NipkowDisc
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doesn't our egg-sucking mainstream news media have anything better to do than go after a guy who's almost 84 years old?
Shatner. he's being criticized because he missed nimoy's funeral.
he had a previous charity comittment in florida. was he suppose to break it?
did shatner know nimoy was gonna kick off last week? of course not.
ol' bill shatner doan wanna disappoint people. he's a good guy.
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I think too much attention is given to the supposed mistakes the programmers make around here. It is as if there is a group of posters here who just can not wait to pounce whenever a mistake does take place. It is as if they are treating TCM like the Holy Grail of movie channels or something.
And yet angels who supposedly are perfect do not work at TCM, just natural human beings. And guess what? Humans make mistakes all the time. Especially those who work at cable channels.
And as far as me going places to respond, why can't I go there and respond? I mean whats the worse that will happen? You'll come along and tell me I am not being real and that I should just accept what is going on and then move on. Wow. What words of wisdom these are.
tcm has made the minor mistake of not showing Hot Spell (1958) for about ten years now.
incidently, that's not a mistake. that's deliberate slackness...
bring back Hot Spell because tcm don't make mistakes.
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it's kinda like on the brady bunch when bobby's frog spunker slows up because he ate a bad fly. tcm got a hold of a bad print.
when an outfit like tcm gets into the habit of not showing dozens of films they oughta be showing (like Hot Spell) due to procurement laziness. this laziness eventually filters down to other areas.
like no longer caring if a print of a movie you intend to show is edited or not.
if tcm ever pulls that crap with a showing of dog day afternoon, they will lose my viewership.
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it's kinda like on the brady bunch when bobby's frog spunker slows up because he ate a bad fly. tcm got a hold of a bad print.
when an outfit like tcm gets into the habit of not showing dozens of films they oughta be showing (like Hot Spell) due to procurement laziness. this laziness eventually filters down to other areas.
like no longer caring if a print of a movie you intend to show is edited or not.
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Yep, this film always ranks very highly on those "Guilty Pleasure" threads that occasionally pop up around here.
(...if "ranks very highly" isn't an oxymoron in this case, of course)
And the reason the oscar is watched by so many is because it is well-acted by all concerned.
stephen boyd's frankie fane is such an over-the-top crud you can't help but like this thing.
the notion that the oscar is a bad movie is silly. it's teriffic.
so many great scenes with "friend" frankie like with laurel (jill st. john)
she may have thrown him out but he sure did get in the last word.
whatta great movie.
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Thanks for the info, lav.
Now that I'm aware of it, I'll be on the look-out for it. You're right, sometimes trashy is fun!
it's a real hoot. talent agent eleanor parker takes frankie to a play and he is unimpressed with the performances so he shows the amateurs how it's done.
just one of many fun moments in the oscar.
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He's too busy negotiating Pricleine on the road. A bit sad if this is how his final days are remembered.
Flo (Progressive) would make a good Vulcan (ducking)
well, it's his own fault. he shoulda kicked like a steer when they knocked 'em off in Generations...
but he chose not to.
hordes of old line trekkers woulda backed 'em up if he had.
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Captain Pike in "Star Trek"
I thought capt. pike was raising kids with vina in an illusionary paradise on talos IV.
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Interesting fact--
There are 51 narrative features from 1960s and 56 narrative features from the 1970s that have been selected for preservation by the Library of Congress.
Should these 107 films not be shown on TCM? Especially when they are considered so important as to be saved for future generations.
I've been waiting for tcm to show john nesbitt's passing parade feature "our old car" or the great morgan but so far no luck.
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after the brides of dracula on svengoolie the good stuff continues with lost in space and voyage to the bottom of the sea.
tonite's lost in space ep is the one where the monster cyclamen plants create a plant girl version of judy.
marta kristen does a good job acting aloof and distant as the plant babe and of course smith is involved.
followed by voyage to the bottom of the sea ep brand of the beast with nelson suffering a relapse of his werewolf virus.
real good stuff tonite on me tv.
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A book will never convey that surreal setting.
aw, such nice girls
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Just finished listening to your CBC audio link here MissW, and while I had previously known much of the information imparted within it, I did learn a few more facts I hadn't known beforehand, and so thanks for posting this.
Yep, it seems the chase for an Oscar and all the "prestige" and especially the financial gain that winning one brings is now quite the "cottage industry" in and of itself now days, and has been a growing industry for decades.
(...but then again, "Dog and Pony Shows" HAVE been around for years and years too, ya know)
right! just look at the way stephen boyd carried on in "the oscar"
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my bad. I just assume many here will have seen these old horror film's as many times as I have and will automatically know who gina is.
I prefer not to allow for less viewing time in front of the TV for others in comparison to myself.
it's my natural humility.
gina is a local maid who attracts the baron meinster's attention. watch the film and gain an intuitive familiarity with these old horror gems.
gina will ask marianne to forgive her for loving him.
you just gotta put in alotta butt time in front of the TV as I have my whole life.
hey, before the advent of tcm I was totally unfamiliar with doctor zhivago.
never watched all those abc showings.
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WHO'S "GINA"? or, did you mean "MINA"?
I've grown weary of so-called "Dracula" movies that attempt to rewrite and revise Stoker's excellent novel.
However, Cushing IS always fun to watch in these vehicles, so I'll try to tune in.
And +1 on the "Cushing without Lee" complaint. The two go together like HOPE AND CROSBY!
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my bad. I just assume many here will have seen these old horror film's as many times as I have and will automatically know who gina is.
I prefer not to allow for less viewing time in front of the TV for others in comparison to myself.
it's my natural humility.
gina is a local maid who attracts the baron meinster's attention. watch the film and gain an intuitive familiarity with these old horror gems.
gina will ask marianne to forgive her for loving him.
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tonite on svengoolie is a good one. the brides of dracula with peter cushing.
obviously hammer thought more of cushing than they ever did christopher lee.
they hand this vehicle to cushing for a tour-de-force performance but with no lee.
idiots. didn't box office receipts from the states from their first film tell them anything?
stupid hammer dolts.
and why is it in this flick that they throw in all this vampire lore that they coulda just as well of done with Dracula (1958)
in this we get bats. when that bat with red eyes buzzes Van Helsing, is that the newly dug up fresh vampire babe or Meinster?
somewhat unclear to me. I like the comic relief doctor trying to unclog his sinuses.
when the girl walks past gina's casket the padlock falls off. neat. they coulda used that in mark of the vampire.
besides the always stalwart cushing, there's also alotta good acting from martita hunt, the vampire's mother also...
our beloved miss havisham from david lean's great expectations.
she alone makes this worth watching.
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Me-TV is doing a retrospective tomorrow of Leoard Nimoy in the afternoon I believe and running a special episode of Star Trek to night. Tune in and prosper.
me tv can't bring themselves to devote a few day or night's viewing time to nimoy on star trek? cheapskates.
one of me TVs most obvious shortcomings is they're not too big on episode marathons.
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Wow! You had a color TV in the late 1960s? Sounds like privilege to me.
my family tried color TV around 1965. my dad did not cotton to it. a big ol' console it was. so it went back to the store for repairs and in the meantime they gave us the loan of a smaller japanese color TV. a few week later back to black & white we went...
and we were definitely not privileged in any excepted understanding of the term...
not with my dad running our household like the evil captain kirk and then some.
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Lionel Barrymore was a more capable actor in a wheel chair than most stars who never had to use one.
he was a scream in key largo.
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just a moment.....just a moment.......
"although we no longer have nimoy to go to bat,
fear not,
for we still have the shat."
how'd you all like my HAL impression?
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just a moment.....just a moment.......
"although we no longer have nimoy to go to bat,
fear not,
for we still have the shat."
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am I the only one who ever got that barb she threw at Robert Newton in Blackbeard the Pirate?
they're in blackbeard's cabin and he grabs her by the upper part of her dress and says
"little robin redbreast. I be a great lover of nature."
then she shoots back...
"if I had a pistol, I'd shoot out your gizzard-pin!
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Obviously, "several people who post here" haven't caught on to the fact that TCM is a business whose owners expect it to make money. If they call cruises, film festivals, DVD tie-ins and the like "crass commercialism" I wonder what they'd call the alternate which would be interupting the movies every ten mnutes or so to show four minutes of commercials like all the other networks do. Of course, if that ever happened, you can bet they''d be the ones screaming the loudest "HOW DARE THEY!"
you mean tcm cruisees are picking up the tab for tcm not showing commercials?...
bless them.
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starfleet officer and art lover.
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Poor Leonard. Has to be the most stereotyped actor of all time. All he was accepted as was Spock and only Spock.
Watching him in 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' in 1978 was weird. He was just a more dull Spock and was completely out of place for it.
I hear what your sayin' but...
he IS spock.
Leonard Nimoy has died aged 83
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despite the fact that he shoulda put up a fight with paramount to come back as kirk....
but he didn't.
now if ol' shatner had felt a little bit more about kirk the way Clayton Moore felt about the lone ranger, he'd be an even gooder guy.
but hey, star trek's dead so it doan really matter now.