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I was wondering if anyone would bite on this all-timer topic or not & I THANK YOU! Dig this, my mum was adopted & her natural father's name was HARRY LANGDON (TRIVIA: There was a guy that was even or about same era as *Chaplin, Max Linder whom ell of a train & died Ever hear of him?)

JAKEEM, but where is the rest of it pal?

JAKEEM, but where is the rest of it buddy?

ABSOLKUTEKLY TEMENDOUS PROGRAMMING & I LOVE JOE McDOKES

ONE AGAIN, APPARENTLY FELLOW TCM-ITES HAVE NOTHING TO CONTRIBUTE HERE??? Thought for certain several if not many would throw their cents in & on all-time comics & fav. comedic flix???

WOW, surprised no takers on this one???

First year I started reviewing newly released theatrical flix was for the grand movie year of (1982) & also tried my hand at predicting the Oscars, did lousy though at first)& (*-denotes Oscar winner) AFI's (American Film Insitute-est 1967-) 1st place & by a landslide "Raging Bull" (l980) 2. "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial" (l982) 3. "Blue Velvet" (l986) 4. "Hannah & Her Sisters" (l986) 5th place "Atlantic City" (l98l) 6. "Raiders of Lost ark" (l98l) 7. *"Platoon" (l986)-(went back three times!) 8. "0nce Upon a Time in America" (D/C/ only) (l984) 9. "Prizzi's Honor" (l985) & 10th place "King of Comedy" (l983) & Actor of the decade: *Jack Nicholson-(l937-) Actress: *Streep-=(l949-) & Filmmaker:*Scorsese VS. my own candidates? 1st "R. Bull" 2nd "Blue Velvet" 3rd fav. *"Platoon" 4th "E.T." 5th "Atlantic City" 6. "Hannah & Her Sisters" & "Crimes and Misdemeanors" (l989)-(TIED) 7. "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" (l988) 8. "0nce Upon a Time in America" (D/C) ) (l984) 9. "Cinema, Paradiso" (l89-Italy)-(NOTE: AFI cannot vote for foreign language cinema) & 10th fav 1980's "Shoah" (l985-France) (1990's)-(AFI was busy with another "100yrs... special" & didn't participate)? 1st *"Schindler's List" (l993) 2. "GoodFellas" (l990) 3. "Saving Pvt Ryan" (l980) 4. *"Titanic" (l997) 5th place *"Unforgiven" (l992) 6. "Pulp Fiction" (l994) 7. "The Shawshank Redemption" (l994) 8. "The Remains of the Day" (l993) 9. "Leaving Las Vegas" (l995) & 10th fav "Reservior Dogs" (l992) (2000's): 1st favorite of this decade of 2002 "Gangs of New York" 2. *"Million Dollar Baby" (04) 3. "Cinderella Man" (05) 4. "King Kong" (2005 version) 5th "United: 93" (2006) 6. "KB2" (2004) 7. "Letter Home from Iwo Jima" (2006) 8. *"Gladiator" (2000_=)-(NOTE: USA voted this as the greatest BP winner ever) 9. "Almost Famous"(2000) & 10th "Finding Nemo" (03)_ & 2010- 1st fav. *"The Artist" (2011) 2. "Gravity" (2003) 3. "La La Land" (2016) 4. Life Itself" (04) 5th to date"Inside/0ut" (2015). & ??? PLEASE RUSH YOUR OWN CANDIDATES???

Older topic, but wanted to give this famous genre or genre(s) some new blood! What are tour all-time fav., film genre's?

Leonard Maltin, Bogdanovich & a handful others

PLEASE EXCUSE THE MISSLEADING HEADING ON "THE POSTING THIS IN A TCM POLL & THERE WERE NOT ANY TAKERS (except for 100% for "CITY LIGHTS" & oviously by a landslide by a landslide & TRIVIA: In AFI's 100 Laughs" "Some Like It Hot" was voted A #1) In it's2000 epic survey DON"t KNOWE HOW TO REPLACE THE HEADING AS YET SO HERE GOES-(a companion pc to that one) & PLACE VOTE! YOUR ALL-TIME FAVORITE'S IN MOTION PICTURE HISTORY ON BOTH COMICS & FILMS??? THank You

Longtime character player Lee Tracy-(l898-68) earned a s. actor shot Got almost got blocked back around '34 shooting *Berry's 1934 bio"Viva Villa!" (****-stars) at M-G-pm) when Lee was sooo loaded again & actually **** on a below marching band)

In short what are your fellow TCMN-0TITES all-time favs in both motion picture comedians & of course films? Nowe on thast lttle poll both *Chaplin & "City Lights" was a landslide! I'll start the ball roliing here> Movie comics: 1st place *Charles Chaplin (l889-l977)-(though like Keaton doesn't make me augh, just watch in amazement) 2nbd Buster Keaton (l895-1966) 3rd The Marx Brothers-(l929-l949) 4th fav. "The Three Stooges" (l934-59)-(I know what your thinkin, too low-brow, but they just crap me up!) 5th W.C. Fields-(879-l946)-(as "Premiere" said decades ago you rarely hear of him thesedays?) 6th Stan Laurel and Laurel Hardy-(l890-l965_& Olllie (l892-l957) & today *"The Woodman;Woody Allen) (l935-) & my personal choices for the top ten fav. pictures: 1st pick "City Lights" (l931)-(though really a comedy-drama or sorts) 2. "Modern Times" (l936-UA) 3. "A Night at the 0pera" (l935-MGM) 4. "Duck Soup" (l933-Paramount-(TRIVIA) Groucho always rated this as their best though) 5th "Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" (l964-UK) 6. *"Annie Hall" 7th "Bringing Up Baby" (l938-RKO Radio) 8. "His Girl Friday" (l940-Columbia) 9. "It's a Gift" (l934-Paramount) & 10th "Sullivan's Travels" (l942-Paramount) & a ton more of course,. but WHAT ARE YOURS???

Also given I've been a card-drying fan club members since 1985 I even rank Ralph & Norton BARELY ahead of Laurel & Olivier-(the latter being one of Gleason's heroes, plus Jack 0akie) above those dymamic duo's of the silver-screen

I'm alwayts reminded of that famed number "SEND IN THE CLOWNS"

Chris Tucker, Pauly Shore, Jack Black?????

How could I 4-get "Never Give a Sucker an Even Break" "The General" & "Seven Chances" PLUS, though a comedy-drama 1979's "Manhattan"

(*-denotes an AMPAS winner) My personal top ten all-time fav. movies-(aka dvd time capsule & not of course especially the best, just my favourites listed here) 1st place *The Godfather (l90l-80) Trilogy"-(non theatrical release from '92) 2nd "Kane" (believe the hype, but a very personal note to WR Hearst is involved & most have no idea what "Rosebud" really meant? Don't know how *0rson found out above this very pvt thing though?) 3rd 'Captains Courageous" (l937 M-G-M) (*Tracy's greatest role, though ultra close w/"Black Rock" & "Inherit the Wind" He wrote in his diary it was his fav though) 4th *"Casablanca" (l943-WBV's) (whats left to say??? Only that I once had a marvelous shot of him & Ingrid sitting on some stairs & he literally had block shoes on, due to barely hitting 5'8 & she was about 5'9 & 1/2)) 5th fav. "Modern Times" (l936-UA) (barely vote for this over "CL" (l931) due to his beautiful music "SMILE") & "Dumbo" (l941-Disney/RKO Radio. Almost all critics include at least 1 *Walt Disney animated feature, mostly "Pinocchio"(*Spielberg's #1) & all-time fav. motion picture actors> 1 *Spencer Tracy (l900-l967) 2 *Frank Sinatra (l9l5-98)-(NOTE: Both above *Tracy & *The Chairman" my idols too!) 3. *James Cagney-(1899-l986) 4. Steve McQueen (l930-80)m (limited actor, but my childhood hero & "King of Movie Cool") & 5th *Charles (Spencer) Chaplin-(l889-l977) (he truly deserved to be AFI';s 100yres...100 Stars":99 survey as 1st place?) Actresses: Natalie Wood-(l938-l98l) (very personal choice!) 2. Greta Garbo-(l905-90) 3. *Katharine Hepburn (l907-2003) 4. Winona Ryder (l97l-) (I know most will laugh, but there it is) 5th fav Michelle Pfeiffer (l958-) & Barbara Stanwyck (l907-90) (not only a great overall actress, but one cool lady too!) & Best-(favorite) Directors ever: *1st place *John Ford-(l895-l973)-(all time *Oscar winning champ w/4 BD victories!) 2. Allred Hitchcock (l899-l980) (was give AFI Award, but no &Academy Award?) 3rd Howard hawks-(1896-l977)-(thesole filmmaker that coulkd handle evey film genre! ) 4.Orson Welles (l9l5-85) RHANK YU TO THE REST TCMITES, PLEASE JOIN IN

THIS IS THE 5th TIME TONODAY THAT SOME RATHER SMALL I SUBMIITED WAS ONCE AGAIN BLOBED??? It was a reply on Robert Ryan in "Crossfire" is all, it it once again went uint some cyrberspace This network & forums never, ever used to do this & the ongoing spam fairy from Asia either WHAT IS THE PROBLEM PLEASE RE SUBMNIUT MY SMALL POST UNDER THE RYAN THREAD

Thought I alreready wrote this one too??? *Liza moved her beloved remains across the coast to where "The Mick" is-(though not close) about a yearback now, from her original; Brooklyn, NY part Something I never fathomed is that Rooney chose the 62 acre cemetary "Hollywood, Forever" as opposed to most of his contomperaries in the mammonth "Forest Lawn" in GLENDALE, CALIF? *Tracy, *Gable, *Bogey & a tonnage of others???

WHATS NOW BURNING BOOKS & now a town is picking on "TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD???"

No matter what "The Rock" touches seems to turn to $financial$ gold, huh This almost sold $400m. in tickets domestically alone & reason studios shell out all that $Fogh$ is because action does even greater internationally (P.S. though can you believe that slug Vin Diesel according the FORDES annually report was highest pd actor last year???

Among the few I missed during past Oscar season

WELP< tcm did it once again on this very topic-(this would mark the 33rd time just trying to apply/reapply It was mainly about R. Ryan & roles he lost to for '47 *E. Gwenn, in "Miracle on 34th Street"-(though a leading pt), Widmark in "Kiss of Death" (Fox) & check out Ryan almost better in '68's "God's Little Acre" "Billy Budd" "Odds Against Tomorrow" & of course "The Iceman Cometh" I'd say same from the superb '55 "Black Rock" but think *Tracy through him off balance a lot, so natural,etc & as *Borgnine loves to talk about while watching the footage, *Spence was mainly talking to the ground & poor Robert didn't know what to do?

The more well-made (***) but nowhere in same league *"GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT" won BP over it though

WELP, once again damn post went bye, bye All I tried to do with a but was add to your "CROSSFIRE" post???