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> {quote:title=hlywdkjk wrote:}{quote} > No. > > In a 300+ universe of cable television channels, there are multiple oulets on which such programming would be a better fit. It would be difficult to justify showing multi-part dramatic series from commercial television on TCM. Nor can I think of any context that could make them attractive additions to the TCM line-up. > > Kyle In Hollywood Ditto....but I'd differ only on very few rare exceptions, such as the Fanny and Alexander title, which was a "mini-series" that got a theatrical feature version release. I also think something like Wolfgang Peterson's 5 hour television version of Das Boot could be something shown as an alternate version of what was ALSO a theatrical movie. Things like that....but not Masada, or other like that.

> {quote:title=JefCostello wrote:}{quote} > Has there ever been a film series like Harry Potter? > > Meaning a series that runs over 10 years, with a continuous storyline? > > Most of the other series mentioned didn't really have a continuous storyline. Sure (depending on how you look at them and in which order): The entire Star Wars saga of six movies, made over a period of almost 30 years.

"Longest running", or most prolific? That's two different things...longest-running would suggest how many years a film series was going, and prolific would mean how many films were made in a series. I wouldn't count Tarzan because many different studios have made Tarzan films over the years. I'd also consider films made by the same studio or production company....at the moment, I'd say the James Bond series is the longest-running, because they've been making them for almost 50 years now, and all through the same production company (Eon Productions) and studio (UA/MGM). They've done a total of 23 movies so far. The Charlie Chans made by Fox should qualify as the longest-running series by a single studio....you yourself even stated there were 13 with Oland and 22 with Toler...which makes a total of 35 movies. Obviously that beats out Blondie.

> {quote:title=Darb wrote:}{quote} > Did you see it? Last night in "June Bride", huge horse painting in the living room!!! The painting was huge or the horse was huge?

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Good going, Kyle....that's all he's done with virtually every one of his posts is to gripe and whine and kvetch and complain. Just look at his message history on his Profile page for the evidence.

Why should I? What difference would it make? You would still be here being a "wiseass" (to use your own word) and calling other people "wiseasses" and "stupid" and other insulting things, like you've already done more than once to misswonderly and myself when you get called out for what you're REALLY doing here.

> {quote:title=gatester wrote:}{quote} > What you're doing is trolling. Making alot of wisass cracks. Trolling is hijacking threads. I don't troll. So right away you're wrong. My advice is to start your own thread & when somebody replies you can call them "trolls"... > What I say is true. You would need to see it & if you did you'd agree with me. Its not something easy to describe on a message board. You just have to take my word for it. Make notes for future reference. Don't be so insulting and idiotic....try looking up the internet definition of "troll" and it boils down to someone who deliberately starts trouble on a board simply for the sake of causing trouble and disruption. YOU have done just that, especially with your first reply to someone in this thread: "You are too stupid to notice." I am really surprised that no one else has let you have it right in your face with the truth about you and what you are doing in this thread. They are being TOO polite....I am giving it to you just as it is. You are hardly being tactful , level-headed, or polite in ANY of your responses....so you ARE trolling.

> {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote} > This is the strangest post I have ever read. As weird conspiracy theories go, I suppose it's harmless. But, I'd say your head is in even more need of adjustment than your equipment is. It's called trolling... :-P

Right back at you.... :-P

> {quote:title=Wayne wrote:}{quote} > > "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" (2009). I infer (perhaps incorrectly) that author Ramona "Sapphire" Lofton is an egomaniac who insisted that her name be worked into the film's title. I thought Oprah, who produced the movie, had something to do with that....either way, that DID get to be incredibly annoying on the Oscars that years when every time the movie came up, they just HAD to read off that ridiculously overdone title. To ME it is simply "Precious". > "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope" (1977). It's just "Star Wars." Wrong...once TESB came out, the first movie WAS retitled Episode IV: A New Hope. It is no longer titled simply "Star Wars". Each of the six movies begins with the title "Star Wars" on-screen, and continues with the crawl of which episode number and titles each one is....and that's part of each film's title.

*Troll alert!* Someone obviously has no life, and joined just a few days ago just to start trouble with this thread. > {quote:title=gatester wrote:}{quote} > OK wiseass kids come on out & play. Your only worth left as a human being is your ability to derail thread with wiseass remarks. Start your own thread when/if you get an idea & then you can wiseass yourself to ecstasy.

(Since there's been no answer to my question in the forum for the TCM boards, I'm reposting it here) NOT the tags for searching, but for posting images, etc. I can't find it anywhere like it USED to be on the old board format, and I can't figure out how to post an image. Can someone PLEASE point this out and if a board admin is reading this can they PLEASE do something to make it easier for this sort of thing? When posting a message, there's a button for inserting a link...there should also be other similar buttons for inserting an image, etc...just like it is on most normal internet boards.

NOT the tags for searching, but for posting images, etc. I can't find it anywhere like it USED to be on the old board format, and I can't figure out how to post an image. Can someone PLEASE point this out and if a board admin is reading this can they PLEASE do something to make it easier for this sort of thing? When posting a message, there's a button for inserting a link...there should also be other similar buttons for inserting an image, etc...just like it is on most normal internet boards.

http://scrapetv.com/News/laruelocal/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/jeff-conaway-grease.jpg 'Taxi,' 'Grease' star Jeff Conaway dies at 60 By LYNN ELBER, Associated Press Lynn Elber, Associated Press ? 1 min ago LOS ANGELES ? Jeff Conaway, who starred in the sitcom "Taxi," played swaggering Kenickie in the movie musical "Grease" and publicly battled drug and alcohol addiction on "Celebrity Rehab," died Friday. He was 60. The actor was taken off life support Thursday and died Friday morning at Encino Tarzana Medical Center, according to one of his managers, Kathryn Boole. He was taken there unconscious on May 11 and placed in a medically induced coma, Conaway had been treating himself with pain pills and cold medicine while in weakened health, said Phil Brock, her business partner. Family members, including his sisters, nieces and nephews and his minister, were with him when he died, Boole said. "It's sad that people remember his struggle with drugs ... he has touched so many people," she said, calling Conaway a kind and intelligent man who was well-read and "always so interesting to talk to. We respected him as an artist and loved him as a friend." "He was trying so hard to get clean and sober," Boole added. "If it hadn't been for his back pain, I think he would have been able to do it." "He's a gentle soul with a good heart ... but he's never been able to exorcise his demons," Brock said after Conaway was hospitalized. The actor had acknowledged his addictive tendencies in a 1985 interview with The Associated Press, when he described turning his back on the dream of a pop music career. He'd played guitar in a 1960s band called 3 1/2 that was the opening act for groups including Herman's Hermits, the Young Rascals and the Animals. "I thought, `If I stay in this business, I'll be dead in a year.' There were drugs all over the place and people were doing them. I had started to do them. I realized that I'd die," Conaway told the AP. His effort to avoid addiction failed, and his battles with cocaine and other substances were painfully shared on "Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew," the VH1 series with TV and radio personality Dr. Drew Pinsky. Conaway, who'd had back surgery, blamed his cocaine use and pain pill abuse in part on lingering pain. Conaway was born in New York City on Oct. 5, 1950, to parents who were in show business. His father was an actor, producer and agent and his mother was an actress. He made his Broadway debut in 1960 at the age of 10 in the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama "All the Way Home." By then his parents were divorced, and Conaway had spent a great deal of time with his grandparents who lived in the Astoria section of Queens. "I used to hold in a lot of feelings. I'd smile a lot but I was really miserable. I didn't know it at the time, but I've figured it out since. When I was on stage, I could make people laugh," he said in 1985. He toured in the national company of the comedy "Critic's Choice," then attended a professional high school for young actors, musicians and singers. After abandoning music he returned to acting with a two-year stint in "Grease," on Broadway (playing the lead role of Danny Zuko at one point) and eventually with the touring company. The musical about high-school love brought Conaway to Los Angeles and television, including a small part on "Happy Days" that led to larger roles. He had roles in small films and then in the movie version of "Grease" (1978), although he lost the top-billed part to John Travolta. In 1978, he won the "Taxi" job that put him in the company of Judd Hirsch, Danny de Vito and Andy Kaufman in what proved to be a hit for ABC. The tall, gangly actor, with a shock of blond hair and what the late longtime AP drama critic Michael Kuchwara called a "wide-angle smile" and "a television face, just right for popular consumption," appeared a success. But Conaway, who received two Golden Globe nominations for "Taxi," said he tired early of being a series regular, although he stayed with the series for three years, until 1981 ("Taxi" ended in 1983 after moving to NBC the year before). "I got very depressed. Hollywood can be a terrible place when you're depressed. The pits. I decided I had to change my life and do different things," he said. His movie career failed to ignite, however, and Conaway shifted back to TV with the short-lived 1983 fantasy series "Wizards and Warriors," and the 1985 flop "Berrengers," a drama set in a New York department store. He made a bid to return to Broadway in "The News," but the rock musical about tabloid journalism closed within days. A 1994-98 stint in the sci-fi TV series "Babylon 5" as security chief Zack Allan proved successful, but it was followed by only scattered roles on stage, in films and TV shows. He was in the reality series "Celebrity Fit Club" in 2006 and then in "Celebrity Rehab," in which the frail Conaway used a wheelchair and blacked out on camera. A fall in 2010 caused a broken hip and other injuries that left him in more precarious health. Conaway told the Los Angeles Times in a January 2011 article that series producers asked him to "give them drama." But he also said he welcomed the support he received from those who viewed his struggle. "I got a lot of love from people, and when people stop me on the street and say, `Man, your story touched me so much,' it just makes all this pain worthwhile, you know?" he said. "I don't know where actors go after they die, but I know people who help other people have a nice place to go. And I would like to go there if I can." Conaway was wed twice, first to Kerri Young and then to Rona Newton-John, sister of pop star Olivia Newton-John. Both marriages ended in divorce.

Actress Elizabeth Taylor dead at 79 Reuters ? Elizabeth Taylor arrives for a play in Los Angeles in this December 1, 2007 file photo. REUTERS/Mario ? ? 14 mins ago NEW YORK (Reuters) ? Hollywood legend Elizabeth Taylor, one of the most alluring actresses of the 20th century, died on Wednesday at age 79, her publicists said. She died at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles surrounded by her four children after having been hospitalized six weeks ago with congestive heart failure, a statement from publicist Sally Morrison said. "My mother was an extraordinary woman who lived life to the fullest, with great passion, humor, and love. Though her loss is devastating to those of us who held her so close and so dear, we will always be inspired by her enduring contribution to our world," son Michael Wilding said in a statement. (Reporting by Daniel Trotta; editing by Vicki Allen)

"The Effect of Gamma Rays On Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds" ???

For a tv series, I'd buy the remaining seasons of Maude with Bea Arthur....they've only released Season 1 so far.

I think they've shown The Carpetbaggers, and Where Love Has Gone (that was a Robbins story wasn't it?).

> {quote:title=TikiSoo wrote:} > Last Halloween I *was* Baby Jane Hudson, the most fun costume I've done in a long time-that over the top make up! I was amazed at how few recognised me and just thought I was a prom ghoul with the fur piece & sparkley pin beret. Who else wears blonde curls like that? I certainly would have known who you were dressed as. I can't find the pic online anywhere, but somewhere in a Three Stooges book I have there's a great shot of Larry Fine when he was in a retirement home, during a Halloween parade (I think)....and he's sitting in a wheelchair dressed up as Baby Jane! Almost scarier than Bette herself in that get-up (and I don't think it's been mentioned here...at least not that I've seen...that Bette designed and applied her own makeup for the movie).

> {quote:title=JonnyGeetar wrote:} > some of the best are: > > Dracula by Orson Welles with Orson excellent as The Count and Agnes Moorehead as Mina- the best version of the story done period (stage, screen or TV) Captures most of the best points and dialogue of the novel and improves on the ending with a nice twist. > Good production....but I disagree about it being the best "period". I think THE best version ever is the 1977 BBC production with Louis Jourdan as the Count. Captures the best parts and atmosphere of the novel but goes off in a slightly different direction. Only version I've ever seen with the Count giving the baby to his vampire brides as a "snack". Also one of the few versions (and one of the first, in the 70's) to show the Count climbing the outside wall of the castle....and it's creepy to see that, not silly-looking at all.

The original radio production of *Sorry Wrong Number* is tremendous and frightening....I had heard it for years (had it on LP and tape) before I ever saw the movie adaption with Stanwyck, which I thought was dreadful. I'll never understand why Lucille Fletcher "opened up" the story the way they did for the movie, which I think is awful compared to the radio drama with Moorehead. Incidentally, back in the early 1990's (around '93 I think) when I was in New York for a Dark Shadows convention, Lara Parker (Angelique) performed the play for the people at the convention....and it was incredible seeing her perform the drama live (yes....bed, props and everything). People at the convention LOVED it! One Lux Theater show I have on CD is Phantom of The Opera, with Susanna Foster and Nelson Eddy....but with Basil Rathbone as The Phantom instead of the film's star, Claude Rains (who reportedly didn't care much for radio). Rathbone is a delight as The Phantom, and it's basically just like the movie but without all the dreadfully overdone opera music sequences.

> {quote:title=hamradio wrote:}{quote} > MovieProfessor, thanks for mentioning "Spartacus", that one is my favorite Overture and Intermission for the powerful score of Alex North. When TCM aired it, I recorded it and made me a CD of the music played during the Overture, Main title, and Intermission. What a unique way to acquire music, LOL! All that music is on the deluxe 2 CD soundtrack release. http://soundtrackcollector.com/catalog/soundtrackdetail.php?movieid=2695

"50 years"? Disney had it out on VHS years ago....try searching around the internet and you'll find video rips people have uploaded. There also have been several other versions of the story other than the Disney film.

"Married" (aka "Heiraten") IS heard in the movie in the background of one of the scenes between Sally and Brian, I think as a song on the radio (or a record being played), when the two of them are pretending as if they're a married couple. I still think the musical needs to be remade and INTACT. I'm not saying I don't like the movie any less, but when I saw the video of the Studio 54 revival, I simply thought it was better and I liked it better.