NipkowDisc
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I did turn it back on and heard spike lee's acceptance speech where he blurts on about his own family geneology from mother Africa to how America was built emploring his fellow Hollywood elitists to do the right thing in 2020..
since when does he think they don't vote democrat? now on to the red carpet celebrating where they muse over poverty and the downtrodden while admiring their statuettes.
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a complete mess. who's responsible? the advertisers or ABC? liberals in their constant relentless fanaticism to make movies and entertainment more socially conscious and cater to liberal politics has done this.
happy now liberal Hollywood? you have made America sick.
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21 hours ago, darkblue said:
Ratso Rizzo.
He was a lot smarter than Joe Buck.
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12 hours ago, TheCid said:
One of the problems with naming items after people is that things change as time evolves. My personal philosophy is that items should be named after people ONLY if they directly and personally contributed more than 50% of the cost of the thing. Especially for public items.
Best case scenario is that we just stop naming things after people.
As for changing John Wayne airport, he was the one who decided to engage in controversial and often hypocritical political positions. And as Lawrence said, it is up to the people in that area to decide, not us. Definitely not for people in politically incorrect South.
but the problem is that those who do not like john wayne as a name of an airport are those who like to pontificate and lecture one half of the country about tolerance. removing Wayne's name would be petty and highlight liberal hypocrisy about tolerance.
great actors like paul newman and henry fonda or jack lemmon are in no way diminished in my mind because they were liberals.
the duke is entitled to some forebearance from those who have dedicated their lifetimes to preaching it to the rest of us quite one-sidedly from their rich 1% socal paradise.
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figures.
this is why you need old school TV space cadets for that special perspective in programming that you'll never gonna get from crime noir schtootzes.
me, I can think of 2 great movies right off and not that beaten into the ground creature from the black lagoon either. supposedly better than it's sequel Revenge of the Creature which is bull. the 2nd movie has what the first one shoulda had. an exciting escape rampage story. the first was too bogged down with those seemingly endless underwater sequences which had the creature swimming up and down and all around the delectably leggy Julie Adams. I must admit the friction between Carlson and Denning is good drama but they shoulda moved on to the good stuff like with the 2nd film.
now while Julie Adams wasn't a major star imo she rates a tribute especially given the number of time slackers inc. tcm have shown the creature from the black lagoon and it is easy. any space cadet automatically knows what two films to show…
1. the private war of major benson
with a charming performance from miss Julie as a military school nurse and chuck heston to boot!
and...
and it is such an obvious choice...
as far as I know Julie Adams' last contribution to the horror sci-fi genre...
from 1975...
2. psychic killer
along with jim hutton, aldo ray and paul burke.
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something I have longed wondered about. in that movie the space capsule is named Ironman One. were there any copyright issues with marvel comics about the use of that name since it was also the name of that famous comic book character?
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to be awarded during commercial time. it is sick, stupid and bleeped up.
that is an important award just like best director. this is a direct result of an academy that has lost it's bearings and only now cares about one thing.
catering to millennial demographic foul-ups.
figures.
and tcm has absolutely nothing to say. they remain absent in the face of the slow death of Hollywood filmmaking.
"for this mood there is no music." -walter brooke, conquest of space
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4 hours ago, Dargo said:
I don't think anyone has yet mentioned director John Boorman's attempt at telling this story in 1981's Excalibur.
(...visually stunning if not a bit ponderous at times, it featured performances by many a young actor and actress at the time who would go on to lengthy cinematic careers such as Liam Neeson, Helen Mirren and Gabriel Byrne)
and Helen Mirren is hot as a sexy morgan le fay
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lets see a musante tribute...the incident and the grissom gang.
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surprise! I wasn't invited.
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tcm tasks me. I SHOULD be SOTM. I'll chase it around the Antares maelstrom and around perdition's flame before I give it up!
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On 2/8/2019 at 5:30 AM, LornaHansonForbes said:
https://themuse.jezebel.com/woody-allen-sues-amazon-after-they-indefinitely-shelve-1832436766
This is actually pretty big news, it has the potential to get even bigger. Amazon Studios who entered a four film deal with Woody Allen have decided not to release (and to shelve indefinitely!) the latest film he has done for them, which means for the first time in over 40 years Woodrow will not have a film released (Apparently he prides himself on doing exactly one film a year)
the film in question?
A RAINY DAY IN NEW YORK, Which is about a middle-age man who wants to sleep with a 19-year-old girl who he later finds out is really a 15-year-old girl.
You just can’t make this **** up.
He is furious and has vowed to sue Amazon, and some people are saying he actually has something of a leg to stand on here since they signed them after they knew all the scurrilous details of his life. However, if he does choose to sue them he opens his life up to investigation and A legal process known as discovery, and something tells me that’s not exactly the route he wants to go.
the schtootz blew his chance 50 years ago with this knockout.
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we need all the sam cades we can get these days.
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3 hours ago, Defenestrator said:Here is a poll for visitors to the TCM board, this one focusing on favorite male screen star. The keyword is "favorite" as I include those whose career reached its greatest success in television or in lesser big-screen roles. So many of my favorites have passed away having made a strong impression on the small screen or having been typecast in one type of roll throughout their career, without having received from those accomplishments a fair chance at how they might have registered as an A-list movie star for a more varied type of acting career than they actually had. And when some non-A-listers have appeared in big theatrical films, an audience reaction sometimes had given the impression that it was someone who deserved higher consideration than the hyped megastars of the moment. This poll asks, if movie stardom could continue into the next life, which male screen icons would you like to see gain recognition at reaching that very top level of stardom? Or which stars of the past or present would provide the most excitement with their best possible return to the screen? I thought the AFI's "100 Years 100 Stars" list in the late nineties had some silly rules (a star had to appear in a film by 1950, or had died since then so there was a complete career to assess, so mid-50s star James Dean made the list while Paul Newman and Jack Lemmon were ineligible simply for having been alive all that time and still doing great work). Other lists have taken the two unfortunate extremes of (1) purists who look down on those actors who haven't had the same breaks as others or of the more impressively deserving recent ones whose place on an all-time list is still in development, or (2) focusing too much on the most popular ones of the present day without a true sense of cinematic history, and how revolutionary those cases were at that particular time. I figure a TCM viewership would be less likely of that latter offense anyway, than another polled group, such as imdb. I hope to follow up with a favorite female screen stars list, plus one for movies eventually. Maybe even a TV series list if I'm not ushered out of town on the OT rail. If each poll participant provides their favorite 25 male screen stars, then when the poll seems to have reached an ending point, I will do the math (25 points to your top choice, 24 to your number 2, and so on until one point goes to your number 25 choice, and all those points added up for a final ranked list). Since imdb uses a top 250 as the number they use in their polled lists, I thought I would enjoy putting together my own top 250 (counting up the list toward number one for a more fun reveal) to perhaps serve the purpose of helping participants avoid inadvertently leaving one of their own favorites out. Perhaps cutting and pasting this list, putting them in your own order and then inserting favorites you think have been incorrectly omitted would be a good start to composing your own list of your favorite 25 male screen stars. Let the poll begin.250. Dan Aykroyd249. Patrick Stewart248. Lloyd Bridges247. John Carradine246. Terry-Thomas
245. Hal Holbrook
244. Edward Asner243. Omar Sharif242. Jackie Chan241. Bruce Willis240. DeForest Kelley239. Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson238. Harvey Korman237. Cantinflas236. Edmond O'Brien235. Charles Coburn234. Peter Finch233. Robert Vaughn232. Cameron Mitchell231. Jerry Seinfeld230. Richard Chamberlain229. Alan Arkin228. Samuel L. Jackson227. Warren Beatty226. Michael Keaton225. Michael Rennie224. Darren McGavin223. Henry Winkler222. Don Rickles221. James Whitmore220. Rodney Dangerfield219. Adam West218. Oliver Reed217. Michael Douglas216. Victor McLaglen215. John Saxon214. Red Skelton
213. Lee J. Cobb212. Alan Hale Jr.211. Lee Majors210. Alec Baldwin209. Mark Hamill208. Phil Silvers207. Walter Huston206. Maurice Chevalier205. Dick Powell204. Christopher Lloyd203. Forrest Tucker202. Laurence Harvey201. Leslie Howard200. Alan Hale Sr.199. Trevor Howard198. Tom Cruise197. Jack Warden196. Don Knotts195. Martin Landau194. Art Carney193. Ian McKellen192. Michael J. Fox191. Danny DeVito190. George Peppard189. Milton Berle188. Larry Hagman187. Jack Klugman186. Burgess Meredith185. Carroll O'Connor184. Glenn Ford
183. Ralph Richardson182. Richard Dreyfuss181. Robert Downey Jr.180. Albert Finney179. Martin Sheen178. Richard Basehart177. Raymond Burr176. Ward Bond175. Barry Fitzgerald174. Andy Griffith173. Christopher Reeve172. Lionel Barrymore171. James Garner170. Peter Falk169. Richard Attenborough168. Robert Walker167. Jeff Bridges166. Karl Malden165. Martin Balsam164. Eli Wallach163. Joseph Cotten162. Ricardo Montalban161. Redd Foxx160. George Burns159. William S. Hart158. Pierce Brosnan157. John Huston156. Alan Alda155. Claude Rains154. Bob Newhart
153. Zero Mostel152. Robert Ryan151. John Belushi150. James Caan
149. William Shatner148. Fred MacMurray147. Roger Moore146. Orson Welles145. Dick Van Dyke144. Bill Murray143. William Powell142. Jack Palance141. James Coburn140. Russell Crowe139. Jeffrey Hunter138. John Travolta137. Randolph Scott136. Leonardo DiCaprio135. Roy Scheider
134. Walter Brennan133. Michael Redgrave132. Ossie Davis131. Kevin Costner130. Donald Sutherland129. Denzel Washington128. Christopher Plummer127. Robert Shaw126. Sean Penn125. Rex Harrison124. Roddy McDowall123. George Kennedy122. Robert Wagner121. Rod Steiger120. Jack Benny119. Walter Pidgeon118. Daniel Day-Lewis117. Leonard Nimoy116. Jackie Gleason115. Joel McCrea114. Anthony Perkins113. Max Von Sydow112. Bruce Lee111. James Earl Jones110. Ronald Colman109. Fredric March108. Paul Muni107. Douglas Fairbanks Sr.106. Charles Boyer105. Telly Savalas104. Morgan Freeman103. Michael Caine102. Anthony Quinn101. Lon Chaney Jr.100. Toshiro Mifune99. Robert Donat
98. David Niven97. Paul Robeson96. Peter Cushing95. Leslie Nielsen94. Mickey Rooney93. Steve Martin92. Burt Reynolds91. Mel Gibson90. Sydney Greenstreet89. Christopher Lee88. The Beatles87. Robert Taylor86. Ray Milland85. Richard Widmark84. Basil Rathbone83. Ernest Borgnine82. Tom Hanks81. Robert Duvall80. John Garfield79. Raymond Massey78. Sylvester Stallone77. Charles Bronson76. Takashi Shimura75. Richard Pryor74. Montgomery Clift73. Yul Brynner72. Lee Marvin71. William Holden70. Lon Chaney Sr.69. Robin Williams
68. Tyrone Power67. Arnold Schwarzenegger66. Rock Hudson65. James Dean64. Robert Mitchum63. Robert De Niro62. Woody Allen61. Peter Lorre60. Sammy Davis Jr.59. Harold Lloyd58. Alan Ladd57. Harrison Ford56. Danny Kaye55. Tony Curtis54. James Mason53. Gene Hackman52. Sean Connery51. Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy50. Bela Lugosi49. Al Pacino48. Clint Eastwood47. The Three Stooges46. Alec Guinness45. Richard Burton44. Dustin Hoffman43. W.C. Fields42. Kirk Douglas41. James Mason40. Walter Matthau39. Dean Martin38. Laurence Olivier37. Bing Crosby36. Edward G. Robinson35. Robert Redford34. Peter Sellers33. George C. Scott32. Buster Keaton31. Gene Kelly30. Vincent Price29. Spencer Tracy28. Peter O'Toole27. Clark Gable26. Jack Nicholsonand here are my top 25 for the poll:25. Fred Astaire24. Marlon Brando23. Burt Lancaster22. Bud Abbott & Lou Costello21. Henry Fonda20. Gregory Peck19. The Marx Brothers18. Boris Karloff17. Errol Flynn16. Jerry Lewis15. Gary Cooper14. Elvis Presley13. Charlie Chaplin12. Jack Lemmon11. James Cagney10. Charlton Heston9. Sidney Poitier8. James Stewart7. Frank Sinatra6. Bob Hope5. Paul Newman4. Cary Grant3. Humphrey Bogart2. John Wayne1. Steve McQueena very good list with wayne and McQueen in 1st and 2nd spot.
"when I want to know how to act tough, I just look at the Duke." -McQueen
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15 hours ago, Michael Rennie said:
A little gas ... in stereo:
Pee-yew! I'm a-gettin' outta here quick!
gemme air!
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a great premise...
a young babe is exposed to irradiated nitrate dust from a reel and grows to 50 feet!
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On 2/4/2019 at 2:51 PM, Defenestrator said:
Something I have only recently been aware of is that there was a 1967 remake of "The Perils of Pauline" with Pamela Austin (perhaps best known for "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In") in the title role, with Pat Boone, Terry-Thomas and Edward Everett Horton also in the featured cast. It had apparently been originally conceived as a TV series that wasn't panning out by the third episode, so the network decided to piece them together into a theatrical feature that flopped, and the whole thing has never been released to video, so I hope the negative still exists somewhere and TCM can give us a shot at seeing it. Does anyone here have any memory of this film?
I tried to watch it once decades ago when it was on TV.
pamela was cute like one of the petticoat junction babes.
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1 hour ago, hamradio said:
Does it make him feel like a man to knock out a pregnant teen?
he was probably very sorry for his behavior later on and I cannot believe Shirley the angelic creature that she was would not have forgiven him.
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the yawning man should be a weapon of torture.
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2 hours ago, TopBilled said:
Did you ever consider buying a new VCR? Just wondering...
actually I have 2 VCRs and while the other one works it has no remote because I found it discarded in the trash therefore I can't set the timer or program the date and time.
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2 hours ago, GordonCole said:
Hmmm, is DDA the movie where Al's paramour keeps saying he wants to go to Liberia? I think it was played by that guy who was the king in The Princess Bride.
I only saw it once but don't remember much since the theater was full of marijuana smoke wafting around.
it was one of the best thrillers of the early seventies like the taking of Pelham 1 2 3.
and flying off to Algeria is sonny's idea.
sal had his heart set on Wyoming.
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I just turned off the academy awards...
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blathering socially conscious dribble certainly does not make THEM saints with their mansions, swimming pools and WALLS.
while the rest of America lives their lives, pays their taxes and raises their families these pathetic money-worshipping disconnects work full time imagining the winning of a gold statuette is the pinnacle of THEIR human condition which is laughable.