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"YEAH, JOHNNY ROCCO FOR PRESIDENT, SEE!" Interstitials?

Oh yeah, it was waaaay better than WOLF.

Yes, I was a hardcore MICHELLE PFEIFFER STAN, had been since BATMAN RETURNS. I made it a point to be there for her on opening day.

KATE NELLIGANS part is even worse though, and it’s a shame because she’s a very good actress. (spoiler) She doesn’t even get a death scene, it’s just mentioned that she’s been killed a third of the way and through the movie and they plow on. The role feels like it was cut down.

OH WOW IT REALLY MUSTVE BEEN BAD FOR SHARON TO SAY “No” outright!!!!

(Honest to God, Mimi Rogers really said that, in “premiere” or some magazine.)

(Paraphrased from memory) ” Why the **** did Michelle Pfeiffer take that role in WOLF? It’s a horrible part. There’s nothing to it. It’s the kind of role *I’d* play.” - MIMI ROGERS

I will never forget going to see Wolf in the summer of 1994, the movie wasn’t so great but when my friend and I got home the O.J. Simpson Freeway chase has just started on television.

since so many of us no longer watch TCM conventionally (ie live and on cable), I think they have gotten away from producing those in-between commercials and mini-docs and monthly promos...it's a shame and I kinda miss themj, but at the same time, I'm cool with TCM ON DEMAND and having , more or less, access to everything they've played this week whenever I want it.

i just remembered...one more thing in re: THE DAMNED (1969).... The film's most engaging performance- by far- is given by REINHARD KOLLDEHOFF as a warmongering abrasive, crass Uncle and member of the SA...HONESTLY, it was like watching GEORGE C. SCOTT'S GERMAN DOPPELGANGER, and it is (as you can imagine) HIGHLY AMUSING. "Genau wie das Braten von Hühnern auf einem Bauernhof!"

I kinda understand why. Not for the Nazis or the gay stuff or the Nazi gay stuff or even the incest, but for one VERY DISTURBING SCENE where the protagonist of the film (an amoral German Baronet in his twenties) caresses an 11(ish) year old girl (and it leads to an offscreen rape). it's a running theme through the first part of the film that this character is a child molester, but it's mostly handled OFFSCREEN in a way that is actually quite effective...except for this one scene, which almost caused ME to turn off the film (and I've seen some crazy stuff.) honestly, I think it was a mistake of VISCONTI to include it. (even though it's not badly filmed and both the actors are honestly really good, sick as that may be to say.) I've been thinking about THE DAMNED since I saw it, because it is interesting and deserves to be seen, but on a personal level, I would actually make the controversial choice of COMPLETELY REMOVING the five minute scene that takes things "too far" which, I know is SACRILEDGE to cineastes AND ARTISTS. but...really, it doesn't need to be there AND IT MOST DEFINITELY DOES NOT HELP THE FILM.

maybe he just grew up like NELL in the wilderness for the first 20 or so years of his life and saw THE INCREDIBLES his first week of freedom? Guess we'll have to wait to find out....

a lot of times it has to do with DIGITIZED VERSIONS of films, everything is broadcast digitally now, so old films have to be converted to digital format to play and maybe some of the copies they get to digitize are not the best copies/prints/etc

"Thanks for coming here for the recipe for my THREE RIBBON SALAD, a wonderful buffet dish or holiday item- I make it every Christmas and Cinco De Mayo for my husband's family. This is an easy-peasy sure to please-e recipe-se with just three ingredients and three simple steps, which I'll get into in a minute, but first, have I ever told you about the time I stabbed a homeless vagrant outside of Akron, Ohio just to watch him die?..."

TO BE FAIR, I'VE SEEN some pretty good prints on youtube tho.

here we go, ALL APOLOGIES TO THE MODERATORS IF THIS OFFENDS ANY COPYRIGHT GODS OR YOUTUBE:

you nailed it. i can tell you've seen one of these vids. they all come from SOUTH KOREA and the voices sound uncanny and computer generated.

i fired off this post at 7:00 am using my phone and being in a surly mood already. i don't know why i didn't come out and say that i had just tried to watch an ESPN DOCUMENTARY (I don't care about sports, but I LOVE a SPORTS SCANDAL) about ALLAN IVERSON (aka the NBA guy who choked his coach at practice.) And the DOCUMENTARY was done by one of the HOOP DREAMS guys...and for MAYBE 4 minutes, the guy talked about ALLEN IVERSON and how he grew up in a house with 14 people and he never got his fair share of anything...AND THEN THE NARRATOR PROCEEDS TO GO AT LENGTH ABOUT HIS (meaning THE NARRATOR;S and not IVERSON'S) FATHER AND WHAT A SPORTS NUT HE WAS AND OH, HE OWNED A FURNITURE STORE, AND THEN HE SHOWS HOME MOVIES OF HIS HOME (MEANING THE NARRATOR'S) AND THEN HE INTERVIEW HIS (OWN) MOTHER ABOUT HIS FATHER- 25 MINUTES AND NOTHING ABOUT ALLEN IVERSON OR CHOKING THE COACH. Just the GALL of these people. i remember CLINT EASTWOOD did a DOC that aired on TCM a long time ago that was ostensibly about JOHNNY MERCER but was, in fact, ALL ABOUT CLINT EASTWOOD AND CLINT EASTWOOD'S INTERPRETATIONS OF MERCER... as a SOUTHERNER, i was offended.

ANNE REARDON is an AUSTRALIAN LADy with a youtube channel called HOW TO COOK THAT and it's fascinating- and she did an episode where she looked into some of the ABSOLUTELY INSANE and lengthy NARRATION THAT PLAYS OVER SOME OF THESE RECIPE VIDEOS- stories where children talk about letting strangers into houses, people apprehending criminals etc. sorry,. total aside here, but check out her debunking vids on youttube, she's one of the few really good cooking channels

Hoo boy. For a while now, I have wanted to see LUCHINO VISCONTI'S 1969 film THE DAMNED [**and BOY are they EVER!] I even tried to rent it on amazon this Christmas and it was sadly unavailable... so imagine my thrill when it turned up under a rock somewhere... Holy **** though, this movie is A LOT- but if I had to pare it down I'd say it's like watching a hybrid version of HAMLET and MACBETH and DYNASTY with CROSS-DRESSING NAZIS directed by DOUGLAS SIRK. I liked it, and yet I HAVE TO SAY, THERE IS CHILD ABUSE DEPICTED IN THIS FILM AND- AS SUCH- IT'S NOT ONE FOR EVERYBODY AND I CAME REALDAMNCLOSE TO TURNING IT OFF IN ONE SCENE, even though it wasn't explicit and both actors were honestly really good. There are extended parts of this film in GERMAN with NO SUBTITLES, so I can't really say I fully understand the 30 minute long EXTENDED NAZI KIKI SESSION BY THE LAKE that ends in the BEER HALL PUTSCH, but- um- it was engrossing. (Sorry, my spelling is all wrong I am sure.) DIRK BOGARDE is in this (!) and he is very good, more ELECTRIC than I have ever found him before, man, he really was one of the BRAVEST actors of the late 60s/early 70s wasn't he? the INTERIORS and COSTUMES (and JEWELS!!!!!) are great- lots of MARCEL WAVES and PLUCKED BROWS and THE WOMEN WEAR THEIR DIAMONDS TO BED!!!!!!!! this film is DECADENT TRASH, but it's totally okay with that, and BY THE END, God Help Me, so was I.

there have been quite a few instances in recent years where TCM ran bad prints of something even though a better print exists- WHITE ZOMBIE recently and not long ago FRENCHMAN'S CREEK and THE WALLS OF MALAPAGA were both shown in versions so poor I couldn't finish them.

OH MY GOD, are you THAT YOUNG?!

thanks! it's really overdue to be WEBSTER'S WORD OF THE YEAR. I also will watch just about anything about RUSSIAN HISTORY- it always puts my life into perspective (ie it coulD ALWAYS be WORSE.).

We truly have become the most solipsistic society in history.

This may just be me being salty this morning, and I’m not even going to name specific examples, but I just have to note out loud in public somewhere that (as a fan of documentaries) I have had to quit watching more than a few recent efforts because they were framed as: “So this is a film about “XYZ.”… But really, I wanna talk about ME and who I am and what XYZ means to ME and this film is going to be about how *I* perceive XYZ what it means to MY LIFE and, namely, ME. With interviews with my parents my friends and everyone important in my life to talk about how the subject affected ME…. Even though I’m a middle-aged white guy and this is ostensibly supposed to be a documentary about the struggles of Allen Iverson.” now let’s play the theme: “🎶me me me me me me MEEEEEEE🎶“