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that's HOW THE WEST WAS WON you're thinkin' of.

that would depend on how exhilaratingly realistic the 30 foot babes would be.

well, another rotten saturday for programming so maybe later on tonite I'll watch hot spell. got two discs. the older one with hot spell and my two favorite all in the family eps and the one I just burned. gonna look at the new one... these new concave curvatured ultra hd TVs, what's the point? cinerama? I watch cnn all the time and when someone wants to illustrate something geographical or the weather, they got this real nice 70" or 80" flatscreen TV with this really thick polished aluminum frame. real real nice and it ain't curved neither.... I do know that hot spell is out there available as it is, on dvds but lets be clear and let us keep our eyes on the potato salad and iced tea. tcm was showing hot spell regularly ten years ago. they have no reason that I can think of why they cannot show it again. doesn't tcm think some viewers may wonder about films they were formerly showing and without any explanation to their viewers...just stopped showing? suppose we were talkin' about gone with the wind or lawrence of arabia or the bridge on the river kwai and they took a powder from tcm's schedule without any explanation from tcm? "how would it be?" -Capt James T. Kirk, The Alternative Factor

doan tread on me.

That's right.

what a come down for the great basil rathbone. he goes from clever dialogue with errol flynn, claude rains and olivia de haviland to "I don't bargain with mortals. I destroy them!" oh brother. those irritating midgets harassing the princess. what the hell did they want? and the dragon was just so laughable. well, at least we learn that medieval sorcerers had TV.

I set my vcr to record it for that exhilarating dance sequence with joy harmon. if only bert i gordon coulda had cgi to work with.

watched park row and found it a very good film and very well done. it was quite good. but I saw the ending coming a mile away. while mitchell gets loaded and sleeps it off overnight, the german fixes his typesetting apparatus and naturally mitchell's gonna ask about the printing press... and there she is! the now angelic charity hackett! who woulda known? it is definitely a good film but nothing that warner bros. and michael curtiz couldn't have done better a decade or so earlier. still an exceptionally well done film. angelic charity hackett kinda looks like henry "time enough at last" bemis' wife. or is that the same actress?

IMDb has George Cukor as an uncredited director along with Daniel Mann... tcm should definitely be showing HOT SPELL... and they should kindly be smart about it... snap to it!

FANTASIA (1940)?

some of my favorites: THE TEN COMMANDMENTS STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE JAWS THE ROAD WARRIOR BLUE THUNDER SPACEHUNTER 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA (SCOTT)

I'll bet it's better than tormented.

hollywood destroys.

well, quite honestly I had a swell video file of hot spell in it's widescreen vistavision format...but I couldn't find it. geez, I hope I didn't delete it. no matter. I had a dvd disc to fall back on. so I ripped the vobs. next I joined the vobs and converted the whole thing to an avi. aside from the movie I had tacked on 2 of my favorite eps of all in the family. all together the run time came to two hours and 17 minutes. so I installed a video splitter to extract the movie without the all in the family eps. the movie alone comes to one hour and 25 minutes. so after doin' that I converted the shorter time avi to an mpeg2 but the video bitrate was well under 3000 kbps. wanted 6000 kbps so I put the mpeg2 through tmpgenc to get the desired 6000 kbps..which I got. right now it's just an m2v file because I need separate video and audio streams to use dvdauthor. hafta use dvdauthor because I need a true 16:9 aspect ratio with a 720x400 resolution. my flatscreen TV is one of them true 16:9 units. so later I will be burning hot spell to a dvd again. my TV has a built-in slot loading dvd player but I be a savin' it until my old dvd player kicks off. with my setup I can record on to vhs whatever is playin' in my old dvd player as well as my TV cable signal, a small aging dvd player coby unit. coby went bankrupt about 3 years ago. people couldn't get their stuff repaired and anyone unfortunate enough to have sent their products back to coby to be fixed never got them back. so as long as the little piece of garbage continues to work I'm a-gonna use it. my TV brand is one of them lesser generic brands. their new line of stuff (TVs, tablets and such) ain't as good as their older line stuff. their new TV line the units only got like a 20,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio. their older line units, like what I got, have a generous 200,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio. I guess the outfit hadda cut back dynamic contrast ratio-wise. as I said before, hot spell had been posted in parts on youtube. I guess someone got itchy and wanted youtube to remove it. maybe who owns it wants hot spell to become a rarity. you know, another film that's rare and hard to find is chuck heston and julie adams in the private war of major benson, a charming film. in it you got william demarest, milburn stone and a young sal mineo. tcm has shown it in recent years but not a lot. well, that be my little tech story for today.

glad you like it.

in honor of having hot spell on dvd in it's vistavision format, for dinner tonite I had three delicious tunafish on white bread sandwiches. white albacore packed in water is the best. in hot spell after putting in a hard day at the loan agency, alma informs jack they're having potato salad for dinner. it's a hot sticky new orleans summer evening and alma ironically says to him "that'll cool you off." jack then informs alma that she has let the ice cubes in the pitcher of iced tea melt.

hot spell is even more scarce now than ever. it had been on youtube in like I think eleven parts but now it is gone. what is this? tcm went for a number of years not showing god's little acre and then they brought it back. why not hot spell? it certainly is as good if not better than god's little acre.

understand, mind you, that I would not be complaining about a film that tcm has never shown before, ten years ago hot spell was being shown here on tcm regularly and then it vanished and it has not been seen since...and it's not just tcm. I have not seen hot spell shown on any other channel either. it's gone. but why is it gone? why has hot spell disappeared? hell, I doan know. it's just...gone. somebody oughta break out this underrated little film again. imo it's much better than say all fall down. much better than that. this is a film that tcm oughta be showin'. I am someone who feels that tcm's greater obligation is to the vast majority of their viewers and not just a fortunate few who's lifestyles can facilitate travel and pleasure cruising. that ain't me. hell, that ain't alotta people. I think ma joad had it right when she said "we're the people that live. they can't lick us and they can't beat us because we keep a-comin'...we're the people!" we are the majority of film lovers of america and canada and if the great uncounted multitudes of us wanna see hot spell yet again. well sir.... we oughta be able to see it. it should be re-presented to us....by tcm...the great professed hollywood cinemaphiles. it is a significant film with shirley booth and a young shirley maclaine. I doan know what the story is with tcm's refusal or inability to show hot spell. they don't have a print? why don't they have a print? hot spell has been gone for too long imo. it oughta be brought back. if tcm can show gertie the dinosaur... well sir... can they not get a hold of hot spell and show it? here's tcm yahooing about a two-day showing of rear window in theaters, rear window??? shown uncounted times in recent years on tcm. but where the heck is hot spell?

here's another screencap... a young shirley maclaine as virginia duval doing a hank kimball impression.

found my dvd of hot spell. ripped the VOBs and here is a screencap.

well, the video file I have of hot spell is the widescreen vistaVision format.

because tcm HAD been airing it regularly ten years ago... and inexplicably stopped. it's a pretty decent little drama and tcm oughta break it out again.

not too many posts and why should there be? my argument is as solid as a high-grade dilithium crystal. I mean howda ya argue that tcm shouldn't be showin' hot spell?