LornaHansonForbes
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The '80s was great for classic alternative. It was not great for much else in the way of music, including Wham.
Wow buddy, do me a favor: WHY DON'T YOU GO OVER TO ENGLAND, DIG UP GEORGE MICHAEL FROM HIS GRAVE, SPIT IN HIS FACE AND DROP THE COFFIN BACK IN THE GROUND?!!!!!!???
Wait, what?
He's not dead?
Oh. Well, have you checked the restrooms in Central Park?
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Oh crap.
we are under attack again.
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Ah! so, WHAM was a spinoff of SPAM, ha! Thanx
Yep! you are correcto! tinned shoulder of pork and ham Spam (as we knew it then) was born in 1937.
Fanta, Nazi's, no ****!
I just googled it Wow!, I never knew that!
Fanta is a global brand of fruit-flavored carbonated soft drinks created by The Coca-Cola Company. There are over 100 flavors worldwide. The drink originated in Nazi Germany under trade embargo for Coca-Cola ingredients in 1940.
There is an Urban Dictionary: FANTA definition that may amuse! also here http://slang.org/FANTA-meaning-definition
More here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanta
Amazing some of the stuff you can find out about on these boards!
God Bless the Internet!
DOING GOOD (AND ONLY GOOD) SINCE 1995!
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LMREO. If only. I'd pay to see that..............
Oh, it would be standing room only (ba-boom!)
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wouldn't it be the greatest if Osborne did a special TCM PRIVATE SCREENINGS with Virginia Leith and she did it entirely in character as Jan-in-the-Pan?
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It sounds silly because it IS silly.
I kind of wish they'd hired this guy to head up the TCM ad campaign:
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Virginia Leith (Jan) had an interesting career. She even dated Marlon Brando for a while!
Oh God, poor thing. She probably endured less suffering in the hands of The Mad Doctor.
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Yes, I trust you with my life!!! LOL
"Listen Gallahad..." is one of my favorites.
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we all have someone like this in the family....
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underneath it all, it is a genuine shame, because he gave some wonderful, iconic performances in his career (Cousin Eddie is one for the ages.)
And who knows? He still might.
(keeps fingers crossed.)
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He was caught trying to enter the U.S from Canada. He fled to Canada in 2010 while being sought for felony vandalism. This is "the last detail" that I have.
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To me the real bad acting honors in THE BRAIN THAT.... go to the doctor's choice for Jan's new body: the dark-haired pin-up with the scarred face and (pretty well-founded as it turns out) distrust of men.
That is some good bad acting.
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Yes, a video in THE DEEP END versus letters in THE RECKLESS MOMENT.
video > letters
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I like both THE RECKLESS MOMENT and THE DEEP END very much.
I made a post on these boards before with photos of parallel moments from both movies.
I truly love both of these movies.
That scene where his mom sees the video!
OMG.
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Didn't he have chronic back problems as well?
Yeah he was always on it!
BA BOOM.
( I know it doesn't quite work, but cut me a little leeway)
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I have no issues with the slogan, but, yes, a better use of the funds required to pay for its development and implementation would have been to give the money to me.
That lifelong dream of opening a BEWITCHED theme park/ museum would finally come to fruition.
#someday
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I doubt Kennedy would've wanted to canoodle with Kate Smith after the concert........
I don't know. I think JFK was what used to be termed a "sport." I dont think anything was off limits to him. I bet they probably had to put protective covers on all the power outlets in the White House.
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I like THE RECKLESS MOMENT a lot too. On the surface its a suspenseful lady in distress kind of movie. But there is a lot going on below the surface...
I do feel compelled to give a shout out to the 2003(?) RECKLESS MOMENT remake called THE DEEP END.
A very very very rare example of a contemporary movie that redid a classic and the results are every bit as good, but it is made all the more interesting by putting a contemporary twist on things.
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Any time! Count on me for bad movie alerts!
I can no think of no other member who has done more to alert us when bad movies were coming on.
And it is much appreciated.
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Wonder if Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1946) predates SPAM?
This is off of the top of my head, but no. As I recall, MR BLANDINGS was made in 1948, SPAM came along during the onset of food rationing at WWII (as if enough dark and terrible things weren't already happening in the world.)
ps- seriously here: Fanta was invented by the Nazis.
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super ****, but kind of on topic:
http://kitchenette.jezebel.com/hormel-creates-spam-snack-treats-because-they-are-the-d-1735806434
ps- okay, the word "g r o d y" is censored. Did the autocensor people hire a couple of former Valley Girls as consultants? Like in BALL OF FIRE?
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LornaHansonForbes--A question: who controls Samuel Goldwyns films? Dorothy Arzner did one for him called "Nana" (1934). It's based on an Emile Zola work and stars Anna Sten--whom Goldwyn promoted as "The New Garbo"--TCM has never shown it and I would like to see it-
I dunno, but I would like to see NANA too; I would imagine GOLDWYN's films are attainable by TCM as THE BISHOP'S WIFE (a Goldwyn movie) aired just last night. I also think THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES is a Goldwyn film (and we all know how often that one airs!)
WB, RKO and MGM films are all clearly accessable to TCM, lots of British films are clearly acescsable to TCM, Fox and Universal- two studios who did not have much of a relationship at all with TCM just a few years ago- have had a lot of their films show up on the network in the past four years (and it has been wonderful, just a desperately needed infusion of new blood into the schedule.)
But PARAMOUNT really seems to be the lone holdout when it comes to dealing with TCM, I don't know why (I could understand if they had their own outlet for airing their movies, like FMC, but they don't.)
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to me, both CLUELESS and FAST TIMES... are okay, **1/2 on a scale of one to four stars; all right but they both could be a lot better. They both suffered from an unbelievable amount of over-hype- CLUELESS came out when I was in High School and I still remember reading left and right what "genius" it was, only to find that it (IMO) was a very underdeveloped story with some iffy acting and some questionable attitudes towards gays and drugs, as well as indulging in the "ha ha, girls are so silly" tropes that I don't think we needed then or now.
FAST TIMES is also not so much a real film as it is a strung together series of vignettes- again with some notable homophobia thrown in (it was the eighties, after all)- I don't find it to be a particularly expertly pieced together work and- like CLUELESS- it doesn't seem to have anything deeper to say or suggest or imply about the goings on, just "here they are, and here's our movie."
Great soundtrack though.
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Frankly, I would have preferred another Dorothy Arzner film--one of Arzner's silents or maybe "The Wild Party" (1929)--where in most sources she is given credit for inventing a form of the boom mike. Just my opinion.
A whole night of just Arzner's films would've been completely merited- DANCE GIRL, DANCE is fine, but to me the real great film she made that shows her unique perspective as a woman filmmaker is CHRISTOPHER STRONG (1933)
I've never seen THE WILD PARTY and would love to, but I think that's a PARAMOUNT film and Paramount is probably the least cooperative of all the classic studios when it comes to allowing TCM to air their films. it's highly possible THE WILD PARTY was the film they wanted to show but couldn't get the rights to it (or maybe it has not been digitized or is in need of some repair.)
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Who is putting together the monthly schedules?
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i've also noticed the strange billing given to the B-players in the schedule, cannot imagine how that happened.
honestly though, there are SO MANY bugs in the schedule this site provides, films are often mislabeled (a lot of films are considered to be "HORROR" when they are so not); lots of times the wrong synopsis is provided, sometimes the synopsis for the film ends halfway through and is replaced by the synopsis for another film, VERY OFTEN the links to the DVDs of the film are TOTALLY WRONG (usually a similar title, but miles off in all other respects) and finally I've noticed the Maltin reviews are often wrong(er than they already are)- not matching the film for which they are meant to be accompanying, and very often NOT INCLUDED, (often the case when they're showing a really bad film that likely got a terrible review.)
it's weirdness all around.
That said, today and tonight's schedules are pretty damned good- the Gish films followed by a Tierney double feature followed by- OMG- BOB'S PICK OF A CLOCKWORK ORANGE!!!!!!!!!!