sometimes seems, I would think a channel, cable network or group that exists due to their subscribers interest in the product of films and offerings shown daily and their customers' satisfaction with programming, would be uppermost in said network's mind, as the personages to please and allow honest opinions to be expressed, if they have a forum online.
As we saw recently, even Starbucks took seriously how their customers viewed the recent situation at one of their locations, and wanted to appease and show their fair-minded company values and standards to consumers.
So my question is, do you feel as a subscriber to this or any cable network that supposedly invites subscribers to share thoughts with others online, that it is verboten to even express a whisper of dissatisfaction with those chosen as hosts or on-air commentators, on this message board, since you have seen such things immediately removed by the powers that be, from viewing by other posters?
I do find this heavy handed editing surprising, particularly if the poster content is polite and civil, and it makes me wonder what the objection would be to expressing occasional negative views, since most entities dealing with the public do allow them to give their honest opinions about products purveyed by the entity, to make sure they are pleasing their customer market.
But then, maybe I live in a dream world, and the real world consists of companies nowadays mostly, who ignore their customers comments, unless they are unanimously positive and complimentary. Or perhaps there are sacred cows who are not to be ever criticized in any way shape or form, due to some hidden agenda that one is unaware of? If so, I find that a bit upsetting and disconcerting. T'is true that any online site has the right to totally control all speech posted, but if that is used to obstruct and obfuscate any thing not always of a happy talk mentality, I for one find that a sad state of affairs.
Your comments are welcome but not obligatory. If you've had posts deleted for what you find unreasonable, your feelings will be appreciated.
By the way, just for the record, a "Film Historian" to me is not someone who wrote a couple books, or has knowledge of maybe one area of films. They would be a person who has studied and researched and done scholarly work about all manner of films for eons, and has a wide range of knowledge to impart to others. Perhaps due to loving films, I have a high standard in mind for those who want to pass themselves off to others as being worthy of being listened to as film experts.-
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Great topic thread! I totally enjoyed seeing Robert Webber in this film by Jimmy Sangster I think.
Though amnesia as a plot might seem overused, it is usually always worth watching, just because.
Who knows where the story will go?-
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18 hours ago, NipkowDisc said:
I bury the living is not silly. there is an effective air of mystery why someone dies after boone sticks a pin in the real star of the film, that scary plot board...
and you're knocking a movie with some great Gerald Fried music.
Well, thanks, Nip! I will never question the validity of my taste in films again!
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I love Brian Donlevy! My grandmother used to always talk about him being one of the Arrow Collar men in magazine ads, since people like he and Neil Hamilton had been used as models for the very influential artist, J.C. Leyendecker in such campaigns for the shirt company. Donlevy was a very competent actor and in so many roles very effective. Great write-up about him and thanks for submitting for our pleasure!
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13 hours ago, spence said:
CaveGirl, damn thing didn't work this time out though??? I'M NOT STOPPING THOUGH IN POSTING THAT ENTIRE LAST PAGE, ARTICLE,etc Thing is, the previous one is all over the place, do I delete it?
Hey, Spence! I'm certainly not the person to ask about deletions, since though I never delete my own stuff, I've been told that the site itself does it for me, particularly if I write anything questioning about guest hosts appearing on TCM.
I was told my post questioning the "Film Historian" credentials of Alan Rode was taken down for example, but whether that's true or not, only those in charge would know.
Good luck on getting answers as to why things seem to mysteriously disappear here! -
Okay so like I'm flipping channels recently and happen to catch a bit of some James Bond movie with Daniel Craig. Now he's a fine actor and very likable and all but seriously, that character of Bond just seems so moribund to me in today's world. Hence let's put the character of Bond, James Bond specifically, out of his misery and relegate him to the vintage rack in any Bond Street habadashery in London...pulleeeze! I would have killed him off as soon as Connery quit the role, though I'm sure many will disagree but isn't it finally time?
In terms of killing off other movie characters, plotlines, franchises, trademark bits, visual appearance looks that have gotten stale or whatever, I ask you to offer up for this poll anything movie related that has passed the test of time and needs to be outlawed, due to being antedeluvian and besides that, also just so dang tiresome. And you can also add things which aren't even around anymore but you wish back in the day someone had stepped up and done the diligent duty of a mercy killing on. For example. don't you wish someone had told Van Johnson that the red sock bit was getting old. For oldtimers, I'm sure someone wanted to tell Ben Turpin that the crossed eyes gag was not so funny anymore, and told Bing to can that really horrid toupee, and gotten something that looked a bit more realistic. I would have told Mae Murray that the Bee Stung Lips look went out the day Clara Bow met up with the UCLA football team. I would have also informed Rodney Dangerfield to stop with the silk suit and socks schtick, but I guess he thought it made him look like the sartorially splendored Adolphe Menjou, so RD wouldn't have listened anyway.
Well, feel free to vent and vote to kill off anything in films that has worn out its welcome, even if that event occurred back in 1952, like when Joan Crawford should have got a new make-up person to tend to the overgrown eyebrows! She often looked as if she had two giant beetles nesting on her forehead and it was particularly bad with the orange clown hair look. You are welcome to retire and send to the glue factory absolutely anything that has been ticking you off everytime you see it on the silver screen since you began watching films. For me, I would probably farm out anything related to Star Wars films, but I'd probably be killed for saying it, so I shall cease and desist.
Enjoy and vote for things you hate, abhor and despise in films! Remember though that if you send to the glue factory a thing like that horrid and disgustingly cutesy forehead spit curl on Kathryn Grant Crosby, you might never get to see it again...
No asterisks please on your commendations...
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On 4/17/2018 at 8:01 AM, Sepiatone said:
One of my favorites too, a funny guy and good magician, I was wondering recently whatever became of him( after catching a glimpse of him on some old "cheers" rerun while "surfing" one night) and now REALLY sorry to find this out.
RIP, Harry. Say "Hi" to Mel Torme for me.
Sepiatone
Oh, yeah...he idolized Mel Torme, didn't he? Good taste and a great magician!
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On 4/15/2018 at 7:42 AM, cigarjoe said:
But I'd still like an answer to my question. "I'd like to hear the time frame people would give if they were asked to define the decades alluded to in the Make America Great Again slogan.
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I think the Make America Great Again decade alluded to, is a pastiche or pipe dream which some people would like to believe existed, but they may not only be imagining it themselves, but remembering it from other films that parlayed the theory also into history. It's a time period which occurs a little bit into the war years with families being close-knit and then goes into the Fabulous Fifties period, of peace and prosperity, except if you might have to hit the Bomb Shelter intermittently. It is a world that never really was, to any mass degree and is like one of those Twilight Zone episodes where people find out they are really little characters on a kid's train set staging of an American town. The real towns might be more like Santa Rosa in Hitch's "Shadow of a Doubt" but no one wants to really have to accept that sordid underbelly. Just my guess. Most people live in a dream world of what they wish were reality and see it with rose colored glasses. Bunuel could have made a good film about that, if he wanted to do a totally American one, a bit like "Belle du Jour".
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34 minutes ago, Fedya said:
Maybe the moderators finally had it with your habit of deliberately making your posts unreadable with your use of asterisks and substituting I's for 1s among other things.
There is always a risk using an "asterisk". For example, I worked in advertising with a copywriter who would put asterisks behind words in headline copy, and then would have no additional asterisk anywhere to explain the insertion.
Surely Spence does not commit this atrocity? I would find that hard to believe, Fedya...-
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6 minutes ago, limey said:
Ok, then - this is the real, genuine, authentic me from the Queen concert at Wembley Stadium in '86 - you can just make me out above Freddie's right hand...
Gotta say, Limey...you are one of the few men who look good in a mullet.
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27 minutes ago, CinemaInternational said:
If Janet could do it, so can somebody else. This is me in real life.
Wow, I'm so impressed! You and Janet both have a lot of guts to come clean on a site like this and I applaud your disclosures. I would never have the nerve since I am very shy and retiring and don't have many photos anyway, except ones from before the lobotomy when I met my dear friend, Frances Farmer.
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1 hour ago, Dargo said:
Well, I know many people around here have mentioned in the past that because of my posting style AND the avatar I've selected to use at this website, that they've always envisioned yours truly as resembling a certain comedian who starred in many a film back in the day with his four and then three brothers.
However, I also know that others around here who have seen my image which I've posted in a couple of threads in the past and shown standing beside the still amazingly beautiful Stefanie Powers, have tended to agree with the thought that has been applied to my appearance by others over the years that I quite resemble the actor who played the character Derek Flint in that short series of late-'60s spy spoof movies...namely, James Coburn.
(...but I'm pretty sure you, CG, pretty much knew all this already, didn't ya)
Uh, no! I do remember you saying once that people thought you looked like Coburn but I must have missed the actual posting of any photo of you, with Stefanie or other female stars you've hung out with while in Hollywood.
I've been told I look a lot like Eily Malyon, which is nice since my most fervent career goal has always been to be a domestic, like her or Una O'Connor. -
9 minutes ago, limey said:
Yikes! Those things are heavy duty wattage - taking a leak on one of 'em may risk a whole lot more unintended aftermath than just nasty pongs...
Maybe that's what kept the part going in Switzer's hair?
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Sometimes a film is not really all that memorable, and then there will be just one teensy weensy little thing which makes it have something worth seeing again.
For example, admittedly the film "I Bury the Living" is a low rent, silly film. But whenever it is on I have to watch a bit just to see how seriously Richard Boone takes the whole concept of killing off cemetery patrons by switching their little white pins to black ones. So you can catch about any second in the film to see that, and it is enjoyable.
Other films might just have a momentary highlight, like Faye Dunaway, as good old Lucille LeSueur [sp?] in "Mommy Dearest" going nuts with the wire hangers scene. The other day I was watching a Robert Benchley short I'd not seen on TCM. I always loved him, both for his books and movie appearances and once made a pilgrimage to the Algonquin Hotel in NYC, to honor the memory of him and his Round Table friends like Heywood Broun, George S. Kaufman, Dorothy Parker, Alexander Woollcott and others. So I'm a fan, but in this short called "How to Train a Dog" he was just basically, well...making mincemeat of training the poor canine and nothing much was happening, but right at the end it had Benchley and the dog sitting in a room, and suddenly the phone rang and Benchley gets up and I swear, says "I'll get it!" Like he had to tell the dog he didn't have to get up to answer it first.
I found this so funny, I cracked up. It didn't even seem scripted and was so Benchley. I hope to see it again some time and will watch for it as such highlights are the fun of films. Being able to relive them.
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4 hours ago, limey said:
I was with you, right up until the part about attention spans - yes, these may be shorter today, but the very last thing we need to do is to pander further to that trend! Young minds need to be encouraged to explore the nuances & possibilities of presented ideas, rather than being served up pre-chewed, partially digested homogenized chunks. If folks can't make it through a 10 minute Our Gang reel, then all hope is lost...
I'll bet if they had on tape the time Alfalfa [according to Robert Blake] urinated all over the studio kleg lights, lots of people would have at least ten minutes to watch the aftermath, when the odors started emanating all over the studio causing it to be closed down.
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On 4/12/2018 at 7:01 PM, Janet0312 said:
I love loiterers!
Watch out if you go to Starbucks though...-
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Flummoxed! What a great word, TB. Sounds like something Slapsy Maxie Rosenbloom would do to an opponent in the ring. Almost as much fun to hear as "pixiliated" and I wonder if you know what movie that is from?
I'm sure I'm more "flummoxed" daily than Spence though...-
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Janet, thanks sincerely for such a great clip!
Though I love Kelly, I must admit in SITR I always watch Donald O'Connor exclusively as they dance together. Though clearly similar in height, O'Connor is much slighter in build while Kelly seemed more robust and muscular so it is fun to watch how them seem in unison while dancing yet each still utilize their individual styles and mannerisms.
Gotta admit, if SITR is on, I might only watch to catch the "Make'Em Laugh" segment which blows me away every time. O'Connor was also adorable as a kid actor and while dancing with his young female partner in films, Peggy.
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Willie Wyler movies are always worth rewatching, doncha agree, Lafitte.
That movie also has the distinction of having both Elmo Lincoln AND Cosmo Sardo in the cast!