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> {quote:title=hamradio wrote:}{quote} > I bet good money this "Twilight Zone" episode is one of your favorites. > ....and this scene is a least favorite, from Fahrenheit 451.

> {quote:title=Swithin wrote:}{quote} > Apologies for the pejorative. Here's Vermithrax Pejorative.

> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote} > > I didnt understand the legal stuff, and I never knew if he was or wasnt Santa. But the scene at the end with the new house and his cane left there suggested a dream-like magical possibility. One of the best things about the movie, and films with similar "is it or isn't it?" concepts: Much is left up to the viewer's imagination.

My browser is Firefox...it has a built-in spell checker. I just noticed the TCM forum also has one...

> {quote:title=filmlover wrote:}{quote} > In all my life, I have never seen any other network where the public tells the programs they can run. ....not even PBS, which has been long-supported by viewers.

Good question (although I enjoy TGSOE)....why did Rocky win Best Picture in 1976? I've never understood that either.

Do you use the spell checkers in your word processors?

Not to mention the Lux Radio Theater adaption with Gwenn....making five times the story has been done.

...but they need to show it in the original 3D.

Unfortunately, the days of a movie being shown on network television as an "event" are long gone. Movies on tv really used to be something special, and shown once in awhile....not every few days (or hours) like today. But that's called change....today, the studios have to make money back on their investment somehow....hence the reason movies get shown on tv so quickly after theatrical showings, and so often on tv. The studios make money every time a movie gets shown.

*Good point, Filmlover.... 'nuff said again.* :-) *Just because we pay for cable service with TCM (or some people actually pay for the addition of TCM on their service) does not make TCM their channel. People in the U.K. actually pay licensing fees for their televisions (or some kind of tv tax, I think). Paying for cable (or tv) really comes down to the same thing as if you rent a movie, pay for a ticket at a movie theater, or buy a DVD...I see it as the same thing. It does not imply anyone's ownership of said movie or station....you're paying/buying for the privilege of viewing it. Nothing more.*

Even though I have it on DVD, I would watch something like Me and Orson Welles (an excellent period film about Orson's pre-Kane stage work) as much as I would watch Citizen Kane itself. Or, for that matter, Tim Burton's Ed Wood as much as I would watch one of Wood's movies on TCM. I don't see the difference or the problem with a movie about a period as any different than a movie from that period.

I still have a typewriter I bought back in the late 90's....and haven't used it in years, because I do everything on the computer now. It's also getting (or going to get) harder to find typewriter ribbons, you realize....if not a full computer, people have word processors these days. Again....like it or not...outmoded/outdated technology and forms of print or communication are slowly going bye-byes.

*Good point, Filmlover.... 'nuff said.*

The only thing I still do with outmoded technology is to transfer them to a superior format...I have very few vinyl LP's or tapes left, and I periodically get some recorded to CD, or have replaced LP's and tapes with either a CD or digital download version. Same thing with VHS...what I have I either replace with a DVD or find a better version online to record to DVD. I then either give away a purchased/factory made item or if it was a VHS or audio recording, I simply throw out the tape it was recorded on.

Why? Welcome to the digital age (as I so frequently say here and there online). Practically anything and everything can be gotten online, many music stores have shut down or gone out of business because everything is going the way of digital downloading.....Yes, even movies are downloadable (commercials on tv now advertise "Now on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital Download"), many publications have gone online-only or electronic (magazine and newspaper sales have dropped drastically and many publications have stopped paper printing), and even the Postal Service is cutting corners due to the huge drop in mail volume because of emailing and texting. Film for photos is gone....everything has moved over to digital cameras, many Hollywood films and tv series are now shot digitally instead of on film, and eventually theaters will be all-digital with the movies being digitally transmitted to theaters for high-def projection.

What the technology is heading towards....and some computers are already there....is what is called Flash drives (or "Flash memory"), in which there is NO physical recording medium (like a harddrive).....everything is recorded into a "memory". There already exists computers which go as high as terabytes, which is greater capacity than gigabytes (GB). Eventually, there will be no more physical medium (CD's, DVD's, computer harddrives, etc.)...it will all be in Flash-type memory storage.

Between the two movies....I like *The Bells of St. Mary's* much better than *Going My Way*.

They should have fired her much sooner....I can't stand her. NEVER liked her hosting.

*I've had a Tivo for several years now, and a DVD recorder longer than that....and when I got both (especially the Tivo) I stopped using an inferior, outdated format like VHS. I usually record to the Tivo (which is a DVR) and then to DVD to permanently save something.* *Why would I want an inferior format? I don't even record to audio tape anymore....I use CD's and master everything on my computer before going to a blank CD.*

"He vill carse ze day, zat he vas burn a Frahnkenshtein" "WHAT?" "I said that he will curse the day that he was born a Frankenstein..."

Ridiculous complaint....TCM really doesn't show THAT many post-70's (or 80's for that matter) movies, so what's the problem? As others have said: People back in the era of the 30's and 40's likely wouldn't have considered movies then to be "classic. Zip it and come back in 20 or 30 years or so and a lot of those movies you griped about WILL be classics from an age standpoint. Sheesh! :-(

Excellent point....all it seems half the posters here do is to gripe, kvetch and complain about one thing or another regarding TCM. :-P

Ridiculous argument....ever hear the old rhyme "30 days hath September, April, June and November. All the rest have 31"....so since most months have 31 days, that should be an obvious reason.

> {quote:title=Scottman wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=PrinceSaliano wrote:}{quote} > > There are a number of differences between the B&W DOCTOR X and the now-available color version. > > Thanks, I wasn't sure if there were any differences. In that case it would be interesting to see what they are. The differences can't be that much.