GordonCole
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31 minutes ago, Fedya said:
I left aplomb out in the sun, and it turned into aprune.
For your edification, the powers that be that sell prunes, now call them dried plums thanks to folks like you who deride their product with such pruney remarks.
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21 minutes ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
You misunderstood my comment on Whiteside; He was up on current events, spending a lot of his time reading. Â
 But once he put Amy Winehouse into the same category as Britney Spears Â
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OMG! You are making a mountain out of a molehill, by going into overdrive about how an allusion to a fictional character, cannot be made in a joking way, unless the entire spectrum of their fictional personality jibes with the intended similar victim named.
Next I suppose Sgt. Markoff sinned in the most egregious way by not knowing or probably caring if Amy Winehouse and Britney Spears were aligned in some psychic entertainment vortex or not. Should he say five Hail Marys, six Our Fathers and become a flagellant to appease the gods of pop and not pop music till he expires.
Personally I like anyone who doesn't care about Britney Spears or Amy Winehouse and isn't afraid to say so publically. And I say that even though I own two Amy Winehouse albums. For gosh sakes, lighten up. This kind of conversation of splitting hairs, checking every fact said in jest as if it is a serious conversation at the UN is a real drag and destroys all the fun of talking about movies for me and I wonder who else if they are not afraid to say so. Nitpickers are the bane of the existence of some of us who enjoy just talking about stuff without each conversation being subjected to more scrutiny than an FBI investigation.
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22 minutes ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
Whiteside would claim to NOT know who someone was, when he did, as a way to say that someone, was a nobody.
But it appears Sgt is truly ignorant of these people.
Ah, geez...can't we have a little fun here and allow the time honored trait of being sometimes a curmudgeon to exist? I think the world would be a very sad place if we had to have everybody like and approve of all the same people and nary a snide, arch and sarcastic remark could be made. Next we can ban all the Fieldsian digs in films that are rather underhanded and not kindly. I cry foul on your belief that Sheridan Whiteside would be the Mr. Rogers of his day, particularly since he seems to be a lot like Alexander Woolcott, who rarely worried about the effect of his stinging words on anyone, since they were always applied with a deft comedic hand. I find Sgt. Markoff's retorts so refreshing amongst a sea of groupthink seen now in the world. A world without Richard Haydn or Clifton Webb types to shake things up with their singular effete opinions is a world not worth living in for those with a love of sophisticated revelry sometimes laced with acid.
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On 12/12/2018 at 8:44 AM, Sgt_Markoff said:
Chris who? How are they selecting these guest hosts ...with letters in bottles? Chinese astrology?
You kill me, Sgt. Markoff. Finally a true successor to Sheridan Whiteside right in our midst.
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On 12/23/2018 at 10:27 PM, cdrocab said:
Noticed several verbal gags played by our wonderful commentator Mr Mankowitz regarding Introduction to movies as we approach Christmas.
Ben is a sly dog who gets his digs in with non-pedantic aplomb. Or should I say with tongue planted firmly in cheek. Oh wait, I forgot. I was informed that I don't know the meaning of the phrase, tongue in cheek, as a poster here once explained to me, using that as the reason I don't care for Muller's intros, as if that would be the only possible reason ostensibly.
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Young and Innocent.
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18 hours ago, NipkowDisc said:
tcm will never show such fare because they are slackers feeding us the same ole slop from their stasis frozen film coffer where time stands still.
Them's fighting words. First TCM will give you warning points for incivility and then make you walk the plank in your Captain Bligh wardrobe. I'd be careful if I were you.
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On 12/26/2018 at 11:25 AM, EricJ said:
Well, people thought Lady Gaga was female in the recent "A Star is Born", and with the same eyes, mouth and jawline.
So good to know that you are the official arbiter of what a female should look like, EricJ.
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On 12/25/2016 at 9:10 AM, sagebrush said:
Many years ago, TCM aired the silent The Hands Of Orloc (in the prime time slot, no less), and never showed it again. I would really like to see it again.Also, another Conrad Veidt silent, The Man who Laughs, which I don't believe has ever been shown?
Who needs the Joker when one has Gwynplaine?
I own both of those but still think they would be a great programming coup for TCM viewers.-
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Performance with James Fox and Jagger.
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On 12/26/2018 at 9:57 AM, Sgt_Markoff said:
"Sturgeon's Law" is also known as the famous 80/20 rule; and (if memory serves) originally came from the monk Mendel's experiments with cross-breeding peas. This hasn't translated fully well into the world of Linus Pauling but I believe some of it has. Science is not my best topic. Anyway, in any workplace you can always find some manager who understands it. 20% of your workers wind up achieving 80% of the results. They're the go-getters.
Counterpoint to Sturgeon's Law is of course, Schrodinger's Brother's Film Law which states a film is neither good nor bad till viewed by a cat with a short attention span. If said feline leaves the room with the film still rolling, you know the determination.
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On 12/25/2018 at 6:25 PM, cigarjoe said:
So, now I'm wondering if the 3% rule works out the same for other genres. I'm not a big aficionado of other genres so I'm asking the board if the same 3% rule works for, Musicals, Precodes, Dramas, Gangster Pictures, Cult, War, Adventure/Action, Superhero, Romance, SiFi, Horror, etc., etc.?
I'd be interested in your findings
Interesting theory. I'm just curious though what the criteria is for the voting public. Wouldn't they have to prove they've actually seen a majority of all films of a genre to come up with a list of top favorites that would even be worth caring about. What if of the thousands of westerns made, they'd only seen mostly the Top 100 anyway so naturally they pick only the most well known, which already are the Top 100. If you've only eaten peanut butter sandwiches your whole life you might not put smoked salmon on your list of favorite foodstuffs, even though technically your favorite is peanut butter sandwiches so you voted honestly, since you haven't experienced anything else. Sorry to be gumming up your assignment but the vox populi often are limited in their overall considerations of anything but what is easily accessible it seems and vote accordingly.
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On 12/22/2018 at 7:27 PM, Dargo said:
My story is right up above there, Gordie.
(...bet you've run into it by now though)
Sorry I missed it. I blame that on you for not submitting any lurid photos from the liaison in the post.
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21 hours ago, Dargo said:
Ever tell you folks about the time I came THIS close to hooking up with the absolutely gorgeous(but evidently kind'a screwed up in the head a bit) Jennifer O'Neill?
(...yep, true story alright)
Waiting with bated breath.
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5 minutes ago, LawrenceA said:
I enjoy the thought of some random guy approaching young men on the streets of New York and quizzing them on David Carradine.
Yeah, and when said men run off screaming from the random guy who is into David Carradine, he can yell out "Shane, come back, please come back. I love you, Mother loves you...not so sure about Father but please come back, Shane."
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On 12/20/2018 at 10:45 PM, Sgt_Markoff said:
Not sure why anyone would need to have multiple accounts for a site like this. The TCM website tools are versatile, the moderation firm but gentle; and the members here quite polite and genteel. It's not a site for flame-wars.
Would seem true that multiple accounts seem silly but didn't a post go missing since yesterday about the multiple accounts of the OP about Traven? I think it was said that the OP had ten different accounts in ten years and I'm dying to know under what monikers but the post stating this supposed fact has gone poof. But if having multiple identities was good enough for Traven, why fault his admirer, the OP?
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15 hours ago, Sgt_Markoff said:
I forgot to apologize for becoming interested in this thread I had never seen before, since I am new to this website. But I am very interested in the links between commercial products and Hollywood movies.
When big stars started doing commercials it was fun to see, but thankfully people like Orson Welles did not perform his Paul Masson commercials in costume as the Thane of Cawdor.
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On 12/19/2018 at 8:06 PM, LawrenceA said:
Been polling a lot of "grown men on the street", have you?
But aren't you glad he didn't designate them as "groan men"?
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On 12/19/2018 at 7:14 PM, Sgt_Markoff said:
Was this a commercial which came out in the 1960s or contemporary times? Because if it came out in recent times I swear there's no one today in this country of dumb-clucks who would know what movie Pepsi is even harkening back to. Grown men walking around streets in our cities today, don't even know who David Carradine was!
Just wanted to express my appreciation for your usage of the term "dumb-clucks" as I haven't heard that one in many moons.
Would it be wrong to blame John Carradine for having too many sons that aid in the Carradine confusion? No, I guess not. -
Don't sugarcoat it, Sgt. Markoff, tell us what you really think of Kael.
Harpy, shrew, shrike yes...but give her credit for not being the movie critic for Entertainment Tonight like Maltin at least. That does take some integrity.
As a famous actor once said "Entertainment Tonight is a waste of videotape."-
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20 hours ago, NipkowDisc said:
the great unsung Bartlett Robinson, always liked this guy. was Frank Mahoney in the spirit of st. louis, played a visiting congressman to Edwards AFB in Towards the Unknown and a vacant lot owner who scolds ward cleaver on trash dumping on an ep of leave it to beaver.
It's funny you mention him, since I always liked him also and would see him in episodes of Perry Mason and other tv series, but speaking of Leave It To Beaver, I just saw the other day on that show, one of my favorites possibly unsung here, Frank Albertson as Wally Cleaver's teacher, Mr. Gannon.
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23 minutes ago, Dargo said:
Word was the "security reasons" rationale for JFK not going to Sinatra's Palm Springs home and which reportedly Sinatra had built a helipad there in order for JFK's helicopter to land on, was supposedly a cover story. Most people now believe JFK cancelled his stop there because of Sinatra's alleged ties to The Mob, and thus JFK's advisers including his Attorney General brother Bobby, had advised him to cancel those plans and so not to "sully" JFK's image and thus give any appearance at all that JFK might be in the pocket of organized crime.
(...and which supposedly was the thought that REALLY ticked-off Frank)
If you know all that, I'm gonna guess you remember the name, Judith Campbell Exner?
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3 minutes ago, Dargo said:
Word was the "security reasons" rationale for JFK not going to Sinatra's Palm Springs home and which reportedly Sinatra had built a helipad there in order for JFK's helicopter to land on, was supposedly a cover story. Most people now believe JFK cancelled his stop there because of Sinatra's alleged ties to The Mob, and thus JFK's advisers including his Attorney General brother Bobby, had advised him to cancel those plans and so not to "sully" JFK's image.
(...and which supposedly was the thought that REALLY ticked-off Frank)
Yeah, like that old bootlegger, Joe Sr. didn't have enough baggage in his past to rival the Mob connections. But you are right about the cover story though I think Sinatra still blamed Lawford. Of course when Kennedy won the presidency, didn't old Joe say he hadn't planned on paying for a landslide and then the mob got ticked for not being appreciated when Bobby started going after them and I bet Sam Giancana was upset too, and probably didn't even enjoy hearing his Phyllis McQuire girlfriend sing For Old Times Sake to him anymore.
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Lots of gossip about the Kennedy connection to Hollywood. Some true, some uncorroroborated, some still a mystery to be solved. I believe before there was a Marilyn interest by JFK he had a thing for Gene Tierney but that would have been a no-no in Joe's dictums for any future political purposes so she was ditched.
During the Rat Pack days, Old Blue Eyes was high on Kennedy and Lawford of course was supposedly the connection. Didn't Frank build on extensively to his home in preparation for JFK to utilize his hospitality having all his hopes dashed when this plan was dropped ostensibly for security reasons, yet Frank perhaps blamed old buddy, Peter and things were never the same. Lawford was also the liaison to Marilyn in some ways some say, but after she died the poor old Rat Pack were supposedly banned from her funeral since the tab was being picked up by Joe Dimaggio.
The photo of Marilyn and her sewn on straight to the body dress was hidden away for fear of repercussions and thankfully during that birthday display [as Lawford introduced her to the audience as the "late" Marilyn Monroe] the First Lady was not in attendance or the birthday singing would probably never have happened. One could go on and on with such stories but who knows where the truth lies?
Women with powerful jobs in the movies-- is it feminine?
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Some men can only deal with women in power if she is playing a part in a movie. Some men can only like women smarter than they, if said woman is in a so-called film noir movie. Then their superiority to some men is allowable since it is only a fictional tale.