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I guess we're kinda like the evil galactic empire in star wars.

so tcm handed it over to a young host who didn't know her celluloid huh? do you think I would ever get the particulars of hot spell wrong??? not me! I know my instrumentality. "Thunderbird One, ready to go!"-Scott Tracy

hollywood know makes films for a global market. maybe that is the problem. go back to the old ways that produced most the the content that tcm relishes 24/7.

I went to see that back in 1973 at the movie theatre. it was on a double bill with The Boy Who Cried Werewolf. the poor snake guy was dirk benedict.

they keep showing the same sci-fi and fantasy films from their stasus boxed unchanging film coffer. again we are treated to the same beaten to death harryhausen offerings like jason and the argonauts and the valley of gwangi. okay, I'm convinced! tcm worships ray harryhausen...but what about all that tcm has chosen to ignore like the k. gordon murray english-dubbed horror imports from mexico? what great fodder those gems would be for tcm underground...instead tcm continues to ignore them like they doan even exist! over the past 25 years tcm has done great justice to the crime and film noir genre of films but not so excellently by the science fiction and horror genres. there should be equal time. tcm should show william cameron menzies' invaders from mars (the superior uk version) here's another point, tcm loves to pay homage to women as these great unsung pioneers of cinema... and yet they have never seen fit to show the arthur c. gardner - jules v. levy 1958 sci-fi movie 'the flame barrier' with a screenplay written by Pat Fielder, a woman. do they show it? no. why? somebody has to tell me why. I suppose the flame barrier is for some reason as unobtainable as hot spell. why? I dunno. it should be!...but it ain't. go figure.

the original is a product of a pre-politically correct Hollywood with A-1 talented guys as directors, writers and cinemaphotographers. "to appease the skirts and the men who wear them." my whole argument in a nut. those who now control hollywood are immasculated and they doan even know it. they're all knocking themselves out tailoring what decades ago was subject matter for men now recreated for women. it is not about whether women can or can't but rather how viable today's hollywood male/female distorted re-inventings are in the real world.

all together now... clowns never laughed before, beanstalks never grew...

english guy William Harvey didn't discover the circulation system of the human body and Robert Goddard wasn't werner von braun's hero? white heterosexual guys like fermi didn't split the atom and achieve critical mass at chicago pile 1? white heterosexual guys aren't responsible for big man and little boy and reaching the moon? of course we are. our record of moving the world stands bold and unmatched. that's just the way it is. reality cannot be changed by the fiat of imagination that's just the way it is. the doctor is out.

I didn't know Tchaikovsky was gay.

the problem is political correctness demands an equal proportioning of humanity's greatest accomplishments and reality doan work like that. white heterosexual guys do have the lion's share of the technological advancements of western civilization. and that's the way it is.

maybe steak-umms tomorry nite. tonite it was buttered toast and herrs cheese curls.

however, I will grant you that not all white contributors were heterosexual such as michelangelo, probably the greatest human artist of all time. certainly the greatest sculptor.

throughout the whole of human history, maybe. but the white guy has got it done like no one else these past five centuries. eat our progress, enviers!

cluelessness of what? a NOW inconvenient history?

today's hollywood is prepared to slight white heterosexual men even to the point of historical inaccuracy. that is all three especialy the last one and imo it stems from hostility and resentment.

and anybody would be resentful of undue demonization.

yeah, but you can't be so resentful of all the glorious accomplishments of white christian heterosexual men that you proceed to rob them of their due. all of modern civilizations' greatest accomplishments of the last 500 years from the renaissance to the space age courtesy of the white european christian heterosexual man. for others to be so resentful of that to be inclined to revision as a means of diminishing it all speaks a great deal of from where the other side is coming from.

this is just my theory but I think the problem is political correctness. this mindset has killed the historical epic. this politically correct mindset is so prevalent in hollywood that any and all subject matter that requires that women either specifically or generally be cast as subordinate to men in any situation is a big no-no. I mean if somebody wanted to make a WWII film, it would be required that there by at least one female commando who can kick the bejesus outta any man period! even though it goes against the realities of male/female physiology. women must not be second place to men no way no how. THAT is the unwritten directive that is now even inhibiting hollywood's subject matter. men can no longer be men but women can be amazons and harridans all over the place. this attitude has choked off hollywood's very creativity. this is all of course only MY opinion.

according to that webcam, it's 43 degrees there. it's 66 degrees here, a 23 degree difference! is that climate change? man oh man, I doan wanna get rid of that.

for it is written!... a cactus in the sun is worth more than a thistle in the cold! it's pretty mild here in the northeast. and that's fine. why should we have all the frosty fun? http://www.earthcam.com/usa/arizona/sedona/gateway/?cam=sedona_gateway

what kind of a woof-woof is toto? a scottish terrier?

doctor zhivago and the lion in winter. those two hall of famers. sunday just ain't sunday without that chilly train ride through the urals. "those are your favorites." -oscar (jack klugman) "and in time they'll be HER favorites!!! -felix (tony randall), odd couple ep 'the security arms'

by doing essentially a remake of the first star wars film with harrison ford, carrie fisher and mark hamill, twentieth century-fox is demonstrating the proper respect for star wars' beginnings, something that paramount has never been willing to demonstrate towards trekdom... okay! they brought han solo back so they could kill 'em off BUT at least they didn't chuck rocks on 'em like paramount did shatner.