NipkowDisc
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hold on...
woody allen as patton!
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lee marvin as bob wiley in what about bob?
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GONE WITH THE WIND: Phyllis Diller as Scarlett. Jackie Gleason as Rhett and Arnold Stang as Ashley.
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Yeah, under the Cone of Silence, he was...
max was always gettin' the chief to lower that pesky cone of silence. max loved it but the chief hated it.
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And the 6th thing you might not have known about Lex Barker is:
In 1957, as he found it harder to find work in American films, Barker moved to Europe (he spoke French, Italian, Spanish, and some German) In 1966, Barker was awarded the "Bambi Award" as "Best Foreign Actor" in Germany, where he was a major, very popular, star. He even recorded two songs in German: "Ich bin morgen auf dem Weg zu dir" ("I'll be on the way to you tomorrow", composed by Martin Böttcher, the composer of some of the soundtracks of the Karl May movies) and "Mädchen in Samt und Seide" ("Girl in Silk and Velvet", composed by Werner Scharfenberger). He returned to the United States occasionally and made a handful of guest appearances on American television episodes. But Europe, and especially Germany, was his professional home for the remainder of his life.
(...and thus David Hasselhoff would pattern his career after Barker's...moral of the story: If you want to have a long and successful acting career stateside, whatever ya do, DO NOT ever accept any roles as either the bare-chested Tarzan OR as a bare-chested Los Angeles County Lifeguard...well, unless you like to travel and see some beautiful parts of Europe, anyway!)
does hasselhoff speak german?
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I wish we could stop people from repeating the same complaints. For years we've heard Chicken Little crying about how TCM will wind up like AMC. Still hasn't happened.
Sure is taking a long time for the sky to fall.
they sure haven't repeated Hot Spell in a long time.
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I'm for it.
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According to MovieCollector's records (going back to 2002):
ROMAN HOLIDAY has aired on TCM a total of 37 times--the first broadcast was in 2005, so that is 37 times in ten years.
2005: 6 broadcasts (for four of those, two were in September and two in December)
2006: 2 broadcasts (both in January-- so that means if it aired twice the month before, it aired four times in a two-month period)
2007: 4 broadcasts
2008: 6 broadcasts
2009: 7 broadcasts (all in different months)
2010: 5 broadcasts
2011: 1 broadcast
2012: zero
2013: zero
2014: 1 broadcast (for Audrey's SUTS tribute in August)
2015: 5 broadcasts (January, February, March, April & May-- it is not on the June or July schedule)
TopBilled, what's the story with hot spell? I'd love to see tcm's record with that.
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that's a good one. good acting at a good pace. I can't watch the scene where cushing gets his hand chopped off. too squeamish I be.
tonite's lost in space ep is "his majesty, smith". not sure but I think this is the ep where the good smith duplicate insists that everyone call him "daddy zack".
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Rumor has it that there are two big signs on the wall of TCM's programming department. The first one says:
NEVER, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, SCHEDULE "HOT SPELL"!
And the one next to it reads:
WHEN IN DOUBT RESCHEDULE " NORTH BY NORTHWEST" AGAIN!
I'll bet they will show HOT SPELL on the tcm film festival cruise just to get back at me.
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how many times can you prequelize the events of the first trilogy films in unending cgi fests? anyway, if the first order means the evil guys, more dark side of the force power to 'em...
I would go to see it if it hadda dick cheney cameo.
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I think the Marx Brothers and Bugs Bunny are hysterical. I find them generally hilarious and always worthy of discussion.
Bugs and Groucho, whatta team.
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I notice that ROMAN HOLIDAY is being shown again today. Enough already!! Seems like it is broadcast every week. I readily admit it is a fine movie and one that I enjoyed but enough already. TCM: Quit scheduling ROMAN HOLIDAY so often. I'm not watching it every time and I suspect others aren't either. Leave it alone for a couple of years.
there are alotta films tcm oughta stop showin' and alotta films they oughta start showin' (again)...
like HOT SPELL.
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Wow, no Swithin, I don't remember Shock Theater or the Ben Hecht show.
Ray, Chiller Theatre was the show I remember.
And of course, the Monster Chiller Horror Theatre........ooooooooooh.
the old chiller theatre on WPIX is what me and my siblings were watchin' as kiddies. it introduced me to Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, It, The Terror from Beyond Space, Curse of the Faceless Man and Caltiki, The Immortal Monster to name a few. Chiller Theatre also favored us with the now lost K. Gordon Murray English-dubbed version of Black Pit of Dr. M.
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I dare anyone aboard to bring up HOT SPELL to either osborne and mankiewicz. ask them why such a significant Anthony Quinn film is gone from the memory of tcm.
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Virginia mayo as ma kettle?
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Sterling Hayden was a pretty decent actor but for me he always lacked the intensity of Marshall Thompson or for that matter Arthur Franz. Thompson and Franz had that subdued toughness persona that coulda come to the fore with Hayden had he done more films. question: who is tougher? General Turgidson or General Ripper?
yeah, I know, Thompson and Franz did minor low-budget fare but I doan judge good actors by that criteria. the reason that decent actors like Marshall Thompson and Arthur Franz get overlooked by outfits like tcm is of course because they did not consider themselves above doing science fiction.
all leslie neilsen hadda do was star in forbidden planet to earn him countless showings of forbidden planet on tcm six decades later. hayden had the same hoy-faloy attitude as gregory peck and limited himself to films they he wanted to do instead of paying the dues. john wayne began his career with a decade of low-budget western oaters before stagecoach. the last decent film hayden starred in was king of the gypsies. must've known some gypsies when he was doing his OSS work. -
Stephen, I speak not to the specifics of this thread but to criticism of TCM in general. Obviously we are all here because we love TCM. I sometimes praise, I sometimes criticize, I sometimes ignore. But here's my point: I've been involved with a number of non-profit and cultural institutions in NYC and London for many years. They are all wonderful and do great work. Occasionally, when someone criticizes them, the response is "Don't criticize them, they do so much for the public good." Which is true, but I've seen that lack of criticism lead to laziness and unresponsiveness on the part of the institution in question, and ultimately to deterioration of service.
I think of TCM as a sort of non-profit (which it isn't, though it seems to operate like one) that does a great deal of good for us. I think TCM can take criticisms and either ignore them, or, when appropriate, learn from them. Much as I love TCM, I deplore the hagiography of many of the posters here as much as I deplore the constant kvetching of others. Though in the end, it's probably excessive praise that has the potential for doing more damage!
praise tcm for what? the most showings of Gone With The Wind, Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago?
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Wow. Whatta man. Never knew all that about him. I bet he was impossible to live with.
Had SAAM out the wazoo, like Robert Ryan, but never became a staaaaaaah.
Thanks for the heads up, slaytonf, I usually ignore SOTM. I hope they're not introduced by RO.
Sterling Hayden was a pretty decent actor but for me he always lacked the intensity of Marshall Thompson or for that matter Arthur Franz. Thompson and Franz had that subdued toughness persona that coulda come to the fore with Hayden had he done more films. question: who is tougher? General Turgidson or General Ripper?
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I agree about the Technicolor. I don't think it's Hayworth's best, however. That distinction belongs to GILDA probably.
This production benefits from Jose Ferrer's usual excellent acting, and Aldo Ray-- probably Hayworth's sexiest costar (definitely more than Glenn Ford).
Still I feel this remake is not quite up to par with Lewis Mileston's talkie version, RAIN with Joan Crawford-- which I find superior in so many ways.
I think the film shoulda ended after Davidson saved Sadie.
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Maybe someday your efforts will pay off.
that is how I feel about it. tcm can't forget about HOT SPELL forever.
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the only rita Hayworth film I like. has a nice gaudy Technicolor look.
nice leg.
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Wow.
I always wanted that relationship to go further.
it did in 1st season ep the enemy within.
the evil captain kirk never gives up.
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going berserk (1983) starring john candy directed by david steinberg.
ISLAND OF TERROR tonite on svengoolie
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you hafta sit through the whole film to understand that the silicates' outer shell is inpenetrable. earlier eddie byrne took a wack at one with an ax which just bounced off and poor eddie byrne playing dr. landers gets his calcium phosphate sucked out. all you hafta do is give the lame special effects a pass and it is really quite passable fare. space cadets can easily do that while arrogant know-it-all cinemaphiles have trouble along those lines.