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> {quote:title=Baker wrote:}{quote} Looking forward to TCM's tribute on July 29. It's on July 26.

It's been said somewhere here that for the major stars TCM gets a tribute set up much faster....and Borgnine certainly qualifies as one of those, a true Hollywood legend. I still say I recall TCM doing tributes within a few days...almost less than a week...in the past. Why do they wait so darned long nowadays?

> {quote:title=hlywdkjk wrote:}{quote}TCM Remembers actor Ernest Borgnine with a 24-hour retrospective of his films on Thursday, July 26th. Wow...only 17 days after his death. Almost 3 weeks later. They should have done this sooner...like next week.

> {quote:title=hamradio wrote:}{quote} > Does anyone here remembers the earliest season 1 Saturday Night Live skits? Yep....Chevy Chase as the Land Shark.

> {quote:title=OHMSS69 wrote:}{quote}And my all-time favorite movie poster is JAWS (talk about a classic one-sheet). Enjoy this then...I whipped this animated version up a few years ago.

> {quote:title=Sepiatone wrote:}{quote}At any rate, *Jaws* remains one of the few movies adapted from a book that was actually BETTER than said book. CARRIE (1976), made the following year, is another. I recall reading that Stephen King himself (at the time, anyway) said that Brian DePalma actually improved upon his written material. I read the book over 35 years ago, and have to say that the movie IS better...it's certainly different.

> {quote:title=TCMfan23 wrote:}{quote}Jaws was the first movie to come out on LaserDisc. > > > > > > Here is that very laserdisc cover...I used to have this years ago. UNFORTUNATELY, the later video reissues of the movie were Spielberg's altered cut of the film. Right near the end before Sheriff Brody fires his rifle at the tank in the shark's mouth, he originally said "Smile, you son-of-a-b****!". Spielberg later edited that line so it now only says "Smile, you son-of-a-..."...followed by the explosion. Shameful that all the existing prints and videos/DVD's are that edited version.

I also like him in scummy villain roles, such as WILLARD: ...and in THE DEVIL'S RAIN.

> {quote:title=AddisonDeWitless wrote:}{quote} > As to its being on Essentials Jr. it is a thoroughly innapropriate film for children, which is why I love it to pieces. I was almost thinking the same thing while watching it (again) last night...the boozing, smoking, violence (mostly others hitting or throwing things at Fields), etc. Not trying to sound like an old fuddy-duddy, but you're right...odd choice.

I like FAMILY PLOT, and hate this movie. Visually striking, but it seems anytime Hitch steered away from his usual suspense format, his films flopped. MR AND MRS SMITH is another one that's terrible.

Great loss. I first became acquainted with him from The Poseidon Adventure, then reruns of McHale's Navy, and in recent years on several episodes of Spongebob Squarepants as the voice of Mermaidman.

I know him best from all the sci-fi films he was in back in the 50's, playing quintessential scientist types.

> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote}What, Filmgoddess, baby? No outraged response? And I was eagerly awaiting one. Pull in your claws, girls!

> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}Movies can give some crackpots ideas about killing people, but so can newspaper accounts, folk tales, and book reports about previous assassinations of history. Well, any time I've read over the years where some killer has claimed they were inspired or "driven" to their act by a movie they've seen....I always thought that's a load of crap. I don't believe for one second that a movie can make someone go out and commit a crime. That person has to be a "crackpot" (as you stated) to begin with. They're off their rocker before seeing the movie (and claiming a movie drove them to do something is a cop-out, anyway). Such people HAVE to be nuts anyway.

This entire thread subject is a bunch of crap, IMHO, and the woman described in the original post is obviously a nutcase with some serious personal problems and issues that the festival organizers shouldn't have taken seriously for one second. It's bull****, I say. How long before people start going after G-rated movies or Disney films? There's already people out there who have something against Harry Potter films because they "believe they promote witchcraft". Hogwash, I say. Such people are nutcases and quite out of their minds.

> {quote:title=Capuchin wrote:}{quote} > C:DOS > C:DOSRUN > RUNDOSRUN LOL...best reply yet! :^0

I can't even remember all the old computers I've used in the past, except back in the mid-80's I had worked on a friend's Apple Macintosh a few times. Our first PC here at home was a Compaq back in 1998 (even before that one we briefly had one which only used those 5 inch floppies). Those both seem Jurassic compared to what we have now.

> {quote:title=slaytonf wrote:}{quote}A little off-topic, but Miss Bergen did sing in Starting Over. I don't remeber how well she did. Sepiatone DID address that exact same thing two replies below yours...Did you miss it? "In the movie *Starting Over* , CANDICE BERGEN played up the notion that her character couldn't carry a tune in a bushel basket, but for real, has a very good singing voice. Sepiatone" Which means: Candice can sing for real, but her CHARACTER isn't supposed to be a good singer in the movie...pretty bad, in fact. Candice herself garnered a Supporting Actress nomination for the film.

One of my FAVORITE intros with Robert O was many years ago (and I have it on VHS tape) when TCM showed *The Wizard of Oz Sing-A-Long* ...and RO introduced that evening with The Powerpuff Girls, who were there to promote their theatrical movie. It was terrific....seeing RO interacting with perfect timing with the Powerpuffs.

> {quote:title=hamradio wrote:}{quote}I love those cartoons you posted, LOL! Also thanks for pointing out the *landfill* problem we're having with the concept of *planned obsolescence!* > > You must be very YOUNG! Uh...don't make so many assumptions, Hammy. I'll be 52 next month, and I used to be quite familiar with BASIC...on the earliest computers I worked on, that's what I used to keep up my home video lists. I'm also pretty familiar with everything else you described...no offense, but I didn't really need the lesson in Computer Tech 101. :0

> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}What's that on Durante's tongue, a lozenge? Uh...that's not on his tongue, that's a filling in his tooth.

> {quote:title=Dargo2 wrote:}{quote}...HOW I love ya, HOW I love ya, my dear ol' Sammy. > > (...aaah...I STILL have it!!!) > >

> {quote:title=Dargo2 wrote:}{quote} > (...btw...I always kinda wondered why THIS gremlin didn't have little bitty wings stickin' out of HIS head like the gremlin that gave Bugs Bunny all that trouble in that WWII-era cartoon???) Bugs Bunny: "Could that be a - gremlin?" Gremlin (shouting in Bugs' ear): "VELL, IT AIN'T VENDELL VILLKIE!!!!"

> {quote:title=Dargo2 wrote:}{quote} > (...though I still think it's a very "talky" and stagebound production, which I believe most kids today would find more than a little off-putting...unfortunately) I love the show...have the entire series in a DVD box set. It was also the first intellectually mature series the Kroffts ever did...several big name sci-fi writers and celebs were involved in the various scripts.

> {quote:title=Dargo2 wrote:}{quote} > (...though of course this is a VERY old picture of us here and was taken just before I stopped doin' that whole Sammy Davis Jr blackface routine I used to do...oh the pressures this whole newfangled political correctness thing puts on nightclub owners nowadays, huh Frank...err, I mean finance!) "Sammy!...Sammy!" :^0