NipkowDisc
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we've lost the great leonard nimoy...
give william shatner his own resurrected kirk film..now.
20 years overdue it is.
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astronomy and len were a great team in this old celestron ad.
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not very known for some reason but leonard nimoy was a very accomplished photographer.
even had his own website.
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So sorry to hear this! Here is one of his greatest moments as Spock -- in the final segment of "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" (1982):
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/27/leonard-nimoy-dead_n_6770032.html
STAR TREK III: THE SEARCH FOR KIRK...
YES!
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All of those Vulcan mind melds finally took their toll.
it was that last abrams meld.
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our favorite vulcan for all seasons has left us.
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Secret email released, lol.
"Hey, I heard that TCM promotes Oscar movies"
"Yes they do. It is 31 days of Oscar movies, imagine!"
Wow, we can't thank them enough!"
"For this year we have to come up with a movie to promote, which should it be?"
"Well, we can't promote that Sniper movie, we can't promote military anymore and it is racist"
"OK then what other movies can we do"
"Not that Transformer movie, it did a billion but people would laugh at us."
"Hey, how about Birdman?
"Birdman? What is Birdman?"
"It was released last year, not a lot went to see it and we have nothing else."
"What better way to promote a movie, lol! Get word out to the Academy!"
that sounds right.
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None. We find our anthem to be glorious enough when sung straight - no need for embellishment.
that's how I feel about it. the star-spangled banner needs no embellishment whatsoever.
food for thought.
imagine jerry goldsmith's majestic powerful score to star trek the motion picture disco-ized by meco.
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Must be hard to be a dedicated freedom fighter in a land where slavery
was legal. Hey, whatever.
and was not slavery still legal in europe at the same time? it is wrong to foolishly invadidate a whole loaf of bread because of one or two bad slices.
no one should expect perfection from a sinful humanity.
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Thanks, ND!
I mean, because the octave range in the song is ALREADY quite wide and thus most people can't hit the higher notes anyway(RIGHT?!)...well, just bein' able to sing this song the way it was WRITTEN is always proof enough to ME that IF a singer CAN hit all those higher notes half way through this ditty, they're ALREADY a pretty damn good singer...RIGHT???!!!
(...I mean, I CAN carry a decent tune with MY voice, but HEY, even I have to start WAY down low when I first belt out "Oh say can you see" in order to even have the HOPE of hittin' the notes during the lyrics "And the rockets red glare"!!!!!!)
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I can't carry a tune at all but such a stirring inspirational anthem should be sung the way it was written. by taking liberties with our anthem pop singers are unknowingly or perhaps knowingly disrespecting it. I wish they would knock off the individuality routine and just sing it the way it was meant to be sung otherwise they are verbally defacing our national anthem. let them deface such a beautiful song on their own time and not ours.
whether it be baseball, football or the oscars, I have not heard our national anthem sung properly in years.
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Yep, and I'm REALLY tired of all these "coloratura" flourishes pop singers add to every song they sing now days too!
YOU know..."Here! Let me flutter my freakin' voice an octave higher after every fourth freakin' note I sing in order to show you how good I am!"
(...and I'm ESPECIALLY tired of hearing them do this when they sing "The Star-Spangled Banner"...I always wanna yell out, "HEY! Just HIT the freakin' notes and SING the freakin' song and stop tryin' to impress us, OKAY???!!!...So, you two Canadians here...do they do that to YOUR National Anthem up there TOO???...and does that drive YOU GUYS up a freakin' wall when they do that to "O Canada" TOO???!!!) LOL
I too wish the star-spangled banner would be sung in a more respectful way. the continental army were not rap artists or pop singers but dedicated freedom-fighting soldiers who deserve respect even today by this millennial generation.
way da go Dargy!
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again, what is the reason this film has disappeared from tcm? does tcm somehow consider this an unworthy film undeserving of recognition? I doan get it. it's got anthony quinn, shirley booth, shirley maclaine, earl holliman and eileen heckart and quinn plays one of the most cruddy louses in film history and the sparks flyin' between him and holliman are priceless.
what gives?
did tcm lose their print and they can't get another one?
they were showing hot spell quite regularly like ten years ago and now it's...
gone.
it's a film that tcm oughta be showing...
but they're not.
what's the story here?
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Janet Leigh in a bra!!
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my remarks on the hollywood 1% were too close to the truth.
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I assume the people onboard will be A-OK with you not being there. They don't have to listen to all your complaints!
good point.
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bad news. I can't make it. hope the absence of my onboard ideas doesn't ruin it for everyone.
just can't make it. hope you all understand.
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And you also merit a third award for Good Nature. (or at least remaining serene in the face of snark.)
I appreciate that, misswonderlytoo, anybody can take any shot they want at me as long as it doesn't violate forum rules.
I be the last guy to take me self too seriously.
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Also the award for Heaviest Use of Emoticons.
Here you go.
I'm sure an Oscar-like statuette resembling these emoticons could be fashioned somehow, if it hasn't been done already.
no better way to project one's beneficence.
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NipKowDisc, while we're on the topic of awards, I'm alloting you the award for Most Irrelevant and Pointless Posts for the first quarter of 2015.
thank you.
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I don't feel sorry for these "poor" actresses who make millions of dollars for a single film. Sorry. Sure, they might very well donate to charities - point well taken. But I am more concerned with "equal pay" for the little guy - those working in Wal-Mart, fast food places, and punching time clocks and I highly doubt that when Streep and Lopez got up clapping away, they weren't thinking of the "little guy" one bit. And from the reviews I read and heard, this Arquette's speech turning political about equal pay for women was not met with high approval ratings.
how many of these hollywood celebs so endlessly empathetic to the ills and injustices of the world demonstrated their selfless and noble support for green energy by traveling to the awards in electric cars?
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I would prefer that celebrities at an award show don't touch on any political issues. BUT it appears you are OK with them doing so as long as the issue being mentioned is an issue YOU approve of. If anyone should go into a box it is you.
I agree. they shouldn't interject their personal views at all...
but they did.
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did we really need to see neil patrick harris' superman-like physique last nite?
"oh well, I guess women like that sort of thing." -fred ziffel
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You still don't understand that there is no such thing as 'the American people' as it relates to having one POV about a topic.
only sane and rational americans. gotcha! you can't really argue that wage equality is a more cutting edge issue than decapitation, can you?
point successfully made.
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The American people are tried of people claiming to represent the views of the American people.
and is wage equality a more pressing issue on the minds of the american people these days then say....
decapitation?
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and I'd love to see paramount beg mr. shatner to agree to the project.
they want all the older fans they've alienated back. that's what they gotta do...
and they should kindly be smart about it.