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Yeah, I can see how that would be a problem then. At the very least TCM ought to color the changes in their online weekly schedule with a unique new color or shading, and depict it on a legend, so that people can see at a glace what has been changed since the original posting.

Does it store a downloaded schedule from a service like Schedules Direct, or do you program it like you would a VCR?

Gotcha. I didn't bother to look at that for myself.

That doesn't TORanslate into active posters though. Just drive-bys or bots digging around. I still see the same 20-30 posters as I ever have.

I'm not sure if I'm following your post but it sounds as if either your DVR might not have "phoned home" in time to pick up the lastest changes, or possibly it did and the changes didn't get sorted out properly on your machine. Things happen, I have both of those things happen. I update my DVR's schedule manually (too much to explain here), and happened to be scheduling my DVR during the day yesterday and came across this change, so it was at least out there. Edit: never mind, I see you are still thinking about the rights issues.

I'll probably revisit this thread later with a real answer, but for now I'll say the opening credits for Victor/Victoria. I couldn't care less for the actual movie, but if it comes on I'll sometimes stick around just long enough for the lush Henry Mancini opening theme combined with the fat guy inhaling a creme puff. Just too much...

No Victor Buono or Tor Johnson pics yet I see (potential Women's perspective).

Good to hear. I don't really have much of a presence if any on here, but I'm rooting for TCM too.

Yes! Seems like they have a good thing going. The Short Short Trailer

A few brave souls on the other side of the pond found levity with their highly customized Ford Transit van...

Ok, I went out and looked, and all I could find is something under TCM Programs. That is not the same thing as having a seperate user section for Deaths. I have not actually looked at it, but presumably it only contains threads related to TCM programming, right?.

Like I said before, so far so good. That would work for future posts. Now there is just the issue of what to do with old posts where the data set has never been classified into subsections. Archive it and add that to the GD feed as well?

You probably won't find this too surprising, even for me, but I didn't even know there was a memorials sub-section on this forum. And (for those who haven't chatted with me via PM) no I am not new to computers or anything like that.

The beat of that kind of reminded me of a Xavier Cugat song from Holiday In Mexico.

Aside from your solution working (mainly due to its simplicity and all-encompassing nature) is the issue of Deaths being a time-sensitive issue (ie people will probably want to read about it in a timely manner). So that is where I was going with that. Too many rules will drive people away from posting though. I have seen it before. There are probably only 20 or 30 active posters here.

Yes, you are. TCM "is" people.

Deaths will always be one of those things which get posted. I have participated in probably over 20 discussion forums (but not at the same time!), and the only ones that don't mention deaths are those that are created by companies or fans for the sake of specific product or brand support (ie dodgeforum.com, forums.nextpvr.com, or videoredo.net). Since this forum (and TCM) are directly connected to pop culture icons, I don't see why anyone shouldn't post on deaths here. TCM has tributes. For the rest of my reply, see the second half of my reply to James.

Sounds good so far. Essentially the GD forum would just be a "portal" to view and post to all other forums. Add some user customization options and topic options, and I am probably most of the way there. The only issues I could see would be with having a user-defined dataset and the uncertainties that go along with it, which is why I suspect many shy away from posting under subforums. At least that is true for me. In the absence of certain quality control, things tend to become foggy and muddied up, then eventually lost. But I suppose that is the way it will tend to be, since it is being organized by multiple people - each with a different viewpoint. Sort of like IMDB's Keywords section for instance. It is useful in many cases, but it also has more holes than swiss cheese (not IMDB's problem, it is just still maturing with user contributions). But I suppose I am drifting off topic again.

I am one of the posters who almost never goes looking through any of the subforums either, let alone that one. (not sure why you mentioned it here though, but that caused me to go there just to see what you were talking about). If it were up to me though (and it's not - you know what they say about opinions), here is what I would say. I would try to keep time-sensitive material on the GD forum. No problems there, it seems to be the defacto dumping grounds already. As it would seem, topical materials that aren't time sensitive could go into subforums more than anything else. Their posts don't roll off into oblivion as soon. So it is easier to have an ongoing topical conversation over an extended period of time. I am the type who likes to see as much as I can in a single glance. So I am less inclined to click around and look into most of the subforums. I realize that the subforums serve a purpose though, such as the Information Now! subforums, or the Keywords or Games ones. That much makes sense to me. Some subforums barely get used at all though, and just seem to clutter up the forums home page, for the sake of having a "completeist" matrix of sorts, presumably in case of an outside audit or something. Those could probably get deleted, and the contents migrated elsewhere. Oh yeah, if there isn't one already, the GD forum could probably have its own subforum called the B*tch-n-Moan-till-ya-Drop-Dead-or-just-Fall-Asleep Forum. But one of the nice things about the GD forum is that its threads do roll off into oblivion, which is exactly where most of them belong. So it would seem everything is fine and dandy as-is.

Joan Leslie is one of the central characters who plays herself in Hollywood Canteen though, amidst the entire WB stable of actors.

It looks as if my reply to this has scrolled off the page, but read it for a slightly different take than the generational thought.

You know, that may not be a bad idea. Dredge up some really old threads, just to find something to talk about. Gee, people were much more positive back then. I can't believe this is even the same board.

It is interesting to see George Raft and "furniture" in the same sentence. Because that is where I think Raft excels. That reminds me of one of his harder-to-find movies, You And Me (1938). That movie, directed by Fritz Lang, is a memorable one for me because of the imagery that Lang uses. In particular the use of light and shadows, architecture, structural patterns, and actors that really look the part (including Raft, Sylvia Sidney, Barton MacLane, Roscoe Karns, Warren Hymer, and Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams) - all as part of the "deco". There is one scene in particular where Raft is walking along a wall and up a staircase in the dark, and past what looked to be a large backlit victorian clock (white background with lots of fancy opaque black patterns in front of it). The silhouette of Raft walking past it, wearing a hat and top coat, is even more memorable to me than the Spielberg "Amblin" image of E.T. riding a bike past the moon. But Lang did quite a bit of that in some way or another.

Meh... Some people just get it and others don't. One of my relatives, a 77 year old grandma, talks exactly the same way. She somehow finds the time though to tune in to crap like American Idol or whatever other fly-by-night shows are on. But then she watches TV more as background noise. For me, that would be shows more like Pawn Stars, Top Gear (BBC-America version), etc. I was not only watching, but was setting time aside and planning to see some of these old movies in my teens, well before TCM came out. I saw fewer of them, but still made a point to videotape some of them off the local channels after VCRs became common. Looking back to then, and seeing what I have turned into now, I have become quite a movie megalomaniac. Dargo: For me, silent movies were not really something I had a chance to see all the time. I never really saw anything other than Charlie Chaplin and maybe a couple other silent film names before TCM or TMC came out. I attribute that to the TV industry's abandonment of silent films though, until the cable movie channels opened that up. So for me, my taste in older films was/is largely based around what was available in our house at the time. That and I didn't have anyone else in the family who went out of their way to find them.

I have looked for myself in order to find this plunge that you speak of. It had to have occurred sometime prior to 2003, as it turns out very little has changed since then in terms of the way they balance the amount of content per production decade that they air.