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  1. (*-as usual indidates an *Academy Award victory)    Below if a very, very, verifed from many books on whats stars annually ruled the annual $B.O.$ since the very old movie year of 1932 to present-=(PLEASE SAVE FOR OWN FILES & COMPARE & CROSS REFERENCE PLEASE)     (STARS THAT WERE & ARE ANNUAL $BOX-OFFICE$ CHAMPIONS & OR LEADERS)

    1932 *Marie Dressler... (l869-l934)

    1933 *Marie Dressler

    1934 Will Rogers.......(l879-l935)

    1935 Shirley Temple....(l928-2013)

    1936 Shirley Temple

    1937 Shirley Temple

    1938 Shirley Temple

    1939 Mickey Rooney...(l920-2014)-(*"The King of Hollywood: Clark Gable" closed runner-up)

    1940 Mickey Rooney-(TRIVIA: Sole year my #1 idol *"The Great: Tracy" was a close runner-up)

    1941 Mickey Rooney

    1942 Bud Abbott & Lou Costello-(l895-l974)  &  (l906-59)

    1943 Betty Grable.....(l9l6-73)

    1944 *Bing Crosby...(l903-77)

    1945 *Bing Crosby

    1946 *Bing Crosby

    1947 *Bing Crosby

    1948 *Bing Crosby

    1949 Bob Hope......(l903-2003)

    1950 *John Wayne (l907-l979)

    1951 *John Wayne

    1952 Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis-(l9l7-95) & (l926-2016)

    1953 *Gary Cooper (l90l=-6l)

    1954 *John Wayne

    1955 *James Stewart (l908-97)

    1956 *William Holden (l9l8-8l)

    1957 Rock Hudson  (l925-85)

    1958 Glenn Ford (l9l6-1996)

    1959 Rock Hudson

    1960 Doris Day.....(l922-)

    1961 *Elizabeth Taylor (932-2011)

    1962 Doris Day

    1963 Doris Day

    1964 Doris Day

    1965 *Sean Connery (l930-)

    1966 *Julie Andrews (l935-)

    1967 *Julie Andrews

    1968 *Sidney Poitier (l927-)

    1969 *Paul Newman  (l925-2008)

    1970 *Paul Newman

    1971 *John Wayne

    1972 *Clint Eastwood (l930-)

    1973 *Robert Redford (l937-)

    1974 *Robert Redford

    1976 *Robert Redford

    1977 Sylvester Stallone

    1978 Burt Reynolds (l936-)

    1979 Burt Reynolds

    1980 Burt Reynolds

    1981 Burt Reynolds

    1982 Burt Reynolds-(TRIVIA: Tied *Bing as most consecutive leaders with (5)

    1983 *Clint Eastwood

    1984 *Clint Eastwood

    1985 Sylvester Stallone (l946-)

    1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger (l947-)

    1988 Arnold Schwarzenegger

    1989 Tom Cruise...,.(l962-)

    1990 Arnold Schwarzenegger

    1991 Arnold Schwarzenegger

    1992 *Clint Eastwood

    1993 Tom Cruise

    1984 Arnold Schwarzenegger

    1985 Sylvester Stallone

    1986 Tom Cruise

    1987 Eddie Murphy..... (l96l-)

    1988 Eddie Murphy

    1989 Tom Cruise

    1991 Arnold Schwarzenegger

    1993 Tom Cruise

    1994 Arnold Schwarzenegger

    1995 Sylvester Stallone

    1986 Tom Cruise

    1989 Eddie Murphy

    1990 Arnold Schwarzenegger

    1991 Arnold Schwarzenegger

    1992 Tom Cruise

    1993 Tom Cruise

    1984 Tom Cruise

    1985 Sylvester Stallone

    1986 Tom Cruise

    1987 Eddie Murphy

    1988 Eddie Murphy

    1989 Tom Cruise

    1990 Arnold Schwarzenegger

    1991 Arnold Schwarzenegger

    1992 Tom Cruise

    1993 *Clint Eastwood

    1994 *Tom Hanks.....(l956-)

    1995 *Tom Hanks

    1997 *Julia Roberts...(l967-)-(TRIVIA: Very 1st female to lead annual $BO$ in 30yrs)

    1998  Eddie Murphy

    1999 *Tom Hanks

    2000  Jim Carrey

    2001 *Julia Roberts

    2002 *Tom Hanks

    2003  Keanu Reeves (l964-)

    2004  Ben Stiller...(l965-)

    2005 Dakota Fanning

    2006 ?

    2007 Johnny Depp (l963-)

    2008 Robert Downey. Jr. (l965-)

    2009 *Sandra Bullock (l964-)

    2010 Johnny Depp

    2011 Johnny Depp

    2012 Robert Downey, Jr.

    2013 *Sandra Bullock

    2014 *Jennifer Lawrence (l990-=)

    2015 *Jennifer Lawrence

    2016 *Emma Stone....(l988-)-(NOTE: & after her 1st *Oscar winning opt in *"La La Land" they now call her "America's Sweetheart"  But who agrees on the latter title, Gene Siskel; always called Meg Ryan "AS") Then it was of course the incredible *Sandy B. & of course prior to them *Julia was always voted "America's Sweetheart" So who is it?))

    2017 Vin Diesel

    2018 will probably be Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson (l972-)

    2019 Madonna???

     

     

    please send comments

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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  2. 23 hours ago, TopBilled said:

    At first I thought you were asking who the Backlot members will choose for the Summer Under the Stars honorees in August. They get to make two selections--

    Gary Cooper or Paul Newman

    Anita Page or Anita Louise (the battle of the Anitas!)

    So who will you vote for Spence? I believe you are a Backlot member...

    & again to me pal Topbilled, if you had been limited  to only 1 film what would it be buddy-(& I ask the same of rest of you guys?)

     

    I'm well aware TCM for some ridiculous rational; still has the rights to the *Godfather-Trilogy?  Or *Walt's animated features for that matter   So for this 18yr fan I'd have to select the greatest picture ever made in *Orson's 1941 "Citizen Kane"   Which in a likeliehood would have already been chosen, soi I'd select my A @1 idol *"The Great: Tracy's" own favorite favorite-(accordijng to his diary) & mine 1937's Rudyard Kipling's Adventure "Captains Courageous" (M-G-M)

     

     

    NOW, I THREW MY FEDORA IN THE RING DOES ANYONE ELSE HAVE THE GUTS TO DO SO???

  3. 23 hours ago, TopBilled said:

    At first I thought you were asking who the Backlot members will choose for the Summer Under the Stars honorees in August. They get to make two selections--

    Gary Cooper or Paul Newman

    Anita Page or Anita Louise (the battle of the Anitas!)

    So who will you vote for Spence? I believe you are a Backlot member...

    No buddy, I only had a one shot deal with Backlot!  Too ill, tired, financially strapped & cannpot pay that $87.00 per year  At first the guy tried to tell me it was $87 per month?

     

    But saved all the stuff, badge, t-shirt & a lotta' other neat stuff.

     

    Maybe someday if I;'m still here huh

     

    AGAIN TO TOPBILLED, who did the 2018 TCM GP select as his #1 choice?

  4. To speedracer, do me another favor & just throw in your own 2 cents, maybe to get the ball rolling or something

     

    My closest pals on here (mongo, jakeem, topbilled & LawrenceA) contributed nada for some reason?

     

     

    THANK YOU & IF YOU ONLY DESIRE JUST VOTE FOR ONE OPICTURE IN EACH GENRE   if you may recall that's how this topic started out

  5. 14 hours ago, TopBilled said:

    At first I thought you were asking who the Backlot members will choose for the Summer Under the Stars honorees in August. They get to make two selections--

    Gary Cooper or Paul Newman

    Anita Page or Anita Louise (the battle of the Anitas!)

    So who will you vote for Spence? I believe you are a Backlot member...

    Not really anymore, just couldn't keep up to the extra $87.00 per month, especially with my health & likely all of a sussen & out of the blow moving after 4yrs & never once being late with the rent or complaints   Landlord wants to renovate & raise the damn rent is all

     

    My mother uses a walker & I have screeching headaches, plus ongoing lumbar back trouble sine 19988!

  6. 14 hours ago, TopBilled said:

    At first I thought you were asking who the Backlot members will choose for the Summer Under the Stars honorees in August. They get to make two selections--

    Gary Cooper or Paul Newman

    Anita Page or Anita Louise (the battle of the Anitas!)

    So who will you vote for Spence? I believe you are a Backlot member...

    NOPE, just wanted to find out what the newest guy-(bald) chose to aiur  As you know they are ridiculously limit4edc to only one selection, where is last yrs winner got to air (4)

  7. 5 minutes ago, spence said:

    Nice list Lawrence, but as usual it's horse-racin' & left outa couple I'd include

     

     

    Always a huge fan & far ahead of the time was 1982's "BR" ($33m.) & Haur des a s. actor nomination, not so for me with the sequel though (**-oput of 4)

    DUNKIRK (strong ***-out of 4)

    THREE BILLBOARDS...(TREMENDOUS & ALREADY AMONG MY % FOR THIS PATHETIC DECADE)

     

     

    WHOOPS, now "mother!" is an entirely different story buddy!!!

     

    Only went for "MARVELOUS MICHELLE" & it was probably among the worst new releases  I ever attended & kept getting worse & louder too! I never in 36yrs left a theater, but only Michelle kept me from doing so   Barely hit $18m. & NOT TO MENTIOJN THAT GOD AWFUL SCENE OR SCENES WITH THE BABY, YUK BUDDY!   OUR BIGGEST SPLIT EVER   & SAME DIRECTOR HELMED THE TERRIFIC 98 "THE WRESTLER" (***1/2) 

     

    Speaking of"Three Billboards..." went twice & sooo original too!

     

    My own top 5 of this pathetic decade>

    "*"THE ARTIST"-(just love B & W in cinema & especially it's glorious golden age!)

     "GRAVITY" (must watched/studied-(especially Sandy in there) 36 times to date & only 91 minutes)

     "INSIDE/OUT"

     "THREE BILLBOARDS...."

    Somethging else is at 4th though?

    5 minutes ago, spence said:

     Can't recall other flix at present buddy,. but will

     

     

  8. 2 hours ago, LawrenceA said:

    Having just finished The Post, the last major Oscar-nominated film of 2017, I think I can now post my top ten list for that year. It's liable to change, as there are still a few that I've heard good things about that I haven't seen yet (HostilesIn the FadeA Fantastic Woman). But this is my list as of tonight.

     

    Top Ten Favorite Movies of 2017    (83 titles seen)

    1. Blade Runner 2049
    2. Dunkirk
    3. Phantom Thread
    4. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
    5. mother!
    6. A Ghost Story
    7. Lady Bird
    8. The Disaster Artist
    9. Logan
    10. Wind River

    Runner-ups (8/10): The Big SickT2 TrainspottingThe Shape of WaterBrawl in Cell Block 99The RitualWar for the Planet of the ApesSpider-Man: HomecomingBaby Driver

    Ten Worst Movies of 2017    (I still need to see a lot more to fill this out better)

    1. The Mummy
    2. Amityville: Awakening
    3. Arsenal
    4. The Babysitter
    5. Voice from the Stone
    6. Bright
    7. The Bye Bye Man
    8. Rings
    9. The Hatred
    10. Beauty and the Beast

    Top Ten Box Office of 2017

    1. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
    2. Beauty and the Beast
    3. The Fate of the Furious
    4. Despicable Me 3
    5. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
    6. Spider-Man: Homecoming
    7. Wolf Warrior 2
    8. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
    9. Thor: Ragnarok
    10. Wonder Woman

     

    Nice list Lawrence, but as usual it's horse-racin' & left outa couple I'd include

     

     

    Always a huge fan & far ahead of the time was 1982's "BR" ($33m.) & Haur des a s. actor nomination, not so for me with the sequel though (**-oput of 4)

    DUNKIRK (strong ***-out of 4)

    THREE BILLBOARDS...(TREMENDOUS & ALREADY AMONG MY % FOR THIS PATHETIC DECADE)

     

     

    WHOOPS, now "mother!" is an entirely different story buddy!!!

     

    Only went for "MARVELOUS MICHELLE" & it was probably among the worst new releases  I ever attended & kept getting worse & louder too! I never in 36yrs left a theater, but only Michelle kept me from doing so   Barely hit $18m. & NOT TO MENTIOJN THAT GOD AWFUL SCENE OR SCENES WITH THE BABY, YUK BUDDY!   OUR BIGGEST SPLIT EVER   & SAME DIRECTOR HELMED THE TERRIFIC 98 "THE WRESTLER" (***1/2) 

     

    Speaking of"Three Billboards..." went twice & sooo original too!

     

    My own top 5 of this pathetic decade>

    "*"THE ARTIST"

     

  9. 9 minutes ago, spence said:

    WELL, as stated at heading this is my 3rd time mind you in just trying to re-editit/add opn a few flix to my forementioned same type. That fans & I may enjoy, certain Mr. Osborne & *Marty would. SUPPOSE THIS WILL ALSO GET DELETED Last night I comp-lained to main contact & they immediately re-instated it, not this time???

    My personal all-time favorite's in each film genre & maybe yours too?

    ADVENTURE: 1st "Captains Courageous" (l937-MGM)  2nd "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (48-Warner Bros.)  "The African Queen" (51-UA) "The Man Who Would Be King" (l975) & "Gunga Din"  (l939-RKO Radio)

    BIO's: 1st place "Raging Bull" 2. *"Lawrence of Arabia"-(l962) 3. "Yankee Doodle Dandy"('42 WB's)  4. *"Patton" (l970)  "Napolean" (l927-French) (ALSO-RAN: "Young, Mr. Lincoln" (l939-Fox)

    COMEDY-(my own personal fav. genre & not comedy dramas either): 1st "Modern Times" (l936-UA) 2. "A Night at the 0pera" ('35-M-G-M) 3rd "Duck Soup" ('33-Paramount) 4th "Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop worrying and Love the Bomb" (l964-British) 5th funniest to me *"Annie Hall" (l977)

    COMEDY-DRAMAS: 1st "It's a Wonderful Life" (l946-RKO Radio) 2. "The Quiet Man" "City Lights" 4. *"One Flew 0ver the Cuckoo's Nest" & 5th "Manhattan" (l979)

    MOVIE COMICS: 1st place & fav *Charles (Spencer) Chaplin-(l889-l977)   2. Buster Keaton-(l895-l966)  3. The Marx Brothers  4. W.C. Fields-(l879-l946) & Stan Laurel (l890-l965) & Oliver Hardy (l892-l957) (CLOSE BEHIND: "The Three Stooges")

    CRIME-DRAMA/GANGSTERS: 1st place *"The Godfather" (l972) 2. *"GFII" (l974) 3rd "GoodFellas" (l990) 4. "White Heat" (l949-WB's) 5t. "Angels With Dirty Faces" (l938-Warner Bros.)

    DOCUMENTARIES/COMPILATIONS: 1st  "That's Enteretainment!" (l974)-(an utterly marvelous doxcu & compilation of an empore now gone!?) 2. That's Entertainment, Part 2" (l976) (has more of the momentum of MGMs first, best of all combined *Tracy, *Kate, Sinatra, *Gable, Judy, Kelly & tons of others) 4th "Shoah" (l985-France)-(as Roger Ebert said "A Film for the Ages!" unquote) & over 9 hours & 5th both "Olympia, 1 & !!"-(Germany) (I know tons & more detractors vs director Leni Riefenstahl. She also helmed 1935's   Germany made "Triumph of the Will"  no matter what epic filmmaking!) (ALSO-RAN FOR YOU MGM & TCM FANS: "MGM: When the Lion Roars" (l992-PBS) Also must have companion piece coffee table book)

    DRAMA: "Kane" *"Casablanca" *"Schindler's List" (l993) 4. "0n the Waterfront" (l954-Columbia) 5th fav. "Inherit the wind" (1960-ua)-(though filmed at Universal in Burbank in '59, actual United Artists release)F

    FOREIGN-FILMS: "Cinerama Paradiso" (l988-Italy), 2. "Shoah" 3. "Ran" (l985-Japanese)  4. "Triumph of the Will" & 5th "0lympia, I & II"

    MOVIE-COMEDIANS: *Chaplin  2. Buster Keaton 3rd fav & place The Marx Brothers"  4th The Three Stooges-" 5th favorite William (Claude) Dukenfield) ALSO: Stan & 0llie & this era: *"The Woodman" Woody Allen

    (MYSTERY/FILM 'NOIR: "Vertigo" 2. "The Third Man" 3rd "Blue Velvet" (l986)  4th "Rear Window" 5th "The Maltese Falcon" (l94l-WB's version)

    MUSICALS: "Wizard of the 0z" 2nd "Singin' In the Rain" 3. *"West Side Story" 4."Star Is Born"&  2ndWarner Bros. version 1954)

    ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SCORES: "(TIE) "Once Upon a Time in the West" (l969 Ennio Morricone) & "Once Upon a Time in America"-(l984)-(Morricone) (l984)

    SCIENCE-FICTION: 1stlace & the "KANE" of sci-fi "2001: A Space 0dysseyt" (l968-UK)  2. "Close Encounters ofthe Third Kind" (l977) 3rd "Gravity" (2013)

    &  FANTASY. "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial" (l982)  2. "Miracle on 34th Street" (l947-Fox) 3. "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" (l988) 4th "Heaven Can Wait" (l978) (no, not the classic version from 1943, nor the '37 *Capra version but *& Warren running all over the place brilliantly detailed film & man, that *& D.Grusiin score really outs thisover.)

    (SILENT ERA: "City Lights" or "M. Times?" "Steamboat Bill, Jr. (l928-MGM), "The General" (l927)-(barely over both"Gold Rush") & 1915's massively current controversial epic "Birth of a Nation" though Griffith's 1916 "Intolerance" is more magnificent) (ALSO & I AGREE WITH LEONARD: Keaton's 1925 "Seven Chances" is arguably A No. 1 all-time greatest chase scene, not including cars of course)

     

    (WAR: 1st rank "Apocalypse Now" (l979) 2nd *"Schindler's L:ist"-(or a drama/) 3rd ranking "Saving Private Ryan" (l998) 4. *"The Deer Hunter" (l978) 5th *"Platoon" (l986)-(NOTE: I used to always break these down into each U.S., & more war, especially on Veteran's Day)

    (WESTERNS: Hollywoods oldest & still going profession)  1st "The Searchers"  2. "Shane" (l953-Paramnopunt) 3rd "0nce Upon a Time in the West" (l969-=Italian/Spain) 4. *"Unforgiven" (l992 version) 5th "The Wild Bunch" (l969)-(P.S. thought not theatrical 1989's tv mini-series "Lonesome Dove" truly ranks up there!)

     

     

    THANK YOU FELLOW FANS & PLEASE DO PICK, THIS IS MY 3rd to 4th ATTEM<PT ON THIS ARTICLKE/POST???

     

     

     

    NOW COME ON FELLOW FANS-(Jakeem, TopBilled, LawrenceA, Marie & Mongo,etc  throw in your 2 cents friends, or at least give me your opinion???

  10. THANK YOU FINALLY!    This started though at a much smaller level; last evening maybe abvout 9pm & only wanted to submit some more fuin fax for us fans

     

    PLEASE ALSO SAVE IT FOR ME SOMEWHERE, AS I'VE BEEN WITHOUT A PRINTER FOR OVER A DECADE OR CERTAINLY WOULD

     

     

    NOT DOING WELL TOP SAY THE LEAST THESEDAYS, DISABLED SINCE '98-(SPINE & NOW A GROWING BRAIN TUMOR, AS YOU CAN UNDERSTAND THIS REAL:LY UPSET ME

     

    (P.,S. STILL ANY THOUGHTS ON A TCM FANS POLL/BOIARDS FAVS SURVEY COMING???)

  11. WELL, as stated at heading this is my 3rd time mind you in just trying to re-editit/add opn a few flix to my forementioned same type. That fans & I may enjoy, certain Mr. Osborne & *Marty would. SUPPOSE THIS WILL ALSO GET DELETED Last night I comp-lained to main contact & they immediately re-instated it, not this time???

    My personal all-time favorite's in each film genre & maybe yours too?

    ADVENTURE: 1st "Captains Courageous" (l937-MGM)  2nd "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (48-Warner Bros.)  "The African Queen" (51-UA) "The Man Who Would Be King" (l975) & "Gunga Din"  (l939-RKO Radio)

    BIO's: 1st place "Raging Bull" 2. *"Lawrence of Arabia"-(l962) 3. "Yankee Doodle Dandy"('42 WB's)  4. *"Patton" (l970)  "Napolean" (l927-French) (ALSO-RAN: "Young, Mr. Lincoln" (l939-Fox)

    COMEDY-(my own personal fav. genre & not comedy dramas either): 1st "Modern Times" (l936-UA) 2. "A Night at the 0pera" ('35-M-G-M) 3rd "Duck Soup" ('33-Paramount) 4th "Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop worrying and Love the Bomb" (l964-British) 5th funniest to me *"Annie Hall" (l977)

    COMEDY-DRAMAS: 1st "It's a Wonderful Life" (l946-RKO Radio) 2. "The Quiet Man" "City Lights" 4. *"One Flew 0ver the Cuckoo's Nest" & 5th "Manhattan" (l979)

    MOVIE COMICS: 1st place & fav *Charles (Spencer) Chaplin-(l889-l977)   2. Buster Keaton-(l895-l966)  3. The Marx Brothers  4. W.C. Fields-(l879-l946) & Stan Laurel (l890-l965) & Oliver Hardy (l892-l957) (CLOSE BEHIND: "The Three Stooges")

    CRIME-DRAMA/GANGSTERS: 1st place *"The Godfather" (l972) 2. *"GFII" (l974) 3rd "GoodFellas" (l990) 4. "White Heat": (l949-WB's) 5t. "Angels With Dirty Faces" (l938-Warner Bros.)

    DOCUMENTARIES/COMPILATIONS: 1st  "That's Enteretainment!" (l974)-(an utterly marvelous doxcu & compilation of an empore now gone!?) 2. That's Entertainment, Part 2" (l976) (has more of the momentum of MGMs first, best of all combined *Tracy, *Kate, Sinatra, *Gable, Judy, Kelly & tons of others) 4th "Shoah" (l985-France)-(as Roger Ebert said "A Film for the Ages!" unquote) & over 9 hours & 5th both "Olympia, 1 & !!"-(Germany) (I know tons & more detractors vs director Leni Riefenstahl. She also helmed 1935's   Germany made "Triumph of the Will"  no matter what epic filmmaking!) (ALSO-RAN FOR YOU MGM & TCM FANS: "MGM: When the Lion Roars" (l992-PBS) Also must have companion piece coffee table book)

    DRAMA: "Kane" *"Casablanca" *"Schindler's List" (l993) 4. "0n the Waterfront" (l954-Columbia) 5th fav. "Inherit the wind" (1960-ua)-(though filmed at Universal in Burbank in '59, actual United Artists release)F

    FOREIGN-FILMS: "Cinerama Paradiso" (l988-Italy), 2. "Shoah" 3. "Ran" (l985-Japanese)  4. "Triumph of the Will" & 5th "0lympia, I & II"

    MOVIE-COMEDIANS: *Chaplin  2. Buster Keaton 3rd fav & place The Marx Brothers"  4th The Three Stooges-" 5th favorite William (Claude) Dukenfield) ALSO: Stan & 0llie & this era: *"The Woodman" Woody Allen

    (MYSTERY/FILM 'NOIR: "Vertigo" 2. "The Third Man" 3rd "Blue Velvet" (l986)  4th "Rear Window" 5th "The Maltese Falcon" (l94l-WB's version)

    MUSICALS: "Wizard of the 0z" 2nd "Singin' In the Rain" 3. *"West Side Story" 4."Star Is Born"&  2ndWarner Bros. version 1954)

    ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SCORES: "(TIE) "Once Upon a Time in the West" (l969 Ennio Morricone) & "Once Upon a Time in America"-(l984)-(Morricone) (l984)

    SCIENCE-FICTION: 1stlace & the "KANE" of sci-fi "2001: A Space 0dysseyt" (l968-UK)  2. "Close Encounters ofthe Third Kind" (l977) 3rd "Gravity" (2013)

    &  FANTASY. "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial" (l982)  2. "Miracle on 34th Street" (l947-Fox) 3. "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" (l988) 4th "Heaven Can Wait" (l978) (no, not the classic version from 1943, nor the '37 *Capra version but *&Warren's running all over the place brilliantly detailed film & man, that *& D.Grusiin score really outs thisover.)

    (SILENT ERA: "City Lights" or "M. Times?" "Steamboat Bill, Jr. (l928-MGM), "The General" (l927)-(barely over both"Gold Rush") & 1915's massively current controversial epic "Birth of a Nation")

    (WAR: 1st rank "Apocalypse Now" (l979) 2nd *"Schindler's L:ist"-(or a drama/) 3rd ranking "Saving Private Ryan" (l998) 4. *"The Deer Hunter" (l978) 5th *"Platoon" (l986)-(NOTE: I used to always break these down into each U.S., & more war, especially on Veteran's Day)

    (WESTERNS: Hollywoods oldest & still going profession)  1st "The Searchers"  2. "Shane" (l953-Paramnopunt) 3rd "0nce Upon a Time in the West" (l969-=Italian/Spain) 4. *"Unforgiven" (l992 version) 5th "The Wild Bunch" (l969)

     

     

    THANK YOU FELLOW FANS & PLEASE DO PICK, THIS IS MY 3rd to 4th ATTEM<PT ON THIS ARTICLKE/POST???

     

     

     

  12. 9 hours ago, CaveGirl said:

    Well, you must have the Golden Touch or are related to someone important, if just by complaining you can watch things magically reappear, Spence.

    Share the Power with the People!

    Back later to work on answering your post. My mind is currently not up to the task due to watching too much news.

    CaveGirl, damn thing didn't work this time out though???    I'M NOT STOPPING THOUGH IN POSTING THAT ENTIRE LAST PAGE, ARTICLE,etc   Thing is, the previous one is all over the place, do I delete it?

  13. 20 hours ago, spence said:

    (*-always indicates an *AMPAS victor)   Below I thought many times would be a kinda' fun survey of my fellow TCM-ITES & each fans individual favs within each of about 19 separate film genre's   Of course nobody has top participate, just think it would be cool to see what us true movie books are like?  i.e. virtually every other movie medium website & FB has done such fun fare already

    (NOTE: Each Genre can have up top 4-5 or even just 1 of your favorite within thr:wub:eat film genre, so HERE GOES & HOPEFULLY HAVE FUN & favs don't have to be limited to the US either ) & I';ll cast my own after watching these mostly almost 40yrs

     

    Sure Mr. 0sborne woulda' enjoy playing this one too    & once again this (*) means an *Oscar winner)

     

    ACTORS: *Spencer Tracy (l900-l967)-(however *Spence is our all-time finest film actor (*Olivier on the stage) *Francis Albert is many almost equal hero & idol, though more for his astonishing 6 decades of music!)

    ACTRESSES: Natalie Wood-(l938-8l)=("Love of My Life" even prior to her staggering demise on Nov. 29th, 1981. at only age 16. BUT AGAIN  FAVS NOT ALWAYS THE BEST HERE)

    DIRECTORS: *John Ford-(l894-l973)-(aka "The Master" & 4 BD victories & 2 more in WW2)

    ALL-TIME GREATEST MOTION PICTURE FINALE: *"Casablanca" but close behind *Modern Times"

    ANIMATED: "Dumbo" (l94l Walt Disney/RKO)

    ADVENTURE starting from the alphabetical top: "Captains Courageous" (l937-MGM)-(barely over "Treasure Sierra Madre" (l948-Warner Bros.)

    BIO's: "Raging Bull" (l980)

    YOUR FAVORITE CARTOON CHARACTER: "Bugs Bunny" (Warner Bros.) (was a combo of Groucho & others)

    OUT & OUT COMEDY-(meaning not comedy-dramas such as a *"Cuckoo's Nest" & myriad of others) (My choice "Modern Times" (l936-UA)-(again by a flip of a coin over 1935's "A Night at the 0pera" (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)

    COMEDY-DRAMAS: "City Lights" (l931-UA)

    CRIME/GANGSTERS: "The Godfather" (l972)

    DRAMAS: *"Casablanca" (l943-WB's)

    DOCUMENTARIES: "Shoah" (l985 France)

    FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: "Cinema, Paradiso" (l989 Italy)

    FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION: "2001: A Space 0ddysey" (l968-British) & FANTASY: "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial" (l982)

    MYSTERY/FILM 'NOIR  "The Third Man" (l950)-(Selznick/London Films) & A VERY FINE LINE BEWTEEN THE 2 FILM GENRE'S "Vertigo" as well. 

    MUSICALS: "The Wizard of 0z" (1939 M-G-M)-(ultra close race between it & 1952's "Singin' In the Rain" MGM)  

    ORIGINAL-MUSIC SCORES: (A TIE FOR ME): "Once Upon a Time in the West" (l969) (Ennio Morricone) & Leone's 15yr later companion pc "Once Upon a Time in America"-(directors cut)

    WAR: "Apocalypse Now" (l979)

    WESTERNS: "The Searchers" followed by "Shane" (l953-Paramount Pictures)

     

     

    & If you guys also want another poll & or survey what about all-time favorite fistfight-(Boxing not included though):

    "The Quiet Man"

     

     

    THANK YOU FOR ME TIME & CERTAINLY WANT SOME OF YOUR FAVORITE'S TO MATCH UP???

     

    J.S. (Spencer)

    WELP, just got my revised area entirely DELETED & for not 1 s8ngle explainable reason either & just complained to all said to be on & within these sites   Only wanted to add a wee-bit to above compliation, to maybe make it funner for my fellow TCM-ITES, but the phrase the late great John Belushi-(l949-82) BUT, NOOOOO!

     

    THANKS A LOT TCM & thgis isn't the first time in 18 YEARS EITHER   (NOTE" Still waiting for somekind of a response?)

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  14. LawrenceA-(new picture by the way who is it?)  Still never had time plus other troubles to install mine of TRACY or even SINATRA myself!

     

     

    No, who in the ....would be doing it & it shows because I wroite to main complaint group-=(not him, o0ver his head) & all was reinstalled in 5 minutes

     

    I just wanted to add to it a bit is all   DID YOU POICK YOUR OWN BY THE WAY?

  15. 9 hours ago, TopBilled said:

    I think Spence gets flummoxed by the website's technology.

    When TCM does more upgrades to the site, we will all be confused again!

    EVERY SINGLE TIME IU TRY & COMPOSE SOMETHING LENGTHY THIS CRAP HAPPENESD FROM SO CALLED MODERATOPR    Above compilation is not by any means one I just now finished buddy

  16. WHAT A TOTAL BUMER YOU FELLOW BUDDIES

     

     

    I can always count on you TCM_iTES, for classic trivia, views, stats & jazz, the others mostly want to talk about those disgusting Kardashian; Cyrus & more of that ilk

     

    There are true "NAME ABOVE THE TITLE STARS" these days, they put on it all, but there are only still a handful

    *"The Chairman" *Nicholson, *Streep, *Grace Kelly, *Sandy, *Nicole, Harrison Ford, *De Niro,etc

     

    & now they show up in their rap entire at premiere's, as opposed to the legendary Cary Grant!      Thoiugh to be fair I did once catch Archie Leach getting out of his limo with gold chains, baggie paints & cap turned around, anybody reminder that

     

    HE WAS THE QUINTESSIENTIAL MOVIE STAR during his era, but was drawn as to who he truly was?   Hence the LSD-(Acid) his dr prescriobed him in mid to late 1960's

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