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More from Citizen Kane;

Bernard Herrmann Citizen Kane overture:

... Let me explain a little. I don't think he'll change. At 21 or 22, so many things appear solid and permanent and terrible which 40 sees in nothing but disappearing miasma. Forty can't tell 20 about this. Twenty can find out only by getting to be 40. And so we come to this, dear: Will you live your life your way or George's way? Dear, it breaks my heart for you. But what you have to oppose now is the history of your own selfless and perfect motherhood. Are you strong enough, Isabel? Can you make a fight? I promise you that if you will take heart for it you will find so quickly that it's all amounted to nothing. You shall have happiness and only happiness. I'm saying too much for wisdom, I fear. But, oh, my dear, won't you be strong? Such a little short strength it would need. Don't strike my life down twice, dear. This time, I've not deserved it. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

whoa, did she live through World War II? Then I could understand it. I had read some GIs, many years later, would suddenly have a hankering for SPAM. Maybe the same thing was happening for her. btw- Did Dargo find the Academy Awards thead?

RIP - Lesley Gore

The More the Merrier : Benjamin (Charles Coburn) and Joe Carter (Joel McCrea) Benjamin: What's your name? Joe Carter: Carter. Benjamin: Bill Carter? Joe Carter: Joe Carter. Benjamin: I used to know a fellow named Bill Carter. Joe Carter: Wasn't me. Benjamin: Don't you suppose I know that? Joe Carter: What'd you ask for, then? Benjamin: I guess I know what Bill Carter looked like. Joe Carter: Not like me. Benjamin: Oh, then, you know Bill Carter. Joe Carter: No, I don't, but he sounds like a great guy. ***** Benjamin: Probably your name isn't even Bill Carter. Joe Carter: Probably not. It's probably Joe Carter.

DID YOU SEE THAT NIGHTGOWN IN THE LAST SCENE !?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YnafgsZgGY

My grandmother used to say, some people grow up and some people just grow older. Kings Row (1940) I am the master of my fate and the captain of my soul. -Invictus

SansFin wrote: As Time Goes By One evening of four movies with a specific theme with each movie having been made in a later decade than the previous movie. The movies are to progress with the first movie being made no later than 1939 and last movie no earlier than 1980. The theme which unites the movies is of your choosing. It may be genre, director, actor, cinematographer or any other factor. These are not to be remakes or use the same source material as other movies in the evening. As I understand it, I could then use 4 stories of childhood remembrance, taking place in a previous decade and told in flashback, but produced in another decade as outlined in your instructions, right? Peter Ibbetson (1935) I Remember Mama (1948) To Kill A Mockingbird (1962) A Christmas Story (1983)

I have always liked Sondheim, not because of the music originality or scoring excellence (maybe I should have characterized my co-workers as "Broadway purists" rather than musical snobs) but his poetry of word play in the song. To each his own..

The Fountainhead.

I liked it, although the gang I worked with were mixed opinion. Some were what I would call "musical snobs" and disturbed by the cuts of song or reprise and story line. Sondheim remained intact to me, so I liked it.

Bio 47's thread "We will find a way. It might fail, and if it does and I am still alive, I will try to pass on my information, my mission, to someone else. Perhaps to a better man, who does not fail. Because there is always someone else. . . That is the mistake the Germans always make with people they try to destroy. There will be always someone else. " To Have and Have Not (1944)

Proud Mary, because Tina Turner never, ever does anything "nice and easy".. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GxrFdo7AyA

JEM: Atticus says cheating a black man is ten times worse than cheating a white. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Now, I have two friends with Xfinity who pretty much were able to "pick and choose" their offerings doing the same thing. They insist the "rules" of the lineup aren't hard and fast if you work for a better deal. It will take me more than that to being me back.-- like a 40% less for cable.

Svengoolie is risking his reputation with showing some good quality.

Gee, I'd like to learn French. I got an idea that they don't translate some of the best parts. Eve Arden in Three Husbands

This conversation maybe moot, in terms of cable vs. streaming. The home entertainment market is in a state of flux, not unlike cable's introduction in the late '70s/early '80s. Streaming has seriously eroded enough of the market that telecommunications is rethinking it all again. HBO has seen the light. Mine is but a small voice, but I hope TCM just starts transition from cable to streaming. The feedback from sales is once the buyer has a AppleTV/Roku/Chromecast device, they start cancelling the cable. And these devices sell at a relatively painless price once the technology jumps again for upgrading. Comcast and Time Warner have held on too long to their old model and technology. Even the oldsters like me are abandoning them.

For a writer, a motorcycle cop/porn star is a perfect combination.

Thanks, GayDivorcee. You helped me make a connection I had wondered about for years..Note the :55 mark.. Funny Bones