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LawrenceA
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Just now, speedracer5 said:
Robert Osborne was just the main host of TCM. When he passed, Ben Mankiewicz assumed his role as the main host. While I can imagine that Robert may have influenced scheduling and such, I do not believe that he held any sort of position related to TCM's business operations. This new manager is replacing Jennifer Dorian who stepped down after 20 years as TCM's manager.
I believe Jennifer Dorian was only the GM at TCM for the past five years. Before that she held various positions within the the broader Turner TV company.
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No to all of it.
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They used to promote other things that Byrnes appeared in by listing him as Edd "Kookie" Byrnes a lot.
I heard that so often, that I eventually picked up the habit of adding "Kookie" to any other actors named Ed. For example, Ed "Kookie" Nelson, or Ed "Kookie" Flanders.
There aren't too many performers that are responsible for recurring jokes that I've used for decades.
R.I.P. to the real "Kookie".
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15 minutes ago, speedracer5 said:
I recently just saw the 1994 verison of Little Women, but I am interested in seeing all the iterations again: 1933, 1949, 1994 and the newest one again to see the different interpretations of the story. I also just got a Kindle for Christmas and was able to download the original novel for free. I just started the novel. It'd also be an interesting comparison to see how all these different versions of the story adapted the original source material.
There's also a TV version from 1978 that you might be interested in. It has Meredith Baxter as Meg, Susan Dey as Jo, Ann Dusenberry as Amy, Eve Plumb as Beth, Dorothy Maguire as Marmee, Robert Young as Grandpa Laurence, and Greer Garson as Aunt March.
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Just now, lavenderblue19 said:
Spectrum dropped Decades at least 6 months ago where I am. Also Antennae TV, Get TV, This Tv. Only one left here is Me-TV
That's sad. I still get all of those down here (via Comcast). I also get Start TV (female-centric dramas from the 80's, 90's and 00's), as well as Movies.
I never did get a few others that people have mentioned on here though, like Grit and Comet.
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34 minutes ago, Hibi said:
Decades had several wknd marathons of the show last year. But Decades is no more. It's become a Martha Stewart type channel. (GAG!) All the rerun shows are gone.
Decades is still around. They're doing a marathon of The Fall Guy this weekend.
Your provider may have dropped it/replaced it.
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Hasn't he?
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8 minutes ago, Allhallowsday said:
How is it possible for posts to be deleted, including if it's your own but you quote the deleted post? I do not understand lack of ownership. This takes me back to "over moderated," but by whom?
Posts can only be removed by a Moderator. One is occasionally present.
They may remove posts that they feel break the Code of Conduct, and/or are abusive or overly combative in some way. They will remove an entire conversation even if only one side instigated, in the hopes of deescalating the situation. They will also delete entire threads, as you are aware of.
They will also usually remove a post if the person that posted it requests it, either by using the "report" function available at the top right of each post, by deleting the text of their post via the edit feature and leaving "delete" or "." in its place, or by sending a Moderator a direct, private message, aka a "PM" via the messaging function.
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1 minute ago, CinemaInternational said:
Fine by me. All that pretentious, nasty "OK Boomer" stuff is garbage anyway. (It's like a nastier version of the "Don't trust anybody Over 30" syndrome). People who have had more experience with life know more and are more reliable and often kinder people, at least in my experience.
Not in my experience. There are nasty, stupid people in every generation, and the old adage that states "with age comes wisdom" has been disproved more times than I can count. But there are good people in every age bracket, as well.
26 minutes ago, Hibi said:WOW. I thought you were much older. Nice to know there are younger posters on here.
There are a handful that I know of who are younger, such as NickAndNorah34. I believe Gershwin fan is also in his early 20's.
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4 minutes ago, Dargo said:
Yes, according to what CI said yesterday in FredCDobbs' revived "What Movie Character Did You Look Like" thread.
Yes, he inspired me to change my avatar to my own high school yearbook photo.
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That's another one that I found to be utterly dreadful. One of the worst things Fonda or Caron ever appeared in, and deserving of its obscurity. I gave it a 4/10.
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1 hour ago, speedracer5 said:
I just picked up the Criterion of All About Eve from B&N. I had a gift card.
I love this movie.
I like it too. You'll have to let us know how the Criterion edition is. I have the "book"-style Fox Blu-ray.
I was surprised at how many people that post here either find the movie overrated or terrible.
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How Many Miles to Babylon? (1982) - British TV movie, originally aired as part of BBC2 Playhouse. The story tracks the friendship between sensitive Alex, from a wealthy family, and boisterous Jerry, from lower stock. As they grow into manhood, both Alex (Daniel Day-Lewis) and Jerry (Christopher Fairbank) are conscripted into the army to fight in WWI, where their class differences become more pronounced, as does the prejudice against their being Irish. Also featuring Sian Phillips as Alex's overbearing mother, and Barry Foster as an insufferable senior officer. The very young Day-Lewis (he was 25 at the time) is intense and brittle.
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April 2020
Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (1974) April 14
Homeboy (1988) April 14
The Curse of the Werewolf (1961) April 21
Escape from L.A. (1996) April 28
The Lost Continent (1968) April 28
Shatter (1974) April 28
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I've heard that kind of thing before, but as a former smoker, I can't fathom how that would even be possible. Even at my heaviest smoking, I don't think I ever had more than 2 packs in a day.
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39 minutes ago, TomJH said:
I have watched and enjoyed a few subtitled films, some Kurosawas, in particular, as well as a Fellini or two, as well as a couple of Bergmans and, a few months ago, Antonioni's Il Grido but, on the whole, I find it a real effort to struggle (and that's what it feels like) to both watch and read a film at the same time. Some of the Kurosawa films can have so much great action in them that that it not as much of an issue for me with them.
Yes, some can be too dialogue heavy, and it becomes a real feat to balance the reading and the observation of the compositions. I've watched some Japanese films that not only subtitle the dialogue but also provide brief definitions of some of the cultural terms, and/or provide short bits of historical context.
Another subtitle obstacle that occurs on occasion is when there are two or more characters in rapid dialogue, and the subtitles do a poor or non-existent job of differentiating who is saying which line.
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Doctor Who - Castrovalva (1982) - 4-part serial that begins with the Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) "regenerating" as the Fifth Doctor (Peter Davison). The process doesn't go quite right, and he's left confused and suffering from fluctuating physical debilities, which leaves it up to his companions Nyssa (Sarah Sutton) and Tegan (Janet Fielding) to track down the Doctor's nemesis The Master (Anthony Ainley), who has kidnapped another of the Doctor's companions, Adric (Matthew Waterhouse), in order to force him to help construct an extra-dimensional realm which he calls Castrovalva.
This was the first Davison serial that I've watched, but it's difficult to judge how I'll take to him in the role, as his character is out of sorts for much of it. This was my first glimpse of companions Nyssa and Tegan, and I liked them both. This was also my first episode with The Master, although he'd been appearing occasionally since 1971 and the Third Doctor. The realm of Castrovalva was inspired by M.C. Escher's paintings, and a variety of quaint video effects are used to achieve the fractured geometric perspective.
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This is a debate we've had on here before. Some viewers have vision problems, or other reading difficulties (dyslexia, etc.), and it makes subtitled films untenable.
As someone who's watched hundred of subtitled films, I can attest that it's a skill that's honed with practice. It also depends on various other factors: color of the subtitles, speed at which they switch to the next line, size of the font, frequency of typographical errors (these happen more often than one would think). But most of them can be overcome with practice. I have no problem with 99% of the subtitles on the movies I watch, and I highly recommend people overcome their hesitancy, as there is literally a world of exceptional cinema they are missing out on.
But I also understand that some people just can't watch them due to some medical/psychological issue, and some just have no desire to.
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Robert Osbourne
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Yeah, Dorian was with the Turner company since 2000, in charge of channel "branding", before being named TCM GM in 2014. Before that she was in marketing for Coca-Cola and Pizza Hut.