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quite the contrary, it would show that tcm had some independent-minded guts!

one flew over the cuckoo's nest followed by dog day afternoon. you can't go wrong with two films like that. Charles Durning gives an unforgettable standout performance as nyc police detective sergeant Eugene Maretti for which he shoulda gotten a best supporting oscar for imo. to these two scheduled picks, I heartily say... "that's better...that more like it!" -capt. morton, mister roberts

it's very simple...and quite obvious. tcm doesn't give a flying phu k about the science fiction genre so what's it to them if they mislabel it.

the monoliths approaching our little southwestern desert hamlet

aw, it's a good one... the monolith monsters from 1957. a quiet southwestern town has to deal with physical contact-petrifying water-activated giant meteoric quartz crystals. a mineralogist's dream. and you don't have to wash these one's off under the faucet either. wish I still had my how and why book of minerals. you can learn a lot of basic science facts from these old universal-international gems. Les Tremayne as the town newspaper editor and a cameo by William Schallert (who be still with us) as a weatherman. I don't suppose tcm would ever ask him on except to gave a weather forecast.

this poor fellow's career in taxidermy and motel management was cut short by his mother complex.

those are my sentiments. let 'em go pontificate to their sun lamps.

well put. I think that some erroneously attribute every evil criminal act by the er...human animal (they like that term) to ignorance. in other words, if you inform a psychopath that the murders he contemplates are uh... not nice ,he will automatically not want to commit them. silly. some people commit violence for two reasons unrelated to either insanity or ignorance... 1. they like it and 2. they just don't give a dam whether their acts are good or evil. the disconnected intellectual arrogantly assumes that all violent and negative acts are committed purely out of ignorance. (if only that were true) remove ignorance and not a single mother's son or daughter will commit a single negative act. that silliness might have validity on sesame street but not in the real world.

I've thought this for a long time. Cody Jarrett's in a rubber room strait-jacketed after hearing his maw's dead. he's already turned down two offerings of grub tellin' the guy to try it on the warden and governor. he then feigns hunger as cover for the break. the ay-whole doctor then remarks "hunger is always a hopeful sign." I've always asked myself upon hearing that line of dialogue, a hopeful sign for what? James Cagney is cody jarrett, a lifelong criminal and psychopathic killer. again, a hopeful sign for what??? that jarrett might escape the ravages of mental illness and go on to become a useful member of society in his later years? like maybe a fireman, mailman or a youth counselor? this is how bureaucrats and intellectuals think...even in 1950! who the hell would think in terms of a cold-blooded psychopathic murderer going on to become a useful participant in human society?... but real ay-wholes... maybe a mentally healthy reformed jarrett could find verna and they can start a family? anyway, I've always found that line of dialogue unintentionally silly.

the whole circus oughta be cut short. just an hour to schlepp out the statuettes and call it an evening.

A salute to tahitian women.

is it too late for the great William Shatner to play Kirk again? I believe not. what do old school trekkers want? simple. an entire film devoted to the return of a living james t. kirk as only shatner can play him. leonard nimoy was afforded star trek 3: the search for spock. shatner deserves a film too. paramount must make amends for the damage they inflicted on star trek in 1994.

first, not OT because it relates to star trek on the big screen therefore my remarks are film-related. what killed star trek? stupid mishandling by too many ay-wholes at paramount, that's what. my credentials to comment thusly? the national star trek phenomenon began on two stations in the northeastern syndication market, WPIX channel 11 outta nyc and WKBS-TV channel 48 long defunct outta Philadelphia and I was there watching those 79 episodes every weeknite at six, watching them several hundred times and even before syndication I was there watching star trek at the beginning of the 2nd year on nbc. saw my favorite episode The Doomsday Machine TWICE on it's original nbc run. so I know the original star trek TV series as well as any first generation trekker can know star trek. into the seventies I bought the blueprints, the fan mags and the paperbacks as well as assorted novelties like a non-working communicator. shoulda gotten a working one but this company got cute and took alotta money without sending out the goods. years later gotta non-working one since they didn't wanna go to jail. how did paramount successfully ruin what had been star trek? the abrams/chris pine films are not star trek but millennial starship troopers garbage. here's what happened... gone from post-TV star trek were Robert H. Justman and William Finnegan and paramount pussyfoots around for years. problems that were detailed in the pages of starlog magazine. a process called magicam considered then we read that SF/X guy Robert Abel was takin' too long and then we read that they can't decide on a story. they eventually decide to go with alan dean foster who novelized the cartoon episodes in paperback. SF/X guy Douglas Trumbull is now the man. to be directed by the great Robert Wise. how could he go wrong? the eventual result? a big fat secondary hull-**** turkey. how? here's how. first and foremost a blatant disregard for the long established television continuity. so much was done that never needed to be done. an ill-advised visual re-imagining had been undertaken and it was not necessary. what did the first generation television fans want? what nbc had cancelled in the fall of 1969... and we never got it. signs that time had passed? sure...but they went too dam far! here's a clear example of going too far. in the series the enterprise corridors are presented as wide and expansive and camera angles helped a lot. in ST-TMP the ship's corridors are now extremely narrow. wide and expansive to extremely narrow? doesn't wash, of course. the bridge still retaining the jefferies configuration is now what? some strange medi-scan complex. uniforms? ambiguously unisexual satin-looking pajamas. some light blue and some light tan. no red. I actually read in starlog that there was a feeling that the bright gold, blue and red TV uniform colors would be too distracting to a theatre audience. the second feature film known as the wrath of khan and paramount's stupidity continues... they coulda and shoulda gone with a simple story of revenge with the two protagonists khan and kirk but no, they throw in the genesis bs. wasn't necessary or needed. And what is the point in having ricardo montalban reprise khan and yet have no direct confrontation between him and kirk in the entire film??? episode space seed ended with a climactic fight between kirk and khan in the engine room. quite counter-intuitive to say the least. instead khan pays his respects to "his old friend" over the radio. now get this, we're suppose to believe that years after depositing khan and his eugenics-bred superhumans on ceti alpha five, they go completely forgotten by starfleet and the federation even to the extent that nobody knows that the sixth planet in the system has exploded? kirk never reported the encounter with khan and his group to starfleet? really? then in the 3rd film they have shatner mix it up with christopher lloyd but by that time first generation trekkers are getting increasingly perplexed by paramount's stupid handling. paramount dedicates the 3rd film to resurrecting spock with kirk stealing his own ship. they never had such bureaucratic troubles in the tv series. then for the 4th film we get a timely humpback **** to indict whaling. khan wouldn't have liked that since he saw kirk as his moby dick. at least in the 5th film the stalwart shatner tried to slouch back to some of the TV interaction of the 1960s series. hey, at least he tried. the 6th film was well-mounted but too political for it's own good. the klingons were now russians. And with Generations in 1994 paramount finally decides to take a huge dump on the original fan base by removing shatner. shatner probably had 3 or 4 more star trek films left in him which was a crime to classic star trek. star trek today is dead and lies in ruins due more than anything else to the refusal of so many at paramount to respect star trek's television origin. back in the seventies a constant theme in the fan mags I was buying was the way they played up the science fictiony aspects of Roddenberry's vision...but they did so at the expense of the action-adventure elements that nbc had insisted upon. the filmation cartoon remained true to the primetime live-action series. the 1980s theatrical films never did. that's what killed star trek.

But tcm was showing Hot Spell regularly more than ten years ago.

there are OODLES of movies tcm oughta be showin' but they're not.

"I double dare ya!" -Capt. James T. Kirk, "Miri"

produced by Hal Wallis http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051742/?ref_=nv_sr_1 directed by Daniel Mann and an uncredited George Cukor!... and tcm won't show this now?... why on earth not? well, I can only say this... slackers!

I dare..no!...I defy tcm to show THE FLAME BARRIER (1958) starring Arthur Franz and the lovely Kathleen Crowley. ...but of course they won't.

I defy tcm to show Hot Spell (1958) starring Anthony Quinn, Shirley Booth, Shirley MacLaine, Earl Holiman, Eileen Heckart and Warren Stevens.

I dare..no!...I defy! tcm to show THE FLAME BARRIER (1958) starring Arthur Franz and the lovely Kathleen Crowley.

I'm for tcm getting some new servers at the cost of ten showings of GWTW.

strange? I agree with all of that. most of the sketches are stupid these days because of the poor writing... and lorne michaels can't see that? of course he does.

didn't zelda rubenstein say that in poltergeist?

I can. Bill Hader as nyc news legend Herb Welch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO42jXp6s8Q